Comment On Calories Math, Exacting Password Requirements, and More

dgvid:

I was going to speculate that the calories were displayed in the calorie unit used in science rather than the kilocalorie

Steve The Cynic:

Bizarre coincidence time: did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

Anon:

dgvid:

I was going to speculate that the calories were displayed in the calorie unit used in science rather than the kilocalorie

Science uses Joules not calories.

The calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. In most fields its use is archaic, having been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule. However, in many countries it remains in common use as a unit of food energy.

Daniel Smedegaard Buus:

The picture posted only show the "congrats" page, another interesting snapshot would be the google maps page it displays that shows me travelling from Copenhagen to somewhere in Africa at several thousand kilometers per hour.

I'm not sure if it's just my particular phone being broken (my girlfriend's HTC doesn't do this with Noom) or the entire Galaxy S2 line, but it definitely calculates calories as being whatever equals about 45 cals per 100ml of orange juice, so do your calculus based on that ;)

da Doctah:

dgvid:

The error message in Times Square is at least an improvement over the grungy, low-class signs I remember seeing there in the early 80s. Things like:
XXX
and
Burlesque (or often Boylesque)
and
Your hooker has encountered a problem and must be restarted.

ITYM "Your hooker has performed an illegal operation."

Steve The Cynic:

Anketam:

In my class we burned cheeto puffs. That "experiment" ranked up there as one of my favorite "science" experiments.

My favorites were actually "magic show" style demonstrations rather than stuff we did.

1. In a British secondary school (the same one as the peanut incident, the following year) in the late 70s, a Tate & Lyle[1] Golden Syrup tin full of natural gas, with a hole in the bottom and another in the lid. Open both holes, and light the top hole, making sure that air can get in through the bottom hole.

You watch this, and you see the flame start out tall, flickery and yellow. It gets gradually lower and bluer as air mixes in with the gas from below. After a couple of minutes, during which time the teacher continues to babble on about something so the class doesn't notice the tin, enough air has mixed in with the gas inside the tin that the flame-front rushes through the tin all of a sudden, and the lid bounces off the ceiling.

2. The annual "physics magic show" to entertain prospective students foolish enough to express an interest in spending their student years at RPI, an electromagnet, and some aluminium rings.

The ring with a gap buzzes a bit when electricity is passed through the coils round the electromagnet.

The complete ring leaps a couple of feet into the air when it's at room temperature.

The assistant brings out some liquid nitrogen and dunks the complete ring, and now the resistance of the ring is low enough that it hits the ceiling hard, thirty feet up.

[1] Tate & Lyle, supplier of sugar, syrups and the like to British supermarkets for a long time. The only company I know of whose logo features a dead lion. I live and work in France, and one of their research centres is in the building next door to my office.

Matt Westwood:

Not only is the lion dead, but it has insects buzzing around a great big hole in its belly.

"Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet."

Lorens:

Steve The Cynic:

did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

I take it you have no experience being the devil's advocate?

Nageshhasntbeenfunnyforyears:

Matt Westwood:

Not only is the lion dead, but it has insects buzzing around a great big hole in its belly.

"Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet."

I'd really like to see this if you can find an image, it looks like their current logo is just their name in a big block font.

We detected an Error which may have occurred for one or more of the following reasons:

Error invoking service '<?>', method '<?>' at step '<?>' (SBL-BPR-00162)

Error? (SBL-BPR-00162)

Nageshhasntbeenfunnyforyears:

Matt Westwood:

Not only is the lion dead, but it has insects buzzing around a great big hole in its belly.

"Out of the eater came something to eat, out of the strong came something sweet."

I'd really like to see this if you can find an image, it looks like their current logo is just their name in a big block font.

Steve The Cynic:

Bizarre coincidence time: did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

Jeff:

The Deal of the Day is not a WTF. The glasses cost $50, but the coupon's value is $25, so you only pay the other $25, saving 50%.

Spewin Coffee:

'"As you might expect, this came from a government website," Steve wrote, "which may explain why it was vague and unhelpful."'

The government is generally vague and unhelpful. SOPA is a case in point. Too soon?

mroshaw:

My guess is that SBL-BPR-00162 is an Oracle Siebel CRM BI Publisher integration error. Seems pretty obvious to me.

Daniel Smedegaard Buus:

Well, now that everyone is attentant anyway - and that's not a nick, by the way - check out this WTF from yesterday:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112343154750245199729/posts//p/pub

It's not so much that it's a Windows PC complaining about having crashed before being booted, it's more that apparently, there's one Windows PC per monitor on this subway station. WTF?!?!?

Steve The Cynic:

The edible parts of an avocado are rated about 160kcal per 100g, so, yes, 280kcal per five avocados is a bit light.

whiskeylover:

Will:

You may only post comments that have already been posted.

