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Can you get me some Euthanasia tablets?

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OdeToTheNorthWestWind · 10/09/2025 16:20

Just seen a slightly rattled friend, whose 88 year old mother made the request. After a bit of gentle questioning, she promised to buy her mum some Echinacea tablets to fend off winter bugs, the next time she is in town. 😄

What strange requests have you had?

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relentlessbrainfog · 11/09/2025 19:46

got told my driving was erotic…hmmm guess they meant erratic 😂

GoodVibesOnly21 · 11/09/2025 19:46

Just remembered, my husband and I went to the cinema and he asked for 2 tickets to see Fuck with Dick and Jane. 🤣🤣🤣 The film is actually called Fun with Dick and Jane. I can’t remember the film at all other than me nearly dying with laughter at what he said.

relentlessbrainfog · 11/09/2025 19:47

Also got told by my nan we was having nookie for dinner…gnocchi nan!! 🫶🏼

quantumbutterfly · 11/09/2025 20:41

relentlessbrainfog · 11/09/2025 19:46

got told my driving was erotic…hmmm guess they meant erratic 😂

Possibly. Were you suggestively fondling the gearstick?

Lurleene · 11/09/2025 21:08

When Olivia Newton John died my DS was very confused to hear she was Australian as he always thought she was from Greece.

researchers3 · 11/09/2025 21:27

SeaAndStars · 10/09/2025 20:16

My mum had seen an advert in a greengrocer's window and asked me what
Man Get Out were. I had to explain Mange tout.

Dad told me he'd been watching a woman on telly called Opera Winfrey.

Someone I used to work with told me she'd sold her bracelet to a porn shop.

Lol at man get out

😆

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 11/09/2025 21:56

A Scottish woman told a friend of mine that a criminal case was being sent to the Prosecutor Physical.

She meant to say Procurator Fiscal.

MrTumblesSpottyBoxers · 11/09/2025 22:24

TootSweeties · 10/09/2025 21:50

My old boss once asked the whole office if anyone had “gone Columbo” before and the number of private detective jokes that followed were hilarious. One of my
workmates came in next day with a looking glass saying he was going Columbo for the first time and it was so silly but funny. I miss office banter.

Not quite the same but my son is two and currently telling everyone “I love bastards!” He loves fast cars.

This reminds me of a friend 20 years ago, we were all young, big group of us, being immature and talking about sex. One guy asked if anyone had done it commando. We looked at him confused, as "going commando" to the rest of us meant not wearing underwear underneath your clothes...it turns out he had thought his whole adult life that it meant having sex dressed in army gear

Papergirl1968 · 11/09/2025 22:49

Cattenberg · 11/09/2025 11:47

When DD was three, her friends included Mr Tilda (Matilda) and Waitress (Beatrice).

My niece’s friend was apparently called Wolf. She was convincingly adamant it was Wolf. Who on earth, we wondered, would be so idiotic as to call their child Wolf.
It turned out to be Ralph…

Koulibiak · 11/09/2025 23:24

Papergirl1968 · 11/09/2025 22:49

My niece’s friend was apparently called Wolf. She was convincingly adamant it was Wolf. Who on earth, we wondered, would be so idiotic as to call their child Wolf.
It turned out to be Ralph…

When I was a kid our neighbour had a baby. My mum saw me talking to her when she came home, and asked me what was the baby’s name. I remember being adamant that the baby’s name was Barcle.

Michael. His name was Michael.

Testerical · 11/09/2025 23:39

The funny thing is, @Koulibiak I can almost hear it as Barcle (pron Baichal) depending on your accent..

