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What's the most ridiculous question you've been asked?

269 replies

whatastupidquestion · 02/09/2021 23:05

NC for this.

Have you been asked a stupid question that has an obvious answer?

My husband and I are a white couple and have three black foster children (who we adore).

They have lived with us for many years and call us mum and dad.

When we were on holiday, there was a couple in the hotel who would always say hello when we saw them around.

On their last night the wife said "I've been wanting to ask you ... do the children realise you are not their real mum and dad"?

Rather than get upset, the kids and I just laughed about them afterwards!

OP posts:
strugglingwithlife · 04/09/2021 09:56

[quote ohohovex]@strugglingwithlife Liverpool Museum. Now called Liverpool World Museum. But I know the museum you mentioned and loved it [/quote]
Ah I've not been to that one. Yeah the York one is quite good, been a while since I went there though

TheFormidableMrsC · 04/09/2021 09:57

My Mum died peacefully at home in her sleep after a long battle with cancer. A locum GP came out after midnight to certify her death. Mum was bald and extremely thin. The locum walked in, looked at her and said "has she been ill"? 👀. We did eventually laugh about it but my God man, really????

Curlygirl06 · 04/09/2021 10:05

Another twin one. Mine were a wee bit premature and quite small, so rather than put them in the big double pram, for the first few weeks I'd take them out in the single pram I had used for my eldest child. They'd sleep in there back to back, not end to end in case you were wondering!
I was in a supermarket and a lady peered in the pram, actually recoiled and said "my God, there's 2 of them, did I know? To my credit, I told her they were twins but I wish I'd said omg, no, there was only one when I left home, where did the other one come from?

cricketmum84 · 04/09/2021 10:23

A friend of my DD asked if I had seen the Beatles live as a teenager (I was born in 84!!!)

Colleague at work "what date does Halloween fall on this year??"

My sister "how do I make a baked potato?"

Also my sister "you know giraffes? Are they as tall as a human, as tall as a house or as tall as a block of flats?" (She is 36 and has seen giraffes at the zoo)

iklboo · 04/09/2021 11:07

@Buffoonborisisatwat - it's a deliberately stupid answer to an offensive question by the doctor. 'Special talent' because the son has autism? Fuck me.

KatnissNeverdone · 04/09/2021 11:12

At the zoo last week I was asked for proof of my son's disability. I just gestured in the direction of the boy sat in the massive powered wheelchair behind me. (My mum however was gutted that she didn't get asked for proof that she was a senior).

Buffoonborisisatwat · 04/09/2021 11:20

[quote iklboo]@Buffoonborisisatwat - it's a deliberately stupid answer to an offensive question by the doctor. 'Special talent' because the son has autism? Fuck me. [/quote]
Well, did he have a special talent?

crayray · 04/09/2021 11:23

@Buffoonborisisatwat what's wrong with you?

GrandTheftWalrus · 04/09/2021 11:25

I remember my papa telling me when he was in the USA with work he was asked if we have roads or televisions in Scotland.

He was over there with stv and a Scottish guy invented the telly!

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 04/09/2021 11:29

@Mariell

Not so much a question but when people state they are a vegetarian but then follow it up with, ‘...... but I eat fish!’
Or when you tell someone you are a vegetarian and they say ‘ but you eat chicken right? ‘
itsgettingwierd · 04/09/2021 11:30

[quote crayray]@Buffoonborisisatwat what's wrong with you?[/quote]
Now that's the most sensible question that's I've seen asked on this thread WinkGrin

Probably best to ignore them though!

cricketmum84 · 04/09/2021 11:32

@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes or wafer thin ham?? She can have a bit of water thin ham can't she Barbara? 😂😂😂

MyGrassIsBrowner · 04/09/2021 11:33

Selling a picture frame on FB marketplace, its got multiple slots to put little photos in. Woman messages me and asks "can I have this please and what is it?" (Not even joking that's how it was written)
Erm... I tell her it's a photo frame and she proceeds to ask "is that to put photos in?"
I didnt message her back after that 🤦🏻‍♀️

Gingernaut · 04/09/2021 11:34

As a relatively small primary school child in the 1970s

Is that your hair?

Asked by someone at a social gathering who knew other members of my brown haired family.

