• CopyAndWaste (unregistered) in reply to David Emery
    David Emery:
    "successfulness" ?

    Do you suppose this appears somewhere: #define successfulness 0

    Have you never had a MessageBox("Updation w/ successfulness. Click Cancel to continue.")?

  • forgottenlord (unregistered)

    The purpose of language is to communicate.

    Did you understand what the author intended to say? Yes? Objective met.

  • CopyAndWaste (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Question: what is it that separates humans from the animals?
    V R wearing clothes
  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    C-Octothorpe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    TRWTF is VB.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, making fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming bullets were provided as well? Bludgeoning a cow to death with a rifle is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using the bayonet.

  • (cs) in reply to forgottenlord
    forgottenlord:
    The purpose of language is to communicate.
    "No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing language does? What needs does one serve by using language?"

    "Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir..."

    "No! It deceives."

  • anigo montoya (unregistered) in reply to Peter

    Rodent Of Unusual SizE?

  • Robert Hanson (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Question: what is it that separates humans from the animals?

    Douglas Adams has the answer: (typing from memory, probably not the exact quote)

    Humans think we're smarter than dolphins, because we have cars and wars and cities and things like that and dolphins don't; and dolphins think they're smarter than humans for exactly the same reason.

  • (cs) in reply to anigo montoya
    anigo montoya:
    Rodent Of Unusual SizE?
    ANIGO?

    Consider your Princess Bride club card revoked.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to JamieC
    JamieC:
    ill0gical0ne:
    Steve The Cynic:
    It just makes us stupider and stupider.

    As referenced by your word "stupider."

    Ive always prefered endumbening

    That's a perfectly cromulent word.
  • I swear I won't use that company's name anymore (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoochiekiss:
    i am a huge cocksucker:
    PederastCurmudgeon:
    C-sucktothorpe:
    PederastCurmudgeon:
    hoochiekiss:
    TRWTF is VD.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, catching VD is like fucking dairy cows with a pipe and stove-top hat.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming rubbers were provided as well? Bringing a cow to orgasm with an average man sized penis is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using your fist.

  • Those who live in glass houses... (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Language changes, I understand that, but the practice of verbing random nouns and nouning anything that moves does not make us more intelligent, or even more hip.
    Nouns are verbs, etc... you know the drill ...
  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    trtrwtf:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    C-Octothorpe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    TRWTF is VB.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, making fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming bullets were provided as well? Bludgeoning a cow to death with a rifle is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using the bayonet.
    But with the bayonet you can slice out a few steaks while you're at it.

  • (cs) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    trtrwtf:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    C-Octothorpe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    TRWTF is VB.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, making fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming bullets were provided as well? Bludgeoning a cow to death with a rifle is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using the bayonet.
    But with the bayonet you can slice out a few steaks while you're at it.
    Why not just keep the cow alive? That way you have a perpetual source of steak. Just slice a chunk out once in a while. Cauterize to stop the bleeding. Repeat.

  • I swear I won't use that company's name anymore (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PederastCurmudgeon:
    hoochiekiss:
    i am a huge cocksucker:
    PederastCurmudgeon:
    C-sucktothorpe:
    PederastCurmudgeon:
    hoochiekiss:
    TRWTF is VD.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, catching VD is like fucking dairy cows with a pipe and stove-top hat.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming rubbers were provided as well? Bringing a cow to orgasm with an average man sized penis is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using your fist.
    But with your fist you can squeeze off a load on the face of a nursing calf while you're at it.

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Why not just keep the cow alive? That way you have a perpetual source of steak. Just slice a chunk out once in a while. Cauterize to stop the bleeding. Repeat.
    I specifically remember a conversion during a family dinner when I was ~14 where I suggested this idea. Made perfect sense to me. My thinking was it takes less feed for the cow to regrow the meat than to grow a whole new cow.

    But my dad just kept saying "No. That's cruel."

    "Hey, at least the cow doesn't have to die, right?"

    "It's cruel, stop it."

    They were afraid to think what I was becoming and instead just wanted me to hide the symptoms.

  • David Emery (unregistered) in reply to CopyAndWaste

    Me? No. That's because I've avoided VB and .NET and similar MS proprietary technologies like the plague. But as a user I've seen such bizarre items pop up (well beyond the Friday VWTF - Visual WTF postings)

    p.s. The CAPTCHA for my posting was "vulputate". Have you vulputated today? (Apparently this is something one should do for encouragement at sporting events and similar activities.)

