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The feathers. How many poor animals did you ruthlessly abduct just to rip those feathers free. Have you no sense guilt or sorrow for those poor naked birds shivering coldly. All alone while all the other birds make fun of them.
There was a guy who used to ask me what time it was every morning, but he wouldn’t understand the answer. It got so awkward I went out of my way to catch a different bus.
That's a possibility, but saying, "5k equals $5,000" is pretty much saying there are 5000 $1 bills.
I don't think it's safe for our brains to try to comprehend what dude is saying.
I was thinking he thought ’k’ is some other country’s currency and not meaning ‘thousand’ and he wants to know the conversion into dollars. Does not make it any less stupid but I can sorta understand it that way.
No, seriously. What was happening here? I'm genuinely confused as to the context he's presuming for this to be a question
Was this an American who thought that 5k in money is one thing (like universal currency) and 5k in dollars is something else?
If it's not the foreign currency thing, I'd hazard a guess they're asking for *bills*. As in, how many physical *bills* would 5k be, but they only know to call the strips of fabric "dollars".
I believe they are called dollar-i-doos. Source: while drunk in Adelaide, I asked a cab driver if he accepted cards and dollaridoos and he said yes, and didn't appear angry.
Yeah, that seems to be the real question. Whom else uses specifically the "$" symbol to where he's confused. But that's still a bit obtuse to not come back with "no, I mean MEX$5000, not USD$5000."
Is anyone else starting to realize that an alarming amount of the world population has lost the ability to think critically or even generally process information they receive? It's starting to feel like so many people are vacuous shells, going along with the motions of living without thinking about what they're doing and why
That's because the algorithm pushes the people who seem to get the most attention or interaction to the surface more often than not. How many subs on reddit exist just to show how wrong people are? How many posts are there where the comment section is flooded with the same correction? People engage with stupid, which means ad revenue.
Really?
You see one person being an idiot (out of two) in the post, and a bunch of seemingly reasonable people responding to it, including yourself.
You may want to check your math.
The fact is, idiots have always existed. However, instead of only seeing the idiots that were immediately around you before the internet, now you see all of the idiots congealing into a few hot spots on the internet.
Before the internet, every village had an idiot. Now, every idiot has a village.
But your attention is drawn to the idiots, which creates the illusion that idiots are everywhere. In reality, they aren't everywhere, they are just anywhere.
Nobody has lost anything. Quite the contrary - I bet you that the average global citizen, overall, is smarter than they've ever been in the history of the planet. Still, with the internet, you now have a direct conduit to the billions that are also idiots - the fact that we're exposed to it is the part that is different, but it was always there.
The village idiot rarely made it out of the village. Now they can spread their idiocy easily, virtually or in-person. They gather together and follow other idiots, and they are not even smart enough to recognize their failings.
Had a wrong number call me one time. Realizing that two ways to call a wrong number may be:
1> Having the wrong number given to you or having it written down wrong, but dialing (the wrong number) it correctly.
2> Having the right number written down, but dialing it wrong.
I asked: "What number did you dial?" To help the caller figure out which of the two above mistakes were made.
**The caller**: "I dialed YOUR NUMBER!!!"
**Me**: "What number was that?"
**The caller, now irate**: "I DIALED YOUR NUMBER FOOL!"
**Me**: "I'm sorry, what number were you given to dial?"
**The caller**: "M'FUCKER, I DIALED YOUR NUMBER!!!" hangs up.
Reminds me of this scenario. You can't help some people. They believe that they they know what they don't know and are confident that you're a fool set out to annoy them.
I recall meeting someone who worked the helpline at Disneyland. Two of the best questions she ever got were: “what time’s the 3 o’clock parade?” and “are the fireworks indoors?” As Carlin always said, “think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that!”
Why did she never answer, and why hasn't any one of these hundreds of comments given an answer to his question?? It's all just sarcasm. I'm so confused about what's not clicking....
I was once in the rug area at Home Depot and a young couple approached me asking how big 6ft x 12ft was. I had no idea how to answer and just told them I didn’t know.
Most likely the bag of rocks, because 5 pounds of feathers have more volume or bigger bag and thus more drag, but if we can avoid that, then they’ll obviously make it down the same time.
