• (disco) in reply to Onyx

    Then no Likes for you! :stuck_out_tongue:

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    unpopular opinion in a completely civil way
    No matter how hard you try I'll never think of Scooter as acceptable music.
  • (disco) in reply to Luhmann

    That's OK. The rest of us will keep enjoying life regardless. Possibly on your lawn, too.

  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    What if I'm expressing an unpopular opinion in a completely civil way?

    I often Like posts that do that. Even when I disagree.

    :wtf:

    RaceProUK:
    Then no Likes for you!
  • (disco) in reply to Onyx
    Onyx:
    I read that as the tech diffusing the situation

    PENDANTRY PET HATE

    diffuse

    /dɪˈfjuːz/ *verb* gerund or present participle: diffusing

    spread over a wide area or between a large number of people. "technologies diffuse rapidly" synonyms: spread, spread out, spread around, send out, scatter, disperse; disseminate, distribute, dispense, put about, circulate, communicate, impart, purvey, propagate, transmit, broadcast, promulgate; literary bruit abroad

    Physics intermingle with another substance by movement, typically in a specified direction or at specified speed. "oxygen molecules diffuse across the membrane"

    cause (light) to spread evenly to reduce glare and harsh shadows. "the light of the moon was diffused by cloud" antonyms: concentrate, collect

    defuse

    /diːˈfjuːz/ *verb* gerund or present participle: defusing

    remove the fuse from (an explosive device) in order to prevent it from exploding. "explosives specialists tried to defuse the grenade" synonyms: deactivate, disarm, disable, make safe antonyms: activate

    make (a situation) less tense or dangerous. "a scheme that teaches officers how to defuse potentially explosive situations" synonyms: reduce, lessen, diminish, lighten, relieve, ease, alleviate, allay, moderate, mitigate, take the edge off; clear the air antonyms: heighten, intensify

    Filed under: don't get me started on phase vs. faze

  • (disco) in reply to flabdablet

    Yes, yes, I've been corrected. I actually didn't fix the post on purpose.

    I'm trying to own up to my errors here and all I get are more notifications later on...

  • (disco) in reply to flabdablet
    flabdablet:
    PENDANTRY PET HATE

    well when the fit hits the shan it can well and truly be said that the situation was diffused over a wide area.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    fit hits the shan
    I had to read that three times before it clicked :blush:
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    i do so enjoy creative self censoring.

    i mean i kn ow it's okay to say shit here, i've done it myself, but saying "the fit hits the shan" makes me giggle....

    :rofl:

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i kn ow

    is that also creative self-censoring? ;)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i do so enjoy creative self censoring.
    Thing is, with all the @accalia‌s you make, it sometimes takes a moment to realise it's deliberate… :stuck_out_tongue:
  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    is that also creative self-censoring?

    nah. just my erratic spellaring

    RaceProUK:
    Thing is, with all the @accalia‌s you make, it sometimes takes a moment to realise it's deliberate…
    a fact i will shamelessly exploit in the pursuit of giggles.
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    it sometimes takes a moment to realise it's deliberate

    I used to talk like that to my kids (mangling words to be silly, not to censor profanity) constantly. Seeing someone else do it doesn't phase <!-- flabdablet bait --> me in the slightest.

    Filed under: Growing up with me as their dad, it's no wonder they are a little bit ... unusual.

  • (disco) in reply to flabdablet

    That post didn't even phase my pedantry meter. :stuck_out_tongue:

    It takes more than just posting a couple dictionary definitions to win me over. Don't get me wrong, definitions are a great starting point, but anyone can copy paste some definitions. So what? You need to explain why this shows that the person you are replying to is a illiterate 5 year old.

    If you're going to try for a pedantic rant, at least put a modicum of effort into it!

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    That post didn't even phase my pedantry meter.

    But did it modulate the subspace phase of your pedantry deflector?

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    mangling words to be silly

    I enjoy doing that sometimes.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:

    Apropos of not a lot:

    https://youtu.be/X3iFhLdWjqc?t=4s

  • (disco)

    If the writers of the daily WTF just told these stories straight, they would be so much better. This story reads like the script of a TV show.

    When reading these stories, I honestly don't know what's real and what's added.

    There are 2 things that I gathered from this story:

    1. A guy ordered a pizza online, added the button, and submitted the order
    2. He got accused of hacking.

    As far as I'm concerned, every other single detail in that story is suspect.

  • (disco) in reply to Samuel_Schoenberg
    Samuel_Schoenberg:
    every other single detail in that story is suspect.

    Yep, that's about right.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    Imma call the Internet Police on you guys!

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Imma call the Internet Police on youz guysz!

    FTFY

  • (disco) in reply to Samuel_Schoenberg
    Samuel_Schoenberg:
    If the writers of the daily WTF just told these stories straight, they would be so much better.
    Samuel_Schoenberg:
    There are 2 things that I gathered from this story:
    1. A guy ordered a pizza online, added the button, and submitted the order
    2. He got accused of hacking.

    What I don't understand is how "as far as I can tell, the real story is just [insert some plain old boring stuff here that isn't even worthy of the next-to-last page in a local newspaper]" is an argument against enhancing the stories.

    But, just for you, a de-fictionalized version of the account:

    We got a submission from Alan C., who was in his bed one day and decided he fancies a pizza. So he went online to search for the local pizzeria's telephone number, but found out they have recently added an option to order online.

    So he picked $50 worth of ingredients on his custom-tailored order, and then he tried to submit a form - but he couldn't! There was no submit button on the page. But Alan was a software developer, so he opened the DOM inspector, added a button and submitted it, feeling proud of himself.

