• btw (unregistered) in reply to nan
    nan:
    L.:
    Regarding 4 LOOP and the comment.... you .. goddamn ... friggin . noob.

    4loop is 1337, foreach is nub stuff ... can't believe anyone would pick 4each as plate and expect mr. 4loop to talk to them --

    w/e code noober everyday is what they teach so go ahead knock yourself out... ... with a running chainsaw, please.

    biting the troll bait probably, but I so fucking hate the idiots that write like this. Leet speak is only used by forever alone retarded dickbags.

    It's probably last year's news to most people, but I've been enjoying the Lolcode website.:-)

  • NES (unregistered)

    Maybe the elevator is trying to restore it's game on contra and forgot what comes next.

  • (cs) in reply to Rootbeer
    Rootbeer:

    Also, does nobody else "Print Preview" their documents and omit the last page if it doesn't contain any important information?

    Seems you're the only one.

  • James C. L. (unregistered)

    Does nobody appreciate that there's an email that was printed, placed on a wooden table, and then photographed?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Stev
    Stev:
    Anon:
    Synchronos:
    What the earlier poster said: The sticker tells the rules when the bicycles are permitted, and when not. No WTF, or even anything out of usual there.

    Actually it is. The purpose of the pictograms is to communicate the message to people who can't read that crazy moon language that the text is in. They fail at that by providing two contradicting pictograms.

    If that were the case, why bother with the crazy moon language at all? The picture should be enough.

    If that were the case, then why bother with the pictogram at all? The text should be enough.

    About 4000 BC most of the world concluded that an alphabet was more flexible and easier to use than hieroglypics. Now we're heading in the opposite direction.

  • ted (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    Planet is a life forse of all living thing. Saving the environment is being a good thing.

    Please consider environment before printing this comment.

    Fuck off, fake Nagesh. You're not clever. You're not funny. And you're certainly not original.

    Real Nagesh is a registered user.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    That elevator must be awfully expensive to operate. They have to keep buying new elevator cars, having helicopters deliver them to the roof, then they take one trip to the basement and they're used up and they need to buy a new elevator car. Plus, they must be using up a lot of space in the basement storing all those cars.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Rootbeer
    Rootbeer:
    Also, does nobody else "Print Preview" their documents and omit the last page if it doesn't contain any important information?

    No. Those of us who hate the environment don't bother.

    Personally, sometimes I preview an email and if it all fits on one page, I add a few lines just to use up another sheet of paper and thus hasten the day when the Earth is destroyed in an environmental apocolypse. [insert fiendish laughter here]

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Your name
    Your name:
    Nope, neither "pushchair" nor "buggy" is USian. Try again please.

    We call them "strollers" here in the US.

  • blank (unregistered)

    There's always one [trumpet-playing reclining skateboarder] who ruins it for everyone. otoh, damn those collective punishment-ising tram operators!

  • (cs) in reply to Chelloveck

    TRWTF is that the e-mail is in crazy moon language no. 1 but the environmental slogan is in crazy moon language no. 2.

  • keiranhalcyon31 (unregistered) in reply to nonpartisan

    I do that, but mostly because I have to walk halfway across the building to get to the printer, so I always check the print preview first so I don't get a botched print that would require a second trip. When I notice a useless page, I prune it.

    And on the license plates topic - one of my coworker's vanity plate reads, no joke, "VI4EVER".

    CAPTCHA: gravis - the original PC gamepad.

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to ted
    ted:
    Nagesh:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    Planet is a life forse of all living thing. Saving the environment is being a good thing.

    Please consider environment before printing this comment.

    Fuck off, fake Nagesh. You're not clever. You're not funny. And you're certainly not original.

    Real Nagesh is a registered user.

    Being registered is being a bad thing in Hyderabad.

    Ah fuck I can't do it.

  • (cs) in reply to NageshIsTheGreatestWhatTheFuckOnThisSite
    NageshIsTheGreatestWhatTheFuckOnThisSite:
    Is it just me or does anyone else skip past the annoying Sponsor Appreciation spam ads?
    Please consider the environment before reading the annoying Sponsor Appreciation spam ads.
  • Confuscious (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah

    "Do not use beyond usage". Wise words, I say.

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to ted
    ted:
    Nagesh:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    Planet is a life forse of all living thing. Saving the environment is being a good thing.

