what's the dumbest thing a non-hacker has said to you?

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:00 am

Wow, lol.

Post by **eagle5953** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:19 am

Sort of related:

Saw this on failblog - an article on the Daily Journal in Illinois. Some grumpy old guy rants about seemingly everything, then:

"To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed."

Nice!

DK · Post by DK » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:26 am

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/arc ... 20399.html

Most "special" modder of the week goes to him, easily.

adam_d · Post by **adam_d** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:11 pm

Sorry this is a bit late, but on the topic of the idea for a portable record player, my parents have a really small one from about 1960:

I'm pretty sure that's it, that wire leads off to a speaker which you put on top when you close the case. It runs off 4 D size batteries, if I remember. If you lay the lid down flat, it can play 33s, 45s or 78s, that's what the little knob at the front does.
Last time I saw it though, it only worked for about 2 minutes, because the belt inside had perished and dropped to bits, so we put an elastic band in as a temporary measure, but it stretched and slipped quickly. It was playing a 78 of the Toy Dolls version of Nellie the Elephant, which sounded quite strange as it got slower and slower as the band stretched

It's a shame really, it'd work perfect with a new belt on it. Not entirely sure where it's gone now though

Edit: For anyone who's never heard the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louosVfcD8k

Also, on the topic of dumb things, I know someone who swears to me that their computer has no BIOS, because it doesn't show a splash screen when turned on.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:15 pm

I don't remember if I posted this, but I had a kid try to convince me that he pushed a gba game down into a gbc far enough and it played.

SS

EDIT:

DK wrote:http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/arc ... 20399.html

Most "special" modder of the week goes to him, easily.

I saw that the other day!

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:45 pm

DK wrote:http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/arc ... 20399.html

Most "special" modder of the week goes to him, easily.

whadda tard!

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:49 pm

everyone knows you don't use friggin Heineken, Yuengling is the quality stuff.

thewise1 · Post by **thewise1** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:52 pm

C'mon, at some point as a kid you never thought that when someone said rub alchohol on it to kill the germs you thought they meant beer.

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:29 pm

thewise1 wrote:C'mon, at some point as a kid you never thought that when someone said rub alchohol on it to kill the germs you thought they meant beer.

we had neosporin as kids and didn't have to deal with the sting of rubbing alcohol.

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:47 pm

Actually Bourne used vodka in Supremacy- I think.

I have a huge bottle (like 1.5 litres) of rubbing alcohol (but most is gone now). I bought it to take the paper off of foamboard to build model airplanes, then I gave up on modeling and burned most of it, now I use it for cleaning games.

nevermind1534 · Post by **nevermind1534** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:59 pm

thewise1 wrote:C'mon, at some point as a kid you never thought that when someone said rub alchohol on it to kill the germs you thought they meant beer.

He said later that he was joking about that.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:03 pm

I highly doubt that though

nevermind1534 · Post by **nevermind1534** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:17 pm

eurddrue wrote:I highly doubt that though

Yeah.

weaponepsilon · Post by **weaponepsilon** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:46 pm

I got one for your amusement.

My older sister want nothing to do with electronics outside of a tv and pretty much is the opposite of myself. Whenever something technical comes up, she grabs the phone and rings me. Like our brother whose a mechanic, your cars acting funny call him first....

Anyhow a few years ago she shoots me this call asking me to look at her computer. I ask her whats wrong with it and she's like the thing that plugs in to the tower came loose.
ME:Okay, did you plug it in?
HER: Yes.
ME:Okay what connects to the wire?
HER:I think its the monitor.
ME:Okay. Whats the problem?
HER: the thing it connects to is loose...
Me: (Long pause) Okay so the graphics card?
Her: I think maybe the monitor card is loose.
ME: Okay you need to unscrew the housing there should be like 6-8 screws holding the case on.
HER: Okay I got the case open.
Me: NOw you have to simply push the graphics card back into the AGP slot.
HER:WHAT?
me: put the card thingy back into its home.
Her: (struggling) okay I think. okay.
me:It's reconnected?
her: Yeah, but now its making a weird noise...
me:what?
HER:the computer its spazzing or something.
me:Is your computer still on?
Her:yeah, why?

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:45 pm

holy crap! did you ever get it to work?

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