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BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has accidentally insulted its Facebook followers by revealing a version of a new website which wasn't yet ready for public consumption and in which it referred to its social media followers as 'saddos.' The same website also features a picture of the Queen, described as the Pakistan hockey team. File this one under 'a really bad day at the office' for one web developer."
lol.
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Get over yourselves.
Saddos: Brit slang a socially inadequate or pathetic person.
Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
That the truth hurts.
"We apologise for the fault in the site. Those responsible have been sacked."
Always use "Lorem Ipsum" text when you're doing layout work and don't want to be concerned with actual content.
Why don't they just use an international cymbalfor a socially inadequate or pathetic person.
slashdot followers ?
Nullius in verba
C'mon, you know you were thinking it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
For client X, when loading Y, error message is displayed: "The dinosaur says RAWR!"
While this is amusing it is not the expected behavior.
Ya, it's not harmful but it was a little embarrassing. It must be really embarrassing for a web developer at a company which is so publicly visible. I feel this particular developer's pain.
that's teh shizzle bizzle
Come on... who doesn't like to insult Facebook fans? I fail to see the problem here.
has somehow confused the 4th of July, US Independence Day with April Fool's day and tried to make the April Fool's day version of the new BBC web site.
I think the BBC's funniest April Fool's prank was the Spaghetti Trees.
Oh that British Humor. If only Benny Hill had not passed away or Monty Python broken up they could have made even more practical jokes and even more BBC prototype beta web site designs to insult and offend more Facebook fans.
"We're the BBC, we don't care, we don't have to!" -Ernestine after being fired from her US phone company job and relocated to the UK to work for the BBC help desk to answer calls about this.
We Americans don't know what saddos means, it sounds like some sort of British candy, and we had no idea that the Queen of the UK joined the Pakistan hockey team, but good for her to cross cultural barriers and take up hockey. I am sure her royal highness is the best hip checker in that team and if the Pakistan hockey team wants to win, pass it to the Queen who is so skilled she can shoot a puck past any goalie due to all the hockey practice she took in the UK to get ready to join the Pakistan hockey team to help them win. I hear she took hockey lessons from none other that Sarah Palin herself who as the best hockey mom/pitbull with lipstick in Alaska needed a job after quitting as governor and was glad to teach the Queen all about hockey. I also heard that for her services to HRH and the crown that Sarah Palin was knighted as a female knight or dame or whatever and is moving to the UK to become an adviser to the Queen on hockey and other things they Queen wishes to know like using a sniper rifle in a helicopter to kill surplus wolves and stuff. HRH finds such things amusing that she is making a deal with Obama and Congress to turn the USA into the UK 2.0 so we can rejoin the New British Empire to help fix out economy and use UK laws as our US Constitution was not really being used anymore and then we can adopt the Pound Sterling and drop the US Dollar because now it is worth not more than toilet paper.
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Isn't the bigger insult to call the queen the Pakistani hockey team?
Who's the saddo now?
Oh, and Pakistan has a hockey team?
He said what everyone thinks. Except those saddos playing that farm thing.
I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
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CNN falls all over itself to pander to "social networking" types while the BBC refers to them as "saddos." Yet another example of the BBC showing up US news services.
I linked to this article from my newsfeed following Slashdot on Facebook! Now that's saddotastic.
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The TFA has a screenshot that says "You can also become a saddo on Facebook"
I did a search on facebook for "saddo". Found this, among other pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Being-a-Saddo/383335583952?ref=search
It looks like what is actually printed is true. Taking things out of context, anyone can apply their own meaning to anything they find.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
I see people all over sitting infront of their facebook instead of interacting IRL. Facebook is a compliment to IRL, not a substitute. I can understand teenagers who havent got kids, houses, work etc to look after but grown ups? Its just sad.
HTTP/1.1 400
Become a saddo of BBC on Facebook
Become a saddo of Slashdot on Facebook
Pakistan plays regular hockey (also called as field hockey) - there are no pucks in hockey.
I'll say it again, I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
wlel if you feel the need to deefnd fcaoobek, then prhpeas you are a sddao
You caused me to have a client-meeting flashback. My lawyer will contact you to agree a settlement for emotional traume after consultation with my shrink. Straight jackets ain't cheap you know, hope you have good insurance.
