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...

Correct pronunciation of biopic is indeed bio (as in non bio) pic as opposed to by oppic which I want it to be.

My grandma would disown me if I didn't keep my knife in my right hand and fork in my left at all times whilst eating. And none of this holding a knife like a pen business which is just plain common.

Gav I guess it is a bit like Eindhoven, especially pronunciation wise...

Peetle, I suppose that's where the confusion arises. There aretunnels across rivers (is the Hong Kong one the road that's something like the most congested road in HK?) but they're a couple of kilometres along a river bed. The channel is about 30 miles and probably about 100m deep. The logistics of an immersion tunnel would be interesting though they were saying on the radio a while ago that they're constructing one in Denmark or somewhere which will be 11 miles but is going to take another ten years they reckon.

XBF whinging after a lovely summer BBQ birthday party:

"My parents are so bloody inconsiderate (a familiar theme) never to have thought of doing this sort of thing on my birthday"

Erm, possibly because you were born at the end of November?

One of my folks' employees thought babies were born without earlobes and fingernails, and those would grow in later until his first child was born. He had a university degree.

DH thought that babies didn't open their eyes until they were 6 weeks old. He even said this after we had children .

cocoleBOO isn't that kittens or something?

Dh told me, in all seriousness, that there are two tubes down the penis - one for urine and the other for semen. I told his mum she should ask for a refund on his education.

Yes .

He still thinks it.

Reading about the Welsh section A reminded me of the time I advertised my gorgeous flea-bitten gray... I didn't bother replying to some of those either.

SDTG, here's a wee link. There are two tubes

Yes, two tubes, and thank God there are

stinkingbishop my lovely Aunty once asked me if me and my twin sis are psychotic

um that diagram shows one tube.

Friend looking at the property section in the local paper:

"Where's sought after?"

Me: Eh? IN what context?

Friend: "There are loads of houses round there for sale, is it local?"

No, there are two. One from balls, one from bladder.

there are 2 which join together into one, fairly high up.

so there are not 2 tubes which run down the penis

well, technically there are 3.

one from the bladder, one from the testes and one from the seminal vesicle (that's why men who have had the snip still ejaculate)

there's something slightly wrong about spending a thursday night debating how many tubes run down a penis on the internet

I deliberately didn't go into the third one bunda

there's one tube inside the penis - which is why men can't pee and ejaculate at the same time!

but the tube separates into two, one connects to bladder, other to testes/prostrate.

at least that is what I was taught.

[GRIPPED] at this

bunda

yes, you are right, I forgot about that!

It's kind of like how you can't breathe and swallow at the same time. When you swallow, a wee flap of skin called the epiglottis (sp?) shuts so that you don't get food or drink in your lungs. There are still two tubes there - your windpipe and your gullet :)