KillerMuffin
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Y'know, I don't think I've ever actually really met one.
Stupid people
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And what galaxy are you from?
Weird Harold
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KillerMuffin said:
Lucky you!
I think I've met your share as well as mine.
wildsweetone
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Can we count relations in there?
It's definately not me that's stupid, it's everybody else!
Present company excepted of course.
It's definately not me that's stupid, it's everybody else!
Present company excepted of course.
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Like Artesians?
KM-
I know they exist.
Who else would be the target of all the telemarketers?
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KM-
I know they exist.
Who else would be the target of all the telemarketers?
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Alex756
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Re: Like Artesians?
Don't you mean who else would be .... telemarketers?
Excerpt from conversation
A: We don't use long distance
T: But you could get unlimited long distance for 25 a month
A: My husband works for <insert competitor> we get it for free.
T: But unlimited for 25 is a great deal.
A: He's in barbados for 6 months can you call back then?
T: Sure
(wait 10 minutes *ring* start again)
T: Can I speak to the person responsable for long distance choices?
A: I'm sorry he's at a parole hearing, can you call back in 15 years?
*sighs hits head on desk*
And no one but someone calling to get me to switch long distance would believe the line 'I'm sorry, phones are agianst my religion' -- never mind I'm talking to them on the phone ....
YAA
yet another Alex
Alex756
bridgetkeeney said:KM-
I know they exist.
Who else would be the target of all the telemarketers?
Don't you mean who else would be .... telemarketers?
Excerpt from conversation
A: We don't use long distance
T: But you could get unlimited long distance for 25 a month
A: My husband works for <insert competitor> we get it for free.
T: But unlimited for 25 is a great deal.
A: He's in barbados for 6 months can you call back then?
T: Sure
(wait 10 minutes *ring* start again)
T: Can I speak to the person responsable for long distance choices?
A: I'm sorry he's at a parole hearing, can you call back in 15 years?
*sighs hits head on desk*
And no one but someone calling to get me to switch long distance would believe the line 'I'm sorry, phones are agianst my religion' -- never mind I'm talking to them on the phone ....
YAA
yet another Alex
Alex756
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oh i can beat that!!!
I get a phone call a day from different telemarketers trying to sell me health insurance.
If I was paranoid I would be thinking somebody was about to do me in...
*looking over shoulder*
How many darn health insurers can there be in New Zealand? And why don't they stop ringing me after I say 'No thank you, I'm not interested', in a nice way? And why do they keep asking me questions like 'Do you realise we can give you a better deal than the one you have right now?'
Remind me to get the phone disconnected. God I'm stupid to keep answering it. grrr
I get a phone call a day from different telemarketers trying to sell me health insurance.
If I was paranoid I would be thinking somebody was about to do me in...
*looking over shoulder*
How many darn health insurers can there be in New Zealand? And why don't they stop ringing me after I say 'No thank you, I'm not interested', in a nice way? And why do they keep asking me questions like 'Do you realise we can give you a better deal than the one you have right now?'
Remind me to get the phone disconnected. God I'm stupid to keep answering it. grrr
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KillerMuffin said:
Cute thread. I think you're in denial. I've met a number (large number) of stupid people in my life. However, we must define stupid. There are engineers who cannot figure drapery fabric widths and carpet fills. Dope dealers who cannot figure fractions of grams to ounces. Car mechanics who cannot figure metrics. What is stupid? If you stay with an asshole "for the kids" are you stupid? If you forget to wash out your hair conditioner before you get out of the shower are you stupid? Perhaps you haven't met one KillerMuffin, but I've seen you respond to one or two.
Happiness,
Wantonica
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Hey, I resemble that remark
deliciously_naughty
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I worked in customer service...trust me...stupid people are out there
Chicklet
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re: telemarketing
I used to do phone surveys (sigh) "Hi this is Chicklet from Liberman reasearch worldwide, an international marketing reasearch company..."
anyways we used to call people on sundays and in the midwest especially they'd get REALLY upset.
Me: Hi this is Chicklet etc etc
Them: DO YOU KNOW THAT IT IS SUNDAY?
Me (hearing it for the 20th time that day): REALLY? What time zone are you in?
I used to do phone surveys (sigh) "Hi this is Chicklet from Liberman reasearch worldwide, an international marketing reasearch company..."
anyways we used to call people on sundays and in the midwest especially they'd get REALLY upset.
Me: Hi this is Chicklet etc etc
Them: DO YOU KNOW THAT IT IS SUNDAY?
Me (hearing it for the 20th time that day): REALLY? What time zone are you in?
Quasimodem
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No REALLY!
There are NO stupid people.
Just individuals who are VERY hard of understanding!
Like me in an evil hour.
There are NO stupid people.
Just individuals who are VERY hard of understanding!
Like me in an evil hour.
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Sorry KillerMuffin, but I have worked in customer service since I was 17, and there are WAY more stupid people out there than you might belive...
Example?
Customer: @%$*&^$ Why did you bounce my checks?
