People Share The Dumbest Thing They've Ever Said Out Loud
Did I just say that out loud?
Lord our brains work in mysterious ways, don't they? How is it we seem to lose control over what words fumble out of our mouths at the most inopportune times? Who isn't guilty of spewing verbal craziness that leaves us and our witnesses utterly speechless? Who hasn't born the brunt of faces screaming... "do you NOT hear you?"Be honest. I'll wait.
Redditor u/Shikher_07 wanted everyone to share all the shockingly stupid things that have fallen out of our mouths at the worst times by asking.... What is the dumbest thing you've said out loud?
Doh... or Duh?
GiphyI opened the dictionary to a random page once and my finger landed on the entry for "window" except I read, out loud, the phonetic spelling, win*doh.
So there I was, surrounded by friends, asking, "Win doh? What the hell is a win doh?" Enunciating the syllables like an idiot.
I read the definition and realized what a doofus I was. Ryan59479
New Names....
Was looking for my socks, couldn't think of the name, called them "footpants." Photon_Torpedophile
Did the same with swing once, the noun. Came out with jingle-chair. Reddit
De-boned.
GiphyIf they can make seedless oranges why can't they make boneless chickens? GargantuanCake
That chicken's going to grow up...
Well, it wouldn't grow so far, would it? VoyagerCat
My Bumps.
I'm always saying "sorry" to the furniture I bump into. chinchuberry
I did this on Friday with a skeleton in Anatomy lab. lidlpizzapie
Love Alexa....
GiphyI say "please" and "thank you" to Alexa. It's good to show kindness to inanimate objects. goose_of_reddit
So Dumb.
My wife asked me if her jeans makes her butt looks fat.
I said "it ain't the jeans."
I'm not a smart man. Wrong_Answer_Willie
My boyfriend at the time answered "it's not the dress that makes you look fat it's the fat that makes you look fat" (...Silence...) i wasn't even wearing a dress.
Years later I reminded him of this, and he said he was just quoting a movie.
(What?!)
I ended up marrying him, and learned to never ask that question again. KotZaBoulSheat
English What?
Giphy"I know every language in the English dictionary." KarinLoos
"Isn't English is one funny compilation of languages?!" Shikher_07
To Be Eaten....
Definitely not the dumbest thing I've ever said but this one was pretty recent. My parents were talking about having a lot of leftover food while cooking and my brain struggled to say either "people will eat it" or "it will get eaten." I ended up saying "people will get eaten." absoluteambiguity
Hush Please.
Giphytold a "your mom" joke to a buddy to try to cheer him up. This was at his mothers funeral. I felt so damn stupid a millisecond after I said it. ecksit
H20 Hunt.
Walked up to Starbucks cashier and asked, "You guys don't happen to have water do you?"
She replied sarcastically, "Um no we don't have water I'm sorry"
Just at that moment she looked down and in front of me is water bottles and water cups for the water station 🤦🏼♂️
My girlfriend never lets it go now though, she's always like "Oh maybe you can ask [insert restaurant] if they have water too. ChrispyCherrios
Unfortunately, adults are not as infallible as we would like to believe.
More often than not, in fact, kids show themselves to be smarter than adults. Especially when adults say things like this.
u/Thailamrtll asked:
Reddit, what is the dumbest thing you've ever heard an adult say?
Here were some of those answers.
More Debt Is Never The Answer
"you should rack up some more credit card debt then just declare bankruptcy, you know, have some fun and make it more worth it"
My 'wise' older brother when I was talking about my 10k in debt (which is now paid off).
That's Not How Adaptation Works
I watched a documentary about health in pregnancy and how the NHS helps expectant mothers to give up smoking and eat more healthily etc. One mum-to-be was having real problems giving up cigarettes and ultimately ended up being unable to even cut down her habit. She attempted to justify it by claiming she thought smoking while pregnant might actually be a good thing, because the 'baby's lungs would be stronger than ones in a baby born to a non-smoker, as they're being exposed to smoking while they're still in the womb'.
Just Untrue
"Aluminum isn't a metal because it isn't magnetic"
One of the many gems of wisdom my mother has shared
People Who Won't Be Wrong
"The moon's distance from the earth is less than 100 kilometers."
When corrected, he just said "Well, then it's probably 110 kilometers."
Ah Okay Lets Wish For World-Shattering Conflict
My sister, 27 yo, said this about a year ago: "Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan - all those wars are so small and so boring. Why can't we have something bigger that people will actually talk about like a world war? It's much more entertaining than the same country and conflict over and over again."
Fish Are Still Animals
Have a friend who's vegan. We went out and she ordered Salmon. I was like "wait arent you vegan?" she said yeah, and so i asked why she ordered salmon then since she didnt eat animals. Her response?
"Salmons a fish not an animal"
She also thinks ice cream is just frozen milk. Like yeah i know vegans cant have normal ice cream because there is milk in it but like...i get the impression that she believes if you put milk in the freezer overnight youll have ice cream in the morning.
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"Gay men can't get women pregnant."
Yes, they were serious. No, I didn't stick around to argue that out, you can't win against that level of ignorance.
And Then Tech Kept Evolving
Circa 1982: Don't go into Computer Science. There's already so much software available! How much longer can it be before it's all written? There'll be no jobs for all these CS grads then.
Hashtag Emphysema
"Smoking next to a BABY is OK because nothing happened to my children when I smoked next to them", my dad after I confronted him when I found him smoking a cigarette right beside his grandson.
NOPE.
"The stress from quitting drinking is worse for the baby than drinking."
