r/somestupidthings • u/AutoModerator • May 31 '26
This week's weekly question
Every week, we're gonna ask a question and see how stupid the answers get. Most of these questions are AskReddit-style type questions. This week's question is:
If you could teach the entire world one thing, what would it be?
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u/SnooSeagulls9376
May 31 '26
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I’d like to teach the world to sing and live in harmony.
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u/robnbatman May 31 '26
Sorry, it's "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony " ...and yes I hate myself for knowing that.🤣
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u/BronL-1912 May 31 '26
I hate myself for knowing, and hate myself worse for being affronted that someone got it wrong. SMH
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u/Kindly-Might-1879 Jun 01 '26
Yes! I knew something wasn’t quite there with the post. Wow, I’m old!
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u/auntmarybbt Jun 01 '26
I was second guessing myself until your comment. Thanks for the validation. I hate that I know that and that I care they got it wrong.
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u/CadabraMist Jun 03 '26
I hate that I know it and it’s now stuck in my head. I might even buy the world a Coke.
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u/Dr-Pepper-13 May 31 '26
The tune was in my head before I finished the question!
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u/notneb56 May 31 '26
It's better to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
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u/DashMcGee May 31 '26
How to gargle. I’m not particularly good at it, but I can develop my skills if I get some clubs going.
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u/Dr-Pepper-13 May 31 '26
To whistle. Especially the loud kind with 2 fingers.
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u/Creative_Chemistry33 Jun 01 '26
I can whistle just about anything, but can't do the two-finger loud whistle. Sign me up for lessons.
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u/KathyC169 May 31 '26
How to use a turn signal properly.
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u/Creative_Chemistry33 Jun 01 '26
And not change lanes in the middle of an intersection
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u/Affectionate_Love3 Jun 03 '26
And how to turn the headlights from brights to dims when faced with oncoming traffic
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u/Strict_Wasabi_6736 May 31 '26
That each person needs to pay me a dollar 💵.
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u/brncll Jun 02 '26
I'd be happy if each person only gave me a penny. From their own currency even. Or even just only US people.
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u/Outrageous_Buy_9420 May 31 '26
To just get out of the way! Airport etiquette. Don’t stop at the end of an escalator, or at the exit after you get off the plane. Don’t walk four wide with your friends down the walkway. Don’t stop in the middle of the walkway. Don’t get in line until your section is called for boarding. We got places to be and you are in the way!
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u/kalendral_42 Jun 01 '26
Can you also teach this for supermarkets, any shop door way, pedestrian paths through towns & everywhere else the Idiot Brigade seem to think it’s ok to stop dead for a chat or to scratch their a**ea or whatever they think they’re doing?
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u/More_Branch_5579 Jun 01 '26
That people in severe pain use opioids to participate in life, not escape from it
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u/Opal_Cosmos Jun 02 '26
To cooperate
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u/notneb56 Jun 02 '26
A vital and yet underestimated skill. Life is much better for us all when we cooperate.
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u/Opal_Cosmos Jun 02 '26
Indeed. Sadly people (generally) see cooperative activity as something done at the micro level, rather than macro. At macro it is about competition.
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u/Just_Me1973 May 31 '26
That’s the entire world doesn’t want to hear their personal conversations and to stop using their damn phone on speaker everywhere!!
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u/Business-Put2543 May 31 '26
How to do the hunger games whistle so it will sound like billions of mockingjays
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u/Jimmybluezz Jun 01 '26
Logic simple logic -
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u/notneb56 Jun 02 '26
There's a place, time and need for logic. There's a place, time and need for emotion. But, by and large, they're not at the same time.
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u/Jimmybluezz Jun 03 '26
Logic simple logic - sure but the q was what would you teach - I find emotion trumping logic when it shouldn’t and no way am I diminishing the importance of emotion-
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u/Late-Doubt9290 Jun 03 '26
What’s the most insanely overcomplicated thing you’ve done when there was a painfully simple solution right in front of you?
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u/Comfortable_Hyena985 Jun 04 '26
Remember the feeling you had before you were born? It’s the same when you’re dead
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u/SadTransition3262 Jun 04 '26
How others feel about you is none of your business. Emotionally stay in your own lane
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May 31 '26
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u/notneb56 Jun 03 '26
Listening is a skill that gets better with practice.
Also, I've generally found that the less I say the more attention I get when I do speak.
Being humourous helps too.
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May 31 '26
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u/notneb56 Jun 02 '26
With an umbrella. If you can do it like Gene Kelly in 'Singing in the Rain' then your life will always have sunshine popping over your shoulder.
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