Any stupid questions that somebody asked you, that really stand out?

tara666 · 14-08-2009 11:09AM

lol i think the most stupid question i have been asked in a while was when i was in work wearing my uniform and standing behind the counter was a person coming up and saying..do u work here? i really thought they were messing and i said NO ..they walked away:eek:

SuperDude87 · 14-08-2009 11:16AM

I was asked by my students did we have traffic lights in Ireland. Was funny but they were serious.

Loads more but I can't remember them

Degsy · 14-08-2009 11:44AM

I asked in work does anybody have a loan of a nokia phone charger..this stupid bloody woman says "what do you want a charger for?".

AnonoBoy · 14-08-2009 11:46AM

Degsy wrote: »

I asked in work does anybody have a loan of a nokia phone charger..this stupid bloody woman says "what do you want a charger for?".

Well....... what did you want it for?

Finish the story Degsy. C'mon!

Degsy · 14-08-2009 11:48AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Well....... what did you want it for?

Finish the story Degsy. C'mon!

Alright,i was making a monster from bits of dead people sewn together and needed the charger to bring it to life.
happy now?

IvySlayer · 14-08-2009 11:53AM

dancor wrote: »

Me: Can I have a pizza please, With pepperoni on one half.

Pizza man: Left or right?

Well, what did you choose?

tbh · 14-08-2009 11:53AM

a woman at an ATM asked me "are nokias 086 or 087?"

I was playing an "adult" board game with a few friends. I was reading the questions. My friends wife got asked "What percentage of UK women own a vibrator?" She said 40%. I said "sorry, the answer is 60%" (or something). She shouts at me "How do you know?". Eh...it's written on the little card here.

Wazdakka · 14-08-2009 11:54AM

Degsy wrote: »

Alright,i was making a monster from bits of dead people sewn together and needed the charger to bring it to life.
happy now?

Pffft Nokia charger'd never do that.
Get yourself a sony ericsson mate.

teddy_303 · 14-08-2009 12:04PM

Did you miss me?

Chances are not, if you had to ask. You probably shouldn't have reminded them that they didn't:(.

As for the good looking / daft mare conundrum which appeared earlier, I have my own experience with that chestnut.

Having watched 9-11 happen in real time on sky news, I met me sexy / crazy lady a couple of days later. Was still all over the news of course, and she commented "lets get the Islamis". I think I'm quite liberal, and I looked on a bit shocked looking and replied "What?". She was actually that mad in the head, she replied to me, "Why, which side are we on?" To which I replied, "What?" yet again. The more she talked, the worse it got.

Made letting go of this visually appealing yet mind numbingly torturous specimen of femininity so much easier. Thank you Mrs. :cool:

teddy_303 · 14-08-2009 12:06PM

Oh, and "Guess what day it is today?"

:o:o

Degsy · 14-08-2009 12:11PM

teddy_303 wrote: »

Oh, and "Guess what day it is today?" :o:o

"Payday!"

*thanks to Bennet out of Commando for that!

Korvanica · 14-08-2009 01:17PM

When we were discussing movies and different codecs needed:
"Whats a codec?"

and also:
"Is it possible to like get a load of hard drives and make like 1000Gb of hard drive space?"

Needless to say he didn't do comp sci after that year

Krudlers post reminded me of this:

If People Bought Cars Like They Buy Computers

luder · 14-08-2009 01:23PM

a few of the gf's friends from dublin came down to visut us (the countryside) most of these rarely ever left dublin, anyway was driving from the train station up towards the house... it was a narrow country road when one of them turns to me and asks..

"is this a one-way road" I nearly crashed the car with laughther

Long Onion · 14-08-2009 01:24PM

Why is there only one monopolies commission?
Why do churches have lightening conductors?
How much are those penny sweets?
Why did God create Mary Harney?

eightyfish · 14-08-2009 01:30PM

Story of some friends in New York. They go into this big souvenir shop where they have everything you could possibly imagine with NYC written on it. T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, key-rings etc. This is all they sell. This stuff in in the window, all over the walls, absolutely everywhere. The bunch of them go in and spend quite a while looking around and examining everything. Then, after a while, one of the guys, joker type, goes up to the counter and asks the girl - with a straight face - "Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry but I wonder if you can help. I know it's a long shot, but I'm looking for a present for a friend. Is there any chance you might have a sweatshirt with NYC written on it?"

Girl doesn't cop at all, and proceeds to take him to the rack of sweatshirts. The bunch of guys exit the shop and burst out laughing.

Mat the trasher · 14-08-2009 05:32PM

I was watching some documentary on a plane crash and they were recovering the Black box, then it went into some of the survivability traits of flight data recorders. Girly turns to me and asks why they don't make planes like "Black boxes?"
To make the whole lot worse, she was in the business, pushing a trolley at 10,000m

FlutterinBantam · 14-08-2009 06:19PM

Goddamn right.

I was at a wedding in a country location recently and had taken on a large load of steak,onions sweetcorn and red and green peppers and cheesecake and vermouth.

Anyway after a fairly hard round of dancing, got a bit sluggish and as it was a marquee event, reckoned I'd head for the shítters. Book my cube as it were.

Fcukin' queue for the two dunnies and she was pushin' at the rim when I got entrance.

Evacuated a fcukin extremely messy load which had some considerable "footprint" no chance of a clean outcome so opened the door, and in bursts some cnunt who went :eek: WTF is that!!!

