• chkarrer@aman'thul (unregistered) in reply to brillgill

    Parrots also like to 'aerate' cables, preferably every 3 inches or so.

  • blank (unregistered) in reply to Me get bored with same
    Me get bored with same:
    The repetition evident in the replies to comments on this site is a bit boring.

    The fact that the photo posted by "Nagesh" was not Kashmir had already been discussed, and now the conversation starts all over again. I know this is completely off-topic (surprise!), but this type of thing is really common here, and seems unneccesary.

    Maybe if the CS was a bit more sophisticated, and showed the number of responses to each comment, (eg an "xxx replies to this comment" link instead of the almost useless "reply" button), there might be a reduction in the amount of C-tic-tac-toe type cruft that tends to build up. The comments are one of the most entertaining parts of TDWTF, so they could do with a li'l love. IMHO.

    This. and/or some kind of youtube-esque +1/-1 system for comments, and obviously filtering options to suppress/highlight any with score below/above (or reverse for the perverse) some user-selected limit. a fool's dream, i know.

    sorry for having nothing useful or on-topic to say, but at least i didn't include a stupid, irrelevant, oversized image. or the captcha.

  • CZeke (unregistered)

    Why is Pete telling people this story? It might be worth telling if the reaction had been funny, but all he did was lose his company a client.

  • Mark B (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    Yep. Looks more like small child than cat to me.

    Mark B (OP) here, it was actually a bird... and the user had put in a request for a USB keyboard because "a few of the keys weren't working"

  • bill (unregistered) in reply to ADINSX
    ADINSX:
    What if the user hadn't put that porn on his machine, maybe someone else did it or he had a virus...

    This is what I was thinking, the tech that serviced this call is very unprofessional and will be working tech support the rest of his days.

  • (cs) in reply to cogo
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    Aha, that give me an excuse to insult all you people who have children purely because they're bored and lonely and want something to take their futile minds off the utter pointlessness of their existence. Well ...

    ... nah, I can't be bothered, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

  • (cs) in reply to cogo
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    How do you know PG4 has actually got a dick? Maybe QJo chopped it off (or bit it off, you don't get a name like that for nothing) when he saw him washing it in the handbasin.

  • cogo (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    Aha, that give me an excuse to insult all you people who have children purely because they're bored and lonely and want something to take their futile minds off the utter pointlessness of their existence. Well ...

    ... nah, I can't be bothered, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

    Nah, no kids here, no pets either. It just pissed me off that - obviously, some - people with pets find it ok to not consider themselves responsible for damages to property of others because, well, their fucking pet "did it". But when "my" kid does it (again, don't have one, just saying figuratively), "I" not only have to pay, but "I" am fined like crazy. I mean, WTF

  • cogo (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    How do you know PG4 has actually got a dick? Maybe QJo chopped it off (or bit it off, you don't get a name like that for nothing) when he saw him washing it in the handbasin.

    Well, I gave that person the benefit of the doubt of being "normal", which means they have one and only of the genitals, and no less than working one.

  • (cs) in reply to cogo
    cogo:
    Matt Westwood:
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    Aha, that give me an excuse to insult all you people who have children purely because they're bored and lonely and want something to take their futile minds off the utter pointlessness of their existence. Well ...

    ... nah, I can't be bothered, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

    Nah, no kids here, no pets either. It just pissed me off that - obviously, some - people with pets find it ok to not consider themselves responsible for damages to property of others because, well, their fucking pet "did it". But when "my" kid does it (again, don't have one, just saying figuratively), "I" not only have to pay, but "I" am fined like crazy. I mean, WTF

    Who says that pet owners don't get financially penalised for the damage their pets do? Since (according to you) you don't have either offspring nor pets how the fuck do you know what happens in any of these circumstances?

    Oh I get it: it was you who wrecked shitloads of stuff, sometimes blamed it on the cat (and got away with it) and sometimes blamed it on the child (got fined like crazy).

    Or maybe you're just a fucking cunt of a troll.

  • (cs) in reply to cogo
    cogo:
    Matt Westwood:
    cogo:
    PG4:
    I had a young kitten do that same thing, I got to him before he pulled off more than two key caps.

