The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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Accepted interception interjection.
"Attention please: The train to Lubek via Szczecin Gumience to Pasewalk, North Brandenburg is departing from tack sics in platform three. Please stand away from the platform edge. This to a pleasant riding"
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@Maciejasjmj I regularly experience what would be called Eureka moments if it was for something important, when I realise what English word is being mangled.
The website nokaut, for example. I'd used it for quite a while and never needed to say it aloud. Some part of my brain assumed it was connected to kaufen, which made sense as it's a price comparison website. Only when I was on the phone to my partner once and told her to try ceneo or nokaut did I realise it was 'knockout' :(
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@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
what English word is being mangled.
@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The website nokaut, for example.
To be fair, it's an official mangling.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Attempt: "Attention please: The train to Lubekeee???" Error.
Attention please: Deutsche Bahn REGIO train to Lubek, via Szczecin Gumieńce, Pasewalk, Neubrandenburg is departing from track six at platform three. Please stand away from the platform edge. We wish you a pleasant journey.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Deutsche Bahn REGIO train
"Regio" means regional.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Lubek
ITYM Lübeck.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pasewalk
This one is correct, though. (I didn't know where that was, either, until I looked it up on Google Maps.)
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@Maciejasjmj English announcement for a German train written with Polish phonetics. That's awesome.
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@Maciejasjmj
That does somewhat remind me ofWoooo mei loof mei Darling eif hangerd vor jor tatsch e long lonli teim
End teim goos bei so sloli
end time ken du so matsch
ar ju still mein?Ei nied jor loof
Ei nied jor loof
Godspied jor loof tuu mi[...]
which is phonetic German for Unchained Melody because my neighbor would otherwise fuck up the pronounciation so badly it hurt... (especially hungered, despite me telling her a dozen times...) It did surprisingly work out, somewhat.
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"So guys, we're using
w
for thev
sound... how do we get aw
then?"
"Oh, just put a line throughl
, it'll be fiiiine!"You silly Poles...
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm glad we retain a more reasonable 30% here.
That joke is only half-hard.
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"So guys, we're using
w
for thev
sound... how do we get aw
then?"
"Oh, just put a line throughl
, it'll be fiiiine!"You silly Poles...
"So guys, we're using commas for delimiters... how do we put commas in our data then?"
"Oh, just wrap it in quotes. It'll be fiiiine!"
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"So guys, we're using
commassemicolons for delimiters... how do we put commas in our data then?"FTFE
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Oh, just wrap it in quotes. It'll be fiiiine!"
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"So guys, we're using commas for delimiters... how do we put commas in our data then?"
"Oh, just wrap it in quotes. It'll be fiiiine!"“OK, then how do we put in quotes?”
“MOOOAAAAR QUOTES!”
It wouldn't be nearly so funny if it wasn't true…
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or if you want to go FULL CRAZY OMG WHY:
iPod shuffle 3rd generation
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@aliceif Never owned an iPod but I imagine that was a pretty stupid thing too.
@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
iPod shuffle 3rd generation
Holy shit! A player with no buttons whatsoever.
Apple will never cease to amaze me.
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@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or if you want to go FULL CRAZY OMG WHY:
iPod shuffle 3rd generationIt also gained support for multiple playlists, in contrast to previous versions of the iPod Shuffle, which allowed only a single playlist.
Oh
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Transformers: Revenge of the fallen.
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@Rhywden That's some charging plug.
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@flabdablet Can I plug my headphones in at the same time though?
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@Onyx Doesn't look like it.
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The Rockbox keyboard implementation for iPods wasn't too terrible...
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@Tsaukpaetra Have you seen this one?
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@anonymous234
No doubt in my mind that's 100% true story.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Transformers: Revenge of the fallen.
Think maybe they should have mounted that thing more solidly?
Reminds me of something I saw one time in Lincoln, NE. First there was the loud sound that arcing high voltage makes:
BOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV...
I looked to see what was happening, and there was a power company bucket truck parked near a power pole, with the support arms down. The pad on the support arms was outlined in the glaring white of electric discharge.
BOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV...for about 20 seconds total, then it stopped.
And in the ensuing silence comes a loud but laconic voice, "You think maybe we ought to ground that thang?"
