Posts Tagged ‘i didn’t see that coming because i’m a…’

It even scrubbed all the serifs off the text!

To get the most out of your portable USB drive, leave it in your jeans and throw it in for the wash. Afterwards you’ll not only be able to use heiroglyphics in filenames, but its capacity will have increased to 26.2GB.

This works as well as ever and the bidding starts at £50. I will pay postage.

Bidding closes 5:30 pm on Friday 9 October 2009.

Please enter your bid in the comments field below.

Unlike Abbey, Ben knew to just cut and run

Geoff was wrong. We’re not past this. Instead of one or two people illuminating themselves in the bright light of professional idiocy, we have an entire solar event of screwups: one that wasn’t begun with Abbey and that won’t end with the Facebook girl.

It’s less than a day since the latest Facebook career disaster and already we have another contender for the crown of ‘prize tit’, this time provided by the IRC quote site Bash.org.

Just remember: the internet is only a great way to hide your identity if you don’t fill in your personal details.

What a fool! (via Applicant.com)

Abbey Sherwell’s adventures in career trashing taught us all to be super careful while tapping out a quick wrathful tirade. Lately I’ve all been composing e-mails with the To and CC fields empty, just in case I absent mindedly leak some supressed fury into the message.

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The following “oops I can’t believe somebody actually wrote and sent that” email arrived in my inbox today. I removed the addresses & contact details, and here it is for your enjoyment on a Friday. Read from the bottom up for a lesson hard learned on insulting customers!

So what do you think – should Abbey Sherwell be saved?

Yes – or – No

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The Art of Armed Robbery

‘Dumbass’ is a rubbish word. With so many insults available to advocates of the English language, it is a word that should be buried and left for dead. ‘Idiot’, ‘ignoramus’, ‘cretin’, ‘dolt’, ‘moron’, ‘simpleton’… All of these should be more than capable of ousting the word ‘dumbass’ from common usage.

Except that, sometimes, there is no other word that so perfectly captures the essence of a person. Some people, through their own ridiculousness, are so suited to being referred as a dumbass that the word simply cannot be laid to rest, lest we start thinking of them as somehow intellectually equal to goats.

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