The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

kktkkr:
Now where's my Alt-F4 key?

Hopefully on your keyboard. If not, order a replacement from Dell, they will securely send each and every key independently.

SenTree · 2011-05-09 Reply Admin

nerfer:
Pedantic CBE:
Archie:
It's wise to be cautious of the tapwater in the bathroom, unless you know it's fed from the mains or you've been in the loft and checked the state of the tank.
Indeed - at my mum's place we used to regularly see dead flies coming out of the bathroom tap.
That was the big hint that the lid had fallen off the header tank.

A lot of modern properties now have all the taps directly mains-fed - including the hot taps. I still find it odd that my hot tap is drinkable water.

Sounds like Australia. Pretty uncommon in the U.S., although it makes sense for most water in the house to not be potable. But we filter and clean everything, and then spray 30% of it on our lawns so they look pretty :-)

Common in older UK properties too. My previous house (pre-war?) had it, and my present one (1970s) had it until I replaced all of the plumbing.

SenTree · 2011-05-09 Reply Admin

SQLDave:
John Muller:
Nagesh:
My team-member name is Bommiraju Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai....
I knew a guy named Tikki-tikki Tembo-no Da Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri-Pembo, but he drowned.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley.

Choked any monkeys recently? (I recognised it immediately - God, I feel old).

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

fritters:
There's a commercial that I've seen somewhere for bottled water. It shows a glass of water sitting on a counter near a tap. Somewhere in the out-of-focus background is a bathroom. You hear the sound of someone flushing the toilet. The water level in the glass of water swirls and drops, then fills up again slowly, synchronized to the sounds of the toilet flushing.
You're supposed to be grossed out, because the message is "The water you're drinking is the same water you flush the toilet with!!!!! Gross!! OMG!!!!!!" I roll my eyes every time I see it.

Apparently they don't mean "What a waste you're flushing such precious drinking water down the toilet"?

frits · 2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Don:
frits:
TRWTF is bottled water.
Before travel was part of life, year this in itself would be a WTF. Not today though.
Also, in some places this is necessary: for instance, where I live the limescale value of tap water is high enough that we sometimes get chunks of the stuff coming out of our taps.

Secondly, even if you boil all your water you may still get waterborne viruses from your tap supplied water (happened twice in the last three years for our area).

Lastly, if you've ever traveled you'll realise that bottled water is essential in area's that your body is not adjusted to. Drink tap water even in civilized areas that you're not familiar with, and you're opening yourself to a world of cramps, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. While this might make your holiday exciting - and dare I say it, colorful - others among us like to get out of the bathroom every so often to see the sights. YMMV.

You must be a European or a liberal (same thing really). Those people love bragging about their travels. Making assumptions based on a few characters someone wrote on the internet is fun. YMMV.

You may have been to destinations where you needed/wanted bottled water. But have you ever visted a place and wished for bottled air? I have.

Speaking of bottled water, I have at least one use for it: A cheap source of plastic bottles to hold tap water. I buy a bottle for $1.00 and reuse it for several months. YMMV. Take that Walmart!

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

frits:
You must be a European or a liberal (same thing really).

...says the guy whose country voted in a liberal.

frits:
Those people love bragging about their travels.

yeah, here, it's not enough to brag about merely owning a passport.

frits:
Making assumptions based on a few characters someone wrote on the internet is fun. YMMV.

I certainly enjoyed it!

frits · 2011-05-09 Reply Admin

foo:
frits:
You must be a European or a liberal (same thing really).
...says the guy whose country voted in a liberal.

lol. A liberal? That guy beats the war drum like it owes him money.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

the guy behind you:
Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

I've always asked myself that, and never come up with a sensible answer. IMO it's just another awkward point of possible failure requiring tedious maintenance.

SenTree · 2011-05-09 Reply Admin

the guy behind you:
Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.
Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

It's just 'always been that way'. In fact, there was a recent documentary on UK TV which mentioned that, when water mains were first introduced (late 1700s/early 1800s ?), the water was only on for a few hours a day, so you filled the tank in the attic to keep you going for the rest of the time. So in the UK at least, it was standard practice for about two hundred years.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

QJ:
the guy behind you:
Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

I've always asked myself that, and never come up with a sensible answer. IMO it's just another awkward point of possible failure requiring tedious maintenance.

