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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!?

OP posts:
LightDrizzle · 10/10/2020 14:48
  • that East Asian women are “the other way round” clarified as having their vagina and anus the opposite way round to occidental women Confused Sad. He was young and not joking
  • my adult, normally intelligent, DD1 wondering aloud how bulldogs “survived in the wild”
  • a friend arguing that she’d be more scared of a ghost in her bedroom than an axe-murderer, because she doesn’t like “the way they move”
StCharlotte · 10/10/2020 14:53

An Oxbridge educated lawyer: "is infertility hereditary?"

rorosemary · 10/10/2020 14:53

My DH has a not-so-bright family member that once asked at dinner what chicken was made of. I wish he (or I) was joking, but it's really true.

MsKeats · 10/10/2020 14:56

Too many to quote.

A once had a friend turn a compass round and round trying to get South to point in a different as that is where South was as he knew.
30 minutes. 30 minutes of my life I will never get back. 30 minutes explained North is north and south is south and you can't make the compass point a different way while stood in the same location. Argh................

rorosemary · 10/10/2020 14:56

@StCharlotte

An Oxbridge educated lawyer: "is infertility hereditary?"
Actually, this isn't a very stupid question anymore nowadays. Due to the development of ivf, people that would previously had stayed childless now can have children through treatment. Depending on the reason of infertility it can be hereditary. For instance problems like PCOS can run in families. I
emmcan · 10/10/2020 14:59

A friend at Uni believe us when we told her that different cows gave different milk.

Black and White = Regular
Brown = Semi skimmed
Cows fed on soy beans = Soy milk

Etc.

Didn't question it.

And she got a 1st in PolPhilEc.

ArabellaScott · 10/10/2020 14:59

My MIL maintained people always got married to someone whose first name was within two letters of yours in the alphabet. Pointedly then looked at me and DP and noted our names are further than three letters apart.

We've never married.

emmcan · 10/10/2020 14:59

*believed

itchyfinger · 10/10/2020 14:59

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 Hmm

sodabreadjam · 10/10/2020 15:00

Apparently Trump said yesterday that California will soon be on water rationing because they pump millions of gallons into the Pacific ocean to help certain tiny fish. No doubt some of his followers will believe it.

I wonder if his mania will reduce when the steroids wear off.

110APiccadilly · 10/10/2020 15:04

Young adult to dad: "Do you remember when everything was black and white?"

Not a stupid person either.

bellalou1234 · 10/10/2020 15:08

That the Vatican is a big nightclub in Italy, like ministry of sound. Is a haggis a living animal

RightOnTheEdge · 10/10/2020 15:09

itchyfinger my dc's school is the same.

I work in a pub and once when I was, cleaning tables I heard a woman say "Why do people wear poppies when it was called the War of the Roses?" ConfusedGrin

MadamBatty · 10/10/2020 15:10

A young woman I know wanted to get rhinoplasty before she had children. she didn’t want her prospective children inheriting her nose.

DizzyPigeon · 10/10/2020 15:10

A local childrens nursery got some money to put towards green projects, like reducing the use of plastic. What did they do? Got rid of perfectly good reusable plastic items (including toys and cups) and replaced them with eco-friendly ones.... They also dumped their stock of single use plastic cutlery. Dumped it! Honestly.

Soubriquet · 10/10/2020 15:10

@ArabellaScott

My MIL maintained people always got married to someone whose first name was within two letters of yours in the alphabet. Pointedly then looked at me and DP and noted our names are further than three letters apart.

We've never married.

Me and dh are married

I’m M and he’s S so she can suck on that Grin

LakieLady · 10/10/2020 15:11

DP's niece was gobsmacked that I can make Yorkshire puddings from scratch.

She thought they were something you had to buy in shops.

When I told her that same batter, cooked in a frying pan, would become a pancake, it blew her tiny mind.

She was 21 or 22 at the time, not like 5 or anything. And she's now working as a TA.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 10/10/2020 15:11

Got stuck behind a couple who couldn't decide how many bags of crisps they needed to buy for the 3 for 2 offer.
He thought four, she thought two. It wasn't until one of them looked really closely at the special offer sign and said "Oh, it's THREE for the price of TWO." that they worked it out. Is it really that hard?
When I worked on retail I came across a customer that thought a 3 for 2 offer meant you could get 5 items. He kept saying "well there's the three and there's the two." I kept explaining that he could get another free, but it didn't sink in.

HandfulofDust · 10/10/2020 15:11

An Oxbridge educated lawyer: "is infertility hereditary?"

To be fair it sometimes is.

HeyMoana · 10/10/2020 15:12

" I don't eat gammon because I don't like fish."

ABCDay · 10/10/2020 15:14

Is a haggis a living animal

Well, to be fair, it is. Only huntable at certain times of the year, hence it being a seasonal product.

And before anyone asks, yes it is true that their legs are different lengths on each side because it makes running round the hills easier.

CanadianJohn · 10/10/2020 15:14

Someone once asked me if London was near England.

HollowTalk · 10/10/2020 15:16

And she got a 1st in PolPhilEc.

Isn't it called PPE any more?

GrandAltogether · 10/10/2020 15:18

@HollowTalk

And she got a 1st in PolPhilEc.

Isn't it called PPE any more?

Yes, that's what struck me from that post!

Mind you, given members of recent and past Cabinets who've had degrees in PPE, I have occasionally wondered whether sending assassins to take out the entire PPE undergraduate population might not be a beneficial move. (Sorry, innocent and well-meaning PPE students..)

shinynewapple2020 · 10/10/2020 15:19

@Allthedoggos

Someone I work with was furious her salary went down when she went part time! Could not understand that less hours = less money, apparently it was really unfair because she'd gone part time on return from mat leave for childcare reasons and therefore it wasn't her 'fault' that she HAD to go part time and how dare they reduce her salary. She had a massive bust up with HR over it, it was hilarious.

What job did she do ??