The most stupid question I've even been asked is, "What language do they speak in England? They speak English, right?" DUHH!!!!!

I think the stupidest question I've ever asked was when I was in high school. My math teacher was telling the class that he had a twin sister. Well I asked, "Are y'all identical?" and he laughed and said, "Of course not."

It took me a moment to realize how this could not be.

I think the stupidest question that people ask is: "Are you pregnant" to people who it's not clear are expecting. There are zero positive outcomes from making that mistake...

I can't personally think of anything though.

The stupidest question I have ever asked was when I was in high school. My parents were talking about getting invisible fencing for our dog and i asked them, "if we get an invisible fence, how am i going to find the gate?"
They still laugh at me for this 10 years later.

Entirely too many to list. My sister-in-law is not the brighest woman in the world, and she asks things like "Why didn't the people on the Titanic just jump into the water and swim to safety?"

the most stupidest question I ever heard asked was when I was back in highschool (uhh..many years ago lol), me and one of my friends were in class and this girl was like "where are you from?" and my friend answered "Thailand", and the girl goes, "Oh so you speak asian, right?"

We both just stared at her. What the hell language is "asian"?

LOL!!!

and the worst part was that she was totally serious and didn't even do one of those re-think-re-ask things like most people would have done...

Another one is this girl I used to work with was figuring out some measurements for a project. A group of us were standing discussing it and she asks us, "What's 20 minus 18?" As she reaches for a calculator, I'd already told her it was 2 but she still did used the calculator to make sure. I'm not a math whiz but puhleeease! I'm not sure how she ever passed the third grade.

That same girl came up do me one day and asked me if you had to pay to own a business or do you just get one.

:LMAO:

I actually asked this....my boyfriend and I were watching South Park were Stan's little brother is taken back to Canada and they have to see the new Prime Minster and try to get him back. (Similar to the Wizard of Oz plot)Well the boys ask how they get to Ottawa to see the Prime Minster and the citizens instruct them to take “The Only Road” in Canada to Ottawa. I then turn to my boyfriend and say “Is that true?” Yeah that was pretty stupid of me….

ha. about 6 years ago, my husband and i went to go buy a digital camera at a camera store, and (ok, this is when they first came out!), i asked 'where does the film go?'..the sales guy and my husband thought i was joking. um, i wasn't joking and i really didn't get it till later.

I think the stupidest question I've been asked was in response to my telling people I was completely deaf. They ask "Can you hear?" after I tell them that I was completely deaf.....and they were completely serious about it.

Lemme see.... complete = 100%. Deaf = Hearing loss. Therefore, 100% hearing loss...no, I don't think I can hear! =)

I think the most ridiculous question I ever got asked is "Are your eyes real?" I just stood there looking at the lady trying to figure out if she was serious or not. I have really large light blue eyes so I get the "Are they contacts?" question all of the time...but are they real? oh my god. I lost IQ points just being asked that.

I think the stupidest question I have ever asked was a week ago. I got eggs that are fed an all vegetarian diet so for some reason I asked my boyfriend "Does that mean the chickens were vegetarians?" and he just stared at me for like 5 minutes shaking his head. It didn't even dawn on me that of course they would be vegetarians, they can't eat meat!

I get asked if my eyes are real all the time, too. I've never considered it stupid, just a different way of wording if the color was real.

However, I'm generally much shorter than everyone around me (4'11") and even when I'm standing in front of them and they can see my feet, I've been asked if I'm standing lower.

well, as a wife of a military man, i have to say THE dumbest question i ever get asked is when he is away and it is "do you miss him?" um, nooooo, i dont miss him at all! i enjoy sleeping alone, taking care of the house alone, taking care of the pets alone, going grocery shopping alone, eating dinner alone. DUH I MISS HIM.

I was on a bachelorette cruise Labor Day Weekend and a man asked me what time the Midnight Buffet was!!!

well in High School my best friend and i were in the same history class(this was 8 years ago)...... she is really smart but has the tendancy to be ditsy. so she asked the teacher "Mr.so&so, if the missassippi river cuts accross the hole USA then why dosent the land drift appart?" hahahahahaha i still tease her about that.

What is aloe vera?

It as from a co worker a few weeks back.

I mean c'mon!

The stupides question I've been asked is probably "Is spaguetti the same in your country" I was an exchange student in Germany, and coming from a tiny almost unknown third world country people kept asking the weirdest things. One of my friends actually told someone we had to go hunting for food at 4 am, and we lived in tree houses, and someone was stupid enough to believe him.

The stupidest question I've ever asked...hmm I've asked a LOT of stupid questions but definetly the time when I asked "Third age refers to kids, right?". Oh one of my stupider moments.

these make me laugh

i hear plenty of stupid things quite often. but, naturally, nothing comes to mind at the moment.

i'll write back if i think of something, or get asked something (ha).

p.s. i get the eye thing alll the time, too.

Someone was checking out my book case and asked if all the books were real. That was a funny one.

The first one that popped into my head was when a friend asked me why they didn't have matinees at drive-ins.

Oh, and growing up in Hawaii I've had tourists ask some pretty stupid questions. Like whether or not we have Christmas there and if we ever visit America.

I'm sure I've asked some doozies too but I seem to be blocking them out of my mind.

ggfan - That is the cutest thing I've heard all week! I love it!