    Please consider environment before printing this comment.

    Fuck off, fake Nagesh. You're not clever. You're not funny. And you're certainly not original.

    Real Nagesh is a registered user.

    Registered Nagesh is feker schoolboy stolen my acount pasword.

  • Boris Vladamirkovich (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    ted:
    Nagesh:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    Planet is a life forse of all living thing. Saving the environment is being a good thing.

    Please consider environment before printing this comment.

    Fuck off, fake Nagesh. You're not clever. You're not funny. And you're certainly not original.

    Real Nagesh is a registered user.

    Being registered is being a bad thing in Soviet Russia.

    I fix this for you, my little brown friend.
  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    ted:
    Nagesh:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    Planet is a life forse of all living thing. Saving the environment is being a good thing.

    Please consider environment before printing this comment.

    Fuck off, fake Nagesh. You're not clever. You're not funny. And you're certainly not original.

    Real Nagesh is a registered user.

    Registered Nagesh is feker schoolboy stolen my acount pasword.
    Well, fake ted, that was a valiant attempt at using your meme for something worthwhile, but unfortunately it didn't work.

  • n_slash_a (unregistered) in reply to James C. L.
    James C. L.:
    Does nobody appreciate that there's an email that was printed, placed on a wooden table, and then photographed?
    Please consider the environment before buying this wooden table.
  • (cs) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    No, no, you got it wrong. The camera is pointing right at the baby stroller. There's no red bar, so they're saying kiddie pr0n is legal in that country.

    +1 PML

  • Bananas (unregistered)

    TRWFT on the router in the bathroom ceiling is that it is plugged into an outlet that, by code, must be on a ground fault interrupter. So, we have either of two conditions:

    1. The outlet is not ground fault protected (a building code WTF).
    2. Even if nobody bothers the router's power cord, the router could still lose power if the GFCI trips.

    Note to self: when reviewing resumes, filter out any with Southern Arkansas University in the education section.

  • maxwell (unregistered)

    the last one with amsterdam is dumb. bicycles allowed except for the peak hours. same as everywhere else, by the way. is the poster dumb?

  • Ross Presser (unregistered) in reply to keiranhalcyon31

    Maybe I could get NOEMACS.

    CAPTCHA: dolor, the pain of Emacs

  • Ross Presser (unregistered) in reply to Bananas

    You mean you'd want to have the router try to keep running when the room floods to the level of the outlet?

  • Synchronos (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Stev:
    Anon:
    Synchronos:
    What the earlier poster said: The sticker tells the rules when the bicycles are permitted, and when not. No WTF, or even anything out of usual there.

    Actually it is. The purpose of the pictograms is to communicate the message to people who can't read that crazy moon language that the text is in. They fail at that by providing two contradicting pictograms.

    If that were the case, why bother with the crazy moon language at all? The picture should be enough.

    If that were the case, then why bother with the pictogram at all? The text should be enough.

    I really can't believe you are asking that. Because the pictograms already tell most of the information and lead to us reading the sections we are interested in. The pictograms tell that e.g. smoking is mostly prohibited, and regarding bikes, you should read the details. After seeing the bike symbol, you know that it's the section you should read if you were interested in taking your bike aboard, and you already know that it is permitted, but with limitations. And you don't have to read the headline of the section any more.

    Why do you have icons next to your document files? They don't tell which file it is, but the text does that. And the text also tells the file type (at least on Windows). Why bother with icons, if the text is enough? Because of the information they convey at glance, of course.

    Adt that's also why some traffic signs have text underneath. Because the sign conveys the general message, and the text gives more detail to it.

  • Ralph (unregistered)

    "file type" is TRWTF.

    A file is a stream of bytes made up of bits. That's all. The idea that one particular file can only be processed by one particular program is the evil spawn of those who want you to believe you must buy all your software from a single lock-in vendor.

  • Ben Jammin (unregistered)

    I just like a place where they allow people to play Texas Hold 'em without the risk of getting food on the cards or people kicking the table.

    TRWTF is not allowing people who can wear roller blades, on a skateboard, while riding a train. That's pretty darn impressive. I guess they're just jealous.

  • Ben Jammin (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    "file type" is TRWTF.

