The Official Status Thread
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Meh, people just need to calm the fuck down
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!
Sorry, I don't really know who we're talking about, but a good yell let some tension out.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!
Sorry, I don't really know who we're talking about, but a good yell let some tension out.
Apparently you. You need to calm the fuck down. Go Jeff some of @blakeyrat's posts around. You will find it cathartic.
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I remember reading about lorry drivers refusing to deliver stuff to the BBC until he apologized for the joke about them murdering prostitutes. I just thought it was funny.
To be fair, no-one likes to be reminded of all the prostitutes they murdered.
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Oh I know, and I agree. I found him most amusing. I'm just saying, he was bound to upset someone too much sooner or later.
And really, shouldn't he have a lot of good karma in the bank after he decked Piers Morgan?
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To be fair, no-one likes to be reminded of all the prostitutes they murdered.
I know I don't like to be reminded of it...
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Meh, people just need to calm the fuck down.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm saying it was predictable, not right.
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Status: Getting seriously pissed off at Discourse. This is how the damned thing rendered initially (Image resized to slightly more sane dimensions on purpose):
Oh, and guess where it dropped me. Take a wild fucking guess.
Yup, inside that sea of white. $#%$#@%^%#$@^#$%!!!
For reference, the original screenshot is 10319px high.
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Yay for the User Card bug, huh?
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He took the piss out of Americans also and it never bothered me.
It bothers me. Where the fuck does a BRITISH guy get off talking shit about the American auto industry?
What does the UK even build anymore that's even slightly mechanically complex? Altoids?
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At this point I'm siding with blakey: I don't give a fuck why it happens, fix your shit!
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Oh, and guess where it dropped me. Take a wild fucking guess.
Yup, inside that sea of white.
Could be related to this:
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What does the UK even build anymore that's even slightly mechanically complex?
This is the first thing that comes to mind:
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What does the UK even build anymore that's even slightly mechanically complex? Altoids?
I know you are not looking for an honest answer, but quite a lot of shit actually...
And that is just the stuff with engines...
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Sure after GE showed them how. USA! USA!
I know you are not looking for an honest answer, but quite a lot of shit actually...
Flags?
Answer me this: Does the UK have a car company 1/3rd as successful as any one of the US' Big Three? (Chrysler, GM, Ford)? And no quibbles over Chrysler's ownership, shut up.
You guys conquered India with like 20 pasty guys and a few rifles, what the hell do you do now? Just sit around and complain about the government? Sheesh!
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I believe it is, and it was reported as "fixed" on my bug report here (so it probably is "fixed" on meta.d):
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/user-card-ui-over-content-but-invisible/8667/4
But I don't think we've updated Discourse recently.
Status: Already ready to head home for the weekend, and it's only Tuesday. Hopefully the rest of the week isn't nearly as stressful as yesterday and today.
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Answer me this: Does the UK have a car company 1/3rd as successful as any one of the US' Big Three? (Chrysler, GM, Ford)? And no quibbles over Chrysler's ownership, shut up.
Probably not, but they do have McLaren, who produce the P1. Being a plug-in hybrid supercar, it would definitely fill the classification of:
What does the UK even build anymore that's even slightly mechanically complex? Altoids?
It is pretty fucking mechanically complex. Also, most F1 chassis are made there now. Shitloads of really cool military tech, etc.
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Where the fuck does a BRITISH guy get off talking shit about the American auto industry?
Extracting the Michael is our third national sport, after complaining about the weather and competitive queueing, and before deliberately annoying foreigners.
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Status: Also not wanting to be at work because it is almost 80° in the office since we still have the heater on (it's still "winter"):
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Sure after GE showed them how. USA! USA!
Such a shame you can't claim to have invented the jet turbine:
@blakeyrat said:You guys conquered India with like 20 pasty guys and a few rifles, what the hell do you do now? Just sit around and complain about the government?
Nah, that's just the loud ones; the quiet ones are busy making every single IndyCar, F3, and LMP1 gearbox, 16 of the 20 F1 cars on this years grid, Dakar rally winners, stuff like that.Basically, if you want to win in motorsport, you buy British.
