• Bob (unregistered) in reply to schmitter
    schmitter:
    All this bickering and complaining about every article, and spell checking, and grammer correcting is making me feel smarter than you. From the bottom of my liver, Thank you.

    There is no "e" in "grammar".

  • (cs)

    someone complained a few days ago about the comments being funnier than the article...

    ... well, I see that issue has been solved, in a way.

  • NameNotFoundException (unregistered) in reply to Tina Turner

    YMMD!

    As opposed to "What's Ike got to do with it?"

  • (cs)

    Did he do the Irish Girl on a Wooden Table?

  • NameNotFoundException (unregistered) in reply to Tina Turner
    Tina Turner:
    snoofle:
    Tina Turner:
    snoofle:
    What's love got to do with it? (TT)

    That's my line, honey.

    Hey I gave you credit - I just beat you to it!

    Your name don't look like Ike to me.

    ^^ and here's the quote...

  • (cs) in reply to bannedfromcoding
    bannedfromcoding:
    Mikoangelo:
    The real WTF is her using csh, amirite?
    Closer to TRWTF is the fact that you mistake ksh for csh.

    I don't know what OS you use, but on every Unix-like OS I've worked with in the last 15 years, csh uses % as the default user prompt and ksh (and almost everything else) uses $.

  • ajw (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    Sionnach:
    What has her being Irish got to do with it?

    That's what makes it okay.

    It doesn't give the full details, but presumably she was from County Kerry. That would make it OK to laugh at her for being stupid.

  • (cs) in reply to Georgem
    Georgem:
    TRWTF is that an inexperienced person being inexperienced, is considered a WTF.
    I thought TDWTF had a moratorium on student WTFs...
  • Soft Drink Empire (unregistered)

    The Real WTF is "ascii tabular form."

  • Adron (unregistered)

    Rad sauce!

  • tweedle die (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    schmitter:
    All this bickering and complaining about every article, and spell checking, and grammer correcting is making me feel smarter than you. From the bottom of my liver, Thank you.

    There is no "e" in "grammar".

    i remember the time there was some e in my grammer. she was dancing on the roof till 4am

  • Brandon (unregistered) in reply to Fer
    Fer:
    What's her being Irish Girl got to do with it?
    Irish Girl is WTF.

    In this case the "T" stands for "to".

    Well said sir!

  • :) (unregistered) in reply to Sionnach

    Ah, the Irish and their love of the Sea

  • Joey Stink Eye Smiles (unregistered) in reply to :)

    And Sea++

  • Big Guy Surprise (unregistered)

    And of course Sea#... and the less popular Seafoam

  • Candlejack (unregistered)

    Sounds like Candlejack got a hold of that code. She'll never program aga

  • (cs) in reply to Big Guy Surprise
    Big Guy Surprise:
    And of course Sea#... and the less popular Seafoam
    Wot... no Seafood? (Cue "seafood diet" joke)
  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I noticed that hitting submit spee

  • Joshua (unregistered)

    http://www.rigel222.com/machinecortex/artificialintelligence.html

  • (cs)

    What does her pressing Ctrl+C have to do with it?

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to EvanED
    EvanED:
    Georgem:
    TRWTF is that an inexperienced person being inexperienced, is considered a WTF.
    I thought TDWTF had a moratorium on student WTFs...
    I think it's a difference between some student's code and a CS student entering commands without knowing what they do and wondering what is wrong. If she misunderstood what Control-C did rather than just "I noticed this happens" without looking into why it would be unworthy as a WTF.

    That's not a student needing to gain more experience, that's just dumb.

  • Tired of idiocy (unregistered)

    1. This was just a blonde joke with "Irish girl" substituted for "blonde". BFD.

    2. This story would clearly never have been posted had a guy been the stupid screw-up. I work at an ISP and trust me, we get stupid questions from men every day. BFD.

    3. Amazingly enough, not all TDWTF readers are interested in f***ing women. Some readers aren't even male: imagine that.

    4. A number of the comments here illustrate why some of you little boys can't get laid. Grow up.

  • (cs) in reply to lolwtf

    The real WTF is all the 80's students, used to VMS, who hit Ctrl-Z on BSD Unix, then complained that they weren't allowed to log out because of the error "stopped processes". If they simply tried to log out again, they would have succeeded, but no, they had to type "ls" (not "ps") and then try again. There they would be, furious mad and stuck to their terminals because they dare not leave them still logged-in.

