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GranoblasticMan		2009-09-05 01:45:32 PM

/ Hates it when blogs make it on Fark

phlegmmo		2009-09-05 01:46:13 PM

This just in: men navigate by direction, women navigate by sites.

inkblot		2009-09-05 01:46:13 PM

It's not news.

grinderman		2009-09-05 01:50:51 PM

And what's the deal with men and directions?!

blog.sellsiusrealestate.com

gregfark		2009-09-05 01:51:36 PM

I took a Chevy Colorado for a test drive once, which I cut short as soon as I heard the turn signal sound - a synthesized, smooth little beep beep, instead of a reassuring mechanical tick-tick. Now it's the first thing I check in any test drive.

homeschooled		2009-09-05 01:53:54 PM

"Me" sounds like a farking retard.

D2theMcV		2009-09-05 01:54:04 PM

My wife has no sense of direction. But she's never gotten lost going to places she's been to before. And she can follow directions. AND SHE'S NEVER GOTTEN LOST ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE FARKING STORE!!!

This woman is too stupid to live.

/starting a collection for her tubal ligation

Trik		2009-09-05 01:55:45 PM

I got confused and had to stop reading
they're obviously 'mo's, yet they implied they live in texas

I'm an excellent driver		2009-09-05 01:55:54 PM

What the fark with posting Blogs? It's like reality TV without the pentrating insight and rapier-like wit. If I want to hear Bottom dwellers retell their fantastically boring "life stories" I can just go to work. Trust me, the next step is all the comic book guys starting their own blogs and submitting it to fark; based on this performance, there is a good chance that this kind of shiat will get greenlit as well.

WhiteAndNerdy		2009-09-05 01:55:57 PM

I'm on a road, looks to be asphalt--aw jeez, trees, shrubs--uh, I'm directly under the earth's Sun...now.

pugsleythegreat		2009-09-05 01:56:31 PM

I Lol'd a little.

/shameful.

Zombie Neurosurgeon		2009-09-05 01:56:41 PM

What the hell was that blog? How did this get on the main page?

That blog made me want to punch my monitor, but then I remembered that getting angry at inanimate objects is something that little kids and annoying people do.

bring to a festering boil		2009-09-05 01:57:14 PM

I'm sure the author thought this was hilarious. Sadly for her (and everyone else), it only points out her stupidity.

Fano		2009-09-05 01:57:16 PM

Trik: I got confused and had to stop reading
they're obviously 'mo's, yet they implied they live in texas

Steers and queers.

GranoblasticMan		2009-09-05 01:58:03 PM

I'm an excellent driver: What the fark with posting Blogs?

Can we instate some sort of "no blog unless it's really farking important news" policy? *sigh*

moondo		2009-09-05 01:59:27 PM

Crazy. They all are.

LordThing		2009-09-05 01:59:50 PM

Let me tell you a story that most likely didn't happen but I want to try out some rather bad stand-up material that made all my friends laugh.

I'm so witty!

Steve Zodiac		2009-09-05 02:01:36 PM

In general, I can never understand when people tell me a story about how stupid, selfish, superstitious, or afraid of technology they are. It's not like I've never been one of those things about something, It's just I have no need to tell someone else how incredibly STUPID I was. What do you expect other people to do or say? "Wow, that was ignorant beyond belief, does your brain stem ever forget to make you breathe at night when you're sleeping?". I realize it was done with a comedic intent, but for the most part I don't find stupidity funny.

But at least it shows the old 'men won't ask for directions but women will' thing to be a lie.

DuX		2009-09-05 02:01:42 PM

The bloggess rules.

+1 subby

Cue the humorless whiners in 3...2...oh wait, they've already started.

Acharne		2009-09-05 02:02:40 PM

So no. Not the same place you gave that guy a handjob. Ok. Since you've given out handjobs almost everwhere I now know Exactly where your dumb ass is.

Poor Victor.

SwingingJohnson		2009-09-05 02:03:46 PM

That's why I set mine to the female British accent.

She talks a little slower and doesn't sound like a biatchy nag like the American accent mode.

loworbit		2009-09-05 02:04:00 PM

GranoblasticMan: I'm an excellent driver: What the fark with posting Blogs?

Can we instate some sort of "no blog unless it's really farking important news" policy? *sigh*

It's not news, it's Fark.com!

SapperInTexas		2009-09-05 02:04:03 PM

Here's an idea:

Stupid people are actually ashamed to admit in public that they are stupid - let alone blog about it.

You're not cool or funny, "Jenny". You're just stupid.
Getting lost I can understand, but deliberately leaving the GPS at home == stupid.

craxyd		2009-09-05 02:05:13 PM

Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of the computer from Star Trek: Next Generation, Peter Cullen of Knight Rider (K.A.R.R.) / Optimus Prime, Will Arnett (K.I.T.T. on the original Knight Rider) or Val Kilmer (K.I.T.T. on the new Knight Rider)

aerojockey		2009-09-05 02:06:19 PM

That was quite amusing (if you're not stupid enough to take it as a literal recap of events). If I ever had a GF like that she'd be out the door, not out of spite but out of recognition that I would never have the patience to deal with it.

