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Google street view is hardly a fair source for Error'd material. Of course they get it wrong sometimes, I consider it far more of a WTF that they actually get it right the rest of the time.

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That nurse's cheeks will give me nightmares until the day I die.

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

akatherder:

That nurse's cheeks will give me nightmares until the day I die.

Yes, girl's night out no longer just includes tattoos; now with more facial cosmetic surgery!

Anonymous:

Google street view is hardly a fair source for Error'd material.

I'm with you. Mistakes on street view are not a WTF; they're inevitable.

If this qualifies, I'm going to start submitting a WTF for every misspelled word in TDWTF articles.

@Deprecated:

akatherder:

That nurse's cheeks will give me nightmares until the day I die.

Yes, girl's night out no longer just includes tattoos; now with more facial cosmetic surgery!

I thought girl's night out was about gettin' knocked up, not delivering a baby, right? Or is this my sexist male brain talking?

Captcha: usitas, the Captcha guy must be out of good ones.

Markp:

Anonymous:

Google street view is hardly a fair source for Error'd material.

I'm with you. Mistakes on street view are not a WTF; they're inevitable.

If this qualifies, I'm going to start submitting a WTF for every misspelled word in TDWTF articles.

Classic WTF: Misspelled TDWTF articles of Janaury 2004 part 7

"Whoops, I totally made a typo in my email address," writes Stephan Grieger, "now all I have to do now is cancel this modal dialog and... oh wait!"

Well, the modal dialog did have a windows "close" button. Maybe the designer meant that to be the super-stealth triple-special-probation "Cancel" button?

OTOH, reasonable expectations of the pure fail documented on these pages means that the "X" button does exactly the same thing as the "OK" button. As does killing the browser through Task Manager, hitting the reset button, or even unplugging the system. You will be submitting that broken e-mail address, so you might as well get used to it. Bwahahahaha!

CAPTCHA: dignissim. "Missing ID" backwards? That's a mild WTF right there.

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

I was thinking more along the lines of a midget. A 24" dishwasher? Mine is 5'3"...

The Government Gateway one isn't really a WTF, I also have a Government Gateway card thingy and it contains a mixture of alphanumeric characters.

Look very carefully at the e-mail dialog one.

'When you press [OK], an e-mail will be generated....'

'Please ensure this e-mail address is complete BEFORE you press send.'

OK != Send

So not really a WTF after all.

TRWTF is that someone is placing an order using Microsoft Excel.

You think incorrect item descriptions are bad? You can have much more fun by mismatching SKU and ID numbers in Best Buy URLs:
Toshiba Laptop/Insignia TV hybrid
Wii Fit/Windows 7 upgrade
etc.

Release Date 5/21/2008
Publisher Microsoft
Platform Windows
Category Operating Systems
Format Wii Disc (1)

amischiefr:

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

I was thinking more along the lines of a midget. A 24" dishwasher? Mine is 5'3"...

You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?

I think the item's description is supposed to be read like this:

[Whirlpool] [24"] [Tall Tub] [Built-in Dishwasher]

It's 24" wide (standard) and has a tall tub design.

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

Remind me never to go to your house for dinner.

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

Your pet dog came with an owner's manual?

B.E.:

amischiefr:

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

I was thinking more along the lines of a midget. A 24" dishwasher? Mine is 5'3"...

You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?

I think the item's description is supposed to be read like this:

[Whirlpool] [24"] [Tall Tub] [Built-in Dishwasher]

It's 24" wide (standard) and has a tall tub design.

Whoosh! That's the sound of the previous joke going over your head (unless you're a really good troll)

B.E.:

amischiefr:

I was thinking more along the lines of a midget. A 24" dishwasher? Mine is 5'3"...

You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?

Well, my dishwasher is 5'2", and our dishes are pretty standard in size.

(I have threatened to buy one of those newfangled mechanical contraptions to fill the spare under-surface space in the kitchen, only to be told 'No' in response. She happens to find washing up therapeutic after a long day of dealing with software developers.)

