The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I have not seen rhubarb since I left New England
My mom grew some in Nevada for a while.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can find other uses for it on the web, but I don't know how common these are in the real world.
I've got an awesome recipe somewhere about for Persian lamb stew, which uses some rhubarb in it. I might've even posted the recipe on the Cooking Thread
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:>
Many botanical fruits are culinary vegetables, but to my knowledge, rhubarb is the only botanical vegetable that is a culinary fruit.
And I think the only reason rhubarb (a stalk) is often considered a fruit is that it's baked into sweet pies.
Is it used for anything else?
Illustrating how German compound words work?
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is it used for anything else?
Jams and jellies but mostly combined with other fruit or just stewn with sugar like you do with apples. I don't think I would enjoy it raw like I did when I was a kid
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, "mushrooms are fungi"
They can't all be fun. Some of them must be boringgi or angrygi.
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There is wrong, and there's totally wrong
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@TimeBandit Wat.
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@Rhywden And that show is on TV in Canada, on a free-air channel
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well, I have not seen rhubarb since I left New England, and there I only ever saw it used in pies.
My grandmother here in Minnesota used to grow it in her garden along with strawberries and make strawberry-rhubarb pies and jelly/jam/preserves/whatever. I've got about half a jar left and that'll be it. :(
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@Parody
that's 'cos your Gramma ain't German./kinda obvious, ain't it?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Can you read the description of behemoth and think that it doesn't seem like a sauropod? Or leviathan, a plesiosaur? How about all the mythologies and legends of "dragons" down throughout history? Might they have been accounts of the few remaining dinosaurs before they all died out?
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@topspin It's the Satyr, isn't it?
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@topspin too easy; just pick the most ridiculous one
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin too easy; just pick the most ridiculous one
Fucking kangaroos.
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I don't know which is scarier. That Amazon has a working prototype of kill bots or that the tweet can be translated by Microsoft.
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Suuuuuuure it is....
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't know which is scarier. That Amazon has a working prototype of kill bots or that the tweet can be translated by Microsoft.
I would’ve gone with:
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Suuuuuuure it is....
Why would you want to massage
https://youtu.be/yMVV_HsHcX0
TIL this song makes it impossible to Google "electric eye" in the old sense of a simple photocell that detects when an object interrupts a beam of light.
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@Tsaukpaetra Better grab your lubricant bottle
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@dcon Hmmm, I didn't remember this slick horror story from the last time this lubricant drum got posted...
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@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon Hmmm, I didn't remember this slick horror story from the last time this lubricant drum got posted...
Or the fact that one person has 'verified purchase'
I can only assume that if you order it and then immediately cancel you keep that flair.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Can you read the description of behemoth and think that it doesn't seem like a sauropod? Or leviathan, a plesiosaur? How about all the mythologies and legends of "dragons" down throughout history? Might they have been accounts of the few remaining dinosaurs before they all died out?
Answers:
Creature Bible Reference (first if more than one) Sea Monster Lamentations 4:3 Leviathan Job 41:1 Behemoth Job 40:15 Dragon Deuteronomy 32:33 Giant Genesis 6:4 Cockatrice Isaiah 11:8 Kangaroo not found by name Satyr Isaiah 13:21 Talking Donkey Numbers 22:28 Unicorn Numbers 23:22 Explanatory notes (according to my understanding)
- Sea monster may have been a generic term for large aquatic animals, including whales, giant squid, or plesiosaurs.
- Leviathan seems to have been a plesiosaur.
- Behemoth sounds like a sauropod.
- A dragon is used both symbolically to refer to Satan and apparently literally to refer to a large type of lizard, perhaps like a dinosaur.
- Giants were exceptionally large humans, but at most ~12 ft. tall, not 100 ft. The Philistine Goliath of Gath is probably the most famous one, and he stood about 9' tall. Well, that is until David knocked him down (out?) with a sling-stone (not a slingshot! ) and then decapitated him with his own sword.
- Cockatrices were simply venomous snakes.
- Kangaroos are not mentioned by name, but would have been implicitly included in references to all land life, as in Genesis 2:20 and Genesis 6 and Acts 10:12.
- Satyrs were probably just a type of wild goat.
- Balaam was so upset with his donkey that he didn't realize at first that she had spoken to him.
- Unicorns probably refer to rhinoceroses or perhaps water buffaloes (their horns look like one big wide one, not unlike people who have a "unibrow") or even maybe an animal like a triceratops.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
- Unicorns probably refer to rhinoceroses or perhaps water buffaloes (their horns look like one big wide one, not unlike people who have a "unibrow") or even maybe an animal like a triceratops.
Or they're narwhals. Narwhals are awesome.
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@Zecc I know at least two people working in IT whose name is Jason. Another unfortunate name to have.
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RIP @systern.
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@Vault_Dweller said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc I know at least two people working in IT whose name is Jason. Another unfortunate name to have.
Stupid Json!
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The horror!
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It's not so funny as it is amusing, but I'm going through a passage aimed at B1 learners, about a fictional (?) artist who moved from San Francisco to London in 1988.
Here are some excerpts:
Americans are usually more interested in money than culture!
London isn't as dangerous as San Francisco, and it isn't as violent. I feel much safer living here, nobody carries a gun, not even the police!
(I think the police now carries firearms in London, but I'm not sure).
People have a higher standard of living in the States because generally it isn't as expensive as England.
All right, more or less.
It's a bit more expensive to rent a flat in London and my bills are much bigger than they were in San Francisco.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
- Kangaroos are not mentioned by name
Because the authors of the Bible did not know of the existence of Australia.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
At a previous job, array list objects were usually named al. I discovered that a particular bug was due to al, and announced that "It was al's fault." Al, the other programmer, said that he did not want anything in the code to be named after him.
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@jinpa Was he Hungarian?
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa Was he Hungarian?
No, but I did have a Polish coworker at another job, but missed my opportunity to complain about Polish notation.
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@admiral_p said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(I think the police now carries firearms in London, but I'm not sure).
The percentage of armed officers on duty has risen, but only a little. I heard they had to receive permission from dispatch to use a taser, but heresay.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I heard they had to receive
permissiona loicense from dispatch to use a taserFTFUK
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It's good to see that Apple at least half fixed the iPad bending issues.
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@Atazhaia a headphone jack
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In a newsletter promoting different startup companies:
"(a company) is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps."
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In a newsletter promoting different startup companies:
"(a company) is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps."If we knew what company it was, we might know which of the two ways it intended to achieve that goal.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In a newsletter promoting different startup companies:
"(a company) is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps."If we knew what company it was, we might know which of the two ways it intended to achieve that goal.
The whole blurb:
Hinge is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps. In today's world, singles are so busy swiping that they're not connecting, in person, where it counts. Hinge is on a mission to change that. Hiring a senior backend engineer, senior product designer, and more.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hinge is on a mission to change that. Hiring a senior backend engineer, senior product designer, and more.
IOW, they're building an app that automatically uninstall Tinder from your phone