Everyone sometimes has those jarring moments where you really have to wonder if somehow along the way, you’ve managed to lose touch with normal beliefs or behavior, which is sadly a lot more common in the age of social media. One way to test that is to compare to the truly worst takes out there.
So we’ve gathered some of the most extreme examples of folks being so deeply out of touch that people had to share them online. So get comfortable as you scroll through, prepare to look somewhat confused and bewildered, upvote the worst ones and be sure to add your own thoughts in the comments below.
#1
They are eating the dogs.
They are eating the cats.
They are eating the pets of the people that live there.
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#2
“If you give a homeless person $100 they’ll spend it in a day, if you give a rich person $100 they’ll put it into savings”. Yea Mason, give money to someone with no money they’ll use it to meet their needs. Give money to someone who already has their needs met they can afford to put that money away for the future.
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#3
‘It was God’s will’…when a child dies. Nothing makes my blood boil more than that.
Quiet-Willingness937:
This is the way my B- and SIL talk about their OWN BABY. They do objectively dangerous things (like giving their infant raw milk, SIL will hold baby in a moving car instead of using a car seat) and then talk about how “this is the way we parent and if it’s God’s will…”
Gets my adrenaline pumping just talking about it.
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#4
My own brother told me that my severely disabled daughter (from birth, and also not my fault ) is a manifestation of all my shortcomings 😭😔 can you imagine.
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#5
“You can just have another” After I lost my baby, I did end up having another and now have a beautiful rainbow baby, but that isn’t the point. I would’ve loved to have BOTH babies.
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#6
All the millionaires saying “we’re in this together” whilst sat in the mansions during COVID. That was great 👍.
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#7
Driving past a large group of tents belonging to homeless people… “I just don’t understand why they would want to sleep outside when it’s so cold out.” Ummmmm they don’t.
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#8
Picture this: I am in high school. My mother and I are told that I have a terminal heart condition, and she takes her own life, I found her body, and my father was away on a business trip for days, and nobody knows where, until they find someone at his office that knows. So I, alone as a teen, have to handle the police, and all that. My dad comes home, decides this is a perfect time to restart his own life, and evicts me. I graduated high school homeless crashing in people’s guest rooms and basements. College dreams dashed. My best friend, my only lifeline, says this:
“Will you stop pining about your mother? That was like, 6 months ago. Get over it. I lost my bomber jacket at Clyde’s and you don’t see me still going on and on about. For chrissake, that was back in high school.”
Now in their defense, they were 17 years old, and teens say some pretty dumb things (myself included). But that was the hardest verbal slap in the face I ever got, and was the beginning of the end of our friendship.
Oh, and yeah, the “terminal” heart condition was not terminal, since this was nearly 40 years ago.
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#9
For me it’s gotta be during the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney’s wife went on about how the hard times they went through during their college years. Mitt even had to sell some of their stocks, just to survive. Can you imagine.
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#10
I was fortunate enough to go to a slightly pricey summer school and one of my classmates (whose parents were loaded) said “I don’t see why everyone doesn’t just go to private schools” and “It’s so unfair that poor people don’t have to pay for college”.
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#11
At university, when I was searching for a new job all day every weekend and my girlfriend (now wife), who had never had a job, said “I don’t get it, why don’t you just get a job. If one my friends wanted a job… they just got one.” Found out her friends all worked for one of their parents companies. I reminded her first time she looked for a job.
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#12
I was on maternity leave and staying at my MIL’s for a few days. I was worried about bills and debating about going back to week when my daughter was 6 weeks instead of 8. My MIL was asking about my mom and I told her that my mom was really sick and dealing with being sick. Aside from her MLM down line (that I hate) my MIL hasn’t worked or made an income in 10 years, she lived off my FIL’s social security until he died and my husband has been helping her since FIL passed.
My MIL says “Well at least she’ll get some time to lay in bed and recover.” I said “No she’s still working,” “I just don’t understand why someone would work when they’re so sick. It just seems so irresponsible to me.” “Well not everyone has someone to help them with bills. That’s why I’m going back to work 2 weeks earlier than I should.”
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#13
Have you seen the Mariah Carey interview where she’s surprised that “you have to pay for electricity in your country?” Because Mariah thinks that “electricity is free in America”.
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#14
When told Norway has a speeding fine proportionate to income, my mother loudly exclaimed “that’s discriminatory to rich people!”
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#15
A regular at my work just lost her 17y/o son in a car accident. My co-worker said to her not a week after, “I know just how you’re feeling. My son (college age) stopped talking to me six months ago and blocked me everywhere. It’s breaking my heart.” The look on the lady’s face when she said that to her is what broke my heart!
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#16
“By no means was my family well off, there were times I would only get 10 presents for Christmas.”.
