• (cs) in reply to Zemyla
    Zemyla:
    I immediately understood the Ear Michael thing.

    The text originally said "ear mike" and they did a global search-and-replace. Don't know why they did it on the back of a package, but there you go.

    WTF is an "ear mike"? Does it listen for sounds coming out of your ears?

  • Dr PaRaSiTe (unregistered) in reply to vt_mruhlin

    hahaha..new game.must try

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to djg
    djg:
    Good one in the Perth (Western Australia) train station - above the information board showing the train and bus timetables was a sign sign saying "No Loitering". Didn't get a picture though...

    loi·ter [loi-ter] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object) 1. to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal. 2. to move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand, etc.: to loiter on the way to work. 3. to waste time or dawdle over work: He loiters over his homework until one in the morning.

    –verb (used with object) 4. to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually fol. by away): to loiter away the afternoon in daydreaming.

    And the reason Singapore doesn't want you to bring durians indoors is that they SMELL. You're all retards.

  • EPE (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    What's disturbing is that I read those Xbox earpiece instructions almost all the way through, parsing the whole thing in my head, thinking, "so where's the WTF?" until I got to the fourth paragraph and finally realized there was a grammatical error there. Imagine my surprise when I went back to the first paragraph and realized I had somehow put the words together into a coherent paragraph and actually *understood the meaning* without realizing it didn't make any sense. And I'm as sober as I get right now.
    Me too... maybe too much marketing buzzwords around us nowadays, perhaps?
  • (cs)
  • (cs)

    My Fav warning sign:

    [image]
  • Rhialto (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw
    Remember: you cannot fall off the floor.
    Of course you can. They make it easy for you on building construction sites, but in ordinary multi-level buildings it is possible too.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to BOFH
    BOFH:
    My Fav warning sign:

    I like this one better: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MjA0NTgmbnI9OA_3_3,00.html

  • GB (unregistered) in reply to nwbrown

    Our German teacher told us that when Lynx (the deoderant) came out in Germany it was called Mist which was also German slang for poo

  • (cs) in reply to GB
    GB:
    Our German teacher told us that when Lynx (the deoderant) came out in Germany it was called Mist which was also German slang for poo

    That way it's called AXE over there....

    Also the "Lynx Boost" is called "AXE Anti-HangOver" :)

  • Jeff K. (unregistered) in reply to axoplasm

    While I haven't been to Singapore, I have been to Warwick Castle in GB, and they have peacocks in residence there as well. They can be surly little buggers - even worse than geese - so I'm not surprised to see that warning sign. I watched them chase kids around who were trying to feed them.

  • Minos (unregistered) in reply to my name is missing
    my name is missing:
    Another great warning sign was at the Raleigh-Durham airport, which showed all the things you could not bring into an airplane. Among the images was a lit bomb. The sign helpfully concluded "these items should be left at home".

    Minneapolis-St. Paul has one of these. Ours contained a chainsaw. The reason you shouldn't bring it on the plane? "Contains Flammable Liquid". Even if the chain is off and the fuel drained, I'm gonna keep an eye on the guy with a chainsaw in his carry-on.

  • Craig (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack

    Well of course the crooks won't obey the sign, but now you can add another charge of "failure to heed warning" sign onto list of charges.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I've lost track now, did someone mention "Bite the wax tadppole"? Apparently when Coca Cola first started selling in China, they tried to just transliterate the name into Chinese. Unfortunately that came out meaning "bite the wax tadpole".

    I once asked a Taiwanese friend if this story is true. She said that she'd never heard Coca Cola called that, but that the name they are using now sounds a lot like we pronounce "Coca Cola" in English but in Chinese means "good for your stomach, good for you mouth". If that wasn't carefully and deliberately chosen, it's an awfully lucky accident.

    Hey, I was just thinking: I need to make a sign for the programmers here with the big red circle etc and inside saying ' Java string == "literal" ' or something to that effect.

  • memorius (unregistered)

    Scariest warning sign ever: [image]

  • G (unregistered)

    The xbox headphone is likely a fake.

    I have seen this on fake products before, where the translation from the original packaging into English is very very innacurate

  • Doctor (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that the headphone container looks like a toilet seat.

  • (cs) in reply to Zock
    Zock:
    real_aardvark:
    Zock:
    In US of A. The "gun free" zone known as "rest of the developed countries" seems to disagree with your reasoning. :P

    However, bare statistics do not back up your interesting theory about the "gun free" zone known -- as "the rest of the developed countries."

    --

    But heck, you carry on with your cherished assumptions about how these things work.

    Please do not think what I assume. I happen to live in a country with a very high number of guns per capita but almost no gun related crime. The guns here are mainly used for hunting and hobby purposes, and the legislation on these is very clear. Getting a gun for self defence or carrying one with you most of the time are out of question - and that's a good thing, as there really isn't any need for such.

    It's not the guns, and not the people but the gun culture which caters for the high crime rate. And that's where the US, mostly because of historical reasons, has gone astray.

    It's kind of difficult not to think what you assume, given that you blare it out in quotes like that. I just object to casual Yank-bashing, that's all.

    What's behind the high gun-related crime rate in the US is an interesting question. It probably is the people, if you want my honest opinion. I'm not at all convinced by "gun culture" or "historical reasons," if only because these are convenient no-brainer labels. Maybe lousy education has something to do with it?

  • Thomas Hawk (unregistered) in reply to rd

    "Coke adds life!"

  • Fuzzy (unregistered) in reply to axoplasm

    As a Singaporean, I'd just like to say that the signs actually make perfect sense in a Singaporean context. Quite a lot of people think durians smell like shit, feeding monkeys encourages them to steal food from passers-by and peacocks... well, everyone knows what vicious beasts they are.

  • also (unregistered) in reply to vt_mruhlin

    Some time ago there was that post about the f***ing ether lords in a manual for a network device. Won't these disastrous translators bother to check out their "translation" against an updated English dictionary ?... Ever ?...

  • Danny (unregistered)

    It's pretty obvious where that came from - "microphone" ==> "mic" ==> "mike" ==> "Michael".

  • pete (unregistered) in reply to axoplasm

    If you have ever been in the vicinity of a Durian fruit, you'd understand why it is not allowed within air-conditioned areas.....

  • Danny (unregistered) in reply to axoplasm

    well, durian fruit fucking STINKS. Some people love eating them, but other people choke and gag when they're in proximity.

    And peacocks are large and aggressive. Just because they look silly doesn't mean they can't do some serious damage.

    Lastly - "Michael" is the result of a bad machine translation from "mic".

  • oDDbALL (unregistered)

    How can I add pictures to these posts?

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