  • (cs)

    I'll be honest. I'm just here for the Irish girl. :-/

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to Bob

    ...unless you're an actor.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    schmitter:
    All this bickering and complaining about every article, and spell checking, and grammer correcting is making me feel smarter than you. From the bottom of my liver, Thank you.

    There is no "e" in "grammar".

    This is the first half of the previous post. :)

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Tired of idiocy
    Tired of idiocy:
    1) This was just a blonde joke with "Irish girl" substituted for "blonde". BFD.

    1. This story would clearly never have been posted had a guy been the stupid screw-up. I work at an ISP and trust me, we get stupid questions from men every day. BFD.

    2. Amazingly enough, not all TDWTF readers are interested in f***ing women. Some readers aren't even male: imagine that.

    3. A number of the comments here illustrate why some of you little boys can't get laid. Grow up.

    Wait, could you go over #3 again? If ur female plz send pics.

  • gp (unregistered) in reply to bannedfromcoding

    You are very very wrong, the default non-root prompt for csh is %, for ksh is $.

  • william (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    What does her pressing Ctrl+C have to do with it?

    Ctrl C in text based OS'es or terminals etc ends the current code, program or batch file bringing you back to the prompt. similar to pressing Ctrl + break.

    when i read that she used Ctrl C to bring back the prompt, I facepalmed

  • Maharaj (unregistered) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    My experience with "Irish Girls" was back in the late 70's. The comment then was "I only changed one card". That was usually where the error was.

    DUH!

    AMEX to VISA?

    How much did these Irish girls cost?

  • GeekDude (unregistered) in reply to bannedfromcoding
    bannedfromcoding:
    Mikoangelo:
    The real WTF is her using csh, amirite?
    Closer to TRWTF is the fact that you mistake ksh for csh.

    ?? My ksh doesn't have a % prompt, but my csh does....

  • (cs) in reply to tweedle die
    tweedle die:
    Bob:
    schmitter:
    All this bickering and complaining about every article, and spell checking, and grammer correcting is making me feel smarter than you. From the bottom of my liver, Thank you.

    There is no "e" in "grammar".

    i remember the time there was some e in my grammer. she was dancing on the roof till 4am

    WIN :D

  • Hahaha (unregistered) in reply to Tired of idiocy
    Tired of idiocy:
    1) This was just a blonde joke with "Irish girl" substituted for "blonde". BFD.

    1. This story would clearly never have been posted had a guy been the stupid screw-up. I work at an ISP and trust me, we get stupid questions from men every day. BFD.

    2. Amazingly enough, not all TDWTF readers are interested in f***ing women. Some readers aren't even male: imagine that.

    3. A number of the comments here illustrate why some of you little boys can't get laid. Grow up.

    • How do you know it was a Blonde substituted for Irish Girl?

    • How do you know this wouldn't have been submitted if it was a bloke being an idiot? Most WTFs that I've read here seem to be about men doing stupid things. It's refreshing once in a while to see that women can be equally as stupid.

    • I'm guessing you haven't read the entire thread. It is quite clear that not all the posters are male, and some even make light of the fact that IT is an industry that often (perhaps wrongly) thinks of itself as a boys club.

    • In my experience, the people you're referring to here tend to be in the minority (although there are a few more around today, for some reason), and I suspect it's an attempt at humour....

    If you don't like it, fuck off and go somewhere else (that includes all you English perfectionist fucks too). People sit and whinge that "The Content isn't funny", "The Comments are Immature", "You misspelt/misused...." etc....Vote with your feet people. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. Noone (maybe I'm making a big assumption here) is forcing you to view this site (and if someone is they're probably gonna cane you for being anti it anyways).
    I get pissed off at people who bag a site and/or the people who visit it, when they have chosen to visit that site themselves.

    Perhaps you should grow up yourself, and go find a nice mature site to enjoy.