Koulibiak · 11/09/2025 23:58

@Testerical thank you! In my defence, we had different languages at home, and different cultures, and their other kids had names I had never heard elsewhere back then, so I was apparently unfazed by the fact they had chosen Barcle for the baby 🤷🏼‍♀️

NotPerfectlyAdverage · 12/09/2025 02:03

HectorPlasm · 11/09/2025 16:18

My Mum also once did a 'who is this?' quiz in the local parish magazine

I had to point out to her that she'd put Harold Shipman for the then Archbishop of Canterbury (the one with beard) and the man with the bald head was in fact Ghandhi and not - as she'd put - Kojak!

Omg this thread is killing me. This is something I would honestly straight faced cock up too.

I have just remembered at a eye test I was asked my hobbies. Being of dark humour and nervous I said drinking. Then on thinking what I'd possibly need glasses for, followed that up with driving. So it came out as drink driving.

"Any chance you have glasses that make the road less fuzzy when I'm pissed up anyone?"

I tried to style it out, but the optometrist looks clearly said "we have a nutter right here".

I do not drink and drive

sashh · 12/09/2025 05:35

LillyPJ · 11/09/2025 10:54

I went to talk on English idioms and their origins. The 'expert' speaker told us that the saying, 'to pass the book', was a corruption of 'to pass the buck'. The whole audience were scratching their heads - none of us had heard anyone say or write about passing 'the book'.

I've heard it, but it was someone with a broad Lancashire accent so book was said like boo with 'k' at the end. When she was told it was buck she pronounced it buck.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 12/09/2025 06:10

In an essay I submitted for my Masters, I quoted a play written by the French playwright, Jacques Cousteau.

The professor very kindly just wrote ‘Jean Cocteau?’ in the margin.

I almost died of embarrassment.

Westfacing · 12/09/2025 09:00

BlueEyedBogWitch · 12/09/2025 06:10

In an essay I submitted for my Masters, I quoted a play written by the French playwright, Jacques Cousteau.

The professor very kindly just wrote ‘Jean Cocteau?’ in the margin.

I almost died of embarrassment.

😂

HelenaWaiting · 12/09/2025 09:24

HeartandSeoul · 11/09/2025 01:59

A friend once declared to a group of us he was ‘ravishing’, when he actually meant to say he was ‘ravenous’! It doesn’t seem as funny when I type it out 😁.

Once when my mother asked my first husband had he enjoyed his dinner he said "Yes, thanks, I was absolutely ravished."

Daygloboo · 12/09/2025 09:35

BlueEyedBogWitch · 12/09/2025 06:10

In an essay I submitted for my Masters, I quoted a play written by the French playwright, Jacques Cousteau.

The professor very kindly just wrote ‘Jean Cocteau?’ in the margin.

I almost died of embarrassment.

🤣

Daygloboo · 12/09/2025 09:37

Daygloboo · 12/09/2025 09:35

🤣

Didnt jacques costeau write The Deep Blue Sea. 😂

KimberleyClark · 12/09/2025 10:26

ToWhitToWhoo · 11/09/2025 19:22

There actually is a street in Oxford called Crotch Crescent!

There’s a street in Cardiff called Fanny Street. Imagine having to give that as your address.

Foundress · 12/09/2025 11:06

@OdeToTheNorthWestWind thank you for this thread it’s so funny it’s cheered me right up. I love the man with the fat balls one. Years ago my DM always used to request a Fiat Diablo when phoning a local taxi firm.

BakewellTart66 · 12/09/2025 11:12

My DM informed us all she was going to the hair salon for a blow job.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 12/09/2025 12:33

Daygloboo · 12/09/2025 09:37

Didnt jacques costeau write The Deep Blue Sea. 😂

He swam about in it a bit, as well.

Daygloboo · 12/09/2025 12:49

BlueEyedBogWitch · 12/09/2025 12:33

He swam about in it a bit, as well.

😁

Koulibiak · 12/09/2025 12:54

HelenaWaiting · 12/09/2025 09:24

Once when my mother asked my first husband had he enjoyed his dinner he said "Yes, thanks, I was absolutely ravished."

Portmanteau of ravenous and famished. Makes sense

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