• (cs)

    Fistula.

    So if you don't know a baud from a floppy, their ad goes off into 8-bit, 16-bit, hard and floppy disks, etc. Hmm...

  • (cs)

    Ads again? Okay, I know there are loads of stupid ads. You can see them anywhere when you browse the web. Who cares about them? :P

    /me wants to read his daily WTF :|

  • Machtyn (unregistered)

    For more gems like these, just turn to the last 5-10 pages of any pc magazine, such as, ahem, PC Magazine, Computer World, or whatever. They've got a load of wtf type ads.

  • Matt S. (unregistered)

    Yeah, they really messed up when the put that picture of an alarm clock. They must've meant to put a picture of a watch.

  • Just Some Guy (unregistered)

    I'm not running any adblockers or anything else that should interfere with image loading, but there isn't a single image in that story when I view it.

  • JB (unregistered) in reply to Evo

    I'll stick with my electric fireplace that those nice Amish people made for me.

  • (cs)

    That last one sounds like an ad for the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-MADS).

  • WTFreader (unregistered) in reply to Just Some Guy
    Just Some Guy:
    I'm not running any adblockers or anything else that should interfere with image loading, but there isn't a single image in that story when I view it.

    SAme here. I use FF 3 , I have an ad blocker and noflash/noscript, but I "allowed" wtf. Still no luck. For the same 2 other article on old advert, I get no luck. Just text and no picture....

  • Edss (unregistered)

    Same in FF3 and IE7. When I save the image I get 43 bytes. I thought I'd share them with you:

    GIF89a  € ÿÿÿ !ù ,   D ;

  • thedudester (unregistered)

    The ads only show up when I use Chrome or Opera, not FF3. Very strange.

  • freakpants (facebook connect already!) (unregistered)

    maybe you should learn how to use adblock?

  • gp (unregistered) in reply to Just Some Guy

    Do you use Kaspersky?

  • Neil (unregistered)

    Worked fine for me in FF3

  • julio (unregistered)

    How, exactly, are they fitting a 24" dish into a 19"x19"x4 1/2" corrugated carton?

  • will (unregistered) in reply to julio
    julio:
    How, exactly, are they fitting a 24" dish into a 19"x19"x4 1/2" corrugated carton?

    They probably broke the disk into 4 parts and you had to assemble it. Remember seeing dishes like that back in those days.

  • memals (unregistered)

    End of ad1 "how easy the EZ-1 really is ... except in Alaska and Hawaii"

  • (cs)

    The guy in the Quasar ad looks like the love child of Judd Hirsch and Richard Nixon.

  • (cs)
    you're joining a FAMILY, capuche?

    I can't get the images either, but I can't figure out what this would have to do with the hood from the cloak of a Capuchin monk.

  • J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (unregistered)
    Mark Bowytz:
    you're joining a FAMILY, capuche?
    Well, Mark, I think TRWTF® is that, while trying to write the italian word for ‶do you understand″, you ended up writing the french word for ‶hood″. Epic l10n fail IMHO.

    I plead "Trusting MS Word Spell Check" fail. [image] You figure the one time I write an article in something other than Wordpad... -MB

  • (cs) in reply to Just Some Guy
    Just Some Guy:
    I'm not running any adblockers or anything else that should interfere with image loading, but there isn't a single image in that story when I view it.

    I'm taking bets for next weeks What the Ad post.

    How many comments will be posted before the forum devolves into Tier 1 tech support?

    Seriously, if you're reading this site, you should be able to figure out an ad-blocker...or at least have enough shame to not speak up when you can't figure it out.

  • dev (unregistered)

    AdblockPlus is blocking them, since the images have been placed in a "/images/ads/" folder...

  • J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (unregistered)

    Damn! Foiled again! OK, maybe TRWTF is that I should look at the last comments before pressing the Submit button...

  • Piers Kittel (unregistered)

    I don't have an ad blocker and am using Opera, but I'm never ever able to see the ad pictures. All other pictures such as Error'd work just fine. What WTF am I doing then?

  • Just Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Voodoo Coder
    Voodoo Coder:
    Seriously, if you're reading this site, you should be able to figure out an ad-blocker...or at least have enough shame to not speak up when you can't figure it out.

    Did you miss the part where I said I didn't have an adblocker installed? Ubuntu 8.10 + Konqueror, so no Kapersky or anything similar either.

    I'm not so much looking for tech support as telling the Powers That Be that there's something odd going on.

  • Ben (unregistered)

    Lot of complaints about FF3 with Adblock. Whenever I enable Adblock, it blocks the image based on the filter /ads/.*

    Looks like its blocking everything from https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads

    That's pretty funny, actually.

  • (cs) in reply to Just Some Guy
    Just Some Guy:
    Did you miss the part where I said I didn't have an adblocker installed? Ubuntu 8.10 + Konqueror, so no Kapersky or anything similar either.

    I'm not so much looking for tech support as telling the Powers That Be that there's something odd going on.

    I miss nothing.

    The part you quoted was generalized to the type of tech support requests this section is most inundated with. The reason I quoted you had to do with the first part of my comment...you were the one who started this (at least, in this particular article).

    Oh and you don't need to wait for the powers that be...just read any one of the 4 posts before yours to see that the problem is on your end...odd or not.