Me: Becuase you overdrew your available balance.
C: What do you mean?
M: (rolling eyes) You spent more money than you had.
C: There must be some mistake... I can't have been out of money... I still had checks left.
Doh!
And even if you have not run across a person who is TRULY stupid all the time, we can not discount that most of us ( raises hand) have seriously stupid moments.
Niteshade
Example?
Customer: @%$*&^$ Why did you bounce my checks?
Me: Becuase you overdrew your available balance.
C: What do you mean?
M: (rolling eyes) You spent more money than you had.
C: There must be some mistake... I can't have been out of money... I still had checks left.
Doh!
And even if you have not run across a person who is TRULY stupid all the time, we can not discount that most of us ( raises hand) have seriously stupid moments.
Niteshade
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Talk about stupid. Who's the stupid one:
I've moved a few miles north from where I use to live, so I left my motorcycle with a friend. I hadn't road it in a couple of years, just parked it. I went over to hang out with my friend and drink a couple buds.
I removed the cover and was dusting it off when this young guy saw the bike he came over "Wow! Ninja! Cool! I always wanted to get a bike."
I've been thinking about selling it for a while, just never really did anything about it. I told him that it's been sitting for a while, the tag was expired, and had no insurance.
"Does it run?"
I've got my wild side to, especially with a few budweisers in me. I backed it out into the parking lot. Hit the ignition and it starts right up. Real throaty bike. After juicing it a little, I grab the front brake and smoke the back tire.
Yup, I just had to jump on it. I spin the back end around and walk it about ten feet as I headed down the parking lot. As I'm going around the curve I see a line of cars and I remember why I stop riding.
I kick it back down and curse back to my friend's apartment. I get off the bike grab another beer and this young guy was hyped.
"If I'm going to buy it, you got to let me test it out."
I'm already past the extreme stupid part, but guess what....
He sits on the bike and I start it. He asked me if it was hard to ride. I said naw, if you get into any trouble just grab the clutch and kick it down.
He juiced it, popped the clutch and the bike took off and slammed into a trailor with two kick-ass custom 883 Harley's strapped on it.
All I could do was stand there with my mouth open. He stuck his feet out like he was on a bicycle. The bike toss his short ass over to the side walk. He was ok, just shaken up.
Totalled my bike, totalled the trailor (thank god the Harleys weren't scratched) and then he wanted me to walk away without telling the owner.
OK, first off I know the guy and his wife who own the Harleys they are really nice people. So, I take him with me to find the owner.
Dude is cool looking at the trailor briefly, but made sure that there wasn't anything wrong with those bikes. Satisfied, he said just an accident and I helped him put the trailor back on the stand like he had it. He told me that his wife was inside packing they were leaving for Daytona to ride this morning.
One of the neighbors saw the accident and called the police. Come to find out that the young guy had no bike license, and no money to buy my bike with. Just left home a couple of months ago.
Then we took a look at the trailor again. Not only the hook was twisted, but the frame was to.
Who's stupid?
I'm out of $600 for the bike trailor, the guy and his wife had to put off their trip. And I have a totalled Ninja.
Who's stupid?
Get any STUPIDER than that and somebodies going to call SWAT.
I've moved a few miles north from where I use to live, so I left my motorcycle with a friend. I hadn't road it in a couple of years, just parked it. I went over to hang out with my friend and drink a couple buds.
I removed the cover and was dusting it off when this young guy saw the bike he came over "Wow! Ninja! Cool! I always wanted to get a bike."
I've been thinking about selling it for a while, just never really did anything about it. I told him that it's been sitting for a while, the tag was expired, and had no insurance.
"Does it run?"
I've got my wild side to, especially with a few budweisers in me. I backed it out into the parking lot. Hit the ignition and it starts right up. Real throaty bike. After juicing it a little, I grab the front brake and smoke the back tire.
Yup, I just had to jump on it. I spin the back end around and walk it about ten feet as I headed down the parking lot. As I'm going around the curve I see a line of cars and I remember why I stop riding.
I kick it back down and curse back to my friend's apartment. I get off the bike grab another beer and this young guy was hyped.
"If I'm going to buy it, you got to let me test it out."
I'm already past the extreme stupid part, but guess what....
He sits on the bike and I start it. He asked me if it was hard to ride. I said naw, if you get into any trouble just grab the clutch and kick it down.
He juiced it, popped the clutch and the bike took off and slammed into a trailor with two kick-ass custom 883 Harley's strapped on it.
All I could do was stand there with my mouth open. He stuck his feet out like he was on a bicycle. The bike toss his short ass over to the side walk. He was ok, just shaken up.
Totalled my bike, totalled the trailor (thank god the Harleys weren't scratched) and then he wanted me to walk away without telling the owner.
OK, first off I know the guy and his wife who own the Harleys they are really nice people. So, I take him with me to find the owner.
Dude is cool looking at the trailor briefly, but made sure that there wasn't anything wrong with those bikes. Satisfied, he said just an accident and I helped him put the trailor back on the stand like he had it. He told me that his wife was inside packing they were leaving for Daytona to ride this morning.
