Author Topic: Stunning conversations you have with people (Read 8458 times)

slycordinator · « **Reply #70 on:** June 20, 2012, 03:06:33 PM »

Quote from: kirksnosehair on June 20, 2012, 02:41:00 PM

he is looking at porn and I have overwhelming physical evidence to prove it.

Considering that website images aren't "physical", I absolutely don't want to know what this evidence entails.

Sigz · « **Reply #71 on:** June 20, 2012, 04:03:23 PM »

Ravenheart · « **Reply #72 on:** June 20, 2012, 10:37:18 PM »

On the discussion of music fans, I've found there to be way more annoying people who listen to more underground/older music than those who listen to current, mainstream music. A lot of them carry around this pompous, elitist "holier than thou" attitude, like they've discovered the holy grail because they listen to Led Zeppelin. And anyone who listens to radio-friendly music is inferior.

Quote from: Dream Team on June 20, 2012, 07:15:32 AM

Teenage girls should not be allowed to listen to music.

Case in point.

MasterShakezula · « **Reply #73 on:** June 20, 2012, 10:40:56 PM »

Back in the day, I was actually one of those people. It got to a point where I thought that anyone who like new music was clearly a hipster and moron. What was really stupid was that I never had actually heard any of the music on the radio I was a bitching about.

Lately, I listen to a lot of radio, because of driving. I actually find that I enjoy the majority of what I hear.

Phantasmatron · « **Reply #74 on:** June 20, 2012, 10:44:05 PM »

Quote from: MasterShakezula on June 20, 2012, 10:40:56 PM

Lately, I listen to a lot of radio, because of driving. I actually find that I enjoy the majority of what I hear.

That's just the evil popular music industry sucking you in by lulling you into a false sense of security.

YOU'RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THEIR HANDS MAN TURN BACK TURN BACK IT'S A TRAP OH GOD

Ravenheart · « **Reply #75 on:** June 20, 2012, 10:44:56 PM »

TO THE ZEPMOBILE

MasterShakezula · « **Reply #76 on:** June 20, 2012, 10:47:11 PM »

Yeah, gotta go back to 1980, when music was real, not just midi files and fart noises.

5 · « **Reply #77 on:** June 20, 2012, 11:00:13 PM »

A conversation I had with a university student when I attended a conference in the US:

Student: So, where are you guys from?
Me: Poland.
Student: So, um.... what language do you speak...?
Me: ...Polish?

Nuclear facepalm.

JRundquist · « **Reply #78 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:17:26 AM »

ever since my radio show started back in July I have gotten random girls who have added me on facebook thinking that I am in the "biz" and I can get them into concerts and such (something I can do for some shows)

This just happened yesterday:

Me
I have a radio show that is syndicated acorss the country, when I'm not doing that I'm interviewing bands, reviewing albums or playing with my band.

I go out and have fun as well but music covers most of my life. The show covers Metal and Hard Rock.

Her
I love music, what famous ppl have you met

Me (knowing full well what she will say next...or something similar)
More then I can count. this year alone I've intervied Abigail Williams, Goatwhore, Hate Eternal, Kittie, Decapitated, Scale The Summit and Today I Caught The Plague. and next week I'm interviewing Volbeat and Iced Earth.

Her
I haven't heard of any. Do you like LMFAO?

Me
I know of them. Can't say I listen to them.

Her
You should totally get them on your show so I can go see them.

/End Conversation.

Sketchy · « **Reply #79 on:** June 21, 2012, 04:41:32 AM »

Quote from: 5 on June 20, 2012, 11:00:13 PM

A conversation I had with a university student when I attended a conference in the US:

Student: So, where are you guys from?
Me: Poland.
Student: So, um.... what language do you speak...?
Me: ...Polish?

Nuclear facepalm.

I had a similar thing when I was in Sichuan for a bit, where an old man wandered up and started to chat, with one of my friends translating for me. After he wandered off, she turned to me and said "He ask me where you are from, so I say England, then he ask 'Ah! Then do you speak English?' I say 'yes, of course he speak English'".

Super Dude · « **Reply #80 on:** June 21, 2012, 05:35:53 AM »

Why don't we all just agree that it's not the music they listen to, but the teenagers themselves who are the problem? Eh?

