It's cruel to mock the stupid
Feb. 19th, 2008 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumWhich is why I am not linking to this, but it's an amazing moment of WTF!?!, and I can't keep it to myself (I'm not always the nicest of people).
Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.
It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.
I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.
I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.
That's the first bit.
The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.
Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.
It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.
I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.
I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.
That's the first bit.
The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.
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Date: 2008-02-20 10:56 am (UTC)I have a mental database with just about every city, town, village and hamlet in GB in there (although Ulster is a bit flakey) I know where most places are and how the names are spelled. Getting Indian interpretations of the same provides endless merriment in the office.
If you think anywhere to Liverpool is a long time travelling, try anywhere to Truro, anywhere to Norwich (anywhere that isn't London, that is)
Mind you, even I know that LA and SF are NOT in the same ballpark.