  • (cs)
    Root:
    I am often amused by people who have nothing better to do than the Grammar Nazi thing, it suggests to me that they don't understand what's going on, and so begin checking for grammatical issues...
    No one has to "check" for grammatical issues. Unwanted, they present themselves.

    Imagine you are riding along in your convertible with the top down, enjoying the wind in your face on a scenic winding stretch of hilly country road. With each curve, each hilltop, you encounter new sights of interest. You are taking all this in when suddenly your tires slam into and bounce awkwardly over an unforeseen speedbump across the road. You are jarred, irritated and completely distracted from the unfolding vista which had been your focus.

    So it is with grammatical issues. They distract from the topic of discussion.

    If you can't learn how to use an apostrophe properly, or when to use "there", "their" and "they're", so be it; but don't try to excuse such laziness and/or mental deficiency by suggesting that those who do learn it are the ones with a comprehension problem.

  • Blighty (unregistered) in reply to :)

    The Irish may love the sea, but the British have controlled the sea for many years.

  • Misha (unregistered) in reply to bannedfromcoding
    bannedfromcoding:
    Mikoangelo:
    The real WTF is her using csh, amirite?
    Closer to TRWTF is the fact that you mistake ksh for csh.

    Eh? There was a % prompt, right?

    1 misha@somehost% echo $SHELL
/bin/csh
2 misha@somehost% ksh
$
  • Brent (unregistered)

    I was posted in a computer lab to help an undergraduate class when a student asked for help. They were doing excel macros and none of the examples would work for him. Not even the most basic.

    I got him to clear the macros and start again so that I could watch what he was doing. As it turned out he thought that a double quote meant hitting the single quote key twice! I don't think he went very far with his studies.

  • Root (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Root:
    I am often amused by people who have nothing better to do than the Grammar Nazi thing, it suggests to me that they don't understand what's going on, and so begin checking for grammatical issues...
    No one has to "check" for grammatical issues. Unwanted, they present themselves.

    Imagine you are riding along in your convertible with the top down, enjoying the wind in your face on a scenic winding stretch of hilly country road. With each curve, each hilltop, you encounter new sights of interest. You are taking all this in when suddenly your tires slam into and bounce awkwardly over an unforeseen speedbump across the road. You are jarred, irritated and completely distracted from the unfolding vista which had been your focus.

    So it is with grammatical issues. They distract from the topic of discussion.

    If you can't learn how to use an apostrophe properly, or when to use "there", "their" and "they're", so be it; but don't try to excuse such laziness and/or mental deficiency by suggesting that those who do learn it are the ones with a comprehension problem.

    Sorry - if you're the one who can't possibly read through a paragraph without being distracted by the most minuscule violation of grammar or semantics, then I suggest it is you who have the problem with comprehension.

    It may well be mental deficiency on their part (in which case it's not really their fault, and it won't fix itself by being pointed out) or it may well be laziness (do you think someone will stop being lazy just because it annoys you?).

    I consider myself to have a great comprehension of the English language, and a better than average understanding of the grammar. Hell, I even notice some (I'd like to say most, but I'm not quite that arrogant) of the mistakes made by others here (and am amused when the Grammar Nazis make them themselves), but I don't feel the need to berate the person who made the mistake, nor to correct them. I like to think I'm intelligent enough to work out what's going on despite their mistake.
    But hey, if you feel you need to prove to the world that you have a greater understanding of English than the rest of the world, who am I to stop you?

    Short story: If you feel that coming across an error causes a distraction comparable to being thrown from a moving vehicle, and I don't have that problem, then I don't think it's me who has problems understanding. Get over yourself!

    Oh, and please, please do highlight all my grammar errors in this soliloquy, I'm just dying to know whether you approve!

  • Icarus (unregistered) in reply to Joey Stink Eye Smiles
    :):
    Ah, the Irish and their love of the Sea
    Joey Stink Eye Smiles:
    And Sea++
    Argh! Can't you sea these puns are killing me!
  • nonpartisan (unregistered) in reply to Root

    It's a form of arrogance. "I'm too lazy to take the time to learn the rules and do it right so f y'all and deal with it." These are the same people that make mistakes when driving, or blatantly break the rules, and make others deal with it by forcing them to get out of the way. They don't want to be inconvenienced.

