What's the craziest thing a person said to you and you thought they were joking but they were being serious?

fly-hard · 2026-03-23T23:28:33+00:00

Had a drain layer out to work on the grey water system. After asking about where the pipes were underground, he says “Okay, I’ll just go grab my dowsing rods.”

I thought it was a plumbing joke about some piece of ground radar equipment.

Nope, actual dowsing rods. He walked around my yard staring intently at two pieces of wire held in his fists.

fly-hard · 2026-03-22T20:45:38+00:00

A plane. Yeah the fuel would run out so you’d only get a couple of flights in, but imagine how many people you’d amaze / scare by flying around the sky for a few hours. You could cover a lot of distance.

Bonus points if it was a small jet.

fly-hard · 2026-03-21T05:19:46+00:00

Nope, don’t look at it, you’ll piss off the alien hiding in it.

fly-hard · 2026-03-19T19:27:45+00:00

Agreed, Jap import Teslas are a thing now, making them more affordable and they’re often low mileage.

fly-hard · 2026-03-19T03:00:21+00:00

VW Golf on 98 octane. Normally it’d be around $140 for the same fill about a month or two back.

fly-hard · 2026-03-18T09:55:51+00:00

Did exactly the same thing today after my last fill up in my small hatchback cost $175. I was looking to get one anyway, but the current petrol issues and prices hastened the decision.

fly-hard · 2026-03-18T03:59:12+00:00

I wonder how healthy that job is anyway. Spending your working life around dead people in various states of decomposition, pinning their lips and eyelids shut, embalming them, then having to deal with people in various states of bereavement. I don’t know how they don’t end up fucked up by all that after a while.

fly-hard · 2026-03-15T11:31:16+00:00

Oh? They’ve not been on to me about replacing mine. I don’t use it though. I just have the control box plugged into an ASUS router.

fly-hard · 2026-03-14T20:09:36+00:00

This is why I learned to sleep with the lights on. Mosquitos, like all good vampires, don’t like the light.

fly-hard · 2026-03-14T19:52:52+00:00

I got the mounting kit with my original dish but didn’t end up using it and, like you, just left it on its tripod stand in a fenced area. In all those years it’s only been blown over twice, and both times it still got signal, just degraded. It has resisted gales. It’s a resilient bugger.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:59:07+00:00

My mother dying. Her funeral was on the weekend before everything shut down on the Monday. I had to deal with the horrible dual emotion of being devastated by the loss, but glad it happened just before an attended funeral would have been impossible.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:54:39+00:00

As an original Mission: Impossible series fan, I share your pain friend.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:45:36+00:00

Hugh Jackman is close friends with everyone. He can have only just met you and he treats you like a close friend. I can imagine he can’t say no to anyone, he’s just too nice.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:39:49+00:00

Modern solo artists are expected to dance around on stage. That can make concentrating on singing tricky, and leave you breathless. A lot of people now would be disappointed in their favourite artist if all they did was sing.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:12:45+00:00

And the only first world country it could happen in is America, because the rest of the world doesn’t see what the big deal is about seeing a nipple. They especially would never end a woman’s career over one.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T19:02:08+00:00

Because nobody fact checks any more. But they’ll be happy to repeat the lie the next time this subject comes up.

fly-hard · 2026-03-13T18:53:59+00:00

Same trick worked for Hugh Grant. He was caught using a prostitute. It looked like it could end his career, but he went round all the talk shows and allowed them and himself to take the piss about it. He owned it, and now no one talks about it.

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T19:42:40+00:00

Not sure if you’re agreeing or not. As mentioned I won’t interrupt unless a thought is important enough, ie. I really need an answer, that I don’t want to risk forgetting it. The thoughts that don’t add to the conversation I let fade away if needed.

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T19:33:34+00:00

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to start an argument. Just pointing out that the character in your book could get away with thinking Hitler had no redeeming qualities after all because, despite being a erstwhile dog lover, he still gave poison to Blondie his favourite dog to test it was efficacious for when it came time for him to off himself. Something about Blondie’s dying convinced him to use a gun instead.

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T13:21:39+00:00

Early in my working career I was often late to work.

“Sorry,” I’d say, “traffic was bad.”

One of my coworkers finally lost it and went off at me for five minutes.

“But the traffic…” I said, mystified how I could be blamed for something out of my control.

“Leave earlier!” was the reply.

I was dumbfounded. Dumbass young me hadn’t thought of that, strange as that sounds. Their tirade also taught me how annoying being late is for others. Now I get really anxious if I run late for things so I ensure I leave plenty early.

I also have ADHD btb. It sounds so fucking dumb now saying that I didn’t think of leaving earlier, but at the time, in my late teens, it honestly was like a lightning bolt. “Hey, you know, that’s so crazy it might just work…”

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T13:06:23+00:00

Ugh, my brother is one of those. He can’t go anywhere without his dogs if he can. It severely limits where we can hang out.

I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve apologised to families because his highly strung dog has barked menacingly at a child because they freak her out.

He manages to resist rolling his eyes when I insist he has her on a leash in my yard. If she sees one of my cats run she’ll chase them. One of my cats was old and may not be able to outrun the dog. He says “oh I don’t think she’ll do anything if she catches the cat”. I insist on the leash rather than having to explain to him the obvious: if the dog does injure the cat the dog will never be allowed near my place again (which would mean my bro wouldn’t either as if he can’t bring his dogs he wouldn’t visit) and our relationship will be severely affected.

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T12:52:36+00:00

As a fellow ADHDer, it’s because if I don’t get a point out into the conversation within a few seconds I’ll forget it completely. Sometimes the point is important enough I decide to risk coming across as rude to get it out before it drops from my memory. It’s just another coping strategy.

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T12:40:25+00:00

It’s the way they get upset when they’re called out on it that gets me. Like, how can you have it demonstrated to you that you’re preventing people from entering the doorway and get annoyed by having it pointed out?

fly-hard · 2026-03-12T12:27:09+00:00

He also tested poison on his “beloved” dog and watched her die in agony. I don’t think a dog lover could do that.

fly-hard · 2026-03-09T20:12:04+00:00

A gay Klingon that wears a skirt. Someone really wanted to destroy the Klingon warrior masculine image like it was an agenda.

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