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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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JurassicPark4Eva · 10/09/2025 20:23

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.

My old Detective Sgt wrote a note for me to check the local porn shops for stolen jewellery. I had to tell him, he couldn't keep writing that on every single crime report on the burglary unit 😂😂

CoffeeFluff · 10/09/2025 20:28

My husband rushed me to the hospital when I had Braxton Hicks and said “We think it could be Myers Briggs”

Grimandbearit · 10/09/2025 20:29

Hatty65 · 10/09/2025 16:40

When I worked in a pub years ago the landlord asked me to clean the dildo rail.

I assumed he meant 'dado'.

Reminds me of the time my mum asked me for a dildo album for her birthday. She meant Dido…

souter · 10/09/2025 20:31

DS’s friend (age 10) was hyperventilating. I asked if he’d ever had a panic attack, he said ‘no, but I’ve had a heart attack’. He hadn’t!

Executrixnotextraordinaire · 10/09/2025 20:33

FrogAndToadMakeCookies · 10/09/2025 16:26

A housebound relative in her late 80s once told me she’d had the doctor over and he’d given her antibiotics for her chlamydia… it turned out she had a case of cystitis. She couldn’t understand why we found it so funny!

One year DH said the Christmas Tree looked lovely once Id added the chlamydia. Its lametta you fool 😂

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 10/09/2025 20:35

Walked past and old English sheepdog and bf (at the time) mum said OH LOOK IT'S ONE OF THOSE DUREX DOGS

CrystalSingerFan · 10/09/2025 20:37

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 10/09/2025 18:03

"I'm going to have to get one of those dehumanising machines for the back bedroom," my friend told me.

Oooh, I've got one of those - they're awesome. Amazing how much liquid you have to pour down the sink when you use them.

Grimandbearit · 10/09/2025 20:37

My Mum always says things wrong or accidentally says innuendos without knowing!
She told me once she’d been in the garden trimming her bush and replanting a clitoris (she meant clematis!) 😂😂😂

pussinwellyboots · 10/09/2025 20:38

I was in the office when a service for adults with autism received a GP referral for an adult with asparagus syndrome!

Thunderpants88 · 10/09/2025 20:39

Elderly relative announced in her 80’s she had been “diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome”

Phone call to the Doctor later clarified she was diagnosed with caffeine withdrawal. The same women who smoked like a chimney was also worried about her 6 a day Diet Coke habit and decided to go cold turkey 🤣

DiscouragingDiagnosis · 10/09/2025 20:45

CoffeeFluff · 10/09/2025 20:28

My husband rushed me to the hospital when I had Braxton Hicks and said “We think it could be Myers Briggs”

This nearly made me wee myself - the most corporate malapropism ever

DiscouragingDiagnosis · 10/09/2025 20:46

French mum always said 'willy bean' for wheely bin

PuppiesProzacProsecco · 10/09/2025 20:49

Threads like this make me miss the laughing emoji reaction so badly!

When DS was a toddler, I was making sandwiches for him and DH. DS proudly told his daddy that they could have lunch after mama finished "raping the cheese". He meant grating 🙈

FizzPlease · 10/09/2025 20:49

My Mum was referring to a woman she knew that had "been diagnosed with bipopular disorder"😂

sarahbear87 · 10/09/2025 20:51

My dear late nan used to come out with all sorts of funny things. My fave was when my cousins were talking about fishing licenses and one of them made a joke about poaching and she looked him dead in the eye and said oh have you got a poaching license ?

PrincessOfPreschool · 10/09/2025 20:53

DH the other day: "You know that Wednesday girl on the programme you are watching with DC, they've totally ripped off the girl from the Addams family, right down to her plaits." 😂

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 10/09/2025 20:54

I bought a new Mini and my husband laughed his head off when I told our son it was a John Player Special.

harryhole · 10/09/2025 20:55

DiscouragingDiagnosis · 10/09/2025 20:46

French mum always said 'willy bean' for wheely bin

I LOVE THIS!! Going to use it with my kids from now on!!!

dontcomeatme · 10/09/2025 20:56

After my first baby I lost a lot of blood and got admitted into hospital, I had to have 3 blood transfusions and my wife rang everyone saying "the doctor said Jodies gone into anorexic shock, it's really bad". It was ANEMIC shock 🤣 we still laugh about it now !

Allseeingallknowing · 10/09/2025 20:57

PoppySaidYesIKnow · 10/09/2025 20:04

My mum told us the doctor had prescribed P45 for her skin.

It would certainly cause a reaction!

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 10/09/2025 20:57

Oh and I promise this is true. My best friend and I were talking about jacket potato fillings and I mentioned baked beans. In all seriousness she said that she wouldn’t eat those as we were the same species as them. Yep, she thought we were human beans…

AgathaQuiztee · 10/09/2025 20:59

One of the Admin assistants at the school I work at once told everyone a new Sylvanian family was starting soon. They were Syrian.

whereisit1 · 10/09/2025 20:59

AgathaQuiztee · 10/09/2025 20:59

One of the Admin assistants at the school I work at once told everyone a new Sylvanian family was starting soon. They were Syrian.

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That is fantastic

ChocolateCinderToffee · 10/09/2025 21:05

A neighbour years ago told me she'd had her nose castrated.

That would be cauterized, Jackie.

Cauterized.

PauliesWalnuts · 10/09/2025 21:08

Someone I work with said he’d “ made a great Chinese stir fry with some of those shit cake mushrooms” at the weekend.