• (cs) in reply to kuroshin
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

    I created an account just to say, that is the best post I have seen, on any forum, ever.

  • (cs) in reply to Slepnir
    Anonymous:

    You gotta give the president credit at least for (improperly) using Opera.

     

    Catchpa  - "whiskey" - sounds good to me right about now

    I've never understood this fascination with Opera.  I've used it like once or twice and I see no reason to move from FF to it, other than the FF memory footprint.

    I'm not saying Opera is bad or anything, because I really don't want to start a browser flame war, I'm just interested in people's (unbiased) opinions as to why Opera is a good choice.

    Actually the only thing I use Opera for is Ninan.  If I leave the Ninan web interface refreshing overnight, FF fills my RAM. And I have 2GB (pagefile disabled).  Opera thankfully seems to reuse the memory.

  • (cs)
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    It was only 9:15 in the morning and Neal was ready to write the day off as a complete loss. Neal's day started off with him accidentally pressing the "Alarm Off" button instead of "Snooze,"

    I just got back from a weekend at Bellagio in Vegas. they had the most moronic alarm clocks. I didn't set the alarm, but my roommate said it was frustrating as controls to set the alarm where on both sides of the clock.

    The next morning we woke up too early, and I tried to hit the snooze button. I slammed my hand down on top of the radio, and nothing... I groped around looking for a large button, and nothing. I finally silenced the radio by hitting so button, but I wasn't sure if it was the snooze. So I woke up and looked at the alarm closely.

    The Snooze button was about an inch long, and right next to the snooze button, with no separation (It actually looks like a single long button with a split near one end) is the OFF button! The entire button is about 1.5 inches wide, but the right most 1.25 inches is snooze, and the left quarter inch is off. What a brillant design!

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  • Jonnymind (unregistered) in reply to akatherder

    Neal shouldn't have NEVER gone in that office. In that way, the shouting idiot and his crew would have directly faced their only rightful destiny that is to be deserved for them: extinction. If the only guy able to see if a blocked content icon is flashing would have not helped out that pack of subhuman creatures, the mankind would now be a much brighter entity to be a part of.

     
    Kudos for fixing the problem, but he wasted a lot of precious resources (i.e. air, water etc.) allowing that ad company to still affect mankind.

  • (cs) in reply to Samah
    Samah:
    I've never understood this fascination with Opera.  I've used it like once or twice and I see no reason to move from FF to it, other than the FF memory footprint.


    Pretty much it's a nice, small, whole browser, with all the features that you need built in and less security flaws than IE and less memory leakage than Firefox.

    I've been using it solidly since 5.0, as netscape 4 pissed me off with bad standards compliance and IE has a manky interface. I use due to it being excellent at web standards, speed of rendering, having tabs, mouse gestures and just having a well designed interface (IE is terrible at user feedback; Firefox feels clunky and has that stupid download system which always puts file just where you don't want them).

    I suppose it's a choice.

    BTW to the person that says that Opera isn't the default browser, it is: a lot of mobile phones (such as the symbian based ones), PDAs and even the Nintendo DS use Opera by default.
  • (cs) in reply to Earl Purple
    Earl Purple:

    He should have got this:

    [Sniped that God-awful crap]

    And just what was the point of that?

  • (cs) in reply to Thomas Cobb
    Anonymous:
    seventoes:
    Anonymous:


    Dude!  That's harsh!  I resemble that remark.

     .... You resemble that remark? I think you mean "Resent"



    Ummm, yeah dude, that's what I meant.  I resent that I resemble that remark.  I really do...

     that reminds me of this:
     

    <Adam|Zevlin> getting like gb ;)

    <Glenn> incontinent?

    <Greybeard> hey I resemble that comment

    <Adam|Zevlin> resent you mean?

