To give stupid questions equally stupid answers?

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Such as;

Stupid question asker: Where are you having this BBQ?
Me: In the living room. I did consider having it in the garden but decided the front room is cleaner. I thought I'd set it up by the TV.

Especially when the stupid question asker asks the same stupid questions everytime we have contact such as;

Q: Why is there a bag of rubbish in the kitchen?
A: I'm still waiting for bins from the council and have no-where else to put it. There's rats in next doors garden so I can't keep them outside.
Q: Have you phoned them?
A: Yes.

Three days later;

Q: Why is there a bag of rubbish in the kitchen?
A: I'm still waiting for bins from the council and have no-where else to put it. There's rats in next doors garden so I can't keep them outside.
Q: Have you phoned them?
A: Yes.

Today;

Q: Why is there a bag of rubbish in the kitchen?
A: It's not rubbish, it's my collection of special empty cereal cartons
Q; Well have you phoned the council about the bins yet?
A; You can do that? Jeez, and here's me wondering why they haven't sent my courier pigeon back.

Stupid question asker is no longer speaking to me because I am childish and ungrateful for their helpful suggestions. They find me argumentative.

I don't consider them stupid questions...the BBQ question was not stupid...your answer could have been, we are having it in my garden, in a friend/relatives garden, at the park, at the beach etc

And I imagine they are asking why the rubbish bags still haven't been collected after all the time they have been taking up kitchen space

I love giving stupid answers to stupid question.

DH is a stupid question asked. I alternate between bitingly sarcastic replies and shouting 'for god's sake don't ask such bloody stupid questions!!' He mutters darkly about how cruel I am but I'm gradually training him out of it.

“Where do you keep X?”

Same place it’s always fucking been and has been ever since I’ve known you

Then I am the unreasonable one for snapping.

My boyfriend is highly intelligent and whilst I know where everything is in his flat, he still has trouble finding cutlery in mine... He has his own drawer for clothes (which he picked!!!) and still asks me which it is.

YANBU.

But I really don't think the asker of the BBQ question is looking for 'inside' or 'outside' as their answer.

During every single car journey.

Dh - oh look at that plane
Dd - where?
Me - just up ahead on the hard shoulder (!) - in the bloody sky where else?!? 😡

During every single car journey.

The BBQ was definitely a stupid question. Stupid question asker asked said question while holding an invitation to the BBQ in his hand. My address was on the invitation.

I suppose, if I was in the mood to be fair to stupid question asker, I do have two gardens but the front garden is very small and open and inches away from a main road, so even if he meant which garden, it was still a stupid question.

The bin issue has been discussed at length on numerous, tiring occasions. The bags do get taken away. Kind neighbours are taking them, nearby relatives allow me to bring things to them. BUt I don't knock on the neighbour's door every time I open a can of beans and present her with the empty tin. I have two bags on an unused counter, well away from the food prep area. One contains general rubbish and one contains recycling. When they get full, I take them to a neighbour or relative. Stupid question asker knows this. It was explained to him when he asked the first time. And the second time. By the third time, I decided he was taking the piss and responded accordingly.

The stupid part was asking if I'd called the council to arrange bins three fucking times because who in their right mind would not do that as soon as they realised there were no bins at their property?

Maybe we should arrange for all the stupid question askers to meet up and they can annoy each other instead of us?

My dp always asks stupid questions.

(On serving dinner to dp who is vegetarian)
Dp- which dinner is mine?
Me-the one with the steak
Dp- oh yea didn't realise
(Every single time)

Dp- which cycle should I put the wash machine on
Me- the letter D like it's been the past 5 years

I just answer wrong when stupid question answer knows the answer. Last was at the weekend "Dis you say 'obey' ? He knows I did been married 21 years. Me : " God no!" Him : speechless he can't admit he knew answer to stupid pointless question 😂

Did not dis

My ds asked if a table I had in the living room was a table. So I replied no no it's a banana. His reply no it's not its a table 🙄🙄🙄

Not exactly a stupid question but on the rare occasion that we are late for school we have to sign the Late Register. I always find the question ‘reason for lateness?’ really annoying. I put ‘I don’t know’. Because I don’t. I have no idea why we happen to be late, we just are.

I love my MiL and we get on great, but sometimes she will ask a question that clearly has come solely from her own thought processes and has no grounding in reality. I know that I come across as rather abrupt sometimes, but I'm just so far behind where her mind has got to that I struggle to engage more fully with her question. Such as asking completely out of the blue:

"So are you going to dig up the lawn in your garden so DS can have a sandpit?"

Me "Er, no!?!"

I do this!

DP whinges about it but I tell him stupid questions deserve stupid answers! If he engaged his brain for 0.5 seconds he wouldn't need to ask anyway!

My friend once asked where we kept our ice and was a bit miffed when I said " in the oven". TBF she has several freezers and we were a bit pissed.

I get it op.
It’s the indirectness that irks me, because what he’s really saying is
“ I suspect you are not doing you’ve job properly , and that you should have got on top of this sooner “, it’s passive aggressive, that’s why it’s so annoying.

Where are you having the bbq?
Under the tree, on the patio, the back of the garden, next to the shed

I actually think ohyesiam might be onto something and what stupid question asker meant is re the BBQ is I assume you'll be cleaning all the builder's rubble off the patio so you can you put the BBQ on it?

He definitely didn't mean was I going to have it near the shed, I don't have a shed. He knows this because we talked about it when he took me to collect a lawn mower.

The very same lawnmower which caused him to exclaim "Oh, is that a lawnmower?" when he walked into my kitchen (it was raining).

No, it's a hovercraft. Of course it is a lawn mower, you muppet. The same one you had in the boot of your car yesterday.

I suspect stupid question asker doesn't want to believe I am capable of properly adulting yet. I would ban him from my house but then I'd have to put my own shelves up

My mother does this all of the time. It’s ridiculous.