ZirconBlue · « **Reply #81 on:** June 21, 2012, 07:19:38 AM »

Quote from: 5 on June 20, 2012, 11:00:13 PM

A conversation I had with a university student when I attended a conference in the US:

Student: So, where are you guys from?
Me: Poland.
Student: So, um.... what language do you speak...?
Me: ...Polish?

Nuclear facepalm.

Hey, you never know. You could be like those people from The Neverlands that speak Hollandaise, or whatever.

rumborak · « **Reply #82 on:** June 21, 2012, 10:30:50 AM »

Yeah, honestly I don't find it all that facepalm-worthy either. Thing is, a lot of Eastern European country speak plain Russian or mild variations of it, to the point of where you can talk to someone from one of the countries will tell you "It's its own language!!" but then he concedes that they're mutually intelligible.

rumborak

Orbert · « **Reply #83 on:** June 21, 2012, 11:02:21 AM »

Somewhat off-topic, but I've been complemented before on how well I speak English.

(For noobs, I'm Chinese by heritage, but was born and raised in the Midwest.)

Adami · « **Reply #84 on:** June 21, 2012, 11:15:13 AM »

Quote from: Orbert on June 21, 2012, 11:02:21 AM

Somewhat off-topic, but I've been complemented before on how well I speak English.

(For noobs, I'm Chinese by heritage, but was born and raised in the Midwest.)

Like that scene in Captain America when he rescues the POWs and one of them is of Japanese heritage.

"We taking everyone?"
"I'm from Fresno Ace"

Orbert · « **Reply #85 on:** June 21, 2012, 11:17:59 AM »

Ha yeah, like that!

Phantasmatron · « **Reply #86 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:19:27 PM »

Quote from: ZirconBlue on June 21, 2012, 07:19:38 AM

Hey, you never know. You could be like those people from The Neverlands that speak Hollandaise, or whatever.

ClairvoyantCat · « **Reply #87 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:24:22 PM »

The most stunning conversations I've had with people are the ones where I find someone who's very candid about their personal life. I think that, since so many people seem to have a wall of courtesy and pretension around them, any time that I've met someone who doesn't seem to hold anything back really stuns me.

But since we're mostly talking about "stunning" in a stupid way...

Guy: *eating Turkey stuffing
Girl: "What's that?"
Guy: "Turkey stuffing"
Girl: "Oh, so you're a vegetarian?"

ಠ_ರೃ

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #88 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:25:44 PM »

Wow. Never knew that turkey was a vegetable.

jsem · « **Reply #89 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:40:30 PM »

Well, since pizza is a vegetable, why not make turkey one.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #90 on:** June 21, 2012, 01:41:02 PM »

True.

Super Dude · « **Reply #91 on:** June 21, 2012, 02:22:37 PM »

Quote from: jsem on June 21, 2012, 01:40:30 PM

Well, since pizza is a vegetable, why not make turkey one.

I was just gonna post that.

Sigz · « **Reply #92 on:** June 21, 2012, 03:38:34 PM »

Customer: Excuse me, which milk has less fat: low fat or fat free?
Me: ...

Super Dude · « **Reply #93 on:** June 21, 2012, 04:09:50 PM »

slycordinator · « **Reply #94 on:** June 21, 2012, 04:32:58 PM »

Me: I'm sorry sir, but you'll have to sit in the front row for that movie.
Customer: Why? Is it full?

When I had told a coworker about this he said he had one that was worse. He once worked at a Domino's Pizza.

Customer: I want a medium pizza with [whatever].
Worker: The large is only 25-cents more.
Customer: Is it bigger?

marztacy · « **Reply #95 on:** June 21, 2012, 06:52:31 PM »

First off for some background important to this little conversation. I'm from Australia.

Friend: I hear your dating someone.
Me: Yea I'm seeing an American exchange student
Friend: Oh so she's from America?
Me: Yes
Friend: Does she have an american accent?
Me:

carl320 · « **Reply #96 on:** June 21, 2012, 08:03:23 PM »

Quote from: Sigz on June 21, 2012, 03:38:34 PM

Customer: Excuse me, which milk has less fat: low fat or fat free?
Me: ...

