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’

TBF most folk don't know the most northerly county in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Toddler DS had made an Eid card in nursery. Nursery worker “here, it says “Happy Eid” in Muslim” (it was Arabic.)

These ones were actually mine:

Me: “What are those buildings that look like flats over there?”

My friend: “flats”

Me: “do people live in them?”

When learning to drive I said to my DP I didn’t feel safe talking one hand off the wheel and needed to keep them both there at all times.
I didn’t know how to answer when he asked how I’d change gear.

At 25 I was astonished to hear Britain was an island, I hadn’t travelled much and had heard about people driving to France so couldn’t see how it was possible. It took a lot of explaining and I still think I was partly correct 😆.

I had my work colleagues in hysterics by referring to “fish feet” for some reason I believed fish walked on their fins like feet on the sea bed - I did watch the little mermaid a lot as a child!

This one was a friend standing in front of the rotisserie counter at Morrisons looking captivated - “are those chickens dead?”

I’m not as dim as you would assume from these examples, I think I was just very naive when I was younger.
I remember telling a work colleague that my dad was catching haggis in Scotland and they were easy to catch as one leg was longer then the other so they ran in circles. He never corrected me so I believed it until my late twenties.

They have longer legs on one side than the other so they can stand on the steep mountains without falling over 😉

Why aren’t sheep green, to hide in the grass?

Maybe there are green sheep, but we never noticed.

Went into estate agents with DH and he confidently told them we were there to look at second hand used houses 🙄

Instead of flying from a large airport, one year we flew from a very small regional airport. DD2 watched through the window as our bags were loaded onto the plane.
Turns out that for years she didn’t realise that bags go on the same plane you travel on. She thought there was a little luggage plane that followed behind!

I didn’t fly abroad until I was 19 and I thought the check in people were the cabin crew as well. Not sure why really, but I hadn’t much idea about going on holiday outside the UK back then.

Maybe not, but hopefully the majority of people would know that Birmingham is a city, not a county.

That’s funny, but while check in people didn’t quite double as cabin crew, I have flown out of an airport so small that the guy who checked you in then picked up your bag, walked out onto the tarmac, threw it onto the hold and handed a couple of sandwiches in to the pilots.

I don’t need a smoke detector in my house because I don’t smoke.

DH - "That building over there - you know, the shed thing that horses live in".

Me - "You mean a stable?"😁

I overheard my Italian grandma talking to her friend when I went ever to visit her.
The poor English children, their parents they don’t give them wine with dinner, the poor children…

@StardancerintheskyeI don't see why saying, "I'm not scared of falling, I'm scared of landing" is a ridiculous thing to say. It's a very old, pretty lame, joke but also makes sense.

Personally, I'm the other way round. If the pavement is very icy, I hobble along very slowly because I'm scared of falling. The landing bit doesn't scare me (I don't worry about being hurt) but I hate the physical sensation of falling.
Other people don't mind a falling sensation but don't want to be bruised, have a broken wrist/hip (or worse if you fall from a height).

Not a dumb thing to say at all.

Many of us will need support as we age. We might end up living in a care home or we might have carers coming into our own home.

Those carers will be someone's children. If you are child free, they won't be your own children. They could be the children of the person you were talking to..

PS If you are going to make a public post insulting someone else's intelligence, it's always a good idea to proofread before posting. Appearing not to understand the difference between your and you're isn't a good look.

Appearing not to understand the difference between your and you're isn't a good look.

Being a pedant isn't a good look either.

I'm generally polite enough to ignore poor spelling and grammar as I'm aware that it could just be typos or that posters may have dyslexia or that English might not be their first language.

But if a poster is rude enough to call somebody "dumb" (particularly when calling someone dumb because they have made a comment which is actually logical and absolutely correct) then they deserve to be called out for making a spelling error which is so basic that children in Year 2 would have it pointed out to them if they made it in school.

Pedant, you say?
(I love this image and the caption ‘The Pedants’ Revolt’, in case anyone can’t see it.)

What’s wrong with this? Unless they are new build, they are second hand, and used.

But I did recently meet some young adults in their thirties. Somehow the game blind man’s buff came up in the conversation: none of them had even heard of it, despite it being a really old game, often referenced in literature.

My sister about 20: I explained that at my uni we had shared mailboxes. She asks ‘how do you know which mail is for you’? I just looked at her and actually saw the cogs turning til she figured it out. Reader, she’s was at an Ivy League university at the time and is now a psychiatrist. She’s so impractical that when she graduated and I asked ‘how did you manage to even get though medical school’? She said she knew where to turn up and when. I guess being on time really is half the battle!

I say dumb shit all the time. I’m renowned for it. In my fam they play the game of asking me questions to see what bonkers answers I come up with - all in good humour. I’m by far the most academic and successful business wise but completely thick as mince with common sense. I literally avoid playing trivial pursuit type games cos my general knowledge is embarrassing. Specialist subject like tudors and Stuart’s I’m ya girl!

so my worst ones have to be when I got in trouble for cycling through a red light (when I could see there was space) and saying ‘well I thought red lights weren’t for cyclists just cars!’
when viewing a house and people going on about which rooms the light hits and what time of day and the garden and me being like ‘well it really doesn’t matter will just be random everyday won’t it, sun will do its thing whenever’.

I mean there are so many - I just don’t think these through and blurt them out. Keeps the fam amused anyway.

I was at a lunch to accept a cheque for the charity I worked for. The place was full of yummy mummies and I was chatting to several of them before we all sat down. One of them asked me If I had children. On replying that no I didn’t she looked amazed and shrieked ‘what, none at all?’ 🙄

An incorrect perception held by many, many cyclists it would seem.

Not even a teeny-tiny one? How dare you.

😂