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The most obnoxious conversation you've overheard?

geeky

The other day, Mrs Geeky was working away in a café. Overheard two charming ladies having a conversation.

Highlights included
- "sure there are plenty of jobs out there - people just don't want to work"
(I won't turn it into a dole-bashing/defending thread, but there are far less jobs out there than people available - and there they were sat on their arse having coffee!)

- "Oh it's a shame about that Savita woman. But you know, if it was her time, it was her time. This is a Catholic country"
(Apparently some people don't believe in medical intervention of any kind. Even when they're bouncing a baby on their lap. Wonder what that woman would have said if her baby had a condition requiring emergency surgery and the doc had just said 'sure, if it's her time...')

- "I disagree with foster care. Why should the state pay for the kids of junkies. They're just the junkies of the future"
'Nuff said.

So, AHers, what's the most obnoxious conversation you've overheard?

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Ghost Buster

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I think you made this up

Perhaps. perhaps not. But the version i heard yesterday in a Doctors waiting room (Man flu!) was "They have a cheek , them packys, coming over here telling us how to run our health service and that we have to have abortions"

Rasmus

griffdaddy wrote: »

Are you some kind of soccer version of Ross O Carroll Kelly?

I think we got the picture at 'boarding school book club friends' !

Motivator

Sitting on a bus heading from UCD into town one day. Had just been in for a breakfast roll in Spar & as I sat in on the bus the only seat left was in front of four utter cnuts. I began listening to their rubbish stories as I tucked in to my roll. One of them obviously spot the scruffy guy just out of bed in sitting in front of them & one of them pipes up:

"Like guys what is even in a breakfast roll? I know there's beans & mushrooms but isn't that like poor people food?"

That would have been bad enough, but all four of them spoke for about 15 minutes about the ins & outs of not just breakfast rolls, but poor peoples food in general. I'd love to say I didn't care but I felt their eyes burning into the back of my skull. I jumped off the bus & waited for the next bus. Never in my life had I heard such rubbish from so called "educated" people. They weren't that young either, maybe 22 or 23. Old enough to know better & shut the **** up while I'm trying to eat my roll.

Kolido

Aidric wrote: »

Phone reception on the metro did he?

Dispite the name, all lot of Cologne's subway system is above ground.

allibastor

Spiritual wrote: »

This.

Nothing to do with your spelling, I would not be that rude.

And I ain't your mate.

Well, maybe you should have seen this particular miserable person, then you might change your opinion. failry heavy, covered in fake gold jewelery, wads of rings on each finger, Addidas purple shell suit.

And i dont want you for a mate then, if thats how you want to be!

Spiritual

allibastor wrote: »

Well, maybe you should have seen this particular miserable person, then you might change your opinion. failry heavy, covered in fake gold jewelery, wads of rings on each finger, Addidas purple shell suit.

And i dont want you for a mate then, if thats how you want to be!

I knew this day would bring something good. :P

Rasmus

allibastor wrote: »

Once heard some scumg bag lady on the phone talking about how she was getting a new TV, 50 inch one on HP cause the dole will cover the cost for her on the children allowance as she had now conviced them to pay for her bills so she has more money, and ryan is working for cash and staying with her.

I really want to nick her bag and find out her details to rat her out. Fat miserable knacker bitch.

Doesn't seem as much obnoxious as blatant predjudice on your part, me thinks.

BrensBenz

Routinely drove two female colleagues to and from work. One morning, one of the ladies was missing. "Where's Annie" I asked. "Oh, she's sick. She has a pelvic infection." Annie was known to be a bit, em, friendly so, trying not to smile, I said "Oh, that's bad." "Yeah, it's strange alright. I thought only fellas had pelvics."

Red Hand

padd b1975 wrote: »

When mickey waving smug aethists get into full flow.

Catholic church, abortion, rabble rabble!!!!:mad:

allibastor

Rasmus wrote: »

Doesn't seem as much obnoxious as blatant predjudice on your part, me thinks.

not predjudice, just was an obnoxious conversation telling someone, in a very loud way in the que for food all her little details.
what woudl you class as an obnoxious conversation.

