The utterly ridiculous / hysterical comments your friends come out with, in which you seriously question if they live on the same planet as you...[lighttheart]

[daughterofafarmer]

My friend said this utter gem last week...

'I'm buying DS a 2nd pair of Wellingtons as I don't have an Aga to help dry out the wet pair....'

Another friend

'I don't think one should children until you can afford childcare'....Que me nearly spitting out my drink...

I was in the car with my friend when 'Hollaback Girl' by Gwen Stefani came on the radio. Friend asked "is Hollaback the name of one of the US states?"

Someone I know me used to think that "twat" was the female form of "twit".

Back to the Channel Tunnel: I spent ages arguing with a work colleague when it was being dug. They could not understand why it was quicker to dig it from both ends and meet in the middle instead of just digging it from one end.

And there are many tunnels around the world (Hong Kong for a start) that are made by sinking metal segments onto the sea floor and then linking them up.

How do you pronounce biopic

Oh like biopsy?

Was Moses involved in the digging of the Channel Tunnel then? Did he part the English Channel?

I want to pronounce the same was as biopsy (short o, emphasis on bi, no emphasis on pic) but I get the feeling it is 'bio' (like bio washing powder, long o) and then 'pic' (with some emphasis), like a hyphenated word? Is that right?

Building that is how I would do it.

Say it, I mean

One of my American cousins was here visiting the UK for the first time, this was about six years ago, and she was very excited about seeing London.

The night before her trip to London, she said to me, "I cannot wait to see the Tower of London, I've heard so many great things about it." I responded by telling her it was one of my favourite London landmarks, mentioning how old it is. Cousin then came out with this gem...

"How old is it, I'm assuming its pre-First World War?!"

Seriously.

My response? "Oh yes, of course, but only by 800-and-30-something years, so not by much!"

If I could have had her thrown out the country, I would have done!

I always say it like myopic. Bloody hell am I wrong!

Mind you I went round for years in my teens saying truculent wrongly.

My fault for appropriating a word used commonly in Jilly Cooper novels which I had never heard in real life.

MintyDiamonds us girls weren't allowed to play rugby in middle school in case the balls hit us in the chest area and caused breast cancer. Our PE teacher was deadly serious. FFS.

I suppose its marginally better than being told it was because you wouldn't be able to have babies if you played footie/rugby etc (or drove a car).

"To Be Decided Later" is a fantastic name for a book about religion! Someone should write it.

Batman is not a superhero? Does that mean he can't do anything fancy but just dresses up?! I'm shocked!

I'm also with Rooners on the tampax. I also could only manage the very smallest and eventually gave them up as too much of a faff.

These....are....AMAZING. :o

Though, I still don't get what we Americans are doing with our knives that you aren't.

DH "whats that film where Denzel washington plays that black dude"

Me "erm...all of his films"

I noticed that my American friends cut things up, and then put their knives down, swap their forks over to their right hands and eat with their fork only.

I don't know if this is a universally american way of eating. But it's got to beat the English way of eating peas, I must say.

Oh yes LeGav I suppose most of us do that. :) What do you do? Just a bite at time? But then you have to keep your fork in your wrong hand?

In my general studies A level I was asked what subject you'd be studying if you attended the Slade. I said you'd be studying to be a prison officer . Thanks, Porridge.

In Key West, they make a big deal about the beautiful sunset. I overheard a tourist ask a tour guide how many sunsets they get every day.

LeGavrOrf I used to mispronounce truculent too (troosulent). And for years I thought anxiety was pronounced 'ankshitty' The perils of being a precocious reader and working words out for oneself - I had deduced that since anxious came out 'ankshus', then...

Was truly confused by "I assumed Batman could fly and shit."

The latter, but not the former, I believe.

Not sure about the pronunciation thing here. Googled dictionaries to see what they said, and listened to pronunciation guide they gave me.
Myopic is pronounced with the 'o' sound as in 'off'
Biopic is pronounced with the 'o' sound as in 'off'
(Myopia is pronounced with a long 'o' as in 'oh')

But surely you eat peas by putting honey on a spoon and scooping them up

In primary school the girls were told off for playing rugby against the boys as it would damage our ovaries, and also boys could jump hurdles, but girls were discouraged from doing the high jump as it would make our stomach muscles too tight and make childbirth harder. This was the 1970's

Overheard in a large cathedral in London "is this where Adam and Eve are buried?"

I eat with fork in right hand, knife in left (am right handed). All this 'right hand/wrong hand' business is a load of bollocks.