Stupid

<p>Sometimes I think about all of the things human beings have invented and built, and I&#39;m in awe at the infinite powers of the human brain. Other times, I&#39;m shocked that a species as dumb as us has managed to survive evolution. How can one species be so intelligent and idiotic at the same time?!?!?!? It boggles the mind.</p><p>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/u81il/my_room_mate_burned_his_hand_at_his_work_on_a/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;What things have you/your friends done that made you question your/their intelligence?&quot;</p><h2>These 19 people share stories of hilariously dumb decisions or behaviors that made them question their own intelligence or someone else&#39;s:</h2><h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Frederic-104/">Frederic-104</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend works at a restaurant as a waiter. One night I noticed a small open wound around his wrist. Upon asking what happened, he told me that he burned his hand on the stove, and immediately poured bleach on it. He said &quot;bleach neutralizes the burn, just like in Fight Club&quot;.</p> <p>I&#39;m no doctor, but I&#39;m pretty sure a burn caused by heat (as opposed to chemicals, like in the movie) does not call for bleach as a way of treating the burn.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/leaann926/">leaann926</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One time my brother broke his thumb from snowboarding down a levee. Broken, as in, purple very quickly, swelling, and definitely bent at an awkward shape. Instead of going to the doctor like any normal kid would do at the age of 13 and in pain.....he packed snow in his glove, stuck his hand in the glove and then proceeded to reclimb to the top of the levee with his snowboard. He descended once more and broke his other arm. THAT&#39;s when he decided it was time to go to the doctor.</p> </blockquote><h2>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tits_hemingway/">tits_hemingway</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>To be fair he was pretty drunk, but I once saw a friend accidently put the lit end of his cigarette in his mouth. He pulled it out and yelled &quot;F**k!&quot;, as you would. He then turned it three hundred sixty degrees and put the lit end back into his mouth.</p> </blockquote><h2>4.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>My uncle owns this thread. I don&rsquo;t even know where to start. He was once using a blowtorch to remove paint from his kitchen wall and set fire to the insulation and the whole apartment block had to be evacuated. Another time he was removing hot ashes from his fire and putting them in a plastic bucket, the bottom fell out of it as he was carrying it outside and ruined the carpet in his living room. Another time he leant his motorbike up against a window to clean it and it fell straight through the window, a few weeks later he was cleaning the windows (after replacing the one he&rsquo;d broken) and tried to throw the remaining water from the jug onto the window, the jug broke at the handle and went straight through the window. Finally, my personal favorite, he bought a really cheap bike from someone, intending fix it up, he leant it against one of the walls on the outside of his house and spray painted it, when he moved the bike there was an outline of the bike left painted on the wall.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pakage/">pakage</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was out for a walk with one of my friends once and the moon was up in the day time. In all seriousness he turns to me and says: &quot;I always get a bit scared when the moons up during the day. I&#39;m really paranoid that its going to crash into the sun.&quot; Fuck me twice and call me Sally. I didn&#39;t even know where to begin with that one, so i just nodded and smiled.</p> </blockquote><h2>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gabbagool/">gabbagool</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>my brother in law got a flat tire and threw the wheel away with it.</p> </blockquote><h2>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/buttsecks21/">buttsecks21</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One time I got drunk at the beach and i mistook the neighbors beach house for my own. Long story short I walked in and tried to get in bed with them. All i remember is the wife screaming. Lock your doors :P</p> </blockquote><h2>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alaska47/">Alaska47</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend of mine got in a fight at a bonfire. He got tossed into the fire and burnt his forearm pretty good. He didn&#39;t want to stop partying so he wrapped his burn in DUCT TAPE! Watching him tear it off the next day will forever haunt me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/oogmar/">oogmar</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend/coworker got a DUI on a minibike. You know, those John-Deere-Green lawnmower engine things with the huge handle bars? Yeah. Got on it hammered, ran straight into a wall, broke his face, got wedged (all 6&#39;3, 220ish pounds of him) between a metal street sign pole and a cement wall. When the cops showed up, his drunk buddy bolted and he kept saying, &quot;Officer, I have a degree in biology, and my friend is not drunk!&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>While he does have a degree in biology, said friend was quite, QUITE drunk. Running away got him around 4 blocks and then he fell over.</p> <p>...Sometimes it&#39;s a miracle my friends haven&#39;t managed to get me incarcerated or killed yet.</p> </blockquote><h2>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/seneca8711/">seneca8711</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I work at a store with a stupid woman. Every night she has to go outside and change the bags in six trash cans. We cannot make her understand to take six bags. She&#39;s worked there two years and still comes in for each bag individually.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ArbitraryShape/">ArbitraryShape</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I managed to convince a girl in high school that Canada was its own continent and that I spoke fluent Canadian. I still have no idea what she was thinking.