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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How do you spell that?I had to send a laptop to a client in St Leonards-on-Sea. It was needed urgently and had some valuable data on board, however for some unaccountable reason our company insisted on using City Link Couriers, a company more suited to irretreviably losing and/or damaging IT equipment.
Anyway, I gave the address to the dispatcher on the end of the phone.
Me: "Town - St Leonards-on-Sea
CL: "Can you spell that please?"
Me: "S-T space L-E-O-N-A-R-D-S hyphen O-N hyphen S-E-A"
CL: "How do you spell 'hyphen'?"
Me; "... Can I speak to someone else, please?"
(, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 10:52, 2 replies)
Sounds (sadly) familiar!The organisation I work for has a hyphen in their name and the other week I had to suffer this stupidity:-
www.b3ta.com/questions/stupidity/post670008
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Vambo, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 22:05,
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I used towork for City Link, and I'm pretty sure you'd have just been asked for the postcode, removing the need to spell the address.
However, there were some right monkeys working there, and this is coming from someone who was in the Glasgow office!
(, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 2:17, closed)
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