Clueless patrons in an academic library.

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date Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:29 PM
subject SERIOUS DUMB BLONDE AT LIU!!!
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Zomg!!! I can't believe this happened!!! Ha ha.
I was sitting at Ref. desk at school. This blonde, private school-ish 18-20 year old girl with curly hair approaches me. Her eyes are blue but empty. I could see the stupid in her eyes! She has this super dumb voice. I mean. Like. Right out of a book or something. Right? And she says to me, "Uhhh? The computer is in this asian language? I don't know if you can help me change iiit...?" I go over to her terminal. It's on the japanese Yahoo page. I entered www.yahoo.com . Ingles. Fixed. Wow. WOWWW!!!!!!!!!! AMAZING!!! It'd be hilarious if it weren't so damned fucking SAD!!!! :'( idk, it's still funny. :)

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ANECDOTE.

OK. Last time, I wasn't even ON REFERENCE DESK, and this student wondered why her yahoo page was in Spanish... I was sitting next to her trying to type up and research some silly, yet stressful assignment (as they all are). And. She says to me. "Can you help me? My computer is in Spanish and I don't know how to change it." First of all, idk how she picked ME out of everyone else in the room (why not the girl to her right?). Maybe she had the "knowledgeable person" radar, or maybe it's because I'm Chinee, idk. AnywayzzZ!!!

I look over and I'm like, "Well, you need to change your settings on your yahoo mail account -- uh, wait, are you signed into *your* account?"

And she says, "Oh. No." And I said, "Well, sign out and then log back in." She accidentally exits out of her window anyway and had to get back on to her email... but the KICKER was that she went to www.google.com first to GOOGLE "yahoo mail"!!! Like. I mean. Liek. How long has she had her email? And how long has she been doing that? Without memorizing the goddamned hypertext protocol transfer address? Liek. Honestly, people!!! This is Long Island University!!! And how much do I pay to attend this place? Holy shit!!! (Hundreds of thousands of dollars, PEOPLE!!!)
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Anyway, any time someone says, "the computer is in [insert choice] language" I automatically have this dreaded feeling of having to navigate through the system in an unknown and foreign language to change the settings because what FUCKER changed the setting?!?! And it just turns out to be. Oh. You are on a foreign page. Dumbass. Like. Seriously. Do Americans really think the rest of the world don't have their own pages with their own languages and shit? Like. Do they think the rest of the world speaks English? Yeah, I come from Miami (bitch) and I know wuddup. Miami ain't the USA, for one. Okay, peace.