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the other day i was in the bookstore and i happened to be standing next to a girl who was telling her mom that she was trying to get every calvin and hobbes book. her mom said "oh yeah, that's literature." the way she said it - you can probably imagine how uppity she sounded - really pissed me off. i thought of saying something smart-alecky and walking away but i couldn't think of anything. i'm probably gonna regret that for a while.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

that reminds me of one time when I was in MoMA and some clueless dad tells his 10 year-old son "Hell you could do something that looks like that" in front of a Picasso (or was it a Dali?).

― hstencil, Monday, 25 August 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

All you really would've done is give the kid a disturbing memory, anyway.

(xp)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

2 schoolgirls on my train "ohhh my god john mayer's coming out, he's SUCH a honey, if i dont see him i'll DIE". i almost yelled at them.

― jesus_was_a_gogo_dancer, Monday, 25 August 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I've heard a lot of them, but they are really blending together at this point... I don't know if I should start talking about the girl on the cell phone complaining about all the dance clubs being filled with "sweaty guys" or the kid I overheard in the library arguing how the same person who directed The Shining and Full Metal Jacket also did Apocalypse Now, or the girl at the coffee place who complains about "that old guy with the whiny voice who covered 'Rusty Cage' is now covering NIN's 'Hurt'... like ohmygod". To be honest I hear hundreds of these conversations every week, and I wish I could just block the voices out of my head sometime or at least just replace it with some classical music. Or maybe someone could share their Xanax with me.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Monday, 25 August 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"He's got a whole Santana thing going." -- overheard critique of Helios Creed.

Suuuure, if you're a complete moron!

― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 25 August 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

overheard at a playground, conversation between 2 mothers pushing their 5-6 month old babies on swings:

1 "cant she swing herself yet?"

2 "oh yes she just doesnt FEEL like it at the moment"

uh-huh. ( apart from the fact that no 6 month old can swing themselves ) why the stupid competition already? this kind of thing scares me.

― donna (donna), Monday, 25 August 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

LA rules this thread. the extreme celeb name-dropping from next-table-over or bored-shop-girls or person-on-cell-phone-at-food-counter or friend-who-you-wonder-why-you-hang-out-with is simply ipecac-riffic.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Monday, 25 August 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

So when you're sitting opposite someone on a train, say, and they're earnestly telling their friend something you KNOW with the certainty of a BILLION UNIVERSES to be WRONG...

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Interrupt them! You never know, you might actually end up having a conversation with random strangers on a train.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

They might attack.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

criss-cross!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i have been aware b4 now that it is MY conversation that is annoying others :(

once on a bus home catching a friend up on shenanigans at my org (which he had recently left) i wz approached by a woman as she left the bus: she said to me "not everyone loves the sound of your voice you know!!"

(i think i wz quite drunk)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it was Cathy Berberian or Diamanda Galas or somebody you gave a shitty review to once 'getting even'!

― dave q, Monday, 25 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i was in my local record/bookstore and while i was waiting an line to pay for my copy of Neptunes "the Clones" the 25 or so y.o daughter of the woman in front of me came up to her mum with a copy of ulysses saying to the mother "can you get this for me - its only a fiver and it can't be that difficult - i mean Peter's read it" i wanted to knock her block off. Im sure that will be a well thumbed copy!

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe peter is thick as shit.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

this story just show's me up to be a complete snob. ah well.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

being heckled on a hackney bus by the ghost of cathy berberian = coolest thing ever!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I was once asked to shut up on a train. I'd been trying to explain Gödel's Theorem to a friend, and a woman on the other side of the aisle didn't appreciate it. It was in the Quiet Coach, after all.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

They should have maths carriages and arts carriages.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 25 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

*whilst trying to explain to Death Is A Hedgehog that the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie could "totally start a 19th century revival, dude!", I am interrupted by a girl running up to the poster of same movie*

her (to her friends): "oooooooh, I'm seeing that!"

