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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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All I can really say is... by RoFLKOPTr · 2010-07-04 17:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

lol.
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Get over yourselves.
1. 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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2. Re:All I can really say is... by deniable · 2010-07-04 19:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Pull your head in.
3. Re:All I can really say is... by twidarkling · 2010-07-04 19:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Liar. If you were the Queen, you'd say "WE are not amused." Faker.
  
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4. 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?
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Re:All I can really say is... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 22:28 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  If someone is pining for an ex-girlfriend what do you say to them? "Get over her". "Get over yourself" implies that you are madly in love with yourself, it isn't healthy and you really need to give it up.
  But this is Slashdot. I guess that's why you don't understand anything involving love or girls.
8. 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...
9. Re:All I can really say is... by rgravina · 2010-07-04 22:43 · Score: 1
  
  I think it would be "One is not amused.".
10. Re:All I can really say is... by Wheely · 2010-07-04 23:22 · Score: 1
  
  Might do but it wouldn't mean the same thing. "One" used like this is an indefinite pronoun and therefore is similar to the plural "you" or "people in general".
  That will be ten dollars please.
11. Re:All I can really say is... by Jaruzel · 2010-07-04 23:23 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Know your history, it's 'We'...
  http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/401800.html
  
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12. Re:All I can really say is... by siloko · 2010-07-04 23:44 · Score: 1
  
  ??
  Nerds don't like heroin addiction? Shucks I've been doing it wrong!
13. Re:All I can really say is... by mdwh2 · 2010-07-05 01:07 · Score: 1
  
  The story is funny, yes - but as for getting over yourselves, I think that's got to be pointed at the people here taking it seriously. The irony: what do you think the popular image of the stereotypical Slashdot geek is?
14. Re:All I can really say is... by Sulphur · 2010-07-05 01:16 · Score: 1
  
  Pakistan Hockey Team, the Class of the League, wins again.
15. Re:All I can really say is... by DriveMelter · 2010-07-05 01:39 · Score: 1
  
  I'd agree, facebookers are addicts, much more highly motivated to get their fix than a saddo would be. I wonder if there would be a world food shortage if all the farmville players actually worked on real farms for the same amount of hours.
16. Re:All I can really say is... by Wovel · 2010-07-05 02:50 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Don't need history. If the queen is an entire hockey team, We is obviously correct.
17. Re:All I can really say is... by timeOday · 2010-07-05 03:06 · Score: 1
  
  When shown a pair of crocs, normal people have strong activity which results in disgust, physical revulsion and often a vomit reflex.
  But real shoes don't look right with my sweatpants.
18. Re:All I can really say is... by Sulphur · 2010-07-05 03:26 · Score: 1
  
  Pakistan hockey team to address UN, visit Research in Motion, and return for dance at Balmoral.
19. Re:All I can really say is... by kestasjk · 2010-07-05 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  Not like us slashdot users; we're so not saddos that we lap up a story about how a bunch of saddos were referred to as saddos, and in the discussion we agree that they are saddos. Someone somewhere is trying to think up a Portal glados pun and failing, slashdot gets ~117 hits to Facebook's 700,000 in news.bbc.co.uk, gits are comparing google hits to make a point no-one wants to hear; this is where the movers and shakers move and shake.
  
  Okay I'm just bitter because this is idle material
  
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20. Re:All I can really say is... by lennier · 2010-07-05 10:24 · Score: 1
  
  Crocs are uncool now already? (Checks calendar). Darn.
  I really need to get this time machine recalibrated.
  
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21. Re:All I can really say is... by beguyld · 2010-07-05 16:51 · Score: 1
  
  Actually, "get over yourself" implies you are madly in love with your own self-image, which is by definition an illusion which exists only in your own head. So "it is unhealthy and you really need to give it up" is appropriate advise.
  This is entirely different from healthy self-confidence, a sign of which would be the ability to laugh at oneself, and not worry about what some web developer for BBC thinks about someone he's never met.
For those who don't know European slang: by Kitkoan · 2010-07-04 17:55 · Score: 5, Informative

Saddos: Brit slang a socially inadequate or pathetic person.

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1. 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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2. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by game+kid · 2010-07-04 18:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No, or they would've wrote "A SUITABLE STRAP-ON HERE" instead.
  
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3. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 18:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  European slang....... because we all speak the same language.
4. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by phonewebcam · 2010-07-04 18:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Britains Biggest Cokeusers - further clarification of this acronym for non-UK readers.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Ixitar · 2010-07-04 18:47 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Which do you mean by Americans? North, Central or South?
  
  I am a United States citizen and have lived on the other side of the world (Hong Kong specifically). I hope to be back there some day.
8. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 18:54 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You mean there is more than one?
9. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by icannotthinkofaname · 2010-07-04 18:56 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Parent post is "Flamebait" if and only if the moderators are American.
  Stereotypes may be stupid, but they are generally based on some fact.
  
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10. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by TooMuchToDo · 2010-07-04 18:59 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Don't be a chav
  /American
  //Loves the word "chav"
11. 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?
12. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 19:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
  All Americans know there is another side of the world. It's just that many don't care.
13. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by dissy · 2010-07-04 19:08 · Score: 1, Flamebait
  
  It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
  Don't be silly, of course we know there is another side to the world. Most Americans just think that too is America.
14. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by sznupi · 2010-07-04 19:08 · Score: 1
  
  I was always partial to Big Brother Corporation...
  
