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offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-01-31 19:57 [#02042492]
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ok lol, you'll probably beat me dude.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2007-01-31 19:57 [#02042494]
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don't give any of them a ride and fuck the car.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-01-31 19:57 [#02042495]
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Please don't make this into a Dark Tower book.


 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-01-31 19:59 [#02042497]
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what an interesting experiment shady. i had to go to the
depths of my personality to answer that.


 

offline RussellDust on 2007-01-31 20:02 [#02042501]
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man, it's not that complex to work out and all in all a
pretty lazy tease. there's tons of better (though famous)
ones.

the fact you were so eager to tell everyone before too many
people posted was a fair indicator. glad you were beaten.

i have a great one but i'd have to draw bits out first and
stuff so i'll post it tomorrow.



 

offline RussellDust on 2007-01-31 20:04 [#02042504]
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haha, very good.


 

offline RussellDust on 2007-01-31 20:06 [#02042509]
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oh shut up you ol' fool


 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-01-31 20:08 [#02042514]
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please! PLEASE!


 

offline RussellDust on 2007-01-31 20:15 [#02042524]
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check the post i was following up to get the context, though
of course i realised how i come across too late.

hang on, who the fuck are you anyway, Thom bloody Yorke?


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2007-01-31 20:17 [#02042527]
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cuntychuck made the best post in the thread! i am laughing
out loud!


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offline RussellDust on 2007-01-31 20:19 [#02042531]
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you buggering shit!


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2007-01-31 20:35 [#02042551]
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that wouldn't work. grrlz don't like dudes with out rides
yo. they want like money and status symbols so they can
feel slightly less insecure about being filthy dirty sex
whores.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2007-01-31 20:57 [#02042558]
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The friend will think something's up and the lady will KNOW
something's up and none of this will work out the way you
want unless you have mind control powers, and if you do you
can make the interviewer eat his own shoes with chocolate
sauce.

QED


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2007-02-01 00:20 [#02042587]
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and what if your best friend couldn't drive (he's a drunk)?
should the dieing old woman drive? I THINK NOT


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2007-02-01 01:01 [#02042591]
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Ive always wanted to walk up to an old person and say 'I'm
your angel, you have died, I am hear to guide you to heaven.
These people can't see us'


 

offline Sclah from Freudian Slipmat on 2007-02-01 01:56 [#02042597]
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if i was a busdriver i could pick them all up
:))))))))))))))


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 01:58 [#02042598]
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what if the girl of your dreams isnt interested in you?


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 02:30 [#02042616]
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run over the old woman, pick up wour friend and the girl,
and drive back to your house for a threesome


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2007-02-01 02:47 [#02042621]
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the correct answer is purple, because ice cream has no
bones.


 

offline OK on 2007-02-01 03:14 [#02042626]
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furple you idiot.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-02-01 03:16 [#02042627]
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Here's my answer:

Me: I've got a 5 seater, so I'd pick them all up.

Smug interviewer: No, it's a 2 seater car.

Me: You said, my car.

Slightly less smug interviewer: Okay, lets say for the sake
of the scenario, that you have just bought a 2 seater car
and are driving it.

Me: Alright. My best friend doesn't have a driving licence
and isn't insured to drive my car. As I know this, if I gave
him my car to drive, let alone put him in a position where
he felt morally obliged to drive it quickly (to save
someone's life) I could probably be charged with
contributive negligence when he inevitably put the thing on
its roof, thereby killing the old woman. I don't think the
excuse, "but I did it to pick up a hot chick" would wash
with most judges, either.

I also wouldn't buy a 2 seater car, unless it was a weekend
toy superlight like a Caterham or Ariel Atom. And if it was
one of those I was driving, I wouldn't be on the sort of
roads that have bus stops. I also, doubt the old dear would
be able to get in something so low and cramped and I
certainly wouldn't trust my mate to drive one of those.

I think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot regarding the
hot chick too. A bus pass isn't as effective a way of
impressing a woman as a 2 seater car: chicks dig
impractical, ragtop, garishly coloured, underpowered,
mid-life crisis mobiles.

Considerably less smug interviewer: You pwn. The job's
yours.

-----------------------------------------

As an aside, I'm suprised no one has turned the situation
into a version of "The Aristocrats" joke.


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2007-02-01 03:39 [#02042629]
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kinda stupid question for a job interview....


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2007-02-01 04:15 [#02042632]
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Ceri, I'm not sure if humiliating interviewers is the way to
get a job!


 

offline zero-cool on 2007-02-01 04:31 [#02042640]
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none. you give your hand a ride : ( )


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-02-01 04:32 [#02042641]
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You're right, I think in my last interview, my answering the
question, "You say you're a good written communicator, have
you got any evidence of that?" by producing an essay that
(amongst other things) criticised the behaviour of agencies
such as his, probably didn't help. I didn't realise what I'd
done till after I'd left the building and by that stage I
thought going back and asking if I could give him a
different article would be worse than chancing that he
didn't bother to read that far.

I think that cocked it up, as we seemed to be getting along
really well and he said that I had the most experienced and
was most technically competent of the candidates they'd
interviewed (and I was the last one interviewed). I
genuinely had been expecting an offer letter, but I got a
rejection one the next day so I can only assume he didn't
like what he read. Up until then, I'd never failed to get a
job following an interview.

