Stupid Questions

My GP surgery is a training practice nad I frequently go as a guinea pig to help the medical students by telling them about my osteoarthritis.

They see me walk into the room, with or without my walking stick and afterwards I am frequently asked if I have a carer and if I can wash and dress myself! One of these days I will say I need a lot of help and arrived by a 2 man ambulance, instead of driving myself there.

Luckygirl. That did make me laugh!

The daftest interview question I was ever asked was "what do you think your friends say about you when you're not there?".

The night of the zeebrugge ferry disaster Kay Burley asked a rescuer if they had found any babies bodies.

We heard a local radio reporter soeak about a road delay due to a 'stabbing' as if he were talking about a bit of litter in the road. Well, I suppose there are neighbourhoods - and neighbourhoods...

Ha ha lucky girl!!

My Dad was conducting an interview just after the sex discrimination act came into force and found himself asking some hapless young female candidate "What do you think of the sex act?" - red faces all round!

In a job when you have your yearly/six month assessment and you are asked "what is the best part of your job". My answer was always the same...being paid. Never made the higher ranks and was glad to retire.

Yes, that is one of the more inane interview questions, but the other ia "Where would you see yourself 10 years from now?" For jobs I didin't want, I tended to say something along the lines of "Well, to quote the most fatuous, common and obvious answer to that, 'in your place', but seriously ... in a position where my skills are best utilised for the benefit of the company for which I'm working at the time". Thank goodness I'm never likely to be asked any more stupid questions ever again!

Oh, ninathenana, couldn't agree with you more. I get incandescent with rage for the poor intervewee and would love one of them to ask back "How would you feel?"

I remember a clip on the radio, when Clem Attlee was asked if he had a message for the public about the (1951 I think) election, he said "no"
How times change!

There is a very famous radio interview that was recorded many years ago. A hapless young girl was sent to interview an ancient inhabitant of Tunbridge Wells on his birthday. To say his answers were monosyllabic hardly begins to describe it. She asked him how he was enjoying his birthday and he said "It's just a birthday" she asked him what he knew about Tunbridge Wells and he said "I don't know nothing about Tunbridge Wells, I just live here" and it was all down hill from there really

Agree ninathenana,
I always shout,how the bleddy hell do you think they feel twits.

nina that always makes me annoyed too! I did once see an Australian interviewer talking to a man who had been sent to Australia as a child having been told his mother was dead. It was only as an adult he had learned this was a lie and by then she had died. He broke down and started crying, instead of the cameraman zooming in to catch every tear the interviewer stretched out his hand and put it on the man's shoulder and the cameraman lowered the camera. The most sensitive piece of interviewing I have seen.

It's not a news question but the old favourite job interview question, "Why do you want to work for this company?"

The obvious and usually true answer is, "Because I need a job" but of course you can't say that so you have to waffle about wanting to work for a company that is ethical/go getting/prestigious/modern/traditional/etc.

I can't think of any specific question but the

"How did you feel" when X died, when you won a million, when your house burned down
Always makes me cringe