How do you guys describe TDWTF forums?
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Sometimes I'm asked what am I doing while here or try to explain to someone this place but I always end up babbling something like: just a forum I visit.
But I fear some day someone will ask "what's it about?"
I mean, if I respond: I'm reading Twitter, everyone gets it, but not this insane place.
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It's a place for people who do it wrong ...
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A circle jerk/support group for laughing at other people's misfortunes.
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TDWTF is... special.
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I agree. Be more descriptive.
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Are you going to judge my body, too?
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Isn't this just a glorified comment section for some creative writing blog?
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TDWTF is a very special circle jerk support group for pedantic dickweeds who are brillant but doing it wrong.
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My wife spent the first 15 years we were together being completely incapable of describing what my job is or what I do.
Finally, she was shamed into sitting me down a couple of years ago, sighing loudly and then saying "Right. Bore me to tears for 15 minutes about what you do all day".She now asks me the same question that @Eldelshell asks- "What is that forum about? Is it another welding forum?" and I dread having to have the 15 minute chat again...
Actually. We could all save ourselves some trauma by just saying "It's a forum about welding" - that's as close as any other attempt to describe it!
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Actually. We could all save ourselves some trauma by just saying "It's a forum about welding together random shit from SO, and then other people complain about it" - that's as close as any other attempt to describe it!
FTFY
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creative writing blog
Hey, I resent that statement! Let me assure you, there's absolutely no creativity in my writing!
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"It's a forum with a bunch of people from all around the world who've only got computers and coding in common, so we discuss that, and everything else there."
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my favorite quote about this forum:
Quoting for prosperity.There are no topics on TDWTF, there is only madness.
STOP DELETING YOUR POSTS YOU FUNNY FUCK!
*edit just typed out an entire email with caps lock on... Some days I think I should just give up and learn to farm instead.
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"it's a forum about programming".
No further questions are ever askedSame as:
What's your job?
I work in IT
*changes topic*
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I usually describe it as the forum of a programming humour site.
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Yep, that should close the deal.
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That conversation can continue with:
"my computer is broken"
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@aliceif said:
creative writing blog
Hey, I resent that statement! Let me assure you, there's absolutely no creativity in my writing!
Let me assure you, it's no laughing matter
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It's a place for people who do it wrong ...
The Greeks?
That joke is funny on so many levels.
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That conversation can continue with:
"my computer is broken"
Or:
What's your job?
I work in IT for $ISP
Oh good, my broadband/set-top box is broken(or some other issue they have with either $ISP or $otherISP)
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That joke is funny on so many levels.
Unfortunately I cannot award a like per level.
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Related question: what do you say if somebody asks what this place is called? Do you try to pronounce TDWTF/WTDWTF or do you say something like "the daily what the fuck"? Or something else?
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The Daily WTF usually works well with anyone around me that would even ask. Still didn't get asked that by anyone not knowing what "WTF" stands for.
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Oh, and the occasional:
What's your job?
I work in IT for $ISP
I'm with them, can you get me discount?
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Oh good, my broadband/set-top box is broken (or some other issue they have with either $ISP or $otherISP)
BTW the part in brackets is on a new line in the post because Discourse breaks the emoji if it's on the same line.
EDIT: Fuck sake Discourse, it works in the quote but not the post?!
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@loopback0 - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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The Daily Worse Than Failure!
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tries to figure out if it sounds amusing in German
realizes his German sucks
IDEA!... ok?
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So ... WTDWTF becomes What The Daily Worse Than Failure. I think I might start using that.
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"Popular nerd websites for 500 please, Alex"
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I mean, if I respond: I'm reading Twitter, everyone gets it,
Twitter isn't anything except a bunch of short posts. If you talk to 50 people using Twitter, you'll get 50 reasons that people use Twitter.
but not this insane place.
Who gives a shit? First of all, nobody's gonna ask you that. Secondly, even if they do, why do you care if they have a good description or not? They can come to the site themselves and read some posts if they want.
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I work from home. My wife thinks TDWTF is what I do for work.
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My wife thinks TDWTF .. I do .. work.
Safe to say she doesn't read them herself them
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Who gives a shit?
Wife, coworkers, friends.
why do you care if they have a good description or not?
Not a good description, just barely enough more than "a forum" which can be taken all the way from 4chan to hackers to pedophile shit.
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Ok so say it's full of pedophile shit. Who cares.
Look, there's no padlock on it. If they really want to know, they can just visit the fucking site.
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Ok so say it's full of pedophile shit. Who cares.
I can see you're very popular IRL.
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Ok so say it's full of pedophile shit. Who cares.
IDK about you but I don't want to be taken as a pedophile.
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I can see you're very popular IRL.
Right. Because it's not like Blakeyrat would make a joke. Everything he types is dead-serious.
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My wife thinks TDWTF is what I do for work.
Makes sense. Moving posts seems to be just about as much effort, anyway.
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Right. Because it's not like Blakeyrat would make a joke. Everything he types is dead-serious.
I get that the pedophile thing was a joke. If the rest of "Why do you care what your friends think?" stuff was a joke then please just flag me now.
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Well it's more of a "I can't imagine you get asked this enough to bother preparing an answer for it in advance."
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You should have said something similar to that. It makes a lot more sense.
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My wife thinks TDWTF is what I do for work.
Isn't it?
We already know about all of your alts. I think @apapadimoulis pays you to keep the forum ticking over.
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Because it's not like Blakeyrat would make a joke. Everything he types in all caps is dead-serious.
Filed under: FTFY
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It's 4chan for people who don't think they're in 4chan
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Well it's more of a "I can't imagine you get asked this enough to bother preparing an answer for it in advance."
You see Blakey, some people have other people in their lives, and those other people are sometimes interested in what they're doing, so occasionally they ask questions like "hey, what are you doing"...
I just have a convenient "oh, a discussion board for my articles" excuse. That, or "the place where I play Mafia", but then I have to explain what Mafia is.
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You see Blakey, some people have other people in their lives, and those other people are sometimes interested in what they're doing, so occasionally they ask questions like "hey, what are you doing"...
Right, but...
But I usually don't spend time preparing for questions like that in advance. I just describe what I'm doing if I'm asked what I'm doing.
Who knows, maybe I'm the mutant.
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"it's a forum about programming".
No further questions are ever askedSame as:
What's your job?
I work in IT
*changes topic*You're lucky. It usually goes like this for me:
What's your job?
I work in IT
Oh, I think I have a virus on one laptop, and I dropped my iPad in the swimming pool. Can you fix them?
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Isn't this just a place for programmers to laugh at each other's misfortunes?