What is the nosiest question you have ever been asked?

another question · 19-09-2012 4:03pm #1

Like when you have had your jaw fall to the floor from shock at the sheer nosiness of the question and more often than not from complete strangers who think they have an entitlement to your information...

Shenshen · 19-09-2012 4:05pm

another question wrote: »

Like when you have had your jaw fall to the floor from shock at the sheer nosiness of the question and more often than not from complete strangers who think they have an entitlement to your information...

Old lady on the bus in Dublin turning round to me and asking me if I'm catholic...

Conall Cernach · 19-09-2012 4:05pm

another question wrote: »

Like when you have had your jaw fall to the floor from shock at the sheer nosiness of the question and more often than not from complete strangers who think they have an entitlement to your information...

Usually stuff like "How much do you make an hour?" from people you have just met.

Ledger · 19-09-2012 4:05pm

This one.

Dubh Geannain · 19-09-2012 4:06pm

Is that a phone in your pocket?

Kylo Ren · 19-09-2012 4:06pm

Did I get a nose job.

seamus · 19-09-2012 4:06pm

"Are you trying for a baby?"

I'm...wait....WHAT?

donvito99 · 19-09-2012 4:07pm

Someone once asked me how I was. I was fine.

BUT THE QUESTION WAS VERY NOISY

Penn · 19-09-2012 4:07pm

"Have you had any trouble urinating?"

I was like "Jeez Doc, little bit personal, don't you think?"

gigawatt2007 · 19-09-2012 4:09pm

"And do you mind me asking, how much did you pay for X, Y and Z"

Usually anything that begins with "do you mind me asking"

saintsaltynuts · 19-09-2012 4:09pm

Are you Gay?

Richard tea · 19-09-2012 4:10pm

Have you washed that?

TwoShedsJackson · 19-09-2012 4:11pm

'When are you having kids?'.

SunnyDub1 · 19-09-2012 4:11pm

who are you texting ?

im invisible · 19-09-2012 4:11pm

not so much nosey, but when i rang up the bank looking for them to post out a statement, and i was asked "what do you need the statement for?"
and i had to say, 'well, eh, i'm applying for the dole, and the social welfare office wants it...'

GreeBo · 19-09-2012 4:11pm

Confused if the question is nosy or noisy...but too afraid to ask the OP...:o

Galwayguy35 · 19-09-2012 4:13pm

If the hair on my head was the same colour as "down below".

another question · 19-09-2012 4:14pm

@ Greebo I'm not scary! But nosy yes! not noisy....I think I spelt it correctly in the question? 'nosiest'

Dubh Geannain · 19-09-2012 4:16pm

Are you local?

WhiteRose90 · 19-09-2012 4:17pm

People alway ask do I eat. Feck you guys I can eat all I want and not put on a pound!

YFlyer · 19-09-2012 4:17pm

Some scobe asked me was I a Guard after I was talking to him in the chipper

daheff · 19-09-2012 4:18pm

my 3 year old asked me (in earshot of my neighbour) "why doesnt she have kids"

Wacker The Attacker · 19-09-2012 4:22pm

How's yer bollix?

Bipolar Joe · 19-09-2012 4:25pm

Why am I still single.

gigawatt2007 · 19-09-2012 4:26pm

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

How's yer bollix?

:D:D:D

Menas · 19-09-2012 4:26pm

Any question a one night stand asks you the next morning is nosey.

The question you really wish they would ask is 'wheres the nearest busstop?'

Toby Take a Bow · 19-09-2012 4:26pm

Really creepy guy used to come in to work and wait until I was at my own at the counter and ask some really personal questions about sex. 'Would you have sex on a regular basis?' was one I remember well. I eventually told him he was barred.

Irishcrx · 19-09-2012 4:28pm

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Why am I still single.

What do people ever expect to hear when they ask this?

'I've just been waiting for you sweetheart'

OR

' Well I may be vastly good looking and rich but in my spare time I like to hunt down animals and hang them on my wall , also people find my dungeon a bit of a turn off at first' - oh does this smell like Rohipnol to you?

19-09-2012 4:28pm

Shenshen wrote: »

Old lady on the bus in Dublin turning round to me and asking me if I'm catholic...

Had this last weekend in Spain.

Where are you from?
Ireland
North or south?
South
Are you catholic?
None of your business like.

It actually really pissed me off for some reason!

kfallon · 19-09-2012 4:32pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Any question a one night stand asks you the next morning is nosey.

The question you really wish they would ask is 'wheres the nearest busstop?' "fancy one for the road?"

FYP
Well you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb!

Bipolar Joe · 19-09-2012 4:32pm

Irishcrx wrote: »

What do people ever expect to hear when they ask this?

'I've just been waiting for you sweetheart'

OR

' Well I may be vastly good looking and rich but in my spare time I like to hunt down animals and hang them on my wall , also people find my dungeon a bit of a turn off at first' - oh does this smell like Rohipnol to you?

I told her it's because I'm an ugly, annoying little dork. It's the more inquisitive, less insulting version of "Why aren't more guys like you".

Oat23 · 19-09-2012 4:33pm

Shenshen wrote: »

Old lady on the bus in Dublin turning round to me and asking me if I'm catholic...

Deleted User wrote: »

Had this last weekend in Spain.

Where are you from?
Ireland
North or south?
South
Are you catholic?
None of your business like.

It actually really pissed me off for some reason!

