Posted on 03/03/2020 7:03:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Would you trust wrench monkeys who mangle the English language? Is the IQ of the idiots in marketing an indicator of the quality of the guys they hire to fix your car or truck?
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LOL...at least we aren’t “Disqussing” it!
Thanks. Made me laugh.
In today’s world? These people need to have someone read stop signs for them.
They sure hook into one's intense desire to mock or correct the "stupid" ad writer!
LOL. At least years of texting experience prepared them well to read the "No U-Turn" signs.
Still, I think I'll stick with my first guess which is "Public education at its finest."
In a related vein, for decades Idaho painted "Don't Be A Guberif" on public highways. When I was a kid and we were visiting relatives in Idaho, I was always puzzled by that attention-getter. I finally had to ask Dad to explain it to me. "Dad, what in the world is a 'Guberif'?"
I miss those quaint signs.
Illiterates probably shouldn't be selling books.
Illiterates shouldn't WRITE books, either.
It's not just the illiteracy that gets me. The innumeracy is just as bad:
I was at the supermarket deli last summer and a nice high school girl was working there. I asked her for four ounces of roast beef. She stood there dumbfounded and said "Sir, we don't sell it by the ounce, only by the pound."Our nation is so screwed. She was so dumb she could not even solve that problem with a calculator if you entered "4 ÷ 16" for her and asked her to press "=".I said "OK, let's work this out. How many ounces are in a pound?"
She replied "I don't know." That was another OMG moment. How can you work in the deli and NOT know that simple fact?
Taking this as a challenge, I told her "There are 16 ounces in a pound. I want four ounces. How many pounds do I want?"
More deer-in-the-headlights frozen with fear look. "I don't know."
"OK, what is four divided by 16?"
"I don't know." (honest to God -- she was 16 or 17 and could not solve this)
"OK, it is one-quarter. Now what fraction of a pound do I want to buy?"
"I don't know."
"ONE-QUARTER. I want to buy ONE-QUARTER of a pound of roast beef." trying very hard to not scream and shout at her.
"Well, why didn't you just say so in the first place?"
I gave a checker $21 for a $16 sale. I could almost see her short circuit. Couldn’t comprehend I wanted a 5 back.
In the “good old days,” when all checkers (including me) were taught to count up from the purchase amount to the amount tendered, this was a very easy problem to solve. If you really want to scare the bejeebers out of them, give them a $20 for your $16 sale and have them enter it into the register. It says “give them $4 change.”
ONLY THEN say “Wait a sec, here’s a $1” to get your $5 bill back. That’s when the real fun starts. Asking them to mentally add 4 + 1 = 5? Impossible.
“Sir, I can’t do that. The machine already said I have to give you $4 back.”
It can’t be long before we are all driving around in Flintstones cars.
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