The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2011-01-11 Reply Admin

American Maid:
Attention all Brits: I'm sure someone cares to hear about your "pudding". Just not here. In America.

I'll bet you 100 of your American dollars that it wasn't sent in by a Brit.

Now, go and clean some rooms before I kick you up the fanny....

I'm off to smoke a fag.

(what? what's wrong with that?)

2011-01-11 Reply Admin

Seppo:
Markp:
Well, it's official: We've gone from "smile at a technical blunder" to "giggle at something completely correct which shows our sad cultural ignorance."
Sad because we are unaware of the culture of a country approximately the size of Philadelphia? ;P

...and a population larger than California and Texas combined.

Yes, indeed.

zzo38 · 2011-01-11 Reply Admin

You should make "Sponsor Appreciation" a separate category and assign it gray color the same as "Error'd" category, please. Because, it is a similar kind of thing so that is why you color some categories the same color as other category, you could also make list by category and then list by colors of categories, too.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Rita:
I'm off to smoke a fag.
(what? what's wrong with that?)

That joke was old when the dinosaurs died.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Dolor S.:
Rita:
I'm off to smoke a fag.
(what? what's wrong with that?)
That joke was old when the dinosaurs died.

That was the point.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

If that was the case then why use an "L"? UK floor numbering would be: B (Basement), G (Ground), 1, 2, 3. My understanding is that International floor numbering would be: B (Basement), 1, 2, 3, 4.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

I like the ChangeVision meditating girl.

zzo38 · 2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Anon:
If that was the case then why use an "L"? UK floor numbering would be: B (Basement), G (Ground), 1, 2, 3. My understanding is that International floor numbering would be: B (Basement), 1, 2, 3, 4.

That is no good. The ground floor should be 0, and then above that is 1, 2, 3, 4, etc (do not skip 13 unless you have less than 13 floors above ground!) and basement is -1 and so on for the floor below ground floor.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Don't forget that the sub will bend the bag. Try measuring it full.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Rita:
Dolor S.:
Rita:
I'm off to smoke a fag.
(what? what's wrong with that?)
That joke was old when the dinosaurs died.

That was the point.

Oh. Ye goode olde demonstration of one's assholity.

2011-01-12 Reply Admin

Mike:
Ice Cream? pffft. The laptop repair shop here has a massage parlor (yes, THAT kind) in the other half of the duplex.

I've got to get a picture but there is a fruit stand nearby that advertises a lawyer and a taxidermist.

2011-01-13 Reply Admin

Dolor S.:
Rita:
Dolor S.:
Rita:
I'm off to smoke a fag.
(what? what's wrong with that?)
That joke was old when the dinosaurs died.

That was the point.
Oh. Ye goode olde demonstration of one's assholity.

How very American of you, - miss the point, get pulled up on it, call someone an asshole.

Good job! Yeeee-haaaww! Woooo! Yeaaah!

Is your real name Scooter?

2011-01-13 Reply Admin

I' pretty sure the sign is in Moncton, NB; I remember seeing something extremely similar to that when I went there.

2011-01-13 Reply Admin

What, you have not heard about the Linux Plumbers Conference?

TheTechninja · 2011-01-18 Reply Admin

I don't think I will go with the Linux plumbing.
It may be very extensible and I can edit the source for it, but it will be a pain in the ass to have to recompile the house every time I wanted to add a water spout outside.

2011-01-21 Reply Admin

Is the illiterate guy the real Dilbert Scott Adams?

Captcha - letatio : Rejoicing (latin)

I am rejoicing right now, but how did Alex know this???

2011-01-24 Reply Admin

Cad Delworth:
I know that 'spotted dick' always raises a laugh from non-UK residents, but it is a very well-known traditional pudding here.
Think of a swiss roll, but using suet pastry rather than sponge, and with a 'filling' of sugar and dried fruit (usually raisins): hence 'spotted.' Originally it was cooked by steaming, but nowadays it's often baked instead.

In the UK in the 19th century, 'dick' was sometimes used as a colloquial term meaning 'pudding.' Other sources suggest that 'dick' came from the German word for 'thick' (spotted dick IS a very thick and satisfying pudding!).

Yum! (I mean it) - we cooked it for Xmas, as in France they're hard to get ready-made being "from the enemy" and all that, and with real home made custard it's truly delicious. No puns or double meanings intended ;-)

2011-01-28 Reply Admin

TheTechninja:
I don't think I will go with the Linux plumbing. It may be very extensible and I can edit the source for it, but it will be a pain in the ass to have to recompile the house every time I wanted to add a water spout outside.

so what do you do then when you want that spout? buy a new house?

2012-09-03 Reply Admin

Cad Delworth:
I know that 'spotted dick' always raises a laugh from non-UK residents, but it is a very well-known traditional pudding here.
Think of a swiss roll, but using suet pastry rather than sponge, and with a 'filling' of sugar and dried fruit (usually raisins): hence 'spotted.' Originally it was cooked by steaming, but nowadays it's often baked instead.

In the UK in the 19th century, 'dick' was sometimes used as a colloquial term meaning 'pudding.' Other sources suggest that 'dick' came from the German word for 'thick' (spotted dick IS a very thick and satisfying pudding!).

hi penis gravitational dickhead

2013-05-20 Reply Admin

In the description of Spotted dick pudding...

and topped with a serving of creamy custard

Uh huh...

2016-12-04 Reply Admin

i'm not sure this measures up, but at the fairgrounds near my home, i saw some port-a-johns that said "B&D toilet company" on the side...

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