Overheard Conversations that Anger You

[The_Healer]

While signing up for classes today I over heard by a group of kids bitching a police officer was rude to them while drinking. I was there for fifteen minutes so i will highlight the fun points.

1.They were at a party that someone called the cops on.
2.Over half the kids there were under 19(Legal age of drinking here)
3.The kids in question looked 16 despite being legal age, maybe.
4.When asked to show ID one of the kids was lipping off to the officer first. He sounded proud of it.
5.One of the kids was apparently actively trying to hide liquor, in front of the cop.
6.The girl called the cop a "stupid pig" while showing her id.
7. What id the copsay that was so damn rude "What the hell is wrong with you kids giving alcohol to under age teenagers? Get your shit together.

No punishment, he called the parents of the underage kids and had them taken home.

The last thing i heard before I finally got to go get my classes sorted out.

"This country is so fucking oppressive with these fucking cops"

Right....

Wow.

You'd get a good old criminal record for that here.

Not a conversation but...On a plane one day we just got the standard turn off electronics blah blah talk and we were taking off when a girl about 12 years old or so in the row across from me turns on her Nintendo DS. Then puts her hedphones in and proceeds to play some music. It starts playing through the external speakers and I realize that her headphones are not plugged in *FACEPALM* To make matters worse, she turns up the volume and starts singing along.

It could have been worse, you could have been sitting next to a baby. Oh god no.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

People being overtly rascist/sexist/homophobic and thinking its ok in todays modern society, it anoys the hell out of me, why cant everyone just live in harmony

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I've overheard many a dumb conversation, but those that really got to me were A) two people saying that it's not possible to be racist towards white people. B) a woman loudly proclaiming that there is no such thing as misandry and that women should start oppressing men "as revenge".

I'm sorry, but In My Personal and Humble Opinion, I do not agree with the aforementioned statements, but I am sure I will, as happened when I tried to suggest the contrary while after overhearing said statements, be accused of being a dumbshit twit fag white boy who has no right ever to complain about anything and should lie down taking it like a b*** due to cultural guilt about slavery.
What's funny is, I'm Norwegian, our country was occupied for four hundred years (from around 1400 and up until the napoleonic wars), only to be given as spoils of war to Sweden, before becoming totally independent in 1905. The last time we came close to enslaving or otherwise oppressing anyone(at least in comparison to america around the 18th/19th century) was back in the viking ages, 7-800 years ago, when Vikings conquered and pillaged britain.
There is also evidence suggesting (both statistically and from personal experience) that women are totally or at the very least almost (like, 48%/52%) equal to men. Me, myself, I try not to be racist or sexist, and so far it seems to be working. Despite the fact that I'm a white teenager, I'm lower middle-class and not as well off as many might think. So yeah, either this is rubbish in your ears or I'm making sense. I do hope for the latter.

Just my two cents, I suppose. I'll just shut my barbarian mouth.

 

[masterkeaton]

While sitting outside a movie theater, I overheard some teens trying to figure out how to sneak food into the theater. They finally decided that they would pretend that one of them was diabetic and needed the food to live (Note: this is hypoglycemia. Diabetics would probably die from so much sugar) but they were worried that he would be asked for his, quoting here, "Diabetic ID". They thought that diabetics carried cards to prove that they were diabetic.

I wanted to beat the stupid out of them.

Just so you know, Hypoglycemia is when diabetics need sugar, hyperglycemia is when they have too much of it, although it's true that sugar can send us into a coma, I know because I've been diabetic for years now.

And by 'Diabetic ID' I presume they mean these bracelets that you can get that are engraved with your medical condition and what you're allergic to, but still that's the stupidest idea I've heard. I once had to shout at someone in my math class because he said "I heard diabetics can't control their bladders" so I stood up and said "(name of the guy) DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M PISSING MYSELF RIGHT NOW? NO, SO SHUT UP"

Ah, my mistake with the terminology. And I'm fairly sure that they meant it as in "Card carrying diabetic", which is baseball-bat-to-the-hollow-skull-worthy.

Wow, "Card-carrying"? I don't think such things even exist, unless the person made it themselves, ah well, not everyone can be clever I guess.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

We all overhear conversations from time to time[footnote]No offense intended to deaf members of the escapist.[/footnote], whether you be on public transport, walking down the street or just relaxing in your home while your neighbors shout at each other.

Does what you hear ever make you angry?

So I may be intolerant, but yesterday I was sitting on the train, traveling home from uni when a bunch of 14-15 year olds got on (4 females and 1 male). This was at about 1:20pm, so they were wagging school. Oh great, I thought.

Having noisily sat down, they proceeded to very loudly discuss the following:
1. How much they are looking forwards to getting stoned.
2. What a shame it is that none of them brought cigarettes.
3. How they didn't understand why x is fuck buddies[footnote]These are 14 year olds.[/footnote] with y.
4. How immensely cool they are for wagging school and how they don't care about the potential consequences.

People slowly filtered out of the train carriage, obviously disgusted by their behavior and language, but they continued to act like they ruled the world regardless.

