Really ignorant comments you've uttered?

[Superfly]

What are some of the bonehead things you've said?

[eileen_d]

1. Oh, this one immediately pops into my mind...

... a friend had a book about Japanese-Canadians in World War II. I was an ignorant high school student and said, "How many of those are there? One hundred?" And he replied, "I'm Japanese-Canadian."

Yes, both bonehead and possibly racist. My least proud moment. :(

[maxanne]

2. I asked my

pregnant teenaged sister in law, "How did that happen?" :cry:

[TennesseeWalker]

3. When I was about 10, I watched a James Bond movie.

All during the rest of the night, with my father having his assistant manager and his very attractive girlfriend over for dinner and drinks, I continuously shouted..."Pussy Galore!"...over and over again. Mama and Daddy were SO proud.

It is still my battle cry to this day. :)

[BlueJazz]

4. Once, while a co-worker was telling me how sad it was that her Aunt died..

....I said "Yea, there's a lot of that going around"
My mind was miles away from the conversation...

[ET Awful]

5. Once at my first job manning an IT Help Desk. . .

The CEO of the company called for a problem . . .he was in a really crappy mood and so was I.

After fixing his problem, I hit the disconnect button on the phone and hollered across the hall to my friend how big of a dickhead the boss was.

It wasn't until I hear him say "excuse me?" that I realized I'd hit the speaker button instead of the disconnect button :)

[toddzilla]

9. ROFL!!

i guess you didn't get canned?

[ET Awful]

21. Nah, I hadn't said his name, so I told him . . .

I was talking about someone else walking by :). He was actually cool about it.

[Papa]

6. When I was young I made a family friend cry

She was rather large, and I asked her why she was so fat. It was not meant to be mean, I just didn't know any better. I thought maybe it was disease related somehow.

[Racenut20]

7. I DO !!!!!!

[On the Road]

8. Listen to This:

I had just changed jobs and had some paperwork my new boss had to sign. The back of the form had explanations for all the data you had to fill in on the front. Good idea, but it was meaningless. For example, under Social Security Number, it had the explanation: "Employee's Social Security Number." The whole page was like this.

I thought it was funny and mentioned to my boss with the parenthetical comment "Well, the company doesn't usually put the best and brightest in the position of designing forms."

She said: "Well, my father worked at AT&T his whole career, and was director of the group responsible for official company forms."

Oops!

[prolesunited]

10. Never, ever happened to me!

;-)

No worries. :pals:

[mac56]

11. I have so many of these -

and recalling any one of them makes me cringe uncontrollably.

I genuinely believe that the bonehead things I've said and done are far more stupid than those anyone else has ever said or done. Friends have tried and failed to dissuade me from this point of view. Can't be done.

[Bertha Venation]

12. my almost-bonehead-comment to Penny Marshall...

Caught by a studio shill at a batting cage, my brother-in-law & I were lucky to receive two tickets to a screening of a new baseball movie (in 1984).

The movie, which turned out to be "The Natural," was fantastic. When we got out, we saw Penny Marshall talking to some people in the parking lot. We went over & talked to her for a couple of minutes. She asked me, "So what did you think of the score?"

I almost said, "Uh... what do you mean? It was 3-2. They won."

Her friend Randy Newman had written the score. The music for the film. Fortunately Ms. Marshall realized she had a dumbass on her hands and prompted, "the music..." before I could open my mouth.

[Blade]

13. Well...

I was asked a question from my teacher in front of class: If a plane were to crash on the US/Canadian border, where would they bury the survivors?

I said "Montana?"

The laughter has never stopped haunting me...

[DuctapeFatwa]

14. "I am computer literate"

The context was talking about people who are very limited in which news resources they use. Something to the effect of, well it is easy for me to read papers from everywhere, because I am computer literate.

I have seldom seen people laugh so hard. I believe the food stains will eventually come out of my sweater.

[eauclaireliberal]

15. RE: "Really ignorant comments you've uttered?"

Go to DU's search engine and type in <i>eauclaireliberal.</i> A surplus, fer sure.

[LanternWaste]

16. Have you decided what to name the fetus

My best friend's sister was pregnant for the first time and I asked her, "Have you decided what to name the fetus?" Sheesh...

[Bertha Venation]

17. heheh... I coulda used that when I picketed at "abortion" clinics

It would've shown more savvy than "don't kill your baby!"

Then, if I had any savvy I wouldn't have been there in that capacity.

GAWD, that is definitely the most ignorant phrase I've ever uttered. "Don't kill your baby" :scared: <shudders w/ embarrassment>

[salinen]

18. I've never made any

ridiculous comments. Whoops! Just made my first.

[terrya]

19. Don't flame me for this...please....

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, I'd say to people who asked me whom I was supporting that "there isn't any difference between Bush and Gore, so I'm voting for Nader".

How fucking stupid I was. One of the most idiotic thinfs I've ever said.

[TexasSissy]

20. "When are you due?" to a non-pregnant woman.

She sure looked pregnant. Terrible. I felt so bad. But once out of the ol' mouth, there's not much you can do.

[Dookus]

22. I learned a long time ago...

NEVER mention a pregnancy unless the woman brings it up first. I don't care if she's crowning while we speak, unless she tells me she's pregnant, I don't say a word.

[Booberdawg]

25. That's a good rule of thumb. My rule of thumb is

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

[SOteric]

23. Oh, I'm sure I've stepped in it a few times, but nothing's coming to mind.

In honour of all those reliving an inglorious moment, - an amusing smiley:

[ironflange]

24. A number of years ago, a bunch of us were looking at family photos

We got to some of my aunt's wedding many years ago, early 60's. There was one of her in her wedding dress, with a window in the background. I said, "Hey! Is that SNOW on the ground?" Mom said, "Of course, it was February." Me: "Why on earth did they get married in February?!?!?" It was about on the word "Earth" that my brain started saying "STUPID STUPID STUPID" but I couldn't stop. That's when I found out why everyone in those wedding pics look so glum.

[mitchum]

26. "Your daughter is so hot!"