    A file is a stream of bytes made up of bits. That's all. The idea that one particular file can only be processed by one particular program is the evil spawn of those who want you to believe you must buy all your software from a single lock-in vendor.

    I agree so much that, from now on, I'm just gonna spit all my files to hex and interpret them from there.

  • klc (unregistered)

    I like that slight-of-hand magic tricks are allowed on the subway. Or am I reading that symbol wrong?

  • (cs) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    Fortunately, this bicycle I got from Mr. Schrodinger will work perfectly for the subway.
    ... OR WILL IT?
  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    So 60s Massachussettsians got run over a lot when on vacation in Britain, then? (Normal traffic light sequence: R, RY, G, Y, R.)

    When I visited Russia (it was a few years ago), I remember the sequence. Usually the Red&Yellow light pair indicated that the diesel trucks should rev up and produce all sorts of (cough cough) smoke.

  • (cs) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    Chelloveck:
    Dear god. I thought that stupid "Please consider the environment..." signature was just something stupid done by a local company. Seeing it here as well made me Google it. Sonuvabitch, there's actually a movement to encourage people to append this insulting phrase to their mail. My respect for humanity has just dropped another notch.
    I always wondered what (if anything) those anti-print advocates were thinking when they attached that message. Does their website explain exactly how printing a page destroys the environment? I'd google it myself but I don't want to waste the electrons. They're so scarce you know.
    I did google the phrase and found the site, but before I followed the link to visit it I read Google's sample:
    You've seen the message on a thousand emails; we don't know if it's helping to reduce waste, but we know it's ...
    I think I'll wait until they actually have some results.
  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Rootbeer:
    Also, does nobody else "Print Preview" their documents and omit the last page if it doesn't contain any important information?

    No. Those of us who hate the environment don't bother.

    Personally, sometimes I preview an email and if it all fits on one page, I add a few lines just to use up another sheet of paper and thus hasten the day when the Earth is destroyed in an environmental apocolypse. [insert fiendish laughter here]

    Ewige blumenkraft! Immanentize the Eschaton!

  • Oh Dear (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Your name:
    Nope, neither "pushchair" nor "buggy" is USian. Try again please.
    "Pushchair" - well, duh, of course not. It's normal British usage. "Buggy" - um, yes. When I lived in USia, that was the name they were given.
    Actually babies in the US are not traditionally kept in any type of wheeled vehicle.

    [image]

    Azarai Chamberlain?

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Rootbeer:
    Also, does nobody else "Print Preview" their documents and omit the last page if it doesn't contain any important information?

    No. Those of us who hate the environment don't bother.

    Personally, sometimes I preview an email and if it all fits on one page, I add a few lines just to use up another sheet of paper and thus hasten the day when the Earth is destroyed in an environmental apocolypse. [insert fiendish laughter here]

    Hilarious! But why stop at just one? Every break is an invitation to adda page break.

  • Oh Dear (unregistered) in reply to Oh Dear
    Oh Dear:
    frits:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Your name:
    Nope, neither "pushchair" nor "buggy" is USian. Try again please.
    "Pushchair" - well, duh, of course not. It's normal British usage. "Buggy" - um, yes. When I lived in USia, that was the name they were given.
    Actually babies in the US are not traditionally kept in any type of wheeled vehicle.

    [image]

    Azarai Chamberlain?
    Oops, that's a lamb not a dingo....

  • Liftie (unregistered)

    The elevator one clarle explains it began on the ground so presumably that's where it wants you to go....

    Perhaps that's on the top floor, so you can only go down....

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    That elevator must be awfully expensive to operate. They have to keep buying new elevator cars, having helicopters deliver them to the roof, then they take one trip to the basement and they're used up and they need to buy a new elevator car. Plus, they must be using up a lot of space in the basement storing all those cars.
    I work in that building, The "down only" elevator system was specified by the architect, who threatened to pull out if the design was changed. After a couple of years, after many tenant complaints, the new car/helicopter system was replaced with a tower crane/recycled car system as a compromise. We still have to climb the stairs to the top of the building and take the "descendor" to our floor.
  • Conservationist (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    I always wondered what (if anything) those anti-print advocates were thinking when they attached that message. Does their website explain exactly how printing a page destroys the environment? I'd google it myself but I don't want to waste the electrons. They're so scarce you know.
    I just went there (I have electrons to spare), and found a paragraph that blew my mind:
    thinkbeforeprinting.org:
    We estimate that over 50% of pages printed are never looked at. Consider how many times an almost completely blank "page 2 of 2" comes out of your printer when printing emails and documents.
    Good to see they are doing their best to be that "almost completely blank page 2 of 2".
  • Conservationist (unregistered) in reply to nonpartisan
    nonpartisan:
    Rootbeer:

    Also, does nobody else "Print Preview" their documents and omit the last page if it doesn't contain any important information?

