Moments of Sheer Ignorance that take your breath away.

hot_curry_baz · 21-04-2011 08:01PM #1

Right! We're all been there folks. From our closest friends, worst enemies right out to complete and total strangers.
I'm pretty sure we're all approaching that era in our lives where we become just that bit jaded and cynical about the world but still, even now, there are moments that just make us want to put our heads in our hands and just sigh.
SO! Let's hear them tales of stupidity that made you stand still. Moments that made your brain hurt haha!
I'll get the ball rolling. Back in my secondary school, I was pretty much the resident geek. Not intentionally per say, it just came naturally I suppose.
During one geography class the teacher was talking about how Africa isn't a nation but rather a continent much like South America. I said ''Guess both populations can empathise with each other in alot of ways.''
This was followed up by the following from the back of the room: ****in Shahbaz and his big words. (Empathise=big word????)
And then the gem itself, ''Hey isn't Brazil in Africa??''.
*facepalm*:eek:

stupidusername · 21-04-2011 08:04PM

a woman i used to work with commenting on how isn't it great, black people, how they don't have to worry about getting a tan.

hot_curry_baz · 21-04-2011 08:05PM

Another personal fave of mine that I hear often: Oh are you muslim yeah? Is that like those people who blow themselves up and all??
Ugh.

AlmightyCushion · 21-04-2011 08:09PM

Someone asked me how to spell I.R.A. Also, while in a pub me and my friends had some guy try and convince us that Ireland is in a different time zone to the UK because their news starts at 6:00PM and ours starts at 6:01PM.

hot_curry_baz · 21-04-2011 08:11PM

That reminds me of a time when an American tourist asked me if I'd ever seen ''Lepreeshans.''.
Yes. He meant leprechauns.

21-04-2011 08:12PM

My dearest American friend, bless her,after learning Ireland celebrated mothers day before America, asked me, ' Y'all celebrate Christmas on Dec 25th tho right?'

AlmightyCushion · 21-04-2011 08:12PM

hot_curry_baz wrote: »

That reminds me of a time when an American tourist asked me if I'd ever seen ''Lepreeshans.''.
Yes. He meant leprechauns.

Or a leper named shaun.

Orando Broom · 21-04-2011 08:13PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Someone asked me how to spell I.R.A. Also, while in a pub me and my friends had some guy try and convince us that Ireland is in a different time zone to the UK because their news starts at 6:00PM and ours starts at 6:01PM.

It us to be!

red menace · 21-04-2011 08:14PM

Some Canadians I was talking to when I mover here first were shocked to hear that Ireland was an island

They were vaguely aware of a landmass called Europe which, on some gentle probing I discovered they imagined was about the size of France

Poor Craythur · 21-04-2011 08:17PM

Was at my granny's house a few weeks ago. Conversation turned to a woman we know who had broken up with her African boyfriend. My granny comes out with "Well, wasn't she hard up when all she could get was a black man".

Yup, granny is a racist!

Laisurg · 21-04-2011 08:19PM

A woman in her 60s that i used to work with once told me that eating chickens that had been kept in cages and mistreated was the main cause of cancer.

Degag · 21-04-2011 08:23PM

I hate it when people (especially Americans) refer to the Irish Language as "Gaelic"

I know that technically it's not incorrect for it to be known as that, it just annoys me for some reason.

Bog · 21-04-2011 08:27PM

Science teacher once asked the class dunce how long a metre stick was. He didn't know.

Degag · 21-04-2011 08:27PM

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Was at my granny's house a few weeks ago. Conversation turned to a woman we know we know who was had broken up with her African boyfriend. My granny comes out with "Well, wasn't she hard up when all she could get was a black man".

Yup, granny is a racist!

Meh, alot of older people are like that, even people only in their 40s or 50s. Just the way they were brought up. Can be funny at times!

Delirium · 21-04-2011 08:27PM

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Was at my granny's house a few weeks ago. Conversation turned to a woman we know we know who was had broken up with her African boyfriend. My granny comes out with "Well, wasn't she hard up when all she could get was a black man".

Yup, granny is a racist!

I've an eldery aunty who refers to Asian people as "slitty eyed monsters" :eek:

Forest Master · 21-04-2011 08:28PM

stupidusername wrote: »

a woman i used to work with commenting on how isn't it great, black people, how they don't have to worry about getting a tan.

