Absurdity of the Day

[honey the codewitch]

Some people are allergic to life.

When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

[megaadam]

Training Unique Readiness Database

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

[Chris Quinn]

I once worked on a system written for the UK Prison Service that allowed prisoner relatives to claim assistance towards the costs of prison visits. This usually involved a spouse/partner and at least one child. To begin a claim, the first screen was entitled "Enter the Claimant". You could the choose to "enter a child". One of the system users refused to go anywhere near it as they considered that it was encouraging paedophilia! We were asked to change the system to read "Enter Child Details"

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[Daniel Pfeffer]

PErsonalized Training And Readiness Database (PETARD) How many peoplesnowflakes will be 'triggered' because of the similarity? :laugh:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[Brisingr Aerowing]

People are idiots.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

[Keith Barrow]

I almost got an internal banking app accidentally named after a Japanese sexual practice, whose name I won't utter here. I was jokingly "code-naming" with friends as the relevant parties were shooting requirements at me from all directions. Then someone (who frankly should have known better) repeated the name to the boss, who didn't know what it meant and he started using it. I didn't fancy explaining it to him (because cowardace) - and he had no idea I'd been calling it that. Luckily a team lead came in and immediately renamed it.

KeithBarrow.net[^] - It might not be very good, but at least it is free!

[Gary R Wheeler]

Now, now. John's being polite. Let him practice.

Software Zen: delete this;

[David ONeil]

Doing things like that make it easy to glimpse the real mental gimp.

The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

[Member 9167057]

The whole concept of SJW is IMHO the absurdity of the decade.

[Leo56]

If you think that's nuts how about this - "San Francisco board re-brands 'convicted felon' as 'justice-involved person'" and how about 'juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.”' Is that faint hysterical laughter in the background George Orwell and Aldous Huxley? These fruit-loops need to realise that 1984 and Brave New World were warnings NOT instruction manuals...

[grralph1]

Futuristic Unencumbered Client Knowledgebase Training And Readiness Database.

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

[Slow Eddie]

Words and names CAN hurt. For as much as you and all of the other people replying to your post (thread?) got picked on growing up and in school, I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact. Maybe the person wanting the change is more sensitive to the fact than you are. I have a daughter who is mentally retarded, as are many, many other people around the world. She could do nothing about the way she was born. People are also born with cerebral palsy or deformed limbs, or injured in accidents. ("gimps"). To turn the description of a medical condition into a joke in the lounge is puerile. You folks are better than that. :mad::mad:

[realJSOP]

It's a f*ckin acronym. Only triggerable liberal snowflakes bring it up or care. When I was in school, if people picked on you, you learned to handle it (in whatever way you deemed to be appropriate).

Slow Eddie wrote:

I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact.

You must be new here...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

[rnbergren]

What the Elephant. Some people need a swift (fill in the blank)

To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

[rnbergren]

agreed, My brother is a Down's person. HE is mentally retarded. My Dad had polio could not walk without some canes. HE was a gimpy person. He never asked for anything and I guarantee he would not have taken any offense to this at all. I just don't understand people. On a further note. You can make ANYTHING offensive if you want too. Holy Elephanting Sh!# We have made the word Elephant offensive inside this group here.

To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

[User 2893688]

Seems you have lived under a Rock. Microsoft has changed lots of products names just to fit the current trend. For example, Office 365 was once called Office Live and the domain still exists (live.com) and it's been used by what used to be called Office Online Apps. A long time ago, a friend of mine developed a quasi game for NeXT computer. As you might not know, all applications in the NeXT and all it's descendants (macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, etc) are really a Unix folder with the extension *.app and inside you'll find several executables which are simple chmod 755 files. Long story short, he crated the Nap.app which would a screen saver like system which would allow you to fly above the clouds, like in a dream. Several friends of mine tested it and wanted a port to Windows 3.11, so he worked hard to change everything from Objetive C into C++. Regardless to say, he had no sleep for like 10 days, just to have something working in Win32. Rendering on Windows was horrendous and he decided to code using a DOS lib which triggered full screen and draw directly into the hardware using CGA or VGA. The end result was waay worse than in the NeXT but the market was waaaay bigger, kinda like today doing things for iOS on Obj-C or Swift or going the Electron route for Android. In the end, the Application was still named Nap.app but installed itself into a NAPAPP folder and inside there was the NAP.EXE executable, which behaved like a DOS program. When he started testing everybody complained that the name sounded like NAPALM and NAP.EXE sounded like a gas chamber (you know they make you sleep before they EXEcute you. Ironically you could run the program with just NAP, but still people complained. He then realized that you could the name the program folder NAP.APP as DOS allows extensions on names, but when he made the change, people start confusing the installed folder with a document and tried to open it on Windows Notepad or WordPro, to a very big error. So he decided to change the name to WLKINCLD after the 1995 Movie "A Walk in the Clouds". Nobody got the reference but that's when Windows 95 got Long File names so he packaged everything with InstallShield and changed the name (again) to "Your Walk in the Clouds" so it can appear that way on the Start Menu and on c:\Program Files and promptly got a 20th Century Lawyer "cease and desist". Bummer. By that time and having spent 5

[realJSOP]

You completely missed the point. It's not the mere fact that they're changing the name, it's the REASON.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013