FabSwingers.com forum: Stupid Questions

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently? "

What are clouds made from, was one I got asked

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Did somebody mention Clouds?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to think there is no such thing as a stupid question but then I see some of the things people post everywhere online and can’t believe the lack of education on simple things we were all taught at school or what should seem common sense yet for some reason isn’t

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I once asked where my phone was when I was using it to talk to someone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I like to think there is no such thing as a stupid question but then I see some of the things people post everywhere online and can’t believe the lack of education on simple things we were all taught at school or what should seem common sense yet for some reason isn’t "

Nothing ceases to amaze me with people anymore.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I once asked where my phone was when I was using it to talk to someone.

Haha! I do that quite often

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I once had a very in-depth debate with someone adamant that dragons had existed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I once had a very in-depth debate with someone adamant that dragons had existed

and what was the outcome......

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I get asked ‘is that it?’ referring to my cock and then I’m really sarcastic with ‘no, it’s my pussy ruining thrust weapon’ and then I get asked another stupid question like ‘when are you leaving?’

In my head anyway.

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Don't get so many now I'm no longer in the business of educating urchins, but I was rather tickled (well, utterly bemused at first and still to this day if I'm honest) when one lad asked (in regards to hydroelectric dams):

"Why don't they make them waterproof?"

I still can't figure out what he was even asking, or the thought process that led to that question

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Oh my friend said if Britain is an island could you swim underneath it?

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

"Oh my friend said if Britain is an island could you swim underneath it? "

Not a question, but a different lad said "I only found out England had beaches 2 years ago" - he was 17.

All I could think was "But...but...we're an island?"

Quite sad though. Clearly he'd never been the seaside in his whole life

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

On here. "Can I ask you a question?".

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Oh yeah, same lad about a month previously:

"What? You mean...they had computers...*without* the internet??!?"

The level of inc_edulity was amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh my friend said if Britain is an island could you swim underneath it?

Not a question, but a different lad said "I only found out England had beaches 2 years ago" - he was 17.

All I could think was "But...but...we're an island?"

Quite sad though. Clearly he'd never been the seaside in his whole life

Or he may of always been abroad

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By *ubiousOatcakeMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

My otherwise intelligent colleague recently asked me if I knew that the sound when you click your fingers is made by your finger hitting the fleshy base of your thumb.

She had previously thought it was the sound of the finger snapping past the mid-thumb knuckle.

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

"On here. "Can I ask you a question?"."

Darn... Stopped me in my tracks there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol an American once asked me if we had sheep as pets in Ireland and if we had ever had a McDonald's lol

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By *ubiousOatcakeMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

If we’re moving on to the stupid things American tourists ask, I could spend a while on it from my time as a tour guide. I have a few favourites.

You speak really good English, what language do you speak in Scotland?

What’s that? (It was a sheep.) Do they bite?

To me, putting up a sign saying, “(company name) Tours Meeting Point”, wearing (company name) t-shirt: Is this where we meet for (company name) tours?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I work in the hotel industry, answering dumb questions is my life.

It's when I'm asked where a particular thing is when the answer is literally right in front of their eyes which gets me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One day I told a girl on that I was from France, she then asked me: do you know my cousin ?

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

'Stupid Questions' could be the name of this entire forum...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do cockerels lay unfertilised eggs? Really???

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Bumping into a friend whilst walking towards my then workplace, in my uniform..."where are you going?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I live with a 6 year old. About 50% of my day is trying to explain what colour see-through is, that Goths didn’t create the world and that leg-elbows aren’t a thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My visiting friend said "look at that Apache helicopter" and pointed skyward.

I said "there's an airfield over there, it's probably coming in to land".

He said, "it's a bit low isn't it"?

What?????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

What are clouds made from, was one I got asked "

thats just obvious , .......cotton wool

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"I once had a very in-depth debate with someone adamant that dragons had existed

and what was the outcome...... "

They produced there ex mrs as evidence

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By *oisineandAlCouple
over a year ago

limerick

Don't worry people thought we had elephants and lion roaming the streets in south Africa when I came to Ireland, or one who asked where I was born, Kenya, why are you not black?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"One day I told a girl on that I was from France, she then asked me: do you know my cousin ?"

When I went to America back in the 80's, I often got asked if I knew a certain person who worked at Rolls Royce

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

There is now a company selling cockroach milk...yeuk!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

Have you not tried Camel milk?