Hippies!

Motivator wrote: »

Sitting on a bus heading from UCD into town one day. Had just been in for a breakfast roll in Spar & as I sat in on the bus the only seat left was in front of four utter cnuts. I began listening to their rubbish stories as I tucked in to my roll. One of them obviously spot the scruffy guy just out of bed in sitting in front of them & one of them pipes up:

"Like guys what is even in a breakfast roll? I know there's beans & mushrooms but isn't that like poor people food?"

That would have been bad enough, but all four of them spoke for about 15 minutes about the ins & outs of not just breakfast rolls, but poor peoples food in general. I'd love to say I didn't care but I felt their eyes burning into the back of my skull. I jumped off the bus & waited for the next bus. Never in my life had I heard such rubbish from so called "educated" people. They weren't that young either, maybe 22 or 23. Old enough to know better & shut the **** up while I'm trying to eat my roll.

They were trying to make friends with you. Lads rip on each other if they like ya

I read it in a book.

harney

Aidric wrote: »

Phone reception on the metro did he?

No idea about Germany, but in Madrid you get phone reception on the metro underground.

padd b1975

Motivator wrote: »

Sitting on a bus heading from UCD into town one day. Had just been in for a breakfast roll in Spar & as I sat in on the bus the only seat left was in front of four utter cnuts. I began listening to their rubbish stories as I tucked in to my roll. One of them obviously spot the scruffy guy just out of bed in sitting in front of them & one of them pipes up:

"Like guys what is even in a breakfast roll? I know there's beans & mushrooms but isn't that like poor people food?"

That would have been bad enough, but all four of them spoke for about 15 minutes about the ins & outs of not just breakfast rolls, but poor peoples food in general. I'd love to say I didn't care but I felt their eyes burning into the back of my skull. I jumped off the bus & waited for the next bus. Never in my life had I heard such rubbish from so called "educated" people. They weren't that young either, maybe 22 or 23. Old enough to know better & shut the **** up while I'm trying to eat my roll.

You had the ammo, why didn't you use it?;)

Knight who says Meh

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Perhaps. perhaps not. But the version i heard yesterday in a Doctors waiting room (Man flu!) was "They have a cheek , them packys, coming over here telling us how to run our health service and that we have to have abortions"

Im sure this conversion and versions there of has taken place in The Dail more than once. With lumbering inarticulate morons of the calibre of Cowen and the Healy-Raes Im sure it a regular utterance.:)

Knight who says Meh

padd b1975 wrote: »

When mickey waving smug aethists get into full flow.

Psssssssssst. Posts on Boards are not real life conversations.
Read the thread title and try again;)

Motivator

padd b1975 wrote: »

You had the ammo, why didn't you use it?;)

I wouldn't mind but there was no beans or mushrooms in the roll. I was never so annoyed in my entire life, they were the typical D4 ragdoll head sluts that you always see in and around that kip of a University. I should have flattened the fat one, she had a face that was made for smacking.

Katgurl

griffdaddy wrote: »

Are you some kind of soccer version of Ross O Carroll Kelly?

isn't that an oxymoron?

Wacker The Attacker

Most peoples waffle isnt even original waffle. Its simply a regurgitation of something that was said or written by someone else.

Wacker The Attacker

Katgurl wrote: »

isn't that an oxymoron?

No its a question.

padd b1975

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

Psssssssssst. Posts on Boards are not real life conversations.
Read the thread title and try again;)

Unfortunately, I have real world experience of it.

the_monkey

geeky wrote: »

The other day, Mrs Geeky was working away in a café. Overheard two charming ladies having a conversation.

- "Oh it's a shame about that Savita woman. But you know, if it was her time, it was her time. This is a Catholic country"
(Apparently some people don't believe in medical intervention of any kind. Even when they're bouncing a baby on their lap. Wonder what that woman would have said if her baby had a condition requiring emergency surgery and the doc had just said 'sure, if it's her time...')

