The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And about this big reveal... who reveals the building that contains only one person, and how?
Presumably via a croaking frog. That was born on a Tuesday.
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Edit: dammit, this was a hoax?
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O_o
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Hawking called Trump “a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,”
Later in the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, “Trump bad man. Real bad man.”
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@dse said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
“a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,”
I thought that was a requirement for being considered for nomination. So there are candidates who aren't demagogues?
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In the sense that they should be dēmos ‘the people’ + agōgos ‘leading’ yes, but
dem·a·gogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
Trump avoids rational arguments, and likes the poorly educated. I am not saying, that Bernie is too rational either, but at least he tries to be, Trump on the other hand only appeals to the popular desires and prejudices. Seems like the text-book definition.
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@r10pez10 "What if everything was an Object" is Smalltalk.
I'll take my pedantry now.
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@dse said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I am not saying, that Bernie is too rational either, but at least he tries to be
I hadn't noticed.
@dse said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Trump on the other hand only appeals to the popular desires and prejudices.
Well, that's exactly how Sanders sounds to me too.
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@boomzilla Which leaves Hillary as the "thinking man's" candidate.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Well, that's exactly how Sanders sounds to me too.
Because he is a populist too. He is not as successful as Trump though, because Trump is far more dividing and personal in his attacks.
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@dse said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
He is not as successful as Trump though, because Trump is far more dividing and personal in his attacks.
No, it's because Sanders is a crabby old man (if he were grumpy he might be doing better) and Trump is a hugely characteristic celebrity who lucked into taking (at least for a bit, he changes all the time, of course) a unique but very popular position on immigration.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername Because goats, that's why.
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@boomzilla Politics are not funny.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Politics are not funny.
Agreed. @mods isn't there a political thread already we can Jeff to?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Politics are not funny.
Maybe in the USA. Here it is:
Tiririca the Clown’s election in 2010 was a major controversy for Brazil. He received 1.3 million votes— almost twice that of his competitor– despite being found illiterate (he has since learned to write his name during his tenure). His campaign slogan was “It can’t get any worse,” and he told voters in commercials: “What does a federal deputy do? Truly, I don’t know. But vote for me and you’ll find out.”
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https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=41m20s
The funny's between 41:21 and 42:25, in case the timestamp is ignored. Edit: ah, looks like it doesn't embed.
(I don't know about the rest of the video. I haven't watch it)[you have to have a proper query string for it to embed, though apparently it only picks up the time with the youtu.be sort of url - bz]
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@DogsB is that @boomzilla as a young lad?
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@ben_lubar MacBook Air owners can't communicate any idea without also mentioning they own MacBook Airs.
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@blakeyrat Macbook air owners are the Vegans of computer users.
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@DoctorJones That's unkind to vegans.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's unkind to vegans.
What about vegan Macbook Air owners?
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@dkf I don't mind if you're unkind to those.
Unless they have the skills to find where their screenshot accessory is. Then you leave them alone, you hear?
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I just read a post that put "geeked up" and football in the same sentence.
Between grandma playing candy crush is a gamer, and people can now "geek" over anything...
Nerd culture has been robbed.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Nerd culture has been robbed
and beaten up and stuffed in its locker by jock culture
Filed under: cultural appropriation hurts when it's me
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@xaade eh, "geeking out" is a pretty usual term IMHO.
Going full time nerd, that takes dedication.
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@flabdablet when I was in school/high school, I never noticed this categorization between nerds, jocks and whatnots, like I see in TV series. Is that a thing in other places?
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@fbmac My high school lunchtimes largely consisted of retreating to the library, so I have no idea what the non-nerds outside were up to.
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@flabdablet tbh I don't remember of any conversation with someone that doesn't fit the nerd category in high school
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@fbmac said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@flabdablet when I was in school/high school, I never noticed this categorization between nerds, jocks and whatnots, like I see in TV series. Is that a thing in other places?
My class was pretty distinctly split into jocks, nerds, and stoners, with almost no overlap between the groups.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar MacBook Air owners can't communicate any idea without also mentioning they own MacBook Airs.
Do you mean they put on airs? [Patrick Star video would go here if I CBA to find one]
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@mott555 I came back to the US for a year during high school, and was surprised to see the shifts in people I knew from Middle School.
In Middle School, you mostly had preppy kids and normal people from what I could tell.
In High School, the stoners were in force, and some of the former preps were dating people they wouldn't have considered before, causing everything to be sort of blurred. Still you had the goths to some extent, and my friends and I hung out in a hallway and played games on laptops, and there was kind of a drama crowd...
There certainly wasn't the antagonism, though.
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@mott555 and you were part of which group?
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@Jarry said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and you were part of which group?
Well, his avatar is a giant jar of something I'd only eat if I was stoned. I think it's pretty obvious.
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I was in the clique made up of people who couldn't get into the other cliques. And the other cliques consisted of DeMolay and Blue Key.
And the shit-kickers.
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@ben_lubar
Iambic pentameter is hard too,
Doubly so when arranged as a quatrain;
Rhyming is less a problem with haiku,
Fellow poets such as I share your pain.
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@Arantor
When coders try their hand at writing verse
And one decides he should dash off a sonnet,
You won't go too far wrong by banking on it
To come out like his code, but even worse.
Young Ben L's busted haiku's nicely terse:
Though subject, form and scansion are all wrong, it
reveals he has no bees up in his bonnet
and publishes with no need to rehearse.But you and I are made of sterner stuff:
We faff about until our scribbling fits
Within the limits of our chosen modes.
Like writing PHP, the work is tough:
No end in view, about to crack the shits.
I've done enough, plz email me teh codez.
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@flabdablet Love it! Though I should add that I wrote mine while eating breakfast in the cafe this morning, hardly effort intensive ;)
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones That's unkind to vegans.