To share the stupidest thing I have ever heard

[Sparklfairy]

My friend is away in a country that a few days into her holiday brought in quarantine restrictions upon returning to the UK. No big deal to her, she can wfh and organise deliveries etc.

She just told me she was chatting around the pool and people are confused about when quarantine actually 'starts'. Most have convinced themselves it's the day after you land 'to give them time to go shopping and get food and everything ready and stuff'.

So you're quarantined, but you have a magical window of time where you can get supplies and merrily skip round the supermarket infecting everyone saying 'Oh, I'm not in quarantine until tomorrow'.

I'm not sure if they're spectacularly thick or just so entitled they've twisted the rules to suit themselves. I don't normally get annoyed about CV or what other people do but really!?

@notafanoftheman

that the average IQ is 100... so 50% of the population are short of that

That’s not how averages work.

It's exactly how the IQ "average" works. It's a normal distribution model.

@notafanoftheman

*That's not how averages work.
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That's exactly how the "average" IQ works. It's a normal distribution model.

@ScarMatty and another one! It's a normal distribution!

@PolkadotGiraffe

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Winston Churchill)

[quote belinda789]@PolkadotGiraffe

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Winston Churchill)[/quote]
So true.

@itchyfinger

Our school isn't letting siblings do joint school photos this year because it means mixing bubbles. Like the siblings dont already live together and travel into school together

I have a FB friend who said this the other day about her kids school. Maybe you're her. Lol. But that is an extremely stupid rule.

[quote Footle]@BashfulClam , I think your mum was right about cold drinks on top of hot greasy food. Cheese fondu enthusiasts are advised not to drink cold beer with it as it produces a nasty stomach ache known as a Cheese Baby. [/quote]
I think this is also why hot drinks are often served after meals in many countries, particularly many in Asia.

A few years ago a friend was telling me about this film she had watched which was really sad.
The boy in the striped pyjamas.
So I said, oh the one about the boy in the concentration camp?
She laughed at me and told me it wasn't set in a boarding school

At our school, siblings aren’t allowed to hug each other if they are in different classes.

I thought that was a stupid rule until someone pointed out that it was to stop other children from hugging their friends

Got into a debate with supercilious FIL once over Timezones as he thought there are only 12hrs rather than 24hrs difference. Even more ridiculous when they had just traveled from UK to Australia and lost a day!

Not to drag up Eliot-gate but when I was an awkward teenager I had to order a DH Lawrence book from the librarian. He asked me to spell DH. All I could say was “D.....H....”. “But how do you spell that?” “Um well it’s D.... H.....” and repeat.

This went on for some time.

(Now I’d probably say “they’re initials” or “the letter D” etc but I was a wee slip of a girl and didn’t know where to start.)

@belinda789

If you need evidence of “stupid”, read on. (Sent to me for fun by my niece’s husband in Florida-

Quote:-
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"

--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey
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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"

-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign
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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"

--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"

--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington,DC
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"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"

--A congressional candidate in Texas .
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"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.."

--Al Gore, Vice President
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"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix .."

-- Dan Quayle
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"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

--Lee Iacocca
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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
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"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 2020 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."

--Keppel Enderbery
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"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."

-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Well I know that the Mariah Carey one is bollocks for a start.... how many of these are genuine quotes? Probably not many.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/carey-on-starving/

The Mariah Carey one is just straight up misogyny. Let's all sneer at a successful attractive woman by inventing ways to make her look "stupid"!

@waterthedog

Got into a debate with supercilious FIL once over Timezones as he thought there are only 12hrs rather than 24hrs difference. Even more ridiculous when they had just traveled from UK to Australia and lost a day!

Er.... The time different between the UK and Australia is 8-11hrs, depending on where you are in Oz. It is definitely not 24hrs!!

^ difference

I found out the other night the Orient express doesn't go through 'the orient' I had no idea!

[quote belinda789]@PolkadotGiraffe

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Winston Churchill)[/quote]
There's actually no evidence that Churchill said this.

Being serious - if you're going to repeat a quote, it's always worth checking whether it's genuine, because the vast majority of quote attributions floating around in memes online are complete and utter bullshit. This example is fairly minor, but I think it's actually pretty dangerous when false attributions are used to smear and discredit people in public life - it happens all too often.

@ANoTail

In year 7 a boy asked me what day it was. I told him Tuesday. Then he asked if I knew what day it would be tomorrow. Wednesday, I said. Little bit perturbed here. He asked me how I knew. Apparently, he'd never realised that the days of the week came in the same order each time. He'd been entirely homeschooled prior to secondary school and claimed he "never really needed to know what day it was".

Are you really calling a 7 year old stupid because their parents haven't taught them the days of the week? That brings this thread to a new low.

Year 7 (so aged 11 or 12).

@Fluffycloudland77
There are plenty of people in healthcare who are more than capable of saying stupid things like, the HCP in a Cardiology department who asked a patient how long they had been suffering with Dextrocardia while incorrectly prepping the patient for an ECG.
Or the one that didn't understand why defibrillator pads needed to be reversed on patients with Dextrocardia.
Or the one that told a colleague to use a hoover to clear the hair out of a blocked shower trap.
I think the one that really blew my mind was the one who googled my injury, read the post surgery information leaflet I'd been given then told me to do things that it explicitly stated not to do because she wanted to check the range of movement, I refused to do it and she said "are you scared that it will hurt" to which I replied "no I won't do that because I won't risk ending up back in hospital and possibly having my foot amputated because you want me to do things that the leaflet explicitly states not to do"
She wrote in her notes that I refused to comply with her reasonable request to check range of movement.
I was less than 4 months into a 12month post surgery recovery period.

Eliot-gate 😆😆😆

(humming a ghostbusters melody
Who you gonna ask for a study of provincial life....)

Just realised it's year 7, not a 7 year old! The point is the same. Laughing at children because of what their parents haven't taught them is pretty shitty.

Are you really calling a 7 year old stupid because their parents haven't taught them the days of the week? That brings this thread to a new low.

He was Y7 but doesn't matter.
Some people on this thread are very unpleasant.

Laughing at children because of what their parents haven't taught them is pretty shitty. And this is only one of the examples.

Re: general knowledge - what someone considers to be general knowledge will depend on where they live, their age, class, cultural background etc. What someone in rural Kyrgyzstan considers to be "general knowledge" will be different compared to someone in London. There is no single set of facts that is acknowledged by everyone in the world to be essential general knowledge - and if there was it definitely wouldn't include George Eliot!

It doesn't matter how clever or well educated you are, you will almost certainly find that you don't know some of the things that other people consider to be essential knowledge, so it's always best not to sneer.

I once overheard this conversation between two mums while waiting for DC's to come out of an activity.

Mum1: I usually try to make proper meals. I don't like giving the children junk food. Do you do proper meals?

Mum2: Usually. Sometimes we have things like burgers, but we get the good quality ones.

M1: Oh yes, if we have burgers we get the proper beef burgers, not those horrible hamburgers. Why are they called hamburgers anyway? Do they even have ham in them? I don't think so.

M2: [looking slightly awkward] Ummmmm. No...