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15. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by WillKemp · 2010-07-04 19:09 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Which do you mean by Americans? North, Central or South?
  It's pushing it to expect a non-american to know the difference.
16. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by sznupi · 2010-07-04 19:11 · Score: 1
  
  Or almost somebody across the border, and generally a neighbor culturally, no? ;p
  
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17. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Kitkoan · 2010-07-04 19:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
  Isn't that where all the Commies live?
  Seems like it...
  
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18. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by deniable · 2010-07-04 19:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes, inside and outside.
19. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by deniable · 2010-07-04 19:14 · Score: 1
  
  My first thought was the whips and chains brigade.
20. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by sznupi · 2010-07-04 19:16 · Score: 1
  
  That's not how the term is used / one nation seems to claim the term for itself.
  
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21. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by CarpetShark · 2010-07-04 19:34 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Saddos: Brit slang a socially inadequate or pathetic person.
  Or a rather obvious extension of the word "sad".
22. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by CarpetShark · 2010-07-04 19:36 · Score: 1
  
  It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
  What? There are TWO sides to things?
23. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by AmonTheMetalhead · 2010-07-04 19:42 · Score: 1
  
  I'd expect pretty much any more or less educated person to know the difference, after all, the rest of the world also uses North & South (and West & East), you did realize that did you?
24. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by AmonTheMetalhead · 2010-07-04 19:43 · Score: 1
  
  Usually these things are apparent from their context.
25. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by AmonTheMetalhead · 2010-07-04 19:45 · Score: 1
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if some Americans think we do, as i wouldn't be surprised if there were Europeans thinking that English is the only language spoken in the USA.
26. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 19:50 · Score: 1, Interesting
  
  Yeah! After all, all those *other* countries know all about America!
  Why, go and ask a guy in England about Rhode Island! Or Alabama! Or heck, how about Wyoming! I'm sure they'll know everything about it.
  Why, you say that very few *Americans* even know about those parts of their country? Well lah-dee-dah. It looks like the world stereotypes Americans just as much as America stereotypes the rest of the world.
  Get over yourselves. The fact of the matter is, America holds a (stupidly) large position in the world. Not only politically, but culturally and economically.
  If a hundred people know one person, but that one person only knows about 2 or 3, is he ignorant and shallow? Should we be insulted that so many people know the whole lives of politicians and celebrities but very few of them know ours?
  The incredibly shitty result of that, though, is the American attitude of self-centerdness and arrogance. Shared partly by other countries, but it's most visible in America since everybody's looking at us.
27. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by russ_allegro · 2010-07-04 20:05 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Well considering the only people who identify themselves as 'Americans' (Pronounced: A-mur-i-cans) are United States citizens, I'm going to take a wild guess that he's talking about United States citizens.
  Except your wrong, I've talked with some Guatemalans who consider themselves Americans.
28. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by WillKemp · 2010-07-04 20:11 · Score: 1
  
  It was a joke!
29. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by definate · 2010-07-04 20:22 · Score: 1
  
  No. It's dragons.
  
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30. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by sumday · 2010-07-04 20:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  /American
  //Loves the word "chav"
  Then it might be wise to learn how to use it, you dozy prannock.
  
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31. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by msuarezalvarez · 2010-07-04 21:03 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  That nation also claims various other titles, like "land of the free". That it insists on it does not make it true...
32. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 21:06 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Some might say that it's because you hold such a "stupidly large position" in the world that you ought to do a little more to educate yourselves about it. If you're going to play world police, you should be able to demonstrate you understand the cultures you're policing, otherwise you come across as nothing but a bigot and a bully on the world stage.
33. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by sonicmerlin · 2010-07-04 21:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  His wrong? That's getting a little too personal there don't you think?
34. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by JackieBrown · 2010-07-04 21:39 · Score: 1
  
  It was a joke!
  It's funny all the American's are stupid jokes that are on here and people don't react but the one non-american joke gets an immediate (within an hour) reaction.
35. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by JackieBrown · 2010-07-04 21:41 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  I have seen Canadian's get offended when you ask if they take American (US) money as if Canadian money was un-american.
  Maybe you only know US American's and made an assumption?
36. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by JackieBrown · 2010-07-04 21:43 · Score: 1
  
  And even if they do, it's pushing to expect them to know where is the other side of the world.
  Down?
37. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by node+3 · 2010-07-04 21:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'd expect pretty much any more or less educated person to know the difference
  Well, that was your mistake right there.
38. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Bing+Tsher+E · 2010-07-04 22:35 · Score: 1
  
  But we can be assured that you chaps over there have us USians all completely 'figured out,' no?
39. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Island+Admin · 2010-07-04 23:09 · Score: 1
  
  Get over yourselves. The fact of the matter is, America holds a (stupidly) large position in the world. Not only politically, but culturally and economically.
  Economically? Really? Have you read the news lately .... stop living in the past. If you do decide to live in the now, you will realise that you guys are flat broke, the dollar is most probably going to lose the position of reserve currency, and that 40 million Americans are on food stamps. So .... I put it back to you .... Get over yourselves.
40. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Laurence0 · 2010-07-04 23:20 · Score: 1
  
  That's a mis-phrasing.
  It's actually "Land of the fee, home of the vague"
41. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Jaruzel · 2010-07-04 23:25 · Score: 1
  
  Either way, most Masochists ARE Saddos imho, so the BBC are right however you look at it. ;)
  
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42. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by aradnik · 2010-07-04 23:30 · Score: 1
  
  describes quite accurately anyone who's following bbc, imho... ;p (edit: seriously though, at least they can spell :) (edit: in fact the whole thing was probably an elaborate scheme to teach us a new word :) (edit: can i really edit a msg here? :D)
43. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Per+Wigren · 2010-07-04 23:53 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe South Afrericans...
  
