• Khootrapali (unregistered)
  • (cs)

    I'm surprised no one realized yet it was going to say Big Fat Donkey Dick but the programmer chickened out.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.

    What, were people testing natural ingredients 200 years ago, that we can rely on their testing to be sure they're safe?

    There's a tribe who, for centuries, have been eating the brains of their dead elders. They're not generally cannibals; it's done as part of a death ritual, and is to keep an essential part of the deceased within the living tribe. It doesn't kill them, so they keep doing it.

    Or doesn't it? Actually, it does kill a lot of them, just not right away. There is a prion disease unique to this population, and it can only be communicated by eating the brain (or other central nervous system tissue) of someone who had it. It's a major cause of death in their society.

    Likewise, people smoked tobacco for centuries before realizing that it was harmful, and treated many disease with mercury (including, famously, syphilis). It was modern science that revealed how poisonous mercury actually is; still want to trust that natural ingredients are inherently safer because they've been used longer? Remember, longer use doesn't mean longer testing -- it means it's grandfathered in and isn't legally required to undergo testing, and probably doesn't immediately kill very many people. (Also, don't assume that because there's a natural-sounding name it's not altered chemically, and don't assume that because it has a chemical name it's something synthetic. You really can't draw easy conclusions from lists like this.)

    Titanium dioxide appears to be pretty safe. It's been used as a white pigment for a while, and by that logic might actually be considered "natural". (It's not synthetic, anyway; it's mined that way.) But it's true that another pigment used to be much more commonly used, going way back into antiquity. But be glad of the substitution to titanium dioxide -- the traditional alternative was lead carbonate!

  • TooSoonASys, She Says... (unregistered) in reply to BentFranklin
    BentFranklin:
    I'm surprised no one realized yet it was going to say Big Fat Donkey Dick but the programmer chickened out.
    I'd already been warned twice...
  • Art (unregistered) in reply to techpaul
    techpaul:
    ...Artificial Colouring... blah blah blah... only made by man not normally found in nature.
    On my planet, men are part of nature. So anything that men do, or make, is natural.

    I understand that, on your planet, men are not considered natural. That's because we colonized your planet a few thousand years ago. You are all our descendants, and you don't belong there at all. Go kill yourself, now, so your planet can be purely natural again.

  • rfoxmich (unregistered) in reply to RGro

    I don't get it? What's your point? ;-)

    RGro:
    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...
  • fritters (unregistered) in reply to Tuxie
    Tuxie:
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    Careful around that stuff. Ingested in large enough quantities, it's fatal -- also if inhaled in relatively small quantities, too.

    The worst part is, the stuff is EVERYWHERE! You probably ingested some this morning.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Rhywden
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    But that's because you are fucking ignorant.

    To put it bluntly.

  • (cs) in reply to Art
    Art:
    techpaul:
    ...Artificial Colouring... blah blah blah... only made by man not normally found in nature.
    On my planet, men are part of nature. So anything that men do, or make, is natural.

    I understand that, on your planet, men are not considered natural. That's because we colonized your planet a few thousand years ago. You are all our descendants, and you don't belong there at all. Go kill yourself, now, so your planet can be purely natural again.

    Dear Space-Dad,

    We're a little low on planet right now - we know, we know, you gave us a whole planet just a few thousand years ago, and we should have budgeted better, but that's in the past now.

    So anyway, we were hoping that we could move home for a bit? Just until we've saved enough for a less-depleted planet of our own, of course. We'd be happy to pay rent. I mean, once we find a job.

  • Robert (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    But that's because you are f***ing ignorant.

    To put it bluntly.

    Please show some sensitivity. I had a son who was ignorant, and let me assure you that its not a laughing matter.

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to fritters
    fritters:
    Tuxie:
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    Careful around that stuff. Ingested in large enough quantities, it's fatal -- also if inhaled in relatively small quantities, too.

    The worst part is, the stuff is EVERYWHERE! You probably ingested some this morning.

    I agree. From what I know, studies indicate it's one of the major death causes in the world, going up to hundreds of thousands of casualties every year.

    Nasty dangerous stuff. Keep away from it.

  • (cs) in reply to OneMist8k
    OneMist8k:
    This comment not supported on this website.

