• Espanol? Es-bunghole! (unregistered) in reply to Dude

    The organisation I currently work at has two servers in the kitchenette...

  • Simmo (unregistered) in reply to David Ferguson
    David Ferguson:
    The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters

    Indeed. And it's not even as if foster's is drunk in australia. I've never seen it on sale.

  • Gareth LovesTha Pye (unregistered) in reply to David Ferguson
    David Ferguson:
    I call BS on this one, or at least the hyperbole police. The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters, which was only not used because it didnt work with the heating paradigm.

    "Oi guv this here server's hot enough to fry a shrimp on it is"

    "Righto lad, lets chuck another one on then eh"

    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    Poor writing.

    Obviously not written by anyone who's been to australia. What is this Fosters you speak of, I see trucks going to the ports with that label on them, but never seen whats inside.

  • (cs) in reply to Simmo
    Founder:
    Being an Australian, I can confirm this is false. No one in an office would use a PC to heat up pies ( pies are sold hot, you need to wait for them to cool down to eat them). Every office has a microwave. We don't have kangaroos running through the streets, and calling Australia the "Outback" is like calling the US the "Prairie"

    Couldn't agree more. They might have been defrosting their pies on the server, but heating them? Bullshit. I've yet to meet a fellow Aussie who likes lukewarm pies with a slightly warmer outer pastry.

    simmo:
    Indeed. And it's not even as if foster's is drunk in australia. I've never seen it on sale.

    I once went to a '70s theme party. As part of the theme, I brought a 6-pack of Fosters. At the end of the night, it was the only alcohol left completed untouched. That being said, apparently export Fosters is a different beer to our local stuff.

    SteveOC:
    If you ask an Australian "Is there air cond in the server room ?", then a reply of "No mate, we use the server room as a pie warmer" really means "of course there is air cond in the server room you dufus"

    I think we've found the real reason behind the story. Either that or the Collingwood sticker...

  • ProudAussie (unregistered) in reply to Simmo

    Fosters is not just a beer. It's an entire brand name.

    They do however produce the most popular beers here like Victoria Bitter Crown Lager Carlton Draught, dry, etc. Not many people actually drink fosters lager.. ugh..

    Oh and meat pies, in the morning is quite popular amongst factory workers and the like, but in an office? Not really. I dont see how a pie could short out a psu from a monitor, but I do see someone being that stupid (Aussie or not.) It's human nature to complety screw up something you aren't familiar with.

  • David Ferguson (unregistered) in reply to Simmo
    Simmo:
    David Ferguson:
    The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters

    Indeed. And it's not even as if foster's is drunk in australia. I've never seen it on sale.

    Yeah its freakin swill :P

    CAPTCHA : Darwin - A city in Australia (for those who only know Sydney and "Melboooorrnn"

  • (cs) in reply to Founder
    Founder:
    Being an Australian, I can confirm this is false. No one in an office would use a PC to heat up pies ( pies are sold hot, you need to wait for them to cool down to eat them). Every office has a microwave. We don't have kangaroos running through the streets, and calling Australia the "Outback" is like calling the US the "Prairie"

    Still, I believe we should continue to warn the visitors about the deadly drop-bears.

  • M J (unregistered) in reply to David Ferguson
    David Ferguson:
    Simmo:
    David Ferguson:
    The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters

    Indeed. And it's not even as if foster's is drunk in australia. I've never seen it on sale.

    Yeah its freakin swill :P

    CAPTCHA : Darwin - A city in Australia (for those who only know Sydney and "Melboooorrnn"

    Oh come on what about Perth? surely you americans have heard of perth.. unless you are terrorists. nope. no such thing as perth. go bomb the kiwis.

  • Big Organisation Pain (unregistered) in reply to SteveOC
    SteveOC:
    Poor Dan - he doesn't speak Australian .... Would have been even funnier if Dan had to make that trip 'to the outback', where I am sure Sydney and his staff would have invented some elaborate trek wading knee deep through crocodile infested swamps, in order to get to the server room. Watch out Dan - dont disturb the Dropbears !! On closer investigatation, the real culprit of the problem would have been found - some larrikan had placed a Collingwood sticker on the modem .. so of course it would bomb out when the pressure was really on to perform !
    Pure Gold Steve!! (Addenda: Collingwood is a professional "football" team in the national competition; substitute any local sporting team for your localisation of joke) PS: Oh, and I do believe the story. (1) Users ARE stupid enpough to do this; (2) If the cupboard was getting warm enough to act as a pie warmer (~70C - check your local deli) then the server kit was definitely at its limit of operation (strangely enough, rated to 70C also for commercial kit, [105C for industrial, 125C for military...etc]) PPS: I think that is enough brackets :)
  • (cs) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    Well, we french do eat some co... rooster. I mean rooster.