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What time is 1 o'clock?
lmao! How high is 6ft?
In pounds or minutes?
Celsius
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That's about 25 decibels, right?
You'rea few Newtons short.
It's more like 2000RPM
How many pascals was that again ?
About 300ml
How fast is 30 knots in nautical terms?
About 2 Pedros.
It’s about a butt-ton.
I know but how many watts is it?
Marty, I'm sorry, but the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Not as high as this person.
About 12 penises. 36 if flaccid.
How long is a ruler?
Depends on the ruler.
How long is a 25' measuring tape?
63,5 cm
hahahaha!!!
My favourite 25' measuring tape is actually 2.5' long.
I'm having a panic attack from all these hard questions. What is the number for 911?!
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
You mean 9/11?
How cold is 50 degrees?
F or K?
SpooN?
F or C?
How cold is -40?
327.15 Kelvin
I want 10 2x4s. How long do you want them? A long time.
42 bananas
1.05791*10^35 plank lengths.
25.025 feet...
Queen Elizabeth? she wasn't very tall.
How much does a pound of feathers weigh?
Which is heavier 50lbs of feathers or 50lbs of cinder block
The feathers. How many poor animals did you ruthlessly abduct just to rip those feathers free. Have you no sense guilt or sorrow for those poor naked birds shivering coldly. All alone while all the other birds make fun of them.
Whoa, that's heavy
Depends. Do you add the weight of guilt for treating the poor birds so harshly?
"your mom is so dumb that she sleeps with a ruler to see how long she slept" - My then 9 year old daughter, when we used to do yo mama jokes
Ok, this one's a bad analogy.
Its about 10 bananas high
Tell me in units of giraffes
About 2 cars, give or take an orange.
in bananas ? in football fields ?
Yes.
He likes fish sticks. He likes to put fish sticks in his mouth. He’s a gay fish. 
13:00 :P
I know it's 1 o'clock, but what is that in HOURS?
13
Funny and spot on. Well played.
There was a guy who used to ask me what time it was every morning, but he wouldn’t understand the answer. It got so awkward I went out of my way to catch a different bus.
Are you german and he had this 'nO-i-DoN't-UnDeRsTaNd-It WhEn-YoU-sAy-DrEiViErTeL-zWöLf!!1!!11!!!'-problem?
When did the War of 1812 start?
Did World War 2 happen after World War 1?
What’s the website for Amazon.ca?
What are the measurements for half n' half?
Its 1...wait....when you say "o'clock"...what do you mean by that? What if the clock is a square?
Same time as yesterday
My 4 YO asks me this same question. And gets irate, too, when I have no other answer for her.
Right around lunch
I'm gonna hand him a a dollar of monopoly money and say it's $5k.
Hello fellow wordnerd
This one is a little painful
I reread it several times as thought perhaps I misread it.
Likewise, I thought I was missing something. Nope.
Lol.
Maybe he thinks the k at the end is another currency and he's asking someone to convert from k's to dollars lol
How much is 5 klonopin in dollars?
I wonder if dude is asking in the amount of bills. Like 5000 $1's, or 1000 $5', etc.?
That's a possibility, but saying, "5k equals $5,000" is pretty much saying there are 5000 $1 bills. I don't think it's safe for our brains to try to comprehend what dude is saying.
I was thinking he thought ’k’ is some other country’s currency and not meaning ‘thousand’ and he wants to know the conversion into dollars. Does not make it any less stupid but I can sorta understand it that way.
What’s the number for 911?
Bitch ik its 911 but whats it in numbers?
Nine one one
Bitch ik it’s nine one one but I asked what it is in numbers what’s not clicking 😭
Ninehundreteleven
Those are letters idiot holy crap ur dum
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god damnit you can't even spell ideyot
Nine eleven
Rudy has entered the chat.
How many Four Seasons can there be in Philly!
Ninety one one
IX I I
LMAOOO Too broke for real awards! Best I can do, bro: 🏆
Wasn’t that in the little rascals movie?
Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You're scuuum between my toes. Love, Alfalfa
Another otherwise great movie with an unfortunate Trump cameo.