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44. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by drinkypoo · 2010-07-05 00:05 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Certainly my peer group in Europe, who regularly move all over Europe and often to Asia or Africa, are much more active travelers than the same generation in the US.
  We have Mexico which is highly unsafe to drive through to the south and Frozen Canada to the North. We can't just hop in a Land Rover or on a train and go to another country, at least not one which is worth visiting. Further, Americans have been holding the short end of the economic stick for some time now, so the modern americans have an excuse for not flying places.
  The truly sad part is that you can see 2345902375 different cultures without leaving the USA but most people don't want to even admit anyone is different from them. We're Americans, damn it! Maricons, maybe.
  
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45. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-05 00:10 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  Hey.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
  Oh my god, America is so flat broke its GDP for 2009 is greater than the next 3 countries. Combined
  
  the dollar is most probably going to lose the position of reserve currency
  And replaced with what? The Euro? The Yuan? The Ruble?
  If they replace it with an independent currency, then America isn't being beaten by any country. It's being pushed out by imaginary money backed up by nothing at all.
  
  40 million Americans are on food stamps.
  
  US Population = 300 million. ~13% on food stamps. The shock value of just throwing out large numbers means nothing until you can tell me exactly what % of other countries have their population on welfare.
  Did you know 57 million people die every year? OH MY GOD. I ONLY KNOW LIKE 100 PEOPLE. EVERYONE I KNOW IS GOING TO DIE!!!!
  Numbers without a proper background to put them in perspective is meaningless.
  If America is economically in the gutter, I don't see exactly why every other nation in the world isn't in exactly the same place.
  America remains king, if only of beggars.
46. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by c0mpliant · 2010-07-05 00:12 · Score: 1
  
  Exactly my point. I don't know why I was labeled off-topic considering someone asked the question...
  
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47. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by ddegirmenci · 2010-07-05 00:12 · Score: 1
  
  It's pushing it to expect a Slashdotter to know the difference.
48. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by daveime · 2010-07-05 00:15 · Score: 1
  
  It's pushing it to expect Americans to know that Engerlund has more than 100 people living in it.
  American Tourist : "I stayed in Blackpool once. Stayed with a very nice lady called Mrs Smith. Do you know her ?".
49. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by SpeZek · 2010-07-05 02:29 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Who modded this insightful?
  Frozen Canada? Dangerous Mexico? No countries worth visiting? These are the sort of ignorant stereotypes that exemplify what the parent was saying.
50. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Wovel · 2010-07-05 02:54 · Score: 1
  
  Your assuming a lot. If all we have to go by is the Europeans on /., it is safe to assume there are no educated people outside the US.
51. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Wovel · 2010-07-05 02:56 · Score: 1
  
  This is clearly the UK. Never has a country been more accurately described. Thank you.
52. 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.
53. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:06 · Score: 1
  
  We did not even need a passport to go into parts of Canada or Mexico until last year. Maybe if you understood the world better, your opinions would not looks so Moronic.
  You should note that North America is nearly two and a half times the size of Europe. (24 million sqkm versus 9.9 million sqkm). Why does well traveled have to involve international borders? Why do Americans have to travel outside of an area 2.5 times bigger than 99% of those Europeans to be considered well traveled.
  It is always amusing when the truly ignorant try to put you down. Get over yourself and learn a little. The average European travels considerably less than the average American (Mileage, unique places visited, time away from home), the only way you win is on crossing national borders. You focus on that and call Americans less traveled.
  Pretense is particular amusing in morons. Good day to you sir.
54. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Xyrus · 2010-07-05 03:07 · Score: 1
  
  No, it's where all the terrorists live. And leopards. Lots and lots of leopards.
  
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55. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:08 · Score: 1
  
  You learn to educate yourself and rely on news headlines. ..
56. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by X3J11 · 2010-07-05 03:33 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  This is not correct. I live in North America, but I am Canadian, not American. I have never, ever heard of another Canadian ever refer to themselves as American. Not even our celebrities who move down south go that far.
57. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Island+Admin · 2010-07-05 04:03 · Score: 1
  
  13% ... Ouch ... 13 out of every 100 people you know. And I know you yanks don't have any confidence in the Euro ... but for a currency thats down and out, it sure has performed well over the last month. The big question is .... why are Americans so unpopular overseas? Ask yourselves that question.
58. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Draek · 2010-07-05 04:06 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Pretty much the entire American continent calls themselves "Americans", except for Canadians who consider it an insult by reference to their neighbors down south.
  In Latin America the proper way to address a US citizen is "estadounidense", which roughly translates to "united-statesian", though as result of its length and the need to sub/dub the word "American" in US movies, the phrase "norteamericano" (meaning "north american") is also in common usage which *also* pisses the Canadians off ;)
  In fact, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the only relatively common language that lacks an equivalent word for "estadounidense" is English itself. I know French and Portuguese have one and I believe both Italian and German do as well, at least.
  
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59. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by MakinBacon · 2010-07-05 04:43 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe this will help you understand why we don't do much traveling outside of the states.
  Granted, that's only Western Europe, but I think you get the idea.
60. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by thetoadwarrior · 2010-07-05 04:50 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah because it was so cryptic. I personally thought it had something to do with Sade then I realise her band comes from London and yet again I was so lost because it wasn't American and she's brown which is highly confusing.
61. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by Gavagai80 · 2010-07-05 06:43 · Score: 1
  
  It costs a ton of money for the average American to travel a thousand miles to cross the border of the USA. The average European practically lives on a border.
  
