Considering 99% of questions are asked by scripts churning out questions no human actually cared enough to ask ("What's the best place to buy sushi in La Paz, Bolivia? What's the best place to buy pizza in La Paz, Bolivia? What's the best place to buy gummy candy in La Paz, Bolivia?"), that makes it robot people on both ends.
One time I asked a question about mental health/anxiety and it was about my name. (I always get nervous when people call me.) and one person just commented "i like mine, why don't you like yours?"
@@snomandonly Idk (loser) but MY IQ is 176 so I can calculate physics equations in my head based on sight alone, in fact I can run a 100% realistic physics sim in my head at all times that 100% accurately predicts everything, and I work for the freemasons in the illuminati to help them with warping space time for stuff I cannot talk about because it is secret (loser).
@@cocoduck7745 They just are. There's a whole r/indianpeoplequora and everything. Still, some of them are real cool and knowledgeable. (Shoutout to that guy who taught me about ceiling fan induction motors, that man knew what he was fuckin' talking about)
"The most stupid thing I have ever done is feel hopeless when I am so aware of the love and fecundity of my creator." "shat and fell back in it" This is fucking hilarious
it's probably true, I've seen so much bullshit on quora, the difference is that they write whole essays about it to make their false information seem more credible
But think about it, when YA shuts down, all the YA answerers will move into Quora. Then you'll have the mix of the "Oopsie me, I spilt me mum's tea" and "I just accidentally shot a small child." It would be pure chaos.
Quora: i once pet my dog on the back first instead of the head Yahoo answers: I had a beer that tasted funny and then committed 17 war crimes in Bosnia. I am currently hiding out in one of Albania's many bunkers
I don't know which was the dumbest, I'm between this one and the "Once I wore both socks on one of my foot and kept searching for the other pair for 30 minutes".
Without punctuation for a moment I genuinely thought you were referring to me as the "Disparity Jesus", the messiah of pointing out differences between things.
I like how the ones on Yahoo Answers are like "I ate my sister then called the cop on a child while on fire underwater then fell off a 20 KM high building." then Quora are like "I wore a shirt inside out once by accident."
Quora is more like "I was so absorbed in the contemplation of the universe and the mistery of human condition that I accidentally wore my garments is a backwards fashion. Silly me"
Yahoo is like going outside, and getting into a conversation with a stranger. Sure, they smell really bad, and it looks like they might have rabies, but they're just so cheerful and honest. Quora is asking your friend a question, and some random dude interrupts and tells you about how they have a Ph.D in that topic.
Specially because ironically what they did most dumb was answer the question in a wrong way instead of saying what was actually the dumbest thing they've done.
Quora: “I accidentally called my teacher “Mom”! Silly me :)” Yahoo: I shot a man point-blank in the back of his head in 2005. He never saw it coming and died instantly. The reason it was embarrassing to me is because he did not live long enough after the fact to experience the sheer pain and agony in its entirety.
Quora really cultivates an air of intelligence and propriety (if that is the word I’m looking for) that doesn’t quite gel with Yahoo! Answers’ “anyone can ask anything” deal. “Thog don’t care” would never fly on Quora.
To some extent its nice to have the freedom to be stupid. I feel like some of the folk on Yahoo! would get obliterated by the seemingly snobbish Quora crowd when they were just being genuine. On the flip side, its nice to have some genuine, well though out answers available instead of some of the garbled nonsense on Yahoo! Really, the best option would be to have both, a place for your dumbest questions and answers and a place to obtain some real knowledge but clearly this is the internet where we just can't have nice things.
@@StuffandThings_ It's better to not go on Yahoo now, all the funny lighthearted threads are all from more than 10 years ago, now it's just right wing conspiracy shit
quora is annoyingly pretentious a lot of the time. I was reading answers to a question on driving (something about technique for long drives to not cramp up) and some guy wrote a five paragraph essay/rant about how certain people are imbeciles and shouldn’t be allowed to drive, and are in fact morally reprehensible for doing so. A lot of the time over there people just really want to be intellectually holier-than-thou.
You're spot on: there were plenty of answers on Quora of people doing "dumb" things, but most were unusable as rather than just say "I fell out of a boat" it would be like "Picture the scene. We're off the coast of Rhodes. A stiflingly sultry day. I'm port-side of my brother-in-law's hybrid yacht, nursing an artisanal beer. I'm hungover, but we'll get to that later. We've just had a light lunch of crab" and it'll just go on and on for paragraphs studded with photos and diagrams and maps. Meanwhile thank god Yahoo will curtly pipe up - and here are two nice real examples which didn't make the edit - "ran into a desk and apoligized" or "get herpes".
I googled once if smoke detectors are mandatory in Europe because I never really hear about those in Poland and some people from the US talk about them a lot so I was curious. Some Spanish person on quora was like "making anything mandatory is dystopian, ESPECIALLY if it's ""for your own good"". Overall a very snobby answer that pretty much made it sound as if making sure you don't die of CO poisoning or in a fire is in some way authoritarian in nature. Another time I googled if we count as Eastern Europe because it's kind of disputed and some person was convinced that calling slavs Eastern Europeans is a slur.
