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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...

OP posts:
Thesebootsweremadeforwalking · 02/10/2013 22:59

Grin Phew!

RetroHippy · 02/10/2013 22:57

You're ok boots. I done a google Wink

Thesebootsweremadeforwalking · 02/10/2013 22:56
namechangearitus · 02/10/2013 22:55

I would love a butterscotch plant Grin

Thesebootsweremadeforwalking · 02/10/2013 22:54

Channel tunnel is bored through the rock underneath the sea bed.

RetroHippy · 02/10/2013 22:50

It goes just under the sea bed doesn't it? I'm now thinking its suspended just below the surface or something Blush

RetroHippy · 02/10/2013 22:49

Um, so if one's friend thought, hypothetically speaking, that the channel tunnel was on the sea bed, how would one be best placed to correct them?

Megglevache · 02/10/2013 22:44

Corkers on here- brilliant thread!

tinkerbellvspredator · 02/10/2013 22:41

I think what choccyjules one is - both DC were weaned at 18 months but the DD1 is one year older than the DD2

PipkinsPal · 02/10/2013 22:38

Friends of mine were convinced that penguins did not have feathers and quite proudly told me "they have pelt". The husband of the same couple said that countries have the same names as their language, eg England/English. Therefore the language of Holland was Hollish and the language of Belgium was Belgeeze!

nicename · 02/10/2013 22:27

I had a colleague who, when on a works bowling night out and was asked his shoe size said 'I have absolutely no idea - they're all hand made for me...'. He wasn't BS-ing either.

Matildaandthematches · 02/10/2013 22:22

A friend, while at university studying history, asked us 'who was on the throne in the Victorian era'. And they say standards haven't slipped...

humphryscorner · 02/10/2013 22:18

My friend thought that in the theme song to transformers ... "Transformers , robots in disguise" was actually "transformers , robots in de sky's " as in robots in the sky's but said with a Jamaican accent ..,

ginmakesitallok · 02/10/2013 22:17

Coffee, they don't need their nappy changed every 2 hours

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 02/10/2013 22:16

My SIL, with whom I was discussing holidays - "Oh but you're not allowed to go to Centerparcs, that's only for real families, you can't go there!"

No, single parents apparently cannot be a family and the best they can hope for is a leaky tent far away from all the 'normal' people. Hmm

crumpet · 02/10/2013 22:12

(comment made this summer)

Coffeenowplease · 02/10/2013 22:11

Ah. So they dont need waking for nappy change ? Interesting. Will store that away for the future.

crumpet · 02/10/2013 22:10

"I've just found out George Michael is gay"

ginmakesitallok · 02/10/2013 22:05

Coffee, like sleeping dogs, sleeping babies should (generally) be let lie

Coffeenowplease · 02/10/2013 22:02

I dont have kids - can someone explain the nappy one ?

MrsWolowitz · 02/10/2013 21:58

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WednesdayNext · 02/10/2013 21:58

2 hourly nappy changes?

My sister once went downstairs to my parents to ask for a new lightbulb because the one in her room was leaking. She was 16 and apparently thought lightbulbs were full of water.

MrsRambo · 02/10/2013 21:52

Depression is always a choice

Er, I really don't think people choose to feel this shit mate....

From quite a close friend when discussing the depression of a mutual friend. I was really taken aback because she is generally a very compassionate person (but also v religious? Not sure if relevant?).

ginmakesitallok · 02/10/2013 21:52

Well dr google tells me that fewer than 10 boy/girl monozygotic twins have been reported, so pretty unlikely. And given that I don't have any of the symptoms of turners I still think folk asking if I'm identical to my db are being ridiculous!

rallytog1 · 02/10/2013 21:39

MissStrawberry I'll admit to the fanny/urethra confusion. I was very peturbed when I recently had to have a catheter in for 3 weeks and found that it was not, in fact, up my fanny Blush

Best thing I've heard a friend say is that she sets her alarm for every two hours in the night to change her baby's nappy. She is genuinely baffled as to how other babies sleep through their two-hourly nighttime nappy changes. I don't have the heart to tell her...