Just in case you forgot: people are stupid.
And for once, this isn’t a political post.
Visit knowable.com if you’re in the mood to question the survival of the human race, just on the sheer vacancy of our collective brain cells. Better yet, try to buy or sell anything through Craigslist or any of the various sell-my-stuff apps available for your phone.
My husband gave me a couple of quotes for your perusal. The following come from things I’ve personally seen online.
FOR SALE: 2007 CHEVY TRUCK
Response: What year is the 2007 Chevy truck?
Yes, they actually included the year in their question asking what year.
FOR SALE: LIKE-NEW ELECTRIC HEDGE TRIMMERS. TESTED AND THEY WORK GREAT.
Response: What condition are the trimmers? Can you test them please and check if they work? Do they need special gas or will it take regular?
This was from three different people. I don’t think any one of them possessed the intellect to manage more than one sentence. I did clean up their atrocious spelling.
Don’t even get me started on grammar and spelling issues. I’ve seen people post the equivalent of two typed pages – without one single punctuation mark or space to break it up. I’m reasonably fluent in typo, but I’ve seen misspells so bad I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. Usually it was a single word, in a paragraph so badly put together you couldn’t even lean on context, because the context was illegible too.
My husband’s pet peeve is the people who want us to drive 50 miles one-way to meet them. It’s invariably someone who wants to buy a $5 item. Ummm… how about HELL no? G refuses to meet anyone, ever, to sell stuff. When it’s over 110º outside, we’re not sitting waiting for someone who might or might not show up – or if they actually show up, they conveniently come up short on the money and still want us to sell them [whatever] for the amount of money they’re carrying. We’ve seen every trick in the book, trust me.
And then there are the choosy beggars, a category unto themselves: the “ISO (In Search Of) something astronomically expensive for free or cheap, because I’m a single parent/student/business owner/closeted leprechaun, etc.”
We’ve seen someone “looking to spend no more than $500” for a car, which had to be a Nissan or Toyota, no older than 2006, under XYZ mileage, in pristine mechanical condition and ice-cold AC. We’ve seen someone ask for a computer donation – had to be a laptop, good brand, Windows 10, XX RAM, etc etc. I saw one ad from a person saying, “I just bought a new house and need new furniture donated. I only want new, so don’t be offering me any of your shitty old used crap to junk up my new place.”
None of these were satire, and yes, I personally saw every one of those and more.
So you see, there’s one point on which I might have to grudgingly side with evangelicals. If Darwin was right, these people should be sterile, their kind dying out several generations ago. Instead, they’re proliferating like rabbits.
I agree with you. Just listen to the local news….the on-site person gives the information and the “anchor” then asks the same questions that were just answered. Obviously the anchor didn’t listen. I even have friends who comment on Facebook and ask me what day of the week a certain date is on? Apparently they don’t know how to look at a calendar by themselves…..Argh…
Is it any wonder we as a nation elected Cheeto dude as our president? I’m disheartened, but sometimes you just have to stand back and laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Hey, we anchors get bored sitting there waiting for those idiot to finish! I’m usually playing Fortnight while they’re blathering on, so don’t blame me if my question is redundant when they throw it back to me.
And if it bothers you, there’s always the Hallmark Channel…..
Ewww, the Hallmark Channel??? That’s disgusting.
What can I say? I was hurt, so I went for the throat.
Yeah, but that was an extreme low blow. And not in a good way.
The closeted leprechauns are the worst, every time.
True, but they do a great job of color coordination.