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MikeTran
Some of this can be explained by early onset dementia which my mum has, I know for a fact she’s not stupid or dumb but does dumb things
DrownedKittensInABurlapSack
I like these. I like that they make me feel better about myself.
AnnieGitchYerGun
So much better.
needanamedammit
#2 Ceiling fans at least have a push and pull setting. One direction steals your life, the other gives you someone else's
ThatTransformersDude
My dad thought the ice maker didn't need a water line ti make ice, it just magically created it with all the science going on in there. Also
ThatTransformersDude
My uncle by marriage didn't understand how taxes on lottery winnings worked. Took my parents a solid 45 minutes to tell a 60 year old how
mullimu
Unwrapping the turkey for Christmas and mum says “Oh! Where are it’s front legs? It only has two legs, we have to take it back.”
Bernifal
I love this
ProbablyBigfoot
Should have stuffed a couple of eggs in it when she wasn't looking to really freak her out.
jewdontknowwhatyourtalkingabout
Some of these aren't stupid parents, just oblivious ones. Like #8 is a classic example of an asshole that only thinks about themselves.
Corrodias
Narcissism, perhaps. But that sounds like one form of stupidity, to me.
tg2222222
Jews have provided good evidence physical alterations are not inheritable.
LuxVertas
these people can vote... and have kids...
Fuckme721
I'm just glad their kids turned out smart.
joerozzell17
My Mom thought babies were born knowing the names of colors. Was an RN, from a prestigious school...
CreepyFreak
Apparently my parents are rocket scientists. I think the dumbest thing my mom did was leave her wallet on top of the car but it was returned
LuminousExpanse
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UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
My mother was in a car crash and received extensive head trauma, causing her to become a paranoid schizophrenic (aggressive). She 2/
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
2/ absolutely believed that the little IR receiver on the TV was a government camera. When those eventually disappeared, then the GOV 3/
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
3/ had finally found a way to reverse the CRT so it became the camera. When she really got bad she'd destroy TVs, and anything else...
Zahnradfee
That's heartbreaking.
Zeddicuszull
Mother once called me down to fix the printer for her. I turned it on.
SatansLady
My boss calls me in every morning to “fix” his printer. It goes into deep sleep, you just have to hit the power button.
SoraHjort
2004... My mother took my Apple IIc to the Salvation Army because "someone could use a computer". A COMPUTER FROM THE 80s!?
SoraHjort
A friend of mine has a similar story where her step father wouldn't get her a new computer to get internet access, saying she could use her
SoraHjort
current computer... which was a Comodore 64... her family was quite backwards when it came to tech.
ThatsMySecretCapImAlwaysHorny
http://www.go4retro.com/products/64nic/
SoraHjort
But yeah, I'm STILL SALTY ABOUT THE LOSS OF MY APPLE IIC MOM. We could have atleast sold it on ebay to someone who wouldn't throw it away!
Shane2017
My mum can't point to North on a map. We live in Australia, so our states include "Western Aus", "South Aus", and "The Northern territory"
Corrodias
Well... north is more of a *direction* than a spot *on* the map that can be pointed to. I assume you mean she doesn't understand it at all.
dennydorko
I have an ex-gf whose mother thought a fax machine was transmitting the original page through the phone line while a copy exited the machine
Zahnradfee
I once believed you could give things through a telephone line, for example little gifts. To my defense: I was 4 and we didn't have tele- >
Zahnradfee
phone at home, so I had not much first-hand experience with it.
Gochira
My grandfather thought you could make distilled water by putting tap water in plastic bins, he thought the plastic filtered the water.
EalisLav
Do you know how reverse osmosis works? :)
Corrodias
I do. It's nothing like that.
EalisLav
Pretty similar concept though.
Vortex153
#4 “Nothing appealing about walking outside randomly for a 15 year old” This makes me sadder than anything else.
markonemick1
I think they were being sarcastic because he's always playing in his basement instead of being a family member.
Corrodias
Some people just don't find enjoyment in hitting trees with sticks.
euphoricopportunity
That is definitely something I did at 15.
AzaellexTytalus
My mom bought disposable dishes so she wouldn’t have to wash them. My dad washed then so he wouldn’t have to spend money.
RedFairladyZ32
I wouldn't call either dumb, but maybe they should get together think about that lol.
AzaellexTytalus
They never did, though. They did everything like that.
RedFairladyZ32
There should be an 'and' in there..
