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!?

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Just realised it's year 7, not a 7 year old! The point is the same. Laughing at children because of what their parents haven't taught them is pretty shitty.

He was 11, I was 11. I was incredulous at the time that he hadn't worked out the days of the week yet and, even as an adult, it still strikes me as pretty amazing that an otherwise fairly intelligent boy who'd been on a school timetable for more than a term (and had access to TV, radio, newspapers, calendars throughout his life) hadn't figured out that Wednesday always came after Tuesday.

hamburgers

That's what happens when we read foreign names the English way

@1DoesNotSimplyWalkIntoMordor I agree with the HCP thing. I had a GP google my vertigo before!!! Was a bit

Got into a debate with supercilious FIL once over Timezones as he thought there are only 12hrs rather than 24hrs difference. Even more ridiculous when they had just traveled from UK to Australia and lost a day!

Umm.. If it was 24 hours difference, the sun would have to be on both sides of the world at once!

An American thought us Brits could "pop down to any local Harrods in our town's mall".

Perusing some handwritten postcards in a 70's newsagents in Soho, my worldly friend was in stitches as I thought " TV and wardrobe & large chest for sale, French polishing & old chair bottoms caned" were actually real items for sale or repairs & I expressed an interest in viewing them for my new flat. He pointed out "gasmasks and mackintoshes" & enlightened me but I still wasn't convinced.

[quote ScarMatty]**@YesThisIsMe

In part I agree. Average is an umbrella term for the median etc[/quote]
I'd love to know which part of @YesThisIsMe's factual posts you disagree with.

i dont get the time zone one isnt it only 12 hours difference to austrailia but takes 24 hours to get there

I have just made DH demonstrate the thing with the box cutter to me.

MIND BLOWN

@waterthedog

Got into a debate with supercilious FIL once over Timezones as he thought there are only 12hrs rather than 24hrs difference. Even more ridiculous when they had just traveled from UK to Australia and lost a day!

How can it be 24 hours difference?

There ARE only 24 hours in a day.

The IQ thing depends on the population tested.

Re attributing quotes:

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet." ~ Abe Lincoln, 1868

There are 24 time zones but the part of the world that is opposite us is 12 hours different. (Suspect that's NZ rather than Australia, but irrelevant detail.) Because it's half-way. That's what the other side of the world means. Because we're a globe.

Several of the time zones don't have many people living in them, what with the Pacific.

Someone once told me that their baby, as a new born, was tested for schizophrenia.

I was shocked when I spoke to the pharmacist yesterday
People keep going in to see if they can buy covid tests because they have symptoms.

Its nuts because they should obviously not be in town trying to buy tests

@GabsAlot

i dont get the time zone one isnt it only 12 hours difference to austrailia but takes 24 hours to get there

It takes me 5 hours to get to London. That doesn't mean that the London timezone is 5 hrs before/after the North Yorkshire time zone.

How long it takes to get there is irrelevant.

i dont get the time zone one isnt it only 12 hours difference to austrailia but takes 24 hours to get
there

*It takes me 5 hours to get to London. That doesn't mean that the London timezone is 5 hrs before/after the North Yorkshire time zone.

How long it takes to get there is irrelevant.*

But the travelling time plus the time difference is why you lose a day. If it takes 24 hours to get there then you would arrive the next day, but you don't, because of the time difference you arrive the day after, hence losing a day.

When I was a kid I saw road signs saying "Concealed Entrance", when I walked past the entrance was pretty obvious?????? I did not get it!!!

One of the stupidest things said to me (a committed Atheist) was that I should get my child "Christened" so they could decide on religion for themselves later. Guess what? Other religions are available!!!

I also resented the implication that I was not "allowed" to bring up my children with my beliefs but had to "let them choose".

But that isn't true. If I leave Heathrow at 9am on 1st October and spend 24 hrs travelling, landing eventually in Melbourne, I would arrive in Melbourne on the 2nd October, at 8pm local time. You 'lose' 11hrs, which is the time difference between London and Melbourne. Not a full day.

@CigarsofthePharoahs

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.

I used to have that argument all the time. I worked in a store that had a product £4 or 3 for £10. We frequently had people argue that 4 should be £10.33.

My Aunt thought Sparrows were baby Pigeons x

In my defence I had pregnancy brain fog when I asked if air miles where the same as land miles. Husband still brings this up now 😬

I have a FB friend who said this the other day about her kids school. Maybe you're her. Lol. But that is an extremely stupid rule.

As I explained earlier in the thread, it's not about the individual groups of siblings mixing outside of their class bubbles, it's how schools would manage potentially 100+ groups of siblings having their photos taken, when the rest of the time they are not letting children from different classes be in the same space.

Lucky they are not returning to the Isle of Man, several people have been put in prison for stopping off on the way home to self isolate! ( some stopped for petrol, others beer, they wore their masks in the supermarket which was picked up straight away as no masks needed there...pure stupidity) They take it seriously over there and that is why they walk around mask free and are able to live life relatively normally.

I worked in a play school years ago, mum came in,in a lovely red work dress that happened to have white seams....colleague handing over the child said "oh look at your dress,you're like mother Christmas! " Mum smiled and said "yes...just a few months too early " and colleague replied in all seriousness "well its obviously Christmas somewhere in the world right now"