• configurator (unregistered)

    And the Real WTF is actually using Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt. It's friggin salt, at x40 the price!

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Mr B
    Mr B:
    ...

    Not much will have changed by the year 3000. It'll be pretty much the same, except everyone will live underwater.

    And my great great great granddaughter?

  • (cs) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Mr B:
    ...

    Not much will have changed by the year 3000. It'll be pretty much the same, except everyone will live underwater.

    And my great great great granddaughter?

    She will be long dead, because there are many more generations in a thousand years.

  • (cs)
    [image]

    I don't get it. Where's the WTF?

  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to Tino
    Tino:
    Parenthetical figures following spelled-out numbers: Imagine this:

    Place one thousand, six hundred and [page break] forty-six (1646) screws into the holes...

    With the figures, the other 1640 screws are less likely to be left out because someone wasn't paying attention.

    That's why you don't write out numbers that require more than two words.

  • Le Poete (unregistered) in reply to cparker
    cparker:
    [image]

    I don't get it. Where's the WTF?

    If you don't get it then it's your picture that should be there...

  • (cs) in reply to Le Poete
    Le Poete:

    If you don't get it then it's your picture that should be there...

    Whooooosh!

  • Zerbs (unregistered) in reply to configurator
    configurator:
    And the Real WTF is actually using Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt. It's friggin salt, at x40 the price!
    hmmm, I think my firewall is setup to block Himalayan Crystal Salt.
  • ms (unregistered)

    The real WTF is

    "afseflk aln slekn al," Mark Pugh asdf, "asfne lkna ;alkenf ;asdfasdf."

    That should be

    "abcdefj klm nopqr st," Mark Pugh uvwx, "yzabc defg hijklm nopqrstu."

  • Greg (unregistered) in reply to Herman
    Herman:
    Perhaps the screws here numbered with 9 in the manual, and there were six of them.
    I thought that too, at first. But screws normally come with a case, not a motherboard. Also, the motherboard needed 9 of them :)
  • darkmage0707077 (unregistered) in reply to ms
    ms:
    The real WTF is > "afseflk aln slekn al," Mark Pugh asdf, "asfne lkna ;alkenf ;asdfasdf."

    That should be

    "abcdefgj klm nopqr st," Mark Pugh uvwx, "yzabc defg hijklm nopqrstu."

    FIFY

  • (cs)

    DUMMY TEXT abc d efghi jkl mnop qr stuvw xyz. (Need better comment)

  • (cs)

    At least the salt company has the Y3K problem figured out already.

  • zaphod (unregistered)

    Was the deodorant made in Sweden?

  • HonoredMule (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Automoto doesn't know/use Lorem Ipsum.

  • Nodody (unregistered) in reply to Addison
    Addison:
    On the topic of expiration dates. . . I once opened a bank account and in some of the documents they printed off for me it said my BANK ACCOUNT expired in 3/6001. . . exactly 4000 years from when I opened it.

    An obvious safeguard against time travelers exploiting that half percent interest....

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Tino
    Tino:
    Parenthetical figures following spelled-out numbers: Imagine this:

    Place one thousand, six hundred and [page break] forty-six (1646) screws into the holes...

    With the figures, the other 1640 screws are less likely to be left out because someone wasn't paying attention.

    or even the other forty-six.....

  • Salty (unregistered) in reply to DoubleMalt
    DoubleMalt:
    sibtrag:
    CaRL:
    they were able to figure out the expiration date down to the day
    Not just the day but the exact time! That's 30 hundred hours (military time).

    Oh. I thought they were predicting that by the year 3000 we'd be all using a calendar system with 30 months of 12 or 13 days each.

    (US) Americans! When will you understand that not writing the date in the right sequence is BAD?

    On a different note, as this is most probably a European product and there has to be a "best before" date on each food product sold in the EU the packager of the salt wanted probably to make (the quite accurate) point that this salt will always be usable.

    Himalayan Salt - Hardly sounds Eurpopean??? I think BB dates are required by many countries now (not just those in the EU), so things that get exported get a date - obviously Salt doesn't go off, and the packagers figured very few people would still have any left 990 years after they bought it

  • Grishom (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    Tino:
    Parenthetical figures following spelled-out numbers: Imagine this:

    Place one thousand, six hundred and [page break] forty-six (1646) screws into the holes...

    With the figures, the other 1640 screws are less likely to be left out because someone wasn't paying attention.

    or even the other forty-six.....

    I think you mean 1600....

