• faoileag (unregistered)

    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag

    Let us assume for a second that both of these parents suck at baking. I mean really suck; so bad that every time they have tried to bake a cake before they've ended up with 2 brake discs separated by grim buttery goo, and slathered with icing like a badly plastered ceiling.

    Wouldn't that make their son more sad than them shelling out the moderate cost to get a professionally done cake?

    Also... if they'd made their own, no-one would have had the fun of food that isn't unicode compliant.

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

    Because they couldn't be there? Because he was in a different town / country? Because he's 30 and it's just a bit of fun?

  • MatsH (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    Я мяркую, што вы ніколі не купіце гамбургер у Мак-Дональдс.

  • Warren (unregistered)

    Did you pay for that cake? If so it's a case of

    1. Happy
    2. Birthday
    3. ?????!
    4. Profit!
  • justsomedudette (unregistered) in reply to eViLegion
    eViLegion:
    Wouldn't that make their son more sad than them shelling out the moderate cost to get a professionally done cake?
    I'm sure I have the same standard of 'professional' as you. That was so badly decorated it looked home-made anyway even without the question marks.

    captcha: conventio - paying professionals isn't always conventio as it seems.

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to eViLegion
    eViLegion:
    the fun of food that isn't unicode compliant.
    unicode compliant food... now that's an interesting concept :-)

    "I'll have a bow of alphabet soup... from the cyrillic unicode subset, please!"

  • Thaumatechnician (unregistered)

    Maybe that OS/2 guy doesn't want to swith over because he's pretty sure that none of the OS/2 vulns are posted on pastebin...

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to justsomedudette
    justsomedudette:
    That was so badly decorated it looked home-made anyway even without the question marks.
    Even without? So you mean it looks more home-made with the questions marks??

    "Sorry for the question marks, son - dad made the cake but he couldn't remember your name!"

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Alex A.:
    We ordered a cake ... but then we got this
    Bob:
    Because they couldn't be there? Because he was in a different town / country?
    Nope. Don't think so.
    Bob:
    Because he's 30 and it's just a bit of fun?
    Ok, I won't rule out that one. Judging from the amount of candles, though... ;-)
  • George Nacht (unregistered) in reply to eViLegion

    My favourite cake story is when I ordered a fancy cake for my mom´s 64th birthday. As a little joke ( in the line of "oh, 64 is SOOOO ugly number") I asked the baker to put there as square of 8. I wrote is for the personally, in front of them. In our country, we write it as small 2 above 8. And you guess right, they gave me a cake with "happy 82nd birthday". But they fixed it when I asked. But this one is better. Even better than the tattoo "FILE COOLTATTOO01.JPG NOT FOUND".

  • Nick H (unregistered) in reply to George Nacht

    You should've asked for 2^6.

  • (cs)

    What's even more bizarre is that someone entered Adolf Hitler as a starring actor, despite him never being an actor, let alone not being in the Nuremburg Trials. That's not entering text for the wrong entry and not checking your work, that's making stuff up.

  • Anonymous coward (unregistered) in reply to MatsH
    MatsH:
    Я мяркую, што вы ніколі не купіце гамбургер у Мак-Дональдс.

    I've never understood that word - why would they contain ham if they are made of beef?

  • Nemo (unregistered)

    Contrary to popular belief, OS/2 is still very much alive, although under a different name. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the core systems from American Airlines runs OS/2 or its successor.

    And yes, there are still a few 'dinosaurs' out there using it privately (and no, I'm not one of them), and yes, it can print boarding tickets on any modern printer. So there's your real WTF :P

  • Darth Queen (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    I'd hate to see what kind of concoction you end up with when you bake your own ice cream cake at home. "Sorry about the puddle of melted goo, son, but at least I baked it myself."

  • Saribro (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous coward
    Anonymous coward:
    MatsH:
    Я мяркую, што вы ніколі не купіце гамбургер у Мак-Дональдс.
    I've never understood that word - why would they contain ham if they are made of beef?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Etymology That said, now I'm curious about a burger made of ham :/.

