The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin at least we say digits in order.
There's a joke (which I don't remember in full) about that where someone is slowly spelling out a phone number while another is dialing, like
: acht.... undzwanzig ("eight ... and twenty", i.e. 28)
: how am I supposed to get the two back in there now?!
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
You mean words?
Like all of them?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć
Is that the telephone number of Oświęcim?
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
I'm sure every language has tongue-twisters. Though maybe not always in phone numbers.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć
Is that the telephone number of Oświęcim?
Olsztyn, actually, based on two first digits. But you weren't that far off.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.
Król Karol kupił królowej Karolinie korale koloru koralowego.
Szedł Sasza suchą szosą, bo gdy susza szosa sucha.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast
I'll keep that one bookmarked for the next time someone makes a joke about German.
The ugly thing on Polish spelling is that it uses both accents (includes ogonek, the tail below) and digraphs. Czech has at least dropped all but one digraph (‘ch’ for [x]) long ago.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Dammit. My kids have named the Roombas and I refuse to learn the names.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.
Król Karol kupił królowej Karolinie korale koloru koralowego.
Szedł Sasza suchą szosą, bo gdy susza szosa sucha.
Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.
And of course the longest polish word: konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (little girl living in Constantinople).
That's for nouns, but actually rules for creating new words allow adjectives to be created by gluing together existing words, so it's quite easy to make them as long as you want. For example 'ponaddwustudziewięćdziesięciodziewięciokilometrowy' (over 299 kilometers long).
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Dammit. My kids have named the Roombas and I refuse to learn the names.
But do they have googly eyes?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie
That bug?
Oh by the way, I did not know that "Szczebrzeszynia" is the Polish name for Khao Lak.
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@Dragoon
And also assumes you'refinancially illiterate enoughwilling to accept a 0% time value of money interest rate to interpret the headline (annuity total payout) number as the actual amount of money you're getting. If you take the straight cash payout (or otherwise try to fairly discount the annuity payments), then you need to roughly double the breakeven point. At which point the odds of having co-winners are even higher, so you probably need to raise the breakeven point again...The last time 538 did the maths on it (before recent changes to both games but especially PowerBall to make winning harder such that they got to giant jackpots more frequently), the theoretical breakeven was around an announced jackpot of $450-500M. So nowadays it's probably north of $800M.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I dread of the day the transmission in my car gains human rights.
That's trans-phobic.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I dread of the day the transmission in my car gains human rights.
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's trans-phobic.
Just don't speak of it while in the car, it really grinds their gears.
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it's quite easy to make them as long as you want. For example 'ponaddwustudziewięćdziesięciodziewięciokilometrowy' (over 299 kilometers long).
You must have a huge screen, on mine it's something like 10 cm max.
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@Gąska
In Murica that's practically the next town
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fun fact: that's how phone numbers are often told in Polish. The "teen" and "tens" suffixes are sufficiently different from each other and from all digits that any confusion is very unlikely. "Osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt dziewięć" is perfectly cromulent even when spoken fast (I dare you try it.)
It certainly looks very simple. Are they any tongue-twisters in Polish?
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.
Król Karol kupił królowej Karolinie korale koloru koralowego.
Szedł Sasza suchą szosą, bo gdy susza szosa sucha.
Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.
And of course the longest polish word: konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (little girl living in Constantinople).
That's for nouns, but actually rules for creating new words allow adjectives to be created by gluing together existing words, so it's quite easy to make them as long as you want. For example 'ponaddwustudziewięćdziesięciodziewięciokilometrowy' (over 299 kilometers long).
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
over 299 kilometers long
That's more then a small exaggeration ... I doubt it's over 15cm
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@pie_flavor do you know any discoverable keyboard shortcuts?
All the ones shown in menus
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@hungrier "shown in the menus" borders on "written in the manual" - not exactly a shining example of discoverability. And the most interesting shortcuts don't have corresponding menu option because there's no way to put that in a menu.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier "shown in the menus" borders on "written in the manual" - not exactly a shining example of discoverability.
The only thing they have in common is being written. If you use the functions in the menus, you can't avoid seeing the shortcuts.
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@Gąska
Fine! I'll do it myself!
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And of course the longest polish word: konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (little girl living in Constantinople).
That's oddly specific... What if she's living in Jerusalem? Or if it's a little boy?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska
In Murica that's practically the next townSometimes, that's the distance to the next exit.
edit: Actually makes me wonder - what is the longest distance between 2 exits...
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The longest stretch between exits on an Interstate Highway is located between Wendover and Knolls, with 37.4 miles (60.2 km) between those exits.
That is for the US, I am sure other places have larger ones, Australia or Russia would probably win.
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@Mason_Wheeler more than a year ago.
You need to keep up more with the comics thread (and most definitely with TPBF comics).
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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fa1hrp/tricky/
The monkey is you.
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@Bulb I was wondering why the "Play" button was apparently part of the image.
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Also from /r/funny:
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@Mason_Wheeler It's no PStratocaster:
made by the same guy
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And of course the longest polish word: konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (little girl living in Constantinople).
That's oddly specific... What if she's living in Jerusalem? Or if it's a little boy?
Don't know Polish, but even in English, "girl" is longer than "boy". Must fix that - obviously an instance of oppression of womyn.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The monkey is you.Especially for those who needed the details.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska You may or may not be joking, but this is something that was actually done by combat medics in decades gone by to quickly get someone alert and out of a state of shock. I think the technique was called a "Murphy Drop", but googling that turns up nothing relevant; just a bunch of info on a certain Celtic punk band.
In 3HO, that was the only allowable way to take coffee.
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@r10pez10 Hey, they're the perfect people to trust with your phone. They already have access to it so why would they hack it? If anything they'll get rid of the Chinese spyware.
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"OK, we have the Eiffel tower, French flags, French signs, and every single NPC says "bonjour" when you get close. But how can we make it absolutely clear that we're in France?"
"I don't know... what do French people like? Baguettes?"
"Baguettes, of course! But how do we make a baguette stand out in that scene?"
"I think I have an idea..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFTFf4328U
Edit: to be fair it's somewhat justified in-game (early plot spoilers)
This scene takes place in the Elizabeth's imagination, so it's literally her conception of Paris. It gets more obvious after this when one of the birds start singing "Disney princess style".
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@Zenith said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah, I think I have at least 100 screws. Gotta convert them from fucks though, I usually don't keep the small change...
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@Tsaukpaetra
I thought she was going to convert your screws into a fuck ... ? Am I missing something?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra
I thought she was going to convert your screws into a fuck ... ? Am I missing something?No no, it's the other way around. 1 fuck for 10 screws. So, ten fucks.