    <Greybeard> it was a deleberiate malaproprism


     

  • Chris! (unregistered) in reply to ssprencel

    I am going to have to disagree with your math here, it is pretty obvious that Neal is able to do in a minute more than 9 people can in 45 minutes.  So it is safe to say a minute of Neal's time is equal to 135 minutes of normal time. Since he already had worked 3 minutes (or 6:45normalized) he only needed to work for another 1:15 normalized (36 seconds Nealized).

    Note Neal was able to finish the task which the rest of his office couldn't in 45 minutes, assuming the task would of taken them another 8 minutes, he is done with work.

  • phs3 (unregistered)

    Um...if he was blocking the word "banner", then when Google suggested "banner" for "bnner", it would have been blocked, no?

    Or am I missing something, perhaps whitelisting of Google in Opera?

    ...phsiii
     

  • Xaroth (unregistered) in reply to dave
    dave:
    Samah:
    I've never understood this fascination with Opera.  I've used it like once or twice and I see no reason to move from FF to it, other than the FF memory footprint.


    Pretty much it's a nice, small, whole browser, with all the features that you need built in and less security flaws than IE and less memory leakage than Firefox.

    I've been using it solidly since 5.0, as netscape 4 pissed me off with bad standards compliance and IE has a manky interface. I use due to it being excellent at web standards, speed of rendering, having tabs, mouse gestures and just having a well designed interface (IE is terrible at user feedback; Firefox feels clunky and has that stupid download system which always puts file just where you don't want them).

    I suppose it's a choice.

    BTW to the person that says that Opera isn't the default browser, it is: a lot of mobile phones (such as the symbian based ones), PDAs and even the Nintendo DS use Opera by default.


    The other nice bit about Opera is that it passes the ACID2 CSS compliance test ( http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ ).  As someone who does a lot of web work for my job, it's certainly nice to have a good reference browser so you know what is a browser bug in FF or IE, and what is your own stupid CSS mistakes.  Mouse gestures (especially the left->right click for forward and right->left click for back) are a nice touch, as well.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Rafael Larios

    Anonymous:
    Oh my God!...  Talking about eating your own dog food!

    No, the problem is that he didn't want to eat his own dog food.
     

  • (cs) in reply to phs3
    Anonymous:

    Um...if he was blocking the word "banner", then when Google suggested "banner" for "bnner", it would have been blocked, no?

    Or am I missing something, perhaps whitelisting of Google in Opera?

    ...phsiii
     

    He wasn't blocking the word banner.  He was blocking any URL with the word banner in it.  The URL for a google search of "Banner" has the word banner in it.  The URL for a google search of the word "bnner" does not.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=banner

    http://www.google.com/search?q=bnner

    Follow?
     

  • HW (unregistered) in reply to Thomas Cobb

    Me too.  Although once it really wasn't me. Supposedly it wasn't the compiler either, but the aluminum wiring in my house.  Sure enough my code wouldn't hang when I plugged in a UPS. Still it was only that one compiler that was sensitive to the power quality.  I learned then and there to not beat myself up and to always look for an external source first. 

  • (cs) in reply to Anon E Mouse
    Anonymous:

    That boss needs to lay off the coke.  Seriously, it sounds like he has a substance abuse problem....

    <font size="+1">G</font>reat!  Our morning toot of Bolivian marching powder was just blown all over the server room by Kim while reading today's WTF.  The CIO is going to pop her cork when she hears she's going to miss her morning toot.

     

  • Preston (unregistered)

    Even more amusing is that the "White House editing war banners" story turned out to be false too (every video on the White House website has that black bar at the bottom...to obscure the CNN text news crawl).

  • Olddog (unregistered)

    This isn't a WTF.  This is a TreasurePriceless.  Ignorance, denial, and finger-pointing, all in the episode.  This made my day.

  • phs3 (unregistered) in reply to merreborn
    merreborn:

    He wasn't blocking the word banner.  He was blocking any URL with the word banner in it.  The URL for a google search of "Banner" has the word banner in it.  The URL for a google search of the word "bnner" does not.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=banner

    http://www.google.com/search?q=bnner

    Follow?
     

    I do indeed...thanks.  I was wondering why nobody else had picked up on this!

