What's the dumbest thing somebody's said to you lately?

I went out to a little bar with live country music the other night. It's not my type of music, but thought it might be fun for a change. I got through the inspection process just fine, but my girlfriend's ID had expired. It had her birthdate and picture, but was expired. The lady at the door let us in, but said - Don't try to get in here again without a new ID. I got a photogenic memory.

I'm still laughing!

draft a four star general. I don't THINK so!

The humorless crowd over there doesn't like when you QUESTION the validity of his non-candidacy. :-)

I've done that, but am apparently cowardly. I read there, and post here (for now at least).

nuff said.

It's not so bad to be cute while protesting! Bring more over from the dark side! :)

"I don't know the difference between a Republican or a Democrat. What's George Bush? I think I was going to vote for him last time, but I didn't end up going. Probably doesn't matter anyway."

Spoken by the woman cutting my hair, when I explained to her why I needed the Candidate Wife bob.

Sadly, this is a common statement...

:)

Just not a "good citizen," I suppose...

that his female client got a pabst smear. :eyes:

funny funny funny.

Sadly, this 21-year-old is currently the Operations Manager of the college radio station with which I'm involved.

At a recent meeting of the Operations Board (to which I belong), the Public Affairs Director inquired about the possibility of adding five extra hours a week to the P.A. block so the station could carry Pacifica Radio's acclaimed daily program, "Democracy Now." The board was quite supportive of that idea, but the O.M. just had to chime in with something to the effect of:

"It would be nice if we could follow 'Democracy Now' with something that's not so damned liberal. How about some balance in the public affairs block?"

When another board member pointed out that conservatives had plenty of talk-show choices on the commercial end of the dial, the O.M. snorted, "Don't give me that. Most of those talk shows are liberal as hell!"

I guess we were all too shocked to ask her for specific examples of shows that she considers liberal. Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity, perhaps?

What's particularly frustrating is that she defeated the other candidate for Operations Manager by only two votes! Grr....

At least this young woman is graduating next May, after which time, the station will be well rid of her.

damn - there are two countries in this country. Maybe you could pipe in the Al Franken book on tape while she's sleeping?

back before the War on Iraq, and someone yelled

"GET A JOB!"

There were lots more stupid things said too...

david

Kucinich 2004

"Join The Army! See the World!!!!!"

What? You believe in war, but don't want to join up? Huh? Isn't that a little hypocritical?

Years ago I tried to cash a check at a bank and they needed to see ID... but they refused to accept my ID because it was 2 days expired.

Worse yet is having people refuse state ID because it's not a driver's license.

we need a national ID system. Everyone can be photographed, fingerprinted, retina scanned, checked for toe fungus, and stamped "approved" - or not.


aaarrrrggggghhhh.

at that point, I said...I've got to go. Even though I said Bush was stupid, moron, murder, evil.

Gore may have problems (none in my book) but stupid ain't one of them compared to "too stupid to be president"

It was not only painful for him, but it was painful to watch. Gore is an extremely intelligent man - just wasn't too good at defending himself from unbelievable attacks. Remember, 3 years ago, no one knew how low a group of people could go to achieve and maintain power.

...but to call the man himself "stupid" shows a profound ignorance on the part of the individual who said it.

I didn't get it, so don't know the exact title. I read a review of it the other day, and it said it was 3 hours long (too long) and didn't do a good job of connecting the 3 separate stories is has going, but was worth seeing. Okay. wish me luck. If I hear some dumb dialogue, I may be back soon!

Thanks everybody for your responses. It really cheered me up after a long day at work. Take care! :)

"Why would that driver wear a turban? I mean, isn't he afraid everybody will think he's a terrorist?"

She then went on to describe his reaction to her asking him the same question while still in the cab.

There are no words...

We need a face-lift in '04

Nice lady, and not very political. I know she's a BA Christian, but not an "in your face" one, so it's okay with me. Her husband seems nice too, but I actually saw him reading (well, carrying anyway) a Bill O'Reilly book recently...

"Punjab."

As in, "hey, Punjab, how's it going? Hyatt Hotel, please."

I try not to ride in cabs with him.

Asked by a co-worker after slicing a 3" gash across the palm of my hand while installing some equipment, while a STEADY STREAM of blood was running down my arm. My reply? "Not at all, you should really try it sometime!"

Even in pain I'm a smartass :evilgrin:

I would have passed out. After giving CPR, of course. To myself.

"Hey...where are you?"

um. yeah.

and ask "Who is this?" rather rudely when I answer the phone. I'd like to say, "You ought to know, you dialed the number," but I'm polite and ask (icily)"To whom do you wish to speak?" Since I use "whom" they know it isn't anyone they know and they hang up.

"Isn't there some law against the banks just closing like that? I need some cash, and my card won't work!"

Back in 96 when I was in the Marine Corps, we were watching a movie in my room, and some new guy was there. He was pretty much fresh out of boot camp, he had lived in a very isolated part of the country his whole life, and had been isolated by his parents I think. Anyway at the beginning of the movie it says "This movie has been formatted to fit your screen," or words to that effect. It just tells you that it's not in wide-screen format. This guy seeing that says...

"How do they know what size your TV is?"

when did movies start displaying that disclaimer?

A lady I used to work with related this story to me about a guy she once dated-

They were at her place and they popped in a video that she had rented. So as they settled in for some nice quiet time he explodes in anger because he thinks that formatted to fit your screen means edited for television.
"you idiot! why did you get the censored version?!?

She stopped seeing him.

Although I hear this about 4 times a day.

Something doesn't ring up or have a price tag "guess it must be free", I want to knock the teeth out of the next dumb fucker that says that.

