BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans

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BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 4, 2010 @05:50PM from the saddo-is-the-best-insult-ever dept.

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."

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Re:For those who don't know European slang: by mjwx · 2010-07-04 17:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Saddos: Brit slang a socially inadequate or pathetic person.
Glad you cleared that one up for us. I thought someone at the BBC couldn't spell sado.

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m00se by ajlitt · 2010-07-04 18:03 · Score: 5, Funny

"We apologise for the fault in the site. Those responsible have been sacked."
1. Re:m00se by masterwit · 2010-07-04 18:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked."
  
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2. Re:m00se by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 18:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The directors of the firm hired to continue the site after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
3. Re:m00se by deniable · 2010-07-04 19:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I guess the site was running python.
4. Re:m00se by value_added · 2010-07-04 19:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Dear Sir,
  I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the fault in your site, about Facebook users being saddos. Many of my best friends are saddos, and only a few of them have Facebook accounts.
  Yours faithfully,
  Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.)
5. Re:m00se by c0mpliant · 2010-07-04 19:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Stop that! It's SILLY. Very SILLY indeed! Started off as a nice little idea about the people responsible being fired but now it's just got SILLY! The post is far too short, too, and you can tell those are not proper statements! CLEAR OUT, THE LOT OF YOU!
  
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Re:For those who don't know European slang: by XCondE · 2010-07-04 18:11 · Score: 5, Funny

This is a mostly USA site so it's pushing it to expect everyone here to know slang from the almost the other side of the world
It's pushing it to expect Americans to know *anything* about the other side of the world.
Re:duhhh by MichaelSmith · 2010-07-04 18:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Why don't they just use an international cymbal
Too loud.

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Re:All I can really say is... by houghi · 2010-07-04 18:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Normal people would. Facebook users not, because they are saddos.

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Re:Remember kids... by jamesh · 2010-07-04 18:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
What did you say about my mother???
similar experience by mogness · 2010-07-04 18:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Once I was debugging some code at work and added a javascript alert "The dinosaur says RAWR!" to an error case that I was trying to reproduce. Well, I fixed the error but being the smart guy I am, forgot to take out the debug code. A few months later, some erroneous data in our app started causing an exception in the same exact place where my old error debug message was. It was a real head-slapper when I got the bug report...

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.

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1. Re:similar experience by SheeEttin · 2010-07-04 20:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Well, at least you can track it down pretty fast. Just be glad it wasn't something embarrasing, like... oh, say, this.
2. Re:similar experience by AK+Marc · 2010-07-04 20:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I had a modem from one of the largest makers of satellite modems. We had lots of issues, and ended up getting pre-release code. After that worked, we had a separate issue and called back. "What's your firmware version?" "Um, version number: ohshit."
  
  Yes, that's right, our version number was Oh Shit. I'm guessing that's what the guy who did it thought when he was told it made it to the wild.
  
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3. Re:similar experience by lena_10326 · 2010-07-04 20:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  A long time ago I was working on a simple CGI to output a table on a test intranet site. I had a hard to see typo in the code which prevented the right data in the cells from showing up, so after getting royally pissed off I used "Fuck You" to substitute as fake data. The table read "Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you, .." for a few dozen or so rows. Later that day my project manager walks in a very serious and somber mood. He was concerned about what I was working on because the VP of sales called him and mentioned he saw a page with nothing but Fuck Yous. I was stymied because this was a pre-prod test site (it used a copy of production data) and no one but a developer should be touching it. Apparently, months ago the VP had been given a peak at a new feature in development and got a link to the test site. He bookmarked it and had been using that for months for running his reports. He had long wondered why the site seemed so flakey and buggy because sometimes it would fail to load or emit some file not found error (presumably because a developer was fiddling with it). When my manager and I met up with the VP, we were expecting a royal chewing out. Chuckling, the VP said although the Fuck Yous were funny, he really needed to see that data. I just gave him the production URL he should be using and had him remove the old bookmark.
  
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Re:For those who don't know European slang: by WillKemp · 2010-07-04 18:34 · Score: 5, Funny

It's pushing it to expect Americans to know *anything* about the other side of the world.
It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: by NNKK · 2010-07-04 19:04 · Score: 4, Funny

It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
Isn't that where all the Commies live?
And the insult comes from who? by MavEtJu · 2010-07-04 19:07 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.

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Re:For those who don't know European slang: by deniable · 2010-07-04 19:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, inside and outside.
Re:All I can really say is... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 20:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Saddos: The cereal for people who can no longer eat Cheerios?
Re:All I can really say is... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 21:06 · Score: 5, Funny

The latest neuropsychology studies shows, that medium to long term facebook usage actually rewires the brain.
When shown a pair of crocs, normal people have strong activity which results in disgust, physical revulsion and often a vomit reflex.
The facebook users brain activity, more closely resembles that of a women shopping, heroin addict getting a fix, or farmville player harvesting crops.
Re:All I can really say is... by node+3 · 2010-07-04 21:51 · Score: 4, Funny

The facebook users brain activity, more closely resembles that of a women shopping, heroin addict getting a fix, or farmville player harvesting crops.
... or nerds espousing their superiority over people who do things the nerds don't like.
Re:All I can really say is... by Bing+Tsher+E · 2010-07-04 22:29 · Score: 5, Funny

The breakfast of, well, er, not exactly Champions...
Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Wovel · 2010-07-05 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Nearly everyone on the mainland in this hemisphere considers themselves Americans. Most of them actually take offense to the uneducated masses on the other side of the world who are incapable of knowing the difference.
Now you are on the edge of pissing of the Canadians, I am certain you don't want that. Piss them off enough and they will set down their beer and respond.