• Leo (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    golddog:
    Isn't Guildford where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were from?

    Keith, you didn't see anyone suddenly drinking large amounts and giving the barman huge tips, telling him he's got about five minutes to spend it, did you?

    #

    arrghhh must fight urge to say Ford wasnt from Guildford but Betelgeuse. Shite messed that up

    That explains the accent.

    (ohh shit, I just referenced the movie!)

  • augue (unregistered) in reply to Abdiel
    Abdiel:
    Texas drought ends [...] due to 6 months of rain.

    One could argue that one day of rain would be enough to technically end a drought.

    I would hate to see what happened to Texas with 6 months of rain when it only takes 40 days and 40 nights of rain to flood the entire earth.

  • bene (unregistered) in reply to shinobu
    shinobu:
    Just as any real programmer has a VI coffee mug, any graphic artist has an Adobe Illustrator baby bottle.

    Go back to your command prompt. I am a real programmer, and I have a Microsoft® coffee mug.

  • vulputate (unregistered) in reply to sammy baby
    sammy baby:
    Josephus:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    (...) That could be right, but from the comment above the image, it seems more likely that they thought the climatologist had said the drought was due to there being no rain.
    Same difference. Maybe you should think this through a bit.

    umm, no. because the climatologist said that there was rain.

    Yeah - specifically six months of rain.

    Honestly guys, I don't think that's a WTF. Judging from that chyron, it looks like they're saying that 6 months of consistent rain ended a three year drought that had been affecting 60% of the state. That's not a duh moment, that's actual news.

    Did it take a climatologist degree for you to figure that out?

  • Ozz (unregistered)

    An 18-year-old Glenfiddich is indeed good, but True Heaven is a 25-year-old Laphroaig.

  • uxor (unregistered) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    An 18-year-old Glenfiddich is indeed good, but True Heaven is a 25-year-old Laphroaig.
    I would like to try some 25-year-old Laphroaig. Could you fax a bottle to my ftp site?
  • fnordianslip (unregistered)

    The baby bottle brush label makers probably thought it best to keeps those horrid PDF files away from little children.

  • Some Wonk (unregistered)

    \b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\boobies

  • Jason (unregistered) in reply to Professor Putricide
    Professor Putricide:
    Good neeewwwws everyone! The network is flowing again!
    The drought is over!

    captcha: Genitus - God of Genitalia

  • Joe Newton (unregistered) in reply to germinator
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    I didn't have time to read all the comments, but I'd say the drought one is due to the submitter and Alex imagining the word "no" in the sentence "due to 6 months of rain"
    No I think the issue here is that they supposedly asked a climatologist why the drought ended and they're claiming all they got back was "because it rained". It's not a very tech-related WTF, but still a WTF.
    Germinator is correct. The WTF I was referring to was that they devoted around 1/4 of the screen to "How it Happened" and even consulted climatologists to tell us that the drought was ended by rain. Indeed, not tech related at all really but I thought it was funny.
  • King Zog (unregistered)

    You went to a nightclub in Guildford ??!!!

    WTF!

    ;-)

  • regeya (unregistered) in reply to Pedants R Us

    Well, someone had to boldly go there, didn't they?

    (English is not Latin)

  • Bluesman (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Isn't 6 months of rain in Texas known as a flood of biblical proportions?

    "Texas Flood"

    Well there's floodin' down in Texas All of the telephone lines are down Well there's floodin' down in Texas All of the telephone lines are down And I've been tryin' to call my baby Lord and I can't get a single sound

    Well dark clouds are rollin' in Man I'm standin' out in the rain Well dark clouds are rollin' in Man I'm standin' out in the rain Yeah flood water keep a rollin' Man it's about to drive poor me insane

    Well I'm leavin' you baby Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay Well I'm leavin' you baby Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay Well back home are no floods or tornados Baby and the sun shines every day

    Stevie ray Vaughan May he rest in peace

  • (cs) in reply to golddog
    golddog:
    Isn't Guildford where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were from?

    Ford was pretending to be from Guildford, but I don't believe Arthur's place of origin was ever specified more precisely than "England".

  • eric76 (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Isn't 6 months of rain in Texas known as a flood of biblical proportions?
    Up here in the Texas Panhandle, we only got a quarter inch during Noah's flood.
  • poop (unregistered) in reply to BSDPwns
    BSDPwns:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    I didn't have time to read all the comments, but I'd say the drought one is due to the submitter and Alex imagining the word "no" in the sentence "due to 6 months of rain"
    No I think the issue here is that they supposedly asked a climatologist why the drought ended and they're claiming all they got back was "because it rained". It's not a very tech-related WTF, but still a WTF.