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

"Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

There is now a company selling cockroach milk...yeuk!"

Cockroaches wouldn't produce milk. They are not mammals

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

I googled..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5141a1ed-d598-46ec-8e41-ccee1f0486ac

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By *radleywigginsMan
over a year ago

northwest

By a guy in a garage..

(Whilst I was buying a can of and a mars bar wearing full cycling clobber, including helmet)

‘Any Petrol mate?’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

There is now a company selling cockroach milk...yeuk!

Cockroaches wouldn't produce milk. They are not mammals

Try the unconsciously uncoupled web site of the actress stuck between sliding doors!

Apparently it's some new gloopy product

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I once asked where my phone was when I was using it to talk to someone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m on cloud 9

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A friend of mine asked if Cumbria was in Spain...

...While we were driving in Cumbria.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought Belgium was in Germany for a long time!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Our son asked "why are we selective about which mammals milk we drink? Whys it only like cows and goats and yaks milk? Whats wrong with dogs milk? Why dont we milk elephants or giraffes?"

He's an odd 'un

They are developing a cockroach milk!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Year 11 child when shown a model of the solar system asked which one was Spain... had to get a globe out to show them, never seen a globe before either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

What are clouds made from, was one I got asked "

Cotton wool stupid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I once asked where my phone was when I was using it to talk to someone.

The hubby text me to say he couldn't find his phone. I phoned him and he answe_ed it. Yes i asked him he has found it yet lol

Also looking about for my phone when it was in my had old age i say

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Girl I was in secondary school with wouldn't have it that the Nile flowed North becouse, and I quote, "Water can't flow up".

She has her own successful business now and lives in a massive house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love stupid questions. They allow me to use the special face I pull, reserved only for stupid questions that involves growling, my eyes rolling up to the sky and a long deep sigh.

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

"If we’re moving on to the stupid things American tourists ask, I could spend a while on it from my time as a tour guide. I have a few favourites.

You speak really good English, what language do you speak in Scotland?

What’s that? (It was a sheep.) Do they bite?

To me, putting up a sign saying, “(company name) Tours Meeting Point”, wearing (company name) t-shirt: Is this where we meet for (company name) tours?"

As a tourist in America, I got on a bus and some random dude started chatting - after getting over the initial shock (as someone from the South of England) of a stranger talking to me on public transport, I replied and got the usual "Oh gee, I just love your accent, whereabouts are you from?"

"Ummm...(has he not heard my generic Southern English accent? Where the fuck does he think I'm from? Australia probably...) England?"

"Right! England! Which part?"

"Errr...(he probably hasn't heard of anywhere apart from London, so...) near London"

"London...right, right...is that near Brussels?"

"Ummm...well...it's like an hour away by flight, which is sort of the distance between New York and Washington...so I guess on an American scale...yeah, it kind of *is* near Brussels...(does he even know it's a different country?!?)

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

With a career in Hotels spread over 30+ years specialising in Reception Operations, Americans have always shown themselves to be utter dunces at times.

When I was Reception Manager of a hotel in Edinburgh, visiting Yanks often asked on arrival:

Do you have electricity here?

Do you have Television here? (we usually said as we had invented it, we did!).

Why does the traffic drive on the left?

To a Yank in a London hotel on hearing my Scottish accent and when I replied to his query about where I was from, he said...

"Scotland. That's an island off the North English coast, isn't it?" (He was being sincere!).

But the best occurs in many hotels. People arrive on site and follow the signs to Reception. They stand at the desk, where usually there'll be a sign above or built into the frontage identifying what it is and they ask... "Is this Reception?"

Doh!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently? "

I actually had an argument with someone who was adamant turtles and tortoises are the same

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In a £1 shop someone asks...how much is this? And the reply was....£1

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What if there were no hypothetical questions

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

I actually had an argument with someone who was adamant turtles and tortoises are the same

I frequently need to explain to people that China and Japan are two different countries.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My otherwise intelligent colleague recently asked me if I knew that the sound when you click your fingers is made by your finger hitting the fleshy base of your thumb.

She had previously thought it was the sound of the finger snapping past the mid-thumb knuckle."

Well you learn something new every day. I hadn't realised that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

I actually had an argument with someone who was adamant turtles and tortoises are the same

I frequently need to explain to people that China and Japan are two different countries."

OH WOW!!!

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

I have a question...

Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

And there should be a law against rhetorical questions. I mean, what's the point?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have a question...

Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?"

