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The food from poundland always makes me think of that episode of the Simpsons where Moe brings a bag of faulty Oreos.frazzled_nutter said:
Anyway, it's worse because my sister actually does it often but she actually phones the downstairs phone when she's upstairs to ask if my mam is downstairs. She does loads of stupid stuff like that. My Mam once told her to stop shouting and she replies with "I'm not shouting, I'm just speaking really loud!"
In my biology class-
Teacher asks one particular student "Where do the nutrients from food go after being absorbed by the small intestine?"
My friend whispers back to her, "The spinal cord."
She tentatively replies "The spinal cord?"
^Possibly the biggest facepalm I've seen my teacher do all year...
Teacher asks one particular student "Where do the nutrients from food go after being absorbed by the small intestine?"
My friend whispers back to her, "The spinal cord."
She tentatively replies "The spinal cord?"
^Possibly the biggest facepalm I've seen my teacher do all year...
Well you're gone gonzo with practicily makes you a grown up so im gona say... Gordon freeman.Trivun said:"Who would win in a fight, Gordon Freeman or Master Chief?" Honestly, that's the most one-sided debate I've ever been involved in in my entire life (I'm winning, by the way, and anyone who knows me here will already have guessed who I support there).
Nope, Master Chief. And please don't go into the whole debate I had with one guy who didn't know when to quit despite my valid arguments refuting every point he made about The Freeman being better. As I said, anyone who knows me here will know my choice (since I've made it clear that I'm a self-confessed Halo fanboy on numerous occasions...).uncle-ellis said:Well you're gone gonzo with practicily makes you a grown up so im gona say... Gordon freeman.Trivun said:"Who would win in a fight, Gordon Freeman or Master Chief?" Honestly, that's the most one-sided debate I've ever been involved in in my entire life (I'm winning, by the way, and anyone who knows me here will already have guessed who I support there
Why do Brits say lorrie? What's wrong with truck?Zombie Turtle said:
Did you explain to him that it was fog? Not that I'm defending him but there are large areas of the US where it's never foggy.beastwood225 said:
Yes but if you say truck, i know you mean a lorrie. But i always miss understand it when you say period..Eldritch Warlord said:
I used to date this girl in college. She was hot, funny, and "book smart", and really sweet. But god I think her mouth would say shit before her brain processed it. The best gems right off the top of my head.
During that whole Passion of the Christ controversy, she was reading a Time magazine or something in class and it had pics from the film of Jesus being led through the streets all bloody and ripped up.
Her - oh god, these pictures are so gnarly. Are they the actual pictures you think?
Girl at same table as us - No, they didn't have color film back then. (sarcasm)
Her - Oh.
I laughed my ass off after that
Another time we were just sitting watching a movie on the couch, I think it was the second LOTR movie. I mention this because it has no bearing on the question she asked me.
Her - Hon?
Me - Yeah?
Her- Do you ever wonder how metal detectors work?
Me- What?
Her - Metal detectors, you know the things you walk through to see if you have metal in your pockets.
Me- Yeah I know what they are.
Her- Its weird don't you think? How it knows you have something metal in your pockets.
Me - Not really, it's a metal detector. It DETECTS metal.
Her - Yeah but how? It can't see it.
Me - It's science don't worry about it.
Another time, my roomate and I were discussing on making a home made BBQ grill out of some recently emptied metal barrels that contained orange glow. (his dad sold the stuff by the pallete)
Her out of left field from the kitchen - That would never work.
Roomate - Why?
Her - Barrels are made of wood.
And just to mess with her I would ask her what happened to tumble weed when they died. It probably still perplexes her to this day.
During that whole Passion of the Christ controversy, she was reading a Time magazine or something in class and it had pics from the film of Jesus being led through the streets all bloody and ripped up.
Her - oh god, these pictures are so gnarly. Are they the actual pictures you think?
Girl at same table as us - No, they didn't have color film back then. (sarcasm)
Her - Oh.
I laughed my ass off after that
Another time we were just sitting watching a movie on the couch, I think it was the second LOTR movie. I mention this because it has no bearing on the question she asked me.
Her - Hon?
Me - Yeah?
Her- Do you ever wonder how metal detectors work?
Me- What?
Her - Metal detectors, you know the things you walk through to see if you have metal in your pockets.
Me- Yeah I know what they are.
Her- Its weird don't you think? How it knows you have something metal in your pockets.
Me - Not really, it's a metal detector. It DETECTS metal.
Her - Yeah but how? It can't see it.
Me - It's science don't worry about it.
