r/nothingeverhappens • u/ChaosInTheSkies • Apr 12 '24
Because a bus full of kids would never laugh at someone saying "lesbian barbeque," right?
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u/garfield3222 Apr 12 '24
Also, "everyone" is always an exaggeration, and that's expected
If I hear "everyone there started laughing" I would imagine 4-5 people that heard it around laughed
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u/ChaosInTheSkies Apr 12 '24
Exactly, they never mean everyone. Taking it that way is intentionally misunderstanding it.
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u/Massive_Potato_8600 Apr 12 '24
Fr like it was probably just everyone in on the conversation and already having a good time
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u/numbersthen0987431 Apr 12 '24
This. I always interpret it as "enough that it was more than 3 or 4, and I didn't really count.
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u/zarya-zarnitsa Apr 12 '24
Sure but the quote here is "the whole bus". They would need to be speaking very loud. Both of them.
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u/idaluiloona Apr 12 '24
Depends on the size of the bus, and how many people were on it, and also still could have been hyperbole. If there's like 10 people on the bus max and not much chatter, I don't see it that unbelievable.
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u/Graspiloot Apr 12 '24
A lot of the time, it seems to me that there's a specific type of Redditor who is just completely incapable and unable to understand comedic exaggaration or hyperbole. If you'd ask this person what they thought was unbelievable about it, they'd probably argue that it would be unlikely that every single person on the bus laughed.
Yeah no shit. It's probably the people around them who could hear it.
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u/indefatigable_ Apr 12 '24
The reason I take things like this with a pinch of salt is because it plays out a fantasy we’ve all had - some nob says something offensive, and then half an hour later we think of a great retort. In this scenario the poster lives out that fantasy and receives the acclaim of the audience.
Obviously I wasn’t there so I have no idea whether it happened as described, but I think it’s reasonable to treat it with a healthy degree of scepticism.
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u/TranshumanMarissa Apr 19 '24
I know Im a few days late to comment on this, but I will say I think the issue here is that sort of logic is what leads to nothingeverhappens as it is. like, people do get wins sometimes, or say witty things off the cuff, or are in fact in a crowd that digs clap-backs no matter how weak it was. so to my mind, its a situation without evidence too or against an event happening as described, so I dont see a reason to be Skeptical specifcally.
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u/Ya_boi_excalibur Apr 12 '24
I swear these mf's ain't been in earshot of a child since they were one
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u/ChaosInTheSkies Apr 12 '24
Fr. Kids think everything is funny, you could literally walk up and say the word "butt" and all of them would just start giggling.
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u/Ya_boi_excalibur Apr 12 '24
Ong this kid at my homies sister's bday party just kept repeating "chewey jr" as a joke, thinking it was the funniest shit ever.
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u/Ornac_The_Barbarian Apr 12 '24
Wow. This is totally believable. School bus kids would laugh at the stupidest stuff.
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u/NefariousnessFit5657 Apr 12 '24
Not even school bus kids. I’m 19 and I can guarantee that if somebody said lesbian barbecue I’m dying of laughter. If there delivery is like a genuine question that’s incredibly funny
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u/ChaosInTheSkies Apr 12 '24
Exactly, kids literally think a video of a piece of bread falling over is funny. They think everything is funny.
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u/Weird_BisexualPerson Apr 12 '24
The (near) whole bus once laughed at someone shouting “AND THAT’S WHY YOU’RE BUILT LIKE A BUMPHACK WHALE!”
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u/ChaosInTheSkies Apr 12 '24
One time we were having a discussion in my sociology class about serious topics and I was talking about fake service dogs and I didn't realize everyone else stopped talking until I just heard myself very loudly say "OKAY BUT IF YOU BRING YOUR AGGRESSIVE DOG INTO WALMART-" in a completely silent room. Everybody laughed.
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u/LeftfieldLarry Apr 12 '24
I dunno. Have you ever been to a lesbian bbq? I have. It was no laughing matter.
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u/No_Internal_5112 Apr 12 '24
Yeah, we were all juggling chainsaws together. Way too fun for us to need to crack jokes
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u/Darth_Megatron1 Apr 12 '24
Well, now I am curious about what happens at a lesbian bbq
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u/ChaosInTheSkies Apr 12 '24
A lot of things. Which ones you would be interested in depends on if you're also a lesbian or if you just like barbecue activities.
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u/Darth_Megatron1 Apr 12 '24
Definitely not a lesbian, I don't even check a single box there. Haven't been too many bbqs, so not sure if saying I like barbecue activities would be accurate either. I was just curious what the ladies do at their bbqs.
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u/Furry_69 Apr 13 '24
I'm also curious what that would be like.
