• The 2-Belo (unregistered) in reply to Silfax

    When I've got these antlers on, UGGGGHHHHH

  • (cs) in reply to golddog
    golddog:
    Nobody would write, "UGGGGHHHHH", they'd just say it!
    Obviously, you have never watched 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'.
  • (cs)

    And nobody has commented on the php installer picture yet. Not even "PHP is TRWTF".

    What's up with that? What is broken to give such an error?

  • (cs) in reply to pixelbart
    pixelbart:
    airdrik:
    the beholder:
    Why does Bart Kuik's picture looks so weird? There's even a floating chimney there.
    Well, the floating chimney can be explained as a part of the building that is behind the display, however it does look like they set up a giant backdrop between the display and the building behind it with a poorly drawn scene from another city.

    A part of me says that the display is just a retail POS display and they snapped a picture of it in front of a model backdrop to make it look like an electronic billboard gone awry. But then several of the details in the picture and on the display lead me to believe that it really is an electronic billboard.

    The pic is not edited. I put the originals jpegs here as a proof:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostintheforest/5189694977/sizes/o http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostintheforest/5190293790/sizes/o

    The pic was taken on the 3rd of July in Ede, the Netherlands (near the Ede-Wageningen train station). It looks a bit exotic with the multi-perspective wall painting, the gray skies and the Chinese Restaurant, but it is real :)

    This actually gave enough information that you can indeed find it on Google Maps: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=chinees+indisch+restaurant+peking+&sll=52.031268,5.692635&sspn=0.062311,0.181789&ie=UTF8&hq=chinees+indisch+restaurant+peking&hnear=&ll=52.027783,5.670398&spn=0.238698,0.727158&t=h&z=11&layer=c&cbll=52.027783,5.670398&panoid=c74BfEmutxmmR6nAbpDGNg&cbp=12,241.59,,0,5.53

  • Error'd (unregistered) in reply to can't say
    can't say:
    The actual WTF is the actual collection of "items" posted today (I can't call them articles, cause they're really not). I mean, one simply cannot say anything sophisticated about any of them - the global reaction is "ha-ha", and that's it. We (well, I) want an interesting story, something that can be discussed. WTF can anyone say about any of the "stories" from today? Nothing! Ha-ha. Yes, they're funny. What else can you say? Am I missing a message, or what?
    You're new here, right? It's Friday, Friday is Error'd day, get over it.
  • (cs) in reply to Toon
    Toon:
    The XXXXXXXX one is NOT a WTF! presumably mr. submitter did not submit the entire letter. The yellow form is normally signed by the person owing the money, so the bank can transfer the money. In this case the health insurer had probably given the submitter money in return, but "had" to send one of these letters, marking the yellow form with X's for the recipient's benefit.

    Totally agreed.

    I have received similar forms before. (Belgian instead of Dutch, but the same principle.)

    The way it works:

    The company uses form paper for their invoices. This paper is pre-printed with logo, contact information and so on. The bottom part is the money transfer form. (With perforations to facilitate tearing off.)

    Occasionally, a client might get a refund. The invoice printer will happily print out the refund data and cross out the payment form. (Just in case someone signs the form and hands it to their bank.)

  • Chris (unregistered)

    The Dutch tax office has a much more WTF procedure, where they send you one letter stating that you owe them, but not how much, another where they state how much you have to pay them, but not why, and another one telling you to pay, which includes one of these yellow forms (typically without the Xs though).

  • wtf (unregistered)

    Every day without a wtf, anuther kitten dies.

  • Alargule (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    Every day without a wtf, anuther kitten dies.

    GOOD!

  • nyos (unregistered)

    Finally health insurance companies take customers' privacy and data protection seriously. So they XXXX-d all data.

  • Design Pattern (unregistered) in reply to Zongo
    Zongo:
    Tonight we're gonna ERROR like its 1999!
    Nope.

    Tonight we ERROR in HELL!

  • (cs) in reply to Deezil
    Deezil:
    Xxxx XXXXXXXXXXXX,

    Xx xxxx xxx xxx’x xxxx, xxxx xx x xxxxx-xx xxxxx. Xxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxx xx xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxx’xx xxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxx xx xx xxxxx XXXXxxx.

    Xx xxxx xxx xxxx xx.

    Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx

    It's humorous, but it's not a WTF. It's a form alignment test header. The dumb part is that the guy who printed the bills didn't tear that sheet off the top.

  • (cs) in reply to enim
    enim:
    TRWTF is that 3 out of 8 posted submissions are from South Africa.
    FTFY.
  • (cs) in reply to Nome de Plume
    Nome de Plume:
    frits:
    Seriously? Who hasn't written their own forms to do something like this? [image]

    I don't know why this guy from the Netherlands can't understand it. Africaans is just simplified Dutch. This must be how they simplify countries.

    Yeah, that Reinier is probably a pretty stupid guy :)

  • halyavin (unregistered)

    I once participated in a programming contest where every letter except the problem name, numbers/formulas and sample input/output was intentionally replaced by x (it was called a xxx contest of course). Testing psychic skills like that was fun.

  • (cs) in reply to Scarlet Manuka
    Scarlet Manuka:
    enim:
    TRWTF is that 3 out of 8 posted submissions are from South Africa.
    FTFY.

    Well it's nice to see something else coming from South Africa besides Aparteid, Dave Matthews, or Yolandi Visser.

  • madjo (on IE6, don't judge me) (unregistered) in reply to Dave Van den Eynde
    Dave Van den Eynde:
    That's not an Error'd. The bill is probably settled automatically and the standard form is overwritten with X's to prevent the customer to accidentally use the form to make another payment.

    This happens all the time on my bills.

    More likely he was late with paying, in that case you get two bills, one with a letter saying you were late, with an XXXX'ed out acceptgiro attached, and the second one with the actual bill. At least that what happens to me sometimes.

  • Jeff Grigg (unregistered)

    "XXXXXXXXXXXX" is just an alignment page -- printed on tractor feed fan-fold paper to verify that the forms are set properly in the printer before printing thousands of real statements. It's a standard practice.

    The poster received it at his address, so the second page must have been his real and correct statement. So the only WTF here is that the sender forgot to tear off and discard the alignment page from the start of the run. ...a minor mistake, really.

    (P.S. I see that they got the forms very well aligned too. I've received forms that were several characters off. The sender did a good job on the alignment part.)

  • XXXX XXXXXXXX (unregistered)

    Jeroen, stop reading my mail you jerk! I just moved to a new town called XXXX in Xexas and I knew they'd get my mailing address wrong!. They didn't even spell my last name right, there's an extra X right in the middle. Jeroen, if you get any more of my mail, please forward it to me at:

    XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XxxxxxX st. XXXX, XX XXXXX

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