To be amused at a discussion I can overhear?

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At work and currently listening in on a discussion where one woman is trying to explain to a colleague that Jesus was Jewish. Colleague isn't having it

Obviously Jesus was jewish.

I was reading the nativity to DD the other week (yes, she's making me read it early) and she piped up with "Mam, did you know that Joseph is not Jesus' Dad? Jesus is the Son of God!". So I laughed and made a joke of them having to go on to the Jeremy Kyle show for DNA results. DD thought it was hilarious and made me re-tell it over and over.

I'm waiting for the summons from the HT at her Catholic school 🙈

I feel Paul O'Grady would inject this type of humour into anything churchly ...

sproglet I remember me and my friend having a heated debate, Mrs Merton style, with a colleague who insisted the Moon was a planet. No, it’s a Moon (at this point I should point out reference to Alan Stern is banned ). He was a very egotistical and superior type and despite his, obvious to us, embarrassment at being shown up by mere women, could not back down. We refrained from telling him that the Sun is a Star, lest his head exploded.

I’m still laughing at St Pitta st the Pearly Gates, Evie

Fool what? Hindus don’t eat Hare Krishnas? Have I misunderstood?

Thalia 😂

This is like my oh.

Convinced a T-Rex isn't the same thing as a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Told me you can't get saltwater tropical fish, only freshwater like he had as a kid. I explained that the tropics are an area that includes both salt and fresh water and thus both salt and fresh water fish... he wouldn't have it. Every source I pulled up was fake because it was from the internet. He knows best and I've never even had an aquarium so what do I know?
The irony is that we were watching Blue Panet II. A part about coral reefs...

We also had the whole "Jesus wasn't white" argument...

He does crack me up sometimes. The other day he said pufferfish become 'flamboyant'

He said he was the way, the truth and the life and no-one came to the father except by him, etc. So while it may have been logically impossible for him to be literally Christian, he may also have been trying to do something other than business as usual Judaism. Think this was sloe's point.

Sproglets - it doesn't surprise me. Someone told me my twins probably weren't twins because DD is taller than DS. I obviously dreamt the fact that they were born on the same day then!

Thalia, that reminds me of the "Jesus in the cabbage van" MN Thread

And then there was the "Jewish Fridge" thread...

CaveMum, "Jesus in a cabbage van" thread???

Missed that one.

I once worked with someone who couldn't understand how we knew something had been posted in Blackpool as the sender "could have just bought the stamps there"

'Jesus in a cabbage van' is what I say now instead of 'Christ on a bike'.

Anyway... I'm Jewish. And in the UK. And completely white. Although I really rather fancy being 'foreign-looking'.

”I once worked with a girl who couldn't understand that ducks weren't fish, because "they live in water like fish do”.

In Tudor Times, the Church redefined ducks, other waterfowl, and other creatures (sometimes very loosely) associated with water as fish, for the purposes of the Lenten fast. Originally they couldn’t eat any meat or fish, but this rule was relaxed to allow the eating of fish -and then lots of things (including, apparently, sheep seen drinking from a river) as fish, so they could be eaten during Lent.

Oh, Jesus in a cabbage van thread is great. Thanks for the tip-off!

For others in need of a laugh:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1442108-Only-with-Ocado?messages=100&pg=1

I thought it was Jain's that didn't eat root veg because small animals could get injured in harvesting them, which is why they use asafetida?

This was already my favourite thread in ages, then I read Jesus in the Cabbage Van and nearly exploded with happiness.

There was a panicked OP on here once who was in a right state as she found out that her DH had been roasting spuds around the chicken so she was thinking she was going to get salmonella from the "raw" juices and thought he should be cooking them seperately......

More, more please. I so needed this today.
Anyone got any belters about why Christmas trees? Cause Joseph was a carpenter and needed something to do while the 3 wise men and Mary were all hanging out speaking English?

I thank all you beautiful people for making me laugh so hard.

noodle, best quote: "...poor old ancient Dudley in his Iceland van..."

Flamboyant pufferfish 😂 I’ll be adding that to my future NC spreadsheet.

Does Pufferfish boyfriend think they fill up with air by any chance....?

Jesus in a Cabbage Van has me properly 😂

Anyone got any belters about why Christmas trees?

According to the Rev Lionel Fanthorpe, Christmas trees are decorated with garlands especially red ones because the ancient Pagans used to make offerings of raw meat & intestines on trees .