I think this is probably because my attitude now is that if
I have to bite my tongue in a place, I probably won't be
happy working there, so it's best I don't get the job.
Whereas, when I was younger, I was more prepared not to ask
awkward questions of interviewers, so I probably came across
as more "positive". Still, I'm going to be looking for a new
job soon, so I'd best learn to lie with a straight face
again for a few months at least.


 

offline PNES on 2007-02-01 04:39 [#02042645]
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Just because the woman is older and dying don't mean she
can't be my friend/woman of my dreams. They is the same
person I'd say.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-02-01 04:40 [#02042646]
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You would have gotten a job from me, with that answer.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-02-01 04:43 [#02042647]
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Another flaw, how the hell can you see that it's the woman
of your dreams from her apperance?

Realistically, the situation would end with me hollering at
the chick i love, and then she refuses to go with me. I then
drive home depressed, and let the old woman die in my best
friends arms.

Also, it's gay to rate your friends. "best friend". If you
have a best friend, you also have a worst friend. What a
load of crap.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-02-01 04:43 [#02042648]
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Oh, I forgot to clarify- the article, didn't just slate
agencies like theirs, it actually, through an anecdote
(although it didn't specifically name them, it was pretty
obvious it refered to them) it talked about them in
particular.

Bit of a mad coincidence as they were a couple hundred miles
away from where the article was written and the incident
discussed took place and at the time, I didn't realise the
place I was being interviewed had anything to do with the
organisation I discussed in the article. As it happens, they
were a sister company and the chap running it used to be at
the original company and was present (although not named) in
the events described.

I didn't actually find this last bit out until 6 months
later. Certainly made things a bit clearer!


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2007-02-01 11:37 [#02042827]
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He said job interview because he's afraid to tell anyone he
heard this "trick question" in a Bruce Willis movie called
16 blocks.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2007-02-01 11:42 [#02042831]
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i don't know if anyone else already said this, but the
question is misleading:

the question is "who do you give a ride?" which implies that
you've got to give one person a ride, and that not giving
anyone a ride and instead taking the bus with one of them is
not a possibility.

i guess that's why they ask it at job interviews - to see if
you're willing to think "outside the box", but to be honest,
i think that's bollocks. in a job interview situation,
you're won't have time to think the full thing through
thoroughly, and even if you did get the right answer in your
head, would you dare defy the restrictions imposed by the
question?


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-02-01 11:50 [#02042839]
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boy, I sure hope someone gets the answer soon so I'll be
equipped with all the knowledge necessary to secure a six
figure salary in a management position.


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2007-02-01 12:07 [#02042851]
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it was probably a job interview for subway or someother
wankery where the boss is a low life scum who has to use
what llittle power he has as manager over acne ridden
teenagers to feel any bit of purpose and meaning to fullfil
his pathetic excuse for existence.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 13:25 [#02042906]
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this thing has been doing the rounds for a while. has turned
up on my bloody myspace a few times. why oh why do i say yes
when teenage grlz and guyz with names like <:~~SuPa SeXaY
ChIcK~~:> and 5H4DY ask to be my 'friend'?


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 13:32 [#02042907]
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No one has mentioned the possibility that they had just got
off a bus. It doesn't state they were waiting for anything
hence none of them may require a lift.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 13:35 [#02042908]
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If the old woman was about to die you could pull over, rape
the girl then fuck the old womans corpse while letting your
mate watch. That way everyone is happy.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 13:36 [#02042909]
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Except the raped girl and the old woman.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 13:39 [#02042911]
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The question was worse than the Shooting Stars questions
like "Name a breed of Dog"
"Poodle?"
"Oh unlucky it was Doberman"


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 13:39 [#02042912]
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the old woman wouldnt care. she's dead. you could always tie
the girl to the back of your car and continue on your way,
safe in the knowledge that by the time you got to your
destination she wouldnt be very pissed off either.

although they might come back to haunt you


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-01 14:15 [#02042936]
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so many stupid answers.


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2007-02-01 14:16 [#02042938]
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I would have answered: the best friend. Because the woman of
my dreams doesn't exist and you should never move a injuried
person.


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2007-02-01 14:19 [#02042941]
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Ahah "worst friend". I never thought about that.
Interesting...


 

offline Combo from Sex on 2007-02-01 14:19 [#02042942]
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But yeah I have friends that are friendlier than others.


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-01 14:19 [#02042943]
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so far you all know the answer and your still coming up with
these stupid answers lol. DiaZoHeXagoN got the job lol.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 14:24 [#02042952]
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so did you know before you were told it? i guarantee you did
not get this right.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-02-01 14:25 [#02042954]
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I am a frog, made of cardboard. Do I jump?


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-01 14:25 [#02042955]
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i can admit i didnt, but i still didnt make up answers like
these lol.


 

offline shady from chicago (United States) on 2007-02-01 14:26 [#02042956]
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of course you dont jump, your cardboard.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2007-02-01 18:58 [#02043188]
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No offense but you are a bit of a stupid prick.

For the question to be answered 'correctly' you have to make
the following assumptions:

1) Your car has only got two seats.
2) Your friend is capable of driving but instead chooses to
take a bus.
3) You were just driving aimlessly without a destination or
you didn't have to reach somewhere urgently.
4) They wanted a lift.
5) They were waiting for a bus and not just got off one.

Another flaw is the question of how you are repaying a
favour to your friend by getting him to drive an old woman
to hospital while you try to get a shag off a bird at the
bus stop.

If I got the job based on the 'correct' answer I'd turn in
late on the first day and use the stupid fucking thing as my
excuse.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-02-01 19:02 [#02043191]
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6) the bus goes in your direction?


 


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