The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB I saw the gorilla
They're not talking about the one in your profile pic
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB I saw the gorilla but I counted just 10 passes, not sure if these are related.
That can mean one of two things:
- You've seen a similar test before and/or guessed that there's a trick, and so kept "one eye" on the surroundings.
- You have ADD.
You really have to concentrate on the passes to count them. To keep your eyes on the ball. That's the whole point.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
- You've seen a similar test before and/or guessed that there's a trick, and so kept "one eye" on the surroundings.
- You have ADD.
- You suck at all sportsball things, and the probability of you not being able to receive a ball pass increases as more people are around to see it.
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@acrow I didn't expect a trick and I think I was focused on the passes.
In the middle of it I noticed a strange creature, shrugged and went on counting the passes. In the slow-motion replay I was more surprised that it actually passed through, initially I assumed it was there all the time but I didn't notice it before.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That can mean one of two things:
- You've seen a similar test before and/or guessed that there's a trick, and so kept "one eye" on the surroundings.
Yes.
- You have ADD.
Also yes.
And last but not least:
- Didn't really care how many passes the white team made.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can't recall the last time I spent 90 consecutive minutes offline except when I'm asleep.
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@anonymous234 Having had some dealings with them over time, I'm firmly of the opinion that owls are about the worst possible choice to symbolize wisdom.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anonymous234 Having had some dealings with them over time, I'm firmly of the opinion that owls are about the worst possible choice to symbolize wisdom.
I'm really kinda curious myself at those kinds of adages. Like, who decided elephants never forget, et al. The dangers of using real things in morality stories I suppose...
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You really have to concentrate on the passes to count them.
Yes, which is how I noticed the gorilla. As he enters it becomes markedly harder to count the passes as there is more congestion.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anonymous234 Having had some dealings with them over time, I'm firmly of the opinion that owls are about the worst possible choice to symbolize wisdom.
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anonymous234 Having had some dealings with them over time, I'm firmly of the opinion that owls are about the worst possible choice to symbolize wisdom.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anonymous234 Having had some dealings with them over time, I'm firmly of the opinion that owls are about the worst possible choice to symbolize wisdom.
I'm really kinda curious myself at those kinds of adages. Like, who decided elephants never forget, et al. The dangers of using real things in morality stories I suppose...
Owls have enough brains to hunt and eat, to mate and protect their offspring, and to remember to lock their talons around branches and whatnot before falling asleep so they don't fall to the ground. Apart from that there's little slack mental capacity to use for unexpected situations.
Mockingbirds, on the other hand, carry around a huge musical repertoire in addition to the more basic survival traits. I once watched one settle in and start singing one phrase after another, repeating each line exactly once before moving onto the next, and over the course of ten minutes he never returned to one I'd heard earlier. And all that stored in a brain that compares unfavorably in size to a peanut.
Crows and ravens, though, have so much slack mental capacity that it wouldn't surprise me to find that they do sudoku puzzles just to keep themselves occupied.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My son was a big fan of the German band Deichkind long before he could make any real sense of their texts, so having learned his taste, Spotify put a lot of Deichkind on the playlist for his 6th birthday, too. Including "Travel Pussy".
Only one adult guest actually listened, and he was quite pleased with the choice.
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@Gąska My pupils actually do this.
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Last one
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Okay this one!
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Technically a different user this time...
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FFS I'll stop now.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska My pupils actually do this.
The former part, I presume?
I always hated the bullshitting required for German/English class compared to things with definitive answers.
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@topspin I ask mine to show me how their results explain their conclusion. Most say "my results match my conclusion because they match." Or something very similar.
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@Benjamin-Hall The Department of Redundancy Department strikes again!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall The Department of Redundancy Department strikes again!
Their usual pattern for anything longer than a sentence is:
Sentence 1: restate the question.
Sentence 2: restate it again, but phrased as a conclusion. Maybe add one fact.
Sentence 3: explain it by restating things said in the question.sigh.
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Can you blame them when they see the presidential candidates doing the same thing?
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Can you blame them when they see the presidential candidates doing the same thing?
At least if they were getting it from them, they'd be watching something with relevance. No, this is just not-even-high-school level BS'ing. And it's blatantly obvious, so...
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@Dragoon let me tell you, we have the best conclusions, don't we folks!?
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@Benjamin-Hall Sometimes things get weird though and I can only guess that there has been some kind of short-circuit.
For example, I once asked them (as a way to score some easy points) to compare cars based on combustion and electrical engines (you know advantages versus disadvantages)
The answer:
If you have got a car you can drive with it. And if the car has a stereo you can use the wipers to indicate your direction.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall Sometimes things get weird though and I can only guess that there has been some kind of short-circuit.
For example, I once asked them (as a way to score some easy points) to compare cars based on combustion and electrical engines.
The answer:
If you have got a car you can drive with it. And if the car has a stereo you can use the wipers to indicate your direction.
Yeah. I've had some kids that were perfectly cogent if you asked them verbally. Ask them a written question and you'd get gibberish. Not even wrong--just total nonsense. Frequently with only tiny fragments of sentences. Basically the written form of a brain explosion.
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@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Is this another example of people forgetting that millennials are in their thirties, holding down steady jobs and raising families?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall The Department of Redundancy Department strikes again!
Their usual pattern for anything longer than a sentence is:
Sentence 1: restate the question.
Sentence 2: restate it again, but phrased as a conclusion. Maybe add one fact.
Sentence 3: explain it by restating things said in the question.sigh.
But that is what you learn in
Germanlocal first language class!!
I consistently got lower grades writing elaborations / text analysis / whatever that’s called compared to the girls who effectively stated the same things, but written on twice as many pages and repeating everything on and on.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The answer:
If you have got a car you can drive with it. And if the car has a stereo you can use the wipers to indicate your direction.
Did you check for strokes or aneurysms?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And if the car has a stereo you can use the wipers to indicate your direction.
Unless it's a BMW?