Gee, that's funny, sir. :|

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

45 minutes into a call with elderly mouth-breather with an annoying habit of asking "now what do I do?" after completing half of the steps required for just about every procedure, to troubleshoot the network connectivity problem that cropped up while we were trying to figure out why his mail client wasn't accepting known good passwords, we're waiting for his PPPoE client to either connect or time out, and I swear to God, he says, "Doesn't electricity travel at the speed of light?"

Well, yeah, but it's following a path with a fairly large fractal dimension? What the hell else does one say to someone who suddenly decides to try to grow a brain and fails so spectacularly?

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[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

You say "No, it doesn't. Now has it connected or timed out yet?"

[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

"It travels only slightly faster than the neural impulses in your brain. So, given the stupidity of your question, we may be waiting a while.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Oh, SNAP.

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

I'm not really understanding why that's a fail on the brain-growing roll. That's obv something he was thinking of; maybe he was only peripherally familiar with the principles of teh question, and wanted verification. So?

Believe me, I am intolerant of stupidity as anyone else, but people's attempts to lever themselves out of stupidity are to be commended, IMO, not slapped down.

Unless of course they are particularly egregious fails, in which case they are to be mocked. But this doens't seem like that sort of case.