    I was able to find the tops and snap them back on. A few months later the machine was swapped out for a new one as part of an end of lease. The cat is 5 years old now and still loves to sit on my lap while I use the company laptop. He doesn't pull on the keys anymore, he has to have his paws on my hands, making it very hard to type.

    Didn't God give you a dick to make yourself some children? People that have pets only and talk to them as children piss me off.

    How do you know PG4 has actually got a dick? Maybe QJo chopped it off (or bit it off, you don't get a name like that for nothing) when he saw him washing it in the handbasin.

    Well, I gave that person the benefit of the doubt of being "normal", which means they have one and only of the genitals, and no less than working one.

    Hey, I did hear somewhere that approximately fifty percent of the population are actually born without dicks. Seriously worrying, that is. I mean, for a start, how do they piss? They got nothing to hold. And think of how horrible it must be not being able to masturbate.

  • (cs)

    I've seen some of the most well-educated and presumably smart people go completely stupid when sitting in front of a computer. It's really baffling. I realize not everyone knows computers well, but here's a story:

    This person who makes quite a bit more than me and is in a profession that requires special schooling and has its own exclusive clique. People of this profession run the country.

    So she is complaining that when she sends an email, it arrives at the recipient with very small text. I immediately saw that her zoom settings in the Outlook window she types a new message in were at something like 400%. When the text was extra big, her solution was to adjust the font size down to something like 4 pt. This made it appear normal on her screen, and obviously quite small at the recipient's end.

    So I showed her the zoom setting and tried to explain how it's different from the font size setting. It was obvious she thought I was lying and disregarded my explanation. The "issue" was fixed but came back a week later when she zoomed in again and reduced the font size again. The issue wound up in my bosses inbox with the statement that I didn't fix her problem permanently and I was making up some explanation to avoid having to fix it permanently.

    My boss found this amusing.

    What gets me is that I've never met anyone that doesn't understand the zoom functionality once it is explained. Almost every program that presents rich text will zoom like this using the same keys or Ctrl+MWheel. Many computer laymen figure it out on their own without needing an explanation.

    So we have this presumably intelligent individual with way more school than me, who not only can't grasp a basic concept, but also refuses to accept the explanation even with someone demonstrating the zoom controls and telling her they must be set on 100%!

  • Timmy (unregistered) in reply to Kat
    Kat:
    Anon:
    TRWTF is people who own cats. When is the last time a cat did something useful - like notify somebody that little Timmy had fallen down a well?
    I once knew a pussy who liked it when Timmy "went down the well".
    Tell yo' mama I said 'hi'.
  • heh (unregistered)

    Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • MuddySky (unregistered) in reply to Lone Marauder

    Those who can't do, teach or manage, go into politics

    Captcha: tristique - Oh I feel so tristique today ;)

  • just bob (unregistered) in reply to Nabhi Singh

    A cheaper solution is to simply borrow your neighbors cat to teach the parrot a "computer" lesson.

  • Panda (unregistered)

    I can believe the cat and laptop one. About five years back I got myself a nice Acer Aspire. My cat proceeded to maul the keys N, F and left Shift off the keyboard.

    The N could be salvaged, left Shift not needed, but the little f*cker had gnawed F almost in half.

    Repair price was insane, I had to poke the F place with a pen. After some time it broke. No F. For over a year, I was forced to ctrl-v the F everyplace. What a pain in the ass. All of it was the little pissants fault.

  • BrainiacV (unregistered)

    A programming friend spent some of his youth working in automotive repair. One day, he said, a woman came into the shop complaining that her "prindle" wasn't working. This baffled everyone in the shop until she led them to her car, pointed at the shifter on the steering pole and the letters "PRNDL" above it.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    that last one reminds me of a story i read-i think it was on "Techtales": an officer (i forget which service) called tech support to complaint, "every time i switch to "official" mode, the damn screen goes blank!" he had been turning it OFF...

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    that last one reminded me: the tech told a used to press "CTRL-ALT-DEL", and the user said, "i can't, i don't have enough fingers!" he was trying to press C, T, R,L, A D, and E, all at once...

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