Dumb things you've heard people say

March 20, 2021, 08:35 AM

Flash-LB

quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:There's a reason God put those people on an island.

But you are on an island, too, it's just rather bigger.

And did you actually READ what I wrote?

Absolutely. I was injecting a little humor into the discussion and I guess it went over your head.

March 20, 2021, 10:15 AM

pbslinger

quote:
Originally posted by GWbiker:
"You have to pass the bill before you can read it" - Nancy Pelosi.

Here is the quote, and a fact check:

Claim
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said of the Affordable Care Act, in 2010: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
Rating
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What's True
Nancy Pelosi did utter the words attributed to her about the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

What's False
The infamous soundbite doesn't reflect the full context and meaning of her remarks.

March 20, 2021, 10:36 AM

Hobbs

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize" ~ Hank Johnson

March 20, 2021, 12:07 PM

whanson_wi

Maybe not be quantity, but by quality of the dumb thing said... politicians are going to rule this thread.

March 20, 2021, 06:05 PM

64dodge

"You didn't build that."

March 20, 2021, 06:19 PM

two-two-niner-romeo

"Cut it three times and it's still too short."

"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!" - GhostBusters II

"You have all the tools you need. Don't blame them. Use them." - Dan Worrall

March 20, 2021, 06:20 PM

jljones

“Well, in a gunfight....”

March 21, 2021, 01:07 PM

LS1 GTO

Oh dear Lord, forgot all about this;
A couple years ago my wife and I were replacing baseboard in the house. While at Home Depot getting b the paint, a fine specimen of college male worker bee is about 6' away and my wife asks him, "excuse me, where's your caulk?"

Don't know who turned redder, the kid when he heard the question or my wife, when she realized what she said.

My wife refused to go back into that store for a few months afterwards.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers

The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...

March 21, 2021, 02:49 PM

tacfoley

quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flash-LB:There's a reason God put those people on an island.

But you are on an island, too, it's just rather bigger.

And did you actually READ what I wrote?

'Absolutely. I was injecting a little humor into the discussion.'

Fail.

'and I guess it went over your head.'

Fail.

March 21, 2021, 02:50 PM

Flash-LB

quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flash-LB:There's a reason God put those people on an island.

But you are on an island, too, it's just rather bigger.

And did you actually READ what I wrote?

'Absolutely. I was injecting a little humor into the discussion.'

Fail.

'and I guess it went over your head.'

Fail.

Succeed, you mean. It's still over your head.

March 21, 2021, 02:58 PM

LS1 GTO

quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flash-LB:There's a reason God put those people on an island.

But you are on an island, too, it's just rather bigger.

And did you actually READ what I wrote?

'Absolutely. I was injecting a little humor into the discussion.'

Fail.

'and I guess it went over your head.'

Fail.

Succeed, you mean. It's still over your head.

Maybe become civil engineers, build a bridge, and get over it?

March 21, 2021, 03:32 PM

LouieH

Several times, upon hearing that I have a twin sister,"Are you identical?"

March 21, 2021, 03:49 PM

Tinyman

If you don't like my face, fuck it.

No, didn't come from me -- just overheard.

March 21, 2021, 08:25 PM

TRIO

While traveling on a hiway, we are passing a farm that had a cylinder shaped wire mesh silo.
My friend asked, "Why are they storing all of those bananas?". I tried my best not to laugh, but told them that the yellow items that you see are corn cobs drying and being made into cattle feed.

March 21, 2021, 08:34 PM

TRIO

Here is one from me being a smart alec...

One time, I was at the dentist, where he said, "looks like a cavity forming here, do you want me to take care of it now?". I declined. Six months later, he checks everything again saying, "All looks good!". I'm wondering where my cavity went. With that in mind, he was saying that one side of my mouth was not as clean as the other. So I replied, "I brush from left to right, must run out of Flouride towards the end. I should change directions occasionally!".
He just gave me a weird blank stare.

BTW, that was over 20 years ago and I still don't have any cavities.

March 22, 2021, 06:45 AM

pbslinger

quote:
Originally posted by TRIO:
Here is one from me being a smart alec...

One time, I was at the dentist, where he said, "looks like a cavity forming here, do you want me to take care of it now?". I declined. Six months later, he checks everything again saying, "All looks good!". I'm wondering where my cavity went. With that in mind, he was saying that one side of my mouth was not as clean as the other. So I replied, "I brush from left to right, must run out of Flouride towards the end. I should change directions occasionally!".
He just gave me a weird blank stare.

BTW, that was over 20 years ago and I still don't have any cavities.

That reminds me of when I got checked out at midwest university medical center and they wanted a follow up on apparent blood in urine. I told them I didn't take a urine test. They had me come in for one, and negative on blood in urine.

March 22, 2021, 08:31 AM

tacfoley

quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by tacfoley:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flash-LB:There's a reason God put those people on an island.

But you are on an island, too, it's just rather bigger.

And did you actually READ what I wrote?

'Absolutely. I was injecting a little humor into the discussion.'

Fail.

'and I guess it went over your head.'

Fail.

Succeed, you mean. It's still over your head.

On this forum I do my utmost best to be pleasant, no matter what shit you guys throw at me from time to time.

However, living in UK from necessity, and getting some jerkwad from Gilbert Arizona [WTF?] taking the piss out of me because he just feels like it's funny, gets thin mighty fast.

End it.

March 22, 2021, 08:46 AM

jljones

Fellas, we don’t want any problems in any language.

March 22, 2021, 08:54 AM

MikeinNC

quote:
Originally posted by jljones:
Fellas, we don’t want any problems in any language.

Great reference

“You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020

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March 22, 2021, 09:40 AM

Scoutmaster

New United Motors was a car manufacturing facility in Fremont CA, jointly owned by GM and Toyota. The plant was far too expensive to operate compared to other manufacturing locations.

They tried to get United Auto Worker concessions to help cut costs, in hopes to keep things operating, the UAW wouldn't budge, the plant was shutting down, all workers laid off.

A local news station interviewed an auto worker (now unemployed), driving out of the parking lot for the last time, "we showed them who's boss".

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"
- Judge Learned Hand, May 1944