You may only post comments that have already been posted.

yername:

So, the poster didn't know about the calorie/kilocalorie thing and the app author forgot to do the joule => calorie conversion?

Steve The Cynic:

There are calories, about 4.2 Joules each, representing the energy to heat one gram of water by one degree C.

There are Calories, also called kilocalories or kcal, exactly 1000 calories. (Yes, boys and girl, a Calorie is 1000 calories.)

There are not kCal, and if there were, they would be called Mcal, because they would be kilokilocalories, better known as megacalories.

The edible parts of an avocado are rated about 160kcal per 100g, so, yes, 280kcal per five avocados is a bit light.

Bizarre coincidence time: did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

Steve The Cynic:

Bort:

I like that all the spergs are tripping over themselves to smugly post "1 Calorie = 1000 calories" even though nobody in the entire universe has ever used the small "calories" when talking about food.

IT is a industry that attracts pedants. So you get comments by pedants on a site like TDWTF, there's a surprise. In your language, I guess, the word for "pedant" is "sperg". Which language is that?

GEDCOM?:

PeterH:

If your password must be exactly 14 characters long and still contain one alphabet, I would recommend the Hawaiian language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language


... although it might be a bit tricky finding a keyboard with the appropriate 'glottal stop' key.

If you're going to reference Hawaiian, at least use the proper name. Olelo is the name of the alphabet, and `okina is the correct name for what you called "glottal stop". You also failed to mention the kahako - a combining macron which affects both pronunciation and meaning of words. Unfortunately these two letters are absent from most fonts. The `okina is often approximated through either an apostrophe or back-tick, while some people use a tilde instead of the kahako.

Now try the name of our former state fish: humuhumunukunukuapua`a.

Steve (NOT the Cynic):

The woodland creature that rednecks like to shoot is spelled Deer, not Dear. Not so hilarious now, is it?

CAPTCHA: valetudo, as in, "Valet, you do this for me".

Steve The Cynic:

Anketam:

In my class we burned cheeto puffs. That "experiment" ranked up there as one of my favorite "science" experiments.

My favorites were actually "magic show" style demonstrations rather than stuff we did.

1. In a British secondary school (the same one as the peanut incident, the following year) in the late 70s, a Tate & Lyle[1] Golden Syrup tin full of natural gas, with a hole in the bottom and another in the lid. Open both holes, and light the top hole, making sure that air can get in through the bottom hole.

You watch this, and you see the flame start out tall, flickery and yellow. It gets gradually lower and bluer as air mixes in with the gas from below. After a couple of minutes, during which time the teacher continues to babble on about something so the class doesn't notice the tin, enough air has mixed in with the gas inside the tin that the flame-front rushes through the tin all of a sudden, and the lid bounces off the ceiling.

2. The annual "physics magic show" to entertain prospective students foolish enough to express an interest in spending their student years at RPI, an electromagnet, and some aluminium rings.

The ring with a gap buzzes a bit when electricity is passed through the coils round the electromagnet.

The complete ring leaps a couple of feet into the air when it's at room temperature.

The assistant brings out some liquid nitrogen and dunks the complete ring, and now the resistance of the ring is low enough that it hits the ceiling hard, thirty feet up.

[1] Tate & Lyle, supplier of sugar, syrups and the like to British supermarkets for a long time. The only company I know of whose logo features a dead lion. I live and work in France, and one of their research centres is in the building next door to my office.

Language Nerd:

According to the interwebs, (and yes, I knew this before I looked up a reference) Avocado comes from a mesoamerican word for testicle[1] which happened to sound a lot like the spanish word for lawyer to the conquistadors.


[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=avocado

Someone:

#2 is not a WTF.
We don't know if you did indeed enter an alphabet. TRWTF is that you did not submit the password, and expected us to just trust your statement that you did indeed enter a letter.

FFT: Why would you hide your password anyway?
1. We don't see your username.
2. We don't know the website.
3. We don't care about your account.

moz:

whiskeylover:

Will:

You may only post comments that have already been posted.

You may only post comments that have already been posted.

If Alex did decide to implement a rule like that one day, and sent everyone trying to post incompatible messages Akismet responses, how long d'you think it'd take before anyone noticed?

Steve The Cynic:

Anketam:

In my class we burned cheeto puffs. That "experiment" ranked up there as one of my favorite "science" experiments.

My favorites were actually "magic show" style demonstrations rather than stuff we did.

Anon:

Steve The Cynic:

Bizarre coincidence time: did you know that French uses the same word, 'avocat' for both 'avocado' and 'lawyer'? No, I didn't either.

Did you know that the English use the same word, "Dear" for both a term of endearment (as in frankly my dear, I don't give a damn) and a woodland creature that rednecks like to shoot?

Hilarious!