We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the dumbest things they’ve heard someone say. Here are the hysterical (and disturbing) things they heard their friends and family say:
1. “A relative, and her family, insisted that the capital of Africa was Africa City.”
—Anonymous
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2. “I’m 14 and so is my friend, and the day after my first period, I asked him how many minutes we needed to wait before we could go to the gym. His response? “Well, we have to wait like an hour and a half, so 130 minutes?””
—Anonymous
3. “I just went The Wizard of Oz movie in the Sphere, and I was telling my 80 year old mother how amazing it was and that they even had flying monkeys flying over the audience. She said, ‘Wow, you mean they had real flying monkeys?'”
—Anonymous
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4. “I was waiting in line at a grocery store when the woman behind me struck up a conversation. “You just can’t trust anything on TV anymore.” I took the bait and asked, ‘What do you mean?’ She replied, ‘Well, look at the major television stations (ABC, NBC, and CBS). They all report fake news. It’s all written by Obama!’ When I asked what proof she had, she said, ‘All the major news stations report on the same things at the same time every night! Fox is the only one that gets the real news.’ Huh?”
—Anonymous
5. “I have a buddy who says ‘minus well’, which I can only guess means ‘might as well’. Known him for over ten years, never corrected him.”
—Anonymous
6. “I had a friend who thought Latin people spoke Latin.”
—Anonymous
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7. “My wife and I were living in Richmond, VA, when we first started dating. During a conversation, she stated that we lived in South America. When I asked her why she thought that, she said that because we live in the south, we must be in South America.”
—Anonymous
8. “My sister once asked a rather dim-witted girl at our high school if she had had a lobotomy. The girl replied, ‘No, I can still have children.'”
—Anonymous
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9. “My family members went on a cruise to Mexico, and they shared their views on the cruise. I asked if they enjoyed Tulum and the Mayan artifacts. Their response was ‘Yes, we saw some really old stuff, but they need to clean up the buildings as they were falling down.’
—Anonymous
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10. “I went out to an Italian chain restaurant one evening and after he was seated, the server asked, ‘Can I get you something to drink?’ I replied, I’d like some sparkling water, please,’ and she responded by asking, ‘Do you want the kind with or without bubbles?’”
—Anonymous
11. “At the beginning of my senior year, the career counselor called me to ask why I was still there. She explained that I had 17 extra credits, and the school wouldn’t give me any more. So, I graduated early! My younger brother went to the counselor and asked for my 17 extra credits! He left and got a GED.”
—Anonymous
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12. “One year, we were going on vacation. My son then asked where we were going. I told him we were going to London, England, and Rome, Italy… Then he said, ‘I thought we were only going to two places, not four.’ Then I asked him, What do they teach you in private school anyway?”
—Anonymous
13. “We were having Easter dinner, and her brother’s ex said she didn’t want to see The Passion of the Christ because it was too violent and she wanted to know if they would ever write a book about it.”
—Anonymous
14. “My sister once asked my mom what time the 4:30 movie was.”
—Anonymous
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15. “A group of us were talking about football at work. A coworker asked how many quarters are in a game. I replied, ‘The same number as those in a dollar.'”
—Anonymous
16. “A friend on a camping trip said you can’t make a fire by rubbing sticks together unless the sun is shining.”
—Anonymous
17. “I am a high school teacher. I had a student once ask me if a pregnant woman was choking, does the baby come out of her mouth during an abdominal thrust. Before I could stop myself, I asked if she was joking. She was dead serious….yay our future.”
—Anonymous
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18. “Someone asked me, ‘Did Caesar really stay at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas?'”
—Anonymous
19. “A friend of mine just once told our 9th grade geography teacher that the test was wrong because it had all the continents spread out instead of all joined together.”
—Anonymous
20. “My ex-son thought he boiled eggs by putting them in a bowl in the fridge…and let them sit in the bowl overnight…uh, ok. That made for an awkward Easter when no eggs were ready to color…sigh. Maybe he’ll get married again soon.”
—Anonymous
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21. “I once had an 18-year-old girl ask me, ‘Is Santa Claus real?'”
—Anonymous
22. “As a teenager in the early 80s, I received a pen pal request from a 14-year-old American girl (I’m from the Caribbean). In her letter, she described her hobbies and asked, “In the United States, we have this wonderful thing called television. Do you have that in the Caribbean?””
—Anonymous
23. “I had a friend who thought all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.”
—Anonymous
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24. “I was in 11th grade in Advanced English, and this girl in front of me turns around one day and asks, ‘What’s a paragraph?’ A straight face, not as a joke, she meant it. I was moved and just answered before shaking my head when she turned back.”
—Anonymous
25. “Someone I knew once said, ‘I want to get a job, but I’m worried that Thanksgiving will fall on Black Friday and then I’ll have to work on Thanksgiving’.”
—Anonymous
26. “My daughter’s friend told her, ‘I’m not sure dinosaurs were real, it’s like nobody’s ever seen pictures of them'”.
—Anonymous
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27. And finally, “After the 2016 US election, my supervisor thought the results meant Hilary Clinton was going to be VP because she came in ‘2nd place.’ I almost spit out my coffee laughing, only to realize she was dead serious.”
—Anonymous
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