  • thePianoMan (unregistered) in reply to ProudAussie
    ProudAussie:
    Fosters is not just a beer. It's an entire brand name.

    They do however produce the most popular beers here like Victoria Bitter Crown Lager Carlton Draught, dry, etc. Not many people actually drink fosters lager.. ugh..

    Foster's Group (fosters.com.au) is responsible for a decent proportion of the wine, beer and spirits in Australia. In a lot of cases rather than exporting the beer, they just licence the brand name (eg Fosters in the USA is brewed in the USA, Fosters in the UK is brewed in the UK, etc etc). I have heard that 'export' fosters is very similar to the Crown Lager that we get in Australia, but i'm not sure on that one.

    And for the record, I hate (most) meat pies coz they are usually full of gristle!

  • (cs) in reply to David Ferguson
    David Ferguson:
    I call BS on this one, or at least the hyperbole police. The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters, which was only not used because it didnt work with the heating paradigm.

    "Oi guv this here server's hot enough to fry a shrimp on it is"

    "Righto lad, lets chuck another one on then eh"

    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    Poor writing.

    The sad thing is, Aussies don't drink fosters! We export that crap because no-one here wants it!

    There's an American guy at work who always tries to buy a round of fosters for all his "mates", who then quickly replace then with VB... (which is ironically also made by Fosters)

    Just as sad is that we pay top-dollar for Mexican Coronas, but in America they're a cheap supermarket beer...

  • Finn (unregistered) in reply to madchicken
    madchicken:
    David Ferguson:
    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    It's the finnish that has the sauna!

    Actually both have the sauna, difference between them is finnish people are throwing a water on the stones and swedish aint so i think it could be swedish sauna that thinks that the server room is sauna, because i think there wouldnt be many finnish left after few small short circuit breaks and black and curly hair.

  • (cs) in reply to Kinglink
    Kinglink:
    LastResort:
    That's using one variable (a server) for two different functions. Definitely a wtf.

    Actually it's one variable being used for two different unrelated functions at one time.

    C++ logic tells you this will not work. Apparently this proves C++ logic can work in real life too.

    It's called multitasking and can work quite well :)

    The WTF is allowing any Australian near a computer.

  • (cs) in reply to Big Organisation Pain
    Big Organisation Pain:
    SteveOC:
    ... - some larrikan had placed a Collingwood sticker on the modem .. so of course it would bomb out when the pressure was really on to perform !
    Pure Gold Steve!! (Addenda: Collingwood is a professional "football" team in the national competition; substitute any local sporting team for your localisation of joke)
    Phew! I though for a moment you were taking the mick out of Paul Collingwood, the England cricketer. I know he is much reviled by Aussies for getting an MBE for scoring only 17 runs against them, but he's God to us. Collingwood footie team is of course a valid target.
  • (cs)

    I guess now they unplug the server to get the microwave running.

  • (cs)

    this marvellous story totally made my day thank you thank you so much

  • dkf (unregistered) in reply to Gareth LovesTha Pye
    Gareth LovesTha Pye:
    What is this Fosters you speak of, I see trucks going to the ports with that label on them, but never seen whats inside.
    I don't know, but you can bet it isn't beer...
  • ac (unregistered) in reply to BiggerWTF
    BiggerWTF:
    You cannot claim or imply to own a trademark when you indeed do not.

    Oh(tm) really(tm)? Watch(tm) me(tm).

  • (cs) in reply to M J
    M J:
    Oh come on what about Perth? surely you americans have heard of perth.. unless you are terrorists. nope. no such thing as perth. go bomb the kiwis.

    Funny thing is that I only know WA, Perth, Fremantle and surroundings. Never went to Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin or else. But then, I'm not American. :)

  • kuratkull (unregistered)

    I live in Estonia(you are free to look it up), and we have saunas here too; we throw water(in Estonian: leil) and everything :)

    I have to mention that my PC's power supply vent broke down and I switched it temporarily for a bit slower one, and my PC is constantly on the brink of overheating(I have to keep away from 3D accelerated applications and 100% processor usage). And the "ceiling" of the case is even suitable for heating pies(I can barely hold my hand against it).

  • (cs) in reply to Espanol? Es-bunghole!
    Espanol? Es-bunghole!:
    The organisation I currently work at has two servers in the kitchenette...

    Guess one didn't get it hot enough?

