Dumbest social faux pas by an IT professional?

[patcox2]

Post it here, whats the dumbest example of social ineptitude you have ever witnessed by an IT person? Showing up at a wedding dressed as Chewbacca? Bathing issues? Longest. Toenails. Ever. Dating don'ts(more accurately "a date, followed by months of stalking"). Of course, sneering condescension directed towards anyone who isn't a computer expert is a given, lets compile a list of the more colorful blunders, tics, and otherwise odd habits.

Hey, its fair, the DU Iters are compiling a list of "dumbest" non iters.

[swag]

1. Interspecies intercourse at Furries Convention.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. *shudder*

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Bringing a portable, motor-driven R2D2 toilet and shitting loudly in it

in the third pew at a sister's wedding in a Catholic Church.

[kay1864]

3. As an IT PROFESSIONAL, I resent that in the STRONGEST possible terms...

and anyway it was the FOURTH pew, can't you count? x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I was counting the first pew as the zeroth pew

:7

[patcox2]

8. Now thats good.

But I am confused, is that a binary numbers joke, or a "confusion between ordinal numbers and counting numbers" joke?

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. It's a geek thermodynamics joke

[kay1864]

9. Oh, and I'll bet...

you also count the first floor as the "ground" floor, or the "zeroth" floor, huh? What are you, some kind a' Euro-commie? This is Murika dammit, land of the free, and home of the first pew!

Excuse me, I need to go change the plastic bag on my R2D2 now...

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Don't be stupid - the entrance floor is the negative first floor.

then the zeroth floor, then the first floor, and so on, working upwards.

[Kire]

5. shut up

Are you series!!!?

[patcox2]

6. Please, it has to be a joke;

Everyone knows there is no such thing as a portable R2D2 toilet! They are permanently mounted.

[kay1864]

14. Nuh-uh...

The portable version was available, but only to Gold Team Elite members of the Official Star Wars website, if they entered the special password.

(um, or so I heard...)

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Kickin' cuz this is CLASSIC Rabrrrrrr!

And for whatever ego-riddled reason, this response still cracks me up when I think of it.

[DS1]

7. Well there was this one time

This guy



decided he couldn't deal with being surrounded by ignorant bastards and shot a couple of em up.

[Taverner]

11. Awww he just didn't want to pay taxes!

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/22/ctv.mcdermott.trial/index.html

[DS1]

12. Oh damn, then I guess his social faux pas was confusing

his workplace with the IRS

[Deja Q]

16. Whenever I leave exit the front door of my house.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Not quite an IT professional, but a mathematician

(a member of my then-gentleman friend's department) told me that he never brushed his teeth because he drank so much milk that it protected him from tooth decay.

Another, who SHOULD HAVE been the right age to know, asked what Woodstock was.

Still another was at a party and insisted on reading aloud from The Princess Bride, even though no one was listening.

[EFerrari]

20. Hmmm. I probably would have liked The Princess Bride reader.

In fact, if there was a number you could call and listen to someone read The Princess Bride, I'd be their best customer.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. But announcing in the middle of a party

that you're going to read aloud from The Princess Bride, and then when no one responds, starting to read it anyway, shouting to be heard over the conversations and getting increasingly peeved because no one's listening?

No, that's quite different from cuddling up on the couch and having someone read you The Princess Bride.

[Dangerously Amused]

18. All I have to say is, "butt heat."

The head IT guy from my last job. Whenever Dude came in to my office and worked on my computer, I had to wait like ten minutes after he left before sitting in my chair again so the enormous amount of butt heat he deposited in the upholstery could dissipate. He was an odd little man, too.

=shudder=

[Crazy Guggenheim]

21. Everything that's on your list and more.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Nothing worse than a whiny, domineering IT "professional"

Never should have Wendt there