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To share the stupidest thing I have ever heard

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Sparklfairy · 10/10/2020 13:44

My friend is away in a country that a few days into her holiday brought in quarantine restrictions upon returning to the UK. No big deal to her, she can wfh and organise deliveries etc.

She just told me she was chatting around the pool and people are confused about when quarantine actually 'starts'. Most have convinced themselves it's the day after you land 'to give them time to go shopping and get food and everything ready and stuff'.

So you're quarantined, but you have a magical window of time where you can get supplies and merrily skip round the supermarket infecting everyone saying 'Oh, I'm not in quarantine until tomorrow'.

I'm not sure if they're spectacularly thick or just so entitled they've twisted the rules to suit themselves. I don't normally get annoyed about CV or what other people do but really!?

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ScarMatty · 10/10/2020 21:23

@Sparklfairy

My friend is away in a country that a few days into her holiday brought in quarantine restrictions upon returning to the UK. No big deal to her, she can wfh and organise deliveries etc.

She just told me she was chatting around the pool and people are confused about when quarantine actually 'starts'. Most have convinced themselves it's the day after you land 'to give them time to go shopping and get food and everything ready and stuff'.

So you're quarantined, but you have a magical window of time where you can get supplies and merrily skip round the supermarket infecting everyone saying 'Oh, I'm not in quarantine until tomorrow'.

I'm not sure if they're spectacularly thick or just so entitled they've twisted the rules to suit themselves. I don't normally get annoyed about CV or what other people do but really!?

To be fair, when returning from holiday, quarantine day #1 is the day after you land
WellQualifiedToRepresentTheLBC · 10/10/2020 21:24

Some of the thickest comments I've had are from hcps.

A maternity nurse once told me to be careful not to weight train, because the lactic acid produced by this activity would turn my milk sour. She rolled her eyes indulgently at me when i suggested she might want to fact check that advice.

I once spent hours of my life that I will never get back trying to explain to a nurse why I did need to get the booster jabs usually recommended for mums from African countries... because I am African born and bred... I'm just not black. This woman truly could not understand that there are white people living in Africa, who are just as exposed to certain risks/infections as their Black neighbours...

Butterer · 10/10/2020 21:26

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MountainMert · 10/10/2020 21:27

@WellQualifiedToRepresentTheLBC

Some of the thickest comments I've had are from hcps.

A maternity nurse once told me to be careful not to weight train, because the lactic acid produced by this activity would turn my milk sour. She rolled her eyes indulgently at me when i suggested she might want to fact check that advice.

I once spent hours of my life that I will never get back trying to explain to a nurse why I did need to get the booster jabs usually recommended for mums from African countries... because I am African born and bred... I'm just not black. This woman truly could not understand that there are white people living in Africa, who are just as exposed to certain risks/infections as their Black neighbours...

When I was pregnant, I had an awful infection and had literal pus coming out of my urethra. I told a doctor this on the ward (I had been admitted because I had pain, reduced foetal movements, fainting and hadn't urinated in over two days). She said "I think you mean your vagina". I insisted that I had pus coming out of my urethra, not vagina but she refused to accept it and patronisingly told me what a urethra and vagina are. She then insisted on swabbing my vagina and told me it didn't look like there was any pus (which is SHOCKING considering I had told her there fucking wasn't). And then she lost the fucking swab and I never had results for the swab that she put in the wrong fucking place anyway.
SirGawain · 10/10/2020 21:29

Many years ago I was visiting a church with a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein. A member of the youth group said, "don't you mean Brian Epstein".

keeprocking · 10/10/2020 21:30

@MollyButton

Jaichangecentfoisdenom

*Has nobody heard of "Brideshead Revisited"?

Only really in the context of it being on tv and boring, when I was growing up at least - it put me off seeking it out to read for pleasure in later life.*

Your generation....
Mine in the 70s early 80s - everyone watched it if only to get a glimpse of Anthony Andrews bum...
So regardless of education most women of a certain age have heard of Evelyn Waugh.

I am sad if Librarians haven't heard of George Eliot too.

Or to get a look at Aloysius, the teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited. Personally I always preferred Jeremy Irons to Anthony Andrews.
MountainMert · 10/10/2020 21:38

@ArtieFufkinPolymerRecords

Many women take their tampon out to pee so they don't get urine on the string.