OobedoobScoobyDoobyBenubi
#13 I think the cousin was thinking of Lamarckian evolution
perey
Yeah, people thought it was true for a long time. Not knowing it's debunked isn't stupid. Not believing your cousin, the doctor, though?
Kbantar
Weirdly a tiny hint of it is kind of true with regards to epigenetics.
DeepVeinZombosis
That thing with Koreans and fans... I've dealt with it first-hand. It's totally fucked up.
boopboop11
Yep. Fan blowing over you at night will kill you.
Corrodias
Why would it only be "at night", I wonder?
boopboop11
People like to sleep with a fan blowing over them when it’s really hot
Drinkfist
I have a unfounded theory that a few generations are suffering from lead poisoning and this is the result. It was everywhere for a long time
Davidtakethatoutofyourmouthrightnowyoungman
There is a fantastic piece about the lead-crime correlation. Debunks all the other theories easily. I'll try to find it if you want!
ElectricFrog
I'm interested.
Davidtakethatoutofyourmouthrightnowyoungman
Sent you a message!
Drinkfist
Please if you have it I am interested.
Davidtakethatoutofyourmouthrightnowyoungman
Sent you a message!
Drinkfist
There are times people are stupid but I have encountered many older people that have some kind of mental block you just cant get through.
JohnTheFrost
Welcome to the human race.
Corrodias
As we get older, we stop being interested in new information and start preferring to stick to our own ideas. We have to fight it.
FrittataRodeo
Wife and I having our first child in November. My only parenting goal is to make sure I don’t end up on a list like this.
Graisdabest
.... I think you're meant to have more goals that that ...
Mikeythefireman
You’re human. You’ll do something monumentally stupid in front of your children one day. Don’t worry about the inevitable.
MrRobSteel
But if your going to do so, make it something legendary.
neutronfish
You can do stupid stuff, and you definitely will. Just don’t do it on a regular basis and you won’t end up on a list like this.
airandfingers
Congrats! If you get shit for not doing things the *right way*, Emily Oster's Expecting Better and Crib Sheet have some good ammunition.
joerozzell17
Just understand they're new to the planet, and don't know sh*t. Unlike my Mom who thought I was born knowing colors.
Phoenix0153
I'm 34 years old and love my mom to death, but she felt that Barrack Obama was the antichrist and that he set us up to fall to a one 1/?
GeauxGhoti
Members of every generation for the last 50 years (at least) have said the president was the antichrist. My grandmother's was Reagan.
boopboop11
It’s gotten a lot worse since Limbaugh. Watch “The Brainwashing of My Dad”
GeauxGhoti
Sounds horrible... I'll look it up shortly. Thanks
Kayslay23
My dad also said Obama was the antichrist! I feel slightly better knowing I'm not alone in this experience with a parent
Kayslay23
My dad also told my mom when she decided to leave him that "she had demons in her" and "she would never find anyone else" narcissistic af
Phoenix0153
Oh shit, sorry to hear that! I know it has to have been pretty harsh. It always is when it's your family because you want to bad to help.
boopboop11
Mine too. Depressing as fuck.
Phoenix0153
World order. I still give her hell for the fact he's no longer president. She says he paved the way for the US to fall. Now she claims 2/?
Phoenix0153
That president trump is saving us from Obama's treachery and preventing us from joining the NWO with one world government.
Gababu
she doesn't read the bible or pay attention to it right? i believe god said "what's caesar give to caesar. What's god give to him" something
Gababu
like that, very obviously stating that god doesn't mix in with the government. If he wanted to rule he would have, but he didn't.
kirstykitty
That passage is talking about taxes. People ask if they should pay them, and Jesus asks them whose face is on their coins.
neutronfish
So... she’s a pretty typical Trump voter?
Phoenix0153
That and then some, lol. Dont you dare talk negatively about him in front of her
neutronfish
Something something snowflakes...
Kovahjin
Is your mom my dad?
Doodlerooo
Oh I forgot about this one. It’s long. My SO’s mom brought some random homeless guy she met on her faith healer fb group to Christmas...
Doodlerooo
...this year. Everyone thought it was weird and dangerous but we were nice to him. He’s an alright guy and he’s there for like 3 weeks...
Doodlerooo
...there are lots of little kids there running around naked after baths and shit. Anyway, weeks after Christmas it turns out that he just...
Doodlerooo
...got out of prison for being a convicted pedophile. Something that she made him promise not to tell anyone. She even made her brother...