    That could be right, but from the comment above the image, it seems more likely that they thought the climatologist had said the drought was due to there being no rain.

    Same difference. Maybe you should think this through a bit.

    The expression "same difference" should stop being used.

    Um, but what if two things are different from a third thing IN THE SAME WAY? A red Prius. A red Accord. A Blue Prius.

    Red is the same difference. (So is Prius, from the dual point of view)

  • (cs) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    golddog:
    Isn't Guildford where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were from?

    Keith, you didn't see anyone suddenly drinking large amounts and giving the barman huge tips, telling him he's got about five minutes to spend it, did you?

    #

    arrghhh must fight urge to say Ford wasnt from Guildford but Betelgeuse. Shite messed that up

    arrghhh must fight urge to say Ford wasn't from Betelgeuse but a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse

    Shite. Yes you messed that up.

  • Steneub (unregistered)

    Yeah but I \B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B

  • IV (unregistered) in reply to Johannes
    Johannes:
    Is that ATM trying to tell that it caught a forgery? "A bill thicker than it should be: Engrish"

    Close. ATMs allow you to configure what are in each cassette at the software level. There is a hardware check that the thickness of the bill to make sure you configured it properly. While this doesn't catch different denominations of bills, it does allow you to load sheets of stamps in one of the cassettes, or potentially money from different countries with different attributes. Someone has the wrong configuration for whatever is in the cassette.

  • Your_Name (unregistered)

    You gotta wonder if it's someone bored with Firebug taking screenshots of those websites. Why would the \b's be there anyway? I call shenanigans.

  • Your_Name (unregistered) in reply to germinator
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    I didn't have time to read all the comments, but I'd say the drought one is due to the submitter and Alex imagining the word "no" in the sentence "due to 6 months of rain"
    No I think the issue here is that they supposedly asked a climatologist why the drought ended and they're claiming all they got back was "because it rained". It's not a very tech-related WTF, but still a WTF.
    Everyone knows that having a climatologist make a statement about the weather instantly adds major credibility points to anyone who got the statement from the climatologist. I bet the news station is using that climatologist as part of its promos.
  • JJ (unregistered)

    English Speaker - Unexpected "at" in "Unexpected note at thickness"

  • PITA (unregistered) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    Josephus:
    I didn't have time to read all the comments...

    There were only two or three comments posted at that time. You didn't have time to read them?

    They couldn't handle the unmanageably managable number of comments.

  • will (unregistered) in reply to Abdiel
    Abdiel:
    Texas drought ends [...] due to 6 months of rain.

    One could argue that one day of rain would be enough to technically end a drought.

    They where probably under drought conditions and that is usually based water levels in aquifers and other water storage areas. Drought conditions are usually just shorted to talk about the drought.

  • RandomUser423689 (unregistered) in reply to BSDPwns
    BSDPwns:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Same difference. Maybe you should think this through a bit.
    The expression "same difference" should stop being used.

    Moving on... comparing two events with 'same difference' is correct logic in that the difference from event A to event B is identical to the difference from event B to event A. Grammatically you are redundandtly saying that event A and event B differ in some way from each other. You should say, 'SAME THING'.

    The other genius part is that the juxtaposition of TWO opposites clarifies your meaning very well; sarcasm. Stop saying it please!

    It has always been my understanding (and usage) that the idiomatic phrases "same difference" and "same thing" are similar, but have differing connotations.

    The latter refers to actual matches. Father: "My wife will be home soon." Daughter: "You mean my mommy will be home soon, don't you?" Aunt: "It's the same thing, dear."

    Meanwhile, the former refers to effective matches, in that the subjects are different, but for the purposes of the discussion the differences are irrelevant. Person 1: "Did you drive to the beach, or walk?" Person 2: "We took the truck." Person 3: "No. The SUV." Person 1: "Same difference. You drove."

  • Acsi (unregistered) in reply to RandomUser423689
    RandomUser423689:
    BSDPwns:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    germinator:
    Josephus:
    ...
    ...
    ...
    Same difference. Maybe you should think this through a bit.
    The expression "same difference" should stop being used.

    Moving on... comparing two events with 'same difference' is correct logic in that the difference from event A to event B is identical to the difference from event B to event A. Grammatically you are redundandtly saying that event A and event B differ in some way from each other. You should say, 'SAME THING'.

