The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@El_Heffe For those who won't be able to tell, yes there's audio at the source https://i.imgur.com/eUFieT8.mp4
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People down the block from us have a couple of parrots. They sometimes let them out in the back yard and man, do they love to screech at each other. We live close enough to be able to hear it if we have our windows open but not close enough that it makes me want to kill the birds.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
People down the block from us have a couple of parrots. They sometimes let them out in the back yard and man, do they love to screech at each other. We live close enough to be able to hear it if we have our windows open but not close enough that it makes me want to kill the birds.
I hear that peacocks are worse.
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Give a man an airplane ticket and he flies once.
Throw a man out of an airplane and he flies for the rest of his life.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe For those who won't be able to tell, yes there's audio at the source https://i.imgur.com/eUFieT8.mp4
Yes, for some reason, the audio is off by default here.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe For those who won't be able to tell, yes there's audio at the source https://i.imgur.com/eUFieT8.mp4
Yes, for some reason, the audio is off by default here.
So you want autoplaying video as well as autoplaying video with sound?!?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe For those who won't be able to tell, yes there's audio at the source https://i.imgur.com/eUFieT8.mp4
Or just right-click and Unmute!
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe For those who won't be able to tell, yes there's audio at the source https://i.imgur.com/eUFieT8.mp4
Or just right-click and Unmute!
Yeah, let me see you right-click on Mobile.
Edit: I feel like this conversation has happened several times....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yeah, let me see you right-click on Mobile.
(Moon letters: I mean, I understand everything. But I don't understand this.)
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're want to get out of lockdown and travel so badly that you didn't even realize it was a cheesecake, did you?
I thought it was a close-up of a barrel of tar, so I guess not?
yeah who puts tar on top of a cheesecake
, but they put tar in/on anything.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're want to get out of lockdown and travel so badly that you didn't even realize it was a cheesecake, did you?
I thought it was a close-up of a barrel of tar, so I guess not?
yeah who puts tar on top of a cheesecake
, but they put tar in/on anything.
I think you're confusing salmiakki with tar.
Tar is a very rarely used taste even in Finland. Salmiakki, on the other hand, is very common.Also, who would put tar on top of cheesecake? That's like eating Roquefort with Cabernet Souvignon.
Or like pouring salt into your coffee.
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@acrow You still put tar in anything, though. And the prevalence of tar in edible products is still a lot higher than on this side of the Baltic Sea/Gulf of Botnia.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or like pouring salt into your coffee.
Reminds me of how one April Fool's, I've filled sugar bowl with salt. My sister was so mad.
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@Gąska There was a period of time in which my sister drank coffee with salt (intentionally). Apparently she tried it on Cyprus or somewhere and liked it.
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@obeselymorbid I guess tea with salt is less edible. Especially three spoons of salt.
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@Atazhaia Now I think you're mixing us up with some other people. Possibly the Swedish.
The only products containing tar (or the taste thereof; actual tar is rather toxic) that I've come across recently were a sugarless candy I found in Lidl. I've also heard that there's tar-taste liquor, but I don't drink so I wouldn't know. I havent' heard of tar being used anywhere else, unless we start counting non-food uses, like for tarring boats.
So saying that it's everywhere is just not true.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're want to get out of lockdown and travel so badly that you didn't even realize it was a cheesecake, did you?
What is it supposed to look like then?
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@acrow I am Swedish, and there is no prevalence of tar-flavored edible products here But yeah, I found tar-flavored candy and tar soft drinks in Finland, so...
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Or like pouring salt into your coffee.
I know people that do this.
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@acrow There was some news about the EU banning tar in food a decade or so ago, and Swedish newspapers said that it was used in food in Finland, I guess that's where the notion of Finns eating tar comes from. That and mämmi doesn't help.
But Swedes and Finns have similar pallets, we both eat ginorous amounts of salmiakki compared to the rest of the world, for instance.
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@Carnage It's more that when going to Finland I have had no problems finding tar-flavored stuff.
And yeah, the salmiakki I understand, because that is real good stuff~
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage It's more that when going to Finland I have had no problems finding tar-flavored stuff.
And yeah, the salmiakki I understand, because that is real good stuff~
Eh, I've been there a few times and I didn't find an overwhelming amount of it.
