• AnthonyC (unregistered) in reply to toth

    "So I figured the 15-Oct thing was probably a culprit of something (like Excel) interpreting it as a date, but Oct is 10, so was it originally "15-10"? That seems really weird, especially since all the other options are lowernumber-highernumber."

    In the US, you write mm-dd-yyyy So, 10-15 IS october 15.

  • Huborice (unregistered)

    Hmmmmm, both TFA and commenters (or commentators, if this is a spectacle?) seem to be referring to 20 kg as the "weight" of the dumbbells. Kilograms is mass, not weight!

    Even a hypothetically perfect anti-gravity packaging system would be unable to change the mass of the dumbbells, since gravity has no effect on the mass of an object.

    CAPTCHA: damnum, these captchas are getting monotonous.

  • Darth Responsible Driver (unregistered)

    I have altered the rules of physics to allow months to be determined as measurements of speed. Pray I don't alter them any further.

  • Singen (unregistered)

    WTF Fried Pickles?

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to Roger Garrett
    Roger Garrett:
    Larry:
    TRWTF is that image is from Lost.
    Yeah, I noticed that, too. Since I retired from software engineering I've done some acting/background work here in Hawaii (there IS life after programming!). I was in three episodes of Lost.
    No, it is not from Lost. That is Elizabeth Mitchell, who WAS in Lost as Juliet, but the other actress is Rekha Sharma, who was NOT in Lost. Plus you can see EM's character's Glock 17 on her hip, she is an FBI agent in V.
  • undefined (unregistered)

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Nothing-to-See-Here.aspx#Pic3

  • (cs)

    Strange but it is advertised as a 20kg dumbbell set. Normally a set contains 2 dumbbells (one for each hand) so I'd expect it to weigh closer to 40kg (or 36kg if they are 18kg dumbbells, which is actually the weight I use for bench chest lifts).

  • (cs) in reply to Marc B

    I don't get it, what's wrong with the 15-Octane other then it should be 18 structural isomers instead of 15?

  • Colin Fine (unregistered)

    @Dave Carson: they'll be 20Kg including VAT.

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to toth
    toth:
    So I figured the 15-Oct thing was probably a culprit of something (like Excel) interpreting it as a date, but Oct is 10, so was it originally "15-10"? That seems really weird, especially since all the other options are lowernumber-highernumber.

    Also, I suspect the survey dropdown is implemented that was so that the developers can be lazy and generate reports by amount range without having to do all those useless, complicated database queries.

    RE: date - it was 10-15 which Excel (or whatever) picked up as MM-DD as in the US date format. Then Excel made it look nice and and gave 15-Oct.

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to Markp
    Markp:
    RayMarron:
    TRWTF is that driver training question! I'm pretty sure any* headlight is effective until the car exceeds the speed of light. ;)

    *must be turned on, not broken

    When you walk in the woods at night, you shine a flashlight a few feet in front of you at the ground, illuminating about 10 feet in front of you. Would you like to go 100 mph with that lighting? That would give you approximately 0.07 seconds to see a deer, react, and come to a complete stop. Decelerating from 100 mph to 0 in 0.07 seconds puts a force on you of about 65g, instantly killing you.

    In short, it's the angle of the beams, not the speed that's the problem. Obviously.

    That said their guidelines are ridiculous.

    FTFY Anyway would a force of 65 grams really kill you?

  • Anon Too (unregistered)

    I've seen the drivers ed problem before. What happens is that data is extracted from a data source by a user, then plugged into Excel, which helpfully formats the range for you as a date, so 15-10 become 15-October. Then after much mucking about, the data is imported back into a database while retaining Excels helpful fix. I've come across this with Addresses before, where users have taken address data out of a database, "cleansed" it, and then wondered why some addresses displayed as 10 December, Some Road, London W1W 6DW.

    captcha - Illum. Presumably a reference to the 1986 Run DMC classic "You be Illium".

  • Colin Fine (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin
    BentFranklin:
    TRWTF is USA can't even manufacture cast iron dumbbells anymore.

    What precisely has the USA got to do with that one?

  • jmc31 (unregistered) in reply to Markp
    MarkP:
    Accelerating from 100 mph to 0 in 0.07 seconds puts a force on you of about 65g, instantly killing you.

    How does one accelerate from 100mph to 0?

  • frito bandito (unregistered) in reply to jmc31
    jmc31:
    MarkP:
    Accelerating from 100 mph to 0 in 0.07 seconds puts a force on you of about 65g, instantly killing you.

    How does one accelerate from 100mph to 0?

