what is the most ridiculous thing you have ever had to explain to someone?

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1. That Malawi is indeed NOT an island in the pacific.

2. That air conditioners don’t draw air in from outside, to my 25 year old girlfriend

3. That the North Pole is, in fact, a real place.

4. So I was 19 and had a party at my house. that year I had decided I wanted to get in the best shape in my life and build muscle. I had a friend that wanted to be a competitive bodybuilder like his dad was. We’re talking and drinking in my room about working out and lifting and our progress. Dude takes his shirt off and asks if it looks like he’s doing well. I’m like “ya dude I can see it.” And then I took *my* shirt off and asked him if I looked good now. We’re both shirtless talking about our bodies and then my gf randomly walks in and sees us and is like “wtf are you guys doing?”

   I was swearing up and down that it wasn’t what it looked like. I’m pretty sure she thought I was in the closet for a long time even after we broke up.

5. What a spambot was on fb. The other people I modded with literally thought I was banning innocent people. Who all gave junk answers to the questions new members have to answer to join, along with all of them being from the same places.

6. What an idiom is to a four year old..

7. That you can’t plug an Ethernet cable into an electric outlet for internet.

8. tokyo is in japan, not china

   i also had an argument with someone who thought that indians weren’t asian because it’s a subcontinent

9. Not to run a propane heater while sleeping in their car overnight with the windows rolled up.

10. That raw meat has germs. and you got to santize your work station after you’re done chopping and cooking. Even the faucets that you touch, and the sink that had the blood.

11. Had to explain how to play just the tip game. I honestly thought that every adult knew what it was.

12. Last week I was joking about winning the Powerball and a coworker told me that she didn’t know how to buy a ticket.

13. That the American constitution doesn’t apply outside of the USA. Takes a special kind of stupidity to think it does.

14. Explaining to employees they aren’t paid to socialize with coworkers, but in fact I pay them to do a specific job!

15. You’re not supposed to fast during pregnancy..

16. A girl my buddy was seeing said she would be offended if a guy couldn’t cum just from seeing her naked and no additional stimulation.

    We had to explain that that’s not how dicks work.

17. How wind works….

18. That Europe wasn’t a country and “European” wasn’t a language.

    We were colleagues working for a Germany-based telecom company at the time.

19. The Poophole Loophole

20. That the level of the water in a glass of ice water will be the same after the ice melts. (They thought the water would overflow)

21. That pickles were cucumbers that had been _pickled._

    They didn’t grow “pre-dilled” on a vine.

22. When I was 25, I had to explain to my boyfriend how I knew that mixing blue paint with yellow paint would make green paint.

    He didn’t believe me when I explained that I knew off the top of my head (without first experimenting) which mixes would make which colours, because I learned the colour spectrum around the time I learned to read and write.

    He graduated with a Bachelors in Science not long after this whole argument went down.

23. How bottle recycling works to an elite family. They had no idea that milk and pop cans could be recycled. They did not believe me.

24. Trying to explain how saying they N-word could be offensive

25. That jalapenos are not, in fact, from Japan.

    She was convinced that because “jalapeño” sounds like Japanese (in her brain) that the Japanese invented jalapenos and the Mexicans later made them popular.

    That made it a pretty easy decision not to ask her for a second date.

26. Why my brother needs plates (he’s 26) (yes, to eat)

27. What the D-Day landing was to my supervisor at my first job

    I was stocking in the back on a slow night, and when I came back to the front of the concessions stand to take someone’s order, supervisor A was in disbelief that supervisor B didn’t really know what D-Day was. To prove his point that “everyone knew what D-Day was,” he went up to the customer I was serving to ask him if he knew what it was.

    A: “You! Do you know what D-Day was, and when it was?”

    Guy: “Wasn’t that when we (united states) nuked Germany?”

    A: “…no?”

    Me: “Don’t mind him, sir, he’s trying to prove a point.”

    Supervisor B didn’t feel so bad afterwards, but A and I both had fun explaining what D-Day was afterwards since we were both history buffs