Stupid is as stupid does
Oct. 21st, 2012 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogSeveral examples of that from just today.
The Bills, for one (for 53 is more like it- a total team suckage effort, that).
Office Depot, for 2.0. I tried to solve my keyboard male-female problem this morning, and was assured that their $16 PS2/USB adapter would do the trick. It looked wrong, but dude assured me it would work, which of course it didn't. That required a second trip back, where I scored a perfectly serviceable Windows keyboard, also with USB input, for six bucks less than the cost of the adapter.
That, and a wireless mouse, are now in there. Internet remains elusive, but once I've got programs and such updated, I really won't need wifi on there.
Just now, though, I managed to out-stupid even their clueless sales force. We've laughed on a few occasions around here when Eleanor, now mostly using an Android tablet, checks something out on a Windows laptop and tries to maneuver things by poking at the screen. I almost beat that miscue just now, after giving up with my troubleshooting for the night and commanding the XP desktop to shut down, I reached for the flatscreen monitor and started to push it to the keyboard. As if it was the lid of a laptop.
Didn't, though, so that's something.
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Speaking of "male-female problem" things: There's this, where an angry young man complained to a British ladypart-product company about its false advertising of how unrealistic their portrayals were of women on bicycles and skydiving and otherwise flipping their cooters to their Aunt Flo. Reality wasn't anything like that once a month, and he was right pissed about it.
The CEO in this answer "ad" is fake, but the message is one bloody brilliant beatdown:
As for me, the only qualm I've ever had was with the guy (and, face it, it probably WAS a guy) who named a line of these products "Always." Okay, I know "Never, except when it means I'm not pregnant when I don't want to be" might not fit on the tin, but still....
The Bills, for one (for 53 is more like it- a total team suckage effort, that).
Office Depot, for 2.0. I tried to solve my keyboard male-female problem this morning, and was assured that their $16 PS2/USB adapter would do the trick. It looked wrong, but dude assured me it would work, which of course it didn't. That required a second trip back, where I scored a perfectly serviceable Windows keyboard, also with USB input, for six bucks less than the cost of the adapter.
That, and a wireless mouse, are now in there. Internet remains elusive, but once I've got programs and such updated, I really won't need wifi on there.
Just now, though, I managed to out-stupid even their clueless sales force. We've laughed on a few occasions around here when Eleanor, now mostly using an Android tablet, checks something out on a Windows laptop and tries to maneuver things by poking at the screen. I almost beat that miscue just now, after giving up with my troubleshooting for the night and commanding the XP desktop to shut down, I reached for the flatscreen monitor and started to push it to the keyboard. As if it was the lid of a laptop.
Didn't, though, so that's something.
----
Speaking of "male-female problem" things: There's this, where an angry young man complained to a British ladypart-product company about its false advertising of how unrealistic their portrayals were of women on bicycles and skydiving and otherwise flipping their cooters to their Aunt Flo. Reality wasn't anything like that once a month, and he was right pissed about it.
The CEO in this answer "ad" is fake, but the message is one bloody brilliant beatdown:
As for me, the only qualm I've ever had was with the guy (and, face it, it probably WAS a guy) who named a line of these products "Always." Okay, I know "Never, except when it means I'm not pregnant when I don't want to be" might not fit on the tin, but still....