Dude, You’re Preaching to the Choir

Student: She thinks she’s so good. She was probably the only soprano in her high school, so she was automatically the best. Or maybe she went to a school for like, people with severe burns. She was the best in the burn victim ward.

Westminster Choir College
Princeton, New Jersey

Overheard by: Gaby Young

Posted on April 21, 2019
Colleges & Universities, Compare and contrast, Education, Etiquette, Health & Hygiene, Music, New Jersey, Students, Weirdness

Just When You Thought American Schools Were the Worst…

Student, talking about fur coat made out of Bobcat: Excuse me, what's a Bobcat?
Teacher: Some kind of tractor.

Australia

Overheard by: xmeagan

Posted on April 20, 2019
Australia, Default, Education, Questions, Students, Stupidity, Teachers, Words

Asparagus Pee Is Forbidden by the Geneva Convention

Creepy guy: Hey, Joey*.
Joey: Yeah?
Creepy guy: Have you ever put pee in a Super Soaker before?
Joey: Yeah.
Friend: What?
Girl: Ewww.
Friend: What does it feel like if you’re sprayed?
Creepy guy, shrugs: Kinda tingles.

Geography class, All Saints High School
Whitby, Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: freshman whisperer

Posted on March 23, 2019
Canadia, Pee, Students

Clap If You Believe She’ll Regret This

Female student #1: What does your tattoo mean?
Female student #2: Courage.
Female student #1: I want to get a tattoo!
Female student #2: What do you want to get?
Female student #1: Across my back I want a fairy… wearing lingerie.
Female student #2: Oh… Okay… That would be nice…

Houston Community College
Houston, Texas

Posted on March 18, 2019
Students, Tattoos, Texas

If It's Bobbing for Saviors, Count Me Out.

Sunday school teacher: We're going to play a fun game next! Does anybody want to guess what it is?
Five-year-old student: Take of our shirts and pants?
Sunday school teacher: No!

Sunday School Classroom
Fredericton
Canadia

Overheard by: Andrew

Posted on March 10, 2019
Canadia, Clothes, Default, Games, Kids, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Teachers

Yay! I've Been Trying to Outdo Myself for Weeks!

Student: How do you spell “wear”? W-e-a-r? (pause) That is the stupidest thing I've ever said.

San Diego, California

Posted on March 9, 2019
California, Education, Questions, Students, Stupidity, Words

Introducing Madame Toussaud's Naughtiest Exhibition Yet

Enthusiastic undergraduate to group of friends: I never knew you could do that with wax!

Oxford
England

Overheard by: Intrigued Grad Student

Posted on March 9, 2019
England, Friends, Hair, Students, Weirdness

Invented by Mister Newton.

Professor: So, I can see that some of you try to care about my feelings, and others don't give a fig.
Student #1: Whoa! Could you not use such harsh vegetables?
(entire class goes silent)
Student #2: I didn't know a “fig” was a vegetable.
Student #3: I thought it was a grape. A dried grape.

Johnson & Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island

Posted on February 25, 2019
Colleges & Universities, Education, Feelings, Food, Rhode Island, Students, Stupidity, Teachers, Words

I'll Just Slip Into Something More Comfortable

Evolution professor: So why can't humans have more then just two sexes? Man, that'd be a lot of fun, wouldn't it?
Class: (uncontrollable laughter)
Evolution professor: Oh, I can see. (pause) I shouldn't have said anything, let's continue…

UC
Santa Cruz, California

Overheard by: I'm glad he said it

Posted on February 24, 2019
California, Colleges & Universities, Education, Gender issues, Questions, Sexuality, Students, Teachers

Students