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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:01:03 PM EDT
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My wife is very smart, she runs a successful business with about a dozen employees, never been in the red, does public speaking, has a book deal in the works, all the things.
Buuuuuut, she has largely been brainwashed by her mother. Anything bad that has happened, no matter how random or unlikely, has to be preempted to assure it will never happen again. Any urban legend is taken at face value and elaborate plans have to be implemented to avoid the dangers thereof. She needed to send some money to her uncle, but we had run out of checks. I told her I'd get a blank check from the bank, but they don't do that. I was going to get a cashier's check, but I needed to know the amount and she didn't pick up the phone. Anyway plans of sending a check we're being thwarted left and right. That night we were driving somewhere and I said, "Baby, just send cash." She literally gasped and said, "Are you crazy?! You can't do that!" I said, "Why not?" She said, "You're not supposed to!" "Who says?" said I. "It might get stolen!" She said. "Nobody is going to know there's cash in there. How many letters have you sent or received that were opened for some odd reason and the contents pilfered?" *No answer* "Yeah, that's what I thought. There's nothing wrong with sending cash, it's nothing but a myth." |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:01:25 PM EDT
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I'm underwhelmed by that.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:08:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:09:46 PM EDT
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Quoted: Someone at work was talking about growing cucumbers and making their own pickles at home. The HR manager had absolutely no idea that pickles were "pickled cucumbers". Who doesn't know that? I'd put people who believe in chemtrails up there. Just different things they are ignorant about, but equally stupid and willfully ignoring facts that they should both be aware of. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:13:14 PM EDT
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To answer the OP's question,
Unfortunately, yes. Staying in the realm of food, I personally know people that did not know hamburger came from cows, did not know milk came from cows, whiskey is distilled from grains, and you can't just put chocolate milk in the freezer and make chocolate ice cream. This person is not young or without education and life experience. That education and life experience does not include the production of meat, liquor, milk, and ice cream. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:13:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sheila Jackson Lee I see your Sheila Jackson Lee, and raise you a Maxine Waters. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:14:10 PM EDT
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When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 this dumbass friend of my wife was worried about some friends she has in Atlanta.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:14:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some people use cucumbers and pickles as dildos. It could be a dildo farm. There are obvious retorts here that I will refrain from stating. 
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:15:02 PM EDT
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HR Manager probably has a Masters degree too.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:15:38 PM EDT
[#10]
Kamala Harris
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:17:54 PM EDT
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In high school a few of my friends and I were standing around at the local Friday night car hangout spot. All of the sudde there was a shooting star we all saw above.
All the sudden one guy asks "I wonder what makes stars fall?"..... Now granted this is Alabama but most of us just stood there and tried not to laugh then someone finally piped up and said: Gravity! Dumb guy just shook his dumb head in agreement. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:19:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are some here in this very forum. I worked with an ICU nurse that's a flat earther. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:39:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: She probably mixed up maple syrup and honey. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I had an (ex) sister in law that thought honey came from trees. WTF? She probably mixed up maple syrup and honey. Our she read Winnie the Pooh and didn't understand the reason the bees where in the story. 
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Posted: 12/21/2023 1:51:27 PM EDT
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Conversation among executives of a well known multinational organization.