  • John (unregistered)

    Pies are bought hot. The toasty top of a server would be perfect for keeping them warm until lunchtime.

    There's no way anyone would cook a pie in a microwave more than once. And there's no way a pie is going to drip fat onto anything. Meat and gravy, perhaps, but not fat.

  • (cs) in reply to Moss
    Moss:
    Boya:
    Those darn auissies and their mince pies

    No way, mate, not mince in Australia... Kangaroos. :)

    Toenails, lips and eyelids. The occasional foreskin.

  • (cs) in reply to mmmm pie
    mmmm pie:
    The suggestion to heat up a pie in a microwave is the biggest WTF I've ever read on this site. The author obviously has their priorities all wrong.

    I think the suggestion was actually to use the microwave as the server. Only an idiot would dream of using it for the pies.

  • SteveOC (unregistered) in reply to vr602

    Collingwood the AFL team ... we dont hold any grudges against pommie cricketers.

    Collingwood the AFL team has 1 single Premiership win out of the last 11 grand finals they have played in.

    To make matters worse - they wear their record as part of their actual uniform, 3 black bars on a white background can well be read as '1 out of 11'

  • Eclipser (unregistered)

    So we're posting urban legends, now?

    I've heard this story before, except it was schoolchildren in Africa.

  • Raedwald (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Putting a server in a freaking kitchenette!? Dear god...

    We recently learned that the system I work on caused a fatality in a developing country.... A dog urinated on the UPS for one of our servers. ZAP

  • burned (unregistered) in reply to Gareth LovesTha Pye
    Gareth LovesTha Pye:
    David Ferguson:
    I call BS on this one, or at least the hyperbole police. The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters, which was only not used because it didnt work with the heating paradigm.

    "Oi guv this here server's hot enough to fry a shrimp on it is"

    "Righto lad, lets chuck another one on then eh"

    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    Poor writing.

    Obviously not written by anyone who's been to australia. What is this Fosters you speak of, I see trucks going to the ports with that label on them, but never seen whats inside.

    kangaroo piss.

  • Grant D. Noir (unregistered) in reply to Finn
    Finn:
    madchicken:
    David Ferguson:
    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    It's the finnish that has the sauna!

    Actually both have the sauna, difference between them is finnish people are throwing a water on the stones and swedish aint so i think it could be swedish sauna that thinks that the server room is sauna, because i think there wouldnt be many finnish left after few small short circuit breaks and black and curly hair.

    Ehm.. Sorry but uou have got it all mixed up: The finnish throw vodka on the sauna, everybody else throw water.

    captcha: burned (I kid you not ;)

  • (cs)

    I dunno, that "meat pie" looks mighty tasty. Not being Australian.. what is it, exactly? It looks like chopped meat (like the filling to a Sloppy Joe) inside a pie crust, with some ketchup on top of the pie.

  • Edss (unregistered)

    Before we had a server room, the servers just used to kick about the office. Since moving to the server room, we have retained the "THIS IS NOT A TOWEL RACK" sign for posterity.

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to barfman
    barfman:
    Patrick:
    josath:
    The real WTF is the grammar in this sentence.

    People, why does every article have to have someone chiming in with "The real WTF is..."? Please; a post like that is always going to be off-topic. "There may have been an actual hardware failure, but the real WTF is sentence structure!"

    The real WTF is that you are calling this d00d out, THEREFORE IMPLYING that you meant to say "The real WTF is that people always chime in with "The real WTF is...""

    Nooooo, the real WTF is as usual the comments.

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to barfman
    barfman:
    Patrick:
    josath:
    The real WTF is the grammar in this sentence.

    People, why does every article have to have someone chiming in with "The real WTF is..."? Please; a post like that is always going to be off-topic. "There may have been an actual hardware failure, but the real WTF is sentence structure!"

    The real WTF is that you are calling this d00d out, THEREFORE IMPLYING that you meant to say "The real WTF is that people always chime in with "The real WTF is...""

    Nooooo, the real WTF is as usual the comments.

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to barfman
    barfman:
    Patrick:
    josath:
    The real WTF is the grammar in this sentence.

    People, why does every article have to have someone chiming in with "The real WTF is..."? Please; a post like that is always going to be off-topic. "There may have been an actual hardware failure, but the real WTF is sentence structure!"

    The real WTF is that you are calling this d00d out, THEREFORE IMPLYING that you meant to say "The real WTF is that people always chime in with "The real WTF is...""

    Nooooo, the real WTF is as usual the comments.

