Two bouts of stupidity for you, as I try to get a slightly more serious post out-of-the-way.
Topic: Yahoo Questions and Answers.
2 things.
Thing #1:
I noticed, every time I looked at an answer on this, I saw that there was a ‘Best Answer – Â Chosen by Asker’ on every answered question.
Who the hell is Asker?
I think it’s the capitals of Asker that made me think this was a person. I now know that it’s asker like the person who ASKED, rather than a name similar to an old classmate… I think his name was Askar? I can’t remember, but it was close enough to ‘asker’ that when I actually read and absorbed exactly what was being written there, I noticed that it was on EVERY answered question–or at least every question that had gone past it’s question due-date (when the asker sets for the question to be answered by in general)–and it didn’t make any sense as to why people were putting such weight into the top choice of this Asker figure…
I don’t know what made me clue in, but it was probably just one day I read it and actually understood it as it could also be.
So the mystery of who the hell Asker was and why they were so important was solved, and boy am I glad that I never ASKED someone about this oddity.
It’s fine admitting this now, as I now know my mistake, but I feel like the embarrassment of having to be informed of this…
And now the internet knows 😛
And as a bonus, HERE’s what I was recently Yahoo’ing to make me think of this. The milk expiration date is Feb 28, and it’s March 2nd, and while I know that the expiration date is only a BEST BEFORE date, Lexy has me paranoid of these things now.
Even after reading the Best Answer, I still did her test of pouring it into a cup first before risking cereal.
Lexy, this is not an attack, I just am weary of the possibility of off milk after finding a small carton of solid chocolate milk that my roommates had left in the fridge. (ink, read posts from bottom up to understand)
Okay, and Thing #2
This was a while ago, and in the timeframe of “I don’t care about the ‘real’ shows, I like cartoons ONLY–for the most part” sort of stage that I have moved from to embrace the “I like everything–for the most part” sort of stage I am in now.
I still watch a huge amount of anime online (can name a number of sites off the top of my head even), but I also look up episodes to ‘real’ shows…
So, when I went on an “I’m helpful and will answer questions on Yahoo Answers” spree when I was in I think grade 8 or maybe 9, I came across a question asking for where to find episodes of Dexter.
Dexter's Lab anyone?
I thought, hey, I wouldn’t want to watch that right now, but I know where they can look!
Found out later that Dexter is something different.
Very Different
To add to this, I found out late in Rangers, a program I took during the summer I was 17, that my answer made it onto 4chan. My dear friend S told me while laughing that she’d seen it posted there, and thought it was funny that she now knew it was from me…
Greeeeat…
And, I don’t know if this misunderstanding on my part bore this into the world, or perhaps someone else who was like “LOLZ Old Cartoon or New Show? MIXED” but the picture below makes me smile anyway.
And also worry that I started something that will bite me now that I’m fessing up to two Yahoo blunders.
So there are two things of embarrassment, now out to the internet, if anyone else has seen my ‘answer to the Dexter Query, please send me a link or something…
Bah, stupid younger me…
Always fun revisiting things like these 😛
Anyone else have any blunders?
Drawn In And Quartered 