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Yeah, I don't know what that means.
Taking the Mick. Mick being rhyming slang short for Mickey Bliss. I don't know who or what Mickey Bliss was but I'm sure you can figure out what it rhymes with.
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rhyming slang
The existence of which invalidates any assertion that anyone else is Doing It Wrong when it comes to English.
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Taking the Mick. Mick being rhyming slang short for Mickey Bliss. I don't know who or what Mickey Bliss was but I'm sure you can figure out what it rhymes with.
Gordon Bennett! Can't you just speak English?
Filed under: Blimey
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Oh lighten up all you septic tanks.
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The existence of which invalidates any assertion that anyone else is Doing It Wrong when it comes to English.
Aussies do it, too. I was once speaking with an Aussie immigrant to the US when her phone rang, and she said, "Hold on while I pick up the bone."
And yes, I later confirmed that I heard her correctly.
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"Hold on while I pick up the dog
bone."Dog & bone — phone.
This "Australian" may have just had some kind of impediment...
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Dog & bone — phone.
This "Australian" may have just had some kind of impediment...
Or she was older and had immigrated before it progressed to dog. She was in her 60s and had lived in the US for 20 years. And that was 10 years ago.
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If she's old enough to predate the development of rhyming slang itself, then I'll have whatever she's having.
She'd be in her _1_60's at least!
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I don't know who or what Mickey Bliss was but I'm sure you can figure out what it rhymes with.
No, actually, I can't.
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I don't know who or what Mickey Bliss was but I'm sure you can figure out what it rhymes with.
Uh. No?
Flicky... triss?
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Status: Ah! A Grim Dawn update! I'll catch up on all the topics tomorrow sometime…
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In rhyming slang, it's only the second word that rhymes.
'Taking the [rhymes with bliss].'
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In rhyming slang, it's only the second word that rhymes.
Shocking news: I am not telepathic.
'Taking the [rhymes with bliss].'
The phrase "taking the piss" is also gibberish. So that doesn't really help.
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The phrase "taking the piss" is also gibberish. So that doesn't really help.
Well firstly it's not, but the origin of the phrase is pretty obscure so no reason you should know. But it's commonly-known and understood pseudo-gibberish
...you don't use that expression in the US? Really? I had no idea that an English speaker wouldn't understand that expression. It can either mean mocking something, or being unreasonable. Or both, if you're deliberately being unreasonable in order to make fun of something or have a laugh at someone's expense. I think the mocking meaning came first and using it to mean being unreasonable is in the same sense as 'you've got to be joking', but I can't be sure.
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Well you learn something every day.
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Rhyming slang is still strange...
/me is still waiting for anyone to react to being called a septic tank.
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What rhymes with "Limey bastards"? Hmmmm
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It is not that uncommon here.
We say take a piss all the time. Not quite the same.
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Status: finally found the cause of stupid bug in something after spending most of the day on it. An ID in the SQL script to add new rows to a bunch of tables had one bad ID. Thus the joins in a SP weren't grabbing things correctly (if it properly used FK this would have been caught when running the add script).
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Status: Trying to rediscover whatever I did that led me to stumble on the topics Dicksauce has been hiding from me...
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Read everything marked as unread, and it'll start shoving random old threads into your suggestion list, which might lead to your discovering new threads.
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Read everything marked as unread,
Hmm... that's gonna take a while... can everyone hold off posting for the next 48 hours?
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Status:
Half (asspull, no proper scientific research actually included) decided to stop working for me. This is a mixture of sites I frequent and some I haven't opened in months:
TWDTF - didn't work
Google - Worked
Yahoo - Didn't work
Youtube - Worked
Facebook - Worked
Imgur - Didn't work
Dropbox - Didn't work
Reddit - WorkedIt was not a DNS issue,
nslookup
resolved everything successfully.Restarted the DSL modem. Synched but wouldn't authorize.
Restarted the DSL modem again. Everything works.
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