Serious question.
Because either I’m difficult to understand or people are giving me the run around or they’re simply incompetent boobs.
I think it’s a matter of item two because of item three.
Q: Hi there, I trying to do X and I need to know what’s needed for A? And also how I can make finding A easier later?
A: The sky is blue and the grass is green.
Q: What? That wasn’t what I was asking?
A: Thank you, come again.
…
I would need more context to answer that question
So right now… yes 
By: Werit on November 11, 2008
at 10:02 am
Oh, didn’t see the rest of the text
By: Werit on November 11, 2008
at 10:03 am
Yup, I added it in later. I re-wrote that post several times and was vague to protect the ignorant.
By: smakendahed on November 11, 2008
at 10:37 am
I dunno if you’re hard to understand or I’m thick! I’m trying to figure out where A came from in a question that started out about X.
Sometimes there’s a shortcicruit between what you say and what someone else hears. Or between brain and mouth on self. Or between ear and brain on listener. It’s a wonder we get anything understood at all!
You could always try Esperanto.
By: Ysharros on November 11, 2008
at 1:33 pm
Hehe it’s all by email. The extra frustrating part is that I’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning to get another, potentially unrelated, response.
With A, I can then do X.
By: smakendahed on November 11, 2008
at 2:36 pm
talk to beth, she used to have that issue all the time.
By: Evolving Squid on November 11, 2008
at 5:48 pm
To answer your question though, how hard it is to understand depends largely on what X and A are.
Q: Hi there, I trying to do roofing and I need to know what’s needed for weather stripping? And also how I can make finding weather stripping easier later?
X and A are unrelated except vaguely by being construction.
On the other hand:
Q: Hi there, I trying to do some car repairs and I need to know what’s needed for a head gasket on a 2006 Windstar? And also how I can make finding a head gasket for a 2006 Windstar easier later?
That’s clear because X and A are closely related.
By: Evolving Squid on November 11, 2008
at 5:52 pm
Heh. X is upload results to a byzantine test case management system (database) and A is actually being able to find the results afterwards in said system (through their query GUI). Honestly, it’s a logicial issue on their behalf (in the GUI) and could probably be resolved by removing some defaults which don’t make sense to anyone that tests software.
I’ll rant about it more tomorrow before the game.
By: smakendahed on November 11, 2008
at 7:23 pm
Ok, yeah, that’s clear enough.
But remember, retards abound.
By: Evolving Squid on November 12, 2008
at 12:02 am
The saga continues…
It got resolved (or understood at least). It’s a matter of another entry that is taken as a string rather than for its intended meaning.
By: smakendahed on November 12, 2008
at 9:46 am