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62. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by CRCulver · 2010-07-05 07:08 · Score: 1
  
  It's not at all unusual for people from the Nordic countries to spend winter holidays in Bali. They have no problem spending that money. Even not-terribly-well-off Russians commonly go to Egypt or India these days. That Europeans travel more than Americans is not exclusively a phenomenon of people in tiny countries crossing the border into their neighbors.
63. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by feepness · 2010-07-05 07:38 · Score: 1
  
  Just so you know, spouting this crap makes you sound pretty much exactly like the people you're trying to insult.
64. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by VJ42 · 2010-07-05 07:41 · Score: 1
  
  Yep, we should all take up Esperanto.
  
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65. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by styrotech · 2010-07-05 11:30 · Score: 1
  
  We have Mexico which is highly unsafe to drive through to the south and Frozen Canada to the North. We can't just hop in a Land Rover or on a train and go to another country, at least not one which is worth visiting. Further, Americans have been holding the short end of the economic stick for some time now, so the modern americans have an excuse for not flying places.
  So how do Australians and New Zealanders manage to travel internationally so much then? They are both a long way from anywhere, surrounded by water and have had less money and relatively more expensive travel options than both Americans or Europeans have.
  But living overseas for a couple of years before settling down is still commonly regarded as the thing to do.
66. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by drinkypoo · 2010-07-06 02:40 · Score: 1
  
  Who modded this insightful?
  Probably someone with a sense of humor who understands how the Slashdot moderation system is broken. Or in other words, someone totally different from you.
  
  Frozen Canada? Dangerous Mexico? No countries worth visiting? These are the sort of ignorant stereotypes that exemplify what the parent was saying.
  Mexico is dangerous. I don't know if you've been paying attention but the military is highly likely to rob you in that country, and in fact is roving all over it in the form of jeeploads of 16 year olds with US Military Surplus M-16s. Even the shopping district in TJ has mostly closed doors now because of the somewhat indiscriminate killing. There was a while when they weren't really killing tourists but that seems to be over. Canada is fucking cold much of the year, just as are the Northern states of the USA which are not so far North as Canada are, eh?
  With that said, I took a six-week trip to Panama and Costa Rica not so very long ago. I had a pretty good time but my lady got tired of never being recognized because that's how you treat women in Panama. Less so in Costa Rica, but we really only went to the worst tourist trap there. They just want your money. Apparently it's where most of their money comes from.
  Every time I leave my nice house and go out to some crap restaurant (hard to find any other kind, where is the pride?) I wonder why I bothered. And as poorly-received as Americans are basically everywhere in the world the odds of having a shitty vacation go up substantially if you're one of us. Seems like everyone intelligent I know (and thus worth talking to) that has vacationed talks about how everywhere they went people either treated them shitty and made it clear it was because of where they came from, or just assumed they were Canadian. Does that make you want to go visit people? I can see why people would hate this country, but delivering that hate to individual, confused citizens is just stupid.
  Put more simply, Americans go on cruises or staycations because we're living in the least crapped-up nation on the planet. Which is frightening considering the condition of this land mass as pertains to the human condition. Sure, some of us still want to visit other countries just to see them before they sink... But our ancestors left Europe (etc) for numerous reasons, many of which are still in effect. And again, if you want to see other cultures, you can do it without even leaving our borders. Most people in the USA don't even want to do THAT.
  It has been said that the USA is the loneliest country, and I tend to agree. People are separated from people here. But it's not simply because we don't travel; I see it more as a chicken-and-egg situation. And since we don't travel, people mock us for not being travellers. So what, we want to come to their country just to prove them wrong? Feh.
  
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67. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by SpeZek · 2010-07-06 02:59 · Score: 1
  
  I'm a Canadian who takes vacations to Mexico regularly. I don't stay in Tijuana the same way I wouldn't visit the ghettos of Detroit for shits and giggles. Every country has its bad spots; you're there on vacation, you go to the nice places. Do you judge America by how rough the roughest cities are?
  And, btw, Canada is not a frozen wasteland, jackass. The temperature is quite mild from mid March to November, getting into the 100's in June/July/August. Every country has a winter season that's less desirable than a summer season; why judge? Don't go to the far north where it is frozen most of the year unless you like that sort of thing.
  Maybe the reason you're so poorly received in other countries is because you're so pessimistic and just plain grumpy. I have a friend from Arizona, the most hated state worldwide, come visit. Nobody gave a shit where she was from because she's nice, polite, and (get this) respectful of other countries and cultures.
68. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by drinkypoo · 2010-07-06 03:17 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe the reason you're so poorly received in other countries is because you're so pessimistic and just plain grumpy.
  Actually, I was personally very well-received in Panama, and as a teen in Mexico when I was there doing volunteer work. I think Americans are received poorly and ungraciously in other nations more because of the reputation of our nation (which I think is largely well-deserved in most respects) than because of the actions of our travelling citizens; the type of person that travels is very likely to be different from the baseline, and in most respects at least more interesting if nothing else.
  
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69. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by StikyPad · 2010-07-06 08:49 · Score: 1
  
  Politely.
  
