The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Yeah, the 11th doctor just wasn't interesting.
At some point they got completely rid of the idea of "character development", and replaced it with "stuff happens for no reason forever".
Since when is a Matt Smith episode considered "relatively recent"? That's a couple seasons old.
I watch on Netflix, and it's the newest season they have. If you wanna buy and send me the DVDs or whatever, then you're welcome to.
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Talking about old series, we still need some Raumpatrouille dancing here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znN0KJUd_0M
Funny stuff, indeed.
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I love how every episode had one of those ridiculous dance scenes in it. I hope it was a purposeful joke and not, like, an actual prediction of the future.
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Just yesterday I watched a relatively recent episode of Doctor Who where people were getting their souls sucked out by joining a evil wifi network. And I thought to myself: at this point, just give me the Star Trek technobabble because holy shit was that plot stupid.
Half of Doctor Who is shitty episodes like that, unfortunately, because most of the writers are idiots.
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Seasons 1-5 of New Who were actually pretty good, but since then the writing's become utter crap.
Except the season finales and holiday specials, those are always excrement. Always.
True. With Capaldi, as mentioned above, they've got some better stories, finally. Listen was great. The Robin Hood one wasn't too bad except for the modern tendency to cheese everything up; there were some old episodes vaguely similar. I liked The Caretaker, Mummy on the Orient Express, and Flatline had a great pun that approximately nobody appreciated, or even got.
Also, the season-long story lines? I'm tired of those, but this one was decent, and the reveal at the end was good. Missy was--mostly--a delight, calling back strongly to the way her character was played in the old series. She was far, far, better, too, than [spoiler]the last guy to play that character, who was an unredeemed buffoon[/spoiler].
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I watch on Netflix, and it's the newest season they have. If you wanna buy and send me the DVDs or whatever, then you're welcome to.
Unfortunately they just added season 7 recently, so season 8 probably won't be available for quite some time.
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Reminds me of me and the squad when the beat drops.
I'm pretty sure that's how the youngsters speak these days.
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And I thought to myself: at this point, just give me the Star Trek technobabble because holy shit was that plot stupid.
Pretty much on par with most Dr Who.
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In my estimation:
The target audience for Dr Who are 10 year olds that wannabe 18, and 50 year olds that never grew up.
Whilst the target audience for STTNG are 50 year olds that wannabe 10 and regret having to grow up.
Subsequently the plot, characters and all that associated shit is delivered accordingly.
The difference? Dr Who is all flash and bang with absolutely no credibility or substance because it's not needed - think about the attention span of the average 10 year old. STTNG is all full of "meaning" and "philosophy" and stuff like that in order to give meaning to the life of those 50 year old kids.
My qualifications to give comment? Well at the risk of ...whatever. I have been reading / watching science fiction for 4/5ths of my life. I have a library of over 1000 books - not as many films because of the book to film issue etc.
If I have "learnt" one thing: Solving a life threatening situation by introducing a never before mentioned technologic device - available at the touch of a replicator button. Or otherwise rewiring a prop from the last episode = !GOOD, Laughable, but not good.
If you want Star Trek - get the reimagined one it is closer to the original, and definitely aimed at 10 year olds.
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Idiot journalists writing about stuff they appear to know nothing about...
(archive.org link in case it gets corrected)
[carbon capture storage is] taking the carbon out of hydrocarbons before they are burnt and then burying it.
The author is
is an investor in, and an adviser to a number of companies and institutions in the energy business.
and
aims to blog twice a week
on energy and power matters.
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If you want Star Trek - get the reimagined one it is closer to the original, and definitely aimed at 10 year olds.
"the reimagined one"? Do you mean the recent films? Or that dumb indie TV series that "continues" the 5-year mission?
The funny thing about the films is that people complained that the Next Gen films took the smart Star Trek "thang" and turned it into dumb action movies. It's like J. J. Abrams read those complaints and said, "oh yeah? I'll show you dumb action movies!!!"
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taking the carbon out of hydrocarbons before they are burnt
So leaving hydrogen? Admittedly, that would be a clean fuel
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and
aims to blog twice a week
on energy and power matters.
I like listing a vague promise as a qualification.
"What qualifies you to repair this submarine?" "Well I was thinking about watching Deep Star Six tomorrow afternoon."
