• (nodebb)

    In a feed received from a ecommerce:

    <brand>Dolce &amp;amp;amp;amp; Gabbana</brand>

  • Robin (unregistered)

    I'm probably missing a joke but I don't understand what B*****m means in the ISS one. From the map and co-ordinates it looks like it's near the coast of Egypt or Libya, and I can't think of any country in the region that would remotely fit the pattern given.

  • Brian (unregistered)

    Well that confirms what I've been saying for a while: antivirus apps are bad for your health.

  • Duston (unregistered)

    Imagine the sound if all those amp;s went up to 11.

  • my name is missing (unregistered)

    I always use a Bot Detected Title.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    The only country name that fits B******m is Belgium; I'm not sure why Mike S. chose that, unless there's some meme about Belgium I'm missing. The GPS coordinates put it in northeastern Libya.

  • (nodebb)

    Maybe the antivirus product used the advertising line, "It eliminates deadly bugs in your computer!" Then some AI thought it looked too much like "It kills bugs dead!" and flagged it. Time for a manual review.

  • Scott (unregistered)

    Hitchhiker's Guide reference to worst use of Belgium in a screenlay?

  • akozakie (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    Meme? You haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, have you?

    It's the worst swearword in the galaxy. Everywhere, except - for some reason - on Earth.

  • Zaphod (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    Hitchhikers's reference?

  • Ford Prefect (unregistered)

    There is a joke in the American versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about an award for the most gratuitous use of the word Belgium, suggesting that Belgium is a naughty word.

  • The Shadow Knows (unregistered) in reply to Ford Prefect

    If I remember right, Belgium was used in the radio version as one of the most offensive words in the galaxy, so it did fit when he had to change the line in the book for the more primitive countries

  • emma (unregistered)

    [ed: lots of spam from d*****shirts deleted and no I don't know how it got through the filter] visit our site kindly for more info thank you

  • RandoOnTheInternet (unregistered)

    I think it wants you to click the hidden button 'Next to' the Continue button. Speak friend and enter...

  • Gary (unregistered)

    The punctuation is off - obviously they meant, Click next to "Continue".

    Now, whether they meant click beside the word "Continue" or the button containing that word is unclear. Presumably they don't care whether you click to the left or right, just don't click on "Continue".

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    Thank you for informing us that Dallas Shirts is a bad company we shouldn't deal with.

    (How did that get through moderation??)

  • (nodebb)

    So the legitimate comments get held for moderation (I recognize most of those names), but the spammer gets through twice.

  • I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯ (unregistered)

    I read the background text in the fourth one as "outrage-technical-error-title".

  • Stuart Longland (unregistered)

    Great, just great. I ordered a graphic equaliser and instead they've sent me an amp amp amp amp amp

    Isn't that exactly how a graphic equaliser is implemented… lots of little (operational) amplifiers, each with its own band-pass filter and a potentiometer to adjust the gain with? I do hope you receive the other bits too and not just the "amp"s.

  • Stuart Longland (unregistered) in reply to Nutster

    Given the amount of code involved in those anti-virus applications, and the performance impact they have, I don't think such warnings go far enough!

  • Mike Barkov (unregistered)

    When you're 420km high, weird things start to happen.

  • löchlein deluxe (unregistered) in reply to Nutster

    Well, it is literally named "antivirus", so of course somebody is going to sue Amazon after they rub themselves in Norton's finest and still get themselves on the intubation waiting list.

  • RLB (unregistered) in reply to The Shadow Knows

    If I remember right, Belgium was used in the radio version as one of the most offensive words in the galaxy, so it did fit when he had to change the line in the book for the more primitive countries

    The other way 'round. In the radio series, and the UK version of the book, it was actually the f-word. The USA publisher didn't like that, so it was changed to Belgium. A joke was added to explain that this is an astoundingly rude word that is banned all around the galaxy except in serious contexts, except on some backwater planet whose inhabitants, turlingdromes that they are, use it as the name of a country.

    I recall a quote from Adams admitting that, in hindsight, this was much funnier than the original (which actually was merely gratuitous). I can't find that quote any more, but I do agree.

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