The Flutt could have ignored that stupid question but being a bit seedy said "What do you think it is you gimp, there's sweetcorn, steak pieces, there's a red pepper"

What a stupid question, should have been obvious:mad:

the_syco · 14-08-2009 08:25PM

kaz_corcoran wrote: »

I replied "no, sorry we only have apple, lemon, chamomile and wild berry. "
She then repeated slowly "greeeeeen teeea!"

FYI, next time say yes, we have "apple, lemon, chamomile and wild berry". The ones who drink it as the latest fad won't know that they're not green tea, and the ones who drink a lot of the stuff (like my mother)will have some in their tea bag in case the cafe doesn't have any.

eightyfish wrote: »

Girl doesn't cop at all, and proceeds to take him to the rack of sweatshirts.

She probably got used to dumb people after a week of working there...

:P

Misterdenudatio · 14-08-2009 08:38PM

weird wrote: »

I have had this kind of thing happen all the time with girls I have been seeing. It's a prime opportunity to have a giggle and when you laugh they get all cute mad... then it's tickle time... then it's sexy time. :-)

....some man.........................

Lorrs33 · 14-08-2009 08:44PM

Are you the girl with one arm shorter than the other?

Twice I was asked that getting off the bus, on separate occasions. Thank god I drive now.

I put it down to someone I don't like starting that rumour.

Captain Slow IRL · 14-08-2009 08:50PM

An employee was inviting the receptionist along to play in a tag rugby match to which she replied:
"Do you play it with a ball?"
She is blond, but not naturally!

johny28 · 14-08-2009 09:01PM

OK, not sure if this falls into the "stupid question" category but it goes like this. I live with my parents and while we are in the kitchen or watching TV etc.. and someone rings the door bell then both of them ask me who is at the door while I'm sitting next to them. Now, I love my parents but I hate this question particularly I have no freinds to come around to visit me and it is mainly poeple come to see them.

Thought to get this off my chest!

Purple Gorilla · 14-08-2009 09:14PM

In America talking to an American girl.

"So do you guys have Abercrombie in Ireland?"
"No"
"American Eagle?"
"No"
"Hollister?"
"No"
"AeroPostale?"
"No"
"

..Well what do you wear?"

the_syco · 14-08-2009 09:15PM

johny28 wrote: »

it is mainly poeple come to see them.

"It's the tinkers. Ignore them and they'll go away..." :P

briantwin · 14-08-2009 09:23PM

Caboose wrote: »

Driving an American lady back to her house on a sunny day with sunroof open and we pull up to traffic lights which turn red. She hears the beeping for the pedestrian lights and asks what's that sound for? I tell her it's to let blind people know that its safe to cross the road. There's a slight pause as the monkey pulls some levers and I'm greeted with the following statement:

"oh in America we don't let blind people drive".

Since that wasn't a question I said I'd better answer the thread title. Any question which is asked after I give the answer. For example:

Me: "I'll get to it tomorrow.
Them: "so when are you going to have a look at it?"

http://www.brunchma.com/archives/Forum2/HTML/000198.html

Our bus driver in our Northern Territory trip, Arn, told us a story about another American tour group he had. At crosswalks in Australia there's this beeping noise, ehcih turns to this space-invaders laser sound when it's safe to cross the street. This American lady asked Arn about the beeping, and he said "that's so blind people know when the light changes." She replied, "In America, we don't let the blind people drive."

Wow that woman sure gets around! Or its just an amzing concidence.

Myself and my brother were down in a pub in clare. We were talking to a friends father and he turned around and said, "Ye're twins , so which one of you is different?"

hudsonriver · 14-08-2009 09:26PM

Some guy in secondary school lost €5 in one of the classrooms, so he comes back during the next class (mine) knocks on the door and asks the teacher if anyone found a fiver lying around. The teacher then asks if its in coins or a note!

Stercus Accidit · 14-08-2009 09:28PM

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

In America talking to an American girl.

"So do you guys have Abercrombie in Ireland?"
"No"
"American Eagle?"
"No"
"Hollister?"
"No"
"AeroPostale?"
"No"
"..Well what do you wear?"

Ever walked round UCD campus?

SeaFields · 14-08-2009 09:50PM

I work in a shop.

Several times a day i get asked "Do you work here?"

What i say ...."yes, how may i help you?

"

What I'm thinking..."No, I don't work here. I wear this fcuking uniform because I'm a social retard and this big name badge because I'm too stupid to remember my own name you idiot :mad:"

UpCork · 14-08-2009 10:00PM

This is probably quite an obvious one but it really riles me nonetheless. Luckily I drive now, but when I was in college, every single day of every single week, when standing at the bus stop (the queue was usually two to three deep and snaking around the corner, paticularly at peak tmes) someone would come along and say has the bus come yet. It didn't bother me as much when I was in the city centre waiting for the bus home as two different buses stopped at the one stop, so potentially they could be waiting for a different bus to me and just phrased the question wrong, but outside college it was only one bus route, so asking has the bus come yet, when there are about 50 people waiting for it is a bit thick. I so wanted to give them a snotty answer but I was afraid:D

newmills · 14-08-2009 10:11PM

Fizman wrote: »

Fab body. Great big boobs. Anywho all of that is irrelevant.

Seriously that is not irrelevant.

Any stupid questions that somebody asked you, that really stand out?

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