• Thomas Magle Brodersen (unregistered)

    What on Earth is a "NCG BTTNT SQSH BCN S"? (Does it contain TNT?)

  • The Bacon Avenger (unregistered)

    Butternut Squash. And maybe bacon.

    Mmm. Butternut squash bacon.

  • Souper (unregistered)

    New Covent Garden Butternut Squash & Bacon Soup http://www.newcoventgardensoup.com/products/butternut-squash-bacon/

  • eVil (unregistered)

    I feel I ought to mention that Bacon Jam is a thing... a very good and tasty thing: http://www.bacon-jam.co.uk/

  • ANON (unregistered)

    Maybe you just bye even 2 hkhdkhkd.

  • (cs)

    Oh come on, it is helpfully reminding you that your member needs sexing, and all you can do is complain on thedailywtf.com?

  • (cs)

    By the way, what's wrong with the spreadsheet import one? It is referring to the spreadsheet import wizard or some such utility, right? Not the best choice of words, perhaps.

  • faoileag (unregistered)
    Karl Jorgensen:
    Wait...so the self-serve checkout at Sainsbury's charges a £40 self-serve fee!?
    Nope. The self-service fee is £41.15.

    Quite a lot, actually, for two beeps from a machine. Better go to Brighton pier, you'll get better value for your money there (more beeps per pound, different beeps, perhaps even a melody).

  • faoileag (unregistered)
    the cleaning advisory:
    As perspiration will have become trapped within the feathers, and built up overtime.
    Yup, that's exactly the definition of "waterproof". Water can't get in. Or out.
  • F (unregistered)

    What's the problem with the hkhdkhkd? You can buy some at any branch of Ljgkjhgl.

  • faoileag (unregistered)

    The placeholder "hkhdkhkd" definitely is something special - google for it and you'll find the webpage with the cleaning instructions immediately (the only other webpage being today's article in The Daily WTF).

  • ceiswyn (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    I never authorised no overtime...

    the cleaning advisory:
    As perspiration will have become trapped within the feathers, and built up overtime.
  • Peter (unregistered)

    The most WTF fun I ever had was at a Home Depot self-checkout. I paid cash, was expecting $3.xx change.

    What I got was $30.xx (someone had either filled the $10 magazine with $1 bills, or interchanged the $10 and $1 magazines...I never found out which, but the magazines looked identical, with the denomination amount scrawled on a piece of masking tape. I would have expected them to be both color coded and keyed.

    The best part of the experience was the look on the face of the woman who watches all the self serve customers to make sure they're not trying anything, when I smiled, held out the bills to her, and said, "No." They must have set a speed record getting a manager with keys to open up that position...I've never since seen anyone at Home Depot move that fast!

    And no, they did not thank me...I think they were too worried about the previous customers who had already left without saying anything :-)

  • Krunt (unregistered)

    Good grief, these were desperately unfunny. What's happening to this site lately, does anything even mildly out of place on a UI now qualify as a WTF?

  • (cs) in reply to Alex Papadumbass
    Alex Papadumbass:
    By the way, what's wrong with the spreadsheet import one? It is referring to the spreadsheet import wizard or some such utility, right? Not the best choice of words, perhaps.
    Something like "Launch the table analysis wizard after importing the data", perhaps. It's not really much of a WTF on the grand scale of things. We can work out with a moment's thought what must be the intent, and it's not really very ambiguous either.

    Of course that moment's thought is wasted because some idiot couldn't be bothered to write a proper message. Hell, I could have used that moment to think about sexing my member, but no, I have to spend it decoding some numbskull's attempt to communicate.

  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadumbass
    Alex Papadumbass:
    By the way, what's wrong with the spreadsheet import one? It is referring to the spreadsheet import wizard or some such utility, right? Not the best choice of words, perhaps.
    TRWTF is that Access has had basically the same dialog since '97, and it took until now for some idiot to finally decide that it is funny. Oh and also the TDWTF mods for deciding to post it, as if it was funny.
  • MrBester (unregistered) in reply to Peter

    See, that's what you get when every denomination of note uses the same size. In more enlightened countries, larger denominations use larger notes, therefore they wouldn't fit in a magazine for smaller ones.

