Stupid Questions

I remember when the maiden flight of Concorde was cancelled because of bad weather, an interviewer asked someone if that meant Concorde couldn't fly when it was raining!

riosgrandma Click on "Acronyms" at the top of the page and all will be revealed.

You can call him whatever you like juney64 - I think I said it on the Palace refurbishment thread when people persisted in calling HM 'queenie' (but not in an affectionate way, more in a 'knitting at the guillotine' way.)

Can someone please explain the abbreviations used on here and why?

Maybe some training required Jalima lol. Thanks Farnorth. I'll get the hang of GN eventually .

I often say Hubby, in fact I only use DH here because that seems to be the norm, I don't actually like DH Much. About these stupid questions , yes they are really dumb, and insensitive too mostly.

Apart from things on the news I always think it is stupid if I say for example that I am going on Holiday, and I get " Oh are you going anywhere nice". I feel like saying " No of course not I thought I would look for the worst place I could find, I hear Aleppo has some good deals at the moment"" Why not just ask me where I am going for goodness sakes!!

My favourite political one was when Labour's Ian Grey asked, at First Minister's Questions, where the Scottish Government was going to find money to put in the proposed Oil Fund. The look of puzzlement on his face when the whole chamber collapsed with laughter is pure comic gold.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4hwVd47FE

When the St Ives Tate Gallery was opened by Prince Charles I was in the crowd watching. An interviewer from the BBC was working his way along the crowd asking people if they thought it was all a great waste of money. I don't know why he thought we would all have driven from all corners of Cornwall, first thing in the morning to celebrate something we thought was a waste of money.

Oh yes it is!

Good grief Shesanana I am SO offended that you asked that question!!

Only joking - I couldn't resist it - sorry

Gawd Juney64 surely it's not that easy to offend people on here

Slightly off topic but still question that I really wanted to give daft answer to, when we sold our house we bought a Park Home so had to go to the Bank to transfer the money from our Account. Member of staff after completing paperwork asked where had the money come from? I was very tempted to reply "drug dealing" but decided better not

As they say "ask a silly question, get a silly answer"

ps he is not as obedient as the dog.
In fact he is not obedient at all.

Oops - have just seen on another post that using the word 'hubby' isn't acceptable
That was me Juney64 lol

It just grates on me but other people may find it affectionate!!
I have a friend who always asks 'and how's hubby?' as if he's my pet dog - and she knows his name perfectly well!!

Juney64 don't worry, you can't fit in with everyone's pet peeves, so just say whatever you like.

DH told me that Malcolm Muggeridge once interviewed a surgeon who had separated Siamese twins (is conjoined more PC these days?). Malcolm was running out of questions and to keep the interview going asked if the surgeon could put them back together again.

Petra;Zeebrugge.I was booked on that ferry for the next day!

Oops - have just seen on another post that using the word 'hubby' isn't acceptable. Better make that DH. Don't think I'll ever get the hang of GN - apologies to anyone who's offended.

Many years ago, a TV crew did some footage of what pupils at two very different Edinburgh schools thought of their education. One was a prestigious fee-paying one, the other was in a relatively deprived part of the city but had a good reputation - it was well-kept, the pupils did well and it was completely free of graffiti.

A friend's son was one of the senior pupils there and was interviewed against a clean blank outside wall. The film crew decided to liven it up with a mass of spray-paint graffiti "to look more authentic", and edited the interview so that the boy's praise of his teachers was almost entirely lost. So that school was immortalised as scruffy and its reputation lessened. Prejudged prejudice?

Luckygirl you made me laugh at loud. Hubby asked what I was laughing at... he's laughing out loud too.

'Never let the truth get on the way of a good story' eh Granny23 ??

Interviewers not only ask inane questions but often supply their own inane answers. Many years ago we were interviewed by the local paper when our DD! (aged8) had been chosen from over 300 applicants to take the part of one of the 'Babes in the Wood' in the professional pantomime at the local theatre. I remember quite clearly that DD said that she 'thought it would be great fun' and I said that 'It will be a great opportunity for her'. However, according to the local paper report, we were'over the moon' and 'bursting with pride' and she was 'going to be an actress when she grew up'.

The funniest one I heard was when an American actress was visiting New Zealand. Her male interviewer was getting on really well with her, then he slipped in the question 'So what's your favourite position? She gaped at him in horror and shock until she realised it was simply an innocent 'quistion', as they would pronounce it in NZ.

I often wonder why anyone would want to listen to the boring details of some z-list 'celebrity's' boring life, or indeed why anyone would read magazines like 'Hello' etc.

I dislike that point in celeb interviews where it turns into a shameless plug for their film, show, book, exercise video, etc. I know it's the reason they're there at all, but questions like "What are you up to next?" "Tell us about your new ....." open the 'luvvie' floodgates of self-promotion. Their latest project is always their best ever!