(I give DIAH a smug smile)

"it's rubbish, but I am!"

(yes, I realise the movie *is* rubbish, but still!)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the girl at the coffee place who complains about "that old guy with the whiny voice who covered 'Rusty Cage' is now covering NIN's 'Hurt'... like ohmygod".

About a year ago I was hanging around the bar at the Knitting Factory between sets and they were playing a recording of Johnny Cash singing in German.

Girl at bar: "What is this?"
Bartender: "Johnny Cash. Singing in German."
Girl at bar: "Really? I didn't know Johnny Cash was German!"

― animal wrangler (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds too stereotypical to be true, but...Victoria Line. Train stops, oriental woman gets up to exit. Suited City boy says to other s.C.b., "Heh, 'me love you long time', eh?" Both snicker.

― dave q, Monday, 25 August 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody - how could that annoy you??

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

walking to the harvard square T stop on saturday. One hipster-20something says to other hipster-20something:

"Dude, i am ALL ABOUT keeping it real. Now, lemme tell you about my sandwich shop..."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Anytime I catch anyone who appears to be even slightly more well-off than me complain to their pal(s) about some perceived slight or about being inconvenienced by anyone in any way always makes me burn a little.

Can't think of any good examples right now.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

better stand back, here's an affluence attack.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

...unless I'm in playa mode and she's totally hottt, in which case I'm all empathetic an' shit.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

are you ALL ABOUT keepin' it real tho?

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i witnessed a guy trying to impress/flirt with some girl he worked with on the train a few weeks ago.

guy to girl: "...i love the '80s! (eagerly) do you love the '80s?"
girl (with strong asian accent, somewhat broken english): "no...."
guy: "what? how can you not love the '80s! kajagoogo! ok, not that '99 luftaballons' song, but...."
girl: (shakes head in fervent disagreement)
guy: "no, the '80s are awesome! (awkward pause)"
(at this point i stopped listening for a moment)
guy: "...and did you hear about that, uh, that, uh (seems to feign confusion) justin timberlake guy?"
girl: (makes nasty face)
guy: "yeah, i mean, he has this new album, and it SUCKS."
girl: "oh, yeah...that's terrible"
guy: (glowing) (in accord) "yeah...."

there was something about the "the '80s are great!" ("like, yeah, I have the box set!") thing...and the kneejerk dismissal of justin timberlake...thinking i guess that he would score points for liking real music, or at least disliking the appropriate music.... the combination of haplessness (he wasn't doing a good job of flirting, but what's perhaps even more depressing, he wasn't totally striking out either) and incoherence.... i could hardly stand it.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, right, at some point the girl said "the '80s suck."

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Real is being kept with me, yes.

I was flying back into Little Rock from California and as we approached one of the guys I was sitting next to directed the other's attention to the swampy flood plain of the Arkansas River below and said "A few years ago there was a big plane crash in the river down there. Lotsa people drowned" to which his buddy said "Wow" and shook his head. Which annoyed me because that's not how it happened at all.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

not the most tactful thing to say on an airplane!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, talking about a plane crash.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I mean, get your facts straight. The people who died were killed by flying bits of plane as it came apart upon over-shooting the runway. No one drowned! For better or worse, I kept my mouth shut and let them believe what they wanted to believe.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 25 August 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(with strong asian accent, somewhat broken english): "no...."

I am trying to imagine what this sounded like . . .

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

there was an apostrophe between the "n" and the "o"!

actually that stage direction would have been better placed before another line.

by "broken" i simply meant that there was a hesitation before and often a few abortive attempts at each phrase.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm feeling guilty, but i added that observation because the guy's voice had this patronizing quality, like he was talking to a child--- the way some people talk to anyone whose english isn't the best. it added to his overall haplessness.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Eureka! An idea for discouraging unwelcome advances of strangers on the train has just occurred to me.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

You're all a bunch of racists.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew m=/=andrew motion?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

huh?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

All of IN PASSING... to thread!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/gossip.html

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

overheard on a train ride home on sunday.

g1: i met the coolest guy...
g2: oh yeah?
g3: he has black spikey hair, he's got like 10 tattoos, he plays guitar... he's like... perfect...

i had just finished a 6 mile run but i still larft.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

(at a new meeja conference-cum-schmoozefest this weekend)

guy #1: "so what do they sound like again?"
guy #2: (triumphantly) "imagine the stones... but fronted by dylan!"
guy #1: "whoa."
guy #2: (solemnly) "yeah dude."

