Attempting to become an international man of mystery known only as Monsieur X, but airline websites say "X" is too short for the "last name" field

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

one of the greatest philosophical debates of our times: how do you dispose of a bin

giftwrap sphere???

In the US Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 2nd edition video game from Eidos & Jellyvision, entering your name as "Regis", "Millionaire", or one of the actual $10^6 winners on the show would result in the game changing your name to "Faker" or "Cheater". So I could not play the game as myself.

Northern Antarctica

downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down (source: x.com/phattyCorpus...)

Discontinuities in civil time

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The way to discover which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running … depends on which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running. I've so far found 4 different ways suggested in various online guides that don't work in this version, and 2 that give the wrong answer! @badedgecases.bsky.social

You and your friends try to visit All Bar One but it turns out that you are the one

Norman Reedus needing an adult to get him access to Discord because his face, and his face only, is blocked from verification

You might be delighted/horrified to learn that the machine-readable zone of ICAO passports encodes all dates as YYMMDD – including the date of birth.

Everything on Steam today is $2.99 buff.ly/2wGgxQo

Darts player with 20ft arms

Godot shows up

"My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives."

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An employee's surname is "Null" stackoverflow.com/questions/44...

"Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight"

A guided tour of every conceivable edge case you might encounter while attempting to define the term "mainline Super Mario Game" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ddm...

"Biannual" event which occurs twice in every second year

4'33"

I dislike declaring a real human being to be a "bad edge case" but this is a great story And a cautionary tale to everybody who creates user interfaces where people have to enter an age or date of birth x.com/joetidy/stat...

During a soccer match, the referee, who has sole authority to cause the match to be stopped, suspended or abandoned, dies

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye. x.com/MooseAllain/...

"the green squares are tests that are passing. it just so happens that one of the test suites is called 'compiler-errors'"

You have to pay the Dartford Crossing toll online within 24 hours... however, due to unbelievable traffic, it takes you longer than that to cross the bridge

Luxembourg. No, not the country. The Belgian province which neighbours it

Ultrawide R50 curved monitor

Twins born in separate years

Your upright vacuum cleaner is covered with dust

It turns out they've actually just set their status to "Typing..." and walked away

After a minute and a half of waiting for an image to load, you realise that the image is in fact an image of a loading spinner

Minnesota adopts a new state flag which is just California's state flag

Every member of the Australian parliament is given dual citizenship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2...

While in an establishment which is strictly over-18s only, you give birth

Four indecisive drivers arrive at a four-way stop at exactly the same instant

0mph speed limit

Tickets to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Noth...

"do I need to inform the DVLA about the period that my car will be uninsured?"

Your package will be delivered between 12:30pm and 2:00pm today but you have no clue when that will be because the package contains... your first clock (you don't have any clocks)

The Oct-4 protein, which Microsoft Excel persistently interprets as a date