  • (cs) in reply to JamieC
    JamieC:
    ill0gical0ne:
    Steve The Cynic:
    It just makes us stupider and stupider.

    As referenced by your word "stupider."

    Ive always prefered endumbening

    dumbificationisticalizing

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to forgottenlord
    forgottenlord:
    The purpose of language is to communicate.

    Did you understand what the author intended to say? Yes? Objective met.

    The irony is:

    -The reason for using correct spelling and grammar is to make a message clear.

    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.

    -If you can correct someone's grammar, it is not necessary to correct their grammar.

  • (cs) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.
    You would have to understand. Other readers wouldn't.

    Not everyone is a native English speaker, or a proficient enough non-native speaker to parse bad grammar.

  • (cs) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    forgottenlord:
    The purpose of language is to communicate.

    Did you understand what the author intended to say? Yes? Objective met.

    The irony is:

    -The reason for using correct spelling and grammar is to make a message clear.

    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.

    -If you can correct someone's grammar, it is not necessary to correct their grammar.

    Be careful what you ask for; last I heard, they no longer push spelling in school, so long as "it's close enough". Soon we're going to have an entire generation who can't spell nething.

    It's better to be pedantic about some things (like spelling and grammar) than the alternative(s).

    Edit: Had to correct my own spelling. ^_^;;

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to lucidfox
    lucidfox:
    Hortical:
    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.
    You would have to understand. Other readers wouldn't.

    Not everyone is a native English speaker, or a proficient enough non-native speaker to parse bad grammar.

    Oh, no! I forgot to think about the poor non-native English speakers! How anglophonocentric of me!

  • CoderHero (unregistered)

    Is it just me, or does this story not make sense?

    Why are people reporting that they're fans of this when it doesn't seem to do anything except make a bunch of dumb messages appear on your screen?

    What am I missing? I'm being serious!

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    trtrwtf:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    C-Octothorpe:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    TRWTF is VB.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, making fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.
    What, fun?
    Yes, but not very challenging.

    You don't think so? What, you're assuming bullets were provided as well? Bludgeoning a cow to death with a rifle is hard work, and not all that much fun, honestly.

    But it's so much cleaner than using the bayonet.
    But with the bayonet you can slice out a few steaks while you're at it.
    Why not just keep the cow alive? That way you have a perpetual source of steak. Just slice a chunk out once in a while. Cauterize to stop the bleeding. Repeat.

    My mouth is literally watering at the thought.

    Addendum: PervertedComment* zunesis;

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to lucidfox
    lucidfox:
    Hortical:
    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.
    You would have to understand. Other readers wouldn't.

    Not everyone is a native English speaker, or a proficient enough non-native speaker to parse bad grammar.

    Suches people are being extremely to anoy me.

  • (cs) in reply to CoderHero
    CoderHero:
    Is it just me, or does this story not make sense?

    Why are people reporting that they're fans of this when it doesn't seem to do anything except make a bunch of dumb messages appear on your screen?

    What am I missing? I'm being serious!

    I also do not see how the worm propagates, even manually.

  • (cs) in reply to BentFranklin
    BentFranklin:
    CoderHero:
    Is it just me, or does this story not make sense?

    Why are people reporting that they're fans of this when it doesn't seem to do anything except make a bunch of dumb messages appear on your screen?

    What am I missing? I'm being serious!

    I also do not see how the worm propagates, even manually.

    They said the same thing about Anna Nicole Smith.

  • (cs)

    I've seen some Facebook pages where you have to become a fan in order to get something (e.g. the punchline to a joke or a funny photo). Maybe that was the same principle here, i.e. it wouldn't let you download the vbs file unless you "Like"d the page first? Alternately, maybe people just genuinely liked it, because they believed the pop-up messages and wanted to show their appreciation?

  • Gunslinger (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    hoodaticus:
    TRWTF is VB.
    To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, making fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.

    Who hasn't done this?

  • (cs) in reply to BentFranklin
    BentFranklin:
    CoderHero:
    Is it just me, or does this story not make sense?

    Why are people reporting that they're fans of this when it doesn't seem to do anything except make a bunch of dumb messages appear on your screen?

    What am I missing? I'm being serious!

    I also do not see how the worm propagates, even manually.

    What I got out of it was that it propagates by people going "ha, that's kind of funny" and hitting the share button or like button or whatever it is that causes it to show up at the right place.