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 16 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear dear dear. You are a patient man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I work in an office of Usher-lovers. Whenever the conversation turns to how great he is, I feel the urge to jump up and down on everyone's heads. But I don't.

― Johnney B, Sunday, 16 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OKAY

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 16 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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at least the guy in the library yesterday with tourette's was entertaining.

― get bent, Friday, 16 March 2007 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

squeaky girl to equally squeaky gay male friend, who was making sympathetic clucking noises: "so it's like, fine for her to say that she thinks i'm disorganized and behind in my work, but like, what if i think that she's disorganized?'

without knowing anything about that situation, i felt intensely sympathetic towards the angry boss/coworker.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

April 20th, On the green line in Boston there was a college-y guy wearing a Bob Marley teeshirt. A girl standing above him, holding on to the rail, said very deliberately and self-consciously, "I like your shirt ...it's a good day for it." "Hmm," he replied. When she got off the train she said, "Have a nice holiday." Nice try, sister.

― emilys., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Haha "Wanna smoke my boots...I mean bowl?"

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

so many threads this could go in.

lady at work: did you see those pictures of john's dog?
my new boss: so cute!
lady: so cute!
boss: cute!
lady: i heard he flew to california to get the dog.
girl in next cube over: i thought the dog flew?
lady: dog flew? is that like... BIRD FLU?
boss: [finger pointed in air] ZING!

― modestmickey, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

HAHA someone post that to zings.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

(behind me in line for the Bronx Zoo)

Sullen Teenage Son: I don't wanna go there's no point we only got like two hours it's not enough time to see all the attractions

Sullen Mom: Can we just go home? I don't want to have to listen to this all day.

Slightly less sullen dad: We came all the way here, let's just go.

Mom: I told you it was a bad time to go. We shouldn't come on the weekends.

Teen: Yeah, there's too many people it sucks this is so horrible.

Dad: Wait ok what's this, it says $14 limited admission, $25 unlimited

Teen: What's dad doing why does he always have to read like EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION, like he has to go and see what the SIGN SAYS

Mom: I knew we shouldn't have come, there's no point, and now we're stuck in ANOTHER LINE

etc.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 22 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

My mate overheard a Chinese lady and some children who were in her care in the audience when he went to visit the circus the other day. Not annoying, but funny.

Children: So you just stole the crisps from the food stand?
Lady: No! I just took them and put them in my bag...
Children: And then?
Lady: And then I... then I left.
Children: So you stole them!
Lady: Look, do you want the crisps or not?!

later...

Children: So what's your favourite meal?
Lady: I don't know - There's so much choice!
Children: Well what's your favourite meat?
Lady: I don't know... Prawns?
Children: And your favourite vegetable?
Lady: Asparagus.
Children: Then that's your favourite meal.
Lady: Prawns with Asparagus?

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, just now:

Dude: So what is this, like an energy drink too?
Barista: Nah, it's just a soda.
Dude: Hmm, white grape juice, filtered carbonated water... it does have like 22 grams of sugar, but I guess it's like natural sugar so it's not so bad, right?
Barista: I don't know, it might kill ya!
Dude: Yeah, but I think that things that kill you make you smarter.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

i like that

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it actually didn't annoy me so much. I found it charming.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

It was funny with the further context, because the guy launched into a semi-reasonable rant about how people who live too comfortably get sluggish in the brain. It just wasn't quite clear how refined sugar was the antidote to that.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

This one wasn't annoying either, but I'm not sure where to find the 'random overheard conversations that amuse you" thread.

