The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I have to run around four times a year resetting programmed recording devices.
thread is
Even my 75 year old grandma watches everything on Netflix now.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
night at 10PM
You've never been far enough north that that's not the case?
No, why would I?
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't even speak French, and my first thought was not what I assume they intended it to mean. I had to stop and think about what O U I would mean (I assume the O is "operating").
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@DogsB ahem. Et solo Bruté?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I dunno, you brought up those hypothetical children.
And a damn fine hypothetical job he did - they're all hypothetically alive, theoretically healthy, prospectively well-employed, and presumably not being an imminent menace to the currently-projected South Central while signs point to drinking their extrapolated juice in the 'hood as predicted by computer models.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Spain
Though you should have qualified that one as well (it even shows on the map).
Silly @remi, Portugal hasn't part of Spain for over 300 years.
(And if you mean the area around Barcelona then I have to remind you the meridians define the centers of timezones, not the edges.)
Fun fact: I used to live less than a minute away from 15°E. The sun really was at its highest precisely at noon.
More surprisingly, at least to me, when asked which of the two times to keep, there was a strong majority (60%) for one choice (summer time). If people really didn't care, I would expect something closer to 50-50. Also somewhat surprisingly, there were about 2 millions answers, which is a lot for such an informal poll.
So people want to live in double-DST more so than in single-DST. If anything, that proves my point about people not caring about solar time even more.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Spain
Though you should have qualified that one as well (it even shows on the map).
Silly @remi, Portugal hasn't part of Spain for over 300 years.
(And if you mean the area around Barcelona then I have to remind you the meridians define the centers of timezones, not the edges.)
Fun fact: I used to live less than a minute away from 15°E. The sun really was at its highest precisely at noon.
More surprisingly, at least to me, when asked which of the two times to keep, there was a strong majority (60%) for one choice (summer time). If people really didn't care, I would expect something closer to 50-50. Also somewhat surprisingly, there were about 2 millions answers, which is a lot for such an informal poll.
So people want to live in double-DST more so than in single-DST. If anything, that proves my point about people not caring about solar time even more.
It’s almost like we’ve gone from a sun-cycle based agrarian society to an 8-5 office worker / shift based society
Having the sun come up hours before I have to be at work and peak before I’m even halfway through my work day is definitely a way worse option than double daylight saving time (relative to solar noon)
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@loopback0 that’s like a whole tank full?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Somewhat related (and back on topic) - fun fact: the abbreviation of Coordinated Universal Time (or "temps universel coordonné" in French) was specifically chosen so it's incorrect in both English and French, to avoid hurting feelings of either country.
"Universal Time, Coordinated" is perfectly cromulent English.
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@djls45 everything passes as cromulent English in this day and age.
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@Gąska "passes" ≠ "is"
( is )
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@djls45 says the guy who uses word "cromulent".
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Spain
Though you should have qualified that one as well (it even shows on the map).
Silly @remi, Portugal hasn't part of Spain for over 300 years.
Either you're trolling me for fun (in which case, good job!), or you've become American-enough that you can't even read a map anymore ().
Hint:
So people want to live in double-DST more so than in single-DST. If anything, that proves my point about people not caring about solar time even more.
Yes, it does. Though it still saddens me, both for the OCD in me that would prefer things to be aligned (midday = mid-day), and also for the less-city-dwelling-than-most-me, who will be annoyed at doing stuff outside with time even less in sync with light during winter.
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I'm not following your discussion closely, but I get the feeling one of you is talking about the Azores and the other about the Canaries.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm not following your discussion closely, but I get the feeling one of you is talking about the Azores and the other about the Canaries.
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this is me trying to make a witty wordle-reference to express the fact that I don't think either us is talking about the Azores, though one of us *is* talking about the Canaries
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Azores
I don't think Azores were referenced.
Neither were the Canary Islands, I think. I'm just wild ass-guessing what they're on about.
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Fun fact: one of the archipelagos is named after birds.
There's a 50/50 chance it's the one you're thinking of (given the fact I'm mentioning it).
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm just wild ass-guessing what they're on about.
Don't worry, I'm not entirely sure either.