In my experience, it's the questions on Quora which are particularly inane, rather than the answers. The ones they send me as recommendations (Don't ask why I'm subbed to their newsletter emails. I don't know either) are usually really shitty parents asking for parenting advice and being pointed out how awful they are. Stuff like "My child only got a B at school, should I starve them as punishment?".
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It's so annoying when you open your e-mail to check on something you're waiting for but there's just a bunch of quora e-mails asking if playing fortnite or minecraft is bad for children
@ The thing is, it's my second email address, which I never actually check, it's just there for if I need a 2nd one. But I still get notifications for it, and it's entirely academia.edu articles (I guess I must have signed up at university) or insane Quora questions.
The reason your getting emails is because you've used quora, and accepted the pop up that otherwise bars entry. In order to unsubscribe, ho onto quits, hp into your quotation account settings, delete your account, and never use quora again. Atleast that's what I remember when I faced the same issue. I'm tired and in pain though so this might all be inaccurate.
Ya know, the stupidest thing I’ve ever done is quite hard for me to think of. Not that I haven’t done anything stupid, it’s just that I’ve done so much stupid crap, it’s hard to pick. Okay… either the time a bee fell in my hair and I picked it up with my bare hands or the time I had a panic attack because I thought I had forgot how to hold my mothers hand. Though the time I stepped in a bush of nettles, realised they were nettles and sat down in the bush, then proceeded to do the same exact thing the next day is quite close. *Or* the time I wanted to show my sister a magic trick, fell backwards down the stairs and sat up, said “tada!” as if it were all part of the magic trick. So much to choose from…
@@Matt_Rose It was basically me just rolling on the floor with my hand slapping my mothers. You know, my mam didn’t even say anything. She was there but she just stared at me. Guess she was used to my weirdness. Im just now imagining how weird that would look with no context. You’re on a nice walk and suddenly you just see this tiny girl rolling on the floor while her mother looks down at her like she was God, and I a simple, lowly peasant.
i love the not learning from your mistake. once i bought lunch to bring to a lecture (noodles, art history), dumped it in my lap, scooped it back into the container, and promptly did the exact same thing again.
you. me. gas station. what are we getting for dinner? sushi of course! uh oh, turns out there was a roofie in our gas station sushi. we black out and wake up in a sewer. we're surrounded by fish. horny fish. you know what that means! fish orgy! the stench draws in a bear, what are we gonna do? we're gonna fight it. bear fight, bare handed, bare NAKED? OH YES PLEASE. i befriend the bear after beating it in a brawl and ride it into a chuck e cheese. dance. dance. revolution. revolution? overthrowing the government? UH, I THINK SO. next thing you know i turn into a jet fly into the sun, we black out again, wake up, turn into the sun, white out which i didn't know you could do, GREEN out, uh oh, looks like the meth is kicking in! JHD JRNE DIRNRBJDK DUDJSLALLSKSKJSSAAAJAJAAA
The answers on Quora sound like you've been asked by co-workers or family members in a sort of "bonding activity" and you have to come up with something vaguely funny that they would understand The answers on Yahoo Answers sound like the musings of a person still awake at 3 AM with no sense of inhibition
Quora: If I had to choose one unintelligent thing I might have done in my life it would be showing up early to my orientation day at Harvard, because I was having last minute second thoughts on whether I should go to Harvard or NYU. In the end I decided to go to Harvard, and I had the best experience of my life there, I have learned so much in my life and it's all thanks to the time I spent at Harvard when I was going to the ivy league college Harvard University where I got my doctorate in women's studies and psychology at Harvard University. Yahoo!: I shidded m y pant;
Quora: Oh, the mortification. In high school, I was assigned a project relating to the works of the French painter Édouard Manet. I delivered a 45-minute PowerPoint-assisted presentation but spoke about Claude Monet instead! Yahoo!: I once made a cocktail using blue and yellow paint. My poop was green for about a week.
Quora: One time I accidentally shotgunned a beer can when I just wanted to open it normally. Yahoo! Answers: I ate a whole bag of catnip and committed genocide in all 50 states
Quora is how kids would have answered at the high school I went too after moving, and Yahoo is how the kids at my old high school would have answered. New one was objectively a better school but damn was the old one more fun
Quora used to be great. You could get business answers from experienced people in the field and medical advice advice from doctors. Now it's basically reddit where random people spread misinformation.
Bro, I asked a question about how legal it is to only feed a carnivore animal only vegetables. I got answers like "I don't know anything about laws, but I consider that animal abuse" (I do too but that's not what I asked) or "I'm vegan and it's ok" (Again, not what I asked)
Yeah, honestly, I don't use Quora for fact based answers anymore. I use it for more opinion based things or recommendations on books/anime. It's a bit better there.
For some reason I have been getting emails from quora for several year old questions regarded various Ivy league schools. Most of them are along the lines of "Is it bad that Harvard is my backup school" then they go into a lengthy rant about how they got accepted into Harvard but are waiting to hear from their dream school, and all the answers are "this question was posted in October, how did you get accepted into Harvard?" There's at least one of these questions sent to me everyday. I am 21 and have never once applied for or researched the application process for any college, let alone ivy league universities.
I don't know what it's like for undergraduate applications, but Harvard's MEDICAL SCHOOL, at least, has their deadline for applications right in the middle of October, but their admissions decisions don't come until March! So perhaps these people think they're clever enough to get away with pretending they got accepted into Harvard because they looked up the application deadline on the website, but misunderstood the actual admissions timeline.
