The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
OK, let's come back to the
Straßenlinienleitungsführer
A discovery somewhere on the road, fortunately not railway:
That looks like a jurisdiction boundary to me.
Looks more like self-driving-car trap to me.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
OK, let's come back to the
Straßenlinienleitungsführer
A discovery somewhere on the road, fortunately not railway:
That looks like a jurisdiction boundary to me.
Does anybody have an idea which jurisdiction? The image is too generic to find with image search, and I can't read the signs, but if someone could, maybe it can be found then.
The writing looks South Asian to me.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
OK, let's come back to the
Straßenlinienleitungsführer
A discovery somewhere on the road, fortunately not railway:
That looks like a jurisdiction boundary to me.
Does anybody have an idea which jurisdiction? The image is too generic to find with image search, and I can't read the signs, but if someone could, maybe it can be found then.
The writing looks South Asian to me.
Yes. The two possible countries were even already mentioned:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In case anyone was wondering about Thailand's traffic fatality rate.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Likely not worse than in Laos...
The scripts in those two countries are very similar, so I can only tell it's probably one of those two.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks more like self-driving-car trap to me.
E_NO_FIRETRUCK
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Looks more like self-driving-car trap to me.
E_NO_FIRETRUCK
That's only Tesla's. This trap is going for all of them.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This trap is going for all of them.
You mean they rely on lines on the road?
Wait until they try it on Canadian roads
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@TimeBandit It's easy to find the white line when the entire road is the white line.
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@TimeBandit I don't know if it's this way where you live, but a few years ago my city changed their road paint (IIRC it was more environmentally friendly or something), and as a result the lines turn completely invisible under certain conditions that almost never happen, like rain, fog, snow and night time.
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@loopback0 If it was only the road...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This trap is going for all of them.
You mean they rely on lines on the road?
Wait until they try it on Canadian roads
E_ROAD_NOT_FOUND
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@topspin This reminds me of that one time I was driving in a huge windy snow storm with my girlfriend as a passenger. I could barely see the front of my car.
How the fuck do you know where the road is?
Look in the sky. You see those 2 lines of lights? The road is between them
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How the fuck do you know where the road is?
If the road has just as much ice and snow as the not-road, does it really matter?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin This reminds me of that one time I was driving in a huge windy snow storm with my girlfriend as a passenger. I could barely see the front of my car.
How the fuck do you know where the road is?
Look in the sky. You see those 2 lines of lights? The road is between them
That just reminded me of when we were coming back from a skiing trip in Wisconsin (to IL, late night as it was just a day trip). US20 hasn't been plowed yet and there was about a foot of snow. I followed the road by the curvature of the surface - basically is was on the top of a berm.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If the road has just as much ice and snow as the not-road, does it really matter?
It does. The show only looks like its smoothed out the unevenness of the surface, but it gets squished pretty thin under the wheels, so you still need flat surface underneath to drive on it safely.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
In case anyone was wondering about Thailand's traffic fatality rate.
Likely not worse than in Laos...
Actually it is, Thailand has the world's second highest rate per capita. In Laos the rate of drivers without a license is something like 80% and it shows, but most drive like they used to ride their buffaloes: not looking left nor right, but nice and slow. It's not like you even could go fast. In Thailand you can - until you can't.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Does anybody have an idea which jurisdiction? The image is too generic to find with image search, and I can't read the signs, but if someone could, maybe it can be found then
The GPS coordinates are still in the image:
17°58'17"N, 102°24'5.8"E
Thailand, Nong Khai province, not a provincial border.
Also Google Earth has some image alignment issues around there:
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@BernieTheBernie It must have been confused by the non-matching lines as well.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
most drive like they used to ride their buffaloes: not looking left nor right
You mean: they behave like buffaloes on the road. Actually, I used to describe the situation the other way round: buffaloes on the road behave like normal traffic. They walk along, suddenly stop inmidst the way, start wlaking again, change sides, turn without looking, but one difference; a moped/car driver wouldn't normally turn into a rice field.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
17°58'17"N, 102°24'5.8"E
Oh, I used to go cycling just 3km from there; unfortunately it's over 50km if one doesn't want to risk getting into trouble with the border police or the nasty eddies in the Mekong. Anyway it will be quite a while before I can go for some investigative reporting.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The scripts in those two countries are very similar, so I can only tell it's probably one of those two.
If it's got sharp angles, varying stroke widths and a whole bunch more characters, it's Thai. Lao is all rounded.
The yellow sign says พระเยซู, Phra Yesū, and something about getting the eternal life.
Best location.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If it's got sharp angles, varying stroke widths and a whole bunch more characters, it's Thai.
And Thai has an "r" (ร) - though only people in the South know how to pronounce it.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
17°58'17"N, 102°24'5.8"E
Oh, I used to go cycling just 3km from there; unfortunately it's over 50km if one doesn't want to risk getting into trouble with the border police or the nasty eddies in the Mekong. Anyway it will be quite a while before I can go for some investigative reporting.
