Stupid things you've overheard in public

[nutxo]

salesperson at frys


" It has 4 cpus running at 1600mhz so its really 6400mhz"

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: nutxo
salesperson at frys


" It has 4 cpus running at 1600mhz so its really 6400mhz"

Eff, I thought people knew better by now. I remember hearing people say the same sort of nonsense when dual core started getting big, but srsly now, it's been how long and we still have no idea how cores work?

Ah hell I dunno why I was so optimistic; there's probably even some chump out there hanging onto his 3.8Ghz Prescott because it's got so many jiggahertz and way better than the junk they're making nowadays.

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: nutxo
salesperson at frys


" It has 4 cpus running at 1600mhz so its really 6400mhz"

OMG I hear this a lot. Craigslist sellers sometimes add these numbers to fool people

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

wasn't this part of some comedian's act?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

wasn't this part of some comedian's act?

Yep, Lewis Black

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Originally posted by: Exterous
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren?t for my horse, I wouldn?t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go ? "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.

It was funnier when Lewis Black said it. :roll:

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Yea, that lewis black skit pretty much defines stupid things you overhear, and was indeed the first thing I thought of reading the title : p

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Dumac

"Your blood is blue till it reaches the air!"

I picked that up sometime during my youth, and was mildly embarrassed when I declared that 'fact" just a few weeks ago to a coworker.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: Dumac

"Your blood is blue till it reaches the air!"

I picked that up sometime during my youth, and was mildly embarrassed when I declared that 'fact" just a few weeks ago to a coworker.

I remember my 3rd grade teacher telling me that in a submarine (you know, underwater and thus under the air) one could see blue blood.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

The stupidest things I've ever heard was when I was working as a poll worker. My god the things that come out of peoples' mouths during election time. Especially the older crowd.

This one old lady as she was leaving said "I would break down in tears if that Obama wins. He is a terrorist, all of those connections with Al-Qaeda. America will be a terrorist country!".
The worst was from the Poll Worker "Leader". When we work the polls we take an oath about not talking about any politics so people weren't persuaded by our opinions. This guy was just going off all day about shit that made no sense. He was an ex-marine from Vietnam and for about 12 hours all I heard from him was that the Democrats are actually Russian spies that infiltrated America in the '60s to secretly turn America into a Communist nation and that if Obama wins we are going to fall like the USSR. Then he went into a rant about how gays stole the rainbow flag to use as their symbol.

 

[Andrew1990]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
The stupidest things I've ever heard was when I was working as a poll worker. My god the things that come out of peoples' mouths during election time. Especially the older crowd.

This one old lady as she was leaving said "I would break down in tears if that Obama wins. He is a terrorist, all of those connections with Al-Qaeda. America will be a terrorist country!".
The worst was from the Poll Worker "Leader". When we work the polls we take an oath about not talking about any politics so people weren't persuaded by our opinions. This guy was just going off all day about shit that made no sense. He was an ex-marine from Vietnam and for about 12 hours all I heard from him was that the Democrats are actually Russian spies that infiltrated America in the '60s to secretly turn America into a Communist nation and that if Obama wins we are going to fall like the USSR. Then he went into a rant about how gays stole the rainbow flag to use as their symbol.

Sounds kind of like P&N.


I remember hearing my mother tell a cop I tripped over her purse(She was beating me with it) and when the cop asked her where her purse was at the time she said it was in her hands.

Hmm....

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Anything in the computer section at Best Buy.

and at the geek squad desk

oh, how I hate waiting in line for customer service lol .



Also at the bank once when I was like 14 I over heard two old women saying something on how ATMs are bad because you can delete all your money and have no trace of it, so I rather talk to a person.


a few years ago their used to be like 2 people at my local bestbuy that knew there stuff. But if you know what your doing you dont last long I guess.

 

[Clair de Lune]

Wayyy back in highschool, holy fuck she's dumb. No wonder she's at Walmart.

Me: Can I return this video card
Girl: I'm sorry you can't return it because it's an open box.
Me: Why not? This isnt' software.
Girl: (points to the driver disc) See, the box has been opened and that disc can now have virus in it. We can't return it.

