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Picnic Princess posted:A guy my husband used to work with would argue with him endlessly that alcohol was bad because of its effects on other people but smoking is fine because it doesn't change your behavior and thus has no negative impact on the people around you. I had an old coworker who would argue the other way. Smokes are the worst things ever but alcohol is completely 100% okay. Nevermind that she would regularly get blackout drunk and order Pokemon things off ebay alcohol was just better than cigarettes.
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My dad used to work in fast food franchising. A senior executive at a huge chain once asked him "Do you guys have pizza in Europe?"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:10 |
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"Alan Rickman lives"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 13:48 |
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Pretty much everything on: http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com For things I have personally heard, I can't recall the exact phrasing and/or convoluted logic, but my elderly, old white guy, racist father a couple of weeks ago somehow blamed rape culture, specifically how poorly MEN (falsely*) accused of rape get treated, on the Obama administration. It had something to do with Title IX, and athletes? Honestly I just tune him out at this point. I only registered this incident because I heard him start on about false rape allegations, dialed my attention back to "barely paying attention" when it took a MASSIVE left turn at "Obama." For a man in a wheelchair who is nearly 80 years old, that is some impressive hoop/logic jumping. *because THAT is the epidemic. Not women being raped and being socially stigmatized for reporting, or having their assailants get a mere slap on the wrist because they are athletes or all the other terribleness that goes on - but MEN being falsely accused.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 14:06 |
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Kopijeger posted:The Lost Fashion Designer I think this almost happened to me. He asked me if I can speak Italian and then wanted directions to the airport. I wished him good luck in Italian and he thought that was funny/nice. He never asked me for money, though. Maybe he thought I was too smart? I wouldn't have given him anything anyway. Man he seemed like a nice guy and now I learn he could have been a con artist
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:36 |
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:"I'm moving to Korea to teach English" Hey, at least they know there's a North and South Korea. The floor gets so much lower. "I'm going to Taiwan to teach English." "Oh cool! Have fun in Thailand!" Also, recently overheard in a restaurant: "Hey waiter, where's Istanbul? Is that by Israel? Or is it closer to Paris?" at a restaurant called Istanbul Cafe World geography for a lot of Americans is a black hole of ignorance that consumes everything in its wake. Teriyaki Koinku has a new favorite as of 16:49 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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"How many quarters are in a football game?" -- a girl in my section in the high school marching band, at what was easily her 20th football game "Atlanta is the nicest of the black cities." -- my cousin, trying to butter me up so I would get him some weed while he was in town
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 17:16 |
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At a place I used to work, one day in the breakroom I heard a woman talking about a guy who wanted to return a fishing pole. He wanted her to take his fishing line off the reel for him; she didn't want to do it. He got a little pissy about it and it was probably not a good moment in her day. But the woman in question was telling us how recently this man's unborn baby had been diagnosed with a potentially life threatening heart condition that would require dangerous surgery as soon as the baby was born. And she thought this was proper karma. "What goes around comes around." So the proper punishment for getting a little pissy with a cashier is to have to watch your new born baby suffer, struggle and possibly die. I dunno. Do we have a "poo poo that makes you want to punch people" thread?
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 18:30 |
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Filox posted:At a place I used to work, one day in the breakroom I heard a woman talking about a guy who wanted to return a fishing pole. He wanted her to take his fishing line off the reel for him; she didn't want to do it. He got a little pissy about it and it was probably not a good moment in her day. Make a thread? I'd read it.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 19:27 |
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:"I'm moving to Korea to teach English" Not to be a smart rear end cause I get your point, but I just finished reading this book last night- http://www.amazon.com/Without-You-There-Is-No/dp/0307720659 It's really fascinating if you have an interest in North Korea.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:03 |
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brotato posted:"How many quarters are in a football game?" -- a girl in my section in the high school marching band, at what was easily her 20th football game A long time ago in school some guy swore blind that an ice hockey game had three quarters.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:17 |
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Frankston posted:A long time ago in school some guy swore blind that an ice hockey game had three quarters. Canadian math
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:42 |
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Granted, these were middle school kids talking to each other, but none the less astonishing grasp of local geography: "[Another suburb town maybe 20 minutes away], isn't that like four hours away by train?" "Yeah, it's like, really far away." They probably confused it with a town that is four hours away and starts with the same letter.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:54 |
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My mom has a thick Russian accent. We were visiting Nashville and the conversation with the fat white middle age hotel clerk lady goes like this: "That's a nice accent. Where are y'all from?" "I'm from Russia." "Russia? Ain't y'all communist?"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 21:21 |
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"They had kind of a butch look, so I knew they were lesbians"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 22:53 |
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ikanreed posted:Too bad.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:14 |
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Tiggum posted:I once overheard a Muslim at the place I used to work explaining his religion to a co-worker. Apparently Islam is older than Christianity and Muslims don't believe in Jesus (and it was clear that he meant "at all", not just "don't believe Jesus is God"). Muslims believe in Jesus and that he was a result of a virgin birth and that he was crucified but that it didn't kill him and he just went up to heaven when the time was right. Except if he belongs to one of those obscure off-shoot sects that believe weird stuff like that Mohammed was a fraud and Ali, his son in law, was actually the brains behind the operation as well as being literally god and the same person as Fatima, his wife and Mohammed's daughter or that people are all actually stars that were cast down by God for sinning and are stuck in a cycle of reincarnation that they must break to get back to heaven.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:40 |
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Muslims have Mormons too?
