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!?

Colleague revealed once they thought battery eggs came from artificial hens (that took batteries). I shit you not. This only came to light because she questioned why it was an animal welfare issue.

Even if you had something essential you HAD to collect that's very different from a day without quarantine where you swan around going to coffee shops as these people were suggesting.

Where did OP mention coffee shops? She mentioned food and supermarkets.

Not knowing that George Eliot was female really doesn't mean someone is thick.

I was going to say the same thing. It would be unimpressive from a professor of English literature at Oxford university but it's a piece of information which could easily have slipped a normal person by.

ExMIL commented how the moon in Spain was bigger than our moon.

Me using the torch on my phone to look for my phone insisting that someone at home was playing silly buggers!

It's a toss up between "Jesus spoke English"

Some scholars believe Jesus visited Britain - that's where 'And did those feet in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green' comes from. So, if there is truth in this legend, he may have learned to speak the native language of the time, although of course that wouldn't be intelligible to speakers of modern English.

That probably wasn't what your ex-mate was getting at, though.

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www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk/coronavirus-covid-19-how-to-self-isolate-when-you-travel-to-the-uk

In England, you are allowed to leave your accommodation in exceptional circumstances. This includes such things as:

accessing basic necessities like food and medicines where you cannot arrange for these to be delivered
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Well that’s embarrassing OP. Not everything is deliverable.

You sound like a jealous frenemy OP."

What? What? The embarrassing thing is you not reading the OP. (And subsequent posts)

This thread is awful.
Does it make you all feel superior to have a pop at those who know a little less than you?

@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.

This is the clear winner for me. I had to read it twice as I was unable to comprehend that someone could be so utterly thick 🤣

@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.

DH and I have the same initial

DS2 and his girlfriend are almost at either end of the alphabet. Better not buy a hat yet.

My DF was in hospital recently with a suspected chest infection/pneumonia and had the obligatory covid test. My sister told our DM that she didn't need to isolate because the results hadn't come back. My DM with this pearl of wisdom went shopping. Luckily my DF didn't have covid nor a chest infection but I couldn't believe the stupidly of my sister and DM.
Also a patient booked in for a flu jab asked before entering the surgery "are you well today?"
Patient "I've got a bit of a sore throat and cough and my glands are up". Unbelievable, patients are told not to attend the surgery if unwell but there's always one.

Maybe not thick but as a librarian in her (GE’s) hometown you should know better.

@Feefifo9

She does work in the Civil Service...

@VinylDetective

In Florida a waiter, on being told we came from England, asked if we’d driven there.

England is a city in southwestern Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States and the county's fourth most populous city.

@slashlover

The OP said you her friend overheard them saying they have a day to go shopping and get ready and stuff. That does not imply essential items you can't have delivered. It would be very unusual for most people not to be able to arrange a delivery of essential food to last them 2 weeks. Especially people who are rich and healthy enough to be off on a foreign holiday.

@Earltray

This thread is awful. Does it make you all feel superior to have a pop at those who know a little less than you?

No it’s incredibly depressing & flags up that the way certain subjects are taught in schools just isn’t working.

I’ve just watched a bbc documentary on a lad who died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which is a very treatable cancer, because he got sucked in by alternative practitioners.

We’re crying not laughing.

Really? Are librarians expected to know the history of all local authors? It's really not a mark of stupidity not to be clued up about the fact that someone called "George" is actually female.

And particularly not a contender for "the stupidest thing I ever heard".

@Earltray

This thread is awful. Does it make you all feel superior to have a pop at those who know a little less than you?

The 'stupidest thing' doesn't mean I think the person said it is stupid. I have been known to think some bloody stupid things myself and even fell for 'they've taken gullible out of the dictionary'. It's gentle humour, not an attack.

I will admit that when I went back after mat leave on a reduced hours basis I did look rather quizzically at my first pay slip back. Because it was less money. Forgetting for a moment that I now do less hours.

Didn’t go to HR though.

On safari and in a small safari bus, with four other strangers. Woman was incredibly excited and points to the gazelles saying to her husband, “look at the gazebos”, quick as a flash, her husband responds with, “are they Homebase or B&Q gazebos?” Other tourists went into a wrinkle. 🤣It certainly broke the ice and everyone got on brilliantly afterwards.

Unfortunately I was the woman that made the comment. 😳

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Really? Are librarians expected to know the history of all local authors? It's really not a mark of stupidity not to be clued up about the fact that someone called "George" is actually female.

And particularly not a contender for "the stupidest thing I ever heard".

Librarians are supposed to be into books, aren’t they? It’s pretty sad for one to be as lacking in knowledge as that.

No it’s incredibly depressing & flags up that the way certain subjects are taught in schools just isn’t working.

Yeah, I mean some idiots don't even know that infertility can be hereditary and that compass needles can point the wrong way when they are depolarised! Aren't people thick and uneducated!

The 'stupidest thing' doesn't mean I think the person said it is stupid. I have been known to think some bloody stupid things myself and even fell for 'they've taken gullible out of the dictionary'. It's gentle humour, not an attack.

Gentle humour is fine but people saying “she was thick as pig shit” is really unpleasant. Imo anyway

Ah, I missed the pig shit comment. Yes, that's a bit much.

@ReceptacleForTheRespectable

Not knowing that George Eliot was female really doesn't mean someone is thick.

It's no worse than those that don't realise that Jane Austen was a burly Yorkshireman with beard like a rhododendron bush.

An ex of mine thought that if a black person lived in a country where the native people were white, then they would change colour over their lifetime and eventually turn white. He thought the people who this hadn't happened to were staying black on purpose. His mother told him that. She's a primary school teacher.
My mother is mixed race and they thought we were just really stubborn. Sounds made up but they really did think that.