The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@boner said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Roline, Roline, Roline, Roline
I'm begging of you please don't scroll my page
Roline, Roline, Roline, Roline
Please don't scroll it just because you can
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's pretty old, at least a few months. Is someone trying to bring it back?
Hm I thought I'd seen it years ago, but believe it or not it only surfaced summer 2017. According to KnowYourMeme at least. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spinning-go-kart-kid
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I thought "lorry" referred to anything that a USA-ian might call a "truck," from teeny Toyota pickups to big rigs (like the above, aka tractor-trailer or semi) to heavy load carriers (dump trucks, etc.) to fire engines to utility vehicles (electricity or plumbing service, window delivery, automotive towing, etc.) to construction vehicles (e.g. concrete mixers).
Am I correct in that, or does "lorry" have a more restricted meaning? Or is it a thing where the context indicates a preferred usage, with "lorry" generally referring to a large vehicle?
In my understanding of USA-ian, "truck" indicates a vehicle with separated areas for putting people and loads. "Vans" and "buses" are primarily people-movers, with a van being smaller and something a family or business might use, and a bus being larger and used for transit or tourism.In British, a car has a rear windscreen.
A van has solid panels in the back but a continuous body encompassing both the driver's seat and the back. They're usually bigger than cars but needn't be. They're usually cargo vehicles. We generally say people carrier where USAliens would probably say minivan, and consider it usually a car. A bigger passenger vehicle that's not a fully-fledged bus would be a minibus.
I believe a camper-van is technically a van (that's basically what I think you call an RV over in the US, but typically not so big and fancy as at least what we over here think Amercian RVs are usually like) but generally not what's meant when the word is used. A caravan is not a van, because what would England be coming to if we let our language be entirely consistent about anything. I think you would call it a trailer in the US (including the fact that we use the word both for mobile and static caravans). And it is technically a trailer over here too - that being something towed by a vehicle - but the word is usually used to mean cargo trailers.
A lorry has a cab separate from the cargo compartment. They're cargo vehicles with few or no exceptions (usage for people-smuggling notwithstanding), and usually larger than vans, but there is some overlap between the smallest lorries and the biggest vans. I'm not aware of any technical reason why a lorry can't be as small as a car, but you don't see them.
A truck generally is something with an open cargo compartment, but I'm not sure if that's a technical definition. We don't use the term nearly as much as you guys do in Leftpondia.
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You kind of need to remind yourself to focus, and try not to let stuff bother you as much as possible.
But it is going to bother you, because you're human. And I was human- I am human, still! Um, but- um, uh- but I was just referring to myself in the past. Uh, not that I was not human- um
- Mark Zuckerberg
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@boner said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It looks like it's just one room though (maybe 2 at the most).
So while "booked out regularly" is (likely) pedantically true it is kind of misleading in the sense that it's not quite the same as saying a thousand room hotel is completely sold out regularly.
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@obeselymorbid
It's more like a B&B thing, run by a modern art foundation. The foundation runs an old farming site filled with gigantic and bizarre modern art installations.
There appear to be three sleeping locations, apart from the colon you also have a 'blob' and some tents ...Uh yeah ... booking can be done on http://verbekefoundation.com
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
booked out regularly
I mean, would you expect more than one person to say "I want to sleep inside the giant intestine" and then pay money to do so? Many more than one?
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@ben_lubar
You are more the scaffolding-with-tent type?
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@bb36e
are you in my office?
this song was just playing on the radio
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@luhmann don't happy, be worry
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no longer matches and that bothers me.
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@carrievs said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not aware of any technical reason why a lorry can't be as small as a car, but you don't see them.
Really? You don't have any of those 4-banger Ford Ranger pickups? Those were pretty slick. I guess they haven't been made in awhile though.
@carrievs said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A caravan is not a van, because what would England be coming to if we let our language be entirely consistent about anything. I think you would call it a trailer in the US (including the fact that we use the word both for mobile and static caravans).
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
I'm not sure what you consider a "caravan" but we have "camper":
It's a fifth wheel camper if it's large enough to require one of those turntable towing hookups in the back of a truck:
I believe what you call a "static caravan" we'd call a mobile home. (Despite the name, mobile homes don't move 99% of the time.)
Like in the photo, "mobile homes" usually stay put long enough that it's perfectly reasonable to build an expensive deck off of them.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
The US TV over here indicates that trailer parks are where people live, not cargo....
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@pjh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The US TV over here indicates that trailer parks are where people live, not cargo....
True. Trailer parks are where mobile homes live.
But you'll find most of them have an "official" name of "mobile home park" or "X mobile homes" or something similar. They'll never call themselves a trailer park. (Well "never" is strong. I've never seen it.)
