People saying stupidly obvious things

[Chunkymonkey_71]

A couple of weekends ago, I was in Whitehaven in Cumbria (no, I'm not sure why either); with my good lady.

We were in a Chinese takeaway which had one of those waving lucky Chinese cats.

My better half thought out loud 'I like them. I wonder where I could get one?'

A lady sitting beside us leaned over, and with a face of pure ancient wisdom said 'you can buy them online'.


Given you can buy anything online, from shoes to Albanian children; what's the last blatantly obvious thing that someone has said to you?

[Jonmx]

I have a good friend from HK who insists on having one of those stupid things as it apparently brings good luck. She didn't have an answer when I asked her how long plastic cats with a mechanical inside have been lucky. Someone somewhere has made a fortune out of those things.

[bigandclever]

Chunkymonkey_71 said:

We were in a Chinese takeaway which had one of those waving lucky Chinese cats.

fk it, I'm going in. They're Japanese not Chinese.

[JimbobVFR]

bigandclever said:

fk it, I'm going in. They're Japanese not Chinese.

They're not waving either, it's actually a beckoning motion not a wave.

[Triumph Man]

JimbobVFR said:

bigandclever said:

fk it, I'm going in. They're Japanese not Chinese.

They're not waving either, it's actually a beckoning motion not a wave.

Ah that’s alright then, next time I go to a Chinese and buy even more, I can say to my wife the lucky wavy not actually Chinese cat beckoned me to add spring rolls and prawn toasts to the order… honest…

[Blakewater]

The pier at Llandudno has kiosks selling them, and pretty much every tourist place that's not Chinese or Japanese.

A lot of seaside places have kiosks selling ornaments made from shells that have been made in China, so you're not even buying local mementos in reality.

[Geffg]

They’re lucky for the sellers. Make the sellers good money.

[wyson]

Bet the takeaway owner went round the back, put in the OP’s order and said, “another stupid customer wanted to know where you can get the lucky cat”

And was told in Cantonese, “Why bother to even ask, when you can get everything online these days”.

And the counter person was like, “I know, that’s what I told her.”

Edited by wyson on Thursday 28th August 20:34

[zetec]

Used to work in retail. On those rare winter days where everything outside was white and frozen, every single customer would have to tell me that 'it's cold outside'.

[cliffords]

I was first in a queue outside a barbers today. It shuts for lunch and I got there early to get in first.
Three fellows eventually got in a polite British queue behind me.

A chap walked up to us all and said :
Are you blokes all waiting for a haircut?

I didn't actually answer him however one of the other chaps said. No we are waiting for a hot air balloon ride and they can only take four passengers.

The fellow who asked us said fine, I will come back tomorrow then.

[Dog Biscuit]

cliffords said:

I was first in a queue outside a barbers today. It shuts for lunch and I got there early to get in first.
Three fellows eventually got in a polite British queue behind me.

A chap walked up to us all and said :
Are you blokes all waiting for a haircut?

I didn't actually answer him however one of the other chaps said. No we are waiting for a hot air balloon ride and they can only take four passengers.

The fellow who asked us said fine, I will come back tomorrow then.

Well, you could have been waiting for a beard trim or a nostril hair removal tbf

Or perhaps something for the weekend?