    And it's arrogance for Grammar Nazis to tell others they should do it right because that's what the rules say and you better follow 'em, G-d it.

    It's not too much to expect someone to use the language correctly. Mistakes can be forgiven if a person learns from them. But it's just another sign of societal deterioraton and my-fellow-human-being-be-damned if one just doesn't care.

    I tend toward the side of Grammar Nazi. Some errors are so blatantly wrong that it's obvious what the author meant. Some are much more subtle and can go multiple ways, so it takes a good 30-60 seconds to figure out what he/she meant. Several of those and you've now entered a construction zone, to expand the pothole analogy.

    I was going to add another example about smokers and flatulence, but I'll leave it here.

  • Buzzard (unregistered)

    Rather an Irish girl than a dot headed Indian girl!

  • Demon (unregistered) in reply to nonpartisan

    Perhaps we should also criticise people who use bad grammar like "'em" and "y'all" as well?

    The people posting here are (AFAIK) not professional writers, and come from all corners of the world. For some of them, English may not be their first language, while others might be young and not have had the chance to learn the intricacies of the English language yet (and others again may assume things from what they hear - a lot of children seem to thing "[W/C/Sh]ould of..." rather than "[W/C/Sh]ould've..."

    I agree that people should use the language correctly, however I also realise that having a go at them in an open forum is NOT going going to fix the problem. It irritates other posters, makes the Nazi appear like a pretentious Git and (in all likelihood) is totally ignored by the original poster. As 'Root' pointed out before, if the problem is that someone is a little slow, then they won't learn from someone (usually aggressively) pointing it out (or more often trying to humiliate them). If the problem is laziness, why will they listen to what the Nazi says? Further, if the problem is that someone is badly educated, will they learn from someone here? I doubt it.

    The only people that Grammar Nazis post for, is themselves (and it always seems with some delusion that others will think 'wow, what an intelligent person'). Other than causing arguments such as this one (which really distract from the thread - more than any grammatical errors might), they serve no purpose whatsoever - and we see people making the same problems again and again, which highlights the futility of correcting them.

    The people that read these posts can probably be categorised into (at least) 4 groups (although people may fit into more than 1):

    1. Those who post using bad grammar
    2. Those that read the posts, and don't care about the bad grammar
    3. Those who read the posts and don't notice even the most blatant grammar error
    4. Grammar Nazis

    Which group is the Grammar Nazis' target audience?
    They claim it is 1, but this makes no sense (as above) Group 3 may not even notice the posts, so that leaves either 2 or 4. Either way, they are merely trying to show that they are smarter than the average Jo - something which I think they fail miserably. If anything, they make themselves to be pedantic dickwads that get hung up on the most irrelevant detail.

    Then again, I suppose responding to them annoys people too, and makes me look a tad pretentious too....

  • Captcha (unregistered)

    ssh candlejack /usr/local/bi

  • Technically Blonde (unregistered) in reply to Hahaha
    Hahaha:
    I get pissed off at people who bag a site and/or the people who visit it, when they have chosen to visit that site themselves.
    Well, I don't know about you, but I paid the cost of admission to this site and therefore I feel I'm ENTITLED to interesting and entertaining content every day.

    What do you mean, "the cost"? C'mon, you had to submit nude photos of yourself before you were allowed to read and comment here the same as the rest of us, right?

    Wait a minute... now I'm really confused....

  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to Harrow
    Harrow:
    Anonymous:
    ... mmmmm, 10 year old Irish girl...)
    This is the _pedantic_ thread. Grammar Nazi, spelling Nazi, and all like that. Lots of peolple get those words mixed up.

    pedantic: marked by a narrow focus on formal rules and trivial points of learning

    pedophilic: sexually attracted to children; lover of 10 year old Irish girls

    -Harrow.

    This post would have been a lot funnier if it was just the first line, and not the following two lines that proceeded to over-explain the joke. An important part of being humorous is knowing when to stop!

  • (cs) in reply to Brent
    Brent:
    I was posted in a computer lab to help an undergraduate class when a student asked for help. They were doing excel macros and none of the examples would work for him. Not even the most basic.

