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@chozang it does.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@chozang it does.
Except that it does not. The definition I gave does not require that the goal is to bait people into making impassioned responses. The definition I gave allows for that, but does not require it. Responses, yes, impassioned responses, not necessarily.
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@chozang The "impassioned" part is kind of flexible. As long as it evokes a response that makes the person responding look ignorant/foolish, it qualifies.
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Now that's a party.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Now that's a party.
If we had had a device to measure the ambient AAC, we probably would have deemed the party a failure if it did not exceed the driving legal limit. Mr. Funnel would have been disappointed. But the beer and wine minimum age was 18 in those days. (I was 17 as a freshman, but no one cared.)
Ah, Sig Ep. They were known as the "head" frat at my college.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Now that's a party.
They're (the 6 who lived there) not laughing now
All six facing 126 criminal counts + $315k in fines
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@chozang the King Frat, one might say? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
Filed Under: Given my interactions with frat boys at college, I'd have preferred the POW camp.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@chozang the King Frat, one might say? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:
Filed Under: Given my interactions with frat boys at college, I'd have preferred the POW camp.
I suppose. To kill a joke, but in case anyone isn't familiar with the phrase, a "head" used to mean a drug user, especially one of psychedelics.
The Dartmouth chapter of my frat, however, was the inspiration for the movie Animal House. Our chapter lost their charter in the '60's.
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Wasn't sure if this belonged in SideBar WTF.
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Smoking kills!
I'd @mention the person to whom that message was directed but I think he knows who he is.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belonged in SideBar WTF.
At least it presents holiday gift ideas:
Horomanski told her son she had a better idea for a Christmas gift after she saw the $284 billion bill, according to the paper.
“I told him I want a heart monitor,” she said.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belonged in SideBar WTF.
“I can’t recall ever seeing a bill for billions of dollars,” Durbin told the paper. “We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”
...as opposed to just quietly paying it?
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@maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belonged in SideBar WTF.
“I can’t recall ever seeing a bill for billions of dollars,” Durbin told the paper. “We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”
...as opposed to just quietly paying it?
Well of course they appreciate them being aware. If the customer would have paid it they would have to spend a billion on hookers and coke, and have you ever seen the logistics behind that? That's far more complicated than billing!
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I'm sure nothing bad will ever happen there.
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São Paulo's lawmakers approved a law that will forbid meat to be served on mondays in public schools, because animal rights. It will also force restaurants to offer a vegetarian option on mondays.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
São Paulo's lawmakers approved a law that will forbid meat to be served on mondays in public schools, because animal rights. It will also force restaurants to offer a vegetarian option on mondays.
What horror!
Round here, virtually all restaurants offer at least one vegetarian option every day, even without laws requiring them to. It just makes commercial sense.
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@dkf food in public departments here are already terrible without restricting their options it with stupid laws
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@dkf food in public departments here are already terrible without restricting their options it with stupid laws
Solution: Use a private department on Mondays.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
restricting their options it with stupid laws
You could also take the Polish approach, and define chicken, duck and fish to be vegetables.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
São Paulo's lawmakers approved a law that will forbid meat to be served on mondays in public schools, because animal rights. It will also force restaurants to offer a vegetarian option on mondays.
Awesome!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
restricting their options it with stupid laws
You could also take the Polish approach, and define chicken, duck and fish to be vegetables.
Now I understand where Polish jokes came from.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Now I understand where Polish jokes came from.
Oh, go easy on the Polish guys. Everyone's always making jokes about them, like they're a bunch of dumb blondes or something.
They got fed up with this after a while, you know? The Polish king told his chief ministers that he wanted to do something about it, because he's sick of everyone making jokes like his people are a nation full of idiots. So he wanted to prove them all wrong.
"I want you to find the most talented architects, craftsmen, and builders among our nation, and build the most magnificent bridge the world has ever seen," he said, describing to them how beautiful, opulent, and grandiose his vision was.
They agreed that this was a good plan, and they set to the task. A few years later, it was completed, and they gave their report. The king nodded with approval at their description, but when they finally showed him pictures, a horrified look came across the monarch's face.