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to fritters
    fritters:
    Tuxie:
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    Careful around that stuff. Ingested in large enough quantities, it's fatal -- also if inhaled in relatively small quantities, too.

    The worst part is, the stuff is EVERYWHERE! You probably ingested some this morning.

    Yum! I'm ingesting some now!

  • Bob's Kid (unregistered) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    fritters:
    Tuxie:
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    Careful around that stuff. Ingested in large enough quantities, it's fatal -- also if inhaled in relatively small quantities, too.

    The worst part is, the stuff is EVERYWHERE! You probably ingested some this morning.

    Yum! I'm ingesting some now!

    I ingested quite a bit about an hour ago--not enough to kill me, but now I'm having a severe pain in my abdomen.

  • stux (unregistered)

    I don't know if anyone has noticed but the RSM "dates" page seems to be doing some behind-the scenes "Date" conversion

    "01-04" became "01-Apr" "05-09" became "05-Sept" "10-49" became "Oct-49"

    The others weren't converted because they weren't in a valid "dd-mm" or "mm-yy" date format. That's the real WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    But that's because you are fucking ignorant.

    To put it bluntly.

    Excuse me, that's my fucking line. Fuck you, cuntshit.

  • Bob's Son (unregistered) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    Anon:
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    But that's because you are f***ing ignorant.

    To put it bluntly.

    Please show some sensitivity. I had a son who was ignorant, and let me assure you that its not a laughing matter.

    That's nothing. My father thought I was a retard. He used to whine about it all the time. Never had the heart to put him right, it was far funnier to laugh at his stupid fat ass.

  • (cs) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    fritters:
    Tuxie:
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    Careful around that stuff. Ingested in large enough quantities, it's fatal -- also if inhaled in relatively small quantities, too.

    The worst part is, the stuff is EVERYWHERE! You probably ingested some this morning.

    Yum! I'm ingesting some now!

    Yeeukh! I'm not drinking that. Fish fuck in it.

  • hater gonna hate (unregistered)

    "behind-the scenes "Date" conversion"

    Thanks for nothing Microsoft Excel.

    When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a spreadsheet.

  • (cs) in reply to techpaul
    techpaul:
    At least you get an error box appear, how often tracking don mysterious windows errors I come across the event log that says

    "The specified module did not load"

    That is ALL it says not even a long GUID number to serch for.

    All of my GUIDs are the same length. Is yours related to the Donkey?

  • (cs) in reply to Calli Arcale
    Calli Arcale:
    Likewise, people smoked tobacco for centuries before realizing that it was harmful!

    BS propoganda spread by peole who simply want to control others. Now excuse me while I go light up.

  • Manasvini (unregistered) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    That's not irony...alanis morissette....sorry, too tired to come up with something original

    And is ironic synonymous with sarcastic? (dictionaries seem to think so)

    I once read a Beetle Bailey Cartoon strip that really got irony “clear” to me :) I couldn’t find a link to the exact strip I have in mind, but here’s the gist:

    Sarge (looking at Zero’s crumpled shirt): That’s we very well pressed shirt you have on there!

    Zero, the company simpleton (looking at his shirt): Looks crumpled to me!

    Sarge: You don’t understand irony do you??

    Next panel has Zero busy ironing his shirt, saying “I’ll show how who doesn’t understand irony!”

  • (cs) in reply to hater gonna hate
    hater gonna hate:
    "behind-the scenes "Date" conversion"

    Thanks for nothing Microsoft Excel.

    When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a spreadsheet.

    Yeth.

    I ran into this when I ported my old comic-book collection database from Appleworks (!) to Excel as a DIF file. Had to watch it when I had two issue numbers for the same date (as when DC was running two "Legion of Super-Heroes" series concurrently with independent numbering); the slash I was using to indicate a pair of numbers turned most of those into dates.

  • (cs) in reply to The Poop... of DOOM!
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    moz:
    Jason, get to a hospital right now! Most of the other things are fairly harmless in moderation, but the methyl mercury in those cookies could kill you if don't get help immediately.
    Nah, that's supposed to be methylene blue. All it'll do, is freak him out due to it coloring his pee blue.
    I assumed they had zinged up the taste a bit by adding a pinch of pure methyl groups.

