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!?

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

My friend books people into a private hospital for various procedures and this week had to deal with a lady who couldn't understand why, in this day and age, an ECG couldn't be done remotely

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

It's well known that James Boswell was the only real woman writing at the time, and that was only because she wanted to get into Samuel Johnson's breeches.

My mother is mixed race and they thought we were just really stubborn

@Pelleas

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

It's well known that James Boswell was the only real woman writing at the time, and that was only because she wanted to get into Samuel Johnson's breeches.

@LomasLongstrider

It's a toss up between "Jesus spoke English" and "St Patrick was protestant".

Both from the same thick bloke (an ex mate I got sick off and went nc with). He came out with stupid shite all the time, but those are the two that stuck in my mind.

To be fair, Mary and Jesus always seem to be depicted as white, so I can (just about) see why he wouldn’t have thought about their nationality.

@bluebeach I’m a teacher and I once wore a dress with a print on it of puffins- you know, the birds with the big beaks? Well a kid I was chatting to said “Ooh Miss, I like your squirrel dress!” SQUIRREL?! The very fluffy rodent that you can see in any park across the U.K. and is a species of animal that definitely definitely can’t fly and doesn’t have a beak? SQUIRREL DRESS?!?!

I’d like to report that this kid was six or something but he was actually a year 11 leaver from my form coming to get me to sign his yearbook.

Usually blond and blue eyed too! Definitely northern European, if you go by the pictures.

I was emulsioning a bedroom and DS's GF said she would help. I found her a roller tray and a brush and went out the room . When I came back she had done a lovely job - painting the tray .

@bluebeach

I once overheard some people discussing whether a penguin was a bird or a fish.

In a pub quiz a question asked for an animal, the answer was a type of bird and many argued that a bird is not an animal.

My Dad was adamant that whenever you get one of those sudden weird silences that sometimes occur during a gathering, it would be at twenty past or twenty to an hour. It was one of his "strange but true" things.

So whenever this did happen he would look at the time to prove the theory. Except it never was twenty past or twenty to . . . but he'd try to claim it was close. Once he said it was "very close" when it was 5 bloody past!

He has been gone 12 years and I still look at the clock when there is a sudden silence, and it's NEVER twenty past or twenty to.

I do also recall a woman I used to know asking if there were dinosaurs about when Jesus was alive.

A woman I used to work with thought Nelson Mandela was on top of the column in Trafalgar Square.
My son swears blind that a school friend of his thought the London Underground was a terrorist organisation.

About 20odd years ago DH got asked by some American he was chatting with online (in the days before smart phones, when you could access internet only on computers): "Do you have electricity in Scotland?"

Friend who is Mexican got asked by some random guy "Are you from Mexico City? 'Cause I used to know someone from this town, his name was Alberto, short guy with very black hair and big moustache, he spoke Spanish too, do you know him?" Errr....

@MostDisputesDieAndNoOneShoots 😂😂
@keeprocking 😂 I once spent a long time trying to convince a person that a spider was an animal when she kept insisting it wasn’t because it was an insect 🙄

I overheard someone talking about a documentary they'd seen, about Lonesome George, a tortoise who was the last of his species. "What I don't understand is, if they knew it was the last of its kind, why didn't they just breed it?"

An ex teacher colleague of mine was convince baked beans were stuffed with mashed potato... she thought it was a bit much to have a baked potato topped with beans.

convinced

Next door neighbour - nice lad, but hardly an intellectual giant - had to self-isolate after his niece tested +ve for covid. He got the phone call telling him at work. H&S officer sent him straight home, telling him to go home, g straight home, do not pass "go" etc.

. . . so he went and got "a few bits and bobs" of food. I though - "Oh, well, fair enough, I suppose - if he's got nothing in" (he's on his own). But he got enough for two days. And has been getting two days worth at a time for a fortnight . . .

I offered to let I'm add his shopping to my regular delivery (in fact, he could get one of his own - his lager and fags intake is at least the minimum shop for a free delivery - meow). He said thanks, but he liked to get out. We had a short conversation about it. I got nowhere.

Should I have "shopped him"? Possibly.

Did I? No. He goes out in a mask. He's on his own and lonely (50) and can't even see his sister and BIL and their (almost grown-up) kids now.

My friend invited me round for dinner one - said l have got us a Viennetta for dessert but remind me to take it out the freezer an hour beforehand. I said won't it melt seeing as it is ice cream?? She wouldn't have it at all....left it "to stand" an hour before and then had the right hump cos it was just a pile of chocolate and melted ice cream!! I did try and warn her!

@Utini

I overheard someone talking about a documentary they'd seen, about Lonesome George, a tortoise who was the last of his species. "What I don't understand is, if they knew it was the last of its kind, why didn't they just breed it?"

There were multiple attempts to breed Lonesome George with closely related species of tortoise to produce hybrids. Some of these resulted in eggs, but sadly they all proved inviable.

@BalloonSlayer

My Dad was adamant that whenever you get one of those sudden weird silences that sometimes occur during a gathering, it would be at twenty past or twenty to an hour. It was one of his "strange but true" things.

So whenever this did happen he would look at the time to prove the theory. Except it never was twenty past or twenty to . . . but he'd try to claim it was close. Once he said it was "very close" when it was 5 bloody past!

He has been gone 12 years and I still look at the clock when there is a sudden silence, and it's NEVER twenty past or twenty to.

Never?

That in itself is highly suspicious . . .almost like he was trying to tell you someone . . .

[quote bluebeach]@MostDisputesDieAndNoOneShoots 😂😂
@keeprocking 😂 I once spent a long time trying to convince a person that a spider was an animal when she kept insisting it wasn’t because it was an insect 🙄[/quote]
I wouldn’t have much patience for someone not open to listening to me explaining about the classification, but a starting position of not realising that insects were a subgroup of animals not a parallel group wouldn’t be stand out stupid to me.

"Especially people who are rich and healthy enough to be off on a foreign holiday."

Load of rubbish - UK holidays are much more expensive.

We had a problem with DH's GP refusing to administer a vaccine for a travel related illness that is freely available on the NHS - using that ludicrous argument quoted.

I reported the wanker, & DH moved to my GP practice.

I was once chatting with a woman and it turned out she’d misunderstood something.

Another time, an acquaintance of mine turned out not to know something.

Hahahahahahaha!