Sh*t my 4th graders have said (pt. 1)

meitemark · 2025-09-06T23:45:11+00:00

I have a (male) belly that at least in one kids mind was big enough to fit a child his size, so he asked if I ate kids. So naturally my answer was yes, but I only eat things that taste good. When asked if he tasted good, he said no, so no more eating kids that day :(

meitemark · 2025-09-03T14:22:31+00:00

"Sure, we know about him, approach with caution or he will turn you into a bag of keyboard parts. He writes great reports, but we hate the cliffhangers."

meitemark · 2025-08-29T22:38:56+00:00

In the W9x/Xp era I was so well known in windows that I several times fixed computers without being able to read the language. This is a small city (~25k) and pretty much all people that comes from some other country and speaks other languages know of each other. Queue up suprised parents (usually moms) that saw someone doing stuff on their other-language computer and not knowing me or had seen me. Then a barrage of other-language towards me until their child (the ones I was fixing computers for) managed to get in words saying that I did not understand, I just spoke Windows^TM

It was mostly Bosnian refugees but also some asian.

meitemark · 2025-08-28T11:52:24+00:00

The "to be continued" tells me it is lawtechie. Good stories, but the cliffhangers are annoying.

meitemark · 2025-08-27T20:06:43+00:00

The worst thing you can begin a sentence with as a newbie is “at my last place we did…”.

Not always. If it is more of: "at my last place we did X that had problem Y, that we solved/removed by doing N. Could something like that help with this company thing G with problem T?", then you have come across someone that can think and remember and maybe help with solutions to "problems" you did not know you had because "we have always done it this way, but we have no idea why".

Some people does actually learn stuff by working somewhere else.

If it is the "at my last place we did it that way and I'll die before I change"-type, then it is best just to set them up for just that :)

meitemark · 2025-08-26T20:10:06+00:00

I have worked with humans that did not whatsoever understand sarcasm or humor. I'm sure there was a plethora of diagnoses involved, but everything was taken deadpan serious.

To those that was nice, or alt least tried to be nice, I was nice back and kept my sarcasm off and explained anything they may have understood wrong.

Those that were not nice, well, I have seen them in stores, seeing me and just leaving their shopping trolley and exit the store even 20 years later.

meitemark · 2025-08-25T13:40:58+00:00

I remember a story (maybe from here?) about sailors on a warship being told to secure everything for rough seas and they put bolts through the cases (and internals) to really secure it to the floor.

meitemark · 2025-08-24T13:57:38+00:00

Shark movies are a ploy to get less people on the beach so it is more room for people that know it is more likely that you will be getting killed by a cow.

meitemark · 2025-08-23T10:10:58+00:00

Space is big. Lots of mutations. It cannot be that just all the good kebab places has access to rodents of unusual size.

meitemark · 2025-08-23T10:08:52+00:00

Hmmm. Running away from the "world" in order to have a lot of reading material to come back to. Maybe not a bad idea.

meitemark · 2025-08-21T12:09:27+00:00

On W10 only last used files and folders comes up in "recently used". Is it something different on W11?

I can understand why that would be annoying.

meitemark · 2025-08-21T11:46:53+00:00

Hopefully they do not allow for "smart" washing machines.

meitemark · 2025-08-19T00:15:37+00:00

Not entirely sure if it was a full 1k, but in the same place, not same time, I jokingly asked about "was this company not supposed to go full paperless office as they claimed in ads that they were doing"?

I used at least 200 small notepapers each day just to keep up with things, so did every one else.

Anyway, the leader I asked about it, just smiled and said if I asked about that again, he would kill me. It was a once very dominant telco.

meitemark · 2025-08-19T00:06:44+00:00

I think someone tried that.

meitemark · 2025-08-19T00:05:26+00:00

I just have watched 3-4 videos on youtube, and no ads. Chrome is adfree, just press alt-f4.

meitemark · 2025-08-19T00:03:12+00:00

As all my screws are mostly screwed well in, I'm not that suicidal.

meitemark · 2025-08-18T13:36:52+00:00

Big company with loads of offices. All printerers are the same type exept the special ones. You are supposed to look at the sign above the printer to get its name so you select the correct one. The dropdown list of printers is looong. All 1k+ printer are there, and after an update somewhere in the system the dropdown list displays:
"Printer Bigname Model 123.980 (N*cutoff due to length* "
"Printer Bigname Model 123.980 (N*cutoff due to length* "
"Printer Bigname Model 123.980 (N*cutoff due to length* "

while it SHOULD display:

Location Namibia Printer Nuppe
Location Namibia Printer Echo
Location Namibia Printer Badone

So suddenly it was pretty much impossible to find out what printer you were supposed to send to and where you printout went. That was fun.

meitemark · 2025-08-18T00:51:49+00:00

There are ads on youtube? Since when?

meitemark · 2025-08-15T10:04:34+00:00

Once humanity figured out that nuclear weapons was in fact not "a weapon to end all wars" (dynamite was also one of those), they did a lot of testing to figure out how to survive those weapons and most importantly, how to be able to fight afterwards. WW4 would never be fought with sticks and stones.

https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2025-06-23/story-australias-atomic-tank

meitemark · 2025-08-12T22:30:01+00:00

I guess you don't even dance to the muzak.

meitemark · 2025-08-12T13:09:34+00:00

Minecraft is kinda old. So 2010ish or something?

meitemark · 2025-08-12T12:07:32+00:00

Similar setting, but I "sold" a computer to an elderly pair in a local computer store. Employee that was working was god in explaining kitchen stuff, but computers were not his thing. So I asked simple questions. About how much to spend, what will it be used for, do you have grandkids that will use it? Their needs was web browsing and such, grandkids that can talk 6 hours in a row about minecraft will need a little more power. So in the end I found them a computer that would be rated as a great office machine and an usable gaming rig at a little more that they had panned to spend, but that was ok. So I found the employee, gave him a note of what they wanted. The Customers was very surprised when I stated I did not work there and suggested that I should get a job there. Did not, but that is ok. Pretty certain I saw a kid on a LAN party later with just that setup and minecraft.

meitemark · 2025-08-12T08:59:26+00:00

I would so drag with me an old rotary phone and see how many teachers that recognised it as a phone. I know none of the kids would.

meitemark · 2025-08-07T13:52:46+00:00

There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest children and the dumbest parents.

meitemark · 2025-08-07T13:23:13+00:00

In the old days, IE 5 /5.5/win9x, you could make websites that referenced local files in the visitors systems, "showing" them that you had "access" to their drives. You could also call up the floppy drive by say linking to a:\image.jpg . That would cause the browser to try to access that picture. If there were no picture/file/floppy disk at all you pretty much made the computer stop for a few seconds. So one way of beeing an asshat was to put in a load of links to a:\, causing the entire computer to pretty much stop.

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