What are the dumbest questions you've been asked more than once?

Yeah, it’s a nonsense question. The only real answer is “I look at things and hear things and feel things, then sometimes I think things because of them” and that’s disappointing to the type of person who asks.

I’m sorry, that’s not a dumb question. Not being a mathematician, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are contexts in which zero is even, contexts in which it is odd, and contexts in which it’s neither. It’s just nothing.

It’s written for percussion string instrument very similar to the guitar, and doesn’t depend on complex chords or arpeggios that are tied to the instrument. It’s a simple guitar song played on the piano.

Bad example. Better example: 1" pipe.

It was only 5 years between the civil war and the invention of the anti-aircraft gun.

“What’s that lake over there?” Twice. On the same day. By native Wisconsinites. On the Milwaukee lakefront.

Ok, no one but Individual Number One.

1.Bro’s hair gets reddish in the summer. I think it hasn’t happened for a few years now, but when he was younger he was asked quite a few times “why do you dye your hair?” Several people simply refused to believe that reddish-brown hair exists in nature.

Well, the Union did use observation balloons, and the Confederates did occasionally try to shoot them down with artillery. Not at Gettysburg, but in a loose sense, there was some use of anti-aircraft fire during the Civil War.

Does it include the ones in the cart?

Regards,
Shodan

What does “total” mean again?

It’s a kind of cereal.
Price check on Total!

But that’s not important right now.

TV sizes have been deceptively labeled for decades.

What the what? :smack:

Not up to date on the last several thousand years of Math, I take it.

I am thin. Okay, downright skinny. At least once a week. someone asks "What do you eat?
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I always answer “I have a very unique diet. When I get hungry, I eat.” When they say “Yeah, but what do you eat?” I always answer “Whatever I feel like eating.”

“Lake Mendota”.

People asked my son, a lot, “Where’d you get all that red hair?” He did have red hair, and he had a lot of it, and I realize this is more of an observation than an actual question. But it happened a lot. He had a few different answers. “Target” was one. “Out of a bottle” was another. I also had a few different answers that I might put in, like, “it came with his head,” and “it came with his temper.” I never came right out and said, “Hey, I’m his mom and I’m standing right here, look at ME,” because in fact his hair was a hell of lot redder than mine ever was.

But it’s like asking a tall person “How’s the weather up there,” it’s not so much a stupid question but it’s stupid to ask it, not to mention unoriginal, and how are you supposed to answer that? Like, why would they say that?

Fake edit: I see that garygnu had the same experience. Apparently people don’t think red hair is a real color. Nobody ever asked me that about the blond kids.

I say, “I don’t! I’m starving!”

Being a pedant, I’ll note that there are contexts where zero definitely isn’t nothing. And contexts where it is. And contexts where 0 is 0 and -1 is, essentially, nothing.

But seriously, zero will never be odd. It will either be even, or a placeholder for a special situation where it’s not intended to be interpreted as a number at all. (Like when it means ‘nothing’.)