    The other genius part is that the juxtaposition of TWO opposites clarifies your meaning very well; sarcasm. Stop saying it please!

    It has always been my understanding (and usage) that the idiomatic phrases "same difference" and "same thing" are similar, but have differing connotations.

    The latter refers to actual matches. Father: "My wife will be home soon." Daughter: "You mean my mommy will be home soon, don't you?" Aunt: "It's the same thing, dear."

    Meanwhile, the former refers to effective matches, in that the subjects are different, but for the purposes of the discussion the differences are irrelevant. Person 1: "Did you drive to the beach, or walk?" Person 2: "We took the truck." Person 3: "No. The SUV." Person 1: "Same difference. You drove."

    They could have pushed it.

  • (cs) in reply to RandomUser423689

    It's my understanding that "same difference" is the same thing as "same thing". Or is it the same difference as "same thing"? I don't know... Same difference.

  • A Korbel (unregistered) in reply to will

    Exactly. Although it's not dated I'm assuming that this is a recent headline. Here in Texas, large parts of the state have been under drought conditions for several years, meaning that we aren't getting the amount of rain necessary to replace the water being drawn from the aquifers and reservoirs. (Texas has only one natural lake - think about that for a moment.) Weather girls and meteorologists are always quick to remind people that just because there's water falling from the sky it doesn't mean they can start running the sprinklers again. In this case the drought was apparently severe enough it took six months of occasional but repeated rain (not necessarily every day) to bring the water table up to normal. And it's not Summer yet. This is a terrific example of why a headline isn't a story.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I was talking to someone from Texas once and we had some obligatory small talk about the weather, I guess I said something about hearing that a drought was supposed to end soon. He replied, "I hope it does rain. Not so much for me, but for my son. I've seen rain."

  • Jay (unregistered)

    RE the climatologist: News reporters have a bizarre and incredible respect for "experts". Surely anyone who had been outdoors in the last six months could tell that it had rained enough to end the drought, but they have to call it an "expert" to validate this.

    The reporter's personal political beliefs or other biases become "news" if he can find one "expert" somewhere who agrees with him. Like, few reporters would dream of going on the air and saying, "Senator Jones plan to fight unemployment sounds like a good idea to me." But, "Charles Fromme, an economist with the XYZ Foundation, says that Senator Jones plan," etc is routinely reported as news, even if the XYZ Foundation was founded by friends of Senator Jones for the purpose of pushing his economic plans.

    And the craziest ideas become serious subjects of debate if the person saying them has a PhD. If I called ABC news and said that aliens made a crop circle in my back yard, I would be dismissed as a kook. But if some PhD who wrote a book on UFOs says that he believes crop circles are made by aliens, now it becomes a serious scientific theory.

  • (cs)

    From what I've seen of US TV, the drought one is not a WTF... US TV really does have to explain that to their audience.

    Anyone from USA care to tell us whether US audiences are the problem? Or is it the TV stations assuming the audience is stupid?

  • That Guy! (unregistered) in reply to IV

    Or depending on the ATM the thickness error is also a double detect error and it picked 2 notes stuck together or it had a jam.

    Just turns out that machine is a Triton and yes that is most likely a double pick.

  • (cs)

    81+ comments and NO-ONE else has noticed that the (presumably?) Adobe-generated text on the baby bottle instructions incorrectly spells 'Illustrator' as 'IIIustrator' not just once but FOUR times?!!

    You folks are DEFINITELY slipping (probably on a note of erroneous thickness ...). "AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B\B!"

  • (cs)

    Terminal error: The network cannot be managed because it is overflowing.

    Would you like to manage it anyway cookie? /B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B/B

  • a nonny mouse (unregistered)

    Same difference and Same thing are exactly the same.

    The use of "Same difference" is ironic, and always said with full knowledge of how wrong it is - which is exactly why it's ridiculous to try to explain how wrong it is. If you're telling someone it's wrong, then you don't get it.

  • Marine (unregistered) in reply to Johannes

    It means that it's possibly picked up two notes instead of one, definately engrish! NoteMachines always seem to stop working (none in hte nightclubs i've been in have been working).

  • (cs) in reply to tin
    tin:
    From what I've seen of US TV, the drought one is not a WTF... US TV really does have to explain that to their audience.

    Anyone from USA care to tell us whether US audiences are the problem? Or is it the TV stations assuming the audience is stupid?

    I'd say it's a bit of both. The mass media really does dumb things down all the time, but it's also true that we have a lot of really stupid people here. (I grew up in Ohio, spent some time in Colorado and in New England, now living in Los Angeles.)

