🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Don't be fooled. It says Opera on the thing, but it's really just Chrome. There's pretty much nothing distinguishing the two.
I know, it's Opera Chromiclone. But at least it has speed dial. And a slightly nicer download manager, IMHO. I use Chrome now anyway, but I can at least get rid of this abysmal speed dial clone.
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You can turn that off now, I've implemented it!
I'll keep using it, the forum is still too white.
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Well wouldn't you know it, the mouse gestures work! My $DEITY, maybe there is hope for it yet. Maybe.
However... ehm...
- they removed the bookmarks menu and turned it into bookmarks bar
- I can't find a way to rearrange my UI. In old Opera I could move everything around
- default search engine shortcuts can't be changed or deleted
- I can't find a way for it to use SYSTEM FUCKING WINDOW MANAGER BORDERS! I'm stuck on a clone of ambiance! WTF?
Edit:
opera-developer --force-native-window-frame=true
Oh well... still stupid though!
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Not bringing a doggy bag
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Where do you think the term came from?
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Hmm, I thought it tasted funny...
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Where do you think the term [doggy bag] came from?
From taking leftovers home to feed to your dog.
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whoosh.
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Making things that are inactive for a user completely invisible to them. If they don't see how something could be used, and buttume that it isn't in a certain place because it wasn't there before, that doesn't kill usability, right?
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Hm, let me ask your honest opinion. I have a screen that can be in 3 states: paused, reviewing, or writing. If it's in the writing or paused state, there's a count-down timer and a pause button. If it's paused, a modal pops up and the background gets blurred hard. If it's reviewing, there is no pause button or timer, because they are inapplicable.
Does that make sense? Or does it fall under the scope of your complaint?
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That's not part of Discourse, so it's not in the scope of my complaint.
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Calling the sheriff department for facebook downtimes...
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I think he's wrong. There could be riots if it stays down long enough!
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LOL. Hipster riots.
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This:
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When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
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helioscentrifuge? asgardreid? sextronautt? What is this, bad science / SciFi pun community?
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He's definitely Wearing It Wrong™.
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He should have worn a féileadh-mór instead…
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Too... many,,, underlines!
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Unsolicited solicitations to popehat.
@Ken White said:
"resolving any critical online reputation management issues that you are having."
That would be great. I have a list of words. I want our site to be unassociated with those words and those words to have nothing to do with our reputation. The words include "taint" and "pony" and "twatwaffle," all of which we regret for various legal and philosophical reasons. What can you do for us? Can you manage us to be more cool-popular? Is it anything like managing a boy band? Can I be the cute one? I always have to be the sullen one. I've been the sullen one for forty-five years and it fucking SUCKS. I am THROUGH with it.
Except that they provide entertainment for the rest of us.
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Are they playing off iPhone, for a music player? Instead of like iPod so PetPod, which was made for music? Unless the thing can take calls. "Rufus, Rufus, Do you hear me, I'm over here." That's only good for pet trolling. Poor things. Poor Rufus will be running in circles looking for his human. "Seriously, like everywhere I go they sound equally loud, I'm so confused. Oh human, there you are. You were at work the whole time. Screw this, screw humanity. Revolt." I only see this ending with pets creating PetCyborgs and overtake humans.
Seriously. I'm tired of the pseudo tech industry. Things like HD sunglasses make me lose hope in humanity.
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Things like HD sunglasses make me lose hope in humanity.
But that is just people showing ingenuity in how to separate others from their cash, it is something that should be praised.
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Seriously, like everywhere I go they sound equally loud, I'm so confused
You could use binaural technology plus a gyroscope to make it sound like the voice is coming from a particular direction. Then you could use it to "remote control" your dog by calling him from different places.
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Git yer dawg back hawm firm ahee distanst
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Fun fact: That also happened to us.
Like any website with a contact form, The Daily WTF gets its share of spam. In addition to saying the darndest things, spammers will often push SEO services with a message like this.
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Bad idea: purchasing a toilet with a square bowl, even though the main users of said toilet do not have square arses.
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main users of said toilet do not have square arses.
So there are secondary users that do?
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I don't know about any secondary users. I only evaluated the use case for primary users.
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Maybe some of these?
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In other words,
I'm lying, I really just want you to reply so I can sell your email address.
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Nah, they wanted affiliate links and spam sponsored posts.
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Don't mind me, I keep leaving open anchors everywhere because it's more fun watching Dicsourse flounder in randomly different ways with every new patch/css when the HTML doesn't match.
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Expecting to use your legal-tender commemorative coins as - erm - legal tender.
When Pat and John Owers wanted to deposit five £5 coins, Lloyds bank refused to accept them – because although "legal tender", the money was in the form of commemorative coins.
Staff at the Owers' local bank branch in Barking, Essex, turned away the money. They offered no advice about where it could be exchanged or spent.
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We had something like that on a few occasions, but they mostly were accepted (unless the cashier wasn't familiar with them existing):
Weird little things. But I did have a few given to me in stores as change and I happily spent them again, mostly it was not a big deal.
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I got one of these once and thought it could be fake.
But I guess it's Art.
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They look so pretty! I think I have never seen dodecagon-shaped coins before.
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I got one of these once and thought it could be fake.
If I got the one with the fetus, I'd think it's fake too. Never saw that one in the wild, and have no idea what it is about.
They look so pretty! I think I have never seen dodecagon-shaped coins before.
They were, yeah. Always planned on keeping some of them, but then ended up spending them in "emergency" situations. This was still while I was in high school so I didn't have a credit card I can use if I ran out of cash.
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They look so pretty! I think I have never seen dodecagon-shaped coins before.
Neither has most of the UK. But they're considering re-introducing them.
Something about the fact that they're not round making them.... "more difficult to counterfeit."
Apparently. Or something.
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Practitioner of a religion predicated on the existence of a zombie - which encourages the indoctrination of the young - complains about an event a different group who believe in zombies are holding because it's being held at a children's play centre.
:ducks:
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Presented without comment:
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Well, he's living up to his user name at least.
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Minimum username length in characters. WARNING: WE CAN'T BE ARSED TO FIX THIS PROPERLY SO HERE'S SOME ALL CAPS TEXT!
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It's definitely a better warning, given the system.