🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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My favorite is, I think, either 70% or 72%; I haven't had it in a really long time, and I don't remember for certain. My favorite among what I can actually buy locally is 70%. That may change when I finally get around to doing that taste test.
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Get a better screen.The third comma is actually a period.
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Get a better screen.The third comma is actually a period.
I'm glad my screen is not large enough and high enough resolution for me to be able to see that.
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Get a better screen.The third comma is actually a period.
Believe it or not I did know that...
But I wasn't going to let that get in the way of a funny.
Also I want the first person to say something about that. :-)
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Also I want the first person to say something about that.
By "first person," do you mean the person who posted the ingredient list, or the first person to (try to) make a funny out of it?
Because I wrote it, I knew it was a period, and never even thought of someone considering "Period." as part of the ingredient list until someone mentioned four ingredients. I knew what I meant so strongly that I didn't even notice an earlier mention of "four things in the list" until later. Also, being a pedantic spellar/gramming nazi, I would not have capitalized "Period" if the previous punctuation had been merely a comma.
Now, for the other interpretation of "first person," @tar, you're on.
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By "first person," do you mean the person who posted the ingredient list, or the first person to (try to) make a funny out of it?
by that i mean i really should check what swype picks for me on mobile....
s/want/wasn't/
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s/./BADGERS! /g
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See also...
Filed under: It's nerve wracking doing a GIS for "Dirt Girl" while at work
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Worst idea yet: animated singing greetings from your dead pet.
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Where's the “Creepy” thread?
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Pity. That driver came soooo close to winning a Darwin Award.
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This is another one where various people might disagree about what, exactly, the BAD IDEA is in this post:
“I just left a job on Wall Street for a porn career because I can’t stop masturbating at work”
Paige A. Jennings, who moonlights under the stage name Veronica Vain, dropped her internship at Lazard Asset Management last week after her nude selfies taken in the bathroom of the firm’s Manhattan offices were discovered online, according to Business Insider.
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people might disagree about what, exactly, the BAD IDEA is in this post
No way I'm clicking those links at work, but what you've posted here leads me to wonder, are there any ideas there that are not bad?
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Bad idea: Blaming victims (real victim blaming, not some slight imagined by a SJW based on "nano-aggressions")
Super bad idea: Blaming victims of murder at the hands of religious fundamentalist...especially if you are the Pope.
Pick your own source:
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Seeking to open minds to the possibility of an eventual update of English spelling in the interests of improved literacy
Cursory glance revealed nothing about their opinion on gramming.
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Indeed....
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I'm not sure even the English Spelling Society would be up for that much of an update to English spelling.
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Was. They kicked me out after I.... Well I am not supposed to say what I put where in the hall of founders.....
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I'm not sure
even the English SpellingSociety would be up for that much of an update to English spelling.FTFY
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Well I am not supposed to say what I put where, in the hall of founders
A much more concerning way to parse that sentence.
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DO NOT WANT!
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A much more concerning way to parse that sentence.
What other way is there to parse the sentence? I don't see it.
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Without the comma I added it can be parsed in a way that the where refers to the hall of founders - so the object in question was put somewhere in the hall. With the comma the where no longer refers to the hall of founders, but that @accalia put it somewhere and that event took place in the hall.
The implication being that in the second version the where was somewhere unmentionable.
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There.
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Lewd.
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Thanks for the explanation, but I can only still see the former interpretation. The word "where" seems to me to be extraneous for the second interpretation to work (unless it's a typo of "there"). But I'm not a native speaker, so... *shrug*.
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Without further comment: Woman encased in plaster for art project
EDIT: switched to dutch link, as google translate doesn't work like that.
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I am glad the link doesn't work, because I've heard stories about people who attempt to cast various body parts using plaster and this is definitely the right thread for that.
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You put the where where?
"Someplace uncomfortable."
"Where? Like the back of a Volkswagon?"
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because I've heard stories about people who attempt to cast various body parts using plaster and this is definitely the right thread for that.
A pupil has lost eight fingers after putting her hands in plaster of paris, suffering agonising burns in a horrific classroom blunder.
The 19-year-old’s terrifying ordeal began when the liquid quickly set around her skin, creating temperatures of up to 60C.Pictures NSFL.
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A five-year-old was billed for failing to attend a friend's birthday party - resulting in threats of legal action.
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An invoice for £15.95 was sent by his schoolfriend's mother Julie Lawrence, who said Alex's non-attendance left her out of pocket and his parents had her details to tell her he was not going.
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The funny thing is that I read the last four posts of this thread in order and assumed the last two were both replying to the third-last.
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A supposedly "homeopathic" product with "all natural products" that promises to calm unruly dogs.
13%abv ('preservative')
(Gets pulled after a petition: http://www.kctv5.com/story/27886985/petco-pulls-product-over-alcohol-concern)
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In certain countries, 13% alcohol would be considered homeopathic...
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Which raises the question: if you were to sell [actually-] homeopathic alcohol to a minor, could you be charged?
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In certain countries, 13% alcohol would be considered homeopathic...
In my house, 13% alcohol would be either a weak drink or a strong beer.
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TIL that you cannot sway articles of faith with arguments of logic. Sorry @abarker; things got out of hand yesternight, I should have behaved better.
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I can see myself doing that.
Instead of throwing a party in which every kid brings a gift, it's normal now to organize the party and for every child's parents to pay for it. So, if you're told 10 kids are coming you look for a place to pay 150€ and if only 5 show up you have to pay the part of those who didn't. It sucks because you have to pay and because the party is empty.
Also, in the time of instants communications you can at least send a fucking SMS to say you're not going.
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It sucks because you have to pay and because the party is empty.
Yes, but sending an invoice to a no-show is crass. Unless the family of the kid had previously agreed to pay a contribution towards the party, which would be rather unusual…
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