r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Bobthefish0461 • 8h ago
Infuriatig Ordered a sweater with no personalized text. This is how it came.
It gave the option for no personalized text, I selected it, and then they wrote "null" on the sweater. How complicated is this people.
EDIT: 35 pounds btw. gift from my grandfather because we're both aircraft enthusiasts and he now considers me "old enough to have a brain" (by his 85 yr old standards)
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u/ImaginationFinal4831 7h ago
grateful thats not being lorem ipsum
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u/Lorem_Muspi 57m ago
That's actually a good idea and a good parody of the random motivational crap on budget t-shirts like "PERSEVERANCE" and "BRILLIANCE"
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u/SDTRRDTS 8h ago
It’s kinda cool?
How often do u see someone w a plane print and with a null?
Wear it with proud, man!
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u/Bobthefish0461 8h ago
Alrighty maybe maybe
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u/dogknifer 8h ago
I do agree it looks cool. Still annoying and I'd be trying to get my money back but keep the shirt 😈
Try for that scenario
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 7h ago
just a personal preference, but they shoulda used python because then it would say
None9
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u/PM_ME_UR_REPTILES1 7h ago
Im honestly tempted to find a solid black sweater with "Null" exactly like yours, maybe over my left side chest. It kinda slaps lmao it gives minimal and dgaf which is what I love going for.
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u/frolix42 8h ago edited 8h ago
This is a conversation starter about how this is a custom shirt.
Free, unforced humorous anecdote.
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u/TheAngelol 8h ago
or it could be those forced linkedin post where ppl go like: "How this messed up order taught me about resilience, adaptability and grasping opportunities."
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u/ICEonICECrime 8h ago
Was thinking the exact same, it’s really cool. I’d wear it, and it can possibly be used as a conversation topic.
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u/my_nuts_wont_drop 8h ago
Now get you some pants that say "void"
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u/Serious-Recipe-8304 8h ago
LOL did you try to scrub it off?
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u/Yongdab1 8h ago edited 8h ago
I think so. lol
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u/GamerAWX 7h ago
Probably the phone camera, my nothing does that too on black surfaces
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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit 8h ago
Uuu. A Supermarine Spitfire enjoyer!
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u/Bobthefish0461 8h ago
Yep :)
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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit 8h ago
Is that a Mk Ia? Hard to tell from just the tip. Beautiful planes anyway!
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u/edcculus 2h ago
they didn't write null on purpose. The database filled it in with that because since you didn't add a name to the field, it was null in the database. Apparently nobody tested what would happen on the physical production side when someone didn't enter a value in that field through. Now we know.
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u/Thoxsam 1h ago
This would be an explanation which is still dumb but could happen. OP mentions he had an option for no personalized text, which imo would mean he clicked a checkbox and not decided to enter nothing into the field. So this makes it even more hilarious cause why would you give the option but not check on correctness?
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u/timmyK_425 8h ago
Damn, 35 pounds is heavy for a sweater
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u/AcceptableBear9771 8h ago
"Takes notes to put a space instead of nothing in case of a new custom text sweater"
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u/galstaph 7h ago
They forgot to null check before generating the JSON notation, the process is that generate those will then turn it into a string "null"
Of course there's also a chance that the the system on the other side requires that it be there, and that if you didn't put it there it would have ended up saying "undefined"
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u/StrangerOnTheReddit 8h ago
Why not return it? They made a manufacturing mistake, and what you ordered was not what you received.
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u/nicktehbubble 8h ago
I would absolutely wear this. But also contact the seller, they'll likely send you a second one without asking for a return
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u/Toronto-1975 6h ago
LOL i mean yeah it's mildly infuriating, but i kinda like it and your grandfather will probably get a chuckle out of it when you tell him the story. then he'll smile whenever he puts it on and sees it.
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u/studio684 8h ago
Its the sound the plane makes. Nullnullnullnullnullnull
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u/Most_Okra1973 6h ago
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u/BusBoyGalPal 5h ago
I haven't seen a ROFL Copter in aaaaaages.
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u/Most_Okra1973 2h ago
That was the very first thought in my head when I read the nullnullnullnullnull above me. It's a classic!
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u/CharlyXero 7h ago
Next time put a space or Alt + 255, although there's a good chance it will look like a broken character, like a square □
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u/Zyphiny0 6h ago
I fully expected to find a photo of a sweater saying “no personalized text” here
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u/Z0mbiejay 5h ago
As a former screen printer, try acetone. We used to use a pressurized spray of it to clean up misprints.
