• Clive (unregistered)

    I bet the arm wasn't broken while falling to the ground.

  • user (unregistered)

    I'd be willing to bet the arm wasn't broken until after it hit the ground.

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered)

    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.

  • Lee K-T (unregistered)

    He should have read the specification, now his arm fell off the shelf...

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered)

    Dudes, get with the program! The industrial accident is indeed
    .

    You know... a "break" ...

    BOOM! BOOM!

  • Carl (unregistered)

    PROGRAMMER ALERT - textpost function - you tried to send a comment to thedailywtf.com but it does not appear on this page. The world has stopped. Won't some programmer somewhere please correct the problem before continuing?

    Print the source code and photograph it on a wooden table. We'll all take a look at it and see if we can find the problem.

  • Oxford Comma (unregistered)

    "The employee's arm, while falling heavily to the ground, was broken"

    TRWTF was posting a blatantly incorrect answer to a site frequented by pedants and grammar nazis.

    Of which I am one, obviously.

  • WW (unregistered)
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

  • dessimus (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.

    Tis but a scratch!

  • (cs) in reply to WW
    WW:
    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    Dont get so upse't about tha't. English i's 'an evolvin'g lan'gu'ag'e s'o y'ou hav'e t'o expec't th'is sor't of 't'hin'g.

  • My Name? (unregistered) in reply to user
    user:
    I'd be willing to bet the arm wasn't broken until after it hit the ground.

    No, it was only broken right in the moment when the arm had contact with the ground. Then changes where made to the arm that may have corrected the problem, but it still did not work.

    Guess
    is the broken-arm-tag.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    Should tha't be fai'l?

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to user
    user:
    I'd be willing to bet the arm wasn't broken until after it hit the ground.

    TRWTF was that the employee's health insurance denied the claim because having arms was considered a pre-existing condition.

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to dessimus
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!
  • !? (unregistered) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    Obviously he is saying he doesn't know what they wa not him to do. It's so clear.

  • justsomedude (unregistered)

    COMMENT ALERT - today's thread - Please read this comment before continuing.

  • MX5Ringer (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!

    No it Hasn't!

  • MX5Ringer (unregistered) in reply to MX5Ringer
    monkeyPushButton:
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!

    I might get this right in a minute!

    No it isn't!

  • (cs) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    Maybe he's speaking Xhosa.

  • My Name? (unregistered)

    void arm() { while(body->falling()) { if(dist(body,ground)<0) { std::cerr<<"Can't happen: negative distance between body and ground.\n"; break; // make sure arm is broken if dist becomes negative } std::cerr<<"Error: Errorneoueousely an error occured which is'nt actually an error.\n"; std::cerr<<"Info: Changes had been made to "<<this<<" arm() that may have corrected the problem.\n"; std::cerr<<"Error: Now it's even worse.\n"; std::cerr<<"Error: Maybe you are a programmer and can fix the arm() yourself?\n"; }

  • Sektor (unregistered) in reply to MX5Ringer
    MX5Ringer:
    monkeyPushButton:
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!

    I might get this right in a minute!

    No it isn't!

    I'm sorry, you've expended your retries.

    The correct reply is: "No I'm not!"

  • Peter E. d'Anne-trey (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.

    I don't see why. The arm fell to the ground, and the rest of him fell to the arm. A bit of bruising and that's it

  • (cs) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    The correct word is "wan'k".

    "I'm not sure what they wan'k me to do."

  • Peter E. d'Anne-trey (unregistered) in reply to newfweiler
    newfweiler:
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    The correct word is "wan'k".

    "I'm not sure what they wan'k me to do."

    If you don't know by now what they wan'k you to do, they're not wan'king you properly

  • NotZi (unregistered)

    If you're going to complain about anything involving grammar, you should probably do so while using good grammar:

    "I should realized that was the answer" is without verb...

    "I should have realized that was the answer" is actually a sentence.

  • Dr.Evil (unregistered) in reply to Sektor
    Sektor:
    MX5Ringer:
    monkeyPushButton:
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!

    I might get this right in a minute!

    No it isn't!

    I'm sorry, you've expended your retries.

    The correct reply is: "No I'm not!"

    I've had worse.

  • Chrysoprase (unregistered) in reply to NotZi
    NotZi:
    "I should *have* realized that was the answer" is actually a sentence.

    Given that "I should have realized that was the answer" is a quote, ergo, a noun, what verb exists in the above, to qualify it as a sentence?

  • Ron (unregistered)

    Wow, another WTF in the humidity formula if it's a static number... it includes "* 10^2 *", why not just stick in * 100 * ?

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Ron
    Ron:
    Wow, another WTF in the humidity formula if it's a static number... it includes "* 10^2 *", why not just stick in * 100 * ?
    Also, multiplying by 1.0 ? WTF?
  • iddJoe (unregistered) in reply to Chrysoprase
    Chrysoprase:
    NotZi:
    "I should *have* realized that was the answer" is actually a sentence.

