There's a store called Squat & Gobble?? Ew.
― Trayce, Monday, 10 March 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Squat & Gobble has some fine brunchy-type stuff, such as salads, tofu scramble, pancakes, and hefeweisen. European tourists, at least, seem to adore it.
― libcrypt, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"if he lectures me again i'm gonna stick a grenade launcher up his ass." --a couple of hollywood guys on the train who produce shows for nbc
― get bent, Friday, 11 April 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Well, it's raining! It was sunny this morning, we're not going to get a summer this year are we. Look at it raining, if anyone still doesn't believe in global warming now they need shooting"
SHUT UP OH JUST SHUT UP
― Ste, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"I've got the video of my hip surgery, and it's pretty cool..."
Is this commonplace now?
― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Jersey Lawyer 1: "I went to New York this weekend." Jersey Lawyer 2: "Ah, yeah?" JL 1: "Yeah, New York is great. I love the atmosphere. You can go to a restaurant, walk around, see a musical." JL 2: "Did you ever go to John's Pizza?" JL 1: "Nah" JL 2: "Oh, you gotta go." JL 1: "Why?" JL 2: "It's great. You can take the whole family. It's a great place."
― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
This conversation took place about 15 minutes from the George Washington Bridge.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"Yo that's a subpoena, yo" "What?" "Let me see that...yeah, that's a subpoena." <peruses said subpoena, hands it back to the other guy> "They ain't got nothin' on you."
this morning on BART
― Sparkle Motion, Friday, 11 April 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Woman just sitting at the table next to me with her fiance or husband just bitched for about 10 minutes about exactly what was wrong with her engagement or wedding ring and how she was planning to change it. She's "Thinking of going gold instead of platinum" and she wants the stones "recessed, because there's this design that everyone has" and she wants "something different." Then it was that the ring "has a smell" because "sweetie, the problem is it's not micro kava [?], it's just kava [?] so the mildew gets in."
All I could tell was that her ring looked expensive as all fuck. These are the kinds of things one overhears in Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
the slash that should not be
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Well this was in DUMBO, fwiw, but I've been hearing conversations like this ever since I moved to brooklyn heights.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
oooh my turn!
2 ladies in the cafe at whole foods columbus circle discussing the merits of working or staying home:
"but if i have to work, i have to get a nanny. nannies are SO expensive - like $15 an hour!!"
i hate you people and your willingness to underpay the people taking care of what is supposedly the most important thing in your life.
― tehresa, Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish I could post the TONE of the ring woman's voice and the way she was talking to her poor fiancee. I seriously wanted to walk over and spit my coffee in her face.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess rich people be self-entitled because they rich and self-entitled people be rich because they self-entitled.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
self help book in the making
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Saturday, 13 September 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
coworker one: anthrax goes in the buttcoworker two: yeah and it's all thick and gookycoworker one: yup
― El Tomboto, Monday, 22 December 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
a woman sitting behind me at a cafe:"these are veneers (sound of a tooth being tapped with a fingernail). when i got them i'd had these whitened so now the veneers are always whiter than the others. it makes them stand out, it makes them look bigger. see? they look heaps bigger than the others."
― estela, Monday, 22 December 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"you remind me of marianne faithful. you DO know who marianne faithful is, don't you?"
"yes of course, i love her voice."
"did you know she did it with mick jagger on the top of a mountain? did you know that?"
― the gush of yesterday (omar little), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
two dudes walking down the hallway at work. 1, to the other, very serious:
"I think wikipedia is wrong sometimes."
― goole, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Woman talking on her mobile about her friend to another friend:
"There's fat, and then there's just greedy"
Oh, and another favourite was a lady talking about how she'd smashed someone's head in, and then she suddenly switched to talking about the Olympics, and described the British swimming lady as "the honky with the big nose, she done well"
― jel --, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
At farmer's market:
Arugula seller: 'Have you ever burnt a Christmas tree'Customer: 'No' 'Really? REAlly?''No...''It can be a very emotional experience'.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
In Rothko Room at Phillips Collection gallery, woman to her friend after long worried pause gazing at Rothkos from bench (suddenly decisive): 'It's like a tie-die effect'.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 2 April 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Errr, tie-dye
Two london geezers by the door of my local, 'avin a fag. As I'm walking past they both suddenly embrace and one says
"I love you more than you'll ever know, Dave. You know that don't you."
― turnover is validating, profit is salivating (ledge), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
bromance
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
tiny girl in exquisite clothes (sweetly): mama?immaculate beautiful mother (in breathy cultured voice) : yes bea?bee (in broad queensland accent): i just done a burp
― estela, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
:D
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahahah thats fecking fantastic! Well done that girl.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Walking by the shore in New Zealand I see a middle-aged white haired man on a cell phone shouting in a thick Texas drawl, "I will NEVER! I will NEVER! I will NEVER do another deal with RANDY!"
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 06:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Crazy blind Jamaican lady on the bus, standing up front yelling at us, preaching her wisdom: "Why do you t'ink you never see a Chinese drug addict? Or Chinese prostitute?"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 09:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Well we know why SHE doesnt oh yes I went there.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"You're awfully demanding for a Stone Age person."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
teh Viceroy just got a 'QC SUPPLY' catalog & is musing over it out loud
"Huh, this thing holds up to 30 mice.""Anticoagulants, nice!""There's anticoagulant resistant rodents? Gross.""Cow de-licer. Awesome.""Wow! A little cow cleaner stall. 'Cow goes in the stall, jets turn on.Cow becomes clean.'"
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah!
― bro down syndrome (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
My upstairs the other day on the phone to a ladyfriend while in the back stairwell:
I can't believe we slept together the first night I mean . . . you must have a lot of confidence. Did you take me home thinking we were going to have sex or did it just happen?
I made my exit at that point. There are just some things I don't need to know about Luciano.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
is it designed kinda like a car wash?
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol uh I thought you meant my neighbor's ladyfriend for a second there. I was very confused.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
But is your neighbor's ladyfriend designed kinda like a car wash?
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know. Maybe if I'd stuck around and continued eavesdropping I would know more.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
disgusting.
― ian, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link
!!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1701/carwashz.jpg
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Well you know maybe it DOES take confidence to sleep with a carwash!
― bro down syndrome (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Would like this said to me in bed.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Young Brooklyn woman to young Brooklyn woman, in caustic tone: "That's exactly what I fucking told him out of my mouth"
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 May 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Scored an Overhead in DC on DCist a couple of weeks ago:
A twenty-something couple is sitting on a block by the FDR memorial, among the cherry blossoms.
Man: "I find ways to work smarter, not harder, and then I work harder as well."Woman, placing hand on his knee and looking adoringly into his eyes: (sigh) "Efficiency..."
― ljubljana, Friday, 6 May 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha, love that
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 May 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Just now on the bus from some woman sitting behind me, "I'm ok with the blood part but I just can't stomach the stool."
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 14 October 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
"...and that's why I'm dropping out of nursing school."
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Close!! That's why she stopped being a medical assistant. It got better too. She told an almost poetic story about giving a homeless man with maggot infested ass sores a flu shot. Most of this stuff doesn't bother me but even I was a little O_O. I also learned that she had to drop out of school and get her "Good Enough Diploma" after getting "knocked up", that her mother and sister are both bi-polar but self-medicate and that her 14 year old black lab's name is Spike. This was all in less than 10 mins. Tbh she was pretty interesting and I might kiw given the chance.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Friday, 14 October 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link