Reason #768 of Why not to date Engineers...

[trillionaire]

FI sent me an email yesterday.

I responded today.

This is the reply I recieved...

Hmm, there seems to have been a bit of Lag in the system. Took about 612501501250125345346343670 ms for a response.

Pinging Trillionaire with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for Trillionaire
Packets sent = 4, Received in a resonable time = 0, Lost = 4 (100% FAIL!!!!)
*deadpan*

 

[TooPatient]

Very funny.

Got to love them.

 

[Bleed Burnt Orange]

LOL!! As an enginerd myself (FI is one also, as well as many of my friends)...that's pretty funny! hehe.

 

[iwannaprettyone]

#769- takes 5 hours to install a 4 screw bathtowel rail....Now have strange pencil marks on the wall.... LOL

 

[elrohwen]

LMAO As an engineer, married to an engineer, and friends with engineers, I love it! I think your FI and I would get along very well together

 

[trillionaire]

Date: 12/1/2009 1:23:52 PM
Author: iwannaprettyone
#769- takes 5 hours to install a 4 screw bathtowel rail....Now have strange pencil marks on the wall.... LOL

LOL! All the smarts and none of the common sense!

At least it''s entertaining?

 

[vc10um]

Date: 12/1/2009 1:27:40 PM
Author: elrohwen
LMAO As an engineer, married to an engineer, and friends with engineers, I love it! I think your FI and I would get along very well together

Same here...except insert "dating" instead of "married".

 

[katamari]

So, so true! DH is not an engineer, but a mathematician/computer scientist and I get so embarrassed every time we go out to eat where there are paper napkins, because he will ask for extras to (I am not kidding here) scribble out formulas and equations that come to him while we are eating.

 

[yssie]

Brilliant

FI will slowly pour milk into tea and coffee and mutter to himself about how to calculate the swirls.

 

[trillionaire]

Date: 12/1/2009 1:38:13 PM
Author: yssie
Brilliant

FI will slowly pour milk into tea and coffee and mutter to himself about how to calculate the swirls.

Awesome!

 

[risingsun]

If I''m debating about the size of a handbag to buy, DH insists on caculating the cubic inches. Takes the joy right out of it

 

[Smurfysmiles]

I find myself muttering about different graphic design things a lot

i.e. : hun are you done in the bathroom, I rendered my hair and I''m good to go! lol

 

[elrohwen]

Anyone else watch Mythbusters and argue about the physics? We pause each episode at least two or three times to discuss (and we''ll discuss things that aren''t even related to the main point of the show).

Though DH gets really annoyed when I nitpick the physics or science of action movies

 

[audball]

Date: 12/1/2009 2:14:45 PM
Author: elrohwen
Anyone else watch Mythbusters and argue about the physics? We pause each episode at least two or three times to discuss (and we''ll discuss things that aren''t even related to the main point of the show).

Though DH gets really annoyed when I nitpick the physics or science of action movies

My FF does this (he''s a mechanical enginerd <---I like this term btw, will have to share this with him) and he ALWAYS ruins the movies by telling me how it''s impossible for such and such to do this or that. He also critiques mythbusters, but he still watches every...single...episode.

 

[yssie]

Date: 12/1/2009 2:10:12 PM
Author: risingsun
If I''m debating about the size of a handbag to buy, DH insists on caculating the cubic inches. Takes the joy right out of it

LOL

At least your FI has an opinion! Mine would say absolutely nothing if I carried my laptop around in a brown paper baggie.

 

[kama_s]

Hahaha, too funny. I remember Mr. Kama teaching me something engineering related on a paper napkin greased with butter chicken at an Indian restaurant. I still have that paper napkin!

I think that''s why we get along so well, I''m pure science and he''s applied. We work different, think different yet have a distinct commonality. Our baseline is always in equilibrium

 

[Karl_K]

rofl!!!
That is something I would do!!!

