Archive for the 'wtf' Category

Prick with a fork?

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bigpresh
at March 12, 2008 in humour and wtf. 1 Comment

Have to repost this from today’s DailyWTF.

This is suppose to be a real product packaging for some sausages for a supermarket in Ireland, before the supermarket relised the problem and withdrew the product.

Background: Ainsley Harriott is a TV chef in the UK (I think he came over to the US at one point), he’s an alright guy but can be a bit annoying at times, and does get overly excited and irritating on his shows.

Ainsley Sausages

(To start with I didn’t read the instructions at the bottom of the packaging - took me a few seconds to get it :) )

Surprised nobody picked up on it before they went on sale!

FA supporting criminals

Published by
bigpresh
at March 8, 2008 in rant and wtf. 0 Comments

Just read this post on 200 Weeks about the FA supporting a convicted criminal.

Ashley Sestanovich was a member of Grays Athletic who play in the Blue Square Premier League. He’s not currently able to play as he is being detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure whilst serving 8 years for conspiracy to rob.

Sestanovich tipped off two illegal immigrants that 11 grand would be at a roofing company. The cash wasn’t there & a 42-year-old father of a newborn was shot, he died 7 months later.

Where does the F.A. come in? They kindly agreed with the player’s appeal against Grays Athletic’s refusal to pay him after his arrest. The club has been fined £500 & told to pay Sestanovich £14,000 within 2 weeks or the club will be banned from the league.

Club chairman, Mick Woodward, said the club would not be paying the money to someone who attended 3 training sessions & played 20 minutes of a pre-season friendly due to being involved in a ‘heinous crime’. He offered to pay the £14,000 “wages” to the victim’s family but the F.A. are enforcing their decision.

Um, so this “footballer” commits a crime, gets put away, and expects the club to still pay his “wages” - and the FA agree with this?

What the hell is this country coming to? I don’t bother with football anyway (especially the Premier league, it’s not about the sport anymore, it’s just a commercial thing), but as “PC 200″said, “if this is not yet another reason to switch support from football to another sport, I don’t know what is.”

Fair play to Grays Athletic for refusing to pay the money to a criminal, and I hope the FA see some sense.

A BBC report on this said:

The FA said because Sestanovich was arrested after he signed for Grays, the club were obliged to honour his contract until he was actually convicted of an offence, under contract law.

Um, he might have signed a contract, but I’d imagine that contract, like most employment contracts, included terms that the contract would be severed if you were convicted of criminal charges. Even if not, if you break the law in a serious way, you no longer deserve the protection of the law.

Crazy email filtering

Published by
bigpresh
at February 21, 2008 in Uncategorized, humour and wtf. 1 Comment

“PC 200” posted a blog entry about their force’s email filtering system which made me laugh enough to want to mention it here.

They block inbound attachments, which could be a pain, but is sensible enough.

However, they also block “bad” language (as I’m sure the police don’t get subjected to foul language often, and their poor, delicate sensitivities would be mortally offended by it….) - but then send you an email to report that an inbound mail was blocked, describing why:

You’ll get an email which says something along the lines of “you have been sent an email containing offensive or inappropriate language. The language contained is of a value of 60 points. The word was either one of the following or a derivative of: fuck, fucking, fuckers, mother-fucker, fuck-off”.

So, they’ll block the email containing the word that might offend you, then send you an email containing that word and many other alternatives of it!

And the other thing which intrigues me, is that somewhere in the Home Office a committee has sat around a table wondering how many points to give swear words. You can imagine it. A whole afternoon, or more, debating how many points to give ‘bollocks’. “OK, we’ll give ‘bollocks’ 50 points, agreed?” “No, if we give ‘bollocks’ 50 then we have to give ‘arsehole’ 65, surely”, “Yes, but if we give ‘arsehole’ 65 then we have to reduce ‘wanker’ to 63.” “OK, let’s give ‘bollocks’ 45.” “No we can’t do that because ‘balls’ is 45.”

I’ve been reading his blog "200 Weeks" for a while now, well worth a read.

Ank Air should have considered their logo

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bigpresh
at January 24, 2008 in humour and wtf. 2 Comments

Turkey’s World Focus Airlines decided to rebrand their company to “Ank Air” - shame they didn’t think about the consequences of putting that next to their existing “W”-shaped logo :)

Wank Air

Stick your digital camera in a TWAT

Published by
bigpresh
at January 15, 2008 in humour and wtf. 0 Comments

A friend just passed on a link to a Sony camera case on Amazon with a rather unfortunate name - the LCS-TWAT. Not sure I’d want to insert my camera into a brown leathery TWAT myself, but each to their own ;)

Either they weren’t thinking, or it’s clever viral marketing….

TWAT case

(Click for full-size screenshot, in case the original item on Amazon happens to get pulled/renamed or anything).

There is no hope

Published by
bigpresh
at November 6, 2007 in news, rant and wtf. 3 Comments

According to this report, Camelot have had to withdraw a scratch card because the general public are too thick to understand negative numbers.

From the article:

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.

“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.

Continue reading ‘There is no hope’

Family want plastic pen lids banned

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bigpresh
at October 13, 2007 in news, rant and wtf. 1 Comment

Apparently the family of a 13-year old boy who choked to death on a plastic pen lid are campaigning to ban them.

Now of course I have sympathy for the loss of their son, but I do think campaigning to ban pen lids is ridiculous. What next, shall we start a campaign to ban kitchen knives, because sometimes people cut themselves on them?

Continue reading ‘Family want plastic pen lids banned’

Grr, MySQL and enum types….

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bigpresh
at September 18, 2007 in programming, rant and wtf. 3 Comments

I want to stab MySQL between the eyes. Or rather if MySQL had eyes, I’d stab it squarely between them.

It just wasted far too much of my time with this bit of annoying behaviour. I’ll admit it was also my fault, but I still think MySQL reacted in a retarded way. (But then from a “database” system which on its default settings is happy to silently mangle data however it feels, that’s not too surprising).

Continue reading ‘Grr, MySQL and enum types….’

Woman cleared of criminal negligence in dog attack

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bigpresh
at September 12, 2007 in news and wtf. 0 Comments

BBC News reports that a woman accused over a fatal dog attack on her five-year-old granddaughter has been found not guilty of manslaughter.

OK, this woman was supposed to be responsible for a 5 year old child. By her own admission she had consumed two bottles of wine, and smoked ten joints - that alone likely means she would have been in no fit state to responsibly look after a child. But, she then chose to allow a dangerous pit bull dog into the house, which then killed the little girl.

The dog was illegal (under the Dangerous Dogs act) and had already been involved in two previous attacks. The dog’s owner has been given a prison sentence but the woman has been cleared of manslaughter by criminal negligence. Why? Did she really think that allowing a vicious dog (pit bull terriers are banned precisely because they are vicious, dangerous dogs bred to fight) was a good idea?

Comment spammer with a conscience?

Published by
bigpresh
at September 10, 2007 in abuse and wtf. 2 Comments

Lately I’ve seen quite a few comment spams in my Akismet caught spams list starting with “Sorry :(” - is this a comment spammer who actually feels bad about abusing other people’s blogs to advertise crap? (But he still does it - so his morals aren’t that strong :)).

get some tasty email addresses here