We asked members of the BuzzFeed community to tell us the dumbest things they’ve heard. Here are the hysterical (and worrying) things they heard friends and family say:
1. “A relative and her family insist that the capital of Africa is Africatown.”
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2. “I was 14 and so was my friend, and one day after my first period, I asked him how many more minutes we had to wait before we could go to the gym. His response? ‘Well, we have to wait an hour and a half, so 130 minutes?'”
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3. “I just went The Wizard of Oz Watching a movie at the Sphere, I told my 80 year old mother how amazing it was, they even had flying monkeys flying over the audience. She said, ‘Wow, you mean they have real flying monkeys?’ ‘”
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4. “I was waiting in line at a grocery store when the woman behind me started talking. ‘You can’t believe anything on TV anymore.’ I took the bait and asked, ‘What do you mean? “She responded, ‘Well, look at the major networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS). They all report fake news. It was all orchestrated by Obama! When I asked her what evidence she had, she said, ‘Every major news station reports the same thing at the same time every night!’ “Fox is the only one who knows the real news. Huh?”
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5. “I have a friend who said ‘it’s good to be negative’, and I can only guess he meant ‘maybe’. I’ve known him for more than ten years and I’ve never corrected him.”
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6. “I have a friend who thinks Latino people speak Latin.”
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7. “When we first started dating, my wife and I were living in Richmond, Virginia. During one conversation, she said we lived in South America. When I asked her why she thought that, she said because we lived in the South, we must be in South America.”
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8. “My sister once asked a retarded girl in our high school if she had had a lobotomy. The girl said, ‘No, I can still have babies.'”
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9. “My family took a cruise to Mexico and they shared their thoughts on the cruise. I asked them if they liked Tulum and the Mayan artifacts. Their response was ‘Yes, we saw some very ancient stuff, but they need to clean out the buildings that are falling apart.'”
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10. “One night I went to an Italian chain restaurant and after I sat down, the waiter asked, ‘Can I get you something to drink?’ and I said, I’d like some soda,” she responded. “Do you want sparkling water or still water?”
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11. “At the beginning of my senior year, the career counselor called me and asked why I was still there. She explained that I had 17 extra credits and the school wouldn’t give them to me anymore. So, I graduated early! My brother went to the counselor and asked me to take 17 extra credits! He failed, dropped out, and got his GED.”
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12. “One year, we were going on vacation. My son asked where we were going. I told him we were going to London, England, and Rome, Italy… and he said, ‘I thought we were only going to two places, not four.’ And I asked him, what do private schools teach you?”
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13. “We were having Easter dinner and my brother’s ex-husband said she didn’t want to read The Passion of the Christ because it was too violent and wanted to know if they would write a book about it.”
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14. “My sister once asked my mom when the 4:30 movie was.”
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15. “A group of us were talking about football at work. My coworker asked how many quarters there are in a game. I replied, ‘The same number as a dollar.'”
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16. “A friend on a camping trip said you can’t start a fire by rubbing sticks together unless there’s sunlight.”
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17. “I’m a high school teacher. I once had a student ask me if a pregnant woman choked and the baby would come out of her mouth when her abdomen pushed. Before I could stop myself, I asked her if she was kidding. She was serious…yay, our future.”
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18. “Someone asked me, ‘Does Caesar really live at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas?'”
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19. “A friend of mine once told our ninth-grade geography teacher that the test was wrong because it spread out all the continents instead of them all blending together.”
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20. “My ex-son-in-law thought the way you boiled eggs was to put them in a bowl in the refrigerator… and let them sit in the bowl overnight… uh, well. It made Easter awkward because there weren’t any eggs to color… ugh. Maybe he’ll remarry soon.”
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twenty one. “I once had an 18-year-old girl ask me, ‘Is Santa Claus real?'”
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twenty two. “In the early 1980s, when I was a teenager, I received a pen pal request from a 14-year-old American (I’m from the Caribbean). She described her hobbies in the letter and asked, ‘In America we have this wonderful thing called television. Does the Caribbean have it?'”
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twenty three. “I have a friend who thinks all cats are girls and all dogs are boys.”
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twenty four. “I was in 11th grade taking advanced English, and one day this girl in front of me turned around and asked, ‘What’s a paragraph?’ She looked serious, no joke, that’s what she thought. I was shocked and just answered her, and then when she turned around I shook my head.”
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25. “A guy I know 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.'”
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26. “One of my daughter’s friends said to her, ‘I’m not sure dinosaurs were real, like no one has ever seen pictures of them.'”
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27. Finally, “After the 2016 U.S. election, my supervisor thought the results meant Hillary Clinton would become Vice President because she came in ‘second.’ I almost sprayed my coffee with laughter before I realized she was serious.”
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