Overheard in Notts: November 2023

Thursday 30 November 2023
reading time: min, words

I just want a banging night out mate. Let's go Wetherspoons, it's always banging in there.

Overheard

I just want a banging night out mate. Let's go Wetherspoons, it's always banging in there.

Don’t you dare slag my daughter off. I’m not going. I’m never going to your playgroup ever again.

Person 1: We did a big house, Forest Fields. Down that way on, what’s it called? Lethal street yeah.
Person 2: We used to call Alfreton Road "I'll threaten you Road" - if you say it quick it sounds similar

I thought they’d died or gone missing, but they just lost weight.

I'd like to be a teacher, if being a teacher was different to how it is.

I was so battered I thought I saw a duck fly.

I thought rivers couldn’t run north because north is uphill.

How can you be a film critic, you can never remember anyone’s name. You can’t review something saying ‘thingymagig, that was in wotsit’

Kid 1: You are such a cheeseburger
Kid 2: Well you're a pepperoni pizza!!

I don't need Bluetooth, I've got dentures.

He runs like a chicken. Mind you, he looks like a chicken.

You run like you're made entirely of elbows.

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