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    Status: Sitting in class dicking around on here during the midterm. Head is still congested, still feel like I have been beaten with a bag of hammers.



  • Status: NARWHALS NARWHALS SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN


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    Status: @nedfodder is high.



  • I wish. Just sick of Sprint's latest ad campaign...



  • Status: replaying Bioshock Infinite

    [img]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/526131074795841467/90758D7AD14A453244EBBE2C620A41CA92431B30/[/img]

    EDIT: never noticed before how much Elizabeth looks like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. Hmmm.





  • @CarrieVS said:

    it still has milk in
    I don't know what kind of dark chocolate you're getting, but milk in dark chocolate is definitely Doing It Wrong™.

    I just looked at 10 samples of dark chocolate that I have on hand1. Six makers. Four countries. Six American (including two Lindt made in the US), one Belgian, one French (Valrhona FTW!!!), one Polish, one origin not identified. Sadly, no Italian.

    Apart from one that has caramel2, one bag of Ghirardelli chocolate chips has "milk fat" as the fourth of six ingredients. A few of the others have "May contain traces of ..." or "Processed on equipment ..." allergy warnings that mention milk, but none contain milk as an ingredient.

    These are all fairly high-quality chocolate — no Hershey's. I don't know what they put in the dreck.


    1 Yes, I still plan to do that blind taste test. Someday. Soon; a couple of the bars are approaching their expiration dates. Or I could just eat them and buy some fresh.
    2 Why did I buy that? I can't use it for the taste test. Oh, well; I guess I'll just have to eat it.



  • Funnily enough, I got the idea that it did the first time someone suggested to me that the taste in American chocolate might be down to the milk - because I replied that that couldn't be, as even dark chocolate tasted wrong. They insisted there was milk in dark chocolate, so I went to look at the packet of the bar of very good 85% chocolate that I had on hand, and unless I'm inventing a false memory somehow, it had at least two milk ingredients.

    You'll probably now retort that that is the 'wrong' way to do chocolate and the American version is right, but the fact remains that American chocolate, all of it, milk or dark, Hershey's or any other brand (including some that seemed pretty high-end - your point about what gets exported is irrelevant, since all the American chocolate I've tasted has been bought in America by someone who went there) tastes, faintly, of sick. Maybe it's not the milk, I supposed it was because that seemed logical. But something about it makes it taste of vomit.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    If it makes you feel better, I think the taste of pineapple matches closely the smell of an infrequently-cleaned urinal.

    :nope.php:



  • @EvanED said:

    @HardwareGeek said:
    there shouldn't be [a password length] constraint

    Sounds like a great way to enable DOS attacks.

    Meh. Just client-side gzip the password before sending it to the server.


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    @CarrieVS said:

    all the American chocolate I've tasted has been bought in America by someone who went there) tastes, faintly, of sick

    I....well, you have very different vomit than I have, apparently. Or maybe just more, so the association is stonger. I don't know, but I've eaten plenty of Hershey's and never thought about vomit. It has a bit of a bitterness to it, but...wow.



  • Well it tastes of chocolate (crappy chocolate in the case of Hershey's) with a faint hint of vomit. It's not strong enough to make you immediately think of vomit, it's more like 'huh, what's that weird taste, it definitely seems familiar', and then go round all day trying to place it, until eventually 'oh yes, now I remember where I tasted that before'.


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    Well, you're also the person who doesn't like the taste of alcohol, so I guess we can't trust your sense of taste. 😛



  • Actually I'm very sensitive to tastes. So probably the alcohol in alcoholic drinks tastes stronger to me than it does to a lot of people. For instance in that thread I remember someone recommending beer to someone who disliked the taste of alcohol, insisting you could barely taste it in beer. I have no reason to suppose they were lying, so I conclude that I just taste it more strongly. Maybe I taste the vomit-flavour in chocolate more strongly that some people too, but I'm not the only person who agrees that's what it tastes like.

    As I say, it's not strong enough to immediately make one think of vomit, and it's possible to get used to just about anything. I presume that if you've been used to chocolate containing that flavour all your life you wouldn't think 'what's that weird taste' because it wouldn't be weird, and so wouldn't make an effort to place it, because it's just part of the taste of chocolate to you, and so you'd probably never make the connection.