Though I usually buy some Terva Leijona or similar when I'm there.
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@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
ginorous amounts of salmiakki compared to the rest of the world
That doesn't say much. Any amount compared to approximately 0 will seem enormous.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You're want to get out of lockdown and travel so badly that you didn't even realize it was a cheesecake, did you?
What is it supposed to look like then?
If you squint and scroll it slowly into view you could see it as a ship's bow plowing the waves:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/ships-bow-moving-through-waves-her-1057558907
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere., why? Do you also put coal in food?
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere., why? Do you also put coal in food?
People tend to try to eat all kinds of strange stuff during famines, so most old countries have some odd stuff that the inhabitants eat because that was what was available when you were dying of starvation.
When all you have is rotting meat or other produce, and some tar. Making the spoiled food taste not spoiled with a dashing of tar might have been an improvement.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere., why? Do you also put coal in food?
No, but we put salmiakki in food. If you happen to like it, then don't look into its chemical composition.
P.S.: We don't, but someone else does https://www.generalkinematics.com/blog/5-places-you-never-thought-you-would-find-coal/
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@Carnage Rotten meat is considered a delicacy in parts of the world. As are snails, frogs, moldy cheese and oysters.
How many of them were discovered during a famine? ...I'd like to imagine most. But I know people, so equally likely not.
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@error The world would be a lot funnier if that astronauts did that, killed the video and forged their deaths somehow. I know it's probably impossible to forge their deaths and still return to earth, but that would be the ultimate prank.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error The world would be a lot funnier if that astronauts did that, killed the video and forged their deaths somehow. I know it's probably impossible to forge their deaths and still return to earth, but that would be the ultimate prank.
They'd have to sacrifice everything for the ultimate prank.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'd like to imagine most. But I know people, so equally likely not.
Probably most were found by kids: I dare you... I DOUBLE dare you!
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@dcon except kids can't cook, so it's unlikely they'd invent a dish with more than one ingredient.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon except kids can't cook, so it's unlikely they'd invent a dish with more than one ingredient.
Who said anything about cooking!
Plus, kids can cook.
(I remember helping my mom out before she passed away when I was 7)
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My cat already is contagious with coronavirus and I'm fine.
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I remember an SMBC comic about traditional food, something about some poor people having to eat their own feces or something, and several generations later it became a local specialty with people arguing with each other whose grandma makes the best feces. I thought it would be perfect to post now, but I can't find it.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon except kids can't cook, so it's unlikely they'd invent a dish with more than one ingredient.
Who said anything about cooking!
Plus, kids can cook.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I remember an SMBC comic about traditional food, something about some poor people having to eat their own feces or something, and several generations later it became a local specialty with people arguing with each other whose grandma makes the best feces. I thought it would be perfect to post now, but I can't find it.
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@error That's a better link!
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@error thanks. How did you do it?
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Plus, kids can cook.
(I remember helping my mom out before she passed away when I was 7)
Clarification: the number of children who have eaten snails as a dare is several orders of magnitude higher than the number of children who know how to cook anything more fancy than basic scrambled eggs. Yes, there are exceptional children who are more similar to much older people than to their peers in a couple ways, but the coronavirus thread is .
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska There was a period of time in which my sister drank coffee with salt (intentionally). Apparently she tried it on Cyprus or somewhere and liked it.
Is she sure they weren't playing a practical joke on the foreigner?
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Atazhaia Or, turning it around, it's hard to find tar-taste anything elsewhere. This may have a historical reason; Finland was a major tar exporter for a long time. So a lot of places smelled like tar, and had a surplus of the stuff.
Of course it'd find its way into food somewhere.I don't mean this entirely as a joke: Doesn't all salmiakki taste like tar? I haven't had a lot of salmiakki, but the stuff I have had tasted like tar and looked like the stuff Alex had.
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@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
People tend to try to eat all kinds of strange stuff during famines
The story of us eating tulip bulbs during the hunger winter (1945) is pretty well known. I have never ever heard a suggestion that anyone kept doing it.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska There was a period of time in which my sister drank coffee with salt (intentionally). Apparently she tried it on Cyprus or somewhere and liked it.
Is she sure they weren't playing a practical joke on the foreigner?
A local delicacy is something that nobody who lives anywhere else is crazy enough to eat.