• (cs)

    TRWTF is file extensions longer than 3 characters.

  • MatsH (unregistered)

    I'm trying to find something amusing to say but... Hope he made it ok?

    Trwtf is the lack of an wtf?

  • Pippo (unregistered)

    How is xlsx pronounced? Whatever I try my tongue just ends up all skewed.

  • (cs)

    The WTF is nosey people who think it's their duty and moral obligation to pipe up if someone says something that could in the least bit be construed as offensive.

    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.

    The WTF in the story is that the guy was about to be thrown out of the coffee shop (an anonymized Starbucks?) because some old ladies sitting nearby happened to overhear him say "ex-ell-ess-ex", thought he was saying "excellent sex" and complained about being offended instead of just ignoring it because it was none of their damn business.

  • dos (unregistered) in reply to Pippo

    How? It's simple - "excellent sex" :)

  • (cs) in reply to dos
    dos:
    How? It's simple - "excellent sex" :)

    From now on I'll always pronounce xslx that way. Much faster, and people probably wouldn't notice it anyway.

    Reminds me of someone at a Burger King saying he would like a 'whopple dopper decease'.

  • justsomedudette (unregistered)

    The real WFT is calling back your boss during a hurricane evacuation. Yes stop and charge the phone but as soon as you recognise the number, turn it off and drink your coffee.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is your boss pushing to get some non-transcendent task done while the world is coming to an end. She might have to get her shit together and think of what's important during a crisis: saving your life or sending some excel files to a guy reaching his house roof.

  • Kuli (unregistered) in reply to Dogsworth
    Dogsworth:
    TRWTF is file extensions longer than 3 characters.
    Yes, since most of us are still using CP/M, who then aren't able to read those files.
  • (cs) in reply to Dogsworth
    Dogsworth:
    TRWTF is file extensions longer than 3 characters.
    Yeah, we should rate programming languages according to the length of their extensions: .c, .py, .f77, .java, .c++0x11
  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to Pippo
    Pippo:
    How is xlsx pronounced? Whatever I try my tongue just ends up all skewed.
    Most people I know don't bother, they simply say "Excel" and don't differentiate between .xls and .xlsx.
  • Moe K (unregistered)

    A coworker of mine used to pronounce SCSI as 'sexy'. That always made a few giggles around the office...

  • (cs) in reply to Kuli
    Kuli:
    Dogsworth:
    TRWTF is file extensions longer than 3 characters.
    Yes, since most of us are still using CP/M, who then aren't able to read those files.
    To tell the truth, if I never read 99% of the Excel files sent to me, my life would be a lot happier!
  • Mike (unregistered)

    Some people cause offence, some choose to take offence, the world is too obcessed with placating the later rather than dealing with the former.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Moe K
    Moe K:
    A coworker of mine used to pronounce SCSI as 'sexy'. That always made a few giggles around the office...

    Good grief! I mean, how silly can you get? I ASCII!

  • QJo (unregistered)

    ... but TRWTF is of course the fact that the words "excellent sex" are categorised as "very offensive". I'd go further: TRWTF is the fact that there are people in the world who believe that sex should always be unpleasant, painful and inconvenient, and should be abstained from in all circumstances except for the purposes of procreating into the appropriate religious upbringing.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that despite my vigorous search attempts I could not find a porn movie titled "Dot: The Excellent Sex Files".

    I mean... come on.... we sent a guy into space but we can't even do that?

  • Adam (unregistered)

    Good job they weren't PDF files

  • Pista (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    ... but TRWTF is of course the fact that the words "excellent sex" are categorised as "very offensive". I'd go further: TRWTF is the fact that there are people in the world who believe that sex should always be unpleasant, painful and inconvenient, and should be abstained from in all circumstances except for the purposes of procreating into the appropriate religious upbringing.

    Nah, don't overcomplicate this. The old bags were just envious.

  • Foo (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    Not necessarily... just because I (and probably you) enjoy excellent sex (I don't know, perhaps you don't), it doesn't mean I want to hear you talking about it in a coffee shop. I imagine some of the other jargon could have sounded somewhat like too much information... last week I was helping a collegue with some SQL on a DB of media, when I noticed that all the rows returned from her query were for adult videos. Suddenly, a lot of the SQL sounded like double-entendres.

