The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
I think my reading level wasn't that advanced, but I do remember my nursery school complained to my mother because I was reading, and that it might make the other kids feel bad.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
According to my mother, I could read the newspaper at 3 1/2, although I have no memory of this, and I'm sure I didn't understand much of what I was reading. I do remember that I was bored by the most advanced books available in kindergarten, at age 4 1/2 (and I could never fall asleep at nap time; I just wasn't sleepy), and that on a reading assessment test in 4th grade, I was off the chart at "7th grade, 9th month, plus".
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
I think my reading level wasn't that advanced, but I do remember my nursery school complained to my mother because I was reading, and that it might make the other kids feel bad.
Did you go to nursery school in $current_year?
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
I think my reading level wasn't that advanced, but I do remember my nursery school complained to my mother because I was reading, and that it might make the other kids feel bad.
Did you go to nursery school in $current_year?
No, that's the interesting part. The academic slide towards feelings was just starting.
My mother did not reveal the complaint to me until I was grown. But in a sense, I do wish that someone had explained to me that I should be more considerate of my classmates feelings. It might have encouraged the bullies (this term meant something back in those days) to find a different target.
I have heard that one of the differences between America and Japan could be illustrated thusly: In the U.S., a typical scene is where the teacher will ask a student a question. If the student doesn't know the correct answer, other kids will raise their hands and be bouncing in their seats, "Oooh, oooh!" (inb4 giggity), and the teacher may call on one of those kids. In Japan, so I have heard, such conduct would be frowned upon. Japan is neither a slacker academically nor a completely PC culture.
I know there are several people here more knowledgeable about modern Japanese culture than I, so please feel free (as if you needed my permission) to correct/elaborate on the Japanese side of it.
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@pie_flavor In either kindergarten or first grade, my sister asked her teacher when they get to read to the big kids, since the school often had older students come in and read to the younger ones. The teacher thought if my sister wanted to, they may as well let her, so she went in to the 6th graders' class and read a book to them, holding it open for them to see the pictures, reading it upside down.
I learned to read earlier than her, I believe.
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor In either kindergarten or first grade, my sister ... went in to the 6th graders' class and read a book to them, ... reading it upside down.
That's impressive. What does she do for a living now?
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor In either kindergarten or first grade, my sister asked her teacher when they get to read to the big kids, since the school often had older students come in and read to the younger ones. The teacher thought if my sister wanted to, they may as well let her, so she went in to the 6th graders' class and read a book to them, holding it open for them to see the pictures, reading it upside down.
I learned to read earlier than her, I believe.
That's adorable.
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@jinpa She works for not much pay at a community help center, after graduating with a communications degree. She has always rejected my attempts to pull her into STEM.
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa She works for not much pay at a community help center, after graduating with a communications degree. She has always rejected my attempts to pull her into STEM.
I fully sympathize with her wish to do something that has direct value to the needy. I only switched from the human services when I decided that if I had to put up with managers, I might as well get paid better for it.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that their lineage did not continue.
No, they're still partying hard.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that their lineage did not continue.
No, they're still partying hard.
If I was not mousing over that, I would not have known who that was.
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Turn the sound on. It's SFW.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that their lineage did not continue.
No, they're still partying hard.
Well, at least he looks like his "assigned gender".
(I probably offended a few folks. My apologies. I'm glad we have a wide variety of people here.)
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that their lineage did not continue.
No, they're still partying hard.
If I was not mousing over that, I would not have known who that was.
Put my mouse all over that, and I still don't know who that is.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Too soon
Well, he died 13 years ago, so I think that, if you're not a member of his immediate family, it's not.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is Britain Great Again?
Was it ever great?
Certainly it has been one of very few empires in history upon which the sun never set.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is Britain Great Again?
Was it ever great?
Certainly it has been one of very few empires in history upon which the sun never set.
I'm a mixed fan/opponent of the British Empire, but I don't know what you mean by "upon which the never set". Because the Commonwealth Nations still self-identify as Commonwealth Nations? Or do you mean Canada, etc.?
We had an Englishman on our scrum team. He said that it would be fitting if England just sank beneath the waters.
