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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Overheard comment from extremely fat person while walking up to the acropolis in Athens"Why did the Greeks have to build all their monuments on hills?"
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 12:12,
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Ha. I swear, I heard exactly the same in Pompeii.A fat American woman said 'WHy didn't they make it flat like at Disney?'
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 12:19,
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Funny you should mention Pompeii...... heard a parent promise a fat kit (almost spherical) that there was a Taco Bell at the top of Vesuvius in an attempt to get him moving/rolling.
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Conversely, my brother heard an american tourist remark that it was good of the scots to build edinburgh castle so close to the station
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I had a american couple ask me"is that the castle?" pointing to the large castley thing looming over the city. I told them is was just the theme park as the real castle was so far away.
"hey that's neat" they replied and waddled off
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That reminds meOf the apocryphal Merkin who asked why they "built Windsor Castle so close to the freeway".
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 15:42,
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