Haha

I like that. I'm going to use that

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By *rnoldZiffelMan
over a year ago

Leinster

In my sons class, when a classmate asked his teacher about an impending eclipse, another kid asked "but sir, why did Obama build space anyway? ".....efforts were made,by fellow students and the exasperated teacher, to understand the boy's twisted logic but.... they completely failed and so they gave up.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I thought Belgium was in Germany for a long time! "

It was, but only temporarily until they moved it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All questions are a chance to learn

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up constantly hearing my Mum say 'I don't know why they call it common sense, it really isn't all that common!'

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"All questions are a chance to learn "

That's very true.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"All questions are a chance to learn "

Only if you accept that the answer is correct though

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By *erDirtyRockstarMan
over a year ago

buckinghamshire

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently? "

Its inherently not a stupid question without prior knowledge to be fair.

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By *owdyboy 890Man
over a year ago

Country West

What's your middle name I need it for getting on with it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All questions are a chance to learn

That's very true. "

You're not stupid for not knowing.

You're stupid for not asking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I just got asked if rain comes from clouds?!?

What stupid questions have you asked or been asked recently?

What are clouds made from, was one I got asked

Cotton wool stupid

Oh s*** really I thought it was candy floss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Someone once asked me what language they speak in Australia and then tried to argue with me when I said "English".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All questions are a chance to learn

Only if you accept that the answer is correct though

And only IF the answer provided is actually correct. Self professed experts on any topic may just be confident, not necessarily correct.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"All questions are a chance to learn

Only if you accept that the answer is correct though

And only IF the answer provided is actually correct. Self professed experts on any topic may just be confident, not necessarily correct.

Some people will believe any old dumb ass shit that you feed them though innit...

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By *ere2pleasureUMan
over a year ago

Kington

While at the tower of London, an American tourist asked why it was built under a flight path, making it hard to hear the tour guides?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Took my ex to a football match and she wanted a programme as a souvenir so she walked up to the programme seller where she asked him if the programme was for this weeks game...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

on here? What ya looking for?

in the real world, what ya doing? when i’m stood washing the dishes.

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"The only stupid question is the one that's never asked" . . . Famous quote. . . Who made it?

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By *atindollTV/TS
over a year ago

edinburgh

An American once asked me why there was scaffolding on Edinburgh castle....i told him it was for the hanging next week...he said...aw gee we go home on Monday.. .he was gutted.also when I lived in Spain an English woman asked me- if she bought a Spanish telly would she be able to watch Spanish telly on it back home...she liked the bullfighter she said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A work colleague in my last job .....Was Lance Armstrong the first man on the moon as he must be well fit, he’s won bike races too...,at which point I didn’t know what to say so I walked off, facepalm doesn’t even cover it

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By *atindollTV/TS
over a year ago

edinburgh

"A work colleague in my last job .....Was Lance Armstrong the first man on the moon as he must be well fit, he’s won bike races too...,at which point I didn’t know what to say so I walked off, facepalm doesn’t even cover it"

I don't know....lance WAS on a lot of drugs so his having been to the moon wasn't that far fetched.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Friends came to visit yesterday. I showed their little girl our tortoise. Amongst other questions, she wanted to know...

Does he take his shell off when he goes to bed?

How do tortoises die?

Cute!

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

"Someone once asked me what language they speak in Australia and then tried to argue with me when I said "English"."

Hmmm...to be fair, it's debatable...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some might say that there is no such thing as a stupid question but....When you go up to the counter in a shop,present them with a sandwich,a snickers and a coffee from the machine and they ask 'anything else?', I'd say that qualifies.

I always answer politely,though

It's not the shop workers fault that they are instructed to ask.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody knows it was Louis Armstrong.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Everybody knows it was Louis Armstrong."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"An American once asked me why there was scaffolding on Edinburgh castle....i told him it was for the hanging next week...he said...aw gee we go home on Monday.. .he was gutted.also when I lived in Spain an English woman asked me- if she bought a Spanish telly would she be able to watch Spanish telly on it back home...she liked the bullfighter she said."

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just went in the petrol station,had a wee got a coffee and a bun and as I was paying (contactless,Seeside

) I was asked THE most daft question.

"Would you like one of these mega bars of Galaxy for only a pound"......do bears s**t in the Vatican?? You're damn right,I might not even make it out of the door before wilting it all in one go.

Well,I've been working ever so hard and I deserve a treat.

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