Male exec: My twin sister...blah blah blah. CFO: Are you identical twins? |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 2:02:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did you picture a palm tree with pineapples growing on it like coconuts? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I thought pineapples grew on trees before my first trip to Hawaii Did you picture a palm tree with pineapples growing on it like coconuts? What, these aren't baby pineapples?  Attached FileTricksters in Hawaii have been known to tell tourists that. (Hala plant.) |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 2:11:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well… we do have a Chemtrail thread going on. Thank goodness someone posted this before me.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 3:48:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Asked a coworker to hand me a Crescent wrench out of my tool box. When he gave it to me I said no, this ones standard, I need the metric one. He went and got the other one. A friend and I were installing dual front shocks on his K5 Blazer. He was doing one side and I was doing the other. The bolts used lock washers. I yelled over to him to make sure to put the washer on in the right direction. There was about a 10 second pause before he replied that it didn't matter which way it went on. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 3:51:58 PM EDT
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Really want to freak some folks out ask them if they know what natural sausage and hot dog casings are made from.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 6:04:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sheila Jackson Lee Prolly AOC. |
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Posted: 12/21/2023 6:34:06 PM EDT
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I didn't personally witness this, but was told about an engineer who asked a production tech what size wrench he was using, and then proceeded to use that for the through hole diameter on the drawing.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 8:15:37 PM EDT
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Quoted: Someone at work was talking about growing cucumbers and making their own pickles at home. The HR manager had absolutely no idea that pickles were "pickled cucumbers". Who doesn't know that? Your HR manager. |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 11:42:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I know of about 81 million of them. Noice. |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 11:44:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had an engineer tell me to measure all the items in a large clean room because it was barely maintaining positive pressure. He then added the size of the objects to the size of the room to “explain” why the air handler he specced wasn’t maintaining design pressure. (The air handler would have needed to operate at about 98% of the manufacturers designed cfm to do what he wanted and still maintain the required air changes for an occupied space. (Again. He ADDED the volume of the items in a room to the size of the room to make the space bigger. What do they call the guy who graduated last in engineering school? |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:08:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had an engineer tell me to measure all the items in a large clean room because it was barely maintaining positive pressure. He then added the size of the objects to the size of the room to “explain” why the air handler he specced wasn’t maintaining design pressure. (The air handler would have needed to operate at about 98% of the manufacturers designed cfm to do what he wanted and still maintain the required air changes for an occupied space. (Again. He ADDED the volume of the items in a room to the size of the room to make the space bigger. What do they call the guy who graduated last in engineering school? Oopsie |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:14:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My highly educated SIL thought that deer were carnivores. I’ve seen a white tail eat a duckling. |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:18:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What, these aren't baby pineapples? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/HalaPlant_jpg-3066399.JPG Tricksters in Hawaii have been known to tell tourists that. (Hala plant.) It's a grenade bush... |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:28:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd put people who believe in chemtrails up there. Just different things they are ignorant about, but equally stupid and willfully ignoring facts that they should both be aware of. Oh now you've done it.
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:43:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/22/2023 4:53:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOne would hope that is satire, but I'm truly afraid that it's not. |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 5:42:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: Someone at work was talking about growing cucumbers and making their own pickles at home. The HR manager had absolutely no idea that pickles were "pickled cucumbers". Who doesn't know that? Read the questions on PSA’s website. I like to read them for a good chuckle. |
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Posted: 12/22/2023 11:56:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sheila Jackson Lee Oysterpersons. |
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Posted: 12/23/2023 12:03:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a European (originally) it's pretty easy to assume that people who are unable to understand the difference between Danish and Dutch are complete fucking morons (for example, I saw a listing on Gunbroker yesterday for a "Dutch Contract" Bergmann 1910/21 pistol) ... but it's not like most Europeans (if any) would understand the difference between Kansas and Arkansas, or between Virginia and West Virginia. So while it might seem incredibly dumb for someone to think the Vatican Guards are "Swedish" - it's not totally unreasonable, if you are not European.  Everyone knows Danish is a delicious pastry . |
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Posted: 12/24/2023 11:53:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Everyone knows Danish is a delicious pastry . Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: As a European (originally) it's pretty easy to assume that people who are unable to understand the difference between Danish and Dutch are complete fucking morons (for example, I saw a listing on Gunbroker yesterday for a "Dutch Contract" Bergmann 1910/21 pistol) ... but it's not like most Europeans (if any) would understand the difference between Kansas and Arkansas, or between Virginia and West Virginia. So while it might seem incredibly dumb for someone to think the Vatican Guards are "Swedish" - it's not totally unreasonable, if you are not European. Everyone knows Danish is a delicious pastry . https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8nQZ8To3TXs |
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Posted: 12/24/2023 11:56:11 AM EDT
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Wasn't there someone here, a few years ago, that didn't know hamburger meat was ground cow?
ETA: Beat |
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Posted: 12/24/2023 12:04:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I encountered a person so stupid they thought a ‘mil’ meant a millimeter….not 0.001 inch. Geesh, what a maroon, amiright? What is a mil-dot reticle? What is a mill levy? What is a cool mil? Mil means a lot of things, mostly related to 1000 or 1/1000. |
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