Conversations - overheard and taken completely out of context for our general amusement

[liliputian]

As McIntosh is in rather close proximaty to Hope Street, Chattanites living on the front side of the building with their windows open can often overhear the conversations between loaud yahs and even louder American wannabe yahs:

Yah 1: ...and they wouldn't let me!
Yah 2: Oh my god - did they not know who you are?!

It amused me anyways...

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i know you want the sin but not the sinner...

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[sabra_girl]

Best one I heard on Market Street about a year back was

"...and I was like, no way! You're a big gay French guy..."

Another good one outside the library was

"I know it sucks but if you were in an open relationship then it's not technically cheating, is it?"

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"There are not very many desires in life which we can actually meet. For instance, 'I want to meet the love of my life'. Probably not today! But 'I want a cup of coffee.' That I can do!" Chris Thile (Nickel Creek)

I assassin down the avenue.

[munchingfoo]

"Who the fuck would want to put a hamster up their arse, that'd just be weird. I could understand if it was a scorpion or something..." Computer Science Lab

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[novium]

"my ex-husband is gay. We knew it from fairly early on, but tried experimenting for a while. Unfortunately, his taste in men just isn't mine..." -in a cafe

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"In anger nothing right or judicious can be done."

[Cain]

40 year old gran to toddler

So... I heard you called your mum a bitch

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I hold an element of surprise

[thePontificator]

Overheard on a train, some woman talking into her mobile:

'Oh yeah, it just slipped right in.'

Fortunately it turned out she was a lesbian, so it wasn't funny.

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'I bet you a florin that the chap will turn out guilty.'
'I bet you a dubloon that you win that bet.'

[Malcolm]

In a car park in Edinburgh, 3 year old kid runs up and down car roof and bonnet. Mother says "I've told you about that before!" - as if it's a regular occurrence.

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"I must have some booze. I demand to have some booze."

[Nymphomanic]

London, liverpool street station about five years ago. Still remember it. Man talking on phone

'I said Liverpool STREET you idiot'

Class

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I read most of the night and go south in winter - wasteland

[Eliot Wilson]

In Dundee, a couple of years ago, stressed mother to misbehaving toddler: "If you don;t behave you won't get a pasty, you'll just get a nasty sangwitch."

Wrong on so many levels.

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Bill and Ted beat the Grim Reaper at Twister

Bill: "You played very well, Death, especially with your totally heavy Death robes."

Death: "Don't patronise me."

[Dickie]

Yank 1. Isn't the castle (edinburgh) lovely?

Yank 2. Yes, but why did they build it so close to the railroad?

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[Alex Jennings]

A bunch of American teenagers in a queue for an amusement park:

"So he brought back Absinthe."

"Really? What's that?"

"Alcohol. It's like illegal here."

"Why?"

"It's really alcoholic. I mean, like vodka and it's like made of worms."

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"Look, I told you when we met that I was not a leprechaun, that I was from Rhode Island, and that I was half Korean, but you said it didn't matter."

[pea]

Quoting liliputian from 17:16, 11th Apr 2006
As McIntosh is in rather close proximaty to Hope Street, Chattanites living on the front side of the building with their windows open can often overhear the conversations between loaud yahs and even louder American wannabe yahs:

Yah 1: ...and they wouldn't let me!
Yah 2: Oh my god - did they not know who you are?!

It amused me anyways...

Also heard on Hope Street by one of our very own Yah's.

"Cheese is made of milk?"

Edit: I realise this isn't quite taken out of context, but it's still very funny.

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I'm a little pea... I love the sky and the trees.

[flarewearer]

Quoting Dickie from 23:04, 11th Apr 2006
Yank 1. Isn't the castle (edinburgh) lovely?

Yank 2. Yes, but why did they build it so close to the railroad?

Also goes with;

[pointing to Fife] "Gee, you can see Sweden from here"

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[Lodestone]

www.overheardintheuk.com

[Guest]

A mother having a contraception talk to her son:

"Then there's the coil. That sends out electrical impulses that kill the sperm."

And she wonders how she got pregnant...

[Cain]

Quoting from 02:04, 12th Apr 2006
"Then there's the coil. That sends out electrical impulses that kill the sperm."

a tesla coil?

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I hold an element of surprise

[munchingfoo]

Quoting Cain from 10:13, 12th Apr 2006

Quoting from 02:04, 12th Apr 2006
"Then there's the coil. That sends out electrical impulses that kill the sperm."

a tesla coil?

Testicoil

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[Power Metal Dom]

Whilst on a train to Manchester's Gay Village sitting near some drag queens...


Skinny Drag Queen:Mandy you're squashing me dick!
Big Butch Drag Queen: Ohhhhh you dizzy queen!

[Tigger]

I could fill a couple of hundred threads on this with comments by my very own academic daughters, alex, karleen and kellie. you have to be there, but here is a few examples.
Kellie: "Oh, you like emo? Well I couldn't tell with your glasses and sweeping fringe.." - Kellie slagging off emo's while wearing her emo glasses and having a sweeping fringe herself.
another time, to kellie.
Alex: what castle are you named after??
Kellie: umm... Kellie Castle?!!
A classic....
Karleen: Fuck off..... thats a you ahd to be there moment...


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My Wings Are Like A Shield of Steel...
(Claire Raynor)

[exnihilo]

"What's so sudden about it?"

Old woman on Byres Rd, Glasgow, reading "Sudan Appeal" sign in the window of OXfam.