The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
TRWTF is that googling most phone numbers is completely useless. You'll just get a bunch of spam websites.
Not to mention that they can fake (spoof) the phone number they are calling from.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
TRWTF is that googling most phone numbers is completely useless. You'll just get a bunch of spam websites.
Not to mention that they can fake (spoof) the phone number they are calling from.
This one! I even had a woman call me back asking why I was calling her. They spoofed my number.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Not to mention that they can fake (spoof) the phone number they are calling from.
This one! I even had a woman call me back asking why I was calling her. They spoofed my number.
Lately I've been getting calls whose caller ID claims to be a police department in another state and I've been ignoring. them.
I haven't been arrested yet, so I'm pretty sure they are fake.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Not to mention that they can fake (spoof) the phone number they are calling from.
This one! I even had a woman call me back asking why I was calling her. They spoofed my number.
Lately I've been getting calls whose caller ID claims to be a police department in another state and I've been ignoring. them.
I haven't been arrested yet, so I'm pretty sure they are fake.
I had a fraud charge on my bank card. So the call from a bank in the fraud dept (or whatever). I'm thinking she's following up on fraud.
Not hearing well, I try get the gist (I clearly did not figure out much of what she said). Something bad will happen if I don't do as they say. But because of my hearing loss, I ultimately interpreted is friendly, trying to solve and issue.
I keep listening then she tells me to open a browser window and then type teamviewer.com.
She wanted me to connect to the secure server.
When she kept saying I won't do that, she threatens police,
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
When she kept saying I won't do that, she threatens police,
I received a call "supposedly" from Canada's Revenue Agency, saying I needed to pay them something. She started theatening me, if I didn't pay, to send the Sheriff to arrest me.
I asked her if she was serious and she said yes
After a good laugh, I hanged up the phone.
In Quebec, sheriffs are used only for one duty: they are responsible for the jury selection process.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I keep listening then she tells me to open a browser window and then type teamviewer.com.
She wanted me to connect to the secure server.
When she kept saying I won't do that, she threatens police,Did you try this:
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In Quebec, sheriffs are used only for one duty: they are responsible for the jury selection process.
It would have been fun here, where Sheriff is now a purely ceremonial role usually held by someone who went to the right school with a minor royal and who wouldn't be seen dead enforcing anything more significant than the order of seating at a state banquet.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I keep listening then she tells me to open a browser window and then type teamviewer.com.
She wanted me to connect to the secure server.
When she kept saying I won't do that, she threatens police,Did you try this:
I did waste a good amount of time because I needed her to repeat everything.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
After a good laugh, I hanged up the phone.
I got one, that based on his youthful voice I initially thought he was a recruiter.
Starts his speil about the Mercedes I was looking at and you were interested in X Series.
I had quite the hearty laugh.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe wait, there's people who don't do that?
TRWTF is that googling most phone numbers is completely useless. You'll just get a bunch of spam websites.
The ones you do find are usually the more legit ones like survey companies, that may be annoying but aren't breaking any laws. Real scammers spoof numbers to make it look like a local call from a random number.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
When she kept saying I won't do that, she threatens police,
Ah, time to play!
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Real scammers spoof numbers to make it look like a local call from a random number.
I start with the assumption it's a spammer if I see (assume my phone number is 555-123-4567) "555-123-xxxx". (One time, I even got a phone call from myself! Picked it up: "Hello?" <click>)
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Real scammers spoof numbers to make it look like a local call from a random number.
I start with the assumption it's a spammer if I see (assume my phone number is 555-123-4567) "555-123-xxxx". (One time, I even got a phone call from myself! Picked it up: "Hello?" <click>)
I tried to call myself multiple times. It seems I'm an extremely busy person.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Real scammers spoof numbers to make it look like a local call from a random number.
They also like to choose numbers very close to yours. One time, it said the call was from me.
Filed under: The call is coming from inside the house.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@antiquarian said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
TRWTF is that googling most phone numbers is completely useless. You'll just get a bunch of spam websites.
Not to mention that they can fake (spoof) the phone number they are calling from.
This one! I even had a woman call me back asking why I was calling her. They spoofed my number.
One time they spoofed my number when they called me.
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@error I've also had it be a number from my company. Or back when we'd registered for vaccination with the county but hadn't been called yet, it was from the county government officies.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error I've also had it be a number from my company. Or back when we'd registered for vaccination with the county but hadn't been called yet, it was from the county government officies.
Oh, I get spam mail to my self-owned company looking like very scary legal notices, with fine print that says NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY at the bottom, on the reg.
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@TimeBandit because the documentation is going to be a couple of sentences that repeat the information you already knew from the method signature.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit because the documentation is going to be a couple of sentences that repeat the information you already knew from the method signature.
Alternatively: "because the documentation is just wrong."
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit because the documentation is going to be a couple of sentences that repeat the information you already knew from the method signature.
Because documentation just says:
If the meaning of "CleverlyNamedClass" isn't clear, then there should be a description here.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit because the documentation is going to
be a couple of sentences that repeat the information you already knew from the method signature.have movedMTFY.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit because the documentation is going to be a couple of sentences that repeat the information you already knew from the method signature.
Alternatively: "because the documentation is just wrong."
Alternatively:
6 hours of debugging is caused by 5 minutes of reading documentation.
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@dcon or 6 hours of debugging intertwined with 6 hours of digging through documentation (sometimes also source code to see where the documentation lied).
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Real scammers spoof numbers to make it look like a local call from a random number.
I start with the assumption it's a spammer if I see (assume my phone number is 555-123-4567) "555-123-xxxx". (One time, I even got a phone call from myself! Picked it up: "Hello?" <click>)
I tried to call myself multiple times. It seems I'm an extremely busy person.
Strange, when I do that my voicemail usually picks up. What's fun is when you call yourself within the system and get voicemail again...
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@boomzilla what's with people on the internet needlessly wrapping every joke in a long, boring and fake story?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I remember when Stratus Computing (then famous for redundant processors) got bought out or partially acquired or whatever by Ascend. We joked that if Stratus was now Ass-end Computing, they must be good for back-end processors.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bullshit. Its PaDaD.
Panic
Anger
Denial
Anger
DepressionYou've just told the world, including your employer, that your sulphurous to requirments. I look forward to your next video about your new career as an uber driver.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
sulphurous to requirments
Superfluous perhaps? Because he doesn't look overly yellow to me.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
he doesn't look overly yellow to me.
I was going to say he probably doesn't smell as bad as sulfur, either, but then I noticed he has an Apple monitor, so he's probably a soy-boy hipster who never bathes.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
then I noticed he has an Apple monitor,
It's an iMac in the actual video, but he's also drinking coffee from a jar so the conclusion is probably still correct.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
then I noticed he has an Apple monitor,
It's an iMac in the actual video, but he's also drinking coffee from a jar so the conclusion is probably still correct.
So, he's a cheap soy-boy hipster who never bathes.
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@dcon Bonus points for anyone who read it in Sean Connery's voice
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