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Stupid Questions

  • 04-04-2014 7:14pm
    #1
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭


    At school, nice mammy-type teachers used to say "there's no such thing as a stupid question" - presumably to stop us all slagging each other and to encourage curiosity. But it's the kind of thing I'd expect to see thrown over a picture of Einstein and shared online by people having a bad brain day.

    I get that unexpected or eccentric questions are exactly what's needed for good hypotheses and findings, as well as design and works of art. But there are stupid questions, aren't there? Is that a stupid question in itself? :o

    Today I opened a response to a group email, which had the time and venue of a forthcoming meeting in the subject line, and details of the agenda in the body. It was a query about the time and venue of our next meeting.

    What's the stupidest question you have ever heard or read?


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  • #2
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,908 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Stupidest question? What was that infraction for?


  • #3
    boogle
    Registered Users Posts: 777 ✭✭✭boogle


    "Is that why it's called pi? Because it's shaped like a pie?"


  • #4
    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Are you interested in two Coldplay tickets ?


  • #5
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Stupid kids grow up to become stupid adults.

    Id love to quote a few but an awful lot of my examples are on tech forums on boards and some of those just make baby jebus cry.


  • #6
    Zed Bank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    Tzardine wrote: »
    Are you interested in two Coldplay tickets ?

    Are you musically inept?


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  • #7
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    I was once asked how many pork chops I ate for dinner, stupid stupid.


  • #8
    jiminho
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭jiminho


    Where is the RDS Working Abroad Expo on this year?


  • #9
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    I got my mam a George Foreman grilling machine back in the day when they had just came out and were very popular.

    "Oooh, very nice" she said. "oh that fella George Foreman, he's your man that plays the Banjo, isn't he?" she said.

    Bless her. :pac:


  • #10
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Muise... wrote: »
    What's the stupidest question you have ever heard or read?

    Question on US Immigration form: "Do you have any intention of aiding or abetting the overthrow of the US Government?"

    Noel Coward is said to have answered "Sole purpose of visit".


  • #11
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    boogle wrote: »
    "Is that why it's called pi? Because it's shaped like a pie?"

    my mind is boogling at a π-shaped pie. :)


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  • #12
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    One of my posh young teenage students who spent a month or so in Ireland learning English asked me today, "Why do all Irish teenagers dress like macarras (the Spanish word for chavs)?".


    She's full of stupid questions every week. I can't take anymore of them!


  • #13
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    What time is it ?
    Five.
    O'Clock ?


  • #14
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Does growing that beard take much effort?

    Quite the opposite.


  • #15
    poundapunnet
    Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭poundapunnet


    'Are ye closing?'

    No I'm just putting the shutters up over the windows for the hell of it.


  • #16
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Can blind people see through a glass eye?


  • #17
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    Walking from the lounge were a football match was on TV back into the bar,some fella shouts at me
    "what's the score in their beano?"

    "Nil nil"

    "To who?"

    :confused:


  • #18
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "What date is New Year's Day on this year?"


  • #19
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    beano345 wrote: »
    Walking from the lounge were a football match was on TV back into the bar,some fella shouts at me
    "what's the score in their beano?"

    "Nil nil"

    "To who?"

    :confused:

    Well I hope you told him what a stupid question that was!

    It's "to whom?" ffs. :p


  • #20
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    An American woman in Edinburgh Castle overlooking the Forth River at Fife, is that France?


  • #21
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Ohhhhhh easily can think of my one i heard- was in sociology tutorial in college and was discussing "counter-cultures" and a hand goes up and one asks "would an example be like Micheal Flatley and Riverdance..?"

    That or the time friend asked wood work teacher "How do trees get pregnant?"


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  • #22
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Friend walked in to a hairdressers and asked

    'Do ye cut hair?'

    Another time the same fella asked

    'New Zealand,thats in Australia innit?'

    FFS.:confused:


  • #23
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    My mother's friend is in Cuba on holidays at the moment. After telling me this, my mother then asked me "Is Cuba part of Russia or is it a country of its own?


  • #24
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Does God exist?


  • #25
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    Does God exist?

    That's actually a good question. It's mostly the answers that are stupid.


  • #26
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Muise... wrote: »
    That's actually a good question. It's mostly the answers that are stupid.

    Well when you rephrase it to "Are the people who started a belief in god based on a load of nonsense right". Then you can see the stupid side of the question itself.


  • #27
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Why?


  • #28
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why?

    Depends on whats meant by "God" I guess. Biblical god, Greek gods, the gods of all religions are just fairy tales. We all know this. So its stupid to wonder if they actually do exist. Its like wondering if Santa is real after finding out it was all made up.


  • #29
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Give me an empty box.
    An empty box of what?


  • #30
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Well when you rephrase it to "Are the people who started a belief in god based on a load of nonsense right". Then you can see the stupid side of the question itself.

    If you go and rephrase it that much, is it still the same question, Theseus? :p

    Also, trying to understand the mind-blowing fantasticness of the universe and all that's in it is not a load of nonsense, even if you get it wrong.


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  • #31
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Muise... wrote: »
    If you go and rephrase it that much, is it still the same question, Theseus? :p

    Also, trying to understand the mind-blowing fantasticness of the universe and all that's in it is not a load of nonsense, even if you get it wrong.

    Of course its the same question. Everything we know about god comes from what we humans invented about god. I dont think any rationally minded person would think its based on fact.

    Also trying to understand the universe isnt a load of nonsense no. Its beliefs that developed based on myths and superstitions thats the nonsense. And its from those that belief in god comes. Angry giants in the sky, man in a chariot brings the sun every day type stuff.

    But anyway I dont want to drag this thread into another religious debate so I'll leave my jibberings at that.


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