I had just arrived at work, and one of the people I work with pointed to a stain, and told me that they had attempted to clean it all day, and it wouldn't come off... I grabbed a scrubber, and wiped the area, when I was finished, the stain was gone. She replied, astonished, "that stain was permanent earlier,"
To which I replied, "Something can't be temporarily permanent." (thus the oxyretard)

My question is: What is the dumbest thing anyone has ever said around you, or to you?

Well, I think the only people who really say retarded things in my family are my mother and I, though nothing is really oxyretard-worth. They're more or less improper usages of words or mispronunciations that get us (me) in trouble.

Otherwise, people at school used to say a lot of dumb things (of course). One that comes to mind right now for me is that when my class was reading Animal Farm, and we got to the part where the animals were starving, one girl asked why the chickens didn't just eat their eggs.

There were a lot of those moments, and most of them are "you had to be there" type things, so I won't mention them. Fortunately I had a good English teacher, who had a very nice, subtle/dry/whatever sense of humor. =).

Usually I'm kind of a jerk and I make fun of people's signature images, and I also usually roll my eyes at overfanism towards FF7, but you know what? I gotta say, this is actually pretty cool.

I made my signature in photobucket... I didn't think anyone would care.. thank you, I try not to be a fan-boy... I just really liked Aeris, and saw an awesome pic, and made a signature... I have a few others, and switch randomly between them, I plan on keeping this one until the fifteenth, and changing it to grenade-teddy... not as artistic, but its funny...

My God, both of my schools were breeding grounds for the biggest idiots I ever came across to.


I was in my senior English class, where a bunch of students who had the same teacher as me, but from different periods, were there because we had to choose our topics for our senior paper, and they were there to choose in advance. There were two girls looking at the list of topic ideas and they couldn’t think of one that would be easy to write. Then one girl got an idea and told her friend about it out loud, I forgot what it was, but involved Italy. Then she remembered it had to be something British. So, being the genius she obviously was, she walked toward the map on the wall, asking herself.......wait for it...... “Is Italy in England?”
I then told her “Are you serious?! Italy is its own country!” Though of course, she didn’t take my word for it and still checked.

In my tenth grade biology class, we were starting to study about animals that were vertebrates and invertebrates. The teacher started the day’s lesson by asking the class to name an animal that does not have a back bone. Some of the names of animals students blurted out? Snakes and mice. No, they didn’t mishear the teacher. They actually thought those animals had no spines, and were surprised to learn otherwise.

In my senior anatomy class, I was showing a kid next to me a comic that I drew. Now, my style is supposed all cartoony and simplistic. Next to the guy, there was a girl who was an egotistical dumbass and thought she was better than everyone else at manga style drawing, though all she ever drew were stupid chibis and exaggerated facial expressions, the kind that were painfully portrayed in the Teen Titans cartoon (dream of Purity will know who I’m talking about ). Well, while the guy was reading my comic, she interrupts him, grabs it and accuses me of trying to do anime style all because one of my characters had 5 fingers on his hand.

I can go on, but that would be it for now.

Sadly, our high school is a breeding ground for idiocy... When I did my Senior Paper, A girl in my english class asked me what my subject it was on, I told her Norse mythology, to which she had the intelligence to respond, "Norse, doesn't that mean it's from Normandy?" ... Sadly, my teacher overheard this butchery of knowledge, and asked if she was serious... the girl replied, "Wait, Normandy is a real place, right?"


Someone in my drama class informed me she was having a "blond moment"... I asked, "Quick! What color is an orange?" A simple question right? NO!!!... She answered with a question, "A regular orange?" .....

I would continue, I have plenty... but the thought of Hyo's internet escapades, and his plot to take terrorize a moron, causes my brain to hemorrhage...

School is a pretty easy target for this subject. Especially when you went to one of the (if not the single) worst school in a state that is one of the worst in the nation in education.

Sadly, I'm drawing a blank right now. I'm tempted to go into things that a certain person I met on a Fire Emblem website said, but nah, that's too obvious. Plus, it's better when they're said to you live. I haven't had to deal with people as much recently, so there's nothing fresh on my mind right now. =p

I did a presentation on the Shinsengumi, and the teacher thought they fought against the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Alright kid-o’s, ready for some more?! Too bad!!

*Ahem*

I cannot believe how many Hispanic people I came across were completely shocked to learn that though I was Hispanic as well, I didn’t speak a single word of Spanish like them, at which they would say “Wait—you’re Mexican and you don’t know Spanish?!” at which I would reply that’s because I was BORN HERE, where the official language is ENGLISH.

In the same vein, many kids at school were practically HORRIFIED to learn that my parents were in their 50’s. I would reply to that by saying “Yeah, well you see, my Mom wasn’t some whore who had her kid at 16.” However, that kind of backfired one day when I learned that a girl I said that to had a mother who was 19 when she was born. Oops.

And here’s another one from that same manga artist girl I mentioned in the last post. When she wasn’t bragging about what a wonderful artist she was, even going as far as to claim it was her god given gift, she would then go around giving this boo-hoo story of how she was putting her dreams on hold because she was studying to become a doctor to make enough money to get her family out of poverty. So, what made this story total bs? She was SO impoverished; she was only able to afford two cell phones, have a satellite dish and only enough money to go on camping trips and drive to faraway cities to go to anime conventions with her friends almost every weekend, sometimes in her own car!

