Chapter I: 25/06/2008
* "you'd better watch out, you big food hippy - the eggs in that flour might not be free range"
* "where's Kosovo? Is it in Serbia?"
* "naive? What's that mean?"
Chapter I: 25/06/2008
* "you'd better watch out, you big food hippy - the eggs in that flour might not be free range"
* "where's Kosovo? Is it in Serbia?"
* "naive? What's that mean?"
"naive? What's that mean?"
:D
That just made my day
"you're really quiet,
i might erupt you"
(she meant corrupt).
the same girl also claimed that she coul dbeat off any man in under one minute. she was the only girl working in an office of middle aged men.
classy bird
i'd challenge her
i used to time myself, never did it in under a minute
i don't work there anymore
but i did think that even if you lost, you'd still win, if you see what i mean.
The last one
is pure gold :D
I work in TV listings
and a while ago the producer of See Hear sent us a really badly-written billing. Cue one of my colleagues sagely telling me 'perhaps it's because he's deaf'. Because deafness = dyslexia, obviously.
you're the real dumb-ass
If the produce is deaf they is a very high chance that they use British Sign Language (BSL) as a first language, which is grammatically completely different to written english. Because of this written English is often regarded as a BSL user's second language. It is very common for a deaf person's written english to be quite bad, when compared to a hearing person.
"What's Auschwitz?"
After another colleague asked how you spell it.
you work for the Nazis?
Why would anyone need to know that for work?
:O
Are you in my office?! Someone here said that yesterday.
"you had better eat those eggs soon or else they are going to hatch"
were they being serious????
yep!
are you being serious?
i had a good one today!
my colleague and i were looking at an email that my boss sent us.. and my colleague said, "and what's with all the explanation points?" ha!
"speaking of explanations, dear...."
"Is electric just concentrated gas then?"
i thought of another good one that floored me
it wasn't a work colleague but a colleague with the group i volunteer with. we were blowing up some balloons and i said "they don't stay up very well. it's too bad they're not helium-filled". and she said, "how do you know they're not helium filled?"
"............... because... i... blew them up.... with my mouth...?" : |
one girl I worked with didn't know what a continent
was, and while we were laughing about this another girl in my team piped up and said, "yeah continents are like what carol vorderman uses on that programme yeah?"
The same continent girl also though Canada was in Europe and that Europe was a 'big club for rich countries'.
these are all hilarious :)
yeah, strangely the Carol Vorderman
girl got promoted above me. I left my job shortly after that.
oh yeah, another
girl was looking on a customers account and saw that they had a direct debit for their 'egg' card and said
"why do you need a card to buy eggs?"
Not at work but..
..this girl that my mate knew asked us if the capital of Rome was Roman, surely this wins. ;)
Thinking Canada is in Europe is stupider
Hmm debateable.
...
"Left in France is the same as right in UK isn't it?"
"What part of England is Paris in?"
not my colleague but a friends
"what's a jew?"
"Did you see Big Brother last night?"
this person has known me for two years
'I thought Africa was a country'
The same girl thought that London (which she had NEVER been to, despite being 23 and having spent her entire life living just 2 hours away from it) was in the North East.
She also seemed to think that Manchester and Leeds were prominent Scottish cities.
Its suprised how poor most peoples geography is
When i was at uni in Canada:
- In one presentation a girl kept referring to Africa as a county and didn't get marked down.
- One Geographies of Tourism lecturer said 'Spain, Italy, France, Greece are practically the same country'
- Same lecturer said 'You can pick a country like Nepal, where you can do everything: Trekking, mountaineering, surfing, swimming in the sea'
^yes yes^
my grammar and spelling are shit
That's terrible!
Which university was this?
University of Waterloo
But to be fair it was just that one module/ lecturer, the fact it was a Tourism module was rather funny though.
The rest of the Dept was perfectly fine though, and has a pretty good academic reputation
Spian, italy etc
In terms of geography of tourism they are fairly similar.
Similar climates, similar cultures, three have similar language, similar histories and their combined area is probably about 1/5-1/4 the area of Canada.
Not so sure about Nepal....
Also
"Pele? He's that French dude who played for Arsenal isn't he?"
in fairness
Kosovo kind of is a region of Serbia, since its independence hasn't been internationally recognised yet
yeah, i decided to give him that one off after i'd posted
I
was asked by a girl once: "Do Pigeons drink Petrol?"
Blade 3 was on tv...
the day after some one in my workplace asked 'what was that film with wesley snipes as a draclia?'
note: not a spelling mistake in the quote....its word for word what was said!
"how do you make potato?
I know it's water and flour, but what else?"
^brilliant
;)
that one defied belief
I didn't think people could be that stupid. Oh how wrong I was.
:D
amazing
"what is asparagus?"
We have one girl in our office
who asked if Scotland was a city!!
Then just today asked me 'This man has sent me a copy of his birth certificate, he turned 18 in December 2007 - his invoice was raised in November 2007. How old was he when the invoice was raised?'
Arrrrghhhh
I've had a bit of this today..
.. why in our contacts directory is the risk and emergency planning manager for *gas company* and their control centre listed? Why do we need both?
In case you can't get hold of one of them maybe..?
*sigh*
the Kosovo thing makes sense
if they had been in a coma since 1995 or something.
I used to work for a large american company
the web director was based in the US and we were talking with them about creating a specific website for France, when he asked
"Do the French use the same alphabet as us?"
i used to work with the dumbest girl ever
"how do you spell Mr.?"
"there's glitter in my soup!"
she'd been working there for longer than me and seen me being introduced to Jean, the manager. a few months after i started, she asked "is Jean your mum?"
my business teacher
thought africa was a country and russia was a continent
the Kosovo one isn't dumb really