    Later on, he went to the pizzeria to collect his order. He told the cashier:

    "Hello, I'm here to pick up an online order."

    "An online order? What's the name on it?"

    "Alan."

    "Oh, here it is. Give me a second, I'll grab my manager."

    Five minutes later, the manager came out of his office.

    "Sir, you could not have placed an online order", he said. "Our online form is out of service, the webmaster has taken it down for maintenance."

    "Oh", said Alan, "that explains the broken form. "I thought it was a bug, so I fixed it so that I could place the order."

    "So you are saying you changed our code to place an order?"

    "Yeah, that's one way to think about it."

    "Sir, you have to leave now. You just admitted to cyber crime, and if you don't leave now, we're calling the police."

    "Then call them, what are they gonna do? Your webmaster is too stupid to take down a form properly. Give me my food and I'll leave."

    And so the manager gave him the food and kicked him out the restaurant. The end.

    I don't know about you, but it's an awful slog to me. And half of the dialogue is probably made up by the submitter anyway, so the real story is likely even more boring.

    Look, we get lots of stories. Sometimes they hold up in their own regard - lots of CodeSODs can be simply summed up by "fuck, just look at this code", and I've had at least one feature where all that was needed was to simply turn the verbal account into a story with dialogue and narration.

    But sometimes, there just isn't enough in the original story to warrant a full-fledged FA, up to the point where you can sum the whole thing up with one sentence. So we treat it more as writing prompts, because the choice is of either putting up a fictionalized, but fun story or a 100-word "meh" article that wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. And we're not a local newspaper.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj

    That de-fictionalized story is much better. It really is, and here's why:

    I believe it.

    It looks like non-fiction. That's what I come to the daily WTF hoping to get: non-fiction.

    When you add garbage such as "Maybe it's some hidden camera show? Like, you help out and you get a million dollars? " and "Un criminale!" I have trouble reading this as though it were non-fiction. In fact, as it turns out much of it really was fiction. I stop believing the story, and let me tell you that actually belief in the story makes it MUCH more impactful.

    The embellishments are not one tenth good enough to make up for the fact that the reader doesn't believe you anymore.

  • (disco) in reply to Samuel_Schoenberg
    Samuel_Schoenberg:
    That's what I come to the daily WTF hoping to get: non-fiction.

    And here I was, thinking people come to The Daily WTF to get some fun.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    And here I was, thinking people come to The Daily WTF to get some fun.

    They do! It's just different people have different ideas of fun. Some people find it in deliberately misinterpreting nearly everything other people say and also heaping abuse on them, like my friend @blakeyrat.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    This is actually a giant reverse-Polack joke.
    Wouldn't that make it a regular joke?
  • (disco) in reply to Evan_Harper
    Evan_Harper:
    I unsubscribed to TDWTF because of this post.
    Every time, just when I open my heart ...
  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj

    Looking back, it looks like he joined specifically so he could say he was quitting.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    https://youtu.be/_YrNQaXdOxU

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    like my friend @blakeyrat.

    He has a friend? :trollface:

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    My FIL likes them, though. :mask:
    Federation of International Lacrosse?
  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Also, it's just not a pizza if it doesn't have the flat bread, tomato and cheese. It might be nice (or maybe not) but it fails to be a pizza on definitional grounds.
    The flatness of the bread is optional, unless you consider Chicago-style pizza to be not pizza, which would make me sad.
  • (disco) in reply to tharpa
    tharpa:
    unless you consider Chicago-style pizza to be not pizza

    Chicago-style pizza, judged solely on its own merits, is great. However, it is a thing almost, but not quite, entirely unlike genuine Italian pizza. That fault is not unique to Chicago-style, though; hardly any American pizza is like Italian pizza.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Chicago-style pizza, judged solely on its own merits, is great. However, it is a thing almost, but not quite, entirely unlike genuine Italian pizza. That fault is not unique to Chicago-style, though; hardly any American pizza is like Italian pizza.
    Sicilian-style pizza is closer to Chicago-Style pizza than New York-style pizza.
  • (disco) in reply to tharpa
    tharpa:
    Sicilian-style pizza is closer to Chicago-Style pizza than New York-style pizza.

    I'll have to take your word for that; I've never had Sicilian-style (that I can recall). The only real Italian pizza I've had was in Rome; the thin, crunchy-crust type of Chicago-style (of which I was not previously aware; "Chicago-style" is almost universally associated with "deep-dish" outside Chicago) sounds pretty similar. At least the crust is similar; I've never had the same toppings on an American pizza.

    I'm happy to learn that Chicago-style is at least similar to some regional style of Italian pizza. I was also happy to learn that Uno Chicago Grill (formerly Pizzeria Uno) is still going strong, if not on the West Coast. They closed their Bay Area locations (at least the ones I knew of) a decade or so ago. I was disappointed; their spinach, mushroom and garlic was one of my all-time favorites.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    He has a friend? :trollface:

    I think that works along the same lines as people like him, but he doesn't like people.

  • (disco) in reply to tharpa
    tharpa:
    Federation of International Lacrosse?

    Father In Law.

  • (disco) in reply to Samuel_Schoenberg

    I'm with Sam.

  • (disco) in reply to tharpa
    tharpa:
    The flatness of the bread is optional, unless you consider Chicago-style pizza to be not pizza, which would make me sad.

    It's a “dish inspired by pizza” and it's quite nice (I've had it a few times in various places round Chicago) but not really a pizza.

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