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

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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:
Evenstar · 04/09/2021 13:39

Not me but a friend, she was out with her boy/girl twins and someone asked “Are they twins?” when she said they were, they asked their names, which were obviously boy/girl names, the follow up question was “Are they identical?” 😂

StripeyDeckchair · 04/09/2021 14:24

I have girl-boy twins
I gave up counting years,ago how many people have if they are identical.

Buckydoesafart · 04/09/2021 14:40

@Zaks1

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

I just dont get people sometime
Confused

This! Ive also had people touch my skin and ask does it wash off? And what brand I use?
wombatspoopcubes · 04/09/2021 18:40

@ohohovex

My ex talking to a neighbour at a local party.

Neighbour: where are you from?
Ex: Holland
Neighbour: do you speak hollanish?
Ex: we speak Dutch
Neighbour: as well as hollandish?

Actually that one isn't too bad. I'm Dutch and still giggle about the American who said: "you live under the sea, right? Under a glass dome like Atlantis?

😁

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 04/09/2021 18:52

@NuffSaidSam

😂 That is a very stupid question.

One of the DC asked me if teddy bears had been invented when I was a child 🙄

Mine asked me (seriously) if clothes had been invented.
WeatherwaxOn · 04/09/2021 19:56

Random woman to me, out with DD (3 months old, dressed in a green babygrow),"Is it a girl or a boy?"
Me, "A girl."
Her: "Are you sure?"
Me, "Well I suppose someone could have grafted a willy on when I wasn't looking."

Another random woman to me, out shopping with DD (aged about 2), "Your granddaughter is very well-behaved"
Me,"Actually I'm her mother'
Her, "Are you sure?"

MarshmallowsOnToast · 04/09/2021 22:48

@secular39

Two people who had no kids asked me "Did it feel nice when your baby was going in and out?". They were intrigued by child birth and I told them when giving birth, DS would slip in and out and I ended up having to push harder.
That's creepy!!
ladygindiva · 04/09/2021 23:07

I have 3 dc, a singleton followed a few years later by twins. I was asked " which was easier, having a single baby or twins?"
🙄

Ajl46 · 05/09/2021 08:19

@user1497787065

I was asked at work during a power cut if the loo would still flush!
I used to work in an office where water had to be pumped (electrical pump) up to our floor, so the toilets wouldn't flush if the power went off!
coldseacoldears · 05/09/2021 11:11

@Curlygirl06

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?
@Curlygirl06 I thought the reaction was going to be 'are they conjoined?' Your lady's reaction was more odd tbh
Magstermay · 05/09/2021 13:17

SpeckledlyHen

^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.^

But surely identical twins are, by definition, identical Confused. They are genetically identical from one egg. They might be slightly different but to the casual eye will look the same (barring different haircuts/ makeup etc).

On the twin thing I think Topsy and Tim has a lot to answer for with the people thinking boy/girl twins can be identical!

Antinerak · 05/09/2021 13:56

I was asked if I knew my tattoos were permanent, and if I had considered not getting them. When I said I'd always wanted tattoos she asked if I'd always had them. Yes, Karen, I popped out of the womb covered with them.

When DH and I moved into our new house and got chatting to the neighbours, one neighbour pulled me to the side and said "Have you realised he's much older than you? Didn't you think about that before you got married?!" She looked genuinely worried.

Idbemonica1 · 05/09/2021 14:16

I work in retail, each year when the christmas catalogue came out they would also send us a copy in braille and an audio cassette. My manager announced at a staff meeting that the braille version was for the blind and the cassette version for the deaf.

Me : what are they supposed to do - play it loud?

Deathraystare · 05/09/2021 15:29

@Lulu1919

I have often replied "No I am going somewhere really shit" in reply!

careerchangeperhaps · 06/09/2021 03:18

I was having trouble with my stitches healing 'down below' after giving birth to DC1. I asked my GP to have a look at my nether regions at my 6 week postnatal checkup as I was concerned about the strange flap hanging out my vag.

He asked me if I was sexually active. My reply: 'I can barely sit down, so... urm.. no, not currently'! He then looked at me again and asked me quite seriously if I had ever been sexually activeConfused. Nope, that's baby Jesus the Second in the pram next to me there Grin!

BritishSummertime · 06/09/2021 07:59

My mum asked her mother as a child whether the world was in black and white when GM was young

DD asked.me this recently, I was 38 Grin

cricketmum84 · 06/09/2021 08:27

@Deathraystare

@Lulu1919

I have often replied "No I am going somewhere really shit" in reply!

I say "yes we booked a week in Iraq"
SpeckledlyHen · 07/09/2021 14:49

@Magstermay

SpeckledlyHen

^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.^

But surely identical twins are, by definition, identical Confused. They are genetically identical from one egg. They might be slightly different but to the casual eye will look the same (barring different haircuts/ makeup etc).

On the twin thing I think Topsy and Tim has a lot to answer for with the people thinking boy/girl twins can be identical!

Yes - I agree but they can still look different. There are some fascinating examples if you google. I have copied and pasted this tiny bit of text regards it "While identical twins form with the same set of genes, human development is not just genetic. The environment also has an impact.1 So, beginning in the early environment of the womb, external influences can change the appearance of twins."
Magstermay · 07/09/2021 22:53

SpeckledlyHen thank you, I’m off to Google!

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