Silly questions people have asked?

freshpopcorn · 13-03-2017 01:06PM #1

When I was in secondary over ten years ago now. Their was a guy who's father owned a large haulage firm. You'd see their articulated lorries all around the country. When you first met him he'd introduce himself as XXXX XXXX and that his father owned X company. He was always on about lorries and trucks.
One day the word articulated lorry came up in class and he asked the teacher what an articulated lorry was? The whole class and even the teacher couldn't resit laughing. (You might have needed to being their or known the guy)
I can think of other examples.
Have ye any experience of people asking silly questions.

Bredabe · 13-03-2017 01:11PM

"Why did the card I posted in switzerland with a dutch stamp not arrive in Ireland?"

"Can I use French francs in Russia"?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 13-03-2017 01:11PM

Someone I know and who shall remain nameless recently asked if Ash Wednesday was this Friday or next Friday? They were told don't be silly it's the following Tuesday.

valoren · 13-03-2017 01:12PM

My younger brother.

"You know how I have a loan in the credit union? If I get another loan, do I have to pay back the first one?"

He was 20 at the time.

razorblunt · 13-03-2017 01:20PM

Why are they called cowboys when they ride horses?
My 24 year old sister there with that gem.

petethedrummer · 13-03-2017 01:20PM

Engineering Project Manager: "Is there anyway we can fix this.....(pause)......without changing anything?"

(in fairness, I think it was more wishful thinking than a serious question)

One eyed Jack · 13-03-2017 01:20PM

"What time is the 10:30 bus due?"

*waits for an answer... the penny eventually drops*

"Oh."

Yeah...

hungry hypno toad · 13-03-2017 01:22PM

Can a teacher interrogate a student without parent's permission?

gutenberg · 13-03-2017 01:24PM

'How many hours ahead of Dublin is London?'

freshpopcorn · 13-03-2017 01:27PM

Once my aunt(who'd have being her fifties) was at my house. We live a small bit down a country road off the main Dublin road in the country side.
I said did anybody anybody heat the guys doing doughnuts last night at about 3am and my aunts response was 'Did they sell many of them?''.

FallSilently · 13-03-2017 01:28PM

I get asked the same three stupid questions constantly and they're always in the same fecking order:

"Who are you?"
"Where am I?"
"What do you want with me?"

Jesus, have patience would ye

Macca07 · 13-03-2017 01:30PM

What's the difference between the languages English and Irish?

SteoL · 13-03-2017 01:30PM

An ex of mine who was born on 25th April:

I wonder why my birthday never falls on Friday the 13th?

Teddington Cuddlesworth · 13-03-2017 01:31PM

Friend: What's the currency in Ibiza?
Me: Euro!
Friend: The same Euro as us?
Me: Yea and Spain.
Friend: What? (getting thick with me) I didn't ask about Spain.

This from a 32 year old, third level educated man

Atlantic Dawn · 13-03-2017 01:31PM

Any question that can't be answered with the simple use of Google.

Stigura · 13-03-2017 01:32PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Have ye any experience of people asking silly questions.

Yes. Someone once asked if I'd like my cock sucked. I mean; How senseless a question is That?!

MonsterCookie · 13-03-2017 01:36PM

Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Friend: What's the currency in Ibiza?
Me: Euro!
Friend: The same Euro as us?
Me: Yea and Spain.
Friend: What? (getting thick with me) I didn't ask about Spain.

This from a 32 year old, third level educated man

Reminds me of a customer in tesco asking for an Irish euro coin when she wasn't happy with the one she was given in her change. She kept saying 'this is an espagna one!' And demanding it be changed.

nhunter100 · 13-03-2017 01:40PM

Stigura wrote:

Yes. Someone once asked if I'd like my cock sucked. I mean; How senseless a question is That?!

Was it a him or a her that asked? Although a BJ is still a BJ.

Stigura · 13-03-2017 01:44PM

nhunter100 wrote: »

Was it a him or a her that asked? Although a BJ is still a BJ.

Sort of answered ye own question there!

nhunter100 · 13-03-2017 01:47PM

Stigura wrote:

Sort of answered ye own question there!

I see what you did there, evading the question. :-)

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 13-03-2017 01:59PM

My sister was trying to figure out a name to give a pet who had a moustachey looking fur pattern on his face.

"What was Hitler's surname?"

She got off easy too, nobody in the room could pick which of the five slaggings running through our heads would be the best to go with so there was just silence.

Winterlong · 13-03-2017 02:03PM

Reminds me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrKjNJQTBCE

robbiezero · 13-03-2017 02:05PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

"What time is the 10:30 bus due?"

*waits for an answer... the penny eventually drops*

"Oh."

Yeah...

In fairness, that is a legitimate question in Ireland. The only time you can be quite certain the 10:30 bus will not arrive at is 10:30.

dan1895 · 13-03-2017 02:13PM

Years ago was telling my girlfriend how you can go to Moscow and view Lenin's embalmed body in Red Square.
She asked why John Lennon's body is in Moscow.
Still married her.

hungry hypno toad · 13-03-2017 02:16PM

dan1895 wrote: »

Years ago was telling my girlfriend how you can go to Moscow and view Lenin's embalmed body in Red Square.
She asked why John Lennon's body is in Moscow.
Still married her.

Don't expect your kids to become rocket surgeons.

Yamanoto · 13-03-2017 02:39PM

I remember sitting in the back of the car as my Dad, seeking directions, pulled up to a wizened old fella sitting on a wall in a rural French hamlet, wound down his window and inquired "Excusez moi monsieur, parlez-vous français?"

The quizzical look on yer mans face as he contemplated just how ridiculous the question was ensured that Dad is still slagged about that episode some 25 years later.

Graces7 · 13-03-2017 03:25PM

Man asked a Liverpool bus conductor, " Is this bus going to Speke?"

Reply, " It if does I am getting off"
( as in speak)
Destination was on the front..

Your Face · 13-03-2017 04:44PM

"How do you boil potatoes?"

A 26yr old man asked me that.

Rubberlegs · 13-03-2017 04:54PM

One of the nuns in the convent school I went to was a bit mad. She stopped a girl in the corridor one day and said "Are you the clock?". Maybe she just wanted to know the time but we got great mileage out of it

Boom_Bap · 13-03-2017 05:02PM

If fish smell like the ocean, why doesn't steak smell like a field?

DanMurphy · 13-03-2017 05:14PM

My neighbour won a trip to the States.
A single man, a farmer, had never been out of Ireland before.
'Will my cigarette lighter work over there,? was all that worried him !

Silly questions people have asked?

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