Stupid things you've overheard in public

[geno]

I'll start :

The other day, I was at the park with my daughter. I walked over to the slide to just keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't tumble off the top or anything, and I overhear two women who are standing just a few feet away. I walked over in the middle of their conversation, which I assume was about getting mice in their house, when one of them says, "You can't really keep them from getting into your house, I mean, mice have no bones so they can fit through anything."

Ya, it wasn't the most profoundly stupid thing I ever heard, but I got a little chuckle out of it. What are some nuggets of stupidity you've heard strangers belt out?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: geno
I'll start :

The other day, I was at the park with my daughter. I walked over to the slide to just keep an eye on her to make sure she didn't tumble off the top or anything, and I overhear two women who are standing just a few feet away. I walked over in the middle of their conversation, which I assume was about getting mice in their house, when one of them says, "You can't really keep them from getting into your house, I mean, mice have no bones so they can fit through anything."

Ya, it wasn't the most profoundly stupid thing I ever heard, but I got a little chuckle out of it. What are some nuggets of stupidity you've heard strangers belt out?

Mice have no bones.

What are you talking about?

 

[CZroe]

"Non-poisonous snakes become poisonous when they eat or are bitten by a poisonous snake." I'm sure it's an old wives' tale to keep kids from playing with ANY snake, poisonous or not. My sister in law said that when I lived there for five months and, at first, I held my tongue to be polite.

The thing is, she used to lord her college education over me when I was a teenager, but when she tried it again after slapping me for saving a trapped hummingbird, I had to call her on it. Basically, she said that it "could peck my eyes out" and she refused to listen to me when I said that hummingbirds don't even have knees/jointed legs and thus CAN'T. Instead, she tried to say that she is college educated and I had to listen to her. I responded with: "This, coming from a woman who thinks that non-poisonous snakes suddenly grow fangs, poison reservoirs, and the muscles to contract and pump the venom because they were bitten by a poisonous snake? PUH-LEEZE. Where did you go to college again?"

 

[shortylickens]

Most anything on a cell phone. Until those things existed I never knew exactly how dumb people were.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I was next to a guy at the library yesterday who was talking (loudly) to his mate about the 9/11 conspiracy. He was totally convinced and the more he talked about it the more excited he got, until he started spitting while he was talking and huffing & puffing trying to keep up with himself. He was just repeating the same BS we've heard for years but his friend was totally fascinated and responded like this was the first he'd ever heard of it. I wanted to throat-punch both of those assholes.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: CZroe
"Non-poisonous snakes become poisonous when they eat or are bitten by a poisonous snake." I'm sure it's an old wives' tale to keep kids from playing with ANY snake, poisonous or not. My sister in law said that when I lived there for five months and, at first, I held my tongue to be polite.

The thing is, she used to lord her college education over me when I was a teenager, but when she tried it again after slapping me for saving a trapped hummingbird, I had to call her on it. Basically, she said that it "could peck my eyes out" and she refused to listen to me when I said that hummingbirds don't even have knees/jointed legs and thus CAN'T. Instead, she tried to say that she is college educated and I had to listen to her. I responded with: "This, coming from a woman who thinks that non-poisonous snakes suddenly grow fangs, poison reservoirs, and the muscles to contract and pump the venom because they were bitten by a poisonous snake? PUH-LEEZE. Where did you go to college again?"

Don't have knee joints? Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

 

[KMFJD]

I overheard someone saying ' Did you hear what Rush had to say today?' and i promptly walked away before i could hear the rest...

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: CZroe
"Non-poisonous snakes become poisonous when they eat or are bitten by a poisonous snake." I'm sure it's an old wives' tale to keep kids from playing with ANY snake, poisonous or not. My sister in law said that when I lived there for five months and, at first, I held my tongue to be polite.

The thing is, she used to lord her college education over me when I was a teenager, but when she tried it again after slapping me for saving a trapped hummingbird, I had to call her on it. Basically, she said that it "could peck my eyes out" and she refused to listen to me when I said that hummingbirds don't even have knees/jointed legs and thus CAN'T. Instead, she tried to say that she is college educated and I had to listen to her. I responded with: "This, coming from a woman who thinks that non-poisonous snakes suddenly grow fangs, poison reservoirs, and the muscles to contract and pump the venom because they were bitten by a poisonous snake? PUH-LEEZE. Where did you go to college again?"