The result of all this was me become gratuitously angry. I was trying to read my book at the time[footnote]Anathem by Neal Stephenson, requires concentration.[/footnote] and shot them glances that would have killed many a nervous individual[footnote]Considering I was large enough to kill them all with my bare hands.[/footnote]. They continued regardless while I gritted my teeth and thought of how much I wouldn't like jail.

So has anyone else been infuriated by the conversations of others, or am I just an intolerant idealist who should take anger management classes?[footnote]Suggest this and I will dismember you with a small but sharp gardening trowel. Not really.[/footnote]

i suggest you to read the Manual of Epictetus, it will help you reach a certain degree of Ataraxia. and not care at all about what others do.

 

[imnot]

once in re we where doing a powerpoint on the holocaust, i heard the teacher ask someone in the class "why have you got a picture of hitler on your slide?"

the title of the slide in question was 'who helped the Jews durning the holocaust?'

 

[faspxina]

I hate to hear people whining about stuff that doesn't really matter... doh! (pwned by auto-contradiction)

 

[Terminate421]

1. Did you see X game on Espn last night?

 

[Terminate421]

Hmm, nothing very drastic but I can't stand kids that play COD4 or something and then automatically assume that that is the best game in the series just because they aren't aware of the first 3.

It happens with other things as well, I have a friend who is 13 and, granted he would have only been 3 or 4 at the time says he HATES old games like Ocarina of Time, this annoys me because having grown up during that era I have a huge amount of respect for games like that, in fact they were a massive part of my childhood.

It annoys me, because they don't seem to realise how the games they play today (CoD 4 etc.) came to be, or worse yet, they play the previous games and say that they're "shit" because you don't get perks and you can't sprint away as soon as you get hit, that's what really gets on my nerves, kids who claim that they know stuff about older games but really don't.

Its all about MW2

I over heard a couple 13 year olds talking about MW2 claiming "Its the best game ever made"
I asked what other games they played
They all said "Mario and uh....Need for speed"
I then asked what mario
"Super Smash brothers brawl, the old mario's are shit!"
I really just wanted to beat them with a pick axe right there

 

[masterkeaton]

Hmm, nothing very drastic but I can't stand kids that play COD4 or something and then automatically assume that that is the best game in the series just because they aren't aware of the first 3.

It happens with other things as well, I have a friend who is 13 and, granted he would have only been 3 or 4 at the time says he HATES old games like Ocarina of Time, this annoys me because having grown up during that era I have a huge amount of respect for games like that, in fact they were a massive part of my childhood.

It annoys me, because they don't seem to realise how the games they play today (CoD 4 etc.) came to be, or worse yet, they play the previous games and say that they're "shit" because you don't get perks and you can't sprint away as soon as you get hit, that's what really gets on my nerves, kids who claim that they know stuff about older games but really don't.

Its all about MW2

I over heard a couple 13 year olds talking about MW2 claiming "Its the best game ever made"
I asked what other games they played
They all said "Mario and uh....Need for speed"
I then asked what mario
"Super Smash brothers brawl, the old mario's are shit!"
I really just wanted to beat them with a pick axe right there

That's exactly the problem with kids nowadays, they won't even bat an eyelid at the old games because they're deemed 'shit', and Smash Bros. Brawl is NOT a Mario game, it really makes me wonder about the future of gamers when they aren't even willing to learn about where their beloved games that are out now came from, kids need to learn these things (in my opinion). That being said, I do know a 6 year old who my copy of Kirby's Dream Land on the Gameboy and found it good, so maybe there's some hope afterall.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

*after seeing the silent hill movie and being in hmv*

random kid: "hew man look at this!"
random brat: "what like?"
kid:"ya knar that sylent hill like?!"
brat: "aye yeah?"
kid:"look theyve already mayed games aboot it like"
brat:"are ya fookin' kidding loike?!!?21"
kid:"na look here!!"

i was annoyed at that but i thought
"well they're only young they dont know any bet..

brat "it looks SHITE like!"

annoyed indeed!

You woudn't happen to live in hawaii would?

they sound like the were talking Pidgin'.

 

[The_Healer]

i suggest you to read the Manual of Epictetus, it will help you reach a certain degree of Ataraxia. and not care at all about what others do.

And where would I locate this enlightening tome?

 

[DarkHourPrince]

I could go on and on about the things I heard in my college prep math class senior year of high school from the group of girls in the back who always had a Cosmopolitan magazine in hand -_-;;. Come to think of it, I heard alot of things in school I would have liked to put someone's head through a window for.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

No. I don't care what total strangers do in my vicinity as long as they don't try to involve me in their business.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

People being overtly rascist/sexist/homophobic and thinking its ok in todays modern society, it anoys the hell out of me, why cant everyone just live in harmony

How "harmonic" is it to be bothered by people ventilating overtly sexist/racist/homophobic comments?

As long as they don't do anything to ACT upon these comments aren't exactly doing anything wrong. For instance, why is it okay to be a capitalist or a communist, but not a racist?

What happened to the freedom of opinions?

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

i suggest you to read the Manual of Epictetus, it will help you reach a certain degree of Ataraxia. and not care at all about what others do.

And where would I locate this enlightening tome?

Amazon.com or any other international library i guess