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!?

My MIL told me thst my daughter has big feet because I allow her to walk around the house in bare feet. Nothing to do with the fact that the rest of us also have huge feet!

I work in a beauty department, caught a woman putting a lipstick tester directly onto her lips having unsealed the tester by removing the "not a tester" seal and looking into a mirror with a large " Do not use the testers, please ask for assistance" sign on it We had to bin it . She said didn't realise would be a problem! Not advisable in normal times, cold sores etc but in the middle of a pandemic no cure for stupid I guess

No wonder y’all heading for 2nd lockdown

@amusedtodeath1

Watching a history program about early man with ExH and he got all excited at the scenes of early men/women doing things as he thought they'd found a tribe of neanderthal people still living. After I finished wetting myself, I had to explain they were actors dressed/made up like Neanderthal people.

Another time he decided to cook a stir fry using frozen stewing steak, stir fry veg/sauce and a tin of baked beans. I had to throw the wok out it burned so bad.

To be fair, I know one or two neanderthals...

That vaccinating you’re dog can give them autism 🤦🏼‍♀️

I had an ex who told me that if you stop at a service station on a journey, it doesn’t just add on the time you’re actually stopped for, because of having to slow down and then get back up to speed, it adds double the amount of time you’re stopped for.
I tried arguing, right so if you stopped for a day it would add two days onto your journey would it? He didn’t get it and it ended in a blazing row!

When you return from abroad and a country currently on the ' list ' you dont just quarantine, you go into self isolation. Which means you travel from plane or ferry with minimum contact with everyone and you go HOME. You stay at home and get shopping delivered! For two whole weeks. Yes people twist the rules to suit themselves! People terrify me with their stupidity!

I had a patient phone me and say the instrucions on the cream we'd precribed said don't use if you are alergic to peanuts:
Him "can I use it?", Me "are you allergic to peanuts" Him "I don't know" Me "have you ever eaten peanuts" Him "yes, often" Me "Then I think you'll be OK"

@Butterer

I only found out this year that box cutters are Stanley knives.

I thought they were a different thing made of plastic, which is how the 9/11 terrorists were able to get them through security and onto the planes.

@ABCDay

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.

No, you are wrong about the legs. They wear stilts on either the left or right side according to which side of the hill they are grazing on.

My sister on covid, well you can't put your life on hold! I did intend on explaining that was the general idea but decided you cant educate stupid

Did she scream at them.. how stupid can people be!! There are so many rules that people just choose the ones that fit them. They use this as an excuse but it’s inexcusable .

On buying a new dishwasher and telling my sister ive got it insured along with all the other white goods in my kitchen...After a short pause she said...Will they insure if its black or a different colour? Dear me!

@LightDrizzle

- that East Asian women are “the other way round” clarified as having their vagina and anus the opposite way round to occidental women . 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”

Oh my this REALLY made me laugh 😂

Bulldogs in the wild 😂😬😱😱😀😂😂

Fluffycloudland77
Anyone who’s worked in healthcare will tell you you need to dial way back on how intelligent you imagine the general population is.

This. You don’t have to work in healthcare experience the widespread lack of education and basic reasoning skills of the great British public. Stupidity is rampant.

@butterpuffed

Standing next to a couple of women at the bus stop. One asked the other how often we have a Leap year. 'Roughly every four years' came the reply.

She was not wrong. Leap years are not every 4 years - if a leap year falls on a century year it is not a leap year unless it also divides by 400.

So 1896 was a leap year but 1900 was not - even though it was 4 years later as it does not divide by 400.

Back in the 80s, I met my then boyfriend's nan, who matter of factly announced it was no surprise that a certain acquaintance couldn't get pregnant because "she had her periods through her nose". Boyfriend's mum nodded in agreement.

@GoldfishParade and you sound like a spiteful b but there you have it.

@Fluffycloudland77

The lucozade things reminded me. Woman in the dentists telling me all her teeth rotted cos she’s diabetic so she’s on lucozade constantly.

Thankfully dh came out at that point because I was itching to say something but she had that batshit vibe about her & I was trying to be non-committal.

Most people with type one diabetes regularly need to treat hypoglycaemia, day or night, particularly if they have tight "control". Lucozade is a recommended treatment. It does cause problems for teeth but it's not always convenient to brush after treating a hypo.

This is worrying as I teach in secondary school.... In the staff room not that long ago, I heard a colleague (A) asking another (B) what they were having for lunch as it smelt delicious.
B - “Oxtail soup”
A - “ What’s that made of? The tail of a FOX?”
B then needed to explain to A what an ox was... apparently they’d never heard of an ox before!!!
I was glad I had my back to them working on a pc, because I was giggling to myself, flabbergasted!!

I once spent several hours trying to explain why a family member wouldn’t be twice her son’s age every year!

@ABCDay
Hahaha!!
My dad used to tell my sister and I this when we were young!
We lived in Scotland at the time and spent many a car journey searching for them!!!

Dragonfly97 some women with endometriosis have deposits in their nose & have nosebleeds every month.

Endometriosis is associated with reduced fertility.