Customers! Oy! 4 Jun 2009 I used to run a service department so that’s why this site amuses me so much. Yeah, I know I’m probably fifteen years behind everyone else: The World: America’s Theme Park (Note: this takes place at our cafe in Kuranda, Australia.) Tourist: “Lady, how about we make a deal? I wanna buy this bottle from you.” Me: “Oh, sorry. We only have four of the blue ones and they’re not for sale.” Tourist: “So you’re telling me I can’t buy this?” Me: “Yes… I know it’s a nice bottle, but we do need it for the water.” Tourist: “Lady, I don’t think you understand what I’m getting at.” (The tourist pulls a wad of US money from his wallet.) Tourist: “I got REAL money here!” Humor Social evolution
Chocosophy The Endarkenment 8 Jun 201221 Jun 2018 Philosophy has always used metaphors of light and vision for wisdom and knowledge. A famous book, Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), discussed these visual metaphors in detail. We speak, rather too casually, of the Enlightenment, which in German is the Aufklärung, and in French the Lumières, both visual… Read More
Administrative Five-fiftysix meme 1 Dec 2008 New: Solutions listed Mike Dunford, who is still trying to get me to pay for that time he put me up in Hawaii when his wife was on active service in Iraq (if I knew what I’d have to pay, both in climbing horrific rainforested slopes to release wallabies, and… Read More
Humor Civil insolence 22 Jan 2010 I am vaguely amused and slightly disgusted that the issue over which I left Science Blogs is still going. Henry Gee writes of it at the recent ScienceOnline2010 meet. I was mentioned in despatches, so I replied thus: The reason I left Science Blogs was in very large part because… Read More
“Trust me. I’m a metaphysician”: Customer: “Well, I don’t know what it is I always get. My daughter usually gets it for me.” […] Me: “…was it ‘coffee’ or ‘not coffee’? Customer: “Hmm…I believe it was both.”
Ha! Even nice Americans can be rude that way. I remember the couple that hosted me as an exchange student complaining about people not speaking English when they came to visit México.