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

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chimamandafan · 10/08/2023 18:28

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?

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muchalover · 10/08/2023 22:45

Also, when she was 16 one of my daughters asked "was the protestant religion made so prostitutes could go to heaven".

Clearly I did such a poor job with her 😳

GirlOfTudor · 10/08/2023 22:46

Paddingtonsmarmlade · 10/08/2023 19:45

Either

That it was ok for my ds with a cows milk allergy to eat cake with butter in it because it's not milk it's butter

or

that ds doesn't have asd he is naughty and just needs to told firmly how to behave

Ha! On a similar note my child has a milk allergy too and my husband has said MORE THAN ONCE "Can we just give him milk so he gets over it?" 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️
And my sister in law has advised we give our son kefir. A milk drink. To a child with a severe ige milk allergy 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ She also exclaimed "oh so he has a real allergy!!!" After I showed her a photo of what my child's reactions are like. As if I'd been faking his allergy all this time, faking his gp appointments, dietitian appointments, skin prick tests, prescriptions, and buying expensive milk free products for lols. 🤦🏽‍♀️

crackfoxy · 10/08/2023 22:51

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 10/08/2023 19:32

Someone once told me (in utter seriousness) that the homeless people in London have card reader machines to take payments.

They do!!

Shayisgreat · 10/08/2023 22:52

As a 4 month old baby, my ds was wearing quite stereotypical boys colours - a dark blue onesie. He also had a blue coat that he was wearing in the buggy. At a baby group, the leader referred to him as "she" a few times so I said that he's a boy and she continued to comment a few time over the session on how he looks like a girl and she couldn't believe he was a boy. It was weird.

I'm not originally from the UK. At around Brexit time I was listening to a woman at work saying that she was going to vote for Brexit because she felt that it was too hard for English purple to get jobs because of all the immigrants. I pointed out that I am immigrant and there's a national shortage of my profession. And she told me that she wasn't taking about people like me....... guess what it is about me that was OK in her eyes!

ThelmaBorden · 10/08/2023 22:54

on telling me about a village house I might like to buy, after I said, no it owns the lowest recorded temperature, frost pocket, it’s famously cold there - she said,
O!
well it wasn’t cold when I was there !? (in July)

one of many but the absurdity of this one stood out

Charlize43 · 10/08/2023 22:55

A neighbour of mine, who is single and childless, claiming that it is only women who have children who get dementia.

Despite not having had children myself (lesbian), I've never hear such crock of shit!

GirlOfTudor · 10/08/2023 22:56

Another one is when a 'friend' once asked me if I could go back in time and choose a different husband, would I choose one who's English this time? 🤦🏽‍♀️

BetiYeti · 10/08/2023 22:57

Had a week off during the school summer holidays, returned to work and colleague asked if I have a contract where I don’t work in the summer holidays… I replied with something along the lines of, “Uh no, because I’m sat here now and it’s summer holidays”.

Another one - was about to go on maternity leave and a new colleague asked me what I was going to do with my time off, and she wondered if I would consider doing a course with the Open University…

ThelmaBorden · 10/08/2023 22:59

passiveaggressivenonsense · 10/08/2023 19:46

Son's foreign girlfriend asked if we have rainbows in the uk.

in small town France 2001, buying a telephone and tv, asked in all seriousness did we have televisions or telephones in Angleterre.

Peacelily001 · 10/08/2023 23:00

TheThingIsYeah · 10/08/2023 20:13

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?

Driving on the M1 once, years ago, a tiny woman overtook us towing a caravan.
We were doing 90mph.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 10/08/2023 23:02

I was in A&E with a terrible infection in my c-section scar. The Dr prescribed strong antibiotics. I asked if I could continue to breastfeed. He said no... just go and pump enough milk for the 7 days you'll be taking the course of antibiotics so you can feed your baby. I politely told him that that wasn't really possible. He looked surprised.

Fuckit83 · 10/08/2023 23:03

Watch Stranger Things....it's not scary.

Fuckers.

