• Tempura (unregistered)

    Isn't the instruction of the login-dialog obviously? It's all about Zen. To do something, just do nothing!

  • TH-Junkie (unregistered)

    TRWTF? That I recognised the Theme Hospital screenshot without reading anything and initially only with have the top half-inch visible on screen

    Waster youth....

  • (cs)

    I accidentally the whole internet.

  • damnum (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    kastein:
    anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?
    Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?
    kastein:
    Who gets naming rights on the one after Vundabytes? Following the backwards-alphabet trend, I think it should be named Uberbytes.
    I vote for Godzillabytes.
    All in good time, boys and girls.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    It is not a "retarded meme that came into fashion after the arrest of Josef Fritzl". The joke about the distinction or lack thereof between Australia and Austria is quite a lot older, and it is not a meme; it is reality. I've so far received 3 packages ordered in the USA(2) and Canada(1) which had been routed via Australia.

    Also, for chinese people, Austria could as well be a city. There are at least four cities with more inhabitants than the entire country and ~20 quickly closing the gap.

  • JoJo (unregistered)

    internal void AbandonAllHope()

    shouldn't that be...

    eternal void AbandonAllHope()

  • oppeto (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    kastein:
    anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?
    Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?
    Yes, but Monolobytes and Bilobytes need to come first. And some idiot American probably starts using Bilo and Trilo wrong.
  • (cs) in reply to brazzy
    brazzy:
    Jay Jay:
    Wow. I could hear the whoosh of that going over your head from here...
    No, that was the sound of an incestual rapist riding a kangaroo to town to get some Apfelstrudel after a hard day of Opal mining.

    Those cars are MINED? :-)

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The joke about the distinction or lack thereof between Australia and Austria is quite a lot older, and it is not a meme; it is reality. I've so far received 3 packages ordered in the USA(2) and Canada(1) which had been routed via Australia.

    And New Mexico is a state in the United States of America.

    I tried to mail a package from North Carolina to New Mexico many years ago, and the U.S. Postal Service counter-person pulled out a foreign rate book. I informed him that this was not an international shipment.

  • Not logged in today (unregistered) in reply to oppeto
    oppeto:
    Code Dependent:
    kastein:
    anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?
    Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?
    Yes, but Monolobytes and Bilobytes need to come first. And some idiot American probably starts using Bilo and Trilo wrong.
    Whooosh
  • db (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    It is _not_ a "retarded meme that came into fashion after the arrest of Josef Fritzl". The joke about the distinction or lack thereof between Australia and Austria is quite a lot older, and it is not a meme; it is reality. I've so far received 3 packages ordered in the USA(2) and Canada(1) which had been routed via Australia.

    Also, for chinese people, Austria could as well be a city. There are at least four cities with more inhabitants than the entire country and ~20 quickly closing the gap.

    I'm in Australia, and some wag in my town has been ripping letters off postboxes so they spell "Austr..ia Post". Probably the same guy that ripped the S from the "crap metal" bin.

  • Nomen Nescio (unregistered) in reply to Subroutine
    Subroutine:
    The real problem with ä, ö, ü, å etc. is that English uses vowels really randomly, atleast from a Finnish perspective. In Finnish, each vowel corresponds to exactly one sound.

    In English 'a' is different in 'cat' and 'bar'. (The 'a' in cat should be 'ä' instead.) In English 'e' is different in 'green' and 'men'. (The 'e' in 'green' should be 'i' instead.) In English 'o' is different in 'dog' and 'how' and 'moose'. (The 'o' in how should be 'a' instead, 'o' in 'moose' should be 'u'.) In English 'u' is different in 'true' and 'bug' and 'fur'. (The 'u' in 'bug' should be 'a' instead, 'u' in 'fur' should be 'ö'.) In English 'y' is a consonant (should be a vowel, should be used like the german 'ü', can't think of a English example offhand) and is used differently in 'my' and 'you'. ('my' should be written 'mai'.) Funny language :)

    That's OK, it will all be fixed soon: http://www.adecsys.com/zedrem.htm

    In the first year 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k'. This will this klear up konfusion.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to zbe
    i'm just glad that i don't have to write a chinese address... that would look like 上海 to me

    [those boxes with numbers that firefox uses for unicode characters]

    I think that writing the number boxes would be easier than writing the chinese anyway. But if you write "Shanghai" or the whole address in English it'll generally get there. (Shanghai is what you wrote there).

  • Hannes (unregistered)

    Greetings to Vienna and the poor fellow that now published his phone number here ;)

  • (cs)

    The box (bo) is a Chinese character.

  • nocturnal YL (unregistered) in reply to Luser Support

    To say 6 PB is the size of the internet is a bit of understatement...

    If anything, it's saddening to hear that my newly-bought 2TB disk is nowhere close to being sufficient.

  • Gluber (unregistered)

    The funny thing for number one is .. i live at Schönbrunnerstraße 100... Did not know a fellow TDWTF reader lives so close..

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