Have you ever noticed that some people...?

Question

...have great difficulty with "common sense?"

It truly amazes me, sometimes...Can you give me an example of someone who did something that shows a complete lack of common sense?

Nike?!?

Notice the word "Damn" in front of that name...makes more "common sense" now...doesn't it?!?

Answer 1

haha, yes!!
one of my friends thinks, its illegal for a couple to live together if they aren't married, no joke!!
and the sad thing is she is an 8th grader in an ap calculus class, yet she didn't know this bit of information. haha.

Answer 2

What do you mean by "some people"?

Abe Lincoln siad you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people, some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

That was then, today I say you can fool just about all of the people all of the time...because the new breed is lacking in common sense, and just follows the herd.

Example:

Nobody I know is capable of fighting for a pay raise.

Yet C.E.O.'s keep getting more and more bonuses and fat pay packages and that has to have a deadly effect on everyone else.

Answer 3

Well. I know this girl, who has an hons degree from university in Business or something. Real high flier all through her school life etc.
Anyways, after uni she got pregnant. Her doc advised her to get some folic acid and some vitamin tablets to take for the first couple of months. I work for a medical advice line in the UK, so she rings me up, and says "Rob, the i've bought the folic acid, but on the box, it says consult you;re doctor before you take them and the doctors is shut, do you think i'll be ok to take this now or should i wait till the morning to speak to the doc before i take the tablet"
I didn't know what to say.

Another, a woman rang for advice where i work, she'd been giving her child castor oil for constipation. She'd accidentally given the child a spoonful of olive oil bought from the same pharmacy (she had used for softening earwax) and was freaking out, really worried and hysterical.
Amazing.

Answer 4

You either have Common Sense or you don't - I believe you are born with it. You can't teach, learn it, etc. It is just a blessing to have.

Complete lack of common sense: An Engineer

People with common sense are usually smarter than those college graduates with straight A's

Answer 5

Yes, here's one....my supplier for my website made up what they called "the Ultimate CHRISTmas Kit" to sell, and did not include anything AT ALL in the kit to sell about CHRIST in it....all Santa and Snowmen and reindeer and candy and junk stuff. When I reminded them they failed to include Jesus Christ, the reason behind the name, CHRISTmas, they answered that it is a "general kit" for all religions, so as not to offend anyone......give me a break....where do they think the name CHRISTmas came from? And how can they even imply that it has anything at all to do with any other religion than Christianity......they definitely lost their common sense in the search for the almighty dollar, as, sadly, most retailers have now during this
Holy Season on the Christian calendar. Already, almost all ads you see say "happy holidays" instead of Merry Christmas. I realize Hanukkah comes close on the calendar for Christmas, but let Hanukkah celebrators produce their own ads.....and the tradition of gift giving came from the gifts the wise men brought to the child Jesus to honor HIM.....so no other ad regarding giving gifts should promote anything other than that concept!

Answer 6

Notice all the time. Check these out.

Lost: small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered. Like one of the family.
For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers
Used Cars: Why go elsewhere to be cheated? Come here first!

What were these people thinking..

Answer 7

I hate to expose your hypocrisy, but many would associate the religious practices inferred by a name like "religiousnut" with a general lack of common sense.

Answer 8

I'm a firefighter/paramedic.... I call this "job security".

People who smoke with oxygen hooked to their face (yes, they catch fire).
Putting papers on a lit stove.
Cooking and sleeping at the same time.
Mostly it is the reasons people call 911 that amaze me (real calls I've gotten): I"'m thirsty", "I just saw on the discovery channel that spiders bites can be bad/I had a spider bite a few weeks ago (I think)", Any number of objects placed in human orifices that should not have objects in them...

Answer 9

- The man who was killed when he used a match to see how much gas was left inside of a gas can.
- The man who, in an effort to demonstrate the safety of guns, put a handgun to his head, fired, and disproved his point.
- The boy who saw his friends ride their bike off of a pier into a lake, wanted to do the same, but didn't want to lose his bike. His solution: tie his wrists to the handlebars of his bike. He can be forgiven, though, since he was only 6.

Answer 10

Once, I overheard someone ask the mother of a 4-year-old child, who couldn't swim, concerning a large water-park, "You won't let her go off on her own, will you?" Of course, the person she asked was appalled at the very thought. Why would someone even ASK such a ridiculous question?!

...And then there's always the geniuses who ring you up on your land-line at home and when you answer, they say, "Where ARE you?!?" Doh!

...Or what about the brilliant bloke who thought that the speed-control button on his big caravan was some sort of auto-pilot, so he pressed it and then got up and went to the back and began making himself a bite to eat, believing that it would be able to drive itself!

Answer 11

I noticed a woman standing at the "elevated" station who was on a "cell" telephone. She was about to "step out" into the path of an oncoming train. A man stepped over and grabbed her just in time. She was so enthralled in her cell phone, that she hadn't noticed that she was about to fall to her death on the "tracks." I found it most appalling that she or anyone would waste time "talking" instead of paying attention to something this serious.