Actually it's possibly so that if the water supply fails, there's a reserve supply (unfortunately compromised as for potability) which will keep you going for a while.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

When did this site turn into Failblog?

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

QJ:
the guy behind you:
Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

I've always asked myself that, and never come up with a sensible answer. IMO it's just another awkward point of possible failure requiring tedious maintenance.

My assumption was - and it's only that - that in Ye Olden Days the mains pressure wasn't adequate to lift the water to upper floors and maintain a decent pressure at the tap (faucet for our American cousins.) Having a header tank and letting gravity do the work would have solved that problem.

As an aside, it does have one other practical benefit - at least these days solved by building codes. In the UK at least there are Buildings Regulations that specify things like shower heads not being within a certain distance of the toilet, lest someone put the shower head in the bog and contaminate the mains supply in the event that mains pressure drops for some reason and sucks water back into the supply.) Isolating the supply of water in the bathroom by using a header tank neatly sidesteps problems like that.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

gravis:
Nagesh:
My team-member name is Bommiraju Sitaramanjaneyulu Rajasekhara Srinivasulu Laxminarayana Siva Venkata Sai....
Strange...that's the sound your mom made when I banged her at the gas station this morning. Say thanks to her for making that cigarette seem all the sweeter.

BEST COMMENT EVER!!!!!

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Sam:
Bernie:
I can close every app on my computer with one button. I just have to hold it down for a few seconds. (Back in the old days, we didn't need to hold it down. And sometimes we pressed it by mistake. The old days sucked.)
You can still close most* of the apps just by pressing that button, no need to hold it. There's just less chance you'll get to experience the fun of a corrupted file when you accidentally tap the button.
*only most because Skype really hates to shut down on my work computer. Many are the times I've come in in the morning to "Skype Message is not responding... End Now/Cancel ?"

How reliable is Skype Massage if you tip well?

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

My htoughts exactly! The user contributions were awesome!

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

doctor_of_common_sense:
kktkkr:
Now where's my Alt-F4 key?

Hopefully on your keyboard. If not, order a replacement from Dell, they will securely send each and every key independently.

Just use the "Any" key.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

QJ:
QJ:
the guy behind you:
Archie:
In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)
It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

Is there a reason for this, e.g. the tank is also filled with rain water?

I've always asked myself that, and never come up with a sensible answer. IMO it's just another awkward point of possible failure requiring tedious maintenance.

Actually it's possibly so that if the water supply fails, there's a reserve supply (unfortunately compromised as for potability) which will keep you going for a while.

Here in Rio de Janeiro most houses and apartment buildings have those cisterns on top of the roof. It's really a blessing since pressure problems with the mains aren't exactly uncommon.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

TRWTF is that they don't have the internet in Japan.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

I guess Alex is too lazy to even give us a classic WTF today. That is TRWTF.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

TDWTF: Count on it every day.

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

socknet:
this is the first time I laughed at Error'd in a while. Thanks.
Still missing Mandatory Fun Day

This

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

nerfer:
I knew a guy named Singleton too, and he was an only child.
I had a TA named Hai Lo (pronounced high-low), and a friend named Yu (somebody went to the secretary - Hello, I'm looking for Yu).

Then there was the Vietnamese guy with the last name Ng. We had a company re-org, and the movers threw out all his boxes marked NG because they thought it stood for No Good.

captcha: nobis - i have nobisness being here

I went to school with someone whose surname was Ng, and remember them trying to explain it to a teacher...

Teacher) "What's your surname?" Student) "Ng" T) What? S) "N...G - Ng" T) "Enji? How do you spell that?" S) "N...G - Ng!!!" T) "Yes, "Engee...How do you spell it?"

etc....

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Archie:
Ken B.:
Anon:
Yet some optimists will see it as wasting high-quality H2O to flush a toilet.
Reminds me of an episode of "All in the Family" many years ago. As I recall, the faucet in the sink was broken, and Archie refused to get water from the bathroom sink, since it wasn't meant for drinking.
Darn... YouTube failed to find it... :-(
That's perfectly reasonable in some properties.