  • Worf (unregistered)

    Makes sense.

    The honor system virus seems to be very popular on Facebook.

    Some are a bit more fancy but not that much more.

    And Facebook, Android, etc. just prove the Dancing pigs security flaw.

  • (cs) in reply to anigo montoya
    anigo montoya:
    Rodent Of Unusual SizE?

    It's 'Inigo', but we here at the Internet have decided to award you +1 anyway, because we love that movie.

    Hurry up and collect your trophy before that six-fingered bloke comes back and causes an incident.

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    "No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing programmers do? What needs does they serve by posting on TDWTF?"

    "Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir..."

    "No! They correct. And how do we become a pendant, Clarice? We start by correcting grammatical mistakes we see every day..."

  • (cs) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    Hortical:
    forgottenlord:
    The purpose of language is to communicate.

    Did you understand what the author intended to say? Yes? Objective met.

    The irony is:

    -The reason for using correct spelling and grammar is to make a message clear.

    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.

    -If you can correct someone's grammar, it is not necessary to correct their grammar.

    Be careful what you ask for; last I heard, they no longer push spelling in school, so long as "it's close enough". Soon we're going to have an entire generation who can't spell nething.

    It's better to be pedantic about some things (like spelling and grammar) than the alternative(s).

    Edit: Had to correct my own spelling. ^_^;;

    Morans can't do speling.

    If I get a CV cross my desk where the grammar and spelling are incorrect it goes straight into the circular file. I may miss out on some shit-hot programmers that way, but at least I know the proposals, sales materials and other assorted documents have a fighting chance of looking professional. Maybe the applicant got someone else to correct the spelling and grammar - no problem, it just indicates a preparedness to get someone else to check the work.

  • (cs) in reply to lucidfox
    lucidfox:
    Hortical:
    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.
    You would have to understand. Other readers wouldn't.

    Not everyone is a native English speaker, or a proficient enough non-native speaker to parse bad grammar.

    Those whose first language is not English frequently have better grammar and spelling than those for whom English is their mother tongue.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Why not just keep the cow alive? That way you have a perpetual source of steak. Just slice a chunk out once in a while. Cauterize to stop the bleeding. Repeat.
    I remember something on the history channel about a family living during WWII (I think in the Ukraine), who had a goat. Apparently, every so often they'd bleed the goat and have scrambled goat's blood for dinner.

    I think I like the steak idea better. Then again, less meat on a goat; probably wouldn't last as long.

  • (cs) in reply to Gunslinger
    Gunslinger:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    [M]aking fun of VB is like hunting dairy cows with a rifle and high-powered scope.
    Who hasn't done this?
    I've never used a rifle to hunt any kind of cow. That's what an M19 is for.
  • (cs) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    It's almost always a rouse?

    I think it's a rousing mistake!

  • Cheong (unregistered) in reply to JamieC
    JamieC:
    ill0gical0ne:
    As referenced by your word "stupider."

    Ive always prefered endumbening

    Thanks. You've made my day.

    What a nice choice of word. XD

  • ben (unregistered)

    From Wiktionary:

    Adjective stupider comparative form of stupid: more stupid

    Usage notes More common in American English. Less common in British English. Occasional target of prescriptivists, despite common usage.

  • (cs) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    While the messages for the MsgBox's are funny, I don't see a WTF here. If that is all the code contained in the vbscript, then it's nothing more than just annoying. However, the story implies that there was more code, but it wasn't put in the article? Now that's TRWTF.
    No, the story, including the title, implies that that's really all there was. But people managed to spread it to their friends anyway by engaging their curiosity.
    CoderHero:
    Is it just me, or does this story not make sense?

    Why are people reporting that they're fans of this when it doesn't seem to do anything except make a bunch of dumb messages appear on your screen?

    What am I missing? I'm being serious!

    People are stupid.

  • Simon (unregistered) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    Soon we're going to have an entire generation who can't spell nething.

    ....

    Edit: Had to correct my own spelling. ^_^;;

    Try again?

  • Geoff (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Language changes, I understand that, but the practice of verbing random nouns and nouning anything that moves does not make us more intelligent, or even more hip.

    It just makes us stupider and stupider.

    Calvin and Hobbs: "Verbing weirds language".

  • WTF (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    I was going to say that "lol" is not a verb, but of course it is. However, it doesn't mean what homo sapiens internetis thinks it does, nor is it spelled that way.

