The stupidest thing you can remember someone saying to you?

Vesayen · May 29, 2003, 21:44

Someone asked me today what year Jesus was born in.......

Completley seriously, and was surprised when I told him though we dont know exactly, its supposed to be 1.....

Their first guess was around 400 a.d........ I was quite literaly shocked speachless by the stupidity for a moment before I could respond.

This came to me as the stupidest thing I've heard someone say to me in a while, what about you?

Yes I know it was proboably 4 b.c.-just share your memories of the stupidest thing you can remember someone saying to you!

Ming · May 29, 2003, 21:52

While it wasn't said to me... I heard it at a press conference. One of The Chicago Cubs Relief Pitchers, Antonio Alfonseca has 6 fingers on each hand. While he was doing a press conference after the Cubs aquired him, one of the reporters actually asked the following question...

"Were you born that way"...

There was dead silence in the room... and then people couldn't help but start snickering, and then just laughing.

Imran Siddiqui · May 29, 2003, 21:54

Ming:

Vesayen · May 29, 2003, 21:57

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Originally posted by Ming
While it wasn't said to me... I heard it at a press conference. One of The Chicago Cubs Relief Pitchers, Antonio Alfonseca has 6 fingers on each hand. While he was doing a press conference after the Cubs aquired him, one of the reporters actually asked the following question...

"Were you born that way"...

There was dead silence in the room... and then people couldn't help but start snickering, and then just laughing.

*wipes tears from eyes*

Ming · May 29, 2003, 22:09

And the best part is... It was one of the local reporters for the SCORE, the Chicago Sports Radio station... so they play it all the time when they want to abuse the guy. I still can't help laughing every time I hear it.

alva · May 29, 2003, 22:56

Not said directly to me either...

" What, easter is on a sunday this year? Oh that's just great !! 'cause I've monday off from work. "

Zylka · May 29, 2003, 23:02

Is your Sealtest (brand) butter made of seals, or something?

orange · May 30, 2003, 00:16

should have responded "no, but we make the seals eat it first to make sure that it isn't poisoned"

Kuciwalker · May 30, 2003, 00:21

Ming:

Once, in a debate match, my opponent's main point was "Rocks are people too."

orange · May 30, 2003, 00:36

Were you debating with some crazy Environmentalist Vegen PETA member?

Mao · May 30, 2003, 01:32

"Your god is a peanut" - Fred Phelps

Urban Ranger · May 30, 2003, 02:26

Yo Mao, which uni did you end up with?

Ted Striker · May 30, 2003, 03:06

Ted I thought that was a snake wrapped around your pant leg.

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that one...

*sigh*

BustaMike · May 30, 2003, 03:06

A friend of mine (we don't really ever hang out, but I'd still call him a friend) once tried to tell everyone that Hummers could drive 30 mph under 6 feet of water.

We still give him **** about it.

mindseye · May 30, 2003, 04:28

This phenomenon happens all the time here in Shanghai: I (a large white person) point at something, e.g. a vegetable, and ask someone in Chinese "What do you call that?" Then they give the answer in English, e.g. "A carrot."

Like I need to ask a Chinese person how to say something in my native tongue.

For some reason, this happens frequently, with strangers as well as friends. One of my American friends calls this "a Sprite", from a time when this kind of exchange occurred over a bottle of said beverage.

alva · May 30, 2003, 05:07

Quote:

This phenomenon happens all the time here in Shanghai: I (a large white person) point at something, e.g. a vegetable, and ask someone in Chinese "What do you call that?" Then they give the answer in English, e.g. "A carrot."

Guess what that person must think of you

mindseye · May 30, 2003, 09:37

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Originally posted by alva

Quote:

This phenomenon happens all the time here in Shanghai: I (a large white person) point at something, e.g. a vegetable, and ask someone in Chinese "What do you call that?" Then they give the answer in English, e.g. "A carrot."

Guess what that person must think of you

Perhaps a sha gua ("melonhead").

JohnT · May 30, 2003, 09:38

Lot's of stupid things were said to me, damn thing is I can't remember any of them. I did a thread like this a while back though: "What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard" and, since the mod went a bit off-topic, I feel that I can too:

On a Weather Channel/Discovery/something show about tornados, a man was being interviewed after suffering through a tornado. Now, I admit the guy might've been in shock - the situation around this quote is a bit hazy in my memory and he might've been interviewed very soon after he went through this traumatic experience... or it might've been a month later. Anyway, in the midst of this man talking about his experience, he lets out a little frustration at what he feels is a common urban legend regarding tornados:

"It sounded like no freight train I've ever heard. There was no 'click-clack', no 'whoo-whoo!', nothing!"

JohnT · May 30, 2003, 09:44

My brother (who is slightly off-kilter) actually asked my wife, a stay-at-home mother, the following question:

"Do you work or do anything other than staying around the house?"

Spiffor · May 30, 2003, 09:53

That's gotta be :

"Beligians aren't monsters, their tentacles are beautiful"

OK, maybe not the most stupid, but definitely the most absurd

rah · May 30, 2003, 09:53

I once asked an employee when she was due, and she replied that she had the baby three weeks prior. DOH.

Spiffor · May 30, 2003, 09:56

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Originally posted by rah
I once asked an employee when she was due, and she replied that she had the baby three weeks prior. DOH.

Well, I remember having asked a friend, just after she gave birth: "and how long will you remain fat ?"

Jac de Molay · May 30, 2003, 09:58

The university I work at conducts random student interviews for the college newspaper. When asked who the vice-president of the US was, this girl replied with absolute certainty it was colin powell.

Maybe not the stupidest thing I've heard, but jeez....

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JohnT · May 30, 2003, 10:04

Other things said to me or in front of me:

Student, asking our Chinese stat teacher about his language prowess: "When did you learn to speak American?"

21 year old roommate upon seeing an anteater on a nature program: "Holy shiite, I thought those things existed only in those cartoons!"

Same roommate: "Who did we fight in the Revolutionary War?" My answer: "What language do we speak?" His response: "What the hell does that have to do with anything?!?" (I don't know if he thought we spoke "American.")

JohnT · May 30, 2003, 10:29

Found on CNN.com in an article about how the film "Bruce Almighty" gave out an actual phone number.

"In Longmont, Colorado, the Colorado Radio Network's nine lines started lighting up Monday with God callers, a good number of whom actually seemed to think they found a direct line to the Lord, according to Ron Nickel, the network's senior vice president.

" 'God, I really need to talk to you,' one woman said in a message. 'I need to repent because I've cheated on my husband five times, but I guess all of us people who are prostitutes eventually cheat on our husbands' "

Huh, ya think?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

Eli · May 30, 2003, 10:35

"Britain is on a island?! Ohhh, so that's what the "British Islands" thingie is all about..." (slightly paraphrased during translation)

My father, while watching TV, couple years after a week long trip to London.

What can I say... I'm surrounded by ignorance.