  • EvilSnack (unregistered)

    File extensions are Hungarian notation for files.

    Captcha "nibh": Let's nibh this nonsense in the bud.

  • spoofuser (unregistered) in reply to Adam
    Adam:
    Good job they weren't PDF files.
    This should be a featured comment.
  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Dogsworth

    I'm watching NYPD Blue and Seinfield lately thanks for yet another flash back to the 90's.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    Agreed. I wonder if they would have complained if the guy was talking about impotence instead. Europe sent us their puritians ... its time to send them back.

  • (cs) in reply to Foo
    Foo:
    Not necessarily... just because I (and probably you) enjoy excellent sex (I don't know, perhaps you don't), it doesn't mean I want to hear you talking about it in a coffee shop. I imagine some of the other jargon could have sounded somewhat like too much information... last week I was helping a collegue with some SQL on a DB of media, when I noticed that all the rows returned from her query were for adult videos. Suddenly, a lot of the SQL sounded like double-entendres.

    So, if you don't want to hear it, don't listen you nosey cunt. And certainly don't complain because you're too stupid to understand the conversation that you're eavesdropping on.

    If feel you really must listen to someone's private conversation, when they say something you disagree with, you should have the common decency to feel smugly superior in silence.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Agreed. I wonder if they would have complained if the guy was talking about impotence instead. Europe sent us their puritans ... its time to send them back.

    Er, no, we wanted them to fuck off for a reason, so we persecuted the fuck out of them for being total religious nutcases.

    If you want to get rid of them, you'll have to colonise the moon or something, because if those fuckers come back, we'll have no choice but genocide. Maybe you could try a series of cattle trains leading to "special" showers... that looked like a workable solution.

  • (cs) in reply to Pippo
    Pippo:
    How is xlsx pronounced? Whatever I try my tongue just ends up all skewed.

    Actually, it's simply pronounced "Excel-sex".

  • Jim the Tool (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi

    The RWTF is that there seems to be little point to the story. Old ladies miss hearing things is not a WTF. Neither is them complaining. OK, so maybe the WTF is that the boss thought the fella should go back to the office. But that was hardly emphasized.

    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.
    No wait, the real WTF is people who don't know what the fuck happened, but can't bear to not have an opinion.

    OK, so ObiWayneKenobi didn't explicitly say it. But if you (anyone) think that it is Adria Richards's fault for anyone getting fired, then you (said person) is not so bright. Moreover, if you think that Adria should have done anything differently, then again, maybe you're not so bright. Or maybe you're a white male. Whatever. Two men said some sexist jokes. It was later acknowledged publicly to be not acceptable in that context by at least one of the men. It was also acknowledged to be not acceptable by PyCon organizers, and they meet with the men, who apologized. Situation over. Well, it should have been over. See also: http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/03/22/why-asking-what-adria-richards-could-have-done-differently-is-the-wrong-question/ http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropriate.html http://www.dogsandshoes.com/2013/03/adria.html

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to justsomedudette
    justsomedudette:
    The real WFT is calling back your boss during a hurricane evacuation. Yes stop and charge the phone but as soon as you recognise the number, turn it off and drink your coffee.
    It's only a hurricane. Things aren't nearly desperate enough for it to be sensible to actually drink the liquid sold in that sort of place.
  • Jim the Tool (unregistered) in reply to Jim the Tool

    Sexual, not necessarily sexist. My bad.

  • (cs) in reply to eViLegion
    eViLegion:
    Mike:
    Agreed. I wonder if they would have complained if the guy was talking about impotence instead. Europe sent us their puritans ... its time to send them back.

    Er, no, we wanted them to fuck off for a reason, so we persecuted the fuck out of them for being total religious nutcases.

    If you want to get rid of them, you'll have to colonise the moon or something, because if those fuckers come back, we'll have no choice but genocide. Maybe you could try a series of cattle trains leading to "special" showers... that looked like a workable solution.

    Aaaaaaand Godwind'd.

  • (cs) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    eViLegion:
    Mike:
    Agreed. I wonder if they would have complained if the guy was talking about impotence instead. Europe sent us their puritans ... its time to send them back.

    Er, no, we wanted them to fuck off for a reason, so we persecuted the fuck out of them for being total religious nutcases.

