• (cs) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    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
    Scottish Power is pants.
  • (cs)

    America's Most European Supermarket is probably colocated with a bunch of limosine liberal apologists.

  • Dazed (unregistered)

    I've had a car park machine quote me a ridiculous amount. Then I discovered I'd put the card in the wrong way round. Indeed - the maker had not thought to put any check whatever on whether the card was being read correctly. One of the few times I've gone WTF out loud in a public place.

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

    Do what in the who now?

    It's been a long week. Give me a break.

  • (cs) in reply to Alex G.
    Alex G.:
    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.

    Confirmed.

    telnet thedailywtf.com 80 --> GET /CaptchaImage.aspx?w=250&h=50&t=TyxNLFwsRSxDLA! HTTP/1.1 --> Host: thedailywtf.com -->

    <-- HTTP/1.1 200 OK <-- Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive <-- Connection: Keep-Alive <-- Content-Length: (elided) <-- Via: (elided) <-- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:40:11 GMT <-- Content-Type: img/jpeg <-- Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 <-- X-Powered-By: ASP.NET <-- X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 <-- Cache-Control: private <-- <-- (image elided)

  • Your MUM (unregistered)

    You are all sad pathetic losers

  • MY MUM (unregistered) in reply to Your MUM
    Your MUM:
    You are all sad pathetic losers

    I AGREE!

  • Jellineck (unregistered) in reply to MY MUM
    MY MUM:
    Your MUM:
    You are all sad pathetic losers

    I AGREE!

    Seeing as I'm at work, reading The Daily WTF and masturbating at my desk, I think it's safe to say that I am a WINNER.

  • (cs) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    MY MUM:
    Your MUM:
    You are all sad pathetic losers

    I AGREE!

    Seeing as I'm at work, reading The Daily WTF and masturbating at my desk, I think it's safe to say that I am a WINNER.

    Remember, never believe that you are a failure[skip]you are a failure[skip]you are a failure.

  • Moogal (unregistered)

    The Orchard Centre? Since when did Coventry have an Orchard Centre?

    West Orchards, perhaps?

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

    I was going to say the same thing.

    Anyone notice operating systems like IRIX in the RealPlayer survey list? Who installs RealPlayer on a system like that?

    (Who installs RealPlayer on anything except Windows 95 back when streaming video was THE NEW THING?)

  • usitas (unregistered) in reply to Centricity
    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?"

    You win 2 internets.

  • Ross (unregistered)

    TRWTF is a company calling itself "America's Most European Supermarket".

  • (cs) in reply to Centricity
    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?"

    How about this instead? [image]

  • Ken B. (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"?
    Don't worry about it. It's a clabuttic mistake.

    (BTW, in the U.S. it would be "occupant". Is there a problem with "pant" instead?)

  • marndt (unregistered)

    Rarely is the question asked, "Is the product key getted?"

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to marndt
    marndt:
    Rarely is the question asked, "Is the product key getted?"

    Or even more ironically, "is our children learning?"

    Thanks for that one dubya.

  • (cs) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    I wonder what Europe's Most American Supermarket would be?
    Jumbo!
  • awefawef (unregistered)

    What's RealPlayer?

  • Jellineck (unregistered) in reply to awefawef
    awefawef:
    What's RealPlayer?

    And who is Ally McBeal? I've never heard of her.

  • Pascal (unregistered)

    Yep, both the label with * and the expiration date are ok. Everything else is really funny tought :) Especially the 400$ parking price!

    The label with * simply means that the guy that entered the description of the product have a description which is too long. They can't put a 4th line because some guy had the brillant idea of adding some date below the description. I know how hard it is to fit every possible description in a small label because I designed them for 2 years.

    As for the expiration date, it's like other said - march 25th, 2010!