</p> </blockquote><h2>12.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>I have a friend that tried to cook fruit loops in a frying pan. Because she &quot;had not made herself a bowl of cereal before in her life&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/freakystyly56/">freakystyly56</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>There was one time where I asked my girlfriend how women used to know they were pregnant before pregnancy test. She marveled at what just came out of my mouth for a few moments before informing me that women can tell they are pregnant due to missed periods. I&#39;m not really sure what I was thinking at the time, not one of my proudest moments.</p> </blockquote><h2>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Journalisto/">Journalisto</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend ran out of salt one time so he seasoned his eggs with road salt - you know, the kind you spread on ice to melt the snow and ice. He said it tasted it great.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LedZeppelin/">LedZeppelin</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Nearly all of my friends do not believe in dinosaurs, evolution, and one does not believe in gravity. Yes, gravity.</p> </blockquote><h2>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Trapped_in_Reddit/">Trapped_in_Reddit</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When my little brother was in high school, he dated a girl who was one of the least intelligent human beings I have ever encountered. She was the stereotypical cheerleader type, and she got by entirely on her looks. My brother told me he knew he had to break up with her when he walked in on her one day standing next to the heater in her underwear. He asked her what she was doing, and she said she was trying to get a tan. No joke, homegirl was standing next to a space heater trying to tan.</p> </blockquote><h2>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/doomisdead/">doomisdead</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend and myself were camping and we couldn&#39;t find a safe place to put the campfire for the night so we looked around and decided on a crop of small rocks lining the river, we didn&#39;t notice that there tiny streams of water trickling throughout the rocks back into the river. We set up the fire in a neat little circle and gathered enough wood to last us until our other group of friends found us. To help them find us we decided to pour some gas to make our fire smoke. Instead we ended pouring about a gallon of gas onto our firewood, and it combined with the water and made what I can only describe as a mist that lingered about an inch off the watery rocks and we lit it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Our friends and about 3 other groups of people saw the fireball and came running. We singed the hair off of our arms, legs, face, and we looked like we just got done filming a three stooges scene. Suffice it to say when our friends and estranged groups of people found us they made sure we were fine and we all camped there that night. It was a nice night.</p> </blockquote><h2>18.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>When my friend was cleaning the carburetor on his 3 Wheeler he just bought, and was leaking gasoline on the driveway. I seemed to suddenly be concerned about it staining the driveway and I felt the best way to stop that would be to light the gas on fire. So I lit the small puddle saying &quot;I don&#39;t want it to stain&quot; which then caused the entire 3 Wheeler to erupt in flames, him kicking the gas tank off it into my yard, catching the yard on fire, me scrambling for the hose and a whole lot of cussing.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19.) From [deleted]:</h2><blockquote> <p>My cousin&#39;s boyfriend was riding his bike home from school one day. He was going down a big hill, and saw the bus with all the high school kids stopping a few feet ahead. He went flying off his bike and broke one arm, but, not wanting to look dumb in front of them, got back on his bike. He fell off again and broke his other arm.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 people share stories of the dumbest human behavior they’ve ever witnessed.

Sometimes I think about all of the things human beings have invented and built, and I&#39;m in awe at the infinite powers of the human brain. Other times, I&#39;m shocked that a species as dumb as us has managed to survive evolution. How can one species be so intelligent and idiotic at the same time?!?!?!? It boggles the mind.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;What things have you/your friends done that made you question your/their intelligence?&quot;These 19 people share stories of hilariously dumb decisions or behaviors that made them question their own intelligence or someone else&#39;s:1.) From Frederic-104: My friend works at a restaurant as a waiter. One night I noticed a small open wound around his wrist. Upon asking what happened, he told me that he burned his hand on the stove, and immediately poured bleach on it. He said &quot;bleach neutralizes the burn, just like in Fight Club&quot;. I&#39;m no doctor, but I&#39;m pretty sure a burn caused by heat (as opposed to chemicals, like in the movie) does not call for bleach as a way of treating the burn. 2.) From leaann926: One time my brother broke his thumb from snowboarding down a levee. Broken, as in, purple very quickly, swelling, and definitely bent at an awkward shape. Instead of going to the doctor like any normal kid would do at the age of 13 and in pain.....he packed snow in his glove, stuck his hand in the glove and then proceeded to reclimb to the top of the levee with his snowboard. He descended once more and broke his other arm. THAT&#39;s when he decided it was time to go to the doctor. 3.) From tits_hemingway: To be fair he was pretty drunk, but I once saw a friend accidently put the lit end of his cigarette in his mouth. He pulled it out and yelled &quot;F**k!&quot;, as you would. He then turned it three hundred sixty degrees and put the lit end back into his mouth. 