• luctus (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.

    1, No, this is a "Point at the stupid person and laugh" joke, where girl can just as easily be replaced by boy.

    2, Did you even check the ratio between guy and girl fuckups posted on this site? Stop riding the sexism bandwagon already.

    3, No, but you sure seem to have a rather large interrest in women since you seem to be pointing out that its a woman.

    4, Oh yeah. You know, I grew up with two sisters, and got invited a lot to girl only parties despite being a guy. I know that women in fact are worse than men when they are not trying to act "the right" way to make men interrested. Again, stop with the sexism ride.

  • Konrad (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Actually looks like she works in latex now

    http://www.bustedtees.com/vandelayindustries

  • Anone (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.

    Now you've got me wondering if there was ever a quiche shell.

  • (cs)

    The realy WTF is "Irish girl"

  • Gideon (unregistered) in reply to Brent

    That's not too odd, seen as in Latex (the Computer Science standerd in typing up reports) states double single quotes should be used instead of a single double quote.

  • (cs) in reply to Demon
    Demon:
    The people posting here are (AFAIK) not professional writers, and come from all corners of the world.

    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.

    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').

    QFT

  • Addison (unregistered)

    Isn't there a rule you guys usually follow where students are more or less immune for WTFs for not knowing better? I'd dare say this falls under that category.

  • Gary B (unregistered) in reply to Joey Stink Eye Smiles
    Joey Stink Eye Smiles:
    And Sea++
    I have a new sailboat, and I'm looking for a name ... Hmmm.
  • peterchen (unregistered) in reply to Sionnach

    "OK, OK, let's say 'a person'"

    "What has hem being a person got to do ith it?"

    "OK, OK, can we say 'carbon based entity'?"

    "What's got eiq being based on carbon got to do with it?"

    "OK, OK, just 'entity'."

    "What's got sub being an entity to do with it? Aren't you forcing your separational beliefs onto people who believe that everything is one?"

    "OK, OK, cue some Michael Jackson joke".

  • Carl (unregistered)

    In the early eighties I took a programming course in college, and we had an assignment to write a simple root-finding function in FORTRAN. If you did it right, you could do it in about 40 lines of code. I had one student ask me for help ("it doesn't work, why?"), and was shown nine pages of gobbledy-gook that made no sense whatsoever. After scratching my head for a while I asked the student how was the routine supposed to work. The reply was "I don't know". I had found the reason why the program didn't work!

  • Sam Liddicott (unregistered)

    not forgetting the holy see

  • (cs) in reply to Sam Liddicott
    Sam Liddicott:
    not forgetting the holy see
    You mean the one as blessed by Saint Dennis (Ritchie)?
  • gc (unregistered) in reply to :)

    wise up

  • The Joke (unregistered) in reply to william
    william:
    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

    Whooosh

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Addendum (2009-07-02 02:18): Prediction: I can manipulate Root one way or the other by what I say hear [should be "here"]. If I didn't post this addendum, we would never here [now you mean "hear"] from him again, but now he will be challanged and must respond. Pore [I presume you mean "poor", and not a reference to tiny holes] manipulated sucker. Off course, now that Ive ["I've" -- apostrophes are important!] pointed out this fact, he cann't ["can't" -- only one "n"] respond, or he will be showen ["shown"] for a fool.

    Was this addendum added by the same Grammar Nazi who made the original post? Because, wow. If you're going to ridicule others, you really should try not to make the same mistakes yourself.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Tired of idiocy
    Tired of idiocy:
    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.

    Yes, I can't recall ever seeing a single story on this site about a MAN making a mistake that the story-writer proceeds to make fun of.

    Are you for real or just trolling?

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    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 you see the discarded cap from a soda bottle lying beside the road. You slam on the breaks and pull over to the side of the road to study it. You are totally fixated on this tiny item that mars the otherwise pristince scene. You are jarred, irritated and completely distracted from the unfolding vista which had been your focus. Your entire life is ruined. You do not see any choice but to put up a series of huge billboards announcing that the beautiful countryside has been ruined by this soda cap. You erect loudspeakers to blare out the message, 24 hours a day, that the once stunning vista has been horribly marred. You hire skywriters to futher proclaim the message. When some people foolishly ignore your message and continue to attempt to enjoy the scenery, you see no alternative but to burn down all the forests and level the hillsides so that they cannot distract attention from your billboards.

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

    There, I finished up the analogy for you.

    Personally, if a grammar or spelling error results in the statement being inadvertantly funny, that just adds to the entertainment. I vote that we all pile on and ridicule the poster, and generally beat the new joke to death along with the original story. If not, so somebody made a typo or had a moment of brain freeze. So what? Who cares?

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

    When a bald old man (like me) makes a dumb mistake, he just looks dumb. When a pretty young girl makes a dumb mistake, it's cute.

    That's why women will always have an advantage over men.

  • What the? (unregistered)

    "Ctrl-C" - what a noob! Everyone knows the fastest way to accelerate a console app is to divide an integer by zero.

  • What the? (unregistered) in reply to Captain Oblivious
    Captain Oblivious:
    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.

