The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Then we're even, because I don't like the chupacabra."
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I need to wait faster!
This is just suggesting you rest more frequently.
It's a busy-wait.
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Be careful with your abbreviations
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska Of course. It's a tired old joke, but...
Seriously (), if you were asking about the word queso, apparently in most Spanish dialects, it should be midway between /e/ and /ɛ/, definitely not the (American?) English diphthong /eɪ/ (ay), but Americans are not noted for their ability to correctly pronounce their own language, much less furrin words.
Eh...I was taught that
e
in Spanish was a long Englisha
sound. And that's how it sounds to me. Back when I was speaking Spanish regularly I was told my accent was pretty good (Mexican variant, because Southern California).
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska Of course. It's a tired old joke, but...
Seriously (), if you were asking about the word queso, apparently in most Spanish dialects, it should be midway between /e/ and /ɛ/, definitely not the (American?) English diphthong /eɪ/ (ay), but Americans are not noted for their ability to correctly pronounce their own language, much less furrin words.
Eh...I was taught that
e
in Spanish was a long Englisha
sound. And that's how it sounds to me. Back when I was speaking Spanish regularly I was told my accent was pretty good (Mexican variant, because Southern California).That's what I learned as well, and based on conversations with my father-in-law, it seems to be an accurate pronunciation. The video linked above also seems to support this pronunciation.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I was taught that
e
in Spanish was a long Englisha
sound.I suspect the disagreement here is not over the pronunciation of the Spanish
e
as much as it is the Englisha
. Many native English speakers probably do not realize that longa
is not a single vowel sound; it is actually a diphthong — eh-ee, more or less. Leave off the -ee part, and you get Spanishe
.This is the funny stuff thread, and this discussion is decidedly not funny, so have a couple of relevant jokes (source https://www.pinterest.com/amandamarie6142/phonology-jokes/):
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Pronunciation guide:
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra in an alternate universe, Nokia never split and they produced tractor tyres and mobile phones side by side.
Tandy produced early home computers, for Radio Shack, and leathercrafts. Other early home computers were produced by the Beatles' record company.
One company is at the same time a major airline based in Atlanta, a manufacturer of faucets, and a provider of dental insurance.
"Dove bars" could mean chocolate, or soap.
And there's this Swedish place that sells assemble-it-yourself furniture. And meatballs.
In the USA, Konami is known almost exclusively for their video games. In Japan, according to a friend of mine with some knowledge of the industry at least, it's a small niche of their business that they're trying to get out of so they can focus on their much more lucrative personal health and fitness division.
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@Mason_Wheeler "Everyone has a plan until they get mauled by a bear." -Mike Tyson (paraphrased)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
, but Americans are not noted for their ability to correctly pronounce their own language, much less furrin words.
I am in this post.
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@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Be careful with your abbreviations
Probably written either by someone who saw the opportunity to make a meme with plausible deniability, or a Spanish-speaking author who habitually turns all the acronyms around. There 's the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and the PAF (Philippine Air Force), but the Fuerzas Armadas Peruanas are hopefully not involved there.
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@LaoC The original article has "AFP". I doubt that any actual newspaper (this one looks like something Mail, reprinting the article from the Philippine Star) had the "FAP" transposition at all.
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@hungrier Which is probably why the A looks bigger than the F and P.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
any actual newspaper (this one looks like something Mail
Further doubt about the authenticity: Online search for either the claim in the masthead "Northern California's Largest Filipino American Newspaper by Circulation", or just for Filipino newspapers in California, does not give any results containing "Mail". Nor according to Wikipedia's list of newspapers in California, is there any newspaper, Filipino or otherwise (and the list includes several papers targeted to ethnic/immigrant communities), in California with "Mail" in its name.