Computer virus = real world biological virus.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
Wayyy back in highschool, holy fuck she's dumb. No wonder she's at Walmart.

Me: Can I return this video card
Girl: I'm sorry you can't return it because it's an open box.
Me: Why not? This isnt' software.
Girl: (points to the driver disc) See, the box has been opened and that disc can now have virus in it. We can't return it.

Computer virus = real world biological virus.

That happened to me at Wal-Mart circa 1996/1997 with a Creative Video Blaster PCI video card. It included MPEG playback software and they got hung-up on that.

 

[l0cke]

Almost every fake internet rumor I have heard to be declared true.

GRL1: "You know if you are locked out of your car you can call someone with the remote and when they use it it will go through the phone?"
GRL2: "Oh that makes sense because they are both wireless."

Meanwhile, I am hoping that someday they try to use this tactic.

Or, a lot of environmentalist commie types started to lecture people about the "giant island of trash the size of texas in the ocean"

Also, teachers. In class one day we are watching a video about someone who left Germany for China during WWII. My history teacher (honors history even) says "I don't know why she went to China, you never think of them being involved in the war."

Wow, that class was a waste of time and humans.

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Andrew1990
...
I remember hearing my mother tell a cop I tripped over her purse(She was beating me with it) and when the cop asked her where her purse was at the time she said it was in her hands.

Hmm....

Why was this woman hitting you with a purse?

Originally told by: Bender Bending Rodriguez
[returning from "walking" the helpless professor]
There we were in the park when suddenly some old lady says I stole her purse.
I chucked the professor at her but she kept coming. So I had to hit her with
this purse I found.

Reminded me of this.

 

[Nik]

"Yeah, the whole point of multiple core processors is faster internet speeds. Computing is going to turn into web-based everything soon and you'll need 2 and sometimes 4 cores for that."

:roll:

Really?

...Really?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Nik
"Yeah, the whole point of multiple core processors is faster internet speeds. Computing is going to turn into web-based everything soon and you'll need 2 and sometimes 4 cores for that."

:roll:

Really?

...Really?

With all the fucking Flash ads all over the place and how damn horrible it is on resources, that's actually pretty true

Seriously. Browsing on my dv2 is IMPOSSIBLE without AdBlock/FlashBlock because it's a single core.

 

[nutxo]

Columbus discovered america.


One night in 7-11 this guy in front of me hands the cashier a 5. The cashier tells him its like 5.50 or somer crap. The guys makes a show of pulling out a small roll of bills and tells her " Here,.. presdient Franklin" .



"If Kennedy hadnt been elected we'd never gotten out of Viet Nam."

 

[Wheezer]

Not in public, but from a friend of my mine many years ago:

him: "the reason black athletes are so much better than white athletes is because they have an extra calf muscle"

me: facepalm

him: "don't believe me?...look how high black dudes in the NBA like Jordan can jump, no way they could do that if they were built the same way as whites"

me: "dude you are a fucking idiot...that is THE goddamn dumbest thing I have EVER heard"


same guy on an ex girl friend:

him: "....yeah the bitch left me for another woman"

me: "no shit?....never figured her to be one to switch teams."

him: "well, she she still wants to screw me, but I don't want to be with someone who is a bicycle"

me: *spits been all over the deck laughing hysterically*..."dude, you mean BI-SEXUAL".

him: "yeah, whatever...I'm not into that shit"

 

[CZroe]

URL being called "Your El" instead of "You Are El" coming from a seasoned tech (20+ years) talking to a customer in his computer shop. I could tell that his customer had NO IDEA what he meant by it either and I could only imagine how long he's been confusing the fuck out of people. Obviously, he had the same textbook as me earlier in life... the one that said that all abbreviations in the tech industry are acronyms that should be pronounced phonetically.

