Stupid things that people say
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Stupid things that people say
Sometimes, people say mind-numbingly stupid things. Things that, (at least to you,) everyone should know. Things that are just so damn stupid to say, and it takes all your restraint not to flip out and jump down their throats. Or, alternatively, you do flip out and jump down their throats, but you're still not quite over how obnoxiously stupid it was.
I am having a conversation right now with a girl who I actually really do like--she's very sweet. I'm talking about wanting to travel, and wanting to see some friends, but that they live so far away that it's hard to find the time. She asks where, and I say, Canada.
So she says: well, that's not too bad. is it? because canada's not too far from new york.
....... And now I seriously want to tear my hair out. Because Canada is a big f****** place, and while the border could certainly be farther from New York, my friends do not live on the border. Canada is a BIG f****** PLACE. There's Toronto, and there's Vancouver, and they're a world apart. That's like saying that the United States isn't that far from Mexico.
Sure.
If you're in Texas. If you're in Alaska, it's f****** far!
This unreasonably upsets me. It really does.
I am having a conversation right now with a girl who I actually really do like--she's very sweet. I'm talking about wanting to travel, and wanting to see some friends, but that they live so far away that it's hard to find the time. She asks where, and I say, Canada.
So she says: well, that's not too bad. is it? because canada's not too far from new york.
....... And now I seriously want to tear my hair out. Because Canada is a big f****** place, and while the border could certainly be farther from New York, my friends do not live on the border. Canada is a BIG f****** PLACE. There's Toronto, and there's Vancouver, and they're a world apart. That's like saying that the United States isn't that far from Mexico.
Sure.
If you're in Texas. If you're in Alaska, it's f****** far!
This unreasonably upsets me. It really does.
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My understanding is that the majority of Canadians are massed on the U.S. border, ready to attack when you least expect it.
Canadian overlords wouldn't be too bad, though, free healthcare and waffles in the morning. But I wonder if you get whipped for incorrect pronunciation.
"Don't you know how to say aboot, aye?"
Canadian overlords wouldn't be too bad, though, free healthcare and waffles in the morning. But I wonder if you get whipped for incorrect pronunciation.
"Don't you know how to say aboot, aye?"
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All I have to say is this: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
I have a basket full of goodies for this page. Let's just say I have gone to school with some "interesting" people in my life. One day in a class this one girl asks "is it possible to get wood with no lines in it?" later after finding out that those "lines in the wood" were the grains, she says "oh, I thought that was just a design!"...
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I would really have to say that my favorite stupid thing people say moment would have to be this one conversation I had over the internet with someone from a different country than canada. I won't disclose where this person is from but the conversation went a little something like this (be advised I was totally playing along to this persons stupidity):
Me
other person
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"your from canada right?"
"yes"
"is there always snow there?"
"well obviously"
"hold on i have to take my polar bear for a walk"
"wow, i thought that was just a stupid story that canadians own polar bears... do you live in an igloo too!?"
"why yes i do, but i can't stay long, when the computer heats up the ice melts around the computer and its a icky mess"
"oh dear. talk to you later"
Me
other person
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"your from canada right?"
"yes"
"is there always snow there?"
"well obviously"
"hold on i have to take my polar bear for a walk"
"wow, i thought that was just a stupid story that canadians own polar bears... do you live in an igloo too!?"
"why yes i do, but i can't stay long, when the computer heats up the ice melts around the computer and its a icky mess"
"oh dear. talk to you later"
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It's not exactly something that was said, but things that people don't know that they just should.
My friend is a psych major, and she said that some junior psych majors at our school still do not know the difference between a dependent and an independent variable... junior psych majors. I need the banging-head-on-brick-wall smilie now.
And then in my linguistics class, we had to go over the fact that testing more than one variable at a time does not work. In a 300-level course. ARRRGHHHH!
My friend is a psych major, and she said that some junior psych majors at our school still do not know the difference between a dependent and an independent variable... junior psych majors. I need the banging-head-on-brick-wall smilie now.
And then in my linguistics class, we had to go over the fact that testing more than one variable at a time does not work. In a 300-level course. ARRRGHHHH!
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my chemistry teacher: "now, some elements are named after the people who found them..."
kid i my class: "but, does that mean there was someone named oxygen?"
the rest of the class bursts out laughing...he ALWAYS asks these stupid questions...another:
during physics, same kid: "why would anyone want to measure the speed of light in a vacuum?"
he thought vacuum meant a hoover vacuum cleaner...
kid i my class: "but, does that mean there was someone named oxygen?"
the rest of the class bursts out laughing...he ALWAYS asks these stupid questions...another:
during physics, same kid: "why would anyone want to measure the speed of light in a vacuum?"
he thought vacuum meant a hoover vacuum cleaner...
