Me: With your purchase today you get eight risk free weeks of one of the magazines, which would you like to go with?
Customer: Neither.
... "Neither?" So you want neither of the FIVE magazines I've just offered you? From dictionary.com:
Usage Note: According to the traditional rule, neither is used only to mean "not one or the other of two." To refer to "none of several," none is preferred: None (not neither) of the three opposition candidates would make a better president than the incumbent.And also today:
Me: There's $41.41 left on your giftcard.
Teen Customer: $41.41? That's ironic.
Me: [stifles rage]
WHY CAN'T PEOPLE LEARN THE MEANING OF IRONY? Irony is when the conveyed meaning is opposite from the literal meaning. Not when you have $41.41 left on your gift card.
People are fucking stupid. There, I said it.
For more smrt people, watch the one funny bit from the E show Starveillance:
1 comment:
Irony is the most misunderstood concept in the history of everything. Or, the history of everything that annoys me. I vote you start punching people in the throat.
Want to know something that is an interesting coincidence, but not all the way to ironic? My laptop died a mere 6 days before the release of the shiny new version of Windows. Which I will now have the day it drops. Some may call this irony, but it is, in fact, good timing.
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