Sitting next to these two American guys at my hostel in London I overheard snippets of the most amazingly brain-dead conversation. They started out talking about their visit to the British Museum, and were debating whether they'd seen the Rosetta Stone or not. The entire premise behind this was baffling enough - how could you not know? But then the stupid quote parade started, with:
That couldn't be the rosetta stone, it didn't have any European writing on it
and then a minute later,
No, the magna carta was basically just a rewrite of the rosetta stone
The debate later moved on to whether people everywhere on earth eat cereal for breakfast and snack on sandwiches. All of it was a completely earnest back & forth, as I stifled laughter
