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AIBU to think this lady was nuts? Share your WTF interactions with strangers here

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BarbaraVineFan · 28/08/2024 22:31

In the park with 4 year old DD today and she became fascinated with a ladybird which she found near the path. We were standing by the side of the path as DD let the ladybird crawl over her arms and hands. A lady went past with a little kid of a similar age and was looking over, so I said 'we've got a ladybird!' (Not sure why really but I felt the need to explain.) Upon which this woman sort of sniggered and went 'ah..,Chlamydia!' And then just...went on her way.

Having googled, I see that apparently ladybirds carry all sorts of STIs, which they transmit to other ladybirds and not humans. So I guess that's what she meant. But at the time I was like 'What the actual fuck?' 😂 Who even says that to a stranger?!

Does anyone have any similar stories of batshit interactions with strangers to share?

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MissEsmeWatson · 01/09/2024 23:02

When I first moved North I was surprised that there were so many people speaking Polish. Took me a while to realise that they were actually speaking very quickly with a strong Geordie accent...

I’m from Newcastle. I worked in France for a year and one holiday when I came back, I was convinced that everyone was German! Obviously they weren’t. Took me a day to tune back in. To my native accent. Shameful.

TriesNotToBeCynical · 08/09/2024 20:19

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/09/2024 19:19

And yet the two women (on Only Fans, iirc) who have self-identified as trans women, are getting a lot of criticism from the trans community.

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Is "trans" an identity or just an adjective denoting a change of identity? I suppose they could have identified as male for a week or two then changed back, but even a kind person might wonder about their sincerity.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/09/2024 19:19

TriesNotToBeCynical · 08/09/2024 16:50

It is at least logically possible that they could be both. I am aware that you may not agree.

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And yet the two women (on Only Fans, iirc) who have self-identified as trans women, are getting a lot of criticism from the trans community.

BeachParty · 08/09/2024 17:50

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WTF 😂
I wouldn't do any of that and found it funny (although would be a bit WTF as well as laughing 😁 )

dirty Skanks who would drop their underwear, squat, expose their dirty smelly genitalia and piss in the street

Nice bit of women shaming there, well done, slow hand clap

theresabluebirdinmyheart · 08/09/2024 17:10

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Prriorayingly · 07/09/2024 09:56

The one thing that a transwoman has to be is, a man.

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It is at least logically possible that they could be both. I am aware that you may not agree.

WheresMySupportCat · 07/09/2024 10:27

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 06/09/2024 20:11

Who won?

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Aha! Good question. The woman who told her to stop making stupid comments seemed to have won..... Commenting Woman been pretty silent for a couple of months. But yesterday there was another stupid comment along with a link to a stupid facebook meme. (which was what seemed to be the last straw last time).

She was just biding her time I think.....

Prriorayingly · 07/09/2024 09:56

Magazinerack · 06/09/2024 13:00

I’m a rape survivor too. Trans women are women.

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The one thing that a transwoman has to be is, a man.

ncforcatquestion · 07/09/2024 04:30

@Izzabellasasperella oh my god, how awful

Izzabellasasperella · 07/09/2024 04:28

When my children were little they were playing with the trolley in a supermarket. They accidentally bumped an older lady. I apologised as did my kids. She then looked straight at me and said " those children should have been drowned at birth" I was so shocked and upset. Luckily my kids didn't hear her.

WiddlinDiddlin · 06/09/2024 22:18

With my Dad, years ago, buying a train ticket...

I must have been about 15 making my Dad 57, but he'd had grey hair and a white beard for a good 15 years at this point, so looked a lot older than that... (and of course as I was 15 I considered him practically ancient!)..

The older chap in front is having a lengthy and utterly irrelevant chat with the person in the ticket office. He is absolutely aware we are waiting!

This continues as the clock ticks (rather loudly) towards the time for my train, which does not permit you to buy a ticket ON the train and is the last one going where I need to go.

Eventually Dad says ' Excuse me, but could we buy our ticket please, it is rather urgent now...'

Older chap turns around, looks at my Dad:

'You'll wait your turn, Sunny Jim... I fought in the war for you!...' (Imagine Stans dad from Dinner Ladies!)

What the what now? I was gobsmacked, someone called my Dad Sunny Jim...

And then the ticket sales lady pipes up and it got SO much better...

'You didn't Mr Jones... the war ended when you were 12."

A rapid bit of maths, possible because she'd got his rail pass in front of her with his DoB on it!

