Really old online topics popping up at work...

[Mr Pickles]

Man, its so wierd when something that hits headlines on the web or something that is popular on the internet finally reaches those that don't use their computers as a main source of information. Someone in the office (outside of IT of course) just emailed me 25 chuck norris jokes. Last week, someone sent me a link to star wars kid. Star wars kid! That's freaking years ago now! How do things like this slip by the non-computer users when I can somehow keep up with all of the boring things they read in their big hard to fold newspapers?

 

[Saint Nick]

That means we are always on the cutting edge of internet hilarity

 

[meltdown75]

that's crazy. don't they know the internet is serious business?

 

[Mr Pickles]

I think of how much the computer-inept people are missing out on and I weep.

 

[trmiv]

What do your work friends know about bulk beef online?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

It always bugs me when news hits digg/slashdot and then a week or more later it hits the mainstream news d everone is talking about it like it happened that day and rehashing the same points and arguments I read when it was first posted.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
It always bugs me when news hits digg/slashdot and then a week or more later it hits the mainstream news d everone is talking about it like it happened that day and rehashing the same points and arguments I read when it was first posted.

Exactly. Sometimes we waste our own time because of the latency of other people. We should really be saying "why care now? I'll just be dealing with this in a week when the rest of the world catches on..."

 

[altonb1]

I have that happen a lot...especially concerning celeb gossip, etc. ATOT is full of breaking news!

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Call the Repost Police, stat!

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Call the Repost Police, stat!

Rather, i'll contact my local representative and suggest funding for such a division. If old people can hang out on the highways in a FHP car with only yellow lights I think we can find room in the budget for some old people to post up at the water cooler cross checking potentially R topics.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: trmiv
What do your work friends know about bulk beef online?

Tell them about the plane, the converyor, the door and that 0.99999=1 while you're at it.

 

[intogamer]

2girls1cup yet? better fill them in...

I actually saw that before it went mainstream, the guy posted it for sale. I wonder if he did sell it... Also I saw 2girls1finger on a pr0n forum, it was a sticky

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: intogamer
2girls1cup yet? better fill them in...

I actually saw that before it went mainstream, the guy posted it for sale. I wonder if he did sell it... Also I saw 2girls1finger on a pr0n forum, it was a sticky

What was a sticky? The thread or the finger? (I still don't know what it is, and I still don't want to know.)

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: jndietz
That means we are always on the cutting edge of internet hilarity

But the only way to successfully navigate the workday with such knowledge is to be a news prima donna. "Oh, you guys are just now hearing about that? It happened like 2 weeks ago. <insert obscure fact about the event.>"

 

[pyonir]

I love when the local news in Phoenix did a groundbreaking story on street racing. This was after the second fast and furious had come out. And street racing had been going on for years. So it's not only online stuff...

 

[rocadelpunk]

Originally posted by: trmiv
What do your work friends know about bulk beef online?

lmao