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!?

Overheard two blokes talking “I wouldn’t touch that if I were you”, second bloke “Why not?” Speaking of the meat turning around in the kebab shop window. “Because it’s an elephants leg.”
If I hadn’t of heard this myself I’d never have believed it 🤣🤣🤣

Haha my DH has always called it an elephants leg (although joking obviously) 😂

@bluebeach I've actually had that conversation with my sister 😂

DSis: Snow, do people eat penguins?
Me:
DSis: Well we eat other fish!
Me: True...but penguins aren't fish.
DSis: What?! But they swim!
Me: Yeah and so do I, doesn't mean I'm a fucking fish

@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.

I love this, brilliant

I once asked somebody if their twin children were identical, they were a boy and girl. I got quite a funny look.

It was years later that I discovered that identical twins aren't just twins that look really alike (I was in my twenties!)

I do remember my son thought that pigs layed sausages like hens lay eggs, he was about 4 though.

I used to work in the London office of an organisation whose headquarters were in Leeds. We regularly used to have arguments with people in the Leeds office who wanted us to come to meetings and training sessions up there starting at 9 a.m. who would virtuously point out that there was a perfectly good train starting from London at 6 a.m. They simply couldn't understand the concept that we didn't all live within 20 minutes of King's Cross and that cross-London public transport tended not to operate usefully before 6 a.m.

@SnowWhitesRestingBitchFace does your sis think ducks are fish too?

@sashh we didn't get that far but I can ask her 😂

I also had to explain to her that helium makes balloons float and not the string it's attached to. I wish I were joking but I'm not.

Friends nephew had an egg allergy.
Friends dh asked if that meant he couldn't have Easter eggs

LoL at the twin stories. If I had a fiver for every person who asked, after peeping into the pram and being told they were girl/boy twins, "But are they identical?" it would have bought their shoes until they were about 10!

@cricketmum84

Haha my DH has always called it an elephants leg (although joking obviously) 😂

It's true! When I was a student we had such a kebab place on the corner of our road and we would see the legs being delivered.

Definitely elephant legs. We never ate there.

Years ago I used to go in this working men’s club, always played bingo. When the number 10 came up, the caller as was the practice always said “Downing St number 10. Always followed by the players shouting out “get her out” (Margaret Thatcher years). This woman sat with us remarked “what is this number 10 they’re always on about”.

I've remembered one from years ago.
I was in Stratford-upon-Avon doing a Shakespeare related tour. In my group were a number of American tourists.
We were shown a room set up with a writing desk, onto which someone had scrawled in biro, "Will woz ere"
One American tourist asked the guide how much the desk was worth, as Shakespeare had signed it.

@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.

Yup, the modern society is basically for that, been a member for years (not that my debating skills have really improved from it)

@HeronLanyon

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 !!

Inversely when I moved to Los Angeles from a small Highland village, a child friend of mine was convinced I would meet his hero Arnold Schwarzenegger (this happened last century). His concept of LA was of a slightly bigger village than the one he'd grown up in.

Needless to say I didn't. But I did meet people who had.

I was showing an American friend around St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. She said, "I've never been in a Catholic church before."

Not stupid - she was highly intelligent, very well educated ... just not in English history, apparently.

Built before Henry recognised the sanctity of serial marriages, though.

Is that really the stupidest thing you have ever heard @WendyMAD? Maybe I'm stupid, but why would an American know what particular flavour of christianity any particular building belongs to?

@DizzyPigeon

Is that really the stupidest thing you have ever heard *@WendyMAD*? Maybe I'm stupid, but why would an American know what particular flavour of christianity any particular building belongs to?

Exactly

I also really dislike all this sneering of other people from other cultures / countries. I bet there is a lot of stuff brits would be totally ignorant of and not thank natives for laughing at their stupidity, let alone the more obscure stuff that how on earth could they possibly know

I also really dislike all this sneering of other people from other cultures / countries. I bet there is a lot of stuff brits would be totally ignorant of and not thank natives for laughing at their stupidity, let alone the more obscure stuff that how on earth could they possibly know

When I tried to argue with one of the British people about my own country and language they told me I had it all wrong and really had them to thank as we would be "hungry toothless animals living in a field with no language to communicate with...if it weren't for him and his people "

I smiled and nodded.

It really made me laughter. I felt superb about myself.

I think I'm allowed to sneer now.

*Made me laugh

I also really dislike all this sneering of other people from other cultures / countries. I bet there is a lot of stuff brits would be totally ignorant of and not thank natives for laughing at their stupidity, let alone the more obscure stuff that how on earth could they possibly know

Totally agree. In actual fact it sounds like the visitor to St George's may have done their research, as it was built as a Catholic chapel (as were many of our major churches/cathedrals originally).

But why on earth should people from other countries and cultures be well versed in the UK's history and arts? It's incredibly arrogant to assume that everyone should know things that are only taught in the UK, and of little interest elsewhere.

What's your knowledge of Taiwanese authors like? Do you know the key figures from local history in Arkansas? What about the geography of Slovenia? How many Colombian playwrights can you name?

I would bet any money that when Brits go abroad and ask questions about local history and culture, some of those questions will sound silly to the locals.

[quote SnowWhitesRestingBitchFace]@bluebeach I've actually had that conversation with my sister 😂

DSis: Snow, do people eat penguins?
Me:
DSis: Well we eat other fish!
Me: True...but penguins aren't fish.
DSis: What?! But they swim!
Me: Yeah and so do I, doesn't mean I'm a fucking fish [/quote]
In case your Sis is still curious - yes, people do eat penguins. Shackleton and his crew lived on them for months when trapped in the Antarctic.