A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts to get directions, “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?”
The man below says: “Yes. You’re in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.”
“You must work in Information Technology,” says the balloonist.
“I do” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but It’s of no use to anyone.”
The man below replies, “You must work in management.”
“I do,” replies the balloonist, “But how’d you know?”*
“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault.”
@MehnofLaMehncha
I wonder if you understand the irony in your comment. You do understand that this is a JOKE correct? Also, the only comment made, a negative one, is about a thin-skinned generation? I work in IT, three Co-Workers and myself (ages between 30 and 55) all got a kick out of this joke because it was clever. I’m not trying to start any issues, just don’t understand the how this was upsetting to you. Maybe you shouldn’t be so thin-skinned…
@laidbackoh
Thanks for sharing the joke, its good to still see humor in the world.
(In case you don’t get why, it’s for the fact that I took a play on words and took it at face value. However, you took that and took it seriously. HOWEVER, you may have said that as a joke, so now it’s my turn again: )
@TickledLizard
Nice. I stole from google, not Reddit.
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Rightwraith• 489d
Due to that there are actually slightly more women than men, the average person actually has slightly more than one breast and slightly fewer than one testicle.
Also, therefore there are basically no average people #math
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theamazingsteve1 • 488d, 11h
The average person has one sibling, 98% of a nut, 112% of a tit, a dog, 3/8s of a cat, and doesn’t exist.
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However, imho Rightwraith’s chosen preen-tag,
#math
is, in context, way lame (tho fine, if Rightwraith is still K-12.)
The tag should have been
#arithmetic
personal take: no mathematician would use the #math tag that way. But then, it’s hard to imagine a mathematician wishing to use that tag in any context.
Live this one (Thanks, Google, for this joke even tho you do steal all my life every day):
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.”
The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”
@f00l Oddly enough, René Descartes was sitting in the same cafe 400 years earlier.
A waiter asked him, "Monsieur, do you care for another cafe au lait?"
To which, Descartes replied “I think not.” And then POOF, he disappeared.
Apparently, I groaned loudly, because I just had several people ask me if I was OK…
Can someone read that aloud for me? Can’t C.
A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts to get directions, “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?”
The man below says: “Yes. You’re in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.”
“You must work in Information Technology,” says the balloonist.
“I do” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but It’s of no use to anyone.”
The man below replies, “You must work in management.”
“I do,” replies the balloonist, “But how’d you know?”*
“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault.”
@laidbackoh
I don’t get it.
The guy in the balloon never said it was anyone else’s fault, only that the information was useless.
Oh wait … the guy on the ground is under 40.
So the joke is how thin-skinned Gen X and millennials are! Good one!!
@MehnofLaMehncha
I wonder if you understand the irony in your comment. You do understand that this is a JOKE correct? Also, the only comment made, a negative one, is about a thin-skinned generation? I work in IT, three Co-Workers and myself (ages between 30 and 55) all got a kick out of this joke because it was clever. I’m not trying to start any issues, just don’t understand the how this was upsetting to you. Maybe you shouldn’t be so thin-skinned…
@laidbackoh
Thanks for sharing the joke, its good to still see humor in the world.
@MehnofLaMehncha must be management
Q: Why did the programmer quit his job?
A: Because he didn’t get arrays.
@awk
If he didn’t get arrays, then how’d he get a job as a programmer?
@TickledLizard Based on some of the people I’ve worked with, that kind of knowledge is in no way necessary to get a programming job…
@awk
The first time I did this, it was for me.
Now it’s your turn:
(In case you don’t get why, it’s for the fact that I took a play on words and took it at face value. However, you took that and took it seriously.
)
HOWEVER, you may have said that as a joke, so now it’s my turn again:
@TickledLizard it was a parenthetical comment
@awk
@TickledLizard @awk Infinite recursion!
Q. How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. One, to generate a “ChangeLightBulb” event to the socket.
/giphy not a clue what this means
@Mehrocco_Mole
Dunno if it’s because of what I’ve been up to for the last hour, but I find that joke HILARIOUS
Why does Clark Kent wear glasses?
Same reason…
A recent finding by statisticians shows the average human has one breast and one testicle.
@f00l
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@TickledLizard
Nice. I stole from google, not Reddit.
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Rightwraith• 489d
Due to that there are actually slightly more women than men, the average person actually has slightly more than one breast and slightly fewer than one testicle.
Also, therefore there are basically no average people
#math
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theamazingsteve1 • 488d, 11h
The average person has one sibling, 98% of a nut, 112% of a tit, a dog, 3/8s of a cat, and doesn’t exist.
…
However, imho Rightwraith’s chosen preen-tag,
#math
is, in context, way lame (tho fine, if Rightwraith is still K-12.)
The tag should have been
#arithmetic
personal take: no mathematician would use the #math tag that way. But then, it’s hard to imagine a mathematician wishing to use that tag in any context.
@TickledLizard that’s OK read C#joke on Reddit today.
Because nerds.
Live this one (Thanks, Google, for this joke even tho you do steal all my life every day):
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.”
The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”
@f00l Oddly enough, René Descartes was sitting in the same cafe 400 years earlier.
A waiter asked him, "Monsieur, do you care for another cafe au lait?"
To which, Descartes replied “I think not.” And then POOF, he disappeared.
@driver8 Dobedobedo - Sinatra
To get to the other side?
Alright, who here submitted this to Reddit 6 hours ago?
So they can find the droids… oh wait …Java
@WendyTVee
/giphy java the hutt
I just got a job where I’m learning C#. It reminds me a lot of the Java programming I did in a job I had 15 years ago.
Lol. Good one. I’ve been coding in C# professionally for over 12 years.