The street "error" is fairly common. A lot of times it's simply something called a "trap street" that map providers add into their maps to see who is stealing their data. The theory is, if somebody went and did their own research, they wouldn't include the same non-existent street.

I've seen it used on sattelite images, maps, dictionaries, etc.

Of course the discount was $.00. It was for: "Any lunch of nightly buffet".

Now, maybe if it had been for "Any lunch OR nightly buffet" it would have been worth something.

Everyone else sees the guy in the window on Streeview, right?

these error'ds get stupider and stupider every time

Ryan:

The street "error" is fairly common. A lot of times it's simply something called a "trap street" that map providers add into their maps to see who is stealing their data. The theory is, if somebody went and did their own research, they wouldn't include the same non-existent street.

I've seen it used on sattelite images, maps, dictionaries, etc.

If you look at the map you will see that St. Charles Rd. is a real road BTW running east-west through that town. I can attest to this being a real road. The WTF is that the picture shows the road going through a building.

cgi.ebay.co.uk
_________^^

Freedom not found.

Sunil Joshi:

Look very carefully at the e-mail dialog one.

'When you press [OK], an e-mail will be generated....'

'Please ensure this e-mail address is complete BEFORE you press send.'

OK != Send

So not really a WTF after all.

Yeah, I was reading that trying to figure out what the problem was.

Go figure. A user that didn't "read" a dialog.

The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.

I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%

With Firefox and NoScript, I can perform ILLEGAL ACTs with no punishment.

I:

Whoosh! That's the sound of the previous joke going over your head (unless you're a really good troll)

Doh!

Yes, you did miss the meeting. Numbers come in upper- and lowercase versions. Just look it up.

http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/tools/tooldir/TrueEdit/Documentation/TE/TE3numbers.html

Rama:

Yes, you did miss the meeting. Numbers come in upper- and lowercase versions. Just look it up.

And have done so ever since the invention of lower case in the first place, I'd guess, since Arabic numerals have never entirely replaced Roman numbers.

If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

Also if you pan left and down, I hope the driver of the street-view-photo-car has handicapped tags or he just documented his own parking violation...

DeepThought:

If you look at the map you will see that St. Charles Rd. is a real road BTW running east-west through that town. I can attest to this being a real road. The WTF is that the picture shows the road going through a building.

Really? Glad I read your comment or I'd have missed that!

nixar:

The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.

I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%

Hmmm. Works fine for me.

Oh, yeah, I typically don't let psycho maniac kneecap breakers run executable code in my browser. Do you? WTF???

David Mear:

Everyone else sees the guy in the window on Streeview, right?

Sure do! He offered me candy!

Is that what they refer to as sarcasm?

Well *obviously* the dishwasher is for competitors in the "World's Strongest" competition. No WTF there

Sunil Joshi:

Look very carefully at the e-mail dialog one.

'When you press [OK], an e-mail will be generated....'

'Please ensure this e-mail address is complete BEFORE you press send.'

OK != Send

So not really a WTF after all.

OK, so explain how you get out of this situation? Your e-mail address is incorrect. Pressing OK will send the e-mail. (per the message) The only available option on the dialog is "OK".

generated != sent

B.E.:

You have a 5'3" dishwasher? How big are your dishes?

What, you don't have a walk-in dishwasher?

akatherder:

That nurse's cheeks will give me nightmares until the day I die.

1. The correlation between delivering a baby and "girls night out"
2. Those cheeks!
3. For those wondering about the highlighted line: Pampers are a brand of disposable diaper (nappy).

Do you wear adult diapers? Depends...

Carl:

nixar:

The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.

I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%

Hmmm. Works fine for me.

Oh, yeah, I typically don't let psycho maniac kneecap breakers run executable code in my browser. Do you? WTF???

It gets better. The actual page is like a huge rambling mass of WTF. Insanely long lines, created by Front Page 5.0, and his alert message is a lie. He might as well said the message has been reported, and you are getting cake!

