• AdT (unregistered)

    And the lesson to be learned: Meat pies are bad for health. In this case, the health of the server and the health of my mind.

    Captcha: yummy (I am not kidding)

  • Dr Jobbs (unregistered) in reply to dphunct

    And it feels so much better going up

  • (cs) in reply to BiggerWTF
    BiggerWTF:
    Zylon:
    And... The Real WTF(tm)...

    ARGH! Your intendedly humorous use of the trademark (tm) symbol is not only less funny than CANCER, but it's not legal. You cannot claim or imply to own a trademark when you indeed do not.

    So please, stop it.

    Using the trademark symbol does not imply that the person using the symbol owns the trademark, it only implies that the phrase is trademarked. For example, I can say something is A Good Thing(tm), but I'm not claiming I own the trademark, only acknowledging that Martha Stewart owns it. [and, yes, TRWTF is that "a good thing" is trademarked]

  • (cs)

    Anyway, TRWTF is the anonymization - everyone here's going on about bad stereotypes, when in reality the location is south dakota and the food is cheeseburgers. (or something. but my point is, stop nitpicking details that aren't relevant to the WTF)

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    What you'd really get is the perfect place to cultivate bacteria. Nice 90-100F incubator (any hotter and the server would lock up constantly.) The company wouldn't have to worry about its server not working as all of the workers would stay sick.

  • Fish Basket Gordo (unregistered) 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'.

    I have never had a pie 'dribble fat' while heating it up. Ever. And I must have eaten at least 100 of them so far in my life. Frankly I don't see how they could, unless the pie was very badly made - any excess fat that managed to boil itself out of the meat would just be absorbed by the pastry, so the pastry itself would have to be leaky/thin/broken, which is unlikely unless the people eating them somehow broke them themselves. In which case it's not really the pies fault.

    I don't think anyone is really blaming the pies themselves here.

  • JTK (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    What you'd really get is the perfect place to cultivate bacteria. Nice 90-100F incubator (any hotter and the server would lock up constantly.) The company wouldn't have to worry about its server not working as all of the workers would stay sick.

    It works for yeast too! When I was homebrewing beer, I would leave the yeast starter on top of the computer monitor overnight. I never had a problem getting a nice, healthy starter for pitching the next day.

  • Fish Basket Gordo (unregistered) in reply to ian
    ian:
    No, they're in the southern hemisphere. Breakfast is dinner there..
    Like Bizarro World?
  • ANONYMOUS AMERICAN PERSON! (unregistered) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Moss:

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

    Yum... We will put almost anything into a pie: Kangaroo, Emu, Crocodile, Buffalo... Fortunately not wombat :)

    Some people even put dead horse on them (not ketchup)

    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    What are you talking about? I eat bald eagle all the time.

  • (cs) in reply to Moss
    Moss:
    No way, mate, not mince in Australia
    I've seen "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", and I do not believe this assertion.
  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to JTK
    JTK:
    It works for yeast too! When I was homebrewing beer, I would leave the yeast starter on top of the computer monitor overnight. I never had a problem getting a nice, healthy starter for pitching the next day.

    The real WTF is that you didn't turn off the computer monitor before going to sleep.

  • John Bigbooty (unregistered) in reply to Patrick
    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!"

    Shut up Patrick.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to ANONYMOUS AMERICAN PERSON!
    ANONYMOUS AMERICAN PERSON!:
    What are you talking about? I eat bald eagle all the time.

    Well, that sounds like a very clever idea. Animal-derived foods already contain a lot more bio-accumulated toxins such as heavy metals and PCBs than vegetable foods, but if you eat that high up in the food chain (tuna, dogs, seemingly even eagles) it will multiply this effect. Also, did you know that lead poisoning is one of the leading causes of death in eagles? (When people go hunting with shotguns and leave their prey behind, the eagles will eat it, lead pellets and all.)

  • Dmitriy (unregistered)

    I dont think i ever laughed so hard!

  • (cs)

    i gotta call BS on that one. the aussie secretary named "Sydney" and meat pies on the server - Urban Myth?

    LOL!

  • (cs) in reply to ac
    ac:
    BiggerWTF:
    You cannot claim or imply to own a trademark when you indeed do not.

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

    Careful, ac, didn't you notice that BiggerWTF said that it is not legal(tm) to use the trademark symbol on something you don't own(tm) the rights to?

  • (cs) in reply to BiggerWTF

    [quote user="BiggerWTF"][quote user="Zylon"][quote user="dphunct"]And... The Real WTF(tm)...[/quote]

    ARGH! Your intendedly humorous use of the trademark (tm) symbol is not only less funny than CANCER, but it's not legal. You cannot claim or imply to own a trademark when you indeed do not.

    So please, stop it.[/quote]

    The Real WTF(tm) is your over-reaction to a bit of humor.

  • (cs) in reply to Quinnum
    Quinnum:
    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.

    And this is why I wear a pickelhaube every time I go to Australia. I figure drop-bears don't want a spike up the bum any more than people do.

  • not a robot (unregistered)

    Carn the pies!

