• csm (unregistered)

    that amazon one is great!

  • (cs)
    BEST USED BY MAR 2510
    You should prove them wrong instead of criticizing them --- simply buy a bag, open it after 498 years, and demonstrate that it's gone bad. FTW!
  • @Deprecated (unregistered)

    Real Player / Demographic Data / Content Preferences: Living. Living? WTF? I guess I can update it for my dead ancestors or something...

    TerraStation:

    Tim:
    Do you think it worked ok?

    Of course! It says OK right there!

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The best before date on that bottle is "March 25th 2010". Best before dates are often presented like this (and you know it submitter - so stop wasting our time).

  • TeamAmerica (unregistered)

    The credit card is a military star card.

  • z f k (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    BEST USED BY MAR 2510
    You should prove them wrong instead of criticizing them --- simply buy a bag, open it after 498 years, and demonstrate that it's gone bad. FTW!
    I seem to remember a similar case; the commenters was saying that the date was describing a combination DayMonth and not the Year.

    CYA

    P.S.: sorry for my bad english

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The RealPlayer info one is obvious enough. You're only allowed to register if you are 18 years old or over. So back when they made the form in 2006, they set the latest possible birthdate to 18 years prior (1988), in reflection of this fact. Of course, hard-coding those values into the drop-down was a mistake.

  • Centricity (unregistered)

    Pretty obvious that the credit card offer is not a software bug or even a misprint. The leading digit was just scratched off by people with nothing better to do.

    Will the next Error'd have one of those automatic hand dryers from a gas station that says "Press Butt<scratch> to activate?"

  • (cs)

    How much do I owe you?

    0

    That's fair. What if I get the extra options?

    1

    Whoa, now that's a bit excessive.

  • Ronan (unregistered)

    I once had a car park ticket that had never been paid because the park had opened the exists following a problem with all payment machines.

    I tried to put this ticked in a machine every once in a while, and the price would grow until a amount of a few hundred euros, then reset to the minimal payment andstart growing again.

  • Warern (unregistered)

    Love the Scottish Power one: why is "BAD DICTIONARY" only a problem half-way through the word occupier? Is there something wrong with "pier"?

    But the best bit is the fact they gave "Mr Occupier" an initial!

  • Sir Read-a-Lot (unregistered)

    Is comment getted?

  • Warern (unregistered)

    Now we know what it means when people are "sent to Coventry": it's a euphemism for being charged huge amounts by car park operators.

  • Anonymetoo (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The RealPlayer info one is obvious enough. You're only allowed to register if you are 18 years old or over. So back when they made the form in 2006, they set the latest possible birthdate to 18 years prior (1988), in reflection of this fact. Of course, hard-coding those values into the drop-down was a mistake.
    This conclusion is also consistent with the fact that they do not list any O/S newer than XP (the aborted foetus that is Windows Vista didn't crawl out of its dustbin until Nov '06).
  • Justin D (unregistered)

    Obviously the last one means 12 minutes for salads, and 25 minutes for everything else!

  • Dustin (unregistered)

    Obviously, you were supposed to buy the package underneath that one as well, which contained the remainder of your cooking instructions beyond the asterisk.

  • (cs)

    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?

  • zinc (unregistered)

    The firmware one isn't that bad.

    It's typical when the program was written for a different language (say, Japanese) and lacking Unicode support, while your OS is set to English (or, any language other than Japanese).

    If your OS was set to Japanese (or Chinese, or whatever the case), then you'd actually see the proper message, written in the proper language of course.

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Warern
    Warern:
    Love the Scottish Power one: why is "BAD DICTIONARY" only a problem half-way through the word occupier? Is there something wrong with "pier"?

    But the best bit is the fact they gave "Mr Occupier" an initial!

    I suppose his name was "Mr. Occupant" before redacting
  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The best before date on that bottle is "March 25th 2010". Best before dates are often presented like this (and you know it submitter - so stop wasting our time).
    Captain Obvious to the rescue!!!
  • Joe Friday (unregistered) in reply to Justin D
    Justin D:
    Obviously the last one means 12 minutes for salads, and 25 minutes for everything else!
    Naah, I'm pretty sure it's "12 minutes for salads, 25 minutes for *BAD DICTIONARY"
  • Danj (unregistered)

    The Terastation error looks like it is in Shift-JIS encoding. If you run the app in Japanese locale (for example using AppLocale) it'll show up as proper Japanese text.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Centricity
    Centricity:
    Will the next Error'd have one of those automatic hand dryers from a gas station that says "Press Butt<scratch> to activate?"
    "Butt scratcher - get your butt scratcher! Butt scratcher? Butt scratcher!" [image]
  • therealwtf (unregistered)

    The real wtf is installing RealPlayer

  • AndrewB (unregistered)

    I suspect #2 is a 30-second photoshop job. I can't believe that something so blatant would go up and stay up.

  • Dumb American (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?
    Wait....Are you saying there is not a Walmart in every neighborhood in Europe?
  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?

    't Amerikaantje

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to therealwtf
    therealwtf:
    The real wtf is installing RealPlayer

    No, TRWTF is installing RealPlayer and then deciding to give them your personal information.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack

    American's most European Supermarket? What's that supposed to mean? Over-priced and you have to bag your own groceries? Serious, where is begin the "most European" supermarket a selling point?

  • Kempeth (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The best before date on that bottle is "March 25th 2010". Best before dates are often presented like this (and you know it submitter - so stop wasting our time).
    Yes but printing March 25th 2010 as "MAR 2510" is a small WTF in it self so the submission remains valid either way...