    In my anecdotal experience though, it's a lot easier to get a Yank to like European or British chocolate than the other way around. Pretty much all Rightpondians will insist that the particular extra flavour in US chocolate is unpleasant, whereas USAliens seem more likely to find Eurpoean chocolate odd but not bad, and having got used to it, more than a few decide they prefer it.


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    @CarrieVS said:

    Actually I'm very sensitive to tastes.

    Could be. I often feel like I'm more sensitive than a lot of people. How do you feel about seafood?



  • Status: Found out that there is no easy way to jump to the end of a thread when using emacs/w3m to view WTDWTF.

    Bummer!

    EDIT: If I know the last post I can, of course, put that in the URL and so get to the end...


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    @Mikael_Svahnberg said:

    EDIT: If I know the last post I can, of course, put that in the URL and so get to the end...

    Any suitably big number has the same effect:
    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/status-the-edit-and-title-of-this-category/1673/112722879653879
    should go to the last post in this thread. Until we have post 112722879653880 that is 😆

    …or not; it seems to go to the beginning of the block.



  • @boomzilla said:

    How do you feel about seafood?

    Depends. If it's molluscs etc, I haven't ever tried them because I'm also kinda squeamish and I find the idea disgusting. I'm an immensely picky eater (apparently as an adult, that's considered an eating disorder, but that seems like an overreaction to me) and very sensitive to texture as well as taste, and in addition I can't bring myself to eat things that look or 'think' unpleasant.

    Most fish and crustaceans, I very much like the taste of, if they're fresh and good quality. If they're not they're either tasteless and gross or have that really distinctive 'fishy' smell/taste, as distinct from the flavour of fish.



  • You need someone to just tie you down and ram mollusks down your maw.

    Goddamned. I can't even imagine how many billions of tasty gems you're missing because you're a "picky eater". Which I'm just going to read from now on as "gigantic coward wussy-wimp."


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    @blakeyrat said:

    You need someone to just tie you down and ram mollusks down your maw.

    I'm not sure that's an approved psychological treatment…



  • Oh yeah the person who doesn't even know what GENDER they are is telling all of us about psychology.



  • @blakeyrat said:

    I can't even imagine how many billions of tasty gems you're missing because you're a "picky eater". Which I'm just going to read from now on as "gigantic coward wussy-wimp."

    Well mostly it's things I willingly tried and do not like, whether because of taste or texture or both.

    But with regard to the things I can't bring myself to put in my mouth to try at all, that's pretty accurate.


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    @dkf said:

    If it makes you feel better, I think the taste of pineapple matches closely the smell of an infrequently-cleaned urinal.

    Some types of white wine smell of cat piss to me.



  • @CarrieVS said:

    Well mostly it's things I willingly tried and do not like, whether because of taste or texture or both.

    But what you're missing is nobody likes these things on the first tasting. They're acquired tastes-- YOU HAVE TO ACQUIRE THEM.

    Usually that's only a problem for fucking 8-year-olds. The real amazement here is you somehow reached adulthood without ever acquiring any acquired tastes. Which can only be attributed to being a gigantic coward wussy-wimp. You disgust me.


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    @blakeyrat said:

    Oh yeah the person who doesn't even know what GENDER they are is telling all of us about psychology.

    Oh, I do know what gender I am. And I do know what gender I'm presenting myself as.
    But are they the same? If not, which one is my true gender? What if neither are correct? Is four questions too many to ask in one post?



  • Isn't the cooking thread that way: ↪ ?



  • @blakeyrat said:

    But what you're missing is nobody likes these things on the first tasting. They're acquired tastes-- YOU HAVE TO ACQUIRE THEM.

    I have never understood this. Why would I eat something gross and hope it magically becomes not gross if I eat enough of it? I suppose I should go hit myself over the head with a hammer, and maybe after a few hundred rounds it'll start feeling good.



  • If it makes you happy to assume I only ever try a thing once if I don't like it the first time, you go ahead and assume that.



  • It makes me happy to call you a gigantic coward wussy-wimp.


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    @mott555 said:

    I suppose I should go hit myself over the head with a hammer, and maybe after a few hundred rounds it'll start feeling good.

    You can borrow one of mine if you like:


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    @mott555 said:

    I have never understood this. Why would I eat something gross and hope it magically becomes not gross if I eat enough of it?

    You understand it. If you enjoy any type of alcohol, you get it. My first sip of whisky was one of the most vile experiences I have had. Now it is like angels dancing on my taste buds.



