• Kuba (unregistered) in reply to nerdierthanu
    nerdierthanu:
    anon:
    NotanEnglishMajor:
    anon:

    Whatthefuck! I thought this was a joke until I saw the rest of the site.

    This is like a recruiting page for the National Institute for the Blind.

    Hey English Major- maybe, it IS a joke... Just because they have a website and all, doesn't make it real. Why don't you try sending away for a kit?

    Sorry, I'm not a big fan of DIY surgery! Feel free to give it a try, though, and let me know how it works out for ya.

    Yeah I thought it was a real site too, but the order1.html does not exist. Ho-hum at least I can buy their snazzy merchandise.

    You should stop browsing the web right away. You're the perfect phishing site/scamming victim-to-be. I couldn't imagine anyone knowing about thedailywtf.com and being so gullible. This is Internet 101 ...

  • axus (unregistered) in reply to wbrianwhite
    wbrianwhite:
    The biggest WTF is that Donovan is paying for expensive Lasik at a store when he could use inexpensive http://www.lasikathome.com/ for a lifetime of clear sight.

    Could not stop laughing

  • nerdierthanu (unregistered) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    nerdierthanu:
    anon:
    NotanEnglishMajor:
    anon:

    Whatthefuck! I thought this was a joke until I saw the rest of the site.

    This is like a recruiting page for the National Institute for the Blind.

    Hey English Major- maybe, it IS a joke... Just because they have a website and all, doesn't make it real. Why don't you try sending away for a kit?

    Sorry, I'm not a big fan of DIY surgery! Feel free to give it a try, though, and let me know how it works out for ya.

    Yeah I thought it was a real site too, but the order1.html does not exist. Ho-hum at least I can buy their snazzy merchandise.

    You should stop browsing the web right away. You're the perfect phishing site/scamming victim-to-be. I couldn't imagine anyone knowing about thedailywtf.com and being so gullible. This is Internet 101 ...

    Obviously, sarcasm does not translate well via message posting.

  • Michael.H (unregistered)

    Well, I'm just going to laugh at this because I think its quite funny

  • upsidedowncreature (unregistered) in reply to wbrianwhite

    Performing lasik surgery on yourself, that's a real WTF. As is recommending performing lasik surgery on yourself.

  • upsidedowncreature (unregistered) in reply to upsidedowncreature
    upsidedowncreature:
    Performing lasik surgery on yourself, that's a real WTF. As is recommending performing lasik surgery on yourself.
    <slapforehead>oh, right. gaah!</slapforehead>
  • AJS (unregistered) in reply to Bill Brasky
    Bill Brasky:
    Hey, I have an idea, let's make first and last name a listbox!
    That's actually not as daft as it sounds. In some countries, when you give your children names, they have to be on an "approved" list. (This has a definite whiff of enumerated fields about it .....)
  • Craig (unregistered)

    A friend of mine has the surname O'Shaughnessy - can you guess how many applications/forms die whenever they try to register? :)

  • ForcedSterilizationsForAll (unregistered) in reply to rbowes
    rbowes:
    Bill Brasky:
    I can't believe someone would actually check names against a list. Yeah, I don't know how to spell my own name.

    IRL, my last name is somewhat hard to spell. So, we always have to spell it out letter-by-letter to everyone. One time, after my Mom did that the lady she was giving it to asked, "Are you sure??" She must be related to whoever wrote this website! What do you mean your last name isn't Smith or Jones or Johnson?

    Hey, I have an idea, let's make first and last name a listbox!

    I can certainly see how "Bill" might be tricky to spell ;)

    Yeah, it might be spelled with one L, as is the case with Wil Anderson (I think that's his last name) a popular Aussie radio personality.

  • (cs) in reply to graymath
    graymath:
    found it...

    http://lasikvision.imswebmktg.com/lasikvision/unique/96691.php?&subid=322401

    I typed "kjhgh" for first name, and, apparently, I spelled it correctly.

  • vyznev (unregistered)

    There are some other WTFs on that form as well. From the source:

    <input type=hidden name="submit" value="1">
<input type=hidden name="fname_1_r" value="Please enter your first name.">
<input type=hidden name="fname_1_w" value="Please check spelling of your first name.">
<input type=hidden name="lname_1_r" value="Please enter your last name.">
<input type=hidden name="lname_1_w" value="Please check spelling of your last name.">
<input type=hidden name="email_1_r" value="Please enter your email.">
<input type=hidden name="email_1_e" value="Please enter valid email.">

    And yes, I tried it, altering those hiddens will change the error message. But the hiddens on the new form will again have the unaltered values.

    Oh, and entering a name with apostrophes (or, presumably, backslashes) in it will cause an ever-expanding chain of backslashes to appear on each error and resubmit. Didn't test what they'd do if the form was otherwise acceptably filled.

    (Captcha: "cognac". Sure, I could use some...)

  • D (unregistered)

    Looks like the Google one had an entry from a Dvorak user who was temporarily using a QWERTY keyboard (hmmmv). 'V' in Dvorak is the '.' key in QWERTY. I do this myself sometimes when switching between layouts.

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