Quora can be really funny though sometimes, I was trying to look up the "he was forced to eat cement" meme, and found a quora post about what happens if / can you eat cement. The first answer was an in depth description from some doctor or whatever - who gives a shit - about how badly you would die (very badly). The second answer was also from a 'doctor' and simply said. _Well of course I could._
When I was sixteen, at the peak of my depression, I went on Quora every time I had even the tiniest doubt about anything. I trusted the people on there because they sounded so intelligent. Looking back, the advice I received on there was the worst I've ever gotten in my entire life
The dumbest thing I've ever done was when I forgot that I *didn't* have a parrot beak and bonked my face into the wall. I was trying to explain to my mum some videos I'd seen with Cockatiels learning songs and bonking their beaks on surfaces to imitate drum beats.
Yahoo: will give you the answer, no matter the cost, be it shame, insults, injury, or life. Quora: will not answer the question while making sure you know they’re an “intellectual”
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War. You'd be surprised with the sheer amount of dumbasses in Quora, and the actual prodigies in Yahoo. It's better to trust and rely on genuine fools than pretentious liars.
i like how he started to laugh after he read "once accidentally brought perishable items with me overseas" like he just couldnt believe that bad luck lmao
Quora reminds me of what would happen if your employer could see everything you posted online EVER and that's why they act like that Yahoo answer always reminds me of a group of guys laying down seeing who could piss the highest in the air without getting wet
Quora and Yahoo are like 2 friends that are complete opposites of each other. “What did you do this weekend?” Quora: “I made some delicious cookies from scratch!” Yahoo: “I threw my used car battery into the ocean.”
The Quora cookie maker weirded me out, because round cookie cutter is the most useless thing ever... I mean, most people who cook, generally, have... a cup? Legit mad professor vibes from someone who tries to roll cookies into perfect circles until finding a specific device that makes them exact shape.
My Quora answer: I once labeled obviously homozygous traits as being heterozygous in my biology class (I'm a biochemistry major) My Yahoo answer: I once forgot SpongeBob is a sponge
I once had a conversation with my MILs Mexican boyfriend that ended with "yeah I grew up with a lot of Mexicans too" then realized what came out of my mouth & it just randomly plays in my head very often whenever I feel bad about myself. Like adding fuel to the fire that is my social skills
Quora has a feature where you can suggest a question to a specific user so they can answer it. When I used the site, I mostly answered video game questions since that's what I'm good at. Well, one day a man suggested me a question (that he himself submitted) which read, and I quote, "Why do you waste time playing video games when you could be out enjoying the world?". Had to explain to him that I'm disabled and not able to do a lot of that "out enjoying the world" stuff.
quora: i once left my fridge open and had to throw out a carton of eggs yahoo answers: i threw myself down three flights of stairs to see if it would hurt
I’m seeing a lot of people talk about how pretentious Quora is, but the only times I’ve used it was to do some mindless research on how dead bodies are to be rid of, and the people explaining that all seemed decently experienced...
If you're ever feeling stupid, just know that Day9 (Sean Plott) once reported his car stolen, having forgotten that he'd driven it to a store and then walked back home.
Alright I'mma share the most dumb shit I ever did: There was a beetle stuck in my room, so I decided to trap it with an almost empty bottle of hand sanitizer. But the hole was too small for it, so I decided to heat a knife to melt the bottle cap The fire blasted like a flamethrower and I got a second degree burn
It's like the old movie premise. Slobs vs. snobs. And we may very well get to see it play out in real time once Yahoo Answers is gone. This should be fun.
The dumbest thing I have ever done, was not trusting my fiancé when they expressed their love to me. Also, I felt like a champ when I was 14-17, because I put the bottles on top of the trash in the trashcans, so homeless people could recycle them for cash.
I and two friends were going to the train station, walking on the train tracks. We had seen the train in the distance, but thought we had enough time. I was walking at the front. At one point, I look back, see the train getting too close, and shout "RUN!" to which my friends follow me, running in a straight line in front of the train instead of jumping to either side. We almost got run over for running in a straight line. My friends told me that they ran in a straight line because that's what I, the person in front, did, but my logic at the time made a lot of sense to me. I just had to run forward so I could get to the station on time and get on the train. Since then I believe my friends when they tell me that I have no self-preservation instinct.
The person talking about the fecundity of their creator was certainly trying way too hard to look smart, but I think some of these people were just being honest. Ruining your iPhone because you wanted to play Wii games on it does sound like the sort of thing that would stick in your head as the stupidest thing you've ever done.
99% of quora can be replaced with "i didnt read your question, but here are 5 reasons im better than you"
Considering 99% of questions are asked by scripts churning out questions no human actually cared enough to ask ("What's the best place to buy sushi in La Paz, Bolivia? What's the best place to buy pizza in La Paz, Bolivia? What's the best place to buy gummy candy in La Paz, Bolivia?"), that makes it robot people on both ends.
One time I asked a question about mental health/anxiety and it was about my name. (I always get nervous when people call me.) and one person just commented "i like mine, why don't you like yours?"
