l was having trouble with my computer so I called my
13 year-old son to help me.
He clicked a couple of buttons and fixed it. As he was
walking back to his room I asked him what the
My teacher did this to me in high school... along with sending me to a bunch of teachers (who were in on it) to look for a left handed screw driver....
If I ever tried to pull that Idiot test on my mom id get slapped into next week. Boy is she a crazy bitch and doesn't like it when some one corrects her when she's obviously doing something wrong
We use to do this to our Jr Marines (E3 and below) we would have them go to supply and ask for a ID10T form and oh god the ssgt who was in charge hated us bc we did it every time we got new marines lol
That's actually something they teach in Comp Sci classes. There's another one, PEBCAK. You tell someone they have a PEBCAK problem. "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard"
I work a sort of customer service IT and a customer hit me with that and it fucking killed me. One of my favorite customers and I hope that guy is doing well.
We laugh and shit but my dad is super fluent with computers and tech and stuff but he was having trouble with his printer for like a month. I stopped by and fixed it in like 5 minutes. We laugh now but it made me think, someday my kid is gonna make me look like a God damn IDIOT
We say this to people in the army right out of basic. “You need to go ask the supply sergeant for an ‘ID 10 Tango’ form for your gear.” It’s always hilarious.
I did electronics repair in the military, including the occasional computer. We'd often get a computer in that was screwed up because of something the user downloaded. On the equipment repair log, I would document it as a "PEBKAC error" -- Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
My dad taught me this joke when I was a kid, he used it at the laser tag place to mess with the employees because they wouldn’t let me name myself “stupid”