Stupidest thing you've overheard?

Senior Spielbergo · 05-11-2015 02:41PM #1

Can be in public, at home, wherever.

I was in Waterford over the weekend and was walking behind two girls, one of which were just after using the ATM(Bank of Ireland)
When her friend says: "You're so lucky your bank machine is so close to town. I have to go searching everywhere for an AIB one"
Luckily her friend was as astounded as I was and was trying to tell her you can actually use your card in every machine!
She wasnt having any of it though!

Stupidest thing you've overheard?

Triangla · 05-11-2015 02:44PM

After the Euro changeover I heard a couple discuss how expensive things got.

The guy said he used to spend 50 Pounds on a night out but last night spent 70 Euro.

Akrasia · 05-11-2015 02:46PM

I was sitting in Supermacs in Gort one day and was in stitches as I listened to one dimwitted teenager tried to explain to his even stupider friend how time travel is actually possible.

Totally serious conversation

corner of hells · 05-11-2015 02:46PM

Senior Spielbergo wrote: »

Can be in public, at home, wherever.

I was in Waterford over the weekend and was walking behind two girls, one of which were just after using the ATM(Bank of Ireland)
When her friend says: "You're so lucky your bank machine is so close to town. I have to go searching everywhere for an AIB one"
Luckily her friend was as astounded as I was and was trying to tell her you can actually use your card in every machine!
She wasnt having any of it though!

Stupidest thing you've overheard?

How close behind these two girls were you ? And did you get their pin numbers ?

Dodge · 05-11-2015 02:47PM

Senior Spielbergo wrote: »

Luckily her friend was as astounded as I was and was trying to tell her you can actually use your card in every machine!
She wasnt having any of it though!

Up until a couple of years ago a friend of mine was with a particlar building society and his cards could only work with AIB and his own crowd. Can't think of name

corner of hells · 05-11-2015 02:49PM

Dodge wrote: »

Up until a couple of years ago a friend of mine was with a particlar building society and his cards could only work with AIB and his own crowd. Can't think of name

Em , I still have a card that only works in B of I too.

Senior Spielbergo · 05-11-2015 02:50PM

corner of hells wrote: »

How close behind these two girls were you ? And did you get their pin numbers ?

I was a few lengths behind them. Chung wans on nights out dont usually talk very quietly!

Duggy747 · 05-11-2015 02:53PM

Sat on a bus in front of someone who was talking about satanic messages hidden in Disney music to corrupt children and how a promotional video for the hadron collidor featured ritualistic dancing that was evidence to show that they were planning on bringing the Anti-Christ to Earth.

Thought it was an oddly specific thing to say until I saw someone post the same thing Facebook a few days later.

DanielODonnell · 05-11-2015 02:54PM

It was on the wireless but that still counts as overhearing.
A woman rang into the Nolan show this year and said that Irish is a foreign language in Northern Ireland, despite most of the place names deriving from the language and it having being spoken in Ulster since before Christ.

The woman sounded like a middle class sort too, not some scally.

JustShon · 05-11-2015 03:05PM

In PC world one day, heard a woman loudly telling some poor staff member that her new computer has to have "Four RAMs of Gig." and then when corrected, insisted that it was definitely "Four RAMs of Gig."

I had to walk out before I started laughing.

Birneybau · 05-11-2015 03:07PM

"What's the whiffy code?"

Skylinehead · 05-11-2015 03:10PM

Birneybau wrote: »

"What's the whiffy code?"

We had a Spanish lad on our team say that, proper tech guy as well. Still laughed :pac:

BrianBoru00 · 05-11-2015 03:17PM

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It was on the wireless but that still counts as overhearing.
A woman rang into the Nolan show this year and said that Irish is a foreign language in Northern Ireland, despite most of the place names deriving from the language and it having being spoken in Ulster since before Christ.

The woman sounded like a middle class sort too, not some scally.

In that case, I'd opt for the lady in the audience of the Late Late show attacking Gerry Adams claiming he had a "hidden agenda of a 32 county socialist republic"

Either himself or Gay Byrne brushed it off saying well if it was a hidden agenda, then we haven't done a very good job of it..

Raggaroo · 05-11-2015 03:26PM

I was in a shop that sells satellite dishes and free to air gear etc. A woman walks up to the counter and said she had phoned the shop as she was having trouble setting up her Satellite system and that she was told to bring the box to the shop and they would do the tuning there for her. She then handed the guy behind the counter the empty cardboard box that the tuner came in. When the guy asked her where the tuner was she said WELL YOU TOLD ME TO BRING IN THE BOX !

Whitewinged · 05-11-2015 03:34PM

Two women in the pub hovering over a phone and one telling the other to "turn on Google Chromosome".

PTH2009 · 05-11-2015 03:40PM

Someone asking a friend is the movie 'straight out of Compton' scary

wilhelm roentgen · 05-11-2015 03:52PM

In Supervalu, Mallow.

