The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Wow. That site took way too long to load a soundbyte...
Welcome to Web 3.0
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@gąska Can't they afford commentators in Poland? Although that's an improvement over our idiots blathering non-stop.
Awesome stunt btw.
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"Steam. And magnets."
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@topspin I've often thought about that sort of thing. The protagonist's knowledge in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court almost struck me as more implausible than the time travel itself.
So, like, maybe that's what happened with Da Vinci. He knew stuff was possible but just didn't have enough technical knowledge / skill to reproduce it from scratch.
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@boomzilla is it worth a read if you're not a yankee?
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@topspin I'm not a Yankee and I enjoyed it. It's not Twain's best but it was a fun read.
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@boomzilla Yeah, the part about modern technology most people forget is all the infrastructure/knowledge that goes into making the tools to make the tools to .... make the parts to make the working item. Including metallurgy, machining, etc even for simple items. It's the story of I, Pencil all over again.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@gąska Can't they afford commentators in Poland?
They can. I have no idea why there's raw stream in that video.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin I've often thought about that sort of thing. The protagonist's knowledge in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court almost struck me as more implausible than the time travel itself.
So, like, maybe that's what happened with Da Vinci. He knew stuff was possible but just didn't have enough technical knowledge / skill to reproduce it from scratch.
I suppose you could become famous for making sandwiches instead...
Filed Under: The title was misleading. I found the book terribly harmful to the previous ones in the series.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not a Yankee
What? You're not a professional New York baseball player?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not a Yankee
What? You're not a professional New York baseball player?
I am reminded of my favorite John Kruk quote for some reason:
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_kruk_648661
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin I've often thought about that sort of thing. The protagonist's knowledge in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court almost struck me as more implausible than the time travel itself.
Assuming that the time travel itself is possible, instances where some blithering idiot got transported probably wouldn't be worth writing about. They'd just be the weirdo who talks about all this crazy shit that's supposedly possible, but can't actually demonstrate anything substantial to make people believe in any of it. Contemporary writers of their time wouldn't find them particularly interesting; they'd mainly be interesting from a historical point of view, and only in the "hm, this dude was really quite visionary, in hindsight; I wonder how he got his ideas" sense.
Maybe you luck into the situation where the subject is a really good con artist and makes a whole repertoire out of one silly trick with magnets or something. But most of the time, they'd just end up being a crackpot. You'd end up with survivorship bias; only the interesting ones would get written about.
Pretending for a minute that Robinson Crusoe is a real story, it would've been pretty boring and not worth writing about if he didn't know how to survive in the wild and died of starvation or exposure about 3 weeks in.
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@boomzilla The way they got the Replicants' eyes to light up like that is pretty cool, by the way.
It's a semitransparent mirror at a 45° angle between the actor/actress and the camera. Perpendicular to the line between the two is a candle, positioned thus that the candle's reflection is seen in the Replicants' eyes.
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@gąska There should be an honorary prize for stuff like that.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The protagonist's knowledge in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court almost struck me as more implausible than the time travel itself.
Me too, but not the invention stuff. What are the odds that someone just coincidentally arrives in the past right before a major solar eclipse that he happens to know the date of?
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@benjamin-hall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18/finally-china-manufactures-a-ballpoint-pen-all-by-itself/?utm_term=.a72d01980e44Apparently you need really good manufacturing to make hard ball points. Who'd have thought.
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@topspin that, and you have to actually care about quality over profits.
I found this to be the most interesting part of the article:
The Chinese premier's comments caused consternation in China's pen industry — which was, understandably, not used to being the topic of mainstream political conversation. These pen companies were once happy to manufacture shoddy pens that were sometimes exported abroad as cheap knockoffs of better brands. Now, they were being told that they were expected to do something more.
“In the past, the government praised the big companies that export the most and have the biggest profits,” Huang Xinghua, president of the Platinum Pen company in Shanghai told NPR's Marketplace soon after. “They seldom praise companies that truly make good quality pens.”
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@ben_lubar especially the points.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@gąska Can't they afford commentators in Poland?
They can. I have no idea why there's raw stream in that video.
The commentary is copyrighted, but the video of the run isn't?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pretending for a minute that Robinson Crusoe is a real story
The true story of Alexander Selkirk is the basis for Robinson Crusoe, which then became the basis for the Swiss Family Robinson.
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"And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts:"
Gold...
And Frankincense....
But wait! There's Myrrh!
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But wait! There's Myrrh!
You are a bad person, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But wait! There's Myrrh!
You are a bad person, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I think I understand, but... I'm not going to ask, just in case.
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LOL...I don't think I've done this with my 4 yo, I have done it with a niece.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Wow. That site took way too long to load a soundbyte...
It has to “cleverly” detect which social media sites you're signed into in your current browser session so it can show the right icons below the main button…
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@djls45 Balthazar, Caspar, and ... Billy Mays?
Filed Under: If you get this fine coinage right now, I'll throw in this quality incense and this jar of medicinal oil!
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@polygeekery Where should I do that? All I can find is
<?= date('y') ?>
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@karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
LOL...I don't think I've done this with my 4 yo, I have done it with a niece.
I guess I (and the other transdimensional aliens) get gold stars? :P
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That joke is just so last year!
You know that post I made up-thread? It's still true.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hmmm, I always wondered why M&Ms print a little 'm' on their candy. Clearly the brand recognition is useful for once.
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@JBert Skittles also have an S, so between those, any individual candy from that bowl should be identifiable.
(I'm not sure about Reese's Pieces, but it doesn't matter.)
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think there's a chain of islands somewhere near there where you could conceivably celebrate new years and then spend an entire day in 2017 before celebrating new years again without using any vehicle.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think there's a chain of islands somewhere near there where you could conceivably celebrate new years and then spend an entire day in 2017 before celebrating new years again without using any vehicle.
As far as I recall, one has to either be a fairly decent swimmer or use a boat in order to cross between the nearest islands in that chain that cross the International Date Line.