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Ginding away- stop putting sand in my oil... Part 4

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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
$10 says that her reaction to anyone calling her out for how absurd it is that she had to ask those questions would be to talk about how "mean" they are.

It's hard to rant about that phenomenon without sounding at least a little bit sexist. (Correction: It is in fact a very sexist rant, come to think of it)
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johnnypohlfan said:
RE: the bolded part. You do realize that a great deal of the public is indeed that stupid, right? That's the problem. We've dumbed down so much of our population that people actually do believe that crap. I weep for our future.

We have an intern at our company right now. A recent graduate from a fine private university; one would assume she would be pretty smart. Well, this happened a few months ago and i'm not making any of it up. At lunch, I walked into the mess hall and she was watching a show about Penguins and Antarctica. She turns to me and asks the following three questions, in this order:

1. Do people live in Antarctica? Like, are there cities there?
2. Is Antarctica part of the United States?
3. Is it up north?

Hand to God, those were her actual questions she needed answered. I kept myself remarkably composed and politely answered all three questions, then immediately left the room, went back to my desk and thought about killing myself. This is the generation that's going to be in charge in the next decade. Like I said, I weep for our future.
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My jaw literally dropped.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
My jaw literally dropped.
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MIne didn't. I lived overseas when I was a kid for a bit. I was a teen when we moved back. I was appalled at how ignorant most of the people around me were about anything outside of the US (I am now >50, this was a long time ago) I couldn't understand how people could be so oblivious about anything that wasn't directly attached to the US. Carpooling for my kid's teams has not improved my opinion. Most of those kids didn't even know if a country was in Europe or what Europe was when they were in 5th grade. They have no idea what is going on internationally even in HS. :eek:
 
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I once had to show someone a map to prove to them that North Korea is indeed North of South Korea.
 
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Not geography related, but bbdl knows a girl (and we have witnesses) who thought a double-cheeseburger was just a larger cheeseburger, and NOT two patties.

She was dead serious about it.
 
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We had a girl in high school that thought everybody in the army lived at the Pentagon. She didn't grasp the concept of soldiers being stationed somewhere else.
 
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We had a girl at work, hired fresh out of college for a marketing position, that actually asked if Thanksgiving was always on a Thursday? :eek:
 
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I'll add one:

Coworker 1: Isn't Sicily a STD?
Coworker 2: Yeah, just like Turin or Naples.
Coworker 1: Heh-heh, Naples.

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Also, when I was working for the Vista Fleet cruise boats in Duluth, we had some gems from customers:

Will we see whales on Lake Superior?
"Does the Lift Bridge go up?" "No, we sink. I hope you can hold your breath."
 
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Not that I blame her, but on a Gopher@MTU trip, we convinced one lady (Dancing Girl) in our group that the tattoo parlor was really a front for a brothel, because prostitution was legal in the UP of MI.

Nevermind the illogical reason that you would need a front for a legal business......that was part of the humor of the situation. :D
 
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Brenthoven said:
Not that I blame her, but on a Gopher@MTU trip, we convinced one lady (Dancing Girl) in our group that the tattoo parlor was really a front for a brothel, because prostitution was legal in the UP of MI.

Nevermind the illogical reason that you would need a front for a legal business......that was part of the humor of the situation. :D
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We once had her convinced that blue balls were actually blue.
 
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state of hockey said:
I once had to show someone a map to prove to them that North Korea is indeed North of South Korea.
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Closer to home -

When I worked in San Francisco one Oakland native that I worked with thought her home was straight East of where our office was in SF. She actually lived quite a bit south in central Oakland. I could point out the window of our high rise office tower and to a map but she did not believe me. Her reasoning - she just stayed on the freeway and didn't turn off after crossing the Bay bridge. She was oblivious to the big curve in the freeway she drove every freaking day. She had grown up in the Bay Area and had no clue as to its layout.
 
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As I was getting in my car to leave the grocery store, the woman in the car next to me was doing the same. She spent 20-30 seconds after she had put her groceries into her car putting the shopping cart in the corner of 4 parking spots and adjusting it so it wouldn't roll away. She could have spent the same 20-30 seconds to walk that shopping cart five car widths to the shopping cart corral.
 
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Time Warner still sucks. I'm moving into a new apartment at the end of the month. National Grid and National Fuel took care of me no problem, even though I didn't have my account numbers. Time Warner? I waited for them to call me "within five minutes" for a half-hour, finally decided that I should call them, and now I've been on the phone for twenty-five minutes and the woman that I am talking to is still completely clueless as to what's going on. I hate Time Warner.

And now she's trying to sell me a new package. Why?
 
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People who listen to music without headphones on mass transit should be shot out of a cannon into the the sun.
 
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