TogetherInEclecticDreams · 10/08/2023 23:04

HarrietJet · 10/08/2023 19:23

Of course it isn't, op just assumed she was over her terrible affliction 😁
(how does she stay alive if she can't eat! )
It's not remotely the same as saying "Look at you gorging yourself on cake, Doris, aren't you supposed to be on a diet?"

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I can't eat. I'm tube fed. HTH.

FictionalCharacter · 10/08/2023 23:07

Eastofe · 10/08/2023 19:47

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

I was a fully grown adult at the time- he meant my regrowth, as in I was limiting how well my amputated leg would grow back.
I was too suprised to say anything but my friend, who was with me at the time, said " what are you on about?? she's not a fucking starfish"

Your friend is excellent! 😁

MidsummerMimi · 10/08/2023 23:07

I stopped at a red traffic light and the car behind me crashed into the back of my car.
The driver got out and said to me “ I know the light was red, but you should have gone through it.” It was a very busy junction in the middle of a Birmingham.

Piemam · 10/08/2023 23:08

@Simonjt Fucking hell! How utterly rude and disgraceful. Well done to you if you managed to not punch them upon hearing such nonsense.

LunchBoxPolice · 10/08/2023 23:09

I have coeliac disease, my fil knows this .

fil- do you want some cake Lunch?
me - thanks but I can’t, it has gluten in it.
fil-oh, have you still got that disease then?
me - yep
fil- oh. Can’t you just have a little piece?

I wish I could 😭

ThelmaBorden · 10/08/2023 23:15

gabsdot45 · 10/08/2023 20:54

I got lost in a town in America once and stopped to directions. The guy I asked didn't know the way to where I was going but he asked me where I was from
Ireland I said
Wow cool, I went to New Zealand once. He replied.
???

living and working in London, young receptionist asked where I was going for Christmas, I said to my parents in Wilmslow, she said, I have a friend Mary who
lives up north in a place called Leeds, do you know her? true story

Imsureitsprobablymebut · 10/08/2023 23:16

Trying to pump milk as a first time mum to a very prem baby in scbu.
My aunt saw the equipment and asked if I felt like a big fat dairy cow.

I did but what a nasty thing to say.
Formula after that.

Bouncyball23 · 10/08/2023 23:16

chimamandafan · 10/08/2023 18:28

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?

I have a friend tube fed, (looks pefectly healthy) but can occasionally eat small soft foods you were rude and also judgemental.

drunkpeacock · 10/08/2023 23:18

elliejjtiny · 10/08/2023 19:36

When I was proudly showing of an ultrasound of dc1 when I was pregnant someone told me it was rude to show people photos of my insides.

One of dh's elderly relatives told me I shouldn't go on trains because apparently "nice girls" get a coach, not a train.

My 10 year old has moderate learning disability with an iq of about 50. My FIL keeps making "helpful suggestions" of what job he could do in the future. 90% of these jobs require a degree. Apparently me saying that realistically he's not going to get a degree is being negative. I know it's a long way off but at age 10 he can't write, spell or use punctuation.

Worryingly I had a similar conversation with an OFSTed inspector.

I was busy explaining what high expectations looked like for a group of children with severe learning difficulties when he interrupted with
"But why can't they all just be expected to pass their SATS, if you believe in them they will"

Greenberg2 · 10/08/2023 23:18

Hellocatshome · 10/08/2023 18:54

A mental health worker at MIND told.me that most women who have suffered domestic violence were asking for it.

I think that is worth reporting. They shouldn't be in that kind of job.

Teenagehorrorbag · 10/08/2023 23:21

Simonjt · 10/08/2023 19:04

Someone insisted we purchased our children from abroad, as any children who don’t have white British parents are deported as soon as they enter the care system. This person works in a professional capacity (health care) with children.

WTAF....???

FictionalCharacter · 10/08/2023 23:21

Piranhaha · 10/08/2023 20:19

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 🙄

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It’s probably even worse that he thinks no person with autism makes eye contact.
Are you sure he’s qualified?!

drunkpeacock · 10/08/2023 23:22

I also had a complaint from a parent, and passed on by a support worker that her child had been put in a class with a child with Down's syndrome and the mum believed that her son had now caught it and was showing "symptoms".

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