Whether you’re eavesdropping on the bus, happen to over-hear a conversation by accident or are simply standing too close to someone while in the queue, we all over-hear things we probably shouldn’t. Below are some of these; all over-heard out and about in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, Scotland.
You are a dangleberry on societies asshole.
‘Have a nice day now!’ – God, how patronising is that? I don’t even like stereotypes but Americans are wankers.
David Cameron? Don’t make me laugh.
You know whats gay, when your trying to find something and you realise you already have it.
T in the park is for pussies.
We really need to get a new hoover, that piece of crap just has no sucking action.
It’s amazing how quickly you can go off people.
Yeah whatever we’re not on Oprah now so you can stop clicking your fingers at me.
You know what you should do if that happens don’t you. You should kick him in his mangina.
Elton John is a self-righteous prick.
You know that guy Martin, he’s only fifteen and he caught his best friend in the shower with his mum. It’s not that even that it’s that bad, it’s just the principal of it being his best friend you know?.
You’ll have forgotten what trousers feel like by the time you get back home.
March 7, 2007 at 3:23 pm
hey, i found you again! brilliant.
i love ‘overheards’. reminds me both how funny and awful us humans are.
i love eavesdropping on ridiculous existential bullshit – you know, those late-night weed-fuelled conversations that people; the ones where they think they’re the first and only people on the planet to question “like, what’s outside of the universe, man?” or “what if this is all imaginary and we’re not even real, dude?”
March 7, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I, too, love overheards. The NYC one is the best, I think, and apparently the Boston one didn’t last long because it was “too educated and PC” to be funny. Which I find rather appropriate in some ways, and in others wonder where the hell they were because I’ve heard some crazy things in Boston, especially around Red Sox time.
Eavesdropping is brilliant though, especially once you pull the lines out of context!
March 7, 2007 at 5:33 pm
NYC hates Boston; she says there’s some kind of rivalry between the two cities, but I never know whether she’s just jesting.
I changed your Celtic origin, Em; I get confused because I always think of you when I hear about Edinburgh. I really want to come to the fringe this summer.