The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Polygeekery
JS Development in 20189
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Bitcoin is often called the 'currency of the future', because it is currently useless
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@bb36e implies that will change
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Bitcoin is often called the 'currency of the future', because it is currently useless"
That sounds like the sort of thing Groucho would say.
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@boomzilla I could be watching You Bet Your Life right now. So could you, maybe. But I am absolutely sure that I could be.
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@Tsaukpaetra Fixed.
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@brie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra Fixed.
I wondering why the jpeg compression was different...
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@Tsaukpaetra flat colour as a JPEG?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I wondering why the jpeg compression was different...
Around the text? I edited it to say that. It's really obvious if you do an error level analysis of the JPEG, because there's so much JPEG everywhere else. The JPEG around the edit doesn't match.
yours, you can clearly see that "IMGUR" was edited in:
mine, you can just as easily see that I edited in "TUMBLR" and moved "DELETED" over a few pixels to make it fit better:
(moving "DELETED" over by exactly 8 pixels, on the other hand, doesn't show up, because it doesn't cause those pixels to compress differently.)I just edited it by copying and pasting the letters from the other text (the M is an upside-down W and the B is made out of two Ps), so it looks a lot better to the naked eye. But when you do an ELA, it's pretty much just as obviously an edit as the one that you posted.
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@brie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
yours, you can clearly see that "IMGUR" was edited in:
Right, that's what I was talking about.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv1LUOpX0AErmE4?format=jpg&name=360x360
All mine ever said is "if you fall off that roof and break both your legs don't come running to me"
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek You can usually get away with ignoring most dimensionless quantities. I solve all my physics problems by just figuring out which way multiplying the inputs gives the correct dimension.
That's like me rotating and resizing things in Blender. I could learn my coordinate axes and actually do it right. Instead I just pick a random axis until it changes in the direction I want.
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@DogsB I hope not. Where would I get my funny videos from otherwise?
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bitcoin is often called the 'currency of the future', because it is currently useless
First time I saw one of those Dippin' Dots machines in a theatre lobby, with the sign "ice cream of the future", my first thought was "couldn't you put the same sign on a haystack?"
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@boomzilla I'm so confused. How does it sound like two different things so perfectly?
that sounds like an excellent idea that's a f uck ing excellent idea
where's the "f" coming from?
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@kazitor the "s" after the "d" in "sounds"
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@Gribnit I get the similarity, but they just don't quite seem close enough to me. I did align the two, after all.
Maybe if I were one of those linguists who could immediately tell what an open-mid front unrounded vowel is, it would be more readily apparent.
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@kazitor uh huh.
I think they're both sibilants, is the deal. The korean glyphs would probably be similar.
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla I'm so confused. How does it sound like two different things so perfectly?
that sounds like an excellent idea that's a f uck ing excellent idea
where's the "f" coming from?
I can't hear the first option, even while making an effort.
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@Gribnit No, they're both fricatives, but [s] is also a sibilant. Ventriloquists may sometimes use [s] in place of [f], but they generally prefer [θ] instead, because [θ] doesn't "hiss" nearly as much.
In this case, a few of the consonants may align somewhat, but the timing on them is off, the vowels don't match, and a few consonants have to disappear in order to get the crass phrase.
- The diphthong "ou" ([æ] as in "ash" or "cat" and [u] as in "boot" or "food"; together making [æu] as in "couch" or "loud" or "crowd") has a different quality than either pronunciation of the word "a": as a diphthong [ei] (as in the name of the letter itself) or as the schwa [ə] (as in the first syllable of "about").
- The [n], [d], and [l] sounds have to disappear or somehow be ignored.
- The sounds [s] and [f] are slightly similar, but can usually be told apart by how much "hissing" can be heard, as I mentioned above.
- The diphthong [ai] or [αi] (the long [I] in "like") is not close to the singular [ʌ] (the sound in stressed syllables like "cut" or "gun").
- [ʌ] and [i] are pronounced differently, but being in an unstressed syllable, may be blurred somewhat.