    I got him to clear the macros and start again so that I could watch what he was doing. As it turned out he thought that a double quote meant hitting the single quote key twice! I don't think he went very far with his studies.

    UUTF?!

  • Shifty Pete (unregistered) in reply to RBoy

    What's "What's "What's love got to do with it?" got do do with it?" got do do with it?

    With apologies to Doug R. H.

  • (cs) in reply to Root
    Root:
    Sorry - if you're the one who can't possibly read through a paragraph without being distracted by the most minuscule violation of grammar or semantics, then I suggest it is you who have the problem with comprehension.
    Try to keep up, please. "the most minuscule" is your uninvited addition to what I said. However, if you were listening to music, I daresay you would be distracted from the composition as a whole if you heard a single flat note. For long moments afterward, you would not be hearing the melody and harmony parts; you would be lost in the thought, "God, that was an awful mis-fingering. That guy should be (and probably will be) fired from the symphony."
    Root:
    It may well be mental deficiency on their part (in which case it's not really their fault, and it won't fix itself by being pointed out) or it may well be laziness (do you think someone will stop being lazy just because it annoys you?).
    I don't care. Act like a dumbass, talk like a dumbass, spell like a dumbass, and you'll get treated like a dumbass. Particularly if you posture yourself as a public writer.
    Root:
    I consider myself to have a great comprehension of the English language, and a better than average understanding of the grammar. Hell, I even notice some (I'd like to say most, but I'm not quite that arrogant) of the mistakes made by others here (and am amused when the Grammar Nazis make them themselves)
    So am I, and I love to have fun with that.
    Root:
    , but I don't feel the need to berate the person who made the mistake, nor to correct them. I like to think I'm intelligent enough to work out what's going on despite their mistake. But hey, if you feel you need to prove to the world that you have a greater understanding of English than the rest of the world, who am I to stop you?
    Nice try, Root. You attempt to put me down by claiming to be above putting me down... sorry, doesn't work that way. And would you please stop pulling the Dilbertian trick of attempting to turn everything I say into a bizarre absolute?

    [image]

    Root:
    Short story: If you feel that coming across an error causes a distraction comparable to being thrown from a moving vehicle, and I don't have that problem, then I don't think it's me who has problems understanding. Get over yourself!
    Would you mind quoting my text and highlighting that part where I mentioned being thrown from a vehicle? Just to show that you're not turning what I said into a bizarre absolute...

    Addendum (2009-07-02 02:18): Prediction: I can manipulate Root one way or the other by what I say hear. If I didn't post this addendum, we would never here from him again, but now he will be challanged and must respond. Pore manipulated sucker. Off course, now that Ive pointed out this fact, he cann't respond, or he will be showen for a fool.

  • (cs)

    How come every other post I make gets deleted? Especially the well-thought out, on-topic posts. (WTF is wrong with normalizing your data and designing a function combinator made for it? Object orientation only works if SURPRISE your domain deals with objects that interact with each other. An object system is JUST a fancy function combinator that knows to look up which function to call in a class hierarchy. Nothing special about it, and certainly not straightforwardly suitable for MOST problems. Yes, you can get around the limitations of the combinator by using "patterns" and abusing the inheritance tree. Whoopee.)

    Oh well, I guess Alex Dipapadigiornomapoulis doesn't want my traffic. This blog sucks anyway. I'll be sure to kick your ass if I see you in the Reel 'M' Inn again. See you suckers later.

  • (cs) in reply to Captain Oblivious
    Captain Oblivious:
    How come every other post I make gets deleted? Especially the well-thought out, on-topic posts. *Blah blah blah* object orientation *blah blah blah * fancy function combinator *blah blah blah* abusing the inheritance tree. Whoopee.)

    Oh well, I guess Alex Dipapadigiornomapoulis doesn't want my traffic. This blog sucks anyway. I'll be sure to kick your ass if I see you in the Reel 'M' Inn again. See you suckers later.

    Look, Cap'n O, shut up 'n' knock it off. Were you not paying attention way back at the start of this thread?
    Harrow:
    This is the pedantic thread. Grammar Nazi, spelling Nazi, and all like that.

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