Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

MovingOnUp said:
That made me laugh :). yet i strangely agree but disagree
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Yeah, I thought it was strange....

OT:
Just remembered my second BLD success that I had to re-memo corners and half the edges because of her (it was intentional, too =/)
and I'm gonna give in to the temptation and post what she said, however rude I may be in the process of doing so (yah, I have the tendency to ramble after getting back from a long trip so bear with me)

My mum after I told her I got my second blindfolded success:
Who cares? If you've done it once, where's the challenge?
It's all just memorising algorithms anyway, anyone can do it!
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I shouldn't be irritated, but I am :/
Because this is her attitude to all my cubing :(
 
I've never gotten any sticker comments either, even though I cube in public a lot. The one I always get is people asking me the "secret" to solving the cube. So annoying, because I don't know how to respond.
 
I just respond by saying, "Erm, don't think I can teach you in 5 mins... It's a bit complicated ya know."
Or...
I explain to them the steps of Roux, ignoring the fact they don't get it, and they usually go away.
 
I did a juggling show for Big Brother Big Sisters yesterday, and I've started adding some cubing to my juggling routines as it makes for a really nice way to segue between props or number of props. I had a friend of mine in the audience and asked for a volunteer to scramble the cube, picking my friend as I knew he wouldn't destroy my cube. I make him stand behind me and scramble while I do some simple 3 club patterns and yammer about the cube. I usually spend about 2 minutes or so explaining the basics of Roux in very, very simple terms. Making a point to explain that it's done in steps to go from scrambled to solved. I get the scrambled cube back from my friend and inspect it briefly and then have the audience count out loud as I'm solving it.

After I finished the routine a man from the audience came up and said, "Now you either got eyes in the back of your head and was watching him mess that thing up, or y'all are some kinda psychic and he was telling you what he was doing so that you could put it back to regular. Everybody knows them things are impossible, especially in 22 seconds."

I didn't have much of a response and luckily his teenage daughter had been paying attention and saved the day for me. "Daddy, didn't you listen to him at all? He told you how it's done, step by step, and that he had to learn how to do it. He even said that even though the solve is different every time you use the same basic steps to get bits and pieces of the cube solved. You just made yourself look all kinds of foolish by calling him a eyes in the back of his head psychic!"

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself, shake both there hands and thank them for coming. He seemed a bit speechless after she finished talking. It was pretty amusing.
 
I was solving my v cube 6 the other day, some guys saw it(they're like 13, and i'm 15) so first the came closer, then kept commenting, like he solved 2 sides, then 3, them he isn't done, he is done, etc...

and luckily they aren't the type that say stuff like "i'll scamble it so you can't solve it" they where then impressed by my 30 second 3x3 solve lol
 
I hate the sticker comment -and it's def by far the most common I have heard. I mean it's sooooooooooooooo old "I just take the stickers off and put them back olololool" I just wanna slap them!!!! But that's just me :)
 
No. The imaginary friend one is the worst.
I usually get really bad 'combos' like one I posted earlier about three people in a row irritating me during a blindsolve. I was soo angry...
Here's one I got on the train last week (may as well say it lols)...

I was Rouxing... which is quite rare because usually on the train I do 4x4. anyway...
After 15 mins... A guy came up to me and said he uses a screwdriver which is 'way cleverer than peeling off the stickers'. Then he asked me to teach him.
So I did... then I said... so you get this block.... He interrupted with 'you're going too fast' when I was only showing him WHAT to get and not HOW to get it. This went on for a long 5 mins until he gave up.

5 mins later, I got the crowd. Which is where there is a crowd staring at you. Pretty creepy, but it was OK.

Then someone came up to me and gave me the one about his friend who could solve it in 5 seconds.
I apologise if he's Feliks, but I was very annoyed...
 
My co worker said, "can you solve an arubik's cube?" when she saw mine.

I corrected her, she didn't believe me. She kept saying, "Ya but it's just one arubik's cube, therefore an arubik's cube."

:fp
 
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