    Captcha: Eating burgers is a 'sino'.

  • Jens (unregistered) in reply to warmachine

    Of course he was an actor. See his IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386944/?ref_=sr_1

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

    I always asked for an ice cream cake from Cold Stone. Mom didn't have to make a cake, and I got ice cream! Win-win.

  • Snorbuckle (unregistered)

    The "something" that broke for Scott J is League of Legends' hilariously buggy launcher.

  • Outis (unregistered)

    The weird thing about the Netflix one is that if you combine the picture and the description, you nearly get Blackadder

  • Treble C++ (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    Worst was, the cake looks like the baker iced a load of turds around the top.

  • Bananafish (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    Would mean unicode veggies and unicode chicken?

  • (cs) in reply to MatsH
    MatsH:
    ? ??????, ??? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ????????? ? ???-????????.
    Happy birthday!
  • MillyWhiffer (unregistered)

    I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler was dead before the Nuremburg trials. Wasn't he accidentally killed by Mr Bean in hilarious circumstances?

  • JLH (unregistered)

    Someone should submit that cake to Cake Wrecks.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Saribro
    Saribro:
    Anonymous coward:
    MatsH:
    Я мяркую, што вы ніколі не купіце гамбургер у Мак-Дональдс.
    I've never understood that word - why would they contain ham if they are made of beef?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Etymology

    I don't buy that story. Like who ever heard of a town named Veggieburg?

    Saribro:
    That said, now I'm curious about a burger made of ham :/

    In a Scottish chippy, ordering a "hamburger supper" will actually get you two pork burgers, lightly battered and deep fried of course. It's a few years ago now, but I don't recall it being what one would describe as a delicacy.

  • (cs)

    As someone currently spearheading a ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 migration on a trainwreck of a legacy application, I laughed really hard on this!

  • Grzechooo (unregistered)

    I have the exactly problem as Scott, it pops up at various times without reason, but I don't play LoL. Any more ideas?

  • (cs) in reply to MillyWhiffer
    MillyWhiffer:
    I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler was dead before the Nuremburg trials. Wasn't he accidentally killed by Mr Bean in hilarious circumstances?
    It must be the little-known episode where Mr Bean goes back in time to Berlin…
  • Ironside (unregistered)

    i think adolf hilter is an actor he was in one of the old indiana jones movies too iirc

  • (cs) in reply to MillyWhiffer
    MillyWhiffer:
    I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler was dead before the Nuremburg trials. Wasn't he accidentally killed by Mr Bean in hilarious circumstances?
    No, it was Hat Guy. And it was on purpose. http://xkcd.com/1063/

    Somebody had to do it...

  • anon (unregistered)

    The cake is a lie!

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

    That's an Ice Cream Cake. I'm pretty sure 99.9% of parents don't have the equipment at home to make one.
  • C-Derb (unregistered) in reply to Jaime
    Jaime:
    faoileag:
    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

    That's an Ice Cream Cake. I'm pretty sure 99.9% of parents don't have the equipment at home to make one.
    My wife tried to make one once.

    Once.

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    Parents ordering a birthday cake for their son on the web instead of baking one themselves.

    I don't know, but somehow that makes me sad.

    EDIT: multiple ninja-ed. Oh well.

    Seeing as the order went out to DQ, if you're trying to bake an ice cream cake, ur doin it rong.

  • (cs)

    I just feel bad for the student that is doing a research paper on the Nuremberg Trials and will inevitably land on this page.

  • Jason (unregistered) in reply to warmachine

    I think they must have scraped the "starring" entries from http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0246818/fullcredits/cast . Probably an algorithm selects the most famous names in the list according to some criteria, and after all, who is a bigger name than Hitler?

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to warmachine
    warmachine:
    What's even more bizarre is that someone entered Adolf Hitler as a starring actor, despite him never being an actor, let alone not being in the Nuremburg Trials. That's not entering text for the wrong entry and not checking your work, that's making stuff up.