In many properties, particularly older ones, the potable water in the kitchen comes off the mains but the water in the bathroom is fed from an intermediate tank in the loft/attic (this is filled from the mains by a simple ballcock type mechanism, just like a toilet cistern.)

It's not uncommon for that tank to be open, intentionally or otherwise, to any passing rats or pigeons that choose suicide by drowning.

It's wise to be cautious of the tapwater in the bathroom, unless you know it's fed from the mains or you've been in the loft and checked the state of the tank.

"Pig-geon? How he get up there????"

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Pedantic CBE:
Archie:
It's wise to be cautious of the tapwater in the bathroom, unless you know it's fed from the mains or you've been in the loft and checked the state of the tank.
Indeed - at my mum's place we used to regularly see dead flies coming out of the bathroom tap.
That was the big hint that the lid had fallen off the header tank.

A lot of modern properties now have all the taps directly mains-fed - including the hot taps. I still find it odd that my hot tap is drinkable water.

Maybe I missed a joke, but I like myself, my clothes and (most importantly) my dishes cleaned in drinkable water. This is probably why hot taps are drinkable water...

2011-05-09 Reply Admin

Jess:
Pedantic CBE:
Archie:
It's wise to be cautious of the tapwater in the bathroom, unless you know it's fed from the mains or you've been in the loft and checked the state of the tank.
Indeed - at my mum's place we used to regularly see dead flies coming out of the bathroom tap.
That was the big hint that the lid had fallen off the header tank.

A lot of modern properties now have all the taps directly mains-fed - including the hot taps. I still find it odd that my hot tap is drinkable water.

Maybe I missed a joke, but I like myself, my clothes and (most importantly) my dishes cleaned in drinkable water. This is probably why hot taps are drinkable water...

Lot easier to put a single water-source into a house too. Personally, I'd rather that means I'm wasting drinking water than drinking waste-water...

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

We have to be quite lucky in France: water from the tap is drinkable (hot water too); and we have bottled spring water for as low as 20c a liter.

Now that I live in Singapore I'm quite amazed that they are selling crap bottled distilled water for $2 and that the only real good spring water they sell is Evian - a French spring.

I was wrong to take our water supply situation for granted :(

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

Conditional:
So, MFD should only be brought back if people are still allowed to respond with images.

Wrong.

MFD should only be brought back if people are still allowed to respond with complaints that MFD should go away again.

Because a site driven by people who complain when they're unhappy and then sit quietly when they're happy is a perfect site.

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

Geography fail. Big time.

(No, I'm not from India, but I do have an education.)

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

Guess you can't count on a new wtf everyday.

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

Nagesh:
Marv Faceward:
Nagesh:
Matt Westface:
Nagesh:
Matt Westface:
Nagesh:
drinking water will kill you. don't know enough, but in india, roadside stall water will paralyze your muscles from number of visits to bathroom, you will be required to make.
See, this is how we know your not really from India. Anyone who's been to India knows there no such things as "bathrooms."
madarchod, how dare you make vile coment on hole in grave styling of shitting in woods?
Who said anything about "woods?" Everyone knows that's what the Ganges is for.

did you mean gangs? i am not understanding your joke
He meant what he said, Ganges, maybe you've heard of it. The joke part is that the river is polluted with human waste. Like you, I've never been to India, but it sounds like a nice place. Apart from the river of poo.

Captcha: venio - venio going to admit you're a troll?

madarchod, learn to use speling correctly. you are talking about ganga river and you're using some strange speling, which only you people talking in code are understanding?

i have never seen ganga since it is not flowing all over india, only in certain parts. learn geography, before making commenting. i am also learning on us location data.

FYI, shiting in river Ganga would fall in major sin category. nobody is doing this. if you have proofl send it to me.

Nagesh, you are the stereotype of Indian devs and an embarassment to us Indians. The image of "average" Indian is the worst possible and sadly, you are it.

Its irritating when you try to explain the meaning of some word in hindi. Its also annoying thinking that India has only hyderabad and you try to explain its stupid cultures. In fact, you are so irritating that people in other parts of India make fun of you. And it makes us want to run away when you dont understand even the simplest of trolling and subtle jokes.

If you are smart, you'll stay on the sidelines and stop filling up this forum with all the crap you say.

