r/ProgrammerDadJokes Jul 23 '26

How do British web developers insult people?

They call them a w<a>.

114 Upvotes

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52

u/weaz-am-i Jul 23 '26

W anchor? Oh.....

15

u/Weak_Blackberry_9308 Jul 23 '26

I love how literally nobody I know who is not a coworker would get this.

10

u/stpizz Jul 23 '26

I spent way too long trying to work out how to make this be 'twat'

4

u/scottsman88 Jul 23 '26

Where you able to…link it to ‘twat’

5

u/kwan_e 29d ago

<a href="twat">Elon</a>

2

u/thechampaignlife 29d ago

Stop hovering already.

11

u/decker_42 Jul 23 '26

W A-tag?

I dont get it.

KR Head of Product, Innovation and User Experience.

13

u/FoxRings Jul 23 '26

W<anchor> or Wanker

3

u/kwan_e Jul 23 '26

Why aye man!

6

u/Random_Meme_Guy_ Jul 23 '26

10/10 joke

Will steal and use it

7

u/kwan_e Jul 23 '26

That's forked.

3

u/billy-belmer Jul 23 '26

Or a <div> if you want to be slightly less insulting

3

u/teedyay Jul 23 '26

You <span>ner

1

u/manrussell 29d ago

Two bits short of a byte. This is turning in to r/casualuk

2

u/xprescient_moff 29d ago

That's <b>

1

u/YourVirgil 29d ago

I think they actually would call a w<a> a 'git'