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Do you mean the recent films?
Yes. Didn't know about the new TV Series.
The new films have all the potential of being dumb action stuff, just like the original TV series: The "extra" crew member used as cannon fodder just so you "know" how dangerous the situation is; the attractive female alien, that would make you cancel your life time subscription to xenophobia; the reaffirmation that ALL issues can be solved with fisticuffs.... oh yeah!
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Idiot journalists writing about stuff they appear to know nothing about...
Which is anything you know anything about.
Filed Under: Murray Gell-Mann call your office
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Dot Notation: It's all relative.
Dot Notation: It's just a matter of knowing who your parent is.
Dot Notation: It's just a matter of having a child for life.
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It's all the funnier to me because I recently listened to a comedy set that revolved around Sean Connery's version of the Scottish dialect.
For those who are unfamiliar with him / it. He has a tendency to slur his S's, giving them a distinct Sh sound.
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That was funny when I retweeted it like a month ago.
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"It runs on 87 octane and hooker spit."
Seriously, watch it, it is worth it just for that line.
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That was funny when I retweeted it like a month ago.
You have started an avalanche, that turned an innocent little joke into a legend.
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"It's aged well". I don't think this is, strictly speaking, accurate. I think it would be more accurate to say it came from the factory pre-aged, so it couldn't get any worse.
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I'm bored, so here's something silly:
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mkdir matryoshka; cd matryoshka; sudo ln -d . matryoshka;
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Da fuck do you do then?
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They're closed. Says so on the door.
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"hey bob?"
"yes jenn?"
"didn't there used to be a second story to this building?"
"Yean, but after the last group had their Ultimate adventure it had gone."
"I assume it took the roof with it then?"
"looks like it, yep."
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It may be lack of sleep, but I just laughed my ass off about this video.
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Edit: crap. Wanted to post in funny stuff. Can anyone sufficiently powerful move it? I'll flag for the mods too.
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https://i.imgur.com/YkhX1L7.webm
Filed under: @CarrieVS tries to deal with Discourse
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That is a remarkably patient horse
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https://i.imgur.com/wTJcSmI.gifv
Take that human.
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This should be in bad jokes, because it is one.
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PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — In a story June 14 on a black bear being killed in eastern Missouri, The Associated Press inadvertently dropped the word "bear" from the lead sentence. It should have read: "Authorities have killed a black bear that was running loose in eastern Missouri."
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Today's funny: Crazy white-woman-pretending-to-be-black Rachel Dolezal is suggesting the people who raised her aren't her parents: "they raised me but I was born in the woods and a birth certificate wasn't applied for immediately. There were no medical witnesses." So presumably they found--in these woods, wherever those were--a black baby who could pass and raised her as white, even though she began identifying as black as a child, although she found it convenient, in 2002, to be white again, when it gave her a chance to sue her employer, claiming she was discriminated against because she was white.
Either she's going to fade off into a richly-deserved obscurity, or she's going to tearily admit she has a problem and that's why she's been doubling and tripling down on her absurd claims, and she's going to check in to rehab, and then fade off into a richly-deserved obscurity.
Either way, this is all very entertaining. I can't tell if she's just extra-stubborn, like Josh Earnest, or crazy, but my money's on the latter.
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Clearly they meant the bicycles.
Those children weren't loved.
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she found it convenient, in 2002, to be white again, when it gave her a chance to sue her employer, claiming she was discriminated against because she was white.
Was her story not that her employer considered her white, or something of that nature?
Giving her the benefit of the doubt, for the moment, about identifying as black, do you really have any less of a legitimate grievance if you're discriminated against for being perceived as white than for actually being white?
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Was her story not that her employer considered her white, or something of that nature?
That was Howard University, an Historically Black College.
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"The removal of artworks from a student exhibition. Moore alleged that the decision [...] to remove some of her artworks from a [...] student exhibition was motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over Moore."
A claim she was identifying as black at that time and the school treated her as if she wasn't doesn't fit well with the appellate court's wording here or in other places. TSG doesn't seem to have the original filing by her, but I can't imagine the court's ruling would have misinterpreted her that much, or that she wouldn't have made a different complaint incomaptible with that wording.
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Yeah, but that could just be the insensitive wording of whomever wrote that, stomping all over her reality of identifying as black.