    Seems you're the only one.

    Until recently it was impossible to print only one page of an email from Microsoft Outlook, and it didn't even have a print preview. It could also only print to the default printer!

    • I set my default printer to be a PDF, making printing a real copy a two-step process, mostly because I needed a PDF copy more often than a hard copy. I would be rather surprised if anybody else bothered.

    So it's entirely Microsoft's fault.

    The latest Office finally halfway sorted that out - at the expense of making "Print" extremely likely to print entirely the wrong document with their Ribbon that eats the whole screen for the File menu.

  • (cs) in reply to Conservationist

    And most of our paper comes from tree farms anyways...

  • A nony mous (unregistered)

    The elevator one is straightforward: one of the buttons tells the elevator you want to go down, while the other button requests the elevator to come down to your floor.

    The real wtf is that if you follow the link to SingleHop so you can redeem your magic coupon for 50% off the first month, they have a big banner showing a coupon code for a $1 first month deal. I guess they don't appreciate Daily WTF users very much. Or perhaps they do, and having a WTF coupon code is their way of connecting with us on our level.

  • heh (unregistered)

    I received a mouse in a box about 20 x 40 x 75 cm. It was so big that my wife that received the shipment actually wanted to reject it at first. in it there was a lot of paper and of course a computer mouse i ordered.

    I guess they ran out of smaller boxes...

  • (cs) in reply to Liftie
    Liftie:
    Perhaps that's on the top floor, so you can only go down....
    You don't need to be able to speak Dutch to make a good guess at what "Begane Grond" in big letters on a sign next to a lift means, and it aint "Top Floor".
    A nony mous:
    The elevator one is straightforward: one of the buttons tells the elevator you want to go down, while the other button requests the elevator to come down to your floor.
    All your elevators are in the basement. Now what do you do?
  • Arthur (unregistered) in reply to Conservationist

    Doing an awesome job at being a hipster asshole, keep it up.

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Liftie:
    Perhaps that's on the top floor, so you can only go down....
    You don't need to be able to speak Dutch to make a good guess at what "Begane Grond" in big letters on a sign next to a lift means, and it aint "Top Floor".
    A nony mous:
    The elevator one is straightforward: one of the buttons tells the elevator you want to go down, while the other button requests the elevator to come down to your floor.
    All your elevators are in the basement. Now what do you do?
    Its a puzzle. Some floors, the elevator can only go down from. Some it can only go up from. You can also only goto certain floors from other floors, so you have to cycle through all the floors in a (seemingly) random pattern until you get to the one you want.

    Its a lot of fun until you try and take the stairs tho...

  • Cap'n Spanky (unregistered)
    Alex:
    ...Going far beyond Continuous Integration and into Continous Delivery, BuildMaster delivers...
    Uhh...Alex...you spelled Continuous incorrectly.
  • Parasietje (unregistered)

    Trust me, that Indian guy is nothing. I saw them install street lights by just prodding naked wires in the live electricity bundle until it stuck!

  • Zunesis, In (your mom's) Flesh! (unregistered) in reply to Conservationist
    Conservationist:
    ...
    Conservationist! Truly, your internet reach knows no bounds!

    Oooh! Is that a suppository up my ass or are you just happy to see me?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Watson

    [quote user="Watson"][quote user="Ralph"] I did google the phrase and found the site, but before I followed the link to visit it I read Google's sample: [quote]You've seen the message on a thousand emails; we don't know if it's helping to reduce waste, but we know it's ...[/quote] I think I'll wait until they actually have some results. [/quote]

    Oh, wait, you seem to be under the curious impression that the purpose of this sort of thing is to help the environment. Don't be silly. The purpose is to help people feel good about themselves for how much they're helping the environment, without having to go to any serious cost or effort.

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