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    • Thenomain
      Thenomain @Aria last edited by

      @aria

      During one of the elections (the second Dubya one, I think), a British news anchor was at a Republican rally talking to them about their economic beliefs, and used "how did your afford that motorized wheelchair?" as a follow-up question. He was kind and polite about it, and only about half the people they chose to show in this segment were angry at his pointing out the cognitive dissonance.

      So yeah, you're absolutely right. I should have picked a much better nerd honey trap. Like this one:

      @mietze said in Um...What?:

      @thenomain
      At least it’s not called “Well, Actually...”

      Like there's a difference between "Um, Actually" and "Well, Actually", you great pedantic nerd. Sheesh!

      “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
      ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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      • Aria
        Aria @Thenomain last edited by

        @thenomain said in Um...What?:

        @mietze said in Um...What?:

        @thenomain
        At least it’s not called “Well, Actually...”

        Like there's a difference between "Um, Actually" and "Well, Actually", you great pedantic nerd. Sheesh!

        ....So I'm in the SCA and one of our Kngdom's lovely, talented bards wrote a song called "Well, Actually." I am now determined to find the YouTube link of her performing this song again because it's amazing and hilarious.

        https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
        There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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        • Aria
          Aria @Aria last edited by

          Haha! Found it. Some of the terms may be wasted on people who aren't SCAdians or Medieval history nerds in general, but you'll still get the point.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3zqj0c8TY

          https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
          There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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          • Cobalt
            Cobalt Tutorialist last edited by Cobalt

            Back on the regular: "Um... what?"

            I get a lot of spam mail in this vein:

            
            This is to inform you that your request on: 25/12/2017 2:37:40 p.m. to remove your account from gmail.com server has been approved and will initiate in one hour from the exact time you open this message.
            Regards.
            
            ignore this message to continue with email removal or
            
            Please confirm if this is genuine as i have not made any such request.
            
            
            Regards,
            Google
            
            NOTE: If You Receive This Message In Your Junk or Spam Its Due to Your Internet Provider
            

            Another type I get is along of the lines of: Omg stop messaging us you psycho! You hooked up with my roommate once! Leave us alone!

            And my favorite was:

            alt text

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            • surreality
              surreality last edited by

              This came in my snail mail once. I keep forgetting if I have shared it or not.

              If I still have it somewhere and it's not mangled or something, I should really frame it, because wow.

              Oh fucking well.

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              • Auspice
                Auspice last edited by

                I got my first wrong number text today:

                alt text

                Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                • Cobalt
                  Cobalt Tutorialist @Auspice last edited by

                  @auspice I've only gotten two wrong number texts. One was a picture of a little girl eating birthday cake. The other was someone insisting they were my little sister, and to leave the lights on or something.

                  "Huh, who is this?"

                  "Your little sister!"

                  "uh... pretty sure you have the wrong number."

                  "NO I AM YOUR SISTER STOP BEING A DICK"

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                  • Auspice
                    Auspice @Cobalt last edited by

                    @cobaltasaurus

                    I'm just sad he never replied back! Who is this girl that chooses venues like Applebee's for her make out sessions?!

                    Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                    • D
                      Deleted last edited by

                      Am I the only person who always pretends to be the person people are trying to reach when they get a wrong number call?

                      "Oh, you want the '97 Civic I posted on Craigslist? Yeah man, come on by. I'll even knock 1000 dollars off the price if you promise to slap my face a couple times and spit on me!"

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                      • surreality
                        surreality @Auspice last edited by

                        @auspice Clearly, a classy lady. Not like those trashy gals who put out at a Denny's, as if!!!

                        Oh fucking well.

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                        • Cobalt
                          Cobalt Tutorialist @Deleted last edited by

                          @admiral No.

                          See James Veitch

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                          • Jaded
                            Jaded @Cobalt last edited by

                            @cobaltasaurus
                            I love the videos he's posted about him replying to the spam emails.

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                            • surreality
                              surreality @Cobalt last edited by

                              @cobaltasaurus OMG, I needed that laugh, that was priceless.

                              I save the 'fucking with callers' for the Microsoft 'Virus!!!' scammers. I consider them my intermittent refresher workout of improv skills.

                              Oh fucking well.

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                                ThatGuyThere @Auspice last edited by ThatGuyThere

                                @auspice
                                My all time favorite wrong number situation was when I was in college, this was the days of the answering machine.
                                Me and my roommate had our names in the greeting and sounded like two dumb college kids cause we were just that. This guy kept leaving messages for his boss about having to miss work on our machine always while we were in class and he never left a number, so we could call him back and let him know he got the wrong one. (Caller ID cost extra at the time and we were broke as well as dumb college kids.) Over the course of about two months he left a few more increasingly upset messages not realized why his boss was getting angry about him not calling in when he is leaving the messages. Finally we got one with the dude in tears after getting fired for missing work without calling in and wanting to know when he called in every time.
                                To this day I still feel bad for the guy since it was a total miscommunication that got him fired.
                                Sadly he never left anything but his name Chris and only called his boss by his first name (I think it was john but can't say for certain anymore) never a number or a business name so we could try and clear it up.

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                                • Bobotron
                                  Bobotron @ThatGuyThere last edited by

                                  @thatguythere

                                  ... how off of it did that idiot have to be to be to NOT REALIZE HE WAS LEAVING A MESSAGE on some college kids' answering machine? Or maybe someone was trolling you.

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                                  • mietze
                                    mietze @Bobotron last edited by

                                    @bobotron I could see it happening if he called in while very ill or drunk or something. THough you'd think after the 2nd or 3rd time the boss or Chris would double check the number. 😛

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                                    • Cobalt
                                      Cobalt Tutorialist @ThatGuyThere last edited by

                                      @thatguythere I would have changed my message after the second one to say: Hey if this is Chris we are NOT YOUR BOSS, find the right number before you get fired!

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                                      • I
                                        insomniac7809 last edited by

                                        Customer: Do you carry BearClaws?

                                        Me: No, but we do have shearling footwear by <brand>, it has <brand feature> and we're running a sale--I can grab you a size to try."

                                        Customer: "No, I was looking for BearClaws."

                                        ..the WTF response I had might not translate to people who don't sell shoes for a living.

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                                        • Lithium
                                          Lithium @insomniac7809 last edited by

                                          @insomniac7809 Some people have some serious brand loyalty. When it comes to shoes, once I've found a pair that does me right I try to get them exclusively. Most shoes do not help with the fact that I work on my feet, have flat feet, and am old, so at the end of the day I am just... destroyed.

                                          If I ever found a pair of shoes that didn't kill my feet I would just never change brands ever.

                                          Hello! Long time listener, first time caller...

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                                          • I
                                            insomniac7809 @Lithium last edited by

                                            @lithium Oh, no, I do get that. But loyalty to off-brand Uggs thdrew me for a loop.

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