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The breakfast question

The Breakfast Question or How Would You Have Felt If You Hadn't Eaten Breakfast? is a bait question and a counterfactual conditional that references a 4chan story of a grad student who allegedly performed IQ research on convicts at San Quentin State Prison. During the research, individuals with low IQ struggled to simulate the hypothetical situation in their minds, instead answering that they did have breakfast. Online, the question has been used in internet arguments as a conspicuous way to indicate that one's opponent is unintelligent, while the posts have often been referenced in memes.
>How would you have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch?

>What do you mean? I did eat breakfast and lunch.

>Yes, but if you had not, how would you have felt?

>Why are you saying that I didn't eat breakfast? I just told you that I did.

>Imagine that you hadn't eaten it, though. How would you have felt?

>I don't understand the question.

> You seem to be failing the breakfast question, mate
by bertyhell May 19, 2025
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Mickey Mouse question

A question regarding a self-evident matter. The Mickey Mouse question is most common among people new to the workplace and privates in the military. Perhaps one might inquire what military rank should they address the civil personnel at the barracks as.
Captain Juntunen, do I have your permission to sneeze?

No more Mickey Mouse questions private Virtanen!
by Urban Gnome September 12, 2025
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After asking questions for study guides, “do we have any questions? We never do.”
by 01011000 December 10, 2025
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brother/sister asked a very good question

What you say when you can't answer a question someone asked you.
Originated from a meme based on a Muslim video of an islamic orator named Zakir Naik.
Person 1: Where are you going??
Person 2: Brother/Sister asked a very good question *goes away*
by noiwontwriteapseudonym April 15, 2025
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by Adujasty343 May 25, 2025
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