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EDIT: I was kind of hoping for that to onebox.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah, the British army was a
greatcold armythe British burned nearly 1,400 houses and farms
Coats hadn't been invented yet.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Too soon
Well, he died 13 years ago, so I think that, if you're not a member of his immediate family, it's not.
It’s always too soon!
His google doodle today was actually pretty cool.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
EDIT: I was kind of hoping for that to onebox.
I think the legacy of British Imperialism will be debated for a long time to come. I have seen natives of a former British colony who say that it wasn't that bad, even better than what came afterwards, and those who say that people should stop defending Britain on this because of their atrocities.
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@brie Of course, but @boomzilla's post clearly shows the Pioneer plaque. Voyagers didn't carry pictures of naked people due to Pioneer controversy.
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@kazitor It's referring to both, though.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't know what you mean by "upon which the never set". Because the Commonwealth Nations still self-identify as Commonwealth Nations? Or do you mean Canada, etc.?
@PleegWat attempted to answer with a picture that didn't show up as intended, and no doubt many are too to click the link (which may or may not adequately explain the phrase; I don't know, since I haven't clicked it, myself).
Think more literally; the Empire spanned the world such that some part of it, somewhere, was always in daylight.
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@HardwareGeek And for those who want more details, check Randall Munroe's XKCD: What if? about the British Empire.
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@JBert Interesting, but I wouldn't call a solar eclipse a "sun" "set".
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
My sisters were reading by the time they were 3/4. My mother liked to tell my friends she thought I was retarded because I couldn't until I was five.
I should mention this was said by my mother when I was about 22 and we like a bit of banter. She wasn't saying this when I was growing up.
Well, not when you were around...
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@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek And for those who want more details, check Randall Munroe's XKCD: What if? about the British Empire.
Like everything to do with Britain, the empire is wonderfully, horribly complex. I especially like this line: "Some of them, like Canada and Australia, have Queen Elizabeth as their official monarch. But they are independent states which happen to have the same queen; they are not part of any empire that they know of." Okay, sure.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek And for those who want more details, check Randall Munroe's XKCD: What if? about the British Empire.
Like everything to do with Britain, the empire is wonderfully, horribly complex. I especially like this line: "Some of them, like Canada and Australia, have Queen Elizabeth as their official monarch. But they are independent states which happen to have the same queen; they are not part of any empire that they know of." Okay, sure.
but Canada and Australia aren't part of the empire (that they know of), so I don't see how that's related?
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek And for those who want more details, check Randall Munroe's XKCD: What if? about the British Empire.
Like everything to do with Britain, the empire is wonderfully, horribly complex. I especially like this line: "Some of them, like Canada and Australia, have Queen Elizabeth as their official monarch. But they are independent states which happen to have the same queen; they are not part of any empire that they know of." Okay, sure.
but Canada and Australia aren't part of the empire (that they know of), so I don't see how that's related?
That you think that's a pendant is exquisite. That's the whole point - it's utterly bizarre, but if you're a keep-your-eyes-on-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other kind of guy, you can't even grok that there's anything bizarre about it.
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status: kinda refreshing when people actually write stuff in the EULA...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Turn the sound
onoff. It'sSFWNSFL.
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apparently this one doesn't embed correctly: https://mastodon.lubar.me/@ben/101639723649443815
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
This was also me.
you're rainman?
I was reading chapter books comfortably by kindergarten. Got in trouble for it since I wasn't taking a nap like I should. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read. Maybe 4? 3?
My sisters were reading by the time they were 3/4. My mother liked to tell my friends she thought I was retarded because I couldn't until I was five.
I should mention this was said by my mother when I was about 22 and we like a bit of banter. She wasn't saying this when I was growing up.
Well, not when you were around...
To be fair, that puts her in the higher percentile of parents. If we started a thread about shit our parents said about us most of mine would be from my early twenties forward when I could see the funny side of it.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is Britain Great Again?
Was it ever great?
It was, but then human rights came along and they could no longer do their thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
so.... Don't trust any code at all ever?
Poor choice of words really. Never trust any code ever.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
status: kinda refreshing when people actually write stuff in the EULA...
rouines
They left out a 't' and now the spelling is rouined.
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I prefer this one:
Edit: just noticed yours is from today, unlike mine. So points for freshness.
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Enable the subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvYiitV6wk
And if you want to see some real German humor, fast foward to 7:20.