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maybe she needed to get her clothes back on in a hurry.
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I like how on the misprinted card, only every other line has a French translation, thereby making it useless to both English speakers and French speakers.
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Actually, yes they can. You'll sometimes see adds for houses with 2.5 bathrooms, meaning that they have two full bathrooms (with bathtub / shower) and one with only a toilet & sink.
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Who cares about the "actual price", we all know that number is simply a marketing point someone picks out of their butt to stick on the ad copy. The only number that matters is the number you will actually pay.
I don't care if they say the actual price is the true value, because even that is wrong. The true value of an item is exactly what someone will pay for that item, and since they have to give you a bargain in order for you to buy it, this isn't even the true value.
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But I've often wondered: Isn't there a flaw to this system? How would you express the idea that a house has 1 full bathroom and 2 half bathrooms? Would you say "2.00 baths"? How would you distinguish that from 2 full bathrooms and zero half bathrooms?
The problem, of course, is that some genius realtor somewhere along the line said, "Hey, let's cram two data elements -- number of rooms with a toilet and a bathtub and also the number of rooms with just a toilet -- into a single field! That will save one line when we print out a description of the house!"
When will people learn this elementary lesson: One fact per field!
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All Canadians are bilingual. Duh.
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At least she's not a pointless ignorant young blonde bimbo of the sort that presents the weather in, say, Atlanta. No. She has class. Probably lower-upper-middle, but that's fine. She's also presumably part Farsi, and I have a lot of time for Farsis. Naming your child after what you do is an honourable thing.
Look. Whip the kit off her, and replace it with a tight T. It's Irish Girl!
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IIRC, The Dumb test is a gimmick test that won't ever give you your result- the 'dumb' part is in the 'how many times will you re-try submitting this form with good data'. So posting this to TDWTF is truly a pinnacle of dumb.
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OMG, the coffee has finally absorbed and I now see the WTF. /FACEPALM
It obviously should have been printed something like this: [image]
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Save yourself the headache and call it a "powder room" like us girls do.
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GAAAH! FAIL!
Should have been:
What sort of powder do you expect us guys to be using in the pissoir, gun powder? Not sure I'd like to be using the facilities while someone is messing around with explosives!
Captcha: damnum! Exactly.
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A little talcum never hurt anyone.. as for the explosions.. well, that's a whole other story now isn't it?
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For that $0.79 you should have had a donut as a bonus!
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Then it isn't a bathroom, it's a toilet!
So technically it's a house with 2 bathrooms and 1 extra toilet.
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Re: deposit amount
4,294,967,295 is the highest number you can get to in 32 bits.
Does that mean they had intended to ask for more, and the computer rounded it down?
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But then what discreet term would we use for the cocaine room?
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I Sweden we call it a toilet, and anything with a shower or bathtub a bathroom. Usually this is presented separately as the number of rooms are more important than the combined number of features. Sometimes a toilet may be called a guest toilet, for obvious purposes.
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Because Popular Science is a monthly magazine.
(and even if a magazine did print 36 issues a year, it would be bizarre for them to offer a subscription to only a subset of these)
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Damn, I'd be a little happier if the deposit was -$1 instead. Maybe with that coupon I could almost make 2 bucks!
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The chod closet
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That's how I interpreted it too. From what is shown of the advertising, there is no indication at all that the 36 issues will be spread out over 3 years. Receiving a new issue every 1.44 weeks seems a little odd though.
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The assumption wizards here amaze me. What makes you think that anything is being sold on a 3 year term?
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The true marvel is the 'studio' which looks like a closet from the outside and is actually a room or perhaps 12-foot by 18-foot with a huge rear-projection screen diagonally across the room. This projects the same picture the viewers see, but in shades of blue - this means that although the map is keyed the presenter still sees enough to not look stupid when indicating weather features. The camera and a monitor are crammed in one corner of the room facing the screen with just enough room for the weather person between the two (some of them stand on a box to present because the camera is not height-adjustable (or not when I was there)
Addendum (2009-06-29 19:17): The reason that her outfit is crumpled is that she will have spent half the day preparing the weather maps. They do an endless sequence of forecasts for different channels, including the four main channels and the news channel and separate localized ones for all the regions. All the forecasts and graphics are done by the 'presenters' from data provided by the Met Office, usually just a couple of minutes before rushing through to record it (or for a few do it live)
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Uh. Okay. Sure, we'll go with that.
