[QUOTE=Anaamika]
Really??? Wow. I didn’t know that. I thought rooster=male chicken. :smack:
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I didn’t word that too well. Chicken is the type of bird. Roosters are the boy chickens, hens are the girl chickens.
Ignorant Girl thought that roosters and chickens were two different types of birds, and that there were boy and girl roosters, and boy and girl chickens. Who knows what she thought hens were.
And she just would not be told otherwise.
You had it right the first time. 
Well, thank you for telling me. Or I would have spent the next portion of my life believing it the other way, and having people make fun of me. 
Those girls are most likely not going to someday be ophthalmologists or optometrists - they are “technicians” whose job is to get done the preliminary busywork necessary to each visit that doesn’t require medical training. An ophthalmologist can see upward of 80 or 90 patients a day, and they can only manage this if the doctor himself only does those tasks that require his expertise. Techs are in fact not allowed to make medical decisions or judgments. Their responsibility is to be fast, accurate, and consistent. It’s better that she made you go through the process step by step, because she can’t take the responsibility for taking you at your word and skipping any part of the examination. There are many patients who have serious misconceptions about their own bodies and eyes, and she is explicitly not supposed to make judgments about what you tell her. It sounds to me like she was doing her job just fine.
Plus, in a medical practice “I have to write it down” is quite a compelling reason. Insurance companies can reject anything from the billing department if the forms are in any way incomplete. In a good practice every effort will be made to dot every i and cross every t.
[QUOTE=matt_mcl]
Oh! My useless ex Éric is now convinced that the fact that products are marked kosher is some sort of tax on non-Jews. Don’t ask me how; he was pretty incoherent on the details. He’s always been pretty woo-woo, but he’s not usually outright offensive.
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This one’s been floating around for a long time. See the Snopes article: The Kosher Nostra.
And, I don’t know who Mary Higgins Clarke is, either.
[QUOTE=Q.N. Jones]
I didn’t word that too well. Chicken is the type of bird. Roosters are the boy chickens, hens are the girl chickens.
Ignorant Girl thought that roosters and chickens were two different types of birds, and that there were boy and girl roosters, and boy and girl chickens. Who knows what she thought hens were.
And she just would not be told otherwise.
You had it right the first time.
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When you find a girl that dim, the only proper way to fight the ignorance is to show her some cock.
[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Her work is often sitting next to the checkout line in grocery stores, above the candy or chips. So it’s perfectly possible to get accustomed to her name without reading her.
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That’s the only place I’ve seen her books. Had I been pressed to say what kind of books she writes, I would reply, “Paperbacks.”
[QUOTE=A. I. Wintermute]
Those girls are most likely not going to someday be ophthalmologists or optometrists - they are “technicians” whose job is to get done the preliminary busywork necessary to each visit that doesn’t require medical training. An ophthalmologist can see upward of 80 or 90 patients a day, and they can only manage this if the doctor himself only does those tasks that require his expertise. Techs are in fact not allowed to make medical decisions or judgments. Their responsibility is to be fast, accurate, and consistent. It’s better that she made you go through the process step by step, because she can’t take the responsibility for taking you at your word and skipping any part of the examination. There are many patients who have serious misconceptions about their own bodies and eyes, and she is explicitly not supposed to make judgments about what you tell her. It sounds to me like she was doing her job just fine.
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Some of my general ignorance fought.
But in this specific instance, the girl simply didn’t understand what the words meant. She had no idea what “binocular vision” was. She was amazed and a little dubious when I explained it to her. Is it willful ignorance on my part to assume that this is not a difficult word? This may very well be another case like C3’s friend – just a job, you don’t need to know anything about it.
[QUOTE=Ro Carter]
Me: (sounding slightly strangled, from holding in hysterical laughter) “Is there mud in the sky where you come from?” (she had moved in from out of the area)
Her: “Well, isn’t that were the earthworms come from?”
I’m not sure how I managed to hold the laughter in, but eventually the story came out: She thought earthworms lived in mud clods in the sky, then fell to earth with the rain.
It sounds like one of those ideas that you get as a child and then never really get direct information against, because… well, not many schools have a segment where they explain the origins of earthworms.
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I can almost guarantee that the father told her this story. Father’s seem more inclined to make up silly shit like this, and mothers seem to hate it when we do.
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
Well, thank you for telling me. Or I would have spent the next portion of my life believing it the other way, and having people make fun of me.
