The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@DogsB Darth Jar Jar would have made a far better sequel trilogy.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And then Jack made a litter, which made a lot of people question the owner's choise of names. Turned out he was a bit nearsighted (and hadn't thought to check between the legs). But the dog was already used to the name, so there was no changing it anymore.
If this was in English, the fix would be to rename the dog to Jackie.
I wanted to say something but I did quick research first and there are far less Jackies than I thought. And they're much older too.
Is that only Jackie? Or is counting other spellings and the full Jacqueline and its other spellings?
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@Karla just Jackie.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The STRUGGLE is real.
Although only for one of them because fucking gen 1.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, if this chart is based on birth certificates (probably), it's going to miss the fact that Jackie is usually a nickname for someone whose actual name is either John or Jaqueline.
Not miss. This is the whole point - making fun of people who make a nickname an actual legal full first name.
My husband's name is a shorten version of a full name.
I'm always calling my daughter by her nickname, then when dealing with teachers/doctors/etc I have remember to say the full version.
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
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@loopback0 Horse boi does look kind of dense.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
If everyone followed your advice, 99.99% of Polish people would have to change their legal name. Maybe more.
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@Gąska to something readable?
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
I used to work with a guy named Larry, and one morning I mock-formally called him Lawrence. He corrected me; his legal first name was Larry.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska to something readable?
Exactly! The horror!
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
That isn't, or at least until recently wasn't, an option around here.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
I used to work with a guy named Larry, and one morning I mock-formally called him Lawrence. He corrected me; his legal first name was Larry.
Was he that geezer who had lost both of his arms and part of his eye?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Why? Because
fuck youthis is realistic, that's why.<>
A 900 kg horse is nothing exceptional (most races of dray horses can reach that, the record is almost 1500 kg). The biggest snakes are apparently somewhere around 100-200 kg for 6-10m long, so a 9 m flesh-snake would probably be 200 kg or so.It's kind of hard to estimate how heavier a "full-metal" snake would be as I have no idea how much of the snake is metal ("full-metal" implies it's not just the skin but then again it seems unlikely it would have metal-blood, plus like any animal it's full of water so we can't just compute the volume and assume it's all metal), and also because "metal" isn't very accurate by itself (technically lithium is a metal and is lighter than water, so a full-lithium snake would be lighter than a regular one. It would also be perpetually engulfed in flames (in regular air) but really, that's just making it even more bad-ass!).
Still, overall, the 400 kg estimate for the metal snake doesn't sound totally off.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
I used to work with a guy named Larry, and one morning I mock-formally called him Lawrence. He corrected me; his legal first name was Larry.
My father has a friend who's name is Mitch.
It's not really Mitch. He goes by Mitch, but his full name is L. Mitchell Lastname, with the L not standing for anything.
His father wanted to name Mitch after himself. But the father's first name was Liebert, so he didn't want to do that.
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@remi can't wait to see how you rationalize this.
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@Gąska The volume of a basketball court, but weighs less than half a metric ton? That'll float alright.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska The volume of a basketball court, but weighs less than half a metric ton?
Hey! Don't mix imperial units with metric!
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska The volume of a basketball court, but weighs less than half a metric ton?
Hey! Don't mix imperial units with metric!
I didn't. Basketball courts are defined in meters.
They're 28.0m long, by 15.0m wide, by 7.0m high. Officially.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
can't wait to see how you rationalize this.
To be that size/weight, it's probably filled with helium. Big jumps can probably be easily achieved by expelling some of that gas (fart jump!). Nothing more complicated than that, and compared to the lithium snake, that's pretty tame. Next!
(in my mind that metal snake is now made of lithium and always burning, that's so much
coolerhotter than any other type of metal)
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska The volume of a basketball court, but weighs less than half a metric ton?
Hey! Don't mix imperial units with metric!
I didn't. Basketball courts are defined in meters.
They're 28.0m long, by 15.0m wide, by 7.0m high. Officially.
That's metric court. The imperial court is 94x50ft.
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@Gąska A-hem!
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@acrow AHEM!!
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@Gąska ...Right. So I should have specified that I was comparing the damn whale to an International basketball field.
