Things you overhear stupid people saying
Things you overhear stupid people saying
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sc0tt

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18,296 posts

231 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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I’m stood on a train and a gaggle of girls are mulling what they would do should you be half way across a level crossing and the barriers go down. 2 reply accelerate through the barrier, the other 2 are insistent that the official ruling is to stop you car and get out and walk to safety.

Why???

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

200 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Uh-huh.

Adenauer

18,982 posts

266 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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I was on an internet forum and saw someone type:

I’m stood on a train and a gaggle of girls are mulling what they would do should you be half way across a level crossing and the barriers go down. 2 reply accelerate through the barrier, the other 2 are insistent that the official ruling is to stop you car and get out and walk to safety.

Why???

Why???

sgtBerbatov

2,597 posts

111 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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sc0tt said:
I’m stood on a train and a gaggle of girls are mulling what they would do should you be half way across a level crossing and the barriers go down. 2 reply accelerate through the barrier, the other 2 are insistent that the official ruling is to stop you car and get out and walk to safety.

Why???
Because the Darwin Awards are an actual thing and those 4 girls are doing their best to win it.

Saleen836

12,507 posts

239 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Sat in a restaurant with a young couple sat on the next table, I overhear the lad talking to his date about food stuffs, and while filling his face with chips he comments "If it comes out of the ground I don't eat it!"

sc0tt

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18,296 posts

231 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Saleen836 said:
Sat in a restaurant with a young couple sat on the next table, I overhear the lad talking to his date about food stuffs, and while filling his face with chips he comments "If it comes out of the ground I don't eat it!"
hehe

I wore earphones for the rest of the journey but as we were getting off I overheard her ask if Poland was in Germany.


TwigtheWonderkid

49,133 posts

180 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Two women on a plane from Belfast to London, worked for one of the big accountancy firms, and we coming over to a workshop event.

They had a set of topics to discuss and between them they had to speak for 5 mins about each topics, so they were discussing who would take which topic at the workshop. Dividing the topics out between them

And one says "The Art of Delegation"....I'm good at delegation so I'll take that one."

Surely she should have said "The Art of Delegation"....I'm good at delegation so you take that one."

Eddie Strohacker

3,879 posts

116 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Some random on a film discussion said he didn't see any merit in three Billboards & gave it 1 out of whatever.

Gary29

5,237 posts

129 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Two women on a plane from Belfast to London, worked for one of the big accountancy firms, and we coming over to a workshop event.

They had a set of topics to discuss and between them they had to speak for 5 mins about each topics, so they were discussing who would take which topic at the workshop. Dividing the topics out between them

And one says "The Art of Delegation"....I'm good at delegation so I'll take that one."

Surely she should have said "The Art of Delegation"....I'm good at delegation so you take that one."
Unless the other topic was an absolute stinker which neither of them particularly wanted to do, then she'd be a good delegator!

sc0tt

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18,296 posts

231 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Eddie Strohacker said:
Some random on a film discussion said he didn't see any merit in three Billboards & gave it 1 out of whatever.
I was being generous.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

264 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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A ghost blew on my elbow and I asked it for a repeat.

Mammasaid

5,598 posts

127 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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sc0tt said:
hehe

I wore earphones for the rest of the journey but as we were getting off I overheard her ask if Poland was in Germany.
Well it was in 1940....

Eddie Strohacker

3,879 posts

116 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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sc0tt said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
Some random on a film discussion said he didn't see any merit in three Billboards & gave it 1 out of whatever.
I was being generous.
I'd say revealing. Generous also works.

cbmotorsport

3,065 posts

148 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Saleen836 said:
Sat in a restaurant with a young couple sat on the next table, I overhear the lad talking to his date about food stuffs, and while filling his face with chips he comments "If it comes out of the ground I don't eat it!"
I know someone who says this exact phrase, and eats chips. Did he have a big bushy beard?

Frank7

6,619 posts

117 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Taking 3 people to Heathrow in my taxi years ago, we stopped in traffic in Cromwell Road, Kensington, opposite
an Italian restaurant which had a sign saying "We specialise in shellfish, Lobster, Scampi, Prawns and Mussels."
One bright spark said, "Look at that, they've spelt mussels wrong, surely they know it's muscles."

sc0tt

Original Poster:

18,296 posts

231 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Eddie Strohacker said:
sc0tt said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
Some random on a film discussion said he didn't see any merit in three Billboards & gave it 1 out of whatever.
I was being generous.
I'd say revealing. Generous also works.
Are you trying to get a rise because I didn't like a film you did? Very odd.

droopsnoot

14,697 posts

272 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Frank7 said:
Taking 3 people to Heathrow in my taxi years ago, we stopped in traffic in Cromwell Road, Kensington, opposite
an Italian restaurant which had a sign saying "We specialise in shellfish, Lobster, Scampi, Prawns and Mussels."
One bright spark said, "Look at that, they've spelt mussels wrong, surely they know it's muscles."
And yet, if you go up to Conwy where they're fished/farmed/caught or whatever:



Signwriters on autocorrect?

Edited by droopsnoot on Friday 2nd February 12:48

Testarossa

1,050 posts

251 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Yesterday;

"mmmmeoffffffffffff grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr humphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sssssssaaaaaaaaaassssss hhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrsssssssss..."

Went on for a good minute before I thought I had heard enough and left the ward.


57Ford

6,058 posts

164 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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droopsnoot said:
And yet, if you go up to Conwy where they're fished/farmed/caught or whatever
They’re harpooned. By a man called Thomas and then his wife Gladys ties a rope round them so they don’t escape.

anonymous-user

84 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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No word of a lie. This happened right in front of me about 20 years ago.

York Castle museum.

Two American ladies looking at the War of the Roses exhibit. Which had an information panel right in front of them:
(Best deep south accent required)

"Gee just think, all those people fighting over a bunch of roses"