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It was funnier if you assumed that your initial comment was a whoosh in the “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” vein.
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
Well, thank you for telling me. Or I would have spent the next portion of my life believing it the other way, and having people make fun of me.
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Haha, I’m so glad I’m not the only person who got tremendously confused there! I was all set to go home and announce that roosters are an entirely different species of bird from chickens, and the female can, in fact, lay eggs. :smack:
[QUOTE=Maus Magill]
My grandfather raised sheep. He sheared them in the summer, so they’d be cooler in the heat. He didn’t shear them in the winter, because he didn’t want them to die from exposure in the winter.
If you think sheep don’t have expressions: Check out the face of a freshly sheared ram in June.
Your Mother was right on this one.
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Well, considering June in Australia is the middle of winter… 
[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Her work is often sitting next to the checkout line in grocery stores, above the candy or chips.
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That sounds like a real boring job. No wonder she has time to write a lot of books. 
Seriously, even though I recognized the name Mary Higgins Clark, and knew at some level of consciousness that she was an author, I could not have told you what kind of books she writes. If someone had pressed me, I probably would have guessed romance novels.
[QUOTE=Q.N. Jones]
Ignorant Girl thought that roosters and chickens were two different types of birds, and that there were boy and girl roosters, and boy and girl chickens. Who knows what she thought hens were.
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If she ever learns the truth, she’ll receive a pullet surprise.
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
Conversation with co-worker:
CW: Do you know who Marry Higgins Clark is?
Me:The author? Yeah, she lives in New Jersey.
CW:There’s an article here that she was screwed out of $27 million dollars.
Me:Wow.
CW: Can she really afford to lose that much money?
Me: Well, she is very successful.
CW: So, what type of books does she write?
How could anyone not know what type of books Mary Higgins Clark writes?
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I really don’t understand how those of you who read a lot can have ever been into a bookstore and not seen the tens of thousands mary higgins clark mysteries that always on display EVERYWHERE. they are huge sellers I imagine.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Both, as there are two backgrounds.
What’s astounding about this is that we see all of these double images all the time, and usually never notice. We disregard the illogical disinformation as not even existing.
This bit of ignorance can be blamed on the subject being young, but still – Sheesh:
I had just told him that I play the guitar.
“What kind of guitar?”
“Um, electric?”
“No, I mean do you play basic guitar?”
“What do you mean?”
“Basic guitar. Do you play basic guitar?”
“Oh, you mean bass guitar?”
“NO! BASIC GUITAR!”
“Um… I play lead and rhythm. That’s pretty much all there is.”
“BUT DO YOU PLAY BASIC GUITAR?!?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Huh. Then I guess you’re not very good.”
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I’m thinking he meant Acoustic Guitar, the non-electric guitars, and that he just didn’t know the term.
[QUOTE=TheMerchandise]
Next was the depth perception test. She gave me some 3D glasses and asked me to look at a picture of several flies. “Which fly’s wing seems to lift off the page?” She asked.
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Oh, so that’s what that test was for! I remember it from when I was a kid, except I was supposed to pretend to pick the fly up.
My mom, who is a huge forwarder of email glurge, sent me a link to some “new” Florida traffic laws for 2007. I had seen the list before and I already knew it to be a hoax, so I decided to look up a page to debunk it so my mom isn’t driving around all paranoid over nothing. I started to reply to the email but when I pasted the link in, I noticed it was the very link she sent me! That page said it’s false right across the top and explained the origin of the email (it started in California IIRC and spread to several other states), but apparently my mom just ignored all of that and skipped right to the list. :smack:
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
I had a girlfriend once in middle school who could not be convinced that there were two separate words: deaf and death.
She was adamant that her Grandmother was going death.
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Well, aren’t we all?
[QUOTE=lobstermobster]
I really don’t understand how those of you who read a lot can have ever been into a bookstore and not seen the tens of thousands mary higgins clark mysteries that always on display EVERYWHERE. they are huge sellers I imagine.
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I’d heard of her, but it’s a genre I ignore so I’d never really paid any attention to her.
I suppose it’s a little different when you’ve worked in a bookstore. You find out that most popular genres have a naming scheme, and you can identify exactly what kind of book most airport bookstore type paperbacks are by the title. For example, spy thrillers are almost always “The [City/Surname] [Noun]” (The Paris Option, The Bourne Identity, etc).