My bad.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
If everyone followed your advice, 99.99% of Polish people would have to change their legal name. Maybe more.
Making someone's nickname their official name does defeat the purpose, doesn't it?
My thoughts go out to all the Juniors out there.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Shouldn't there be a
double
Whale Pokemon, too?The whole point is that Pokedex isn't very precise.
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@Gąska Oh, it is very precise. It isn't all that accurate, but higher precision won't fix that anyway.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The
wholewhale point is that Pokedex isn't very precise.
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GĄSKA's RAGE is building!
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Guys, FUNNY stuff.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Guys, FUNNY stuff.
What's more funny than a bunch of nerds sperging everywhere over make believe pixel animals?
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What's more funny than a bunch of nerds sperging everywhere over make believe pixel animals?
Stereochemistry, apparently.
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What's more funny than a bunch of nerds sperging everywhere over make believe pixel animals?
Not you!
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a name that roughly translates to Doggo.
"Pesio", polish pronunciating "si" like a very soft "sh". So, eventually, not much different from a french peugeot...
Whose emblem is a lion, so perhaps not so much suited for a dog.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB Darth Jar Jar would have made a far better sequel trilogy.
As writer and director
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Stimulated, not Ztimulated.
Not with that attitude
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 First I heard that story it was Nigel (the cat) and Human Nigel.
My mother's name was Theadora, and she was always called "Teddy" (leading to a lifetime collecting stuffed bears). My aunt's (who lived across the street from us) chihuahua was also called Teddy. I can't remember there ever being any confusion as a result.
My grandparents' neighbor had a dachshund that had the same name as I do.
Growing up we had dogs synchronously Penny, Henna and cats in a parallel branch, synchronously, Big Sid (orange and white and our neighbor had a very similar cat), Fred (short for Frederick the Great).
The dogs my parents had after I was gone were always Irish names. I hate Irish spellings. Sean, in my head is always seen. I was reading books using the name as a kid, but didn't know how it was supposed to be pronounced.
<blakeyrant> I don't care about your dead dogs and cats or their names! There is nothing funny about it!</blakeyrant>
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
BTW, does anyone else find it amusing that the two canonical names for dogs are Fido (meaning faithful, and presumably implying that they stay at home with you) and Rover (implying that they leave and run around)?
How about Spot?
The firefighter dogs.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The other argument is that you are going to call a person by the nickname rather than the fullname, you should have you should have named them by the nickname.
If everyone followed your advice, 99.99% of Polish people would have to change their legal name. Maybe more.
It is NOT my argument. (I've just heard the argument.)
Though some nicknames are better than others, e.g. Tim versus Timmy. I wouldn't want to be going on a job interview with my true name being Timmy.(INB4: That's guy's name, of course you don't want the name Timmy.)
This tangent reminds me that I once mentioned that both my first and middle names were major hurricanes and their names retired. The other person said, "well at least they didn't name you Andrew Floyd." Also major hurricanes that were retired.My daughter has the full name, at home and with family we use the nickname. So much so, I worried she might have a tough time in school when they her full name.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Though some nicknames are better than others, e.g. Tim versus Timmy. I wouldn't want to be going on a job interview with my true name being Timmy.
(INB4: That's guy's name, of course you don't want the name Timmy.)
I have an uncle whose legal name is Ronnie.
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My sister's name is Elisabeth. But she's been called Bita for...well...ever.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I worried she might have a tough time in school when they her full name.
I remember in kindergarten asking the teacher how to spell my name. I knew how to spell my nickname, but not my legal name. Nowadays, it differentiates coworkers who know me from those who only know my name from company directory, email, badge, or whatever, which often reflect the official name used on the hiring paperwork rather than what I call myself in personal interactions.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Though some nicknames are better than others, e.g. Tim versus Timmy. I wouldn't want to be going on a job interview with my true name being Timmy.
(INB4: That's guy's name, of course you don't want the name Timmy.)
I have an uncle whose legal name is Ronnie.
I know a girl whose nickname is Ronnie but her real name is Veronica.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My sister's name is Elisabeth. But she's been called Bita for...well...ever.
There are endless nicknames/spellings for Elizabeth. (z versus s as an example)