    Wiktionary defines "loll" to mean "to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease".

    Language changes, I understand that, but the practice of verbing random nouns and nouning anything that moves does not make us more intelligent, or even more hip.

    It just makes us stupider and stupider.

    Question: what is it that separates humans from the animals?

    Some talk about intelligence, tool-use, tool-making, or opposable thumbs. Others mention the power to do good, or evil, or to act nobly, or ignobly. Still others discuss religion, music, or art.

    They are all wrong.

    The key factor is stupidity. We must face up to the fact that human beings are way too stupid to be dumb animals...

    (And, yes, I know that the "dumb" in "dumb animals" is not the common USian mis-meaning, "stupid", but rather the original sense, "mute, non-speaking". It's a joke.)

    What drugs you on?

    Even aside from your definition of 'loll', I'm pretty sure laughing out loud is a DOING expression. That's a verb in my book.

    Irrespective - Who TF cares, and do you think your rant has changed their ways?

  • secundum (unregistered) in reply to CopyAndWaste
    CopyAndWaste:
    Sockatume:
    Steve the Cynic, we generate verbs like "lol" and nouns like "leverage" because we have the ability to parse, internalise and then utilise the content and structure of language through experience. Those damnable coinages are a side-effect of [b]the important intellectual processes that do indeed separate us from the non-sapient animals.[b]

    How did you find this out? Ah, dogs don't talk in English, therefore, they are stupid(er?)

    Waiting for someone to accuse of racism....WhaT if dogs talk Chinee?
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    frits:
    Why not just keep the cow alive? That way you have a perpetual source of steak. Just slice a chunk out once in a while. Cauterize to stop the bleeding. Repeat.
    I remember something on the history channel about a family living during WWII (I think in the Ukraine), who had a goat. Apparently, every so often they'd bleed the goat and have scrambled goat's blood for dinner.

    I think I like the steak idea better. Then again, less meat on a goat; probably wouldn't last as long.

    Common practice among certain tribes somewhere in Africa - can't remember where now, I read it in Scientific American a few decades back. Can't see it's much different from black pudding. I pity the poor squeamish types who can't eat a perfectly edible substance because of their fastidiousness about where on an animal it came from.

  • phreddy (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    Would rather use a scope and a high powered rifle

  • Swedish tard (unregistered) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    Hortical:
    forgottenlord:
    The purpose of language is to communicate.

    Did you understand what the author intended to say? Yes? Objective met.

    The irony is:

    -The reason for using correct spelling and grammar is to make a message clear.

    -In order to correct someone's grammar, you would have to clearly understand what their underlying message is to know that your correction is valid.

    -If you can correct someone's grammar, it is not necessary to correct their grammar.

    Be careful what you ask for; last I heard, they no longer push spelling in school, so long as "it's close enough". Soon we're going to have an entire generation who can't spell nething.

    It's better to be pedantic about some things (like spelling and grammar) than the alternative(s).

    Edit: Had to correct my own spelling. ^_^;;

    Engrish, soon to be better than american english.

  • Swedish tard (unregistered)

    This really looks more like a programmers joke than a wtf. I would actually like it myself if I had Facebook, just because it's so silly.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    I was going to say that "lol" is not a verb, but of course it is. However, it doesn't mean what homo sapiens internetis thinks it does, nor is it spelled that way.

    Wiktionary defines "loll" to mean "to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease".

    Language changes, I understand that, but the practice of verbing random nouns and nouning anything that moves does not make us more intelligent, or even more hip.

    It just makes us stupider and stupider.

    Question: what is it that separates humans from the animals?

    Some talk about intelligence, tool-use, tool-making, or opposable thumbs. Others mention the power to do good, or evil, or to act nobly, or ignobly. Still others discuss religion, music, or art.

    They are all wrong.

    The key factor is stupidity. We must face up to the fact that human beings are way too stupid to be dumb animals...

    (And, yes, I know that the "dumb" in "dumb animals" is not the common USian mis-meaning, "stupid", but rather the original sense, "mute, non-speaking". It's a joke.)

    I get the feeling I wouldn't understand a word you just said - even if I were sober.
  • (cs) in reply to CopyAndWaste
    CopyAndWaste:
    David Emery:
    "successfulness" ?

    Do you suppose this appears somewhere: #define successfulness 0

    Have you never had a MessageBox("Updation w/ successfulness. Click Cancelate to continurate.")?
    FTFY.

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