  • (cs) in reply to Founder
    Founder:
    ( pies are sold hot, you need to wait for them to cool down to eat them).We don't have kangaroos running through the streets,
    The frozen ones aren't sold hot. And I drive through kangaroo territory to and from work every day. But I'll agree that it is fairly rare for them to be in the streets.
    jwenting:
    The WTF is allowing any Australian near a computer.
    That better be sarcasm. (otherwise, you forgot to say 'real' so it's imaginary) If any of that doesn't make sense, it's because my brain is protesting due to having to install Visual Fortran extensions to Visual Studio...
  • Ralph Wiggum (unregistered) in reply to Carnildo
    Carnildo:
    I figure drop-bears don't want a spike up the bum any more than people do.

    I want to have a spike up the bum.

  • (cs) in reply to bob ardkor
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    Yep, you'll never see a Englishman eating a lion, a Scot eating a unicorn, or a Welshman eating a dragon.

  • (cs) in reply to amandahugginkiss
    amandahugginkiss:
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    Yep, you'll never see a Englishman eating a lion, a Scot eating a unicorn, or a Welshman eating a dragon.

    Er, unlike the other two examples, lions are not mythical beasts, and that there's consequently every chance that an adventurous Englishman has sunk his teeth into a slice of one at some point in the history of the nation.

    Probably this one.

  • (cs) in reply to gwenhwyfaer
    gwenhwyfaer:
    Er, unlike the other two examples, lions are not mythical beasts, and that there's consequently every chance that an adventurous Englishman has sunk his teeth into a slice of one at some point in the history of the nation.

    Given the spirit of the original comment, could you please refer me to the legal, commonplace lion-eateries in Britain? I wasn't getting at the mythical nature of it, but at the 'countries have national animals that aren't really eaten' thing.

  • grumble (unregistered)

    Like many others I call Bullsh*t on this one. There is probably a grain of truth in the story but all sorts of embellishments have been added like warming pies on a monitor (not nearly hot enough) and pies dripping fat (we Australians take our pies very seriously, you would never, ever find an Australian pie that dripped fat).

  • (cs) in reply to Eternal Density
    Eternal Density:
    The frozen ones aren't sold hot.

    You MUST be kidding...

  • (cs) in reply to Kefer
    Kefer:
    Eternal Density:
    The frozen ones aren't sold hot.

    You MUST be kidding...

    Okay, I admit it. We pressurize them so that they can be cooked without defrosting. So when you break the hermetic seal it goes all steamy :D

  • Brady Kelly (unregistered) in reply to Vombatus
    Vombatus:
    Not too many countries in the world would allow people to eat their national symbols.

    It's a Southern Hemisphere thing. We are more than happy to let one eat Springbok in South Africa.

  • Brady Kelly (unregistered)

    Nobody has noticed the real WTF, that is why would fat short out the PSU?

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

    "Dan was able to offered a simple solution"

    No, the real WTF is the pedantic moron who points out simple typos like they're a big deal. (For the clueless: That would be you.)

    I fixed it for ya in the quote above, though, so you didn't hyperventilate and have a heart attack. Hmmm... Maybe I should have left it alone.

  • damn know-it-all kiwi's (unregistered)

    I dunno about you aussies and your no fat (healthy ..yuk) pies, but from my side of the ditch if the pie wont turn my little brown paper bag into a beutifull translucent wrapping by the time i get back to the office then you can be sure i wont be buying my pies at that bakery again....

    and no body said anything about cooking pies, you just need to warm them up a bit (or keep them warm) they have already been cooked...

    and the final thing that still amazes me is that people continue to say 'oh BS no-one could be that stoopid' Really if this site does anything it has to reinforce the old addage that there is no limit to peoples stupidity.

  • captain america (unregistered) in reply to madchicken

    (from Stockholm)

    Yes, they have saunas in Sweden. The word sauna is Finnish however.

    The Swedish word for sauna is bastu. Yeah, really.

  • Ed B (unregistered) in reply to BiggerWTF

    [quote user="BiggerWTF"][quote user="Zylon"][quote user="dphunct"]And... The Real WTF(tm)...[/quote]

    ARGH! Your intendedly humorous use of the trademark (tm) symbol is not only less funny than CANCER, but it's not legal. You cannot claim or imply to own a trademark when you indeed do not.

    So please, stop it.[/quote]

    Who peed in your Cherios?

  • (cs) in reply to amandahugginkiss
    amandahugginkiss:
    gwenhwyfaer:
    Er, unlike the other two examples, lions are not mythical beasts, and that there's consequently every chance that an adventurous Englishman has sunk his teeth into a slice of one at some point in the history of the nation.

    Given the spirit of the original comment, could you please refer me to the legal, commonplace lion-eateries in Britain? I wasn't getting at the mythical nature of it, but at the 'countries have national animals that aren't really eaten' thing.

    In which case your phraseology was adrift. What you actually said is that there are few countries that "would allow people to eat their national symbols."

