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frist (do not use)
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Those are really very little pixies that move golf balls away from the fairway and into the rough or a bunker. They wear all that football gear because frustrated golfers tend to take it out on them and being hit around the place by a giant with a huge club isn't fun without protective armor.
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Looking from the UK, those aren't football players, they're rugby players that aren't tough enough to play without armour.
</asking for trouble>
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About the non-use of Belgium. Maybe they read VisitBritain’s Advice On How To Avoid Offending Foreigners:
http://www.ibtimes.com/visitbritains-advice-how-avoid-offending-foreigners-backfires-1528986
"Belgians: Don’t try to talk to these visitors about their country’s politics or language divisions."
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What's the WTF with the weather report? Am I missing something?
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Go down and look at the days. The first day has Sally <some-temp in the 20's>
Of course TRWTF is Fahrenheit.
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Not talking to Belgians about politics is a really good idea. Either they're offended (for one or more of a multitude of reasons) or they'll try to explain it to you. The second is by far the most scary possibility.
Talk about beer instead.
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It's not only Belgians Costco seems to be unhappy about becoming members - the same warning also appears next to Poland and Portugal.
But of course TRWTF are country list dropdowns that are not in alphabetical order.
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+1. (Btw I was born, raised and currently live and work in Belgium).
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So all the Belgians, Poles and Portuguese feeling tempted to complain about Costco's dropdown list should perhaps reconsider.
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Ahhh. I don't know how I missed that. Thanks.
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Are.. Are you inconspicuously trying to talk about Belgian politics ?
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Belgium! Someone at Costco read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and made a joke that slipped into production?
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The Belgian non-option evokes Monty Python's "Prejudice" show skit
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A few days ago a newspaper published a satirical article on the 10 most useless inventions. Belgium was mentioned as one of them.
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There's already three different explanations for the "BELGIUM (DO NOT USE)" one and I have no idea which one is correct. I think it's time to call in an expert.
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Well played, sir.
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The today-only price is not only a bad figure for three months plus three free at 9.99 a month, but it's also poor value for six months at 9.99 a month (should be 59.94).
Of course, what it probably means (and we aren't shown anywhere) is that the normal price is 19.99 a month, in which case we are getting it for half-price.
So I guess that makes TRWTF either the submitter or the editors...
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Or chips. Belgium is famous for its love of chips. (Sorry, that's "french fries" to you cross-ponders, or are you still having to call them "freedom fries"?)
Captcha: Laoreet, I'll stop poking fun at the Geordie accent, laoreet?
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They're just trying to stop people from using the rudest word in the Universe.
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Just don't tell them you like Swiss Chocolate
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I always wonder why there's so many PHP sites running under IIS.
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How do you know how big he is?
I am of the opinion that there is no such place as Belgium - it is the bits of the Netherlands that they aren't allowed to have combined with the bit of France no-one wants. The two halves have no shared language, political parties, pastimes or geography. It's a bogus country invented to stand between France and Germany.
As such, I'm happy with someone who is born, raised and lives in Belgium to consider themselves French, Dutch, Walloon or Flemish.
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Do Funky Androids dream in exponential notation? Is sally Much Cooler than yesterday?
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At least in some small offices, "THE SERVER" is windows based and thou shalt host custom web based apps on "THE SERVER". Puny little app dev hopes to someday get a dedicated server for their app (maybe one that doesn't have 3 GB of ram taken up by Exchange and the accounting app's database). And so they code in PHP and pray for the day when their baggage carousel notifier, their system status page, or their order processing info page is allowed to move to its own home, on its own server, and be free.
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Omg, I just can't stand the PC crap these days.
Yes, with orientals, it's best not to say a plain No.
Typically, don't talk politics with a country you're not familiar with.
A few of them are ridiculous, but this is getting ridiculous.
Don't make the ok sign in South America. In several countries there, it's considered a bad hand signal equivalent to flipping people off.
How are these statements offensive?
I can just hear the conversation:
"Don't call a southerner white trash." "I'm offended, that's a stereotype, not all of us are offended by being called white trash."
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Here is Xcode's main event loop. This should explain everything.
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Indeed. It's a minor WTF, in that it's not clear why it's a deal.
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also, hand egg > futbol
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But good of you to mention it, you might actually be the first to have noticed it.
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I thought that Bob's your uncle.
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Myself, I prefer the definition given by Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson: "Belgium, ... a country invented so that Britain and Germany would have somewhere to sort out their differences!" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Top_Gear).
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Apparently, Sally is something of an ice queen.
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Now there is a Subway to Sally!