The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
The first of result of googling is that video, actually.
Do you expect me to look at other results, like a pleb?
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@pie_flavor I'm pretty sure Brits know where Portugal is and that it's shaped like this.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hack into NASA? What's the point of that? Remove one letter and you actually have an interesting task.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Might have actually been a reasonably good explanation if he explained what he meant by "paths" and left "quantum" out of it.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hack into NASA? What's the point of that? Remove one letter and you actually have an interesting task.
Yeah, the American Soybean Association is keeping lots of cool secrets!
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@da-doctah you stole my joke, except I was going to go for Advertising Standards Authority
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@jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-doctah you stole my joke, except I was going to go for Advertising Standards Authority
Yeah, but one is a national organisation that deals with a niche area, is basically useless at what it's supposed to do and actually has no true authority to actually influence anything, thus is basically a waste of money.
The other deals with Soybeans.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That... isn't how the meme works at all.
They meme on the other side in the UK.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No. On military bases there are like the military equivalent of handicapped spots. But, instead of getting a ticket if you park there without permission, men with rifles come and take you to be waterboarded.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No. On military bases there are like the military equivalent of handicapped spots. But, instead of getting a ticket if you park there without permission, men with rifles come and take you to be waterboarded.
Reminded me of this /r/shitamericanssay post
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No. On military bases there are like the military equivalent of handicapped spots. But, instead of getting a ticket if you park there without permission, men with rifles come and take you to be waterboarded.
Reminds me of last year on vacation in France, where we drove by a high fence with notices on it, my brother was like 'I can't read what it says on the notices', and I was like 'If you think I'm stopping so you can read you can think again'.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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.
No. On military bases there are like the military equivalent of handicapped spots. But, instead of getting a ticket if you park there without permission, men with rifles come and take you to be waterboarded.
Reminds me of last year on vacation in France, where we drove by a high fence with notices on it, my brother was like 'I can't read what it says on the notices', and I was like 'If you think I'm stopping so you can read you can think again'.
Should have told him to try taking pictures. 🚋
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should have told him to try taking pictures. 🚋
That's a great idea. :P My dad loves photography; as a kid, he found out that taking photos with a telephoto lens near an Air Force base is... well, discouraged to say the least. I don't think the Security Forces actually made him delete any of the photos he got, but they told him (as nicely as it's possible to tell a kid) to fuck off.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should have told him to try taking pictures. 🚋
That's a great idea. :P My dad loves photography; as a kid, he found out that taking photos with a telephoto lens near an Air Force base is... well, discouraged to say the least. I don't think the Security Forces actually made him delete any of the photos he got, but they told him (as nicely as it's possible to tell a kid) to fuck off.
I recall a story about a pair of researching game developers who were thrown in jail for a year for espionage in Greece. I don't recall the game.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No. On military bases there are like the military equivalent of handicapped spots. But, instead of getting a ticket if you park there without permission, men with rifles come and take you to be waterboarded.
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should have told him to try taking pictures. 🚋
Amusingly, I've taken several pictures on Ramstein Air Base as a visitor without any problems. There's housing and supermarkets and stuff, so it's not a strict "no pictures" zone. I assume the (even more) restricted areas within the base are, e.g. the NATO buildings are fenced off from the rest again.
On the other hand, I have (with a written permission slip!) taken a picture in front of a DoE facility in the states and yes, men with automatic rifles did show up. :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
I believe the words you're looking for are "pedantic dickweed".
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
I believe the words you're looking for are "pedantic dickweed".
The judges will allow it.
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Should have told him to try taking pictures. 🚋
That's a great idea. :P My dad loves photography; as a kid, he found out that taking photos with a telephoto lens near an Air Force base is... well, discouraged to say the least. I don't think the Security Forces actually made him delete any of the photos he got, but they told him (as nicely as it's possible to tell a kid) to fuck off.
You didn't delete photos back then. You confiscated the film.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
I believe the words you're looking for are "pedantic dickweed".
No.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
I believe the words you're looking for are "pedantic dickweed".
As a pedantic dickweed, I object to the application of that term to NDT.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Ah, but when did the year begin? Under the Romans, it began on 1 January, but later
In Anglo-Saxon England, the year most commonly began on 25 December, which, as (approximately) the winter solstice, had marked the start of the year in pagan times, though 25 March (the equinox) is occasionally documented in the 11th century. Sometimes the start of the year was reckoned as 24 September, the start of the so-called "western indiction" introduced by Bede. (Wikipedia, "Julian Calendar")
Not until 1087 did the English new year begin on 1 January, and that lasted less than 70 years; from 1155 until the Gregorian calendar went into effect in 1752 the year began on 25 March.
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@pleegwat ARMA, but they said they were only on a vacation (to a place that inspired I think ARMA 2's map) and they weren't actually taking pictures for game development.
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Q: Why did Obi-Wan have better coffee than Anakin?
A: He had the high grounds!
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@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:
People are mostly paying attention to the fact that NDT is a tool.
I believe the words you're looking for are "pedantic dickweed".
As a pedantic dickweed, I object to the application of that term to NDT.
Pedantic dickhead seems more appropriate for him.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You didn't delete photos back then. You confiscated the film.
Well, yes. That's what I meant. :P
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@masonwheeler We have a thread for those.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's like the one where the kid in school starts to write "I is.." and the teacher stops him, says "it should be 'I am...'", and the kid goes back and starts again, writing "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
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Happens all the time.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Happens all the time.
For now Bhullar has no plans, or ethical approval, to hatch the snouted chickens. But he believes they would have been able to survive "just fine".
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