How Do You Know He Didn’t Go to College?

Blonde: Well, I want to visit that country where they speak African!
Redhead: Oh, you want to go to Africa to learn how to speak African? That is so cool.
Black businessman shaking his head: Africa is a continent, not a country, [sighs], and there is no language called ‘African.’

Black businessman departs at 34th Street.

Blonde: How’s he going to tell me that when we went to college and he didn’t? Plus, I heard President Bush call Africa a country in a speech.

–A train, 14th St

Overheard by: LDofHarlem

Posted on February 26, 2015
Bimbettes, Black People, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On the Subway, Stupidity

“I can’t read Arabic.”

Woman: I want to report that there is a drawing of Hitler at the bottom of these stairs.
MTA lady: Well, is there anything anti-Semitic written with the drawing?

–225th Street 1 station

Overheard by: adam

Posted on February 25, 2015
Jews, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On the Subway, The Bronx

Wednesday One-liners Eat Churro

Woman on cell: Yeah, I have to go. I’m too distracted on the phone, and I don’t trust anyone in this terminal. People are speaking Spanish behind me, if you know what I mean.

–LaGuardia

Posted on February 15, 2015
At the Airport, Brooklyn, Fashion, Language Barrier, Manhattan, Mexicans, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On Cell, On the Subway, One-liners, Only in New York, Retail Therapy, Stupidity, Teens, The Bronx, The Village, Tourists, White People

“The Koreans?”

Asian guy: I’m not Japanese; I’m Chinese.
Black girl: Yeah, but who has more Chinky eyes?
Asian guy: What?
Black girl: Whose eyes are Chinkier?

–A train

Overheard by: John W. Eddy

Posted on February 11, 2015
Asians, Ghetto Chicks, Language Barrier, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On the Subway

Racism and Chauvinism, All In One Sentence

Guy #1: My girl’s got Asian eyes, though.
Guy #2: Man, but it’s not her eyes anybody looks at.

–Ave A & 6th Street

Overheard by: Heather

Posted on February 8, 2015
Girls, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Union Square and East Village

They’re Not Giving Him Enough Credit

Suit #1: I don’t know if I have enough on this one card.
Suit #2: Do you have another one?
Suit #1: Yeah, but do you think they’ll let me use more than one?
Suit #2: Look, there’s a brotha on the register. He’ll understand.

–Target, 225th Street

Overheard by: Laura Tompkins

Posted on February 1, 2015
Money & Class, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Shopping, Suits, The Bronx

Obviously a Just Society

Yuppie: People at South Africa talk so much less racist than in NY. Everyone tells many more racist jokes in New York than in South Africa.

–Sutton Place

Posted on January 31, 2015
Global Geography, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, NYC Geography, Yuppies

What Have They Ever Done to Hurt Anyone?

Effeminate guy on cell phone: …And we don’t want any fat German ladies
in the house.

–Post office, 23rd and Lex

Overheard by: Megan Buckley

Posted on January 30, 2015
Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, On Cell, Post Office

Don’t Hate Wednesday, Hate the One-Liners

Guy with headphones to passerby in the rain: I hate that umbrella! I’m gonna break that umbrella! I’m gonna knock that umbrella out of your hands!

–Union Square

Overheard by: Letting go of the umbrella

Teen boy to another teen boy: I really hate my mom because she grounds me all the time, that’s why I got grounded.

–B44 bus, Nostrand Ave & Ave Y

Overheard by: o_O

JAP: And so he was like, ‘Wanna go make out?’ and I was like, ‘Okay,’ so we did and that was fun or whatever, but I don’t know… We don’t actually like each other at all, we really can’t stand each other.

–The Tea Lounge, 7th Ave, Park Slope

Overheard by: mortalfool411

Black female after being insulted by a Black male clerk in a store: I hate Black people.

–Graham Avenue, Brooklyn

Suit: Fuckin’ guy, that fuckin’ attorney. I hate him. I hate ’em all. Myself too, I shouldn’t have gone to law school. He probably hates himself, unless he’s too fuckin’ stupid to regret it. We’re all a bunch of miserable self-loathing fucks, nobody likes attorneys.

–J & R, Park Row

Crazy yelling bitch: He’s a hater, I’m telling you he’s a fucking hater! What? No I fucking hate him.

–33rd & 8th

Overheard by: devila

Girl on cell: What? With pills? Why’d he do that? Because everyone hates him?

–62nd & 2nd

Overheard by: Ralph

Posted on January 22, 2015
All Wednesday One-Liners, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, One-liners, Wednesday One-Liners, Wednesday One-Liners Vary

Wednesday One-liners Just Promote Stereotypes

Chick on cell: Yeah, I’ll put a tarp down, but everyone spraypaints on the roof. There’s graffiti all over it ’cause it’s the ghetto. There’s crackheads everywhere, so no one’s going to care about some little White girl with a spray can.

–7 train

Overheard by: Ani Sin

Thug kid: Yo man, Welsh is the place to be. They drink as much as the Irish, but they don’t got the rep for it yet.

–Times Square

Overheard by: Pegs Landing

Latina: My sister married a Puerto Rican, my brother married a Puerto Rican, I don’t wanna marry no Puerto Rican. I wanna step up–marry some White guy.

–42nd & 3rd

Crazy Black man: I ain’t sucking on Whitey’s balls! Are you? I ain’t playin with Whitey’s dick! Are you?

–Union Square

Guy: I’ve never seen an English porn. It’s probably bad teeth and fish
‘n chips and stuff.

–27th Street office

Man on cell: Do you hear all this noise? You’d never hear people honking their horns like that in Singapore…it’s considered to be insulting!

–23rd & 6th

Posted on January 7, 2015
Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Wednesday One-Liners, Wednesday One-Liners Vary

Multiculturalism, Overheard Style