    As far as I'm aware (and I could only get as far as the Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 before my eyes glazed over) there is no prohibition, on any level, against an Englishman eating a lion.

    Which is just as well, me being an aardvark. If it's me or the lion, I'm not letting no stinking government poodle make that decision for me.

    Of course, Gwenhwyfaer is equally wrong, by this argument: I am just as ignorant of any Welsh/Scottish law prohibiting the consumption of dragon/unicorn flesh. Given the inconsequentiality of most of what the new, devolved national assemblies spend their time discussing, however, I wouldn't rule it out.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to amandahugginkiss
    amandahugginkiss:
    Yep, you'll never see a Englishman eating a lion

    Well, now that they're eating Corgis, you'll never know.

  • Is beer is good (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    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...

    It was once beer , till it was run through the camel filter.

  • Nomen Nescio (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...""

    The real WTF is people correcting people complaining about people claiming what the real WTF is.

  • standgale (unregistered) in reply to Lanth
    Lanth:
    I have never had a pie 'dribble fat' while heating it up. Ever. And I must have eaten at least 100 of them so far in my life. Frankly I don't see how they could, unless the pie was very badly made - any excess fat that managed to boil itself out of the meat would just be absorbed by the pastry, so the pastry itself would have to be leaky/thin/broken, which is unlikely unless the people eating them somehow broke them themselves.

    I agree. But maybe if it was a mutton pie the fat would leak out. Mutton pies are really greasy, but you can get some good ones at the supermarket along the road from our house. I only just had lunch, but I'm hungry now - maybe it's because the lunch was vegetarian?

  • Sikosis (unregistered)

    This story is complete BS. No way it could be true.

    Meat pies don't drip fat when being warmed up. Tosser.

  • sk8ter (unregistered)

    it is totally possible.. i used to ride a motorbike to work everyday and ofcourse in Canberra it would rain..so when i made to work i would put my gloves on top of the monitor..ok i didn't do it on top of a laptop/desktop/server but its possible..i saw many guys who rode bikes drying stuff ;)

  • Edward Royce (unregistered) in reply to Is beer is good

    Hmmmm.

    Is beer is good:
    dkf:
    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...

    It was once beer , till it was run through the camel filter.

    Hey it's better than Budweiser.

    And you definitely wouldn't want to compare it to Schlitz. A beer so bad that it's motto (paraphrased) was "drink our beer if you really just want to get blotto".

  • Mark (unregistered)

    I call bullshit.

    1. A pie would not 'leak'.
    2. That would not heat a pie.
    3. ?
  • mr x (unregistered)

    urban legend...

  • XO (unregistered)

    I'll add to the chorus of people saying pies don't leak and Sydney is an unlikely name.

    Also, an Australian would never say 'folks'.

  • (cs) in reply to Edward Royce
    Edward Royce:
    Hmmmm.
    Is beer is good:
    dkf:
    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...

    It was once beer , till it was run through the camel filter.

    Hey it's better than Budweiser.

    And you definitely wouldn't want to compare it to Schlitz. A beer so bad that it's motto (paraphrased) was "drink our beer if you really just want to get blotto".

    Funny you should mention Schlitz. My friend's father was a quartermaster sergeant at Anzio, and his first words of advice to the (British) troops were: "Lads, you're going to be offered a lot of American beer. They call it things like 'Schlitz.' And, believe me, it tastes like it.@

    I was reminded of this twenty years ago, when I sat outside the Philadelphia Greyhound station with a tall-boy of Schlitz. I'd only got about a third of the way down whilst waiting for the bus. Suddenly, the heavens opened up and the rain thundered down. I went inside the terminal for half an hour until the rain stopped. Forgetting my beer, of course.

    Came out half an hour later, and, you know what? Schlitz tastes much, much better after a dose of Pennsylvania rain. Really. It does.

  • gex (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:

    Is an epiphony like a fake epiphany?

    No. It sounds better.

  • ELIZA (unregistered) in reply to Batfink
    Batfink:
    Zylon:
    And... The Real WTF(tm) here is eating a meat pie for breakfast. Freaking weirdos.

    Wadaya expect from Australians -- they have Christmas in the middle of summer. Freaks.

    (1) Pies, at least here, are good, just like Italian and Chinese pasta, which means that there is little reason not to eat them for breakfast apart from the prejudices of people who have quite possibly never tasted a meat pie; after all, cockroaches, raised in properly hygenic conditions, are quite nutritious but not appetising.

    (2) "Wadaya" expect from Americans and other hemispheric chauvanists -- they think that December is winter everywhere. Morons, or at the very least extremely poorly travelled. More precisely, Christmas day is twenty-five daies into a season, which is defined as starting, in this case, in Dec and ending in Feb, so that christmas is about a quarter of the way into the season; in the absence of the Earth's heat capacity, the season would last from about Nov 7 to Feb 5 or so, but it takes time for the hemisphere to warm up and cool down, and of course it would not be as convenient as simple partitioning by month; of course, with our climate, you would likely think it was summer whenever you visited, and go home where people don't treat you like a wimp for needing to set the thermostat below 300 K.

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