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Why are Americans so stupid? (pg. 8)
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| Cosmic Fur |
| Haha, talk about taking "ignorance is bliss" a little too seriously. |
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| thesauce23 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL
but in reality, most Americans could care less about what Canadians think about them. |
Bingo!
| quote: | Originally posted by dEsidEL Tho, i don't believe the thread title was meant to generalize all Americans, rather than to poke fun at the stereotype, I mean c'mon Jay Leno doesn't help the situation either.
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well Jay Leno gets paid to say that. He'll make fun of his mom as long as the checks keep coming in.. its kinda like Russell Peters. Take away all his jokes about race- and what do u have? nothing |
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| Abercrombie |
In support of our American brethren, I've uploaded a wav file of a call I got from a customer in BC when I worked at Compaq many years ago. He was calling for the 24/7 toll free tech support line, and I explained it's open 24hrs a day, he asked if that included his province as well :rolleyes:
Listen here: [[ LINK REMOVED ]]
This is a tip of the iceberg. I handled calls only from Canada, and Canadians can be just as stupid. |
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| Frenchie |
L O in' L @ this thead.
Some of you need to clearly calm the down and stop being so defensive and calling each other stupid. |
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| Djsketchbag |
| Ok so I have new thing that our friends to the south have been doing to me at work to annoy the hell out of me ... we have to tell our customers that they need a msn passport.net account so I tell them they have to go to www.passport.net and create a free email account the people calling us have had some problems lately finding this page they keep telling me they get page cannot be displayed msg ... after trying everything possible to figure out they can't see this web page it turns out that some people like to type WWWDOTPASSPORTDOTNET or WWWDOTXBOXDOTCOM how have these people not accidentally killed themselves yet? |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Djsketchbag
Ok so I have new thing that our friends to the south have been doing to me at work to annoy the hell out of me ... we have to tell our customers that they need a msn passport.net account so I tell them they have to go to www.passport.net and create a free email account the people calling us have had some problems lately finding this page they keep telling me they get page cannot be displayed msg ... after trying everything possible to figure out they can't see this web page it turns out that some people like to type WWWDOTPASSPORTDOTNET or WWWDOTXBOXDOTCOM how have these people not accidentally killed themselves yet? |
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, Peter!!! |
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| Djsketchbag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jem_hadar
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, Peter!!! |
no dude i'm serious and i wouldne't post it if it was one person but this has happend several times :nervous: |
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| Dr. DAS |
I'm in sales and I get nickel & dimed to death.
"I usually get that item for $20 from this other company and you're charging me $25..."
Lady, it's a $20 000 order, if you want me to work with you, to develop a solution to provide results within your budget, ask me. $5 is not going to help you at all...this phone call costs more than that. |
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| Orbitus |
I think that's an offensive statement to make. People should look at themselves first.
However working in retail I can relate to the stupidity (ok I know that's offensive too) of the average person out there.
I sold a (Canadian) lady a call diplay unit. She then called me from home and said I was a liar, deceitful and a cheat because the unit had been used and she couldn't erase the name and number already on the display. Stumped, I asked her what the name was on the display and she said it was " John Smith and the number was 555-1234. I politely told her to remove the sticker on the display and try it again. She hung up on me.
I could give so many more examples but you know.... |
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| oldschool420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbitus
I think that's an offensive statement to make. People should look at themselves first.
However working in retail I can relate to the stupidity (ok I know that's offensive too) of the average person out there.
I sold a (Canadian) lady a call diplay unit. She then called me from home and said I was a liar, deceitful and a cheat because the unit had been used and she couldn't erase the name and number already on the display. Stumped, I asked her what the name was on the display and she said it was " John Smith and the number was 555-1234. I politely told her to remove the sticker on the display and try it again. She hung up on me.
I could give so many more examples but you know.... |
It is definately not just americans who are idiots. There are idiots everywhere in every country. I meet countless Canadians, especially business men that boggle my mind on how they run a company let alone passed the 3rd grade. |
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| Soundwerks |
My girlfriend works at a call center/order desk for a distributor of glasses/frames, and deals with Americans.
She tells me about all the idiots she deals with on a daily basis. For instance:
"would you like your order to be shipped Next Day Air or 2nd Day Air?"
"uuuh...which is faster?"
"we have this frame in silver, black or brown"
"which one is darker...black or brown?"
other fun things include the mis-pronounciation of "mauve" "tres jolie" "tan" (sounds like "ten") "taupe" etc...
:crazy:
Well, to be fair, I'm sure theres TONS of stupid Canadians too...she just deals with the US side, so I hear these stories every day |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbitus
I think that's an offensive statement to make. People should look at themselves first.
However working in retail I can relate to the stupidity (ok I know that's offensive too) of the average person out there.
I sold a (Canadian) lady a call diplay unit. She then called me from home and said I was a liar, deceitful and a cheat because the unit had been used and she couldn't erase the name and number already on the display. Stumped, I asked her what the name was on the display and she said it was " John Smith and the number was 555-1234. I politely told her to remove the sticker on the display and try it again. She hung up on me.
I could give so many more examples but you know.... |
LOL!!! how do some of these people function in this world? |
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