I'm a bartender and a pregnant woman used this line on me. She wasn't showing and I had already served her 5 drinks. I found out she was pregnant when I overheard her husband chiding her that any more drinks would be "bad for the baby." After that, she was shut down and banned. She didn't like it, of course.
Say What?: The Dumbest Things People Have Ever Said Out Loud
Reddit user A_Lice_in_Wonderland asked: 'What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say?'
Sometimes, a person can be mature and intelligent and still have some thoughts or theories that are truly stupid. And sometimes, that person says something truly stupid out loud.
It usually makes for a funny memory.
When I was in middle school, a group of my friends were talking about a movie that had just come out and where it was filmed. One boy said it was filmed in New York. A girl's response made all of us cringe:
When someone told her Manhattan was in New York, she didn't believe it and insisted that was not true! Four years later, she graduated third in our class. Guess she eventually figured it out.
Redditors know people who have said truly dumb things out loud as well, and are eager to share.
It all started when Redditor A_Lice_in_Wonderland asked:
First Time For Everything
"“Well she never got pregnant before,” after his girlfriend got pregnant and after asking my friend why didn’t he use protection."
– tuotone75
"I've never died before so I won't ever."
– Rakgul
"Should’ve checked to see if there was a history of pregnancy in the family."
– hogliterature
Time Difference
"I was microwaving some food, I hit the 1 so it would automatically cook it for a minute. My friend asked “Why did you put it in for a minute? I usually put mine in for 60 seconds”. I had to explain to him that it’s the same thing. We were in high school."
– Gambit_Finale
"I have a similar one. Had to explain to someone that 0:90 on the microwave was the same as 1:30. They kept insisting 1:30 was more, and that I was crazy."
– Atheist_Alex_C
Where Does Our Food Come From?
"That there's no difference between turkey and ham because "they both come from birds."
"I guess pigs really do fly in their world."
– JustForKicks36
"I had a friend in college who asked me very seriously, "so if beef comes from cows, and pork comes from pigs, what animal does chicken come from?""
– not_ur_avg
And When Does It Come Back?
"“How long does it take the meat to grow back on a cow when you shave it off?”"
– Bright_Ad_2848
"Average "Hay Day"-player."
– The-One-Winged-Angel
"Making hamburgers is not an outpatient procedure."
– tritium_awesome
This Is The Real World
"A new hire at the cotton mill that had dropped out of school to go to work:"
""How long do we get off for spring break?""
– TrailerParkPrepper
"Oh welcome to real life you poor child."
– Bucksin06
Poor Guy
"This involves a conversation with a guy I used to work with who was trying to lose weight so he was cutting down on pasta."
"Him : I've been doing pretty good, haven't had pasta in 2 weeks."
"Me : That's awesome, what's that you got in your hand there?"
"Him : Mac and Cheese."
"Me : I thought you said you haven't had pasta in 2 weeks?"
"Him : I haven't, this is Mac and cheese."
– highfivesforgod
Not How It Works
"If you drink a coke & then a diet coke, the sugar cancels out."
– ScribblingOff87
With Magic, Sure
"I was solving a Rubik's cube and a guy asked me how many sides it has and if I can make them all blue."
– MrLambNugget
Yikes!
"Friend and his girlfriend were over. Watching some TV when an ad for an Anne Frank documentary comes on."
"GF: "oh, wasn't she like Hitler's daughter or something?" The room became very quiet for awhile."
– 1WaldoJeffers1
"I guess it's "or something""
– candangoek
"A moment of silence for a dumb friend."
– sunpies33
*Cringes*
"The question right above this in my feed is: “Why’s a square called a square when it has six sides and eight corners?”"
"The sub was NoStupidQuestions"
– 12345_PIZZA
"The premise of the sub has been disproven. Time to shut it down."
– cbusalex
""Sir, that's called a cube.""
– ThisWasAValidName
It Never Did
"“What year did this happen?”"
"We were watching The Lord of the Rings."
– OverTheCandlestik
Not The Lakes
"I was in seventh grade history and the teacher asked a student which ocean Christopher Columbus crossed to get to America. She said she didn’t know and the teacher replied by asking “how many oceans can you name? It’s gonna be one of them.""
"The girl thinks for a moment and says “Lake Champlain… Lake Geo-""
"The teacher cut her off by saying “if it has the word lake in it, it’s probably not an ocean.”"
– thecrimsonf**kr23830
The Whole Country Does
"Was on the bus headed to class in Honolulu, a Southerner got on and asked the driver"
""Do y'all take American Dollars?""
"The driver pointed at the American flag sticker on the window and with extreme exasperation said"
""You're in America.""
– revjor
Coffee Conundrums
"When I worked at Starbucks it was frequent question from customers to explain the difference between a hot and an iced drink…"
– Real_Pea5921
"I work at Starbucks, holy sh*t our customers are a different breed."
"I had one lady ask why her drink had so many small bits of ice in it when she wanted it blended."
"I have had more than one person ask for hot coffees but iced and vise versa."
"I've had people ask if cold brew was/could be made hot."
"The list with Starbucks customers goes on and on..."
– PanPenguinGirl
"Can I get hot coffee cold? No I don’t want cold coffee! I want hot coffee but cold!"
– Surviving2
...Well, Yeah
"I heard a similar story about someone who had driven across border from the U.S. to Canada."
"To paraphrase: "They checked my ID and inspected my entire car! It was like I was entering a foreign country!""
– anfrind
Oh My Lord...
Enough said.
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