  • Cas (unregistered) in reply to Lanth

    I completely agree, the story sounds like they are trying to americanise it abit fatty pies? pffft indeed...

  • NeoMojo (unregistered)

    Ok, so pies are bought hot.

    That doesn't disprove the story, it makes it easier to understand.

    Alan Dale and Rolf Harris buy their pies hot from their local baker. Alan, being very hungry, eats his all at once, but Rolf takes a couple of bites and then puts it on the side and gets back to accounting.

    Later on Rolf is a bit peckish and looks to his pie from earlier, but it is cold. OH Noes! Thinks Rolf. Whatever shall I do? Oh yeah, that computer in the Kitchen has a monitor that's really quite warm, if I put my pie on that it would warm right up, by jingo!

    DRIBBLE DRIBBLE

  • Russ (unregistered) in reply to Aussie
    Aussie:
    As an aussie living in China at the moment that was a small way of gold on what will otherwise be a s****y day.

    Shouldn't this site be blocked by the great firewall of china?

  • (cs) in reply to Mischief
    Mischief:
    Dude:
    What the hell...no way this is for real!

    WTF's are like Tits; They dont' have to be real to be enjoyed!

    You sir, are an enlightened being.

  • (cs) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Yum... We will put almost anything into a pie: Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile, Buffalo... Fortunately not wombat :)
    Sounds like how we do chili here. At a Texas chili cookoff you'll find chili that contains buffalo, deer, rabbit, rattlesnake, 'possum, and assorted other critters of the wild.

    Back in a minute... my horse is double-parked outside.

  • PeriSoft (unregistered) in reply to josath
    josath:
    The real WTF is the grammar in this sentence:

    "Dan was able to offered simple solution"

    It's normal; he was just trying to defeat the spam filters.

    Oh, and if you want something disgusting and stereotypically Aussie, forget meat pies - it's all about the Vegemite. Dear god in heaven, that stuff is disgusting. Even the aussie guy I knew in college who had the stuff shipped over admitted that it was really vile for the first few years you ate it.

  • (cs) in reply to Mischief
    Mischief:
    Dude:
    What the hell...no way this is for real!

    WTF's are like Tits; They dont' have to be real to be enjoyed!

    But it really does take some of the joy out of it. Christmas isn't the same once you find out Santa isn't real. The magic is gone.

  • (cs) in reply to Lanth
    Lanth:
    This sounds kind of fake. Coming from NZ, meat pies are the standard when someone says 'pie', not the fruit/desert/whatever pies you typically mean in the US when someone says 'pie'.
    Unless it's North Jersey or NYC, in which case "pie" means "pizza (pie)."
  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    dphunct:
    I read this and had an epiphony - Coke doesn't feel good coming out of your nose.

    Is an epiphony like a fake epiphany?

    "Epiphony" looks like a technical name for surround sound.

  • potato masher (unregistered) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.
    Speak for yourself, I for one enjoy a hardy breakfast of Buffalo steak and fried Bald Eagle eggs every morning. I wash it down with the tears of starving ghetto babies.
  • (cs) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    Well, you are what you eat!

  • (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    Vombatus:
    Yum... We will put almost anything into a pie: Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile, Buffalo... Fortunately not wombat :)
    Sounds like how we do chili here. At a Texas chili cookoff you'll find chili that contains buffalo, deer, rabbit, rattlesnake, 'possum, and assorted other critters of the wild.

    Back in a minute... my horse is double-parked outside.

    LOL I used to live in Houston. I would gladly move to San Antonio but wild horses couldn't drag me back to Houston.

    But I do miss the chili cook-offs. The one here is lame. Beyond lame.

  • ThingGuy McGuyThing (unregistered) in reply to Adam
    Adam:
    Josh:
    Is it just me, or does that pie picture make anybody else want to ralph?

    "Ralph"? I suppose I'm just shocked that someone travelling forwards in time to the present day would be sat around reading thedailywtf....

    Really? How did you get here then (or are you travelling backwards)?

  • Zero (unregistered) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.
    Yeah, they got really pissed last time I made bald eagle omlettes.
  • G Money (unregistered) in reply to David Ferguson
    David Ferguson:
    I call BS on this one, or at least the hyperbole police. The only thing more stereotypical than a meat pie woulda been a fosters, which was only not used because it didnt work with the heating paradigm.

    "Oi guv this here server's hot enough to fry a shrimp on it is"

    "Righto lad, lets chuck another one on then eh"

    Its like swede's using the server room as a sauna.

    Poor writing.

    Wow .. you really read a lot into this story. Apparently, these Aussies were Scottish-Canadian immigrants with cockney accents.

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