Doodlerooo
...who was living with her not tell anyone either (which is rly messed up because he already has some mental problems). Anyway the brother..
Doodlerooo
...acted weird and crazy all Christmas because of this terrible secret he had to keep. My SO made her mom tell everyone who brought kids...
FallenFraggle
My dad thinks a space alien is his father, it raped his mother, and he has telepathic powers because of it. Also that I'm 1/4 space alien.
RedFairladyZ32
Is your fathers name Joseph Gribble?
nopost
*Dale Gribble. Is his name Joseph Gribble?
RedFairladyZ32
He said that his dad thinks he's half alien. Dale thought Joseph was half alien. So wouldn't that make his dad Joseph?
nopost
Fair enough. I thought that Dale thought he was half alien, and thus had crazy powers. It's hard to keep track of his crazy
FallenFraggle
That made me laugh. That was good.
FallenFraggle
He also believed that he could change stop lights with his mind, he'd snap his fingers when previous light turned yellow. Boom. Changed.
FallenFraggle
He thought he could heal people with his mind, remote view places in the world, read people's minds. Enter dreams. He thought the government
FallenFraggle
was after him and was super paranoid about that. So he left "evidence" with people about the "truth".
FallenFraggle
Also believes trying to kill himself around his grandkids wouldn't have any negative impact on them.
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WobblyOtter93
That sounds less like stupid and more like schizophrenia
inapropriatepost
Sounds more like he was in serious need of psychiatric care than stupid.
Yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah
Jesus!!! I would say that sounds like severe mental illness, not stupidity
FallenFraggle
Adding one more. Yeah it's probably a mental thing, you can't really force people to get mental health help here. He thinks it would
KittyAmin
Not parent, ex bf. Caught him staring at the Sun. Asked why. He said, defensively, "I'm trying to melt a brain freeze," in a tone that /
LegendOfTheCrack
Your ex-bf was probably high as fuck
KittyAmin
Constantly. But he was also just plain dumb as fuck, too.
SuicideIsNotAnOption
I've experienced many of those; someone would say something so stupid and out of place that I would question my own reality.
KittyAmin
implied that I was, in fact, the idiot for having not known that already. We dated for 2 years. Shame. Shame. Shame.
username063
Jesus. That’s bad
KittyAmin
Also, he was in his late 30s when this happened.
ticklemelulu
My ex tried to convince me to stare at the sun because it's "obviously fake", and then got into a huge fight with me when I said no.
garbageboye
Why'd you break up, OP?
faultysage
How big was his dick?
KittyAmin
Average or maybe smaller
Broadway2
Or how much money did he have?
KittyAmin
Very little
Kittiesandfarts
Had a bf that didn't know women had a urethra AND a vagina.
CatatonicCowMoo
It is super super sad how uneducated SO MANY PEOPLE are on female anatomy. Girls and boys alike. My fiance told me that back in the 1700's /
CatatonicCowMoo
Girls didnt get their periods til close to thirty. I felt really bad but "What? Fuck you no they didn't" came out of my mouth before I /
CatatonicCowMoo
Could stop it followed by hysterical laughter. Cause he's usually a pretty smart guy. Worst part was when he had to look it up before he /
MrHobbes14
To be fair I didn't know I had them till I was 22 and pregnant with my first child. I learnt so much about myself, finally.
Kittiesandfarts
To be fair, I didn't know women could orgasm until I was 19 and my bf helped me. My parents opted me out of sex ed.
MrHobbes14
We did have sex Ed, but at a conservative Christian school. Our teacher was a virgin and very very nervous. I didn't pay attention either.
ShapesofKindness
That last one hurt to read
WhattaYaLookingFor
Me too, but for different reasons than y’all.
Meepsicle
My step-mother once told me she'd thrown out my Sega MegaDrive because "you kids all play Playstations these days".
Meepsicle
To this day I'm certain she'd done it maliciously.
Ruswal
Kinda sad, it reminds me of when I grew up loving video games, my mother would try so hard to get the right ones even though she didm't care
Andalite
I'm not old enough to remember the SNES, and it still hurts
stonebrood
they all hurt to read. these people can fucking vote and obviously they were allowed to conceive children too
Smileyguyx
idiocracy is coming
Eldibs
Times like this, I understand the original intent of the Electoral College.
valen00
Dunno, kinda requires getting a bunch of stupid in one area to really matter in that sense no?