    ...phsiii 

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to kuroshin
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

    Still laughing at this comment.  You obviously are fluent in AI.  Well done.

  • (cs) in reply to Ben
    Anonymous:

    As a network admin, I am constantly amazed at people who experience some kind of problem and it never crosses their mind they may have caused the problem.  This story sums it up perfectly.  I'm surprised he didn't find some way to blame M$.  Probably just didn't have enough time to think about it.

    Tell me about it. It seems that "Who else messed this up?" is the instinctive reaction of most people. Often followed by "Who else can I sue?".

    They'd be amazed how much better live goes if their first reaction is "What have I done wrong?". Applies to people skills too: "How did I cause/exacerbate this problem?". Essential for programming, as you find thousands of your own bugs for every one of anothers. 

  • RobertJohnK (unregistered) in reply to Diamonds
    Diamonds:

    This is why I don't like working 8 hour days. Neal shouldn't feel at all bad for arriving to work late. People like him in 7 hours acomplish as much as someone who works 8 hours. The proof is even in this post. While the whole office was working on this during the 45 minutes that he was late, Neal figured it out in 3 minutes.

     Neal should have gone home right after that meeting and told his boss that he's put in the equivilent of 8 hours of work, because if he wasn't around surely the boss would have spent the whole day to realize that he had blocked the search terms with Opera.

    Eek, no. This would effectively lower the productivity of each worker to the level of the slowest/dimmest.

  • (cs) in reply to emurphy
    emurphy:

    Shark Tank had a story a few weeks back about a company whose new-fangled spam-blocker was generating false positives left and right.  See, the company is a mortgage broker, and... well, I'm sure y'all can figure it out from there.

    I heard a similar story about a town council officer in the UK, who had some new spam filtering software installed and enthusiastically entered a long list of 'banned' keywords, including a certain 4-letter expletive beginning with C. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that his incoming email had dropped to nearly nothing.

    He worked for the town of Scunthorpe.

     

  • Paddington Bear (unregistered) in reply to gasman

    Which, of course, brings us nicely on to the old chestnut:

     I say, I say, I say... which three professional football clubs can't you search on in search engines?

    Scunthorpe

    Arsenal, and

    Fucking Manchester United 

    Boom Boom.

    No quack. 

  • RobertJohnK (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous:

    Wow. Not only is he hypocritical (a banner-company president intentionally trying to block banner ads)

    Why is that hypocrrisy? I don't have a personal use for each and every product we develop at our company (besides, 8 hours of porn a day is enough) and I bet that's quite the standard.

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to Paddington Bear
    Anonymous:

    Which, of course, brings us nicely on to the old chestnut:

     I say, I say, I say... which three professional football clubs can't you search on in search engines?

    Scunthorpe

    Arsenal, and

    F***ing Manchester United 

    Boom Boom.

    No quack. 

    Just pokin fun. I've always suspected my friends - the Brits, as the source for American cuss words. It's the sublime disguise of overly engineered British names, that Americans reflexively reduce, abbreviate, and mis-pronounce, resulting in the easy-to-speak curse.  Can you think of any more shires that we may have reduced to shites? 

    Of course... we've butchered the english language to such a point that a proper noun can become a verb based on advertising popularity. Thus the adnoun. ( googled it, xeroxed it ) So it's not a stretch to think we would conjure a cuss from the name of a perfectly repsectable forkshire.

  • (cs) in reply to Olddog
    Anonymous:
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

    Still laughing at this comment.  You obviously are fluent in AI.  Well done.

    briliant post. So...

    Ifts written, congratiulations.

    If its generated, what did you use?
     

     

     

  • mikedt (unregistered) in reply to OperaUser

     tools, preferences, advanced, content, blocked sites

    not sure when it showed up, I'm running 9.1

  • (cs) in reply to ssprencel
    ssprencel:
    Earl Purple:

    He should have got this:

    [Sniped that God-awful crap]

    And just what was the point of that?

