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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Just yesterdayI was helping the Missus' sister decorate her house. We were all painting away in seperate rooms when suddenly the smoke alarm started going off. I stood bemused as they waved towels at it, flailed around holding their ears and tried to open windows which were sealed shut from outside, as the house is currently being roughcast. Nothing would stop the alarm, it was deafening, and eventually they all shuffled downstairs, still holding their ears, and began flicking switches in the fuse box and shouting "What fuse is it for the smoke detector" at each other. It was at this point I decided to go with my original gut instinct and popped the alarm off the ceiling and removed the battery.
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sat 1 Sep 2012, 17:43,
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Round at my mother-in-law's the other nightI noticed she'd tied a plastic bag over the smoke alarm. The reason? "It goes off every time I use the oven."
Oh, well, yeah, problem solved.
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Zoroastermouse thinks therefore he am, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 0:59,
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