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70. Re:For those who don't know European slang: by CarpetShark · 2010-07-07 00:15 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah, that's the smart thing to do when you encounter a new word, assume it means something that it sounds like.
  For those of us who know common english word endings such as -er and -ing, the slang equivalents such as -o, and bother to learn words from other common languages like Latin and French... yes, it's a VERY good thing to do.
Just goes to show... by mrgiles · 2010-07-04 18:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

That the truth hurts.
1. Re:Just goes to show... by h4rm0ny · 2010-07-04 18:03 · Score: 1
  
  I hope someone doesn't get in trouble for this. It's pretty funny and harmless.
  
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2. Re:Just goes to show... by Per+Wigren · 2010-07-04 23:59 · Score: 1
  
  Good news! Lots of people aren't going to get in trouble for this.
  
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3. Re:Just goes to show... by h4rm0ny · 2010-07-05 18:16 · Score: 1
  
  Hmmmm. I hope someone doesn't discard the obvious meaning of my post in favour of a logically valid but preposterous interpretation for the sake of an amusing reply.
  
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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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6. Re:m00se by SwedishCoward · 2010-07-05 00:25 · Score: 1
  
  And now for something completely different. A man with an iPod up his nose.
Remember kids... by gaspyy · 2010-07-04 18:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

Always use "Lorem Ipsum" text when you're doing layout work and don't want to be concerned with actual content.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
1. Re:Remember kids... by RoFLKOPTr · 2010-07-04 18:06 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  But that's boring.
2. Re:Remember kids... by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-07-04 18:08 · Score: 1
  
  Probably some of the best typesetting text around, especially for web development.
  
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3. Re:Remember kids... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 18:16 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  The problem with Lorem Ipsum is the stupid questions from clients.
  " Is it French? What the fuck is this? Don't you speak english? How is anyone supposed to read it?"
4. Re:Remember kids... by dsoltesz · 2010-07-04 18:17 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Then try Hillbilly Greeking:
  
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, crazy go, up skanky buffalo polecat sherrif shed sam-hell, landlord tobaccee. Fricaseed pigs cooked hogjowls ass cipherin'.
  Everlastin' rattler redblooded drunk good cowpoke woman farm tired landlord kickin' jezebel heap fire highway.
  Jumpin' guzzled barn em backwoods panhandle sittin' cheatin'. Jezebel took commencin' been confounded, lordy fit. Hootin' bootleg townfolk knickers tax-collectors simple, everlastin' consarn. Heffer java gospel give hairy jezebel.
  
  Also available: Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German for your Greeking pleasure.
5. Re:Remember kids... by zmollusc · 2010-07-04 18:19 · Score: 1
  
  Ah, gee, I never was any good at greek. The only word i recognise is occaecat (the ancient greek for Longcat).
  
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6. 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???
7. Re:Remember kids... by Aeternitas827 · 2010-07-04 18:28 · Score: 1
  
  I see the reason to have this sort of thing...but, I'm curious, why the Lorem ipsum bit so omnipresent in mockups, as opposed to everyone doing their own thing? I'm sure the same purpose could be served by many different pieces of text. Is it just a matter of copy/paste is so much easier? Is there something particular this does better than anything else someone could think up?
  
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8. Re:Remember kids... by JWSmythe · 2010-07-04 18:32 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I agree. If you need substantial content, like to fill what should be news story bodies, Lorem Ipsum is perfect.
  When I'm testing things, and I'm looking at functionality over volume of filler, I'll use some informative yet useless information. For example a news story may read "This is a test title" and "This is the test body". No harm, no foul, and when something gets left behind for the bosses (or general public) to see,it won't result in finding yourself unemployed.
  A lot of times, when I'm working on someone's web site, and they haven't given me content for say their front page, I'll just put "Put something warm and friendly here." Occasionally (very occasionally) I'll put something funny in, but not so much that it'd cost me a job. I worked at a place, way back in the beginning of the popularity of the Internet. The programmers for the billing system had an impossible to reach if statement which said something like "You'll never fucking see this." Well, after a while, it was seen. Customers were less than happy, and were more than happy to contact the CEO directly. Heads rolled on that one.
  I expect that my customers will look at my work in progress. I encourage it, so I can get their feedback as it goes. It's much better to find out they don't like something in the beginning, rather than when you've worked on the project for months and are complete. If they see "you should have stuff here about your company", that's much better than nothing at all. For the sake of filling the space, Lorem Ipsum is much better.
  
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9. Re:Remember kids... by Tim+C · 2010-07-04 18:35 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Indeed, and I have had more or less that reaction in the past - "Why is it all in Latin? I don't like that..."
  On the plus side if you use copy that is obviously placeholder, even at the most cursory of glances, it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
  
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10. Re:Remember kids... by lxs · 2010-07-04 18:38 · Score: 1
  
  What did you say about my mom?
11. Re:Remember kids... by masterwit · 2010-07-04 18:42 · Score: 1
  
  it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
  True story. Those who know how to properly translate Latin to English, etc usually are not the those who are capable or willing to make an online translator. Google translate doesn't do Latin right? - at least it didn't many years ago when I was in high school!
  
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12. Re:Remember kids... by Kitkoan · 2010-07-04 18:44 · Score: 1
  
  Jumpin' guzzled barn em backwoods panhandle sittin' cheatin'. Jezebel took commencin' been confounded, lordy fit. Hootin' bootleg townfolk knickers tax-collectors simple, everlastin' consarn. Heffer java gospel give hairy jezebel.
  With words like 'guzzled', 'cheatin', 'Jezebel', 'knickers' and 'give hairy jezebel', its think it was some kind of either really kinky or really twisted porno...
  
