Are you kidding me? Seriously, where did your common sense go?

Question

I have been on Answers for about 2 weeks, and I like the Pregnancy and Parenting section. But, I am becoming irritated with these questions of "Could I be pregnant?" and "I think I'm pregnant, what do I do?" and THEN there are the questions that are so dumb, I almost choke on my coffee as I'm reading. Like the chick who asked why it is only women who can carry a child. Are these people serious? Or are they asking these ignorant questions for fun to see what others say? I really hope they are not that uneducated. For their baby's sake. Are you tired of telling women to go to the doctor or take a pregnancy test? What else has been asked that you just want to type "DUH!" as an answer?

Answer 1

Geez...and you've only been here two weeks! Wait till you've been here a lot longer and see the true depth of the stupidity around here! I think some people are asking the questions seriously, some are trying to see how outrageous they can be and stirup controversy. What gets me is the amount of hatred found on this site in general.

Answer 2

I agree with you about most of the questions. One thing I tend to do is to go back and read the previous questions they have asked. Usually you can see that there is conflicting questions and most of these people are just lying. I also think that a lot of the peopl asking these questions are either very young or very uneducated. I know some questions are genuine so if it is something I think requires common sense only, I usually don't answer. But you can't take it too seriously, just have fun with it!

Answer 3

I'm really wondering if people do it for attention, I usually go and look at the other questions they have posted to see if they are serious or not.
I am just shocked at some of the questions people ask. My best friend and I are on here often answering questions, and we call each other up alot laughing at the things we read.

I think the most disturbing questions for me are the discipline ones, parents don't discipline there kids or even say no, and they wonder why when there kid is 10 and not listening to them, what they should do? If they don't know by then..... its just disturbing.

Answer 4

I often wonder the same thing. Try to remember this is a nation wide thing and there are underprivelleged people who use this as their source of information that they can't find in books or may not have access to propper health care. I have known the correct answers to most of these since I was 12...I know...SCARY. All you can do is ignore the ones that irritate you and answer the ones that are genuine....and don't take it too seriously, it's for fun!

Answer 5

It can be kind of annoying sometimes to have to answer all of the same sounding questions over and over again, but I try to take into consideration that some of these girls are so young and scared that they need help. They may not have anyone else that they can talk to and while it sounds silly, they may feel more comfortable getting opinions from tons of random anonymous people than from asking their mothers (who they really SHOULD be talking to). Some of them may not even be able to afford pregnancy tests or doctor's visits if they're teenagers, so why not help them out a little bit and give them some peace of mind until it's a necessity and they finally have to tell their parents. I'm glad I never put myself in their positions as a teenager, but if I had ever been in those situations I'm sure I would have been grateful for the kind opinions of older women who knew more and were willing to help.

I guess that's just my opinion, but I try to think about how I would feel if I were in their situation and give them a little guidance.

I agree that it's annoying, as I said before, but I also know that if I were some of these women with the situations they put themselves in, I would be freaking out just as much, if not more...

Answer 6

apart from the obvious ones meant to poke fun, I don't mind answering the same questions over.As for the am I,could I be pregnant there ar e two types.1 the teens who are terrified they might be,so if a period seems slightly unusual they panic and the second, the ones who are so desperate to be pregnant,they grasp at straws even if they have a lighter period.i've been type two myself many years ago.
not everyone is well educated or had experience with pregnancy even close relatives,the same goes for first babies.It's all new, and as far as I'm concerned no question about a a baby is a dumb one.If you knew you wouldn't ask!!!Some mums just like reassurance that they are doing ok or their baby is normal for it's age.
my advice, don't answer the question if you think it's too "dumb"
sometimes the answers are dumber than the questions,not helpful and some very judgmental and nasty.

Answer 7

Honestly, I think if maybe everyone just stopped answering the silly "am I pregnant, I looked at a tree" questions....just didn't feed the flames, then maybe they would stop asking such ignorant things.

Answer 8

Some only take common sense, but that is part of this area and we gotta deal with it. Just skip the ones that are common sense cause that only feeds someones obsession. Wait till you read the ones about old umbillacal cords to put in your uterus to feed their baby, or the kids wearing them as belts. Thats the ones that piss me off. Not someone really needing advise.

Answer 9

Just wait, it gets better. We occasionally get these idiot teenagers that want to know how they can convince their parents that at 15 or 16 they are ready to have a baby with their 28 year old boyfriends! Then there's that moron that keeps asking where he can get a sterile umbilical cord because his fell out.

There are a lot of misguided people out there, that unfortunately ruin this for the rest of us.

Answer 10

i agree with you completely. if you're old enough to have sex you should know everything about it. i give all of the ladies the same advice: take a hpt or go see their doctor. i think that in this day and age people would just google "pregnancy symptoms" and read about it for themselves instead of asking such ignorant questions. then the young girls that ask should they have a baby with their boyfriends because he said he wanted to have a baby. that really burns me up. but it is a free country and they have the right to ask these stupid & sometimes pointless questions. i just say open it, read it and don't anwser it if you don't feel like it.