I got my ticket, as Mr Jones and my Dad huffed and glared at each other, and I got on the train hoping that they wouldn't come to blows.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 06/09/2024 20:11

WheresMySupportCat · 03/09/2024 08:50

I attend a church choir and there is a woman there who makes exactly those sorts of comments. To the point I am wondering if it may have been her! She thinks they are funny and she is being ever so amusing.

It;s neither of those things. Once she made one of those sorts of comments on our choir whatsapp group and another member exploded and told her to STOP MAKING STUPID COMMENTS!

Well- then it was ON. Cue two women having the written whatsapp version of a screaming match. It lasted for days and made attending choir a little tense.

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Who won?

dreamuntilitsyours · 06/09/2024 20:03

I have twins and when I was out walking with them one day when they were a couple of months old, a man in his 40s stopped me to tell me I had my hands full. (No sh*t Sherlock!)

He then proceeded to tell me his child making days were over but had his wife ever fallen pregnant with twins he would have shot himself in the head.

He then carried on walking.

Bizarre.

WiddlinDiddlin · 06/09/2024 19:50

PotterHead1985 · 06/09/2024 14:39

Why thank you so much for invalidating my 'cis' woman experience as a myth. I'm glad to know that it didn't actually happen to me because you said it didn't.

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But don't you know, if someone on MumsNet hasn't experienced it... it never happened.

(I will join you in the mythology corner, having witnessed it with my own eyes and ears.)

If we need a seperate, non-related, non-biased, person, to witness everything that happens to us... well whats the fucking point of discussion forums. We can just discount everyones first hand experience as lies as theres no one else to verify it.

ChishiyaBat · 06/09/2024 16:01

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And what is silly about what I said? Please, do tell me? You are the one who thinks men can be women, how silly😂.

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PotterHead1985 · 06/09/2024 14:39

CrochetForLife · 06/09/2024 12:07

It's a myth that 'cis' women have that experience. Even in a hoodie, most women can tell a male from a female.

And if it does, the fact that males are in our spaces, which therefore, understandably, LEADS to women fearful and paranoid, is now switched around as OUR fault, as so we are gaslit, too! Newsflash, fearing MALES (not 'trans') in female spaces is not 'silly' nor harmful. What is harmful is handmaidens attacking women for paying attention to our instincts and using the misogynistic slur 'hysteria'. Males entering our spaces, understandably causing women to be on high alert, is the fault of males for invading our spaces. Not the fault of females for having those understandable reactions, in the first place. Quit gaslighting women and doing DARVO.

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Why thank you so much for invalidating my 'cis' woman experience as a myth. I'm glad to know that it didn't actually happen to me because you said it didn't.

annonymousse · 06/09/2024 14:16

Hear hear!

ChishiyaBat · 06/09/2024 14:05

Magazinerack · 06/09/2024 13:00

I’m a rape survivor too. Trans women are women.

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Transwomen are men. I don't want them in mine, my daughter's or granddaughter's space and you don't get to decide that for me. Calling people hateful, bigoted or any other names is just a way to shut people up. I will not shut up, women deserve to have their own spaces, they deserve to feel safe and have comfort and dignity.

BeachParty · 06/09/2024 13:45

Ivesaidenough · 02/09/2024 22:38

This is a bit outing as I've told loads of people irl, but it's a happy one so I'll add it. I was standing waiting to cross the road once, feeling a bit miserable, definitely looking a bit sad. I realised after a while that a young bloke was waiting next to me, and quite clearly trying to get my attention. I'm a middle aged woman so I was a bit surprised. Eventually (because I'm a pushover) I gave in and turned to him enquiringly.
Only to be absolutely gobsmacked when he grinned and nodded towards the red man and said "want to race? I started laughing, the green man appeared and we ran across the road. He really cheered me up, the nutter. Grin

Love it 😁

Paganpentacle · 06/09/2024 13:45

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 29/08/2024 04:16

And me 🤣
I'm Dill the Dog.

I'm a dog called Dill.
My tail I try to get, but I've never caught it yet.
(followed by panting)

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and me 😂
My name is Sir Basil- the king of the herbs.
I like hunting, and shooting and fishing,

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 06/09/2024 13:31

CrochetForLife · 06/09/2024 13:06

A male with a cock and balls is NOT a woman. And never will be.

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And removing that cock and balls doesn’t make him female - his genetics, chromosomes and whole body make him male.

CrochetForLife · 06/09/2024 13:25

BeachParty · 06/09/2024 13:23

Nobody's actually said that, though, have they 🙄

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Yes, they actually have when they have whined about women 'policing' other women in the ladies. Don't walk it back. 🙄