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

[MyTrivia]

‘Can dead people inherit money?’

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

Many years ago, before Rightmove, I was house hunting.

One estate agent showed me details of a house he thought I might like.

"Sorry, not for me, the garden is North facing" I said.

The reply came back: "Well, that depends which way you look at it." !!!!!

Is this bad advice? I always do this 😄

People can be very funny about non shop bought food. Years ago I was picking blackberries along a country lane. A young woman driver stopped her car and asked me what I was doing. Me: picking blackberries Driver: What do you do with them? Me: eat them. Driver: Can you eat them? I've also been asked what I was doing when out picking sloes. That was a male driver. We had a long chat about how to make sloe gin.

A work colleague informed she was taking a trip on the Venice-Simpleton Orient Express. I thought yes, that sounds about right. 🙄

I had exactly that when I asked a young woman patient for a urine sample. She was shocked and amazed when I gave her a quick anatomy lesson.

Notice only Jimmi commented on the ice cream

She doesn’t sound particularly sharp

Someone certainly was that clueless. He said it to me & was convinced I was wrong even when I told him that Oxford is in England.

And more worryingly, can sit on juries….

Me too. I'd take my glasses off as well if it wouldn't mean I couldn't read the scales 😆

In the days when it was commonplace to use travellers cheques when travelling abroad...
Me: Are you going on that course in Cardiff, Beth?
My colleague: Yes I am. Will we need traveller's cheques for Wales?

We worked for a high street bank.

Wrong thread again - blaming it on my cold, time for bed

Haven't RTFT so not sure if one of the many MN lawyers have already corrected you but no - dead people cannot inherit.

You have confused a) the moment of inheritance and b) the administration of the estate.

The younger person is deemed to have survived the elder and AT THAT POINT (when they're still alive) inherited. They then die and that inheritance is dealt with as part of their total estate.

Hope you feel better tomorrow. 😘

when I was living in America, my friend’s male friend asked “Do you have hours, minutes and seconds in England?”

Years ago a friend of mine was talking to me about some deal for holidays in the UK, and asked me if Germany was included in that!

Another time she told me about her holiday, somewhere in Europe (possibly a cruise!) and it was around the crossover time with euros. She said they took whatever their previous currency was, euros and also 'something called Sterling?' 😁

This is my actual dream come true!

Oooh that reminds me of an American penpal I used to have - in the late 1990s - who was shocked to hear we have gas central heating in England. 🙄 In the late 1990s!

She was quite snooty and obnoxious anyway, and bragged about her £200,000 city apartment. (In the late 1990s that was very expensive!) And she also bragged about her £30,000 car, and was shocked that DH and I only had one car between us, and it was 12 years old. 'I wouldn't be deen dead in a car that was more than 3 years old' she gasped. She looked down her nose at my DH's job as he was 'just an office worker.' HER DH was a stockbroker. 🙄

The 'oh my gosh you really have central heating?!' comment was one of many stupid, ignorant comments she made.

By the way, I wrote to her for about 1 year altogether, and I stopped writing to her when we moved house. (Didn't give her my new address.) I was put off her for many reasons, but the straw that broke the camel's back was when she said she's coming to England in 3 months and will be staying with me!

Don't think so Brianne, I've moved 20 miles away now. I would love to know if she just turned up at my (old ) house... (She was coming in the mid July, and we moved in early June!)

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This happened at work, we were talking about Amsterdam and I mentioned my mum had been there and visited the Anne Frank museum.

The student who was on a college placement with us piped up: "Was Anne Frank a prostitute?".

This wasn't a young lady either, she was in her 50s.

At the Leamington Peace festival i approached a stall campaigning against badger culling. They had a small stuffed badger.
Me: That's not a real badger.
Stall holder: Oh, yes it is.
Me: It's not like any badger I've ever seen.
Stall holder: We're hear today to inform people and rally against the killing of these poor, gentle creatures.
Me: Gentle? Badgers are huge and vicious.
Stall holder: No, they are not
Me: Have you ever come face to face with a live badger?
Stall holder: No.
Me: I have.

She reminds me of the 'delightful' CF in this wonderful thread!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4624579-cf-acquaintance-turned-up-today-despite-refusing-invite

I can still remember a woman many years ago on a TV show where such things were highlighted saying:

"I love Christmas, I think we should have it every year"

In response to the fact that I as a single/childfree person objecting to the fact that people with children pay nothing extra for them in council tax.

"My children may be looking after you when your old"

What a dumb thing to say.

But you dont need intelligence to post on mumsnet, Just an internet connection.

I mean that’s a fair question to be honest!!

Mate was chatting, and her mother told her to go and live in Portugal as she wanted to live abroad

Why would I do that, she said, I don't speak Spanish?!!

😂