WTF Bites
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@TimeBandit thanks for reminding me I have an open botttle of Pinacolada in my fridge!
Hopefully it didn't get caught in the rain
Hopefully it did!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor
FriendsFamily members don't helpfriendsfamily members drink pineapple fantaLilt was pretty good but pineapple explains some of the oddness. I’m surprised there wasn’t a national uproar over it in Ireland. As a nation we stopped buying chef vinegar when they changed the logo. We also stopped buying birdseye fish fingers when they took the old man off the box.
I wouldn’t say stopped but sales plummeted and they don’t have a big presence on shelves anymore.
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We also stopped buying birdseye fish fingers when they took the old man off the box.
Huh, TIL. Ole Captain Birds Eye is called Iglo here. Wonder why they're using different brand names. (According to Wikipedia, Birds Eye was originally from the US, while Iglo seems to be from the UK. But Iglo "also owns the rights to the Birds Eye brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Findus across Europe.)
Also, Google image search still has pictures on the boxes...
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Also, Google image search still has pictures on the boxes...
Yeah but it's the new Captain Birdseye
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@boomzilla posted this link. (Note: content, but the actual content isn't relevant to the , only the ad behavior.)
I opened this link on my phone, in Chrome (because is broken in FF), which has nerfed adblocking. The archived article has tiny print, so I pinch-zoomed enough for the text to be (almost) readable but still fit the screen width. I could see a little sliver of an ad at the left margin. As I read the rather long article, ads began to appear at the top and bottom of the screen, but they weren't too obnoxious (as animated ads go, which is to say very obnoxious, but at least they were small). As I continued to read, eventually the script that rotated the ads stopped replacing the ads with new ones and instead started adding the new ads to the existing ones. The ads started pushing down from the top and up from the bottom, covering more and more of the content, until eventually no real content was visible at all.
A refresh of the page fixed this temporarily, returning to the state with just a small sliver of one ad was visible, and I resumed reading. However, the ads soon started growing again, eventually covering the entire screen.
The second or third refresh seemed to fix the problem, or at least delayed the reappearance of the ads long enough for me to finish reading and close the tab.
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@TimeBandit thanks for reminding me I have an open botttle of Pinacolada in my fridge!
Hopefully it didn't get caught in the rain
In MacArthur Park?
♫♪ MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again ♪♫
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit thanks for reminding me I have an open botttle of Pinacolada in my fridge!
Hopefully it didn't get caught in the rain
In MacArthur Park?
♫♪ MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again ♪♫Jurassic Park was one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time. I'd never heard it before where ones like Lola and My Sharona still got airtime on appropriate stations.
♫♪ Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark
all the dinosaurs are running wild
Someone left the fence off in the rain.
I admit it's kinda eerie
But this proves my chaos theory
and I don't think I'll be coming back again
Oh nooooo... ♫♪
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one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TBH, there are a bunch of his parodies I wonder, what was the original he's parodying? But I don't generally listen to the sort of music he parodies.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TBH, there are a bunch of his parodies I wonder, what was the original he's parodying? But I don't generally listen to the sort of music he parodies.
Some of those may not have an original. Many of his songs are style parodies, where they sound like something another group could have made. Dare to be Stupid, for example, is a Devo style parody, not a direct parody of a specific song.
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@Parody reportedly, Devo’s lead singer was less than impressed because he thought Weird Al had done a better job at a Devo-style song than he had. “Basically, I hate him for it” I think was the comment, but in that sort of backhanded way because Weird Al had done too good a job.
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@Parody a pastiche.
"Weird Al" Yankovic Breaks Down His Most Iconic Tracks | GQ – [09:40..17:13] 17:13
— GQ
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Some of those may not have an original. Many of his songs are style parodies, where they sound like something another group could have made. Dare to be Stupid, for example, is a Devo style parody, not a direct parody of a specific song.
Another one that I liked was "Trigger Happy" which to me sounds like a 1960s Beach Boys style song.
Weird Al's early stuff was all pretty good but later on I thought there were fewer and fewer good ones. Then I realized that the problem wasn't Weird Al, it was the songs he was trying to parody.
It turns out that you can't really do a good parody of a crappy song.
