"Clearly"

Published Tue, Jan 25 2005 20:45 | William

Today I got a response to one of my posts bitching about crystal reports where the dude says “as someone who works with the product extensively I can see that people above clearly have not taking any training before using the product so that they could understand how to use it effectively. “

Clearly has to be the most misused word in the world.  Ok, I got training from a dude that was certified by Seagate to teach the stuff - and I still think that all of the later versions suck.  Back in 7.0 - fine it was cool - but everything afterward totally blows. 

I could make the statement, clearly you JUMPED to the wrong conclusion or clearly you misjudged this situation - but why?  It's just such an Obnoxious way to communicate isn't it?  Actually, I probably hate Clearly more than any other word in the language becuase it immediately fires off the CondescendingAndInnacurateComment event.  I swear that 70% minmum of the time I hear people predicate something with Clearly - they are clearly wrong. 

So lets say that in the above case I said “I use the product a lot and from what I can tell - much of the issues mentioned look more like unfamialirity on the user's part than product deficiencies...“  But logically speaking - isn't it possible, if I was a total moron - to get training and still not know how to use the product?  Yes, it is.  So maybe I'm an idiot - but that's not enough evidence to properly surmise that I clearly didn't get training.  But what if I got training and the trainer was either an idiot or covered other areas?  I could still have the same symptoms right?

Let's face it, when we add in Clearly - that's usually just a way to say “Your an idiot“ in a semi-polite way.  But I'd rather be told “You're an idiot“ because it's more direct and well, I clearly wouldn't have to listen to people make statements that are in all likelihood goign to be incorrect. 

Nothing against the guy that posted this - but I just really really really really really hate the word Clearly anymore.  Hopefully you all agree with me and I made my point clearly enough?


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# William said on January 25, 2005 9:29 PM:

Bill, you're CLEARLY pissed off at the guy.

# William said on January 25, 2005 9:46 PM:

I'm actually Clearly pissed off at a few other people that use this word - or did in the past ;-)

# William said on January 25, 2005 10:19 PM:

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW BEFORE MY SHLONG
I CAN SEE ALL HOTTIES I'D LIKE TO LAY
HERE IS A DARK BRUNETTE THAT WILL GO DOWN
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY

OH YES I CAN MAKE IT NOW THE RUBBER IS GONE
ALL OF THE BAD FEELINGS HAVE DISAPPEARED
HERE IS THE HOT PIECE I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY

LOOK ALL AROUND THERE'S NOTHING BUT CREAMY THIGHS
LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD THERE'S NOTHING BUT BIG TITS

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW BEFORE MY SHLONG
I CAN SEE ALL HOTTIES I'D LIKE TO LAY
HERE IS THE HOT PIECE I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
BRI-RI-RI-RI-RIGHT
BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
OH YEAH
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY
SHE'S GONNA BE A BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT COLLEGE AGED LAY




Sorry Bill I couldn't resist. Every time some knob says "Clearly" that song gets stuck in my head so I make up bizzare lyrics to offset the annoying song in my head.

# William said on January 25, 2005 11:22 PM:

If I wasn't laughing so hard I'd be pissed.

# William said on January 26, 2005 2:28 PM:

I'm of a weird species that believes products should not need training. If I'm spending 5k for say SalesLogix, I'm not spending another 5k on "certification" or a couple hundred on "training". I can get by with what I know and playing with it. If I could figure out a 8 changing Transformer without instructions I think I can figure out an overpriced peice of crap software.

Crystal is a beast just to get a simple report from 1 table and if I have a hard time with my development knowledge I can be sure the semi-computer-literate person next to me is going to find it extremely difficult. These are the same people that have a light bulb go off when they use Access so giving them something like Crystal is almost like giving a 2 year old a loaded gun. It might turn out fine but I'm going to be ducking every 5 seconds.


Thanks Andy for getting that song stuck in MY head now. I like to think of alternative lyrics for songs but I usually pick songs I can somewhat stand. That one is just completely unbearable. Clearly your taste in music sucks and clearly Bill should slap you silly right about now.

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