    <homer>Mmmmm, electro-reacty.....[drools]</homer>

  • some dude (unregistered) in reply to Rhywden
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Why is it that when anyone hears a chemical name they don't know how to pronounce they immediately blather on about "artificial ingredients"? Perhaps you didn't read what you're replying to, so I'll repeat it for you. Titanium dioxide [...] is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium...
  • some dude (unregistered) in reply to L.
    L.:
    Ken B.:
    The Great Lobachevsky:
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.
    I had to look that one up. Bravo.
    For full details on that dangerous stuff (aka "Dihydrogen Monoxide"), check out the site http://dhmo.org.

    TRWTF is people who think it's smart to use chemestry terms instead of standard stuff people may know about ;)

    Hydroxylic acid still sounds waaaayy better though.

    TRWTF is people who know how to spell, right? I mean, chemestry sounds so much better than chemistry, amirite?

  • some dude (unregistered)

    Where does the Miss April and Miss September come from?

  • (cs) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    Gotta love those errors that didn't go away since what? Late 80's?

    "Keyboard not found press <F1> to proceed or <F2> to setup"

    At least this time they compounded the WTF by exchanging the keys.

    After power outage that killed our external system timer, we had a small problem with our host: Not only did it not restore console messages when the power came back on (so we could see the message we needed to see) but the message required that we press a key that hasn't existed on terminals for a generation.

    It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to, "Press the Ω key to continue."

  • (cs) in reply to normntaz
    normntaz:
    Oct-49...Is that in the new Metric Calendar?

    No, it's in that new calendar that has 7-week months, so that we can get everything done every month.

  • (cs) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    Mcoder:
    Gotta love those errors that didn't go away since what? Late 80's?

    "Keyboard not found press <F1> to proceed or <F2> to setup"

    At least this time they compounded the WTF by exchanging the keys.

    After power outage that killed our external system timer, we had a small problem with our host: Not only did it not restore console messages when the power came back on (so we could see the message we needed to see) but the message required that we press a key that hasn't existed on terminals for a generation.

    It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to, "Press the Ω key to continue."

    Ω is easy, it's a character in a contemporary language, you just need a Greek keyboard.

    What you should have said was: It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to enter some character from the Futhark.

  • (cs) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    normntaz:
    Oct-49...Is that in the new Metric Calendar?

    No, it's in that new calendar that has 7-week months, so that we can get everything done every month.

    No you fool, Oct-49 means October 1949. Or 2049 if you think that's what it ought to be.

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT

    Kutta and Morasky
    [image]

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Heh. Kutta Srinivasan and Mike Morasky have no button for sending them an e-mail on Valve's official page. Looks like we need a different method of talking to them. ;)

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood

    [quote user="Matt Westwood"][quote user="Coyne"][quote user="Mcoder"]After power outage that killed our external system timer, we had a small problem with our host: Not only did it not restore console messages when the power came back on (so we could see the message we needed to see) but the message required that we press a key that hasn't existed on terminals for a generation.

    It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to, "Press the Ω key to continue."[/quote]

    Ω is easy, it's a character in a contemporary language, you just need a Greek keyboard.

    What you should have said was: It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to enter some character from the Futhark.[/quote]

    It's like a VHS tape I bought back around 1980 with an early form of copy protection. When I tried to convert it to DVD a couple of years ago, or even just watch it, the picture rolled despite the gizmo I use to defeat more recent types of antipiracy, whereupon I found the advice on the tape box "if the picture rolls, adjust the horizontal hold on your television set".

    Do they even make sets with accessible horizontal hold controls any more?

  • Arancaytar (unregistered) in reply to Rhywden
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    Forget the titanium oxide, the poison in this one is the sugar and the palm oil.

  • (cs)

    The "This computer does not support this operating system" one was posted back in 2008: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/THIS-is-a-Warning-Message!.aspx

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is Internet Explorer on the last picture, right?

  • Mokyu (unregistered)

    TRWTF is installing a driver for a processor.

  • (cs)

    Kutta or Morasky at Tinagra

  • yername (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.

    You're a teabagger, aren't you?

    Well, even assuming your proposition stands, not everything is artificial. Consider rock vs. pop: All rock is pop music but not all pop is rock.

