Mansplaining knob

[HolidayHattie]

Just overheard a man telling his female colleague at great length about the football tonight. That England played Andorra* on Saturday [true] and tonight they are playing Slovakia in Nottingham in a world cup qualifier. He imparted a lot more information and said it all with total confidence. Honestly, I almost believed him.

England are playing Senegal in a friendly.

• He may even have said they played IN Andorra. The game was actually in Barcelona.

What gems have you heard recently?

That would be no, I didn’t buy any. No one says ‘yes I didn’t buy any’

Si means yes, I did buy bread. It means yes, affirmative.

Or I might say it's something like, 'Of COURSE I bought bread'.

I had one who had been hired to come along for his specialism on a site start explaining mine to me.

I was too tried to bother saying anything. The worst part is that he was so nice about it. Like he really thought he was being helpful.

Ugh.

My dad was recently mansplaining to me about my car.

Dad- oh yes, you can turn X setting off through the settings for Y
me- no you can’t
dad- yes you can, just go in to the settings for X on your menu
me- dad, I don’t have X on my car

he carried on for a while after this!!

🙄🙄

please read my post again ….

he wasn’t imparting important information as a doctor he was unnecessarily explaining the stages of labour I had successfully passed though twice , totally unnecessary and in no way connected to anything that was going on in the room

literally walked in after a very long labour where’s I’d been expertly taken care of , randomly mansplained the 3 stages of labour and then left again , totally unnecessary explanation as I had not asked for any explanation, I was well versed both by my occupation and by the fact I’d been through those stage twice

literally the very definition of mansplaining

So I was making a general point. You put it back to your specific experience. I don’t need to read your post again but thanks for the condescension.

I didn’t know this.

So ‘Si (you are correct) I didn’t buy any bread’

Whereas we respond with the negative, rather than confirming one positively.

Si also means yes. So in the first example the person did buy bread. In English we might say “I did” instead of “yes”. Si is a sort of contradictory yes.

I’ve got a hybrid car. I stopped to refuel. A man at the next pump helpfully pointed out that my car is electric so I don’t need to put fuel in it. He seemed genuinely annoyed when I politely explained that I did, and that I had the audacity to Refuel my car, despite his advice that I didn’t need to. 🥴

Yeah, mansplaining the parking. I've never had a woman do that to me. And DH says he's never had anyone do it to him, funny that....

wonder where he thought you were putting the petrol?😂

@ErnestTheBavarian I hope you kindly explained to him what 'hybrid' means.

I get that quite a lot, but so does my (adult) son! I put it down to us being southerners who have moved to the North - once people hear our accents they just don't trust us.

The (semi-retired) chap on the checkout at Asda told me how to do housework and keep on top of it.

When I was on maternity leave with twins.

I’d just started a polite conversation with an adult I’d encountered to pass the time as he scanned my shopping. Did not need a lecture on housekeeping (tbh, my DH could have done with listening to that TED Talk).