I heard two people arguing about whether or not someone farted.
“Grandpa, Israel isn’t a state, it’s a country!”
This was a woman in her 20s, if I had to guess
I don’t think that’s weird. A lot of people don’t know that “the state” means “the country” unless you are specifically talking about individual states within a country. I can see how that could be confusing for somebody who doesn’t know better.
I’m reminded of when I was in like 8th grade or something and I was confused about how the UK can be a country but England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland are also countries. Similar concept.
It’s a uniquely American problem because all those stupid states had to unite
best way to prepare toilet paper before wiping: folding, crumpling, or rolling
Rolling???
There is no argument to be had.
Folding. It’s the most economic, efficient and way more scalable with thinner sheets of toilet paper as well. People who crumple are on the same level as kids from kindergarten.
So wtf is rolling? You roll it around your entire hand and wipe? That has to be the worst way to do it unless you had explosive diarrhea.
You roll it around your hand for shape, then remove it. It’s essentially the same as folding, unless you leave it on your hand, in which case you’re wasting half of it.
“Look man, all I’m saying is that if it wasn’t for that song most people wouldn’t even know how to spell bananas”.
bananananana*
*Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling “banana,” but didn’t know how you stopped.
If specific people existed when they where right in front of them existing. Those people are LGBT people and it’s happening to much.
What a stupid argument indeed. 😓 I knew someone who told their friend, TO MY FACE, that non-binary people don’t exist. I guess I’m not real.
Also, are you perchance plural? So are we :)
Shouldn’t that be “So are we”?
Good catch!
Yes I am… We are. I use I instead of we because people don’t understand it and it’s easier in online spaces to just use I instead of we.
Yeah, I agree
that we should worry about the feelings of Nazis.
Make nazis Afraid Again
Not one I overheard but one were I was overheard. In Paris at a restaurant where my girlfriend and I (anglophones) commented on the couples baby beside us. She said it was such a cute baby. I countered the most babies are cute so it should go without saying. You really only have to comment when they are butt ugly like in Seinfeld. It was a fun discussion which made us both laugh. Mid meal the couple got up and said in English that they enjoyed it too.
That’s kind of wholesome :)
Not one that I overheard but one that I was involved in:
I said that I didn’t like bright yellow. This apparently was extremely offensive to the friend I was dating at the time and he had to convince me that I was wrong and there is no room for opinion on the matter of color preferences.
A coworker insisted that preferring a silver- colored phone over a black one is racist.
I don’t know where people come up with these things.
I’m curious what your neighbor thinks about a nice tie-dye?
Not an argument but I once heard my neighbor casually (but loudly) discuss with someone how she could only orgasm anally
So… is she single?
she was just letting you know.
“I have an open
backdoor policy” - op’s neighbour.
Hey, don’t judge.
I’m not hear to kink-shame. It was just surprising to overhear
Whether the Newport Jazz Festival was in Europe, because she knew it was in Europe, because that’s the only time she’d been to Europe.
Difficulty rating: we were within 100 miles of Newport, Rhode Island, at the time. 2 hours in a car.
Rhode Island is Europe, right?
Maybe soon they’ll annex, but currently no. RI might hope.
I mean the whole area is New England! It’s got England right in the name!
I had an argument with my partner that they got to sit in bed on their phone for 10 minutes while I had to get up and care for the newborn. They were paying bills. I was still jealous. The argument ended with us both agreeing we were tired and would send the kid to daycare and nap.
Overheard on a game chat recently. Two guys arguing whether 100 guys could take on a silverback gorilla. One of them insisted that silverbacks have impenetrable skin lol.
armed?
human’s technology is our evolutionary advantage. a single human- even a weak one- could kill a gorilla if it had an appropriate rifle or shotgun.
unarmed? dude might have a point… I’m not sure a hundred people could fight a gorilla at the same time.
Unarmed lol
“I could take a gorilla easy. What i woukd do is circle around the gorilla, dodging its attacks until it wore itself out then throw it into a sleeper hold until it was down for the count” - some guy who got his shit wrecked by a gorilla
They have way more strength muscle and much less endurance muscle. 1v1 x50 followed by 5v1 might work
Are we talking human-shaped automatons or actual humans? Cause if you tell me I’m up first to 1v1 that gorilla unarmed, I’m noping the fuck out of there.
also, I’m not sure we could muster enough strength to actually harm it without some sort of tool.
I figure after it rips the first guy to shredds, everybody else decides it’s a stupid idea and the gorilla wins by default.
I was sitting in a restaurant, when the people on the next table discussed how to suppress certain topics from a minister-level EU meetings, as one person wanted to delay any action on that. The discussion also involved passing an envelope, and the one person covering the rather substantial bill.
Not exactly an argument, but I once overheard a restaurant owner bribing a cop. It was an Italian restaurant in San Francisco. Kind of unsettling, but the food was great, and reasonably priced. 4 stars.
“it was an awkward gesture or autism or someting…”
I have a friend who said “misunderstood autistic billionaire”
They use xitter on a daily basis and apparently just write off all the pro Nazi content
Your friend might be a Nazi.
Jeff Foxworthy has “You might be a redneck”, and the current government has “You might be a nazi”
What the heck?
I was walking through own of the dodgier parts of my city fairly late at night with not too many people around. I could see these 2 drunk weirdo guys with a kind of homeless vibe. There was an older guy and a younger dude, sitting on a bench, I could hear the older guy. Imagine this with a thick crocodile Dundee Aussie accent.
“I don’t believe it, I CAN’T believe it, after all I’ve done for you. I was nice to you. I bought you cheese, I… … …”
An awkward 4 to 5 second silence followed as it slowly dawned on the older guy that his list of benevolent acts only had 1 item before he followed up with
“I bought you CHEESE mate!”
The nerve of that guy’s friend… he bought him CHEESE!