    If you want to get rid of them, you'll have to colonise the moon or something, because if those fuckers come back, we'll have no choice but genocide. Maybe you could try a series of cattle trains leading to "special" showers... that looked like a workable solution.

    Aaaaaaand Godwind'd.

    Actually, not Godwin'd.

    The law requires a comparison/analogy to be made, and none has been, not even implicitly.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    Pippo:
    How is xlsx pronounced? Whatever I try my tongue just ends up all skewed.

    Actually, it's simply pronounced "Excel-sex".

    Or just Excel-Essex.

    Brits would of course find this funny, as Essex is a region of the UK upon which a whole genre of humour is founded.

    For example: why does an Essex girl wear underwear? To keep her ankles warm. How does an Essex turn on a light after intercourse? By opening the car door. And so on.

  • (cs) in reply to Dogsworth
    Dogsworth:
    TRWTF is file extensions longer than 3 characters.

    I'm pretty sure it's OK to accept them now. It's been a long time since 1995. Let it go....

  • QJo (unregistered)

    And I'm on a roll, here ...

    There were these two guys on the bus, speaking in a rich foreign accent, and one recounts to another what appears to be a racy anecdote.

    "First Emma come. Then I come. Then two asses come and then I come again. Then the two asses come again and I pee twice and I come again."

    A little old lady sitting behind them says, "You disgusting man, you should go back to where you came from."

    He replies "Mississippi? I was just telling me bruda how to spell it."

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    And I'm on a roll, here ...

    There were these two guys on the bus, speaking in a rich foreign accent, and one recounts to another what appears to be a racy anecdote.

    "First Emma come. Then I come. Then two asses come and then I come again. Then the two asses come again and I pee twice and I come again."

    A little old lady sitting behind them says, "You disgusting man, you should go back to where you came from."

    He replies "Mississippi? I was just telling me bruda how to spell it."

    And then the little old lady complained and the guy was thrown off the bus.

  • (cs) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.
    TRWTF is that I actually read an article on the incident that tried to defend Richards' haughty behavior.
  • (cs) in reply to Jim the Tool
    Jim the Tool:
    The RWTF is that there seems to be little point to the story. Old ladies miss hearing things is not a WTF. Neither is them complaining. OK, so maybe the WTF is that the boss thought the fella should go back to the office. But that was hardly emphasized.
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.
    No wait, the real WTF is people who don't know what the fuck happened, but can't bear to not have an opinion.

    OK, so ObiWayneKenobi didn't explicitly say it. But if you (anyone) think that it is Adria Richards's fault for anyone getting fired, then you (said person) is not so bright. Moreover, if you think that Adria should have done anything differently, then again, maybe you're not so bright. Or maybe you're a white male.

    What does skin color have to do with it?

  • eric76 (unregistered) in reply to ochrist
    ochrist:
    Reminds me of someone at a Burger King saying he would like a 'whopple dopper decease'.

    My younger brother used to stand at the urinal in the men's room and sing, "It takes two hands to handle a whopper" as he finished up.

  • Cyphr (unregistered) in reply to Pippo
    Pippo:
    How is xlsx pronounced? Whatever I try my tongue just ends up all skewed.

    I say it "Ex-El-Ess-Ex"

  • Jim the Tool (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    What does skin color have to do with it?
    Haven't you read Stupid White Men? White men are the cause of all the world's problems!

    OK, no seriously, heterosexual white men are playing on easy. If you're a white man, and you're in a room full of white men like you (like you're all geeks), it's a lot easier to say, "hey, yeah that, what you just said, not appropriate". But if you're a women, let alone a black women, then it can be harder.

    If Ms Richards had have turned around and said, "not appropriate", for all she knew, she could have been verbally abused. Why should she have had to potentially put up with that?

    A solution for a white man, "just turn around and say, 'quit it'" is not always the best solution for anyone else. And not all white men recognize this, no matter how bright they might be. (The same applies for anyone in a position of privilege. It is context dependent.)

  • tristique (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    What does skin color have to do with it?
    Nothing, he's just a sexist, racist, politically correct liberal bigot.
  • TRWTF (unregistered)

    the real wtf are people asking you to leave, when you're talking about excellent sex.