...while walking past the "Open Door Ministries Church" this afternoon coming from work, their sign informed me:

JESUS GIVES YOU
ALL YOU NEED
TO BE TRUELY
FULFILLED

...to which I felt I almost *had* to respond:

...EXCEPT GOOD SPELLING.

Where's a grease pencil or a big fat marker when you need one? Imagine, being able to spell "fulfilled" but not "truly"! (Side point: If I had a nickel for every time I saw some fundie organization with illiterate signs or literature, I could buy the worst offenders each a nice big Oxford English Dictionary and still have enough left over on which to retire!)

"Sex before marriage is the root of all our problems." Or variations thereof.

In 1989-90, I did some volunteer work at the Connecticut Radio Information Service, which broadcasts on a special side frequency. Its purpose is to read books, magazines and newspapers to the blind. During my involvement with that place, not one, but two, different people asked me, "How are things going at that radio station for the deaf?"


A friend of mine recently had her water heater conk out on her. During her two-day wait for the plumber to get to her, Linda had a phone conversation with another friend, Rich, who I've never met. When Linda complained that she couldn't take a shower because she had no hot water, Rich replied, "Can't you make do with warm water?"


Finally, last Fourth of July, I visited my buddy Mike at the college radio station where he hosts a weekly show. It just so happened that Mike brought an old pal of his, Lance, along to keep him company.

While a song played on the air, Mike and I got to talking. A susprised-looking Lance leaned into me and whispered, "Aren't you guys afraid of your voices going out over the music?" When I explained to Lance that the microphone had an on/off control, he got this Edith Bunker-type look on his face and exclaimed, "Oooooooh!"

the person i am now dating :crazy: said my gf was crazy because she dated the person my friend also dated :crazy: if she is, then what are you? :crazy:

she said to me "I'm not really sure why you even came here."

it wasn't funny then, but it is now. beast.

LOL

Oh really? Then don't call 911 when you're house is burning down, I'm sure you can fight the fire better than some lousy government workers.
Pave your own damn road to get to work with, you aren't welcome on our state roads anymore.
And get your kid off that swingset, that belongs to my city park. Shouldn't he be in school anyway? Nope. You're home-schooling your kid, bud, cause said you can do a better job.

There are many that we can only afford to provide as a collective. And the people that don't understand that are drinking around a campfire in Crawford right now.

"kids get the violent ideas from the video games"

including rants from my anti-immigration pro-war brother. Top of the list, unquestionably.

what do you mean? you have anti-war stickers on your car that means you aren't patriotic. ( this is from a person who doesn't like bush) hey but he is partriotic he's "for War". I thought this was one of the most stupied and ill informed things ever said to me.

The scene, arguing about the change in declassification rules for classified documents with a coworker... The coworker said thing that were classified should never ever be DEclassified. WHY? "Because they're classified!" "But why not declassify them after a set period of time so historians and the public can see them? NO, because they're classfied! What about material from, say, World War I! "No, because it's classified!" OYE!


BTW, FWIW , she also thought the flat tax a a great idea because we could get rid of the IRS (her Dad did time as a tax cheat) and she LOVED to toss the bogus fake "Churchill quote" about brains and heart (liberals after 40 have no brains).

From someone coming to a Canvention* in Fredericksburg A, landing at BWI. "Is I-95 safe? Doesn't it go through the ghettos in DC??" I almost burst out laughing. Ghettos? What? Was he planning on driving in SE DC wearing a Klan hood? What is this, 1967?? I explained that I95 was safe and that DC was safe, just don't drive in certain neighborhoods at 2 am looking like a clueless Manassas white boy lookign for drugs.



*Beer can collectors call their large trade meets cAnventions.

Most are not gonna' admit it nowdaze!

I wish !

said,"Well, be thankful, there probably WAS something wrong with the baby, and if not maybe God just thinks it would be too much for you to handle..." Hello? Where is this kind and merciful God people talk about?

.... I'm glad Bush went to war. It will make things safer for my son when he's old enough to be drafted"

I thought I'd vomit.

Why would it matter if her license was expired? Does your age start running backward if your license expires and you suddenly start getting younger? In that case we should all let our licenses expire...

Photogenic memory?

Ha.

I wonder exactly how wasted she actually was -- nice work if you can get it, I suppose.

people say "pacifically instead of specifically.

My brother's friend said to him that she literally shit bricks-
Now that I would like to see. Maybe if I can shock her enough she could build me a house.

I kept trying to open the attachment, but it wouldn't open."*


*Actual quote from co-worker last week.

Not really my story, but it still kills me. Dear friend's sister went to a "support the troops" rally in MN (which was really a pro-war rally, make no mistake). She and her friend stood on the sidewalk while the protest went by.

She was holding a sign that read "JUSTICE, NONVIOLENCE, PEACE", just standing there watching.

A woman walking by, holding a sign that said "NUKE SADAM" (sic) yelled at her, "Don't you feel like an idiot holding that sign?!?"

And the man next to her yelled (I'm not making this up either) "Go back to Russia, ya commie!!"

:)

I was parallel-parked behind a snotty woman's car, perhaps 1/2 inch of space separating my front bumper from her rear bumper. There was a red zone (fire lane, no parking) in front of her.

At no time did my bumper ever contact hers.

I asked her to clarify what the problem was and what would constitute a proper distance, but she only kept repeating "You're too close."

:shrug:

The very definition of "dumb" coming from anyone who is not a senior executive with an energy company or a war contractor.

I DESPISE SUCH INSULTING, CONDESCENDING GARBAGE. I've never said that to anyone in my LIFE. If someone is upset THEY ARE UPSET and it is COMPLETELY APALLING not to mention COWARDLY to suggest that a person "GET OVER IT".

said by my freeperish bro-in-law after I got a laugh at Easter dinner by loudly exclaiming "I am SO-O-O-O-O glad we liberated those Iraqis"