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?

My ds was diagnosed with CMPA as a baby. Luckily he has outgrown it now, but my Nan just could not understand it. “He’s allergic to milk? How? That’s just not possible. He’s drinking milk now” yeah he is… a special prescription formula

She did eventually cotton on and would buy things like chocolate and sweets from the free from section but my god it took a while

This one's so sweet!

I've never thought about this before but are there rainbows everywhere? Some places must be more rainbow heavy than others, right?

Allergic to foam
I bet you had to be careful not to froth with rage, in case you sent her into anaphylactic shock.

I said it cheerfully with a smile as in 'Hooray, you must have recovered, you're eating!'

Bear in mind that she tells everyone and their cat that she can't eat because of this condition. I was told before I ever met her that she can't eat. She must have told me a dozen times in the year or so I've known her.

Do you seriously think it was more rude of me to celebrate that she was better than it was for her to stand there, in front of 20 or more service-users, and insist she wasn't eating?

I'm not long back from a holiday in my touring caravan and it reminded me of the time we were down in Devon and a bloke on the site telling me they came down from Liverpool in no time as they were towing at 120mph. I mean, why do people come out with such utter bullshit?

YANBU

Of course such nonsense needs to be called out.

I had my autism assessment via Zoom (long story, basically if you’re willing to be assessed via Zoom instead of face to face the waiting list drops from 4 years to 6 months).

The assessor said I couldn’t be autistic because I made eye contact. I pointed out that my computer uses an AI tool called NVidia Broadcast which (among other things) edits your video feed to make it appear as if you’re making eye contact with the camera.

He’d never heard of it. A guy who does Zoom assessments for a living had never heard of AI tools that simulate eye contact 🙄

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to you friend

My mother insists my cousin has "a touch of Down Syndrome" because of his eye shape 🙄

And gets very huffy every time she trots out this opinion and I correct her about the presence or absence of chromosomes 🤦🏻‍♀️

My sil is the same :) But she is nice. I sent her a cartoon which said "well, one side of me is vegetarian and the other is a side of bacon"

OP, I actually do know someone who can’t eat due to a medical problem. She is fed directly through a tube to her stomach. She sometimes eats small amounts of food others have prepared to be social/polite. Could that be like your colleague?

I have to say that if you have never asked your colleague what the situation is, then this is a pretty mean thread to start to ridicule her.

A woman picking her dc up from school told me off for driving to school, I told her I had to drive as I come straight from work, and it would take 20 minutes to walk. She told me I didn't need to work as I had a husband, that I was just greedy, and that working mothers are all that is wrong with society!

Ffs people are ridiculous sometimes!

😂😂😂

What kind of insensitive dullard do you have to be to say something as completely inappropriate as that? There's ridiculous and there's stupid and then there's the people who missed out on basic socialisation. Poor you, saraclara, you deserved so much better than that.

Good grief that's a safeguarding cause for concern! Awful.

I grew up with a compulsive liar, and it wasn’t the constant small lies about absolutely everything that were the most ridiculous, but the elaborate, convoluted, utter fantasies involving other people some of whom had no idea about any of it or even knew this person. 😂 It’s easy to laugh now, but at the time it was a complete mind fuck, if I’m honest.

TBF this person was probably told as a child that it was KFC in the feed.

I had similar to this, she couldn't have WiFi at home as she could "feel" the WiFi and it made her very ill. That she could feel the WiFi anywhere she went and her friends were very inconsiderate not turning it off if she came round.

The whole time she was telling me all this we were stood in a shop with WiFi that you could join. So awkward!

There used to be collections for every birthday. I got handed a jumper for mine 'so you can be the same colour as the seats' (a purply lilac shade in case anyone cares)

My friend’s husband gets very annoyed by any suggestion that he and his twin brother are identical. It’s well known in the family that they shared a placenta in the womb (“they’re very close/both like olives/enjoy a certain type of beer, must be because they shared a placenta”, that kind of thing) and they’re the absolute double of each other, so much so his brother was congratulated numerous times on their nuptials at their wedding.

But they’re fraternal twins apparently because his mum remembers having sex twice the night she conceived so that’s once for each twin and thus definitely cannot be identical.

This was years ago during the troubles. A "friend" of my boyfriend and his mates, known, for reasons that will be obvious, as fast Eddie, suggested that in order to end the troubles all the army needed to do was to drop booby trapped coke cans over Northern Ireland, and then when they were picked up by the IRA they'd explode and kill them.

Although we were drinking he was deadly serious.

And they were a woman which somehow made it even worse.

Me too. She claimed chickens had such low IQs they were classified as vegetables. Loon.

A girl I went to college with many years ago told me littering only counts in grass, not on pavements. 🤣🤣🤣