4.) From [deleted]: My uncle owns this thread. I don&rsquo;t even know where to start. He was once using a blowtorch to remove paint from his kitchen wall and set fire to the insulation and the whole apartment block had to be evacuated. Another time he was removing hot ashes from his fire and putting them in a plastic bucket, the bottom fell out of it as he was carrying it outside and ruined the carpet in his living room. Another time he leant his motorbike up against a window to clean it and it fell straight through the window, a few weeks later he was cleaning the windows (after replacing the one he&rsquo;d broken) and tried to throw the remaining water from the jug onto the window, the jug broke at the handle and went straight through the window. Finally, my personal favorite, he bought a really cheap bike from someone, intending fix it up, he leant it against one of the walls on the outside of his house and spray painted it, when he moved the bike there was an outline of the bike left painted on the wall. 5.) From pakage: I was out for a walk with one of my friends once and the moon was up in the day time. In all seriousness he turns to me and says: &quot;I always get a bit scared when the moons up during the day. I&#39;m really paranoid that its going to crash into the sun.&quot; Fuck me twice and call me Sally. I didn&#39;t even know where to begin with that one, so i just nodded and smiled. 6.) From gabbagool: my brother in law got a flat tire and threw the wheel away with it. 7.) From buttsecks21: One time I got drunk at the beach and i mistook the neighbors beach house for my own. Long story short I walked in and tried to get in bed with them. All i remember is the wife screaming. Lock your doors :P 8.) From Alaska47: A friend of mine got in a fight at a bonfire. He got tossed into the fire and burnt his forearm pretty good. He didn&#39;t want to stop partying so he wrapped his burn in DUCT TAPE! Watching him tear it off the next day will forever haunt me. 9.) From oogmar: My friend/coworker got a DUI on a minibike. You know, those John-Deere-Green lawnmower engine things with the huge handle bars? Yeah. Got on it hammered, ran straight into a wall, broke his face, got wedged (all 6&#39;3, 220ish pounds of him) between a metal street sign pole and a cement wall. When the cops showed up, his drunk buddy bolted and he kept saying, &quot;Officer, I have a degree in biology, and my friend is not drunk!&quot;  While he does have a degree in biology, said friend was quite, QUITE drunk. Running away got him around 4 blocks and then he fell over. ...Sometimes it&#39;s a miracle my friends haven&#39;t managed to get me incarcerated or killed yet. 10.) From seneca8711: I work at a store with a stupid woman. Every night she has to go outside and change the bags in six trash cans. We cannot make her understand to take six bags. She&#39;s worked there two years and still comes in for each bag individually. 11.) From ArbitraryShape: I managed to convince a girl in high school that Canada was its own continent and that I spoke fluent Canadian. I still have no idea what she was thinking. 12.) From [deleted]: I have a friend that tried to cook fruit loops in a frying pan. Because she &quot;had not made herself a bowl of cereal before in her life&quot; 13.) From freakystyly56: There was one time where I asked my girlfriend how women used to know they were pregnant before pregnancy test. She marveled at what just came out of my mouth for a few moments before informing me that women can tell they are pregnant due to missed periods. I&#39;m not really sure what I was thinking at the time, not one of my proudest moments. 14.) From Journalisto: My friend ran out of salt one time so he seasoned his eggs with road salt - you know, the kind you spread on ice to melt the snow and ice. He said it tasted it great. 15.) From LedZeppelin: Nearly all of my friends do not believe in dinosaurs, evolution, and one does not believe in gravity. Yes, gravity. 16.) From Trapped_in_Reddit: When my little brother was in high school, he dated a girl who was one of the least intelligent human beings I have ever encountered. She was the stereotypical cheerleader type, and she got by entirely on her looks. My brother told me he knew he had to break up with her when he walked in on her one day standing next to the heater in her underwear. He asked her what she was doing, and she said she was trying to get a tan. No joke, homegirl was standing next to a space heater trying to tan. 17.) From doomisdead: A friend and myself were camping and we couldn&#39;t find a safe place to put the campfire for the night so we looked around and decided on a crop of small rocks lining the river, we didn&#39;t notice that there tiny streams of water trickling throughout the rocks back into the river. We set up the fire in a neat little circle and gathered enough wood to last us until our other group of friends found us. To help them find us we decided to pour some gas to make our fire smoke. Instead we ended pouring about a gallon of gas onto our firewood, and it combined with the water and made what I can only describe as a mist that lingered about an inch off the watery rocks and we lit it.  Our friends and about 3 other groups of people saw the fireball and came running. We singed the hair off of our arms, legs, face, and we looked like we just got done filming a three stooges scene. Suffice it to say when our friends and estranged groups of people found us they made sure we were fine and we all camped there that night. It was a nice night. 18.) From [deleted]: When my friend was cleaning the carburetor on his 3 Wheeler he just bought, and was leaking gasoline on the driveway. I seemed to suddenly be concerned about it staining the driveway and I felt the best way to stop that would be to light the gas on fire. So I lit the small puddle saying &quot;I don&#39;t want it to stain&quot; which then caused the entire 3 Wheeler to erupt in flames, him kicking the gas tank off it into my yard, catching the yard on fire, me scrambling for the hose and a whole lot of cussing. 19.) From [deleted]: My cousin&#39;s boyfriend was riding his bike home from school one day. He was going down a big hill, and saw the bus with all the high school kids stopping a few feet ahead. He went flying off his bike and broke one arm, but, not wanting to look dumb in front of them, got back on his bike. He fell off again and broke his other arm. 

Sometimes I think about all of the things human beings have invented and built, and I&#39;m in awe at the infinite powers of the human brain. Other times, I&#39;m shocked that a species as dumb as us has managed to survive evolution. How...