hyacinth is one of my idols, can do no wrong IMO. I try to emulate her every day.
“what time you on to tonight mate?“
Heard an english guy explaining Ireland to a woman in a bookshop the other day
“Ireland’s actually two countries, Dublin’s the capital of the southern part”
Not the dumbest, but the most infuriating:
when chatting to a deeply obnoxious guy who had years earlier introduced me to the idea of Britpop, I said to him that I’d done my (first class) dissertation on Cool Britannia with particular focus on Britpop, and he tried to mansplain the basics of Britpop to me… …
I remember explaining to a friend (who was a man tbf) that he’d need to turn the bread over on the grill. Yeah I think he knew that.
Oh OH OH OH the one I’ve had the most is men coming up to me in bars and saying “that tattoo on your arm is a character from Futurama.”
HOLY SHIT PAUL IS IT?! I HAD NO IDEA
Which character is it?
Bart
Slurms McKenzie, but wearing a suit
His partying days are long behind him now
JFC
A lot like human lefts
Salting you’re watermelon actually makes it sweeter
Wait a minute what
Had a male doctor (professor) that I was working with and who knew full well that I have a PhD in immunology sit for about 20 minutes and explain in excruciatingly basic detail what neutrophils and macrophages are (GCSE level stuff). Really couldn’t believe it and it still irks me to this day that I was expected to just sit there and take it because he was my senior.
I guiltily enjoy getting to a point in a friendship where I can “post-mansplain” – so I can say to a friend who is a teacher that “a school is where children go and learn”
Yeah, my Gran’s grandparents (or something like that) were pirates
There’s a guy I work with who pretends to not quite be sure of things so he can explain them to us in what he thinks is a non patronising way. The term he most does this with is BAME.
‘BAME, so, if I’m right that’s, Black, Asian and minority ethnic, yeah?’ and he says it really slowly so we can, I guess, write it down. Phew, thanks for that.
woah woah woah. pedal back. womansplain to me about this please. oh i see senor has already covered this