I think "trailer park" is historic because these communities first started in literal trailer parks, flat land intended for trucking companies to park their trailers for a time. I wager someone parked their camper there and decided to stay permanently and that started the whole thing, but I'm just guessing.
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@pjh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
trailer parks
TV also teaches us that this is where trash lives so the definition still holds
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
I'm not sure what you consider a "caravan" but we have "camper":Those are often referred to as trailers, too.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They'll never call themselves a trailer park. (Well "never" is strong. I've never seen it.)
There's several around here... (I just did a quick "trailer park" google since I was pretty sure I'd driven past one.)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not sure what you consider a "caravan" but we have "camper":
In the USAian usage that I'm familiar with, this ↓ is a camper and that ↑ is a trailer (specifically a travel-trailer), although GIS results in more trailer-type than truck-mounted. I suspect there are regional variations within the US, just as there are for other words.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@carrievs said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not aware of any technical reason why a lorry can't be as small as a car, but you don't see them.
Really? You don't have any of those 4-banger Ford Ranger pickups? Those were pretty slick. I guess they haven't been made in awhile though.
Picture/link? What I know as a pickup (a kind of truck), does not meet the criteria for a lorry, and all the pictures I got from google for "Ford Ranger pickup" are perfectly normal pickup trucks.
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
I may have once again been mislead by popular culture. Trailer parks and all.
I'm not sure what you consider a "caravan" but we have "camper":
[picture]Yes, that would be a caravan in this country.
I believe what you call a "static caravan" we'd call a mobile home. (Despite the name, mobile homes don't move 99% of the time.)
[picture]Yes.
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This grocery delivery service uses very small lorries.
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@carrievs said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Picture/link? What I know as a pickup (a kind of truck), does not meet the criteria for a lorry, and all the pictures I got from google for "Ford Ranger pickup" are perfectly normal pickup trucks.
Yeah at some point Ford ginomorsized them. They used to be a cute little 4-cylinder pickup that wasn't any bigger than the average sedan.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a cute little 4-cylinder pickup that wasn't any bigger than the average sedan.
I like my little Tacoma. :D
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
For a very short while in high school I had a job working at a place that sold mobile homes. He hated it when you called them "trailers".
"A trailer is something you pull behind a truck. We sell mobile homes."
Yeah, whatever, we pull them behind a truck when we deliver the damned things.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Trailers are for cargo, not for people.
For a very short while in high school I had a job working at a place that sold mobile homes. He hated it when you called them "trailers".
"A trailer is something you pull behind a truck. We sell mobile homes."
Yeah, whatever, we pull them behind a truck when we deliver the damned things.
"A mobile home is a home that moves. We sell stationary homes that are prefabricated and delivered by truck."
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@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
The junk heaps did grow.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
The junk heaps did grow.
I like how the AI rhymed "traveling" with "travelling".
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
The junk heaps did grow.
I like how the AI rhymed "traveling" with "travelling".
It's not wrong...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I assume a rhyme generator in English needs to go through some sort of phonetic representation of words.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and you are friday
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar Intellectually funny. I guess?
I am dispensers
The junk heaps did grow.
No quack.
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@zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I assume a rhyme generator in English needs to go through some sort of phonetic representation of words.
Or have access to a rhyming dictionary.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Of course that's a thing, for English....
And Chinese, seems like.
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
On August 3, 2007, China's State Administration for Religious Affairs issued a decree that all the reincarnations of tulkus of Tibetan Buddhism must get government approval, otherwise they are "illegal or invalid". The decree states, "It is an important move to institutionalize management on reincarnation of living Buddhas. The selection of reincarnates must preserve national unity and solidarity of all ethnic groups and the selection process cannot be influenced by any group or individual from outside the country." It also requires that temples which apply for reincarnation of a living Buddha must be "legally-registered venues for Tibetan Buddhism activities and are capable of fostering and offering proper means of support for the living Buddha."[1][2]
People can not be unilaterally declared reincarnations of living Buddhas by temples. If the temple hasn't okayed it then the person is not recognised as a tulku, an important religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
Reading between the lines on that, it suggests that the law is more to do with keeping Tibet under control than anything else
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@jaloopa Fair enough. I just found it amusing and figured it belonged in this thread.
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@masonwheeler I'd seen the claim before and it set off my skeptic alarms.
Googling brings up hndreds of news articles claiming the same as is in the original picture, one really boring Qora answer that I gave up on before seeing if it got to the point, and a Wikipedia entry that neatly summarises what it's actually about.
So, business as usual
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paging @Polygeekery