Yes, I replied.

Where did it come form?

I was just born with it.

You couldn't have been. You've got lovely hair. Is it a wig?

Followed by a big open palmed hand splatting onto my crown and feeling all the way down my ponytailed hair.

It is really yours.

Did you get it dyed?

I walked away at that point and I was accused of being rude.

itsgettingwierd · 04/09/2021 11:34

I have a funny story about identical twins. Not a stupid question but a stupid comment.

I worked abroad with a twin. His identical twin brother came over for a weeks stay.

One night we were having a laugh and my friend said to his brother

"I'm always right because I'm older than you"

Brother "eh? I was born first"

Friend "yeah well technically I'm oldest because I must have been conceived first then because I was in further"

Once me and his brother had stopped pissing ourselves laughing we did gently explain he was identical, concerned at same time and was in fact - the youngest.

To be fair to my friend we were rather drunk Grin

iklboo · 04/09/2021 11:42

@Buffoonborisisatwat - so you're one of those people who think autism = Rainman? People with autism all have a secret magic skill NT people don't possess? FFS.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 04/09/2021 11:44

[quote cricketmum84]@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes or wafer thin ham?? She can have a bit of water thin ham can't she Barbara? 😂😂😂[/quote]
😂

SpeckledlyHen · 04/09/2021 11:51

@BlankTimes

All the people who ask are girl/boy twins identical.

Yes, it's obviously a daft question, but I think what people are meaning to ask but phrase wrongly, is 'Do the twins look alike?'

Anyone who doesn't have twins in their family or social circle, rightly or wrongly 'knows' there are two types of twins, ones that look like each other, that they think are called identical twins, and ones that don't.

I am a twin and kind of understand where you are coming from. Basically you can have identical twins (Identical twins develop from one fertilized egg and can share the same placenta and have two separate or, rarely, one amniotic sac) or fraternal twins (2 separate eggs).

Identical does not mean they look alike (although they will be the same sex). Identical twins can look different. I think this is the bit that confuses people.

Zaks1 · 04/09/2021 12:06

Collegue: What shade tan are you wearing?
Me: Au natural Indian!?

I just dont get people sometime
Confused

sashh · 04/09/2021 12:53

ifIwerenotanandroid

Where we lived when I was about 7 or 8 the neighbours had a ginger cat, the little girl who lived there used to say it was a girl, my mother always said, "No dear, it can't be, all ginger cats are boys"

One day she turned up at our house and said to my mother, "My mum says to come to out house and have a look at the kittens"

Female gingers are rare but not that rare.

iklboo

Not actually that daft, many Muslim and many more Jewish people are 'vegetarian' when they are not at home because the food id then halal / kosher.

Buffoonborisisatwat · 04/09/2021 12:54

[quote iklboo]@Buffoonborisisatwat - so you're one of those people who think autism = Rainman? People with autism all have a secret magic skill NT people don't possess? FFS. [/quote]
You're making assumptions about what I think . And it Wasn't my question. The answer to that question for anyone is either - yes they have a talent or no doesn't have a talent. Sounds like a clinician was trying to get to know a patient - or client 😳 in todays parlance

Buffoonborisisatwat · 04/09/2021 12:59

[quote crayray]@Buffoonborisisatwat what's wrong with you?[/quote]
It's a special talent.

Maybe I'm autistic and don't understand what all the fuss is about.

You should be more sensitive.

kittythehedgehog · 04/09/2021 13:07

A well meaning uncle, meeting DS for the first time asked how old he was when he opened his eyes for the first time Confused straight away uncle - I think you're thinking about kittens!?

VeganVeal · 04/09/2021 13:29

Friends dad asked which two out of the pop group the Thompson twins were the twins!

HailAdrian · 04/09/2021 13:37

@Houseofvelour

On my 18th birthday I was getting my hair done for a night out and the hairdresser was asking what I'd gotten for my birthday. I told her that my sister got me tickets to see a band that I loved.

Hd: she must have a good job to afford tickets to them!
Me: she's actually on disability allowance. She's autistic.
Hd: awwwww bless her! Do you think she knew what she was doing when she bought them?
Hmm

It's 13 years later and my sister and I still have a laugh at that one!

This tickled me!