Apocryphal stories
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You know the ones.
Always start with "My mate's cousin's brother in law..." and go on to describe something highly unlikely. Like the American tourists who drove a rented Cortina from London to Cornwall in second gear and complained that it overheated and wouldn't do more than 60. This one was an office staple in the late 70s when I started work.
Seems to me that this sort of tall tale telling has died out over the years as I haven't heard any new ones since then.
So, got any?
3, 2, 1, go!
Always start with "My mate's cousin's brother in law..." and go on to describe something highly unlikely. Like the American tourists who drove a rented Cortina from London to Cornwall in second gear and complained that it overheated and wouldn't do more than 60. This one was an office staple in the late 70s when I started work.
Seems to me that this sort of tall tale telling has died out over the years as I haven't heard any new ones since then.
So, got any?
3, 2, 1, go!
There's probably a rich new vein in the IT industry.
Like the oft-repeated tale of the support call from a customer claiming their PC has stopped working and won't turn on. Various too-ing and fro-ing ensues before:
Support: can you see if any of the cables have fallen out the back
Customer: no, not really
Support: why not?
Customer: it's too dark to see due to the power cut we're currently experiencing...
Like the oft-repeated tale of the support call from a customer claiming their PC has stopped working and won't turn on. Various too-ing and fro-ing ensues before:
Support: can you see if any of the cables have fallen out the back
Customer: no, not really
Support: why not?
Customer: it's too dark to see due to the power cut we're currently experiencing...
Having not driven anything but automatics for years, being a Black Cab driver in London, and my wife always having automatic cars, plus constantly holidaying in the U.S., and renting automatics, I was mildly dismayed to be given a manual VW Passat in Sevilla, Spain 9 or 10 years ago.
I ended up ”con huevos en mi cara” when I had to skulk back back to the rental office because I couldn’t start it, only for a mechanic to say to me, “You did depress the clutch, didn’t you?”
I ended up ”con huevos en mi cara” when I had to skulk back back to the rental office because I couldn’t start it, only for a mechanic to say to me, “You did depress the clutch, didn’t you?”
I once broke down in Mid-Wales and the recovery driver who picked me up told me how some of his work is for the police, picking up wrecks, pulling cars out of ditches etc. One job he was called to involved some Asian chaps who it turned out had a boot full of road kill badgers. Apparently they ran an Indian restaurant in Swansea and badger tastes very much like pork.
During the IRA bombing days used to hear a story that basically went like this:-
Friend of a friend was in a shop and an irish customer ahead was 20p short of change so they helped them out. Customer then told them that in return for their generosity they should avoid "city x" (chester in my case) next Friday as something bad may happen
Anyone else?
Friend of a friend was in a shop and an irish customer ahead was 20p short of change so they helped them out. Customer then told them that in return for their generosity they should avoid "city x" (chester in my case) next Friday as something bad may happen
Anyone else?
What about semen in the thickshake?
Everyones local kfc/macdonalds has had this rumour, yet its never been reported in the media/courts.
The dog one though has sort of happened here in NZ: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2756912/Owner-roas...
Everyones local kfc/macdonalds has had this rumour, yet its never been reported in the media/courts.
The dog one though has sort of happened here in NZ: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2756912/Owner-roas...
GappySmeg said:
There's probably a rich new vein in the IT industry.
Like the oft-repeated tale of the support call from a customer claiming their PC has stopped working and won't turn on. Various too-ing and fro-ing ensues before:
Support: can you see if any of the cables have fallen out the back
Customer: no, not really
Support: why not?
Customer: it's too dark to see due to the power cut we're currently experiencing...
... or the urban myth, my cup is snagged in the coffee cup holder.Like the oft-repeated tale of the support call from a customer claiming their PC has stopped working and won't turn on. Various too-ing and fro-ing ensues before:
Support: can you see if any of the cables have fallen out the back
Customer: no, not really
Support: why not?
Customer: it's too dark to see due to the power cut we're currently experiencing...
In my first job as a junior programmer and responsible for second line support. I once asked for a copy of a floppy disk to be sent to me, I received a fax of a photocopy of the disk.
In another support case I had to site visit an accountant complaining his PC didn't work in Output-Mode, only Input-Mode.
Edited by 4x4Tyke on Saturday 30th December 15:37
Builder doing work for a dodgy geezer who’s gone inside . finds 20k in fireplace . Notes are fake , you can buy them for pence in the pound etc etc
I had to endure a whole hour of ridiculous stories of someone evading the police for driving offences by using obscure loopholes, total bs
I had to endure a whole hour of ridiculous stories of someone evading the police for driving offences by using obscure loopholes, total bs
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