    An attempt to get TDWTF blacklisted by Google, apparently.

  • (cs) in reply to emurphy
    emurphy:

    Shark Tank had a story a few weeks back about a company whose new-fangled spam-blocker was generating false positives left and right.  See, the company is a mortgage broker, and... well, I'm sure y'all can figure it out from there.

     

    That happens to pretty much every mid-sized mortgage/broker/lender/realtor that institutes anti-spam; you gotta start somewhere, right? And you can only do so much upfront, without putting it in production. If the IT department isn't right on top of it to roll it out properly and be ready to deal with it, well, there's your WTF. I'm sure pharmaceutical companies have the same problem, although pharma spam has become so incoherent this last year you might confuse it with line noise.

    Small companies just enable outlook antispam (or their local norton's, SBC's, or whatever), and big companies have their redundant test servers and crazy shit like that.

  • (cs) in reply to Jeff L.

    Anonymous:
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

    Best laugh I've had all week. Someone needs to build a Scrum dialectizer (http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/).


    -J- 

    Or just run this through the dialectizer.  Would it become

    An' folks, this hyar is how Scrum wawks in real life:

    Th' pig go. Git is t'th' office. Late. Th' pig look. Shet mah mouth! Look at whut? Emppy office. Th' possum shout. Shout sumpin. Th' sumpin at th' pig, acco'din' t' th' code o' th' heells! Th' pig cornfusin'. But th' pig foller. Foller wif possum. Th' possum mighty angry. Th' pig browse. Wif Google. Possum blame. Blame is t'th' White House. Shif' blame. Blame is now t'Google. Th' possum now squawk. Shet mah mouth! Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is t'th' possum. Possum is fool, ah reckon. Giggle. Th' DailyWTF giggle.

    Or would it become:

    And folks, dis be how Scrum wo'ks in real life, dig dis:

    De pig go. 'S coo', bro. Go be to de office. Late. De pig look. Ya' know? Look at whut? Empty office. De chicken shout. Man! Shout sump'n. De sump'n at da damn pig. What it is, Mama! De pig confusin'. But da damn pig follow, so cut me some slack, Jack. Follow wid chicken. 'S coo', bro. De chicken real angry. Slap mah fro! De pig browse. Wid Google. Chicken blame. Blame be to de Honky Crib. Shift blame. Blame be now t'Google. De chicken now squawk. Ya' know? Squawk be "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opuh' flash. Lop some boogie. Pig sigh. Lop some boogie. Sigh be to de chicken. 'S coo', bro. Chicken be honkyfool. Giggle. De DailyWTF giggle.

    Or maybe it'd turn into:

    adn fo7kz, this sui h0w csrymw orks i|\| real life::

    teh pig go!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~ go s1 to teh officer l*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1~ the pig look.. lolololol!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~ loko ast whsat!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? empty offcie teh chiX)ren shout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111~~~~~~~ LOLOOLOL shhout som3thing olollolololololololo!!!!!!!11 TEHS OMETHING A TTEH PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UR LAME CUZ I WILL AHCK THE PIG CONFUS1NG,,, BUT THE PIG F0LLOW.. follow with ch1X0ren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111~~~ the chiX0ren vary angRy LOLLLOOLLOLOLLOL the pig browse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 with google!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 chiX0rrn blame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11~~~ blame 1s to teh whiTe hiouse/// LOOLOOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11~~~~ lololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 shift blame,, lbame Si now to go0ge!!!!!!!!!!!!!111~~~~~~~ teh chiX0Ren njow squa\\\\////\\\\////k!!!!!!!!!!!11~~~~~~~ squawk si "b-a-n-n-e-r'~~~~~~ HACK TEH PLANNET CAUSE U SUX0R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! olololo... op4ra flash.. pig sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111~~ LOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL sigh is t0 th3 ch1XOren!!!!!!!111~~~ CHIX0REN SSI FOOL GIgLGE!!!!!!!!!!!111~~~~~ the d4ilywtf giggle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111~~~

    But I guess we'll never know...

