I mean on purpose. Yes. To be controversial and I was far too trusted so no one called me on my bullshit so I had to tell people that I was full of crap. Unintentionally? No … not that I know of.
I could usually get away with saying “Bacon is a vegetable” when ordering a vegetarian burrito with pinto beans; the pinto beans were made with bacon.
One of my hobbies is saying some absolute bullshit as I walk past strangers, in such a way that they overhear it and think its authentic
For example, while walking around a famously historic lake, I said to my partner, as we passed another couple, “Did you know they just dug this lake last week?”
I do this all the time, cheers brother
" if it wasn’t for my horse I wouldn’t have spent that year in college"
Lol I’m definitely using this one
It’s from a Lewis Black bit. Something about he was sitting at a mall and heard a girl behind him say that and it broke his brain for years.
Ayy we have inverse hobbies, mine is making up insane context for the tiny snippets I overhear when passing strangers in a conversation.
Haha imagine if we crossed paths
I’m curious where you’d go with one of my favorites: “my brother legally changed his name to Wayne Gretzky to help me pick up chicks”
You found out about the celebrity-only petting zoo and schemed a way to gain admittance. Wayne Gretzky was decided upon because he’s important enough to get a +1 but no one knows what he looks like without the mask.
Hahaha
Very chaotic, i love it.
I like you. I once pretended I’d never seen roman numerals in my life by reading each “letter” on some engraved stone aloud in front of my friends and some strangers, and this woman looked at me horrified :D
“Who the fuck is McDiv?”
Lmao, that’s a good one! I used to love going to Petco so I could loudly read the big sign “Wow, over one thousand-thousand animals saved!” (It said 1,000,000)
In a presentation the professor asked me a question that, thinking about it today, I answered incorrectly, but I did it with such conviction, even after the professor questioned me again, that in the end he left me alone, gave me a good grade and even some classmates asked me advice.
Moral of the story: confidence is stronger than the truth. If you see someone very confident in what they say, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are telling The Truth.
I still remember like twenty years ago undergrad probability theory a professor posed some question to the class and even though this prof was normally very thorough with being helpful and walking through answers with students, this one guy answered so wildly off-the-mark the prof paused a bit and then just said “no” and moved on.
We were doing final exam review for earlier semester material and the question was about the probability of randomly drawing some hand of cards, something like a hand of five cards with exactly three jacks. Guy answered very confidently “it’s 1 minus the null set”. I remember this because I immediately asked the kid next to me what was said and just heard the same thing repeated.
So many things wrong. A “null set” is a concept from measure theory, which was not used in this second-year-undergrad course. Since using “the” here implies there’s just one, he almost certainly meant the empty set. That’s whatever. But we’re not in a set theory class, 1 is a number, not a set, so we’re not in a context where it makes any sense to subtract sets from numbers. But if we just push all of that aside and say okay fine, represent 1 as a set however you want and subtract the empty set, taking any set A and subtracting the empty set just gives A back, meaning he’s given an extremely roundabout way of saying the probability is 1, a 100% chance of randomly drawing that specific hand of cards.
Situation where it’s would be one thing if we’re early on and he’ll discover he’s in over his head, but right before the final is such a wild time to sound fully confident in an answer that wrong.
Moral of the story: sometimes having that much confidence behind an awful understanding will give bystanders enough secondhand embarrassment that they’ll still think of you from time to time twenty years later.
Absolutely. I, too, was once a teenager.
Irrelevant, yeah, but I’ve never been wrong about anything. Purple monkey dishwasher.
same
