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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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mjf981 · 10/09/2025 23:26

An aged friend told me she had her dog vaccinated again 'leptosaurus.'
I pictured a dinosaur.
She meant leptospirosis.

Testerical · 10/09/2025 23:28

mjf981 · 10/09/2025 23:26

An aged friend told me she had her dog vaccinated again 'leptosaurus.'
I pictured a dinosaur.
She meant leptospirosis.

Love that. Always good to be protected against extinct reptiles.

distinctpossibility · 10/09/2025 23:31

I had a new friend at Uni from Ghana. She complained that it was cold in her flat, so I told her to get a hot water bottle from the pound shop.

The next week she told me the hot water bottle hadn't really helped "and the water tasted disgusting!" 😂

Livelovebehappy · 10/09/2025 23:31

Visited a bakery and asked for venerial slices instead of vanilla slices….i still have to pause before I ask because I still say it. Every. Single. Time.

Daygloboo · 10/09/2025 23:32

JurassicPark4Eva · 10/09/2025 20:23

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 😂😂

When she young my cousin came to visit me in north Kondon snd said she'd got off the tube at Sturnpike Lation. She meant Turnpike Lane.

Fionasapples · 10/09/2025 23:32

My auntie went on holiday to Emphasis with her friend, who now unfortunately has dimension.

LeGrillon · 10/09/2025 23:32

Testerical · 10/09/2025 23:25

@LeGrillon you have reminded me that our family photo albums of summer days and parties contain many photos of little “Anus” who was the sibling of my best friend as a young child (family from Libya).

Once they settled in the US, he spelled his name Enas (rather than Anas) which was both sensible and more phonetic.

I’ll always have a record of little Anus on my picnic rug, and in my paddling pool, though.

Edited

I have a friend whose husband's surname is Piles – strangely enough they decided to give their child her surname, not his.

Daygloboo · 10/09/2025 23:33

Daygloboo · 10/09/2025 23:32

When she young my cousin came to visit me in north Kondon snd said she'd got off the tube at Sturnpike Lation. She meant Turnpike Lane.

Oh dear typos

RafaFan · 10/09/2025 23:34

zipadeedodah · 10/09/2025 21:56

I know. A bit like the porn/pawn comments.

I think this might be accent-related...in my accent porn and pawn ("pon") definitely sound different, whereas cucumber and queuecumber do not!

Hominim · 10/09/2025 23:36

This has really cheered me up. Thanks thread!

BakingNana · 10/09/2025 23:36

Dyslexic mother told me she had bought apache socks for her 3 80 plus year old sisters, they were opaque. I was disappointed.

NewsdeskJC · 10/09/2025 23:36

Whys it called that? That Radio 4 programme.
Why would you call it "Cross Incontinents?"
Its a travel show Mum, and its called "Crossing Continents"
Can't unhear it now

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RafaFan · 10/09/2025 23:37

Armpits will forever be armpips in our house, even although my daughter learned the correct word years ago!

ilovesooty · 10/09/2025 23:37

A student once emailed me to ask a question about the organism process. Unfortunately she asked about the orgasmic process.

OliviaBonas · 10/09/2025 23:38

A lady I know commented that the prices were mouthwatering (eye watering.)

Headabovetheparapets · 10/09/2025 23:39

LakieLady · 10/09/2025 23:23

My DM loved having a futility room in the last house they lived in.

🤣 to be fair, considering the speed dirty laundry seems to return to ours I think she might have been right👏👏

genxraver · 10/09/2025 23:40

exH came back empty handed after an unsuccessful trip to the chemist to get some hayfever meds for me......

''I need some 'amphetamines' for my wife. She's breastfeeding, so can she still take them and if so what do you recommend?''

SheRa · 10/09/2025 23:40

Used to work at a spa & an older lady told me she’d booked in for a paedophile. She meant pedicure….

crossedlines · 10/09/2025 23:42

My grandad asked for butt plugs in Boots ‘because I’m off to London for the weekend and the hotel might be noisy.’

VelvetAndPVC · 10/09/2025 23:42

My 4 year old nephew walked in my kitchen and asked whether I had “cock porn in my secret treat cupboard”. Thank fully he clarified “the cock porn with sugar on it”.

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ribbonola · 10/09/2025 23:44

This thread is comedy gold 😂. Thank you all for making me laugh.

As an 11 year old I was out with my family on a canal boat. We were going through a lock and i shouted to my mum "Shall I tie the rope around this bollock?'. I meant bollard and was upset/mortified when everyone absolutely fell about laughing until they cried 😂

Fionasapples · 10/09/2025 23:46

Someone I knew years ago had a husband who operated a pneumatic drill and was diagnosed with "tittiness".

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