@@arachnidsVengeance man those people are so full of themselves
I remember seeng one that was is 130 iq good and the reply was idk im 146 everyone makes me do blahblahblah and im so smart
@@snomandonly
Idk (loser) but MY IQ is 176 so I can calculate physics equations in my head based on sight alone, in fact I can run a 100% realistic physics sim in my head at all times that 100% accurately predicts everything, and I work for the freemasons in the illuminati to help them with warping space time for stuff I cannot talk about because it is secret (loser).
Quora users: *some dumb philosophical shit*
Yahoo users: “shat and fell back in it”
*"I ate a teabag"*
Why most of quora answers were from Indians, that was so unfunny.
@@cocoduck7745 They just are. There's a whole r/indianpeoplequora and everything. Still, some of them are real cool and knowledgeable.
(Shoutout to that guy who taught me about ceiling fan induction motors, that man knew what he was fuckin' talking about)
"I'm not sure how but i managed to set a vending machine on fire." That's what got me.
meth!
"I hadn't put one end of the cord into the headphones!"
"M E T H"
duality of man
Here's your meth: 2:12
@@KangJangkrik 2:28
I was looking for this comment
Jesse, we need to cook more meth and make it better
I think the main difference is people on Quora care whether or not they actually sound intelligent.
Or dumber
I'll miss yahoo answers.
People on Quora are delusional
@@user-fg3dz5kv7q aren’t we all
Quora is where stupid people go to act smart
"The most stupid thing I have ever done is feel hopeless when I am so aware of the love and fecundity of my creator."
"shat and fell back in it"
This is fucking hilarious
The funniest part is that fecundity essentially means fertile. He is so aware of how fertile he's creator is
@@Kenfren Example of people using big words they don't know to try and sound big brained
@@Kenfren I'd imagine they meant the fertility of their creator but it still sounds stupid.
Been lughing at this
@Duncan Hackett shat and fell back in it
Plot twist: people on Yahoo are just a lot more honest.
the good friday one was actually funny ngl 😭😭
I wonder what Bing has...
That's not even a twist, quora is just full of people with real names who write essays on the internet to look smarter.
it's probably true, I've seen so much bullshit on quora, the difference is that they write whole essays about it to make their false information seem more credible
@@Raven-bz8kl
the “oh shit” guy was really good too
Quora is what people think Britain is like, and Yahoo is what it's actually like.
@@patche how'd it go
@@patche update lad
False, no one on quora even MENTIONED committing serial genocide!
@@patche ehm
@@patche It's fine, I hope your friend is ok! ^^
"I forgot what came after 10 once"
Yahoo Answers should be designated as a World Heritage site.
Funniest thing is that once is eleven in Spanish
Yeah sure
Sounds like something I would do tbh
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But think about it, when YA shuts down, all the YA answerers will move into Quora. Then you'll have the mix of the "Oopsie me, I spilt me mum's tea" and "I just accidentally shot a small child." It would be pure chaos.
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@@obamnaprismus daddy
@@legoeater6920 UwU
@@TheGhostFart Shut up.
Quora: i once pet my dog on the back first instead of the head
Yahoo answers: I had a beer that tasted funny and then committed 17 war crimes in Bosnia. I am currently hiding out in one of Albania's many bunkers
@Mialisus how high are you
@Mialisus that story is mildly interesting though
@Mialisus Funny thing is he later admitted he put the bottle up there himself, at least from what I heard
Why am I even surprised the Đorđe Martinović incident even exists.
@@RandomL0s3r THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED???
I'm really not surprised, considering how many other crazy things have happened in history.
“I shat and fell back on it” had me dying.
Bruh same
especially since the previous answer was like religious and positive or something
That reminded me of Finn the human
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I don't know which was the dumbest, I'm between this one and the "Once I wore both socks on one of my foot and kept searching for the other pair for 30 minutes".
I don’t even think the answers are that funny, it’s your delivery that makes it absolutely hilarious. I’m going to miss Yahoo Answers.
False. “Shat and fell back in it” is peak comedy
@@lobaandrade7172 I wholeheartedly agree
@@lobaandrade7172 yeah they’re def funny
*M E T H*
He sure presented the answers in a very funny way, but the answers are still hilarious
Quora: I thought distance was calculated by time ÷ speed, and forgot how to spell Pythagoras aha
Yahoo: I ate my textbooks to absorb the information
5head
Your name actually got me for a second
correction: ate my txetbuks to adsrob the infronation
Did it work?
@@crimsonemperor2219 yes
Quora about to get a lesson in vending machine arson
Add you to my list of people I see everywhere
@@zubinkynto protogen
@@sekischro5093 _hides_
@@zubinkynto furry
@@AceOfBlackjack Furry? Where? I don't see any furries around here... I listen to human music.
The way he said “I ate a tea bag” in the most matter of fact way possible was priceless
I force fed several corpses teabags after gunning them down
The fact that I haven't gotten to that part yet and know exactly how it's gonna sound through this comment-
@@oliveoil1282 Surprise Spoiler I guess
I mean, who hasn't eaten a tea bag?
sounds like a child confessing something
I did not know there was such a disparity Jesus
Without punctuation for a moment I genuinely thought you were referring to me as the "Disparity Jesus", the messiah of pointing out differences between things.
