how does one survive without common sense?
seriously. almost every day you hear stories about people who fell out of a tree when they cut down the branch they were standing on, or something akin to that. hospital workers telling stories about various items being stuck in various places (NOT belonging to children). a woman trying to use a million dollar bill to buy things at wal-mart. understandably, these sorts of things can happen to anyone - be it accident or on purpose. my point is that there are tons of people out there, some caught in the public eye but most not, who don't even have a drop of common sense.
yes, its amazing how dumb they are. but what's more amazing is that they reached 20, 30, 40 years of age without killing themselves inadvertantly. they've survived day after day, year after year without having the faintest idea of how things work. they've spent years gathering information through education and experience, but have not one rational thought in their head. as children they touched the stove and burned themselves, then did the same thing the next day. they can't be taught properly but believe everything they hear and try to get you to believe it too. some may be washing floors, but there are some that run companies and control people's lives. they are out there.
i don't have anything against most of them personally, but these kinds of people are a drain on our civilization and every effort must be made to put a stop to their existance through any means necessary. if education does not work, termination of these people is the only way humans as a species can evolve. we need to start with gloria.
point in case: today. as an education service, we get mailed tons of shit for promotional purposes: university mouse pads, boarding school business card holders, bumper stickers (even though no one here owns a car, thats the school's bad). today we got a small dry-erase board from an american military academy that had seperate magnets if you wanted to attach it to the fridge. what follows is a run-down of the conversation i had with, as brian calls her, "the cave troll":
g: here's another fancy american present, what is it?
me: its a white board, dry-erase board. these are magnets if you want to attach it to a refrigerator. this is the special pen for writing on it, see (i demonstrate the wipe-ability)?it's for writing messages for other people.
g: lets put it on the wall in the meeting room.
me: its not decoration, its for leaving notes or messages.
g: well where can we hang it?
me: how do you want to use it?
g: i don't know.. can we put it on the wall?
me: its not a decoration, if you put it on the wall it will look weird unless you have a purpose.
g: ok.
30 min later
g: how about we put it on the wall here.
me: why do we need to leave notes near the heater?
g: no one will notice it here.
me: its an empty wall with only a calendar on it. of course they will notice. we don't have any use to leave notes on this wall.
g: what are these for?
me: i told you, they're magnets. you take off the tape and afix them to the back so it can go on a fridge.
g: well, where can we put it?
me: sigh
sometimes i don't even know why i try. the other day i spent 20 min explaining to her that the reason all of our computers are slow as shit is because they have small, outdated memory cards. i've told her this consistently for the past 2 months and i thought i had her convinced. however on this particular day someone had told her that the reason they were slow was because my computer had an english version of MS Office and the others had chinese. even after i explained that all computer software is in the same "language" regardless of what the screen shows, she insisted that everyone install the english version, even though some of their english is not too hot.
yay, the inept computer guy is back. lets see what he can break today. at least he's not on my computer but i have absolute faith he can probably still fuck it up from way over there.
time to go back to hell. peace.
yes, its amazing how dumb they are. but what's more amazing is that they reached 20, 30, 40 years of age without killing themselves inadvertantly. they've survived day after day, year after year without having the faintest idea of how things work. they've spent years gathering information through education and experience, but have not one rational thought in their head. as children they touched the stove and burned themselves, then did the same thing the next day. they can't be taught properly but believe everything they hear and try to get you to believe it too. some may be washing floors, but there are some that run companies and control people's lives. they are out there.
i don't have anything against most of them personally, but these kinds of people are a drain on our civilization and every effort must be made to put a stop to their existance through any means necessary. if education does not work, termination of these people is the only way humans as a species can evolve. we need to start with gloria.
point in case: today. as an education service, we get mailed tons of shit for promotional purposes: university mouse pads, boarding school business card holders, bumper stickers (even though no one here owns a car, thats the school's bad). today we got a small dry-erase board from an american military academy that had seperate magnets if you wanted to attach it to the fridge. what follows is a run-down of the conversation i had with, as brian calls her, "the cave troll":
g: here's another fancy american present, what is it?
me: its a white board, dry-erase board. these are magnets if you want to attach it to a refrigerator. this is the special pen for writing on it, see (i demonstrate the wipe-ability)?it's for writing messages for other people.
g: lets put it on the wall in the meeting room.
me: its not decoration, its for leaving notes or messages.
g: well where can we hang it?
me: how do you want to use it?
g: i don't know.. can we put it on the wall?
me: its not a decoration, if you put it on the wall it will look weird unless you have a purpose.
g: ok.
30 min later
g: how about we put it on the wall here.
me: why do we need to leave notes near the heater?
g: no one will notice it here.
me: its an empty wall with only a calendar on it. of course they will notice. we don't have any use to leave notes on this wall.
g: what are these for?
me: i told you, they're magnets. you take off the tape and afix them to the back so it can go on a fridge.
g: well, where can we put it?
me: sigh
sometimes i don't even know why i try. the other day i spent 20 min explaining to her that the reason all of our computers are slow as shit is because they have small, outdated memory cards. i've told her this consistently for the past 2 months and i thought i had her convinced. however on this particular day someone had told her that the reason they were slow was because my computer had an english version of MS Office and the others had chinese. even after i explained that all computer software is in the same "language" regardless of what the screen shows, she insisted that everyone install the english version, even though some of their english is not too hot.
yay, the inept computer guy is back. lets see what he can break today. at least he's not on my computer but i have absolute faith he can probably still fuck it up from way over there.
time to go back to hell. peace.