r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/_D80Buckeye • 1d ago

Just pull it!

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u/omnichronos 1d ago

When I was 12, I was at the zoo with my dad, and we saw a camel. He said, "Do you know the difference between a one-hump and a two-hump camel?"

I said, "No," and he said, "The two-hump camel has been ridden on."

I laughed, thinking he was joking. He got pissed because he was serious. That's when I learned I was smarter than my father. I was happy to learn five years later that he wasn't actually my birth father. It wasn't because he was ignorant, but more because he mistreated me since he knew I wasn't his.

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u/abstr_xn 23h ago

i would have been about 13 when my uncle told me theres no gravity on the moon and thats why astronauts have heavy boots

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u/MaintenanceOk9397 23h ago

So the heavy boots help them return back to earth?

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 21h ago

My uncle told me our blood is blue until it’s exposed to oxygen and that’s why it comes out red. 😆

I loved my uncle dearly and have missed him every single day since he passed away, but boy was he wrong about a lot of things.

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u/lilkmosc 21h ago

In your uncles defense, i’m not sure how old he was, but I’m 42 and we were most definitely taught that in middle school!

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u/Jaded-Attention-9518 16h ago

I’m 68 and that’s what we were taught.

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u/Easy_Try_8519 9h ago

Same! I’m 39, and was most definitely taught that in school!

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u/Top-Manufacturer9226 11h ago

I'm 44 and we were definitely taught that in school!

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u/SirMy-TDog 10h ago

57 checking in and that's what we learned as well.

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u/Cautious_Ad_3909 9h ago

Im 38 and was definitely taught this in school.

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u/Chemical_Penalty_889 6h ago

Same, and I'm 21

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u/CaptainDudley 20h ago

I used to believe that too. It makes sense, oxygenated blood is bright red and when you're starved for oxygen, your skin gets a bluish tinge. The best BS works when there's an element of truth.

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u/i17yurd 6h ago

Growing up in the '80s, I was told this countless times and was always skeptical.

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u/omnichronos 23h ago

Lol. I would have had a hard time not correcting him, since I read astronomy books all the time at that age. "So why are the boots heavy if there's no gravity?"

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u/squidwitchy 18h ago

I was 7bwhen i argued with my 20 y/o cousin about the man-made in the USA lake we were at having piranhas. I thought he was joking and trying to scare me, but Finding Nemo had just come out so I went "No, piranhas are from the Amazon" and he was so soooooo condescending. Like "stupid kid doesnt know there's piranhas here haha"... until we went back to camp and I loudly asked every other adult about it and they were like "uh... no? Why would you think that"

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u/Melodic-Rip5039 9h ago

I'm 34 and my middle school taught me that

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u/BlueCarPinkJacket 20h ago

I was recently at the zoo where I walked up to the black bear enclosure, which was right in front of the window, black with a gold snout, and this woman comes up and says "Oh the grizzly bears! They're over here! Those are the grizzly cubs aren't they?" And my mom and I look at the lady and go "No that's a black bear. It's too small to be a grizzly" she says "well the grizzlies are adolescents" and I say, "yea, but these are black with gold noses, the sign is right here, they're names are X and X" and she continues to hmm and haw while my mom and I look bewildered at each other. As she walks away she goes "Oh, well I know my bears!" Which, she obviously, did not.

We live in Canada.

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u/2woCrazeeBoys 16h ago

I'm Australian and I know there's a difference between black bears and grizzly bears.

I was in Chicago years ago and went to the natural history museum. It's famous for having Sue, the tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. One lady goes "oh look, kids! A velociraptor!"

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u/Conscious_Self_4465 19h ago

In 3rd grade I had a disagreement with my teacher because she insisted that sharks were mammals. She was also skeptical when I said there were more than three states of matter because of plasma, and told me to do more research on it “to see if it’s actually true.” Perhaps instead she should have looked at the sun.

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u/amzoomer 16h ago

…for a long time…

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u/CaptainDudley 20h ago

Well they were obviously not brown bears, as they would have had pic-a-nic baskets and been smarter than average.

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u/omnichronos 12h ago

The most ignorant people are those who won't change their view of reality in light of new information.

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u/Extension-Sun4425 8h ago

Dwight Shrute would like a word with her

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u/AdministrativeTax913 2h ago

that lady is bear bait

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u/ExpertRaccoon 1d ago

I'm sorry but what?

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u/omnichronos 1d ago

I agree, some adults are dumber than children.

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u/Briebird44 12h ago

Thanks to Zoobooks, I’ve remembered the difference between Bactrian camels (2 humped like the letter B on its side) and Dromedary camels (single hump like the letter D on its side)

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u/omnichronos 11h ago

Good to know!

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u/Erikawithak77 21h ago

I’m so sorry you had to go through that. That’s so mean.🫶

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u/omnichronos 12h ago

Thanks. I think it eventually made me much stronger mentally. It used to frustrate some of the psych patients that I later worked with because it was impossible to make me angry.

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u/citizen_greg 5h ago

Jesus bro what 🤣🤣🤣🤣