The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No, in truth, it is actually bogus. Think about how many people are allowed to be at a reception. A far higher density than you would find people voluntarily living in in an apartment. And that's even before you get to the point that it's wrong for the government to protect people from themselves. (This discussion should probably be jeffed.)
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@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And that's even before you get to the point that it's wrong for the government to protect people from themselves. (This discussion should probably be jeffed.)
Yeah, because the paramedics just looooove scraping your brains from the concrete because you dumbass went all "personal freedom, derp!" when it came to fastening the seatbelt.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the paramedics just looooove scraping your brains from the concrete
Well, it does cut down on medical costs.
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The pedant part of my brain keeps going: 'it's not going to dry properly like that!'
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The pedant part of my brain keeps going: 'it's not going to dry properly like that!'
I was wondering along those lines until I read the positive space.
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@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No, in truth, it is actually bogus. Think about how many people are allowed to be at a reception. A far higher density than you would find people voluntarily living in in an apartment. And that's even before you get to the point that it's wrong for the government to protect people from themselves. (This discussion should probably be jeffed.)
People who live crammed into shitty apartments like sardines aren't usually doing it because they like living like that. They're usually doing it because they're forced to.
Whether they're better off on the streets than paying some slumlord for vertical beds is debatable, but would you really argue that someone's right to live under the same roof as their 25 relatives trumps the right of all tenants to have safe, habitable apartments?
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@m_adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Actually it's called a hip flask. But it ends up in the liver.
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So... someone programmed slackbot to recite aqua lyrics whenever anyone mentions me...
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And that's even before you get to the point that it's wrong for the government to protect people from themselves. (This discussion should probably be jeffed.)
Yeah, because the paramedics just looooove scraping your brains from the concrete because you dumbass went all "personal freedom, derp!" when it came to fastening the seatbelt.
OK, but who wears a seatbelt in their house? Unless you have one of these, I guess:
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@boomzilla or one of these
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Ok, so apparently this got back to the person in the photo and they took it the wrong way.
I meant it to be a compliment, for anyone who comes across the post.
I think the real person looks badass, and the character I posted was badass in that scene.
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@el_heffe Those people, who made that game and post, are awesome.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://www.facebook.com/lukegarmonvideos/videos/366507010449648/
I had to teach a bit about nutrition in a course once. When I took a closer look at the available information regarding that stuff, I came to the following conclusion:
- The most effective diet for losing weight is eating less (energy rich) food. Everything else may or may not help much. And what helps one person may do nothing for another.
- Doing sport is overrated for losing weight. It's good for health, endurance and stuff. Losing weight? Not so much.
I drove conclusion number two home with a simple experiment:
Okay, take this chocolate bar. Raise it to a height of one meter. What's its mass? 100 grams you say? Okay, so how much potential energy did we just invest into raising this bar of chocolate? Very good, about one(1) Joule.
Now, take a look at the nutritional table at the back. What does it say about the energy you can get from this chocolate bar? 2200 kiloJoules?
Alright, so, how many times would you have to lift this bar up and down to burn the energy you gain from eating the bar?And, yes, I know it's not that easy of a calculation. But even if I'm off by a factor of 1000% it still shows that doing sports does not play a huge role.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had to teach a bit about nutrition in a course once. When I took a closer look at the available information regarding that stuff, I came to the following conclusion:
- The most effective diet for losing weight is eating less (energy rich) food. Everything else may or may not help much. And what helps one person may do nothing for another.
- Doing sport is overrated for losing weight. It's good for health, endurance and stuff. Losing weight? Not so much.
I drove conclusion number two home with a simple experiment:
Okay, take this chocolate bar. Raise it to a height of one meter. What's its mass? 100 grams you say? Okay, so how much potential energy did we just invest into raising this bar of chocolate? Very good, about one(1) Joule.
Now, take a look at the nutritional table at the back. What does it say about the energy you can get from this chocolate bar? 2200 kiloJoules?
Alright, so, how many times would you have to lift this bar up and down to burn the energy you gain from eating the bar?And, yes, I know it's not that easy of a calculation. But even if I'm off by a factor of 1000% it still shows that doing sports does not play a huge role.
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had to teach a bit about nutrition in a course once. When I took a closer look at the available information regarding that stuff, I came to the following conclusion:
- The most effective diet for losing weight is eating less (energy rich) food. Everything else may or may not help much. And what helps one person may do nothing for another.
- Doing sport is overrated for losing weight. It's good for health, endurance and stuff. Losing weight? Not so much.
