• Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered)

    I guess nobody from Scunthorpe's going to fill in that FRIST one.

  • Myself (unregistered)

    "I these should be okay," writes David Merrifield, "these are supposed to last forever, right?"

    No, 10 apr 1062 means they are expired by approx. 949 years. Be careful when opening...

  • QJo (unregistered)

    Rats, beat me to it ... Comment Universally Non-Transactional.

    What a lot of Englishmen do not realise is that King Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror's army, despite pelting them with rock-hard, four-year-out-of-date cakes (probably the ones that Alfred had strategically burnt over a century earlier.

  • swim (unregistered)

    1,080 million kilometers per hour: it's not just a good idea, it's the law!

  • Vol (unregistered)

    "What? You want to share this album with only your friends? What do you mean? Why would you do that? Why wouldn't you share it with everyone, including our marketers? You must have made a mistake, we'll just change that for you. What? You didn't? I'm confused. I'm confused and I just don't know how to proceed."

  • DonaldK (unregistered)

    The server found your comment confusing and isn't sure how to proceed.

  • Gruikya (unregistered)

    Why an error message? They could have automatically changed entity to enbreasty.

  • (cs)

    Sure the AD error dialog sounds like a WTF on the surface, but to be fair, at least it's reporting that something went wrong. How many WTFs on this site are about developers silently swallowing errors/exceptions, and leaving users scratching their heads wondering IF something went wrong, let alone WHAT went wrong? I say that AD is leaps and bounds above most other WTFs.

  • (cs)

    On the first, I like how the site's FAQ gives you a complete list of all the words that they don't want to appear on their site...

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to Gruikya
    Gruikya:
    Why an error message? They could have automatically changed entity to enbreasty.
    Clbuttic.
  • (cs) in reply to Myself
    Myself:
    "I these should be okay," writes David Merrifield, "these are supposed to last forever, right?"

    No, 10 apr 1062 means they are expired by approx. 949 years. Be careful when opening...

    THAT'S THE JOKE.

  • anonymouse (unregistered)

    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember. And I remember it.

    PS What's a French castle doing in England anyway?

  • Doc Brown (unregistered)

    If you want to discover your car's time travel functionality, just go faster than 88 mph. Then you'll see some serious shit.

  • Andrewq (unregistered)

    Time travel you say? Looks like you managed to go back in time by about 15 years.

    1.8 million km altitude? Have you been hanging around those Lagrangian points? I hear time travel happens there.

  • ac (unregistered)

    The Chinese buffet is definitely going to have to answer tough questions. This same situation with a one penny difference is quite common. When you ask the waiter, they tell you that the software carries over fractions of pennies to the next customer.

    I'd like to see him explain to me that it carries over several pennies.

  • Spoom (unregistered)

    Facebook should add a question mark to the "Okay" button in such dialogs.

  • (cs) in reply to ac
    ac:
    The Chinese buffet is definitely going to have to answer tough questions. This same situation with a one penny difference is quite common. When you ask the waiter, they tell you that the software carries over fractions of pennies to the next customer.

    I'd like to see him explain to me that it carries over several pennies.

    Look more closely at the receipts - they're for the same transaction (same date/time). I'm guessing one of those is the Merchant's copy and the other is the Customer's copy and that they're doing something very fishy...

  • (cs)

    Apparently Quentin found the spaceflight function of his car too, judging by the altitude reading.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to Nook Schreier
    Nook Schreier:
    On the first, I like how the site's FAQ gives you a complete list of all the words that they don't want to appear on their site...

    Reminds me of a song by (I think) Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, sung in a C&W style, which concerns the fact that the singer has just converted to Christianity, and this is a list of the words he has pledged not to say any more: ...

    I laughed till I cried when I heard it.

  • (cs)

    I think Quentin did indeed activate the time travel capability of his car. Note the negative value for total time.

    So can you fill that thing up with pump gas, or do you need to use premium?

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to anonymouse
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember. And I remember it.

    PS What's a French castle doing in England anyway?

    The real reason for needing to remember 1066 is the interesting fact that of all the numbers between 1000 and 9999 which are "invertible" (i.e. if you read them upside down they appear as numbers), it has the greatest difference between itself and its upside down version (9901 - 1066 = 8835).

    In case you think this is a coincidence, the third on this list is 1666 (9991 - 1666 = 8325). Non-Brits may not remember why this date is also significant, so I'll point out that it's the date that a considerable area of Great Britain's capital city burnt down.

  • ItsSimpleReally (unregistered) in reply to ac

    Ok, here's the algorithm:

    • Ring up party of 18 : 18 * 6.45 * .085 = 9.8685. Round down to 9.86. This is the total tax that must be collected.

    • Figure tax per person : 9.86 / 18 = .5478. Round to .55 per person. Alternately, figure out tax if there were only one person.

    • Charge everybody but the last person 55 cents tax. 17 * .55 = 9.35 tax collected.

