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!?

@WaxOnFeckOff

I understood that the origin, or a subset, of the flat earth society was basically designed as a debating platform to hone skills of debating. So the premise being that if you could argue the most ridiculous thing, such as the earth being flat, and convince others of your case then your debating skills would be highly advanced.

yes, the current Flat Earth Society is primarily a place to challenge people to debate. You have to prove your point of view etc. Interesting idea.

The people posting flat earth videos on youtube though, they are serious about the earth being flat. Sun moves round the earth etc.

Yes, agreed, just wanted to point out that they may not all be idiots and I'm sure that lots of people believe it, some probably sucked in by the arguments given by people who in truth know its nonsense but no doubt sound convincing.

@hanka

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

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Here's one I heard today. I heard the handyman of the hotel where I work very loudly exclaiming :

"How am I supposed to fix that? It's broken!"

@TheSandman ohhh don't even get me started on the number of people I've come across who've said they "can't" do x y z - when it's their bloody job! I honestly wonder how at a time of high unemployment they got the job!!

Two middle aged women chatting on a train sat in front of me.vdoscussing how funny it was that nobody ever uses Churchill's surname, and does anyone actually know what it is? And "Churchill was the UK president wasn't he, not the German one?"
I really, really struggled through that conversation.

@ChocolateCherrybomb

Reading some of these corkers out to DH. He tells me this.

He was in Home Bargains today. He had 6 packets of Halls Blackcurrant Soothers in his basket.
The checkout woman picks up a packet and waves them at a colleague and shouts "Oi, Ave these got paracetamol in".
They are sweets, OK they're soothing sweets but still just boiled sweets. How would they contain paracetamol.

How is this the stupidest thing you have ever seen?

Hall’s products are marketed as ‘medicinal’. There are other ‘sweets’ containing paracetamol like Calpol Melts. It’s not like she said it about a Twix.

It took me a very long time to remember Churchill’s first name !!!

@jcyclops

"The trouble with the French, they have no word for entrepreneur" - George W Bush

PS. What is the correct term (in english) for a "female entrepreneur"?

It’s just entrepreneur and male entrepreneur

The subject of driverless cars came up, and my mum said: ''I don't understand why there'd be all these cars on the roads everywhere, going to all these places but nobody in them, wouldn't it be a waste of petrol?''.

My sister has a friend who is legendary with the daftness - but my personal favourite was asking (when the first Lord of the Rings film came out) if it took place at the same time as the Tudors

@RiftGibbon - thank you for sharing your nerdiness! I am older than you, but the ITV series "Brideshead Revisited" and "The Jewel in the Crown" both left their mark on me and were of an era, which has not been equalled since, I believe.

Whilst on holiday in the US a few years ago, on learning I'm from the UK, the person I was chatting to asked me if we had 'things like supermarkets over there?' I was astounded. Speechless.

I was once in a shop in Warwick and overheard a shop assistant asking her colleague what county Warwick is in.

pickles that really really made me laugh. Thank you!

“It must be so nice being from New Zealand, it’s just so close to Europe.”

@Mypathtriedtokillme

“It must be so nice being from New Zealand, it’s just so close to Europe.”

It was One of those fake smile and walk away to laugh your arse off moments.

I knew areas of the USA was insular but didn’t realise it was quite that insular.

@Mypathtriedtokillme I remember one American lady I used to know thinking that Sweden was part of Switzerland.

Travelling a lot as a young child decades ago it was always odd when people would say - ‘oh if you live in London you must know my cousin ‘x’. Often said by someone who hadn’t travelled outside of a very small usually remote area and had no real idea of the size of any city etc. We got used to saying no we didn’t think we did knew them and that london was really a LOT bigger than (name the nearest bigger village/town). Not stupid at all but pretty eye opening !!

@DdraigGoch I heard a similar one. A muslim woman in hijab on a bus having a telephone conversation. When she finished someone told her, "you're in England, speak English", about half the bus responded that they were in Wales and she was speaking Welsh.

WalkingInTheAir13

The ECG your husband can send from his watch is a rhythm strip, in the old days we gave patients, "cardio memo" recorders that did the same thing. They are only good for checking the rhythm.

A full ECG has 12 leads and if you know how to read one can tell you a lot more eg you can tell if someone had a heart attack in the past and what area of the heart was affected and how much.

You can see if the atria (top chambers) are enlarged which can lead to AF and you can see if the ventricles have excessive muscle mass.

You can sometimes see the age of the person and believe it or not sometimes you can see their race.

I was once in a plane headed to Glasgow airport the people in front of me thought they were going to Ireland. I just couldn't imagine getting in a plane and not knowing where it's going.

That story reminds me of this cracker from Snopes sashh.
Anti-immigrant protesters in Washington confront a man who doesn’t look 100% WASP and ask him whether he’s “legal”.
Man is state legislator....and Navajo.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-supporters-navajo-legislator-legal/

[quote Jaichangecentfoisdenom]@RiftGibbon - thank you for sharing your nerdiness! I am older than you, but the ITV series "Brideshead Revisited" and "The Jewel in the Crown" both left their mark on me and were of an era, which has not been equalled since, I believe.[/quote]
My friends and I used to love watching these period dramas! I completely agree; they stirred in me a thirst for reading the books that had inspired them, and then to follow up on similar novels, authors, or things that had either inspired them, or been inspired by them.

The man who argued that twins could only be the same sex - ie two boys or two girls . He was patiently explaining this to a girl who had a boy twin. She was crying laughing.