In junior English, my class was in the library researching about our topics for our Junior English Report. Sitting next to me was a popular girl who was a big time Bible Wanker, the kind who will instantly shun you if you’re non-Christian. So, she was doing her report on *surprise* Atheism in America. So, the Atheist websites she went on were by the crazy ones, either because she was intentionally making her report bias or she thought that all Atheists were crazy. I think it was the latter, because she then asked her friend this stupendous question that pretty much went like this: “Why do Atheists believe in all these things like aliens, yet don’t believe in God?”
So, I try to explain to her as kindly as I could that there was a major difference between a supernatural being that has hardly any proof of existing and an living creature that just resides on another Earth-like planet than, with some very miniscule, yet unconfirmed proof of existence. Her reply? “Why, are you an Atheist?” I then cut the conversation off, since I didn’t feel like arguing and the fact that it was just pointless.
So, when I got to reading her final report, it was just as I expected: explaining how just those damn dirty Atheists are trying to rid the country of its Christian ties, like trying to get “God” out of the pledge of allegiance and “In God We Trust” out of money. And here’s the kicker: in her concluding sentence, she pretty much said that Atheists shouldn’t shove their beliefs onto other people and should just shut up and mind their own business.

Hypocritical much, won’t you say?

Shunning you if you're non Christian is more polite than trying to convert you, for the record.

-runs from stories of that girl pushing beliefs on people-

sadly, one girl followed me around for two weeks after she found out I wasn't christian and tried to convert me in drama class... I finally yelled at the top of my lungs, "This is a public school, run by the state, separation of church and state, go throw your bible down someone else's throat" (irony...drama class...lawl)

I even had one girl go so far as to say, "it's no big deal, you'll just burn in hell for all eternity." (for the record, most religions don't believe in hell... that was created by the Catholic church in order to win the battle with science...) To which I said, "I don't believe in hell..." And having a dead gerbil for a brain, she said, " yeah, but I do, and that's where you're going." ... I could've easily argued that just because it's what she believes doesn't make it true, but I simply nodded, and started drawing...

Now I don't want anyone to think I hate Christians, I hate anyone who justifies negative actions with religion, or attempts to force it on others, this goes for all religions... I try not to openly state my religion, but if someone asks me about it, I will answer....and I do try to remain unbiased...

I agree with you, anyone have the rigth to belive whatever they want (no matter how right or wrong it is) as long as you don't force it on or physically affect other people!

but it's never wrong to joke about stereotypes :b

I liked the story about the girl in drama class! seemed hilarius!

I heard that many people pray.

I was in a situation that suits this topic as well.
Me and my girlfriend were going to the local bank, to donate some money on my Dutch bank account, as it needed money for financial reasons.
Anyway, we asked the clerk how to do this, as banks have different procedures. Anyway, she gave us the form and we filled in what we knew and had to ask things we weren't sure of.
So, we went back to the clerk and she had to ask us where it was going to and we replied: "the Netherlands."
To which she replied: "Holland, is that in Europe?" No, you cow. It is next to Australia.

On that note, people using Holland to refer to the Netherlands is already quite funny. As the name for the country is the Netherlands. Holland only refers to two provinces in the country and thus is an incorrect name, yet it is the "official" name for my country in many languages.

Don't feel bad, at least she had the presence of mind to know Holland refers to at least part of the Netherlands... most people here are completely ignorant of the concept of geography... where I work, the people aren't exactly ... savvy when it comes to anything not published in cosmo-girl... one girl asked me where I would most like to visit, I told her I wanted to visit Switzerland ... Easy, right? ... not when your IQ matches your shoe size... She said, " I think it's pronounced Sweden." ... I laughed to the point of suffocation, and when I said Switzerland ... Swiss... She caught her mistake, and corrected herself... but it was still really funny... I have to admit that's one perk of my job, endless hours of entertainment...

I overheard a girl talking to her friends, describing an episode she saw of that friggin Tila Tequila Show. She was saying something about how one of the female contestants on the show was a firefighter, and that she was utterly surprised to learn that there are actually female firefighters out there. I died a little on the inside upon hearing that, especially since she complained every 5 minutes of how everyone in her family was so stupid.

During a lunch break, I sometimes sat by this guy who was perhaps the biggest pansy I ever met. He was also a health-nut, so it was a very deadly combination, and was obsessed with apples. One day, while eating one, he said to me in all seriousness “Mm, you see, this [referring to the apple] is God’s candy.” He too was a Bible Wanker. Ugh. AND a total D-bag. Never before did I think such a combo was possible.

On the last day of 11th grade, I was sitting at a table on 6th period with several other people, playing with the class pet which was a ferret. A boy who wasn’t in our class came to visit a friend and saw the ferret. He asked what that thing was and I told him that it was a ferret. His reply? “Don’t those things usually have wings?”

In tenth grade, I had a really stupid ass teacher who thought a swordfish was a type of shark, among other things.

In senior year, during art class, I decided to “go there” and made a series of pencil drawings of Josef Mengele (pronounced main-guh-luh). Though some of the comments and questions I got were priceless, long after I was finished with them I remember a nice-but-rather-ditzy girl asking me if I was still working on that “Man-jelly” guy. It took me a moment to understand what she was trying to say.

Since I’m on the subject, in 8th grade I was with some other boy in a library. We were looking though a book about Hitler and I mentioned something about the concentration camps, but obviously the kid never heard of them, since his first question was “Were they fun?”

The only one I can think off the top of my head was when I got into an economic discussion with two girls while I was at work.

I made a comment about how we're in recession and one of the girls went ballistic saying "Oh my gawd! No, if we were in recession, everyone would be going to the grocery stores and buying everything they could! They wouldn't be going to restaurants as much as they are!"

She got recession mixed up with depression. Somehow.