The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Why notting the onning of boxing?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/bad-translator-is-bad/4464/1249?u=magus
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Server overloaded?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/translation-embarrassing/4464/1249
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Same result, but without talking like Spook? Man, you're bad at this.
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without talking like Spook?
Who is Spook? Wasn't Halloween months ago?
Man, you're bad at this.
I get told this a lot. Unfortunately, it's not helpful in improving my badness.
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Who is Spook? Wasn't Halloween months ago?
Waaaaaaay off. But someone will know. And if not, people will be clueless. Fine by me.
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people will be clueless
I try not to be clueless. However, it seems this is inevitable, so now I'm working in Acceptance!
Fine by me.
No. I am not 100% satisfied, you can't fine me for your services!
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My favorite WTF movie warning was the standard disclaimer that "this motion picture is a work of fiction. Any persons, places, institutions, incidents and events depicted are strictly imaginary and any resemblance to actual persons, places, institutions, incidents and events is purely coincidental."
On Cronenberg's The Fly.
So if you happen to know someone who, experimenting with teleportation, gets his genes spliced with those of a household insect and transforms into a monstrous hybrid creature that can disfigure and kill you by vomiting digestive juices onto you, don't worry. This movie isn't actually about that guy.
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Would you have prefered to see "no monstrous hybrid creatures were harmed in the making of this movie "?
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i bet they sell smoked sausages
From the article:
The Volkswagen's promo video explains that the sausages are smoked over
beech wood, but in this case, no emissions data was provided.As a Volkswagen owner, I'd just like to say .
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Not sure which is worse. The every-season-it-might-hit-me or the indeterminate-time-it-will-rattle.
I've never lived in tornado (or hurricane) country (although tornadoes are not entirely unknown), but I've lived pretty much my whole life in earthquake land. The "nice" thing about tornadoes and hurricanes is that you have at least a little warning that there is a significant chance of one happening within a certain period of time, so you can take shelter, but if it does hit you you can pretty much count on severe damage. Nobody has yet managed to reliably predict earthquakes, so you never know when one may hit, but modern buildings (where earthquakes are likely) are built to standards that make them reasonably resistant to any earthquake that is reasonably likely to happen. Even older (wood frame) houses, not specifically built to be earthquake resistant, rarely suffer catastrophic damage.
I think I prefer earthquakes — the devil you know....
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Interest aroused as semi at 69 Cock Lane in Fetcham hits the market.
The best part is that it's a semi!
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5 posts were split to a new topic: Moved from funny stuff, because it wasn't funny...
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Well I was going to make a comment on the same post about "the only thing missing from it was if it was Feltcham," but a quick google showed that's one of the few words that don't have a place named after them..
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Hmm, neither quite a link nor quite a onebox. Meh, just click it to see it on imgur or right-click to see image.
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Here's a ship with a funny name.
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Uncanny, I was looking at a ship with a funny name earlier today.
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Here's another: SS Guns and Handcuffs
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Here's a ship with a funny name.
Due to the strange way that Brits pronounce things, it is said "HMS Larry".
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The best part is that it's a semi!
is a "semi"? Well, in terms of housing. I know you meant a half-flaccid penis.
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semi-detached? I think that's what the Brits call a duplex, only in typical Brit fashion, they use a word that doesn't quite make actual sense.
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Well,
The singularity just got postponed a few more days.
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There's always the possibility that clearing the snow would have made it work six weeks in the future…
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semi-detached? I think that's what the Brits call a duplex, only in typical Brit fashion, they use a word that doesn't quite make actual sense.
A detached house is one that's not joined to the others on either side, on account of how detached means not joined. Semi-detached means it's detached on one side but not the other - half detached. In what way does that not make sense?
For accuracy, it should be noted that an end-terrace house is not considered semi-detached.
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is a "semi"? Well, in terms of housing.
Filed under: bonus points to the whoever updates the article to mention something about penises
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bonus points to the whoever updates the article to mention something about penises
Isn't that good enough already:
semi-D
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git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net
Good for a couple minutes.
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In what way does that not make sense?
It just seems like "jumbo shrimp" or something.
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It just seems like "jumbo shrimp" or something.
I'm given to understand that shrimp is USAlien for prawn(s). Prawns - the things we call prawns in England - come in large and small varieties. The large ones could well be referred to as 'jumbo'. I suspect there's a distinction I'm missing here.
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The large ones could well be referred to as 'jumbo'. I suspect there's a distinction I'm missing here.
Shrimp is also slang for "small".
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Ah, I see.
Oxymoron =/= nonsensical, but I see what you mean.
On the other hand, I don't see how 'semi-detached' is an oxymoron.
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On the other hand, I don't see how 'semi-detached' is an oxymoron.
Well, I don't think it's really an oxymoron, as it happens. Around here, though, a house with a separate garage is referred to as having a detached garage, so I guess "semi-detached" causes some cognitive dissonance.
Would row houses be considered semi-detached, then? I dunno, I just think "duplex" is less mis-descriptive. Semi-detached also sounds kind of like "a little bit pregnant."
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So a detached garage is... just like a detached house, except that it's a garage.
I guess you might not have much use for a specific term for a semi-detached garage because a garage is only likely to be attached to one house. But it does make sense in the context of houses because houses may be attached on one side, both, or neither.
A semi-detached house is halfway between a terraced and a detached house - it's half detached. Why is that a difficult concept?
EDIT: what's a row house?
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EDIT: what's a row house?
What, isn't it obvious from the name?
A row house is what you call a terraced one, a name that makes even less sense, unless they're on different levels.
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On the other hand, I don't see how 'semi-detached' is an oxymoron.
If it's attached to something, it's attached. It makes sense that it's talking about one side vs two sides, and one is half of two. But that's oxymorons and humor for you.
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unless they're on different levels
I farted in an elevator once.
It was wrong on so many levels.
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What, isn't it obvious from the name?
A row house is what you call a terraced one, a name that makes even less sense, unless they're on different levels.
That's what I would have thought if you had said it in any other context. But since you suggested it could be considered as being this term which we've just said is defined as being attached only on one side, I thought it must be something else.
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That's what I would have thought if you had said it in any other context. But since you suggested it could be considered as being this term which we've just said is defined as being attached only on one side, I thought it must be something else.
Well, the houses on the end would be semi-detached in your definition.
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You didn't specify end, you said row houses in general. And as for end-terrace houses, I did specifically address that in my first post on this subject.
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On the other hand, I don't see how 'semi-detached' is an oxymoron.
Have you ever heard the phrase "a little bit pregnant"? How about "only mostly dead"?
"semi-detached" is kind of like that.
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… only mostly dead.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
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@anotherusername said:
… only mostly dead.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
...go through his pockets and look for loose change.
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Man, you skipped Inigo's line.
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What's that?