    There clearly is no false choice as a sane person is able to deduce the meaning by context. Insane people are fucking crazy anyway.

  • fuxie (unregistered) in reply to galgorah
    galgorah:
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    From wiktionary.org

    hydroxylic acid (uncountable)

    (inorganic chemistry) One of several systematic acid names for water, H2O.

    Thank you. I would have never thought to search Wikipedia (or Wiktionary). Or, heaven forbid, google it.
  • Jeremy Friesner (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Am I to believe a site full of geeks gives a crap about whether a pack of cookies is healthy or not?

    The geeks don't care that the cookies are unhealthy per se (they're cookies after all) -- but they find it amusing that such a blatantly unhealthy ingredient list appears right under the tag line "For a Healthier You". It makes the cookies look like something you'd find for sale in the Aperture Research cafeteria.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    techpaul:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.
    All "Artificial Colouring" is to put the colours they want it to look not what processed/blended material comes out of the tube without it looks like. It does not mean it is synthetic as in a combination necessarily only made by man not normally found in nature.
    Ah yes, the Law of the Internet in action...

    Anyway, just because something's normally found in nature doesn't mean we normally eat it.

    Its like marijuana, it is natural, then it must be good for you.

  • (cs) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    That's not irony...alanis morissette....sorry, too tired to come up with something original

    Is it ironic that you're too tired to come up with something? I lose track.

  • (cs) in reply to Luiz Felipe
    Luiz Felipe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    techpaul:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.
    All "Artificial Colouring" is to put the colours they want it to look not what processed/blended material comes out of the tube without it looks like. It does not mean it is synthetic as in a combination necessarily only made by man not normally found in nature.
    Ah yes, the Law of the Internet in action...

    Anyway, just because something's normally found in nature doesn't mean we normally eat it.

    Its like marijuana, it is natural, then it must be good for you.

    ... so we'll have to make it illegal.

  • (cs) in reply to RGro
    RGro:
    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...

    Interestingly, the "Partially hydrogenated palm kernel 011" is currently a big topic under discussion in the UK. It has finally filtered through that foodstuffs are routinely being adulterated with a substance which has officially been classified (by the WHO, I believe) as "toxic". Parts of the US and Europe have banned it, but in the UK we still have to pay attention to the ingredients list very carefully so as to ensure we don't inadvertently poison ourselves.

  • si (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood

    I haven't noticed it being discussed, but then I'm terrible for, say, actually reading the news. I guess I might keep an eye out for it but I generally check the ingredients list out when I'm bored after a NOMNOMNOM. Actually, when I saw the list up there I thought that whatever was compiling the ingredients list had also managed to replace the word "oil" with "011". Shame that's not the case.

    I'm sure somebody else probably mentioned this but presumably TRWTF is "processor driver"?

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Ω is easy, it's a character in a contemporary language, you just need a Greek keyboard.

    What you should have said was: It's like being on a PC and having it ask you to enter some character from the Futhark.

    Futhark (old Nordic runes) actually do exist in ISOCODE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet

    So you should be able to enter them some way (although I'm not sure any OSes support a Runic keyboard)

  • The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to Manasvini
    Manasvini:
    And is ironic synonymous with sarcastic? (dictionaries seem to think so)
    Let's make it very clear, as that comic uses irony wrong, too. I never actually thought people might mess irony and sarcasm up... Must be a US-only thing. I've even met Asians who call sarcasm "scarsasm" who understood the difference.
    Manasvini:
    Sarge (looking at Zero’s crumpled shirt): That’s we very well pressed shirt you have on there!
    ^^THAT IS SARCASM!^^
    Jeremy Friesner:
    (...)that such a blatantly unhealthy ingredient list appears right under the tag line "For a Healthier You".
    ^^THAT IS IRONY^^

    Now please don't start mixing cynism and cymbals up, either...

  • The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to some dude
    some dude:
    Rhywden:
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Why is it that when anyone hears a chemical name they don't know how to pronounce they immediately blather on about "artificial ingredients"? Perhaps you didn't read what you're replying to, so I'll repeat it for you. Titanium dioxide [...] is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium...
    Oh, then you won't have any problem with me adding some naturally occuring oxide of iron in your food? Happy rust-munching!

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