• The big V (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    Also: First! (±6)
    How could you be first -6?
  • 'esse (unregistered)
    "Waitaminute," writes Ryan Blace, "so how am I supposed to get in?"

    Buy a wheelchair and go through the window, as clearly indicated.

  • ludus (unregistered)
    "needless to say, I went for number 51."

    Ah, the inferior product.

    "where are you supposed to download more?"

    It's not "online soap". It's "online sensitive". You need to turn off your computer to use it.

  • dude (unregistered)

    Are the sponsors supposed to be part of the WTF? (Linux|FreeBSD|OpenSolaris)(apache|tomcat)(Sqlite|MySQL|Postgres)(JSP|PHP|Ruby|PERL) is free forever not just no upfront cost, no strings attached.

  • WeffJebster (unregistered)

    Mmm... Skyline Chili.

  • pizzaguy (unregistered)

    Regarding the chili: labels are often printed in much higher quantity than the cans are made, since:

    • it's far cheaper that way
    • they don't take up much storage space
    • they don't go bad

    These is not always true of the product itself, which is going to be made as needed and ordered by truckload or by the container.

    So this sort of thing happens a lot, but that one is a lot funnier than most, especially with that nice drawing of the person popping the lid :)

  • AA (unregistered)

    I, too, have a problem with pulling out unexpectedly.

    It's a pain cleaning the carpet afterwards.

  • eliac (unregistered) in reply to configurator
    configurator:
    That FAT32 graffiti can be found *everywhere* in Tel Aviv.
    Thank you! I was about to say the same thing. Is that where the original photo was taken? And does anyone know what it actually means?
  • WeffJebster (unregistered)

    I don't know, but around the Cincinnati area there's some sort of rogue vandal that carves UNIX into gas station "Gallons Pumped" displays with probably a boxcutter or something.

  • undefined (unregistered)

    Cord WTF is very popular. Recently i see it in Lebedev's Ideoteka:

    http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/idioteka/2009/12/01/

    Also i saw it himself in one of the Moscow psychiatric hospitals with all cords to TV-set in recreation room.

  • Johfe (unregistered)

    Those damn Austrian Dingos always start reading at page 61

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to aldfjasldf
    aldfjasldf:
    Oh ok. I'm so used to readying stuff online that is barely above kindergarten grammar levels so I'm used to seeing horrible translations.
    Ah, the irony.
  • (cs) in reply to Matt.C
    Matt.C:
    Gieron:
    I've been using that soap for years. It's good soap. But the name defies explanations.
    That's not soap. It's SOAq.
    No, it's online sensitive soaq. For allowing sensitive people to go online too.

    Captcha: goatse

    ~~third try~~

  • (cs) in reply to md5sum
    md5sum:
    I don't see the need for plastering here... I'd think you'd have all the room you could ever want through the four slots in the wall for the sockets. Cover plates would cover any slip-ups. I could pull off a hack like that in about 20 minutes, including bridging the breaker box so that there's no breaker to blow when you actually USE all the plugs and that single wire starts to melt and burn everything near it.
    It's the bit where you put in a false wall that needs plastering. There's a void behind those sockets, and yet it's quite clear that the real socket off to the side is in something a bit more substantial. Because you can't see the join, someone's done a careful job putting the false wall in (probably plasterboard and then skimming it to make a flat join). All that effort, yet they fail at the concept of actually putting a cable (of a proper gauge) in where it can't be messed with.

    Embedding a breaker box too next to that bank of sockets would have been good. But if they can't even wire it safely, why would they do the rest right? Skimping on hiring an electrician is the issue. (Channeling out the wall is a messy job, and so best left to a pro who will either do it right, or at least have insurance if it goes wrong.) Thinking about it, those look like Schuko sockets, i.e. continental Europe, so avoiding electricians' fees is almost certainly the point of doing it that daft way (whereas plasterers aren't regulated to the same extent, and so are cheaper because it's easy to get an easterner to do it).

    md5sum:
    Around where I live, there's a lot of old houses that still have the old screw in fuses... common practice is if you have one that blows frequently (since you have to buy a new one, not flip a switch) to put a penny under it and screw it back in. Seen many houses burn down over it... Any idiot can run wires or create a path for electricity, it takes a little more skill than that to do it in a safe manner. :D
    It takes high-school physics, fuse-wire, and healthy respect for something that can easily kill you if you mess up badly. Circuit breakers are better (but I wouldn't want to fit one rated to a household level if I can help it; better to have an expert for that).
  • _matt (unregistered)

    Ah, good ol ASU never ceases to do WTF worthy things.

  • Wasmoo (unregistered)

    The manual is probably in several different languages, and the English translation happens to start on page 61.

  • Nobody (unregistered)

    We had a jack battery like that at work. Only the cable came through the wall from another lab. On another phase. so only 415V different from anything else plugged in our side!

  • (cs) in reply to WeffJebster

    ♫ When you're feeling good and hungry... there's not much you can do unless you have a can opener... ♫

  • Mloren (unregistered)

    Well the one with the two exit doors is obvious:

    One of the signs always tells the truth, the other always lies...

  • silent d (unregistered) in reply to WeffJebster

    obviously anything that makes it harder to get at Skyline Chili is a WTF.

  • CiH (unregistered) in reply to configurator
    configurator:
    That FAT32 graffiti can be found *everywhere* in Tel Aviv.
    Sounds like Toynbee graffiti here in the U.S.
  • JJ (unregistered)

    Here's what I find really weird: the bad translation for the HD enclosure does not look like it was the work of a German with poor English skills. The sentence structure would have been very different. The translation reeks of Engrish, which suggests that a German company contracted an Asian company to do an English translation. That, my friends, is TRWTF!

  • (cs)
    Fantec Product Specification:
    You can learn about the date transfer state through the "BlueEye" shinning frequency
    Groundskeeper Willy: [gasps] Boy... you read my thoughts! You've got the Shinning. Bart Simpson: You mean "Shining". Groundskeeper Willy: [sotto voce] Shh! You want to get sued? Now look, boy: if your Dad goes gaga, you just use that... Shin of yours to call me and I'll come a running. But don't be reading my mind between four and five. That's Willy's time!
  • (cs)

    I think it would be great to have an eBook delivered on a CD, that I can read on anything I like, copy it to my computer and then put the disc away for safekeeping, and be sure ASU isn't going to remote access my computer and delete the book because it actually violated copyright laws.

    I bet the can simply has the label on upside-down, so there's a ring pull on the bottom.

    You get in through the door that's been cropped out of the picture in order to make it 'funny'.

    The vending machine company probably pays the restockers min wage. What do they expect, the chocolate to actually be put on the correct places?

  • spammer mcgee (unregistered)

    You can link here?

  • Wouter Verhelst (unregistered) in reply to RBoy

    I didn't say it, I wrote it ;-P

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