He was referring to the fact that power company equipment is supposed to be hard-clipped to a ground rod or ground wire. That way, if the bucket truck (for example) accidentally gets tangled in the high voltage, the circuit will trip immediately instead of arcing for 20 seconds and maybe killing someone. Grounding is safety policy, so they were already in violation.
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Weirdest town names in each US state:
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@blek Somehow, that reminded me of my favorite German street name:
In the wonderful city of Bamberg (definitely worth visiting), there's an old church on a small hill. The street behind it is called "Hölle", German for "hell".
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@asdf It's hard to beat Austria, though:
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@blek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Weirdest town names in each US state:
I live in Arizona and have never heard of "Catfish Paradise". We do however have a few colorful names like "Show Low", "Why", "Nothing", "Surprise" and "Tuba City".
Every once in a while, though, someone in this very red state gets the bright idea that they should try to pass a law making English the only official language in Arizona. I say, great, but you have to translate all those little town names to their English equivalents. So "Casa Grande" would become "Big House", "Tucson" will be "Black Foothills", "Teec Nos Pos" (on the Navajo reservation) becomes "Circle of Sticks", "Picacho Peak" gets turned into "Peak Peak", and my favorite, "Eloy" gets renamed to "OMG!"
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We do however have a few colorful names like "Show Low", "Why", "Nothing", "Surprise" and "Tuba City".
You should have one named "who".
Filed under: Who's on Arizona
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@asdf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@blek Somehow, that reminded me of my favorite German street name:
In the wonderful city of Bamberg (definitely worth visiting), there's an old church on a small hill. The street behind it is called "Hölle", German for "hell".
Near me is the small village of "Buntekuh", translated to "Colourful cow".
When I was still at school, I once was allowed to begin my holidays one day early because my family had planned a trip to Brazil.
I didn't tell the teacher that Brazil was a town on the Baltic sea, two kilometers from California.
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@blek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This post is brought to you by vast quantities of lager.
Was it this one, by any chance?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Buntekuh
Reminds me of a Dutch children's novel "De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe", which was loosely based on a real event.
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The Canadian representative, Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, signed below his line instead of above it on the Japanese copy, so everyone after him had to sign one line below the intended one. This was attributed to Col. Cosgrave being blind in one eye from a World War I injury.
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Something more complicated than that happened. They could have just exchanged lines: France and Canada. But, no, turn the entire rest of the document into toilet paper.
Reminds me of this:
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@anotherusername There is even more!
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I live in Arizona
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@Rhywden Around here the most famous town with a funny name is Řitka, which sounds like a dimunitive for asshole (řiť) - although I think it's just a coincidence and the name has a different origin.
We also have places called Hrob (Grave), Záhrobí (Beyond the Grave), Pičín (hard to translate, but... "Cunttown" I guess), Bahno (Mud), Chudoba (Poverty), Rozkoš (Pleasure), Hovězí (Beef), and Šukačka (basically the local analogue of Fucking - apparently the name comes from the Serbian word "šuk", meaning "goat"), ...
Oh, and the district I currently live in is called Žabovřesky, which would translate to something like Frogscreams. Oh and it borders with Komárov - Gnattown. There's a river running through both so I guess it makes sense.
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@aliceif goddamn I fucking hate that disorganized tile shit. It's one thing when they're all images where the order doesn't matter, but finding anything in that wall is a pain in the ass.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@aliceif goddamn I fucking hate that disorganized tile shit. It's one thing when they're all images where the order doesn't matter, but finding anything in that wall is a pain in the ass.
That's tumblr for you.
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@da-Doctah "Satan's Kingdom" isn't even a town, it's an unincorporated area. If you're going to do that, I prefer "Zylonite" in western MA.
South Carolina's got Privateer and Wide Awake, which probably had that name before Katy Perry came along.
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@blek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@asdf It's hard to beat Austria, though:
Okay, $50 says that whoever put the "please, not so fast" sign with kids up did it on purpose. Hell, even by itself the sign is just ripe for innuendo.
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@aliceif I can't not read these in the voice of Teal'c, from Stargate SG-1 (I so hope I'm not the only person who knows who that is). The lines fit him so perfectly!