    That's not really all the bizarre. For documentaries, they often list real people who appear in the film in the same place where for a fiction film they list the actors. Maybe it's not technically accurate, but the meaning is clear. Actually, what does "starring" mean?

    As to Hitler not being there: I haven't seen this movie, but it's not implausible that it might include film clips of events that happened before the trials began, which might well include scenes with Mr Hitler.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to eViLegion
    eViLegion:
    Let us assume for a second that both of these parents suck at baking. I mean really suck; so bad that every time they have tried to bake a cake before they've ended up with 2 brake discs separated by grim buttery goo, and slathered with icing like a badly plastered ceiling.

    Wouldn't that make their son more sad than them shelling out the moderate cost to get a professionally done cake?

    Also... if they'd made their own, no-one would have had the fun of food that isn't unicode compliant.

    My kids asked me to make cookies. So I snuck out to the store and bought a package of cookies. Then I put them in the oven and burned them a little so the kids would believe I really made them. The hard part was scraping off the pictures of the elves.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    I just feel bad for the student that is doing a research paper on the Nuremberg Trials and will inevitably land on this page.

    And then hundreds of years from now, historians will find these research papers and write scholarly books about the role of Mr Bean in the post-World War II world.

    You know, I wouldn't be surprised if something like that has actually happened. When my wife was in grad school, one of her classmates did a master's thesis claiming that a well-known scandal about Andrew Jackson was probably total fiction. She traced all the scholarly references to the scandal back to original sources, and then traced those back, etc, and concluded that they all ultimately came from a campaign flyer by one of Mr Jackson's political opponents.

  • (cs) in reply to Jason
    Jason:
    I think they must have scraped the "starring" entries from http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0246818/fullcredits/cast . Probably an algorithm selects the most famous names in the list according to some criteria, and after all, who is a bigger name than Hitler?

    Alexander Rhodes

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    chubertdev:
    I just feel bad for the student that is doing a research paper on the Nuremberg Trials and will inevitably land on this page.

    And then hundreds of years from now, historians will find these research papers and write scholarly books about the role of Mr Bean in the post-World War II world.

    You know, I wouldn't be surprised if something like that has actually happened. When my wife was in grad school, one of her classmates did a master's thesis claiming that a well-known scandal about Andrew Jackson was probably total fiction. She traced all the scholarly references to the scandal back to original sources, and then traced those back, etc, and concluded that they all ultimately came from a campaign flyer by one of Mr Jackson's political opponents.

    I'm surprised that this list is so short.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

  • MRAB (unregistered)

    That's not a cake, it's a mojicake!

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to MillyWhiffer
    MillyWhiffer:
    I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler was dead before the Nuremburg trials. Wasn't he accidentally killed by Mr Bean in hilarious circumstances?

    I'd pay good money to see Mr. Bean try to goosestep.

  • Joel H. (unregistered)

    Alex A. should submit that cake over at http://www.cakewrecks.com/ - I think it would be their first non-human wreckerator.

  • (cs)

    The American Airlines screen is not a WTF. Keeping support for older systems is a plus. Besides, it is Adobe who would be supporting the functionality.

    The Staples one was amusing. I ran into something similar in the Greater Vancouver transit system. At the time, there were three zones. I usually travelled only in one zone, so I would buy a single-zone monthly bus pass. When travelling in more than one zone during peak times, one had to pay more. It was $0.40 to upgrade to two zones and $1.15 to upgrade to three zones. When I had a three-zone trip, with the trips I was making, I could treat it as two two-zone trips. Transit later redid the bus passes so that a pass was locked to one particular zone.

    Sincerely,

    Gene Wirchenko

  • (cs) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:

    It would have to be a Webbook instead of a Webpage.

    It could not be a hoax of the real hoax page, could it?

    Sincerely,

    Gene Wirchenko

  • John (unregistered)

    Three four five six zero minutes is exactly 24 days.

    Cool. That's my new timeout setting.

  • (cs)

    The revocation information thing is probably the Java Updater, Oracle's certificate doesn't seem to be valid anymore... whoops?

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