EG Type It In To Bloody Google.
Especially if they're using the internet.
I just read a thread here where someone asked a question about history and politics.
Why not just type the thread subject line into google/bing/duckduckgo/youtube/dogpile/wikipedia (whichever your preferred search engine is) and open some of the results and start to form an opinion. And then use that information to do deeper searches.
its not just here, in my professional capacity, the amount of IT staff (even the "Senior" ones), who don't know something and don't know even how to search for it.
Is it just plain laziness?
Is it a need to be spoonfed?
In the IT world there is stack exchange its a parent of a load of Q&A sites.
stackoverflow for programming, serverfault for system administration and superuser for user issues.
Any IT person worth their salt should use them, yet the amount of highly paid fuckwits I've encountered, who can't find the basics and expect an answer to be handed over.
Example.
Server Administrator of one of the top five Re-Insurance companies.
Me "Can you tell me the assigned IP address of xyz server?"
Him "Its a windows box, I dunno how to do that, I'm unix"
Me "Well its ifconfig on unix, windows its ipconfig"
Him "Oh! thats really similar"
Me "I didn't know we were running unix here? What flavour? Sun? Sco?"
Him "OH! we stopped being a unix house about 10 years ago and it was RHEL"
Me "Me Ten years ago? Haven't you been on a course, Read one of the Microsoft Press books or serverfaulted?"
I'm actually leafing through the Windows 2008 Server Admin books he has on his desk, while I'm saying that.
Him "Yeh! but I wasn't really interested serverfaulted whats that?
Me leaning over his keyboard typing in serverfault.com into his browser address bar. "That!".
Him, "oooh! that looks interesting I might bookmark that"
Me internally facepalming and thinking... no wonder finacial service firms get hacked all the time.
It often stuns me that people either can't RTFM or google the bloody answer.
I mean if the question was posed... what were your personal experiences of xyz historical event then I could understand wanting to mine the collective wisdom and experience of mumsnet.
Another example, What's Rhodesia?" is not the same as What's your experiences, feeling and opinions concerning Rhodesia_
Grrrr!!!! Gah!!!! Bloody Bloody 
. G-d!! I enjoyed that rant
AIBU?
AIBU to think "Can't you find that out yourself" (Caution ranty)
mirtzapine · 13/03/2014 12:40
With regards to MN I think the site itself would be a bit fucked if everyone googled first 
I think I know the thread you're talking - it's a bit shifty to bring it up btw. The difference with Google is that on a forum people can relay first hand experiences, it can be more helpful or reassuring than just hard facts. It can also be more interesting if posters can say that they were there, offer tips.
In the real world, it's irritating. On forums its sort of the point.
toomuchtooold
I've never seen lmgtfy.com before - brilliant - i'll use that loads!
Thanks 
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