    • Find the last person's tax as the difference of required tax and tax collected so far : 9.86 - 9.35 = .51.

    • Give the last person a four cent discount vs. price if rung up per-person, in order to make the total tax work out.

    • Geeks criticize you for not giving four different people a .01 discount, rather than praise you for not just charging everybody .55 tax. They also fail to notice you rounded down the last penny of the total.

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Myself:
    "I these should be okay," writes David Merrifield, "these are supposed to last forever, right?"

    No, 10 apr 1062 means they are expired by approx. 949 years. Be careful when opening...

    THAT'S THE JOKE.
    inb4 "YHBT. YHL. HAND."

  • wazzo (unregistered)

    I can understand time travel, but I can't wrap my head over the fact that the average speed is higher than the maximum speed.

  • Labias and Gentialia, it's ZUNESIS!!! (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Reminds me of a song by (I think) Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, sung in a C&W style, which concerns the fact that the singer has just converted to Christianity, and this is a list of the words he has pledged not to say any more: ...

    I laughed till I cried when I heard it.

    Aw, now where in the bible is it written that you can't say "shit" or "fuck" or "cunt"? The word "ass" is in there, like, a metric shitload of times!

    Yeah there's a commandment that says thou shalt not take the lord's name in vain, so you can't say "God dammit!" I'd understand if a believer would be abashed to say that. Or if they stub their toe and blurt out "Jesus F. Christ!" or "Cunt on a cross!" or "Mary, you slut!" - I would understand why that's unacceptable to them, but "fuck"?.

    Or if some christian chick was horny and the only phallic object around was a large crucifix, I would understand why it's use would be frowned upon. Or if someone gave themselves and enema with the holy water on the church's front lawn on Easter while the kids are out there looking for eggs. (heh, heh Zunesis left you a surprise in one of those eggs!)

    Whatever.

  • (cs) in reply to wazzo
    wazzo:
    I can understand time travel, but I can't wrap my head over the fact that the average speed is higher than the maximum speed.
    I also noticed that the minimum altitude is larger than the maximum altitude.
  • (cs) in reply to Quietust
    Quietust:
    ac:
    The Chinese buffet is definitely going to have to answer tough questions. This same situation with a one penny difference is quite common. When you ask the waiter, they tell you that the software carries over fractions of pennies to the next customer.

    I'd like to see him explain to me that it carries over several pennies.

    Look more closely at the receipts - they're for the same transaction (same date/time). I'm guessing one of those is the Merchant's copy and the other is the Customer's copy and that they're doing something very fishy...

    Good point. I had noticed they were the same transaction but I was thinking some sort of system screwup. I like your theory except for the fact that the high one is right--what could they be doing?

  • anonymouser (unregistered) in reply to Nook Schreier
    Nook Schreier:
    On the first, I like how the site's FAQ gives you a complete list of all the words that they don't want to appear on their site...

    It seems they are more concerned about the sensitivities of their employees than the site users.

  • Labias and Gentialia, it's ZUNESIS!!! (unregistered)
    hoodaticus:
    And I might actually be able to learn something in here again, other than the depths of human depravity as manifested by a certain troll who shall not be named.
    ;)
  • ctd (unregistered)

    I live in Cumming, GA.

    One website, asking for my address, opined "My, what a colorful vocabulary you have" and refused to take my information.

  • Ralph (unregistered)
    "What's surprising about this message is that it's up about 50% of the time,"
    Well, it looks like Windows, so 50% uptime seems about right.

    (Hey, someone had to do it.)

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to wazzo

    the average speed is higher than the maximum speed

    This is a common occurrence during time travel, and in fact is a prerequisite for the system to even function. It is all quite workable, but cannot be adequately expressed by our conventional system of mathematics.

  • The Poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember. And I remember it.

    PS What's a French castle doing in England anyway?

    The real reason for needing to remember 1066 is the interesting fact that of all the numbers between 1000 and 9999 which are "invertible" (i.e. if you read them upside down they appear as numbers), it has the greatest difference between itself and its upside down version (9901 - 1066 = 8835).

    In case you think this is a coincidence, the third on this list is 1666 (9991 - 1666 = 8325). Non-Brits may not remember why this date is also significant, so I'll point out that it's the date that a considerable area of Great Britain's capital city burnt down.

    So 1066 was last week?

  • History Blistery (unregistered) in reply to anonymouse
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember.

    Seriously, history teachers everywhere, why the obsession with particular dates? I mean what difference does it make if I put on the test that England was invaded in 1066 or 1099? Wouldn't it better serve all of our goals to have students understand that England was invaded, who did it, why, what effect it had... stuff like that instead of an exact date!! After all, we're still not memorizing the month, day or hour. Oh, you mean even you don't know the exact hour? I think that proves my point quite nicely.

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to ctd
    ctd:
    I live in Cumming, GA.

