What stupid questions have you been asked or overheard?

[TheTecknician]

During a training session when I worked in the motor insurance business, someone enquired if 'registration' and 'registration mark' were the same thing. The trainer's disdainful expression was a corker. In fairness to our enquirer, he has come a long way and is now MD of a large commercial insurance broker.

I think one daft question we will all have heard at some time or other is,

'Excuse me, do you have the right time?'
'No, but I have the wrong time if that's any use.'

But there are loads of things in the pound shop that are more than a pound

Is it just me who finds a lot of this thread downright mean?

Not just you, this thread is very mean.

My friend bought a new TV. She proudly said that even though it was a Japanese set, she could watch British programmes on it

At a city farm and overheard a child about 5 or 6 asking her dad "what is that?" Pointing at a goat.
Dad said confidently "its a sheep" I had to hide my face 😂

What was life like before colour? Can I remember when I first saw things in colour?

I have boy/girl twins & have been asked SOOO many times if they are identical!
always makes me laugh!

But there is. Book of Mormon😂

Doesn't it start at 10 in the Vatican? I have been to a lot of churches where it starts at 11 or 11.30

I think the most stupid recurring one is when someone calls your house phone and asks if your at home 😂

Are you from China? Blue eyes, light brown hair from Northern England.

SIL (and her sister, a doctor’s receptionist so she knew about these things..) sagely telling me not to eat pineapple during pregnancy as the fibres can cut the foetus 😵‍💫

I loved those uniforms. I grew up in central London and there was a nurse’s home for Westminster Hospital at the top of my street. I was in awe of the nurses who looked so smart, and i always feel very nostalgic when I see them on tv. My GM even made me a Sindy nurse uniform with a cape with red straps.

Also, "Do you have phones in Ireland?"

Even more stupid is to be unaware of Call Diversion.

I think I attract stupid questions, one of my ‘favourites’ is when a team member came over to ask me what an email she’d received was about.

I did not send the email neither was I cc-ed into the email, she looked blankly at me when I stated I had literally no idea what it was about. However she was delighted when I suggested she go back to the email sender to ask them.

DD perfected the eye roll at a very early age due to that

As a South African it can be quite interesting travelling to other countries (sorry USA, but I am looking at you on this one)

We were asked repeatedly if we have lions that roam around our houses, and did we have any as pets. When we said no, they asked what pets do we have. When we said a dog, his face showed such disappointment at hearing that. 😂

More than once asked how could we be from Africa as we are white.

Singing along to a song, my dd was asked how she knew the words. As how did we get to hear the latest hits when we don't have electricity.

Many were shocked that we have cities, and buildings, and even a car.

My mother would ask things like that.

My parents visited and I had a friend staying who is Deaf and from Jordan.

I said to my mum to have look at friend's watch. My mum comes out with, "Oh is it in Braille?"

When my eldest niece was 3 or 4 I'd gone with her and her dad to a place with animals. My niece was stroking a goat, my brother asked, "What does that feel like?"

Niece paused for a beat and said, "It feels like goat Daddy".

I've had some corkers as a supply teacher.

Am you English or am you accent?

I've told this one before.

In class I thought I herd someone say 'pheasant' apparently not but then she asked me what a pheasant is. So I said it's a type of bird you can eat them.

Then came the question, "Uhg who'd eat a bird?"

So I asked her if she ate chicken. Suddenly the realisation that chicken the meat is the same as chickens / hens washed over her. She was about 17.

One of the tasks I give the students is some cut out paper 'dolls' for them to outline the main body systems, so respiratory on one, heat and blood on another, etc. I'm always aske why I have given then 2 dolls reproduction.

Working i a hospital int he dark ages when the only way to request a test was to fill in a form and either put it in the internal post or bring it to the department.

A Dr phoned up and asked if I had received a request for a test on patient X. So I checked the internal post I was just opening, nothing there.

So I say "Sorry we have not received it yet"

I was then asked, "When will you receive it?"

Arriving at work one day in head to toe leather and carrying a crash helmet and a Dr asked me, "Do you ride a motorbike?" One of the radiographers informed him that no I actually swam.

I think she's differentiating between "Do you have the time?" and "Do you have the right time?" No one asks for the wrong time.

DS asked me this when he was little. It's because he'd seen old ohotos of me in black and white.

There are now, but back when Poundland started everything was £1. I remember going in there for the first time and seeing stuff like sun cream and couldn't believe it was only £1. So I asked the assistant how much it was. Reply: "Everything is £1."

That's brilliant! Blackpool?

My sister in law asked my Scottish father if he had to learn the language when he moved to England

Has anybody noticed that with twins on TV or film, if they’re not identical, they are always boy and girl, and often looking very similar? Nobody ever has same-sex non-identical twins in fiction (I’d be glad to learn of any exceptions). Maybe that is why people get confused.

Geri Halliwell wrote in her autobiography that they were shown a video about sex at junior school, the boys had their eyes sticking out on stalks, and she herself asked “with twins, does that mean you do it twice?”.