Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)

https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

by ciclotrone • 2 years ago

189 38 2 years ago

I like how “startup” gets replaced with bullshit

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upmostly• 2 years ago

Synergy wasn't replaced.

bluescrn2• 2 years ago

It does in all-lower-case

jakelsaunders94• 2 years ago

Haha, synergy was my go-to first word too. I’m still not sure what it means.

bitwize2• 2 years ago

It's Jem's holographic glam rock AI.

Also Greek for "working together". In corporate buzzspeak it means everybody aligned and working toward the same goal -- return on investment for our shareholders.

pteraspidomorph• 2 years ago

I pasted the lyrics for Mission Statement by Weird Al. I got ten bullshits (including synergy) and four bullfuckingshits, which were for: globalization, downsized, and paradigm shift (x2).

greenyoda• 2 years ago

Video of Mission Statement by Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

Song info and lyrics: https://weirdal.fandom.com/wiki/Mission_Statement

FranchuFranchu• 2 years ago

I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits

hnlmorg• 2 years ago

That was the first word I tried and it was censored as expected. What was the sentence you used ‘synergy’ in?

rrr_oh_man• 2 years ago

Missing: batteries-included, lightweight, simple, rewritten in Rust

bluescrn2• 2 years ago

Also anything to do with 'Web 3.0'/cryptononsense and AI.

pessimizer• 2 years ago

"Ideation" when not preceded by "suicidal" and especially when followed by "period," "stage" or "phase."

edit: This is a good case for including AI in a font. Maybe in the future all fonts will have AI that keeps people from saying things with them.

edit2: are we flagging for Rust slander now?

Tao33002• 2 years ago

[bullshit] in a font.

shever73• 2 years ago

…and “blue sky thinking” and anything to do with “synergies”.

ChrisArchitect2• 2 years ago

(2015)

Wondering if the avalanche of buzzwords since has been added

ChrisArchitect2• 2 years ago

Hm, guess not https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans

wwalexander• 2 years ago

The blog post explaining the implementation[0] says the source of the buzzwords was a list “250 Buzzwords We Love To Hate” published on May 13, 2014[1].

[0] https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035753/http://www.ngenwo...

Tao33002• 2 years ago

I was expecting blockchain to set it off, but no.

ChrisMarshallNY• 2 years ago

"Leveraging the synergy of ligatures" sets it off.

Firehawke• 2 years ago

Needs "do the needful" for completion's sake.

mock-possum• 2 years ago

Ugh I can’t stand that one. I know it’s unfair of me, plenty of Indians use it as a totally normal phrase, but it’s just comes off as so awkward and cringy to my ears, like a parent reminding a potty-training child to use the bathroom before they have an ‘accident.’

educasean• 2 years ago

Our lives have been bullshit sans sans bullshit sans.

dang• 2 years ago

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534204 - May 2015 (16 comments)

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 - Feb 2015 (97 comments)

WaxProlix• 2 years ago

Also reminds me of Scunthorpe Sans (2020 and 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957551

smusamashah• 2 years ago

I have been using this bookmarklet which replaces all BS terminology with the word bullshit https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

Its fun to see when an article lights up top to bottom with this pink shade of bullshit.

geor9e• 2 years ago

12 years earlier, there was an iteration of this idea called "Bullfighter". It didn't use clever ligatures though.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/06/14/ole-deloitte-con...

https://bullfighter.software.informer.com/1.2/

joelthelion• 2 years ago

I wish Microsoft would set this as the default in outlook and teams...

lostlogin• 2 years ago

‘New’ Teams might trigger the filter?

john1633• 2 years ago

The link about ligatures under the textbox leads to a page about selling annuities.

erik_seaberg• 2 years ago

Looks like the host started returning errors after this version from 2018, and then in 2022 someone bought the domain or host and did not preserve any content.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180423125746/http://stateofweb...

benreesman• 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692197

kmoser2• 2 years ago

I typed something in the box and...nothing happened. What am I missing? I tried with both Chrome and Firefox (latest versions).

zetsurin• 2 years ago

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

osrec• 2 years ago

Did you type words that are likely to be considered bullshit?

kmoser2• 2 years ago

That was the problem. I typed "Leveraging cloud based infrastructure" which apparently wasn't bullshitty enough.

Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)

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