I heard two people arguing about whether or not someone farted.

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    I was in Spain, waiting outside a tournament venue for Magic: The Gathering. Two guys were talking, presumably in Spanish. I knew no spanish, but I could tell the one guy was really excited, almost choking back a laugh while speaking quickly and loudly before he held out his hand vertically, swung it left and right like a table tennis paddle while loudly exclaiming “RAGARAGARAGARAGA”.

    The other guy was listening closely with a completely unfazed expression.

    Their conversation continued.

    At that point, I started to wonder: what were they talking about? What kind of conversation could lead to that motion and that complimentary sound to be adequate? Why was the other guy seemingly so unamused when the first guy was so excited?

    This happened probably around 10 years ago, and it bothers me to this day. I will never know for sure, of course, but I have yet to think of a single topic which could reasonably prompt that interaction.

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    10 hours ago

    “Look man, all I’m saying is that if it wasn’t for that song most people wouldn’t even know how to spell bananas”.

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    16 hours ago

    Not one I overheard but one were I was overheard. In Paris at a restaurant where my girlfriend and I (anglophones) commented on the couples baby beside us. She said it was such a cute baby. I countered the most babies are cute so it should go without saying. You really only have to comment when they are butt ugly like in Seinfeld. It was a fun discussion which made us both laugh. Mid meal the couple got up and said in English that they enjoyed it too.

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    I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn’t understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I’m in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I’ve heard several loud arguments over whether a thing is cheaper here than at home etc it’s so weird. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you’re traveling at all then.

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    13 hours ago

    I had an argument with my partner that they got to sit in bed on their phone for 10 minutes while I had to get up and care for the newborn. They were paying bills. I was still jealous. The argument ended with us both agreeing we were tired and would send the kid to daycare and nap.

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    16 hours ago

    Not an argument but I once heard my neighbor casually (but loudly) discuss with someone how she could only orgasm anally

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      13 hours ago

      A hot dog is 100% a taco. The real debate is whether or not a hot dog/taco is a sandwich.

      To answer this, you first need to solve two other questions: First, what would you consider to be bread? Second, whether a sandwich requires two separate pieces of bread. Is a wrap a sandwich? Most would consider a tortilla to at least be a form of bread, but it’s only one piece. A gyro, made with flatbread? What if it’s one solid piece of bread that is totally sealed, like a hot pocket, calzone, or Asian dumpling? Is dumpling considered “bready” enough to count? Or do we not count it because it’s not leavened?

      And that brings us back to the taco argument. Do we consider a taco a sandwich? If we consider a wrap a sandwich, I would argue yes. Because the only functional difference between a taco and a wrap is how big the tortilla is. And if a taco is a sandwich, then a hot dog would also be considered a sandwich.

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      14 hours ago

      There are some questions that make you think. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Does a toilet paper roll have 1 or 2 holes? Is a cereal bowl with milk a soup?

      Then there are some questions that kill your brain. Is a hot dog a taco? Wtf?

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    16 hours ago

    If specific people existed when they where right in front of them existing. Those people are LGBT people and it’s happening to much.

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      There is no argument to be had.

      Folding. It’s the most economic, efficient and way more scalable with thinner sheets of toilet paper as well. People who crumple are on the same level as kids from kindergarten.

      So wtf is rolling? You roll it around your entire hand and wipe? That has to be the worst way to do it unless you had explosive diarrhea.

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        You roll it around your hand for shape, then remove it. It’s essentially the same as folding, unless you leave it on your hand, in which case you’re wasting half of it.

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    16 hours ago

    Whether the Newport Jazz Festival was in Europe, because she knew it was in Europe, because that’s the only time she’d been to Europe.

    Difficulty rating: we were within 100 miles of Newport, Rhode Island, at the time. 2 hours in a car.

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    15 hours ago

    Overheard on a game chat recently. Two guys arguing whether 100 guys could take on a silverback gorilla. One of them insisted that silverbacks have impenetrable skin lol.

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      15 hours ago

      armed?

      human’s technology is our evolutionary advantage. a single human- even a weak one- could kill a gorilla if it had an appropriate rifle or shotgun.

      unarmed? dude might have a point… I’m not sure a hundred people could fight a gorilla at the same time.

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        14 hours ago

        They have way more strength muscle and much less endurance muscle. 1v1 x50 followed by 5v1 might work

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          14 hours ago

          Are we talking human-shaped automatons or actual humans? Cause if you tell me I’m up first to 1v1 that gorilla unarmed, I’m noping the fuck out of there.

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            13 hours ago

            also, I’m not sure we could muster enough strength to actually harm it without some sort of tool.

            I figure after it rips the first guy to shredds, everybody else decides it’s a stupid idea and the gorilla wins by default.

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    15 hours ago

    “Grandpa, Israel isn’t a state, it’s a country!”

    This was a woman in her 20s, if I had to guess