  • MrBester (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadumbass
    Alex Papadumbass:
    By the way, what's wrong with the spreadsheet import one? It is referring to the spreadsheet import wizard or some such utility, right? Not the best choice of words, perhaps.
    Nothing. The letter is underlined for the benefit of those who either don't have or can't use a mouse and denotes the access key to check the box. Something Windows has done since ever
  • (cs)

    That must be a way of imposing a buy limit on those speakers, because $3.49 for a name brand 6x9 is incredibly cheap.

  • boB (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadumbass

    Oh, great and powerful wizard! Work your magic, import my data and make everything wonderful!

    Wait... Now I'm supposed to run to ANOTHER wizard? Huh. Well, I guess the first wizard wasn't much of a wizard then after all!

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)

    Pay no attention to the man behind the spreadsheet!

  • TheSoftwareDev (unregistered)

    Yer an Analyst, Harry!

  • Philip Newton (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadumbass
    Alex Papadumbass:
    By the way, what's wrong with the spreadsheet import one? It is referring to the spreadsheet import wizard or some such utility, right? Not the best choice of words, perhaps.

    The choice of words thing, I think. They're using computer programmer jargon without realising that that's not the language that end users will necessarily be familiar with -- the people who wrote the message knew what a wizard was but others would probably not.

  • (cs)

    You know, if the guy at the supermarket hadn't asked for forty pounds extra cash it probably wouldn't add it to the total.

    ARE YOU A WIZARD

  • QJo (unregistered)

    hkhdkhkd BE THAT.

  • Ozz (unregistered)

    TRWTF is self checkouts. Last time I looked, checking out and bagging groceries was a paying gig. If a store wants me to check out and bag stuff then they need to pay me to do so.

  • (cs) in reply to eVil
    eVil:
    I feel I ought to mention that Bacon Jam is a thing... a very good and tasty thing: http://www.bacon-jam.co.uk/

    It's just not very popular around Toronto these days.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/maple-bacon-jam-identified-as-culprit-in-cne-cronut-burger-illnesses/article13968451/

  • Letatio (unregistered) in reply to ANON
    ANON:
    Maybe you just bye even 2 hkhdkhkd.

    The proper plural is "hkhdkhkden."

  • Stephen Roberts (unregistered) in reply to Thomas Magle Brodersen

    I'd imagine a single Butternut squash

  • eVil (unregistered) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    It's just not very popular around Toronto these days. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/maple-bacon-jam-identified-as-culprit-in-cne-cronut-burger-illnesses/article13968451/

    No-one deserves contaminated bacon jam.

    It's a double whammy... not only are they ill, but it ruins the notion of the jam.

  • Passing Whimsy (unregistered)

    "I cannot read the fiery spreadsheet," said Frodo in a quavering voice.

    "No," said Gandalf, "but I can. The letters are CP1252, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Redmond, which I will not utter here."

  • Lord0 (unregistered)

    "member needs sexing"

    there's nothing wrong with being sexy

  • Captain Oblivious (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    That must be a way of imposing a buy limit on those speakers, because $3.49 for a name brand 6x9 is incredibly cheap.

    Indeed, I'm trying to figure out what site had those on sale. I could potentially make a pretty snazzy set of speakers for $20 and the cost of some wood.

  • Josh (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    That must be a way of imposing a buy limit on those speakers, because $3.49 for a name brand 6x9 is incredibly cheap.

    This is what I came here to post. At that price, I'll take 5 also.

  • (cs)

    Hurrah for a programmer who knows the difference between sex and gender!

  • Bananas (unregistered) in reply to Passing Whimsy
    Passing Whimsy:
    "I cannot read the fiery spreadsheet," said Frodo in a quavering voice.

    "No," said Gandalf, "but I can. The letters are CP1252, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Redmond, which I will not utter here."

    +1
  • Eldon (unregistered) in reply to MrBester
    MrBester:
    See, that's what you get when every denomination of note uses the same size. In more enlightened countries, larger denominations use larger notes, therefore they wouldn't fit in a magazine for smaller ones.

    If he is in the US as I suspect, not only all their bills are the same size (that does not bother me much) but they also have the same color and they stick together.

    Basically the biggest difference between a 1$, 10$ and 100$ bills is the number of zeros on the bill.

    Here in Canada each denomination has its own color, they are all the same size it is great for holding them in a wallet and they do not stick together. Makes it super easy to differentiate them (except probably for blind people, but the bill also have the value in braille to fix that isue). As a bonus our wallets look like rainbows.

    [image]
  • Eldon (unregistered) in reply to Eldon

    It does not want to let me include the image, so I am linking it. Canadian bills

    And Akismet thinks I am a spammer what am I going to do now?

