BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans 262
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."
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:5, Funny)
Glad you cleared that one up for us. I thought someone at the BBC couldn't spell sado.
m00se (Score:5, Funny)
"We apologise for the fault in the site. Those responsible have been sacked."
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:3, Funny)
European slang....... because we all speak the same language.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:3, Funny)
Britains Biggest Cokeusers - further clarification of this acronym for non-UK readers.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (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 (Score:5, Funny)
Why don't they just use an international cymbal
Too loud.
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Re:Remember kids... (Score:5, Funny)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
What did you say about my mother???
similar experience (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (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:m00se (Score:5, Funny)
"Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked."
Re:What did it say about (Score:4, 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.
Re:m00se (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.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:2, Funny)
You mean there is more than one?
Re:Fuck Allah!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:5, Funny)
It's pushing to expect Americans to know there is another side of the world.
Isn't that where all the Commies live?
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (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.
And the insult comes from who? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (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.
Re:All I can really say is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (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?
Seems like it... [msxnet.org]
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:m00se (Score:5, Funny)
Re:m00se (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.)
Re:m00se (Score:5, Funny)
Re:similar experience (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
Re:All I can really say is... (Score:4, Funny)
Liar. If you were the Queen, you'd say "WE are not amused." Faker.
Re:How I Learned to Start Thinking and Hate the Je (Score:2, Funny)
I'll say it again, I still think lorum ipsum is a better filler than your suggested text.
Re:similar experience (Score:5, Funny)
Re:similar experience (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:similar experience (Score:5, Funny)
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.
ARGH (Score:3, 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.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:2, Funny)
Then it might be wise to learn how to use it, you dozy prannock.
Re:All I can really say is... (Score:5, Funny)
Saddos: The cereal for people who can no longer eat Cheerios?
Re:similar experience (Score:5, 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.
Re:All I can really say is... (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:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All I can really say is... (Score:5, 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:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:3, Funny)
I'd expect pretty much any more or less educated person to know the difference
Well, that was your mistake right there.
Re:All I can really say is... (Score:5, Funny)
The breakfast of, well, er, not exactly Champions...
Re:And the insult comes from who? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
Unfriend him, it will ruin his life.
Re:For those who don't know European slang: (Score:5, 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.
For those who don't know Spanish slang (Score:3, Funny)
We're Americans, damn it! Maricons, maybe.
Uhhhhm, I don't think that last word there [urbandictionary.com] means what you think it means.