@@Matt_Rose If that’s what you want it can be arranged
Personally I prefer a continuity Jesus, but then again, everyone has "Thier own, personal, Jesus"
@@spanner5686 I'd like that
@@Matt_Rose I’ll be sure to make a note of that, oh mighty messiah
I like how the ones on Yahoo Answers are like "I ate my sister then called the cop on a child while on fire underwater then fell off a 20 KM high building." then Quora are like "I wore a shirt inside out once by accident."
Quora is more like "I was so absorbed in the contemplation of the universe and the mistery of human condition that I accidentally wore my garments is a backwards fashion. Silly me"
@@lavacaqueri5454Yahoo Answers: accidentally blew up my neighbors house while trying to blow up mine.
The people on Yahoo, you can't help but laugh at.
The people on Quora, you want to punch.
Pretty much.
Yahoo is like going outside, and getting into a conversation with a stranger. Sure, they smell really bad, and it looks like they might have rabies, but they're just so cheerful and honest.
Quora is asking your friend a question, and some random dude interrupts and tells you about how they have a Ph.D in that topic.
accurate
Specially because ironically what they did most dumb was answer the question in a wrong way instead of saying what was actually the dumbest thing they've done.
Quora: “I accidentally called my teacher “Mom”! Silly me :)”
Yahoo: I shot a man point-blank in the back of his head in 2005. He never saw it coming and died instantly. The reason it was embarrassing to me is because he did not live long enough after the fact to experience the sheer pain and agony in its entirety.
if only yahoo users had the mental capacity to actually write that many cohesive words in a sentence
Yahoo Answers users if they have the mental capacity to bullshit sentences like Quora users be like:
Inaccurate, Yahoo would be:
i shot a guy he died too fast
nah it would just be "killed a man once"
That makes Yahoo users sound edgy and competent, but they're all bumbling morons, like the rest of us
Quora really cultivates an air of intelligence and propriety (if that is the word I’m looking for) that doesn’t quite gel with Yahoo! Answers’ “anyone can ask anything” deal. “Thog don’t care” would never fly on Quora.
To some extent its nice to have the freedom to be stupid. I feel like some of the folk on Yahoo! would get obliterated by the seemingly snobbish Quora crowd when they were just being genuine. On the flip side, its nice to have some genuine, well though out answers available instead of some of the garbled nonsense on Yahoo! Really, the best option would be to have both, a place for your dumbest questions and answers and a place to obtain some real knowledge but clearly this is the internet where we just can't have nice things.
@@StuffandThings_ It's better to not go on Yahoo now, all the funny lighthearted threads are all from more than 10 years ago, now it's just right wing conspiracy shit
Quora can actually be dumb as fuck, but it's a different kind of dumb than the raw, oozing stupidity of answers on Yahoo.
@@Rafael47936 Well unfortunately that's just the modern internet. Most things online were far better even just 5 years ago, let alone 10.
@@lagrangepoint9386 the idiocy on Quora is really smug because the idiots there believe they’re the smartest people ever.
The thing about Quora is they will specifically hide what they deem "low quality answers" so it's way less comedic value.
Yeah there’s an upvote system
quora is annoyingly pretentious a lot of the time.
I was reading answers to a question on driving (something about technique for long drives to not cramp up) and some guy wrote a five paragraph essay/rant about how certain people are imbeciles and shouldn’t be allowed to drive, and are in fact morally reprehensible for doing so. A lot of the time over there people just really want to be intellectually holier-than-thou.
You're spot on: there were plenty of answers on Quora of people doing "dumb" things, but most were unusable as rather than just say "I fell out of a boat" it would be like "Picture the scene. We're off the coast of Rhodes. A stiflingly sultry day. I'm port-side of my brother-in-law's hybrid yacht, nursing an artisanal beer. I'm hungover, but we'll get to that later. We've just had a light lunch of crab" and it'll just go on and on for paragraphs studded with photos and diagrams and maps. Meanwhile thank god Yahoo will curtly pipe up - and here are two nice real examples which didn't make the edit - "ran into a desk and apoligized" or "get herpes".
@@Matt_Rose Quora captures the aspirational pretenses of the middle class to a T.
I googled once if smoke detectors are mandatory in Europe because I never really hear about those in Poland and some people from the US talk about them a lot so I was curious. Some Spanish person on quora was like "making anything mandatory is dystopian, ESPECIALLY if it's ""for your own good"". Overall a very snobby answer that pretty much made it sound as if making sure you don't die of CO poisoning or in a fire is in some way authoritarian in nature.
Another time I googled if we count as Eastern Europe because it's kind of disputed and some person was convinced that calling slavs Eastern Europeans is a slur.
Istg quora is just snobby for no reason, yahoo answers was actually hilarious may it rest in peace
Quora could definitely use some of that Yahoo Answers spirit. Pretentious bullshit can only go so far.
In my experience, it's the questions on Quora which are particularly inane, rather than the answers. The ones they send me as recommendations (Don't ask why I'm subbed to their newsletter emails. I don't know either) are usually really shitty parents asking for parenting advice and being pointed out how awful they are. Stuff like "My child only got a B at school, should I starve them as punishment?".