The girl on one of the checkouts had an item that wouldn't scan, she calls to a colleague.

'Is this a 6 pack or a 24 pack of Stella'

Paramite Pie · 05-11-2015 03:55PM

I once overheard someone say (in the context of evolution) "that humans have disposable thumbs" (which sets them apart from chimps)...:pac:

How this conversation came up I don't know but the rest of her friends were still taking the piss after she left.

Huntergonzo · 05-11-2015 04:11PM

I was in my local welfare office about 6 years ago waiting at one of the windows and I heard a man at the windows beside me being asked 'when did you leave work?', '6 months ago' he said, so the woman asked him 'well what have you been doing ever since, why are you only signing on now?'......'well I've just been doing a few nixers you know yourself'......D'OH!!!

What a thing to say to someone in a welfare office, they called him into the back for an 'interview' after that, not sure what ever became of the poor aul divil, must have been kicking himself for saying the word nixers.

Kev W · 05-11-2015 04:15PM

I was working in a cinema when the second Blair Witch movie came out and a group were arguing with each other about whether the original was real or fake. One of them actually pointed to the poster for the new one and said "See, it's real! They made another one!"

Senior Spielbergo · 05-11-2015 04:20PM

Huntergonzo wrote: »

I was in my local welfare office about 6 years ago waiting at one of the windows and I heard a man at the windows beside me being asked 'when did you leave work?', '6 months ago' he said, so the woman asked him 'well what have you been doing ever since, why are you only signing on now?'......'well I've just been doing a few nixers you know yourself'......D'OH!!!

What a thing to say to someone in a welfare office, they called him into the back for an 'interview' after that, not sure what ever became of the poor aul divil, must have been kicking himself for saying the word nixers.

Oh dear!

If that were my local welfare office he'd have been crucified!

Not over heard but back a few years ago when that 'Moves Like Jagger' song by Maroon 5 was all over the place, I was on a work night out and this song comes on.
One of the girls asked me:
'Whats a Jagger??' :O
Me: 'Mick Jagger'
She looks bewildered
Me: 'Rolling Stones?'
She shrugs and goes off for a dance.

She wouldnt be the type to be into that kind of music so I let her away with it!

namloc1980 · 05-11-2015 04:23PM

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It was on the wireless but that still counts as overhearing.
A woman rang into the Nolan show this year and said that Irish is a foreign language in Northern Ireland, despite most of the place names deriving from the language and it having being spoken in Ulster since before Christ.

The woman sounded like a middle class sort too, not some scally.

How far did she get before Nolan started shouting over her?

shawnxxiong · 06-11-2015 12:07PM

Akrasia wrote: »

I was sitting in Supermacs in Gort one day and was in stitches as I listened to one dimwitted teenager tried to explain to his even stupider friend how time travel is actually possible.

Totally serious conversation

well in theory that is possible, maybe they are not stupid after all.

valoren · 06-11-2015 01:10PM

Younger brother (about 21 at the time) to my mother.

He had a credit union loan for a car and was getting looking to get a new loan.

"Mam, you know how I have a loan with the credit union? If I get another loan do I have to pay that one off?"

gramar · 06-11-2015 02:08PM

I was in the back row on a flight last week. Opposite were two girls and one empty seat. A couple of rows ahead there were 3 empty seats together.
One suggested moving there as there were 3 free seats. The other agreed and up they both got and moved.

ShowMeTheCash · 06-11-2015 02:43PM

Guy I work with once said "I think this is the oldest I've ever been."

I didn't really know how to respond as he sat there thinking about it.

Tzetze · 06-11-2015 02:52PM

A twitch streamer I like to watch for his gaming skills (not his science skills);
"So, me and my friend, we like to talk quantum physics for hours. Ok, so you know how time doesn't exist once you leave the Earth. Like time stops once you go out into space..." (If this is the premise, what follows can only induce rage)

/me switches off the stream

To Elland Back · 06-11-2015 03:02PM

Insurance colleague of mine had a client sit down in front of her and declare "I was told you could insure me if I brought in my licence, no claim bonus and registration number for the car"

He put 2 documents and the reg plate up on the desk

Canis Lupus · 06-11-2015 03:04PM

Skylinehead wrote: »

We had a Spanish lad on our team say that, proper tech guy as well. Still laughed :pac:

It's how they pronounce it in Spain and France. Asking for a 'y fi' code leaves them with blank faces.

Magico Gonzalez · 06-11-2015 03:10PM

Me, to a friend "would you light that (cigarette) or put it out"

BettePorter · 06-11-2015 04:24PM

In my local mace a few years ago and overheard the manager and cashier who had just arrived in for her shift ..... 'ah ' shes says 'when you said last night I was on ten to two today I thought you meant ten to two '!!! ( it was 2:50)

Stupidest thing you've overheard?

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