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Oooh, this embarasses me. It's actually something that I thought, not something that I said (until I told my best friend about thinking it), but it's pretty damned stupid.
I was rereading Kushiel's Scion.
There are two characters that I strongly feel should end up with each other, Imriel and Sidonie.
Imriel is close to Sidonie's sister, Alais. Alais once dreamed that she and Imriel were really sister and brother, as opposed to their relationship now (second and third in line for the throne).
That depressed the hell out of me, because there was talk in the book about Imriel and Alais marrying two siblings from another country, and I'm like, "And it has to happen, because that's the only way they'll ever be siblings. Imriel and Sidonie will never be together..."
... because, of course, marrying Alais' sister would not make Alais his sister in law.
*headdesk*
I was rereading Kushiel's Scion.
There are two characters that I strongly feel should end up with each other, Imriel and Sidonie.
Imriel is close to Sidonie's sister, Alais. Alais once dreamed that she and Imriel were really sister and brother, as opposed to their relationship now (second and third in line for the throne).
That depressed the hell out of me, because there was talk in the book about Imriel and Alais marrying two siblings from another country, and I'm like, "And it has to happen, because that's the only way they'll ever be siblings. Imriel and Sidonie will never be together..."
... because, of course, marrying Alais' sister would not make Alais his sister in law.
*headdesk*
Like i said earlier, i have a basket full of these stupid things people have said....
Well this next adventure was during french 30 this year. Everyday we do a prayer in front of the class on what we have wrote and one day this girl wrote a prayer and threw it into a translator online got "Thou art wild spinach...". It was hailarious at the time... Note to self: never directly translate things online and then display them infront of a class who speaks french... thank you KIM!
Also in french there are these two girls that always talk and are kind of weird and one day, one of the girls was like "I go crazy at 9:00" and the response was "am or pm".
There have been many "interesting" times and stupid things said... there will be more posted by my later.
Well this next adventure was during french 30 this year. Everyday we do a prayer in front of the class on what we have wrote and one day this girl wrote a prayer and threw it into a translator online got "Thou art wild spinach...". It was hailarious at the time... Note to self: never directly translate things online and then display them infront of a class who speaks french... thank you KIM!
Also in french there are these two girls that always talk and are kind of weird and one day, one of the girls was like "I go crazy at 9:00" and the response was "am or pm".
There have been many "interesting" times and stupid things said... there will be more posted by my later.
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i overheard a classmate of mine wonder aloud as to whether one could by unpickled pickles...
this is the same girl who asked somebody how the planned to drive to alaska when alaska is obviously floating in the pacific ocean, just north of hawaii...quite a stunning revelation to find out she's wrong, i imagine...
this is the same girl who asked somebody how the planned to drive to alaska when alaska is obviously floating in the pacific ocean, just north of hawaii...quite a stunning revelation to find out she's wrong, i imagine...
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My senior year of high school, I went on a school trip to Italy. On the flight back to Philadelphia, one of the freshman girls (who has lived in a suburb of Philly her entire life), saw a magazine with "Philadelphia" on it, and said: "Philaelphia has a 'd' in it?"
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Hmmm.. I have seen stupidity at such amazingly huge proportions that it's almost impossible to talk about without just wondering ... why?
For instance, talking to a patient I am examining:
'can you look up?'
'okay'
.... nothing happens
'look up okay?'
'okay'
.... nothing happens
'do you understand me?'
'yes'
'look up'
'okay'
*looks down*
*my head explodes*
Actually I'd say my daily existance is dealing with stupidity, but oh well.
Another story..I have a friend named Christian. He went out with a Jewish girl... So he goes over to her house for dinner and her parents ask:
'So are you a Jew?'
Sometimes I wonder if it's pure stupidity or just purposefully meanspiritedness
As long as you don't spend hours a day tracing those grains in a wood as a path to the gods... hyuk hyukI have a basket full of goodies for this page. Let's just say I have gone to school with some "interesting" people in my life. One day in a class this one girl asks "is it possible to get wood with no lines in it?" later after finding out that those "lines in the wood" were the grains, she says "oh, I thought that was just a design!"...
News flash chicky, think before you speak...
Hmmm.. I have seen stupidity at such amazingly huge proportions that it's almost impossible to talk about without just wondering ... why?
For instance, talking to a patient I am examining:
'can you look up?'
'okay'
.... nothing happens
'look up okay?'
'okay'
.... nothing happens
'do you understand me?'
'yes'
'look up'
'okay'
*looks down*
*my head explodes*
Actually I'd say my daily existance is dealing with stupidity, but oh well.
Another story..I have a friend named Christian. He went out with a Jewish girl... So he goes over to her house for dinner and her parents ask:
'So are you a Jew?'