This will either end up in strong agreement () or some sort of about the strict meaning of one tiny word (given that it's all about ing, that would be fair).
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: one of the archipelagos is named after birds.
And now I'm guessing the other one has birds named after it?
(ETA: after checking, the birds that one was named after actually never lived there, and the one that has bird named after it was named after dogs )
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the one that has bird named after it was named after dogs
This is the one Trivial Pursuit answer I've memorized.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Azores
I don't think Azores were referenced.
Neither were the Canary Islands, I think. I'm just wild ass-guessing what they're on about.
It started with
@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
[things in CET zone]
most of France
Nice preemptive here, I approve.
… because France has overseas departments half the world away that are in very different zones.
Spain
Though you should have qualified that one as well (it even shows on the map).
… because Spain has Canary islands, which are in WET.
But
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Silly @remi, Portugal hasn't part of Spain for over 300 years.
Portugal is not part of Spain, obviously, but it is not what @remi meant anyway. Note that mainland Portugal and Madeira are in WET, but Azores are in UTC-1 (with DST).
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@Bulb Nice work following that !
DST
I'm half-expecting to point out that when he used that term, he meant "one hour ahead of solar-time at that location," by which measure it's possible that the Canaries, despite not being in the same time zone as mainland Spain, would still be "in permanent DST in winter and go double-DST in summer" (). But then ( ) his statement would also necessarily apply to at the very least the Madeira Islands (and maybe also to mainland Portugal). Though ( ) the rest of his statement didn't say anything about Portugal, so it's a possible interpretation.
In this case he would then still be overall when saying "Spain" rather than "most of Spain," and I would have been wrong to call him on that. All that assumes that by "DST" he meant "solar-time + 1" and that the Canaries do fit the criterion above -- checking the first requires me being in 's head (or, heaven's forbid, asking him rather than just assuming! ), checking the second requires .
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Coordinated Universal Time (or "temps universel coordonné" in French) was specifically chosen so it's incorrect in both English and French, to avoid hurting feelings of either country.
TBH I didn't even know the "Universal" came first in the official name that doesn't fit the acronym. Although CUnT would have been nice.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
IDGI. What does any of that have to do with daylight savings time?
The people who came late and got left standing on the stairs? Obviously victims of DST.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Portugal is not part of Spain, obviously
You can tell because our food is much better.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
one of us is talking about the Canaries
Are the canaries singing about you?
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb Nice work following that !
DST
I'm half-expecting to point out that when he used that term, he meant "one hour ahead of solar-time at that location," by which measure it's possible that the Canaries, despite not being in the same time zone as mainland Spain, would still be "in permanent DST in winter and go double-DST in summer" (). But then ( ) his statement would also necessarily apply to at the very least the Madeira Islands (and maybe also to mainland Portugal). Though ( ) the rest of his statement didn't say anything about Portugal, so it's a possible interpretation.
In this case he would then still be overall when saying "Spain" rather than "most of Spain," and I would have been wrong to call him on that. All that assumes that by "DST" he meant "solar-time + 1" and that the Canaries do fit the criterion above -- checking the first requires me being in 's head (or, heaven's forbid, asking him rather than just assuming! ), checking the second requires .
Probably. Maybe? Dunno. You put way more thought in interpreting my post than I did in writing it.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You put way more thought in interpreting my post than I did in writing it.
You have a knack for finding one-liners that would be good by-lines for the .
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@djls45 ahem. For any word but
cromulent
. But cromulence === passes == is.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Azores
Does Microsoft Azure now come in plural?
Dear god please no
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Too much funnies in the time zone thread.
Reminds me of the auto-synchronization of fireflys....
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@boomzilla I suppose getting the joke requires knowing what that weird little boxy thingie is?
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla I suppose getting the joke requires knowing what that weird little boxy thingie is?
I think it's one of those doorbell cameras. So you can monitor who is stealing your gas.
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@ixvedeusi a Ring doorbell. Captures video when people come to your door.
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@boomzilla could be gas gnomes, then. Very keen on the gadgets, them.
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@Gribnit profit!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit profit!
Indeed. A tragedy, really. What they might have produced, if only they possessed any potential to do so.
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