Heard at high street electronics store

Justintime · 31 Jul 2011 at 13:46

Rather arrogant know it all salesperson to guy getting thermal compound for a cpu purchase, "Yeh its not actually called paste, its called TIM, short for thermally insulating material" :facepalm:

Sorry, i know its sad and geeky, but had to share that gem

sHo0sH · 31 Jul 2011 at 13:51

TIMMMYYYY!!!

dodgem · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:15

Did you go and correct him?

Would have been worth a laugh if you had a few minutes to kill

"It's called what?"

"Thermally insulating material sir."

"Oh, and that's because it's a good insulator is it?"

"That's right sir."

"Soooooooo.... Why would you want to put that between your cpu and heatsink?..."

** confusion and embarressed silence **

** lol and run away

**

Perhaps i'm just cruel though?

olivier renault · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:16

Always thought it was called Thermal Interface Material. You should have told him that.

Nerd fight!!!

~>Dg<~ · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:20

would have trolled him to be honest and said really i dont normally use any i just stick a heatsink on but thanks

Justintime · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:22

dodgem said:
Did you go and correct him?

Honestly, no. A long time ago i just might have but these days i pick my battles and i'm a better judge of people, this guy looked like he'd have argued it to the death that he was right, just not up for that on a Sunday morning

PieMaster · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:23

Back in the day I had a 20 minute argument with a manager at a map shop who refused to believe it was possible to have an s-video to composite adapter. I don't think he was impressed with the staff member who not only disagreed with him, but went and got one in about 30 seconds.

EdGey · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:32

Most certianly would have argued.

SCMRubix · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:39

I love hearing a nerd victory story

Cosimo · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:07

Justintime said:
Sorry, i know its sad and geeky, but had to share that gem

Yes it's sad and geeky and no you didn't.

Justintime · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:24

C'mon its a forum based around PC bits, theres bound to be some appreciation

gothic_hobbit · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:54

I bet this was in Curry's !

Dave**** · 31 Jul 2011 at 16:10

I bet it was in s'nilpaM.

Justintime · 31 Jul 2011 at 16:21

Davola said:
I bet it was in s'nilpaM.

olivier renault · 31 Jul 2011 at 17:57

Justintime said:
C'mon its a forum based around PC bits, theres bound to be some appreciation

Absolutely! But you should have all gone Nerd Hero on him. And tell the other dude to do his shopping online

kylew · 31 Jul 2011 at 18:11

gothic_hobbit said:
I bet this was in Currys!

FIXED

and no spaces before question marks!

Naturall, as you can tell I would have corrected him on the "TIM".

Kosmiche · 31 Jul 2011 at 18:15

Would have made me go "Eh?"

I would have known he was wrong but not able to correct him.

Thermal Interface Material?

GJ02 · 31 Jul 2011 at 18:36

Davola said:
I bet it was in s'nilpaM.

LoL that place is a nerd playground

Dogbreath · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:18

Not only did he get the acronym wrong, 'TIM' refers to any kind of thermal interface, which could be grease/paste/phase change/mica/graphite/silicone pad etc. He couldn't have been more wrong if he'd have been wearing a purple shirt.

Shame really, the particular company in question used to be staffed by proper enthusiasts and sold properly interesting stuff. Now they are just another box shifter for triple-C branded items.

RomanNose · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:23

One of the local big brand electronic stores is manned by a few girls who actually ask you to go and ask one of the guys .