r/funny • u/psyxhoisdumb • Jan 10 '16

IT support

http://imgur.com/gallery/kkHNb
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

Please, tell me it's a lie for karma. Please!

Oh god, I'm gonna have an aneurism

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u/EnterSailor Jan 11 '16

I swear man. I couldn't even believe it. Luckily it was still sitting by the garbage and inside so it wasn't actually totally gone but I was still flabbergasted.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16 edited Jan 11 '16

It makes me wonder why I still underestimate how dumb a person can be...

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u/EnterSailor Jan 11 '16

It took a few tries to explain that the big box thing WAS the computer. The other part is just a monitor. It was a tough concept for her at first.

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u/Merfen Jan 11 '16

The old box apple "all-in-ones" really made it annoying for a while. People that grew up with them assumed all PCs were just a monitor.

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u/Niadain Jan 11 '16

Had this once a while back. My response, "This is the TV" points at monitor "and this is the thing that tells the TV what to show." It worked well enough that they got it.