Really Stupid Things You've Heard/Read Someone Say

[Dangit2019]

Wait! I forgot one from my History class!

We were basically talking about the massacre at Tienanmen Square, and after the teacher was done talking, this pothead wannabe-gangbanger raised his hand and said:

"Wait, this all happened yesterday?"

Spoiler

It didn't.

 

[The Funslinger]

'Do girls go to the bathroom together to sync up their periods?'

I misread that as "do girls go to the bathroom together to lipsync on their periods?"

 

[Dangit2019]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

To be fair, I agree with the second quote, minus the Twilight sentiment. Romeo and Juliet was vastly overrated. It's an ephebophile who decides he has found the girl of his dreams a couple of weeks after breaking up with his last girl of his dreams, and eventually killing a man to save her, then killing himself over her corpse. Charming.

Yeah, but she thought it was stupid because Shakespeare used too many big words that she couldn't read. I wish I was making a bit of that up.

 

[Saulkar]

COWS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

Niether do windmills my man.

OT: I cannot fathom how ignorant some people have to be to ask if ARMA III will be an XBOX 360 exlusive. Seriously?! Very little research is needed to tell you why that will never happen. Everytime I go into the Arma forums there are at least one relatively new user asking if ARMA can be made an XBOX exclusive or will be ported to the system. While this unto itself is not too bothersome, it is the sheer quantity of people creating whole threads asking and weakly trying to justify their reasoning!

 

[David Bjur]

Spoiler: At least I hope it's trolling

lol how can they even have 2 million subs when there aren't even 2 million people of earth. next time google it before looking like a complete idiot.

Wait, is this from this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbT0HV4-GjI&list=UUH-_hzb2ILSCo9ftVSnrCIQ&index=0&feature=plcp]? Based on the other contributions it sure sounds like it.

Yep. However I've also found it on other videos (yogscast ones, I believe) so I think it's just someone trolling.

I sure hope so, might be one of those 'trolling memes' like 'did he died?'

 

[The Funslinger]

'Do girls go to the bathroom together to sync up their periods?'

I misread that as "do girls go to the bathroom together to lipsync on their periods?"

"Guns should not be allowed in the US. I know this because I live in the UK/Norway/Finland/Germany/Anyothercountryineurope and because there is less gun violence here, there would be less there. There would also be less criminals and the world would be a happier place"

Seems like good enough evidence for me: you have a place with guns, you have a place without guns. The place without guns has less crime. Simples!

That's not how it works at all, and it will never work like that.

"Disarming the innocent does not protect the innocent". Or as I like to say, "DUH!"

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

To be fair, I agree with the second quote, minus the Twilight sentiment. Romeo and Juliet was vastly overrated. It's an ephebophile who decides he has found the girl of his dreams a couple of weeks after breaking up with his last girl of his dreams, and eventually killing a man to save her, then killing himself over her corpse. Charming.

Yeah, but she thought it was stupid because Shakespeare used to many big words that she couldn't read. I wish I was making a bit of that up.

...That does make the quote quite idiotic in context, I must say. What big words? "Wherefore"? (Although the number of people who seem to think that Juliet is asking where Romeo is when she says "Wherefore art thou Romeo" is rather high...)

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Also:

"All first person shooters are the same, the ending to Halo reach is just hold the shooty button till you win"

Which is ironic, as you're supposed to lose in the ending to Reach.

Also:

"Fallout 3 was a bad game because it was made by Bethesda"

I...think that might've been me >_>

 

[Ragsnstitches]

"WTF a garbage pokemon!? Thats the dumbest idea ever! (Forgets about Jynx, Executor, and FUCKING MR. MIME)"

^This he clearly doesn't know what his talking about since Mr. Mime is the greatest pokémon ever.

Spoiler

Though, arguments against later Generations are all inherently wrong. Or even then, wrong to be done in the first place.

Just wanted to say thats the worst example of for that image macro. The one where it says "What you did there. I see it." is far better.

No foul language and the rephrasing of a tired meme just makes it so much more enjoyable.

I'm deliberately being pedantic here and I apologise.

Oh oh! Here's one! It's a doozy~

Spoiler: Harry Potter fan says The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are rip offs of Harry Potter and goes on to explain some parallels between the two series.