  • Anomaly (unregistered) in reply to Eldon

    I love how foreigners still complain our money is all the same color. The fives are now purple. The tens are orange.

    And so what if they are the same size? They only stick together when they are newly minted. And how much cash are you carrying where finding any combination of bills is that strenuous to begin with?

    Let me help you separate your money for you...

  • Sigivald (unregistered) in reply to Krunt
    Krunt:
    Good grief, these were desperately unfunny. What's happening to this site lately, does anything even mildly out of place on a UI now qualify as a WTF?

    Seriously.

    Do the guy who sent that in and the editor both not know that an underlined letter in a Windows application on a control indicates that you hit alt-<letter> to select the control from the keyboard?

    It's a keyboard shortcut hint, a standard Windows UI element.

    There is absolutely zero WTF there - other than that someone somehow thought that was one.

  • (cs) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    someone had either filled the $10 magazine with $1 bills, or interchanged the $10 and $1 magazines...I never found out which, but the magazines looked identical, with the denomination amount scrawled on a piece of masking tape. I would have expected them to be both color coded and keyed.
    The WTF there is having bills of different denominations that are all the same size.

    As for the self-service charge: I have this suspicion that the £40 or so is the latest tax to try and get the economy going again.

  • (cs)

    That's not a self-serve fee. That's the 1624% sales tax. (It went up a bit today.)

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to Eldon
    Eldon:
    Here in Canada each denomination has its own color, they are all the same size it is great for holding them in a wallet and they do not stick together. Makes it super easy to differentiate them (except probably for blind people, but the bill also have the value in braille to fix that issue). As a bonus our wallets look like rainbows.
    Here in the US, ten dollar bills are now yellow-ish, and have been for around a decade now. One dollar bills still have the old centered oval background around George's bust, while fives and up have an off-center bust without an outline.

    So you would have to basically be blind to mix them up with ones, though being stupid helps.

    It amuses me that our money colors are not unlike those used on Monopoly money. Except that the 50 isn't blue, it's Neapolitan ice cream colored.

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to Eldon
    Eldon:
    It does not want to let me include the image, so I am linking it. Canadian bills
    FTFY
  • anonymous (unregistered)

    The site design is perfect, but it only supports browsers.

    Close IE and use any of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Midori, Lynx...

  • Klimax (unregistered) in reply to Sigivald
    Sigivald:
    Krunt:
    Good grief, these were desperately unfunny. What's happening to this site lately, does anything even mildly out of place on a UI now qualify as a WTF?

    Seriously.

    Do the guy who sent that in and the editor both not know that an underlined letter in a Windows application on a control indicates that you hit alt-<letter> to select the control from the keyboard?

    It's a keyboard shortcut hint, a standard Windows UI element.

    There is absolutely zero WTF there - other than that someone somehow thought that was one.

    And it exists for a long time. (At least Windows 95)

  • (cs)

    The order of the items is important.

    For example, after reading "sexing", I read the next item as charging a £40 feel.

    Or perhaps it is just the order of the punctuation.

  • (cs) in reply to The Bytemaster
    The Bytemaster:
    The order of the items is important.

    For example, after reading "sexing", I read the next item as charging a £40 feel.

    Or perhaps it is just the order of the punctuation.

    On a completely other note, how does one join the Order Of The Punctuation?

  • (cs) in reply to ceiswyn
    ceiswyn:
    I never authorised no overtime...
    the cleaning advisory:
    As perspiration will have become trapped within the feathers, and built up overtime.
    Bingo. When things happen gradually, they happen "over time," not "overtime." Forget hkhdkhkd, the Web site simply needs to L2English.
  • (cs) in reply to Eldon
    Eldon:
    MrBester:
    See, that's what you get when every denomination of note uses the same size. In more enlightened countries, larger denominations use larger notes, therefore they wouldn't fit in a magazine for smaller ones.

    If he is in the US as I suspect, not only all their bills are the same size (that does not bother me much) but they also have the same color and they stick together.

    Basically the biggest difference between a 1$, 10$ and 100$ bills is the number of zeros on the bill.

    Here in Canada each denomination has its own color, they are all the same size it is great for holding them in a wallet and they do not stick together. Makes it super easy to differentiate them (except probably for blind people, but the bill also have the value in braille to fix that isue). As a bonus our wallets look like rainbows.

    [image]

    I can see how that would be a little bit fucking upsetting to the Russians ...

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