# Stupidest thing you've ever said **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228 "2012-06-06T01:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Three_Packs_a_Day)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/1 "2012-06-06T01:38:09Z")
I was at a college football game (one of my only- even drunk, I’m no sports fan). I’m getting bored, so I say “Man, this game isn’t even half over yet, is it? Is it?” Gee, did you see a half-time show yet, dummy? Yours? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/2 "2012-06-06T01:45:00Z")
“Yes”. Many times, in many different contexts. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/3 "2012-06-06T01:46:18Z")
“I do.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/4 "2012-06-06T03:49:24Z")
Had this exchange with my sister when we were kids “geez, how stupid can you get!” “Stupider than you!” a two beat pause and we were both laughing, argument forgotten XD ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/5 "2012-06-06T04:51:50Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > “I do.” :smack: Same here ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/6 "2012-06-06T04:57:28Z")
Late one night, MrWhatsit couldn’t sleep, and so he got out of bed to go downstairs and play computer games. But he stumbled on the way out into the hall, tripped over a shoe, and fell down fairly loudly. This woke me up from a sound sleep. I sat up in bed, startled, and asked, not “What happened?” or “Are you OK?” but: “_Where are you???_” To which he answered: “…On the bedroom floor.” ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/7 "2012-06-06T05:25:05Z")
In high school my GF and I were both in marching band. One day we had a parade in which we wore marching band t-shirts. Between the parade and meeting up with the GF’s dad, there was some “activity”. We were talking to her Dad in the kitchen when he said something about the fit of her shirt. I said “Oh, that’s actually my shirt”. Dead silence for at least 30 seconds, nobody said a word about it later. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/8 "2012-06-06T05:42:29Z")
Working at the drive through at Wendy’s when I was 16. Hot girl in a convertable comes through, orders a Frosty. Asks me “Working hard?”, to which I replied “Yes, are you?” sigh… 30 years ago and I remember as if it were yesterday. sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/9 "2012-06-06T05:59:17Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > “I do.” :smack: When I started a thread on this, I got a lot of "I do"s as well. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/10 "2012-06-06T13:29:00Z")
I don’t know about “ever”, but the stupidest thing I said recently: my daughter was reciting the names of the continents she had just learned in school, in the company of some friends of ours. When she got to Africa I corrected her- “um, no, not _Africa_…” They turned to me and with a slight smile, nodded politely and said, “yes, Africa”. For some reason I was thinking of South Africa. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/11 "2012-06-06T17:50:03Z")
> [@Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](#): > > I was at a college football game (one of my only- even drunk, I’m no sports fan). I’m getting bored, so I say “Man, this game isn’t even half over yet, is it? Is it?” > > Gee, did you see a half-time show yet, dummy? > > Yours? If that’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever said, I think you’re doing pretty well! Here’s a couple of my examples: Upon being asked to return a rental DVD: “Is it rewound?” Upon being asked if there were any Chicanos in my grad school program: “Well, there’s a guy from Venezuela…” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/12 "2012-06-06T17:54:32Z")
Recently, to my niece who travels with a touring theatre company and handles their lights and also carpentry on sets. When she told me what all she could do, I said to my gay niece, “Well, you’re just a Jack of All Trades aren’t you … uh… I mean _Jill_ of all trades!” And turned red. She did the decent thing and pretended not to notice my faux pa.:o Q ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/13 "2012-06-06T18:13:57Z")
When I was in my 20s, I worked at a craft shop where we decorated for all the holidays. We had an especially spooky October that year; there was a Friday the 13th a few weeks before Halloween. Somehow I got them conflated in my head, and later told someone “yeah, Halloween was on Friday the 13th last year.” :smack: Also, in Girl Scouts as a kid, we were learning about British kids. Apparently in Britain, they go to school through a large part of the summer. I said “Wow, poor them! They don’t even have the 4th of July off!” :smack: (Fortunately for me, my fellow 3rd graders didn’t seem to catch what I said, but I realized it right away and felt stupid.) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/14 "2012-06-06T19:25:02Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Recently, to my niece who travels with a touring theatre company and handles their lights and also carpentry on sets. When she told me what all she could do, I said to my gay niece, “Well, you’re just a Jack of All Trades aren’t you … uh… I mean _Jill_ of all trades!” And turned red. She did the decent thing and pretended not to notice my faux pa.:o > > Q How is that stupid, and what’s the faux pas? She’s a Jill, not a Jack, because she’s female. I don’t see how being gay has anything to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/15 "2012-06-06T19:33:34Z")
“I’ve never said anything stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/16 "2012-06-06T19:58:06Z")
I was playing some team-based party game that’s comprised of mini-games and during our turn we had a game where the partner had to get me to guess a word. I’d been given a few hints from the card given to me, which were letters. One of the letters was “e.” I failed to guess the word, America, within the time limit and at the end, frustrated, I shouted “There’s no ‘e’ in America!” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/17 "2012-06-06T20:17:36Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I was playing some team-based party game that’s comprised of mini-games and during our turn we had a game where the partner had to get me to guess a word. I’d been given a few hints from the card given to me, which were letters. One of the letters was “e.” I failed to guess the word, America, within the time limit and at the end, frustrated, I shouted “There’s no ‘e’ in America!” Why do you hat Amrica? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/18 "2012-06-06T20:26:51Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > When I was in my 20s, I worked at a craft shop where we decorated for all the holidays. We had an especially spooky October that year; there was a Friday the 13th a few weeks before Halloween. Somehow I got them conflated in my head, and later told someone “yeah, Halloween was on Friday the 13th last year.” :smack: There was a movie that came out in the early 80s. It took place on Halloween, which was on Friday the 13th that year, which is also Jamie Lee Curtis’s birthday. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/19 "2012-06-06T20:32:09Z")
During a quiz game, to a teammate: “Who painted Whistler’s Mother?” ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228/20 "2012-06-06T20:43:24Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Upon being asked if there were any Chicanos in my grad school program: > > “Well, there’s a guy from Venezuela…” I don’t know, _I_ had to look it up to know that “Chicano” referred to Americans of Mexican descent. Not really up to speed on ethnic characterizations… Between your and **Quasimodem** ’s example, which I don’t get either, I’m wondering if I’m going around saying all kinds of stupid things, not even knowing it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-thing-youve-ever-said/624228.md?page=2)