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Jurassic Park was one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TIL. I didn't recognize (or pay much attention to, tbh) the lyrics in @Gern_Blaanston's post, but after reading your post I immediately realized I actually knew the melody after all.
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I immediately realized I actually knew the melody after all.
I have no idea what melody it is. Went to look up the song. Still never heard the melody.
What odd rocks I live under.
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Windows 3.11?
*GULP*
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I'm surprised Windows 3.11 can even connect to the internet.
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@Zecc IE2 exists for Windows 3.1. Have fun!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TBH, there are a bunch of his parodies I wonder, what was the original he's parodying? But I don't generally listen to the sort of music he parodies.
I heard the Weird Al version of Dirty Deeds first. I still hear his lyrics when it's played.
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Don McLean has pointed out that he's almost sung the lyrics to The Saga Begins instead of American Pie during live performances because his kids played it so often.
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I'm surprised Windows 3.11 can even connect to the internet.
IIRC, it tended to need a third-party IP stack. Trumpet WinSock was a common one...
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I'm surprised Windows 3.11 can even connect to the internet.
IIRC, it tended to need a third-party IP stack. Trumpet WinSock was a common one...
I was about to say that. Windows 3.11 has networking stuff onboard (it’s the main difference between it and 3.1 from the user’s perspective) but no TCP/IP. I remember having had to install Trumpet WinSock so that after dialing into my ISP, I could download email with Pegasus and browse the WWW with Netscape. Oh, wait, is
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apply for this job!
Feel free to sic me on them. I'll fix their attitude right up!
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Windows 3.11 has networking stuff onboard (it’s the main difference between it and 3.1 from the user’s perspective) but no TCP/IP.
We stuck with 3.1 at college, where the networking stack was originally a mix of Netware () and Coloured Book (which filled the same sort of role as IP but was different and only used by UK academic sites and maybe a few others). I remember everyone being rather happy when IP was fully switched on — we could talk to people off campus without special permission! — and didn't have to use weird BBS mirror sites for everything.
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I discovered this by accident, but I don't know why it's a thing.
The search box on Google.com is multi-line. Shift + Enter is a newline.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I discovered this by accident, but I don't know why it's a thing.
The search box on Google.com is multi-line. Shift + Enter is a newline.
Because the search bar is now a prompt text box for the AI.
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I trust the OneBox will work fine.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TBH, there are a bunch of his parodies I wonder, what was the original he's parodying? But I don't generally listen to the sort of music he parodies.
I heard the Weird Al version of Dirty Deeds first. I still hear his lyrics when it's played.
Links or it didn't happen.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TBH, there are a bunch of his parodies I wonder, what was the original he's parodying? But I don't generally listen to the sort of music he parodies.
I heard the Weird Al version of Dirty Deeds first. I still hear his lyrics when it's played.
Links or it didn't happen.
AC/DC "Dirty Deeds" Done with Sheep......FUNNY. – 02:35
— MrMustard2Uand then listen to
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Official Audio) – 03:56
— acdcVEVOOddly enough it wasn't Werid Al. It might have been Bob Rivers.
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Oddly enough it wasn't Werid Al.
Yeah, I figured this was what you were thinking of but kind of hoped that Weird Al had done one that I wasn't aware of.
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@DogsB It's another case of "Weird Al - Any Funny Song On The Internet"
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Useless automatic text messages.
Over the weekend I initiated a couple Amazon returns for pickup from my home. Both got scheduled for next business day, which is today. This morning, I got an automatic text message that had almost no useful information: "Your return is scheduled for pickup today. Please do not reply to this automatic message". I say almost useless, because if I hadn't received the more useful version in my email that included the tracking number for each of my returns, I would at least have become aware of something new.
At around 10:30 I got some more (useful) email notifications: "
name
will be picking up your return within the next three hours:tracking number
", again one for each return. Great, just what I needed to know. I already had those items ready (since I know what I was returning), and I know it'll be the same guy picking them up, as makes logical sense.A few minutes ago (11:15 to be precise), I got two more identical, useless text messages to the ones from earlier in the morning: "Your return is scheduled for pickup today. Please do not reply to this automatic message". This time they're less than useless, because not only did I already receive the same messages about being scheduled today, but I also received emails with a narrow time range as well as the tracking numbers.
