6 posts tagged “funny”
Reason five-billion-sixty-five why I love my co-workers and place of work.
last week, there was this
then this
and then the addition of the limited edition cups
and the ad sponsored (free!) version
and today, today, it became ( open source )
Apparently, many, many of them, who all don't seem to understand the difference between cents and dollars.
.002 cents is *not* the same as 0.002 dollars. I cannot believe how many times this guy had to explain it, and how many CSR and managers are failing to get it, even with multiple examples and comparisons to other situations, and doing the math again and again.
You'll have to watch the video, all of it. You will scream. It cuts off before the end because of the time limit on YouTube, but here's the full transcript .
Obviously, if she understood that he was being charged at a rate of 1 cent/kb and he used 100kb, $.01*100kb=$1, then it should be clear that .002 cents, which is obviously less than 1 cent, would not end up with his bill being 70-something dollars, which is much more than $1.
I thought that was the clearest example, but Verizon still didn't get it.
.002 cents. .002 dollars. If you say it out loud, there's an obvious difference. if you write it down, there's an obvious difference. you don't even need to know math to figure out that it's not the same!
(okay, so I know this is fairly old now, but I didn't see it till last night so yeah.)
I'm not making fun of self-injury and/or suicide; that's serious business. I just think this news report is completely hilarious, as is the case with anything where people are reporting on something they don't understand.
Oh, no, we don't take online quizzes for fun and amusement. We use them to figure out how emo we are, and use it as a checklist to become the most emo and therefore most popular. *dies*
No, those how to dress emo and how to act emo sites aren't parodies that make fun of the emo trend. They're guides. Really. *laugh*
I think my favorite part is near the end, with the computer screen and the printouts of all the "how to cut yourself" guides and her "reporting" the following:
"There are websites that you can go on where you can learn how to become emo. And there are quizzes that tell you how emo you are. You can even buy cutting boards online that show you *exactly* how to cut your wrists. Now, there's no prize for gaining all these points. It's just bragging rights kids use with their friends and on their weblogs."
We still haven't gotten a router yet. Switching the ethernet cable between computers requires restarting both the modem and the computer, and sometimes having to call Comcast to reset the IP. It's more trouble than it's worth.
So when I'm just browsing through my usual websites and not doing anything that requires superfast speeds, this is what I use:
I think it's weird that they knew how to rename their wireless, but couldn't figure out how to set a password or bind it to certain mac addresses.
Better than the boner in The Little Mermaid. Scene from the end of Teen Wolf
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Could it be that the woman in white on the right is the only one who noticed? How did this get missed by the director, the cinematographer, and all those other important and not-so-important people on the set during the time of filming. And then by the editors and everyone else involved in the post-production process, and again when the movie was made into a DVD.
I love spoofs, especially when I've seen (most of) the movies the movie is spoofing. My Big Fat Independent Movie had parodies of Memento, Swingers, Amelie, The Good Girl, Pi, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, A Waking Life, My Big Fat Greek Wedding (obviously), and many others. There was even a musical scene and Bjork's swan dress!
