Educating Annoying Ignorances

[Gritimo The Odd]

Back when i worked for a customer care call center for our local cell phone company, one of the surprisingly frequent questions we got asked was "Why isn't Canada/Mexico part of our nationwide calling plan?" Most of the time we would roll our eyes and just point out that they are seperate countries. On occaision though, when i was feeling particulary snarky about being asked about Canada, I would reply "Because we didn't win that part of the Revolutionary War."
Saddest part is that most of the time we got asked that the caller was completely serious and completely sober.

 

[New Troll]

Also, people who are ignorant of basic computer knowledge despite using them all day. Seems like everyone I work with just memorized where to click the mouse, and never bothered to understand why things are done that way. So anytime something is slightly different they panic, even when all they had to do was read the words on the screen.

I work in retail and I sell the exact same merchandise as my fellow employees, yet they come to me time and time again with the exact same questions. It's well beyond just ignorance. It's laziness!

 

[Casual Shinji]

I recently saw a video review of The Incredibles on Youtube.

Said review basically stated that The Incredibles was a bad movie for children because it had conflict, obstacles for the heroes to overcome, and a villain that was actually evil.

Because why on earth would children actually wanna see that, right?

 

[Master Cylinder]

People who hate a music genre based on a few songs of that genre that they dislike. I give everything a chance, and by doing this I have found a lot of great music that I never would have listened to otherwise.

This isn't necessarily ignorance, but just a values decision. If someone has listened to 5 country songs and hated them all, they might decide that they would rather listen to music they know they're probably going to like instead of spending that time listening to more country in the hopes of finding some they enjoy.

OT: I find it both annoying and mildly funny how many people are ignorant of the definition of "ignorant."

Here's what I mean, and I'll use your country music example to explain. Let's say that person listens to 5 country music songs, hates them, and is then instantly dismissive of all country music. So, if he's basing his distaste on something like Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood and I ask him, "Hey, wanna listen to some Johnny Cash?" and he says, "No way, country music is garbage!" even though he has never listened to Johnny Cash, then he's ignorant of other types of country music. He might actually like Johnny Cash, but he won't know until he listens to it. That is what I meant with my example.

 

[Pebblig]

When people say an acronym, followed by a word that is part of the acronym.

"PIN Number - Personal Identification Number Number."

I also saw a FedEx van today - "FedEx Express - Federal Express Express"

Obviously the second isn't really an example, but it annoyed me none-the less.

 

[Nexxis]

Q: So what ignorances do you find frustrating?

I find the idea of people jumping on "bandwagons" to be very annoying. People who have no knowledge of a particular subject and are immediately for or against it simply because everyone else seems to be. I tend to see this a lot in gaming and tech communities where some people strive to be part of the popular crowd.

 

[New Troll]

Q: So what ignorances do you find frustrating?

I find the idea of people jumping on "bandwagons" to be very annoying. People who have no knowledge of a particular subject and are immediately for or against it simply because everyone else seems to be. I tend to see this a lot in gaming and tech communities where some people strive to be part of the popular crowd.

And now you know why Call of Duty is still relevant.

Personally, I love iPods (just hate iTunes) but I die a little inside every time I sell one to a customer who obviously has no clue what they're buying or why they're buying it, yet they must have one! And now we have kids running around with iPads just to play Angry Birds and check their Facebooks on. What is this world coming to?

I have yet to understand how a PS3 can be considered "too expensive" and yet people jump at the chance to replace their "old" iPads for the latest generation because it's slightly faster. I understand it sucks having to wait a whole quarter-second for your email to load, but aren't we suppose to be in some sort of recession? Gas prices too high but we want to make sure we have something sleek to watch our podcasts on while walking to work or school. But I regress...

 

[Innocent Bystander]

The one my parents always used to do is ask "are you winning?" when I was playing a video game. We've sort've been over that bridge to many times to count, so now they just ask me it sarcastically and I give an equally sarcastic answer. It seems to be working out pretty well so far.

 

[New Troll]

Another thing that REALLY annoys me... people in vehicles who don't give pedestrians the right of way, especially at crosswalks! Countless times I've walked out of a store and had people honk their horns at me because they didn't like having to stop for me to cross. If you don't want to stop at a crosswalk, then find a different route to where you're going. That simple.

