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People are dense. And a lot of the time they don't even realize they've made a mistake. Though sometimes you have to wonder 'How did they not notice something was wrong?'Snowglobe of Doom posted:Never underestimate human stupidity, or the likelihood of people replicating other people's idiotic mistakes 88h88 posted:UK couple book a flight to Vegas from Birmingham. The Birmingham in the USA, not the Birmingham in the UK. They got to Birmingham airport in the UK and were basically told to get hosed when they presented their tickets to depart from an airport in completely the wrong country. No refunds for stupidity. Scruff McGruff posted:This is like that guy that booked a flight for Granada and ended up in Grenada. SpacePig posted:You'd be surprised how inattentive people can be. Remember that time people started posting their Facebook logins on some woman's blog because it became the top result for Facebook on Google for a day for some reason? And then those same people posted to complain about how they didn't like the new layout? Shillary posted:That was ReadWriteWeb actually: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-want-the-old-facebook-back GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Thank you for reminding me of this. I was howling as I read through the comments. Good lord, people are dense. Post your favorite stories! Ones that you've done, read, or know happened in general.
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In February 2010, Facebook did a design overhaul as they do once in a while. At the same time, a blog posted a story about Facebook's login strategy (that was also when they made it so you could use Facebook as a login on other sites). That blog post became the #1 hit on Google for "facebook login" & all the people who did not know you could write facebook.com in the address bar started getting sent to that blog post & were completely horrified that they were now no longer unable to log in. Check out the comments, seems most of the pages are archived too. Unfortunately, Internet Archive didn't start archiving it until 2 days after it happened, so there were probably actual comments with logins & passwords that are now deleted. quote:Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. You can however click here and become a Fan of ReadWriteWeb on Facebook, to receive our updates and learn more about the Internet. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type "facebook.com" into your browser address bar or enter "facebook" into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser. https://web.archive.org/web/20100212115719/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php Article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/feb/11/facebook-readwriteweb quote:I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS poo poo IS WACK!!!!! Ah poo poo, you already mentioned the blog. Welp, I mostly just posted to bookmark anyway 
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The English couple mentioned in the OP were given a five star holiday by Virgin as recompense. Idiocy pays off! 
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Some reasons why people went to A&E in Cambridge.quote:1. Broken false finger nail that wouldn't come off
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Geokinesis posted:Some reasons why people went to A&E in Cambridge. Even in the US people call for EMS and go to the Emergency Room for all kinds of mundane reasons. One that sticks out in my head was told to me by a coworker who works for a county ambulance service as a second job. He tended a patient to the hospital for mild flu-like symptoms. It was clear that she was ill, but it looked to him to be nothing more than a head cold. Yet her boyfriend, who was on scene when he and his driver showed up, followed the ambulance in his own personal vehicle to the hospital. It apparently never crossed their minds to just drive themselves and avoid the ambulance bill.
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Xmas Dumpster Fire posted:One that sticks out in my head was told to me by a coworker who works for a county ambulance service as a second job. He tended a patient to the hospital for mild flu-like symptoms. It was clear that she was ill, but it looked to him to be nothing more than a head cold. Yet her boyfriend, who was on scene when he and his driver showed up, followed the ambulance in his own personal vehicle to the hospital. It apparently never crossed their minds to just drive themselves and avoid the ambulance bill. Reminds me of a story related by one of my university lecturers of two men who were on a boat at sea and, having decided they were in some danger, decide to prep the lifeboat and transfer some supplies over in case they needed it. They then went ahead and moved from the main boat into the lifeboat, which, several hours later, became detached from the main boat. They were eventually rescued but their main boat was also found still afloat, and they would have been in much less danger on it, they just had it in their heads that in a dangerous situation you get into the lifeboat because it's safer.
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