Well, you might be able to cross the Mekong mid April at the end of the dry season...
But crossing the border by bicycle: has Laos changed rules again? In December 2018, I stood at the Thai-Lao border near Kenthao. The Thai officer asked me, if I wanted to get into Laos by bike. Of course, I said. Border closed for bicycles and motorbikes...
Well, Lao tried hard to curb tourism in Visit Laos Year...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
OK, let's come back to the
Straßenlinienleitungsführer
A discovery somewhere on the road, fortunately not railway:
That looks like a jurisdiction boundary to me.
Looks more like self-driving-car trap to me.
That country cannot be used by self-driving cars anyway.
In fact, the situation shown on the photo is harmless. More often, the perfect fresh tarmac of a comfortable wide road just ends, and a terrible narrow dirt road continues there. Imagine arriving there with your car / motorbike at more than 100 km/h (true, that's overspeeding, but who cares...), ...
(On bicycle I am generally slow enough - but occasionally downhill I may reach enormous speed - dangerous!)
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
More often, the perfect fresh tarmac of a comfortable wide road just ends, and a terrible narrow dirt road continues there. Imagine arriving there with your car / motorbike at more than 100 km/h
Narrows 50, bad camber, then 50, hairpin right, don't cut.
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@dcon Doing nothing wrong. Nothing at all.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But crossing the border by bicycle: has Laos changed rules again? In December 2018, I stood at the Thai-Lao border near Kenthao. The Thai officer asked me, if I wanted to get into Laos by bike. Of course, I said. Border closed for bicycles and motorbikes...
Well, Lao tried hard to curb tourism in Visit Laos Year...I've never tried anywhere but the Nong Khai crossing; they do allow it, and I've heard of others who managed by showing something resembling a sales invoice for a bicycle with their name on it.
It's more that the Lao want to avoid problems with the Thais who've alleged (probably not unreasonably) that a lot of stolen motorbikes disappear into Laos where valid vehicle papers are a rarity anyway, and the border police especially at the smaller crossings want to cover their asses.
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So wait... Salazar Slytherin lived "about a thousand years ago", hence we don't know who his heir might be. And he constructed the Chamber of Secrets, which opens out into a girls' bathroom. So we are left with two options. Either wizards had indoor plumbing a thousand years ago, OR sometime in the last 150 years, when they remodeled the castle and got rid of all the outhouses some wizards came through and said "yep, let's run pipes down this creepy hole. The top can be a girls' bathroom. Oh, and let's make sure the piping in this building is PLENTY wide. Never know when people or, shall we say magical creatures, might need to go through it."
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@Mason_Wheeler you expect harry potter world building to actually make sense?
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@Benjamin-Hall If I did, would I be posting about it in the Funny Stuff thread?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Either wizards had indoor plumbing a thousand years ago
Well, muggles did have (sort of) indoor plumbing two thousand years ago. Maybe even in England, though almost certainly not in Scotland (i.e. not north of the Hadrian's wall). If the Wizards didn't forget the lessons and improved on them some, using magic to make building, forging and similar easier, they might have had indoor plumbing thousand years ago.
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@Bulb Apparently it's answered in Pottermore, which is something I learned after looking up the vaguely remembered factoid of wizards shitting themselves and vanishing it
"Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence," said the official Pottermore account on Friday afternoon.
However they did it, we know for a certainty that Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin deposited floor cakes all over Hogwarts, since Pottermore specifically describes how the introduction of plumbing came after the construction of the Chamber of Secrets.
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@hungrier Ok, I guess weird trumps logical.
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@Bulb I think that sums up Harry Potter worldbuilding in a nutshell. Why else would wizard currency be subdivided into units of 9 and 17½, or the complete nonsense scoring system in Quidditch, etc?
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb I think that sums up Harry Potter worldbuilding in a nutshell.
Yes, it does. Rowling is obviously very good at character building, which is what makes it good stories, but she never gave the worldbuilding too much thought—just filled in bits with things from various legends and a random weird idea here and there. It keeps it magical. After all, magic is something that does not make sense to you…
Why else would wizard currency be subdivided into units of 9 and 17½,
Well, since the currency is coins made of precious metals with intrinsic value, and each denomination is from different metal, changes in relative price of the metals can lead to weird exchange rates between the denominations. Normally the authority would create new smaller or larger coins with more practical exchange rates and replace the old ones, but it might not have happened for some reason, so this is at least plausible.
or the complete nonsense scoring system in Quidditch, etc?
On the other hand, the whole Quidditch is a complete nonsense. That is purely to be strange and awesome and logic was sent to lunch when it was devised.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb I think that sums up Harry Potter worldbuilding in a nutshell. Why else would wizard currency be subdivided into units of 9 and 17½, or the complete nonsense scoring system in Quidditch, etc?
It is indeed explicitly the premise from the very first chapter. To muggles, wizards and the wizarding world are positively weird. “These coin denomination don’t make any sense at all” fits that bill perfectly.