You’re too busy fucking George Bush to perform human sacrifices to make the weather better?
I mentioned this in another thread, but the laundrymat used to have a sign saying .25 cents for 6 minutes . They must have gotten a comment because now it’s a picture of a quarter instead of the text.
Dear Lord have mercy.
It is hard not to be consumed with a desire to slap people like this. Hard.
I found myself saying exactly what the guy on the video said - “you forgot the unit”. And I could hear that woman’s eyes glaze over on the recording.
Lawsy me.
Regards,
Shodan
The best is when both employees keep emphasizing “cents”, and then magically turn it into dollars.
Verizon: “No, we’re talking about cents, not dollars.”
Guy: “Exactly!”
Verizon: “Huh?”
Guy: Do you acknowledge the difference between one dollar and one cent?
Verizon: Yes.
Guy: Do you acknowledge the difference between half a dollar and half a cent?
Verizon: Yes.
Guy: Do you acknowledge the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents?
Verizon: Those are the same.
I’m not sure who is cribbing who here, but I’ve seen most of those (and more) at Zero Out Of Five
Man, that video is great. He even starts off getting her to acknowledge that there is a difference between a dollar and a cent, and that there’s a difference between a half a dollar and a half a cent. But she can’t get that there’s a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents. I love this!
I never put 2+2 together before (which means I too am not a mathematician), but I’d be willing to bet money that that “Randall Monroe” on the cheque is the same Randall Monroe that producesthe best thing on the Internet since slicedbread.com (not counting SDMB of course).
Why were they talking about the difference between cents/dollars anyway? Who deals with less than a cent?
The guy was quoted a rate of 0.002 cents per KB on his cell’s data plan. He ended up downloading several hundreds MB of data, and an enormous bill because the actual rate was 0.002 dollars per KB.
Some of them I’ve already seen, but they’re still amusing.
It’s good to see that the website continues in the same spirit, incorrectly transcribing one of the students’ responses in the caption.
An egomaniacal narcissist wouldn’t give up so easily. He could claim it was a metaphor for untying the bonds that held your 10 points to the rest of your grade.
Of course, it’s not like he would believe you were right, anyway, even if you gave the correct answer.
I wasted a good hour at work on that site, mske. But it was a very slow hour as far as work went, so thanks!
Did he mean to claim to be the greatest living computer science, as opposed to scientist? Is undoubtably the same thing as undoubtedly?
I was wondering that, too–whether he meant science or scientist.
My first year of teaching I had a student who responded to a fill in the blank quiz of 25 questions with 25 repetitions of “D.N.”
He came from a line of musical genius though and I just checked to see if I could find him on the internet. Sure 'nuff!
Democracy now? Don’t “now”? Dagens nyheter? I don’t get it.
I’m guessing “Don’t know”.
ETA: Look, this kid wasn’t a rocket scientist in the first place, he probably didn’t notice that he was initialling it wrong.
I once was taking an American History survey class, something like the founding to the Civil War. On the final, there was a list of terms and we had to take each and write a paragraph describing the item, giving the appropriate dates, blah blah. Normal stuff.
The phrase I answered? The Battle of New Orleans
My answer was this quote
Except I wrote out the entire song. The professor saw my giggling while writing and kind of cocked his head at me. When I was done with the test, I flipped the blue book open to that page, and handed it to him, beaming.
He about doubled over laughing, causing everyone in the hall still taking the test to stare at him in confusion. I win.
I had a business law or management class which asked some question about identifying the four aspects of some marketing strategy and I was drawing a complete blank on it. I couldn’t even go for partial credit. So I went for “chocolate, peanuts, nougat and chewy caramel.” The teacher liked it but didn’t give me any credit for it.
I did get a tiny bit of extra credit for my Gilgamesh essay. I included a picture of Gilgamesh and Enkidu battling on the walls of Uruk. See the epic battle here.