  • Mr. O "Steve" Occu*Bad Dictionary (unregistered) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    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?
    "Now"? Kids have been texting for 15 years!
    Does that mean 25 minutes to turn into little asterisks?
    No! 25 minutes to have it done for 05-19-10. Granted, the instructions could include what you're supposed to do with it in the meantime.
  • (cs)

    In the UK, although Walmart own ASDA, they just bought the chain 'off the peg' - ASDA had been around for decades before Walmart got involved. Walmart's main influences are being fanatically anti-union & driving wages downwards. Not one of the USA's best exports

  • Ian (unregistered)

    Cook lentils for 12 minutes for salads or 25 minutes for anything else.

    Captcha: incassum - Not within an unknown case.

  • AA (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the bastardized Hungarian notation used.

    "oUserInfo"?

  • Marke (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    13 years is the magic age for dealing with the general public in the US for automatic privacy considerations

    never noticed how many registrations ask if you are 13 or not?

    it's not 4 years old- it's current...

  • BROTRR (unregistered) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    MY MUM:
    Your MUM:
    You are all sad pathetic losers

    I AGREE!

    Seeing as I'm at work, reading The Daily WTF and masturbating at my desk, I think it's safe to say that I am a WINNER.

    YOU'RE WINNER !

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Kempeth
    Kempeth:
    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 itself so the submission remains valid either way...
    Hmm. I think that maybe you have to use a middle-endian date format – a WTF in its own right – to be likely to come up with that one.

    (It occurs to me that middle-endian dates are like pre-decimal money written out wrongly: pounds, pence, shillings.)

    If you are short on characters then at least move the space somewhere else - ie "MAR25 10".
    What's actually going on here (I think) is that whoever's done this is using software which accepts month and year only and doesn't allow re-arrangement, so they've misused it by putting the day no. where the century digits should be.

  • (cs) in reply to Marke
    Marke:
    13 years is the magic age for dealing with the general public in the US for automatic privacy considerations

    never noticed how many registrations ask if you are 13 or not?

    it's not 4 years old- it's current...

    You're off by about a decade there... 1988+13 = 2001. Welcome to 2010.

  • Brian (unregistered)

    The real WTF is Mr OCCU*BAD DICTIONARY going to the trouble of obscuring his address, postcode and other information, but not obscuring the 2D barcode that also contains this information.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to Brian
    Brian:
    The real WTF is Mr OCCU*BAD DICTIONARY going to the trouble of obscuring his address, postcode and other information, but not obscuring the 2D barcode that also contains this information.
    Surely that's the reason why he sent a JPEG image?
  • Mike-W (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    "If people born after 1988 are using the Internet, I want them caught and shot now."

    If people born after 1948 are using the internet ...

    Not ONE of these NEWBIES knows how to use an IBM026 Keypunch properly and many can't even get a card deck right.

    The sky is falling! - the sky is falling!

    LMAO (even if my A** is old as Methuselah)!

  • Mike-W (unregistered) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    Seeing as I'm at work, reading The Daily WTF and masturbating at my desk, I think it's safe to say that I am a WINNER.

    DUH! I thought the term was WANKER?

    Maybe it is just "dumb shit"?

  • BROTTR's boss (unregistered) in reply to BROTRR
    BROTRR:
    Jellineck:
    MY MUM:
    Your MUM:
    You are all sad pathetic losers

    I AGREE!

    Seeing as I'm at work, reading The Daily WTF and masturbating at my desk, I think it's safe to say that I am a WINNER.

    YOU'RE WINNER !

    I regret to inform you all that it turned out not to be safe after all. BROTTR's funeral will be on Wednesday, if you'd like to attend.

    Oh, and don't say YOU'RE WIN-auarghrghh! AAARGH! NO! N-

  • OS Fan (unregistered)

    "...and they also deem any OS newer than XP not worthy of mentioning"

    They do -- Linux is in the list (both older AND newer than XP)

  • Some stranger (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.

    Yeah, especially letting the OS dropdown code spider the internet for the newest OS-releases would be what I'd expect from an enterprise application.