    He's speaking the language of physics, whereas you're speaking the common tongue. Acceleration is (any) change in velocity.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Colin Fine
    Colin Fine:
    BentFranklin:
    TRWTF is USA can't even manufacture cast iron dumbbells anymore.

    What precisely has the USA got to do with that one?

    I think the point he was trying to make is that the USA is so dependant on Chinese exports that they can't even viably manufacture a simple block of metal domestically. Let's be honest, that is something of a WTF when you think about it.
  • (cs) in reply to frito bandito
    frito bandito:
    jmc31:
    MarkP:
    Accelerating from 100 mph to 0 in 0.07 seconds puts a force on you of about 65g, instantly killing you.

    How does one accelerate from 100mph to 0?

    He's speaking the language of physics, whereas you're speaking the common tongue. Acceleration is (any) change in velocity.

    Don't forget that velocity is a vector, so even turning at a constant speed is techically accelerating.

  • PITA (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin

    We only make human dumbbells here in the USA - ever hear of 'Jersey Shore'?

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin
    BentFranklin:
    TRWTF is USA can't even manufacture cast iron dumbbells anymore.

    True, but we get them for free by shipping useless paper overseas!

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to Pyrexkidd
    Pyrexkidd:
    TheThing:
    What is it with people that when something takes a long time, they decide to reboot the computer! If something takes a long time and I see the process isn't doing anything, I shutdown the program, not the whole computer :S

    Haha... Yea but, in tech support, 99% of my calls PEBCK. So I've started answering the phone: "Did you reboot?" While it may not solve any problems

    Caller: "My mouse isn't working." Me: "Did you reboot?" (the guy was left handed and using the mouse from the work station to his left... During the reboot he asked me why there was a mouse on either side...) Caller: "My monitor won't come on." Me: "Did you reboot?" Caller: "My key-thingy (she actually said key thingy) stopped working." Me: "Did you reboot."
    Caller: "My computer won't reboot." Me: "Did you reboot?"

    Seriously who wouldn't want my job... And these are just the calls from this morning.

    You can get an IT job at Reynholm Industries. (Well, except it's "have you tried turning it off and on again?")

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    JakeyC:
    Actually, it's not advertised as 20kg. If you put that catalogue number into the Argos website, it states it's an 18kg set...
    Yeah, well they have to suffer the consequences of the UK's truth-in-advertising laws. But at least the weights were 20kg when they left the Chinese factory…
    Like the old CRT-tube televisions in the U.S., which would have things on their packages like 
    27-inch television(*)
(*)26 inches in Canada
  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    It's configurable in the Windows Regional options (not Excel). TRWTF is expecting anyone to "fix" the ambiguity of two-digit years.
    What about interpreting 5-digit numbers as a full date? (Our users kept asking to be able to enter dates without slashes.) Even if you know the order of month, day, year, what does "12309" represent? We finally decided to allow it, but it would always be treated as if it were leading zeros that were left off, so even though "3456" is unambigous for "03/04/56", it would not be allowed.
  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    "Looks like my weights lost 1kg when they were boxed-up," notes Dave Carson..."

    I call shenanigans. Nobody who reads TDWTF also pumps iron.

    That's why he lifts weights that are labelled "20 kg" but really weight something less than 18 kg.

    We also sell weights labelled "100 kg" but really only weight 5 kg. We call them our "Pecs and Self-Esteem Building Line".

  • Roy Rogers Chicken (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    PeriSoft:
    "Looks like my weights lost 1kg when they were boxed-up," notes Dave Carson..."

    I call shenanigans. Nobody who reads TDWTF also pumps iron.

    That's why he lifts weights that are labelled "20 kg" but really weight something less than 18 kg.

    We also sell weights labelled "100 kg" but really only weight 5 kg. We call them our "Pecs and Self-Esteem Building Line".

    TRWTF is think 100 kg is a big lift.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Roy Rogers Chicken
    Roy Rogers Chicken:
    Jay:
    PeriSoft:
    "Looks like my weights lost 1kg when they were boxed-up," notes Dave Carson..."

    I call shenanigans. Nobody who reads TDWTF also pumps iron.

    That's why he lifts weights that are labelled "20 kg" but really weight something less than 18 kg.

    We also sell weights labelled "100 kg" but really only weight 5 kg. We call them our "Pecs and Self-Esteem Building Line".

    TRWTF is think 100 kg is a big lift.

    I used to work with a guy who was fanatic about weight-lifting. Every day he would lecture co-workers on the virtues of weight-lifing. One day he said to me, "You know, you should be able to lift at least your own weight." So I said, "I do. Every morning I get out of bed."

