The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Bob Goldthwait shares a story about his daughter
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So they skipped a letter in the word Excretions. What's the big deal?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
His girl look like Michael Jackson.
Deliberately.
Sophia Casanova dressed up as the late pop icon for a video titled “Creepy Michael Jackson Impression” with the gifted hands of make-up artist, Spencer Lopez.
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Tesla: quick off the line, but still suffers from range anxiety
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@bb36e NO! We've got SSDs now! But a good lightning strike will still cook the goose real good…
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@flabdablet What's the problem? It's accessible!
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@flabdablet What's the problem? It's accessible!
Toppling wheelchairs is cruel.
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Did you guys know that there are rumours that Samsung will now enter the Electric Vehicles market, to challenge Tesla?
Insiders speculate that the car will have a combustion engine.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Did you guys know that there are rumours that Samsung will now enter the Electric Vehicles market, to challenge Tesla?
Insiders speculate that the car will
havefeature a combustion engine.FTFY, you gotta spin it positive, man!
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So, by the old lady's philosophy, I should be all means ignore the advertisements displayed by said naked woman with a sign (which, debatably would make her clothed, IMHO) and instead find out if my wife is bored and fuck her?
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@Tsaukpaetra Unless you wanted to take her up on the advertisment, I suppose you probably should.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra Unless you wanted to take her up on the advertisment, I suppose you probably should.
Ah, but that predicates me having a wife, and said wife being bored.
Besides I don't say it "ad-ver-tis-ments", so the e fits! :O
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
advertisment[I don't hear any 'e' sound between the last two syllables when I hear English people pronounce it, so I'm not spelling it with one there.]
The silent e that you omitted is what makes the i give a long /ī/ sound. The word advertisement actually follows the basic guidelines of English pronunciation in this case.
Of course, if you're talking to those unusual people who pronounce it /ədˈvərdizmənt/ instead of the more common /ˈadvərˌtīzmənt/, then I don't know what to tell you.
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@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
for some reason:
Could it have been the word 'target'?
@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
more common
As in, lower class?
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@abarker naw, you missed the joke... pronounce it like I wrote it, and you get:
Partly my fault for doing a poor job explaining it, since the E is silent either way. You hear the E by hearing what it does to the I sound, though.
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@Boner said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This is one of those "when you see it" images, isn't it? :/
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Do you want a hint?
They should probably add a hyphen or two. https://www.experts-exchange.com
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Do you want a hint?
They should probably add a hyphen or two. https://www.experts-exchange.comOh I got it, just.... it's not obvious from the get-go. ;)
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@CoyneTheDup said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
As a diabetic, I've been advised to always wear shoes, even in the house, because of the risk of infection from injury (and whacked my foot on the frame of the shower door recently, which suggests I should start wearing them even in the shower). Screw that.
I know I still have feeling in my feet. See, not long ago, I spilled a cup of Grape Nuts cereal and wasn't able to get it all picked up. In comparison, Legos are a doddle.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't hear any 'e' sound between the last two syllables when I hear English people pronounce it, so I'm not spelling it with one there.
That pronunciation sounds quite unnatural to English people (i.e. from the UK). Making the e silent makes the pronunciation sound very American (with a weird emphasis on the "tis").
English people actually would pronounce the e (so you hear "ties" instead of "tis", e.g. ad-ver-ties-ment), or more commonly just call them "adverts".
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Cutlets"? FFS. Those are obviously boobs. Silly marketing people using words like "cutlets" because they don't want to say boobs.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
ad-ver-ties-ment
Every American I know pronounces it this way.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
English people actually would pronounce the e (so you hear "ties" instead of "tis", e.g. ad-ver-ties-ment)
"Ties" rhymes with buys, size, pies, and guys. "Tis" rhymes with piss. Yes/no?
Here's the two pronunciations for comparison.
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So there are train strikes in my area. This is not the funny part.
The funny part is that if you wish services out to Hastings, "you are advised to enjoy the xx:xx service to Eastbourne where you can board a rail replacement bus"
Yes, I will "enjoy" the train before getting shoved on a bus
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Cutlets"? FFS. Those are obviously boobs. Silly marketing people using words like "cutlets" because they don't want to say boobs.
I've moved on from that to wondering how fish can have "loins".
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't hear any 'e' sound between the last two syllables when I hear English people pronounce it, so I'm not spelling it with one there.
That pronunciation sounds quite unnatural to English people (i.e. from the UK). Making the e silent makes the pronunciation sound very American (with a weird emphasis on the "tis").
English people actually would pronounce the e (so you hear "ties" instead of "tis", e.g. ad-ver-ties-ment), or more commonly just call them "adverts".
Wacky, I've always hated "ud-ver-tiss-ment" way of pronouncing it... I must not be American.
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
English people actually would pronounce the e
yeah, if they're annoying idiots
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@Jaloopa I don't pronounce the e. My accent is southern with hints of Received Pronunciation.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Jaloopa I don't pronounce the e. My accent is southern with hints of Received Pronunciation.
QFT
so ad-ver-tis-ment
but ad-ver-ties and ad-ver-ties-ing
who says English has to have any logic to pronunciation
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