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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An In Joke Before It Was An Out JokeIn early 2002, I was at university in London. At the start of one of the courses, the lecturer asked us all to introduce ourselves (the usual getting to know each other bullshit) and say something about our life.
My friend on the course (we had bonded over a shared taste in comedy) decided to quote from 'The Office', specifically where Gareth, in a similar 'team-building' environment at Wernham-Hogg was asked what his "ultimate fantasy" was.
"Two lesbians probably, sisters, I'm just watching."
However, at this point, 'The Office' was only one series, and hadn't really taken off. Also, the course was full of hip young London go-getters who had better things to do than watch BBC2 on weeknights.
So when my friend described his "ultimate fantasy" to the rest of the class, he was not greeted with the knowing chuckles that accompany a pop-culture reference smacked home.
Nooo. He was greeted by the ignorant silence of a room (more than half full of girls) who had just spent weeks reading up on Feminist theory.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 6:32, 2 replies)
Similar experience,but substitute "the office" for the black comedy film "Heathers"
At this training day the course leader starts with the breaking ice / getting to know each other question "you win the lottery but find out you will be dea within a week, what do you do?"
People start off talking about all the charities they are going to start with this money ("you're beautiful") and with the ongoing one upmanship it starts to get daft; people i know spend all their free time getting drunk and swearing at waiters in curryhouses giving this spiel about saving the world single handedly. So being reminded of the lunchtime poll topic at the start of "Heathers" i decided to answer the question by saying "hi i'm Champagnerocker from joe bloggs secondary school, if i won the lottery i would buy lots of big guns and bring the to work so that everyone else died before me."
Nobody wanteed to do group work with me on that course.
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 19:58, closed)
*clicks*I laughed hard to the last line. Brilliant!
(, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 20:30, closed)
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