One time I got asked about my ethnic background so I told them I was half Salvadorian (From El Salvador) & half Chinese. Then they person said "Oh, so you're Mexican? Do they speak Mexican?" I said Seriously?!!! Then I said "So you're just Asian" He got all upset (he was Filipino) and said "No, I'm a Pacific Islander" - So I just told him if you dont want me to get your background wrong..then learn more about the others instead of saying something ignorant. Basically the bottom line was that to this guy all people that speak Spanish are Mexican

Oh, I've said plenty of dumb things over the years. I think one of the dumbest questions I asked was when my boyfriend was telling me how to say things in Spanish when we were making Mexican food for dinner one night. I asked him, "How do you say burrito in Spanish?" He married me, so I guess he didn't mind too much!

What amuses me about the book question is that I know a lot of people who do make the top shelves just mock books to fill the space and look smart, so I can totally see asking if they're all real books.

mom, whats a condom?
well, maybe not the stupidest, its embarrassing

There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.

after i dyed my hair burgundy i got "is that your real haircolor"

I was telling a story to a bunch of family about a cross country road trip I took with my mom and my geography is terrible! I looked at my mom and asked "It was either in North Carolina or that one right below it, right?"

Yeah...that would be South Carolina...what an idiot! I love telling about my own stupidity though, if you can laugh at yourself you will always be amused.

I am from Jamaica and someone asked a friend of mine if people lived in trees by the beach. How stupid can someone be?

When I was 16 the woman working at a beauty-counter in a department store asked me "Are your breasts real?" Not only was it stupid (I was only 16!), it was rude! I certainly didn't buy anything.

A consistent stupid question I heard for awhile was 'How come you're not married?' I usually responded 'Gee, that's such a good question! I wonder why.'

I feel ya on that Marci!!! We should respond with "why can't you mind your own business?"

my friends and i have had our air head moments-- but NOTHING in the world compares to the "mexican" comment! tatti- im 100% spanish, from spain, but people can never guess my nationality (italian, persian- i've gotten them all) so when people hear me fluently speak it for the first time i get all sorts of comments. the worst: "OMG YOU'RE MEXICAN" or even better "YOU SPEAK MEXICAN?" especially love it when its followed by "thats sexy". ugh! i cant even tell you how ignorant it makes someone look. i hate when a whole latin culture is summed up by one country! that doesnt even make sense. how many times do you hear "those mexicans over there.." how would you know that! my good friend is mexican and shes drop dead gorgeous and people NEVER believe her. what is that all about? so STOOPID. (hehe yes its intentional !)

I was in High school when the fax machine first came out. My parents purchased on for their business. Well, I asked "How does the paper get to the other side through the telephone wire?"

Once when my aunt came to my house without notice i offered her something to drink...i told her that i only have lemonade, water, and milk. She look at me and said "Together? That doesn't sound good, do you just plain water?"

Have you ever had a friend that bit into something, made a face afterwards and told you it tasted awful, but then proceeds to turn towards you and ask "Do you want some?" ? I have a friend(s) that do this all the time. Why would I want to eat something that you said tasted awful?

Marci - Yes!!!

I agree with you!!

Theres way to many stupid Q's I've been asked but one of my favs was when I was in high school, Ok so I had blonde hair then I decided to dye it and I went with this red color it was really dark like a purple redish color. When I walked into first hour the next day so kid was like OMG did you do something different to your hair? I was like no, I didn't do anything to it but totally change the whole color! Like WTF I go from blonde to red a big difference and he asked me if I did something to it! dumbass!

Some random loser from Ohio asked me this once he found out I am from India: How can someone as pretty as you be from a place like that?

So Offensive, but the pathetic thing was he thought he was being really smooth. I was like is that supposed to be a compliment, to which he responded I think it's a nice compliment. AHHH what an ignorant @#$&^.............

I overheard a girl asking this; "If 50% of married people met their spouse in university, and a lot of people don't go to university, does that mean if you don't find someone here you'll never get married?"

I had a similar hair moment. My hair was kool-aid purple (though permanent) and I got asked a few times if it was my natural color.

DUH IT ISN'T.

I also get asked if I have color contacts for my eyes while I am wearing glasses.

No, my eyes are blue naturally, thanks

I have a few ridiculous questions that I get asked. A lot of times when I tell people I'm ethnically Indian, they're like, "Oh, do you speak Indian?" or the ever-popular "Do you speak Hindu?" and "Are you Hindi?" Yeah, you idiots, I speak a religion and am a language. I mean how ignorant can you be? And someone please tell me what language Indian is, I'd like to learn it.

Oh, but the BEST one by far was when I was in middle school and he asked me what I was. I said I'm Indian, and he's like "Cool, I'm 1/64th Cherokee too, what tribe are you from?" Yeah, ok, putting aside the fact that I am the real type of Indian (don't EVEN get me started on that) while he assumed I wasn't, you're 1/64th Native American? Really? Does it even matter at that point? Beyond clueless.

When I was younger and before I began driving, of course, my mom made a turn and some guy honked at her from behind and she said, "What? I had my turn signal on?"

I then asked her, "Well, how do you think he can see that little green arrow from way out there?"

I was so serious too! haha

LatteGoodness: The real type of indian?? What does that mean, huh? What is the real type of Indian?

I've been asked if I was pregnant, When clearly not.
My clearly white friend was asked if she was black?? Never figured that one out.

the pregnancy question is right up there. its just asking for trouble.