# Very stupid overheard conversations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858 "2020-11-30T21:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/241 "2021-01-29T16:57:50Z")
There is also an older, decent comedy sketch about gringos eating Mexican food by George Lopez. “Whoa. Ohhhh. Ah. For the love of Pete, I think there’s some onion in there!”. Talking about How pepper spray doesn’t work in Mexico. “This is delicious!”. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/242 "2021-01-29T18:33:01Z")
People putting ketchup on tacos to me is the same as people putting ketchup on steaks, it’s a thing people claim as a joke. It’s happened a couple of times in history but I don’t think it justifies Taco Bell having them. Rather Taco Bell use to sell “Mexican Potatoes” (Basically diced potatoes) and I imagine people put ketchup on them. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/243 "2021-01-29T20:48:41Z")
> [@icon](#): > > From just the quote itself, If a person is uninformed politically, but remembers Obama as a good/bad president, finding out which party he belonged to could be how they decide who to voter for. So I don’t think this as particularly stupid it just shows a lack of interest in politics. Although, if someone is so politically unaware that they don’t know whether Obama was/is a Republican or a Democrat, I’m not sure I’d trust them to know whether he was a good or a bad president. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/244 "2021-01-29T20:55:52Z")
Taco Bell serves fries. People, especially children, love ketchup. Although a “catch-all of garbage” (E. Zotti), it is almost a perfect food in terms of sweetness, mouthfeel and other food chemistry considerations. I would not put it on steak or tacos myself. But am not surprised people do - probably dozens a day. Salsa is much healthier as it lacks added sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/245 "2021-01-30T09:07:09Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I would not put it on steak or tacos myself. But am not surprised people do - probably dozens a day My kid does. Heard by the person I was talking to when I visited NYC: Where’s Times Square? Reply “This is it” WTF? Where’s the square? In Melbourne, we’d call that “Times Junction” ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/246 "2021-01-31T00:10:21Z")
When I lived in London it wasn’t uncommon to be accosted by an American tourist demanding to know where the circus was. You know, performing animals and clowns. I would explain that circus was jut an old fashioned name for a roundabout. I also, pedantically, pointed out that the statue in the middle that almost everyone calls Eros is actually his brother Anteros And it’s made of aluminium (not aloominum). ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/247 "2021-01-31T05:22:56Z")
Summer time in Phoenix AZ. A woman asking someone where she could go to see the desert. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/248 "2021-01-31T08:46:44Z")
I heard a hipster say, _“Axl Rose? Who’s that fat old queen?”_ Nearly pissed myself laughing. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/249 "2021-01-31T10:19:20Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Reminds me of when me and a couple of my buddies were traveling in Brazil. A couple of gentlemen asked us something and we couldn’t understand them. So, as you would expect, my friend says “I’m sorry, we don’t speak Portuguese.” > > “I’m speakin’ bloody English to ya, mate!” they replied angrily (they were Australian). Two peoples separated by one language… ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/250 "2021-01-31T10:25:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > The plane crash is news to me. (I was born in '83.) It reminded me immediately of the time I was in Home Depot wearing a Green Day shirt from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The youthful cashier said, “I like your shirt. Who is Green Day? Are they like one of those new European bands?” > > Not that I was ever cool to begin with, but definitely one of my first “holy crap, I’m old” moments. Abe Simpson can tell you what’s in store for you: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BGrfhsxxmdE/hqdefault.jpg "It'll Happen To You! (The Simpsons)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/251 "2021-01-31T13:56:36Z")
Overheard once: “What a coincidence that our Lord was born on Christmas Day!” (putting aside the fact that Jesus wasn’t born in December) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/252 "2021-02-01T20:00:56Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > I would explain that circus was jut an old fashioned name for a roundabout. I had a similar experience when I was vacationing in London. I asked directions to the subway and wound up in a tunnel under the main drag. I found out later I should have asked for The Tube. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/253 "2021-02-01T21:44:11Z")
Two countries separated by a common language. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/254 "2021-02-02T10:17:38Z")
Two postings separated by a common message board… ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/255 "2021-02-02T10:38:01Z")
Oh! I wouldn’t describe The Straight Dope as “_common_”. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/256 "2021-02-02T16:53:23Z")
I don’t know that i consider not knowing about old stuff “stupid”, but in the mid-aughts I was an older guy attending college. I made a Gilligan’s Island reference and another student, presumably around 20 (probably born around '85) had never heard of it. I was flabbergasted. I don’t think I felt _old_ per se, I think I assumed he grew up extremely sheltered. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/257 "2021-02-02T17:39:46Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > I think I assumed he grew up extremely sheltered. He grew up on a _desert island_ no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/258 "2021-02-02T18:45:06Z")
Sitting outside a restaurant in a party district about 25 years ago, I overheard two guys talking about where to go next: “Aw, man, I can’t go to American Pie. I’m allergic to hairspray. Some of those girls, man, I swear; the bigger the hair, the smaller the hometown.” Kinda the opposite of a stupid overheard conversation, since I had to turn away so the guy wouldn’t hear me laughing. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/259 "2021-02-02T19:12:44Z")
That’s LOL-worthy. Not stupid at all. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858/260 "2021-02-03T19:11:39Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Heard a couple overlooking a scenic vista and commenting how picture-skew it was. > > presumably they meant picturesque I had an undergrad colleague who thought “fatigue” as in metal fatigue was pronounced “fat-ih-gyoo.” The problem was he wouldn’t accept my attempts to correct him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-stupid-overheard-conversations/926858.md?page=14)