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I donno your guess is as good as ours!
Morons.
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I donno your guess is as good as ours!
I opened up the front door of my friends car and started searching around for the lever thing that reclines the chair forward so you can get in the back only to have it pointed out to me that he has a 5 door car.
haha
The amount of people I've met that think that a vehicle in front of another must be going faster 'because it's in front' absolutely astounds me. My wife was one of them before I told her better
The White House has been destroyed in the past, admittedly they didn't use flying saucers to accomplish it though.
I had to transfer some money to my girlfriends bank yesterday over the internet and I got her to double check the account number I had enetered and read it out as 8392589320(ZERO) to which she replied, "it's not a zero it's an o", then she said " oh no, it is a zero."
Oh dear.
Not the real account number
Oh dear.
Not the real account number
I know a teacher who teaches cooking. She used to be a chef in London.
She 100% believes that tin foil is shiny on one side and matte on the other for cooking purposes. Reflection and refraction of heat.
She teaches this to her children.
That's hardly moron territory, is it? At least it makes sense.
Seriously, if you think that's moronic, then you'd best be working on the cure for cancer or something.
One of my mates from school once asked "who drives Halley's Comet?" - bless him.
Worked in a shop with a girl who was totally thick....and quite random. Boss asked her to put a box of stuff "out back" which, to most people, would have meant the warehouse.......but instead she put in the carpark at the back of the store
She also once asked a coworker "so whereabouts in London is Oxford?" And the most bizarre one.....in the middle of ringing-up a customer, and completely out of the blue, she looked at him with a very serious and puzzled expression and said "what's a communist?" Now keep in mind there was no conversation prior to this question.....just "hello...did you find everything OK? etc, etc.....then silence.....then about a minute later, the above question 
Worked in a shop with a girl who was totally thick....and quite random. Boss asked her to put a box of stuff "out back" which, to most people, would have meant the warehouse.......but instead she put in the carpark at the back of the store
She also once asked a coworker "so whereabouts in London is Oxford?" And the most bizarre one.....in the middle of ringing-up a customer, and completely out of the blue, she looked at him with a very serious and puzzled expression and said "what's a communist?" Now keep in mind there was no conversation prior to this question.....just "hello...did you find everything OK? etc, etc.....then silence.....then about a minute later, the above question 
Maybe not moronic, but it would make me question their abilty to operate complex machinery, such as a cooker.
Maybe not moronic, but it would make me question their abilty to operate complex machinery, such as a cooker.
Not really, it's an extremely common misconception. I'd say well over 50% of the populatuion would believe something similar to this.
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many years ago my dad fooled my mum with a pretty funny one. to this day we keep reminding her of 'the queens knickers:'
*mum + dad watching some queen celebration thing*
*queen has held her hand up in a salute for a really long time*
mum: how does the queen hold her hand up in a salute for so long
dad: oh, she has a thin piece of string thats tied to her hat in a loop. if her hand gets tired then she puts it through the loop for some support
mum: ok
....
mum: wait a minute... wouldnt her hat fall off with the weight of her arm pulling it down?
dad: no, because theres another piece of string that is tied to her hat, goes under her blouse and is tied to her knickers
mum: ah ok. very clever.
for several days my mum believed that before we told her otherwise
*mum + dad watching some queen celebration thing*
*queen has held her hand up in a salute for a really long time*
mum: how does the queen hold her hand up in a salute for so long
dad: oh, she has a thin piece of string thats tied to her hat in a loop. if her hand gets tired then she puts it through the loop for some support
mum: ok
....
mum: wait a minute... wouldnt her hat fall off with the weight of her arm pulling it down?
dad: no, because theres another piece of string that is tied to her hat, goes under her blouse and is tied to her knickers
mum: ah ok. very clever.
for several days my mum believed that before we told her otherwise
It demonstrates a lack of thinking, I also saw the "How Do They Do It?" where they covered foil, but before that I wasn't under the impression that the different sides acted differently, I always knew its function was because it was aluminium foil, not becuase one side is shiny while the other is dull.
I haven't seen that "How Do They Do It?" episode, and I've never taken the time to think about whether one side of the foil would cook better than the other. I've always put the foil shiny side up whether the food is on top of or under it, but it's really not that hard to believe that one side would reflect heat more than the other if you're not familiar with the physics of heat radiation. Hardly worthy of the strength of feeling a term like 'moron' would inspire.
Not really, when cooking materials propagate the misconception then people can justifiably believe it to be correct without being moronic.
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My missus asked me if potatoes had wheat in it....
Dull and shiny surfaces do behave differently. Whether the difference on either side of a sheet of foil is significant, I don't know. Whether it can have any bearing on cooking, I don't know.
It's not moron territory, though.