  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Jim the Tool:
    The RWTF is that there seems to be little point to the story. Old ladies miss hearing things is not a WTF. Neither is them complaining. OK, so maybe the WTF is that the boss thought the fella should go back to the office. But that was hardly emphasized.
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.
    No wait, the real WTF is people who don't know what the fuck happened, but can't bear to not have an opinion.

    OK, so ObiWayneKenobi didn't explicitly say it. But if you (anyone) think that it is Adria Richards's fault for anyone getting fired, then you (said person) is not so bright. Moreover, if you think that Adria should have done anything differently, then again, maybe you're not so bright. Or maybe you're a white male.

    What does skin color have to do with it?

    What type of horseshit is this? Look, I don't care if you're white, black purple, green or gray. If you aren't involved in a conversation, and someone just happens to say something offensive within earshot but not to you directly, the correct behavior is to man the hell up and ignore it, not complain or take pictures of the people and try to name-and-shame.

    What Adria Richards did was not right, in any way shape or form. It would have been a different story entirely if the two people were talking to her directly and she felt offended, in which case she should have said that she didn't like that. Instead, she took it upon herself to go on some moral crusade for women's rights, take a picture and start tweeting to shame the two people.

    In the story here we have a similar parallel. The two little old ladies overheard "ex-ell-es-ex" and got offended despite the fact the person was not talking to them, about them, or anything related with them. In other words, people can't mind their own f'n business.

    Keep in mind that Adria also compared herself to Joan of Arc and said some rubbish about it being impossible to be racist against whites, because whites are the oppressor. So yeah she's basically just someone who uses their minority status to demand preferential treatment and cry racism/sexism/homophobia/antisemitism when they don't get it.

  • Stabbitha (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Jim the Tool:
    The RWTF is that there seems to be little point to the story. Old ladies miss hearing things is not a WTF. Neither is them complaining. OK, so maybe the WTF is that the boss thought the fella should go back to the office. But that was hardly emphasized.
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This reminds me of the whole Adria Richards debacle: For those not aware there was a Python convention where two guys were talking and joking about "big dongles" and "forking that repository". A tech evangelist named Adria Richards was seated somewhere in front of them and overheard these jokes, got offended, and went and posted a picture of the guys on Twitter complaining about sexism. Ultimately one of the men was fired by his employer and there was a huge internet shitstorm, and Adria herself got fired for the whole thing later on.
    No wait, the real WTF is people who don't know what the fuck happened, but can't bear to not have an opinion.

    OK, so ObiWayneKenobi didn't explicitly say it. But if you (anyone) think that it is Adria Richards's fault for anyone getting fired, then you (said person) is not so bright. Moreover, if you think that Adria should have done anything differently, then again, maybe you're not so bright. Or maybe you're a white male.

    What does skin color have to do with it?

    Oh, don't you know? White, cis-gendered males are literally the most sexist and oppressive demographic on the planet.

    For what it's worth, I'm a brown female, and Adria should have put on her big girl panties and minded her own damn business.

  • (cs) in reply to ochrist
    ochrist:
    dos:
    How? It's simple - "excellent sex" :)
    From now on I'll always pronounce xslx that way. Much faster, and people probably wouldn't notice it anyway.
    Buh? "Excellent sex" has four syllables, exactly the same as just saying "X-L-S-X".

    Clearly the correct pronunciation is "axle sex".

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is using OOXML.

  • (cs) in reply to Jim the Tool
    Jim the Tool:
    If Ms Richards had have turned around and said, "not appropriate", for all she knew, she could have been verbally abused. Why should she have had to potentially put up with that?

    So, she's in the right because someone MIGHT have been an asshole but was never actually given the chance to be one? Fuck you and your stupidity.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    TRWTF is that I actually read an article on the incident that tried to defend Richards' haughty behavior.

    Haughty behavior? An asshole was being an asshole, and she said "stop being an asshole" - what's "haughty" about that?

    Richards didn't fire him, his company did. Maybe they decided that they didn't want assholes representing them in public. Apparently the guy agreed that he'd been acting like and asshole, and apologized for it.

    So he's not even an asshole anymore - problem solved!

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to Stabbitha
    Stabbitha:
    For what it's worth, I'm a brown female, and Adria should have put on her big girl panties and minded her own damn business.

    These guys were talking in public. If they didn't want other people to hear it, maybe they should have kept it to themselves.

    captcha: appellatio - no, there isn't an app for that. yet.

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