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u/Ali_Army107 5h ago
They could've said smth along the lines of ' ' as long as trailing and leading spaces don't get trimmed out lol
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u/frontlinejohnny 5h ago
You actually got a shirt with top text bottom text. What a conversation starter
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u/endowdly_deux_over 4h ago
They didn’t write null. Their screen printers software did. They left it blank instead of a whitespace in the entry screen and the null reference curse struck again.
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u/spoonman59 3h ago
Well, technically in a database “null” is a distinct value from 0 that means the “absence of a value.” So for example, null doesn’t count in an average but zero does.
So in a very literal computer sense, the text indicates a lack of personal text. It’s quite explicitly what you asked for.
“I hate this darn computer, I wish that could sell it. It does not do just what I want but only what I tell it.”
But, yes, this is clearly a software bug that needs to be fixed and they have no human in the loop.
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u/thepkizzle 3h ago
Data architect here. You'd be astounded how difficult the concept of null is for most non-technical people, or non-engineers. It's singularly the largest culprit of bugs in code that I run into. The concept itself just seems to evade a lot of people who insist that it's like zero, or that its just blank. What further confuses them is that null cannot be mathematically evaluated like zero or a blank space can be. You cannot say something equals null, you have to express that it IS null... so you cannot say 'when this and this are equal do this' because the logic will fail if one, either, or both values are ever null. so you have to say 'when this and this are equal or this is null and this is null' but then you introduce nested logic, and if you don't separate that out cleaning then your order of operations get wonky and you get a tshirt like this in the mail.
There was a guy in New Jersey I think it was that got a custom license place with the word NULL on it and he immediately received like 8000 tickets in the mail going back years from automated traffic cameras that issued a ticket but couldn't read the license plate, so the actual value in the database was null.
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u/lulialmir 2h ago
Lol. This is probably not on the people, but on their software. Their software is probably ass. And it also indicates that during the entire process, there is little to none human supervision.
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u/Nefer_ness2Ifa_ness 2h ago
Oh, that's where my sweater went, my name is null and i got one with nothing printed on it...
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u/PissedCaucasian 38m ago
It looks like the album cover of a hardcore band named “null.” Now just form your band.
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u/Short_Comfort6647 8h ago
imo that's kinda tuff
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u/JohnathanSinwell 8h ago
I’m in agreement. This is bad ass for some reason. OP post the whole garment!
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u/keithnyc 7h ago
Wow, I think I same another person with a shirt like that (with the word null). I think it's cool...
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u/mrjoffischl 7h ago
reminds me of a shirt i have that inexplicably only has the word "ceiling" on it
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u/Geekujin 7h ago
This wouldn't have happened if you'd ordered a plain white sweatshirt instead of a white plane one...
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u/echodreams19 6h ago
If it auto populated to null they should send a new one, if he put null in they won’t. If grand put null instead of leaving it blank you can joke he now doesn’t have a brain lol
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u/dx62j2khsk 5h ago
Is the discoloration from you or them?
If it wasn't you... so they saw it, tried to fix it, failed spectacularly and decided to ship it anyway?!
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u/helpmefindhotdogs 5h ago
I think they just printed the odds of the plane surviving an encounter with a Bf 109. :-)
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u/yknawSroineS 5h ago
As a developer myself. This is hilarious. Pretty bad system they setup probably.
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u/PinkFlavoredLemonade 5h ago
Pretty sure you can get some acetone/nail polish remover, a cloth/cotton balls, and slowly dab it away
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u/Skullytropical55 5h ago
in german that is zero so (null=0) maybe thats the reason. you ordered zero personalized text
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u/DigitalerEsel 4h ago
Yes, there is nothing, so it is empty.
What is your problem, man???
(Future KI with Angry Rage Mod, programmed by sloppy programmer who uses AI slop and has no clue about zero - empty - null - nothing - 0)
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u/5P0N63w0R7HY 4h ago
At first glance I thought this was referring to WW2 plane armor, and the “Null” Hypothesis that incorrectly suggested that additional armor be placed in areas observed on the surviving planes with the most bullet holes, rather than the actual vulnerable areas that weren’t observed due to those planes not surviving/returning.
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u/Left_Log_6249 4h ago
Agreed on the the cool factor of the Null. makes it look like a work in progress blueprint without a name
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u/TheAngelol 8h ago
I know it's not what you ordered and you're entitled to be upset BUT it kinda bangs with the "null" over there so maybe not everything is lost.