    Given that "I should have realized that was the answer" is a quote, ergo, a noun, what verb exists in the above, to qualify it as a sentence?

    That would be the word is.

  • glt (unregistered)

    How about :

    While falling, he let go of his new netbook, and the ARM processor in it broke on impact.

  • Scott McClaugherty (unregistered) in reply to Dr.Evil
    Dr.Evil:
    Sektor:
    MX5Ringer:
    monkeyPushButton:
    dessimus:
    monkeyPushButton:
    If just the arm fell to the ground then obviously there are greater concerns than grammar.
    Tis but a scratch!
    You're arm's off!

    I might get this right in a minute!

    No it isn't!

    I'm sorry, you've expended your retries.

    The correct reply is: "No I'm not!"

    I've had worse.

    No you haven't .

    CAPTCHA: "argure" <-perfect!

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    You should have taken his redundant apostrophe, lowered it a bit and used it as a comma in your own sentence.

  • Everett (unregistered)

    How exactly does an arm fall heavily to the ground?

  • (cs) in reply to Everett
    Everett:
    How exactly does an arm fall heavily to the ground?
    You haven't been paying attention, have you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(Monty_Python)
  • (cs)
    "Apparently," wrote Ian, "my school thinks in order to get perfect on a grammar test, you must at least have a basic understanding of HTML. I'm a CS major, I should realized that was the answer."

    Having used the Angel Learning Management Suite's quiz/test system, it has all sorts of problems with HTML appearing in the answers. While this is the first time I've seen an answer consisting solely of
    it's not the first I've since with
    tags in it.

    What's more annoying is that the instructor can't tell that they are present when viewing the quiz/test answers, because the editor just shows them as line breaks.

  • (cs)

    Technically speaking,
    is an XHTML tag, not an HTML tag.

  • eric76 (unregistered)

    Are we talking about the Venus de Milo?

  • (cs)

    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

  • Scott (unregistered)
    std::cerr<<"Info: Changes had been made to "<<this<<" arm() that may have corrected the problem.\n"; </div>

    Can you do that?

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to user
    user:
    I'd be willing to bet the arm wasn't broken until after it hit the ground.
    It's possible. Although the noise which was made when the G.I.'s iron bar hit his elbow means that I wouldn't be willing to lay any money on it.
  • gosse (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    I don't see what's wrong with calling it Québec City... When you refer to the city of New York in the state of New York, you usually say New York City, no? So the city of Québec in the province of Québec is also refered to as Québec City. Makes sense to me.

  • J (unregistered) in reply to gosse
    gosse:
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    I don't see what's wrong with calling it Québec City... When you refer to the city of New York in the state of New York, you usually say New York City, no? So the city of Québec in the province of Québec is also refered to as Québec City. Makes sense to me.

    I thought he was talking about the city right in between Ontario City, Newfoundland City and New Brunswick City!

  • (cs) in reply to Clive

    Falling heavily? This isn't a grammar question it's a physics issue. Things just fall. They can't fall heavily or lightly.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Oxford Comma
    Oxford Comma:
    "The employee's arm, while falling heavily to the ground, was broken"

    TRWTF was posting a blatantly incorrect answer to a site frequented by pedants and grammar nazis.

    Of which I am one, obviously.

    Wipes tear from his eye It's comments like this that show us that we are really just one big antisocial family!

    But seriously, he never saw all this criticism coming?

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to DCRoss

    my eyes, my beautiful eyes! What has been seen cannot be unseen, this is the image of things to come. Don't say I didn't warn you all!

  • JohnB (unregistered) in reply to J
    J:
    gosse:
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    I don't see what's wrong with calling it Québec City... When you refer to the city of New York in the state of New York, you usually say New York City, no? So the city of Québec in the province of Québec is also refered to as Québec City. Makes sense to me.

    I thought he was talking about the city right in between Ontario City, Newfoundland City and New Brunswick City!

    More accurately, that's "Newfoundland and Labrador City" and, since New Brunswick is officially bilingual, it should be "New Brunswick City Nouveau-Brunswick Ville"

  • sdwefg (unregistered) in reply to JohnB
    JohnB:
    J:
    gosse:
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    I don't see what's wrong with calling it Québec City... When you refer to the city of New York in the state of New York, you usually say New York City, no? So the city of Québec in the province of Québec is also refered to as Québec City. Makes sense to me.

    I thought he was talking about the city right in between Ontario City, Newfoundland City and New Brunswick City!

    More accurately, that's "Newfoundland and Labrador City" and, since New Brunswick is officially bilingual, it should be "New Brunswick City Nouveau-Brunswick Ville"

    Corrected: "New Brunswick City Ville de Nuoveau-Brunswick"

  • ah-none (unregistered) in reply to Scott McClaugherty

    eh... merely a flesh wound?

  • jigsaw (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    TRWTF was that the employee's health insurance denied the claim because having arms was considered a pre-existing condition.
    you saw it too?

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