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What I'm looking for is strange misconceptions, odd sentence structure, occasions were people have coined an odd phrase.

Well, my mum was under the belief that Americans don't celebrate Christmas, in fact Thanksgiving was their Christmas. No idea how she was under the impression giving the amount of American Christmas specials she would have seen.
 
In my first year of my school I heard two guys shout out loud:

Person A: "Get a haircut!"
Person B: "No you get a haircut!"

Everyone in my class laughed, including the teacher.
 
Today in Italian class, I had to sit with my group (including my friend) for a presentation. I was overhearing a conversation between 3 of the group members about their friend who's going to make a fake ID to..."buy" a dog from the animal shelter.
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Oh, and I wrote buy in quotes, because I hate when people talk about getting a pet like its a product...
 
It was only about 2 weeks ago that I was talking to a girl who said she didn't know people had cars in the Middle East; she thought everyone rode camels... And she wasn't even joking.
 
According to a former co-worker, the Japanese believe that on Christmas, everyone in America eats KFC. She was visiting Japan and had to correct that train of thought... with some disastrous results. (One of the girls she corrected burst into tears when she heard the truth, no joke.)
 
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Thanks, Baf
 
"Can you buy video games with Foodstamps?"

Just... since when are video games edible?
 
When I went to Italy a few years ago one of the girls in my tour group found out I'm from Oklahoma and said "Oh my gosh so you sleep in a tepee!". She was not saying it as a joke either.....
 
there was this one wierd customer who came to check out her groceries in my line and asked me if i wanted to be an ally to help "smash the Patriarchy". WUT... People are really weird these days...
 
I heard some people say they think the Earth or the U.S is 2015 years old.
 
I knew someone who thought dandruff was caused by not rinsing your hair properly, because it was dried shampoo (not dry skin flakes)
 
Oh here is a relevant one...

"Vaccines cause Autism"

Pfizer and Monsanto really need to work on a vaccine for stupidity... and fast.

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There's this single thirty-something woman who works with my mum who says that she will only date men whose horoscopes are compatible with hers. She's a Taurus, and she said this about being bitten by a spider: "it felt worse than dating a Libra."

That is why I don't believe in horoscopes. My paternal grandparents are an Aquarius and a Taurus (said to be incompatible), and they've been happily married for 60 years. To think there's people who actually take horoscopes seriously. Anyone else here think that horoscopes are a bunch of bullcrap?
 
My mom told me yesterday that I need to get married to be happy. Yeah, I don't think so!
 
FlyingKitty said:
It was only about 2 weeks ago that I was talking to a girl who said she didn't know people had cars in the Middle East; she thought everyone rode camels... And she wasn't even joking.
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I actually did ride a camel last September, just make sure to take a shower if you do that because camels are stinky.
Anyhow, some ars (our variation of wigger/chav) said onces that winter is a Russian holiday.
 
zakisrage said:
There's this single thirty-something woman who works with my mum who says that she will only date men whose horoscopes are compatible with hers. She's a Taurus, and she said this about being bitten by a spider: "it felt worse than dating a Libra."

That is why I don't believe in horoscopes. My paternal grandparents are an Aquarius and a Taurus (said to be incompatible), and they've been happily married for 60 years. To think there's people who actually take horoscopes seriously. Anyone else here think that horoscopes are a bunch of bullcrap?
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My mum is also a horoscope fanatic, thank Arceus at least you are still sane!
 
Ooo! Horoscopes! My mom actually ordered a horoscope for our family when I was born. The funny thing is, she claims she doesn't believe in horoscopes and zodiac, but she won't reason why she ordered this horoscope in the past either. She says, she doesn't remember but sounds like she just doesn't want to tell. Anyway, nothing wrong with ordering this horoscope - for me it's been actually very accurate when I first got my hands on it. Fascinating. I'd just like to hear my mom's reasoning out of curiosity.
I see horoscopes much like personality tests such mbti and keirsey. They may give directions but they aren't absolute or cover everyone in our world. Nothing is completely reliable or absolute in this world - but we can use our individual judgement about them. :) Also, accuracy depends about the situation or the person.

I also hear many hilarious arguments but they're better to be left out of daylight here. All I'm gonna say, the people who don't see things outside their own opinions, say the most strange stuff. But there are just as much fun people as those who could be considered narrow-minded. Those fun people can even laugh at their words if given time to process it. :)
 
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