Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Is it a bird?Walking home from work one night, my collegue M recounted the following story which should serve as a warning to any government who thinks that a University education is any indicator of the quality of the workforce it creates.
M had been out with a friend and heard an odd noise above her, in the sky. On glancing up, she noticed what seemed to be, rather unusually, a very old airplane, possibly a bi-plane. She couldn't quite tell and wasn;t really sure if that's what it was, so turned to her friend to ask,
"Is that what you call a bi-plane?"
Only before she got the end of the sentence out, the angle of the aircraft shifted and she realised that actually it was just a bog standard two seater plane.
Not wanting to admit that she'd made a mistake and desperate to complete the sentence with some kind of dignity she uttered the words,
"Is that what you call a plane?"
There's something so delightfully innocent about that that it still makes me giggle every time I think about it.
(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 12:39, 1 reply)
making me giggle right now(, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 14:17, closed)
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