The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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🦵It's a runny nose.
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This feed is gold
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@dcon I see you and raise terrible house decisions in general, collected from swedish house ads.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc wait, wasn't that the plot of one of Narnia books?
Not quite. The Last Battle had a simple donkey and foolish monkey teaching people that Tash and Aslan were the same being - Tashlan - despite them being almost complete opposites.
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It was implied that the worshippers of Tash didn't like the people of Aslan, and vice versa.
Whether they fought over it, I don't remember.
That book, though, definitely gave a "Allah is the same as Jehovah is a lie" vibe.
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@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
Low key? It was explicitly a biblical allegory.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Some of those are pretty standard in any NYC apartment.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
Low key? It was explicitly a biblical allegory.
I refuse to admit my 12 year old self was too stupid to realize that.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It was implied that the worshippers of Tash didn't like the people of Aslan, and vice versa.
Whether they fought over it, I don't remember.
I don't recall them fighting over that in particular, but there was a lot of tension between the Calormene Empire (who worshipped Tash) and Narnia (with whom Aslan primarily interacted), in part because Calormen propaganda taught that the talking animals of Narnia were demons. The kingdom of Archenland in between was allied with Narnia, but because its inhabitants were humans (whose kings were descended from the cabby driver and his wife back when Narnia was created in The Magician's Nephew), it was treated as a buffer to help prevent conflicts from erupting (as in The Horse and His Boy).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
Low key? It was explicitly a biblical allegory.
C. S. Lewis himself said it was not an allegory, which is specifically a type of metaphor. The Chronicles of Narnia isn't a metaphor for Christianity like the Pilgrim's Progress. It's an imagining of how Christ might have been shown in a different world than ours.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error I'm just complaining that memes become worse with each year. Like, people make deliberate edits to original images to make the jokes less funny. It's frighteningly common nowadays.
Electricity is much more basic, too. So when reading it I'm like "yeah, how do you actually make that?" I guess something something magnets and turbines and stuff, but then you're at fucking magnets, how do
they workyou mine them?Good news:
You don't actually need permanent magnets.
The magnets can be permanent or electric magnets. Permanent magnets are mainly used in small generators, and they have the advantage that they don't need a power supply. Electric magnets are iron or steel wound with wire. When electricity passes through the wire, the metal becomes magnetic and creates a magnetic field.
Bad news:
I have no idea how to build a generator without them either.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I have no idea how to build a generator without them either.
With a potato?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
As someone once said:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
STOP FLOODING THIS THREAD WITH UNFUNNY STUFF!
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@MrL How large a coil would you need, to match a potato battery's output, if you were to use Earth's magnetic field as the "magnet"...?
And would it be enough for jump-starting an electro-magnet generator?
You give me so many ideas. In a funny-stuff thread. While I'm on vacation. I hate you so much right now.
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
Low key? It was explicitly a biblical allegory.
C. S. Lewis himself said it was not an allegory, which is specifically a type of metaphor. The Chronicles of Narnia isn't a metaphor for Christianity like the Pilgrim's Progress. It's an imagining of how Christ might have been shown in a different world than ours.
Yeah, it implies that Aslan IS Jesus at one point. Paraphrasing here but Aslan tells the kids that they'll meet him on Earth in another form.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How large a coil would you need, to match a potato battery's output, if you were to use Earth's magnetic field as the "magnet"...?
That depends on how much voltage/current you want to get from it and how fast you move it. (You need a time-varying magnetic field. You can get this by moving the magnet, moving the conductor, or changing the field, itself. Since moving the magnet is slightly impractical in this case, and although the Earth's magnetic field does change, it does so on a time scale that is impractically long, that leaves moving the conductor (it doesn't have to be a coil, but since all useful electromagnetic effects are proportional to the number of times the conductor intersects the field, getting an effect of useful magnitude usually requires a coil). Incidentally, varying the magnetic field is how transformers work; a time-varying (AC) electric current in one coil creates a time-varying magnetic field, which induces a time-varying electric field in the other coil.)
At one time, I probably knew enough to give a more detailed answer, but nowadays I'd have to look that stuff up, and we all know the emoji that describes that.
And would it be enough for jump-starting an electro-magnet generator?
Certainly, if you make it big enough. Whether making one big enough is a practical possiblity requires calculating the inertia of a warthog.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Some of those are pretty standard in any NYC apartment.
Combining kitchens and bathrooms?
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@dkf
fugly designs?
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Some of those are pretty standard in any NYC apartment.
Combining kitchens and bathrooms?
I was mostly joking, mostly.
I bet there is such a studio apartment. Many large apartments were converted to several smaller studios and they had to get creative.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Some of those are pretty standard in any NYC apartment.
Combining kitchens and bathrooms?
Adds a whole new meaning to shitting on the pot.
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via War and Peas:
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Good job UN.
Changing lives every day.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
STOP FLOODING THIS THREAD WITH UNFUNNY STUFF!
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade no surprise here, as that series was basically low-key Christian indoctrination.
Low key? It was explicitly a biblical allegory.
C. S. Lewis himself said it was not an allegory, which is specifically a type of metaphor. The Chronicles of Narnia isn't a metaphor for Christianity like the Pilgrim's Progress. It's an imagining of how Christ might have been shown in a different world than ours.
Yeah, it implies that Aslan IS Jesus at one point. Paraphrasing here but Aslan tells the kids that they'll meet him on Earth in another form.
Also, Aslan is usually depicted as a lion (and called the Lion), but he appears as a lamb at the end of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader when the protagonists reach almost the end of the world right at the edge of the land of the Emperor Over the Sea where Aslan lives.
The proper term for the sort of story that is the Chronicles of Narnia is probably "parallel," not "allegory."
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@loopback0 IDGI
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@loopback0 Oh, that makes sense... I was too to google "kris rea"
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 IDGI
The number plate on the car.
Yeah... I'm utterly failing at this. The song was... lovely?
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@Tsaukpaetra Wikipedia tells me he's a 69 year-old English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Apparently he had one big hit in the US, back in 1978, which I guess must have been pretty good, because he was nominated for a Grammy. But he doesn't seem to have had any lasting success on this side of the pond, because I don't remember ever even having heard of him. However, take that with a grain of salt because, admittedly, I'm not an authority on popular music, especially from that era. In 1978, I was completely uninterested in — in fact, actively tried to avoid, as much a possible — rock, blues, or anything else except classical.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
he doesn't seem to have had any lasting success on this side of the pond
Reading more of the Wikipedia article seems to back that up. The only other mention of the US was an album that only reached #104 on the charts, although one song from it, "Texas", was fairly popular in the state of Texas.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
although one song from it, "Texas", was fairly popular in the state of Texas.
@error_bot xkcd state word map
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@loopback0 I believe Road to Hell would be more accurate for current events
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@HardwareGeek I assumed Chris Rea was better known outside of Europe, particularly the Christmas song the joke relies on.
Oh well.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I assumed Chris Rea was better known outside of Europe
That may be true for some subset of "outside of Europe," but apparently not this subset of it.
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@Polygeekery's been on FB!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Truth in advertising - it successfully deterred the dog from no chewing.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I assumed Chris Rea was better known outside of Europe
That may be true for some subset of "outside of Europe," but apparently not this subset of it.
I can vouch for a small subset of inside Europe that didn't know him prior to today.