But the reason I'm ringing this up is because my cousin almost got hit by a truck because when he saw her crossing the street, he decided to speed up and cut her off, coming inches from hitting her in the process. Luckily a police officer noticed and was able to pull the guy over. Just wish the driver would get more than a meager ticket.

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

Snipsnip

There's actually a comedy sketch somewhere about that very problem.
I'm from America, why so curious?[/quote]

Ohh, about 'north of Ireland' or just generally over all the different names people use? Having said that, I've been wanting to visit down south a lot more and I'm certainly curious to see if they take half the stuff we seemingly like to play volley bomb over, ahaha. I try to sit on the fence as best I can with it, but let me tell you; it's actually incredibly difficult.

Particularly with the fact that, no matter where you grow up here, nor how much your opinion develops, you are still going to end up holding those beliefs that you were taught as you were growing up, to some extent. I hope that makes a little sense at least? Oh, I worded it terribly; I remember reading it something like that somewhere and I agreed wholeheartedly; it made sense to me in that I, as ashamed as I am to admit it, feel a wee bit anxious towards certain ideals, I suppose, because of the way I was brought up. However, I have grown up and I do have, for the most part, developed my opinion, having friends from 'both sides' (I hate saying that but it's true, unfortunately. That is to say, 'both sides' as if they were gangs; the iconic 'murals' that, to me, seem to do nothing else but 'mark territory). I hope that made sense!

Anyway, that's be interesting to watch! Who was it by? is it on YouTube or the like?

Ahh, nono; I was just wondering really. See, it's not often one finds another who actually recognises that the island of Ireland actually consists of two countries, you know? Haha. Have you ever been here before?

 

[kickyourass]

There's actually a comedy sketch somewhere about that very problem.
I'm from America, why so curious?

Ohh, about 'north of Ireland' or just generally over all the different names people use? Having said that, I've been wanting to visit down south a lot more and I'm certainly curious to see if they take half the stuff we seemingly like to play volley bomb over, ahaha. I try to sit on the fence as best I can with it, but let me tell you; it's actually incredibly difficult.

Particularly with the fact that, no matter where you grow up here, nor how much your opinion develops, you are still going to end up holding those beliefs that you were taught as you were growing up, to some extent. I hope that makes a little sense at least? Oh, I worded it terribly; I remember reading it something like that somewhere and I agreed wholeheartedly; it made sense to me in that I, as ashamed as I am to admit it, feel a wee bit anxious towards certain ideals, I suppose, because of the way I was brought up. However, I have grown up and I do have, for the most part, developed my opinion, having friends from 'both sides' (I hate saying that but it's true, unfortunately. That is to say, 'both sides' as if they were gangs; the iconic 'murals' that, to me, seem to do nothing else but 'mark territory). I hope that made sense!

Anyway, that's be interesting to watch! Who was it by? is it on YouTube or the like?

Ahh, nono; I was just wondering really. See, it's not often one finds another who actually recognises that the island of Ireland actually consists of two countries, you know? Haha. Have you ever been here before?

The sketch is actually about the money thing not the "North of Ireland" thing, sorry if I didn't make that clear. It's about Scottish money but I imagine it would take on roughly the same meaning for Northern Irish money.
Link if you still want to watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-a5rYIAOM I hope you don't mind Micheal McIntyre,

What you said made sense don't worry.

Unfortunately I've actually never been outside the country, though I have always, always wanted to go to Ireland. When I can afford international travel that'll be the first place I go to visit.
The mistake I encounter isn't that people think that the whole island belongs is all one country (A somewhat forgivable mistake I think, unless you're filling out a form of some kind), it's that they seem to think the whole of Ireland belongs to Britain, which I think is probably is the worse of the two mistakes.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Huh. Most of this is people complaining about other people not having the same level of interest in a topic as they do. Seems a little unreasonable.

That said, people who think their favoured subgenre of metal is 'more metal' than another. I would like to know how this is worked out. And how some bands you don't like are apparently 'not metal' to distance yourself from them, instead of you just outright saying they're shit.

 

[New Troll]

Huh. Most of this is people complaining about other people not having the same level of interest in a topic as they do. Seems a little unreasonable.

Yet that is kind of the point of the thread (to vent,) though I do wish people would explain more their reasons to help "educate" the rest of us. Course I can't complain too much for I'm sure I am just as guilty. Did I ever give a reason why pedestrians always have the right of way? Probably not because I just assume everyone should already know the reasons. Course I'm sure I'm wrong. Just me being ignorant.