The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@polygeekery
Florida Man on vacation! \o/
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Over a year later, a week or two after getting home from my honeymoon, I get a notice that she finally accepted my friend request.
Sure. She no longer had to worry about an ulterior motive.
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My father-in-law recently purchased a little teepee for my boys to play with, and it just arrived yesterday. The instruction sheet came with the following letter on the other side:
Manual OCR
Dear Customer:
Welcome to our store and thanks for buying us.
In order to thank customers have been to our support and love! Little urchin say heartfelt thanks to you and best wishes!
Drinking water source, we know that we have every bit of progress and success, is inseparable from the customer's concern, trust, support and participation. Your understanding and trust is our strong driving force for progress; Your concern and support is our inexhaustible source of growth; Every time you participate in, every suggestion, let us excited.
If kiss little urchin tent service and quality, hope you after I receive my baby, timely confirm receipt and give the pertinent evaluation, don't forget to play five points.
In the future days, we will, as always, provide you with high quality goods, strengthening of before nad after service system, to ensure to provide you with better quality, more fashion, more trends of goods and services. We will be more efforts to forge ahead, strive! Also believe that our cooperation will be more happy, and look forward to continue to get your support!
Alibaba: www.chinatepee.com WhatsApp: 13777038913 TELL: +86 13777038913
Email: boom@chinatepee.comDecorate show
Family party at night
Weding Party
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@djls45 I don't think the English language is ever going to recover from that atrocity.
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@djls45 poorly trained ML model? How the fuck else can this be explained?
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@heterodox The domain suggests, and the phone country code confirms, that the origin is China. Machine translation (e.g. Google Translate) is sometimes passable, but often not, for languages that are closely related, such as English-German. It gets worse, sometimes much worse, for unrelated languages, and Chinese-English are about as dissimilar as any two languages on Earth.
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@stillwater said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 poorly trained ML model? How the fuck else can this be explained?
Have you never heard of Chinglish before?
Some choice quotes from that article:
Show Mercy to the Slender Grass
instead of "Please keep off the grass", or the good ol' classic:
a bilingual sign reading "餐厅 Translate server error"
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@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It was a mass-acceptance by an auditor clearing out a queue.
I suppose that's as good an explanation as any...
There are people hiring auditors to manage their account when it gets too many friend requests?
Or is there some other meaning of the word auditor I'm not aware of?
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@gąska More like:
los angeles => California: women in bikinis and gay men, earthquakes, the Golden Gate bridge
what? => down south: desert, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon; up north: forests, cabins in the middle of nowhere where people go to hide from the world
yee haw => Texas; oil, white people wearing white hats and carrying guns
disney world => Florida: retirees, hurricanes, Cubans who swam across
new york => New York, The Bronx, that city with the elevated railroads
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@zecc if you know where Grand Canyon is, you almost surely don't qualify as "rest of world".
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@gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@zecc if you know where Grand Canyon is, you almost surely don't qualify as "rest of world".
It's two blocks down from the golden gate bridge isn't it?
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@topspin my first guess would be Tokyo, but AFAIK it's still outside USA.
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@gąska Pretty much all sizeable cities have elevated railroads. Seattle does, and they're monorails to boot. But nobody would answer "Seattle" to that question.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@gąska Pretty much all sizeable cities have elevated railroads. Seattle does, and they're monorails to boot. But nobody would answer "Seattle" to that question.
Hamburg has them, too, and Wuppertal has them even upside down!
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@blakeyrat
Nobody ever answers Seattle except when the question contains Microsoft, grung or "Sleepless in".
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@luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Nobody ever answers Seattle except when the question contains Microsoft,
Which is funny, because Microsoft's in Redmond. (I mean, they also have office space in Seattle, but no more so than they do in Chicago, LA, San Francisco, New York, Dallas, etc.)
Most people at this point would recognize Starbucks as being in Seattle, and Starbucks is actually in Seattle proper. So that's a better answer.
Of course if you go to Seattle, it's really completely dominated by Amazon. But public recognition of that is, I think, a few years off.
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@luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat
Nobody ever answers Seattle except when the question contains Microsoft, grung or "Sleepless in".What city is Valve in? How about ArenaNet?
Did you guess Seattle? Because you're slightly less wrong than if you had answered that for Microsoft.
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@ben_lubar Ohhh, man, that @ben_lubar... oh! That's you!
Laughing at your own jokes... :P
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@masonwheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It was a mass-acceptance by an auditor clearing out a queue.
I suppose that's as good an explanation as any...
There are people hiring auditors to manage their account when it gets too many friend requests?
Or is there some other meaning of the word auditor I'm not aware of?In this case, it's him pretending to be a robot and talking about some subsystem.
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@jbert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@stillwater said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 poorly trained ML model? How the fuck else can this be explained?
Have you never heard of Chinglish before?
Some choice quotes from that article:
Show Mercy to the Slender Grass
instead of "Please keep off the grass", or the good ol' classic:
a bilingual sign reading "餐厅 Translate server error"
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@zecc I absolutely would order that, just out of morbid curiosity.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin Oh, grunge.
:P
But I have no association with grunge to Seattle, so .
I'm not sure if the Wikipedia onebox is failing, or it's just because one of my plug-ins is blocking it, so here's the first couple of sentences (emphasis in original):
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop and the region's underground music scene.
I probably wouldn't know this or care, if I hadn't lived in the area for a few years.
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@jbert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Show Mercy to the Slender Grass
That's what @boomzilla's long lost Chinese cousin says.
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@doctorjones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jbert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Show Mercy to the Slender Grass
That's what @boomzilla's long lost Chinese cousin says.
@doctorjones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jbert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Show Mercy to the Slender Grass
I see you've found a quote from the long lost Chinese cousin of @boomzilla
We heard you the first time.
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@loopback0 I'm suffering from Node on mobile, the submit button had disappeared on the first one, so I didn't actually manage to click post. No idea how it actually managed to post.
I had to go back to close the tab, go back to the site, and re-enter my post from scratch.
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@doctorjones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 I'm suffering from Node on mobile
My condolences.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
after I receive my baby
I've heard of having to promise your firstborn for various high-end and usually magical services, but for a tepee?
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@Scarlet_Manuka My father-in-law ordered it, so I don't know whose child he promised them, but they sure ain't gettin' any o' mine!
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@djls45
So he traded your wife for it?
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@Luhmann No, I still have her. But we haven't seen her brother for a while...
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@luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blakeyrat
Nobody ever answers Seattle except when the question contains Microsoft, grung or "Sleepless in".When I lived there it was dominated by Boeing. And Jimi Hendrix.
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Stolen from Reddit
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Checkmate!
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@boner Wut!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Doesn't removing no mayonnaise imply adding mayonnaise which is not normally there?
> drop no tea Your common sense tells you that you can't do that
No help there...
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