What's the most ridiculous thing anyone has said to you?

[chimamandafan]

I occasionally volunteer at a local community centre. It's managed by a woman who tells anyone who cares to listen that she has a medical condition that means she can't eat. She looks well-nourished but I've always been too polite to ask her questions about her condition.

I volunteered at an afternoon event today. I get the seniors to their seats and make pots of tea. Cake was served. The woman who never eats was standing there eating cake.

'Look at you, eating cake! Are you better?' I said. 'Oh,' she said, 'you know me, you know I can't eat because of my medical condition.' 'But you're eating...' She walked off and is apparently really pissed off with me. Apparently I'm rude.

There are some real weirdos around, aren't there?

My twins were stillborn and my dad said "never mind, try again".

I'm still stunned several years later.

I’m sorry, that must’ve been incredibly painful, on top of an absolute tragedy.

I'm so sorry. What dreadful insensitivity.

When my first child was born prematurely at 31 weeks & was in scbu so I was home without him, several people said
"Oh that's lovely you haven't got to get up in the night for him!".

It really wasn't lovely being separated from him & I was expressing milk every 3-4 hours anyway. I was travelling into the scbu twice a day (in the snow). Scary times.

Weirdly enough the only person who understood (apart from DH obviously) was my mum. We had never been very close but she really stepped up for me during that awful time. He was diagnosed with a serious condition at the time too so that was extra stress.

27 years later he is a gorgeous healthy young man.

Well my daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 2 years ago…. It’s an auto immune disease and her immune disease has killed off the part of her pancreas that makes insulin… therefore she has to inject before eating or drinking certain things.
The things that get said to her/us are crazy!…. I could make a very long list of daft things said !!

’Is she allowed to eat that?’ Being the most frequent and annoying!

or when people who have done no research into it argue with you that she shouldn’t be eating certain foods… or ask ‘if she stops eating sweets will it go away’…. Or ‘oh I hope she grows out of it!’….

I do wish people would keep uneducated remarks to themselves.

That's awful.

My aunt's reaction to the death of her three day old grandson was "They're young,they can have another one".

That the little dots on the outside of an apple were bruises and he wanted another one. His kid had taken a tiny bite out of it, so I refused. He did the 'I'm a big man' thing and I still refused. (He did get another apple eventually, one of my colleagues overrode me.) Makes me wonder if the loon had ever seen an apple before. 🙄

💐 I'm so sorry, what an awful thing to say.

I’m profoundly deaf. Several people have said “have you tried hearing aids”
Do they offer blind people some specs?

Transwomen are actually women. 😆

I have been told to just wear stronger glasses. They don't work! (Because it's a complex issue involving the optic nerve and muscles)

Some blind people do wear glasses - around 7% don't see anything at all

The number of users using this thread to bash trans people is sickening.

Not trans-bashing to say that men can't be women. It's biological fact. Two sexes, male and female, that's it.

Just as no one is expected to express belief in god or flat-earthism or the Loch Ness monster, no one is required to go along with gender ideology which is, just like religion, an unscientific belief system. You are allowed to believe whatever you like and say so: so are gender atheists. Why do you want to silence women who hold views different to yours? It's not a good look.

Sex and gender are 2 different things.

Don't pull the "silencing women" card.

Views which are prejudiced against others should be called out regardless of the GENDER of who makes the transphobic/racist/homophobic/sexist comment

Pretty much every thread these days get infiltrated 🙄

Sadly there isn't a lot of support for transpeople. And I say that as a mother of a trans young adult.
However any rational person accepts sex cannot be changed including my DC.
There has been some very funny statements on here, it's a shame when it loses it's funny intention to other's agendas.

I am a teacher and phoned a parent to ask her if she was aware of school trip for her daughter as she had not given consent for her to go. She said her daughter didn’t want to go as she would have to stand up! I could not believe my ears. She didn’t come. Unbelievable.

I think the instructor was drawing your attention to all those times someone roars past you only for you to catch them up at the next lights xx

What do you mean stand up? Was it a hill walking trip or something?!

No it was a trip by train to Kew Gardens! Some walking involved but lots of sitting too!😂

The MIL comment just sounds like a saying - like someone being late to their own funeral .

https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html

Gender and sex are two very different things, and even just looking at the sex of a person there are vast variations. What about intersex people? What about people born without any reproductive organs? Leave science to the scientists and let people live as they want to. Stop defining people by what's between their legs.

But there are still only two sexes, despite the physical ambiguities of people with DSDs.

There is no such thing as an intersex person, which is why people with differences of sexual development have asked for the term not to be used as many find it offensive as well as inaccurate and misleading. They are all male or female (though for some, the signifiers are not purely external) and they simply have a variation of development one way or another.

They have also asked to be left out of this discussion as DSDs are completely irrelevant to it and it's therefore exploitative, disrespectful and spreads misinformation about what DSDs are. Case in point...

Your sex is defined by bodily signifiers and lucky it is, or humans wouldn't know how to reproduce. Funnily enough, everyone knows which sex to exclude entirely when looking for an egg donor or surrogate mother (or a sperm donor, come to that). Even more strangely, there's something about the main demographic of Mumsnet that attracts many people who supposedly want to erase the concept of sex...

I used to work as a promoter in supermarkets - giving free samples, coupons etc. I was promoting Punjana teabags and one customer I approached backed away saying they “ Only drink English tea “. As grown in Yorkshire presumably