The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@hungrier In Longyearbyen, that could be a significant part of a year.
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@anotherusername But you see, even I know that song, and if I'd cared enough to actually read the numbers, which I'd glossed over until now, I would have certainly have gotten it. And I hardly recognize anything.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Reading is important... That's interesting to know.
From what I heard, this is done to minimize the potential harm to the driver if the tank catches fire / explodes (that's the only logical person to try and protect if it happens while the vehicle is being driven since that's the only person you can count on being in the car). Might be a myth though.
Or it might be to accommodate for pump placements on the pumps, so the pumps can always be in the middle of the station rather than on the side of the road. This is just an asspull I came up with right now though, so...
@cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had no idea that was an arrow pointing to the correct side.
That, however, is a new one for me.
I heard it dates back to when pumps were typically at the side of the road, so it would always be on the passenger's side.
I'm doubtful of this. Gas tanks on the side of the car are a relatively modern invention (past 30 years or so). They used to be behind the license plate.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Most cars have the tank positioned on the side opposite to the driver.
Most (all?) of the cars I've owned have been on the same side. Except for the one that was behind the rear license plate.
I haven't seen one behind the license plate in . I've had cars with the fillers on both sides, although most overall, and I think all recent, have had the filler on the driver's side.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
These are most common at Costco or Sam's Club gas stations IME.
And at those gas stations because of the congestion IME their hoses are extra-long and they have attendants to tell you to "fucking pull in behind someone, the hoses will reach to the other side and you're blocking the road!".
They don't usually say "fucking", but they always appear close.
They also only have one way traffic. With the majority of vehicles having the gas filler on the driver's side you have to pull the hose across.
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@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pleegwat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Reading is important... That's interesting to know.
From what I heard, this is done to minimize the potential harm to the driver if the tank catches fire / explodes (that's the only logical person to try and protect if it happens while the vehicle is being driven since that's the only person you can count on being in the car). Might be a myth though.
Or it might be to accommodate for pump placements on the pumps, so the pumps can always be in the middle of the station rather than on the side of the road. This is just an asspull I came up with right now though, so...
@cursorkeys said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had no idea that was an arrow pointing to the correct side.
That, however, is a new one for me.
I heard it dates back to when pumps were typically at the side of the road, so it would always be on the passenger's side.
I'm doubtful of this. Gas tanks on the side of the car are a relatively modern invention (past 30 years or so). They used to be behind the license plate.
I don't know about that. That is more of a 1960's-1970's thing for US cars. Before that they were either in the fender or in some cars in the trunk.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
They also only have one way traffic.
Yes.
With the majority of vehicles having the gas filler on the driver's side
Can't really say that/Depends on whom you ask.
you have to pull the hose across.
I don't see how that follows. If you get in a random line, assuming an even distribution of lines, I'd think it'd be 50:50 whether you have to pull across or not.
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@r10pez10 Tulloo aina takasi!
On our trips we only had Lapin Kulta.
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@r10pez10 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't drink it on your own! *
* Mostly because lifting a 100-pack of beer wil make your back hurt
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For those who don't speak German:
For two decades now there are chips built into our computer, laptops and mobiles which have severe security risks. Instead of solving the problem once and for all and exchange the processors - which, of course, would be a big undertaking - the companies tries to close the gap through software updates.
Because: The chip design would have to be changed to solve the issue.
This is unthinkable for the designers. It seems that looks come before security.I like the combination of naiveté paired with absolute ignorance on the subject matter.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Over here petrol nozzles are (usually) green, diesel ones are black.
Back when leaded fuel was common, that used to usually be dispensed from red nozzles/hoses.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's always fun seeing some dimwit who pulls in and realizes the pump is on the wrong side, so they pull forward and do a U-turn around to the other side of the pump. And after all that, the pump's still on the wrong side again. Moron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vupgBykQnko
Spoiler for those who don't want to watch 58 seconds of sped-up video
5th time lucky
Anyway, why I came here:
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Given the fact that a "year" is the completion of one full revolution of the earth around the sun, it would be reasonable to ask whether its beginning/end was some cosmically significant event. It's not.
