Microblog Memes

Ah yes.

Also: instead of googling for the opening times better waste everyone's time by sending a text or an email to the shop and making them spell it out for you!

Also: if you see the shop is clearly closed, lights aren't on and you can see the opening times on the door and they say it's not open but someone is inside better start knocking because surely they wish to serve you.

Also: never read the instructions of a product. Instead complain that it's broken and demand a new product. Repeat.

Also: if you see a price list/menu/price tag or similar and you accidentally read it, better double check the price by asking "does this item cost what it says here"

Also: "employees only" actually means "for adventurous customers"

Also: if it says push, pull, if it says pull, push.

Signs and stuff I can kind of understand. Our world is chock full of things (ads) that try to get our attention at any point. At some point you develop an internal adblock and since 98% is irrelevant it is a reasonable drawback that the remaining 2% gets filtered out as well.

A significant fraction of America is illiterate. 21% or 1/5. Yeah.

I dont wanna say the average person is stupid but they make it really difficult to not think so.
Call it illiterate tunnel vision or whatever else youd like, but come one.
Heres some personal examples from work:

1. big neonsign at the door at eyeheight telling people when the store opens, 1 out of 6 people looks at it the rest doesnt even see it, one once was even mad and blew out the doorglass with a kick.
2. registers, big neon signs to say "hey douchenozzle, next one this is closed) and even when another worker is waiting and lookin at the person, they still dont get until you loudly talk to them to come to the other one.
3. god forbid someone needs something in another part of the store, unless you use children level semantics (go to blue line for example) they never find what they looking for.

those are just my personal examples but outside of that you see it seemingly everywhere.

When what's written is in a language you can read, what's up with that? Reading is free, so to speak, and it enables laziness by not having to find and ask people stuff

I worked gate security at a baseball stadium. Right next to where I stood there were two huge signs reading "No Smoking" and "No Re-entry". Guess what questions I got asked all day.

If that's your choice of fonts, I'm sure as hell not going to read it.

What did I just read?

TL;DR?

/s

I have always had the opposite problem. You put written words in front of me, and I am compelled to read them. I only stopped reading TOS/EULAs because they're always the same! You read 10 of em, you start to see they're all exactly the same, with just names being changed.

émail