r/dumbquestions • • Aug 17 '26

In an emergency plane landing, if you refused to leave some parts of your luggage behind, like you disobey and open it and grab your phone and laptop, what would happen?

10 Upvotes

Would they refuse to let you out until you dropped it off and left it behind?

Would they forcefully grab it from you and toss it out if you left the plane with it?

Like say the plane landed in the water. They want everyone to leave now, no luggage. Leave orderly in a single file line now.
But instead you open up the above compartment, quickly open your luggage, grab your laptop and then leave.
Would they refuse to let you out? If you ended up in the raft holding it, would they grab it and toss it into the water? Would you be fined or go to jail after rescue?


r/dumbquestions • • Jul 29 '26

Why permanent daylight savings time in the US and not permanent standard time?

167 Upvotes

Isn't it unhealthy for people to wake up in the morning in the dark?
Didn't they do this once before and it proved very unpopular and was reversed?

I don't understand why daylight savings time and not just standard? Wouldn't that just be better all around?
I read they tried to put forth an alternative to make standard time the permanent one and it didn't even get to a full vote and failed miserably. Why?


r/dumbquestions • • 9h ago

Is it dumb that I've always wanted to build my own Spanish galleon?

10 Upvotes

I've always wanted to build a Spanish galleon by hand and live on it it just seems so cool I'm not sure if this counts as a dumb question or not but I always just liked the ocean and I think it'd be cool to live on a ship built accurately to the time. It'd be very hard but I'd love it


r/dumbquestions • • 8h ago

Why did humans not domesticate zebras or foxes like they did to horses what was the problem ?

2 Upvotes

Why


r/dumbquestions • • 17h ago

Am I the only one who is sad that we'll never hear paleolithic music?

8 Upvotes

Like that music may as well have been the BEST music ever made, and we'll never know about it 😭


r/dumbquestions • • 1h ago

I'm a time traveller from the year 2126, can anyone help me?

• Upvotes

No this is not a joke, I am being serious. I used the secret new time machine inside area 51 and got stuck in this absolute DUMP of an era that is 2026. Anyways here is the problem: The fusion particle hyper space accelerator 3000X Omega-reactor broke down on the way here, so I need someone to build me a new one so I can get the HELL away from here before WW3 starts. Please don't tell me you're so primitive that you don't know how to build atleast a fusion reactor? 😭


r/dumbquestions • • 10h ago

Is there the tick up?

0 Upvotes

I do wonder is there is the ticnip


r/dumbquestions • • 23h ago

What does FOMO mean?

0 Upvotes

(DUH! Google it!)


r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

How much are you allowed to eat in an all you cam eat?

0 Upvotes

Like if i eat so much that i throw up in the toilett and then come back just to eat even more till i just eat half the Restaurant. Is that allowed?


r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

Is drinking oil a good idea?

0 Upvotes

They make engines run smooth, so I suppose that applies to gastrointestinal systems as well?


r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

If i get on side a box full of peanut butter with extra crunchy nuts could I take on a hornet nest my tools is the peanut butter box?

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r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

So I got i got a box of peanut butter extra nuts and crusty would it help me take on 10 hornets?

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r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

Does a cat know that they are looking at themselves when looking at a mirror?

2 Upvotes

Do they know the cat figure is them?


r/dumbquestions • • 1d ago

Can hornets eat a box of peanut butter if I get stung would they get distracted?

0 Upvotes

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r/dumbquestions • • 2d ago

Why doesn't Canada and Mexico use the Imperial system like the rest of North America?

0 Upvotes

It doesnt make any sense why they use the Metric System.


r/dumbquestions • • 3d ago

Why does my imagination of anything always happily deviate towards random people getting run over by a combine harvester?

9 Upvotes

?


r/dumbquestions • • 3d ago

Is it fine to use spirits or thinners after stroking it if you're in a hurry.. just to kill all the germs?

0 Upvotes

To prevent any germs or unwanted pregnancies with the public?? I understand it's not a replacement for washing it but could it work in a pinch? Thanks.


r/dumbquestions • • 4d ago

Are femboys hot because they look like girls, or are girls hot because they look like femboys?

