Violence

Pol-sci professor: Nuking other countries is kind of rude.

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Student: Is there really a job where you can just throw paper at people and then run away?

Canadia

Weird emo girl: I've still got bruises from the first time she hit me with a wheelbarrow!

Bridgwater College
Somerset
England

Child #1: Let’s play house!
Child #2 to child #3: You’re the baby! [Children #1 and #2 start slapping child #3.]Child #3: Stop the game! Stop the game!

Windjammer Inn
Burlington, Vermont

Girl, bitching to friend: She was scratching my piano! I wanted to throw her down the stairs!

Denver, Colorado

Overheard by: Soko

Red-headed woman: I wish they’d take this place and just plunk it down in New York so I could shove people.
Red-headed guy: Word!

National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC

Overheard by: Nujju

Diminutive Asian girl: Well, I think that…
English professor: Isn’t “Balls!” such a great expression? It’s just so… you know… I give you all permission to interject and interrupt this class by shouting “Balls!” at any time for the rest of the year. Sorry, go ahead with your comment.
Diminutive Asian girl: Well, I think that…
English professor: Balls!

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Overheard by: overheardatyale

Black woman #1: I hate when people wait to the last minute to try and get off at a stop.
Black woman #2: Mmm-hmm.
Black woman #1: I don't let them past if they try to do that shit.
Black woman #2: What you do?
Black woman #1: I'll push their mothafuckin' ass back on the train!

Subway
New York City

Professor walking through the hall: Well I guess I’d have to be spanked then.
Asian grad student: That’s why they’re called “accidents”!

University of Illinois

Middle aged man on phone: Maraud my castle?

Bath
England

Overheard by: Clara Lee