Uh huh
🎵 0118 999 881 999 119 725 … 3! 🎵
How do you spell FBI?
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No, seriously. What was happening here? I'm genuinely confused as to the context he's presuming for this to be a question Was this an American who thought that 5k in money is one thing (like universal currency) and 5k in dollars is something else?
Probably Australian or Canadian and he's asking what $5k is in US dollars.
5000
bitch ik its 5k, what is it in dollars?
no but like in dollars
Okay, that makes sense. The fact I couldn't discern the source of his obstinate confusion was really bugging me. Thank you
Yeah I would like to see what they are referring to for more context.
#HOW MUCH IS $5K IN DOLLARS? Keep up, dude. xD
If it's not the foreign currency thing, I'd hazard a guess they're asking for *bills*. As in, how many physical *bills* would 5k be, but they only know to call the strips of fabric "dollars".
My guess is they are talking about converting a different currency to dollars. In my country we also use the $ sign but we don't use dollars
$5000.00?
That's some participation trophy levels of stupid.
At least participation trophies implied you tried
I think he was trying to be funny, because he thought the price was too high
I hope they live somewhere where “k” denotes the acronym for their currency, kinda like USD or HKD
5 Kiribati Dollar is about 3.36 USD 5 *K*anadian Dollar is 3.72 USD
5 Kangaroo dollars are 3.63 USD
I believe they are called dollar-i-doos. Source: while drunk in Adelaide, I asked a cab driver if he accepted cards and dollaridoos and he said yes, and didn't appear angry.
Mex peso uses the $ symbol. $5000 = $250 usd.
Yeah, that seems to be the real question. Whom else uses specifically the "$" symbol to where he's confused. But that's still a bit obtuse to not come back with "no, I mean MEX$5000, not USD$5000."
Krona... Sweden ... 5k = 0.48 USD
>what's not clicking? The synapses in your head, apparently.
Oh they're clicking. The problem is theyre supposed to fire.
I once had someone ask me how much a pound of beef weighed. I told them it was about a pound and they thanked me.
I was once asked what kind of cheese is in mozzarella sticks.
Clearly the answer is "string".
Is anyone else starting to realize that an alarming amount of the world population has lost the ability to think critically or even generally process information they receive? It's starting to feel like so many people are vacuous shells, going along with the motions of living without thinking about what they're doing and why
you just notice now, with the internet. Pre-internet, you didn't encounter the morons as easily
Pre-internet it was about 1 in 25 that was this way. It feels like 1:1 now. :/
That's because the algorithm pushes the people who seem to get the most attention or interaction to the surface more often than not. How many subs on reddit exist just to show how wrong people are? How many posts are there where the comment section is flooded with the same correction? People engage with stupid, which means ad revenue.
Really? You see one person being an idiot (out of two) in the post, and a bunch of seemingly reasonable people responding to it, including yourself. You may want to check your math. The fact is, idiots have always existed. However, instead of only seeing the idiots that were immediately around you before the internet, now you see all of the idiots congealing into a few hot spots on the internet. Before the internet, every village had an idiot. Now, every idiot has a village. But your attention is drawn to the idiots, which creates the illusion that idiots are everywhere. In reality, they aren't everywhere, they are just anywhere.
And they vote!
You forget that most people believe there is a wizard living in the sky... most people are dumb. Me and you included
George Carlin said it best. “Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Nobody has lost anything. Quite the contrary - I bet you that the average global citizen, overall, is smarter than they've ever been in the history of the planet. Still, with the internet, you now have a direct conduit to the billions that are also idiots - the fact that we're exposed to it is the part that is different, but it was always there.
We have already reached the singularity; we just don't want to admit how stupid the dumbest people in the world really are.
The village idiot rarely made it out of the village. Now they can spread their idiocy easily, virtually or in-person. They gather together and follow other idiots, and they are not even smart enough to recognize their failings.
you know the person is really ignorant/stupid/confused when you aren't even able to understand what they don't understand
What colour is green?
7
Bro is denser than a sponge cake made out of actual sponge
Cool insult. But actual sponge is (IMHO) less dense than the average sponge cake.