I actually once had someone ask why all the images were the same in a website and had "place-holder" instead of product photo's... after I spend over a month asking for the product pictures so I could put them in place.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
contributor to the BBC's 'Today Progamme' (flagship morning news show), I can confirm that this is an accurate description.
Still beats "dumb fucks".
...Doesn't it?
I was making a help system for a sales portal. I prepared the blank sections to check if the layout works okay, then filled them in to see if sectioning, in-text images and pagination work okay.
"Contact" - picture test, a wikipedia article about electric contact, including schematics.
"Security" - a medium-sized article, a mafia-style entry of "pay us for protection".
"Help" - a very short article, help us help you help us all
"Privacy" - pagination test, long multi-paged article, a longish quote from 1984
"Terms of service" - multi-paragraph, 1. warranty, a long disclaimer with "beware of the leopard, objects are closer than they appear" type entries, 2. claim to your first-born, your soul, your car and your woman if not ugly.
I left it that way, committed for filling in when the portal reaches stable and is to be sent out for filling with content. Nope, it did not get published. But a month later our team got a thank-you letter from the content team for a good laugh while replacing the placeholders.
Normal people would
Perhaps the picture of Her Majesty wasn't intended either as a placeholder or to insult her, but to suggest that the Pakistani hockey hockey team were "alternately oriented" when it comes to clothing and deportment?
Another hilarious screw-up:
"My personal highlight is the Pakistan hockey player (a group who were the subject of another separate BBC faux pas this weekend) who bears a striking resemblance to our own dear Queen"
The separate faux pas in question was the tweet:
Good luck fighting the mod wars. I gave up years ago.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
I feel a new meme coming on and I was in at the start. I feel proud to say
It's official now, the BBC says so. Facebook users are Saddos.
I was setting up a web site for some Mormon folk recreating* the 1847 pioneer trek. The idea was to have an email-to-web gateway for the current trekkers and a cron job to spit out journal entries from Brigham Young. Since BY's journal entries weren't ready in the proper data format I just needed some quick sample data [to test my stuff] which lead to the following: "The sun was beatin' down on my baseball cap. The air was gettin' hot, the beer was gettin' flat." - Brigham Young, May 8, 1847
I was listening to a lot of Beastie Boys back then.
* Recreating by which I mean eating at a Stuckey's most every night but that's cool ...
... until someone develops a new way to wasted time on the internet that displaces facebook. At that point nobody will care about what has been said about facebook anymore.
It appears the BBC was just a bit ahead of the curve on that one.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Islam is a religion of peace. In order to preserve that peace, detractors of Islam must be brutally murdered. By denying Muslims the opportunity to commit murder, you are being insensitive to and intolerant of their beliefs and traditions. You, sir, are truly a monster.
meh. we had to give our marketing squad a corner of the site where they can push new content whenever they want.. they fuck something up every week (and blame us because they can't cut and paste an URL).. they've done worse shit than the BBC -
and FYI that's field hockey.. the pakistanis have a FIELD hockey team.
It is kind of humorous to see the people whose online personae are buxom, wasp-waisted pointy-eared swashbucklers poke fun at the people whose online personae are pictures taken ten years ago when they had all their hair.
All's harmless, in moderation. To each, their fantasy.
The web designer must have gotten reamed. But let's be real Facebook is getting to be out of hand. The question used to be "Do you have e-mail?" now its "Do you have Facebook?"
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We're Americans, damn it! Maricons, maybe.
Uhhhhm, I don't think that last word there means what you think it means.
Space game using normal deck of cards: http://BattleCards.org
Should always be taken seriously. Never test with data that you wouldn't want your mother to see. ( unless you work in the porn industry, then YMMV )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Nobody gives a shit, bro. I moderate regularly and I don't give a shit about the guidelines; I use my mod points as I please. Sometimes I mod down people simply because I disagree with them, heck, sometimes I just mod people down because I don't like them. I have the homepages of some /. users bookmarked just so I can downmod fresh comments. Get the fuck over it.
Whiny, rules-lawyering posts like yours only encourage me. The easiest way to avoid my wrath is to use simple common sense and don't be a dipshit.
Happy Slashdotting!
Facebook users experience Streisand Effect? :)
Now that's funny
Saddos...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saddo
English
[edit]Pronunciation
Rhymes: -æd
[edit]Noun
saddo (plural saddos)
A pathetic or socially inept person; a nerd.
[edit]Synonyms
See also Wikisaurus:dork
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