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Frist post Finally. Unless Akismet is hacked oFF.
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That is a NO EXIT Failsafe for when the bulb goes pop.
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The Chinese reads "Hand-Shredded Squid". It's a pretty popular snack growing up. Unfortunately, from the picture, it didn't look shredded =(
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I can't see the ads, as I have blocked them because Alex apparently doesn't care to make money off of this site. Anyone care to tell me what is being advertised?
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TRWTF is that 32-104 is unexpected. It was 101 at midnight last night--if I charged that sucker in my garage or in my truck or outside for that madder, I would be exceeding specifications.
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Those doors are obviously for #11 and #13 Grimmauld Place.
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What electrician hasn't done something like this?
[image]P.S., the real frits is an idiot.
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Well, putting a word "Exit" in green - be there word "no" before it or not - probably makes 50 % of the people think "Oh, there's the exit". I'm quite sure the red "No Exit" sign does the job much better, although I would tear down the other sign to get rid of the mixed signals.
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TRWTF is the abundance of "obvious" things in allergy warnings. On the package of "unsalted, dry roasted peanuts":
Ingredients: Peanuts Allergy warning: Contains peanuts.
I guess it's come down to "if it's not explicitly listed in an 'allergy warning', you might get sued".
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I don't see the infinite loop with the doors. The door on the left says that you should use the door on the right. The door on the right says that you should use the door on the left. Both constraints are easily satisfied by opening both doors at once.
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In that first pic, are those photos sitting on a wooden table by chance? And where's the XML?
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It's also the spicy version. Made in Taiwan it reads.
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I would have loved it if the pictures of the desk had been placed on the actual desk.
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And yes, dried squid (shredded or not) is quite tasty, if you've acquired the taste. Surprisingly, a lot of people never do.
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True. And bollards.
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That's what my parole officer threatened to do to me.
BULLSHIT! You can't keep me away from girl scout meetings.
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Unless all the outlets in the room are that high, that’s a clock outlet. This makes TRWTF™ “Hey! Who stole my clock!?”
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Anyone else notice that only the F's are capitalized.
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That outlet was clearly built their intentionally and not a WTF. It could be for a wall mounted tv, a clock, an air conditioner, or any electrical device that gets wall mounted. Only a moron would assume that the electrician just stuck it there randomly.
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Haha!! That university photo is at l'École de technologie supérieure (www[-dot-]etsmtl[-dot-]ca) and I went there; you indeed have to climb on tables to plug in your laptop... which is a security hazard. Go engineering!
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Notice the Akismet sends out the ban, prevent froming the spam.
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If you thing nut / peanut allergies are a nuisance, try having an allergy to soya, like my mother-in-law (and to a lesser extent my wife). It seems that 90% of all commercially traded processed foodstuffs contain soya. Shopping for food is really tedious, and eating out is a nightmare. And there appears to be no mandatory warning on packets: "May contain soya."
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Hah! I get it. It's that old puzzle, one of the doors always tells the truth and the other door always lies. Just ask one of the doors whether the other door will tell you to use the other door....or something like that. My head hurts.
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Makes me proud to be British.
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Dynamoelectric electricity? I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty sure I want some.
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"there" or, if you must, "in that place."
There's a separate circle of Hell reserved for numbskulls who say "their" when they mean "there" you know? Don't give me bullshit saying that "language is evolving" because I don't fucking care. No-one ever said evolution was easy.
You may laugh and think "it doesn't matter", but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you with the same vim and vigour as I am and they are repulsed.
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Actually, I think TRWTF in that case would be "Hey, why don't we run our clocks on AA batteries like everybody else?"
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I used to have an universal laptop charger with a sticker that proudly read "THIS 2IN1 DEVICE IS USEFUL." Sadly, even that wasn't true.
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Maybe you could try to get your quotation-/punctuation-mark ordering consistent when correcting someone. I'm sure using the correct ordering is too much to ask for, but at least be consistent in your ignorance.
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Sockets, they are mounted on the walls. The plugs are the bits on the ends of the appliance leads.
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And the answer would be because they don't have a way to synchronize a clock running on AA batteries with the rest of the clocks in the building.
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I believe it's possible to have an allergy to a specific nut, but very often people are allergic to the entire class of what is referred to as "tree nuts". Peanuts aren't nuts and don't grow on trees, and an allergy to them is independent of any tree nut allergies that one may have.
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Wheat/Gluten is no picnic either - ironicly, most soy sauce contains some wheat.
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[quote user="frits" P.S., the real frits is an idiot.[/quote] Stating the obvious, man, stop it.
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a) I'd be interested to know how you do that over a dumb mains connection. Broadband over powerlines perhaps? Either way seems like massive overkill. Or maybe you just cut the power to all the clocks at midnight? But that wouldn't work with most analog clocks.
b) Who needs all the clocks in the building synchronized anyway?
c) Why not use a battery operated clock that can pick up a time signal (like the NIST atomic clock). For example, this one
http://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Inch-Atomic-Wall-Clock/dp/B00213DPS8/ref=pd_sim_hg_1
Then they are not only synchronized to each other, but synchronized to the right time.