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2012/03/02 02:54:49
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
I'm both selfish and rational. I'm scheming, secretive and manipulative; I use knowledge as a tool for personal gain, and in turn obtaining more knowledge. At best, I am mysterious and stealthy; at worst, I am distrustful and opportunistic.
2012/03/02 06:03:32
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
I swear to god as the owner of a bar and a nightclub, the levels of stupidity of some people can not be underestimated. The fact that most of the time people are not really trying to be malicious is of no saving grace to their pure stupidity. Everything I do I try to see if it passes the idiot test, but there is always some savant that surpasses my imagination. It's like they try to be as stupid as possible.
My favorite story of this actually goes back to when I worked in the libraries computer center in college. Now granted most people at the time didn't have a whole lot of computer experience at the time. So one of the students in the computer lad comes up to the desk, shirt covered in some liquid.
"I'm having a problem, I think I broke the cup holder on the computer, and now I can't finish my paper."
Me: "What?"
"The cup holder, I think I broke it."
Me: "I'm not following you. We don't have cup holders on the computers." I point to the sign that says "No food or drink in the Computer Lab".
"Well the computer I'm sitting at has a cup holder, you press a button and it slides out."
I already knew what this genius had done but I had to go to the computer to check. There it was, a brand new computer soaked in red soda with the CD tray broken.......Luckily I had his ID and he got a bill I like to refer to as "stupid tax".
People are very very stupid.
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"I don't have principles, and I consider any comment otherwise to be both threatening and insulting" - Dogma
"No, sorry, synonymous does not mean same".-Dogma
"If I say "I will hug you" I am threatening you" -Dogma
2012/03/02 08:07:24
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
2012/03/02 16:24:25
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
Andrew1975 wrote:"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
I swear to god as the owner of a bar and a nightclub, the levels of stupidity of some people can not be underestimated. The fact that most of the time people are not really trying to be malicious is of no saving grace to their pure stupidity. Everything I do I try to see if it passes the idiot test, but there is always some savant that surpasses my imagination. It's like they try to be as stupid as possible.
My favorite story of this actually goes back to when I worked in the libraries computer center in college. Now granted most people at the time didn't have a whole lot of computer experience at the time. So one of the students in the computer lad comes up to the desk, shirt covered in some liquid.
"I'm having a problem, I think I broke the cup holder on the computer, and now I can't finish my paper."
Me: "What?"
"The cup holder, I think I broke it."
Me: "I'm not following you. We don't have cup holders on the computers." I point to the sign that says "No food or drink in the Computer Lab".
"Well the computer I'm sitting at has a cup holder, you press a button and it slides out."
I already knew what this genius had done but I had to go to the computer to check. There it was, a brand new computer soaked in red soda with the CD tray broken.......Luckily I had his ID and he got a bill I like to refer to as "stupid tax".
People are very very stupid.
This...
I can not believe you, sir.
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2012/03/02 17:52:20
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
Andrew1975 wrote:"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
I swear to god as the owner of a bar and a nightclub, the levels of stupidity of some people can not be underestimated. The fact that most of the time people are not really trying to be malicious is of no saving grace to their pure stupidity. Everything I do I try to see if it passes the idiot test, but there is always some savant that surpasses my imagination. It's like they try to be as stupid as possible.
My favorite story of this actually goes back to when I worked in the libraries computer center in college. Now granted most people at the time didn't have a whole lot of computer experience at the time. So one of the students in the computer lad comes up to the desk, shirt covered in some liquid.
"I'm having a problem, I think I broke the cup holder on the computer, and now I can't finish my paper."
Me: "What?"
"The cup holder, I think I broke it."
Me: "I'm not following you. We don't have cup holders on the computers." I point to the sign that says "No food or drink in the Computer Lab".
"Well the computer I'm sitting at has a cup holder, you press a button and it slides out."
I already knew what this genius had done but I had to go to the computer to check. There it was, a brand new computer soaked in red soda with the CD tray broken.......Luckily I had his ID and he got a bill I like to refer to as "stupid tax".
People are very very stupid.
This...
I can not believe you, sir.
Unfortunately, I can believe him >.<
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
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Oh yea, even today people are completely computer stupid. I used to install cable, and I can tell you, Ive met some incredibly dumb people doing that. I once got a trouble call for a womans computer problems, it wouldnt work after the last tech installed it. So I get there, so says nothings working, no internet, nothing. So I go back and take a look at the computer, and nothing was plugged in, the computer the router nothing. I said well did you unplug all this? She then with a strait face told me, well it says its wireless.
I swear to god as the owner of a bar and a nightclub, the levels of stupidity of some people can not be underestimated. The fact that most of the time people are not really trying to be malicious is of no saving grace to their pure stupidity. Everything I do I try to see if it passes the idiot test, but there is always some savant that surpasses my imagination. It's like they try to be as stupid as possible.
Actually putting a chicken to defrost in the communal water is selfish not unintelligent. In fact its a smart and original thing to do as you don't run off your own water, possibly getting metered for it, nor do you have to use a large bowl, you just defrost the chicken. Its everyone elses problem if they dont know not to drink the water.
Andrew1975 wrote:
My favorite story of this actually goes back to when I worked in the libraries computer center in college. Now granted most people at the time didn't have a whole lot of computer experience at the time. So one of the students in the computer lad comes up to the desk, shirt covered in some liquid.
"I'm having a problem, I think I broke the cup holder on the computer, and now I can't finish my paper."
Me: "What?"
"The cup holder, I think I broke it."
Me: "I'm not following you. We don't have cup holders on the computers." I point to the sign that says "No food or drink in the Computer Lab".
