# What was the dumbest thing you heard this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297 "2021-12-18T23:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/1 "2021-12-18T23:44:09Z")
Earlier this week I heard a “viral conspiracy theory” concerning the history of the Roman Empire. A “historian” on TikTok has been telling people that the Roman Empire did not exist, and the Latin language didn’t exist, with all Latin documents being fake or written in Greek. (Greek letters don’t look anything like Latin letters.) > **[Turns Out the Roman Empire Never Existed](https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/internet/roman-empire-never-existed-tiktok)** > > Historians are dunking on one TikTok user for claiming that"Ancient Rome isn’t real" [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2UXvI5aopXA/maxresdefault.jpg "TikTok Conspiracy Theory: Ancient Rome Never Existed? A Classicist Reacts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXvI5aopXA) The “historian” appears to actually believe this, rather than being a troll. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/2 "2021-12-19T06:41:24Z")
That’s some mighty stupid there. The Latin alphabet descended from the Greek, but not directly of course. Heck, has she never even _seen_ the Greek alphabet? ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/3 "2021-12-19T18:25:57Z")
Getting to know the neighbors, they told me with much enthusiasm that they never miss an episode of Ancient Aliens. I took a breath and said it was all fake, and the wife said, _“Well, what about all those experts? I don’t think they’d just make it all up._” I’ve heard dumber this year, but I’d rather not talk politics. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/4 "2021-12-19T18:28:13Z")
Such an easy question. Anything Donald Trump says, like the last election was stolen. Dumb. Keep in mind that much of the “dumbest” things you are seeing nowadays came from parody or admittedly fake web sites. Sometimes the parody disclaimer is stripped off. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/5 "2021-12-19T18:33:37Z")
People refusing to get vaccinations because reasons. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/6 "2021-12-19T20:28:10Z")
Anything that Johnny Enlow and Steve Schultz say. Here’s an example. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NUgfLNNIfPs/maxresdefault.jpg "Pastor: Trump Is Now President Of EARTH") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUgfLNNIfPs) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/7 "2021-12-19T21:43:49Z")
Hey, don’t leave Britain out of the dumb! We have dumb politicians to die for! (but this being MPSIMS I’ll hold on them). How about someone who got his own thread in the pit back in October, Radio Host Mike Graham, telling it like it is to environmental activist Cameron Ford. > **Graham:** What do you do for a living Cameron? > **Ford:** I’m a carpenter. > **Graham** : A carpenter - right, so how safe is that for the environment? > **Ford:** Well I work with timber, which is a much more sustainable material, rather than concrete. I also… > **Graham** (_talking over him_): But you work with trees that have been cut down then, don’t you? > **Ford:** It’s a sustainable building practice. > **Graham:** How is it sustainable if you’re killing trees? > **Ford:** Because it’s regenerative. You can grow trees. > **Graham:** Right. Well you can grow all sorts of things, can’t you? > **Ford:** Well, you can’t grow concrete. > **Graham:** You can. (_Pause_) See you Cameron. (_Cuts video link_). Cheerio. (_With phenomenally ill judged sarcasm_) That was Cameron, he grows trees then cuts them down and makes things from them. Brilliant. Marvellous. The self-humiliation starts at about 0.40 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNOfo_oc3Wc) Happily going viral, Mike Graham was able to showcase himself around the world. j ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/8 "2021-12-19T23:50:05Z")
The whole Arizona vote recount circus was just dumbth upon dumbth upon dumbth. You’d think after conning the GOP for months with UV, lasers, and talk of bamboo fibers, they’d have at least helped Donald. Instead, they claimed to have found more Biden votes. Cyber Ninjas, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/9 "2021-12-20T17:46:38Z")
That JFK Jr was going to reappear alive on some date (in Aug, maybe) and declareTrump president. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/10 "2021-12-20T18:16:30Z")
**Colleague:** The government is making people wear masks because they want to stop people from communicating with each other. **Me:** Huh. So all the governments of the world are coordinating on this? **Colleague** : Absolutely! **Me:** That’d be a first in world history, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-dumbest-thing-you-heard-this-year/956297/11 "2021-12-20T18:20:27Z")
All the lies spread about how the vaccine would make you magnetic, grow horns, kill you, etc.