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One word instead of another

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AviatorShades · 16/05/2018 13:24

Y'know those times when the wrong word just pops out?

I give you, in Costa yesterday, the lady who asked for a decapitated coffeeGrin

So, that's got to be frothy coffee without the froth, right? was the question asked by the barista.

No! it was actually decaffeinated Grin

Made my morning..

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pallisers · 17/05/2018 21:06

My old boss once described someone as "self-defecating" instead of self-deprecating.

My aunt once described me to her in-laws as a penis rather than a pianist hmm

at a family gathering my cousin's boyfriend was playing the piano for us. My mum said to my cousin "he's a lovely pianist" and my cousin replied "yes auntie M and he plays the piano beautifully too"

iklboo · 17/05/2018 21:08

MIL takes anti flammables for her arthuritis and serves peripherals & cream for pudding.

My nan said her pregnant next door had been taken in to be seduced.

SabineUndine · 17/05/2018 21:17

You should have heard me, drunk, unable to remember ‘Physalis’ and saying ‘syphilis’ instead.

beansforbreakfastonceagain · 18/05/2018 16:59

I know of a woman who's famed for these. One of them was "(insert name), your sister was circumcised wasn't she?"

NeedForBlossom · 18/05/2018 17:08

@TuTru

I told someone I could do over thirty lengths doggy-style once. Actually it was a whole group of people.

That is fanTAStic GrinGrinFlowers

tinkerbellone · 18/05/2018 17:09

Teaching shape and space at school.
‘What do you call it when two shapes fit together in a repeating pattern?’
Very sweet boy, hand up, desperately wanting to answer...
instead of tessellation... he said ‘t...t...testicles!’

Thebluedog · 18/05/2018 17:13

Organism in the sea instead of organisms

Durex paint instead of Dulux

Cystitis on hands rather than psoriasis

Thebluedog · 18/05/2018 17:15

Oh forgot this one... told someone that my dc was being kept in a propagated instead of an incubator 😬

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 18/05/2018 17:29

The receptionist emailed me that the 'staff' I was looking for were found in boxes in Cape Town. She meant 'stuff'. We were very far from Cape Town and I still have a mental picture of some people poking their heads out of boxes Grin

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