Don't have knee joints? Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

Of course they didn't disappear. They are vestigial/not functional (in the same way, at least). They are INSIDE of the bird's body. A hummingbird is incapable of sitting, walking, or hopping on a flat surface. It *requires* a perch or else it hovers.

http://www.ilikestories.com/handdrawn/hummingbird.htm

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: CZroe
Of course they didn't disappear. They are vestigial/not functional (in the same way, at least). They are INSIDE of the bird's body. A hummingbird is incapable of sitting, walking, or hopping on a flat surface. It *requires* a perch or else it hovers.

http://www.ilikestories.com/handdrawn/hummingbird.htm

Vestigial != does not exist.

Since the entire thread was about people being stupid, it needed rectified.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Anyone have more stories?

I can't think of any at the minute

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: CZroe
Of course they didn't disappear. They are vestigial/not functional (in the same way, at least). They are INSIDE of the bird's body. A hummingbird is incapable of sitting, walking, or hopping on a flat surface. It *requires* a perch or else it hovers.

http://www.ilikestories.com/handdrawn/hummingbird.htm

Vestigial != does not exist.

Since the entire thread was about people being stupid, it needed rectified.

I didn't say that they didn't exist. I said that they don't have any knees, implying that they didn't have "functional" knees. Your tailbone is inside your body. I can rightfully say that you are a tail-less creature without a functional tail, even if your tailbone serves some small internal function. The hummingbird's vestigial leg bones still serve to properly orient the foot to exit the body and redistribute the weight for balance when perching. Next, are you gonna tell me that this snake has legs? The bones in a bat's wings are now part of a wing and not a hand. A bat still has a finger for the purposes a hand once served, but the wing is no longer a "hand" in the sense that the hummingbird no longer has knees. It's correct. Deal with it.

 

[Exterous]

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

Perhaps it was a veterinary college and her horse had a serious problem? Perhaps she had transportation issues and the horse provided her with reliable transportation?

 

[shortylickens]

Did the P&N gang crawl out into OT or something? Just because you arent sure or dont agree with something does not make it stupid.

Guys, the very fact that you're able to argue about hummingbirds automatically means it was NOT a stupid comment. It provoked discussion with stating a position and evidence on both sides.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

Perhaps it was a veterinary college and her horse had a serious problem? Perhaps she had transportation issues and the horse provided her with reliable transportation?

Yeah - and maybe she had sex with the horse for money so she could afford tuition

 

[Possessed Freak]

If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I had a trainer for my current position ask me all the time in training "I always forget, but which is part of the United States, Mexico or New Mexico?" Somebody else in my class didn't know either.

My current position is insurance underwriting, and we deal with policies countrywide. Oh, and we have maps that break the country down into the different regions the company has that lists every state on it.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Exterous

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

Perhaps it was a veterinary college and her horse had a serious problem? Perhaps she had transportation issues and the horse provided her with reliable transportation?

Yeah - and maybe she had sex with the horse for money so she could afford tuition

sigh. im not sure to laugh at you two or facepalm.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Did the P&N gang crawl out into OT or something? Just because you arent sure or dont agree with something does not make it stupid.

Guys, the very fact that you're able to argue about hummingbirds automatically means it was NOT a stupid comment. It provoked discussion with stating a position and evidence on both sides.

You're confused. That argument is here, not with the person who said something stupid. The stupid thing said was the snake comment from a "college educated" person. She was called out on the snake comment when she tried to use the "college educated" card on a member of the Hummingbird Watcher's Society while saying that a hummingbird could peck your eyes out... then slapping him for releasing a trapped hummingbird that could not find a perch (and would soon exhaust itself).

 

[ForumMaster]

nothing beats the wiseness that is this...

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
nothing beats the wiseness that is this...

:thumbsup:

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: KMFJD
I overheard someone saying ' Did you hear what Rush had to say today?' and i promptly walked away before i could hear the rest...

Presumably that today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you?

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: CZroe
"Non-poisonous snakes become poisonous when they eat or are bitten by a poisonous snake." I'm sure it's an old wives' tale to keep kids from playing with ANY snake, poisonous or not. My sister in law said that when I lived there for five months and, at first, I held my tongue to be polite.

The thing is, she used to lord her college education over me when I was a teenager, but when she tried it again after slapping me for saving a trapped hummingbird, I had to call her on it. Basically, she said that it "could peck my eyes out" and she refused to listen to me when I said that hummingbirds don't even have knees/jointed legs and thus CAN'T. Instead, she tried to say that she is college educated and I had to listen to her. I responded with: "This, coming from a woman who thinks that non-poisonous snakes suddenly grow fangs, poison reservoirs, and the muscles to contract and pump the venom because they were bitten by a poisonous snake? PUH-LEEZE. Where did you go to college again?"

At least as far as in nature, poison and venom are separate things

 

[zebano]

Moon landing was faked... I just laughed.

 

[dainthomas]

Anything in the computer section at Best Buy.