The Champion of Stupid Questions

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She is in my astronomy class, and sits a few rows behind me.

"So, like... what is the average distance between stars, like in the solar system or whatever?"

I love lower level college classes. I had no idea people could be confused about the difference between the solar system and the galaxy. I learned, albeit not what the professor intended to teach me.

Have any of you encountered this degree of lackluster classroom experience? Please do tell; I find them really funny.

Here's a real champion stupid question.

Some girl I see in the street is with her friends bickering about drugs until she suddenly points to something like this:



Ignore, that is in Virginia, this was in Essex.

She then exclaims with excitement and relief:

"OHH Is that what weed looks like?"



Misunderstandings like this are just ret*d and NT.

Fair enough.

I know it was a tad too far, but come on.

These buncha girls had probably done the drug and forgot about it or something you know?

I remember that once in primary school (but in the end of school so being at the age of about 15) one boy asked our geography teacher about the conditions of life of the slums (or something like that) - he thought that slums were simply very poor people not their places of living.

My gran asked also my mother some years ago what the bananas eat . She was probably very sleepy then and her misunderstanding was probably based on the fact that in our language plural for ram (male sheep) and the banana sounds very similar (barany and banany).

What's the difference between a Cow Pie and an Eskimo Pie?

Roflmao.

I hear a lot of stupid questions and comments at the zoo. One lady looked at the porcupine and said, "Oooh! How far can they shoot their quills?" I thought everyone knew that porcupines can't shoot their quills; that's a myth. The quills fall out like hair when they get stuck in an animal's skin.

On a reptile and amphibian forum, someone asked if turtles are considered fish or amphibians. How can anyone not know that turtles are reptiles?

Ignorance.

They usually have stupid questions that the year's seniors have asked throughout their high school years at the very end of the year... The only one I can remember is, "Do you snakes die?" Which seemed like a rather foolish question to me, but I know the girl who asked it, and it's not surprising coming from her.

And last year one of the girls asked in the gym locker room, "Why are there time zones? They're just so stupid! Make the whole world one time." None of her friends could answer why there were, in fact, time zones (I didn't bother to answer).

The studying of the South in the civil war times proved interesting; I had moved up from the South a few years before, and no one apparently connected the fact that the civil war times was different from now. The questions were if I had ever gotten in trouble for calling someone a carpetbagger or a scalleywag (y'all), and if I knew any Ku Klux Klan members. I didn't give the immediate sarcastic answers, because I worried they would take me seriously.

well the dumbest question i've heard was in my first year mechanics course for engineering (mechanics as in vectors and crap, not working on cars). this guy asked why gravity was always down. now he was trying to make a point that gravity can be positive or negative and your calculations will be the same regardless, but he worded it terribly, and wasted the last 10 minutes of class, which equates to $5 and change of my money. i wanted to ask him for my $5 back after that massive waste of time. he pretty much spent the whole time arguing with the prof and being an idiot.

My brother did some work for the UN and one of his tasks was to fly out to Pakistan and teach a bunch of army guys there how to fix trucks. So, he arrives on the first day and he's introduced to twenty guys all sitting in neat rows ready to learn.

For the next three weeks they cover everything about truck maintenance, from checking the tire pressure to changing an engine, and throughout this time not one of them asked a question. By the end of the three weeks this was driving him crazy so he lost his cool. The final conversation with the class went something like this:

"OK, you guys are driving me nuts. For the last twenty one days you've just sat there listening to me and nobody has asked a single question, Surely there must be SOMETHING that you do not understand"

At the back one guy slowly raises his hand, looking very embarrassed.

"Yes, you, what is it you want to know"?

"Excuse me Mr Almos, why in England is orange jam called marmalade"?

Three hours later he was on a plane out of there

Ed Almos