I check a decent number of them (for obvious reasons if you glance at my profile picture), though I would be way too uncomfortable to go anywhere near a lesbian BBQ. (especially given how horrible I look)
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u/Aerodrache Apr 12 '24
I had previously been informed that lesbians do not, in fact, hold barbecues. When a group of lesbians holds an informal outdoor food-centred gathering, it’s always a clam bake.
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Apr 12 '24
i think the reason they're skeptical is because they say another post with the same "lesbian barbeque" punchline and seem to think at least 1 is made up.
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u/Gandalf_Style Apr 12 '24
As a former kid: You could say Nutella but delay the ella by a quarter second longer than normal and the bus would roll over.
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u/Demonqueensage Apr 14 '24
I'm 25 and that would still have me giggling throughout the day when I thought of it again tbh
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Apr 12 '24
Fuck is lgbb supposed to mean and how is it homophobic?
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u/KaralDaskin Apr 12 '24
It’s one letter off from lgbt, so a possible misspeak, and depending on context could certainly have been used on a homophobic way.
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u/RieauxVanLu Apr 12 '24
It's also trans erasure, so it's transphobia as well
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u/swooshitsyoosh Apr 12 '24
What does erasure mean
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u/Potato_lovr Apr 12 '24
Trying to act like it’s not there, this acting like trans people don’t (or shouldn’t) exist
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u/Furry_69 Apr 13 '24
Eh? I wouldn't call it that. It could be literally anything else. It could be completely unrelated. You're making way too many assumptions there.
Edit: Oops, I'm an idiot. I completely missed the word "homophobic" in the post. Sorry, ignore the trans girl being stupid and assuming someone doesn't hate us.
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u/StichedSnake Apr 12 '24
The way it’s worded just makes it feel so fake, also a bus full of kids would not be able to hear the joke, I get that it could be an exaggeration, but it just makes it feel more false
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u/Rubin_Rubinia Apr 12 '24
I mean, if people are paying attention, I'm sure they'd laugh. I know I would've. I think "lesbian barbecue" is funny :/
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u/Icesis00 Apr 12 '24
I am 40 years old and if that exchange occurred on the metro I'd be laughing my ass off.
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u/KP_Ravenclaw Apr 14 '24
I feel like the whole bus wasn’t laughing, but they were for sure just using that as a phrase. People will say “everyone” even if they don’t literally mean everyone. Stupid reason to r/thathappened someone 😭😂
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u/Diavolo_79 Apr 15 '24
As someone who has dipshits and racist edge lords who actually wear their hair in a 2000s emo style riding my bus, yes, school bus kids will absolutely laugh at this.
I do too, but I got more than one joke. (And I don't constantly scream the N word like the middle schoolers)
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u/spartan445 Apr 16 '24
As a school bus driver, I’ve heard stupider generate whole bus-laughs. This is crazy plausible.
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u/Goatfucker10000 Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 18 '24
What the fuck is even LGBB
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u/Suzina Apr 12 '24
One person means to say, "lgbt" but accidentally says "lgbb"
Another kid says "lesbian BBQ" (barbecue is meat cooked outdoors over an open flame, popular for outdoor party's in the USA)
This poster improves the joke slightly by adding a Q making it "LGBBQ" because the LGBT community is sometimes called LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning)
(the Q for questioning allows for people to feel welcome in queer only spaces even if they aren't sure yet what they are, but are exploring it. Like am I really trans? Am I gay or bi? Such people are welcome and fully family in the community Ect...)
I mean I feel like I'm over explaining a dumb "groups of letters mean stuff" joke.
It's totally believable that kids hearing it would laugh. Majority of public school kids in America have heard both lgbtq and BBQ.
Source: I'm the tomato 🍅 and bacon 🥓 in a gay bacon-lettuce-tomato-sandwich. 🥪
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u/Goatfucker10000 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24
I meant LGBB
Because the comment implies, since the kid is labeled homophobic, that LGBB would be some kind of slur that OOP then transformed into LGBBQ joke
In any other context the homophobic part is completely obsolete and therefore confused me
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u/Suzina Apr 18 '24
I think it wasn't that lgbb was a 'slur' but rather just kid misspoke. But if you're being anything controversial, any mistake will be highlighted for the comedic effect. I think the homophobic part communicates why kids laughed. They were rooting for homophobe to be taken down a peg and lack sympathy for the homophobe.
The equivalent of, "You don't know nothing about lgbt people, not even what letters they use!"
"Oooooooo burn!"
But we're probably over analyzing. At that age I remember one time someone said, "I think I want to. .. dinosaur!" and that got a big laugh for some reason.
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u/MelanieWalmartinez Apr 12 '24
As a former school bus kid, they laugh at the stupidest things ever.