Dark humor in Israeli online banking

My electric bill payment got blocked by the credit card company! What I do? Maybe go to their website, see what what.
But — what this?

I’m sorry, let me fix the encoding for you:

How nice, support for the oldest computers, and even for us sufferers of Firefox, not all is dark, developers helpfully direct us to special plugin that will allow us to use site:

LOL!!!111 Is IE Tab!! Thank U, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1 developers, for taking the time to make ur site compatible for users of Firefox. On Windows. Plz die.

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Published:: 27.11.08 / 4pm

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I. 27.11.08 / 6pm

plz die’s too good for them, man.

Had same-ish experience on the Israeli Big Brother reality show (for school I needed this, not for pleasure). I got a msg saying that FF users must install the “Windows Media Player Extension” which unsurprisingly requires Windows Media Player which requires Windows. And here I was thinking that package managers finally delivered *nix users from dependency hell…

Someone should totally write a cross-platform port of the Israeli Internet.
Bo 30.11.08 / 6am

yes well. Me being fortunate enough to have Ubuntu on my main desktop, but knowing this shit is quite common on most Israeli Internet, I have a constantly open RDC to my old XP machine.
Bo 01.12.08 / 2pm

we want to evolve, but cant

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