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?

Love this! Do you think he /she had a realisation moment hours later and has been too ashamed ever since to return

watching a film about space with vin diesel in it

‘can you fall off the edge of Mars?” 🤣

@Doyoureallyhavetoask at least I didn't experience it first hand from the mouth of our mother. I learned a long time ago she is a vile human being so I expected nothing less from her than nastiness.

But for my sister to tell me about it wasn't good. I told my sister she had no business telling her anything about me.

I just live knowing I've got a happy life with a lovely husband and 2 wonderful children and she will probably die alone as she drives everyone else away with her bitter and nasty ways

I was cycling clockwise around an island with a friend. I'd studied the map before we started so had a fair idea from the landmarks where we were most of the time. At one point I said were were in the SE (so halfway round) and she looked at me totally unconvinced then said she'd believe me, but only because the sea was on our left hand side. As aforementioned we were going clockwise. The sea was always on our left.

One of the ladies at church told me our son would have been born healthier if I breastfed. Not sure how I was supposed to breastfeed him before birth 🤫

Oh god. My doctor recently reckons all I need to make my chronic pain go away is sunshine

Not mine but one of my best friends was told by one of the older family members that her daughter would be healthier if she bottle fed as the mums chronic illness may pass through the breast milk 🙄

A GP to a friend who had just found out she is pregnant:-

"Are you married?"

On a tour in Rome with my sister. A guy from California asked where we were from. Uk we say. He gets excited and asks if we know Big Dave from Bristol.

😂Yeh obviously we must do as there’s only like 10 people in the UK and we all must know each other…

Attending my estranged fathers funeral yesterday with my half sisters. The celebrant started by saying how they were joined by my fathers two daughters.

What the fuck was I, a fucking mirage.

An interesting feeling being airbrushed out of history.

When I dud a speed awareness course the instructor started by informing us that 'it's scientifically proven that going faster doesn't get you there any quicker'.

Whaaaaat?!

Try telling Usain Bolt that!!

That my husband and I shouldn’t have a child because we couldn’t afford it.

These are so sad. I hated working in shops when I was a student, particularly in my home town where I felt that everyone would assume I was a thicko dropout and gloat at my downfall. But how stupid to judge someone on their career progress when they are aged 18-22 and still studying! Not that those examples would be a fair thing to say to shop workers of any age.

I was in a secondhand bookshop recently and asked if they had a Russian-English or a Russian-French dictionary. The man said no, that's impossible, such a thing doesn't exist. The Russians have a different alphabet, see? So there's no possible way of making a bilingual dictionary. I looked at him hard to see whether he was joking and he really wasn't. 🤔

Oh and when my mother was on end of life care I had a couple of ‘I hope she gets better soon!’

Makes perfect sense. You’re foreign, he went to a foreign place once, the two of you have so much in common

After the Brexit vote but before leaving I was told there was no need to worry about food security or the impact on food imports because 'no one really wants that foreign muck'

Oh and recently an American confidently stated that I must be missing Mummy. I was very confused, until he said aren't you missing the Queen, you all call her Mummy?

Who's Meghan markle?

I was told just yesterday that Scottish people don't use spreadsheets. Context: in a meeting with a Scot (I'm Welsh) who was severely trying to test me/catch me out on Scottish culture.

Sadly saying 'we don't use Spreadsheets in Scotland' outed him totally

@Brexile - I felt that everyone would assume I was a thicko dropout [working in retail]

You've told us more about your own snobbery than you may have intended.

Dictionary guy was funny, though!

Eastofe · Today 19:47

That by wearing my prosthetic so often I was going to stunt the natural growth of my leg.

What is it with some people and disabled people?

I've got a friend who is an above the knee amputee and I often help him by driving, or doing odd jobs. We were leaving an Aldi, I was pushing the trolley and he was holding the side.

A woman came up behind and trod on my heel, then said, "Come on, you're blocking the door!"

He apologised and said that he was disabled and she retorted, "Well, you'd move quicker if you didn't drag your leg!"

His leg doesn't have a properly articulated joint.

years ago at the childminders, one of the other little boys was always walking on his tippy toes and the childminder said ‘oh that’s because his father is French’

3 stick in my mind, all from here.

I once posted about whether I should take the MAP we'd just spent a lot of money on a 'lasf childfree holiday'. . One poster said 'you're the type to get your baby aborted because they have brown eyes not blue aren't you? Another then said 'it wouldn't be a problem for me because unlike you I'm not addicted to seafood.

It was utterly surreal

Then during covid, as a teacher who was putting her 2 year old in childcare I was told I was a 'disgrace to the profession'.

A friend’s daughter had a job in a bookshop while she was at university and a customer came in and said “I really enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey and my friend told me if I’d enjoyed that I’d also enjoy Mein Kampf so have you got a copy?”

My child has microtia (born with one ear missing). The amount of people who have asked 'will it grow back...?'

What’s a MAP in this context?