I drove conclusion number two home with a simple experiment:
Okay, take this chocolate bar. Raise it to a height of one meter. What's its mass? 100 grams you say? Okay, so how much potential energy did we just invest into raising this bar of chocolate? Very good, about one(1) Joule.
Now, take a look at the nutritional table at the back. What does it say about the energy you can get from this chocolate bar? 2200 kiloJoules?
Alright, so, how many times would you have to lift this bar up and down to burn the energy you gain from eating the bar?And, yes, I know it's not that easy of a calculation. But even if I'm off by a factor of 1000% it still shows that doing sports does not play a huge role.
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
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'tis the season:
http://wumo.com/wumo/2017/11/20
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For those who value their urination privacy.
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Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is Protected Speech
A federal judge has ruled that EFF need not obey an Australian injunction ordering EFF to take down a “Stupid Patent of the Month” blog post and never speak of the patent owner’s intellectual property again.
It all started when Global Equity Management (SA) Pty Ltd (GEMSA)’s patent was featured as the June 2016 entry in our Stupid Patent of the Month blog series. GEMSA wrote to EFF accusing us of “false and malicious slander.” It subsequently filed a lawsuit and obtained an injunction from a South Australia court purporting to require EFF to censor itself.
And what was the patent in question?
Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer
How do you store your paper files? Perhaps you leave them scattered on your desk or piled on the floor. If you’re more organized, you might keep them in a cabinet. This month’s stupid patent, US Patent No. 6,690,400 (the ’400 patent), claims the idea of using “virtual cabinets” to graphically represent data storage and organization. While this is bad, the worse news is that the patent’s owner is suing just about anyone who runs a website.
Mixed feelings about this: yeah, the court rule is encouraging, but, how the hell such a patent was issued?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bonus points if there's a loose mains cable in there somewhere.
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@jbert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a loose mains cable in there somewhere.
probably right under the not connected piping
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The most effective diet for losing weight is eating less (energy rich) food. Everything else may or may not help much. And what helps one person may do nothing for another.
Most diets seem to be variations on cognitive hacks to make you think you're eating more than you are, or otherwise make you want to eat less. Ignoring any psychology, yes you should just eat less or more healthily. Psychology cocks it up if you just try to cut down though, with short term fixes (I'm hungry. What harm could one chocolate bar make?) being valued more highly than long term considerations (that chocolate bar is 200 calories, if I cut out one per day that's over 70,000 calories in a year).
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@doctorjones Brillant!
Now I wonder how many people proceeded to switch to
who said that
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@jbert haha. My favourite reply was this:
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
How much variation in weight are we talking?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
How much variation in weight are we talking?
Upwords of 50 lbs!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Upwords of 50 lbs!
Hmm...are you writing the words on cinder blocks or something?
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@boomzilla Those would probably be downwords, unless the exercise was lifting the cinder blocks.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Those would probably be downwords, unless the exercise was lifting the cinder blocks.
Upwords are made of sins.
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@doctorjones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jbert haha. My favourite reply was this:
Anyone of your lot work in China?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/business/skype-app-china.html?_r=0
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
How much variation in weight are we talking?
Remember how I posted a while back about how I accidentally discovered I'm losing weight when I had to take off my belt at airport security?
Last week I finally got around to going to Macy's to buy some new pants. The ones that fit me were a 4 inches smaller waistline. That's not a huge difference, but it's not insignificant.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's been the exact opposite of my experience. My diet's remained pretty much the same over the years, but my weight tends to change noticeably in inverse proportion to the amount of exercise I get.
How much variation in weight are we talking?
Remember how I posted a while back about how I accidentally discovered I'm losing weight when I had to take off my belt at airport security?
Last week I finally got around to going to Macy's to buy some new pants. The ones that fit me were a 4 inches smaller waistline. That's not a huge difference, but it's not insignificant.
That's not really an answer to my question, either. Waist size can vary a lot even when weight doesn't, for some people.
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@boomzilla I don't actually own a scale TBH.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla I don't actually own a scale TBH.
Ah, thin privilege, no doubt, and almost certainly not a counter example to what @Rhywden said.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla I don't actually own a scale TBH.
Ah, thin privilege, no doubt, and almost certainly not a counter example to what @Rhywden said.
Yeah, that's kind of a given that there are people with weird body chemistry out there. I mean, there's also the opposite of what @masonwheeler reports, namely that a few people only need to look at food and they're already gaining weight. Poor sods.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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.
I note you fulfilled the requirements for posting photos on TDWTF. Such a shame that so few can be bothered these days.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
I was under the impression there was no "choice" involved in HOAs. Accede to their rule or don't bother moving there.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
there are people with weird body chemistry out there
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