It's so annoying when you open your e-mail to check on something you're waiting for but there's just a bunch of quora e-mails asking if playing fortnite or minecraft is bad for children
@ The thing is, it's my second email address, which I never actually check, it's just there for if I need a 2nd one. But I still get notifications for it, and it's entirely academia.edu articles (I guess I must have signed up at university) or insane Quora questions.
R: yes
The reason your getting emails is because you've used quora, and accepted the pop up that otherwise bars entry. In order to unsubscribe, ho onto quits, hp into your quotation account settings, delete your account, and never use quora again. Atleast that's what I remember when I faced the same issue. I'm tired and in pain though so this might all be inaccurate.
@@azathoththeprimalchaos2289 ❤️
The sheer contrast is overwhelming
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"The most stupid thing I have ever done is feel hopeless when I am so aware of the love and fecundity of my creator."
*shat and fell back on it*
Ya know, the stupidest thing I’ve ever done is quite hard for me to think of. Not that I haven’t done anything stupid, it’s just that I’ve done so much stupid crap, it’s hard to pick. Okay… either the time a bee fell in my hair and I picked it up with my bare hands or the time I had a panic attack because I thought I had forgot how to hold my mothers hand. Though the time I stepped in a bush of nettles, realised they were nettles and sat down in the bush, then proceeded to do the same exact thing the next day is quite close. *Or* the time I wanted to show my sister a magic trick, fell backwards down the stairs and sat up, said “tada!” as if it were all part of the magic trick. So much to choose from…
"I had a panic attack because I thought I had forgot how to hold my mothers hand." Ha, what, I cannot even conceive what this would look like.
@@Matt_Rose It was basically me just rolling on the floor with my hand slapping my mothers. You know, my mam didn’t even say anything. She was there but she just stared at me. Guess she was used to my weirdness. Im just now imagining how weird that would look with no context. You’re on a nice walk and suddenly you just see this tiny girl rolling on the floor while her mother looks down at her like she was God, and I a simple, lowly peasant.
"I drowned my fish"
i love the not learning from your mistake. once i bought lunch to bring to a lecture (noodles, art history), dumped it in my lap, scooped it back into the container, and promptly did the exact same thing again.
I SWALLOW SLUDGE TO TRANSFORM MYSELF
Honestly, I just like the guy who set a vending machine on fire and didn't even know how he did it
" I'm not sure how, *but* "
Quora: Oh there are no mistakes, only experien-
Yahoo: I ate a gas station sushi-
And then got 9 types of STDs
And then he went to the emergency room, where we are now.
@@octaviolee8282 how dare you remind me of the gas station sushi video. it still haunts me
you. me. gas station. what are we getting for dinner? sushi of course! uh oh, turns out there was a roofie in our gas station sushi. we black out and wake up in a sewer. we're surrounded by fish. horny fish. you know what that means! fish orgy! the stench draws in a bear, what are we gonna do? we're gonna fight it. bear fight, bare handed, bare NAKED? OH YES PLEASE. i befriend the bear after beating it in a brawl and ride it into a chuck e cheese. dance. dance. revolution. revolution? overthrowing the government? UH, I THINK SO. next thing you know i turn into a jet fly into the sun, we black out again, wake up, turn into the sun, white out which i didn't know you could do, GREEN out, uh oh, looks like the meth is kicking in! JHD JRNE DIRNRBJDK DUDJSLALLSKSKJSSAAAJAJAAA
The answers on Quora sound like you've been asked by co-workers or family members in a sort of "bonding activity" and you have to come up with something vaguely funny that they would understand
The answers on Yahoo Answers sound like the musings of a person still awake at 3 AM with no sense of inhibition
Quora: If I had to choose one unintelligent thing I might have done in my life it would be showing up early to my orientation day at Harvard, because I was having last minute second thoughts on whether I should go to Harvard or NYU. In the end I decided to go to Harvard, and I had the best experience of my life there, I have learned so much in my life and it's all thanks to the time I spent at Harvard when I was going to the ivy league college Harvard University where I got my doctorate in women's studies and psychology at Harvard University.
Yahoo!: I shidded m y pant;
I am for reeeeeal
@@kanoakorai5320 ne ver meant to make my booty shit
Quora be like “I confused Austria with Australia in a geography essay once.” and Yahoo be like “accidentally shoved chicken tenders up me arse”
Quora: weirdly philosopgical shit
Yahoo: vending machine arson go brrrrr
Quora: pseudo intellectuals
Yahoo: Shitty pant go splat
Seeing the quora answers made me feel like a normal person that got invited into a royal tea party
Quora: Oh, the mortification. In high school, I was assigned a project relating to the works of the French painter Édouard Manet. I delivered a 45-minute PowerPoint-assisted presentation but spoke about Claude Monet instead!
Yahoo!: I once made a cocktail using blue and yellow paint. My poop was green for about a week.
Quora: I messed up my job.
Yahoo: I tried to see what a wall tasted like.
i asked my dad “how many words can you make with the alphabet?”
not even a second later i go “oh wait, all of them
“Swallowed a live minnow whole” is the definitive underrated post of the video
Quora: One time I accidentally shotgunned a beer can when I just wanted to open it normally.
Yahoo! Answers: I ate a whole bag of catnip and committed genocide in all 50 states
and district of coloumbia and the 16 territories
This is going to be cited in an internet archaeology paper one day.
