The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
-
-
When you read almost zero history books, any book you read makes up for a large part of your reading. It makes sense.
Edit: whether it is a reflection of what you meant to say is another matter.
-
In fact, there were a ton of Jesus Quintana and that one was mixed in the lot.
I wonder if anyone's shopped the other one's head onto that meme picture you were using. GIS wasn't helpful. I am disappoint.
-
I have no idea
-
-
My reaction image collection expands:
-
Queuing theory:
-
-
the ultimate "i just read it for the stories"‽
-
Surely the blind should be able to enjoy scantily clad women as much as those that can see?
-
Contrary to current political stances on the issue:
-
well obviously. i'm just not sure how much of a market playboy, who specializes in visual "stimulation", would have in the blind community.
:-P
-
The pictures don't have to be flat…
-
-
Surely the blind should be able to enjoy scantily clad women as much as those that can see?
<!-- Emoji'd by MobileEmoji 0.2.0-->
Sure. Otherwise you're just putting up arbitrary barriers.
-
-
That's the best type!
-
No, it's the wurst!
-
...
I laughed.
-
-
-
"I deal in facts. I deal in science," said special agent Matt Fairbanks, who's been working in the state for a decade.
And he thinks all the rabbits will be stoned out of their skulls?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
+1 because TKUK deserver more than a like
-
-
Fact: Berlin is less than 90 kilometers from the poles.
View edit history for the explanation
-
New York is like 0 kilometers from Amsterdam
-
<Lioncash> I snagged like 6 Pentium 4s when I was still in highschool and they were discarding old PCs. Skipped one on a lake; they go pretty far.
-
Wow, how young are you when P4s are the CPUs they're discarding?
I didn't get any access to worthless CPUs any newer than a Pentium II and they were the ones on those dumb risers, you can't skip those worth shit.
Look at this:
You couldn't BUILD something less skippable.
-
well true, but once you rip off the heatsink and the stupid plastic housing the end result (the actual PCB) was decently skipable. needed some practice but you could get it to skip quite well.
-
BTW people can gripe about AMD chips all they want, but the best thing AMD ever did was force Intel to stop doing those dumb-ass riser cards.
-
that and put significant market pressure to make intel start shipping chips with their multipliers unlocked.
-
-
-
I thought it was going to be a variant of the joke that went:
- Posts sign saying: "Stop stealing my pumpkins!"
- Removes sign
- Posts sign saying: "One of these pumpkins is poisoned"
- Posts sign saying: "Two of these pumpkins are poisoned"
-
One of these pumpkins in poisoned
What is this gibberish? I have no idea what you're trying to say
-
The past was a seriously messed up place...
The past was a really, really bad place, for a lot of reasons.All diseases were basically incurable, so if you got one you might as well go jump off a cliff and spare yourself the several months of agonizing pain. Child mortality was so high (think 1/3rd) that in many places people didn't name their children until they were a certain age. Oh and the mother was very likely to die during childbirth too. The vast majority of people was illiterate, and even if you could read the only source of news you could get about the world was through letters and books that were most likely plain lies by whoever's in power, or crazy conspiracies. Good food and water (i.e. one that doesn't kill you) was barely enough to feed the king and his close servants. Hygiene was unheard of, meaning lice and rat everywhere. And that's without getting into the ocean of superstitions, wars, and plain lack of morals that plagued every country.
The average life in most third world countries today is better than that of many kings in the middle ages, which were as helpless as anyone else against tuberculosis, plague and smallpox. Think about that for a while.
So whenever some idiot tells you that we need to return to the "older, simpler times", tell him that you agree as long as he doesn't need any doctor or medicine, or a reliable way to communicate, or reliable clean water and food at all.
(Sorry for the long, necro, off-topic reply, but people idolising the past is one of my pet peeves)
-
So whenever some idiot tells you that we need to return to the "older, simpler times", tell him that you agree as long as he doesn't need any doctor or medicine, or a reliable way to communicate, or reliable clean water and food at all.
