# How stupid are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082 "2018-08-04T05:10:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/1 "2018-08-04T05:10:47Z")
So tonght I am staring at the Amazon logo while waiting for the rest of the page to load on a slow connection and for the first time in ever realize that the curved arrow under the word points “from a to z.” Anyone willing to admit to similar idiocies? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/2 "2018-08-04T05:55:37Z")
For decades I never realized that the “n” in _7 Eleven_ is written in lower case while the rest are in upper case. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/3 "2018-08-04T06:29:09Z")
It was 20 years before it dawned on me why ABBA is called ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/4 "2018-08-04T06:33:46Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > It was 20 years before it dawned on me why ABBA is called ABBA. (A band called “Daddy” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. 🙂 ) (Unless you’re Sylvia Plath, maybe…) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/5 "2018-08-04T06:35:49Z")
Watching Alan Sugar’s car (AMS1, his intitials) in the opening to _The Apprentice UK_ for years, it still never occured to me for years why his company was called Amstrad :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/6 "2018-08-04T06:43:11Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > For decades I never realized that the “n” in _7 Eleven_ is written in lower case while the rest are in upper case. I thought maybe it hadn’t always been that way, so I looked it up, and discovered that the lettering has apparently been remarkably consistent even in the details, since 1969. I find that almost hard to believe, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/7 "2018-08-04T07:20:34Z")
We’ve had an argument around here about Pork-n-beans. I say the ‘n’ is for ‘and’. Mr.Wrekker says the ‘n’ stands for ‘in’. Being there is negligible pork in the beans, I protest. There are usually 2 or 3 tiny cubes of pork and the beans in the can. So I win. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/8 "2018-08-04T07:53:12Z")
When I bought a blood-sugar test monitor device, I thought you are supposed to stick the bloodied end of the test strip into the machine. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/9 "2018-08-04T08:17:46Z")
i was 45 yrs old before I realized that ‘cigarette’ was a shortening for ‘cigar’. D’oh. I’m stupid in lots of other ways too though, 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/10 "2018-08-04T08:23:52Z")
I’m entry-level stupid. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/11 "2018-08-04T08:32:09Z")
And this thread is just another way that the SD’ers show us how smart they are…by admitting how DUMB they are. Carry on 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/12 "2018-08-04T09:31:30Z")
I saw this thread title on the front page and I knew I had to say something. Isn’t that enough? ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/13 "2018-08-04T10:17:40Z")
Just last year my daughter pointed out to me that in the middle of the Tostitos logo/name there are two people dipping a chip into a bowl of salsa. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/14 "2018-08-04T12:51:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So tonght I am staring at the Amazon logo while waiting for the rest of the page to load on a slow connection and for the first time in ever realize that the curved arrow under the word points “from a to z.” It also forms a smile. As in happy to get my stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/15 "2018-08-04T13:13:24Z")
I once honestly answered the question “Do these pants make my butt look big?” ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/16 "2018-08-04T14:11:53Z")
I’ve lived in the UK for most of my life. Last year, I suddenly noticed the face in the [National Lottery](https://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB686GB686&biw=1242&bih=577&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=d7JlW8f3K8-D8gKwmrXoAw&q=uk+national+lottery+logo&oq=uk+national+lottery+logo&gs_l=img.3..0.5094.6140.0.6352.8.8.0.0.0.0.171.772.5j3.8.0....0...1c.1.64.img..1.2.238...0i30k1.0.v1qm7Fuzulo) logo. I mean, it has changed a few times, but there’s always been a face in there, I just never saw it. I mean, it’s not as though I play it, I think I have once, but the logo’s everywhere here and I did even work in a shop selling tickets for a while… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/17 "2018-08-04T14:20:07Z")
It was a very long time before I realised the [mask](http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-06-29-1435561240-9161444-ScreamGhostfacemask.jpg) the killer uses in the _Scream_ movies is based on Munch’s [The Scream](https://www.edvardmunch.org/images/paintings/the-scream.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/18 "2018-08-04T14:24:50Z")
It was many years before I realized the Ramones weren’t an actual family like the Cowsills. ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/19 "2018-08-04T19:03:38Z")
I was mispronouncing “Malachi Throne” for 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/20 "2018-08-04T22:06:41Z")
About two years ago someone pointed out to me that there is an arrow by the gas tank indicator showing the side of the care the gas tank is on. I have no idea how long this has been a thing, but I never noticed it util it was pointed out to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082.md?page=2)