The most obnoxious conversation you've overheard?

hollster2

About 3 years ago my nanny got on winning streak after sending in her tickets for years god love her shes 85 so when we were recording it in rte she was the oldest on it before we went in i overheard in the toilet family of an other contestant saying i hope that old dublin woman doesnt win loads i dont know why they said this but i was delighted for all of the people on disgusting how some people think! Well she got 31,000 in the end we were delighted for her

Ush1

keeponhurling wrote: »

I remember the day after Obama got voted in the first time, I was on a train and overheard a black woman (not American) on the train, she was on her mobile phone talking to somebody

"Great news Obama won, great to have a president of america who is black.
This'll stick it to the whites. Make no mistake, the whites won't like this, they'll try to kill him, that's their way. They'll come looking for revenge so he'll have to be careful.
This'll put the whites in their place...we need to support all the blacks."

and she went on like that for a good while, before calling some other friends and repeating the same general conversation.
Couldn't believe some people were so fixated with skin colour.
Quite disturbing actually. Does she not even know that Obama is one half white?

Reminds me of that skit with Chris Rock going around New York asking black kids if they wanted to be like Tiger Woods and they were all excited and saying yeah, and trying golf.

He then asked some Asians an they were like, Tiger Woods? He's just some black guy. :pac:

Heroditas

hollster2 wrote: »

About 3 years ago my nanny got on winning streak after sending in her tickets for years god love her shes 85 so when we were recording it in rte she was the oldest on it before we went in i overheard in the toilet family of an other contestant saying i hope that old dublin woman doesnt win loads i dont know why they said this but i was delighted for all of the people on disgusting how some people think! Well she got 31,000 in the end we were delighted for her

Was Geri Maye presenting? She's usually a good bet to say something obnoxious.

MurdyWurdy

UCDVet wrote: »

Yeah - but were the girls cute?

Not sure what you're in to but 14 year old girls aren't really my thing.

hollster2

Heroditas wrote: »

Was Geri Maye presenting? She's usually a good bet to say something obnoxious.

No was laura wood big money game it was sorry lol was horrible cruel bitches they were

UCDVet

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

Not sure what you're in to but 14 year old girls aren't really my thing.

I'm 14.

MurdyWurdy

UCDVet wrote: »

I'm 14.

Well then, work away

Daveysil15

Not so much obnoxious, but I once overheard a Polish colleague on the phone trying to buy car insurance off a Pakistani salesman. It was very funny as neither of them could understand what the other one was saying. A real clash of accents. The Polish guy ended up getting angry and started swearing on the phone. This was in the canteen. I don't think he realised he had it on loud speaker.

youtube!

UCDVet wrote: »

I'm 14.

Your'e not 14 but you are some class of a pervert. Like cute 14 yr old girls do you?

Rasheed

hollster2 wrote: »

About 3 years ago my nanny got on winning streak after sending in her tickets for years god love her shes 85 so when we were recording it in rte she was the oldest on it before we went in i overheard in the toilet family of an other contestant saying i hope that old dublin woman doesnt win loads i dont know why they said this but i was delighted for all of the people on disgusting how some people think! Well she got 31,000 in the end we were delighted for her

It's probably because some people stereotype older people as having plenty of money anyway and therefore wouldn't need the prize winnings as much as a younger person.

Anyway feck them, fair play to your granny!

MurdyWurdy

youtube! wrote: »

Your'e not 14 but you are some class of a pervert. Like cute 14 yr old girls do you?

All vets from UCD are 14, didn't you know?!

Galwayguy35

OldNotWIse wrote: »

On the luas one day, some ar*ewipe boasting to the girl beside him that the neighbours cat kept coming into the garden or something and he kicked it so hard he broke it's leg. I nearly got sick in my mouth hearing it, and just thought, why have people like you not been bred out yet? Horrible, scaldy string bean skanger of a yoke with a can of cider and the intelligence of a pea.

What an absolute piece of shít, hopefully he gets his leg broken someday.

blade1

A guy in the pub one day was telling people he was in the Irish Rangers.
He was also blowing sh*t about how much he could drink.
I know lots of people say they can drink a lot but this was the first time I ever saw someone projectile vomit.
It travelled a distance of about 7 or 8 feet and it looked like it was being blown out of a Wavin pipe.
Would have felt sorry for him if he didn't tell everyone he would drink them under the table!

Turfcutter

How so Joe wrote: »

That's true, but even london's tube has bits which are overground - the Piccadilly and central lines, in part, are definitely overground.

Most of London's tube network is overground.

IrishExpat

harney wrote: »

No idea about Germany, but in Madrid you get phone reception on the metro underground.

You do? Two years of nearly 15+ hours a week travelling on it (English classes) says otherwise. Maybe you mean the light rail?

sadie06

Probably not the most obnoxious, but one that springs to mind is a neighbour's boastful, and ultimately untruthful ramblings when we first moved to where we live.

He introduced himself to me, and made sure I knew that he 'didn't really live here'. Oh no, he had 'property all over Dublin in prime locations', he claimed, and as soon as the lease was up in the nicest one, they'd be turfing the renters out and moving in.

