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The utterly ridiculous / hysterical comments your friends come out with, in which you seriously question if they live on the same planet as you...[lighttheart]

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daughterofafarmer · 02/10/2013 11:26

My friend said this utter gem last week...

'I'm buying DS a 2nd pair of Wellingtons as I don't have an Aga to help dry out the wet pair....'

Another friend

'I don't think one should children until you can afford childcare'....Que me nearly spitting out my drink...

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stinkingbishop · 04/10/2013 08:39

amber I actually did that, with my boss. It was a long and slightly awkward journey... Blush

AmberLeaf · 04/10/2013 08:20

Grin I was once waiting to board a train bound for London Liverpool street. I very nearly got on the one to lime street Liverpool

BloodiedWellies · 04/10/2013 07:25

Amber and others... I was in my mid 30s before I realised that Liverpool was not a suburb of London.

(In my defense, I am not from here, and never took much notice of British things until I fell in love with an Englishman!)

aNutAboveTheBreast · 04/10/2013 01:40

My lovely friend, who seems to process things she hears in a different way to the rest of us:

"KFC breed boneless chickens now, so they don't have to pay people to remove the bones later."

"Planes can't turn."

"I always get Hannukkah and Holocaust confused. It's not my fault, I'm not Jewish!"

Dread to think of her wishing a poor Jewish person a happy Holocaust.

Another friend meeting DS just after he was born:

Friend: "Why can't he walk?"
Me: Confused
Friend: "Why wouldn't you let him walk? I thought if you dropped babies on the floor when they're born they're supposed to know how to walk."
Me: That's water, and swimming...

Same friend 10 minutes later gestures around the lounge, "well of course all this will have to go soon, you can't baby proof everything in here."

I'll just throw all of our furniture away then and spend my evenings in an empty room like all the other parents.

And my Dsis when she was younger...

When she found out Jeremy Beadle had died: "Pneumonia... isn't that when you wet yourself and you don't change your knickers?"

"I'd say that's about three thirds right, but one of them is wrong."

Grin
AnaisHendricks · 04/10/2013 01:13

Oh that makes sense. Butterflies have a larger area than caterpillars but are much lighter.

I suppose it's difficult to understand because most people watch babies grow, rather than change entirely. It's counter-intuitive in the same way that the mechanics of breast-feeding is.

The more milk the baby takes, the more is produced? I had never encountered this concept before having my second child. Wish my bank account worked the same way!

RiaOverTheRainbow · 04/10/2013 00:48

It's sort of the same as caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies. It takes a lot of energy to transform, so the juvenile form eats a lot and is often larger than the adult.

AnaisHendricks · 03/10/2013 23:27

I knew that about maggots but they are so much bigger than flies. How can this be?

nicename · 03/10/2013 22:58

Lesmahago should be in Wales.

mirry2 · 03/10/2013 22:54

Do you mean house flies hatch out from maggots? I never knew that.

NumptyMum · 03/10/2013 22:47

Just got as far as this gem from willyoulistentome:

"Balding men should not shave their heads, as the hair will know it's not wanted and stop growing completely"

and thought BLOODY FANTASTIC, does that mean I can stop shaving my legs?...

AmberLeaf · 03/10/2013 22:23

I was nearly 30 before I realised Andover was not in the Netherlands

I used to think Billericay was in Ireland Blush it does sound Irish though IMO.

BellaDesconocida · 03/10/2013 22:00

Playing trivial pursuit, MIL's question was "what is the capital of Kenya?" Apparently it's Venezuela.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/10/2013 21:58

To clarify, he thought that there were two tubes opening onto the head of the penis. We checked his, and there is definitely only one. The plumbing all joins up further up, and a single tube comes down the penis to the outside world.

xaphania · 03/10/2013 21:51

Nope, definitely only one tube down the actual penis.

justaquickone · 03/10/2013 21:48

Well this thread has taken an odd turn Grin

Vintagecakeisstillnice · 03/10/2013 21:43

It's cartilage isn't it?

DaleyBump · 03/10/2013 21:42

Pretty much, yeah :)

bundaberg · 03/10/2013 21:37

so when your drink goes down "the wrong way" does that mean your flap didn't do its job properly?

DaleyBump · 03/10/2013 21:35

I say flap of skin, it's not really skin. Not sure how else to describe it :p

DaleyBump · 03/10/2013 21:35

It's kind of like how you can't breathe and swallow at the same time. When you swallow, a wee flap of skin called the epiglottis (sp?) shuts so that you don't get food or drink in your lungs. There are still two tubes there - your windpipe and your gullet :)

ZingWantsCake · 03/10/2013 21:32

bunda

yes, you are right, I forgot about that! Blush

Rooners · 03/10/2013 21:32

[GRIPPED] at this

ZingWantsCake · 03/10/2013 21:30

there's one tube inside the penis - which is why men can't pee and ejaculate at the same time!

but the tube separates into two, one connects to bladder, other to testes/prostrate.

at least that is what I was taught.

DaleyBump · 03/10/2013 21:28

I deliberately didn't go into the third one bunda Grin

bundaberg · 03/10/2013 21:23

there's something slightly wrong about spending a thursday night debating how many tubes run down a penis on the internet Grin

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