My brother used to take a large helium weather balloon to a music festival to mark our campsite in a field of thousands of tents. Once a day he would take it out to his car to top it off as it slowly lost the helium. He would hold the line in his hand and also tied it around his waist as a back-up in case had to let go for some reason. On one such trip a guy says to him, “Wow! That’s big! If you let go, would it carry you away?”.
“Does your vegetarian lasagna contain any beef/pork/whatever meat?”
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that question I would be able to build the Zoolander school kids who can’t read good and lack reading comprehension.
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Indeed. Zero is a weird number, so I would not assume that’s it’s either even or odd. There’s really nothing “stupid” about that question that I see (although, yes, I know it’s even, but if I were presented the question without knowing this fact beforehand, while I could not find a reasoning for it being “odd,” I could see it being an exception and being simply “neither” or “undefined.”)
This is not a dumb question, this is a smart question. If I had a dollar for every time that gets answered with “no meat, just chicken” or “no meat, just fish” I, too, would, well have many dollars.
Seriously, I once asked that exact question at the deli in Safeway. “The vegetarian lasagna has no meat, right?” TWO different people said “no meat”. Buy some, get it home, look at the first bite on the fork - freaking meat!!! :mad:
Indeed. I’m not even vegetarian, but there’s still a lot of people who don’t seem to know what it means. (Like, for example, claiming a vegetable soup is vegetarian and then, lo and behold, further prodding reveals it’s made on chicken stock.)
One of the funniest moments in the British sitcom “The Royle Family”, grandma discussing a vegetarian’s options at the buffet - “Can she have wafer-thin ham?”
Me: I am am atheist.
Them: do you worship Satan?
I was driving home with my wife one early evening. The sun was about to set and the moon had already risen in the east.
My wife looked at it and asked is that the sun?
I responded no its the moon. Then she asked why it’s up when there was still daylight.
My wife is very smart. Never spent a lot of time observing the sky though apparently.
Several years ago my Roommate was out somewhere one evening then called me up and asked: “what’s our phone number?”
By ‘several years ago’ I mean pre-cell phones. He dialed the house line, then asked what our phone number was.
Jeez there is a lot of snark in this thread. Chillax, people.
This is not a stupid question to ask when posting stupid questions you’ve been asked:
Is context required?
YES!
Otherwise, “Betty who?” doesn’t convey what you think it does.
Wait, there’s no way to view/edit the number that is labeled as “HOME”?
When I worked in a pet store we had fish called “Painted Glass”. Pretty much see-thru with a neon stripe along their backs. Every time I sold them I explained that the colour would eventually fade because they’re actually injected with dye.
This lady said “Soooo…when it fades…do we bring them back to get them re-injected?”
Hence the argument I gave that a number having other unusual properties isn’t usually at all relevant to whether it has this property. 1729 has a rather nice property but I can’t imagine anyone thinking this would affect whether it’s odd or even.
I just remembered this one:
I was watching the news when the Aurora Borealis was going to be visible. After interviewing an astronomer, and referring to the phenomenon several times as the “Northern Lights,” the interviewer asked if there was any particular direction we should look to see them best.
The astronomer said, “Well…North…”
I’d like to get in on this dollar deal. I too have been served “vegetarian” chicken broth, and I can’t count the times that my telling someone I’m a vegetarian as been met with “Do you eat fish?”
I have encountered vegetarian soup that turned out to “not have that much pork in it”.
Depending on where in the world you travel, it is an absolutely good question.
Just recently, I was driving down the road with my teenaged kid. There were huge piles of pipe stacked for miles on the side of the highway. A large trenching machine was digging a nice long trench.
My kid asks me, “What do ya think they’re building here?”
I thought that was a pretty stupid question. So I said, “Tennis courts”.
I don’t understand. Salt loses its flavor over time. 
I know, I know, but there are those degradable containers that do rot away and the plant grows through them.
My stupidest was from me, as a little girl. I was pelting my parents with questions as tiny kids do and I must have gotten excited with the attention and my own momentum so I blurted out the now infamous “IS THIS MY HAND?!” :o
You might be right, if it’s a housing development which includes them. 