Is there anyone dumber than Phil?

[Gazorgan]

Okay, this is my most recent one.

Get this desperate call from a friend of my wifes, she says there's something in her trash can and she can't delete it. I say, Okay, no big deal, just empty the trash. She says she tried, but it won't delete.

M'kay, at this point I ask what is it? She says 'her husband' was surfing some porn sites and that's what's in there. Her husband was out of town. It seems her son found and watched about 2 hours of ....ummmm...girl only porn from Kazaa.

Since she can't seem to delete it, I offer to come over and fix it. It turnd out she never new you had to click on "Empty Recycle Bin", she kept hitting the delete key. It was funny to see her squirm as I read throught the titles, emptying them 1 by 1.

[presto]

To give the other side. I just watched Saturday Night Live and they had a skit called "Your Company Computer Guy". It was hilarious. The guy was like a nerd Nazi who thought everyone in the office was an idiot because they didn't know as much about the computer as him.

Anyway I don't think there's anything particular stupid about thinking you could copy a DVD with you new DVD burner and not knowing that there are several kinds of disks (That look alike and fit in the same devices).

[defense]

It was funny to see her squirm as I read throught the titles, emptying them 1 by 1.

LMAO...you shoulda restored them and made a dozen copies of them all and placed them on her desktop...and without laughing hysterically...you shoulda told her that at least you emptied her recycling bin.

[gmatov]

Gazorgan,
When I read your recycle bin post, I thought "This can't be right; I know I've done that.", so I opened my trash, highlighted an item, hit "Delete", and it was gone. Selected "All", hit Delete, and they were gone.
This is 98SE, nothing to delete on my W2k machine, but think it's the same.
What OS are you on?
If her son is over about 9 years old, how does she know it was her husband's
sex vids and not the boys? I've had machines for repair with bunches of these DLs with kids in the family but no husband.
Hey, how about the Tech who told the customer to pack it all back in the box and return it. When the guy said, "OK, but why?", the Tech said, " You are too stupid to have a computer."

[Will Hay]

Anyway I don't think there's anything particular stupid about thinking you could copy a DVD with you new DVD burner and not knowing that there are several kinds of disks (That look alike and fit in the same devices).

For the record nor do I, but like I said a few posts up, it's meant to be a tongue-in-cheek thread.
Sorry you missed the point of the thread.
Will

[Will Hay]

Gazorgan,
When I read your recycle bin post, I thought "This can't be right; I know I've done that.", so I opened my trash, highlighted an item, hit "Delete", and it was gone. Selected "All", hit Delete, and they were gone.
This is 98SE, nothing to delete on my W2k machine, but think it's the same.
What OS are you on?

I'm guessing she wasn't opening the recycle bin, just hitting delete.
Will

[pacmania_2001]

To give the other side. I just watched Saturday Night Live and they had a skit called "Your Company Computer Guy". It was hilarious. The guy was like a nerd Nazi who thought everyone in the office was an idiot because they didn't know as much about the computer as him.

Is that the one where the office guy is complaining he can't get any sound out of his speakers and the tech support guy can't find the problem but in the end it turns out just to be a head phone jack left in. So the office guy starts to pay out the tech support guy but then when he takes the jack out it is like Celine Dion playing?

[gmatov]

Will,
Nah, the first line says "she says there's something in her trash can and she can't delete it."
Neither here nor there. Just curious if one of the other OSs can't be deleted the way I said.
Try the "stupid" link above. Hilarious, and starting from 286s, old stuff. Fold a
"5 dash 1 slash 4" floppy in 1/2 to fit a 3 1/2 floppy drive, and more.
George

[bigmicka]

i have been in computer support for years now, the weirdest one i have heard is about the guy that phoned the helpdesk trying to work out why his floppy disks werent working anymore.

he was using the old 5 1/4 disks, he would fill the disks with his backed up information and store them, but whenever he came back to use them they no longer worked.

the tech support guy asked if he does anything with the disks before putting them into storage. which he replied "i put a label on it".

it ends up the guy was putting the label on the disk and then putting the disk into a typewriter to type on the label. with the curving around it would kill the disks.

they may be floppy disks, but not that floppy.

mic

[EddyH]

To be cruel, i'd say that not figuring out that CDs do NOT = DVDs is like taking your car to the service station and filling it up with the first hose you put hands on

Still there's plenty enough people drive off after putting diesel in a petrol car, lead-replacement in a diesel, etc every year...!

Some folk just don't get technology. Which is why we have society. They ask us for help with their tech, we ask them for help with other stuff.


Mind you, it's usually good form to remember a fairly simple thing after you've been shown it three or four times (such as "to turn the tv on and play a video, press the following four buttons in sequence..."). Like, changing the engine oil or tyres on a car may seem daunting at first but once you see how little it really entails it doesnt take more than a couple years to pick up It's not required that everyone become intimate with the methods of giving their motor a 100,000 mile full benched overhaul (or the equivalent in other fields), but the little things should be doable by anyone with sufficient IQ to actually ask the questions..
Damn that reminds me.. my mum still can't change a tyre either. Well that is, she refuses to learn, seeing as there's that AA card sitting in her pocket. But for the charges they may levy and the 45 mins spent waiting, instead you could be away and at your destination after changing it yourself :P

(or realising, perhaps, that a disc of a totally different size *may not* work too well if you bend it in the middle.. you notice how it's got a spindle to spin it round..? a bit like VHS vs Beta )

[gmatov]

EddyH,
You bend it to one side of the spindle (hub), to make a 3 1/2. If you bend in the middle, it's only 2 5/8, sloppy fit in a 3 1/2 slot.
Check the stupid site. You'll bust a gut. I thought I'd heard them all till I went there.
Like the woman whose printer didn't work, and was asked if she was operating under Windows and replied, "No, I'm next to a door. But it makes sense. My co-worker is under a window and his works."