The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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This Glitter Bomb thing diversified quite a bit:
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@Rhywden There's also a video from Jim Browning's perspective, and the third guy who hasn't uploaded his video yet, at least as of last night EDT
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OK, it might be problematic when caught using one, but the idea is hilarious:
GIFs can be seen when clicking the link.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
If only...
What really happens:
- picks up sharpie
- walks away
- opens cap
- "damn"
- throws it away.
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
What really happens:
picks up sharpie
walks away
opens cap
"damn"
throws it away.Assuming that shiny streak is in fact a thin layer of cyanoacrylate, step 5 will be impeded.
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@boomzilla people who mispell words are fair game, though.
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@Gąska I was a great speller until I took Spanish in high school. That kinda ruined me.
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@Gąska said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
people who mispell
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@izzion Muphry's law. "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written, even when you take into account Muphry's law."
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@JBert especially when its intentional.
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@Gąska said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@JBert especially when its intentional.
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@boomzilla I don't buy Clouseau as Smith. Recast.
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@Gribnit sorry, it was down to him or Leslie Nielsen and Nielsen just couldn't nail the accent.
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The choice is obvious.
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My CSS needs some tweaking.
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@Gąska said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
My CSS needs some tweaking.
But you repeat yourself.
EDIT: Mandatory GIF:
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And then the murders began [by zombies].
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
And then the murders began [by zombies].
How near to the zombies exactly?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I almost did this when trying to preach the gospel of active voice. Tried to find the actor in documentation I was editing ("the data is collected by field surveyors" -> "field surveyors collect the data"). If I couldn't find the actor I used my default ("the analysis results are then validated" -> "elves then validate the analysis results"). I intended this to show that somebody needs to do whatever steps the document specifies or it doesn't get done.
"Elves" apparently did most of the real work at my company.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
And then the murders began [by zombies].
How near to the zombies exactly?
You're definitely not close enough.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Gribnit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
And then the murders began [by zombies].
How near to the zombies exactly?
You're definitely not close enough.
Yeah I don't live by zombies.
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@Arantor said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Some of the many zombies I do not live by, you got there.
Although, having been tricked into living by zombies, one might be eaten by them.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I just tell the person in the other end I need to stop talking, to give them a chance of rounding up. Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
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@Carnage said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I just tell the person in the other end I need to stop talking, to give them a chance of rounding up. Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
I'm told that the best way to hang up on someone you don't want to talk to is to start saying something yourself, then break the connection mid-sentence (mid-syllable if possible). They'll assume they did something accidentally to hang up on you, or that there's a technical glitch, because who hangs up on themselves?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I just tell the person in the other end I need to stop talking, to give them a chance of rounding up. Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
I'm told that the best way to hang up on someone you don't want to talk to is to start saying something yourself, then break the connection mid-sentence (mid-syllable if possible). They'll assume they did something accidentally to hang up on you, or that there's a technical glitch, because who hangs up on themselves?
Why do people find it so hard to quit conversations that they need to come up with excuses?
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@Carnage I know, right? All you need to do is
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
because who hangs up on themselves?
my phone doesn't like to do phone things.
Actually, I have to grip it like an iPhone and hover it over my ear because it gets confused when it makes contact with my face and starts pushing buttons because even though the screen is "off" it still responds to touches...
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@Tsaukpaetra Does your phone not have lock functionality, or have you registered your ear for unlocking?
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It wasn't explicit in my previous post, but the reason I suggest locking your phone during calls is because the same thing happens to me. Stupid touch screens.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra Does your phone not have lock functionality, or have you registered your ear for unlocking?
It's @Tsaukpaetra . I'd be more surprised if his phone worked properly.
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@Carnage On the other hand, it has a keyboard no human being could possibly use and a pixelated neko prancing around the screen space. Some concessions must be allowed for practical features like that.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
it has a keyboard no human being could possibly use
I could. I have. I've used worse, in fact. I don't remember what made me go back to Android stock. Probably autocorrect.
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
it has a keyboard no human being could possibly use
I could. I have. I've used worse, in fact. I don't remember what made me go back to Android stock. Probably autocorrect.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
I usually interrupt them and say "Not interested" first. In Dutch, of course, I refuse to have non-work phone calls in any language other than Dutch.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
I usually interrupt them and say "Not interested" first. In Dutch, of course, I refuse to have non-work phone calls in any language other than Dutch.
Most of the "real people" ones I get now are real estate agents. As soon as I hear "interested in b..." I interrupt with "I'm not selling<click/>"
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@Carnage said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I just tell the person in the other end I need to stop talking, to give them a chance of rounding up.
My grandma has a habit of rounding up for half an hour or more. And she just doesn't understand that other people have lives, and that yes, I do have very important things to take care of on Sunday afternoon (picking up employment-history-proving documents from a translator) and that hanging up on her - 10 MINUTES AFTER I TOLD HER I MUST GO - is nothing personal. She also somehow misheard "I really need to go, we can talk another time" as "go fuck yourself" (literally that's what she claimed I said). Needless to say, she was super mad at me for the next couple months, and she made sure to always remind the rest of my family of it every chance she got.
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Just even the slightest. I mean, even a little.
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@Gąska As a proper Christian, you have no obligations on Sunday, other than church. You don't even need to cook, since you did that the day before.
Then again, as a proper Christian, you have unplugged the phone before bed on Saturday and don't plug it back in until Monday morning. Because not only should you not do anything, nobody else should need to do anything on your behalf either.
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@Gąska said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I just tell the person in the other end I need to stop talking, to give them a chance of rounding up.
My grandma has a habit of rounding up for half an hour or more. And she just doesn't understand that other people have lives, and that yes, I do have very important things to take care of on Sunday afternoon (picking up employment-history-proving documents from a translator) and that hanging up on her - 10 MINUTES AFTER I TOLD HER I MUST GO - is nothing personal. She also somehow misheard "I really need to go, we can talk another time" as "go fuck yourself" (literally that's what she claimed I said). Needless to say, she was super mad at me for the next couple months, and she made sure to always remind the rest of my family of it every chance she got.
Yeah, most of my family don't talk with me on the phone for more thanb 4-5 minutes. The sole exception is my father, and one of my sisters. My father just likes to talk, and my sister calls me once every decade to ask for money, and she just keeps talking for forever when she does.