Five Things You Learned From Unintentional Eavesdropping

[Darth K'Trava]

Wow, now I'm imagining you going drag...thanks....

That's YOUR job, Croth!!!

Croth the Drag Queen!!! WORK IT, BAYBEE!!!!

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I've heard more things about sex and mammograms and various other topics from the women I work around... Not to mention gutter talk that I can't repeat here...

 

[Aeson]

I've heard more things about sex and mammograms and various other topics from the women I work around... Not to mention gutter talk that I can't repeat here...

Women seem to talk about the darnedest things when they don't think any men are around.

 

[Steve Jung]

I used to do that. I don't think you can do it with new phones.

Yeah, it was about 12-13 years ago. I don't even think Radio Shack publishes those frequency books anymore. Not that I've tried.

 

[Aeson]

I didn't need to. I had a phone that picked up the conversations.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

In college a couple of friends and I used to caravan back and forth to school. We bought radio headsets so we could talk from car to car. It took us a little while to figure out, but we finally realized that the headsets ran on the same frequency as some baby monitors. We used to hear kids crying from tiem to time as we drove. On one trip we heard mommy and daddy working at making a new baby.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I overhear lots of conversations I sometimes wish I didn't when I'm walking around the library and students are on their cell-phones. The concept of "Private Conversation" just doesn't seem to click with lots of students. I can't tell you how many times I've overheard a female student talking on her phone, in a computer lab, about how so-and-so was really good/bad in bed, or how their friend hooked up with somebody.

I've often had to ask someone to take their conversation outside because they were disturbing other students. One time, as I was walking up to a girl after receiving a complaint just as she said at full volume "... and then the dog pissed on my leg!" and everyone in the room cracked up.

For some reason, male students seem to either talk at lower volumes or leave the room to talk in the halls on their phones, so they aren't as big a problem as the girls.

 

[freebfrost]

Drinking four glasses of water will lower your blood sugar from 460 to under 200 and thus gets riid of the need to take your diabetes injection. And you can have pie.

This is complete bunk.

I'm a recently diagnosed Type II diabetic myself, and this statement is so appalingly ignorant of how blood sugar works that I can't even believe that these people would be saying this.

Blood sugar varies throughout the day, for various reasons, including consuming fluids. The problem is that the fluids disappear quickly and all those sugars remain in the blood afterward so the problem still exists - it is just covered up temporarily. This is especially bad if the person who said this was a Type I diabetic as it seems he or she was...

It just boggles the mind.

 

[Ferret]

I often hear my neighbour being sick at night.

I also heard a woman talking on her phone on the beach.

1)She wouldn't mind taking drugs test every day to prove she was off of them.
2)Her mother sent people round to beat her up.

I wasn't trying to listen to much but lots of private personal, serious stuff

I once heard someone on my school bus say loudly "I'm not a horse!" Siounded quite angry...

 

[nerfherder]

Not exactly "overheard", but I did once read something on a home theatre forum that ended up being quite amusing.

A guy posted on the forum asking for the best prices on a TV so that he could phone up John Lewis in Newcastle and get them to price match (for those outside the UK, John Lewis will pricematch bricks and mortar stores, throw in a 5 year guarantee and generally provide good service). The price matching process takes a little time, as the undersales department that do it will either phone up the store they're price-matching against, or go round and visit it. Co-incidentaly, at the time, my girlfriend was the person that would do this, so I mentioned to her that someone was going to be ringing her to price match a particular model of TV. I didn't say anything on the forum. She confirmed the price so that when the guy rang she said "yeah, no problem" to him straight away, then proceeded to ask if he was so-and-so from the HT forum. He was so taken aback that he denied it, but then later admitted that he was. Then he posted on the forum about his weird experience with a very nice woman who already seemed to know him...

So, when you post on a public forum, just remember that anyone could be reading...

Cheers,
Liam