How would you know that? I mean surely it wouldn't come up in general conversation, and certainly not enough for you to conclude that many women do it.

The women in my life regularly discuss periods, menstruation and tampons in general conversation. I don't think that's particularly unusual.
SirGawain · 10/10/2020 21:39

I recall the The_Numskulls in the Beezer comic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Numskulls

30daysoflight · 10/10/2020 21:52

Can we stop talking about George Eliot.

Obviously some people haven't heard of him Grin

StillWeRise · 10/10/2020 22:01

@Graphista you are remembering the Numskulls
www.beano.com/posts/the-numskulls-1995

cunningartificer · 10/10/2020 22:02

The trouble is that either someone has a low IQ, so finds it hard to retain knowledge (like my brother in law—it’s not funny for him to navigate the world) or they are disadvantaged and haven’t had the opportunity to learn something. I taught at a school where the children didn’t realise, as teenagers, the moon went round the earth. I was showing them with a lamp and a tennis ball how the phases of the Moon worked when I realised a few of them had no idea about how shadows worked either. It may have been funny to some but I just found it a bit sad, and loved that they were excited by the learning!

96chick · 10/10/2020 22:03

Unrelated to coronavirus but on the subject of stupidest things I’ve heard... a colleague of mine thought that when you send a fax to someone they get the exact same bit of paper that you put in 🙃

AdoreTheBeach · 10/10/2020 22:05

The idiots on another MN thread who think it’s ok to give false phone numbers for NHS track and trace. Still makes my blood boil.

Ilovelblue · 10/10/2020 22:07

I was making a cake for a group I volunteer with and as the one I planned on had ground almonds in, I asked if anyone had a nut allergy and explained the ground almonds weren't visible so I really needed to check. One particular woman (who, as it happened, I disliked anyway) said she hadn't realised almonds were nuts!

JohnRokesmith · 10/10/2020 22:17

@Ilovelblue

I was making a cake for a group I volunteer with and as the one I planned on had ground almonds in, I asked if anyone had a nut allergy and explained the ground almonds weren't visible so I really needed to check. One particular woman (who, as it happened, I disliked anyway) said she hadn't realised almonds were nuts!
Almonds aren’t nuts, though. I mean, it’s not necessarily a meaningful distinction, given that people with nut allergies are often allergic to almonds, but still...

(In case people are wondering, almonds are the seeds of fleshy fruits, kind of like edible peach stones.)

HollowTalk · 10/10/2020 22:18

@SharpLily

My cousin. Says he voted for Brexit because he’s fed up of seeing so many Indians and Pakistanis around him.
He's going to be unhappy when the trade deals go through with India as part of their condition is that people from India will be able to work here freely.
insideoutsider · 10/10/2020 22:19

Someone in my former church regarding the King James version of the bible: 'Well, if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me'.

SharpLily · 10/10/2020 22:20

@HollowTalk

I’m really looking forward to seeing how well Brexit works out for him.

Ohtherewearethen · 10/10/2020 22:23

Years and years ago I overheard two guys in a pub quarrelling about a lottery rollover. One was saying that as there were six numbers drawn, all he had to do was buy six tickets and he'd be sure to win. He thought he'd come up with a failsafe way to win millions. The other chap was saying that there were millions of possible combinations of these numbers and just buying six tickets would not in fact guarantee him a win. The first fellow headbutted the second and spread his nose across his face, plus a lot of blood over the bar and nearby customers.

Gilead · 10/10/2020 22:27

What’s more worrying about the George Eliot discussion is that she died before TS Eliot was born.

StillWeRise · 10/10/2020 22:29

I just asked DP about George Elliott
he is the least well read person on the world
he knew she was an author and made a decent guess as to her period
so I'd say it is general knowledge

nildesparandum · 10/10/2020 22:29

When I first got married, many moons ago, my MIL told me to switch off the electric at the mains every night because the electric runs out of the wall sockets all night and you have to pay for it.
Trouble was she had informed my DH of this from being a small child and it took me all day to explain to him it did not happen.An otherwise perfectly intelligent man.

HollowTalk · 10/10/2020 22:31

@SharpLily Me too!

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 10/10/2020 22:35

When my DS1 was born my Nannie told me to make sure i pulled back his foreskin and washed under it. Apparently it works make sure "he had a nice big one" as an adult. Shock

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 10/10/2020 22:35

*would make sure not works.