… and why is this community against them?
I’ve often wondered, and occasionally asked people:
Is this question, as I’m asking now with this sent
aence, a stupid question?Yes, because you misspelled sentence
What about now?
Perfekt
A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk, have at you!
You’re thinking of a man.
Good joke, you made me laugh!
I opened this thread hoping for exactly this, and was not disappointed.
In my just over a year here and using him as my avatar, I think this is the first time I’ve actually said the line lol.
I thought i remember a thread from when you first created that account where we were all making you say the line.
Oh, yeah. I did, lol. That was fun. Forgot about that.
But that was deliberately in-character. I think this is the first time I just threw it out
Once someone asked if Stephen and Stephen were pronounced the same. Presumably they meant “Steven” for one of those, but the question as written was dumb.
Am a Stephen. No, pronounced the other way
What’s up Stevfen!
There’s no such thing as a stupid question.
Just a lot of inquisitive idiots.
A stupid question is a question directed at stupid, or about stupid, or referring to stupid.
So please, no stupid questions.
Well…
“Do women also shake off the fuel hose after they’re done or is it just male habit?”
- would be a stupid question
But do they also unzip before?
You unzip? Maybe that’s why I go through so many pants every day.
Yes, I shake the fuel nozzle. After dribbling gasoline down the car’s paint more than once, I always tap tap before I pull it completely out.
- source, am woman
“Is that a real gun?”
A stupid question is something like “why can’t we just follow the teachings of Ayn Rand and live in a libertarian utopia?” because everyone with a brain knows she is just a bad romance writer without a grip on reality and a basic understanding of how government is necessary to do things like safely build a skyscraper or acquire enough continuous land for a railroad. We don’t want stupid questions like that because obnoxious Ayn Rand followers will start spouting off nonsense.
A stupid question is anything you already know the answer to
Obvious bait
but to answer your stupid question: Things that could be easily answered by a google search are pretty stupid to post here. The implied intention of this community, and the subreddit it was inspired by, is to provide a space for people to ask questions that don’t have an immediately identifiable and/or definite answer and require certain social understanding to navigate.
“How many gallons of water to fill a pool?”, for example, is a question that does not belong here because you could easily find that info using a search engine (or even better, your pool’s owner’s manual).
“How do you know when you’ve been swindled?” is something that does belong however, because it’s asking for personal experience to help navigate a situation that cannot be provided by a search engine.
Wait, we can’t have 50 different versions of similar sex questions here?
See, I don’t need the answer to how many gallons of water to fill a pool so I won’t bother looking it up. But if someone replied I’d read it out of curiosity and be better for it. Discussions aren’t just 1 on 1 dialogos, they’re broad and general to a broad and general audience.
They dont exist
People have already correctly answered that in this community there are no stupid questions, you’re supposed to be able to ask anything without ridicule. But if you want to permit the general existence of stupid questions, here’s the definition I’ve always used.
A stupid question is one you can easily answer yourself.
As in, any question due to real lack of knowledge is not stupid, but if you can answer your own question just by thinking about it for a second, then it wasn’t necessary to ask and therefore "stupid”.
I always thought as tho the meaning of the sub name is to make fun of people who do not awnser “stupid questions” by saying that they are forbidden from the sub.
Maybe I’m just stupid lol
This is the safe space to ask a question you have that you are afraid other people would find stupid.
It’s especially good for things some people feel are common sense, but that others just managed to miss growing up.
Here’s an example. My husband is really smart. But he moved schools a lot over a 3 year period. He managed to completely miss kids being taught 1 is January, 2 is February, etc for dates. He just never learned it.
He knows his birthday in number form. But if he needs, say May 23rd in number form, he’ll look it up or ask me which number May is.
Some people would classify that as a stupid question and be a dick about it. I just answer him. I know he’s tried to learn it, he’s just never sure if he’s right and knows I know.
This sub operates under the good faith that there are no stupid questions, just people who legit missed something along the way.
In life, I would argue, there are stupid questions. But for me, it’s only in situations where someone is clearly just asking questions to make you break, or clearly not listening and asking the same questions over and over without even trying to pay attention, and lastly, weaponized incompetence where people are acting like that because they don’t want to do something and won’t just say no. Basically questions that are exclusively to waste someone else’s time are the only really stupid questions irl imho
But here, you get the benefit of the doubt if you don’t know how to properly brush your teeth, or why May is 5 and July is 7.
I believe the name originated on reddit, and an accurate name would be “thereAreNoStupidQuestionsHere” but the shorter version is what got the brand recognition, but the confusion is understandable
Is the Pope a Catholic?
Somebody should ask him.
I’ve met a lot of Catholics that think he isn’t… somehow. I’m not sure how this works.
At some point even the pope disagreed. Or well, one of them did. It was complicated.
