Put down the chocolate covered banana



  • I'm sure you've all had cases of people coming up to you asking "how do I accomplish task X using tool Y?" where not only are X and Y completely unrelated, but it would be a physical impossibility to use Y to do X, and there is no possible way a normal human being could have possibly arrived at Y by thinking about X.

     

    With that in mind, I bring you What is the ICQ Number for Firefox?

    Keep reading beyond the first post. It gets weirder and weirder.

     

     

    -BnF


  • :belt_onion:

    Meh. He confused ICQ address with IP address, but that's hardly a WTF.

    Now, the extent of his failure to communicate with those trying to help him may be, but hardly surprises me.



  • I would just like to say I saw this when I posted, and I didn't think it was too bad. I didn't consider it WTF-worthy. It's just someone thinking they know more than they actually know about something. Plus the Straight Dope messageboards are really sharp, and they handled it perfectly.



  • I think I know exactly what was on his screen and what he's trying to do. It's a particularly good malware that hijacks web sites and presents a very convincing "OMG your computer is infected with a virus!" The OP is trying to download a fresh copy of Firefox because it's his home page that's infected and he thinks it is Firefox which is the problem.

    I've had a couple of my own sites attacked by it and I still don't know how it gets in to modify the HTML code on the web server. The payload always includes a URL redirection like globalpoweringgathering which is the actual site serving the fake virus scanner.

    I think the OP's confusion is entirely understandable given the sophistication and quality of the fake virus scanner.



  •  Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!





  • @El_Heffe said:

     http://www.icq.com/people/371019422/

    @FireFox' profile said:

    female

    Nice.

    @FireFox' profile said:

    21

    Cool!

    @FireFox' profile said:

    married

    Fuck.



  • Ironicly berlisconi thinks that the european currency system needs a chocolate-covered banana right now.




  • @Helix said:

    Ironicly berlisconi thinks that the european currency system needs a chocolate-covered banana right now.


    I think he's been giving them the chocolate covered banana for some time now.

     



  • @Zemm said:

     Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!

    Soon followed by a toddler-covered banana, I hope.

     



  • @Watson said:

    @Zemm said:
    Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!
    Soon followed by a toddler-covered banana, I hope.

    There's two ways to interpret that: the violent, and the sexual. Both are depraved beyond belief.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @blakeyrat said:

    @Watson said:
    @Zemm said:
    Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!
    Soon followed by a toddler-covered banana, I hope.

    There's two ways to interpret that: the violent, and the sexual. Both are depraved beyond belief.

    WTF? You missed the most obvious interpretation, which is that the toddler ate the banana. Which brings up the question: Why is blakeyrat depraved beyond belief?



  • @boomzilla said:

    WTF? You missed the most obvious interpretation, which is that the toddler ate the banana. Which brings up the question: Why is blakeyrat depraved beyond belief?

    Oh. Uh. No comment.

    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.



  • @blakeyrat said:

    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.

    Even if it's about toddlers? ... The fuck you think we are?


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @boomzilla said:

    @blakeyrat said:
    @Watson said:
    @Zemm said:
    Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!
    Soon followed by a toddler-covered banana, I hope.

    There's two ways to interpret that: the violent, and the sexual. Both are depraved beyond belief.

    WTF? You missed the most obvious interpretation, which is that the toddler ate the banana. Which brings up the question: Why is blakeyrat depraved beyond belief?

     

    Why else would he use Bitcoin?


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @blakeyrat said:

    @Watson said:
    @Zemm said:
    Cool term. My son had a literal chocolate covered banana last week, which of course meant we had a chocolate-covered toddler!
    Soon followed by a toddler-covered banana, I hope.
    There's two ways to interpret that: the violent, and the sexual. Both are depraved beyond belief.
    "Depraved and beyond belief" do not even start to describe the fact that you (allegedly) only came up with /only/ two ways that you came up with interpreting it, let alone the /first/ two.



    I'm going to go with you deliberatly misinterpreting stuff. Again. While trying, and failing, to be faintly amusing.



    And/or trolling. But I repeat myself...



  • @derula said:

    @blakeyrat said:
    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.

    Even if it's about toddlers? ... The fuck you think we are?

     

    What do you think makes toddlers?



  • @Zemm said:

    @derula said:

    @blakeyrat said:
    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.
    Even if it's about toddlers? ... The fuck you think we are?
     

    What do you think makes toddlers?

    God? and babies are delivered by storks



  • @serguey123 said:

    @Zemm said:
    @derula said:
    @blakeyrat said:
    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.
    Even if it's about toddlers? ... The fuck you think we are?
    What do you think makes toddlers?
    God? and babies are delivered by storks

    ^ this.



  • @blakeyrat said:

    @boomzilla said:
    WTF? You missed the most obvious interpretation, which is that the toddler ate the banana. Which brings up the question: Why is blakeyrat depraved beyond belief?

    Oh. Uh. No comment.

    I guess I just assumed nobody would ever write a post here that wasn't at least a little sexual and/or depraved.

    I think you meant to point out that from the banana's perspective, being eaten is incredibly violent, right? A common typo, the keys are like right next to each other.



  • I don't get what "toddler-covered banana" is supposed to mean at all, if anything.

    I didn't care enough to spend more time with the concept.


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