The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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I just have this feeling that one of the two is more relevant.
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What does it... do?
Well, I've managed to "press start to play". Apparently "New Game" is Not Implemented Yet, or something.
EDIT: oh wait, you need to double-click it, unlike "start". And something shows up. Will investigate when off work.
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@ben_lubar, it doesn't work in IE.
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now it's an anime girl
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i see i have to track that down and watch it. ;-)
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Windows has been anthropomorphosized for over a decade, so it wasn't that strange when it happened to ie.
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windows 8 was pretty cute.
;-)
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It's just a short ad, iirc, but it was well done. Mostly the characters show up in the Akihabara edition of windows.
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8 is twins iirc, but agreed.
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Why would those robots wait for her to transform? That's just stupid.
It's also the biggest problem I have with kung fu movies.
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Why would those robots wait for her to transform?
Because Japan.
t's also the biggest problem I have with kung fu movies.
yeah, well ..... at least those are fun to watch too
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sometimes transformations officially happen in a split second (usually, even) but sometimes they attack while transforming for comedy's sake.
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Why would those robots wait for her to transform? That's just stupid.
It's also the biggest problem I have with kung fu movies.
Robots waiting for the kung-fu fighter to transform? You watch very different kung-fu movies than I do.
I always assumed there was more to the whole Power Rangers thing, like maybe it was trying to teach proportionate response? But then you have to wonder why Rita Repulsa doesn't just start with the 80-foot-tall monster, because it's not like the bad guy who wants to destroy the planet cares about collateral damage.
Which there never is somehow.
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But then you have to wonder why Rita Repulsa doesn't just start with the 80-foot-tall monster, because it's not like the bad guy who wants to destroy the planet cares about collateral damage.
Or why Voltron didn't just form up and whip out his giant sword first thing.
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Because the Ro-Beasts were a hell of a lot cooler than the average Power Rangers villain, so the more screen time they got, the better.
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If there was any justice in the world, the Power Rangers would have featured the Pink Ranger much more.
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I enjoyed learning that all the scenes in costume were from random Japanese sentai shows. The best part is, there was absolutely no surprise involved.
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It always seemed obvious that the costume stuff came from a Japanese show, but I always assumed it was just a Japanese version of Power Rangers.
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I didn't watch any of it except when I was really young, so I didn't ever have the opportunity to make that connection is all. But sentai is an entire genre over there. They mostly used the same series afaik. I once read an obscure wiki about it, which included arguments about which series was best and why.
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Sometimes towns set a team up as PR for their town. Like, double-amateur bad acting in bad costumes, as PR for a town. Japan!
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I enjoyed learning that all the scenes in costume were from random Japanese sentai shows.
It's not "random sentai show", it's one very specific show they used the footage from.
Also one of the rangers was a gender-changer, I can't remember if it was Yellow or Pink, but they're a woman in the US version and a man in the original. Which means, in the spandex, it's a man, baby!
The best part of the show: Bulk and Skull? 100% red-blooded American. Yeehaw!
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Could imagine it being pink - that's a very female colour in the west, but IIRC a very male colour in the east.
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http://freethinker.co.uk/2015/06/27/invent-a-problem-then-find-a-solution/ (poking fun at) http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/designer-aurat-covering-maternity-pants-compromise-for-male-doctors-treatin
Just the other day we stumbled on the word ‘aurat‘, used in Islam to describe bits of the male and female anatomy that should remain hidden at all times. It came to our attention in a report about a Malaysian athlete who was accused of revealing her aurat while wearing a leotard.
Well, aurats are back in the news, this time in an article that demonstrates how inventive Muslims can be when it comes to preserving female modesty during childbirth.
The story began five years ago in Malaysia when a theological debate was sparked after a male doctor delivered a baby. Muslim “scholars” quickly got in on the act and declared that men should not attend to female patients.
A petition was even started by a Muslim doctor calling on the government to permit only female doctors and nurses to handle pregnant mothers of all races and religions.
An idea then entered someone’s head. “Why don’t we not invent a garment that will conceal a woman’s aurat?”
From this sprang a collaboration involving “concerned” Muslim doctors, an Islamic healing group, and reproductive experts and – voila! – we now have MamaPride hide-all pants.
[continues...]
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Hmmm....the first religiously inspired crotchless pants?
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That's how you know you've arrived: You don't even talk directly to the person who gets your drinks.
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Why would this be surprising? I see messages like that often form middle managers where I work (granted they may be about filing a ticket or bug instead of a drink, but they aren't as high up organizationally).
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hrod17? For a niche domain? My brain translates hrod into hot-rod
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hrod17? For a niche domain? My brain translates hrod into hot-rod
With it becoming public now, she'll probably be moving to hrod18. ;)
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I hope she eliminated them. The thought that there might be more than one ... *shudder* ... I'd rather have multiple Chthulus running around loose.
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She was born in 1917. The number in a username is always when they were born.
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I'm going to go with "false" because I was
Nightgunner5
for a while and there's not even a five in my birthday.
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I'm gonna go with "she was born in 17 — she's a 1998 year-old witch."
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Alternatively, she was born in 1998 and she's going to be our first 17 year old president.
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Thank you for that, now I know where they came from.
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I might offer a dispute for that predicate.
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hrod17?
WHAT HAS SHE DONE TO THE OTHER 16 HILLARY RODHAMS
WHAT HAS SHE DONE TO THEM
Rusty Venture knows, but he's not talking....
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What is the point of this thing? I learned to ride a bike two decades ago with a device that kept my bike upright even when I wobbled. It was called 'stabilisers'. In what way does this improve on that?
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Not only that, with this bike when you fall off of it, when (if) you get up you are going to have to chase it down.
ALSO, the point of learning to ride a bike is learning to balance it.
It's bad enough that they don't teach handwriting skills anymore!
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the point of learning to ride a bike is learning to balance it.
Well, you could say the same about stabilisers. They don't teach you to cycle, they teach you to turn the pedals and feel comfortable sitting on the bike. It's a useful start to learning to ride, though I'm sure that 'teaches you to ride a bike in an afternoon' is inaccurate, and I would be surprised if it's any improvement over how long it takes to learn to ride a bike with stabilisers.
The salient point is that 'a bike that doesn't fall over' is a long solved problem, much more simply and doubtless much more cheaply than this machine.
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Stabilisers are for wimps
There is nothing like a little pain (or the fear of it) to improve the incentive to learn.In the same way, I have always said that non-swimmers make the best sailors. Yes I have sailed tall ships.
The contributor wishes to point out that this response, and his previous were intended purely and totally for humorous purposes.
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It begins: :shock: :horror:
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by 8 minutes. In my defence the other post @Luhmann is, possibly, in the wrong topic