"What do you mean there's no ice? You mean I've gotta drink this coffee hot?"

rumborak · « **Reply #97 on:** June 23, 2012, 11:34:44 AM »

Went to a party yesterday and talked to a cute but rather dense girl. After I explained to her what I do for work:

Her: "Wow, so does your brain work differently than ours?"
Me: "Well, I don't think so. I'm just reasonably good at math. "
Her: "No seriously, do you think differently? "

.....

slycordinator · « **Reply #98 on:** June 23, 2012, 10:59:33 PM »

[manager made some good point]
Me: Oh yes, I concur.
Her: I don't know what that means. I don't know big words like you.

It goes without saying that she had failed upwards.

Orbert · « **Reply #99 on:** June 24, 2012, 05:31:59 AM »

Well, to be fair, "concur" isn't a big word, but one that's used among more high-fallutin' folk. That's all she meant.

Super Dude · « **Reply #100 on:** June 24, 2012, 05:34:44 AM »

High-fallutin' folk? I learned that word from Catch Me If You Can with DiCaprio, for Christ's sake.

slycordinator · « **Reply #101 on:** June 24, 2012, 06:50:40 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on June 24, 2012, 05:31:59 AM

Well, to be fair, "concur" isn't a big word, but one that's used among more high-fallutin' folk. That's all she meant.

She also never understood what "touché" meant after having it explained ~10 times on different occasions.

Orbert · « **Reply #102 on:** June 24, 2012, 06:58:06 PM »

Okay, then she really is dense. I figured out what touché means from context after maybe the second or third time. I took a fencing class a few years ago and learned the real meaning of the word, but it's pretty much the same.

slycordinator · « **Reply #103 on:** June 24, 2012, 09:17:40 PM »

She literally came up to me freaking out once saying "I only have 2 minutes to start two of these movies; I can't do this." They were run on film, so you couldn't just click something like now.

I was like "How about one of those kids takes over for me here for a sec and I get the 2nd movie." She acted like I was a fucking genius for thinking of splitting work between 2 people.

And she was a manager. Talk about failing upward...

Neon · « **Reply #104 on:** June 24, 2012, 11:03:49 PM »

I had the following conversation with a guy I work with a few weeks ago:

I had walked up on he and another of my coworkers having a bit of an argument, and I was called on to settle said argument. Keep in mind that this guy is in his early 20s.

Him: "Kath, I need to you settle an argument for us."
Me: "Ok..."
Him: "Is Panama a country?" (facepalm in and of itself..but it gets better)
Me: "Yes..."
Him: "NO IT ISN'T!!"
Me: "Uh..yeah, it is."
Him: "But it's an island!"
Me: (with eyes narrowed and giving the kid my best possible 'asshole' face) "Um...no it's not an island. There's a canal that completely divides the country, but it's not an island. And an island could still be its own country... ... ..."
Him: "But I lived there on a military base when I was a kid, it can't be its own country."
(And at this point I'm aggravated that this guy's parents have moved him all over the world but never fucking took out a map to show him where his various locations were on it).
Me: "The US has military bases in a lot of different countries"
Him: "But I didn't need a passport..."
Me: "Because it was US military base that you probably landed on every time, so no, you wouldn't need a passport for that. If you landed anywhere else in Panama you would have needed a passport. Panama is still its own country dude."

...it gets even better...

Him: "But isn't that Central America?"
Me: "Yeah"
Him: "Well then what about Belize?"
Me: "Yeah, that too."
Him: "But then what about Mexico?"
Me: "That's North America"
Him: "But this is North America- aren't they all considered the same thing?"
Me: "Dude...we live in the United States of America...and yes we are part of North America...but the North American continent consists of two other countries besides ours...you know...Canada...and Mexico...and once you get south of Mexico that's considered Central America."
Him: "But then what's South America?"
Me: "It's this whole other continent dude...that's where countries like Brazil and Argentina are located."

This guy's mind was officially blown. I still don't think he fully understood the concept.

So then as I was walking away, I said:
Me: "Well thanks for the laugh at least...and now I've got the Van Halen song stuck in my head."
Him: "What song is that?"

(I won't fault him for not knowing Van Halen...but I am going to absolutely fault every single one of this guys teachers/parents/whatever for not teaching him basic geography shit).

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Author Topic: Stunning conversations you have with people (Read 8458 times)