  • Tying this thread together with the one about caviar over in Pyrl: polyglossia WTF,
    @CarrieVS said:

    have that really distinctive 'fishy' smell/taste

    @CarrieVS said:

    things I willingly tried and do not like, whether because of taste or texture or both.

    That's how I feel about caviar. I have no idea whether my one taste was good caviar or not, but I found it both intensely fishy and intensely salty, a combination I did not consider pleasant. Definitely not an experience worth the expense of caviar. (And no, I'm pretty sure @Zoidberg hadn't been around.)



  • Is it me maybe?



  • Funnily enough it often works the other way. I try a thing and it seems ok, but if I keep eating it until it isn't unfamiliar anymore, I can't swallow it without gagging. And believe me, I try. And I don't refuse to eat a food I don't like unless I would be sick if I tried; if it's just unpleasant I'll eat it up and say it's lovely.

    @blakeyrat said:

    It makes me happy to call you a gigantic coward wussy-wimp.

    Then you go ahead and do that, the more happiness in the world the better.



  • I just said it wasn't. It least I certainly hope it wasn't.



  • @CarrieVS said:

    I try a thing and it seems ok, but if I keep eating it until it isn't unfamiliar anymore, I can't swallow it without gagging.

    Avocados. There was a period when I was a kid that I adored them, and ate them at every opportunity, until I made myself sick of them. Not physically sick from overeating, just "ew, that's gross." Now I can tolerate the taste in small quantities, but I don't like it, and generally avoid them.



  • The first alcohol I tried was hard liquor and I liked it, so idk. I don't like whiskey though.


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    @mott555 said:

    I don't like whiskey though.

    Whiskey varies wildly in quality. If you want a good one, stick to Scottish or Irish single malts.



  • The first alcohol I had was champagne and I was disgusted by it (and still really don't like it).
    I quickly developed a liking for red wine, though.


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    @aliceif said:

    The first alcohol I had was champagne and I was disgusted by it (and still really don't like it).

    Champagne, the alcohol that goes down like perfume and comes up like sewage...

    My first ever hangover was off $500/bottle champagne. To this day I shudder at even the word.



  • Champagne is good, I can't stand red wine, white wines are okay in smaller amounts. Beer is good if and only if it's a wheat beer, like Blue Moon or Shock Top. Most hard liquors I've tried are good but I generally avoid them, that's not a habit I need, but my preference is towards schnapps, the kind of stuff that tastes like a case of candy bars and a bag of sugar dissolved in grain alcohol 😄


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    @HardwareGeek said:

    Avocados. There was a period when I was a kid that I adored them, and ate them at every opportunity, until I made myself sick of them. Not physically sick from overeating, just "ew, that's gross." Now I can tolerate the taste in small quantities, but I don't like it, and generally avoid them.

    I am the opposite. I hated avocados as a kid. The slimy texture and bright green color was off putting. Now I love them and make homemade guacamole pretty regularly.


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    @mott555 said:

    Beer is good if and only if it's a wheat beer, like Blue Moon or Shock Top.

    That's not beer. That is cereal in a bottle.



  • Status: wondering exactly how drunk I was when I wrote some of these sprocs for our inventory system.

    The item list is using average costing, so when there's 0 units on hand and someone sells one, it goes out and uses the fncGetLastCost sproc to determine what cost was assigned the last time we used one that was on hand. And then it goes out and updates the last cost with whatever was from the last Service Order (overwriting what it just went out to get, and ignoring if the item got used on an assembly or a non-service-order "External Use").

    And then there's the fncGetLastCost sproc...