Compare to the spring/fall equinoxes, which mark the changing of seasons, and do fall upon cosmically significant events. The summer/winter solstices and the perihelion and aphelion are also cosmic events. Given the number of cosmically significant events that could be defined in an elliptical orbit of a spinning, tilted planet around the sun, with its own tide-locked moon orbiting around it, it's really rather odd that New Year's Day, the day with the most calendar significance, has no cosmic significance whatsoever.
Of course, it's not really so surprising when you consider that the creation of our current calendar was essentially a political move, so the date it started upon was chosen for its political convenience rather than its astronomical significance.
ETA: I'm such a nerd.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Compare to the spring/fall equinoxes, which mark the changing of seasons, and do fall upon cosmically significant events.
I think those are just astronomically significant. A cosmically significant event would be something like a supernova or two galaxies colliding.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Over here petrol nozzles are (usually) green, diesel ones are black.
Back when leaded fuel was common, that used to usually be dispensed from red nozzles/hoses.
When I refer to coffee as "Leaded or Unleaded?", people no longer have any idea what I'm talking about.
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@dkf I don't think there's much difference.
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@boomzilla I haven't tried to be that stupid, so I'm not 100% sure, but I was under the impression you can't even do that because the nozzles don't fit in the wrong one.
Edit: missed your later comment on facts jokes.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
OMGWTFLOLROFLBBQ... I need to get that.
I will need to remember about CodeTee if I ever have, you know, money again.
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@rhywden It looks like "looks came before competence" when she got her job.
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I once even got a call from the military police at Ramstein (the base, not the band) asking us for the driver of a rental parked right in their "Don't even think of parking here!" zone.
What zone is that, did he try to park directly on the runway? Otherwise there's plenty of parking everywhere.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Compare to the spring/fall equinoxes, which mark the changing of seasons, and do fall upon cosmically significant events.
I think those are just astronomically significant.
The frosted ones are gastronomically malicious.
A cosmically significant event would be something like a supernova or two galaxies colliding.
As differentiated from something that is cosmologically significant, which might include a miraculous manifestation of pizza, or cosmetologically significant, which could include the announcement of a new line of gently hydrating hair gel.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Given the fact that a "year" is the completion of one full revolution of the earth around the sun, it would be reasonable to ask whether its beginning/end was some cosmically significant event. It's not.
Compare to the spring/fall equinoxes, which mark the changing of seasons, and do fall upon cosmically significant events. The summer/winter solstices and the perihelion and aphelion are also cosmic events. Given the number of cosmically significant events that could be defined in an elliptical orbit of a spinning, tilted planet around the sun, with its own tide-locked moon orbiting around it, it's really rather odd that New Year's Day, the day with the most calendar significance, has no cosmic significance whatsoever.
Of course, it's not really so surprising when you consider that the creation of our current calendar was essentially a political move, so the date it started upon was chosen for its political convenience rather than its astronomical significance.
ETA: I'm such a nerd.
Everyone's ignoring the tweet made less than a minute later by NDT:
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You didn't think Randall wouldn't chime in on Meltdown and Spectre - and the trouble in explaining them, even to programmers - did you? Of course he did.
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
To ruin a joke: The intersection of the sets of homeless people and gun owners probably isn't very large.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Glad you supplied the explanatory link. I feel infinitesimally less dumb.
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@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just confirming the joke: is this a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle?
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How jokes age...
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@pjh said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How jokes age...
I tend to think I smell not so bad most times....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just confirming the joke: is this a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Can't be. Boris and Natasha, the spies from Rocky and Bullwinkle, were Pottsylvanian, not Russian.
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@da-doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just confirming the joke: is this a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Can't be. Boris and Natasha, the spies from Rocky and Bullwinkle, were Pottsylvanian, not Russian.
Oh ok. I have limited popular culture knowledge and thought I had it this time...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just confirming the joke: is this a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Yes.
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@el_heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Just confirming the joke: is this a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Yes.
I feel like I've been lied to, I don't know who to believe anymore...
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@tsaukpaetra Believe no one. Not even me.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra Believe no one. Not even me.
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@zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My best guess at what those numbers might be is average temperatures
I have a vague idea of what that is, even if "The uploader has not made this video available in your country. "
Just google it.
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@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
To ruin a joke: The intersection of the sets of homeless people and gun owners probably isn't very large.