Most Stupid Question You Have Ever Been Asked..

sbsquarepants · 16-03-2011 03:07PM

anniehoo wrote: »

How to measure out 1 litre of water while holding a graduated cylinder marked up to 1000mls. I literally did facepalm right in front of the person (who was doing a masters in a science related subject).

Ah, my dear annie - what you have demostrated here, quite clearly, is the difference between "doing" and "finishing":)

dilallio · 16-03-2011 03:07PM

We were down in the local pub on St Stephens day a few years ago and one of the lads was proudly showing off his first mobile phone which he had got as a xmas present the day before.

The phone rings and after answering it Pat exclaims

"How did you know you could find me here"

starling. · 16-03-2011 03:09PM

'Are you going to Belgium the city or Belgium the country?'

:rolleyes:

Smcgie · 16-03-2011 03:09PM

Got asked the other day by a co worker

"how long is 4meters"
Palm 2 Face!

ziedth · 16-03-2011 03:12PM

I used to work in Superquinn and it was soul destroying at times, couple of better ones:

Can I barbecue a whole duck?

What's in mince beef?

Why are we so busy on Christmas eve?

Best one by a mile though I was going out with this girl (she wasn't stupid but not a genius) and we were watching terminator 3 in the cinema and when the nukes go off at the end during the monologue she asks in all seriousness "did that really happen"?

kuno · 16-03-2011 03:17PM

Working in a shoe shop

customer: what shoe size do I need?
me: what size do you take?
customer: they´re not for me, they´re for my friend.

I look around shop and find we are the only 2 people in here.

me: what size does your friend take?
customer: I don´t know, I want to buy her a present. can you not work it out for me?

JerryHandbag · 16-03-2011 03:17PM

A blonde once asked me "Are those people over there Chinese, or are they Asian?"

MitchKoobski · 16-03-2011 03:24PM

While watching Inglorious Basterds
GF: "Is this how WW2 ended?"

While getting dressed after the gf spent the night
GF: "What the number for the taxi firm down the road?"
Me: "Which ones?"
GF: "The 858585 fellas?"
Me: "Rapid Cabs?"
GF: "Yeah whats the number?"

"Barack Obama, he's the president of Africa isn't he?"

In work way too early on a sunday morning
Old woman: "What dya call them things like hammers but its like a big nail but you use it to screw things in?
Me: ".....you mean a screwdriver...."
Old woman: "No its like a hammer nail thingy?"

marcbrophy · 16-03-2011 03:25PM

kuno wrote: »

Working in a shoe shop

customer: what shoe size do I need?
me: what size do you take?
customer: they´re not for me, they´re for my friend.

I look around shop and find we are the only 2 people in here.

me: what size does your friend take?
customer: I don´t know, I want to buy her a present. can you not work it out for me?

That's seriously stupid!!

panevthe3rd · 16-03-2011 03:27PM

we were trying to decide what to go see in the cinema and were discussing what the movies were about when one of the girls seriously asked "whats the texas chainsaw massacre about?"

Dravokivich · 16-03-2011 03:30PM

Dermo wrote: »

4 quarter pounders pre-cooked weight or after cooked weight?

We have a contender here folks...

...whenever you are weighing up ingredients to cook, you can only do it "pre-cooked."

:pac:

Kimono-Girl · 16-03-2011 03:35PM

stupidusername wrote: »

try a fourth year software developer asking what a function looks like... and then when i showed one to him, he asked why there were things in brackets after it ...(parameters) :rolleyes:

try a second year student of computer science who couldn't get his wireless working (he then had to ask my partner) it turned out all my partner had to do was turn it on.

:rolleyes:

galah · 16-03-2011 03:38PM

"can you predict the amount of bereavement leave your team will require in 2011 and 2012..."

ehm, if I could, I'd be on the psychic channel and on a lot more money (not necessarily as a result of being on the psychic channel), my friend.

LenaClaire · 16-03-2011 03:40PM

I wanted to try on a pair of shoes and asked if they had a size 3. The lady goes in the back for a while, then comes out and says - We don't have and left in 3. Will a size 7 do?

Also, used to do IT/Telecom support for my office. The office idiot comes over and says her phone is broken and she has no idea why. I go to check it out and it is super sticky, I ask her why it is sticky...

Her "I spilled my orange juice over the phone"
Me

Her "Oh, do you think that might hurt it??"

Elevelyn · 16-03-2011 03:41PM

Worked in a shop years ago and a fella came over to me asking could you use suntan lotion instead of soap and not wash it off :eek:

Shenshen · 16-03-2011 03:42PM

Working in a library, I was surprised how many time I was asked "Do you have books?"... :rolleyes:

_feedback_ · 16-03-2011 03:46PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

she coulda been colourblind...

The-Rigger wrote: »

Colour blind?

Nah, I'm colourblind and most certainly wouldn't have a problem with differentiating red and green peppers.

The spelling of differentiating may be a problem though

s3129 · 16-03-2011 03:48PM

I know these aren't really questions as such, but they involve people asking something

In primary school, principal couldnt get the computer working. This is a true story, he asked me to try and figure it out as I always had a knack with computers. So I went down, looked at the wall, and flicked on the switch... :rolleyes:

Another one.. my sister isn't the sharpest tool in the box, in an extremely funny way. Somebody else was confused about silent L's, trying to spell calm. They said to her, 'isn't calm spelt c-a-m' .. My sister says 'no theres a silent L in it, it's c-a-m-l.... :cool:

O heres another funny question from her... We were driving around the back roads one night, down around the burren theres a place where people live in caravans and the likes, hippie type people (no offence intended anybody, just trying to explain).. it was nighttime and my sister was wondering about their electricity. One of the lads told her that some of them have generators. So she asked 'but where do they plug the generators in????'

She's quality

Penisland · 16-03-2011 03:51PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

A blonde girl I once worked with asked me were limes really lemons that were not yet ripe!:eek::eek::eek:

Think thats bad?

I know someone who thought the sun and the moon were the same thing :eek:

Sam Vimes · 16-03-2011 03:52PM

While working in Dunnes I was packing the dog food and had two cans of dog food in my hand when someone asked where the dog food was.

Naturally I used one of the cans as a pointing device to direct her to the next lane