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13. Re:Remember kids... by halo1982 · 2010-07-04 18:57 · Score: 1
  
  The problem with Lorem Ipsum is the stupid questions from clients.
  " Is it French? What the fuck is this? Don't you speak english? How is anyone supposed to read it?"
  MOD PARENT WAY THE FUCK UP!!!!
  Yeah, I get this all the time.
  Even once from my old boss when I was working at a newspaper...*sigh*
14. Re:Remember kids... by NNKK · 2010-07-04 19:06 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I see the reason to have this sort of thing...but, I'm curious, why the Lorem ipsum bit so omnipresent in mockups, as opposed to everyone doing their own thing? I'm sure the same purpose could be served by many different pieces of text. Is it just a matter of copy/paste is so much easier? Is there something particular this does better than anything else someone could think up?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
15. Re:Remember kids... by value_added · 2010-07-04 19:07 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Then try Hillbilly Greeking ... Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German ...
  You're trying too hard.
  If this is a corporate site (most are), you can just use the Bullshit Generator. Your pointy-haired boss will nod approvingly, and you can call it a day.
16. Re:Remember kids... by gaspyy · 2010-07-04 19:12 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Well, that's the whole point.
  A client may be confused for a few seconds about "gibberish text" and then will ignore it, concentrating on things that actually matter.
  If you put in text, they'll start nitpicking on details that are irrelevant at that stage, like "it's 'M.D.', not 'MD'" or "you didn't capitalize properly" and so on.
17. Re:Remember kids... by gaspyy · 2010-07-04 19:17 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  It's supposed to be boring. This way no one will start nitpicking the text and will concentrate on layout/design.
  At that stage of the work, text content doesn't matter. What matters is the font, color, size, placement and so on. You want the client to say "I like the font, maybe make it bigger by 1pt" rather than "you didn't capitalize properly."
18. Re:Remember kids... by tepples · 2010-07-04 19:20 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Indeed, and I have had more or less that reaction in the past - "Why is it all in Latin? I don't like that..."
  Then use the English translation, like I do.
19. Re:Remember kids... by findoutmoretoday · 2010-07-04 19:22 · Score: 1
  
  <quote><p>Always use "Lorem Ipsum" text when you're doing layout work and don't want to be concerned with actual content.</p></quote> Keep the Vatican out of this
20. Re:Remember kids... by ewrong · 2010-07-04 20:16 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Personally I use Gansta Lorum Ipsum or Corporate Ipsum depending on the mood.
21. Re:Remember kids... by mwvdlee · 2010-07-04 20:38 · Score: 1, Interesting
  
  It's supposed to be boring.
  Just like your post and, apparently, your sense of humor.
  
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22. Re:Remember kids... by neonmonk · 2010-07-04 21:11 · Score: 1
  
  Agreed. I direct clients to the "about lorem ipsum" website and a quarter of them are genuinely interested. Then they feel "in the loop" of "the biz."
23. Re:Remember kids... by delinear · 2010-07-04 21:17 · Score: 1
  
  We had an "experienced" contract tester on a site who raised a critical issue that the page templates we'd built were full of "foreign text, looks French". The point still stands though, that it's easier to spend two minutes at the start explaining why you're using lorem ipsum and then have a productive meeting based around the layout that it is to constantly have things disrupted and held up while someone questions what that heading means, or why that image is labelled wrongly. Most people get the concept pretty quickly (especially if you do any amount of agency work, where they've been using this offline forever) and you end up with slightly more productive meetings.
24. Re:Remember kids... by KlaymenDK · 2010-07-04 22:09 · Score: 1
  
  Those are brilliant! Now I know whence my boss gets his presentation-stuffing!
  I can't wait to use these in next years' personal business commitments document! >:-D
  
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25. Re:Remember kids... by mb1 · 2010-07-04 23:04 · Score: 1
  
  Bazaammm... that just happened.
26. Re:Remember kids... by FilthCatcher · 2010-07-04 23:07 · Score: 1
  
  Seriously, I've been asked "What the hell is Lorem ipsum?" so many times that I now paste in text about Lorem ipsum instead.
  
  Maybe next week I'll start using the content from this very post followed a week later by a story about how I once posted to slashdot on a story about lorem ipsum - only translated to Latin.
27. Re:Remember kids... by Jaruzel · 2010-07-04 23:34 · Score: 1
  
  You pasted the Corporate Ispum link incorrectly. Here is the correct URL.
  Apple didn't invent Lorum Ipsum y'know. ;)
  
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28. Re:Remember kids... by daveime · 2010-07-05 00:23 · Score: 1
  
  Romanes eunt domus ?
  The people called 'Romanes' they go the house ?
  Romani ite domum !
  Now, write it out a hundred times. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
29. Re:Remember kids... by Minwee · 2010-07-05 02:17 · Score: 1
  
  A client may be confused for a few seconds about "gibberish text" and then will ignore it, concentrating on things that actually matter.
  Yes, I used to have high expectations too. Then reality met me in a dark alley holding a two-by-metaphor and I changed to my outlook.
30. Re:Remember kids... by blind+biker · 2010-07-05 02:37 · Score: 1
  
  I got "enable frictionless users" at third try. Not sure that's really SFW. Or maybe it's just my rotten fantasy....
  
