It’s an abbreviation for Command Line Interface To Objects Residing In System. A lot of male programmers can’t find it.

Just about anything by Betterware. The one that sticks in my mind was the non-stick stick-on hook that lasted for all of a minute before falling off under its own weight. I ended up second guessing how the thing they were selling could possibly go wrong, and if I could think of something then I wouldn’t get it.

There is one Betterware item that’s lasted the years though. A hair trap for the sink. It’s a metal disk with holes punched in it. Hard for that not to work, really.

Also, increasingly, tat off Scamazon.

Wait till you see what “yank” means in vi and emacs.

It’s a place where you can ask questions that need an answer along the lines of “all men are bastards and need to be kicked to the curb immediately, can’t ever change, and no woman has ever done anything wrong”.

I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

Related: a small room that “doesn’t have enough room to swing a cat”.

Also Windows: “Ask your network administrator for access.”
Me: “Well I’m my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself”?
Windows: “Enter network username and password.”
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I’ll bung them on an external disk.

I dismissed one today with fuckoff@wanker.com. Then I found step 2 was a paywall. I really fucking hate those popups that ask for an email without telling you there’s a paywall next, sometimes there’s something I think I want next but the paywall tells me I don’t, but then they’ve already got my email even though I haven’t signed up.

***** ****!

OK so next time you’ve done your work for the day, try going home early. Do let us know how it goes.

You aren’t paid by the hour as long as it suits the company. As soon as it suits you, you’re damn well going to sit there until 5pm staring at the ceiling if you have to, THEN you can go home.