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What's the stupidest thing you heard somebody you "thought" was clever do

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  • #32
    wakka12
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    I know intelligent people who fully believe in star signs and it just boggles my mind!


  • #33
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    My brother catching me having a joint at the folks house, he runs through and says to the folks, 'Niall was smoking some incest', we laughed him out of it.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #34
    Hector Savage
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    I know intelligent people who fully believe in star signs and it just boggles my mind!

    They fall for the cold reading crap, show them this ...



  • #35
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    randd1 wrote: »
    Anyone who believes in angels, crystal cleansings, tarot readings and other supernatural remedies/beliefs. Regardless of intelligence, this automatically makes them guilty of a stupid (and completely pointless) occurrence.

    Dis me! :)


  • #36
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    They fall for the cold reading crap, show them this ...



    Im not listening Im not listening!


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  • #37
    ILoveYourVibes
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    My brother catching me having a joint at the folks house, he runs through and says to the folks, 'Niall was smoking some incest', we laughed him out of it.


    I know someone who ground up incense and actually smoked it.


  • #38
    topper75
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    xabi wrote: »
    You just have to look at Facebook to see some of the crap "intelligent" people share and believe.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it just happens to be the opposite of what you believe?

    If "intelligence" is measured by how closely you follow the orthodoxy of the day, then I can tell you now that we are ****ed as a species.


  • #39
    Hector Savage
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I know someone who ground up incense and actually smoked it.

    jaysus, what was it like ? apart from the coughing fits ?


  • #40
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    My brother catching me having a joint at the folks house, he runs through and says to the folks, 'Niall was smoking some incest', we laughed him out of it.

    That is next-level deviancy.


  • #41
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    jaysus, what was it like ? apart from the coughing fits ?
    Well he had smoked a load of weed beforehand so ....he was pretty chilled.

    I don't think he enjoyed it. He smelt very sweet though! :)


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  • #42
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Brexit.


  • #43
    HBC08
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    Mark Rippetoe wrote: »
    One calm summer's day, I was driving through the Midlands and past the wind turbine farm. Girlfriend turned to me and asked "why aren't they turning? Are they turned off?"

    I was driving past a wind turbine farm with my girlfriend and same thing....they werent turning.She thought this was amazing and was scrambling to take a pic....


  • #44
    foxy farmer
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    Using a ride on lawn mower to pick up leaves around a house that had gravel running up to the door. In 3 mins he had broken outer panes of glass on 2 double glazed doors and chipped paint off 2 cars.


  • #45
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Dis me! :)

    Jesus Christ on a merry-go-round, would you stop admitting this? I am trying to help you ffs!


  • #46
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Emmett Thoughtless Banknote wrote: »
    Jesus Christ on a merry-go-round, would you stop admitting this? I am trying to help you ffs!

    It could be worse I could be in denial!


  • #47
    BobMc
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    misus always tells a great story of a japanese visitor to her last job, in the canteen at lunch, he proceeded to tuck into one of those babybel cheses with the wax coating, wax and all was being chewed !!


  • #48
    lawred2
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    Pauliedragon wrote: »
    How is he sure the landlord didn't get it?
    A know a few guys decide to light their pubes.
    Try and snort a tea spoon of tequila and end up in hospital.

    how?


  • #49
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,202 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    theguzman wrote: »
    Alot of people I had once considered Inteligent and who seemed to excel in school have totally fallen for the various leftwing lies, I recently seen one of their facebook and it is basically just full of vitriol of hating both Trump, Boris Johnson and various different raving statements about climate change and how all white people are such racists. Easily influenced and brainwashed and certainly not intelligent at all now.

    iWKad22.jpg


  • #50
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    kg703 wrote: »
    I'd consider myself of somewhat reasonable intelligence, did well in school, finished college, have a good job.

    However.

    6 years ago in a restaurant in Paris with my now husband we had a lovely meal and at the end the waiter brought out a silver platter with two little white flat circles. He poured water and they grew bigger and he offered one to me. Me, thinking, oh what a neat trick, wondering if it was a mint of some sort popped it in my mouth. The soap immediately gave away that it was a towel. Waiter gasps and laughs and says 'don't eat that, that's a towel!'. Himself howling at me while I remove the towel from my mouth.

    Have never lived it down, he tells everyone especially new people I've just met.

