2829: They All Laughed
I haven't really drawn in my work sketchpad for some days now, only partly because I've actually been doing WORK ["prepped" documents are two obvious halves of a single document, rolled up as though two separate ones rather than taped together so to be ready to scan and save me the trouble of doing it]. When I get a minute in this The Days Are Just Packed summer I'm having, I'll have to scan in the thumbnails I've done so far and prep them, mod* the pin-up sketches** I've done, then switch out books, since there are only like thirteen completely blank pages left--I do thumbs in pen and sketches in pencil, and gad forbid I do both on opposite sides of the same page!
**starting from the last page of the sketchpad, individual drawings
*I'm having difficulty putting a lot of detail into something on a 3x5" workspace, considering the elevation of the pad, so I'll have to tear out each sheet and tape them all to a larger page and work that way.
Instead [and I notice I stopped re-reading Roomies!/It's Walky!/Joyce and Walky! like I said I was], I've been reading NAR at the plug of a commenter to unclekage's journal... with obvious mixed feelings:Customer in an ice cream shop: "Wait, your mint ice cream is white?"
Me: "That's right. We don't use artificial colors in our ice cream."
Customer: "So shouldn't your Orange Cream ice cream be green, since oranges are green?"
Me: "Blurgh!?"
This one made me laugh the loudest of what I got through, I think because it's so nonsensical and least insulting to my intellect [oddly enough]. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the other entries just make me lose hope in civilization, if the prolificness of such exchanges is any indication [not all Stupid Exchanges get posted on the Internet for Those In The Know to read and mock].
That is, take the fact that any Stupid Person exists. Multiply this by the number of successful spawnings that pass on the vast intellect of their parents, and it's no wonder that we've become a nation of whiners, bitching when something pricks the cushy bubble we live in and blaming our own faults on others.
Which is why the rest of the world hates America, right?
Like, I take issue at certain kinds of blanket vegan propaganda, but for the same reason I would take issue at cold-blooded carnivores chewing out "veggies" for choosing not to eat meat [but not shoving their meatless diets down other people's throats]. I mean, anyone with cats would tell you that they'll race to drink up COW MILK in a heartbeat. Hell, all animals would do the same if given the opportunity--even my gerbils, I'd wager, as wholly improbable as it would be for them to find it in the wild. This isn't really stupidity as much as it is an inflated sense of superiority--people love declaring things like "Humans are the only animals that XYZ" when it's really not true and is only stated to make a self-righteous [and uninformed] point.
Out of fairness, pointing out that a customer can't read isn't necessarily worthy of ridicule--though you or I might find it hard to imagine [and even horrific], there could be thousands of illiterate drivers for whom the mentioned ALL INFORMATION BLATANTLY LISTED sign-pointing would be worthless, and the customer in question may have been making a joke about, "Yes, you picked up on my illiteracy--I hope your staff isn't as bad as I am!"
[though, yes, it seems ludicrous to suggest that staff trained to recognize "no wax" marks wouldn't be able to read them, but the point is this is actually less laughable/"facepalm"-able than other bad customer stories]
In short, good to kill time, but I hate making a habit of reading too much in the "[Subject Matter] Is/Are Stupid" vein, for the obvious downer effect it has. [I prefer LOLcats, despite the unreadability thereof.] For all the good the Internet has brought us, it also forms new, divisive ways to siphon us into different kinds of castes than the ones we've made before--I have this extended thesis about bringing like-minded people together in ways that are actually NOT beneficial.
But more on that when I shouldn't be going to bed, instead =p Hopefully, tomorrow I can find a mechanic that isn't 1. overbooked or 2. a scammer.
**starting from the last page of the sketchpad, individual drawings
*I'm having difficulty putting a lot of detail into something on a 3x5" workspace, considering the elevation of the pad, so I'll have to tear out each sheet and tape them all to a larger page and work that way.
Instead [and I notice I stopped re-reading Roomies!/It's Walky!/Joyce and Walky! like I said I was], I've been reading NAR at the plug of a commenter to unclekage's journal... with obvious mixed feelings:Customer in an ice cream shop: "Wait, your mint ice cream is white?"
Me: "That's right. We don't use artificial colors in our ice cream."
Customer: "So shouldn't your Orange Cream ice cream be green, since oranges are green?"
Me: "Blurgh!?"
This one made me laugh the loudest of what I got through, I think because it's so nonsensical and least insulting to my intellect [oddly enough]. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the other entries just make me lose hope in civilization, if the prolificness of such exchanges is any indication [not all Stupid Exchanges get posted on the Internet for Those In The Know to read and mock].
That is, take the fact that any Stupid Person exists. Multiply this by the number of successful spawnings that pass on the vast intellect of their parents, and it's no wonder that we've become a nation of whiners, bitching when something pricks the cushy bubble we live in and blaming our own faults on others.
Which is why the rest of the world hates America, right?
Like, I take issue at certain kinds of blanket vegan propaganda, but for the same reason I would take issue at cold-blooded carnivores chewing out "veggies" for choosing not to eat meat [but not shoving their meatless diets down other people's throats]. I mean, anyone with cats would tell you that they'll race to drink up COW MILK in a heartbeat. Hell, all animals would do the same if given the opportunity--even my gerbils, I'd wager, as wholly improbable as it would be for them to find it in the wild. This isn't really stupidity as much as it is an inflated sense of superiority--people love declaring things like "Humans are the only animals that XYZ" when it's really not true and is only stated to make a self-righteous [and uninformed] point.
Out of fairness, pointing out that a customer can't read isn't necessarily worthy of ridicule--though you or I might find it hard to imagine [and even horrific], there could be thousands of illiterate drivers for whom the mentioned ALL INFORMATION BLATANTLY LISTED sign-pointing would be worthless, and the customer in question may have been making a joke about, "Yes, you picked up on my illiteracy--I hope your staff isn't as bad as I am!"
[though, yes, it seems ludicrous to suggest that staff trained to recognize "no wax" marks wouldn't be able to read them, but the point is this is actually less laughable/"facepalm"-able than other bad customer stories]
In short, good to kill time, but I hate making a habit of reading too much in the "[Subject Matter] Is/Are Stupid" vein, for the obvious downer effect it has. [I prefer LOLcats, despite the unreadability thereof.] For all the good the Internet has brought us, it also forms new, divisive ways to siphon us into different kinds of castes than the ones we've made before--I have this extended thesis about bringing like-minded people together in ways that are actually NOT beneficial.
But more on that when I shouldn't be going to bed, instead =p Hopefully, tomorrow I can find a mechanic that isn't 1. overbooked or 2. a scammer.