â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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After going all Thanksgiving week with no caffeine, and generally one mug of tea a day since then, today I'm back up to my usual 3 extra-large mugs. My eyes just don't want to stay open today. I'm sure that couldn't possibly related to going to bed at 1 AM last night.
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Or what if you listen to the band Poison in one ear and Alice Cooper's song Poison in the other ear?
Or, what if you listen to the band Poison in the left ear, Alice Cooper's song Poison in the right ear, and someone reciting Star Trek: The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice in the final front ear?
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While playing Final Fight?
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Sending pornography to children.
The Edinburgh Playhouse has issued an apology after accidentally sending hundreds of pornographic DVDs to children and their parents.
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That should make for a good set of long-term memories.
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I wasn't sure where to put this, but it's definitely not a good or evil idea:
A group dedicated to studying letter boxes
The Letter Box Study Group has the enviable position of being the only organisation in existence to have a comprehensive system for defining and numbering British letter boxes
I bet their meetups are a riot!
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"The current U.N. climate talks will be the first to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution they generate, offset by host country Peru's protection of forest at three different reserves, organizers say."
You got that? They're not even going to bother to plant trees, they're just not going to cut down trees. For now, anyway. And I wouldn't be surprised if the "protected" forests already weren't going to be cut down--after all, they are on "reserves". Ah, there it is: "Nor is there a guarantee that the 580 square miles (1,500 square kilometers) of forest — the size of Houston, Texas — offsetting the talks' carbon pollution won't someday be gone. It must lie unperturbed for a half century in order to neutralize carbon emitted at the conference."
Also, the planned expansion of the power grid mysteriously didn't happen, so they're going to truck in diesel generators. Also, most of the hybrid cars that were shipped there also mysteriously didn't arrive.
At least they supplied inadequate AC, so hopefully all these useless ass-pimples will be uncomfortable the entire time they're there.
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You left out the "bad" news:
The Lima conference is expected to have the biggest carbon footprint of any U.N. climate meeting measured to date.
Yes, these guys are super serial.
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You left out the "bad" news:
Yeah, on purpose. It's not news they do the opposite of "practice what you preach".
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The Director strongly believes that mistakes should be expected in a business filled with uncertainty.
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The Letter Box Study Group has the enviable position of being the only organisation in existence to have a comprehensive system for defining and numbering British letter boxes
I fail to understand why anyone would envy that position.
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I fail to understand why anyone would envy that position.
It's probably one of those government jobs where you do like 2 hours of work a week, but draw $250,000 in salary.
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While that would indeed be enviable, the quotation stated that "being the only organisation in existence to have a comprehensive system for defining and numbering British letter boxes" is enviable, which makes rather less sense.
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Perhaps it was sarcasm.
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Not allowing to escape quotes in your toy language strings. So something like:
xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"
Becomes:
xml = "<?xml version=" + chr(34) + "1.0" + chr(34) + " encoding=" + chr(34) + "utf-8" + chr(34) + "?>"
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Don't mind me, just posting this link into a topic I can access on my phone...
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That's a nice workaround. TRWTF is Windows Phone BTW.
I mean, if MSIE is already a mess, imagine its smaller & stupid clone.
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I'm blaming a Discourse bug.
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I fail to understand why anyone would envy that position.
Sometimes it's fun to be a big fish in a small pond.
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Bonus WTF #1: "Heidi Creamer".
Bonus WTF #2: "According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Bradenton Herald, Heidi Creamer, 48, started arguing with her twin before it exculpated into punches being thrown."
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exculpated
That jumped out at me, too. But it's good to see the Ace of Spaces Lifestyle getting reported on.
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Explanation: Florida.
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Survival kits for bank employees:
http://freebeacon.com/issues/treasury-department-seeking-survival-kits-for-bank-employees/It's a relatively modest expense ($200K for the Feds), but it still makes no sense:
The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation.
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Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo.
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Survival kits for bank employees:http://freebeacon.com/issues/treasury-department-seeking-survival-kits-for-bank-employees/
It's a relatively modest expense ($200K for the Feds), but it still makes no sense:
Maybe they know something we don't...
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My first thought was that maybe employees end up locked in vaults or something during robberies. That's obviously silly, but when else would these guys need survival kits?
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It's december, they have to spend their budget or they'll lose it.
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It's december, they have to spend their budget or they'll lose it.
Their fiscal year ends at the end of September.
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It's december, they have to spend their budget or they'll lose it.
It's December.
Last year they all got fruitcakes.
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Greenpeace, makin' friends:
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Greenpeace: PETA for the environment
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Better (FVVO) photo:
From here.
Not yet found out why they were fighting over a vibrator however; though that article does mention they were also arguing over Heidi's boyfriend.
Bonus WTF#3 "Holly Creamer-Ryan"
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that actually ran on IE8?
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Looks like it didn't, but someone tried.
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Also, IE10 sucks hard
Maybe the one person who submitted this test had a slow machine?
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found a bug! it doesn't recognize IE11
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Wasn't that because Microsoft got mad about all the
if(ie){return "U FAIL GET CHROME LUSER!";}
and stopped it signaling which version it is?
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Testing in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3; rv:11.0) like Gecko
hmm.... looks like it.
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Man, talking about WTF's the whole browser user-agent thing is one of the greatest WTF's of humanity.
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Man, talking about WTF's the whole browser user-agent thing is one of the greatest WTF's of humanity.
True dat. Even Hitler never came up with that idea.
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Paging @godwin!
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Upon learning about a TV show 'rumpologist' known as Professor Jose Miranda (a pupil of Stallone's[7]), the Florida psychic Sheree Silver disassociated herself from the practice, telling the Sun-Sentinel, **"I can't imagine anyone wasting their time and money on someone like this when there are so many legitimate psychics out there."**[9]
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Rumpology or "Bottom Reading" is a pseudoscience akin to physiognomy, performed by examining crevices, dimples, warts, moles and folds of a person's buttocks in much the same way a chirologist would read the palm of the hand.
Paging @algorythmics...
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True dat. Even Hitler never came up with that idea.
Hitler would have probably spelled "referrer" correctly, too.
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Sent from my
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"After ruling that Wilkerson, 33, was not guilty by reason of insanity of the three child-abuse counts, Circuit Judge Leah Case ordered a hearing next week to determine whether the woman should be involuntarily hospitalized for treatment or released with court supervision. "
The bad idea part is even considering releasing her. If you kill three children you don't belong out walking the streets, and I'm not talking about prostitution. But society probably doesn't want you doing that, either.