    Weirdest part was a few years later we were watching some awful Melissa mc carthy movie(don't judge me we just stuck it on) and she did the same thing. So either my plight is famous or I'm not the only one who has done this!

    Watching a Melissa McCarthy movie is a lot more stupid than putting a towel in your mouth, I would have led with that.


  • #51
    GRACKEA
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    A friend of mine from college accidentally drowned her hamster "giving it a bath" in the sink when she was a child, and her mother (a practising barrister) figured she could revive it by giving the poor thing a quick blast in the microwave.


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  • #52
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    It could be worse I could be in denial!

    Like, the river? Why would you go there?


  • #53
    H3llR4iser
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    Mark Rippetoe wrote: »
    One calm summer's day, I was driving through the Midlands and past the wind turbine farm. Girlfriend turned to me and asked "why aren't they turning? Are they turned off?"

    Well, hate to be "that" guy but...technically speaking, they CAN be "turned off", most generators have a braking system to keep them from basically exploding in high winds.

    That said, the amount of people who for some inane reason believe these turbines are actually powered by a motor is staggering...
    GRACKEA wrote: »
    A friend of mine from college accidentally drowned her hamster "giving it a bath" in the sink when she was a child, and her mother (a practising barrister) figured she could revive it by giving the poor thing a quick blast in the microwave.

    Oh, I imagine it made for a nice "pop!" in the microwave. One thing I've discovered many years ago - having a "degree" doesn't make you smart...actually some of the dumbest people I've met had big nice 3rd level qualifications on their wall :mad:


  • #54
    ToddyDoody
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    A friend of mine was wondering where the multiply symbol was on his phone.

    Another one, somehow, counted money in terms of time ie 60 pence in a pound.

    One of my own was sticking my hand into a sharps bin full of syringes in a hospital to dispose of a sweets wrapper.


  • #55
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Emmett Thoughtless Banknote wrote: »
    Like, the river? Why would you go there?

    So you can wash me down! ;)



  • #56
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    GRACKEA wrote: »
    A friend of mine from college accidentally drowned her hamster "giving it a bath" in the sink when she was a child, and her mother (a practising barrister) figured she could revive it by giving the poor thing a quick blast in the microwave.

    Anything Gemma O'Doherty does.


    I know someone who owned a horse for two years and didn't know horses can't breathe through their mouths. He also thought horses didn't need to lie down to sleep at least a short time every 24 hrs. He also didn't understand horses can't vomit.

    When i was working in this stable that did holiday riding packages there was this lady from the states who was running the stable over the summer taking people out and givings lessons etc. I was basically her assistant but more for learning too. She actually was very good improved my riding a lot etc.

    But she made a really stupid mistake one day. We had the horses stabled about 5 -10 mins away from where we kept them in the paddock during the day. The paddock was right by a road. She or I used to take people out maybe three times daily. She was leaving one horse behind in the paddock that day.

    Part of the fencing had been damaged but it was wire fencing you mend in like 5 mins. Rather than do that she decides to tie one horse alone in the paddock with a damaged fence rather than take 5 mins to mend it. And rather than go up to the tack room and get a halter she decides to use his bridle and reins to him its not designed for that at all horses can slip them or break them to easily. So I can hear him go mad and I come around the corner to see the horse break his bridle run wildy for the damaged part of the fence. I have a heart attack because its beside a road and run for him and to his head. I don't know how i stopped him I think I punched him a couple of times in the chest.:( I have him by the forelock barely and manage to find a rope to tie around his neck quickly to lead him up to near the tack room. I never would have been able to get him up there without it. I get his halter and lead rope. I go back down to the paddock with him tie him up give him some feed and I mend the fence. I mend it in like 5 MINS. That is how long it would have taken her.

    There were cars going alone the road beside us as well. Can you imagine?

    This was the part that actually made me blow though. I mean she was riding years she ought to have known you never tie a horse up with reins and never leave a fence unmended.

    But when she came back and I told her and showed her the broken bridle she goes oh don't worry about it. I will just lash the cheekstrap together! She didn't get it. She was like oh no worries.

    Her main worry was the bridle. (which by the way the horse could have ripped his face off with when he was pulling the bit could have gone right through the other side of his mouth. )

    But I mean the horse could have run out in front of a car easily. And you know you are TAUGHT about this stuff in stables. Mend the fences check the fences never tie up horses by the reins use a lead rope they are stronger safer for the horse and you etc. I could NOT believe she did that.

    Sorry that was long.:o


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