"Wait, where did you build this bridge?"
"We built it in the Sahara desert, Sire," one of the ministers replied.
"WHAT?!? Why would you do that? There's no water there! There's no canyon or ravine there! There's no purpose at all in putting a bridge in a place like that!" The king worked himself into a full-blown rant about how this would just convince everyone that they were a nation of idiots, and he screamed at them to go and destroy the bridge, to tear it down before anyone noticed, and go rebuild it in a location that was actually appropriate for building a bridge!
The minsters hung their heads and filed out. The next day, they returned, looking crestfallen. "We couldn't do it, Your Majesty."
"What do you mean? I want that bridge destroyed!"
"We couldn't. We got to the site, but found it was full of blondes fishing!"
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
"We couldn't. We got to the site, but found it was full of blondes fishing!"
If only I'd known how to fish for blondes back when it mattered.
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@masonwheeler
Dune fishing!
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(Dulles International Airport is in Virginia, in the USA.)
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler
Dune fishing!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I hate it when authors try to emulate accents...
Edit: wait, WTF the entire site is translated like that??!? Ugh...
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@tsaukpaetra It seems to be Nigerian Pidgin. It's not one of the languages BBC lists in their language menu, but they have an entire bbc.com/pidgin hierarchy of pages, and judging by this navigation menu — — it's logical to surmise that the pidgin in use is Nigerian.
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Here's the article in English: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40992656
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@izzion Just don't ask me to put that worm on a fishing hook.
Filed Under: /me sticks a Thumper into Izzion's pack and starts it, then runs towards some rocks
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler I will keep that in mind. Need to find a job at one of the poles.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra It seems to be Nigerian Pidgin. It's not one of the languages BBC lists in their language menu, but they have an entire bbc.com/pidgin hierarchy of pages, and judging by this navigation menu — — it's logical to surmise that the pidgin in use is Nigerian.
Content Warning: Garage Thread!
The existence of this has been previously noted:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23682/bbc-pidgin
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@scholrlea She's a little over-dressed.
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@boomzilla As someone in the ArsTechnica article about this put it:
"Since when has the standard response in a potential hostage situation become: 'Send in the clowns!'?"
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@rhywden Yeah, this sounds like a real fuck up on all fronts.
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@boomzilla Was the video posted there earlier? I don't remember seeing it before.
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@anotherusername Me, neither. Looks like they updated TFA with it.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Good. I hope he's charged with murder.
Agreed. I was thinking exactly that when reading the original link.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Good. I hope he's charged with murder.
He won't be though. 'Making a false statement' is probably what it'll end up as.
Unless something useful came of the "Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015".
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Good. I hope he's charged with murder.
He won't be though. 'Making a false statement' is probably what it'll end up as.
Unless something useful came of the "Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015".
Doesn't the US have something like "if you commit a crime and someone ends up dead even as an indirect effect of said crime you'll be charged with manslaughter in addition to the crime" on its books?
E.g. you shoplift and the mall guard shoots someone else by accident while trying to stop you.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
He won't be though. 'Making a false statement' is probably what it'll end up as.
I dunno. I could see the jury being swayed by an argument that what he did wasn't any different from hiring a hitman. And I'm reasonably sure that that counts as murder. (Though for obvious reasons, I'm have no particular desire to Google a question like that in this day and age.)
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
Doesn't the US have something like "if you commit a crime and someone ends up dead even as an indirect effect of said crime you'll be charged with manslaughter in addition to the crime" on its books?
E.g. you shoplift and the mall guard shoots someone else by accident while trying to stop you.
Yes.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Good. I hope he's charged with murder.
He won't be though. 'Making a false statement' is probably what it'll end up as.
Unless something useful came of the "Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015".
Doesn't the US have something like "if you commit a crime and someone ends up dead even as an indirect effect of said crime you'll be charged with manslaughter in addition to the crime" on its books?
E.g. you shoplift and the mall guard shoots someone else by accident while trying to stop you.
That's called the felony murder rule and it's a state-by-state thing. So it really depends.