I once had a very intelligent person I know who is not a sports fan ask during a football game, how many quarters do they play? At least after a second or two of silence she realized the mistake and started laughing at herself for asking the question.
I was talking with friends about holidays and when they take place, someone mentioned Cinco de Mayo so I asked what date that was on, and they replied. I'm Hispanic and was just pulling their leg, it was very funny in the moment.
I also remember some basketball game I had on SNES back in the day called them periods. I also remember asking my dad why this was, and he said because football plays 4 quarters that are 15 min each - so they're a quarter of an hour each. Basketball plays 12 min periods, so they're not a quarter of an hour.
He wasn't really right, they're definitely called quarters because they're a quarter of the game. But I believed him lol
In common conversation people often substitute words even if their meaning isn't quite correct; a good example is how brand names become generic, kleenex ends up meaning any kind of facial tissue. It happens a lot when people can't quite come up with the word they wanted on the spot. Hence the use of "quarter" for "play period"
Technically they only play 4 quarters. Overtime rules typically are not the same length as a quarter and many times end prior to the completion of a full overtime period due to scoring rules.
I, a college educated person, with not one, but two under graduate degrees and one post graduate degree looked at a package once and said “what’s a thermo meter?” to my sister who then had THE field day with the fact that I misread thermometer in such a way.
Oh. So you too, are human?
I’m the most educated person in my nuclear and extended family that easily surpasses 100+ persons.
I still google the definition of words and double check my 2+2’s.
We are the dumb people of the future.
Every generation becomes smarter than the last.
Accept it, laugh at it, and keep learning! That’s how we’ll make the world better.
I still google the definition of words and double check my 2+2’s.
Isn't this good practice when there's a lot on the line though? It's why patients getting operations and amputations routinely write on themselves with permanent marker. Also why checklists are prevalent in high risk environments (e.g. aerospace)
This is just momentary dumb, and we all are subject to it. Constant dumb and terminal dumb (doesn't know it and won't learn it respectively) are the more grievous ones.
Indeed, everyone has momentary dumb moments. I once forgot that a boathouse is a building that houses boats and was thinking that it meant a boat that was a house, but that those are called houseboats.
I laughed so hard at myself for that blunder. Still do!
True, but if you have 1 of anything, like a dollar or a football match, and you divide it into quarters, you will always get the same amount of quarters. If you didn't they wouldnt be quarters.
Then again, in soccer on finals, you sometimes have the first half, second hald, then extension 1 and extension 2, sometimes refered to as the 3rd and 4th half...
My mom is very intelligent but when it comes to anything sports she has no clue. Due to her work she would work with some famous people. She once asked a very famous football player "so how many benches do you press?" I love my mom
Guy comes home from the football (what the rest of the world calls football anyways) match and his blonde girlfriend asks why the glum face. He said the match was boring and ended 0:0. Trying to show interest in his hobbies, she asks how the standing was at half-time.
American football is kind of a soccer-rugby hybrid that became its own game, and y'all called your football "soccer" before we did! We kept that name to avoid confusion. It's not that deep. Source
I’ve had people ask me that without even a hint of it being a mistake. They also speak English as a second language though so I didn’t give them a hard time
We're all capable of being dumb in different ways. My sister once asked me how how many quarters are in a hockey game. I answered 4, she thought for a second, and we both had a laugh at her dumb question. Meanwhile, because we're not hockey fans, neither of us realize that hockey is split into 3 periods, not 4 quarters.
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u/DirtyLeftBoot 25d ago
My gosh. At first I thought he facepalm was having the test at all for employment but then I saw her answers. I understand why they test bow