Best snippet of overheard conversation

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On a bus in Dublin a few years ago one saturday evening when all the young people were heading in to town to try to cop off, three girls, probably around 15 or 16, dolled up for the night were sitting opposite me. A cocksure young male strolls up and sits in the seat in front of them, turns around, leaning an arm nonchalantly over the back of the seat and says: "Evenin' ladies, just like to enquire: are any of yiz ridin?"

(note: the question "is she ridin'?" was common among Dublin blokes of a certain age a few years back: it translates as "has she become sexually active yet?") I don't know if it translates too well for those not familiar with Irish dirtyness...

Conor (Conor), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago) link

Standing in line at a ferry cafeteria behind two teenage girls that are looking at a magazine:
"They make this deodorant look like its really fun."

Sym (shmuel), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

"He wrote a rock opera about Ernest Borgnine. It was called 'Cooze'."

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

"What were you doing to get cow shit in your beard anyway?"

Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

my director walked in on a conversation i was having where ian was saying 'well, i missed the hotpants, but you never know what's happening under a polo neck'

colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

Message left on friend's mobile phone (friend not called Richard):

Hi Richard, this is Dr Davies, sorry to hear things aren't going so well at the moment. If you come into the surgery I have a new cream you could try, and we can talk about possible surgery.

For some reason we all assumed it was genital related.

ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

Family (mom, dad, son) at restaurant on saturday afternoon.

Dad: "Well if its just monkeys then we're not going, because I've seen Monkeys"

Son (lifts head from shoveling chimichanga into face and lazily says): Yeah, you've seen monkeys...but you haven't seen monkeys...a lot.

Travis Brady, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link

I've told a few people about this one but it's worth repeating.
Standing in line in an Italian grocery I overhead this conversation between two middle-aged female shoppers:
Lady 1: "Oh look! They have Pucci cookies (I'm assuming some brand of biscotti)."
Lady 2: "Coochie cookies?!?
Lady 1: "NO! Pucci cookies!"

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

just overheard someone say "Our sense of smell is absolutely shite compared with that of other animals. They reckon it's because of dogs"

at this point, the two ppl disappeared out of the door to the staircase which leads to the smoking area, so I never heard the rest!

MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

my new-ish desk is at the junction of 2 main office thoroughfares. I'd say there must be 80-90 ppl working on this floor, plus visitors from elsewhere in the building, so I hear all kinds of stuff.

Earlier:

"You put it in the green washing up bowl"

"What green washing up bowl?"

"There, in front of the bald man"

MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 24 May 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely Gear! wins this with "Fuck me in the ass!"

Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 May 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that 'best snippet' or 'most horrifying snippet'?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

On crossing t'road in Reading, we passed a mad looking bloke on a mobile, going "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" into it. He stopped, then pressed another set of numbers, waited, and then went "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" again. and then he got into a taxi.

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 May 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Two customers in bookstore where I work talikng about some horrid vampire writer; 'her vampires are believable and sympathetic'

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 24 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

The other day, I heard one girl tell another, "I didn't want to tell him I'd never eaten at Taco Bell, because he's Mexican."

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
"For the record, I wouldn't say she was 'hot', I'd say she was 'underdressed'."

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

1. January of 04

Girl: It’s weird, in my new story the main character is addicted to coffee and I don’t even drink coffee!
Guy: Maybe the coffee is a metaphor.
Girl: Oh yeah.

2. Sometime in 02

Girl 1: My mom called me an “atheist” this morning, can you believe that?
Girl 2: She thinks you worship the devil and stuff?
Girl 1: Nooo, that’s Wiccan!

David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Overheard in Berkeley 3 years ago: "They found him trying to shove an eggplant down his throat. The whole system's out of whack."

King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Two yuppyish girls in restaurant at lunch today.

"Only children are the worst. Everyone I know with issues is an only child."

I wince and go back to reading my book but before I leave the same girl, who has been slagging off her bf and his family for the last 20 minutes says,

"Well, I think that families that yoga together, stay together."

First time I've heard yoga as a verb.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

citykid 1: [...]crackheads in my building, not even living there, just like on the stairs.
citykid 2: where did you live?
citykid 1: franklin & park. i used to pour water on them, to wake them up, like in the middle of winter. and they'd run around outside. cracksicles!
citykid 2: cracksicles! dude you probably killed somebody.
citykid 1: whatever. it's not like they really had a life.

-- g--ff (webmail), April 19th, 2004 11:55 PM. (gcannon)

G--ff! This was in Minneapolis, wasn't it? I used to live off of Columbus, near Franklin & Chicago. Right behind the morphine clinic!

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"Well, I think that families that yoga together, stay together."
but Michael this is a fact.

AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the Bay Area is like Ground Zero for terrible overheard conversations.

AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Old, old man in the bookstore I work at- "If you wanna talk about ho-mo-sexuals, first you gotta talk about fishing!" to himself, obv

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

She was just raggin' on him in the worst way and trying to rationalize it with babble about his up-bringing and his family dynamic. Like that shit's gonna change, lady, and like your own family's shit doesn't stink. Sheesh.

Well, I think that families that yoga together, stay together.

My aunt is a very well respected yoga teacher and so insane at family gatherings that I avoid her like the plague.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Morley,

Maybe he was just negotiating with one of his other personalities.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

one can only hope

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"When do you want this report then?"

"The end of July"

"Oh, so next year, then?"

"No this year."

"But we're in August now"

"oh yeah!"

MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Coworkers on lunch break

1: It's not pronunced "Porsh" it's "Porsha".
2: Is it?
1: Yeh man, if you go for a job interview with Porsche and pronounce it wrong then you don't get a job. You have to pronounce it "Porsha"
2: Didn't know that
1: Yeh, they'll be all like "Fuck off mate - it's Porsha".

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

A bit from A Fish Called Wanda comes to mind.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

(omitting context for roffle sake)

Coworker1: How far up does it go?
Coworker2: Pretty much all the way. I've got to put my medication on it now, if you want to see it.
Coworker1: YEAH! We should tell Nick to stay in his room for a few minutes, though.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I was walking down my local shops the other day and passed this yuppie couple.

Man: "god, I havent been here since the last time we were here!"

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

?!?!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I know. Mental.

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

On bus.

Student 1: Oh, what was it? ... that Marvin Gaye did?
Student 2: Lovely Day?
Student 1: No... um, Sexual Healing, that's it!
[both sing brief snatch of Sexual Healing]
Student 1: APPARENTLY, he was SHOT. By his DAD.
Student 2: Really!!???
Student 1: Yeah, for being gay I think.
Student 2: And he was *called* Gaye. Weird. His dad didn't shoot him because he was CALLED Gaye, did he?
Student 1: No that would be stupid, he had the same name.

Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, he was gay!

RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Leaving a local club where a Reggae band has just played. The crowd is pretty fresh faced apart from a well-spoken middle-aged couple who reminded me very much of some teachers I used to have.

Woman: (smiling) It was good. Very good.
Man: (looking pensive for a split second and then correcting his wife's ungroovy lingo) - It was COOL. Very COOL.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(all involved here are females ages 35-50)

Coworker1: Do you think Angelina Jolie would do a sex scene?
Coworker2: I'm pretty sure she already has...um...
Coworker1: I bet she would.
Coworker2: That's what I'm saying, I think she has, I've SEEN it.
Coworker1: I bet she'd do a three-way.
Coworker2: ORIGINAL SIN! That's what it was called.
Coworker1: I bet she'd do a sex-scene with her brother.
Coworker2: You need to stop thinking about this for a second.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Wellington Airport

mother: Yes, all good reporters use pencils.
daughter: what do bad reporters use then?
mother: ...biros

rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...
Let's revive this one, too.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Best snippet of overheard convo was probably heard by other people.

My mum and I were walking the dog and talking about how we'd off my father (semi-jokingly)...walked around a hill and there were a bunch of people sitting there looking a bit stunned.

Ah well.

papa november (papa november), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

You should have jokingly killed them.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I could've been the hilltop strangler

papa november (papa november), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Screamed at top of voice in swank restaurant by old woman:

YOU CUNT!!!!

Two uncomfortable seconds later:

...do that! You cunt. You simply cunt. I don't beleef you.

Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Archel one above is insane and hilarious. Also "maybe the coffee is a metaphor" is my new catchphrase.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

seriously, these are ALL insane and hilarious, they are saving me from dying from boredom too. why do i never overhear stuff like this? more please!

gem (trisk), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

six yr old scouser boy overheard on train (I've mentioned this before but it cracks me up):
"Family Values means we're all going to die"

-- mark s (mar...), September 5th, 2001

Upon reflection, an accurate assessment.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Man: "god, I havent been here since the last time we were here!"

I say this all the time. I think it started as a joke, but today I said "I haven't talked to you since last time!" without thinking anything of it until afterwards.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHA "If you knew anything about space or love, you would never ever fuck with Björk."

Best thread ever.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
Two guys sitting at the booth behind me at KFC buffet, in Midland, Texas:

Guy1: Guess who I saw at the mall the other day.
Guy2: Um...who?
Guy1: Richie Sambora!
Guy2: Didya now?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 March 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

There are some posted on this thread

Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link


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