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[RedKing]

No, that's called "barefoot, pregnant, and ordering your husband to go get you some Captain Crunch cereal RIGHT NOW".

I speak from experience. My wife had some odd cravings, yo.

[MrWillsauce]

Feminism: trying to reach gender equality by focusing on ONE gender

[Loud Whispers]

Feminism: trying to reach gender equality by focusing on ONE gender

Eh, some places that kind of crazy stupid is actually needed. Then... There are those who take concepts too far.

[Frumple]

Also not what feminism is about. The actual goal of it is gender equality. It just happens that one of the genders is currently in worse shape on a societal level and gets more attention. There's plenty in the feminist movement about breaking down the social mores that force males into behavioral patterns they may find repressive, just as an example. Despite the name, the core of the movement isn't gender biased.

There are those that hold that whole "focus strictly on one gender" thing, though. They're not representative of the meat, so to speak of the movement.

[Mageziya]

http://notalwaysright.com/

Here is a site dedicated to the stories of stupid, irrational, and/or sometimes funny customers. Sometimes there are nice customer stories, but most of the time it's the previously mentioned. Also there is random button if you don't feel like scrolling through a list.

[Karlito]

I've worked 15 years in technical support. I've forgotten more stupid questions/comments than most of you could ever dream of.
That said, one of the recurrent ones that makes me want to pull a Lewis Black-style rant every time I hear it is some variant of this:

"I don't understand how it could be broken. It was working fine yesterday!"
NO FUCKING SHIT. That's kind of the definition of broken: i.e. it used to work, and now it doesn't. Welcome to the principle of entropy, bitches!

Isn't there in fact a Lewis Black rant on that very topic?

[MaximumZero]

No, that's called "barefoot, pregnant, and ordering your husband to go get you some Captain Crunch cereal RIGHT NOW".

I speak from experience. My wife had some odd cravings, yo.

Bring some baby carrots, cherry tomatoes and ranch dressing, too.

[miauw62]

The "found my love because he did a martial-arts kick on a dick customer" one is already my favorite.

[fqllve]

I've worked 15 years in technical support. I've forgotten more stupid questions/comments than most of you could ever dream of.

I've been doing network support for less than six months and I've already had a woman call and ask me how to turn off her refrigerator.

[Loud Whispers]

The "found my love because he did a martial-arts kick on a dick customer" one is already my favorite.

I felt sorry for the guy's brain cells though. Way to kick a neglected dog down

[RedKing]

I've worked 15 years in technical support. I've forgotten more stupid questions/comments than most of you could ever dream of.
That said, one of the recurrent ones that makes me want to pull a Lewis Black-style rant every time I hear it is some variant of this:

"I don't understand how it could be broken. It was working fine yesterday!"
NO FUCKING SHIT. That's kind of the definition of broken: i.e. it used to work, and now it doesn't. Welcome to the principle of entropy, bitches!

Isn't there in fact a Lewis Black rant on that very topic?

Is there??? Dear sweet and fluffy Lord, please provide links if such exist. I need to get a recording of that and just hit play when someone makes that comment.

[Mephansteras]

Haven't run across any too recently. My fiance like to share the ones she hears with me, but I can't remember any off the top of my head.

In any case posting here so it'll show up in my unread replies list.

[MagmaMcFry]

http://humortown.blogspot.com/2007/04/funny-tech-support-calls.html

ARGH! MY SANITY!

Here's much more. It's kinda old, but it will completely eradicate any remaining sanity of yours.

[Karlito]

Dear sweet and fluffy Lord, please provide links if such exist. I need to get a recording of that and just hit play when someone makes that comment.

I checked through the few places where I'd likely have heard it and didn't turn up anything, so now I'm starting to doubt my own sanity a bit. It definitely seems like the kind of thing he should have said at some point.

[OwlEpicurus]

I remember once my high school's old history teacher came to visit our class.  I more or less got into a debate with him, resulting in him saying things like the following:

(Paraphrased, since this was a few years ago now.)

"How do you know evolution happened?  Was anyone there to see it?"
"Why aren't there any fossils of humans?"
"I'm older than you and have a Master's degree; therefore, I am necessarily more rational than you."

The biggest WTF:  "Science and math are false idols.  [<-- his exact words]  Only historical documents written by humans can be trusted."