Shield +2 against co-worker ignorance

[toku666]

Hey! One of you already knows this, but the iPod is an amazing device for both making your day more enjoyable through the power of great music that you have chosen for yourself and also for making it so you cannot hear amazingly inane and ignorant things that your co-workers randomly say

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[psyco_path]

Honestly ignorance is rather scarce around here. at least ignorance that is said outloud. Here's what struck me as dumb the other day.

"I'm getting married in Vegas next month, you can watch on the webcam."

Normally this wouldn't be that shocking but the woman who said it is still not divorced from her husband. Still has a 3 YO daughter that custody hasn't been settled for yet. Is now engaged to the same man that she had been cheating on her husband with.

I'm all in favor of moving on with your life, but goddamn let the corpse stop twitching first.

Of Torpedo Bueys

[the_first_day]

Yesterday. I brought in some Guiness for St Patties day. Our service guy, one of those 'Bud or nothing' folks, was finally convinced to have one. After freaking out that there was a torpedo buey in his bottle, he timidly asked 'Am I...am I supposed to swallow it?'

[sanzoluk]

"Naw, shit daw. Thems kids is bitches. Stupid bitches."

- Customer trying to explain why I wouldn't turn on our broken XBox so some annoying apparently homeless kids we have to babysit could play it.

Wait, that was smart. I'll try again.

[rpriske]

"Most homeless people are that way by choice."

Now, to get the full effect of that you ahve to realize that it was said during winter in Ottawa where we get down to -40 Celsius.

discussions of religion at work

[ceejishi]

To the Argentinian Jew while at work, "Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis really want peace. They just want to kill each other." Probably *not* the smartest thing to say to a high maintenance pregnant chick like this one.