  • Psimon (unregistered)

    This was more funny than any realise.  Its mostly what happen but I think some things must have been change to protect the identity. It went on many hours before Neal got there and the boss was having heart attack because he thought ALL the search engines were screwing him too because none of them worked with those words either.  Whats really funny is the boss uses opera because he is "tech savy" and he always says explorer sucks but he thinks firefox is for unix.  The people in the office were sales so they poorly use a browser they cant understand one correctly but they all have explorer and none of them tried it on their computer.  Neal was only here for going away goodbye because he got a better employment and did not work here since the day before.  Thats why the boss screamed for Neal screwing him and all the time they talk Neal give him bugs bunny what a maroon look face to face.  Very priceless.

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to matt_6000

    Anonymous:
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

    Or just run this through the dialectizer.  Would it become

    And folks, dis be how Scrum wo'ks in real life, dig dis:

    De pig go. 'S coo', bro. Go be to de office. Late. De pig look. Ya' know? Look at whut? Empty office. De chicken shout. Man! Shout sump'n. De sump'n at da damn pig. What it is, Mama! De pig confusin'. But da damn pig follow, so cut me some slack, Jack. Follow wid chicken. 'S coo', bro. De chicken real angry. Slap mah fro! De pig browse. Wid Google. Chicken blame. Blame be to de Honky Crib. Shift blame. Blame be now t'Google. De chicken now squawk. Ya' know? Squawk be "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opuh' flash. Lop some boogie. Pig sigh. Lop some boogie. Sigh be to de chicken. 'S coo', bro. Chicken be honkyfool. Giggle. De DailyWTF giggle.

    OMG There's no way I'll ever believe the written word again.  Everything I read from now on,  I'll wonder....was this run this through the dialectizer.  What was it originally?

     What a Hoot.

  • I have the hat to this day. I have the hat. (unregistered) in reply to triso

    Triso wrote:

    >>Bolivian marching powder

    Best euphamism for Coke ever.

  • Jason (unregistered)

    So is this really a true story or just a joke?  Its hard to believe that would actually be real.  I have seen that google does ban websites but you can resubmit them.  My friend has a site http://www.datearichguy.com which if you put that whole url in google wouldnt come up and then he contacted google and they said it was because of the previous owner. 

    So if you do notice google banning something just email them....

    Just an FYI.

  • rohcQaH (unregistered) in reply to Jason

    Jason,

     

    it's not monday. Where's your excuse for a lack of reading comprehension? 

  • Shahab (unregistered)

    Hahhaha .. I wonder how many people tried searching for "banner" or "war banners" while reading this article .. :D

    Atleast I did ... :D

  • (cs) in reply to Olddog
    Anonymous:

    OMG There's no way I'll ever believe the written word again.  Everything I read from now on,  I'll wonder....was this run this through the dialectizer.  What was it originally?

     What a Hoot.

    Dont worry. Mine was original. No running through a dialectizer. Pure unadulterated fun.

  • Hob (unregistered)

    Kinda ironic, this article has an ad at the bottom.

    Captcha: pizza. My captchas are never on topic :(

  • Ann (unregistered) in reply to Jonnymind

    I was wondering when someone was going to bring this up.  Wtf is Neal doing working for a company producing such a loathsome product?

  • Jujo (unregistered)

    "It's f---ing Google!" he screamed, "they're f---ing trying to put me out of f---ing business. They're screwing me, you're screwing me, everyone is f---ing screwing me!"

     He he he he :) Wasn`t this man`s name "Scarface" ?

    Cheerz.

  • Bernhard Hofmann (unregistered)

    Is his name "David Walker"?

  • (cs) in reply to Xaroth

    Anonymous:
    The other nice bit about Opera is that it passes the ACID2 CSS compliance test ( http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ ).  As someone who does a lot of web work for my job, it's certainly nice to have a good reference browser so you know what is a browser bug in FF or IE, and what is your own stupid CSS mistakes.  Mouse gestures (especially the left->right click for forward and right->left click for back) are a nice touch, as well.