Eh, they don't though. It'd be ignorant if you thought they DID worry about getting a tan.

21-04-2011 08:30PM

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Was at my granny's house a few weeks ago. Conversation turned to a woman we know we know who was had broken up with her African boyfriend. My granny comes out with "Well, wasn't she hard up when all she could get was a black man".

Yup, granny is a racist!

Aren't they all - mine used to comment "aren't there a lot of johnny foreigners in town these days" :rolleyes:

kfallon · 21-04-2011 08:30PM

Waiting to get a haircut one day years ago, kip full of the local biddies, some ould wan pipes up about Bin Laden, "Ah they'll never get him now, what with the euro and everything!"

Lamb. Of. Jaysus.

mgmt · 21-04-2011 08:31PM

When I was in Primary School back around 1993/4, we did a email penpal exchange with another class in the USA. The retard I was chatting to asked me in one email if we had modern electrical equipment in Ireland like tvs, radios or computers :eek:.

stupidusername · 21-04-2011 08:32PM

Forest Master wrote: »

Eh, they don't though. It'd be ignorant if you thought they DID worry about getting a tan.

ugh.

no don't know what to say to this.

Kevin Duffy · 21-04-2011 08:33PM

My Granny used to say she hated to see black people on the telly and would make us change the channel

Degag · 21-04-2011 08:33PM

Classic one i see are the people who give out about foreigners speaking Polish or French etc while in the pub or on the street etc

"My God, can they not take the time to learn a bit of English?"

These are always the people who go on sun holidays to Spain or Portugal only knowing "Gracias" or "Por Fobor" (sp)

almostnever · 21-04-2011 08:34PM

Perfect thread for today.

I had a fifteen minute argument with a twenty one year old today who genuinely and strongly believes that Belfast is in Galway.

Beat that.

Monty Burnz · 21-04-2011 08:34PM

koth wrote: »

I've an eldery aunty who refers to Asian people as "slitty eyed monsters" :eek:

And...that's wrong...?

Kevin Duffy · 21-04-2011 08:36PM

almostnever wrote: »

I had a fifteen minute argument with a twenty one year old today who genuinely and strongly believes that Belfast is in Galway.

Beat that.

What...how...just...what? Wait, what?

almostnever · 21-04-2011 08:39PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

What...how...just...what? Wait, what?

I know, right?
Me: "....no. Just no."
Him: "I was at the Galway Arts Festival in Belfast a few years ago, couldn't believe how it's come on since the Troubles."

I despair.

imitation · 21-04-2011 08:41PM

Jake1 wrote: »

My dearest American friend, bless her,after learning Ireland celebrated mothers day before America, asked me, ' Y'all celebrate Christmas on Dec 25th tho right?'

Just to boomerang this on you, they celebrate Christmas on the 24th in a lot of places in mainland Europe. In some other countries it can even be in January.

Owwmykneecap · 21-04-2011 08:41PM

Women working in the chippers discussing a daughter Australia

"yeah sure it's Summer there now"
"really"
"yeah, Australia New Zealand, Canada, all along that coast."

Poor Craythur · 21-04-2011 08:44PM

mgmt wrote: »

When I was in Primary School back around 1993/4, we did a email penpal exchange with another class in the USA. The retard I was chatting to asked me in one email if we had modern electrical equipment in Ireland like tvs, radios or computers :eek:.

I had a a guy in his late teens from Dublin ask me in 2003 at the start of college whether people got the English channels down the country! :eek:

Oranage2 · 21-04-2011 08:59PM

When the black guys head ended up being chopped of by the scissor sisters my nan told me to be careful dating black girls because beheadings was part of african culture, turns out she was half right as its a Tallaght tradition.

Seloth · 21-04-2011 09:05PM

In first year secondary school we were discussing the ice age and one fella honestly goes "Didnt we have one of those a few years ago miss?" referring to when it snowed 6 years previous :pac:

Met A dubliner once who though county cork only got electricty in the early naughties.

And a friend of mine from a near by town asking what estate we were in(I live in the country) and stating how there should be street lights

Moments of Sheer Ignorance that take your breath away.

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