UK

Student: Is it okay to wear leather trousers to a funeral?

Hull University
Hull
England

Guy: And then I'll go home and watch Gilmore Girls. (awkward silence) I mean something manly.

London
England

Overheard by: ohdear

British Cooking: Further Explained

30-something woman on phone: So I pulled it out of my vagina, and that was that. Shame.

Hull
England

Man in trench coat to group of students: Follow me, and I'll take you to a magical woman.

Newport
Wales

Overheard by: Can I come?

Professor: Please don't talk amongst yourselves. When you talk amongst yourselves, I imagine you're saying horrible things like “Who would ever want to shag him?”
Previously chatting student: Don't worry! We all want to shag you!

University of Glasgow
Scotland
UK

Teen boy to other teen boy: You’d be racist if you weren’t so funny.

Leeds, England

Overheard by: Ashleigh

Girl: So yeah, it would just be like Gulliver’s Travels.
[Pause.]Boy: There’d be kitten penises everywhere!

Warwick, England

American chick #1: Ohmigod! Look at those white cows! I’ve never seen cows like that before!
American chick #2: Maybe they’re albino… Or it could be a special British type of cow.
Guy sitting behind them: … Those are sheep.

Bus, Southern England

Overheard by: pretends to be Canadian

Girl #1: All they talked about was fannies… And tits… And… Fuckin’… Something else.
Girl #2: Rugby.
Girl #1: Yeah. Rugby.

Warwick
England

Mother to ten-year-old son at supermarket check-out queue: And then we’ll go and look for a dress for me.
Ten-year-old son: I’m not going clothes shopping with you. You go in every shop, you try everything on, you never like anything and come home with nothing and I’m not standing around waiting!
[All male members of the queue cheer.]

Luton
England