Just Can't Fix Stupid

[bayonetbrant]

the fun starts around the 36sec mark

[Atilla60]

the fun starts around the 36sec mark

I don't know.
She's married to her husband. What's wrong with that?

[Steelgrave]

Considering that the husband says at the end of the clip that "everything that was precious to me was in that garage", I'm thinking maybe the cousin may win her in the end   >:D

[BanzaiCat]

Hahahahaha that anchorwoman is fat.

[bayonetbrant]

http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

[Atilla60]

http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

[JasonPratt]

I love (note: not actually love) how the student identity crisis slid from psychological trauma of being a rape victim, to some kind of equivalent psychological trauma for being a person of color or from a low income family.

Kind of surprised the author didn't make more note of that.

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, I was at Amazon yesterday, trying to do a rush research on replacing my office color printer by Friday (for a business presentation Saturday).

Ideally just needed the same printer; but not willing to pay $400 to $650 for a new printer more than ten years old (jeez the price scalping there! But the printer works with Mac OS 10.4, you see; a lot of places like our shop still run programs that need that old OS.)

So, okay, I'll check whether the immediate replacement model, the Officejet Pro 8100, runs on Mac OS 10.4. Never did find an answer to that question, so I gambled (since if 10.5 will run it, maybe the 10.4 drivers are forward compatible) and it'll be here Friday.

But while trying to find an answer to that question, I was paging through the eleven pages of Q&A on the (main) Amazon store page for the printer.

Two regular events in those eleven pages blew my mind -- and I'm not talking about technical ignorance, I don't blame anyone for that. (I was there to solve a technical ignorance problem myself, and I'm not overly ignorant technically!)


1.) The most common type of question was, will this printer run on this operating system? Okay, a perfectly valid question (also, the category I was looking for myself). But I lost track of how many times the question was repeatedly asked and answered, most often for Win 7 but also Win 8. Yes, it works great no problem! But does it work for Win 7? Yep, sure does! How about for Win 7?

It wasn't only a case of people being too lazy or ignorant to click the little hyperlink to check whether someone has asked for that before (and yet not being too lazy or ignorant TO GO TO THE TROUBLE TO SUBMIT THE PUBLIC QUESTION AGAIN!) There were times when the answer to the question had to have been right there on the page looking at them, not yet dropped off into the answer archive. Yet the people asking the question again had to be capable of reading enough to ask the question again, so reading inability couldn't be the reason.


2.) But that wasn't the stupidest thing. No, even worse were the people who apparently felt called by God Himself with the mission and duty and obligation to answer a particular question, as if it had been addressed to them personally, with some variation of, "I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that question."



If there had been some instructive level of sarcasm to such an answer, I could have understood it. "I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that question, but let me check the eleven other pages of Q&A to see if someone already answered it and I'll get back to you with a report perhaps. You wait here until then, you don't have to go looking yourself, I'll take care of it for you."

But no, the respondents always seemed sincerely sorry they didn't know the answer, and so could only give a completely worthless answer. 


Though it now occurs to me that I've been pinged before by Amazon polling customers on a product to see if anyone knows the answer to an asked question on a product page. Maybe that explains it, those people REALLY THOUGHT some person (at Amazon? the person asking the question on Amazon?) had personally emailed them asking the question and hoping for an answer from them.

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34162336?SThisFB

A huge pillow fight involving cadets at a prestigious US military academy to mark the end of summer training left at least 30 soldiers injured, US media has reported.
At least 24 cadets were reported to have been left unconscious because pillows were stuffed with hard objects.
One cadet suffered a broken leg, while others had dislocated shoulders.
West Point Academy has insisted that none of the injuries is severe and all cadets have returned to duty.
Details of the injuries sustained in August have emerged in The New York Times, which reported that video of the fight posted online shows crowds of yelling cadets, some wearing body armour as well as helmets, surging together in a central quad.

[besilarius]

"Never bring a knife to a gun fight."
Moon Mullins, 2/9th.

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34162336?SThisFB

A huge pillow fight involving cadets at a prestigious US military academy to mark the end of summer training left at least 30 soldiers injured, US media has reported.
At least 24 cadets were reported to have been left unconscious because pillows were stuffed with hard objects.
One cadet suffered a broken leg, while others had dislocated shoulders.
West Point Academy has insisted that none of the injuries is severe and all cadets have returned to duty.
Details of the injuries sustained in August have emerged in The New York Times, which reported that video of the fight posted online shows crowds of yelling cadets, some wearing body armour as well as helmets, surging together in a central quad.

The best part of this?  The Duffel Blog had the story THREE YEARS AGO
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/mob-violence-breaks-out-at-west-point-63-wounded/

[bayonetbrant]

[mirth]

Someone needs to teach those cadets the correct way to organize a pillow fight

[Airborne Rifles]

Awesome!

Although, ironically, West Point may be the only place in the Army where the CSMs don't care what color PT belt you wear. Come to think of it, that fact is probably the root of the whole pillow fight scandal.

[bayonetbrant]

Parent fucking fail