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Most evenings DD sits in the front garden letting her pet rabbit run around the lawn. He is a normal shaped rabbit black with sticking up ears. Two young boys around 15 or so walked past and one asked what sort of dog it was

Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

My grown up sister thought a homo sapien was a type of lizard

Dds 14 year old friend yesterday.

'So I learnt that chicks are baby chickens. Chicks are hens. Hens are girls. So what are baby cockerils called? And what are male hens called?'

Lovely, bright girl. But a bit ditzy .

On a sailing course in another county a woman told me I was incredibly brave for being on the boat as British people can't swim. Whaaaaaaat? The entire nation just didn't bother learning to swim?

One time I had DD (8) with me as went to drop off my payment to my loan woman, anyway she was not in and her husband turned up from work as I was walking back to the car, so we had a natter etc, when I got back in the car, DD asks "Who's that mummy?" So I told her it was the loan woman's husband, DD says "Eh?...I thought she was 'Alone woman' who lives on her own?".....🤣🤣🤣🤣

Aw honestly her little confused face...☺️...I found actually quite cute..☺️

mum2one crackers in a Christmas context are not food. They are long tubes with a banger in each end and a toy in the middle. Two people take an end each and you see who wins the prize. What is a bonbon to you?

We were in Israel after my grandad died to sit shiva (mourning), which includes things like covering all mirrors in the house and tearing your clothes. Non-Jewish DH saw my auntie’s dog with a “cone of shame” and asked in all seriousness whether it was a traditional Jewish custom to denote mourning.

@nancy75 that is by far the best. What did you say to her?

Tbf im 38 and only just worked this out. Great Britain is the geographical island. UK is the land that falls under the British government.

Ds (15) asked me if we could fast forward the television once, it was live fucking football

In his defence with sky plus etc you can pause if say going to the bathroom and then FF to catch up. It was just the way he said it....he's got GCSE's next year and predicted very good grades, just no common sense.

I honestly thought private ambulances were for rich people until quite recently.

I’m from the Channel Islands so really really should know this - what category do they fall under? Not Great Britain as that is just England, Scotland and Wales, not the UK apparently either. Yet I have a british passport and when asked for my nationality I state British.

When I was at college my lovely but ditsy friends petrol cap had frozen shut so she pulled out her lighter to defrost it.

I overheard an American woman ask an Irish man (with thick Irish accent) if Dublin was in Oklahoma.

A young lad at the supermarket checkout asked me what a leek was.

donthugme me too

(To the private ambulances)

Telling a class of 11 year olds several years ago that we were going on PGL in Shropshire. One boy asked where that was. I said Shropshire was near Wales.

“Oh wow” he exclaimed excitedly to his friend, “I’ve never seen a whale before!”

Well what are private ambulances for then

I think some ambulance services buy them in when they are short.

But they are also used by funeral directors and repatriation through insurance and those are both paid services I assume.

A colleague, very bright but...
"So, do gynaecologist JUST deal with women then?"

Another one with a teenager asking were his Grandad could be found, and his name?? "Grandad" and an huge eye roll like it's me that's stupid!

I regard myself as relatively intelligent, but sometimes I doubt myself!
Years ago, when Playstation 1 was out, a friend was saying her husband was playing playstations til 1 in the morning. Oh, I said, does he like playing with model trains? For some reason I linked the stations bit of it with train stations! To be fair, this was waaay back before we had a home computer, that's my excuse anyway!

Another thing is spin classes. For a long time I thought it meant spinning in circles, couldn't work out how you could do it without getting dizzy, and how it helped in fitness and exercise.

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes to be fair, “spinning” is a ridiculous name!

One of my Godson's ex's lived near Ilford and used to see a bus with Cyprus on it as the destination. Yes, it was Cyprus London Docklands but she thought it was Cyprus, Greece. Nice to know they lay on a bus from Ilford to Greece isn't it? Not sure how comfy it would be all that way.....And the fare! Could you really get there on an oyster card???!!

We had taken the DDs to a city farm and were amused by two women arguing quite loudly over whether one animal was a horse or a cow.

Horse woman won the argument.

It was a cow!

My BIL had a private ambulance a couple years ago. To be fair his parents aren't short on money but he had a serious accident in London and needed transferring home to recover and a long difficult journey in the car or train was unfeasible.