I find that question more odd than nosy. I'd still just answer it..

extra gravy · 19-09-2012 4:36pm

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Why am I still single.

This. As if being single is abnormal or something.

kfallon · 19-09-2012 4:36pm

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I find that question more odd than nosy. I'd still just answer it..

I'm cat-lick you nosey bint!

Crooked Jack · 19-09-2012 4:37pm

A friend asked me and my girlfriend, while she was sat there, if we'd ever had anal sex. I said nothing knowing id be in trouble but a wee smirk gave it away and he started asking how it was done and what it was like etc... with herself sat beside me in a room full of people. I eventually had to get really thick with him to get him to shut up

seven_eleven · 19-09-2012 4:38pm

Usually asked by old men who have nothing better to do but probe your entire history and family.

I was asked by an elderly man in the waiting room for the urologist, "why are you seeing the urologist for?".

He then proceeded to ask me everything about me, my life, my past life, my family, and more. Too bad I wasnt answering a lot.

Shenshen · 19-09-2012 4:45pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Had this last weekend in Spain.

Where are you from?
Ireland
North or south?
South
Are you catholic?
None of your business like.

It actually really pissed me off for some reason!

*lol I wouldn't have minded that so much, but she never asked any of this. Just turns round on her seat, stares at me and asks "Are you Catholic?"

I'm not Irish and not religious, I was terrified what kind of a minefiled I'd be walking into no matter what I would answer.

GarIT · 19-09-2012 4:46pm

I got on the bus today and an old man got on beside me, I was asked every question he could think of. Am I in college, What am I studying, how long is the course, will I emigrate, where do I live, is it a nice place, what do I think of his daughter that went back to college to be a teacher. Then I put my earphones in.

later12 · 19-09-2012 4:47pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Had this last weekend in Spain.

Where are you from?
Ireland
North or south?
South
Are you catholic?
None of your business like.

It actually really pissed me off for some reason!

I must admit, I've done that with a Ukranian, very insensitively, asking him whether he was from the East or the West. He got quite annoyed and said 'what does it matter anyway?' and I can totally understand his frustration.

But questions like that stem from a genuine curiosity about the political situation and little else. Outsiders feel totally detached from the politics of the thing, they just want to acquire information on the conflict, and it is because they feel so detached they forget that the complexities can involve quite personal matters, or do not recognize that the question might cross a boundary.

Senna · 19-09-2012 4:52pm

Elderly customer asked me if i get to go to Sunday mass (i work every Sunday and she sees me every Sunday), i said "of course i do, i go to 9am mass everyday of the week", i said it laughing in a friendly sarcastic way (which most people "get"). She said "ah that great, so glad to see young people going to mass", and then she headed off over to the husband and started telling him about how i go to mass everyday. I didn't have the heart to tell them i was joking and i still feel a bit guilty seen she's been particular nice to me since then.

Biggins · 19-09-2012 4:53pm

I was once asked about the first wife's sex life. Honestly.
I gritted my teeth and told the person "How would I know - I don't be there half the time!"

Rayne Wooney · 19-09-2012 4:54pm

A man in town with a clipboard asking "do you watch porn?" "how often?" in the middle of a busy street...
I can't wait for the findings of this survey, they'll be a laugh.

"According to a survey carried out by UCD.. O% of people in Ireland watch pornography"

Senna · 19-09-2012 4:54pm

Biggins wrote: »

I gritted my teen

You can go to jail for that

*nicely edited

ballsymchugh · 19-09-2012 4:55pm

a girl the year ahead of me at college got asked in front of the class if she gets thrush when she takes antibiotics, and how does she deal with it :eek:

Biggins · 19-09-2012 4:56pm

Senna wrote: »

You can go to jail for that

*nicely edited

I know! :pac:
Oops!

First wife now history by the way.
I divorced her due to her affairs.

sebastianlieken · 19-09-2012 4:57pm

Getting a taxi home from the Hospital, Taxi Driver asked what it is that I was in the Hospital for.

thought that was a bit invasive....

Rigol · 19-09-2012 4:58pm

After handing my valid sick note to lecturer (late project), he turns round and asks me what was wrong with me in front of others.
Told him to ask my doctor .... i.e f.uck off. nosey prick.

sam34 · 19-09-2012 5:06pm

I was asked by someone I didn't know very well how much my mortgage was for and how much of a deposit I'd paid. he was met with a steely stare and "that's between me and my bank manager".

Biggins · 19-09-2012 5:08pm

Rigol wrote: »

After handing my valid sick note to lecturer (late project), he turns round and asks me what was wrong with me in front of others.
Told him to ask my doctor .... i.e f.uck off. nosey prick.

Should have told him "Your other half left me with something infectious" - in front of everyone!

Vicar in a tutu · 19-09-2012 5:08pm

How much do you earn?

How did you afford to buy that?

I thought you get paid tomorrow?

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Its just pure bad manners:mad:

Feeona · 19-09-2012 5:12pm

At my father's wake 'So, are you going to sell the house?'

I really wish I had had the wit to say 'Well houses with dead people in them aren't selling so well these days'. What a nosy bint :mad:

Or when I was subbing in a local school. A parent came in on the second day to tell me about her son's 'special needs' (he wasn't diagnosed with anything, his 'special needs' were down to him being a spoilt little so and so). She then proceeded to ask me if I knew how to teach everything on the curriculum.

I really wish I had had the wit to say 'P*ss off' :pac:

What is the nosiest question you have ever been asked?

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