• Rosuav (unregistered)

    Didn't Simon and Steven have some hardware with serial numbers like that hard drive?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/01/bofh_taking_the_fight/

  • JJ (unregistered)

    When you play the division by zero card, the universe implodes and you immediately win the game.

  • (cs)

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  • Ed (unregistered)

    So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

    All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

    I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.

  • (cs)
    [image] Anyone who uses a unisex public bathroom doesn't deserve privacy.
  • (cs)

    Actually in the US it was hard to get the grammer school instructors to shout out annoying and blunt error messages when approached by students about dividing by 0, so they implimented an error handling routine that caught the exception and simply returned 0 as the output.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    [image] Anyone who uses a unisex public bathroom doesn't deserve privacy.
    Is that Jamie Hyneman (and maybe even Adam Savage) in the reflection?
  • Ptorq (unregistered) in reply to Ed

    No, I think the third row goes from "I am an infant" to "I am a giant amputee."

  • (cs) in reply to Ed
    Ed:
    So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

    All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

    I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.

    This doesn't look to me like a design-by-committee blunder, more like a design-by-one-poor-misguided-soul blunder. The phrase "proven tool" suggests that it was copied, with too little critical thought, from a book (probably about communicating with children and/or across language barriers).

  • Petrea Mitchell (unregistered)

    What I desperately need to know is if the person providing the name of the magazine designer (see lower left of the Greater Lansing periodical) is asking "Kill it?" or if they should kill IT?

  • Yokel (unregistered)

    The picture of the bathroom door with transparent glass could be using stuff like this Electric Privacy Glass Apparently Akismet this this is spam :-(

  • (cs)

    Hey, where did all the other comments go? Did someone nullify them?

  • haha (unregistered)

    TRWTF on that ATM is the fact that 'QZ' is mapped to '1'.

  • haha (unregistered) in reply to haha
    haha:
    TRWTF on that ATM is the fact that 'QZ' is mapped to '1'.
    ... of course, by ATM I meant gas station pump. There must be a law that covers these situations.
  • @Deprecated (unregistered)

    Someone needs to take a black marker and change the first e to an o in "This phone connects you to the Careline". Maybe with a red-dot-and arrow sticker that says "For a good time!"

  • Stabbitha (unregistered) in reply to haha

    Nah, TRWTF is that the guy shopped the pic to make TDWTF.

  • (cs)

    How many time in 1 month is there going to be Sponsor Appreciation?

  • (cs)

    Maybe the bathroom door window is a one-way mirror (or is it two-way mirror?) and you're supposed to leave the bathroom light off when you're using it?

  • Mr. Magenta (unregistered)

    It was I Mr. Magenta, who nullified the comments in my attempt to take back over Fridays! BWA HA HA HA!

  • jdw (unregistered)

    At first I was like :|

    But then I exploded and lost my legs.

  • Poster (unregistered)

    Whats the WTF on the self assessment manikin? We use these in studies all the time.....

  • Gdub (unregistered)

    Well I'm wide awake but not experiencing any kind of explosive diarrhea. I have no first inclination based on these options.

  • sleiN13 (unregistered)

    About the mannekin it is a common tool used to analyse how people feel about things.

    It uses the tree axis happiness, arousal and dominance to define how someone feels. All emotions can be placed on these axis.

    I don't see why it would be a WTF except that they might be better off actually explaining the meaning of the mannekins

  • (cs) in reply to sleiN13
    sleiN13:
    It uses the tree axis happiness, arousal and dominance to define how someone feels. All emotions can be placed on these axis.
    So the more aroused you feel, the more you feel like something in your stomach is going to explode out of your chest? You might want to see a doctor about that.

    That and the fact that it really looks like the sort of question you would ask of a preliterate small child. I would perhaps expect it of a psych study, but it would feel a bit condescending, to me, to have that sort of thing show up on a commercial survey.

  • Splognosticus (unregistered)

    It's called the "Careline" because we "Care".

  • (cs)

    The comment was written by XXXXXXXXKILL IT?a.

  • Mrs. Nagesh (unregistered)

    WHO LEFT THE SEAT UP? NAGESH! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO LEAVE THE SEAT UP!

  • ksenzee (unregistered)

    That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.

  • Rick (unregistered)

    The bathroom door window is so you can tell if someone is using it, of course. You don't want to wander into the unisex if it is occupied by someone of the (whatever is special to you) gender.

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to ksenzee
    ksenzee:
    That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.
    And since not much else is, we should have a math parade to celebrate our few remaining rights!
  • Kef Schecter (unregistered) in reply to ksenzee

    No it isn't. The number to the left is the divisor. That's the left number is usually small and the right number is usually large when teaching long division.

