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’

One of my father's co-workers, a nurse, thought that weddings were invented after WWII. My father reminded her that Jesus had been at a wedding, and she got really angry at him ( my dad, not Jesus).

You know when Americans think that Alaska is an island because it is in s little box in the south east corner of the map? We have the same thing in Denmark with the island Bornholm. It is located to the east, just south if Sweden but on maps it is often in a box in the north western corner. So some people from Zealand think that they have to drive more than six hours through Funen and Jutland to get there instead of getting on a short ferry trip from Copenhagen.

Turkey man was the best

Every answer was 'turkey'!

I laughed and felt so bad for him at the same time

To be fair, if the Queen, Charles and William had all died before William's first birthday he would have been a one year old King. Henry VI was 8 months old when he became King.

Me, a trained nurse, having an X-ray of a foot injury...

Radiographer: <positions my foot with the uninjured side uppermost>
Me: Oh that side's fine, it's the other side that hurts
Radiographer: Explains very slowly in tiny words how an X-ray works

Honestly, I was mortified. In my defence, I'm quite shy and there were 3 people in the room and I was waffling. But still, what an eejit.

@WorstPaceScenario I’m not medically trained but I said the same thing when they x-rayed my wrist after I fell. I felt such an idiot!

DD2 when she was about 16/17

Do cats have skin?

Just remembered this, there’s two years between DD1 and DD2, but they have always looked very alike.

Random woman “Oh they’re so cute, are they twins?”

Me “ No, there’s a couple of years between them”

Woman “ Are you sure?”

Me “Erm, yes, pretty sure”

Overheard “maybe the sun will rise on the other side tomorrow”.

Yes - but IS the Pope a Catholic?

Left the rest of us slightly stunned...

Mum: what do you want for Christmas?
Me: can i have a book please?
Mum: where do you buy books from?

DD1 called me one night from uni, after closing time. Walking across the campus.
"Mum there's a badger on the path, what should I do?"
I suggested that she go around the badger. She has never been allowed to forget this😀

Grown adults in our local corner shop agonising over the life changing decision of what flavour Lost Mary to choose.
Its somewhere between hilarious and frankly tragic.

“can you try talking to this person on the phone, he’s too far away and I can’t hear him” (he was calling from Leeds)
“How come the cows don’t eat the sheep?”

😂😂

We will smash the gangs - Sir Keir

DD2 in her shared house at Uni rang me;
'Mum there are two beavers in the garden!'
(Me)... ' are you sure? I don't think there are any beavers in the uk , and definitely not in central Nottingham!'
thinks for a mo... 'are they black and white ?'
'Yes!'
'They are badgers darling....'😆

Oh and her eldest sister (then aged 17)..
Just landed back from our holiday in Florida. DD1 was amazed to see our bags were already on the carousel.
'How did they get here SO fast?'
We all looked at her and waited... knowing something dumb was about to come out of her mouth...
'How do you THINK they got here?!'
Yep.... turned out she thought the baggage track went ALL the way under the ocean from Heathrow to Florida....not on the plane.

Thing is, she's actually very bright...and now a doctor! She's just a bit 'brain lite' soemtimes😂

That has reminded me of Lisa Maxwell saying on Loose Women many years ago that she wouldn't eat apples off the tree in the garden - they were alright for the kids but she wanted ones that came in plastic from a shop for herself.

Yeah poison those kids with those bad apples 🍏
I can’t bear that show.
Used to watch it back in the day for Jane MacDonald only.

And these people have the vote..

That’s kind of entrancing in a surrealist poem kind of way.

Someone I used to work with told me she was looking forward to her holiday in the US. because she wanted to see where Titanic docked.

Uhmmm....

Woman waiting to pay for her bottle of wine in a corner shop. Reads label on bottle intently, points to the foot of the label where it shows the volume of 70cl and comments to her friends:

"What does 'seventy see ell' mean?"

Friends in unison: "Dunno".

If each country did have its own sun, the one for the UK isn’t up to scratch at the moment ! It tends to flounce now and again . Some suns are better than others it seems! Lol

I haven't watched it for years either, it was bad enough back then.

I got the impression it was the naturalness of those tree growing apples that bothered her.

It would be interesting to hear her views on lab grown meat.