    Also, most journalists (especially the TV ones) aren't the brightest bulbs on the planet. I used to work in that field and I couldn't believe how ignorant and gullible most of the working reporters seemed to be.

  • TechJunkie (unregistered) in reply to pkmnfrk

    No, the software and printer did what they were programmed to do - check that price and print an error message on the price card... it was the schleper who stocked and placed the price sign that is at fault - a typical 'i-d-TEN-t' error that resulted in the WTF... but that's really the case most times

    (alphanumeric/phonetic translation = "ID10T")

  • (cs)

    Translating failure! Please make sure the proofreading of error message.

  • (cs)

    Well, I did like the error message: if it hadn't been there, the sign would have been a definite WTF, with the "lower price" being higher than the previous price.

    What made me groan inwardly was the use of the pound sign for an "E": "PRIC£" reads "PRICL" to me, since "£" is derived from the letter "L". It'd work better in Ireland, since they have the €uro. ;)

  • Freezer (unregistered)

    I loved the baby bottle message. "Adobe IIIustrator", "Pdf Com patible file" - this was probably printed on paper, faxed, and retyped by someone with little knowledge of English.

    And now someone placed this label on a wooden table, photographed it, uploaded it to TDWTF, and we're discussing it in the comments. Web 0.1 at its best.

  • JoeB (unregistered)

    The Bytes must flow.

  • (cs) in reply to BSDPwns
    BSDPwns:
    The expression "same difference" should stop being used.

    Moving on... comparing two events with 'same difference' is correct logic in that the difference from event A to event B is identical to the difference from event B to event A. Grammatically you are redundandtly saying that event A and event B differ in some way from each other. You should say, 'SAME THING'.

    The other genius part is that the juxtaposition of TWO opposites clarifies your meaning very well; sarcasm. Stop saying it please!

    I could care less.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to SQLDave
    SQLDave:
    BSDPwns:
    The expression "same difference" should stop being used. […]
    I could care less.
    Well, yes, since you clearly care enough to respond, caring less is an option…
  • (cs) in reply to eric76
    eric76:
    Anonymous:
    Isn't 6 months of rain in Texas known as a flood of biblical proportions?
    Up here in the Texas Panhandle, we only got a quarter inch during Noah's flood.
    Well, it's Texas so their quarter inches are larger than everyone else's…
  • stribika (unregistered) in reply to pkmnfrk

    And the workers saw the error message on the sign but used it anyway.

  • (cs) in reply to TechJunkie
    TechJunkie:
    No, the software and printer did what they were programmed to do - check that price and print an error message on the price card... it was the schleper who stocked and placed the price sign that is at fault - a typical 'i-d-TEN-t' error that resulted in the WTF... but that's really the case most times

    (alphanumeric/phonetic translation = "ID10T")

    Doesn't this site ban people who feel they need to explain ID-Ten-T? Or even USE it for that matter?

    And the same for PEBKAC?

  • (cs) in reply to Cad Delworth
    Cad Delworth:
    81+ comments and NO-ONE else has noticed that the (presumably?) Adobe-generated text on the baby bottle instructions incorrectly spells 'Illustrator' as 'IIIustrator' not just once but FOUR times?!!
    I hadn't gotten around to looking at the post till now, but that was one of the first things I noticed.

    And based on that, I'd assume that the text was actually retyped by someone. Who probably didn't speak any English, and just typed exactly what they were given in the composite, not realizing the complete absurdity of it.

  • a bike-o (unregistered) in reply to SQLDave
    SQLDave:
    TechJunkie:
    No, the software and printer did what they were programmed to do - check that price and print an error message on the price card... it was the schleper who stocked and placed the price sign that is at fault - a typical 'i-d-TEN-t' error that resulted in the WTF... but that's really the case most times

    (alphanumeric/phonetic translation = "ID10T")

    Doesn't this site ban people who feel they need to explain ID-Ten-T? Or even USE it for that matter?

    And the same for PEBKAC?

    Hear hear!

    I think whatever he's been taking has rotted his brain.

  • Joseph (unregistered) in reply to Old guy
    Old guy:
    Drought is not the absence of rain. Rather, drought is an extended period of below-average precipitation.

    I disagree. A lot. So does dictionary.com. Wikipedia is closer to your claim, but suggests below average precipitation is the cause of drought, not the drought itself.

    I always thought drought was a tap-beer ;)

    I'm sure you care.

    Disclaimer: I know tap-beer is draught and some turkey will be a tosser and try to explain that.

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