What are the most ridiculous things you’ve heard a grown adult say? (Lighthearted)

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‘Can dead people inherit money?’

‘If you put disposable nappies in the bin without removing the poo, they decompose’

That reminds me of a young woman who was asking other freshers at university (in North Wales!) which borough they were from.

She genuinely assumed that, because she was from London, everybody else there must be as well - and was very confused when people just gave her a town name or county in response to what they assumed she must be asking.

I bet her head nearly exploded when she heard one of the locals speaking a bizarre, unearthly, magical language that you don't tend to hear spoken in London for the first time

That reminds me that when I asked a woman where she was from she said "The south east". I asked "Of England?" and she said "No, London!" as if I was stupid

I assumed they were as well. Are they not. Don't they rotate from check in to cabin and back !!!???

No.😀 They rotate from check-in desk to handling boarding at the gates, but they’re ground crew, not air.

Thank you. At 56 I'm embarrassed I didn't know that 😅

Yes during covid when you couldn't do much except go for walks i went blackberrying with daughter. We took some tupperware to collect them. Lots of different people asked why we were collecting, seemed amazed when we said we were going to cook with them and asked what/how.

A couple years ago my son's Turkish girlfriend was here and we went blackberrying and made a crumble. She was horrified we were planning to eat something we'd picked out of a hedge down the road. Then she tried the crumble and loved it. I had to make another one before she went home!

I walked a three-mile round trip to and from school every day for five years. At school I was so bad at, and uninterested in, organised sport that I mostly stood around on the field / court and did nothing. Eventually, in year 11 I was let off completely and allowed to study in the library on games afternoons.

My mum when she heard, and knowing all this: Are you sure you're getting enough exercise?

A friend of mine talking about someone she knew, "He can swim but he can't float because he is black"

She actually believed black skin was different to white skin and that black people couldn't float.

Tried explaining to her that all skin is the same, the pigment is not on the surface.

For some people, it’s about not looking poor enough to be eating wild food. Seaweed was a famine food in Ireland, for instance, and people running food businesses involving seaweed say they’re still working against that set of associations.

There is a bit of this in the Hebrides in Scotland too, shellfish like mussels and cockles are seen as "famine food", things you eat only when you have no other option.

Absolutely. Same here to an extent, but fading generationally and undervarious oyster festivals etc. I think there’s a lingering ‘Fish on Fridays’ aura for older generations still, also. It would absolutely never occur to my mother (mid-80s) to have fish if she had people round for dinner, because it still has a penitential, second-best aura for her, even though she actually likes fish herself.

It’s not due to the skin it’s buoyancy. There have been studies…

‘The results indicated similarities in arm span, trunk flexibility, and full inspiration and exhalation of Black and White subjects. However, there were differences in body fat distribution (P ≤ 0.05) and buoyancies (P ≤ 0.01), with Whites storing more fat and having better buoyancy than Blacks. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 9:87-92 © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.’

My mum thought that when someone gives you their account number and sort code to give them a payment, they are simultaneously giving access to the payer to withdraw unlimited funds out of the account?!

I actually said, 'do you really think that when the plumber gives you his details he's enabling you to empty his bank account?'
And she said 'yes'. Deadly serious like.

Yeah after a poo, before breakfast, totally naked.

I cant understand people who weigh themselves with all their clothes and shoes on or in the evening. You'll look so much heavier!

This is really interesting. Though my son's girlfriend's objection seemed to be eating stuff from a hedge was "dirty". She gave it a try after witnessing us washing the blackberries.

But I do understand the stigma (?) about "famine food". Apparently oysters were eaten a lot by poor folk in Victorian times. A hollowed out small loaf stuffed with oysters was known as an "oyster po'boy". Now oysters are seen as posh food but I expect that change took many decades.

Another time I told a French friend that is been to a restaurant (quite expensive) and had pigs trotter, which I loved. He said lot of French people would find that funny because it was considered peasant food in rural France. Literally the rubbish that no one would usually buy.

A neighbour refused to have her female cats spayed. When I tentatively suggested spaying them, her response was no, they need to have at least one litter and anyway “there’s a shortage of kittens at the moment”. We were eventually overrun with poorly, inbred cats and had to involve authorities.

@StardancerintheskyeShe doesn’t sound the brightest!

I was once asked by a fully grown American adult if we had hours, minutes & seconds in England

She's like her grandad

Highly intelligent but common sense isn't a flower that grows in everyone's garden (it certainly doesn't in their case)

If it pops into her brain,it comes out of her mouth-much to our amusement

Back in the 70's I worked in a chemists shop that had one of those old-fashioned weighing machines. We had a woman come in and strip to her underwear before weighing herself!

"There's a shortage of kittens" said no rescuer ever 🤦‍♀️ Our tiny local independent rescue has 87 at the moment, with a waiting list a mile long. Your neighbour is a moron. Well done for getting it sorted.

Haha. Classic. It wasn't me but it could've been!
I did used to use those but I'd preempt it and wear light clothes and sandals and take off my shoes and any layers!

There are unfortunately a lot of people like this. Years ago there was a thread on mumsnet where the OP was huffing about a neighbour or relative advising her to get her female outdoor cat spayed before she got caught by a Tom. OP was really indignant and said it was cruel to deprive her cat "of the chance to be a mum first". She really thought the cat would be traumatised by infertility!

I have heard that from people too, like a cat will be sad or depressed if not allowed to have litter

Aged about 12, ds1 asked the waitress in a cafe “What's in the beef sandwich?” Her face was a picture as she replied “ Beef!”

What he meant was, does the beef sandwich have mustard in it, or salad or tomatoes - but that is not what he asked! He is in his 30s now, and married with three kids, and we still call a daft question a’beef sandwich question’.