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

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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?

They should be disciplined for this!! Awful

Well if men want to be women you need to get used to being silenced, mocked as the weaker sex, Followed, taunted by drunk blokes, called a split arse, have your opinion dismissed, felt up, intimidated & make late night shopping decisions based on how close the car park is to the main entrance.

I mean I wouldn’t go to the Tesco late at night and walk through the gulley but I would go to the co-op where the staff can see all the car park through the glass.

Welcome to the club! It’s loads of fun being a woman.

I forgot, my first driving instructor who advertised himself as nervous driver qualified and friendly. He used to scream his head off at every infraction that other drivers on the road committed, ie cutting me up at round abouts and it was so bad that I'd flinch because of CPTSD. He was fed up of my flinching and asked why I was so scared, I told him CPTSD and he replied "Well don't you think it's time you got over it?".

“The IVF probably won’t work but then afterwards you’ll just relax and it’ll happen. That happens to lots of people!” - A friend, just after I’d explained to her that we were having IVF with PGD to make sure the baby wouldn’t inherit my genetic condition, and that we didn’t consider conceiving naturally to be an option.

“I know it’s the Ancient Egypt exhibit, but how many of the mummies were dug up here in Leicester?” - overheard in a museum.

“You’re looking much better, much fatter around your face!” - from a woman I volunteered with who had decided I was anorexic. A) I didn’t have, and never have had, an eating disorder, I was a naturally skinny teenager, and B) If I had had an eating disorder, I’m pretty sure telling me my face looked fat would be a startlingly unhelpful thing to say! The same woman berated me about “girls these days” being shallow and too picky with men after she asked after a boyfriend who had volunteered with me a few times and I told her we weren’t together any more. “He really loved you, you know!”. He’d hit me. That’s why we weren’t together any more.

Are you saying that the delicious Yorkshire Tea I love, ISN'T actually from Yorkshire 😳

There is a tea plantation in Tregothnan, in Cornwall.

There's also cold climate tea grown in Argyll.

Similar to the tea…

I sell chocolate. We sell it by origin, so Ugandan, Colombian, Madagascan etc.

I’ve had more than one customer get irate that we don’t sell British chocolate. Good luck with that 🤷🏻‍♀️

lol, thanks M wink

I heard a woman in Tesco Ilkley assuring a visitor from elsewhere the tea was ‘high grown on the moors’ in a secret location - another one ranting that Yorkshire Tea contravened the Trades Description Act (do we still have this)

Yes, why don’t you sell British chocolate? Tsk 😂

do you sell Grenadian chocolate? we are hooked but struggling to find it apart
from Lidl and Aldi?
we watched a vid on the making of chocolate from the cocoa beans, very messy,
left out to dry in bright hot sunshine, not much chance of achieving that here in summer

Girl in mid-20s, met at family bbq. Told my partner and I in-depth story of her skin cancer troubles and having to have moles removed and being under an Oncologist. Had every sympathy until she turned around and lit up a fag…..wtf?!

DrSbaitso · Yesterday 22:19

There's also cold climate tea grown in Argyll.

Is there, I didn't know that, but I have had Welsh grown tea.

That’s like what I see at the main hospital. People outside with oxygen tanks and smoking in the hatched no smoking areas.

I remember getting radiation treatment and staff having to remind patients not to smoke while there due to oxygen masks connected to the walls.

And some other parts of Scotland too, apparently. I didn't know about the Welsh, I'll have to try that.

This wasn't a blonde girl beginning with S in Manchester was it? 😂🤭

DrSbaitso · Today 19:42

The Welsh one is something or other Gold, it's a strong, builder's type. I like it.

Do they?

Smoggies celerate Xmas by eating their first born. True fact.

“You can really do that? But you are only a woman! 😤

Something I have noticed is that if you are supportive of trans the trans-bashers will instigate pile-ons against your posts no matter how in innocuous. I had to name change because of this.

One of my friends is Polish and a mutual acquaintance asked me (in hushed tones) if our Polish friend ate curry.

I said 'she's from Poland, not Mars!'

I reckon even Martians would eat curry, it’s the food of gods!

‘You mustn’t go swimming when you’re pregnant! Your bones will open and you’ll lose the baby,’
(The speaker was from
a Mediterranean culture that was awash with such ‘advice’.)