IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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This really happened.I've been driven in 4 wheel drive cars most of my childhood - kinda a necessity in Zambia.
About 11 years ago I bought MY first fourby (4x4=4 by 4=fourby) - a Toyota Landcruiser FJ60 (I forget the year). Something like this with aluminum bull-bar and runner boards for $4000.
It was a beauty, dualfuel on autogas and petrol. Very cheap for such a lumbering beast.
Now. I had never driven my own car before when I had been fourby-ing in the past so I really didn't know much about prepping the vehicle etc.
So. My neighbour and I decided to head down to 1 of the local beaches to do some fishing. In my new fourby. On the sand.
Off we went, I drove down the ramp onto the sand no problems and then we dropped a line in and cracked a beer.
No fucking bites apart from blowies about an hour later so we packed up and jumped into the car. I put it in reverse, eased the pedal slowly and within seconds I was pretty much up to the rear axles.
Out we get and scratch our heads. Further up the beach is another bloke fishing with his teenage son. I walked up and asked them if he could give us a tow. He asked me if I had my tyres down - the lesser pressure gives the tyres more surface area on the sand. I told him yes, and then he asked if I had a pump. I looked at him quizzically and dug out the bike-tyre foot pump I had in tool chest. He managed to stifle a giggle and told me I could use his to re-pressurise my tyres once I hit bitumen.
He got his car backed up and got out his snatch-strap (fnar). Then he said these immortal, ego-crushing, "You're a n00b" inducing words -
"Have you got the wheel-locks on?"
"What wheel-locks?" I replied.
He then showed me the front wheel-locks (on "Free"), shifted them to "Lock" and told me I was good to go. He got his car out of the way and I pretty much effortlessly backed off the beach and onto the ramp.
He & his son had the decency not to laugh at me. We used his battery operated compressor to re-inflate my tyres and off we went. I offered to buy him a few beers but without laughing in my face he refused but strongly suggested that I go to a 4x4 training course.
My Father's Day presents that year were a Hanes manual for my car, a cigarette lighter sourced tyre compressor & a snatch-strap.
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Who was giving you the blowies?(
Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 11:00,
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Those little bastards pretty much know how to ruin a fishing trip.(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 11:38, closed)
They actually make ok bait if you can bearsed butchering one of the millions of little fuckers.
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Wouldn't a snatch strap make a better present for Mother's day?(
Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 11:03,
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fnar(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 11:06, closed)
HMMMe too. Got a Landcruiser hire jeep stuck in the sand about 10mins after renting it.
Phoned the hire company and 20mins later a local chap came flying over the dunes in his car to rescue us.
He was driving a 2CV. And didn't get stuck.
He did give us a tutorial on how to drive in sand though. (let the tyres down, turn the steering hard left to hard right and back again as you go through really soft stuff, and if you get stuck rock the car to pack the sand under the wheels)
(, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 13:47, closed)
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