He finished off with a 'nice to meet you, but we won't be neighbours for long'.

Fast forward 5 and a half years, and they are still here. I've since heard he is a regular Walter Mitty!

Paramite Pie

I was queuing for an atm a few weeks ago and there were two atms, one at the normal height and the another lower down.

So one lad was complaining about how stupid & inconvenient it was to place the atm so low down (he sounded genuinely vexed about it) and going on about how people weren't even that short.

In the queue in front of me (and just two people behind him) there was a woman in a wheel chair. I don't think he ever noticed.

**My other story is actually something that happened to my friend. He was on a bus (in Dublin I think) and he and his friend were speaking Irish to each other (they grew up in a gaeltacht). So they were chatting away while the lad in front of them turned to the guy beside him saying "You think those foreigners would learn English"...:rolleyes:

He said it happens all the time! Obvious racism aside, it wasn't a foreign language! I can't string together a sentence in Irish myself but I know it when I hear it.

For Forks Sake

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

What an absolute piece of shít, hopefully he gets his leg broken someday.

By a vengeful cat.

the purple tin

last week was sitting near two fancy 'ladies who lunch' types. One kept on calling her car 'the merc' throughout the conversation. 'Decided to leave the merc at home and get a bit of exercise instead'.

AngeGal

MrsD007 wrote: »

The most obnoxious conversation you've overheard?


Former FF TD for Mayo, Pee Flynn talking to Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show back in 1999.


"I want to tell you about it, I earn approximately €140,000 a year with expenses, I pay 30.3% tax on that so
I want to tell you something, try it sometime, when you have a couple of cars and three houses and a few housekeepers and I want to tell you ..... it aint easy, you should try it sometime".

He really was shameless!

http://youtu.be/9ORNfD8e_sk

EmmyOk

I work part-time in a medium size Centra, so the odd time I hear something quite obnoxious from a customer. The most recent one I can remember is;

Woman: How often do you get fresh bread in?
Me: Every day.
Woman: That's just not good enough.
Me:Right, ok then.

She looked like she wanted a row but I just smiled and was as pleasant as possible.

cuana

I recently had someone state in conversation to me "I couldn't date a commoner"

I said in reply! Well its far from "posh I was reared! I'm as common as they come do you want to continue this conversation" in my mind I couldn't help but think you fcuken eejit, you ignorant fcuk! (reared in a ehhhh without sounding like a total eejit North Dublin, had a child at 15, lived on benefits, continued to break up a marriage blah blah blah)

WoollyRedHat

EmmyOk wrote: »

I work part-time in a medium size Centra, so the odd time I hear something quite obnoxious from a customer. The most recent one I can remember is;

Woman: How often do you get fresh bread in?
Me: Every day?
Woman: That's just not good enough.
Me:Right, ok then.

She looked like she wanted a row but I just smiled and was as pleasant as possible.

Should of smacked her in the head with a roll.

kuntboy

rabble, rabble, rabble...

Legs.Eleven

IrishExpat wrote: »

You do? Two years of nearly 15+ hours a week travelling on it (English classes) says otherwise. Maybe you mean the light rail?

Yep. There's reception on the Metro now. Not all lines but many lines. I often text and get phone calls on it.

wolfpawnat

My MIL on the phone to a friend after her niece gave birth to twins "I don't know why they are so pleased, they're not real babies, they were from IVF" Not that the multiple birth thing was normal, but because of how they were conceived, the children themselves are not normal, like they are robots or something!

She has some humdingers all right, I will have to think of more through the day.

wolfpawnat

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Should of smacked her in the head with a roll.

Would have been fairly fresh, too soft then!

krudler

wolfpawnat wrote: »

My MIL on the phone to a friend after her niece gave birth to twins "I don't know why they are so pleased, they're not real babies, they were from IVF" Not that the multiple birth thing was normal, but because of how they were conceived, the children themselves are not normal, like they are robots or something!

She has some humdingers all right, I will have to think of more through the day.

What are they, imaginary babies?

sadie06

wolfpawnat wrote: »

My MIL on the phone to a friend after her niece gave birth to twins "I don't know why they are so pleased, they're not real babies, they were from IVF" Not that the multiple birth thing was normal, but because of how they were conceived, the children themselves are not normal, like they are robots or something!

She has some humdingers all right, I will have to think of more through the day.

That has to be the winner!:eek:

harney

IrishExpat wrote: »

You do? Two years of nearly 15+ hours a week travelling on it (English classes) says otherwise. Maybe you mean the light rail?

Line 2, underground in the tunnels on the way to visit my girlfriends family and had I phone and internet access. Apparently it doesn't work in all areas, but I assume that it will be extended where possible.

This is the closest I can find to a link on it without expending effort. It seems to imply it was only in the stations, but it was working in the tunnels too.

http://www.turismomadrid.es/en/keep-in-touch

The Community of Madrid has mobile coverage in the whole region, even, you can use your cell phone in the underground. Metro de Madrid has 125 stations, in which you can talk and send messages.