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31. Re:Remember kids... by epp_b · 2010-07-05 03:08 · Score: 1
  
  So, why don't you just develop proper spelling, grammar and syntactic skills, instead?
32. Re:Remember kids... by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:12 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah it is much better to insult a bunch of people, clients love that ;)
33. Re:Remember kids... by thetoadwarrior · 2010-07-05 04:53 · Score: 1
  
  No that it is ugly boring and shows pretentiousness and a lack of creativity. Just make sure you go over the site with a fine tooth comb before launching it so you don't upset the saddos.
34. Re:Remember kids... by kestasjk · 2010-07-05 05:24 · Score: 1
  
  Finally! A colloquial take on lorem ipsum filler-text; how have I got on without this?!
  
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35. Re:Remember kids... by justinlee37 · 2010-07-05 05:28 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Because when you're designing a layout for a website, you don't always know what you want it to say yet. Because writing the text of the website is not always the developer's job. Because when you're having a meeting to get approval from a client for a layout, you don't want to blow a lot of time writing and re-writing some text that can be changed later and has no relevance to the task at hand.
  Should I go on, or will you just admit that you're a moron and an ass and spare us both?
What did it say about by bugs2squash · 2010-07-04 18:08 · Score: 1

slashdot followers ?

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1. Re:What did it say about by 21mhz · 2010-07-04 18:17 · Score: 1
  
  Those would be 'anoraks'.
  
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2. Re:What did it say about by Kitkoan · 2010-07-04 18:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  slashdot followers ?
  They called us Nerds.
  But I'm ok with that since even Slashdot itself tells me I'm a nerd, which for once isn't news, but does matter.
  
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Truth in media? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 18:09 · Score: 2, Interesting

C'mon, you know you were thinking it.
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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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 Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-04 19:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  In an old wxPython application I once made (some IDE with a VCS for editing complex huge ini files) there is a tree control representing some inheritance mechanism. The user can drag any sub tree to another node to do a "cut and paste" operation of that sub tree to another position in the tree. If the user drags and drops the subtree to the same position a "Full gas in neutral error" message pops up with a funny icon.
  There is also a very silly boolean constant (used for debugging and set to false on release): SERVER_COMMITS_SUICIDE_BY_CUTTING_ITS_OWN_WRISTS_ON_EXCEPTIONS
2. 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.
3. Re:similar experience by Linker3000 · 2010-07-04 20:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I used to work on visuals systems for flight sims and it was common practice for the image database devs to leave each other comments something like 10m below the start of an airport's primary runway.
  
  One day we had a sim on test with the customer and during some out-of-normal-range testing, the pilot nose-dived the plane into the primary runway only to see something like 'fuck off Joe' displayed across the entire width of the cockpit view, several feet high.
  
  This was hastily followed by a memo to all engineers about comment etiquette. Fortunately, the pilot had a sense of humour.
  
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4. 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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5. 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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6. Re:similar experience by ZeroExistenZ · 2010-07-04 21:08 · Score: 1
  
  We had a javascript popup on a coorporate website with 80k hits a day showing "Hello! I'm Lindsay Lohan!"
  
  The dev was trying to "debug" and just had seen the "Achmed the dead terrorist video".
  
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7. Re:similar experience by roman_mir · 2010-07-04 21:57 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I think the much more embarrassing thing about that post is that the password was being logged all over in the code apparently in clear text.
  Remind me never to hire that guy.
  
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8. Re:similar experience by omfg-no · 2010-07-04 22:10 · Score: 1
  
  We spelt dictionary incorrectly in a spell checking app, and during an update we broke the path to the dictionary file - and on the following monday morning we got god knows how many calls informing us of the irony of our error message.
9. Re:similar experience by Jaruzel · 2010-07-04 23:45 · Score: 1
  
  I recall that a simple search for memes and swear words in Google Code can show that devs putting in incredibly stupid placeholder text is depressingly common.
  I know I'm guilty of it also, sometimes I just can't help myself.
  (Hmm, I've just tried it again, and unless I'm doing it wrong, I can't seem to search the code repository properly?)
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10. Re:similar experience by radtea · 2010-07-05 01:39 · Score: 1
  
  We spelt dictionary incorrectly in a spell checking app
  Now this is why dev's need offices with doors that close. I'm in a well-protected office-like cube, but it ain't enough to absorb my laughter...
  This is the funniest thing I've read in ages. Thanks!
  
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11. Re:similar experience by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:16 · Score: 1
  
  Good times.. I am sure we have all done it.
12. Re:similar experience by roman_mir · 2010-07-05 06:19 · Score: 1
  
  Excellent, I knew I forgot something.
  
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13. Re:similar experience by evilviper · 2010-07-05 16:29 · Score: 1
  
  One day we had a sim on test with the customer and during some out-of-normal-range testing, the pilot nose-dived the plane into the primary runway only to see something like 'fuck off Joe' displayed across the entire width of the cockpit view, several feet high.
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14. Re:similar experience by cyclomedia · 2010-07-05 20:22 · Score: 1
  
  Apologies for directing this at you but why is cutting from , then pasting to the exact same location considered a "raise fat alarm" error in file managers? Windows does it too. In my humble opinion it should just do it (or silently do nothing). So the user did something they didnt actually intend to do, big deal. To me this is one of those software engineers over engineering something and finding a problem where there actually isnt one. Alerts, warnings and popups that serve no purpose but to confuse, scare or downright annoy the user who wants the computer to just fucking do it.
  