(Sorry for the long, necro, off-topic reply, but people idolising the past is one of my pet peeves)
I have the same pet peeve. My father frequently says, "They don't make them like they used to." In a lot of cases, my thought is, "And it is a good thing..."
I blew the rear diff out on my truck a few years ago. It is not my primary vehicle, we just keep it around for hauling stuff. It is a 2000 with 185,000+ miles on it. My dad says, "They don't make them like they used to..." My response was something like, "Yeah, and that is a damned good thing. I bought this thing when it was basically new, and in 185K miles I have put a battery in it. I think it is doing pretty damned good. I remember the old truck you had back in the day. You were constantly rebuilding stuff on it. Engines were doing good to last 50K without a rebuild. The front suspensions were shot after 20K miles. You were constantly replacing points or fuel pumps, etc. This thing has went 185K miles and it doesn't smoke and besides oil changes it has needed a battery and now a differential, and after this I would still drive it to California and back if I needed to."
People reminiscing about the "good old days" are just suffering from nostalgia induced selective amnesia.
-
I blew the rear diff out on my truck a few years ago. It is not my primary vehicle, we just keep it around for hauling stuff. It is a 2000 with 185,000+ miles on it. My dad says, "They don't make them like they used to..." My response was something like, "Yeah, and that is a damned good thing. I bought this thing when it was basically new, and in 185K miles I have put a battery in it. I think it is doing pretty damned good. I remember the old truck you had back in the day. You were constantly rebuilding stuff on it. Engines were doing good to last 50K without a rebuild. The front suspensions were shot after 20K miles. You were constantly replacing points or fuel pumps, etc. This thing has went 185K miles and it doesn't smoke and besides oil changes it has needed a battery and now a differential, and after this I would still drive it to California and back if I needed to."
They don't make them like they used to -- they make them better than they used to, when you get into stuff that isn't built to the absolute lowest price that is ;)
-
People reminiscing about the "good old days" are just suffering from nostalgia induced selective amnesia.
There's a lot of, IIRC it's called Roman Aquaduct Syndrome or maybe I just made that up, where people see the Roman aquaduct still standing after 2,000 years and think, "wow, those Romans really knew how to build shit!" But what don't they see? The 99.5% of Roman aquaducts that collapsed and were re-used to build some dude's house.
Even then, though, it's hard to think that about old cars, which were complete shit. Before the Japanese came over in the 1960s, you'd be lucky if your car lasted 5 years without being covered in rust.
-
Even then, though, it's hard to think that about old cars, which were complete shit. Before the Japanese came over in the 1960s, you'd be lucky if your car lasted 5 years without being covered in rust.
QFT; only the Japanese could have shown the world that a machine with 1,500 moving parts could be reliable.
-
The 99.5% of Roman aquaducts that collapsed and were re-used to build some dude's house.
Or...parts were taken off to build some dude's house and then they later collapsed. It probably happened both ways. They recently found a chunk of Stonehenge that went missing a long time ago. It is believed that some guys took part of it to build a bridge foundation.
-
QFT; only the Japanese could have shown the world that a machine with 1,500 moving parts could be reliable.
I don't think they showed that in the 1960s. Of course, being in the US (not that you are) we didn't see all the rejects that got shipped to places like the Philippines, so it's not like everything they built was magic. But they were certainly needed competition for the domestic industry which stagnated for various reasons.
-
I don't think they showed that in the 1960s. Of course, being in the US (not that you are) we didn't see all the rejects that got shipped to places like the Philippines, so it's not like everything they built was magic. But they were certainly needed competition for the domestic industry which stagnated for various reasons.
Well… OK, maybe the 70s. But still, for cars at least, here in the UK the first truly reliable car was the Datsun 120Y; unlike the Austins, Morrises, Triumphs, and Rovers of the time, the Datsun would actually start in the morning