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Every single time I receive a parcel from Amazon, they send me a "Our delivery driver needs your help" SMS, then a "Delivery successful" one a few minutes later, without me doing anything (or the delivery driver ever calling).
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@Zerosquare some drivers have a tendency to announce their arrival with a message saying "hi, I'm about to arrive, all's good, have a nice day". And this fresh tiny startup known as Amazon has yet to figure out how to differentiate help messages from not-help messages.
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Flaunt your massive y'all and apply for this job!
Erlangen... That's where you find a Great Company, world wide famous:
SIEMENS.
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I know it'll be the same guy picking them up, as makes logical sense.
That's definitely not a requirement with Amazon...
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Every single time I receive a parcel from Amazon, they send me a "Our delivery driver needs your help" SMS, then a "Delivery successful" one a few minutes later, without me doing anything (or the delivery driver ever calling).
Some delivery folk also leave things in the most bizarre places, such as tucked in the neighbor's yard, behind a tree, or tossed in between cars next to the sign that says "use other door".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I know it'll be the same guy picking them up, as makes logical sense.
That's definitely not a requirement with Amazon...
It may not be, but it's nice when I have two returns set for pickup by Intelcom, that somewhere in the chain someone fired a neuron or two and had the system schedule them to be picked up together
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Erlangen... That's where you find a Great Company, world wide famous:
SIEMENS.
I know a few people at Siemens. They probably are looking for a Windows 3.1 admin, most likely because they've got some ancient piece of hardware on a customer site that needs maintenance, and nobody wants to pay for building a modern driver stack for connecting to a whole iron foundry or something else like that. And yes, it'll be "remote" from Siemens... because it'll be on-site at this customer...
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@dkf it seems to be Siemens trains, as Sibas is apparently "Siemens Bahn Automatisierungs System".
The result of your work is high-quality display software whose interfaces to the vehicle control system function smoothly.
The driver's cab display system on high-speed and regional trains shows the driver the most important technical data in real time.Project Description
Updating drivers
Maintenance of the old systemSkills
Knowledge of WIN 3.11
Knowledge of legacy operating systems and Windows managers (especially MS DOS and Windows for Workgroups)
Knowledge of Sibas is also welcome
Knowledge of imaging systems or in the railroad sector is an advantage.
Knowledge of legacy operating systems and Windows managers (MS DOS and Windows for Workgroups)
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@loopback0 And here my dad jokes about trains still running windows 95...
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@loopback0 And here my dad jokes about trains still running windows 95...
At least those trains didn't brick themselves into not working just because they were apparently near specific repair depots!
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Jurassic Park was one of Weird Al's more surprising parodies due to the original not being that well known at the time.
TIL. I didn't recognize (or pay much attention to, tbh) the lyrics in @Gern_Blaanston's post, but after reading your post I immediately realized I actually knew the melody after all.
Weird Al did a parody of the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana and the entire song is just making fun of the lyrics being unintelligible. At the time I had never heard the original.
Then one day I was in my car listening to the radio and the original version of the song came on. And it was hilarious. Weird Al was right, the lyrics are mostly garbled and unintelligible.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Weird Al was right, the lyrics are mostly garbled and unintelligible.
I seem to be able to intelligent them. The actual content of the words however...
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Google Maps used to sometimes completely refuse to show labels for some streets. Now it seems to have overcorrected, putting lots of them all over the place.
Not just streets:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
At least those trains didn't brick themselves into not working just because they were apparently near specific repair depots!
How much do you want to bet that this is not actually intended to find someone with the necessary Windows and MS-DOS skills to implement something like that? I mean, they want someone who knows Windows 3 times and MS-DOS twice, so it must be something to do with burying things deep inside the system …
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How much do you want to bet that this is not actually intended to find someone with the necessary Windows and MS-DOS skills to implement something like that?
I wouldn't bet against someone still using Windows 3.11, even in a large business. You would be surprised (or horrified).
Sometime around 2008-ish an engineer at the chemical plant where I was working retired. He had been with the company for a long time and worked on all the most important projects.
After he was gone it was discovered that the computer in his office had somehow avoided nearly all upgrades. I don't know what version of Windows he was using but he was saving files to 8 inch floppy disks.
(Also, as recently as 2019 the U.S. Air Force was still using 8 inch floppy disks on some communications systems associated with nuclear weapons)