The Brick Wall of Stupid

[BookBint]

This was the kind of call that makes me wish the only means of distance communication was semaphore.

*Ring ring*

BB: Hello, X Publishing House speaking, BookBint speaking.
SC: Hi, could you tell me where your shops are? I can't seem to find out from your website.
BB: Oh, well that's because we're a publishing house, we don't-
SC: *interrupting* I live in *Place of the Terminally Dumb*. Where would your nearest shop be to me?
BB: As I was saying, madam, we just publish the books and then sell them to the bookshops-
SC: You sell from your website so you must have a shop, surely? *laughs at me like I'm an idiot*.
BB: No, madam, we don't have any shops. We just publish the books.
SC: Ok, well it sounds like I'll have to talk to someone else!
BB: I can transfer you to our sales department, they can sell you books over the phone, but they will tell you the same thing. We don't have any retail outlets.
SC: But... you sell books!
BB: Yes. To online customers and bookshops. Most publishing houses don't have bookshops. There isn't a Penguin, or a Random House or a Harper Collins shop.
SC: But... you sell books.
BB: Lather, rinse, repeat.
SC: But...
BB: Our books are available in all good bookshops or you can purchase them from our website or Amazon. Is there anything else I can help you with?
SC: But I just want to know where the shop is!

*Click*

[Darkforge]

eugh, probably one of those idiots who thinks that all books shops are the same company as they all sell books

[MoonCat]

I think that was more the titanium wall of stupid, because even bricks aren't that dense.

[Mnemjian]

*laughs at me like I'm an idiot*.

Oh god... that laugh. Why does it only seem to follow the most stupid SC remarks

[Argabarga]

Personally, I'd have given her the address to the nearest mental health facility.

[ApolloSZ]

I think that was more the lead wall of stupid, because even bricks aren't that dense.

Corrected that. Cos y'know, Titanium has a fair few USEFUL purposes.

[jedimaster91]

Hey, don't insult lead. It keeps me from getting fried by radiation.

[chainedbarista]

well, lead does have protective uses, so bint is protected from the radioactive effects from the stupid; she just has to deal with the vocal stupid.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Whatever the wall of stupid is made of, that guy completely wiped out into it and burst into flames.

[zombiequeen]

Wall of stupid, meet the repeated ramming of SC!
Luckily, the wall held.

[chainedbarista]

Wall of stupid, meet the repeated ramming of SC!
Luckily, the wall held.

give it time; anything that thick will outlast any wall.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

To me, this sounds like a person who is too stupid to be allowed near books for fear that they would try and eat one.

I mean, anyone that goddamn stupid can't be literate can they?

[chainedbarista]

they'd only eat on it until they reached the binding glue...then they'd lick it all off and be done.

[Shalom]

I wonder how old this person was. Once upon a time, publishing houses did have retail outlets.

Cue the interaction documented by (George) Moreby Acklom, a salesman in Dutton's bookstore. Customer wanders in, "Is this Scribner's?" and the clerk replies, "No, madam, this is Dutton's." Customer says "Yes, I saw Dutton's on the window, but I thought it might be Scribner's."

Now bear in mind that this was in a book published in 1927, and you'll see that people weren't any smarter three quarters of a century ago either. But the point is, both Scribner's and Dutton's were publishing houses, and both had bookstores...

[MoonCat]

I wonder how old this person was. Once upon a time, publishing houses did have retail outlets.

Cue the interaction documented by (George) Moreby Acklom, a salesman in Dutton's bookstore. Customer wanders in, "Is this Scribner's?" and the clerk replies, "No, madam, this is Dutton's." Customer says "Yes, I saw Dutton's on the window, but I thought it might be Scribner's."

Now bear in mind that this was in a book published in 1927, and you'll see that people weren't any smarter three quarters of a century ago either. But the point is, both Scribner's and Dutton's were publishing houses, and both had bookstores...

But once told "we don't have a retail outlet" the SC should have moved on. Me, I would have asked, "oh where do I buy your books then?" and been pleased to hear I could do it online.