PuruseeTheShakingCat
...children who grew up and learned to be better.
stonebrood
in these cases sure
Mruttz
I honestly don’t get it?
BigOrkWaaagh
Basically he wanted the Mario HD Remaster on his new console and his mom traded his new console for the last gen console + old versions.
RedFairladyZ32
He asked for a game for his newer gen system that had 5 games on it, mom traded his system in for an older model+ 3 individual games instead
greyscale
He lost a new super Nintendo for a 'standard' Nintendo with old games
BenGoodal
On top of the other comments, she traded his stuff instead of buying the present.
ChateauDeBen
Lol ok mom.
perey
Modern version: He had a PS4 and wanted Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy. She traded in his PS4 for a PS1 and the original three Crash games.
Iguessthisismyjobnow
This sounds like a good deal tho honestly
Corrodias
You might have something wrong with the part of your brain that understands money and math.
Asgth
And what about the other PS4 games? can't fucking play them now can he.
Quomp
Does it though, when ps4 has free games on rotation?
DamyonP
Ya maybe, but not if it isn't what you actually want of course.
Perdvert
The mom took the newer nintendo console and traded it in for the older console and three games for it, rather than just get the new game
aBastardNoLonger
He wanted Super Mario Allstars (SNES game) and she traded his SNES console for an old NES with the three separate old games.
Mruttz
Got it now! Thanks everyone
helagos
This is like the one where the gf sold her bf's original Atari and NES plus all the games to buy him a PS4.
Elandeso
As a retro collector, that breaks my heart. Thank god my boyfriend is also a collector, so he understands...
Drakhma
this is a main reason i'm single and i don't trust anybody. im very paranoid sombody would do this to me.
Newthoenikker
Then you're gonna be single forever my dude. No risk no reward, you gotta put yourself out there. It's just stuff anyway
neithermenoryou
People can be perfectly happy being single. If he prefers it this way telling him to just "do it anyway" is probably not going to change his
neithermenoryou
mind.
Bernifal
Why would anyone think they had the right to sell your stuff... and how would that ever be a gift. Sounds like a power thing
Andalite
Bitch did what
Kovahjin
Holy shit I'd have been upset.
AngryVexillology
#7 Fun fact: New Mexico wasn't named after the country Mexico. In 1563, it was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by >
TheStargateIsReal
I’m too lazy to check but I feel like that fun fact may be bullshit
AngryVexillology
No worries, I fact checked it so your lazy ass didn't have to.
AngryVexillology
2/Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico.
lifeguard96
AngryVexillology
CulturallyEmbiggened
That's actually awesome.
skippingmyhsreuniontogetdrunkinmydriveway
So....is Mexico named after New Mexico?
AngryVexillology
Nope.
skippingmyhsreuniontogetdrunkinmydriveway
Dag, yo.
BigOrkWaaagh
I've only ever heard that in one place and I can't remember where it is. Please help.
KittyAmin
I've lived in that godforsaken state my entire life and didn't know that
Eldibs
If it makes you feel better, Albuquerque has the best bus station I've seen in the entire country. Never had a bad time in New Mexico.
faerilyrowanwind
Me too
BumblingBee13
Me three
Ulthirm
people in my state dont know the original proposed named (Deseret) was a term for Beehive. Which is why our symbol is a beehive (And frankly
Ulthirm
Oh another one, Utah is likely Yuta from Spanish, which is also likely where the term Ute for the Native Americans come from.
Ulthirm
I feel like if our symbol is, then why is out freaking flag so complicated and at the same time so... flat? Like its just the symbol behind
Ulthirm
the federal lag with an eagle.
z0mbycide
#4 "Also, I unfortunately know that they don't have sex outside of their room." ... wut?
partydillo
Took me a second, but I’m guessing he heard them from the basement when they realized he wasn’t home, but before they panicked.
markonemick1
I think they were being sarcastic because he's always playing in his basement instead of being a family member.
Corrodias
What does "being a family member" mean to you?
markonemick1
Interaction with other family members.
Corrodias
And do you think that is impossible, long term, if you spend a few hours alone once in a while? That makes you some kind of non-family?
markonemick1
If it was only a "few" hours with someone that never goes out, that would imply they would do other things, like socialise with family.
Corrodias
Does interacting with family mean hanging off them like a parasite, always present during every waking moment? Come on. People have hobbies.
markonemick1
PMSL, I was giving an alternative scenario to why the parents said what they did. If you read what the lad said about not going >>