SwingingJohnson		2009-09-05 02:06:54 PM

craxyd: Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of the computer from Star Trek: Next Generation, Peter Cullen of Knight Rider (K.A.R.R.) / Optimus Prime, Will Arnett (K.I.T.T. on the original Knight Rider) or Val Kilmer (K.I.T.T. on the new Knight Rider)

Sounds like a new gig for C-list celebrities.

Liquid_Bacon		2009-09-05 02:08:35 PM

She's cheating on him. The only idiot in that story is the man who believes his wife got 'lost' on the way home from the store.

Tachikoma		2009-09-05 02:10:29 PM

Me:... Turn right at the burrito place you took Sarah to that time she was dressed all slutty. Yield at the place you gave that guy a hand job."

Victor: What the fark?!

Okay, that was pretty funny. But seriously, I have a horrible, horrible sense of directions, but even I manage to not get lost going to the grocery store. How do you get lost going to the grocery store!?

I really do hope this Victor person took away her keys and never let her drive again. She's a danger to humanity.

DarkSkyForever		2009-09-05 02:12:20 PM

This woman needs to be punched in the Boobies.

pxlboy		2009-09-05 02:12:25 PM

my Garmin GPS was one of the best purchases i ever made

/directionally challenged
//has the TTS voice set to British English
///globally positioned slashies!

theunblinkingeye		2009-09-05 02:13:34 PM

DuX: The bloggess rules.

+1 subby

Cue the humorless whiners in 3...2...oh wait, they've already started.

1/10 - you have to make people at least think you might be serious.

matovichj		2009-09-05 02:16:17 PM

If she were dating me and had this convo with me, I'd intentionally give directions without knowing where they'd lead her. At first it was funny, but her ranting took the funny away.

pxlboy		2009-09-05 02:16:34 PM

SwingingJohnson: That's why I set mine to the female British accent.

She talks a little slower and doesn't sound like a biatchy nag like the American accent mode.

this.

mouse fitzgerald		2009-09-05 02:18:13 PM

craxyd: Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of William Daniels (K.I.T.T. on the original Knight Rider)

cache.gizmodo.com

/approves

veryequiped		2009-09-05 02:19:19 PM

This woman makes me weep for the future of humanity.

eggrolls		2009-09-05 02:21:03 PM

That was some funny shiat. Deal with it, haters.

Porous Horace		2009-09-05 02:21:23 PM

Gilbert Gottfried for GPS voice.
Also, books on tape.

SwallowTheKnife		2009-09-05 02:22:01 PM

the_wanderer		2009-09-05 02:23:01 PM

craxyd: Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of the computer from Star Trek: Next Generation,

Majel Barrett did the voice, she was married to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. I don't think she needs the cash that bad.

FunkOut		2009-09-05 02:24:06 PM

Porous Horace: Gilbert Gottfried for GPS voice.
Also, books on tape.

I want Bobcat Goldthwait. "EARRRGH! TURN LEFT! LEeeeeeeEEeFT!"

xeus8		2009-09-05 02:24:13 PM

bring to a festering boil: I'm sure the author thought this was hilarious. Sadly for her (and everyone else), it only points out her stupidity.

Both she and I thought it was hilarious, but for different reasons.

/at vs with

pla		2009-09-05 02:25:49 PM

SwingingJohnson : She talks a little slower and doesn't sound like a biatchy nag like the American accent mode.

But when you turn the wrong way, does she shout "Oi!" at you?

X15		2009-09-05 02:25:52 PM

the_wanderer: craxyd: Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of the computer from Star Trek: Next Generation,

Majel Barrett did the voice, she was married to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. I don't think she needs the cash that bad.

She did the computer voice for all the series and movies.

She's also dead :(

the_wanderer		2009-09-05 02:28:52 PM

X15: She did the computer voice for all the series and movies.

She's also dead :(

Crap, I knew that and meant to say it..

kd1s		2009-09-05 02:29:17 PM

phlegmmo: This just in: men navigate by direction, women navigate by sites.

It isn't just women per se. Here in RI we do locational navigation except the thing our guide post you're looking for isn't there anymore.

I call it the "Where it used to be." method of navigation.

Me, I love my GPS unit. She proved herself on an 800 mile trip from Providence, RI to Edenton, NC.

ginko		2009-09-05 02:29:20 PM

I've also noticed this, she gets very pissy when you don't follow instructions and she has to recalculate.

/I'd love a James Earl Jones GPS. His voice is just beautiful.

steveGswine		2009-09-05 02:29:57 PM

I'm glad to have read that, and to have seen a bit of the author's internal mental workings.

Now I can close that tab and NEVER. DEAL. WITH. HER. AGAIN.

I cannot express how sweet that is to me.

msheda		2009-09-05 02:31:22 PM

X15: the_wanderer: craxyd: Not too long ago I thought it would be cool as hell to get a GPS that had the voice of the computer from Star Trek: Next Generation,

Majel Barrett did the voice, she was married to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. I don't think she needs the cash that bad.

She did the computer voice for all the series and movies.

She's also dead :(

So your saying she doesn't need the money?