To share the stupidest thing I have ever heard

[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!?

@Soubriquet

someone told me that wind turbines are massive fans that help cool the earth to try and prevent global warming.

No amount of arguing with them would change their mind. Their argument was “well if you stood in front of them, you would be cooler wouldn’t you?!”

😂 This is brilliant 😂

My sister is English and very pale with white blonde hair. Her DH is Indian. She’s been asked MORE THAN ONCE if it was an arranged marriage

A few years ago a friend was trying to explain to me that humans will evolve over the next 50 years and no longer have a little/pinky finger on each hand because we all text on phones and don't use our little fingers 🤷‍♀️ I tried to explain that evolution is survival of the fittest, not use it or lose it but I don't think I changed her mind.

She was the same friend who complained that everyone was beeping their horns at her when she stopped on a dual carriageway because there was an ambulance behind her. Yep to be clear everyone else had moved over to the left hand lane and because there was no space for her to move over she just stopped where she was.

When I lived in Australia a women I worked with was against daylight saving (clocks going forward once a year) as her curtains would fade.

@boringcreation

My brother came home from school one day after learning about the worlds population and that 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. He asked my Mom how come none of us were Chinese??

I find this very cute!

I’ve got one better - a librarian who was referring to George Eliot as “he” and “him”. A librarian in Warwickshire!!

If it was someone working in a library then it's unlikely they were actually a librarian. Libraries are usually staffed by library assistants, an unqualified role probably paying around £10ph or by volunteers.

I had to once explain to a customer why something that had been reduced in price by 30% and then had an additional 20% off the new price wasn't coming up at 50% off the initial price. Her poor husband was shaking his head in disbelief at her. I went through the math with her at least 5 times, she nodded and agreed at every point of the process but still disagreed with the end result.

She was highly embarrassed when she eventually understood.

I tried to explain that evolution is survival of the fittest, not use it or lose it but I don't think I changed her mind.

Actually... I'm pretty sure there is an element of 'use it or lose it' in evolution

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Really? Are librarians expected to know the history of all local authors? It's really not a mark of stupidity not to be clued up about the fact that someone called "George" is actually female.

And particularly not a contender for "the stupidest thing I ever heard".

Exactly, here is a statement from an actual librarian rather than people on MN who think they’re the authority on what a librarian should know:

“I haven’t touched a book in the context of my job in more than a year. I don’t buy books, I don’t classify them, I don’t even think about them. Librarians aren’t only about books: We’re about the democratization of information. It’s about helping people find what they’re looking for, no matter the shape it takes. It’s about training them to become autonomous in their research.” —Caroline

@Doingtheboxerbeat

Does anyone else have the sneaking suspicion that the type of Americans that think electricity doesn't exist outside the US are the same type of people in the UK that think Africa (the country ) is all poverty , famine and mud huts?

Absolutely @Doingtheboxerbeat !

Butterer I haven’t got any wisdom teeth.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom Yes a complete snob. Let's face it you asked to be called it, at least you know yourself.

You actually split.up with a guy over this!? Get over yourself. How would you feel if someone split up with you because you didn't know that Gareth Baile played for Tottenham? (I don't know.if he did I just made that up.btw) it is possible to be in love with someone with different interests and priorities.

@whydoicomehere

I tried to explain that evolution is survival of the fittest, not use it or lose it but I don't think I changed her mind.

Actually... I'm pretty sure there is an element of 'use it or lose it' in evolution

Not when it's little fingers not being used whilst texting, it doesn't 😂

@BuddyRun

I worked with someone who was Pakistani. They thought that they were white and that Pakistan was a religion.

Say what?!

worked with someone who was Pakistani. They thought that they were white and that Pakistan was a religion.

What did they actually say though? If they said they were Caucasian then that's correct.

@GrandAltogether

That's really not THAT stupid. Both were writers, George Eliot was a pen name and both were roughly (ish) the same time

@BuddyRun, not being able to tell the difference between a Victorian novelist and a modernist poet is pretty stupid if you're in the second year of an English degree.

Not if it hasn’t come up in your degree.

You don’t suddenly become a font of all literary knowledge when you do an English Lit degree. I did one and I can barely remember the books I read and my coursework, my job now has no bearing on my degree subject.

@Soubriquet

You should explain to your friend that Wind Turbines are electrically powered fans that create wind.

You can prove that this is true, because on days when they are turning fast, the wind is quite strong.

When they're turned off, or adjusted to low speed, the wind dies down.

[quote itchyfinger]@artiefufkinpolymerrecords but there is no reason they cant do that this year, the bubbles are already mixed because of the siblings! If one class goes in with all their siblings it makes no difference because all those siblings will be going home together anyway.[/quote]
I’m not sure what you mean about all the siblings going home together, obviously bubbles are unavoidably mixed because of siblings, but that doesn’t mean all those children should then be mixed with other families.
So, for example, year six pupils walk around school collecting their younger siblings from other year groups and then those family groups line up in the hall waiting to have their photo taken. Then those families where the oldest child is in year 5 does the same and so on. Which means children going into the areas of the school they shouldn’t be in, and then children from all different class bubbles waiting in a room together, which is what schools spend so much time trying to avoid.

Don't be stupid, she can't have diary. Said by my very expensively and rurally educated ex DP. when I gave the person in question an egg.

And it took some time for it to click when I asked him which part of a cow he thought eggs came from.

had a customer buying a pan tell me that her granddaughter was paying for because it had a lifetime guarantee .
also had a complaint on Christmas Eve that we were not offering our usual service of next day delivery.

@GrandAltogether PPE here and I'm certainly capable of mild to significant stupidity but I'd prefer to remain alive if that's OK. Quite happy for you to take them out if it's PPE + running the country. I'll load for you

@Sevo7

My friend who told me she couldn’t be bothered with tampons as it was too much of a faff taking it out and using a new one every time she needed a wee . I had to explain to her that you pee out of your urethra not your vagina and they are infact separate holes! She was mid twenties at the time!

had a friend tell her 18 year daughter that she caused her bladder weakness by pushing her out of her "pee-hole"

@itchyfinger

Our school isn't letting siblings do joint school photos this year because it means mixing bubbles. Like the siblings dont already live together and travel into school together

My school has said this too!!