The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Understood. But still.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pjh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
More like two now I would have thought.
Perhaps. My son got the joke immediately, but he is in some (many) ways not typical of his generation. Also, I'm not entirely certain whether he was describing his own generation, or the people younger than himself that he knows.
I also recently sat next to a family on the train where the child was listening to tapes on a Sony Walkman.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the child was listening to tapes on a Sony Walkman
What a hipster
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This is a real sign which is supposed to show you the detours to Heidelberg (HD) due to construction works:
You may note that the actual town of Heidelberg is mentioned nowhere.
The rationale of the government agency?
Adding another town's name would have overloaded the sign with names.
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This stork's nest has replaced an older, ailing stork's nest of the same design and height. But since it is new, the responsible governmental agency has decreed that this new construction needs official consent.
Which the people who built that one didn't know, of course.
The result: The agency has prohibited that under no circumstance may a tenant move in.
Only problem: Who's giving the bad news to the stork?
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The result: The agency has prohibited that under no circumstance may a tenant move in.
Only problem: Who's giving the bad news to the stork?That sounds like a violation of European protected species guidelines.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The result: The agency has prohibited that under no circumstance may a tenant move in.
Only problem: Who's giving the bad news to the stork?That sounds like a violation of European protected species guidelines.
Yeah, they didn't actually go that far. It's just an absurd decree they cannot really enforce.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pleegwat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The result: The agency has prohibited that under no circumstance may a tenant move in.
Only problem: Who's giving the bad news to the stork?That sounds like a violation of European protected species guidelines.
Yeah, they didn't actually go that far. It's just an absurd decree they cannot really enforce.
AKA Tuesday. </cynicism>
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@pjh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Given it mentions the word millennial, sounds more like a commune. Indeed:
this means of accommodation and lifestyle brings together families, couples or even individuals who’ve made the choice to pool their resources to create, develop and/or finance their living space together. The building is managed by its community
No.
That's called an HOA. They're terrible.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername I dunno; I was just repeating what he told me (and the bit about sleeping standing up was a bit of hyperbole on my part). But my understanding was something like, say, 10 people in a 2 bedroom apartment, you have to rent it to them if they qualify, and "if the structure is rated to support the weight" is something he did actually say. But this is The Official Funny Stuff Thread™, and that wouldn't be as funny.
Curious how different city ordinances are in different places. When my father moved for the first time (in a couple decades), he found he couldn't rent a studio apartment, only a one-bedroom apartment, because he expected that my sister would spend the summers with him when she wasn't at school, and the realtor wasn't allowed to rent a studio apartment if they knew there'd be more than one occupant. There are very strict limits on number of occupants vice number of bedrooms, apparently, specifically so renters can't be packaged up like sardines by scumbag landlords.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername I dunno; I was just repeating what he told me (and the bit about sleeping standing up was a bit of hyperbole on my part). But my understanding was something like, say, 10 people in a 2 bedroom apartment, you have to rent it to them if they qualify, and "if the structure is rated to support the weight" is something he did actually say. But this is The Official Funny Stuff Thread™, and that wouldn't be as funny.
Curious how different city ordinances are in different places. When my father moved for the first time (in a couple decades), he found he couldn't rent a studio apartment, only a one-bedroom apartment, because he expected that my sister would spend the summers with him when she wasn't at school, and the realtor wasn't allowed to rent a studio apartment if they knew there'd be more than one occupant. There are very strict limits on number of occupants vice number of bedrooms, apparently, specifically so renters can't be packaged up like sardines by scumbag landlords.
And people can't make choices that might save them money.
Looks as though we are with NYC Maximum Occupancy Guidelines.
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@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks as though we are with NYC Maximum Occupancy Guidelines.
Interesting. Around here, every lease I've ever seen (at least that I can remember) requires that every adult (18+) occupant must be explicitly named on the lease, immediate family included. Of course, that is part of the contract with the landlord, not the law. Even in Mountain View, with its apparently backward occupancy law, the landlord can still require every adult to go through the credit and background check and sign the lease; at least, I assume so.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks as though we are with NYC Maximum Occupancy Guidelines.
Interesting. Around here, every lease I've ever seen (at least that I can remember) requires that every adult (18+) occupant must be explicitly named on the lease, immediate family included. Of course, that is part of the contract with the landlord, not the law. Even in Mountain View, with its apparently backward occupancy law, the landlord can still require every adult to go through the credit and background check and sign the lease; at least, I assume so.
When we me moved in 17 years ago, the kids were under 18.
Also, I'm pretty sure several of my neighbors rent out rooms.
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@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the kids were under 18
Under the leases I've signed, technically, you'd be supposed to notify the landlord when they turned 18, and have them sign a lease. Or kick them out. "You're an adult now. You're freeeeeee!!!!!"
@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, I'm pretty sure several of my neighbors rent out rooms.
Every lease I've ever signed explicitly prohibits subletting without the landlord's permission. Presumably, some landlords would care more and enforce that more strictly than others. But that's a contract provision, not a Health and Safety (or whatever government agency is responsible for occupancy regulation) thing.
Also, this discussion is not really very funny. It should probably either wind down or be moved to a more appropriate thread.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, this discussion is not really very funny. It should probably either wind down or be moved to a more appropriate thread.
LOL my apartment is like a clown car.
Still not funny.
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it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a "push off" on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, and then arrest potential buyers and seize their vehicles.
But this time, instead of customers, special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground.
guns were drawn and punches were thrown while the homeowner stood and watched
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@doctorjones I was going to post this.
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Well, I guess that explains why Donald Trump tweets so much...
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Yes, this is a real building.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yes, this is a real building.
For some reason I find it especially humorous that it's a (nominally) christian church shaped like that.
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@boomzilla who's the guy on the right?
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@bb36e Who's the guy on the left?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e Who's the guy on the left?
Why, that's the Big Mac himself!
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e Who's the guy on the left?
Why, that's the Big Mac himself!
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Care to drop a hint what I'm supposed to be looking at here?
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@da-doctah you don't need a hint. You need to think different™.
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@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And that makes four times that story has been posted here, that I've seen — In the news today; In the news today garage edition; I don't remember where the third one was; and now here. It seems to be getting fewer upvotes each time, though.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am offended mainly by the fact that it's a poorly drawn penis.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And that makes four times that story has been posted here, that I've seen
i just noticed that it had been posted before. Oops. Sorry about that.
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@el_heffe Eh; no need to apologize. It is entertaining.
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@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am offended mainly by the fact that it's a poorly drawn penis.
... you fucking try doing that in a plane. I have a minimum of piloting skills and am pretty sure any attempt I made would be unrecognizable. :P
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
you don't need a hint. You need to think different™.
It'd be more obvious if they opened the lid on the laptop.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
By city ordnance, he is not allowed to discriminate based on the number of people living in the property; if the structure will support the weight, by law he has to rent to them (assuming they meet other requirements like sufficient income to pay the rent), even if it means so many people are packed in there that they have to sleep standing up
And the health department and fire marshal are all okay with that?
I hope so. It seems a different type (arguably more heinous) tyranny for a government to prevent a number of people living together based on bogus reasons like that.
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@chozang so you'd be okay with people getting trampled to death while trying to escape instead of burned to death if the structure ever did catch fire?
There are very good reasons why the health department and fire department set the occupancy limits that they do. The reasons aren't bogus; it's a safety concern.
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@anotherusername Back in the '80's, if I bought 15 cans of Reddi-Wip, it would be for the propellant.