Never mind that "TEST D'IMPRESSION" is the translation of "TEST PRINTING MSG" (I guess), and that "DATE" is the same in both English and French.
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What the heck, I live at 123 Fake St. Is Andrew Young hiding in my basement or something? I'm going down there with a baseball bat right now.
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That is fantastic marketing. Were you interested in buying any subscriptions at all before you saw this WTF? I suspect not.
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Place of metabolic transmigration.
Don't blame me, blame Wu Cheng'en and his irrepressible stone monkey.
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I agree .. there is nowhere that says that 36 issues is over 3 years ... or that 24 is over 2 years old price new price(ronded down) 12 issues per year 59.88 12
24 issues per year 119.76 20 36 issues per year 179.64 28
there is no WTF ...
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Does that last pic also say -0 minutes?
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"Popular Science is an American monthly magazine..."
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they didn't say all issues were different, you just get 3 issues every month... one at home, one at work and one for that crazy homeless guy...
maybe you could even ask for 36 September issues for all your friends
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It comes on floppy disks, and fill a meg a week.
captcha: suscipit
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but it was 79 cents more, not a penny...
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I assumed that was the on-screen display of the DVR, when he hit pause to go grab the camera... It's been paused for less than a minute, but he's still behind "real-time".
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(And pissoir != toilet (see "obvious" translation))
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I don't understand how you come to this conclusion, the two first lines are basically the same thing but the message is too long for both languages to be on the same line. Then, "Date" is the same in English and French (would you find it less stupid to write "DATE/DATE"?), and the date format is international. And the last line is translated because it needs to be.
"From anywhere to anyone" doesn't seem to be translated though (but I don't like the "De partout jusqu'à vous" version, anyway... a letter can come from anywhere, but certainly not from everywhere).
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In France, sometimes people additionally make a difference between "bath rooms" (salle de bain, with a bath) and "water rooms" (salle d'eau, with a shower). Both also having at least a wash basin, and sometimes a toilet seat in older houses, or small apartments.
"Toilet" (or toilettes) being already an euphemism, I don't think we need yet another one...
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I think the 'Spyware/Malware' option is the politically correct manner of referring to the various operating systems offered by Microsoft.
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Thank you all for your fascinating insights into this strange phenomenon. Of course, I'm not thinking in US English, where what you call the bathroom quite often contains a toilet, but in English English, where the bathroom contains a bath and the toilet contains a toilet.
So, what you call 1.5 bathrooms, would actually be one bathroom and one toilet. If it doesn't have a bath in it, it's not a bathroom.
It's really quite simple, see? Silly Americans!
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I've had yo' momma.
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The Dumb Test is dumb. Now I can see that it is even more dumb than I had suspected.
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maybe you are a company who likes to order 3 copies every month to spread around the organisation ? ... seems feasible to me ...
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Guys, the "36 issues" on the PopSci card means 12 issues per year for three years. I am a subscriber and see cards like that all the time. They usually do not have the "/yr" in the price column.
Some of you are claiming that the card is not a WTF. Considering that it has caused half of TDWTF readers to misinterpret the offer as 36 issues in one year rather than three years, I would say it is, in fact, a WTF.
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Well, not as such. The card is a legitimate error'd, being a simple typo/logical error that ought to be easily understood for what it actually means. But not a WTF as such. The readers who interpreted it as 36 issues in one year are TRWTF.
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Having a toilet in the bathroom is TRWTF.
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Yes, because absolutely nobody in the universe has to use said toilet before they shower/bathe in the morning...