  • Mangle (unregistered) in reply to Dazed
    Dazed:
    The practice of writing out numbers in both words and digits arose with hand-written legal documents. Using only digits offered too much scope for changing the document after it had been signed, but words only was hard to read for large numbers, so both were used. The practice still makes reasonable sense for printed legal documents when large numbers are involved. In any other circumstances it just shows that the author doesn't understand what he is doing.

    I have often wondered about the sense (I assumed it was more idiot proofing).

    Writing out the words makes it a lot harder to forge - the clarification in brackets becomes unnecessary.
    That being said, it does not surprise me that people in the Legal profession would be the ones that think both is better than either.

  • Dope (unregistered) in reply to Steeldragon
    Steeldragon:
    RBoy:
    Screw Comments
    the double meaning in that is just too funny to write.

    Einstein has arrived!!!

  • csm (unregistered) in reply to Bernd
    Bernd:
    Mindst holdbar til:" is the English "Best before:"

    Nope. It's the dutch "best before"...

    Depends on how you read it. It's completely accurate the way it is.

  • misc (unregistered) in reply to monkeyPushButton
    monkeyPushButton:
    Some comment about the post today. (Need better comment)

    When will people realise that making ironic comment jokes just aren't funny any more! argh

  • (cs)

    Why are y and z absent from the dummy text? (And now I've got YYZ stuck in my head.)

  • Not as DULL as you (unregistered) in reply to Bob Dole
    Bob Dole:
    Seems like only one other person noticed the text wasn't exactly random jibberish.

    \abc defg hijklmnop qrs tu vwx.

    Also, the same car 3 times? It wasn't enough to use dummy text, they apparently use a blue P.O.S. as a placeholder.

    To be more precise - only one other person found it interesting enough to comment on.

  • car912 (unregistered)

    According to the "Place six (9) screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard to the chassis." manual, there are indeed nine screw holes circled.

  • car912 (unregistered) in reply to car912
    car912:
    According to the "Place six (9) screws into the holes indicated by circles to secure the motherboard to the chassis." manual, there are indeed nine screw holes circled.

    Wait... that's a different manual, still has the same exact mistake. Methinks this WTF could have been caused by a copy-pasta job.

  • ludus (unregistered)

    Need Better Comment

  • Remi (unregistered) in reply to Lev

    Sometimes you can find a chart with every screw/piece in the box, with a number to identify it, so maybe the (9) means "use the screw n°9".

  • piskvor (unregistered) in reply to configurator
    configurator:
    And the Real WTF is actually using Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt. It's friggin salt, at x40 the price!
    cmd.exe:
    C:\WINDOWS>Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt Ping request could not find host Himalayan. Please check the name and try again.
    And it doesn't have a DNS record, either. Ping "Himalayan Crystal Salt" fared no better. Why not just use a normal salt?
  • Mr Smith (unregistered)

    The real wtf is that the car advert wasn't using lorem ipsum for their dummy text.

  • (cs)

    Well DUH - it's correct if you're installing the board upside down of course!

    Sheez some people.

  • PyroTyger (unregistered) in reply to Remi

    I know someone who used to proof-read documents that'd been translated to English from Chinese, Korean and Japanese (she later got into translating dialogue for Japanese RPGs). Dunno who did the original translations, but apparently this particular mistake was surprisingly common. Her take on it was that the thing was written in numerals originally, but that someone in the chain (on the pre-translation end) added the written numbers later. For some reason they had a habit of confusing "six" and "nine", presumably because they didn't use the written numbers that often.

    In the end she started stripping the text-numbers out as she went.

  • Cian (unregistered) in reply to Mr B
    Mr B:
    sibtrag:
    CaRL:
    they were able to figure out the expiration date down to the day
    Not just the day but the exact time! That's 30 hundred hours (military time).

    Oh. I thought they were predicting that by the year 3000 we'd be all using a calendar system with 30 months of 12 or 13 days each.

    Not much will have changed by the year 3000. It'll be pretty much the same, except everyone will live underwater.

    I'm both glad and yet slightly saddened that nobody else got this reference to Busted...

  • grzes (unregistered) in reply to sibtrag

    There is nothing bad about this date. Maybe this salt has shelf life 1000 years? It's plausible; I've heard that archeologists digged some honey in Egyptian pyramids and it was still edible. Inorganic NaCl is even more durable than organic mixture of sugars and some other substances.