One of the neighbors saw the accident and called the police. Come to find out that the young guy had no bike license, and no money to buy my bike with. Just left home a couple of months ago.
Then we took a look at the trailor again. Not only the hook was twisted, but the frame was to.
Who's stupid?
I'm out of $600 for the bike trailor, the guy and his wife had to put off their trip. And I have a totalled Ninja.
Who's stupid?
Get any STUPIDER than that and somebodies going to call SWAT.
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Hey, I like that:
//Customer: @%$*&^$ Why did you bounce my checks?
Me: Becuase you overdrew your available balance.
C: What do you mean?
M: (rolling eyes) You spent more money than you had.
C: There must be some mistake... I can't have been out of money... I still had checks left. //
Consider also,
Me: Let's leave the mouse bait here, here and here in your lower cupboard..
Friend: Why?
Me: That where the mouse droppings are. OK, I think we're finished. [Leaves box of mouse bait in the cupboard.]
Friend: Hey, don't leave the box there.
Me: Why, do you think the mice will get into it? So what?
Friend: Don't you see what it says on the box?
Me: What?
Friend: "Mouse bait, deadly poison, wash hands after any contact."
Me: So?
Friend: Don't you see, no mouse is going to eat the bait if you leave that box standing nearby.
//Customer: @%$*&^$ Why did you bounce my checks?
Me: Becuase you overdrew your available balance.
C: What do you mean?
M: (rolling eyes) You spent more money than you had.
C: There must be some mistake... I can't have been out of money... I still had checks left. //
Consider also,
Me: Let's leave the mouse bait here, here and here in your lower cupboard..
Friend: Why?
Me: That where the mouse droppings are. OK, I think we're finished. [Leaves box of mouse bait in the cupboard.]
Friend: Hey, don't leave the box there.
Me: Why, do you think the mice will get into it? So what?
Friend: Don't you see what it says on the box?
Me: What?
Friend: "Mouse bait, deadly poison, wash hands after any contact."
Me: So?
Friend: Don't you see, no mouse is going to eat the bait if you leave that box standing nearby.
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I was still STUPDDER
Just_John1
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Intelligence?
The true test of ones intelligence is how much they agree with me. I guess it depends on how forceful you are KM
JJ1
The true test of ones intelligence is how much they agree with me. I guess it depends on how forceful you are KM
JJ1
I worked for a company some years ago that switched all its staff who were still paid weekly in cash to monthly bank payments.niteshade said:Sorry KillerMuffin, but I have worked in customer service since I was 17, and there are WAY more stupid people out there than you might belive...
Example?
Customer: @%$*&^$ Why did you bounce my checks?
Me: Becuase you overdrew your available balance.
C: What do you mean?
M: (rolling eyes) You spent more money than you had.
C: There must be some mistake... I can't have been out of money... I still had checks left.
Doh!
And even if you have not run across a person who is TRULY stupid all the time, we can not discount that most of us ( raises hand) have seriously stupid moments.
Niteshade
We had a little old lady who traced drawings (technical ones) for us and she had no bank account. So the company opened one for her and explained it all to her. All went well for three months until she got electric, gas and local taxes (rates in England) all in the same month, and she wrote them cheques. This ran her acoount a small amount overdrawn so the bank wrote to her. We explained what had happened and talked to the bank for her. Her pay was due in a couple of days so they said, "Forget it." WE TOLD HER TO FORGET IT.
Two days later we got an agonised telephone call from the bank asking us to explain that you can't pay off an overdraft by writing a cheque on the same account made out to the bank!
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Re: Re: Stupid people
Yeah! Like Math says.
Or recognizing all us doofi (plural of doofus) around here, you expected to sit back and laugh at us venting about the stupid people we have met.
Trouble is, most of us meet the stupidest character we know, shaving, or applying makeup.
MathGirl said:
Yeah! Like Math says.
Or recognizing all us doofi (plural of doofus) around here, you expected to sit back and laugh at us venting about the stupid people we have met.
Trouble is, most of us meet the stupidest character we know, shaving, or applying makeup.
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I think the problem comes when you don't recognize the stupid things you do, and/or recognize the stupid things and do them again.
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Stupid People
Yes, I've met them. A few have even applied to me the same term.
Funny though. I'm the one who is the happiest, most value producing, sexy and smart.
As for them, I stopped listening to them. I listen to myself and use logic. Can't go far wrong and if you do, learn from it, apologise if you have to, and move forward in life. Pretty simple.
Therefore, I'm not stupid and what they say...doesn't matter.
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Yes, I've met them. A few have even applied to me the same term.
Funny though. I'm the one who is the happiest, most value producing, sexy and smart.
As for them, I stopped listening to them. I listen to myself and use logic. Can't go far wrong and if you do, learn from it, apologise if you have to, and move forward in life. Pretty simple.
Therefore, I'm not stupid and what they say...doesn't matter.
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