    IF ( @AsOf IS NULL ) 
    	BEGIN
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT soi.item_id, so.installed, soi.item_cost 
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_service_order_item AS soi
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_service_order AS so
    			ON so.id = soi.service_order 
    			WHERE soi.item_id = @ItemID
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT ui.item_id, u.usage_date, ui.item_cost 
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_external_use_item AS ui
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_external_use AS u
    			ON u.id = ui.external_use_id 
    			WHERE ui.item_id = @ItemID
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT bi.item_id, b.assembled_date, bi.purchase_price
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_build_item AS bi
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_build AS b
    			ON b.id = bi.buildnum 
    			WHERE bi.item_id = @ItemID AND bi.component_type = 1 AND ( bi.item_id <> bi.component_for OR ( bi.component_for = 0 AND bi.quantity < 0 ) )
    	END
    ELSE
    	BEGIN
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT soi.item_id, so.installed, soi.item_cost 
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_service_order_item AS soi
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_service_order AS so
    			ON so.id = soi.service_order 
    			WHERE soi.item_id = @ItemID AND so.installed <= @AsOf
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT ui.item_id, u.usage_date, ui.item_cost 
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_external_use_item AS ui
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_external_use AS u
    			ON u.id = ui.external_use_id 
    			WHERE ui.item_id = @ItemID AND u.usage_date <= @AsOf
    	INSERT @output 
    		SELECT bi.item_id, b.assembled_date, bi.purchase_price
    			FROM inventory.dbo.ml_build_item AS bi
    			LEFT OUTER JOIN inventory.dbo.ml_build AS b
    			ON b.id = bi.buildnum 
    			WHERE bi.item_id = @ItemID AND bi.component_type = 1 AND ( bi.item_id <> bi.component_for OR ( bi.component_for = 0 AND bi.quantity < 0 ) ) AND b.assembled_date <= @AsOf
    	END
    	RETURN
    END
    

    sigh no wonder the damn thing takes so long.


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    @Polygeekery said:

    That is cereal in a bottle.

    This is how I often describe beer. In a good way, though, not like what you're saying. Though I don't care for wheat beers, either.

    EDIT: Alternatively, liquid bread.



  • @CarrieVS said:

    You'll probably now retort that that is the 'wrong' way to do chocolate and the American version is right, but the fact remains that American chocolate, all of it, milk or dark, Hershey's or any other brand (including some that seemed pretty high-end - your point about what gets exported is irrelevant, since all the American chocolate I've tasted has been bought in America by someone who went there) tastes, faintly, of sick. Maybe it's not the milk, I supposed it was because that seemed logical. But something about it makes it taste of vomit.

    I'm beginning to suspect that your bias is influencing your taste tests[1]. I recommend a blind taste test as @HardwareGeek is doing.

    [1] Yes, such things happen. This is why blind taste tests exist.



  • @HardwareGeek said:

    Avocados. There was a period when I was a kid that I adored them, and ate them at every opportunity, until I made myself sick of them. Not physically sick from overeating, just "ew, that's gross." Now I can tolerate the taste in small quantities, but I don't like it, and generally avoid them.

    Not what I mean, I mean the first few bites will taste fine, but after a plateful I'm gagging at every mouthful, and if I ever eat it again it'll make me feel sick from the start.

    I remember when I was about five and my mum gave me a blueberry muffin. I'd never had blueberries before, and I ate it and liked it. I had another one that evening, and the smell and taste of the blueberries was just sickening. IIRC I spat out the mouthful I'd eaten rather than actually throwing it up, but I did so because I was gagging and was sure I was going to be sick if I swallowed it.

    My mum was never the most patient person. That was quite a memorable argument (partly for the fact that I actually 'won' for once, because however much you yell at a child that they must eat something, it's pretty difficult to actually force them, but mainly because it was the first time in my life I'd encountered the concept of eating vomit) and I recall that she insisted I was refusing just to be difficult, because 'I liked it when I thought they were currants'. It's true that I thought that at first, but I don't see how it makes any difference because I'd never had currants before either and I had no more reason to think I'd like them than I did blueberries. I quite distinctly remember finding the muffin in my packed lunch and being interested to find out what currants tasted like.

    @abarker said:

    I'm beginning to suspect that your bias is influencing your taste tests[1]. I recommend a blind taste test as @HardwareGeek is doing.

    Strange that I'd have developed a bias before the first time I ever tried any American chocolate, without having come across the idea of it's being supposedly worse anywhere else. It's only recently that I stopped being surprised every time I tasted it.



  • @Mikael_Svahnberg said:

    Status: Found out that there is no <ins>easy</ins> way to jump to the end of a thread when using emacs/w3m to view WTDWTF.

    <img src="/uploads/default/15586/70d31287155ae6aa.png" width="425" height="500">

    Bummer!

    EDIT: If I know the last post I can, of course, put that in the URL and so get to the end...

    Sure there is: what.thedailywtf.com/t/{topic slug}/{topic id}/last



  • @CarrieVS said:

    Not what I mean, I mean the first few bites will taste fine, but after a plateful I'm gagging at every mouthful

    This is most beers for me. The first couple sips are okay, but by halfway through the bottle it's just nasty.


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