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Some Light Hearted Therapy for IT Professionals
If you work in I.T. and feeling a bit depressed depressed by your job then cheer yourself up with this light hearted sketch from YouTube that looks at a Medieval Help Desk. Even if you don't work in I.T. you will still appreciate the humor.
The clip is in Norwegian but has English captions. (Or maybe its it Danish - can someone clarify this).
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The spoken language in the video is Norwegian NOT Danish ;-)
Right Ole. It´s Norwegian. But the Captions are in English at the top and in Danish at the bottom.
Regards.
Its Danish.
Extremely funny, brings back lots of memories :)
The maddest one I've ever come across was a request for a directory of internet email addresses, sigh...
Nowdays I stick to server support and software development but I bet there are still lots of daft things out there waiting to happen.
Rik
Try these two also:
Medieval helpdesk in English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQRbqc2qtY
Helpdesk version 2.0 with English subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3IkQoX5_I
Thanks Jojo. It might be me but I didn't think these were as funny as the original.
True, personally I feel that these two are the add-ons, very likely produced after the original came out if I'm not mistaken.
May I recommend Hal Draper's classic science fiction tale MS Fnd in a Lbry? A charming little tale along similar lines.
http://home.comcast.net/~bcleere/texts/draper.html
Ja, it's all funny until all the books are ebooks in some vast universal Internet library and the world's electricity is destroyed forevah and you can't open any of the ebooks and all the IT guys are dead because they pushed the wrong buttons and got zapped too, and NOBODY WHO'S LEFT KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A REAL BOOK.
I'm telling you, we illuminators and scribes are gonna be in demand again. You just see. I've got my quill pens and hide glue all ready for the day. Nyah!
This is wonderful! I am a former corporate IT developer. even though not officially a help desk person, I did have to document and explain many new systems and processes.
Anyone watch "The IT Crowd", soooooo funny, you can catch it on Netflix if anyone is interested in a little IT humor.
Very funny.
Check out this website for more hilarious computer stupidities.
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
cheers
sean
Hilarious !! Could not stop laughing
This is scary. We're still using scrolls where I work and have not heard of these new-fangled....err.....books, were they called?
Thanks Gizmo that's interesting.
Another fifty years later, will there be another clip showing how funny it is for a person doesn't know how to open a file or bookmark a page with a program on a computer? :>)
Now all you need to do is find the follow-up with the 'Help' folder 8O)
Ah, you've found this golden oldie. Being Norwegian myself, I can confirm that the spoken language is Norwegian, but the written one is Danish.
Thanks for the clarification. For an anglophone like me it's not hard to pick spoken Swedish from Norwegian and Danish but distinguishing between the latter two takes a better ear than mine. Thanks again for helping.
Gizmo
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