• Álvaro González (github)

    The year is 2026 and:

    • "<font>" tag is alive and kicking.
    • I have no idea if markdown renderer will strip the "font" word in the line above.
  • AzureDiamond (unregistered)

    first one reminds me of pop smoke dior on nba 2k, leaving half the words out

  • (nodebb)

    In the first (Toyota) WTF it looks to me like just two words are missing: the spokesperson's name in the salutation and message subject, and the name of the car's model.

    At least their placeholder substitution code renders "", not e.g. {{Placeholder:SpokesmanName}} when it has a no-match.

    Now Japanese is a language where famously lots more is implied than said. Even the subject of a sentence is often absent; context fills in the absent details English expects to deliver explicitly. Perhaps the original message copy is Japanese and the whole thing is a placeholder-substituted translation? Probably not; but it's a fun idea.

    Addendum 2026-11-13 08:01: Oops. It's the car model that's missing twice and the spokesperson name just once. Dammit.

  • (nodebb)

    "any ingredients charged extra" (3rd line from bottom). Every pizza has ingredients, so I guess that means they'll charge you extra for any pizza. Unless you order an empty box, I suppose—that would be a pizza with no ingredients.

    I also like that it had "do not use!!" (2 exclamation marks), "do not use!!!!" (4 exclamation marks), "don't use!!!!" (also 4 but spelled with a contraction), and "don't use!!!!!!!!!!" (10 exclamation marks), and "any instructions charged extra" was in there twice.

  • (nodebb)

    If I am parsing this correctly, my "lg cheese pizza" does not contain any cheese unless I pay extra.

  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    I also like that it had "do not use!!" [...]

    Obviously the DBA created extra columns for future use, and the developer had to populate them with something since they are clearly defined as "NOT NULL" and "UNIQUE".

  • (nodebb) in reply to WTFGuy

    In the first (Toyota) WTF it looks to me like just two words are missing: the spokesperson's name in the salutation and message subject, and the name of the car's model.

    That's at least three words for most people in the West. (In strict pedantry, for folks like my dad, it's at least five words. (Yes, he had two middle names.))

  • (nodebb) in reply to WTFGuy

    In the first (Toyota) WTF it looks to me like just two words are missing

    Doesn't matter, they just want to get you thinking about a new car. I once got a letter like this in November for my Dodge Challenger. No one shops for a rear-wheel drive muscle car in November in the northeast US. I even asked the dealership what kind of deal they were thinking of giving me because maybe they really did want used Challengers. Nope, they told me they absolutely didn't want my car right now. I showed them the letter I got from their dealership saying cars like mine are in high demand. They said "Not sure who sent you that with our name on it, but that car is not in any demand right now. Probably a form letter that was never even looked at"

  • (nodebb)

    That's' not a source code leak. That's just displaying HTML as plain text instead of actually rendering it.

  • Moss (the TeXie) (unregistered)

    That’s a lot of do not use!!s and do not use!!!!s and even do not use!!!!!!!!!!s on that 2-toppings-pizza!

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered)

    It's obvious: We want your inbox!

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    For this comment, charge extra and do not use!!!

    This comment is not applicable.

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