Idiot Sightings

[Noble Dreg]

Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words-

From a pure view of intelligence...Who is more the idiot, the man with the gun to his head, or the moron standing in front of the line of fire to take the "shot"?

Lord I hope that's a staged photo for both their sakes...Given the anti ATF message I'm guessing it is.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

There are 2 establishments in the building where we have our restaurant.  The other one is a bar.  The bar owner had a problem with his bathroom plumbing.  The lease requires the tenant to pay the first $75 and the owner of the building (not us) has to pay the remainder of the bill.  This particular bill was for $400.

The plumbing company sent the owner of the bar a bill for $75.  He then sent us a bill for $75.  He sent the owner of the building a bill for $250.

When my husband called him on it, he said he thought the tenants had to pay $75 each.  Why in the world would someone think that we would pay part of a bill for the toilet of the owner of another business?

[DonaCatalina]

I work for a distributor that handles commercial hardware and fasteners.
No, its not Home Depot.
But we do occasionally get calls from people who really should have gone to home depot.

One of my favorites:

Caller: I need some bolts to fix my gazebo
Sales: Do you know what type of bolt you need?
Caller: Oh, the regular kind.
Sales: Well, do you know what size you need?
Caller: You know just the regular size bolts for gazebos.

<sigh>

[maelstrom0370]

About a decade ago, I was in a Key West tattoo shop explaining to the guy (a guy who's job relies on creativity, artistry and imagination) a design I wanted.  I wanted a dragon and a tiger wrapping around each other and going up my spine.  He kept showing me pictures of a tiger on the ground and a dragon in the air.

Me: No...I want them wrapped around each other and separating at my shoulders.
Him: Well...you know...tigers don't really bend that way.
Me: *Blink, blink*
Him: *Awkward silence*
Me: Well...you know...dragons don't really exist!

Needless to say, I decided not to spend my money there

[LadyElizabeth]

Quote from: Lady de Laney on July 12, 2009, 09:39:14 PM
I work at Ball Aerospace and fix PC's for Rocket Scientists. Funny many are just like those people above... honestly. And just think these are the ones that just sent up Kepler and fixed Hubble... again

Well, look at it this way... if they were actually intelligent, the Hubble wouldn't have needed to be fixed to begin with...

OK people, that is just mean.  I'm a rocket scientist and I'm no where near stupid!!!!  Some smart people don't have common sense, but I know a million rocket scientists and they are some of the smartest people I know!!!! 

So I have another one for ya.  My sister was dating this fireman and she was telling him about a missionary trip she did to China years ago.  He replied, "So people in different countries don't have the same religion as here?"  This made me laugh for the longest time!!!

[maelstrom0370]

Some smart people don't have common sense

FTFY! 

Oh and....

COMMON SENSE
So rare, it's practically a Super Power

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

If i could teach a class on common sense, I'd be a multi millionare... just think about all the return customers!

[Tipsy Gypsy]

"Common sense" is my favorite oxymoron.

I work for Aggies.

Purely coincidental, of course.

[Noble Dreg]

...I'm a rocket scientist...I know a million rocket scientists and they are some of the smartest people I know!!!! 

I work as a design engineer for an electronics firm...know a few "rocket scientists" myself.  I was called out on a field issue...When referring to a problem the customer said "This ain't rocket science, we know rocket science and this ain't it"!  She stated it with full ironic intent.  Darn near fell out of my chair laughing.  She clearly intended it as a joke.

[Hoowil]

Another favorite of my family stories, involving stupid things. My grandfather was part of the team that worked on the lunar lander. They were told to design a radio antenna that would extend from the bottom of the lander. It needed to be able to withstand impact with, as they were told, 'a standard lunar rock' while still being usable, but not unbalancing the craft if it landed on something. When my grandfather asked what they meant by 'a standard lunar rock' he was only told that that data was part of the goals for the mission, and that nobody knew.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Quote from: Lady de Laney on July 12, 2009, 09:39:14 PM
I work at Ball Aerospace and fix PC's for Rocket Scientists. Funny many are just like those people above... honestly. And just think these are the ones that just sent up Kepler and fixed Hubble... again

Well, look at it this way... if they were actually intelligent, the Hubble wouldn't have needed to be fixed to begin with...

OK people, that is just mean.  I'm a rocket scientist and I'm no where near stupid!!!!  Some smart people don't have common sense, but I know a million rocket scientists and they are some of the smartest people I know!!!!  

So I have another one for ya.  My sister was dating this fireman and she was telling him about a missionary trip she did to China years ago.  He replied, "So people in different countries don't have the same religion as here?"  This made me laugh for the longest time!!!

Um Please only capture what I said if quoting me as I never said Well, look at it this way... if they were actually intelligent, the Hubble wouldn't have needed to be fixed to begin with... That was another person you cut out of the quote

The only thing I said was I work at Ball Aerospace and fix PC's for Rocket Scientists. Funny many are just like those people above... honestly. And just think these are the ones that just sent up Kepler and fixed Hubble... again

While I will admit their are MANY of the people I support who are damned intelligent, there are many who have ZERO common sense. A great example is this

Why store 120 GB of unreplacable data on your hard drive when there is a server that you can do it on that gets backed up daily, weekly and monthly? Damned idiotic if you ask me, but what do I know, I just have to try and recover their data when their hard drive fails and then get yelled out when it's impossible for me to do. Not to brilliant if you ask me, but hey what do I know, I don't have a collage degree, I just learned everything I know about PC's by doing it and using what was given to me. Then again Intelligence has nothing to do with a piece of paper from some university.

[Sir William Marcus]

[renfairephotog]

Discworld Elephant?

[RSLeask]

OK people, that is just mean.  I'm a rocket scientist and I'm no where near stupid!!!!  Some smart people don't have common sense, but I know a million rocket scientists and they are some of the smartest people I know!!!! 

Difference between book smart and street smart.  I was on a virus call on our network at Peterson AFB (the network techs were all extremely busy, so the head of the network asked if I could possibly take care of it... no problem).  This major, who was the one that infected his computer with the ILuvU virus (this was a while ago), looked at me point blank and said, "I got this email with an attachment.  It said the attachment was quarantined, so I figured it was safe to open."

>.<

"No sir, this virus relies on a Layer 8 vulnerability, and causes a General Fault "Eye-Dee-Ten-Tee" error."

[Rhiannon]

While I will admit their are MANY of the people I support who are damned intelligent, there are many who have ZERO common sense.

*nodsnods* You got it! I learned a long time ago that some of the smartest people around have absolutely no common sense whatsoever. Makes me wonder how they have managed to survive without it. They've gotta have someone looking out after them, someone who really feels pity that they can be so smart, yet be so dumb at the same time.