The stupidest thing you can remember someone saying to you?

[Inverse Icarus]

EW! You're a communist? how could you like hitler?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by mindseye
Perhaps a sha gua ("melonhead").

More like "silly melon" Perhaps a "dumb egg?"

[MRT144]

"you can hella breath under water"
"i didnt kick brandyn, he walked his groin into my foot"

[Amadan]

Recently (at work) it's been, "Wireless Internet? So, does that require a phone line?"

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
EW! You're a communist? how could you like hitler?

I've gotten that.

Dumbest thing anyone ever said to me story.

I was down in Springfield, IL to attend a wedding of a friend. I was up late, hanging out in the lobby, drinking lousy coffee and chatting with a local: alder man, slicked hair, moustahe, glasses, looked kinda like a Prussian officer from the 19th Century.

We're talking about all soerts of stuff, being a proud poppa, he's talking about his boys in the military, and then somehow he tangents onto the subject of Black people.

"I just don't know what we're gonna do. We shoud round them all up and put them in prison or something until we civilize them. Oh, it make take a couple hundred years"

* chegitz trying to keep jaw from hitting floor and eyes from bugging out I don't really remember much after that.

In what can only be considered spectacular timing, within minutes of that declaration, my Black roommates (to be honest, one was a Dravidian Indian, but she looked Black) showed up. Kaiser Wilhelm clamed up, I said goodbye, and we went back to our hotel room, I told them the story, and after I cured my friend's natural impulse to go find the guy, we started laughing our asses off.

[raghar]

What about something like... New processors are as fast as 2000 MHz/sec.

Of course I think quotes from common journalists should get half amount of points. Or was it quote from computer magazine?

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
"I just don't know what we're gonna do. We shoud round them all up and put them in prison or something until we civilize them. Oh, it make take a couple hundred years"

i see your outrage, as the very IDEA that they could one day BECOME civilized is laughable!

kidding... kidding...

[Solver]

What about something like... New processors are as fast as 2000 MHz/sec.

Not that wrong technically. A 2000 MHz (2 GHz) processor actually means that it does 2 trillion operations a second.... stupid, though, yes.

I can recall on a gaming site very recently: the game was tested using a P4 2.4 MHz computer... wow, that's a fast one!

[Arrian]

"You're from Connecticut? What state is that in?"

"Yankees suck, the Red Sox always win!" - to be fair, this was from the son of one of the guys on my softball team, and he's about 8 yrs old. Poor, misguided soul. So much pain and misery ahead of him.

My memory sucks... I'm sure there are other really good one's I'm forgetting.

-Arrian

[raghar]

to Solver


Sure about it?

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Arrian
"You're from Connecticut? What state is that in?"

i often mixed up stuff like that as a child, but never that bad.

for example, i thought my counsins lived in the state of Chichago, i thought Boston was the state name, etc.

i still had it all straight, locatonwise and whatnot, but i just mixed them up occasionally

[Dauphin]

When at the top of the Hancock building in Chicago some woman overheard me talking and asked me "Are you British?". I said I was. Her follow up question was "Do they still have vampires in London?".

[Arrian]

Talk British to my Kids! [/Izzard]

-Arrian

[JohnT]

Originally posted by JohnT
My brother (who is slightly off-kilter) actually asked my wife, a stay-at-home mother, the following question:

"Do you work or do anything other than staying around the house?"

Reason why this is stupid and not just rude is that Laura works her a** off for Sophie, and being a stay-at-home mother is quite difficult.

[Ming]

While opening my car door WITH THE KEYS in a parking lot, a lady came up and asked if I was sure that it was my car. I said yes... as my keys opened the door, and she still went around the back to check the license plate.

She explained afterwards that she couldn't remember where she had parked her car... and that it was the same model and color... What a space angel...