<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR"><meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId"><script language="javascript">var message="THIS ILLEGAL ACT HAS BEEN RECORDED AND REPORTED TO EBAY";function clickIE4(){if (event.button==2){alert(message);return false;}}function clickNS4(e){if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){if (e.which==2||e.which==3){alert(message);return false;}}}if (document.layers){document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS4;}else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){document.onmousedown=clickIE4;}document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false;")</script>

dkf:

Markp:

"Dishwasher" is just another name for "pet dog," so it makes sense to me.

Your pet dog came with an owner's manual?

Usage: Just place all dishes to the floor. The dishwasher-dog will lick away even the tiniest residual of food. The dishwasher-dog is very carefull not to damage any dishes. After it is fed up, it will send SIGBARK once, to make sure you know that the program terminated.

My Name?:

The dishwasher-dog is very carefull not to damage any dishes. After it is fed up, it will send SIGBARK once, to make sure you know that the program terminated.

SIGBARK may be caught by the MUZZLE event handler, however, it may impact performance of the primary application.

nixar:

The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.

I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%

That seems like a security risk to me; I'm surprised eBay lets sellers put JavaScript in their pages like that.

Also, right-clicking anywhere on the page will give you that message, not just specific text.

TRWTF is one or more of:
1) That scripts are able to intercept basic browser functionality
2) That Mike H hasn't configured his browser to block such nonsense
3) That people think they can deliver content to a user's browser, which the browser will store on their hard drive in cache, and not let it be stored on the hard drive
4) That this person was able to put such a script on an eBay page (anyone else smell a huge gaping security hole?) or even worse, eBay themselves put it there
The attempt to scare people into thinking right-clicking is illegal, reporting an "illegal act" using an all-caps popup message, and having it apply to the entire page are just bonus lulz.

Richard is confused. Those *are* lowercase numbers. The form is simply saying &$^* )#!! ^)$$ is also acceptable.

www.EHinfo is fine. Most people just type it into the search box anyway. It works there.

nixar:

The page on eBay, scroll down and right click on the bold+big+underlined+allcaps text.

I wouldn't buy from such a maniac. He's kind of psycho who would come to your house to break your kneecaps should you leave a rating below 100%

No problems in Opera.

Woo! Case Western Reserve University! Go Spartans!

*ahem*

I did IT for the introductory physics labs while I was there as an undergrad. I can certainly state that there are *some* parts of the university (read: anything engineering/science related) which are quite well IT-staffed, due to most departments pulling IT support from their own students. We had fiber Gigabit Ethernet rolled out to every dorm room and classroom in 2002... all at once ... and IT made it work! (mostly)

From the content of Dan Videc's survey, I can assume he is working with the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, meaning that the IT staff is comprised of humanities undergrads who didn't get to study abroad (or at least on-site) this semester. Hence, the survey.

Chuck:

If you're in the mood for street view errors, this one amuses me.

Took me a minute to figure that one out. Looks like the driver pulled into the gas station, left the camera running while he went into the mini-mart for one of those nasty old hot dogs that's been around since the Carter administration, and then left the station on the other side, completely missing the entire road segment.

Anyway, Street View is a fun toy, but Google Maps has its own share of WTFs. For instance: Street View of my parents' house is available, yet the Maps part can't find the address. Smooth.

They need either a better map data provider, or a better user feedback mechanism. Every time I've gotten a correction accepted, it gets changed back to being wrong within a few weeks.

GalacticCowboy:

Sunil Joshi:

Look very carefully at the e-mail dialog one.

'When you press [OK], an e-mail will be generated....'

'Please ensure this e-mail address is complete BEFORE you press send.'

OK != Send

So not really a WTF after all.

OK, so explain how you get out of this situation? Your e-mail address is incorrect. Pressing OK will send the e-mail. (per the message) The only available option on the dialog is "OK".

Clicking OK only *generates* the Email but doesn't send it.