    And I do not understand what did you mean with 30 months of 12/13 days? This date is obviously DD-MM-YYYY, so it is 30th December of year 3000. WTF?

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to Cian
    Cian:
    ...

    I'm both glad and yet slightly saddened that nobody else got this reference to Busted...

    You weren't the only one :P http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Salty-News-Photos.aspx?pg=2#239314

  • Jos (unregistered)

    six (9) clearly indicates that the six screws must be inserted upside-down. TRWTF is they didn't write it as "(9) xis", turned upside down THAT would show up as -roughly- "six (6)".

  • Jos (unregistered) in reply to csm

    Being a native Dutch speaker I can be quite sure to say that it is not the dutch "best before".

    I blame the Danish.

  • ambrosen (unregistered) in reply to Bob Dole
    Bob Dole:
    Also, the same car 3 times? It wasn't enough to use dummy text, they apparently use a blue P.O.S. as a placeholder.

    Well, at the prices listed, it's actually a bit of a bargain for a 407

  • Wyrd (unregistered)

    Actually I would say that when the spelled-out number and the numeric number don't match, it becomes clear why both should be used in certain circumstances. It acts as a check of data-accuracy. And, in this case, since we saw "six (9)", my daily fortune when I logged in today applies:

    "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer

  • Greg (unregistered) in reply to IT Coward

    Reminds me of a joke I saw on a British show called Not the Nine O'Clock News. Works best in a really bad Swedish accent. Guy walks into a drug store and asks for some deodorant. The guy behind the counter asks "Ball or aerosol?" and the customer responds: "Neither. I want it for my armpits."

  • Andre (unregistered) in reply to Rob
    Rob:
    Unfortunately, the picture of Bush is intentional. I see photos like that come up on Google News from overthelimit.info almost every day.

    Didn't some guy from CNN or some other major news site get fired after using a picture of Bush to illustrate an article, and name the file "idiot.jpg"?

  • Mrrix32 (unregistered) in reply to Mr B

    You go any where near my great-great-great-grandaughter and I'll kill you.

    Original version was the best btw

  • Certified Coward (unregistered) in reply to piskvor
    piskvor:
    configurator:
    And the Real WTF is actually using Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt. It's friggin salt, at x40 the price!
    cmd.exe:
    C:\WINDOWS>Ping Himalayan Crystal Salt Ping request could not find host Himalayan. Please check the name and try again.
    And it doesn't have a DNS record, either. Ping "Himalayan Crystal Salt" fared no better. Why not just use a normal salt?

    Maybe it needs at least one(4) Tandem Himalaya machine on your network?

  • pokemom (unregistered) in reply to Andrew

    is doing fine...

  • pokemom (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Mr B:
    ...

    Not much will have changed by the year 3000. It'll be pretty much the same, except everyone will live underwater.

    And my great great great granddaughter?

    is doing fine...

  • (cs) in reply to Aaron
    Aaron:
    Why does that placeholder use the entire alphabet except for "y" and "z"?
    Probably because they are the hardest keys to reach when touch typing on a qwerty keyboard. Especially after having typed almost a whole alphabet.
  • (cs) in reply to Havstein
    Havstein:
    Aaron:
    Why does that placeholder use the entire alphabet except for "y" and "z"?
    Probably because they are the hardest keys to reach when touch typing on a qwerty keyboard. Especially after having typed almost a whole alphabet.
    Starting from rest ...

    Well, 'P' is pretty difficult, for some reason (particularly when enclosed in quotes; thus the inadvertent capitalisation). Why o why o y? Nope, not a problem. Wish I'd spelled 'nope' without the 'P' (damn).

    No difficultiez here...

    I wonder what are the last two letters in the English alphabet?

  • konee (unregistered) in reply to Mikkel
    Mikkel:
    bottomCoder:
    sibtrag:
    CaRL:
    they were able to figure out the expiration date down to the day
    Not just the day but the exact time! That's 30 hundred hours (military time).

    Oh. I thought they were predicting that by the year 3000 we'd be all using a calendar system with 30 months of 12 or 13 days each.

    I think they figured that would be around the time Americans switched to a more sane date format.

    Actually the Danish format isn't that sane either, a sane format would be YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS - that is going from highest denominator to lowest, if everyone could agree on that quite a lot of cockups would be avoided.

    We could avoid a lot of cockups if we could find a way to filter you off of this forum.

  • Oidhche (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that they've put expiry date on salt. I mean, it's SALT! It's a frelling ROCK! It does NOT expire!

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