- The consonants [n] and [ŋ] ("ng") are similar, and could be more easily confused, especially in an unstressed syllable.
In short, with all but the last two differences being so distinct, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
an open-mid front unrounded vowel
That's not a thing.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In short, with all but the last two differences being so distinct, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
I can hear them both, quite easily. I think the fact that it's Grover's voice and it just sounds odd anyway that adds a lot of ambiguity and makes it a lot easier to misinterpret what he said.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
fricatives
It doesn't sound anything like "frickin"
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In short, with all but the last two differences being so distinct, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
That's what you get for thinking about it instead of just listening.
@brie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can hear them both, quite easily.
Ditto.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla I'm so confused. How does it sound like two different things so perfectly?
that sounds like an excellent idea that's a f uck ing excellent idea
where's the "f" coming from?
I can't hear the first option, even while making an effort.
UPDATE: I rewatched the video while mostly ignoring an ongoing Skype call and I can hear the first option.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
while mostly ignoring an ongoing Skype call
That's a fuckin' excellent idea
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I think this is a rorschach test. I see an alien abduction.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In short, with all but the last two differences being so distinct, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
That's what you get for thinking about it instead of just listening.
I listened to it a lot of times. I just can't hear it as the second line.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
Is it that brain Crystal or whatever?
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@boomzilla pfft they never would they have polymorph this looks like an ogre mage
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit No, they're both fricatives, but [s] is also a sibilant. Ventriloquists may sometimes use [s] in place of [f], but they generally prefer [θ] instead, because [θ] doesn't "hiss" nearly as much.
In this case, a few of the consonants may align somewhat, but the timing on them is off, the vowels don't match, and a few consonants have to disappear in order to get the crass phrase.
- The diphthong "ou" ([æ] as in "ash" or "cat" and [u] as in "boot" or "food"; together making [æu] as in "couch" or "loud" or "crowd") has a different quality than either pronunciation of the word "a": as a diphthong [ei] (as in the name of the letter itself) or as the schwa [ə] (as in the first syllable of "about").
- The [n], [d], and [l] sounds have to disappear or somehow be ignored.
- The sounds [s] and [f] are slightly similar, but can usually be told apart by how much "hissing" can be heard, as I mentioned above.
- The diphthong [ai] or [αi] (the long [I] in "like") is not close to the singular [ʌ] (the sound in stressed syllables like "cut" or "gun").
- [ʌ] and [i] are pronounced differently, but being in an unstressed syllable, may be blurred somewhat.
- The consonants [n] and [ŋ] ("ng") are similar, and could be more easily confused, especially in an unstressed syllable.In short, with all but the last two differences being so distinct, I don't know how anyone can hear anything other than the originally intended phrase.
Consider high vs low frequency optimization of the listener.
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@Gribnit I don't have a fancy-schmancy audio manipulation program thingie to check that, so I can't comment on that aspect. I do know some of the linguistics, though, so my shoes remain in good repair.
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@djls45 Sorry - the listening ears. Some people hear low frequency better than high. If you know which you are and can damp your other response to flip it, you can actually test this. Although, I have no good idea how to selectively damp your frequency response. Maybe use a fixed tone?
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@Gribnit How would I know which tone frequency to use, and how would I go about generating it?
At this point I'm thinking it might just be easier and faster to download and install Audacity and then simply to cut off the frequencies to see how high vs. low frequency filters affect the perceived pronunciation.
But
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@djls45 I'd start with a 40hz tone using whatever audio api you have around. Could just be there's a PC Speaker compatible api which lets you pass
int hz
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv7fwAzW0AQXjIP?format=jpg&name=360x360
The shear horror of it!
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv7fwAzW0AQXjIP?format=jpg&name=360x360
The shear horror of it!
I can't see it very well. It looks like a pile of ants?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv7fwAzW0AQXjIP?format=jpg&name=360x360
The shear horror of it!
I can't see it very well. It looks like a pile of ants?
Keep looking. A small hint. It's all soulless.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Could just be there's a PC Speaker compatible api which lets you pass
int hz
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