"Well the computer I'm sitting at has a cup holder, you press a button and it slides out."
I already knew what this genius had done but I had to go to the computer to check. There it was, a brand new computer soaked in red soda with the CD tray broken.......Luckily I had his ID and he got a bill I like to refer to as "stupid tax".
People are very very stupid.
This one again. Its like the kitten in the microwave, it might have happened once but the source is so obscured because its been attributed to so many different people. I mostly hear about the CD holder one as a tech support helpline query.
It is possible that the stupid person was recreating it as a practical joke on library staff. In which case he was stupid for logging in with ID and being personally chargeable rather than just sitting at the public computer and pressing the CD eject giving it the blather and walking out, as a savvier selfish git would have done.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Does that kid ever look where he is going. Never seen him with eyes open.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2012/03/04 17:47:44
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
How the hell do you even put a chicken in the water heater? I've never seen a water heater that had an actual opening, much less one big enough to fit a chicken in.
"I don't have principles, and I consider any comment otherwise to be both threatening and insulting" - Dogma
"No, sorry, synonymous does not mean same".-Dogma
"If I say "I will hug you" I am threatening you" -Dogma
Water heaters should have hatches at the top so they can be cleaned.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Orlanth wrote:Water heaters should have hatches at the top so they can be cleaned.
Why? They don't get dirty? You can flush them out if you think there is settement, but usually all they have is pipe fittings, no hatches, certainly none big enough to fit a chicken. Maybe they had a giant one to heat the water for the whole building which is old and different, but most modern water heaters, don't have access hatches, its a sealed pressurized system. The more I think about it the more I want to call shenanigans.
"I don't have principles, and I consider any comment otherwise to be both threatening and insulting" - Dogma
"No, sorry, synonymous does not mean same".-Dogma
"If I say "I will hug you" I am threatening you" -Dogma
2012/03/05 00:34:22
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
I've got one that is nearly as stupid. Once, I worked at a restaurant, and one of the waitresses had a bad habit of ordering themselves a dessert when it was busy, hoping in the tumult it wouldn't be noticed. The kitchen manager and the wait staff manager were stumped on what to do, so I came up with a perfectly wicked sting. The vegetable shortening we use in the fryers comes in big, waxy blocks, so when a bogus dessert came up, (Ordered by voice only) I made it, it was a brownie with ice cream and chocolate sauce and whipped cream. However, in this case, I replaced the ice cream with a big scoop of vegetable shortening. Nothing dangerous, but really gross and bad-tasting, or so I thought. I was watching closely, and the perpetrator snatched up the bait dessert, sneaking off to the employee restroom. The funny part? She at the whole damn thing and didn't even notice. When she came out of the bathroom, all of the cooks were standing there, waiting for her reaction. We actually had to tell her what I'd done, and then she attacked me in that "I don't know how to fight" windmill style that you see drunk girls in night clubs use right before they start yanking out each others' weaves. (For examples, see "World's Dumbest Brawlers" on Tru TV.) We apprehended her, and laughed the whole time we were shoving her out the back door. Needless to say, she was fired. And most likely scarred for life.
Orlanth wrote:Water heaters should have hatches at the top so they can be cleaned.
Why? They don't get dirty? You can flush them out if you think there is settement, but usually all they have is pipe fittings, no hatches, certainly none big enough to fit a chicken. Maybe they had a giant one to heat the water for the whole building which is old and different, but most modern water heaters, don't have access hatches, its a sealed pressurized system. The more I think about it the more I want to call shenanigans.
Limescale removal.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Orlanth wrote:Water heaters should have hatches at the top so they can be cleaned.
Why? They don't get dirty? You can flush them out if you think there is settement, but usually all they have is pipe fittings, no hatches, certainly none big enough to fit a chicken. Maybe they had a giant one to heat the water for the whole building which is old and different, but most modern water heaters, don't have access hatches, its a sealed pressurized system. The more I think about it the more I want to call shenanigans.
Limescale removal.
I hear you but, I just have never seen one with an opening big enough to push a frozen chicken though. I've seen plenty of water heaters.
"I don't have principles, and I consider any comment otherwise to be both threatening and insulting" - Dogma
"No, sorry, synonymous does not mean same".-Dogma
"If I say "I will hug you" I am threatening you" -Dogma
My old condo block (built in the early 90s) had one of the big communal ones with hatch on top so might be less popular now in newer condo blocks but there are quite a few still around.
Still, its not only messy and unhealthy but unconvenient too, why not leave it outside the fridge and for the next day and buy some burgers?
M.
Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.
About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though."
Going out and buying something else instead, don't be unrealistic Miguelsan.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
2012/03/05 12:27:01
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
I dont get, why they didnt just stick it in a sink full of hot water, and replace said hot water every 10 minutes or so. Thats what I do when I want frozen meat, to not be frozen in a jiffy. Works rather well for me
Andrew, your probably thinking of a normal house water heater. Yes they are much to small for a chicken, but a water heater for an apartment complex, would have to be huge to keep multiple apartments water heated.
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2012/03/05 20:55:53
Subject: Re:There is a chicken in my water heater.
Andrew, your probably thinking of a normal house water heater. Yes they are much to small for a chicken, but a water heater for an apartment complex, would have to be huge to keep multiple apartments water heated.
I understand, but I've been to the boiler room of some large old apartment complexes. I still have never seen one with a giant access hatch. Not saying it's not possible, just I have never seen it.
"I don't have principles, and I consider any comment otherwise to be both threatening and insulting" - Dogma
"No, sorry, synonymous does not mean same".-Dogma
"If I say "I will hug you" I am threatening you" -Dogma
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