    Even if the card on top did say 0/12, though, the two cards below it clearly say 11 ÷ 0 = 0 and 8 ÷ 0 = 0.

  • Kef Schecter (unregistered)

    I meant to say "That's why the left number..."

  • coarse nutmeg (unregistered) in reply to ksenzee
    ksenzee:
    That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.

    Read the two cards below it. 11 ÷ 0 ≠ 0.

  • Therac-25 (unregistered) in reply to ksenzee
    ksenzee:
    That's not 12/0, it's 0/12. Which is still legal, even in the US.

    Then they're writing it backwards from when I learned long division.

    http://www.mathsisfun.com/long_division.html

    Anyway, it was probably made by

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  • (cs)

    This is a room with a view:

    [image]
  • Agnesh (unregistered) in reply to Ed
    Ed:
    So, you get to choose from happy to sad, from exploding-stomach to comatose, and from tiny to small.

    All in strangely square, square-afro'd guys.

    I would have LOVED to see the meeting where they came up with those "Manikins" and thought they were a good idea.

    This almost looks too "wtf" to be true. Is this really from Avis, or is this the work of some advertisers (etc) trying to be clever? "Mannequins" is obviously spelled incorrectly (as far as this Aussie can tell), and the rest of the wording reads like a 419 scam.

    I could well be wrong, and if I am, WTFF!?

    The captcha is validus: Valid, sound, robust

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh

    So what are those images supposed to mean? Happy/sad, sick/not sick, small/giant?

    Nagesh:
    How many time in 1 month is there going to be Sponsor Appreciation?
    $$$$$$.

  • Your Name (unregistered)

    I'm feeling kind of explody today.

  • sleiN13 (unregistered)

    http://www.cnbc.pt/jpmatos/29.%20Bradley.pdf

    If you want to know more about SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin)

  • (cs) in reply to JJ
    JJ:
    When you play the division by zero card, the universe implodes and you immediately win the game.
    Not so fast! I write transfinite numbers on my revision cards…
  • (cs) in reply to Yokel
    Yokel:
    The picture of the bathroom door with transparent glass could be using stuff like this Electric Privacy Glass Apparently Akismet this this is spam :-(

    Yeah I can see how that works. They put up a cartoon or something when someone's in there.

    Imagine the power outage situation.

    "There I was, watching this episode of Family Guy and I was suddenly watching some guy sitting on the can. Thought it was just Seth Macfarlane being surreal for a minute ..."

  • (cs)

    The second row of Manikins is clearly asking you to state the level of development of the xenomorph that was implanted into you. What Joe didn't mention was that he was attacked by a facehugger when collecting the car, and this is the standard Avis followup.

  • Shenag III (unregistered) in reply to UrzaMTG
    UrzaMTG:
    Is that Jamie Hyneman (and maybe even Adam Savage) in the reflection?
    It looks like Hyneman to me: the stance, build, height and dress seem right. His (her?) head looks a tad wrong, but it is really hard to tell on my crappy little laptop screen.
  • (cs) in reply to GoatRider
    GoatRider:
    This is a room with a view: [image]
    Is that where Bear Grylls shits in the woods?
  • Kemp (unregistered) in reply to sleiN13
    sleiN13:
    http://www.cnbc.pt/jpmatos/29.%20Bradley.pdf

    If you want to know more about SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin)

    And to anyone who hasn't read that, which will be at least 99% of the people filling in the survey, we have a measure of how happy, explosive, and giant you are.

    Having read it (i.e. glanced quickly) I still don't see why they picked such silly ways of conveying each one.

  • (cs) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    At first I was like :|

    But then I exploded and lost my legs.

    I thought it was a dramatic zoom. [image]
  • (cs) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Hey, where did all the other comments go? Did someone nullify them?
    Still attached to the original null article.
  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:

    Yeah I can see how that works. They put up a cartoon or something when someone's in there.

    Imagine the power outage situation.

    "There I was, watching this episode of Family Guy and I was suddenly watching some guy sitting on the can. Thought it was just Seth Macfarlane being surreal for a minute ..."

    I don't want to pee on your parade, but:

    Our Electric glass switches on demand from frosted to clear and remains that way until you choose to change it. [...] Energy Consumption: Frosted - O watts Clear - 3-5 Watts per Sq Meter

    On the other hand:

    Electric privacy glass has many uses that range from medical to industrial and churches to strip clubs.
    Lol.
  • GP (unregistered) in reply to The Bytemaster
    The Bytemaster:
    Actually in the US it was hard to get the grammer school instructors to shout out annoying and blunt error messages when approached by students about dividing by 0, so they implimented an error handling routine that caught the exception and simply returned 0 as the output.
    Grammar Implemented laskfda
  • someone (unregistered)

    I would rather be connected to a 'Caroline' than a 'Careline'. I guess they just fired her.

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