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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Homage to catatoniaIn my office last month. Person A walks up to Person B. Apropos of apparently nothing, the following exchange occurs:
Person A: "Have you read George Orwell's... 1912? The one about the pigs? What's it called?"
Person B: "Big Brother?"
I was slack jawed in disbelief. I should add that these are 40-something university-educated workers at a major media company.
Which reminds me, we recently had three flatscreen TVs put up on the walls of our office and I made a joke about how Big Brother would be watching us. Person B replied: "Yes, and the eye logo would look really good too!" Some people need to read more books and watch less TV.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 16:35, 2 replies)
The big clue here is "media company."They probably don't even know what a book looks like.
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BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 16:58,
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Fair pointbut it's a broad church - some very erudite, curious people and others with all the mental dexterity of a piece of wood.
(, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 17:09, closed)
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