In case it gets taken down, here's the text by +IMDb user brian__007:

"Overall, I like "Lord of the Rings." However, I do feel that Tolkien kind of rips off "Harry Potter" in many ways. There are several parallels, such as elves, dwarfs, wizards, goblins, trolls, magic (especially invisibility), etc. Sauron is referred to as ?Dark Lord? just like Voldemort is. There is also the elder white-haired bearded wizard who serves almost as a mentor, Gandalf, who is reminiscent of Dumbledore. Some of the character names are similar, such as Wormtongue as opposed to Wormtail, too. There is even a gigantic spider (Shelob) at the end of "The Two Towers" that reminds one of Aragog from "Chamber of Secrets." I even noticed that the plots of both series begin with the protagonists? birthday. Now I see that Tolkien, this unoriginal bastard, is coming out with "The Hobbit" in December. This would be fine, but why didn't he just write this book first to begin with? I still like "Lord of the Rings," though--don't get me wrong--but I wonder if Tolkien has ever said in interviews whether he borrowed elements from Harry Potter. I?ll be watching the extended DVDs later this week and I think he?s featured on the commentary track, so I look forward to that."

Spoiler: And for kicks, not stupid mind you, just fecking brilliant.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
- Johnny Bravo

I know i'm just pointing out the obvious..but I jsut can't read it...that idiot doesn't get common fantasy clchies...

Its even worse, he's accusing the source of all modern fantasy clichés of being cliché. That's so ridiculous an uniformed that I'm led to believe its satire.

Please be satire.

 

[[REDACTED]]

From Russian For Dummies:

"You may be surprised to find out that English and Russian are very distant relatives. They both come from the same ancestor - Sanskrit - and both belong to the same family of Indo-European languages."

Face. Desk. Connect. Repeat

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

"WTF a garbage pokemon!? Thats the dumbest idea ever! (Forgets about Jynx, Executor, and FUCKING MR. MIME)"

^This he clearly doesn't know what his talking about since Mr. Mime is the greatest pokémon ever.

Spoiler

Though, arguments against later Generations are all inherently wrong. Or even then, wrong to be done in the first place.

Just wanted to say thats the worst example of for that image macro. The one where it says "What you did there. I see it." is far better.

No foul language and the rephrasing of a tired meme just makes it so much more enjoyable.

I'm deliberately being pedantic here and I apologise.

Oh oh! Here's one! It's a doozy~

Spoiler: Harry Potter fan says The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are rip offs of Harry Potter and goes on to explain some parallels between the two series.

In case it gets taken down, here's the text by +IMDb user brian__007:

"Overall, I like "Lord of the Rings." However, I do feel that Tolkien kind of rips off "Harry Potter" in many ways. There are several parallels, such as elves, dwarfs, wizards, goblins, trolls, magic (especially invisibility), etc. Sauron is referred to as ?Dark Lord? just like Voldemort is. There is also the elder white-haired bearded wizard who serves almost as a mentor, Gandalf, who is reminiscent of Dumbledore. Some of the character names are similar, such as Wormtongue as opposed to Wormtail, too. There is even a gigantic spider (Shelob) at the end of "The Two Towers" that reminds one of Aragog from "Chamber of Secrets." I even noticed that the plots of both series begin with the protagonists? birthday. Now I see that Tolkien, this unoriginal bastard, is coming out with "The Hobbit" in December. This would be fine, but why didn't he just write this book first to begin with? I still like "Lord of the Rings," though--don't get me wrong--but I wonder if Tolkien has ever said in interviews whether he borrowed elements from Harry Potter. I?ll be watching the extended DVDs later this week and I think he?s featured on the commentary track, so I look forward to that."

Spoiler: And for kicks, not stupid mind you, just fecking brilliant.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
- Johnny Bravo

I know i'm just pointing out the obvious..but I jsut can't read it...that idiot doesn't get common fantasy clchies...

Its even worse, he's accusing the source of all modern fantasy clichés of being cliché. That's so ridiculous an uniformed that I'm led to believe its satire.

Please be satire.

To be fair, there is a related phenomenon to that. Seinfeld is Unfunny [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny].

 

[Dangit2019]

My English class was full of the stereotypical twi-tard, Bieber-worshiping idiots that people associate with today's youth. Here's a few gems:

"One Direction's just like the Beatles, only better!"

