The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Blame the Gregorian calendrical reforms. Prior to them, the year started in March…
:O Good thing they've changed the calendar then. I could have not been born!
No, you'd just be a year older
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Blame the Gregorian calendrical reforms. Prior to them, the year started in March…
:O Good thing they've changed the calendar then. I could have not been born!
No, you'd just be a year older
+ Ǝ dad joke
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a supposedly attraction-boosting deodorant
If you want real attraction-boosting, add magnetic nanoparticles.
(The terrible suggestions thread is or should be…)
So, instead of aluminum oxide, as found in most deodorants, you'd want to add magnesium oxide?
I think both of those are paramagnetic, if at all.
Hmm... Could you give me a non-toxic ferromagnetic substance that doesn't get immediately oxidized by sweat and atmosphere when in the form of finely ground dust?
Magnetite (Fe3O4) is ferrimagnetic, which is almost but not quite the same as being ferromagnetic. It contains Fe2+, which will oxidize to Fe3+, but I don't know how quickly. When it does oxidize, at least under the right conditions, it forms maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), which is itself ferrimagnetic.
Edit: This suggests that fine particles oxidize slowly enough for nanoparticles to be very useful.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Dilbert's interaction with women is always fun, of course...
In the Dwarf Fortress sense.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The True Facts thread is .
Filed under: It's narrated by Ze Frank.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Filed under: It's narrated by Ze Frank.
Yes, please!
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Well, there you go.
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@El_Heffe That reminds me of when my (then) wife and I were in Rome. She wanted to buy some clothes for our kids, and since European sizes are specified entirely differently from American sizes, she would just say how old the kids were and let the shopkeeper help figure out what size would probably fit a child that age. The difference in pronunciation between
Mio figlio ha quattro anni.
and
Mio figlio ha quattro ani.
is very subtle, at least to a non-Italian (ahn-nee vs ah-nee). The Italians understood what she was trying to say, of course, but it was not what she was actually saying.
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@HardwareGeek The difference between long and short vowels and consonants is lost on Americans, which is why instead of "Nissan" (a sort of acronym for "Japan Motors"), we say what the Japanese hear as "Niisan" ("Big Brother").
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@da-Doctah True. The difference between "long" and "short" vowels in English is not a difference in length (e.g., the difference between /a/ and /aː/), but a completely different phoneme (e.g., back vs. bake). Although TIL (according to Wikipedia) actual length can change the meaning of a word in some dialects of English (or pseudo-English like 'Stralian ).
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Be a High Elf (or any elf, I guess):
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@TimeBandit And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek The difference between long and short vowels and consonants is lost on Americans, which is why instead of "Nissan" (a sort of acronym for "Japan Motors"), we say what the Japanese hear as "Niisan" ("Big Brother").
You are just incapable of pronouncing repeated consonants. Out of all Polish pronunciation challenges me and my sister have imposed on our American friends, by far the hardest one is the name Anna.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Be a High Elf (or any elf, I guess):
That actually works, for a couple of days at a time. My dad said that when he was in the army, on the exercises the orders would come at random times so you couldn't get much sleep for a couple of days, but by lying in the back of the truck whenever there was a quiet moment and just meditating he managed to stay fairly fresh even if he could only get a couple of hours a day. He still had to catch up the sleep after the exercise.
Not sure about the dreams; this is just normal yoga meditation.
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Just go with: https://time.com/5063665/what-is-polyphasic-sleep/#:~:text=Most people are monophasic sleepers,instead of sleeping all night.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the name Anna.
"Ah, na-naah"
Wait, this isn't the Say my name thread...
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
#:~:text=Most people are monophasic sleepers,instead of sleeping all night.
I spy a google result on Chrome!
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@Tsaukpaetra try to say that without the a sound between the two n's. But they have to be two distinct n's - it's Anna, not Ana.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra try to say that without the a sound between the two n's. But they have to be two distinct n's - it's Anna, not Ana.
This recently came up while I was watching boxing. One of the color commentators was Lennox Lewis. He explained to his American colleagues that they always say his first name wrong and now they are careful to prounounce it "Len-nox."
American English, at least, doesn't normally do that with doubled consonants, as you noted.
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Indeed, I have read it before but I didn't keep it bookmarked so I just quickly searched for it.
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I call bullshit I still never found my passport after I stored it somewhere safe when I moved houses.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
try to say that without the a sound between the two n's.
The what?
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But they have to be two distinct n's - it's Anna, not Ana.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to get at. Is it something like An-na but without pause?
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Now that you got that one, let's try long wovels.
Say hääyöaie.
/ˈhæːˌyø̯ˌɑi̯eˣ/, [ˈhæːˌyø̞̯ˌɑi̯e̞(ʔ)]
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
hääyöaie.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
by far the hardest one is the name Anna.
And that's not even the Polish Bug "Chrzasc" (add some ogonek and hacek etc some where),
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@BernieTheBernie Named after the sound it makes when you step on it?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
by far the hardest one is the name Anna.
And that's not even the Polish Bug "Chrzasc" (add some ogonek and hacek etc some where),
Wrong! You went with ogonek and correct answer is digraph.
Chrząszcz@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Named after the sound it makes when you step on it?
Of course, it chrzęści when stepped on.
It also makes a sound in more convoluted circumstances, namely in reeds in Szczebrzeszyn.
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I know politics go somewhere else , but it’s about the tag line not the politics:
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
by far the hardest one is the name Anna.
And that's not even the Polish Bug "Chrzasc" (add some ogonek and hacek etc some where),
Wrong! You went with ogonek and correct answer is digraph.
Chrząszcz@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie Named after the sound it makes when you step on it?
Of course, it chrzęści when stepped on.
It also makes a sound in more convoluted circumstances, namely in reeds in Szczebrzeszyn.
I would like to point out that you cheat a little here - all the digraphs inflate the perceived length of the word. Sz, cz, rz are all just single consonants (and these three are actually even present in English). As is ch, but that one is at least incomprehensible for most English speakers (but it is spelled the same way in most European languages, including German).
Now Finnish, on the other hand, has very long words without this trick. Also, it has long vowels, something that is strangely missing in Polish.
Edit: I remember how the Finnish localization drove our frontend guy insane, because each and every layout just broke. Try to fit
onnistuneeseen urasuunniteluun
in a narrow table column...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would like to point out that you cheat a little here - all the digraphs inflate the perceived length of the word.
Fun is not in length, but in pronunciation. Take for example my favorite word: plwać. It's a pure joy to say.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
drove our frontend guy insane
How would you tell?