Thats making me angry ..... I couldn't have stayed quiet ...

About 10 years ago when the 2nd Micheal Jackson trial was on , I was on the DART sitting across this genius and she had a great theory -

"Sure MJ must be innocent , cos if he's inti blokes with all the money he has he wouldn't need to go near kids, lots of other gay men would be into him"

Brilliant, I as a hetrosexual male of average income and social stature must be a danger to 10 year old girls so .... :rolleyes:

Reloc8

Katgurl wrote: »

isn't that an oxymoron?

Actually I think you'll foind he's a seriously clever goy.

RainMaker

Overheard in Dublin... Beaumont House to be exact, about 14 months ago

A former Taoiseach, let's call him Bartie to protect his identity - out having a few pints with his friends on a Saturday night. The big premiership match on TV that day was Arsenal V Liverpool. Liverpool won 2-0 and Frimpong got sent off for Arsenal.

So anyway, Bartie and his mates were discussing the match, when one of Bartie's mates describes Frimpong as "not long out of the trees" - no response from Bartie himself, but was a little shocked myself to hear something like that being said in that company!

Duckjob

Friend of Mrs Duckjob, who can be a snobby cow started boasting one day about the fancy private school they sent their daughter to:

"You can see the parents are really high quality - they all drive BMW X5s and Range Rovers"

What made it funny was that later, her husband inadvertently let it slip that they had tried to enrol her in the public school but couldn't because they had left it too late, so were forced to go the private route. Of course, she didn't volunteer this information

Emeraldy Pebbles

Aidric wrote: »

Phone reception on the metro did he?

Aren't some Metro sections overground?

Ghost Buster

padd b1975 wrote: »

Unfortunately, I have real world experience of it.

Me also only on the flip side. It happens every evening at 6 on RTE. Twice a day in my kids school. At the start of every meeting in my local council. At the start of every Dail session...but I'll stop now incase i annoy you..
I'll just back out of the room with my eyes down cast:(

The Idyl Race

RainMaker wrote: »

Overheard in Dublin... Beaumont House to be exact, about 14 months ago

A former Taoiseach, let's call him Bartie to protect his identity - out having a few pints with his friends on a Saturday night. The big premiership match on TV that day was Arsenal V Liverpool. Liverpool won 2-0 and Frimpong got sent off for Arsenal.

So anyway, Bartie and his mates were discussing the match, when one of Bartie's mates describes Frimpong as "not long out of the trees" - no response from Bartie himself, but was a little shocked myself to hear something like that being said in that company!

I had dealings long ago with one of the Fag ends gang.. sounds entirely plausible.

Anyway, some time in the early 1990s I was on the 19A crawling down Camden Street on the way home.

"Here Natlee, what happened to that solizitor fella ye were riding?"

"Ah jazus Jacintah, that's history"

"Janey, if that was me I would have got me claaaawwws inta him!"

And a small cloud passed over the sun, cooling the temperature in the bus rapidly.

OneArt

Ush1 wrote: »

My mate was living in Cologne where there is a large population of Turkish immigrants.

Alot of the younger lads, how do I put it, would be of similar ilk to C.Ronaldo with how they would dress and carry themselves.

So my mate is on the subway and two Turkish young fellas get on and hear my mate on the phone talking in English and assume he can't understand German but he can hear them talking and understands fine..

"Hey, should we jump on that guy there and rob him"
"I don't know, I think he's English."
"You're right, the English can fight, better not."
"They've got no style though."

And with that they got off, my mate chuckling to himself.

They were only going to jump him because he had no style. Cologne is the gay capital of Deutschland after all.

Ush1

OneArt wrote: »

They were only going to jump him because he had no style. Cologne is the gay capital of Deutschland after all.

Yeah, this bloke defo has no style. Wears all black with a wet shaved head, looks like a neo nazi really.

Spiritual

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Most peoples waffle isnt even original waffle. Its simply a regurgitation of something that was said or written by someone else.

Most peoples waffle isn't even original waffle. Its simply a regurgitation of something that was said or written by someone else.