The overheard thread - The Bear and Badger

Roujin

Moot_Geeza wrote:

He rarely washes himself or his clothes, and I have an audio recording of a bullish female colleague having a chat with him about his hygiene after she'd had enough.

And that is relevent how? Unless you were trying to out yourself as a total cum funnel, in which case mission accomplished.

[Deleted User]

Hanna Montana? That's how I knew I was gay because of that cunt.

On the bus just now.

Tempy

On holiday I overheard various Americans whilst on public transport, queuing for museums, in cafés etc

They were all irredeemably awful. Chatting the worst shit, and so loudly too. The second embarrassing group were the 'KowAdviceKrus' of teenage Brits vomiting outside Bulldog or saying things like "we should totally put 'hashtag hash bagged' on our statuses yeah!"

Everything else was blissful, impenetrable Dutch, French and German. Didn't understand a word and loved it.

beano

Holland is great. Europe is generally great. Except Great Britain.

fullspectrum

'He must be the only non gay hairdresser in Shoreditch'.

Moot_Geeza

Roujin wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

He rarely washes himself or his clothes, and I have an audio recording of a bullish female colleague having a chat with him about his hygiene after she'd had enough.

And that is relevent how? Unless you were trying to out yourself as a total cum funnel, in which case mission accomplished.

Relevant to what? I didn't record it, but myself and a gaggle of cum-funnel colleagues did accidentally laugh at it against our better judgement. Good on you for knowing it's not funny though; the moral high ground is yours.

beano

"the English baccalaureate is going to be ideal."

Biting. Tongue.

Stopharage

Brighton is superb for ridiculously pompous statements. Yesterday's gem:-

"These are most god-damn comfortable flip-flops in the Western hemisphere."

beano

"Downloading music without paying is like having sex with a prostitute for free." I didn't hear it. But yeah.

Yossarian

[Insert joke about a high risk of viruses here]

Blue Swirl

adkm1979 wrote:

It was worth it, though, when she picked up the large box of condoms, scanned them, paused, and asked, "Just the three kids, then?" Dynamite.

Legendary.

My most recent head/desk interaction:

Lad: "No, you see, the Earth's axis is tilted, so as it orbits the sun, different parts of the world are tilted toward or away from it. This is why we have seasons."
Girl: "Oh! That makes sense."

At the time I was in the university library. These people, my friends, are the future of humanity.

Diluted Dante

I weep for the species.

igorgetmeabrain

Am I missing something? That is why we have seasons.

Blue Swirl

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

Am I missing something? That is why we have seasons.

These were undergrads. I'm pretty sure we were taught about the seasons in middle school.

GooberTheHat

Thank fuck for that.

JMW

I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of undergrads didn't know why we have seasons.

[Deleted User]

The gf's Mum wasn't quite sure, and she's a GP. I wrote a rambling letter to The Guardian on the subject after consuming two bottles of wine, and was only mildly surprised when it got printed.

How many people know how a fridge works? Or why there are two tides a day? Basic lack of scientific knowledge is deeply worrying. There's an ever increasing gap between what politicians know and what scientists do. This cannot be a good thing.

Lord_Griff

When it rains the sea get deep - High tide. It then evaporates - Low tide. On average it rains twice a day on Earth.

[Deleted User]

I remember when I was discussing Pink Floyd with a friend who happens to be a physics teacher. He teaches up to A level. He was aware that the dark side of the moon isn't actually dark, but he did think it a remarkable coincidence that the Moon's rotational period was the same as the Earth's. Unfuckingbelievable.

beano

Part of the reluctance of not getting a new fridge is wanting to fix it. Or phone someone who'll do it properly.

I should've amassed an array of tools, lubes and cylinders of stuff at my age.

Went to a mates the other day. He's got a small shed, it's more shed than I've got though.

Kow

I have 3 or 4 screwdrivers. And a spanner that doesn't appear to fit anything.

Tempy

Fridge's are complicated and stuff although I basically know how it works and it's quite fantasticaly cool. I need a book that just goes over lots of 'stuff' about science, about how regular things work as I used to be into that as a kid and then grew up an idiot.

The Horrible History books did a good division of science based stuff, I basically want the adult version of that because it managed to be full of great anecdotes and little quirky facts as well as having cartoons in for my kid brain. I still like cartoons though, maybe they're still good?

Lord_Griff

Does my deodorant can get hotter or colder the longer I depress the nozzle?.... Dun dun daaaaar

beano

"Your mother and your grandmother have legs like sailors." a man to a woman whose hand held.

Is that a saying? Never heard anything like before. Couldn't even contain a "Hah!".

Yossarian

May have been a reference to seasickness.

JonB

Or tattoos.

Lord_Griff

Peg legs.

JonB

Tempy wrote:

Fridge's are complicated and stuff although I basically know how it works and it's quite fantasticaly cool.

Even I know that much. And I know apostrophes.

Anyway, most scientists probably don't how politics works, so whatever. The problem is there's just too much shit nowadays and everyone is expected to really specialise.

[Deleted User]

Seasons thing is pretty harsh.

I'm sure I could list 100 things we "should" know and there would be something on there each and every one of us doesn't know.

Kazuo

Lord_Griff wrote:

When it rains the sea get deep - High tide. It then evaporates - Low tide. On average it rains twice a day on Earth.

Storing that one away for future mischief, wonder if I can catch anyone out.

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