<p>That reminds me, Billy:
Random person: What kind of Chinese are you?
Me: <em>walks away</em></p>
<p>I think my favorite is the sperm one.</p>
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"Do babies have gills?"
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<p>Human embryos actually do have gills, but they just don't work, so that question wasn't that stupid.</p>
<p>I go to a Catholic school, so there's (and for good reason) always people challenging Bible teachings. I hope I have this story right, because I remember lmao when my friend told it to me:</p>
<p>Teacher: "So, many historians do not agree with the Bible, which says that the boulder in front of Jesus' tomb was rolled away and a wild bear ate his body, instead of him going to heaven."</p>
<p>Girl: "That's stupid! ...There weren't wild bears back then!"</p>
<p>...maybe you have to have had thirteen years of Catholic schooling to get it >.<</p>
<p>This is what I heard from my younger sister when she was in biology class.</p>
<p>Teacher: "In autumn, leaves on trees turn gold because..."
A girl: "Wait, so those leaves turn GOLD or just a golden color?"</p>
<p>Oh, and here's another good one from my sister. When she was in her Spanish class, one girl couldn't understand how to read time in Spanish because apparently, she didn't know how to read clock.</p>
<p>in my college economics class:</p>
<p>teacher: so what is the biggest cost of entering into the cruise industry?
girl: hiring a captain</p>
<p>My biology teacher: So you have diabetes?
Me: Yes
Him: What is diabetes again?</p>
<p>Girl: Where's New Jersey on the map?</p>
<p>(We're from New Jersey)</p>
<p>Another:</p>
<p>Girl: Don't seagulls have gills?</p>
<p>In English class: </p>
<p>Guy: Who is Al qeada?</p>
<p>"That reminds me, Billy:
Random person: What kind of Chinese are you?
Me: <em>walks away</em>"
-snoopyiscool
He/she may have been asking you if you were Mandarin, Cantonese, or Shanghainese, etc.</p>
<p>8th Grade Bio class:
<em>reading</em> "This year, we will learn about liviing oragasms."</p>
<p>^Trust me, they weren't. They think Korea and Japan are in China.</p>
<p>"Do babies have gills?"
Actually yes, they do. Most mammals embryos have gills but lose them before they are born</p>
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^Trust me, they weren't. They think Korea and Japan are in China.
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<p>I have had a similar experience, although I am not from any of those countries. I think it is widespread:</p>
<p>Boy: (looking at my friend) Are you from China?
Me: (friend couldn't speak English well) Actually, he's from Japan.
Boy: So where in China is Japan?</p>
<p>Girl: Was Hitler a Nazi? ...was Nazi a religion?</p>
<p>Girl: Germany...that's in Europe, right?</p>
<p>Girl: Why would anyone want to be smart? That's so stupid.</p>
<p>Mr. Thomas (our old history teacher): "B.C." means "before Christ."
Kid: But there <em>was nothing</em> before Christ.</p>
<p>(in 8th grade, an Israeli man came to speak to us. Why, I have NO CLUE.)
Boy: I bet he's a terrorist and wearing a machine gun. We're all gonna die, dude.</p>
<p>Yeah, this <em>could</em> be, although a bit rude, a comment as to Israel's human rights violations, treatment of Palestinians...but he was 13 years old, and kind of a dunce, so this obviously came out of his misunderstanding of the Middle East. But, atleast he knows that Israel is in the Middle East, and that terrorists often come from the Middle East.</p>
<p>Girl: I thought Pearl Harbour happened in the 1980s?</p>
<p>Kid in art class: Don't Jews wear bowls on their heads?</p>
<p>In 11th grade, I wore one of those green "SAVE DARFUR" bracelets every day.
Kid: Hey...is that for the school referendum?
(unless we're living in Sudan...NO.)</p>
<p>Me and my Canadian born French teacher, sometime November 2004: How can anyone be this stupid? Four more years of this?
Rest of the class: BUSH IS THE ONLY REASON YOU'RE NOT DEAD.</p>
<p>My school rocks, dude...I'm gonna miss it.</p>
<p>Okay, so I know the embryos have gill slits and evolutionary things of that nature.</p>
<p>But he asked during the middle of chemistry.<br>
And I'm pretty sure we weren't talking about anything bio-related.</p>
<p>Oh! This happened to me in about third grade...</p>
<p>Me: What's a Nazi?
Girl: They were Christians who killed Jews.
Me: Oh...
Girl: So every Christian has some Nazi in them!</p>
<p>I was in a college prep history class taking a pre-quiz, first day of school kind of thing. The first question was "Who was the commander of the Continental Army and also the first president of the United States?"</p>
<p>Five seconds since the pre quiz is passed out and the kid sitting behind me pokes me.</p>
<p>"So.. uhh... you have any idea who the commander of the continental army was?"</p>
<p>Please note, this was a junior year college prep US History II class. And this kid didn't even know who George Washington was. Taking that class was my worst nightmare... it never got any better...</p>
<p>Who would WANT to take 4 APs????</p>
<p>This happened to my friend:</p>
<p>(Friend and girl were in history class, filling out a map. Friend labeled India)
Girl: No, that's wrong. India's a continent. (points to Australia)</p>
<p>o heres a good one</p>
<p>history teacher: anyone one know our current president? if none of you know this i think i just might kill myself.</p>
<p>girl: president bush</p>
<p>History teacher sighed in relief but the girl wasn't finished</p>
<p>girl: and since abraham lincoln was the 16th president and clinton was our president last year...that would make president bush our 18th president.</p>
<p>we stared at her</p>
<p>girl: what? 16 plus 2 is 18...</p>