    If you are short on characters then at least move the space somewhere else - ie "MAR25 10".

  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?
    In France it would be Auchan or Carrefour. Hideous places.
  • anonymous coward (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the 'guy in the machine' used some thought and didn't just assume the £405.20 was correct because the computer said so.

  • Alex (unregistered)

    The RealPlayer one is surprising. You'd think people born before 1988 would know to avoid it like the plague

  • Alan (unregistered) in reply to Kempeth
    Kempeth:
    If you are short on characters then at least move the space somewhere else - ie "MAR25 10".

    If you are short on characters, the right thing to do is printing it as 25MAR10.

  • Bobble (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    American's most European Supermarket? Serious, where is begin the "most European" supermarket a selling point?

    Do what in the who now?

  • fnord (unregistered) in reply to Dumb American
    Dumb American:
    Wait....Are you saying there is not a Walmart in every neighborhood in Europe?
    They once tried to open a few stores in Germany. It was a commercial desaster. After ten years without success they sold the remaining 85 stores. They burned about 3 Billion USD during the 10 years and an additional 800 Mio USD on exit.
  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to Centricity

    You don't have much faith in people.

    Its far more likely that the % off is variable and numbers are supposed to be added (maybe magnetic) to it to show the current discount. Add a 1 or a 2 and it becomes 10% or 20%.

    For 15% you just have a magnet that covers the 0.

    Centricity:
    Pretty obvious that the credit card offer is not a software bug or even a misprint. The leading digit was just scratched off by people with nothing better to do.

    Will the next Error'd have one of those automatic hand dryers from a gas station that says "Press Butt<scratch> to activate?"

  • Leo (unregistered)

    If people born after 1988 are using the Internet, I want them caught and shot now. Aren't you too busy "texting" or whatever you kids do now?

    I think the human race should have stopped reproduction a year or two after I was born -- anyone younger than me by more than that is pretty much worthless.

    I have also seen them on my lawn.

  • (cs)

    Meh, you've obviously never tried to park in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow for more than an hour then. £400 is about right.

  • (cs) in reply to AndrewB

    Alex, for the mother farking love of Peter, Paul, and Mary, please fix the Content-Type on your God-forsaken CAPTCHA image. img/jpeg is not a valid content-type.

    I mean, seriously... is that what IIS sends by default? Is IIS really that retarded or is that the fault of whomever designed the CAPTCHA?

  • (cs) in reply to toshir0
    toshir0:
    WhiskeyJack:
    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?
    In France it would be Auchan or Carrefour. Hideous places.

    You knock Auchan now, but what happens the next time you need to buy prosciutto, slippers, and new tires AT THE SAME TIME?

  • Bobble (unregistered) in reply to jonnyq
    jonnyq:
    Alex, for the mother farking love of Peter, Paul, and Mary, please fix the Content-Type on your God-forsaken CAPTCHA image. img/jpeg is not a valid content-type.

    I mean, seriously... is that what IIS sends by default? Is IIS really that retarded or is that the fault of whomever designed the CAPTCHA?

    Calm down, cowboy. What do you want the mime-type to be if not image/jpeg?

  • (cs) in reply to Warern

    Could be a Pick database. Dictionary files can have code in them to transform data, similar to what can be done in a SQL view, only trickier, more powerful and WAY more cryptic and obscure.

  • (cs) in reply to Ronan
    Ronan:
    I once had a car park ticket that had never been paid because the park had opened the exists following a problem with all payment machines.

    I tried to put this ticked in a machine every once in a while, and the price would grow until a amount of a few hundred euros, then reset to the minimal payment andstart growing again.

    The other thing to do is to park in a garage all day, and then go up to the entrance on foot , have the machine give you a new ticket, and use that one to exit, paying the minimum. Profit!

  • Alex G. (unregistered) in reply to Bobble
    Bobble:
    jonnyq:
    Alex, for the mother farking love of Peter, Paul, and Mary, please fix the Content-Type on your God-forsaken CAPTCHA image. img/jpeg is not a valid content-type.

    I mean, seriously... is that what IIS sends by default? Is IIS really that retarded or is that the fault of whomever designed the CAPTCHA?

    Calm down, cowboy. What do you want the mime-type to be if not image/jpeg?

    He seems to imply the captcha uses "img/jpeg" instead of "image/jpeg", apparently. I am unable to verify this because my telnet client sucks and I'm too lazy to investigate further.

  • (cs) in reply to Lorne Kates
    Lorne Kates:
    How much do I owe you?
    0

    That's fair. What if I get the extra options?

    1

    Whoa, now that's a bit excessive.

    Nice. But wouldn't 10 be a bit excessive?

  • bd (unregistered)

    The real WTF is "America's Most European Supermarket"

    Hahahah like that is possible!!!

  • ac (unregistered) in reply to Bobble
    Bobble:
    jonnyq:
    Alex, for the mother farking love of Peter, Paul, and Mary, please fix the Content-Type on your God-forsaken CAPTCHA image. img/jpeg is not a valid content-type.

    I mean, seriously... is that what IIS sends by default? Is IIS really that retarded or is that the fault of whomever designed the CAPTCHA?

    Calm down, cowboy. What do you want the mime-type to be if not image/jpeg?

    image/jpeg would be fine. The actual img/jpeg is more concise but less useful.

  • (cs) in reply to Dumb American
    Dumb American:
    Wait....Are you saying there is not a Walmart in every neighborhood in Europe?
    There's loads of them in the UK, though they mostly go by the name ASDA (due to better brand recognition).
  • Gary (unregistered) in reply to the beholder

    That's just pants.

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