"The president's defense has been «I don't read it». That's like a pilot telling you he doesn't read the instruments in the cockpit. That pilot is going to get you killed."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "incompetence": stupidity (8), sadness (4), food (3), linguistics (2), politics (2)
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heard: 18 June 2020
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
"I feel like the Titanic has struck an iceberg, and the crew is being asked to put on a play while bailing water."
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heard: 1 December 2011
[edit] added: 1 December 2011
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[edit] added: 1 December 2011
(16:57:49) zfe: we are gonna call gel-sin jussive
(16:58:01) firespeaker: zfe: call it what you want I guess
(16:58:16) zfe: science and scientific method won again
[link]
heard: 13 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011
CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
russian, linguistics, hyperbole, insightfulness, SSSR, provincialism, pessimism, insults, incompetence, ethnocentrism, cynicism, gradschool, bad-ideas, academia
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[link]
heard: 26 October 2007
[edit] added: 26 October 2007
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[edit] added: 26 October 2007
"You know what I don't understand about bribing people to buy things—why don't you just lower the prices to what it would've been...?"
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heard: 12 June 2007
[edit] added: 17 June 2007
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[edit] added: 17 June 2007
"I apologise for the delays getting off the ground, but it looks like we'll have some head-winds to help us arrive on time."
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heard: 15 February 2006
[edit] added: 18 February 2006
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[edit] added: 18 February 2006
me: "Are people allowed to use cellphones in here?"
help-desk guy: "No, but I'm not going to do anything."
me: "Oh. Well, there's this really annoying girl on her phone at that computer over there."
help-desk guy: "In that case, I will do something."
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heard: 15 February 2006
[edit] added: 15 February 2006
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[edit] added: 15 February 2006
Guy at checkout: "What is that?"
me: "That's a rutabaga."
Guy at checkout: "Uh, how do you spell that?" [fumbles through code guide]
me: "R-U-T-A-B-E-G-A"
Guy at checkout: [finds code and punches it in]
me: "What is this world coming to?"
Guy at checkout: "Well, sir, we have a lot of produce, and I don't know what it all is."
The guy at the checkout at Safeway; and for the record, Safeway does not have a lot of produce.
sadness, stupidity, food, obliviousness, incompetence
[link]
heard: 30 December 2005
[edit] added: 30 December 2005
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[edit] added: 30 December 2005
me: "So how did the fishies that evolved originally get to lake Baikal? By air?"
my genious scientist father: "Probably."
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heard: 23 November 2004
[edit] added: 23 November 2004
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[edit] added: 23 November 2004
"Don't confuse your inability to learn the operating system with problems with the operating system itself."
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heard: 5 October 2004
[edit] added: 5 October 2004
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[edit] added: 5 October 2004
(16:28) Kesuari: i hate my uni. every time i find a journal article that might be vaguely useful, i get told that the library doesn't have that journal. stupid library
(16:28) [me]: typical, yeah
that's all unis + murhpey's law
which makes another law I guess
(16:29) Kesuari: mcleay's law? :)
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heard: 4 October 2004
[edit] added: 4 October 2004
[comment] [rate] 5/5
[edit] added: 4 October 2004
"I'm sorry, you can't buy that here, we don't sell those. You'll have to put it back."
cashier at Java City in reference to a bottle of water someone was carrying, as reported by Josh Rachlin
brandeis, food, sadness, stupidity, incompetence, not-heard-myself
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heard: 9 February 2004
[edit] added: 10 February 2004
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[edit] added: 10 February 2004
Chef: "I don't even know what to put in these things [Calzones]. What veggies do we have?"
Manager: "Bacon."
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heard: 22 January 2004
[edit] added: 25 January 2004
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[edit] added: 25 January 2004
Amy: "My grandmother had back surgery today."
Aaron: "Yay!"
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heard: unknown
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[17:29:00] LunaCamilla: so i was thinking about it, and looked at what the prog for high school certification entails, and it's like five classes
[17:30:27] LunaCamilla: still six
[17:31:25] LunaCamilla: FOUR
[17:33:37] LunaCamilla: i meant five, tho