The most stunningly ignorant thing you've heard?

[The Curmudgeon]

Creative, intelligent forces of nature that we are here at the Fortress, there's been no doubt numerous times you've rolled your eyes and/or facepalmed when listening/reading someone else's outright ignorance and stupidity. Let's talk about those moments. Like..

The girl I know who didn't know who the Prime Minister was.

A girl I met who didn't know who Bob Dylan was.

There were THREE people THIS YEAR who asked me if Prince was still alive. And, OK, he's not like Rihanna or someone who's never out the charts or MTV. But in the UK Prince was everywhere just last year, selling out 21 nights at the 02 Arena, and being on TV and in newspapers for every one of those 21 days. He effectively sold out Glastonbury in TWO HOURS, yet I met three people who thought he was dead.

But my all time "..... seriously?" moment was a woman I used to work with. She was in her late 50s, and when I complained about hating Christmas (some things never change), I was jokingly referred to as "Scrooge." The 50 year old woman turned round and said, "I keep hearing that. What does that mean?" She had never heard of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Never heard of the Ghost of Christmas Past. Bob Cratchett. All that stuff. When I asked if she knew of Charles Dickens, she looked confused and said, "is he a writer?" I.. to this day I cannot get past that.

How about you guys?

[trashcanman]

21 nights. Whoa. Honestly, man, if I even try to list the ignorance I encounter daily -much less rank it- my fucking head will explode. Does the internet count? No. That's just too much. Well, here's an example anyways. I have a buddy at work who had never heard of the Loch Ness Monster before last week when I told him about it. He acted insulted when I asked him if he's heard of Bigfoot, but he honestly thought nobody but me had heard of Nessie. I had to spend the rest of the night asking every person who entered the room if they knew what it was to convince him that people have heard of the Loch Ness Monster.

[The Curmudgeon]

Can't see anyone topping that. I mean, fuuuuuck, who hasn't heard of the Loch Ness Monster? To be insulted at the suggestion of not knowing about Bigfoot and then to have no knowledge of something arguably just as famous? Weird. How does someone live a life without any reference to something like that coming into thier lives?

[trashcanman]

Pro Wrestling! The really funny thing is that I brought it up in hopes of talking to him about an obscure Werner Herzog film. Talk about barking up the wrong tree. Sometimes I don't know why I even try talking to people in real life about things not related to alcohol and sports.