 

[MissMina]

I married one and gave birth to one
The stories I could tell

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Date: 12/1/2009 1:23:52 PM
Author: iwannaprettyone
#769- takes 5 hours to install a 4 screw bathtowel rail....Now have strange pencil marks on the wall.... LOL

Maybe I should go to engineering school. Our walls are scattered with marks and nail holes

 

[Cehrabehra]

all the wives and significant others of engineers should really form a support group... I''m in!

 

[LaurenThePartier]

LOL, clever response!

Married to an enginerd myself . . . although, these days he''s allowing his creative role at his office to take over for this week, so I''m getting a ton of questions about lighting environments and the caustics of diamonds and other gemstones.

 

[TooPatient]

Date: 12/1/2009 6:30:22 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
all the wives and significant others of engineers should really form a support group... I''m in!

Best idea ever.

 

[Squirrly]

lol i would''ve sent my reply to him a few times and then sent a ''sorry you seem to have run into an infinite recursion loop, please try your response again'' message.

he might take that as a challenge though.

 

[vc10um]

Date: 12/1/2009 3:33:13 PM
Author: audball

Date: 12/1/2009 2:14:45 PM

Author: elrohwen

Anyone else watch Mythbusters and argue about the physics? We pause each episode at least two or three times to discuss (and we''ll discuss things that aren''t even related to the main point of the show).

Though DH gets really annoyed when I nitpick the physics or science of action movies

My FF does this (he''s a mechanical enginerd <---I like this term btw, will have to share this with him) and he ALWAYS ruins the movies by telling me how it''s impossible for such and such to do this or that. He also critiques mythbusters, but he still watches every...single...episode.

Watching Mythbusters every Wednesday is our date night...

And we rent the old seasons through Netflix...

 

[Echidna]

Date: 12/1/2009 4:46:44 PM
Author: kama_s
Hahaha, too funny. I remember Mr. Kama teaching me something engineering related on a paper napkin greased with butter chicken at an Indian restaurant. I still have that paper napkin!

I think that''s why we get along so well, I''m pure science and he''s applied. We work different, think different yet have a distinct commonality. Our baseline is always in equilibrium

Same here, Kama. My SO once spent a serious amount of time drawing pictures to explain to me how to stall an aerobatic plane using angles of attack (and no, I still don''t get it!).

However, he''s an avionics research engineer and I''m a social scientist, so we''re chalk and cheese

I''m totally in for Cehra''s support group!

PS. I''m sure lots of you have seen this...

 

[doodle]

A good bit of my male friends are enginerds, so I have a story you guys will get a kick out of. One of my friends dates this guy who thinks he knows EVERYTHING and is generally wrong. Well, one night, a large group of my friends was hanging out together, and this guy starts going into this big long speech about how all planes are capable of taking off vertically but some of them just don''t. Now I''m an idiot in science, but even I knew this didn''t sound quite right, so imagine the reaction of my five friends with engineering degrees. Let''s just say there were a lot of diagrams and equations (and tears) on napkins that night!

 

[charbie]

what is it with those DARN engineers expecting everything RIGHTNOW.

my DH is a mechanical/industrial engineer, and if i don''t respond to his email in 5 ms as well, i''m told about it! geeeesh. not all of us sit in front of our computers or keep our blackberries attached to our hand at all time! i have meetings where i actually interact with other people!

 

[Upgradable]

Date: 12/1/2009 1:23:52 PM
Author: iwannaprettyone
#769- takes 5 hours to install a 4 screw bathtowel rail....Now have strange pencil marks on the wall.... LOL

#769 subpart B- however, said bathtowel rail will withstand a direct blast from a 4 megaton atomic blast!

.....not enough time to describe the building of basement shelves for storage.

 

[charbie]

Date: 12/2/2009 10:01:51 AM
Author: Upgradable

Date: 12/1/2009 1:23:52 PM
Author: iwannaprettyone
#769- takes 5 hours to install a 4 screw bathtowel rail....Now have strange pencil marks on the wall.... LOL

#769 subpart B- however, said bathtowel rail will withstand a direct blast from a 4 megaton atomic blast!

.....not enough time to describe the building of basement shelves for storage.

baahhhhaaaaaaaahahaha!! so stinking true!