"Romeo and Juliet is stupid! Why don't we read Twilight?"

"Why are we even reading this story? Its all sad and depressing!"

I would go on, but I fear that more quotes would infringe on my fellow Escapists' sanity.

To be fair, I agree with the second quote, minus the Twilight sentiment. Romeo and Juliet was vastly overrated. It's an ephebophile who decides he has found the girl of his dreams a couple of weeks after breaking up with his last girl of his dreams, and eventually killing a man to save her, then killing himself over her corpse. Charming.

Yeah, but she thought it was stupid because Shakespeare used to many big words that she couldn't read. I wish I was making a bit of that up.

...That does make the quote quite idiotic in context, I must say. What big words? "Wherefore"? (Although the number of people who seem to think that Juliet is asking where Romeo is when she says "Wherefore art thou Romeo" is rather high...)

Dude, the same girl thought that "cynical" was pronounced as sign-i-cal. I at first gave her slack for her obvious dyslexia, but it turned out that she didn't have it. 0_0

 

[Folksoul]

From a paranoid schizophrenic man who comes into my work rather often.... AHEM:
"The[Canadian]government put a chip in my head at birth that makes feel homosexual urges whenever I see/hear honey bees." NOT EVEN ATTEMPTING TO LIE.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

"I'll just do that assignment tomorrow."
-Me

 

[Evilpigeon]

That's not how it works at all, and it will never work like that.

"Disarming the innocent does not protect the innocent". Or as I like to say, "DUH!"

Except that it does work like in many other countries, criminals are mostly disorganised and to get hold of a weapon with sufficient control and enforcement you have to be very well organised. And, you know what unless in your society is carrying around a handgun at all times, it's more likely that the attacker is going to be the one armed. You stand a much better chance of getting away from someone with a knife than a gun.

I understand that the US is perhaps too far down the rabbit hole for an immediate ban on guns to be effective but phasing them out over a long period of time could work.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

"I'll just do that assignment tomorrow."
-Me

Best thing about tomorrow? It never comes.

 

[Reyold]

Okay Binnysboy. Just for you. Here it is for a third time.

Spoiler: College really isn't necessary

I've heard somewhere that later after she wrote this, she said that she doesn't really believe it, they just really needed an article for the paper but...I don't believe her.[/quote]

This would actually sound pretty reasonable if we were still in the 50's.

 

[Eddie the head]

"It's what the founding fathers would have wanted." Or anything to that effect. For one you don't know them so can't say. Two they did make it so laws could be changed, I think a lot of black people are happy about that one.

 

[Bestival]

"A third and a fourth are the same thing." Man, it's a good thing she's pretty, coz god damn...

 

[The Funslinger]

That's not how it works at all, and it will never work like that.

"Disarming the innocent does not protect the innocent". Or as I like to say, "DUH!"

Except that it does work like in many other countries, criminals are mostly disorganised and to get hold of a weapon with sufficient control and enforcement you have to be very well organised. And, you know what unless in your society is carrying around a handgun at all times, it's more likely that the attacker is going to be the one armed. You stand a much better chance of getting away from someone with a knife than a gun.

I understand that the US is perhaps too far down the rabbit hole for an immediate ban on guns to be effective but phasing them out over a long period of time could work.

There's a little less gun crime in places like here in Britain, but there's plenty of knife crime to make up for that.

I'd much prefer a situation where everyone is encouraged to have carry guns, with an amount of mandatory shooting, safety and situational training. A prospective criminal would think twice, because chances are every target is armed. People say that would just cause more death overall, but that's not necessarily true. If it's the common knowledge that everyone around you can protect themselves, it makes crime as a whole far, far less inviting and over time, there's a good chance it could lower hugely.

Plus I've always held the view that once someone (e.g. a mugger or rapist) puts someone else's base human rights secondary to their own personal wants, they sacrifice priority for their own rights. Fair is fair, after all.

And I have had many conversations with people who, if it weren't for carry weapons, wouldn't be able to safely go out alone at night. One of whom is an escapist here I won't mention because it would probably be quite rude to randomly throw her into this.

With or without weapons, people will find ways to at least have the ability to kill each other. Hell, I know how to kill someone with a damn newspaper. With that in mind, I much prefer a world where your bogstandard guy can protect himself.