    And the mouse gestures always work. In Firefox at times I do a mouse gesture only to get the message "mouse gesture aborted", because the application was too slow in recognizing it.

  • (cs) in reply to Jason
    Anonymous:
    So is this really a true story or just a joke?  Its hard to believe that would actually be real.  I have seen that google does ban websites but you can resubmit them.  My friend has a site [link removed] which if you put that whole url in google wouldnt come up and then he contacted google and they said it was because of the previous owner. 

    So if you do notice google banning something just email them....

    Just an FYI.

    Did you read the whole story or just the title?
     Or is this just a spam-plug?

  • Kiss me, I'm Polish (unregistered) in reply to madjo

    But Firefox is better at playing ogame.

    Ha.

  • Remco Gerlich (unregistered)

    Alex Papadimoulis:
    In addition to being completely embarrassing, it was a bit ironic. The president of this banner advertising firm spent the entire morning making a complete fool of himself because, like the rest of us, he didn't like viewing banner ads.

    Followed by a big-ass banner ad. Alex explains that it is ironic for an advertising firm president to block banner ads, then says he doesn't like them himself and shows one.  Is that meta-irony? Super-irony?

  • (cs) in reply to gasman
    gasman:

    I heard a similar story about a town council officer in the UK, who had some new spam filtering software installed and enthusiastically entered a long list of 'banned' keywords, including a certain 4-letter expletive beginning with C. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that his incoming email had dropped to nearly nothing.

    He worked for the town of Scunthorpe.

     Wooohoooo! My home town made it onto DailyWTF!

  • Avalanche (unregistered) in reply to dave

    dave:
    Samah:
    I've never understood this fascination with Opera.  I've used it like once or twice and I see no reason to move from FF to it, other than the FF memory footprint.

     (IE is terrible at user feedback; Firefox feels clunky and has that stupid download system which always puts file just where you don't want them).

     You do realise that the download-location in Firefox is user-configurable, or you can configure it to ask at every download...
     

  • sprx (unregistered) in reply to Shahab
    Anonymous:

    Hahhaha .. I wonder how many people tried searching for "banner" or "war banners" while reading this article .. :D

    Atleast I did ... :D



    So did I :)

  • (cs) in reply to Olddog
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    Which, of course, brings us nicely on to the old chestnut:

     I say, I say, I say... which three professional football clubs can't you search on in search engines?

    Scunthorpe

    Arsenal, and

    F***ing Manchester United 

    Boom Boom.

    No quack. 

    Just pokin fun. I've always suspected my friends - the Brits, as the source for American cuss words. It's the sublime disguise of overly engineered British names, that Americans reflexively reduce, abbreviate, and mis-pronounce, resulting in the easy-to-speak curse.  Can you think of any more shires that we may have reduced to shites? 

    Of course... we've butchered the english language to such a point that a proper noun can become a verb based on advertising popularity. Thus the adnoun. ( googled it, xeroxed it ) So it's not a stretch to think we would conjure a cuss from the name of a perfectly repsectable forkshire.

    You'll be pleased to hear that berks don't come from Berkshire.  They are named after Berkeley Hunt in Cockney rhyming slang.  Bristols are named after Bristol City (yes, another football club) in a similar rhyming way.

  • SomebodyElse (unregistered) in reply to kuroshin
    kuroshin:
    And folks, this is how Scrum works in real life:

    The pig go. Go is to the office. Late. The pig look. Look at what? Empty office. The chicken shout. Shout something. The something at the pig. The pig confusing. But the pig follow. Follow with chicken. The chicken very angry. The pig browse. With Google. Chicken blame. Blame is to the White House. Shift blame. Blame is now to Google. The chicken now squawk. Squawk is "B-A-N-N-E-R'. Opera flash. Pig sigh. Sigh is to the chicken. Chicken is fool. Giggle. The DailyWTF giggle.

     

    Perfect!!

    ~SE

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