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Have you ever met an actual dumb person? (lemmy.today)

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I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn't meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).

Since I've been living in that bubble my entire life, I'm curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don't agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?

Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.

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[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

I used to do phone tech support for a device that hooked up to TVs to filter out profanity.

I would give very explicit instructions on what to plug where. It was really common for me to have people unplug everything and start over because they did something wrong, and I had no way of knowing what because they were all unreliable narrators.

On a second, third, fourth attempt I'd often hear a "OH! You said to plug that into the TOP ROW! I've been plugging it in to the bottom row." Or something like that.

A call less than 30 minutes was a good call. Calls over an hour were not uncommon. If I had someone who could follow instructions, it could be as quick as a handful of minutes.

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