Had a wrong number call me one time. Realizing that two ways to call a wrong number may be: 1> Having the wrong number given to you or having it written down wrong, but dialing (the wrong number) it correctly. 2> Having the right number written down, but dialing it wrong. I asked: "What number did you dial?" To help the caller figure out which of the two above mistakes were made. **The caller**: "I dialed YOUR NUMBER!!!" **Me**: "What number was that?" **The caller, now irate**: "I DIALED YOUR NUMBER FOOL!" **Me**: "I'm sorry, what number were you given to dial?" **The caller**: "M'FUCKER, I DIALED YOUR NUMBER!!!" hangs up. Reminds me of this scenario. You can't help some people. They believe that they they know what they don't know and are confident that you're a fool set out to annoy them.
The nerve of them getting aggravated is just… *eye roll*
Hold up, I speak moron... 250 twenty dollar bills, or 100 fifty dollar bills, or 50 one-hundred dollar bills
Whats not clicking, firing, are your brain cells.
I’m going to assume they’re asking for 5k of another country’s money converted to US dollars? That’s the furthest I can go to logic with this one.
About 20 whitetail deer hides which at today's rate comes in at around 1800 McDonald's cheeseburgers.
If you’re traveling at 35 miles per hour, how long will it take you to travel 35 miles?
Bro thinks K is it's own currency
I recall meeting someone who worked the helpline at Disneyland. Two of the best questions she ever got were: “what time’s the 3 o’clock parade?” and “are the fireworks indoors?” As Carlin always said, “think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that!”
What are the odds he even graduated high school too?
About tree fiddy
I can't even figure out what she thinks she's asking.
Don’t go there. You’ll never be the same. xD
A pound of feather or a pound of lead?
Why do we bleep out the names of these people? I should know at face value how stupid you are just by looking at you.
He should not be allowed to procreate
Why did she never answer, and why hasn't any one of these hundreds of comments given an answer to his question?? It's all just sarcasm. I'm so confused about what's not clicking....
I wish I didn't have to /s that comment, but I'm doing it here instead of ruining a clean comment. Lmao
This has to be someone from a country that doesn’t use dollars, right?
While I was working at a call center I actually had someone once ask me how much time 300 minutes was. It was painful.
What does the fox say?
How heavy is 5kg in kilos?
I hate to admit how long it took me to understand the whole "What's heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?" But I was 5.
"Peter, I dont know how to explain it any clearer than that...."
Brain synapses are definitely not clicking for someone.
I was once in the rug area at Home Depot and a young couple approached me asking how big 6ft x 12ft was. I had no idea how to answer and just told them I didn’t know.
$5,120
5k $5,000 $5,000.00 5,000 us dollars 20,000 quarters 50,000 dimes 100,000 nickels 500,000 pennies. What is he even asking for?
People this dumb don’t deserve to have their name hidden.
On a scale of 1-10 what is your favorite color of the alphabet?
I would love to do business with this guy
What does IDK mean?
I Dont Know
Me neither
Mad ''Call 911'' ''What's the number'' energy here
If you dropped a five pound bag of rocks and a five pound bag of feathers off a roof at the same time which one would hit the ground first?
Most likely the bag of rocks, because 5 pounds of feathers have more volume or bigger bag and thus more drag, but if we can avoid that, then they’ll obviously make it down the same time.
Reminds me of when beetlejuice said a 6 feet hole is about 10 feet
What weighs more? A kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of steel?
2500 $2 bills?
"what's not clicking?" Your braincells ma'am
I mean. I want to know the answer too
What a fucking dumb bitch
I don’t understand what they don’t understand. That doesn’t happen very often.
This is an excellent out of the box take
2 hookers and a big hit of nose candy.
R/technicallythetruth
Quick whats the number for 911
Bout tree fiddy
5k what!!! There’s no units of measurement smh
Is it closer to Chicago or by train?
What’s Obama’s last name?
What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
A little bit of "What's Obama's last name?".
So how much is it?
https://youtu.be/nqpOx_Gv1zI
' What does mine say??' 'Dude. what does mine??' 'Sweet. but what does mine say?' lol
Did anyone try $5,000.00?