  • (cs) in reply to Just Some Guy
    Just Some Guy:
    I'm not running any adblockers or anything else that should interfere with image loading, but there isn't a single image in that story when I view it.
    You probably have a brain-dead proxy like mine. It seems to drop any images in a directory called "ads".
  • (cs)
    wta?:
    Introducing a word processor so easy even the chairman of the board can operate it.
    ... once he learns to sit in front of the keyboard.
  • (cs) in reply to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
    J.R. "Bob" Dobbs:
    <snip>
    Damn ! I thought I'd found one corner of the interwebz you hadn't stuck your stinking pipe into ! PRABOB or whatever it is this week.
  • Junkman (unregistered)

    Maybe I'm being too nice but the first ad appears to be highlighting the differences between an electric/manual typewriter and a computer. Which means their comments, while amusing from today's context, weren't really all that strange.

  • sewiv (unregistered) in reply to Ben

    It's possible to allow the images for this site only. That'll of course allow any other images from that images/ads directory, which will make the ads work again. Sneaky.

  • (cs)

    Why does that ad ask if I've kissed my computer lately?

    WhyTF would I kiss my computer?

  • Junkman (unregistered) in reply to sewiv

    I allow ads on this site (and other selected sites I browse regularly) - because I've never found them annoying... as soon as I do then I block them. I think it's the only way site owners learn to filter the type and source of ads they use.

    Maybe I'm a purist but I feel that ad-blockers were designed to block the annoyance of popup/floating/flashing and ugly ads, not to block valid revenue streams.

  • Guy Smiley (unregistered)

    No offense, but this was one of the worst TDWTF articles I've ever seen. Not only were the ads not that funny or interesting and reminiscent of the previous ads post not too long ago, but the comments afterwards were silly, and as stated before, partially incorrect. Please please rewrite the article to a high school reading level before posting them Alex! I can't wait for tomorrow's WTF.

  • J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (unregistered)
    SenTree:
    Damn ! I thought I'd found one corner of the interwebz you hadn't stuck your stinking pipe into !
    I am EVERYWHERE. Now, praise Me and My HOLY STINKING PIPE! Oh, and send Me money, too.
  • J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (unregistered)
    Guy Smiley:
    No offense, but this was one of the worst TDWTF articles I've ever seen.
    Oh. I see. You configured your adblocker to filter out all of the MFD comic strips, didn't you?
  • jbrecken (unregistered)

    The cartoon chairman of the board is sitting in the campest pose possible.

  • (cs) in reply to valerion
    valerion:
    Why does that ad ask if I've kissed my computer lately?

    WhyTF would I kiss my computer?

    WhyTF wouldn't you?!?!?! Just look at that sexy beast!

  • (cs) in reply to Ben

    I use adblock+ with FF3, and then enable the page. it seems to work well enough

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Junkman
    Junkman:
    Maybe I'm a purist but I feel that ad-blockers were designed to block the annoyance of popup/floating/flashing and ugly ads, not to block valid revenue streams.
    Maybe I'm a literalist, but I feel that popup-blockers should block popups, and ad-blockers should block...ADS!
  • Billy Joe Ray Bob Jack Jackson, Jr. III (unregistered)

    Let me save you some brain cell wear and tear - add this to your Adblock Plus rules:

    @@img.thedailywtf.com/images/ads

  • Person (unregistered)

    It's funny how they have about one fifth of an "R", and "'S EZ-1" on the card you were supposed to send in. At least they didn't call it the "EX-1".

  • Johnny (unregistered)

    Lately some of your posts have images that don't show up in Camino or NetNewsWire - but do in Firefox. Not really sure why, but it'd be sweet to be able to check the stuff in my rss reader or my primary browser, not just FF. Just sayin!

  • cf18 (unregistered) in reply to valerion
    valerion:
    Why does that ad ask if I've kissed my computer lately?

    WhyTF would I kiss my computer?

    May be they think everyone have computer like this (may be NSFW?)...

  • ParkinT (unregistered)

    BROAD BAND I always thought that was a Female Music Group !!!

    *Not to be confused with Broadband RF

    [CAPTCHA = capiche]

  • Oscar (unregistered) in reply to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
    J.R. "Bob" Dobbs:
    Mark Bowytz:
    you're joining a FAMILY, capuche?
    Well, Mark, I think TRWTF® is that, while trying to write the italian word for ‶do you understand″, you ended up writing the french word for ‶hood″. Epic l10n fail IMHO.

    I plead "Trusting MS Word Spell Check" fail. [image] You figure the one time I write an article in something other than Wordpad... -MB

    C-A-P-I-C-E

  • Oscar (unregistered) in reply to Oscar

    capisci capisce

  • (cs)

    WTI = Where's The Image?

    I can't see them in either Firefox or MSIE.

  • IT GIRL (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234
    halcyon1234:
    wta?:
    Introducing a word processor so easy even the chairman of the board can operate it.
    ... once he learns to sit in front of the keyboard.

    Even worse, he's going to buy it convinced that it's "ease of use" means its the best thing since sliced bread and his secretary (who does all of his typing for him anyway) is going to pull out her IBM selectric and fire off his letter in 1/4 of the time it would take her to spew it out of that machine.

  • Shagger (unregistered)

    The AD asks me if I kissed my computer lately... actually I shag it every night. Thanks to the glorious FUFME back from 1999. I kept an old 386 just for the purpose, so I don't care a lot in case it gets... sprayed every now and then lol :)

    http://www.lacoctelera.com/gorkaff/imagen/fume.jpg

    Captcha: letatio

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