Sometimes I wonder if it's pure stupidity or just purposefully meanspiritedness
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Actually, I don't think that's really stupid. Awkward, but not stupid, lol. Just because his parents named him Christian doesn't mean he's chosen to be Christian... just like my friend Christine, who's Wiccan.Another story..I have a friend named Christian. He went out with a Jewish girl... So he goes over to her house for dinner and her parents ask:
'So are you a Jew?'
Sometimes I wonder if it's pure stupidity or just purposefully meanspiritedness
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Today in Latin class my teacher says, "if you go running repeatedly into a brick wall, well, that's sort of stupid."
He was not using it as a metaphor.
He was not using it as a metaphor.
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I agree that it seems like a bit of a silly story, but it's true that there's very little chance he would be Jewish. Judism, for the most part, has very few converts. No Jew would ever name their child "Christian".Actually, I don't think that's really stupid. Awkward, but not stupid, lol. Just because his parents named him Christian doesn't mean he's chosen to be Christian... just like my friend Christine, who's Wiccan.Another story..I have a friend named Christian. He went out with a Jewish girl... So he goes over to her house for dinner and her parents ask:
'So are you a Jew?'
Sometimes I wonder if it's pure stupidity or just purposefully meanspiritedness
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That sounds like my struggle with Latin pronouns.Today in Latin class my teacher says, "if you go running repeatedly into a brick wall, well, that's sort of stupid."
He was not using it as a metaphor.
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Ah, good point. Touche (with accent aigu).I agree that it seems like a bit of a silly story, but it's true that there's very little chance he would be Jewish. Judism, for the most part, has very few converts. No Jew would ever name their child "Christian".
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At Sonic, I was doing the Drive-Thru. After I gave a guy his food and his receipts, he accused me of charging him too much. The total was at the bottom, and since it prints out before they pay, it also prints the change from a dollar below that. He was adding the change to the total, so he thought he was being charged $4. He used a credit card, so I after explaining the thing about the change, I pointed out that the total was printed on his credit receipt. (note also: by his logic, I undercharged him)
But I told him the change line was just so we could do our job faster, and he accusses me that I can't do math!
But I told him the change line was just so we could do our job faster, and he accusses me that I can't do math!
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I think this seemed a lot stupider at the time than it actually is, but... oh well.
Someone wrote something on a mirror that's in the hall of my dorm in dry-erase marker, that incorrectly used "your." I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was in a similar vain as, say "Your not attractive... sorry" (remember, this is on a mirror).
Spotting it, a friend of mine wrote "You're grammar sucks," with an arrow pointing to the "your." (I'm trusting readers of this can spot the irony.)
Some people walked by it later, and saw the two messages. A bit perplexed by the second message for a short while, someone got it, and laughed, and said (paraphrasing): "Wait... did they mean to use that 'you're' incorrectly?"
...no. Clearly we just pointed out a grammatical mistake, while making practically the same mistake in doing so. Of course it was an accident. We're just that stupid.
Someone wrote something on a mirror that's in the hall of my dorm in dry-erase marker, that incorrectly used "your." I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was in a similar vain as, say "Your not attractive... sorry" (remember, this is on a mirror).
Spotting it, a friend of mine wrote "You're grammar sucks," with an arrow pointing to the "your." (I'm trusting readers of this can spot the irony.)
Some people walked by it later, and saw the two messages. A bit perplexed by the second message for a short while, someone got it, and laughed, and said (paraphrasing): "Wait... did they mean to use that 'you're' incorrectly?"
...no. Clearly we just pointed out a grammatical mistake, while making practically the same mistake in doing so. Of course it was an accident. We're just that stupid.
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I have a friend who is the classic stupid question guy. One of my favorites:
We were talking in Chemistry about how many elements were named after people. So this guy (his name is Colin) pipes up and asks "You mean there was a guy called Oxygen?"
Another from that same class: We were talking about the synthesis of urea, which was a landmark in organic chemistry and Colin asks "He made pee!?" and we had to explain that no, he made urea.
I'll try to think of some more.
We were talking in Chemistry about how many elements were named after people. So this guy (his name is Colin) pipes up and asks "You mean there was a guy called Oxygen?"
Another from that same class: We were talking about the synthesis of urea, which was a landmark in organic chemistry and Colin asks "He made pee!?" and we had to explain that no, he made urea.
I'll try to think of some more.
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When I was in middle school, I had a friend famous for stupid questions.
I once told her I was going upstate for the weekend. Her response?
"Upstate Manhattan?"
Yesterday, I was seeing Stranger Than Fiction with two friends. We were buying our tickets, and this man came up to the woman as she was giving us them and said, "Can you tell me when the 2:30 movie is?"
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I once told her I was going upstate for the weekend. Her response?
"Upstate Manhattan?"
Yesterday, I was seeing Stranger Than Fiction with two friends. We were buying our tickets, and this man came up to the woman as she was giving us them and said, "Can you tell me when the 2:30 movie is?"
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