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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The words you never sayNot the rude ones, oh no. Everyone says those eventually.
I mean the ones that there's no normal reason to say. The words you can define perfectly well, but never tried pronouncing.
A professional meeting, aged 27, was NOT the best place to find out that 'Antelope' does NOT rhyme with 'Penelope'. But everyone else had a damn good laugh.
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agreeing with badge on this one.(
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:35,
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I did similar.Apparently it's "orange-ry" not "oh-ran-gery".
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www.b3ta.com/questions/blazingignorance/post1718425
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BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:05,
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I want to know what meeting you were in that involved antelope.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 3 Sep 2012, 21:42,
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off-topic conversation while the projector was set up: One colleague present had recently been home to Botswana and mentioned a trip through one of the wildlife preserves, and events led onward with a tedious inevitability...
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So you're going to pretend never to have seen a wildlife programme on the television for the sake of making up a story for an internet forum?Good work.
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Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 22:46,
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I used to assume that Penelope rhymed with Antelope,which is the other way around from your story.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 23:13,
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so you're going to pretend never to have seen whacky races etc etc(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 7:57,
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I didn't watch with subtitles.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:03,
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I had the same thing with 'lingerie'Thinking it rhymed with "finger me"
Except that was because I'd only ever had furtive pre-puberty glances at the pages of the Grattan catalogue while enjoying the strange new sensations in my pee pee.
And that I grew out of it (the igorance, not the enjoyment derived from looking at fit birds in their pants) when I was about 12, not 27, FFS.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 17:11,
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