13 Upvotes

Asking for my brother... Definitely my brother...


r/dumbquestions • • 4d ago

Why is there genuinely no common sense left?

8 Upvotes

I work customer service and as every customer service employee has ever stated, there's no common sense left in people. Has this been like a steady slope downward since the internet? I get old people who have nothing going on up there all the time and they were alive before it so i doubt that's the reason. Has it been this bad forever and I'm just realizing it?


r/dumbquestions • • 3d ago

I'm weird for thinking or crazy for thinking that incest is not a normal things or something that happened in biological family? NSFW

0 Upvotes

Context

Okay, the reason why I am asking this is because I have seen my post on Reddit, YouTube comments section, and comments on TikTok trying to normalize incest and saying that, yeah, that's completely common or normal for siblings or blood family members to sexually experiment with each other or that many do be sleeping with or engaging in intimate activities. Some people online even say that it is very common for kids who are family members to be doing stuff like that as well.

And I personally cannot relate to any of this, especially when I was a young kid. I have two brothers and I'm the sister, and trust me, I was not doing any of that stuff with them, nor were they doing that stuff with each other when they were young kids, and I definitely did not have any desire.

Even when I did reach the age range to be curious about intimacy and about bodies and sexuality, I in no way wanted to do any form of experimenting with any of my male family members at all. Preteen and teenage me did not think any of my male family members were hot.

Anyway, I'm a weirdo for not relating to any of these stories or any of these worldviews on family relationships or sibling relationships and also for thinking that incest is not normal or common.


r/dumbquestions • • 3d ago

Probably been asked a thousand times, but why is there no prostate cancer awareness month?

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Yes breast cancer is a serious issue. My mom got breast cancer and had to have one removed. It's been a horrible thing she's had to deal with for the rest of her life, feeling disfigured.
Not saying breast cancer awareness should be less, or the month should go away.

But prostate cancer is also a thing, and actually more men (not a huge number but still more) get prostate cancer than women get breast cancer.
It's also harder to detect, and similarly deadly.

So why is there no awareness month for it? Or why not bundle them both into the same month?

It's kind of like they're acting as if one is worse and needs more awareness than the other but shouldn't they both get awareness?


r/dumbquestions • • 3d ago

Can I get in trouble with the DMV for surrendering a vanity plate after they approved something obviously inappropriate?

1 Upvotes

Ok so this is gonna sound stupid because it is.

My buddy and I saw that story about the woman in Michigan who got randomly assigned “DCK 247” and we thought it was hilarious.

I was buying a new truck anyway and he goes “I bet Iowa DMV would approve PNS 247.”

I told him no chance in hell because obviously somebody has to look at custom plate requests and there’s no way they would approve that.

So we made a bet. He paid for the plate application. If it got rejected he owed me $200. If it got approved I owed him $200 and had to actually put it on the truck.

I figured this was basically free money.

Well the plate showed up today.

PNS 247.

They actually approved it.

I havent told him yet but I’m obviously paying him the $200 because I lost. The problem is I really dont want to drive around with that plate on my truck.

Can I just go to the DMV and surrender it and say I changed my mind?

Or could I get in trouble because I knowingly requested something that was obviously meant as a dick joke and they somehow approved it?

I’m mostly worried I’m gonna walk in there, explain what happened, and then suddenly they decide I did something illegal or fraudulent or whatever.

I know this is probably a stupid question. Thats why I’m asking it here. But am I gonna get in trouble?


r/dumbquestions • • 4d ago

People who died, how is life now that you’re dead?

35 Upvotes

Asking for a dead friend.


r/dumbquestions • • 4d ago

Is this the sub for dumb questions?

8 Upvotes

I don't know how to read so i had to post and ask is this it.


r/dumbquestions • • 4d ago

Is it okay if you move from a place that everyone says is better to a place that everyone says is worse, to be happy?

8 Upvotes

Like if you decide to move from San Diego to Bakersfield.