...or in an Internet Historian video.
i hope all of yahoo answers gets archived to wayback machine, just like how all of miiverse got the same treatment years ago
Why is NOONE talking about the story at 1:45 ?? Like it's gold from start to finish
So bloody chaotic how can any of this happen
Average day in Florida:
Quora is how kids would have answered at the high school I went too after moving, and Yahoo is how the kids at my old high school would have answered.
New one was objectively a better school but damn was the old one more fun
i’d rather hangout with yahoo users than quora users
you'd certainly have more fun that way :)
That's a strange way to say you don't want your delicate ego hurt
@@afj810 ok quora user!
@@wormflowers that's a compliment lmao
@@afj810 SOYUZ NERUSHIMY RESPUBLIK SVOBODIH!
The complete and utter mental whiplash I received between 2:44 and 2:53 made me giggle uncontrollably
A round of applause for god's plan, everyone.
Quora used to be great. You could get business answers from experienced people in the field and medical advice advice from doctors. Now it's basically reddit where random people spread misinformation.
Bro, I asked a question about how legal it is to only feed a carnivore animal only vegetables.
I got answers like "I don't know anything about laws, but I consider that animal abuse" (I do too but that's not what I asked) or "I'm vegan and it's ok" (Again, not what I asked)
And now they've started locking answers behind a paywall. Who'd *pay* to see these answers?
Yeah, honestly, I don't use Quora for fact based answers anymore. I use it for more opinion based things or recommendations on books/anime. It's a bit better there.
Bro spreading misinformation is a blast 💀
yeah, I used it for a while and then realized it was basically just a shittier version of Reddit.
Wondered how it felt to be a rat so I chewed on an electrical cord until I shocked myself in the mouth
The juxtaposition of 'I could have had 200K more in my retirement' vs 'I forgot what came after 10' 🤣🤣😂😂
I would just burst out laughing while reading the Yahoo ones
same here, i’m gonna miss YA
"I charged my phone without the battery!"
"I set a vending machine on fire and I don't know how I did it."
For some reason I have been getting emails from quora for several year old questions regarded various Ivy league schools. Most of them are along the lines of "Is it bad that Harvard is my backup school"
then they go into a lengthy rant about how they got accepted into Harvard but are waiting to hear from their dream school, and all the answers are "this question was posted in October, how did you get accepted into Harvard?"
There's at least one of these questions sent to me everyday. I am 21 and have never once applied for or researched the application process for any college, let alone ivy league universities.
This is exactly why I deleted my Quora account.
I don't know what it's like for undergraduate applications, but Harvard's MEDICAL SCHOOL, at least, has their deadline for applications right in the middle of October, but their admissions decisions don't come until March! So perhaps these people think they're clever enough to get away with pretending they got accepted into Harvard because they looked up the application deadline on the website, but misunderstood the actual admissions timeline.
i like how briefly "i ate a teabag" was said
edit: M E T H
Quora: I accidentally spoke Spanish at an Italian restaurant!
Yahoo: I took a shit in the middel of a Italian restarant
Quora can be really funny though sometimes, I was trying to look up the "he was forced to eat cement" meme, and found a quora post about what happens if / can you eat cement.
The first answer was an in depth description from some doctor or whatever - who gives a shit - about how badly you would die (very badly).
The second answer was also from a 'doctor' and simply said.
_Well of course I could._
Quora: Yes I did this and now I feel ashamed
Yahoo: I remember it like it was yesterday, haha good times
What more can I say?
He wanted her, she'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends snuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes
He was a skater boy
She said, "See you later, boy"
@@scarlettetherose he wasn't good enough for her
@@rebelscum5662
Now he's a superstar
Jamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
Sorry, girl, but you missed out
Well, tough, luck that boy's mine now
Looking forward to Quora getting ungentrified.
What does that even mean? Pretty sure rich white people aren't on Quora.
Ah, a nice scientific comparison I see. Now we need to interpret the results... oh dear god.
When I was sixteen, at the peak of my depression, I went on Quora every time I had even the tiniest doubt about anything. I trusted the people on there because they sounded so intelligent.
Looking back, the advice I received on there was the worst I've ever gotten in my entire life
The dumbest thing I've ever done was when I forgot that I *didn't* have a parrot beak and bonked my face into the wall.
I was trying to explain to my mum some videos I'd seen with Cockatiels learning songs and bonking their beaks on surfaces to imitate drum beats.
Yahoo: will give you the answer, no matter the cost, be it shame, insults, injury, or life.
Quora: will not answer the question while making sure you know they’re an “intellectual”
Quora: I hated my vegetables until I was 10, haha. ;)
Yahoo: I blew up Malaysia
Reddit: poop knife
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
You'd be surprised with the sheer amount of dumbasses in Quora, and the actual prodigies in Yahoo. It's better to trust and rely on genuine fools than pretentious liars.
i like how he started to laugh after he read "once accidentally brought perishable items with me overseas" like he just couldnt believe that bad luck lmao
Quora reminds me of what would happen if your employer could see everything you posted online EVER and that's why they act like that
Yahoo answer always reminds me of a group of guys laying down seeing who could piss the highest in the air without getting wet
Best summarization
Quora: r/iamverysmart
Yahoo: r/dankmemes
Quora and Yahoo are like 2 friends that are complete opposites of each other.
