403 - Can’t park here, mate.
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418 Put the kettle on
418 Pop the kettle on - surely?
The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell screams "Bad Gateway".
This feels like a British spinoff of the SCP foundation.
Don’t leave out 451 unavailable for legal reasons
Probably something out of the ending of the Argument sketch where the fuzz arrives
My my, here come the fuzz.
One would hope there's never a need to restrict any content here for legal reasons, though.
I'm not sure where to implement it, but something featuring Kryten.
“Go to alert!” “Are you absolutely sure, sir? It does mean changing the bulb!”
Or failing that, maybe an error that is contained in a quoted Space Core Directive?
403 - “If your name’s not on the list, you’re not getting in. Now do one.”
No reason we can't thrown in a tune. Or Hale and Pace.
Ah, Da Management! Had a quick look for a clip of my favourite gag of theirs but couldn't find it. It went something like this:
"Ron, they're babbling."
"I don't like babbling."
"I don't like babbling either."
"To be fair, I don't like any hanging gardens."
Do you know, to this day I still don't know which is Hale and which is Pace.
400 - “We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.”
403 - "We are the Knights Who Say... Ni!"
404 - "This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir, invisible. This is an ex-parrot."
Though I hope to not see them, I think it's a great idea.
Perhaps a selection of British TV or comedy characters could do the job - bouncers and policemen, detectives etc should cover the various bad/forbidden/unauthorised/not found etc.
Perhaps a Basil Fawlty attacking a bad gateway with a tree branch?
Two Ronnies? Or would that be too obscure for some of the Young Ones? (Yes, that's a 2nd ref)
How about something like a Four Candles / Fork Handles for 403 / 404? ... 400 / 500 could be looking for O's...
404 - “Mebbe try looking down the back of the sofa, mate, ‘cos I can’t find what you’re looking for here.”
I’m trying to work out some kind of “Are You Being Served? No you’re bloody not! Something, something, Mrs. Slocombe’s pussy!” for 500 but haven’t got anything quite bang on yet.
I would suggest also adding a process for upgrades, a switch that shows that the downtime is expected rather than relying on the error messages. Custom error messages is still a good idea though.
That might need to be built into Lemmy.