  • Lihtox (unregistered)

    I'd imagine that anyone born after 1988 has never heard of RealPlayer....

  • Jimmy Jones (unregistered) in reply to Anonymetoo
    Anonymetoo:
    Anonymous:
    The RealPlayer info one is obvious enough. You're only allowed to register if you are 18 years old or over.
    This conclusion is also consistent with the fact that they do not list any O/S newer than XP

    I thought it was because nobody had downloaded RealPlayer since 1988.

  • (cs)

    I bet the mix-up related to sandals and panties is through the word thong. Even though she isn't wearing a thong.

  • A non-mouse (unregistered)

    No, I'm pretty sure Jonathan Sutcliffe is not going to turn into a bunch of little asterisks. OH -- you missed a word.

    TRWTF is that store's slogan: "America's Most European Supermarket"???

    CAPTCHA: luctus - something about Roman mythology...

  • Andy L (unregistered)

    I can't help but wonder how European-ness is quantified.

    I suppose they REALLY just mean that they've doubled their prices so that poor hispanic and asian immigrants don't show up, but I like to imagine that they're using some sort of Europometer to measure exactly how European their store is.

  • Lunkwill (unregistered)

    TE-RA-STA-TION. Teee-rahhh. One Arrr. Not two. "Terra' means 'earth'. 'Tera' means 10^12. Different thing, right? Now go write that 10^12 times until you get it. Jesus F. Christ, WTF is wrong with you? Star Trek overdose? GWB syndrome? B&D languages were invented because you people can't fucking spell a simple four letter word and now the rest of us have to live with them. $DEITY.

  • (cs) in reply to A non-mouse
    A non-mouse:
    TRWTF is that store's slogan: "America's Most European Supermarket"???
    Yeah. If it was really "most European" it wouldn't be a supermarket. It would be a butcher, a bakery, a grocery, drug store, etc.

    Supermarket by itself is an American invention, although nowadays you can find them almost anywhere on the globe. The whole slogan doesn't make sense.

    And the RealPlayer thing seems to be straight out of 1995 or so.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to AndrewB
    AndrewB:
    I suspect #2 is a 30-second photoshop job. I can't believe that something so blatant would go up and stay up.

    You give retail too much credit. Signs are required by corporate, and you put them up regardless of whether or not it makes sense. There's plenty of signs that are this bad or worse in articles at Consumerist.

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    TS-RHTGL‚ðÄ‹N“®‚µ‚Ü‚µ‚½B TS-RHTGLを再起動しました。 TS-RHTGL was restarted.

    Sounds more like an informational message than an error to me, but then again, I'm too lazy to decode the rest. Who knows what lurks in the rest of the mojibake.

  • (cs)

    Google search yields : http://www.tifoods.com/about/

    Apparently Julia Child coined the "America's Most European Supermarket" slogan.

  • something something (unregistered)

    What, a 2510 startles you? You never had a good bottle of wine in your hands then.

  • Bionic Slacker (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    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!

    That only works if you happen to be a cyborg or have, for some other reason, a sufficient amount of metal in your body to be mistaken for an automobile by the induction coil in front of the entrance gate/ticket dispenser.

  • Thorsten M. (unregistered)

    Reading Mr. O Occu*BAD DICTIONARY reminded me of bobby table, complete name:

    Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --

    Little bobby tables we call him...

    http://xkcd.com/327/

    CAPTCHA: aliquam -- Ali Who?

  • Ali Quam (unregistered) in reply to Thorsten M.
    Thorsten M.:
    Reading Mr. O Occu*BAD DICTIONARY reminded me of bobby table, complete name:

    Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --

    Little bobby tables we call him...

    http://xkcd.com/327/

    Seriously? Again?

    Thorsten M.:
    CAPTCHA: aliquam -- Ali Who?

    Ok, HTF did you know my captcha beforehand?

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