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that's about right... by fishfrys · 2010-07-04 18:36 · Score: 1

Come on... who doesn't like to insult Facebook fans? I fail to see the problem here.
1. Re:that's about right... by flimflammer · 2010-07-04 23:38 · Score: 1
  
  There is none, unless you're interested in not offending what amounts to be a decent chunk of your user base.
It seems our parent nation England/UK by Orion+Blastar · 2010-07-04 18:37 · Score: 1

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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1. Re:It seems our parent nation England/UK by Malc · 2010-07-04 21:24 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  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.
  Oh how Americans misunderstand British humour! There's a reason why Benny Hill is better known in the US than the UK.
2. Re:It seems our parent nation England/UK by tehcyder · 2010-07-04 21:38 · Score: 1
  
  If only Benny Hill had not passed away or Monty Python broken up
  
  Benny Hill is to Monty Python as Georg W Bush is to Einstein.
  
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3. Re:It seems our parent nation England/UK by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:17 · Score: 1
  
  I agree, neither of them were really funny either.
Who cares?... by matunos · 2010-07-04 18:42 · Score: 1

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?
1. Re:Who cares?... by opposabledumbs · 2010-07-04 18:52 · Score: 1
  
  Field hockey.
2. Re:Who cares?... by tehcyder · 2010-07-04 23:24 · Score: 1
  
  Oh, and Pakistan has a hockey team?
  
  Real hockey, not ice hockey, genius.
  
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3. Re:Who cares?... by matunos · 2010-07-05 05:43 · Score: 1
  
  Y so srs?
  Did I say ice hockey in my post? No? Then why'd you assume that I only meant ice hockey? Maybe I meant roller hockey.
Re:Fuck Allah!!! by Bottles · 2010-07-04 19:01 · Score: 3, Funny

I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
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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1. Re:And the insult comes from who? by tomhath · 2010-07-05 01:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
  Unfriend him, it will ruin his life.
The News by _Sprocket_ · 2010-07-04 19:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.
Read TFA by Runaway1956 · 2010-07-04 19:31 · Score: 1

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.

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Saddo is actually a good name. by miffo.swe · 2010-07-04 19:41 · Score: 1

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.

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There's a nice ring to it by Alien1024 · 2010-07-04 19:50 · Score: 1

Become a saddo of BBC on Facebook
Become a saddo of Slashdot on Facebook
No pucks in field hockey by Frankie70 · 2010-07-04 19:54 · Score: 1, Insightful

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.
Pakistan plays regular hockey (also called as field hockey) - there are no pucks in hockey.
1. Re:No pucks in field hockey by Wovel · 2010-07-05 03:19 · Score: 1
  
  Mislead much :) The actual link to hockey on Wikipedia discusses both Field Hockey and Ice Hockey, you linked to the field hockey page with the word hockey.
  1. Who gives a crap?
  2. Why throw out your integrity for something so trivial?
  3. There is no 3, because like Benny Hill and Monty Python, both of them suck.
2. Re:No pucks in field hockey by Daimanta · 2010-07-05 04:26 · Score: 1
  
  Furthermore, it's Her Majesty, not her royal highness. It's like calling Barack Obama Speaker of the House of Representatives, it simply makes no sense.
  
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3. Re:No pucks in field hockey by Frankie70 · 2010-07-05 04:57 · Score: 1
  
  From the wikipedia page for Field Hockey
  
  Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used in countries where the word hockey is usually reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.
Re:How I Learned to Start Thinking and Hate the Je by Bottles · 2010-07-04 19:57 · Score: 2, Funny

I'll say it again, I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
ARGH by SmallFurryCreature · 2010-07-04 20:24 · Score: 2, Funny

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.

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We've been promoted by Bambi+Dee · 2010-07-04 20:56 · Score: 1

Still beats "dumb fucks".

...Doesn't it?
Pakistani team are queens? by dltaylor · 2010-07-04 22:04 · Score: 1

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?
From the article by selven · 2010-07-04 23:15 · Score: 1

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:

BBC tennis commentator: "The opening fixture of the Olympic hockey tournament is India v Pakistan. That should be explosive"
Re:MODS: PLEASE READ THIS by Tink2000 · 2010-07-05 00:10 · Score: 1

Good luck fighting the mod wars. I gave up years ago.

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It's only a matter of time... by damn_registrars · 2010-07-05 01:22 · Score: 1

... 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.

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1. Re:It's only a matter of time... by DriveMelter · 2010-07-05 01:44 · Score: 1
  
  I think that the "I've got an app for that" pad is a significant threat to other time wasting products.
whatever by milkmage · 2010-07-05 02:43 · Score: 1

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.
Facebook=Bad; MMORPG=Good? by RobotRunAmok · 2010-07-05 02:45 · Score: 2, Insightful

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.
For those who don't know Spanish slang by SteveFoerster · 2010-07-05 02:59 · Score: 2, Funny

We're Americans, damn it! Maricons, maybe.
Uhhhhm, I don't think that last word there means what you think it means.

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1. Re:For those who don't know Spanish slang by drinkypoo · 2010-07-05 03:39 · Score: 1
  
  Uhhhhm, I don't think that last word there means what you think it means.
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Code Testing by nurb432 · 2010-07-05 03:03 · Score: 1

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 )

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1. Re:Code Testing by RockDoctor · 2010-07-06 09:11 · Score: 1
  Never test with data that you wouldn't want your mother to see. ( unless you work in the porn industry, then YMMV )
  ... In which case, use the photos of you which your mother wants the world to see, but you really don't want the world to see.
  
  "Pornie's first anal retention",
  
  "Pornie eats poo",
  
  "Pornie wants to suck tit" ...
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saddo by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2010-07-05 14:17 · Score: 1

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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