While waiting to get something from vending machine:
Teenage Guy (with a lisp): Hmm...Steph, what should I get?
Steph: I don't know
Teenage Guy (puts finger in air): Well, Tommy told me to get Skittles...(flimsy hand flops down) That way, I can taste the rainbow...NOT THAT I HAVEN'T ALREADY! (laughs, as he and Steph high-five)

― Tape Store, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Overheard on a bus. Car next to bus had a PUERTO RICO bumper sticker.

Boy: Mum, what's poo-erto rico?

Mother: Poo-erto rico? I think it's a town. Yeah, poo-erto rico is a town in Spain.

Me (thought): Lady, buy one (1) atlas.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 23 April 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=puerto+rico+spain&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&om=0&z=12&ll=27.790069,-15.7082&spn=0.217162,0.220413

^^ maybe she was using this atlas

― 600, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Aye, I was going to say Puerto Rico is a resort in Gran Canaria - one of my colleagues went there on her holiday last year, which confused the hell out of me because I thought she was going all exotic but turns out she was just on a cheap Spanish holiday package holiday.

― ailsa, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

On the Isle of Wight...old Brummie to mate but everyone on minibus had to listen...

"Well it really is the black country now. They'll probably knock that down to build a mosque. They're in charge everywhere. They've taken over without a shot being fired. In their headscarves and all that. It's bloody disgrace. And of course you can't say anything."

Serves me right for going to the Isle of Wight I suppose...

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

did you say 'buy you're saying something now'?

― 600, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

"....yeah, it's their manager Arsenal Wegner. Obviously, we'd say it Wagner but he's Dutch so it's Wegner."

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

did you say 'buy you're saying something now'?

-- 600, Monday, April 23, 2007 8:53 AM (35 minutes ago)

Actually, of course, I said nothing. I mean what's the point?

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I concede that technically she was correct, however PUERTO RICO was overlayed on the country's flag. I am so anal. I should have put this on the petty things that wind me up thread...

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

On the bus:

GIRL 1: Where's Shana at?
GIRL 2: I don't see her so much no more. She spends all her time with her new boyfriend.
[pause]
GIRL 1: Das gay.
[GIRL 1 and GIRL 2 nod to each other]

― max, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

Woman entering office: Guess what, my son's getting his license today!!!
Women in office: OOH! AAH! WOW! I'M HAVING A FUCKING ORGASM OF EXCITEMENT! ETC.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

His license to thrill.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

Same woman: You know, my son is so good. The other day he was hanging out with his friends, and he called me to pick him up instead of getting a ride with his friends. It wasn't that they were drinking, but he told me "Mom, I don't know this guy and I don't know how he drives."

Congrats lady, you've raised a weenie.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/370869791_61726e61a0.jpg
What They Talk?!

― Dr Pow, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hurting: that kid is so totally angling for money or something, what a suckup!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe now that he can drive he can start porking someone other than his mom.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

</ian reise-moraine>

― ian, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sitting next to me in the pseudo-computer lab brightly colored common space thing at school are two girls. Over the past hour I have learned that they are:

Dating.
Looking for an apartment to get together for the first time.
Worried that they'll totally break up and totally hate each other and totally still have a lease.
Actresses.
Prone to singing showtunes in lieu of the normal silences that occur in human conversation, especially when one or both is doing something else.
"Maybe you came into my life to help me be a woman."
On their periods at the same time, which is "ohmygod so cool"
Etc.

― en i see kay, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, one just just mentioned that one apartment was on the brown line, and the other launched into singing brown line to the tune of "Downtown."

I want to leave, but I just can't. So awful.

― en i see kay, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

crusty punk on the bus to his pal- "Oi! Oi! OIIIIIIIIII!!!" (gets off bus)
"Yo, take it sleazy, G"

― Morley Timmons, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

"I just don't understand the strong anti-Bush sentiment. What good do they think it is going to do to put a limit on the length of time this war goes on?"

