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A phrase anyone can use in order to have a legitimate sounding excuse for making a mistake at work, at home or when you return something, and you can't think of any other reason.
It also helps if your are or have been sick, thus bringing a little cred to your lame excuse. (Can be used in conjunction with it's 2nd cousin: "ill-advised".)
Woman: Wow! What were you thinking? Of course your pineapple is going to spoil if you bought it 3 weeks ago and left it on your kitchen counter. We can't give you a new one.
Man: Yeah, but I wasn't thinking properly...it's an ill-error. I didn't realize it because I've been sick and couldn't come into the store without giving everyone here my flu.
Woman: OK, go pick one out and I'll have someone ring it up at no charge.
Man: Thank You...(with a fake sneeze)
A problem caused by a bus hitting the only person holding knowledge of, or encryption keys to critical IT systems.
Our database admin has experienced bus error. He died in a car accident last week now we cannot access our data as he was the only one with the decryption key to the database.
A number that is given with very large uncertainties, such that it might be ten or a hundred (or more) times larger or smaller than the value given. Astrophysics is famous for having 'errors in the exponent'
..."We estimate the minimum viable population to be somewhere between 100 and 5000" (extremes from the wikipedia article)
... "in our universe protons decay with a time scale in the range 10^33 - 10^45 years"
These quantities don't have an error in the value, they have an error in the exponent.
when you mess up repeadedly until you do something right
damn i fucked up my motherboard so i went and bought some ram and found out it was actually the hard drive
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1). In tennis, whenever a player misses an otherwise easy or effortless shot due to their own inattentiveness rather than the opposing player's skill.
2.) In politics, a polite term for when someone ends up creating their own scandal through poor or tactless decision making.
1.) Bobby Sands failing to make that save at Wimbledon was an unforced error.
2.) Donald's Trump's statement about Mexican migrants "bringing in drugs" and being "rapists" during the 2016 campaign was an unforced error that cast a cloud over his entire presidency.
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When you have insufficient funds or insufficient desire to pay for premium content on an 18+ website. Typically used as a response by content creators when clients are requesting free content that is normally paid for.
"You got an Error 305? Man, stop being such a cheap-ass."
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A public spelling error found in a document you've already written and published. Embarrassment is increased in an error that cannot be edited once published.
Shame is proportionally equal to the size of the reading audience. Additional humiliation--when the person who finds your error is your boss. (Extra points for finding a spublic error in his/her comments to you. Extra, extra points for not pointing it out...)
It wasn't until the blogger hit "send" on his web site definition of Burning Envy that he found he'd committed a spublic error. Would he be able to edit it...? Tune in next episode to find out...
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