Okay… truly frightened now… For a moment there I thought the Turtle Porn thing was just a joke… but a quick Google search turned up 1,250,000 responses! That is an awful lot of results in my book. And it seems that not only is there a niche market for Turtle Porn, but there appears to be a this non-consensual Turtle Thing as well! (Not for the faint hearted – you’ve been warned 🙂
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Comment from myself to customer this week about CD EOMs-
Help Desk Chickie: “It goes in silver side down thanks George”
We get some strange stuff going on at work, from some rather strange callers. I guess that’s what you get when you’re dealing with the public all the time. Maybe it’s cos we’re on the phone and we’re always dealing with people who don’t know what they’re doing… but I’m starting to get a warped perspective on how ridiculously stupid ‘people’ are. Or perhaps it’s cos I’ve kept myself pretty well insulated from ‘them’ (the hairy unwashed masses) for years that I’ve not noticed that we’re actually surrounded everyday by that which is positively asinine and inane. Either way, we find ourselves constantly shaking our heads at how unbelievably stupid some people can be…. and it’s not always just ignorance of technology… which is totally forgivable in my book.
Call Yaleman had this week –
me: “welcome to goliath, this is yaleman.. how can I help you today?”
customer: “Well I don’t know what modem I’ve got so you’re going to have to tell me”
me: “what colour is it?”
customer: “where would I find it in my house?”
me: “uh… I don’t know where things are in your house sorry…”
And this one is a corker as my Dad would have said –
HelpDesk Chickie: What can I help you with today?
Customer #27 I can’t connect to the internet, the little window says it can’t detect the modem…
HelpDesk Chickie: What sort of modem do you have?
Customer #27: Ah… is that the little blue stick thing? uh.. I think it’s in the kitchen
HelpDesk Chickie: Can I get you to plug the device into your USB port please….
No shit – I actually had this conversation this week. And so on and so forth… and this is just from the last couple of days. So I find myself wondering – are ‘people’ en masse truly that stupid… or is it just an unnatural cross section that we’re dealing with here?
Off topic (but still work related) … a guy at work sent me a screenshot of a password reset that the system spat up yesterday… we thought it was kinda funny. Strangely enough he didn’t want to give it to the customer so he reset it again to something less … interesting.
What on earth?!?! I was just reading some comments on Blogography – the only blog I regularly read that belongs to someone I dont actually _know_ in real life (though I’m starting to feel like Dave2 is a bit of a kindred spirit! 🙂 and there was a comment left there by someone who says that there are people out there on the indanet searching for…. Turtle Porn! I mean honestly people! At what point am I going to be able to sit there and no longer be shocked/stunned/bemused and/or gobsmacked.. or have some other eyebrow raising reaction to the sorts of things that people are into???
Just when you think you’ve heard it all… along comes Turtle Porn!! Which I can’t seem to write without using capitilization….. like somehow it’s less offensive when written as a proper noun! Urgh!!! Along with all the ‘normal’ (when it became normal I’ll never know) porn, we’ve got crap like Chinese Eel porn, Furry porn, Fleshlight porn, and of course… my favourite… Midget Goat porn floating around out there… but for crying out loud…. turtles????
Some things are just too wrong for words… poor little turtles…. 🙁
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Here’s an interesting new monkey to add to the menagerie…. courtesy of NMdG. Not sure what it is with the monkey obsession these days. but they seem to be everywhere! He says he has an Evil Monkey persona which he rarely lets out because others often find it ummm…. unpalatable? So instead gives people the more socially acceptable Diplomacy Monkey version of himself most of the time. :I
I think I’ve been living with a Diplomacy Monkey on my back my entire life. I’ve discovered that most of what I have to say and/or think is generally unpalatable to others. Is it cos I’m more judgmental than most or just cos I simply can’t tolerate people who can’t keep up!
Err… just read that back… that sounds terrible!!! If only I had the sense of decency to be ashamed for thinking like that ! :S
a random useless fact… and she left me this lovely reply.. 🙂
Time wasting raised to an artform! I love it!.
Ummm…. useless factoid #32… I have over 90 bottles of nail polish at last count 😐
I think it’s an extension of my ‘hand’ obsession!
RMB
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