    The Captain's just upset because we found out about his Irish heritage.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    facepalm

  • Subroutine (unregistered) in reply to Demon
    Demon:
    a lot of children seem to thing "[W/C/Sh]ould of..." rather than "[W/C/Sh]ould've..."
    And many adults as well, based on what I've read...

    I remember the first time I encountered that particular error. English is not my first language so usually I've first learned how something is written and only then how it's pronounced. It took me about a minute to figure out what the hell the other person meant by writing 'should of'. And the only reason why I did eventually figure it out is because I actually ended up muttering it aloud...

    And isn't this liberal attitude to grammar just like what causes half of the WTFs on this site? Bah, I don't want to write valid C++ code, the compiler should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to write valid HTML, the browser should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to write good instructions, the user should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to use the standard sorting algorithms, my own custom bubble/random sort still gets the job done! And so on...

  • Ike (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    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!
    That's my job, honey.

  • (cs)

    Irish Girl is alive and well, you know:

    http://www.yceml.net/0810/10546986-8.jpg

  • 008 (unregistered) in reply to Shifty Pete
    Shifty Pete:
    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.

    What's StackOverflowException got to do with it?

  • c0mpliant (unregistered)

    Indeed we Irish do love Ctrl C, why do you think the English we're occupying us for so long, all we did for 700 years was press Ctrl C and hope that would interrupt them!

  • Javier (unregistered)

    I was helping in the microsoft word class, and a 20 years old girl call me for help, and when i arrive to her desk she said "my MOUSSE dont work" with the most french pronuntiation style you can imagine... i though "i hope its chocolate mousse".

  • blitztiger (unregistered)

    At my school the tutoring goes the other way. Us undergrads need to teach basic stuff to the graduates... This hasn't given me a high opinion of grad students...

  • nick chan (unregistered)
  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    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.

    huh-huh huh-huh, you said fingering.

  • (cs) in reply to Subroutine
    Subroutine:
    And isn't this liberal attitude to grammar just like what causes half of the WTFs on this site? Bah, I don't want to write valid C++ code, the compiler should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to write valid HTML, the browser should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to write good instructions, the user should know what I meant! Bah, I don't want to use the standard sorting algorithms, my own custom bubble/random sort still gets the job done! And so on...

    QFT

  • (cs) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    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 sto
    Fixed that for y
  • Crusty (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Code Dependent:
    Addendum (2009-07-02 02:18): Prediction: I can manipulate Root one way or the other by what I say hear [should be "here"]. If I didn't post this addendum, we would never here [now you mean "hear"] from him again, but now he will be challanged and must respond. Pore [I presume you mean "poor", and not a reference to tiny holes] manipulated sucker. Off course, now that Ive ["I've" -- apostrophes are important!] pointed out this fact, he cann't ["can't" -- only one "n"] respond, or he will be showen ["shown"] for a fool.

    Was this addendum added by the same Grammar Nazi who made the original post? Because, wow. If you're going to ridicule others, you really should try not to make the same mistakes yourself.

    Oooh, a double whoosh!!

  • (cs) in reply to Addison
    Addison:
    Isn't there a rule you guys usually follow where students are more or less immune for WTFs for not knowing better? I'd dare say this falls under that category.

    Student code is out of bounds unless it is so exceptionally stellar, it's significantly more brillant than the Brillant Paula Bean. (This is not the standard - it's just an example of something quite brillant which normally just isn't brillant enough to be reported when it's a student.)

    This wasn't student code.

    I've been involved in many introduction to computer programming classes. Some of these were because I went to a number of different primary schools, and each one seemed convinced that no other primary school would teach proper computer use - so the intro course is mandatory. Others, because I was helping out with the class. Almost all included words similar to 'If you want to stop your program prematurely, you can press control-C. This will abort its execution wherever it is.' in the first day/hour of the course. (The exceptions, of course, were the two in mac-based labs.) The intro to unix course I had mentioned it multiple times, and the properties of this magic key sequence were often commented upon in the computer labs in which I spent a large portion of my time.

    Given all of this, it seems inconceivable to me that anyone would do such a thing.

    There is also the question of her distinct lack of curiosity, as she did not appear to stop and wonder how it was that control-C returned her prompt quicker. Just like the 3-4 newbs that I caught doing the same thing back when I was still in school.

    Sigh. Maybe that word doesn't mean what I think it means...

  • Horatio (unregistered) in reply to Brent

    I was a TA a few years ago for a basic computer science programming class. For the lab homework, one particular young lady kept turning in files containing compile errors instead of her source code. I tried explaining that if she turned in even non-working code, I could give her something other than a zero. She ended up dropping out of the class, and I assume the CS program as well.

  • Todd (unregistered) in reply to Brent

    I told a person at Bell Labs the location of a fileshare once. It was the normal \servername\sharelocation format. They typed it as "backslashbackslashservernamebackslashsharelocation". This was over the phone so it took me some time to figure out what they were doing.

  • The Distant Future (unregistered)

    This really sounds like some setup for a Candlejack jo

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    one of the comments reminded me of a story where someone thought "double-click" meant press BOTH BUTTONS AT ONCE!

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