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Harrow
    Harrow:
    Markp:
    When you walk in the woods at night, you shine a flashlight a few feet in front of you at the ground, illuminating about 10 feet in front of you. Would you like to go 100 mph with that lighting? That would give you approximately 0.07 seconds to see a deer, react, and come to a complete stop.
    Fortunately, here in Massachusetts, all deer are required by law to carry their own flashlights, and shine them directly toward any approaching environmentalists or experimental physicists.

    -Harrow.

    Once I called my insurance company to report an accident. "Did the other party have insurance?" the agent asked. "I don't think so," I replied. "Deer very rarely have insurance." "Yes," she answered, "They're very irresponsible that way."

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to RayMarron
    RayMarron:
    TRWTF is that driver training question! I'm pretty sure any* headlight is effective until the car exceeds the speed of light. ;)

    *must be turned on, not broken

    Not to interrupt the fun with actual facts, but you are aware, aren't you, that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant, i.e. any measurement of the speed of light in a vacuum will give the same answer, regardless of the speed of the observer.

    Which reminds me, If sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, then how come vacuums make so much noise?

  • Jay (unregistered)

    On the Thai Kitchen survey: Funny how not only do the ranges overlap, but also the numbers on the ranges are so strange. I mean, you expect to <20, 21-30, 31-50, etc But why, for example, are there all these ranges of 10 or 20 dollars, but then "35" is a choice. Do they have many menu selections priced at "$35 including tip" or something?

  • PITA (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Which reminds me, If sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, then how come vacuums make so much noise?
    You have to be inside to experience it.
  • (cs) in reply to Anon Too
    Anon Too:
    why some addresses displayed as 10 December, Some Road, London W1W 6DW.

    Rather strange given that W1W 6DW is 17-19 Foley Street.

  • Anon Too (unregistered) in reply to Cbuttius

    Surely "Some Road" does not exist in London as well. I just made the post code up. Foley street is just off of Great Portland Street I think, not "Some Road".

  • Boris (unregistered)

    What brand of credit/debit card was it, and who was the merchant? One plausible explanation is that the payment processing code detected that it was a card they couldn't accept at that time. For example (in the UK and Europe), it's extra work to accept an American Express card (usually requiring a separate merchant application to AmEx themselves, and sometimes an additional integration), so merchants often don't immediately handle it. Likewise, there are a whole bunch of lesser-known card brands within Europe that have similar obstacles.

  • Boris (unregistered) in reply to Boris

    (Meant to add that this explanation would need to go hand-in-hand with dodgy error display, to account for the odd error message)

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    I don't see a WTF in the Dave Carson's one. Net weight is weight without the packaging, obviously the packaging weighs 600g, the actual product was labelled as 20Kg but the post office has determined it to be only 18.4Kg. So either Pro Power is being deceptive to cut costs, or the post office needs to recalibrate their scales, but it certainly is not lighter inside the box than outside.

  • Wyrdo (unregistered) in reply to Marc B
    Marc B:
    Proud Papa:
    That driver's ed quiz is deceptive. I got pulled over for doing February MPH in a 15-Oct zone. I couldn't tell if that meant I was speeding, driving too slow for traffic, or just the lucky recipient of the cop's bad day.

    That happened to me the other day, I told him no way, my car can barely get up to 10-Aug, never mind 15-Oct. He didn't buy it and I ended up paying the 25 quart fine and got 3 amps on my insurance.

    Anyone else notice that there's a stray radio button in the instructions?

    Best. Comment. Ever. (micro-trans for anyone not forced to use spreadsheets on a daily basis: "15-Oct" comes from the user entering the text "10-15" and "10-Aug" comes from "8-10".)

  • (cs)

    In a proper metric system using metres per second (not kilometres per hour) 1 m/s is approximately 2.25 mph.

    So doing 10-12 metres per second (or 12 October in the USA or 10 December elsewhere) would be 22.5 to 24mph, which would therefore be speeding in a 20mph zone, although in reality they would round the speed to 10m/s for such zones. How many more children would be killed if we allowed cars to do that 10.25% extra speed?

  • (cs)

    We are at peace, always.

    V propaganda one-liner.

  • TRWDF (unregistered)

    I wonder if those weights are suffering from vanity sizing, just like the pants that lie to people?

  • TheDoctor (unregistered)

    Sounds like the "a card" and "not accept as payment" may have looked like "a {$type} card" and "not accept {$type} as payment" (I use PHP mostly, so sue me). Maybe some clever adding of spaces at the end. Still, hilarious. :D

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