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Disturbing
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:41 pm
by Easty621
I was on the bus the other day and while riding, I overheard a conversation between two men whom I will refer to here as "Moron" and "Imbecile." It went something like this:
moron: See, 'cause you're what, 19?
imbecile: Yeah.
m: And I'm 26. So... I'm probably, like, a good, oh, seven or eight years older than you.
i: Yeah, I was born in '86.
m:And I was born in '79. So yeah, that means... that means I'm about, like, seven years older than you.
i:Yeah.
m: So I was like, I was finishing grade school, like, before you were born.
i: yeah.
Me: What the hell?
Firstly, I hate when people devote half of their speech to the word "like." Just say what you want to say, damn it! But what really got me was how incredibly stupid these two guys were. Wow. And they probably both voted.
Re: Disturbing
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:18 pm
by windshieldbug
Easty621 wrote:they probably both voted.
Not necessarily. They saw the attack ads on TV that said that both candidates were "wrong", so they may have both sides happy and not voted for either...
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:41 am
by Erin
I've never known a sense of superiority to be of any great benefit to anyone.
Are we really any better than those guys on the bus? We're actually talking about how stupid two people are (who most of us will never meet or even see and would be unable to identify if we did)... On a tuba message board no less!
I think generalized hostility towards people you don't even know is an lousy position to adopt. We've all sounded stupid at some point in our lives. Many of us have even done it on a city bus.
Can't we get back to solving life's great mysteries? Like piston vs. rotor, silver vs. laquer?
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:52 am
by Rick Denney
Kids. What can you do?
Rick "quoting my father...and his father" Denney
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:43 am
by windshieldbug
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:31 am
by Captain Sousie
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:46 am
by windshieldbug
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:50 am
by Captain Sousie
Colonel: get some discipline into those chaps, Sergeant Major!
Sargeant: Right sir! Good evening, class.
All (mumbling): Good evening.
Sargeant: Where's all the others, then?
All: They're not here.
Sgt.: I can see that. What's the matter with them?
All: Dunno
member of class: Perhaps they've got 'flu.
Sgt.: Huh! 'Flu, eh? They should eat more fresh fruit. Ha. Right. Now, self-defence. Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with a piece of fresh fruit.
(Grumbles from all)
Palin: Oh, you promised you wouldn't do fruit this week.
Sgt.: What do you mean?
Jones: We've done fruit the last nine weeks.
Sgt.: What's wrong with fruit? You think you know it all, eh?
Palin: Can't we do something else?
Idle (Welsh): Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?
Sgt.: Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit...
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:41 am
by windshieldbug
'THEY' wrote:You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your elephant
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:51 pm
by windshieldbug
Oh, you can scratch...
You just can't PICK...

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:00 am
by windshieldbug
Dude! I'm all like, "Oh, man!" 'n stuff...

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:02 am
by dopey
Erin wrote:I've never known a sense of superiority to be of any great benefit to anyone.
Are we really any better than those guys on the bus? We're actually talking about how stupid two people are (who most of us will never meet or even see and would be unable to identify if we did)... On a tuba message board no less!
I think generalized hostility towards people you don't even know is an lousy position to adopt. We've all sounded stupid at some point in our lives. Many of us have even done it on a city bus.
Can't we get back to solving life's great mysteries? Like piston vs. rotor, silver vs. laquer?
well said.
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:28 am
by Easty621
I guess I shouldn’t of posted this thread. I really don’t like to snob around and think I’m superior to anyone (because I'm really not), but in a world where it’s not important anymore it’s a novelty to actually have half a brain.
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:39 pm
by windshieldbug
Easty621 wrote:I guess I shouldn’t of posted this thread
Shouldn't
have, but then, I'm not much of a grammar nazi, either...
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:33 pm
by windshieldbug
Perhaps the thread name, rather than "Disturbing", should be "Enturbing"

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:02 pm
by windshieldbug
distaining
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:07 pm
by iiipopes
The second verse of a Robert Palmer song comes to mind....
What can you do?
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:57 pm
by Brucom
I can touch my elbows behind my back.
But women are not able to do this.
The next time you see a woman, ask her to try.
Re: What can you do?
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:22 am
by Brassdad
Brucom wrote:I can touch my elbows behind my back.
But women are not able to do this.
The next time you see a woman, ask her to try.
OH....BEHIND your back.....

sorry

Re: What can you do?
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:24 am
by Brassdad
bloke wrote:Brucom wrote:I can touch my elbows behind my back.
But women are not able to do this.
The next time you see a woman, ask her to try.

When is it appropriate to ask her...?? Should she be asked at the same time you're asking her if she can park her feet behind her head...??

to hell with behind her head!
