Heard and seen since last time

Cheetah · Apr 21, 2011

We all see, hear and overhear some really funny or stupid things from time to time. Some newspapers run regular columns with such memorable quotes.

In the spirit of such columns, and inspired by a conversation I overheard on the airplane home yesterday, I'd like to start a thread for memorable quotes and situations that CFC-ers have observed.

So, the conversation that I overheard:

Two guys (Norwegian high school graduates from what I could tell) were sitting behind me on the plane, one of them were apparently reading some magazine:
- Hey, there's an Easter crossword here. Do you know which city Shakespeare was born in?
- Shakespeare?
- Yeah, you know. The guy from Italy.

Kozmos · Apr 21, 2011

In a similar vein...

"Do you remember those Spanish chicks from Lisbon?"

bombshoo · Apr 21, 2011

At the grocery store the other day:

Kid: Mom, can we buy some grapes?

Mother: No! Whenever I buy grapes all you ever do is eat them!

NedimNapoleon · Apr 21, 2011

I overheard a conversation between to students

On which two Chinese cities were the A Bombs dropped

I think its Hiroshima and Nagasaki

W|M · Apr 21, 2011

Kozmos said:
In a similar vein...

"Do you remember those Spanish chicks from Lisbon?"

The person could've meant that the Spanish chicks were in Lisbon, not from there.

salty mud · Apr 21, 2011

"I'm studying about Germany in the build-up to WWII."
"I see, are you doing about its relationship with Russia?"
"I thought Germany was a part of Russia..."

I kid you not folks.

warpus · Apr 21, 2011

One of my classmates in Germany (in grade 5) was confused when I told him that Poland was in Europe. HE thought that Germany controlled all of Europe or something and said

"But Poland isn't in Germany..."

My supervisor asked me this the other day, while writing up a project proposal for a major web project:

"What's the difference between http and https?"

Terxpahseyton · Apr 21, 2011

American high school senior: "Do you have restaurants in Germany?" I am fairly certain that this is the stupidest question I ever have been asked.

Skwink · Apr 21, 2011

Kid in my class: "We got into world war 2 all thanks to China."

W|M · Apr 22, 2011

I've been asked what a Nintendo 64 is.

azzaman333 · Apr 22, 2011

"We were doing it in the library all day long."

Works best taken completely out of context with a dirty mind.

Flying Pig · Apr 22, 2011

Skwink Caesar said:
Kid in my class: "We got into world war 2 all thanks to China."

Of course, that's arguably true. The Manchurian Crisis (in China) gave the Italians confidence to invade Abyssinia, and the world's inaction in the face of both gave Hitler the confidence to be so audacious in his own policy and eventually the belief that the world would not react if he invaded Poland, while also giving the Japanese the idea that having started their empire they may as well continue it, which involved toppling the hegemony of the US in the Pacific... well done that lad.

Kozmos · Apr 22, 2011

west india man said:
The person could've meant that the Spanish chicks were in Lisbon, not from there.

Except he didn't.

JohnRM · Apr 22, 2011

Skwink Caesar said:
Kid in my class: "We got into world war 2 all thanks to China."

That is probably one of the most accurate statements ever.

EDIT:

Flying Pig said:
Of course, that's arguably true. The Manchurian Crisis (in China) gave the Italians confidence to invade Abyssinia, and the world's inaction in the face of both gave Hitler the confidence to be so audacious in his own policy and eventually the belief that the world would not react if he invaded Poland, while also giving the Japanese the idea that having started their empire they may as well continue it, which involved toppling the hegemony of the US in the Pacific... well done that lad.

Dammit!

Ingvina Freyr · Apr 22, 2011

azzaman333 said:
"We were doing it in the library all day long."

Works best taken completely out of context with a dirty mind.

Spoiler :

"Oh, there's Ikea in Sweden too?" - Danish girl to me while driving through Stockholm.

"Sweden's got two brands of cars, Denmark's only got Opel." - Same girl.

"Arnold Swarzenegger is Swedish, right?" - Again, same girl.

"Is Hiroshima a Chinese city?" - And yes, it's from the same girl.

NedimNapoleon · Apr 22, 2011

"LCD is a drug"

"Iraq is in Africa" - two guys talking about the war in Iraq

"Korea and Vietnam are parts of China" - a girl trying to convince me that Korea and 'Nam are Chinese

"Americans dropped an A bomb on China (On Chinese vietnam), on the city of Hiroshima" - same girl

EDIT: Why do people think Japan,China, Vietnam and Korea are the same?

salty mud · Apr 22, 2011

I once heard somebody ask if Urdu and Arabic were the same language, because, "they are both Muslim."

:wallbash:

aukrest · Apr 22, 2011

In my local newspaper one of the writers was responding to questions the readers sent him in, one of them was asking him why we were letting Saudis train their fighter jet pilots here in the States since they will just bomb us anyway. The response was titled:

"Not All Saudis are Terrorists"

Cato the Elder · Apr 22, 2011

Person A: "Where was the USSR again?"
Person B: "You dumbass, you don't know? It was in Africa."
Person A: "Oooooh. Well that certainly does explain a lot."

1st year law students. After I started taking some electives from the law faculty, it really became completely mind-boggling why they, for some reason or another, persistently look down on us pol-sciers.

NedimNapoleon · Apr 22, 2011

Friend from the US: "What religion are you, are you Jewish?"
Me: "No, I'm a Muslim"
Friend: "Stop screwing with me, you can't be Muslim, you aint Iraqi or Arab or somethin"

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