And yes, the ganges is indeed full of shit and no we didnt mean to do it. P.S - Ganges is a valid spelling which you would've learnt if your IQ was atleast a double digit one.

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

As Alex's wife, I regret to inform you that we have both lost someone important to us today. The landing gear to Alex's plane failed to deploy, and it was engulfed in flames with no survivors on a Tokyo runway. You can find full details of the incident here. I doubt Remy or Mark are interested in taking care of this site full time, so I intend to sell the domain unless one of you is interested in buying it. Send me an email, if this is the case.

2011-05-10 Reply Admin

Alex Papadimoulis:
As Alex's wife, I regret to inform you that we have both lost someone important to us today. The landing gear to Alex's plane failed to deploy, and it was engulfed in flames with no survivors on a Tokyo runway. You can find full details of the incident here. I doubt Remy or Mark are interested in taking care of this site full time, so I intend to sell the domain unless one of you is interested in buying it. Send me an email, if this is the case.

Damnit trolls, stop it.

2011-05-11 Reply Admin

From Wikipedia:

The Ganges suffers from extreme pollution levels, which affect the 400 million people who live close to the river.[79][80] Sewage from many cities along the river's course, industrial waste and religious offerings wrapped in non-degradable plastics add large amounts of pollutants to the river as it flows through densely populated areas.[13][81]

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many poorer people rely on the river on a daily basis for bathing, washing, and cooking.[81] The World Bank estimates that the health costs of water pollution in India equal three per cent of India's GDP.[82] It has also been suggested that eighty per cent of all illnesses in India and one-third of deaths can be attributed to water-borne diseases.[83] People bathing and washing clothes at Teliyanala Ghat, Varanasi.

Varanasi, a city of one million people that many pilgrims visit to take a "holy dip" in the Ganges, releases around 200 million litres of untreated human sewage into the river each day, leading to large concentrations of faecal coliform bacteria.[81] According to official standards, water safe for bathing should not contain more than 500 faecal coliforms per 100ml, yet upstream of Varanasi's ghats the river water already contains 120 times as much, 60,000 faecal coliform bacteria per 100 ml.[10][84]

After passing through Varanasi, and receiving 32 streams of raw sewage from the city, the concentration of faecal coliforms in the river's waters rises from 60,000 to 1.5 million,[10][84] with observed peak values of 100 million per 100 ml.[81] Drinking and bathing in its waters therefore carries a high risk of infection.[81]

yep, it's a river of poo.

2011-05-11 Reply Admin

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2011-05-11 Reply Admin

SenTree:
In fact, there was a recent documentary on UK TV which mentioned that, when water mains were first introduced (late 1700s/early 1800s ?), the water was only on for a few hours a day, so you filled the tank in the attic to keep you going for the rest of the time. So in the UK at least, it was standard practice for about two hundred years.

Yes, typical British: “I need the tank up there. What if there would be another surge? Last one happened just a century ago!”

SenTree · 2011-05-11 Reply Admin

Sten:
SenTree:
In fact, there was a recent documentary on UK TV which mentioned that, when water mains were first introduced (late 1700s/early 1800s ?), the water was only on for a few hours a day, so you filled the tank in the attic to keep you going for the rest of the time. So in the UK at least, it was standard practice for about two hundred years.
Yes, typical British: “I need the tank up there. What if there would be another surge? Last one happened just a century ago!”

You might notice I didn't put an end date on the reliability of water supplies. Even now, some areas of the country are on Victorian pipes which may fail unpredictably, or be taken out of service for upgrading, resulting in loss of supply for significant periods (hours or days). I agree this another type of fail.

2011-05-12 Reply Admin

SenTree:
Sten:
Yes, typical British: “I need the tank up there. What if there would be another surge? Last one happened just a century ago!”
You might notice I didn't put an end date on the reliability of water supplies. Even now, some areas of the country are on Victorian pipes which may fail unpredictably, or be taken out of service for upgrading, resulting in loss of supply for significant periods (hours or days). I agree this another type of fail.

Actually this is true in New York City as well. Each skyscraper is required to have its own cistern at the top, which is maintained for all the residents/businesses in that building and for any fire-fighting need. I'm not sure if that's due to water pressure or a carry-over from water pipe failures.

2011-05-27 Reply Admin

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