A Crime a Day
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I was going to post this in the Funny Stuff or Links thread but hey, threads are free and I suspect everyone's going to find a gem they'll want to share. Extremely funny Twitter account that highlights how legislation incorporating regulations by reference yields absurd results.
Some of my favorites I've seen thus far:
(A lot of them are hilarious just because of the wording. I can just picture the ATF director going, "Yeah, that's okay.")
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So this thread is just copying and pasting a twitter account?
Couldn't people just... click through to Twitter and read them there?
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@blakeyrat said in A Crime a Day:
Couldn't people just... click through to Twitter and read them there?
but then you'd have to go to twitter :/
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Only 1 crime a day? You guys are far short
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@blakeyrat said in A Crime a Day:
So this thread is just copying and pasting a twitter account?
Couldn't people just... click through to Twitter and read them there?
Yes, but then there'd be no engagement with the WTDWTF community, some of whom I like to engage? :P We wouldn't be able to share which tweets we think are particularly funny (they can't all be gems), we wouldn't be able to share our reactions, we wouldn't be able to derail the thread (our trademark move) into a discussion of whether the existence of a Mexican wolf harassment permit is racist and whether there should be Mexican wolf sanctuary cities.
If you don't want to do any of those things (probably because you hate fun), then add this to your already lengthy ignore list, maybe.
@bb36e said in A Crime a Day:
but then you'd have to go to twitter :/
Also, this. :P
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I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
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@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
Wait, is that an actual problem? Who wants to be desensitized?
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@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
Set yourself an appointment?
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@tsaukpaetra said in A Crime a Day:
@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
Set yourself an appointment?
Well, I kind of made up the "few more weeks" part, but her followup is in about 2 weeks, so I guess that'd work...
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@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
Which regulation made that a crime?
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@tsaukpaetra said in A Crime a Day:
@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
Wait, is that an actual problem? Who wants to be desensitized?
Premature
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@jaloopa said in A Crime a Day:
@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
Which regulation made that a crime?
She didn't tell me.
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@jaloopa said in A Crime a Day:
@tsaukpaetra said in A Crime a Day:
@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
Wait, is that an actual problem? Who wants to be desensitized?
Premature
Hmmm. I don't think I have that problem. Not that I've been tested....
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@anotherusername said in A Crime a Day:
I actually really want to show some of these to my wife...
...but she's not allowed to laugh for a few more weeks. :(
German citizenship application?
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@coldandtired no, the surgeon left her sense of humor.
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This, on the other hand, seems like a very sensible result of legislation and regulation:
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@heterodox said in A Crime a Day:
This, on the other hand, seems like a very sensible result of legislation and regulation:
Wasn't that already covered by an existing law?
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Nice. A few of my favourites that haven't been mentioned so far:
I can see where the first and third ones are coming from, but still...
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@blakeyrat said in A Crime a Day:
Couldn't people just... click through to Twitter and read them there?
And miss out on your clueless griping?
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@scarlet_manuka said in A Crime a Day:
I can see where the first and third ones are coming from, but still...
The Helvetica Medium one makes a lot of sense as well. I do quite a bit of hardware compliance and certification work, frequently a standard requires a certain font, minimum size, colour etc... on labels and documentation. Makes sense really, if you just put 'must be readable' some asshole would do it in hot-pink wingdings 6pt high and claim it's technically 'readable'.
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@cursorkeys Any software engineer would realize that you should put the "is readable(text)" definition into a global function rather than rewriting it every time it comes up.
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@cursorkeys said in A Crime a Day:
The Helvetica Medium one makes a lot of sense as well. I do quite a bit of hardware compliance and certification work, frequently a standard requires a certain font, minimum size, colour etc... on labels and documentation. Makes sense really, if you just put 'must be readable' some asshole would do it in hot-pink wingdings 6pt high and claim it's technically 'readable'.
Some of the Twitter comments indicated that Helvetica can only be licensed from one vendor, though. No idea if that's true, but if it is, I agree with the caveat that regulation shouldn't lock you to a particular vendor.
