People are morons.

[Strider]

Overheard just the other day at the 110th St. subway in NYC...

"People want to blame Germany's problems on the Nazis, but it really goes back earlier. Like, to the 1930s."



What's the stupidest thing you've heard lately?

Seriously, anonymous strangers can be so god damned clueless sometimes. I mean, shit, the Nazi Party took power in 19-fucking-33! Only a complete asshole wouldn't know that. You should have leaned over and said "Their problems went back at least as far as 1919 when Germany signed the harshly punitive Treaty of Versailles dude". And then you'd smirk and be like "A worldwide depression hardly helped matters".

 

[Messianni]

Overheard just the other day at the 110th St. subway in NYC...

"People want to blame Germany's problems on the Nazis, but it really goes back earlier. Like, to the 1930s."



What's the stupidest thing you've heard lately?

Seriously, anonymous strangers can be so god damned clueless sometimes. I mean, shit, the Nazi Party took power in 19-fucking-33! Only a complete asshole wouldn't know that. You should have leaned over and said "Their problems went back at least as far as 1919 when Germany signed the harshly punitive Treaty of Versailles dude". And then you'd smirk and be like "A worldwide depression hardly helped matters".

If it's something that wasn't featured on America's Next Top Model or Dancing with the Stars, most don't give a shit.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

You know, Bombay Duck is a type of fish.

Thank you Zee!That must have been stuck in my mind

I could see where you're coming from, though, in a sort-of David Attenborough, roundabout, duck-billed platitudes sort of way. If that makes any sense. [No it doesn't - someone]

It makes sense to me If it mostly lives in water, it's aquatic and therefore a fish. I am officially stating that ducks are now fish
And will play the birthday card so no-one will argue with me

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If it mostly lives in water, it's aquatic and therefore a fish. I am officially stating that ducks are now fish
And will play the birthday card so no-one will argue with me

Now THAT is sig-worthy.
Shame I've already got a signature. Two in fact.

 

[Strider]

If it's something that wasn't featured on America's Next Top Model or Dancing with the Stars, most don't give a shit.

That's such a tired old cliche. My high schoolers show more genuine curiosity than that and they're only sixteen years old. The aforementioned Germany remark would sound silly coming out of the mouth of a college professor, but honestly that's not too bad for a couple of guys bs-ing on the subway. That is unless your spergin' out I guess.

 

[Chaos Descending]

In all fairness, a lager is a *type* of beer.

*snip*

Lager, ale, pilsner, alt, barleywine, porter, and stout are all types of beer, and I've barely scratched the surface

I agree completely. That's why it's silly to say "That's not beer, it's lager!".

 

[Kelso]

I went to the movies tonight.

The sign read... ASK US ABOUT $5 TUESDAY'S!

 

[bigdaddy]

Overheard just the other day at the 110th St. subway in NYC...

"People want to blame Germany's problems on the Nazis, but it really goes back earlier. Like, to the 1930s."



What's the stupidest thing you've heard lately?

Wow... that's really bad...

Maybe Germany's problems go back to when everyone blamed them for starting a war they didn't start back in 1914? Actually I did a paper on how "all" problems in the world today go back because that dumbass archduke was killed.

 

[Capn Flukie]

A co-worker of mine on the second day of taking over as manager of our department yelled to me from her office "OMG! My computer is freaking out! I think I'm being hacked! Don, get in here quick!"

So, I go in and sure enough, her computer was scrolling crazily. I took her hand off the space bar and left.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Overheard just the other day at the 110th St. subway in NYC...

"People want to blame Germany's problems on the Nazis, but it really goes back earlier. Like, to the 1930s."



What's the stupidest thing you've heard lately?

Seriously, anonymous strangers can be so god damned clueless sometimes. I mean, shit, the Nazi Party took power in 19-fucking-33! Only a complete asshole wouldn't know that. You should have leaned over and said "Their problems went back at least as far as 1919 when Germany signed the harshly punitive Treaty of Versailles dude". And then you'd smirk and be like "A worldwide depression hardly helped matters".

Believe me, I would have if I wasn't personally offended, German Jew as I am by heritage. I would have also pointed out that the German National Socialist Party was formed (albeit under a different name) in 1919 before officially gaining its infamous title in 1920.

