To ask the silliest things people have said to you. (Title edited by MNHQ)

[Mightymelon]

Mine’s just told me that when DH and I have a daughter (not anytime soon it would seem) I will have to stop dying my hair as it sets a bad example but it would be fine if we had sons.
She has a daughter, and has been dying her hair since 1972... 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄

Does anyone else’s Mil say rediculous things you have no idea how to respond to or just mine?

Regale me with strange MIL stories so I don’t feel so weirded out 😂😂

There's two weeks worth of dust on the mantlepiece you won't have any friends if they see that.
Mil.

Once I was talking to someone I worked with about her pregnancy and child to be. She said I hope the baby has my nose as my partner broke his nose when he was a teenager so has a wonky nose.
I'd like to blame pre baby brain but she always said stupid stuff!

"Of course he's more like a mother and you're more like a father, because you're working".
And

"Yes well he does all the things a mother would usually do"

I do it fucking all

My MIL thinks her son is Golden Boy, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Therefore she has come out with a load of old crap over the years which has the effect (in her eyes) of transferring some of the blame for Golden Boy’s issues from him to me. So I’m perfectly happy to ascribe some of her more stupid and offensive remarks to her being an MIL.

Friend at work with short hair to me with hair past my waist - yes, but how do you wash your hair with it so long?

US cousin on seeing the Victorian glass roof of the Royal museum in Edinburgh - gee, did this used to be a railway station?

The best one came from my ex though. He was having problems with his knee and I was trying to get him to go to the doctor (I suspected psoriatic arthritis which it did turn out to be).
Babe, I'm scared what the doctor will say.
Why?
You know my dad only had one leg.
FFS, he lost it in a motorcycle accident in the 1950s and probably wouldn't now! No one's going to chop your leg off for a sore knee! 😂