Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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The TorchFather before oxygen deprivation from heart failure:
"I want a white torch so I can see it in the dark".
Ok, the moonlight picks up the white, I can find one. David CopAFeel and I return home with the closest we can find: a silver torch.
Father:
"But it's not white".
Me:
"I know but it's reflective, it will pick up the moonlight better".
Father:
"But it's not white".
Me:
"You can't get white anymore, your white torch is about 20 years old".
Father:
"But I like white".
Me:
"I know you like white, but you can like silver".
Father:
"It's not white?"
Me:
gritting my teeth "No. Not white. Silver. Closest to white".
Father:
"You know, I wanted white".
Me:
frustration rising "I did know that. We had a whole conversation about it. We've been talking about it now. You can't get white".
Father:
"But I like white".
Me:
"There's no white. There's silver. Blue. Black. Red. Purple. Gold. No white. NO WHITE!"
Father:
"Hmm, I'll have to get white".
Me:
stumbles off muttering and panicking that we share genes.
Just thinking about this discussion now, which went on for much longer than I've written here as otherwise people will have their brain trickle out their ears, makes me so tense I am gritting my teeth again and want to scream. Good god, I have some of his genes.
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 18:57, 4 replies)
Be careful!It starts with wanting a particular colour. Then comes the unending madness:
i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3/_KLC1985/Maglites/collection4.jpg?t=1269288467
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 20:10, closed)
Oh god.But there isn't a white one! He wants white! White I tell you! If it's not white he can't see if even if you set up a spotlight in his bedroom focused on the frigging torch!
(I personally would want all the pretty metallic Maglite ones but my father's an idiot, stubborn, and doesn't believe anything unless he has read it himself).
Now I'm exhausted again.
White!
Amanda
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 21:07, closed)
Don't forget, you had it engraved......"THIS TORCH IS WHITE"
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 22:12, closed)
Ah crapI did forget that bit. It didn't work. He's an idiot, but unfortunately, not quite to that level. (Although he does a good impression).
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 11:07, closed)
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