- One of two jowly businessmen sitting at my table at lunch today, drinking vodka martinis.

― Jesse, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:44 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

20-ish student with Michael McIntyre haircut and accent at the next table at the restaurant last night talking about the Oxford-Cambridge coach service: "but if someone gets on at, like, Bicester, and they're going to Milton Keynes, they're definitely not the right sort of person - not someone you want to be sharing a bus with"

was wearing a hoodie which said "The Cult", leading me to wonder if he liked the band, or if they are the latest band to have their t-shirt designs appropriated by Topshop, or if the words "the Cult" no longer have anything to do with 80s rock bands and I should drag myself into the 2010s, daddy-o

― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

I have nothing in particular to offer right now but this thread has reminded me of the pain I'm caused by overhearing random conversations that are generating around a basic factual error that I've love to correct right there but would look like a loony if I did so.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

ha, as it appears was thoroughly discussed upthread. I was just too immediately angered by the vague memories to not scroll straight down to the post box.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

oh, just remembered I had one yesterday, albeit not in that category:

woman telling your approx. five-year-old daughter to quieten down because she's singing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' while walking along the street - fuck yoooooou.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

oh my god I heard the WORST FUCKING CONVERSATION in a small coffee shop that is usually full of quiet older ppl+students. guy and girl, I guess musta been college freshmen or something??— maintained for at least 30 minutes an incredibly loud and completely unbroken stream of:

A: ... so Jesus is like a fuckin' vampire, cuz he came back from the dead!
B: That doesn't make him a vampire, that's more like a zombie.
A: Yeah, but like he makes people drink HIS blood! So he's like a fucked-up vampire!!

and other such banalities

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:43 (fifteen years ago)

long conversations about their favorite comedians, complete with lengthy repetition of jokes and doing of impressions

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

!! Yesterday at the otter pool viewing area at the zoo, a kid pointed to the otter and asked his dad, "What's that?" The dad said, "That's a beaver." It wasn't TERRIBLY annoying, but I mean, you're in an area that has informational signage about otters, and I mean....it's clearly not a beaver!

(This thread revived per the Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry thread.)

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Monday, 22 August 2011 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

maybe he was talking about the otter's beaver

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

Jesus being fucked up perv vampire so OTM

― owenf, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

lol @ n/a

(he asked me to come here and say that)

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

I always think its kind of funny when people say "If you have any questions please feel free to ask" as if if they didnt say that the implication is "Please do not ask any questions"

― Earthquake in my vagina (Latham Green), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 19:24 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Stupid annual work retreat:

Gotta write one word down on a folded piece of paper for our bosses to read later.

CO-WORKER #1: I wrote down "Snuffleluffagus"!

CO-WORKER #2: "You wrote something in Latin?"

― pplains, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

two guys talking indie rock in coffee shop:

"like Radiohead Kid A, that album's so weird, they must've been on acid when they made that"

― Vic Perry, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:27 (ten years ago)

lol i remember my friend listening to that around his mom and she was like 'are they HIGH? they sound HIGH'

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:57 (ten years ago)

seven years pass...

**MILLENNIAL showing GEN-X co-worker AI DALLE renderings from some Discord channel**

M: Seriously! Give me a phrase and I'll see what it comes up with!

X: Like, any phrase?

M: I mean, you know, something crazy that would look cool?

X: Oh! Ok. How about, "Evel Knievel..."

M: Wait, hold on. "Evil what?" How do you spell that?

X: E-V-A-L...

M: Oh, not "evil?" Ok.

X: ... K-N-I-E-V-E-L

M: Ok.

X: Evel Knievel... JUMPS... OVER... the... GRAND CANYON

M: Wait, I actually think I've heard of this one...

― pplains, Friday, 9 September 2022 17:30 (three years ago)

dad to his son:

no, that’s way too many Swedish Fish

― brimstead, Friday, 9 September 2022 17:34 (three years ago)

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