“What did you do this weekend?”
Quora: “I made some delicious cookies from scratch!”
Yahoo: “I threw my used car battery into the ocean.”
The Quora cookie maker weirded me out, because round cookie cutter is the most useless thing ever... I mean, most people who cook, generally, have... a cup? Legit mad professor vibes from someone who tries to roll cookies into perfect circles until finding a specific device that makes them exact shape.
Props to the guy who set the vendong machine on fire, you might have firer powers
this reads like a heart to heart between literally any good place character and jason mendoza
3:41 this man is living in a god damn cartoon
"I once close my eyes in front of the mirror to see what I look like when 8 was alseep" pure genius
2:35 "once" means eleven in spanish. That's the answer right there.
This video perfectly describes the duality of man
2:45 is the best comparison, it describes perfectly the point of this video
My Quora answer: I once labeled obviously homozygous traits as being heterozygous in my biology class (I'm a biochemistry major)
My Yahoo answer: I once forgot SpongeBob is a sponge
This was incredible. Something as innocent as someone not understanding cricket right up close to *M E T H* ..... beautiful
I once had a conversation with my MILs Mexican boyfriend that ended with "yeah I grew up with a lot of Mexicans too" then realized what came out of my mouth & it just randomly plays in my head very often whenever I feel bad about myself. Like adding fuel to the fire that is my social skills
Quora has a feature where you can suggest a question to a specific user so they can answer it. When I used the site, I mostly answered video game questions since that's what I'm good at. Well, one day a man suggested me a question (that he himself submitted) which read, and I quote, "Why do you waste time playing video games when you could be out enjoying the world?".
Had to explain to him that I'm disabled and not able to do a lot of that "out enjoying the world" stuff.
The contrast between each of these makes this video.
quora: i once left my fridge open and had to throw out a carton of eggs
yahoo answers: i threw myself down three flights of stairs to see if it would hurt
I’m seeing a lot of people talk about how pretentious Quora is, but the only times I’ve used it was to do some mindless research on how dead bodies are to be rid of, and the people explaining that all seemed decently experienced...
Quora: For people who are somehow simultaneously more self-obsessed yet less self-aware than Yahoo! Answers users.
If you're ever feeling stupid, just know that Day9 (Sean Plott) once reported his car stolen, having forgotten that he'd driven it to a store and then walked back home.
Alright I'mma share the most dumb shit I ever did:
There was a beetle stuck in my room, so I decided to trap it with an almost empty bottle of hand sanitizer. But the hole was too small for it, so I decided to heat a knife to melt the bottle cap
The fire blasted like a flamethrower and I got a second degree burn
There was once a spider in my room, which was on the second floor. I put the spider in a cup, and tried to put it out the window.
I dropped the cup.
should've aimed the fire at the beetle lol
It's like the old movie premise. Slobs vs. snobs. And we may very well get to see it play out in real time once Yahoo Answers is gone. This should be fun.
The dumbest thing I have ever done, was not trusting my fiancé when they expressed their love to me.
Also, I felt like a champ when I was 14-17, because I put the bottles on top of the trash in the trashcans, so homeless people could recycle them for cash.
Quora is full of people who love to hear themselves talk. Ask a basic question and they're all like "Now let me tell you a story..."
Huh...so Quora is just full of pretentious people then?
That, or erotica for any question that is mildly sexual.
yes and also incels
All of her friends stuck up their nose
They hated him and his baggy clothes
He wasn’t good enough for her
She needed to come back down to eaaaaarth..
Feeding the baby, she’s all alone
@SuperLolMine Sk8r boi rocking up MTV
@SuperLolMine And they’ve all got tickets to see his show
I and two friends were going to the train station, walking on the train tracks. We had seen the train in the distance, but thought we had enough time. I was walking at the front.
At one point, I look back, see the train getting too close, and shout "RUN!" to which my friends follow me, running in a straight line in front of the train instead of jumping to either side. We almost got run over for running in a straight line.
My friends told me that they ran in a straight line because that's what I, the person in front, did, but my logic at the time made a lot of sense to me. I just had to run forward so I could get to the station on time and get on the train.
Since then I believe my friends when they tell me that I have no self-preservation instinct.
AHGAAAGAHAG THAT DESERVES TO BE ON YAHOO
I feel like most of the quora answers can be written off as honest mistakes while the yahoo ones are straight up wild and unhinged.
the quora sock guy was giving some good yahoo answer vibes
RUclips reccomended blessed me with a good youtube channel
3:20 ohh my freaking god, i laughed for two minutes straight, another case of picking up the phone to ask someone “where is my phone?:”
These are amazing. There is a bit of a contrast here. The dumbest things I’ve ever done are closer to the yahoo side.
Man threw a tennis ball at the actor in the opera. Just wow
remember when you were able to take the battery out of your phone?
Those were the times.
i love these videos so much, they cheer me up haha
The person talking about the fecundity of their creator was certainly trying way too hard to look smart, but I think some of these people were just being honest. Ruining your iPhone because you wanted to play Wii games on it does sound like the sort of thing that would stick in your head as the stupidest thing you've ever done.
Quora: Brain turned off for a second. Silly me!
Yahoo: What is brain?