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@HardwareGeek I found some references to "The Philippines Mail" from Salinas, California (one of which claims that it's "the longest-running Filipino newspaper in the United States") but the only images I can find are old and have a totally different look:
Anyway this isn't particularly funny
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Online search for either the claim in the masthead "Northern California's Largest Filipino American Newspaper by Circulation", or just for Filipino newspapers in California, does not give any results containing "Mail".
Google Images does.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Some of those are not actually separate ranks, but are special duty positions or "billets". They are the same rank category (e.g., E-9) as the unadorned rank, although they are senior.
The ranks are basically identical with those in the Air Force (except for the "Starship/Starbase" designations, which appear to correspond to "Group/Squadron" (or vice versa) in the USAF). The rank names in both appear to be one "name" higher than the equivalent names in the Army and Marine Corps. (There are also equivalent ranks in the Navy and Coast Guard, but they have completely different names, so I won't mention them here.)
USAF/USSF Staff Sergeant is E-5, equivalent to plain Sergeant in the Army and Marine Corps. Technical Sergeant (E-6) is equivalent to Staff Sergeant. Master Sergeant (E-7) is equivalent to Sergeant First Class (Army) or Gunnery Sergeant (USMC). Senior Master Sergeant (E-8) is equivalent to Master Sergeant and First Sergeant (both E-8, but with different responsibilities). Chief Master Sergeant and Command Chief Master Sergeant are both E-9, and are equivalent to (Command) Sergeant Major in the Army; the difference is that the Command ... serves as the chief enlisted advisor to the commanding officer of a unit. (USMC uses the names Master Gunnery Sergeant and Sergeant Major for these ranks/positions.) The Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force is similar (still E-9, but "special"), but is a Pentagon assignment and acts as the chief enlisted advisor to the Chief of Space Operations and Secretary of the Air Force (on matters related to the Space Force), rather than any individual unit, and yes, that's his/her own rank; there's only one CMSSF at any time.
So there are technically only 5 levels of Sergeant, E-5 – E-9, although there are sub-levels within E-9 based on job duty. (Other branches also have sub-levels within E-8.)
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@TimeBandit hooray job security!
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Don't judge me, Spotify.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't judge me, Spotify.
According to the vocalist, when they started the band, one time they were rehearsing in one of the member's garage - his/her father came in and said "this 'music' is garbage" . Hence name of the band.
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't judge me, Spotify.
According to the vocalist, when they started the band, one time they were rehearsing in one of the member's garage - his/her father came in and said "this 'music' is garbage"
The man had impeccable taste.
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@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The man had impeccable taste.
The only Garbage song I know is "The World Is Not Enough," but that song is just fine. (I wonder for how many other people this is true.)
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@heterodox They are/were a pretty popular band, so clearly someone has to enjoy their music...
Also, someone must really enjoy programming in PHP.
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@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Also, someone must really enjoy programming in PHP.
My colleague is in this sentence. He does almost everything in PHP. Including stuff that shouldn't.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Including stuff that shouldn't.
...be done in PHP
...be done at all
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@Applied-Mediocrity
you now the answer:
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@heterodox said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The man had impeccable taste.
The only Garbage song I know is "The World Is Not Enough," but that song is just fine. (I wonder for how many other people this is true.)
I'm pretty sure you also know "I'm only happy when it rains".
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@Applied-Mediocrity Mostly the former. But also a bit of the latter.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity
you now the answer:To what question is @Applied-Mediocrity the answer?
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@abarker said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
To what question is @Applied-Mediocrity the answer?
What user has ceiling cat as an avatar?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity
you now the answerWho the answer before?
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
his/her father came in and said "this 'music' is garbage" .
I might be in this post.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
He does almost everything in PHP. Including stuff that shouldn't.
"Stuff that shouldn't" is a very large set — the universal set.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit hooray job security!
30 years and counting!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm pretty sure you also know "I'm only happy when it rains".
No.
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"Get your ducks in a row"
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While getting my COVID test, the nurse asked "Have you experienced a loss of taste recently?"
I said "No, I 've dressed like this for a long time".
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