    One website, asking for my address, opined "My, what a colorful vocabulary you have" and refused to take my information.

    I dread to think how the poor people of Cockermouth would manage, let alone the denizens of Fucking.

  • The Poop... of DOOM! (unregistered)

    The solution to those poptarts is putting them in Quentin's car. Drive them back to before 1062 and you can eat them without any problems.

  • (cs) in reply to History Blistery
    History Blistery:
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember.

    Seriously, history teachers everywhere, why the obsession with particular dates? I mean what difference does it make if I put on the test that England was invaded in 1066 or 1099? Wouldn't it better serve all of our goals to have students understand that England was invaded, who did it, why, what effect it had... stuff like that instead of an exact date!! After all, we're still not memorizing the month, day or hour. Oh, you mean even you don't know the exact hour? I think that proves my point quite nicely.
    Besides which, there are some who claim that the 1066 date is based on an incorrect calendar and it was really 1065.

  • (cs) in reply to swim
    swim:
    1,080 million kilometers per hour: it's not just a good idea, it's the law!
    I think you meant billion, not million.

    Oops. I read the comma as a point.

  • ac (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    Are you referring to Jesus wept?

  • ac (unregistered) in reply to History Blistery
    History Blistery:
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember.

    Seriously, history teachers everywhere, why the obsession with particular dates? I mean what difference does it make if I put on the test that England was invaded in 1066 or 1099? Wouldn't it better serve all of our goals to have students understand that England was invaded, who did it, why, what effect it had... stuff like that instead of an exact date!! After all, we're still not memorizing the month, day or hour. Oh, you mean even you don't know the exact hour? I think that proves my point quite nicely.

    Are you referring to Jesus wept?

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    swim:
    1,080 million kilometers per hour: it's not just a good idea, it's the law!
    I think you meant billion, not million.

    Oops. I read the comma as a point.

    You read the comma as a point? So you're actually a European, then?

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to ac
    ac:
    Are you referring to Jesus wept?

    Diamond. That's the one.

  • Someone who can't be bothered to login from work (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    hoodaticus:
    swim:
    1,080 million kilometers per hour: it's not just a good idea, it's the law!
    I think you meant billion, not million.

    Oops. I read the comma as a point.

    You read the comma as a point? So you're actually a European, then?

    Ahem, Brits don't use , as the decimal separator, we use . (and , for thousands). We're still Europeans too, last time I checked.

  • John (unregistered)

    "... Became a Pennsylvania asset"?

    Following unacceptable words:ASS, found in text entered

  • Bowen (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel

    Buggy software, it seems. One looks like it calculate 8% sales tax, and the other 8.5%. Most likely a recent sales tax increase in the area and the software/register assumed one for the merchant and the other for the customer.

    Probably something so stupid as that, honestly, I don't think it is intentional.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone who can't be bothered to login from work
    Someone who can't be bothered to login from work:
    We're still Europeans too, last time I checked.
    Oh, come on, the British are way better than that.
  • NobodyCares (unregistered) in reply to History Blistery
    History Blistery:
    anonymouse:
    Those Jam tarts predate the Norman Conquest of England by 4 years.

    My 10th grade history teacher told me that was the one single date I had to remember.

    Seriously, history teachers everywhere, why the obsession with particular dates? I mean what difference does it make if I put on the test that England was invaded in 1066 or 1099? Wouldn't it better serve all of our goals to have students understand that England was invaded, who did it, why, what effect it had... stuff like that instead of an exact date!! After all, we're still not memorizing the month, day or hour. Oh, you mean even you don't know the exact hour? I think that proves my point quite nicely.

    The date is only relevant in the sense that you need to be able to keep a sequence in order, and in some cases, know the approximate intervals between major events. Calendars wind up being exceedingly useful ways to deal with both sequences of historic things, and to judge the duration or intervals of events.

    You don't need the month, day or year of the invasion if only because (interesting) historical events were not recorded at detail needing it. Compare to studying major battles of WWII, for instance, and you'll see that knowing a more specific date is, in fact, needed.

    That a history teacher wouldn't take the 5 minutes to explain this is odd, but your inability to figure it out for yourself is stranger still.

  • SCB (unregistered) in reply to Bowen
    Bowen:
    Buggy software, it seems. One looks like it calculate 8% sales tax, and the other 8.5%. Most likely a recent sales tax increase in the area and the software/register assumed one for the merchant and the other for the customer.

    Probably something so stupid as that, honestly, I don't think it is intentional.

    They are splitting the bill (look at the "number of guests" printed on it).

  • Flotsam (unregistered)

    Anyone notice the Franglish in the car displayu?

  • Someone who can't be bothered to login from work (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Someone who can't be bothered to login from work:
    We're still Europeans too, last time I checked.
    Oh, come on, the British are way better than that.

    We're only in to wind the French and the Germans up.

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