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...

Paddington isn't real????

Paddington's real.

I've seen him on the telly.

Of course he's real. They even have a statue of him in the station.

Happy Holocaust

Although autocorrect often suggests it in place of the word "holiday"

He must be real. We have a video of him, a bag and a purse, several Bears, curtains, had a plate and cups, stickarounds, a jumper. You can't make all that stuff out of someone who doesn't exist!

Don't worry, MissStrawberry, he is absolutely real. I know this because he was on my childhood wallpaper.

You had PB wallpaper. I'm really jealous!

Yes it was Norwich! I was looking at the destination on the front/end of the train though, I think it was abbreviated so that's my excuse

I can't get over the pronunciation of biopic. I'm sure I've never heard anyone say it bio pic and not rhymed it with myopic. But I've googled, about 50 times and all it's come back with is little computer voices going bio pic.

My world view is shattered. And normally it's DH who mispronounces things...

I have a collegue who is lovely, but a bit daft. I was telling her that I was moving to Cardiff from London. She looked aghast and said that's miles away, how long will the flight take? I said I would drive there and it would take 3 hours. She looked surprised - turned out she thought Cardiff was in Scotland!

Another Trivial Pursuit one overheard ... How deep is a water polo pool? "Well it can't be that deep, otherwise the horses would drown." And she was serious.

And in Poundland - heard far too many times over the years "How much is this?"

I am always getting Swindon and Swansea confused

oldsilver you must have come across DH and BIL. They used to adore going into Poundland and asking the prices of everything!

DH does a similar thing at ToysRUs when the checkout person asks if he needs batteries.

when I lived down south I used to be the same about Southport & Stockport, Anais

(They couldn't be more different!)

My DH was, until a couple of months ago, under the impression that women wee and give birth through the same orifice. We have been married for a few years and he's watched me give birth to his two children

A lovely friend asked me once what the lovely fruit was in trifle. It turned out that she meant the jelly-saturated sponge :o

This thread is hilarious!

Husband's friend thought the sun and the moon were the same thing.

Someone else me had a heated debate with a colleague about taste buds. They I thought different areas of the tongue tasted different flavours (sweet, salty etc.) Turns out that's a load of old codswallop resulting from a misinterpreted document 100 years ago. Had to swallow my pride on that one!

blackberry - you have the excuse that it was taught in school for years!

Anais, the clue is in the name - Swansea is by the sea. (no beaches here in swindon)

and the name swindon comes from swine on a hill ( I will leave it to your over active stereotype of swindon imaginations to make a link between pigs, hills and our lovely city!)

I thought that County Durham was in Northern Ireland until my mid-twenties. It has some logic as the other counties in England aren't called "county X" but the ones in Northern Ireland are.

It isn't true about different areas of the tongue having different taste buds? I always thought tgat was true too, I remember having a "How the body works" book as a child that had it in it.

It had this diagram in it blog.golbsalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tongue.jpg

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map

Yes, the tongue map was taught for years in school so it's still a very common misconception (my excuse anyway). But it is essentially total rubbish!

breatheslowly just this very week I learned that County Durham is not in Ireland

My excuse is that I'm Canadian

conveniently ignoring the fact that I have lived here for over ten years

I always thought it was bollocks.

Umami proving my point.