The WTF? Thread

[Wouter D]

Surely it connects via Bluetooth. Asking why or how is beside the point for this sort of thing.

[Lymeswold Snork]

It doesn't seem to have any "e" features at all. Link

I expect it's got AI, though. Everything has these days, allegedly

[Balderdasha]

It doesn't seem to have any "e" features at all. Link

Exactly. It's a standard crappy plastic changing table. I'm almost enraged enough to contact Trading Standards.

[Etienne]

It doesn't seem to have any "e" features at all. Link

[Balderdasha]

On a baby changing table in a cafe loo earlier this week. WTF is an e-changer? What exactly is "electric" about this particular experience of trying to clean shit off your baby while it screams the place down in an echoing neon lit public toilet? Is the changing table going to change the nappy itself? Is it going to vibrate gently and play nursery rhymes to try and calm down your baby? Like hell it is. So I repeat, WTF is an e-changer?

[S. aureus]

I'm crying laughing.

[ad hoc]

https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1770596437518061806?s=20

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'm getting flashbacks to a scene in an episode of When The Boat Comes In.

[ursus arctos]

It comes just a month after a ‘decapitated deer’, pheasants, and hares were among 25 carcasses left outside Awbridge Primary School, about five miles away.

Following the grisly discovery on Friday, February 9, a police investigation was launched.

However, police have confirmed that the investigation has been put on hold due to a lack of lines of enquiry.

[RaggedTrousered]

Don't know what's going on here but wtf anyway.

[Guy Profumo]

RNLI volunteer charged over death of death of a grandfather who died after a boat capsized in a rescue operation


https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/16/rnli-...scue-20476279/

[Janik]

One of those situations where a logical classification system based on particular features ends up placing some items into a different category to the lay understanding (tree = big plant, on3 that grow way taller than a human)

See also
Banana “trees” are herbs
Tomatoes are fruit
Birds are dinosaurs
There are 8 planets in the solar system, or thousands, but definitely not 9.

[Sam]

Is that tree in the front native to Wales?

No, not at all, but palms and the like do grow in the UK so you see quite a few of them around.

Fun fact I learnt yesterday as a result of a Twitter exchange about candidates for the title of tallest tree in the City of Buenos Aires: palm trees aren't trees. They're flowering shrubs. I know, right?!

[ursus arctos]

Underpants Gnomes meet Generative AI Offshore

I feel older then usual

[Hot Pepsi]

This was quite a journey.

[Nocturnal Submission]

And St. John's Wood tube:

[Nocturnal Submission]

Torquay is particularly fond of them:

[Nocturnal Submission]

Is that tree in the front native to Wales?

No, not at all, but palms and the like do grow in the UK so you see quite a few of them around.

[Hot Pepsi]

Is that tree in the front native to Wales?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

That bungalow is seriously disturbing.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Never mind the extension. The number of competing and conflicting floral patterns in that house make me want to claw my own eyes out.

And image No. 7 on the particulars suggests that there might, just possibly, be an issue with damp in the property.

I presume that the extension was built without planning permission!

[Hot Pepsi]

I saw the graphitti highway about 30 years ago. But it’s all covered up now.

[Balderdasha]

Sorta like Centralia.

Now that is AITIDKUT.

"The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962."

I mean I knew theoretically that there were coal fires in some places just spewing out carbon dioxide. But I hadn't considered that there were fires that had been burning continuously for over 60 years. That's terrifying.

[Balderdasha]

https://twitter.com/glenglenglen/status/1767674835339997515?t=JT1S7uF0MpoGL-S5GMmlUw&s=19

The extension. Wtf indeed?

Never mind the extension. The number of competing and conflicting floral patterns in that house make me want to claw my own eyes out.

[Balderdasha]

Jesus said that in Matthew and Luke.
It is interpreted ethically and eschatologically, but like all of those parables, it refers to something that the audience would have understood. So even 2000 years ago, they knew that building a house on sand was stupid.

This has just triggered a memory of endlessly singing "The wise man built his house upon a rock" at primary school.

The foolish man built his house upon the sand indeed. The rain came down and the floods came up and the house came tumbling down. Falalalala-lalala-la.