# Stupidity you have heard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761 "2014-08-04T05:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/41 "2014-08-05T08:26:18Z")
If you ask a cop working undercover if he is a police officer, he is legally bound to say yes. This one _has_ to at least be nominated for thread winner. Come on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/42 "2014-08-05T08:58:45Z")
The husband taking on his wife’s pregnancy sickness. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/43 "2014-08-05T09:20:33Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > If you ask a cop working undercover if he is a police officer, he is legally bound to say yes. > > This one _has_ to at least be nominated for thread winner. Come on. 🙂 Nah, that’s at least a common urban legend. Some of these are way more bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/44 "2014-08-05T10:34:47Z")
There once was a family on “Family Feud” who, after much discussion and deliberation decided that the country they would most like to visit on vacation would be … Europe. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/45 "2014-08-05T13:52:46Z")
I once worked with a gardener from a semirural area. I described the duckbilled platypus to him (fur, egg-laying, poison claws, etc.) He said, “There ain’t no such animal!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/46 "2014-08-05T14:15:56Z")
“[You’re in the way!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10089183&postcount=4)” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/47 "2014-08-05T14:22:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I had an argument with my 8th grade _geography teacher_ who refused to believe me when I tried to tell her that the capital of Brazil is Brasilia, not Rio de Janeiro. I’ll see that and raise you my high school Algebra II teacher who was amazed to learn that pi was not exactly 22/7. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/48 "2014-08-05T14:22:42Z")
Someone once told me “most serial killers are gay. Look at John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer.” When I told him adoption is considered a factor in creating a serial killer and mentioned Charles Manson, he said “Well, Manson had a good childhood.” And someone once said in all seriousness “Marriage is for monogamy and gays can’t be monogamous. So gays can’t get married.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/49 "2014-08-05T14:29:25Z")
> [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](#): > > Me: “I’m from Rhode Island” > > Geographically Challenged: “That’s in New York, right?” > > Me: “Grrrrrr” Maryland? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/50 "2014-08-05T14:47:05Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > “Muslims and Jews have hated and been at war with one another for hundreds of years.” Not so much “stupid” as “widely believed and dangerously inaccurate.” There are a lot of similarly wrong beliefs. Like “Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been killing each other for centuries.” No… on the whole, there was very LITTLE sectarian violence until the 1970s. Or “Serbs, Croatians and Muslims have hated each other for a thousand years.” No, actually, they all mixed and generally got along fairly well until quite recently. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/51 "2014-08-05T14:48:24Z")
Someone once said that adoption leads to becoming a serial killer. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/52 "2014-08-05T14:48:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And someone once said in all seriousness “Marriage is for monogamy and gays can’t be monogamous. So gays can’t get married.” Well, more than a few gays are saying the same thing. Not all of them are excited about getting to settle down monogamously. To a LOT of gays, that sounds more like a trap than like progress. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/53 "2014-08-05T15:05:15Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > “Oh, no, thanks,” she said. “I never eat eggs from chickens, just the ones from the store.” My husband says the same thing. It’s not that he’s ignorant of the origin of store-bought eggs.\* It’s that (in his experience) the chance of accidentally coming across a fertilized egg is much, much less in store-bought eggs. A few bad experiences as a child, and free-range organic eggs are ruined forever. \*Though we do pretend that Safeway eggs come from a factory, and anyone overhearing us might think we were deeply ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/54 "2014-08-05T15:11:15Z")
That Catholics aren’t Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/55 "2014-08-05T15:35:37Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Well, more than a few gays are saying the same thing. Not all of them are excited about getting to settle down monogamously. To a LOT of gays, that sounds more like a trap than like progress. 😕 No one is forcing them. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/56 "2014-08-05T15:46:20Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Maryland? Sorry, NOTHING is in Maryland. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/57 "2014-08-05T16:05:19Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > My husband says the same thing. It’s not that he’s ignorant of the origin of store-bought eggs.\* It’s that (in his experience) the chance of accidentally coming across a fertilized egg is much, much less in store-bought eggs. A few bad experiences as a child, and free-range organic eggs are ruined forever. > > \*Though we do pretend that Safeway eggs come from a factory, and anyone overhearing us might think we were deeply ignorant. This woman was completely serious and after my friend and I erupted in gales of laughter, we did explain that ALL eggs come from chickens. She was incredulous. I hear you on the fertilized eggs. I don’t keep roosters. Which leads me to another stupid thing someone said: “I thought you needed roosters for chickens to lay eggs…??” Um, no. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/58 "2014-08-05T16:10:33Z")
During a pub quiz: Q: Where is the alimentary canal Teammate’s suggestion: Is it Venice? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/59 "2014-08-05T16:32:38Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > The husband taking on his wife’s pregnancy sickness. What, couvade? Sympathy pregnancy is a real thing. It doesn’t mean the wife loses symptoms, of course. In sixth grade I went to war with my geography teacher because he declared Central America to be a country. He claimed all those lines on the map were just states. I brought in the encyclopedia entry on Panama. He sent me to detention. I am still furious. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761/60 "2014-08-05T17:00:45Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > During a pub quiz: > > Q: Where is the alimentary canal > > Teammate’s suggestion: Is it Venice? To be honest, I had to look that up. The fact that it had no capitalization made me think it had something to do with biology. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard the term before though; wouldn’t most people just refer to it as the digestive tract? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidity-you-have-heard/694761.md?page=4)