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?

This doesn’t make biological sense to me. I understand the struggling to get pregnant part. But the thing is, common sense would dictate that surely if you’re gay then it’s understandable that it won’t just happen, so how would it be a struggle to get pregnant?

6 week old first baby when DM phoned to say if anything happens
to it and it isn’t christened you wont be able to bury it in hallowed ground
sigh
made me think of Tess of the d’Urbevilles and her poor babe

My boss has 3 degrees and is currently studying for a Masters in a medical based field. He tells everyone in his capacity as a "medically trained" person that men who don't ejaculate will develop sepsis as the semen has nowhere to go and travels back into the body to cause infections. He is deadly serious.

You mean the distinction between meat/game/fish and poultry?

When I worked in Starbucks, an American tourist came in and tried to pay with dollars. When I said we only take Euros, she became a bit aggressive telling me that of course they would take dollars. She was quite insistent that I was completely wrong and that Starbucks is an American company, so obviously take dollars.
I tried to explain exchange rates and not having dollars in the till to give her change, but in the end she stomped off in disgust. It was spectacular!

It makes me so sad when people say chickens are stupid. I keep them as pets. They are such sweet creatures, bond with their humans are and more intelligent than many other animals https://thehumaneleague.org/article/are-chickens-smart
Even if they were unintelligent, how does that mean it’s more acceptable to eat them than to eat other animals?
Going by the breathtaking stupidity displayed by some of the people described in this thread, by your friend’s reasoning some humans are fit only to be killed for food!

Rich trophy wife acquaintance insisted that if we paid for a private doctor, they would surely be able to cure DsF's stage 4 lung cancer.

That Henry the 8th was called that because he had 8 wives ....

This from a then 45 year old arguing with a 15 year old with a history book about the Tudors on her lap....

To be fair to your doctor, hotter climates do actually help sufferers of chronic pain. For example, some people with arthritis don't suffer symptoms when they move to Spain. Obviously, it depends what the cause of your pain is, but it certainly can help some conditions.

My MIL is very overweight like 25 stones.
She always tells people 'I hardly eat anything I have no idea why I'm so overweight' and always makes a point of saying 'how do you eat so much but stay slim' when we go for a buffet or a carvery...loves to publicly humiliate me.
Well I agree some people seem to gain weight by just looking at food but she's a secret eater and once I caught her cooking pizza at 2am and she has stashes of chocolate down the sides of her sofa.
But because I'm a nice person (unlike her) I don't want to publicly humiliate her like she does me so I keep my mouth shut about her sneaky eating.

@GameofStrife
what an appalling thing for a gp to say!

I took my teen DD to the doctor for cold like symptoms, he looked in her mouth and declared it was definitely tonsillitis. She looked him dead in the eye and told him that her tonsils had been removed years ago. I mean if he hadn’t examined her (or checked her record) then fine but he actually looked. We never went back to that doctor.

Well the woman shouldn't have kept banging on about not be able to eat anything then should she.

For every action there is a reaction. She deserved the comment. Stupid woman.

Ahahahahaha howling 🤣

Sort of ridiculous, sort of really rude. I was walking back from college the other week and I sometimes smile at people as I pass them by or sometimes I'm just smiling in general because I am that Pollyanna bitch. So, I was walking toward an elderly woman and smiling. It wasn't directed at her it was one of my general smiles. She shouted at me "Don't you fucking grin at me!". Which was ridiculous and rude or ridiculously rude.

She might have a mental health issue.

Just realised this might not be clear. I agree with blackbeard.

Wow! It’s quite funny though.

Well, SIL had a chequered dating history, to put it mildly. I think it was three engagements. So anyway, she announced her pregnancy with the latest man whilst I was pregnant with our youngest. Never mind that my 6 year old was scandalised and said, "but you're not even married!!" 😂when she told us.

Anyway, I go on to have DS. Months after, SIL also has a DS. MIL told DH, "at least she had the decency to wait until you had had a son"???? I have not got the fucking faintest clue what she was on about!!

Also when SIL had said son, and we visited her in hospital, she went into great detail of how breastfeeding was going (I breastfed our three). Unfortunately she was apparently oblivious of the bottle-feeding chart hanging off the end of her bed!!😄I couldn't have given a single shiny shit how she was feeding him!

After I was made redundant as a solicitor I gratefully took a job as a commercial property manager.

One of the female bosses there took great delight on making me work the reception desk, which I did.

One day I was on reception and a woman I vaguely knew from my old job came into the office and said 'well haven't you come down in the world'

I smiled of course and have NEVER forgiven her

@DaisyChayne it was funny. I was taken aback at the time but carried on walking home sort of half laughing to myself.

That reminds me of a time when I too worked part time while at uni. I worked in a shop and got asked to dust some glass shelves. So, much like you, on my knees dusting and in come 2 female customers in their 40s-50s. As they come quite near to me, one loudly said to the other (her friend) "I can never imagine doing THAT job!" in a snooty tone like it was so beneath her and like it was the worst job in the world. I felt like saying, "yeah you would if you needed to pay your bills and had no choice" but I bit my tongue.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was told by a friend that I didn't need any "toxic treatments", I just needed to change my diet. Ok then 🙄.

Also the county council. Absolutely refused to accept that the school my son was offered wasn't my nearest school. At the appeal, they insisted that it was. Would not be moved. My nearest school is less than a minute from my house, the other school was a car journey or a 20 minute walk. I was told it was because I hadn't considered how "the crow flies". Batshit.

It used to be chelated minerals and ABA...🙄