Seriously? WWW? FTP? TFTP? HTTP? IRQ? PS2? PCI? VGA? LPT? AGP? VLB? USB? EIDE? UDMA? PIO? ATA? Yeah; I know... People understandably calling SATA "Sat Uh" or "Say Tuh" have retconned that last one... it helps when they ask "Sat Uh or At Uh?," but it still belongs in that line of reasoning. Anyway, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PRONOUNCE THOSE?! "This is the wuhwuhwuhiz-z-ar-duh" "Yeah, well wuhwuhwhatever." -ATHF

I had a teacher that called EISA "Eye-suh," but I saw several people try to do that, so I guess it's only border-line stupid. Just because some of them are forced (GUI, SCSI, etc) and many come natural (NIC, BIOS, DUN, SIMM, DIMM, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CMOS, etc) doesn't mean that they are ALL spoken phonetically like that stupid textbook said.

I guess IBM PC = "Ibium Peace" :roll:

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Nik
"Yeah, the whole point of multiple core processors is faster internet speeds. Computing is going to turn into web-based everything soon and you'll need 2 and sometimes 4 cores for that."

:roll:

Really?

...Really?

In a roundabout way thats kinda sorta true. Not right now. And they dont have multi-core processors today for that use tomorrow, but eventually most computing will be web-based. Thats gonna need something much better than current wi-fi though. If you wanna know more do a google search for Cloud Computing (I think). It will certainly require fast multi-core CPU's, but thats far away and not why we have them now.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: CZroe
URL being called "Your El" instead of "You Are El" coming from a seasoned tech (20+ years) talking to a customer in his computer shop. I could tell that his customer had NO IDEA what he meant by it either and I could only imagine how long he's been confusing the fuck out of people. Obviously, he had the same textbook as me earlier in life... the one that said that all abbreviations in the tech industry are acronyms that should be pronounced phonetically.

Not sure I'd even be able to tell the difference between someone saying "You Are Ell" and "Your Ell" if they were talking relatively fast. But if your problem is with phonetic prnounciation of acronyms then I think you're being a bit pedantic. I regularly refer to a URL as an "earl", if someone can't figure out what I mean then they're the stupid one, not me.

 

[moshquerade]

why do we need to talk about stupid things overheard in public when there is plenty of that right here? :laugh:

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: CZroe
URL being called "Your El" instead of "You Are El" coming from a seasoned tech (20+ years) talking to a customer in his computer shop. I could tell that his customer had NO IDEA what he meant by it either and I could only imagine how long he's been confusing the fuck out of people. Obviously, he had the same textbook as me earlier in life... the one that said that all abbreviations in the tech industry are acronyms that should be pronounced phonetically.

Not sure I'd even be able to tell the difference between someone saying "You Are Ell" and "Your Ell" if they were talking relatively fast. But if your problem is with phonetic prnounciation of acronyms then I think you're being a bit pedantic. I regularly refer to a URL as an "earl", if someone can't figure out what I mean then they're the stupid one, not me.

How could saying "U-R-L" possibly sound like "Youral" (two syllables; sounds like "Plural") or "Earl?" If you've always called it a "Earl," yes, I would have understood you*... AAAaaaand still considered you an idiot. What a measly syllable or two for the sake of UNIVERSAL understanding? Where have you ever read/heard that you should call it that? If nowhere, you have no excuse, otherwise, blame the idiotic source that got you started and stop using it.

The letter "R" does not sound like "Er" in the English language no matter how fast you talk unless you simply aren't pronouncing it correctly.

Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the URL itself, calls it "U.R.L." Case-closed. If there was never a reason to call it anything else, don't. If people around you do it, correct them. That's how this shit gets started. There are many, MANY, anecdotes online from people who incorrectly pronounce it like you and discover, ADMITTEDLY, that others do not understand them, so it's not just the confused customer I witnessed. The discussions I see on the matter always determine that you should not use it.

*just the same as I understood the other "idiot"

Having not heard the word "Router" spoken aloud, I once thought it was "Rooter" because "route" can be pronounced either way and has the same meaning. As soon as I began hearing it called "Router" (like "wow-ter"), I adapted and never called it "Root-er" again... which is a good thing. To this day, I've never heard anyone else call it "Root-er." I admit it and adapt. You should too.