What's worse is the woman was roughly 65-70 God damn years old and looked like she should know better.

She was also going on about how Germany is a nation of voyeurs. Seriously? We have a TV show in the United States called Big Brother. That's "entertainment" to us. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to type "That's 'entertainment' to U.S."

 

[pookha]

one of the most interesting things to me is that so many people (including me ) have idiotic moments.
people will know better but it is as if they have a brain fart and who knows what will come out.
people who know their history well will spout some nonsense for a moent.
and then minutes later it hits them .. whoa..

people who are normally good drivers will for a moment not think and cause a car crash.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Most of the dumb people I run into are at work. Just last night a woman walks in to my store. There is nobody else in the store besides myself, this woman and my co-worker. My co-worker and I are in our dress casual attire, which is the "uniform" for my store. I was wearing my name tag, which has the store logo as well as my name. My co-worker, however, was not. We were standing right next to each other. I turned to her, smiled and said "Hello."

She looked up at me and asked, "Do you work here?"

 

[captcalhoun]

try being in a newsagents, tidying up whilst wearing uniform and THEN being asked if you work there.

our old AM was asked once if he worked there while doing paperwork with the mags and sarastically answered 'no, i'm doing this for fun'.

 

[Kelso]

She was also going on about how Germany is a nation of voyeurs. Seriously? We have a TV show in the United States called Big Brother. That's "entertainment" to us. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to type "That's 'entertainment' to U.S."

Big Brother didn't originate in the U.S. and certainly isn't exclusive to our country.

 

[Capn Flukie]

try being in a newsagents, tidying up whilst wearing uniform and THEN being asked if you work there.

That happened to me too. I was working in a toy store, with my store clothes on, pulling junk out from under shelves on my back at the time.

"Why no! I don't work here! I'm in a really strange cult!"

 

[Goliath]

Maybe Germany's problems go back to when everyone blamed them for starting a war they didn't start back in 1914?

You mean...Germany didn't declare war on France and Russia, and then invade Belgium?



Geez... I knew I was a bit behind in my reading, but still...

Actually I did a paper on how "all" problems in the world today go back because that dumbass archduke was killed.

Good for you. That's actually not a bad thesis for a twentieth-century world-history paper.

The thesis that "Germany did not start the First World War," on the other hand, is likely to raise your professor's eyebrows.

In addition to explaining away the fact that, as mentioned above, the Germans were the ones who actually declared war on France and Russia, and who then attacked France through the territory of a neutral country, you'd also have to explain how the Blank Cheque somehow did not encourage Vienna to take a hard line with Belgrade.

That would be an interesting paper, to say the least.

 

[John Picard]

In all fairness, a lager is a *type* of beer.

*snip*

Lager, ale, pilsner, alt, barleywine, porter, and stout are all types of beer, and I've barely scratched the surface

I agree completely. That's why it's silly to say "That's not beer, it's lager!".

You say "poe-tay-toe", I say, "SPUD"

 

[Strider]

Most of the dumb people I run into are at work. Just last night a woman walks in to my store. There is nobody else in the store besides myself, this woman and my co-worker. My co-worker and I are in our dress casual attire, which is the "uniform" for my store. I was wearing my name tag, which has the store logo as well as my name. My co-worker, however, was not. We were standing right next to each other. I turned to her, smiled and said "Hello."

She looked up at me and asked, "Do you work here?"

I used to get that all the time in retail. She wasn't too mentally retarded to see your name tag, believe it or not. Asking "Do you work here" is a very common way for normal people to solicit help from employees. Next time, try saying "I do, how may I help you?".

I swear, we should just retitle this thread "People are Entirely Normal, And I Can't Handle That".

 

[Ben Sisko3]

She was also going on about how Germany is a nation of voyeurs. Seriously? We have a TV show in the United States called Big Brother. That's "entertainment" to us. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to type "That's 'entertainment' to U.S."

Big Brother didn't originate in the U.S. and certainly isn't exclusive to our country.

True, but I might as well have listed any number of other reality shows in its place and made equal light of them. It was just the first one to come to mind.

 

[Lookingglassman]

That idiot I work for brought in some chili last week and crowed about it being the best chili ever. He didn't dump the grease off the meat and poured sugar in it. It tasted like greasy sugar.