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:43 |
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Guy being served at the checkout in front of me: "My brother, he was a genius. Really smart, off the charts. He was great with all the technology stuff, and when he died - he committed suicide - I absorbed all his knowledge and that's why I'm so good with computers." I have so many questions. Like, all his knowledge? He now knows what his brothers wife looks like naked, or what he really thought of his big fat idiot brother? Or just specifically technology knowledge? Is there a chant or special ritual to do this? Did he have to be present, or was he like, 100km away and when his brother died did he suddenly realise "hey, I know stuff!" What in the hell.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:41 |
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Don't be stupid. He ate his brain, the only logical and scientific way of absorbing someone's knowledge. To absorb their strength, virility and courage you eat the heart and penis.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:46 |
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Ever met someone who's all over the Moon landing hoax stuff? You're bound to hear some real dumb stuff. My favourite would be "now if they could get to the moon that one time, why didn't they ever go back?!" (I guess Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 doesn't count).
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:52 |
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A coworker was talking to me today about how someone asked her if a peacock was injured because it only had two legs.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:29 |
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"I'm gonna post on the SA forums"
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:36 |
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Picnic Princess posted:A coworker was talking to me today about how someone asked her if a peacock was injured because it only had two legs. she wanted ur peacock sry bro
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curious lump posted:she wanted ur peacock sry bro Chalk up another one
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:55 |
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BigglesSWE posted:Ever met someone who's all over the Moon landing hoax stuff? You're bound to hear some real dumb stuff. My ex believed we bad never been to the moon. A teacher in high school apparently told her class we hadn't landed on the moon because "the flag waved or some poo poo my point is we were never on the moon." She was not a smart or sane person.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:56 |
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Once I heard a guy say that he didn't believe Jesus was a real person because Jewish names don't end in s's. Whether or not this is true, it's like arguing that Catherine the Great didn't exist because there's no "th" sound in Russian.
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# ? Jan 15, 2016 07:19 |
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"UFC - now that's a real sport!" literally just heard, spoken unironically at a Steak 'n Shake.
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 10:35 |
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trickybiscuits posted:Once I heard a guy say that he didn't believe Jesus was a real person because Jewish names don't end in s's. Whether or not this is true, it's like arguing that Catherine the Great didn't exist because there's no "th" sound in Russian.
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trickybiscuits posted:Once I heard a guy say that he didn't believe Jesus was a real person because Jewish names don't end in s's. Whether or not this is true, it's like arguing that Catherine the Great didn't exist because there's no "th" sound in Russian. Well 1. Catherine the Great wasn't russian, she was Prussian so that is not necessarily a good comparison. 2. The name Jesus is what happens when a name goes through a thousand translations to get to English. There's a strong belief that his original name has the same root as Joshua (yesua) but over time the two names branched out. It's hard to tell since we have like nothing from Jesus's time to go on.
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 14:07 |
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"No, I'm not vaccinating my child/pet, because vaccines contain autism drugs/acid/only need to be given once and then they're fine (pet exclusive response)!" Go catch the plague.
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 14:28 |
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"doctors are only in it for the money. Toothpaste is bad for you. I think we should all just move to farms and research our own cures for cancer"
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 15:37 |
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Non Serviam posted:"doctors are only in it for the money. Toothpaste is bad for you. I think we should all just move to farms and research our own cures for cancer" One of the nice things about an eventual cure for cancer will be the fact that it drives a billion quacks right the gently caress out of business.
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Zeroisanumber posted:One of the nice things about an eventual cure for cancer will be the fact that it drives a billion quacks right the gently caress out of business. People are just going to claim that the cancer cure causes autism or something. There will always be room for quacks.
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 16:04 |
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:"UFC - now that's a real sport!" literally just heard, spoken unironically at a Steak 'n Shake. I mean the scoring system, judges and athletic commissions are bad for MMA but what's your problem with it as a sport in general?
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 16:41 |
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BigglesSWE posted:Ever met someone who's all over the Moon landing hoax stuff? You're bound to hear some real dumb stuff. I don't know if stuff from documentaries really counts for this thread (it really should because this is the stupidest poo poo I've ever heard), but the movie Room 237 includes quite a bit of analysis of how Stanley Kubrick used The Shining as a confession for his involvement with the fake moon landing.
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BigglesSWE posted:Ever met someone who's all over the Moon landing hoax stuff? You're bound to hear some real dumb stuff.
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# ? Jan 16, 2016 17:25 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:I mean the scoring system, judges and athletic commissions are bad for MMA but what's your problem with it as a sport in general? I'm guessing he got mixed up and thought of WWE
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"Its called Star Citizen, its gonna be this really cool game. I gave them like 100 dollars on their Kickstarter." I dont have the heart to break this guys bubble.
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Hihohe posted:"Its called Star Citizen, its gonna be this really cool game. I gave them like 100 dollars on their Kickstarter." A friend on Facebook just said to me, "Wait, Star Citizen failed?" Poor guy was shocked, I wonder how much money he lost
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