Another time, my roomate and I were discussing on making a home made BBQ grill out of some recently emptied metal barrels that contained orange glow. (his dad sold the stuff by the pallete)
Her out of left field from the kitchen - That would never work.
Roomate - Why?
Her - Barrels are made of wood.
And just to mess with her I would ask her what happened to tumble weed when they died. It probably still perplexes her to this day.
I have had people in all seriousness, ask me why people don't fall of the bottom of the world.ElTigreSantiago said:
I spent like 20 minutes over the course of 2 days, explaining that no matter where you are on the Earth, you are drawn towards the center, so down is always the ground (they also wondered if the sky would be below you in the Southern hemisphere).
I facepalmed like 10 times.
Three of these people are now in an honours Socials Studies class (which includes Geography) with me. The world is ending.
Those times when users rhetorically ask Moderators to ban them, and then declare themselves king when the mods don't ban them after spamming their own thread for two minutes.
I'm not implying anything, it's just happened before. It was rather amusing.
I'm not implying anything, it's just happened before. It was rather amusing.
Ridonculous_Ninja said:
i was playing a game demo in bestbuy, and a person walk up and ask me what game i was playing, the sign for the game was nearly 7ft tall and more than 4ft wide, he was looking right at it
adn if that oen isnt good enough, someone asking were the shaving razors were, and they were standing next to them
"What are you downloading?"
A friend when I put the aways symbol on and put in my comment "Downloading, BRB"
On COD4: "How do you change teams? I don't want to be a terrorist."
A picture of the female egg in the ovary, projected onto a HUGE whiteboard:
"Miss, is that actual size?" Cue laughing "I meant to scale". It's a circle (well, suppodsed to be). All circles are similair...
A friend when I put the aways symbol on and put in my comment "Downloading, BRB"
On COD4: "How do you change teams? I don't want to be a terrorist."
A picture of the female egg in the ovary, projected onto a HUGE whiteboard:
"Miss, is that actual size?" Cue laughing "I meant to scale". It's a circle (well, suppodsed to be). All circles are similair...
In my high school math class, a class for people who are supposedly good at maths and science ( a Baccalauréat Scientifique class for anyone who cares to look it up) the teacher drew a function graphically on the board, and just after he was done chalking up the X and Y axes, a girl raised her hand and asked "what are the two crossing lines for". She changed her course at the end of the year.
It's not really a stupid question, more like a stupid thought process.
I used to work in customer service for a phone company (we'll call them PhoneCo, just to avoid sounding like a plug).
Anyway, one day on a call from a customer, I tell him that he can also view his account information and phone records online at phoneco.com, he says he's never been there before and asks me to stay on the line for a moment while he checks it out. Perfectly reasonable, I say okay, hear him type away at his keyboard, and the next thing I know he's reading me a list of search results ("Best phone deals, phoneco, teleco, and others all here. Get phones now unlocked all major carriers like phonemart, phoneco, telemart.") and asks me which one of them it is. I tell him, "Well, none of those, those are just retail sites, none of them is actually phoneco.com" He asks me how he's supposed to find the site. I tell him, "You don't have to do a search for the site, you just need to enter phoneco.com." The sound of clicking keys is followed immediately by the reading of another search result (apparently he used a different search engine). "You're just doing a search again, you don't need to do a search if you have the website's address." And so on and so forth.
Look, I respect that computers can be scary things for casual users and even (stereotype until proven wrong) the elderly, but the internet as we know it has been around for over fifteen years. There's no excuse for not knowing how to find a website when you've got the full address.
I used to work in customer service for a phone company (we'll call them PhoneCo, just to avoid sounding like a plug).
Anyway, one day on a call from a customer, I tell him that he can also view his account information and phone records online at phoneco.com, he says he's never been there before and asks me to stay on the line for a moment while he checks it out. Perfectly reasonable, I say okay, hear him type away at his keyboard, and the next thing I know he's reading me a list of search results ("Best phone deals, phoneco, teleco, and others all here. Get phones now unlocked all major carriers like phonemart, phoneco, telemart.") and asks me which one of them it is. I tell him, "Well, none of those, those are just retail sites, none of them is actually phoneco.com" He asks me how he's supposed to find the site. I tell him, "You don't have to do a search for the site, you just need to enter phoneco.com." The sound of clicking keys is followed immediately by the reading of another search result (apparently he used a different search engine). "You're just doing a search again, you don't need to do a search if you have the website's address." And so on and so forth.
Look, I respect that computers can be scary things for casual users and even (stereotype until proven wrong) the elderly, but the internet as we know it has been around for over fifteen years. There's no excuse for not knowing how to find a website when you've got the full address.