Stupidity

Teacher: Okay. Quick review: which Greek gods did we cover on Friday?
Student, seriously: Hermaphrodite? Herpes? Asbestos?

High School
Michigan

Guy: Cause, like, Stalin was a pretty crazy dude, right?

York University
Toronto
Canadia

Overheard by: Just don't call me dude

Young teenage girl to friend: $3.25 for a Rockstar? That's like, wait… (pauses for a few seconds) That's like five dollars.

Tacoma Mall
Washington

Overheard by: Not impressed by the math skills of today's youth.

Teen girl: What that thing that Frank Sinatra was? It starts with a “k”?
Teen friend: A “crooner”?
Girl: Yeah, that's it. A crooner.

Starbucks
Ontario
Canadia

Girl: I just spilled some tea. But luckily it was in a frying pan!
Entire room: Yaaaay!

Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts

Girl: Okay, let's catch up on Tuesday. Oh, wait, when's Tuesday?

Jakarta
Indonesia

Girl #1: Now, you're a native New Yorker. I can tell.
Girl #2: I'm from North Carolina.

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: Claire

Tween boy with arm around girlfriend: So, he actually tried to use my phone to call Hitler…

Wisconsin

Man: Yeah, so the whole night he kept telling us that he had trapped this “goblin” and had locked it under the stairs. So finally, at the end of the night, we went to go check, and found that he had locked a midget in the crawlspace.

Boston, Massachusetts

Woman: How is that anything like bathing in holy water?
Man: Well, you know… it was wet!

Toronto
Canadia