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...

Coffee, like sleeping dogs, sleeping babies should (generally) be let lie

"I've just found out George Michael is gay"

Ah. So they dont need waking for nappy change ? Interesting. Will store that away for the future.

(comment made this summer)

My SIL, with whom I was discussing holidays - "Oh but you're not allowed to go to Centerparcs, that's only for real families, you can't go there!"

No, single parents apparently cannot be a family and the best they can hope for is a leaky tent far away from all the 'normal' people.

Coffee, they don't need their nappy changed every 2 hours

My friend thought that in the theme song to transformers ... "Transformers , robots in disguise" was actually "transformers , robots in de sky's " as in robots in the sky's but said with a Jamaican accent ..,

A friend, while at university studying history, asked us 'who was on the throne in the Victorian era'. And they say standards haven't slipped...

I had a colleague who, when on a works bowling night out and was asked his shoe size said 'I have absolutely no idea - they're all hand made for me...'. He wasn't BS-ing either.

Friends of mine were convinced that penguins did not have feathers and quite proudly told me "they have pelt". The husband of the same couple said that countries have the same names as their language, eg England/English. Therefore the language of Holland was Hollish and the language of Belgium was Belgeeze!

I think what choccyjules one is - both DC were weaned at 18 months but the DD1 is one year older than the DD2

Corkers on here- brilliant thread!

Um, so if one's friend thought, hypothetically speaking, that the channel tunnel was on the sea bed, how would one be best placed to correct them?

It goes just under the sea bed doesn't it? I'm now thinking its suspended just below the surface or something

Channel tunnel is bored through the rock underneath the sea bed.

I would love a butterscotch plant

You're ok boots. I done a google

Phew!

My SIL :

don't you think its cheaper to just eat out all the time. . .

We moved house in April to a place with pre-pay and the boiler was making strange noises so I marched into the living room and accosted DH, lights blazing, television and PC on and said, "the electricity meter must have run out!"

My sister doesn't know who the Prime Minister is and doesn't vote because politics do not affect her apparently. She is a lone parent with two children! She also once asked me how soon after having sex should the contraceptive pill be taken.

My family are originally from Italy and my dear GM told me that I couldn't marry a man from China because it would be "like a cow marrying a cat"! I couldn't convince her that a man is still a man whatever his nationality.

Talking at school to someone about foods our children like and dislike to eat. Another mother overhears.

Her: Oh, you know what you should never let them eat because it causes an allergic reaction?
Me: What?
Her" Persil. My niece at some once and it caused an allergic reaction. She had to go to hospital so we've never let her eat it since.

Ex-colleague: Can I photocopy this before I fax it?
Me: Just fax it, it will go through like that.
EC: But I need to keep it, it's the original! Or what if I put a note on it asking them to fax it straight back when they are finished with it?

Cottage cheese isn't cheese.

I have no idea why I laughed out loud about the tomatoes being in a strange place!