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#17
“You can’t be African, you look white” said by a European dude, who was a tourist in my home country, in Africa!
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#18
“I mean it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?”
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#19
When a teacher said to me, “You’re not slow like these others. It’s hard to believe you grew up poor. It’s almost like you’re white!” I think I was 10.
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#20
One person I know does not understand why poor people cant go on holiday and said “why don’t they just choose a cheap destination?”
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#21
Over a decade ago I drove a yellow cab for a living. I picked up a well off gentleman and took him to the local country club. He was surprised that I wasn’t interested in joining when the club charged most of my yearly salary to join. According to him it was only $50,000 to start. When we got there, he tried to negotiate a lower fare.
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#22
“I don’t understand why people are poor. There is so much opportunity.”
– My brother, who is an Ivy educated doctor and MD PHD.
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#23
My wife and I had a stillbirth.
A friend of Mine’s baby was a little irritable and so my friend turned to us and said ‘are you sure you want kids?’
Also got a comment from a work colleague; ‘It’s all for the best’.
#24
A white guy once told me he could relate to experiences of racism because he used to have long hair and a beard and people thought he was up to no good.
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#25
A friend of mine once said you can’t have a real wedding for less that 40k.
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#26
I was in a restroom once and overheard a group of girls at the sinks. One girl says she wanted to buy a leather jacket but was going to wait because it’s a big purchase. This other girl responds immediately with “You should just go to Turkey to get a leather jacket!”. There’s a pause, and then the first girl says “Are…are leather jackets less expensive there?” The 2nd girl takes a second to consider what was just asked…then dismisses it with “You should just go to Turkey for the vibes and then pick up a jacket while you’re there!”
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#27
2 weeks after I (29F) found out I was pregnant with my first child my husband (30M) was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with mets to the peritoneum. 5 year survival rate is 5%.
When breaking this news to my boss she said “Oh you shouldn’t be sad, you should be happy that there’s still a chance!”
My jaw has never hit the ground faster.
#28
“At least you know you can get pregnant” – ER doctor to me, whilst I was bleeding from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and about to have emergency surgery.
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#29
When my mom passed away, my paternal grand father told me “don’t worry, you won’t even miss her because daughters always prefer their fathers” … my blood still boils when I remember that….
#30
For context, this is when I just finished uni and started my first full-time job.
This person asked “How much do you earn?” I replied ‘around $50-60k’
And then he responded ‘is that for a week or fortnightly?’
You can only guess what sort of spending he is on a week.
#31
« Why don’t you ask your father to pay for it? »
I was working in a French private school with out of touch teenagers from wealthy families.
EACH year, they’d do a school trip either to Asia or North America.
One of my student just couldn’t afford it, the trip was so expensive. And the others couldn’t understand WHY. Like… can’t the parents pay for it, as theirs do ? They were nice kids, but sincerely could not understand that not everyone was as privileged as them.
#32
An aunt of mine told my mum just weeks after my dad died “Sure you can always find someone else”
I knew this aunt never got on with my dad but I still found it heartless.
#33
My washer and dryer broke. I was complaining about having to go to the laundry matt to the doctor I work for. She replied with “why are you stressed, you just drop off your clothes, they wash it and will even will fold it for you!” She pays for the laundry service there. I obviously have to use the coin machines and wait while I do it myself.
#34
Vaccines cause autism and should be avoided.
#35
I was visiting my girlfriend’s family in California in 2012-2013. Fuel was super expensive – like pushing $5 / gal, but in 2012 dollars.
Her dad said something like “I don’t understand why people don’t just fill up the tank. It’s so much more effort to come back later!”
I believe you, that you don’t understand. You own a commercial real estate business that owns over $100,000,000 of property. You retired at 52. Your parents are old money and were social elite at Stanford. It makes total sense that you have never had to choose between eating for a week and putting 10 gallons of fuel in your tank.
#36
My boss, who owns the company and gains around £3 million a year, once took me out on a job with him and when I said I was going to get lunch he said ” I don’t know how much it costs, but get yourself something from McDonalds” and handed me a £50 note.
#37
My father-in-law, who was born in 1953, told me it would have been wise to invest in apple in the 80’s. That way I would be rich now.
I was born in 1995.
He’s a retired doctor with more money than God and lives in a massive house and buys his cars outright with cash. And has a $1,250,000 boat.
He also asked, “Are you guys maxing out your 401k’s?” To which I replied, “No, we can’t” and he couldn’t understand that we couldn’t budget in such a way to max them out without missing rent payments.
#38
“You’re having trouble getting a job? Well, make sure your resume is printed on the nice paper, it really helps!”.
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#39
Ordered a taxi to drive them to the gym next door.
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