Stupid questions DO exist. What's the stupidest question you've ever heard?

1. My sister owns a shop that sells raw meat for animals. Her freezers at the shop were full so she brought some to our house because we had space in ours. Her friend was with her and asked "Is legal to have animal meat just sitting in your freezer like that?" Me and my Mum had a bit of a laugh at her expense and then following a discussion about animals the same girl asked "Seahorses arn't real are they?" I told her "Of course they are" and she asked "What like you can ride them?" This was a 24 year old woman with a child. Also, 2 days ago in Monaco a car drove past us and my friend asked what car it was. My other friend told him it could have been a Porsche Macan and he kept saying that wasn't a real car. Later on we asked him why he didn't believe it was a real car and his response was "Why would they name a car after a missing girl?"
   — YAKELO


2. Ex girlfriend watching Planet Earth with me a while back: "Why is that fox trying to eat its own eggs!?" /panic mode "Foxes don't lay eggs, Jenny."
   — hosstradamus


3. Last summer, I worked in the UK. First thing my dad asked me on the phone when I arrived was : "Wow, and people speak english there ?".
   — Matrozi






4. I used to work in a print and copy area in a retail store. This kid comes in, maybe like 16-17ish? and he is nervous as fuck. Stammering, shifting, talking very quietly, the works. He gave me a usb and said his boss told him to get X amount of copies printed of everything on it. Printing the document goes fine, gave him the stuff and his usb back, and I go to ring the kid up. Tell him the total and he just stared at me. Told him the total again, and asked him how he'd like to pay. He slowly stretched out his arm to give me the usb. I just stared at him now, and he whispered, "Can't I pay with this?" I did my best to stifle my laughter because I could tell he was terrified. Told him no, I cannot take payment off of a usb. He looked like a deer in headlights, full on panic mode and ran out of the store leaving his usb and copies behind. He came back a few minutes later with crumpled up cash I assume he got from his car. I felt bad for him but god that was the most hilariously stupid question I'd ever gotten at that job.
   — denalim


5. Heard in my senior year of highschool “Are Somalians people?”
   — Addict1912


6. The BTK guy asked police if he could be traced if he sent them a floppy disk. That was a pretty dumb question to ask, and dumb to believe their answer.
   — hometowngypsy






7. Top of /r/nostupidquestions a guy asked how he could communicate with blind people, without realising he could just speak with them
   — Prompt-Bot


8. Female 30 year old friend : isn’t a tiger just a female lion?” Me: No they’re two different species on different continents Friend has blank face Me: in the lion king simba’s mom was a...? Friend ( light switch goes on) : female lion
   — FeckItsCold


9. Not one I've heard, but one I've asked. I have a friend who only has one foot. One leg was amputated from the knee down. Was talking to him one day and he was telling me a story that involved him having an itch in his foot recently. I, without thinking, asked "Which foot?" He laughed at least.
   — 500Republica






10. "Wait, you're 29? But weren't you 28 last year?"
    — duermando


11. I work at a cell carrier. In order to protect some anonymity and shilling for my company, I'm going to say its name was the Jets just to put into perspective our beef with our competitor, the Patriots. One store I worked at was a stand-alone Jets location. It had a big Jets sign on the building, Jets stickers on the window, and the store was all green. We had a lot that said Jets parking only even though we allowed customers to the store directly next to us to use it. Well 10 years ago before my store was built it the store next to us was a Patriots third party store. When they left they must have not taken their name off Google maps. At least once a week for the year+ I was working there we had a customer come in, only to be greeted by me or one of my co-workers wearing our shirts with a big Jets logo on the front and surrounded by signs and merchandising for the Jets. Hi, is this The Patriots? At least twice a month, "Hi, what brings you into the store today?" "I want to pay my bill" or "see I have an upgrade." So I would look up their account and ask them for their number. If the number didn't come up if ask them again. Same number. "Still not coming up." "Well I'm positive that's my number!" Asks to see their phone and immediately hand it back, straight faced and monotone, "This is the Jets. You have the Patriots." "But Google said this was the Patriots." People would get defensive because apparently they feel their intelligence was insulted ask all the time if we knew where the Patriots were. I would say I had no idea and if they were rude about it I'd point them in the wrong direction and say I'm not sure but I think it's there. I just never go there because I don't work for them. I work for the Jets. I mean good god. It was cute at first but people are so stupid.
    — BigSchwartzzz


12. If water is blue, and plants are mostly made up of water, then why are plants green and not blue? This was asked in a graduate level plant science class.
    — nuciferanda






13. "Do you speak asian?" Me: Nah, that's not a language. I speak Vietnamese. "Yeah, but do you speak asian?" :')
    — AdvertentExactness


14. In my science class: "If gravity is real, why isn't my textbook floating around the room?" (Legit Flat-Earther parents.)
    — AZScienceTeacher