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By anon - 17/12/2015 18:45

Today, I had to explain to someone in my class who Gandhi really was and that he was not a fictional goblin. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/03/2020 20:00

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GrinchFu1 27

Friday 18 December 2015 1:17

Day by day my faith in the long term survival of our species is slowly being whittled away. Stuff like this literally hurts my brain.

Richard6036 13

Friday 18 December 2015 1:20

I'm so surprised that in a computer generation people are just dumber than ever with all the knowledge at their fingertips and yet people say things like this so common sense is not so common and ignorance is running rampant

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crazycatlady5513 4

Friday 18 December 2015 13:42

Sounds like the ppl at my school! I swear someone asks me a question that reaches a new level of stupid every damn day!

snarkytruth 37

Friday 18 December 2015 14:49

Too stupid to live! Everyone knows he is that wizard that kept losing his ring. ;)

wolf12king 12

Friday 18 December 2015 15:01

I didn't know who Gandhi was until last year when I was in 9th grade.

writerchic85 25

Friday 18 December 2015 18:10

They must have been thinking of Golem.

Headcrab 29

Saturday 19 December 2015 5:17

"no, the paedophile"

deathperado 0

Saturday 19 December 2015 8:10

Easy access to almist all of human knowledge yet the people are dumber than maybe ever before. Or at least compared to the availability of information.

Kotine 11

Saturday 19 December 2015 23:47

lol I'm doing a project on Mohandas and working on it rn

tlnorman 18

Sunday 20 December 2015 11:52

That is a special kind of stupid right there. I don't know if it's curable or not.

pancakessdsjsn 17

Thursday 24 December 2015 10:42

I gotta meet this kid.

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