The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
It assumes you're in a negatively curved space and on acid. Not a lot of acid, but some.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
That's 100% par for the course when it comes to education, at least in the US. Dress it up in fancy clothes, but test something completely different and trivial. And watch a good proportion of the kids fail anyway.
I had kids fail on a question that was
- What is the best answer?
a. Not this one.
b. This isn't correct either.
c. This is the correct answer.
d. Don't choose this one, it's wrong.
(This was a filler question in an assessment, mostly just "are you paying any attention at all" combined with "My OCD says I need 20 questions and I can only think of 19 good ones, so here's some free points.")
- What is the best answer?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
That's 100% par for the course when it comes to education, at least in the US. Dress it up in fancy clothes, but test something completely different and trivial. And watch a good proportion of the kids fail anyway.
I had kids fail on a question that was
- What is the best answer?
a. Not this one.
b. This isn't correct either.
c. This is the correct answer.
d. Don't choose this one, it's wrong.
(This was a filler question in an assessment, mostly just "are you paying any attention at all" combined with "My OCD says I need 20 questions and I can only think of 19 good ones, so here's some free points.")
We sometimes get this kind of question on the tablet-driven trivia my team plays. (We share answers because team score counts for something, and some team members with a bit of hearing loss insist we call out the choices by number instead of content "for clarity".) And then along comes something like:
Q: There are _____ glernods in a frazzick.
- four
- three
- five
- one
- two
- What is the best answer?
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
That's 100% par for the course when it comes to education, at least in the US. Dress it up in fancy clothes, but test something completely different and trivial. And watch a good proportion of the kids fail anyway.
I had kids fail on a question that was
- What is the best answer?
a. Not this one.
b. This isn't correct either.
c. This is the correct answer.
d. Don't choose this one, it's wrong.
(This was a filler question in an assessment, mostly just "are you paying any attention at all" combined with "My OCD says I need 20 questions and I can only think of 19 good ones, so here's some free points.")
We sometimes get this kind of question on the tablet-driven trivia my team plays. (We share answers because team score counts for something, and some team members with a bit of hearing loss insist we call out the choices by number instead of content "for clarity".) And then along comes something like:
Q: There are _____ glernods in a frazzick.
- four
- three
- five
- one
- two
I wrote a program to take text input in a particular format and randomly generate multiple choice questions (ie randomly order the options and randomly order the questions within the overall assessment). It produced fun things like that.
- What is the best answer?
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@da-Doctah 1. I now consider this answer part of my personal identity.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
That's 100% par for the course when it comes to education, at least in the US. Dress it up in fancy clothes, but test something completely different and trivial. And watch a good proportion of the kids fail anyway.
I had kids fail on a question that was
- What is the best answer?
a. Not this one.
b. This isn't correct either.
c. This is the correct answer.
d. Don't choose this one, it's wrong.
(This was a filler question in an assessment, mostly just "are you paying any attention at all" combined with "My OCD says I need 20 questions and I can only think of 19 good ones, so here's some free points.")
I had a question one time that was basically a freebie, but you didn't know that.
What's the best answer:
a. b. is the best answer.
b. b. is not the best answer.
c. This is not the best answer.
d. All of the above.
Don't be too pedantic, the point is there is literally no best answer.
- What is the best answer?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I am also wondering what is that test supposed to test. That you can multiply four numbers? That wouldn't need the talk about a cylinder. But it does not test any understanding of what a cylinder is, so…
It assumes you're in a negatively curved space and on acid. Not a lot of acid, but some.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't be too pedantic, the point is there is literally no best answer.
However there is a correct answer, and I'm going to bet it was C...
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Rock stars when they were kids
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't be too pedantic, the point is there is literally no best answer.
However there is a correct answer, and I'm going to bet it was C...
I'd go with A. It's the only one that tells you the best answer.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Man, those warnings that play at the beginning were actually true?!?!
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@Tsaukpaetra would you download a VHS?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra would you download a VHS?
I've done this. Some of the no-effort-made movies on streaming services have the FBI warnings still.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Yahoo now tries to compete with The Onion?
Yahoo tries to compete with literally anything it has any hope of competing with, I would assume.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra would you download a VHS?
I'd rather download floppy discs!
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@Benjamin-Hall I mean, if that were plywood vs chipboard... wait, is that HDF?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had to buy 2x4 piece of plywood last weekend. Visited 3 home improvement stores and the absolute cheapest I found was $20.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I had to buy 2x4 piece of plywood last weekend. Visited 3 home improvement stores and the absolute cheapest I found was $20.
(Sorry for not funny, but...)
Inflation is picking up. And it shows first in stuff like lumber, because of the short woods-to-table chain. Stuff that has more warehouses in between will have their prices raised more slowly.
Then again, maybe it's just the prices of sheet materials being batshit crazy in just about any brick-and-mortar store.
For the price of a 1m x 1m sheet of acrylic in the nearest hardware store, I can order 5 sheets of similar size, cut-to-order and delivered to home, from an online vendor.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Q: There are _____ glernods in a frazzick.
Are those US, Metric or UK Imperial glernods?
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Q: There are _____ glernods in a frazzick.
Are those US, Metric or UK Imperial glernods?
Ha, you'd be better off asking about the frazzicks, thanks to King Edward.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Kind Edwards potatoes
Are a thing we've never heard of on this side of the pond, AFAIK (with or without typos). Nor do I remember ever seeing potatoes matching their description ("creamy coloured skin with light red blushes"), with or without a variety name, in a grocery store.
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@dkf I prefer Maurice Piper's
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Kind Edwards potatoes
Are a thing we've never heard of on this side of the pond, AFAIK (with or without typos). Nor do I remember ever seeing potatoes matching their description ("creamy coloured skin with light red blushes"), with or without a variety name, in a grocery store.
We use redskins for this purpose. England likes to preserve bad things that don't work properly, though. This also happens with pears.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Nor do I remember ever seeing potatoes matching their description ("creamy coloured skin with light red blushes"), with or without a variety name, in a grocery store.
We use redskins for this purpose.
That's racist.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Nor do I remember ever seeing potatoes matching their description ("creamy coloured skin with light red blushes"), with or without a variety name, in a grocery store.
We use redskins for this purpose.
That's racist.
You're thinking of Irish potatoes.
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First Communion of Anaemic Young Girls in the Snow - Alphonse Allais, 1883
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Clothes closely close close to clothes
Even more?
Clothes closely close close to closely closed clothes
Even more?
Closely closed clothes closely close close to closely closed clothes
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Clothes closely close close to clothes
L-lewd!
Don't worry. There's more clothes under there. Also under those.
Now, if you are in fact a Ferengi, well, that's different.
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Clothes closely close close to clothes
Even more?Hah! BuffaloN.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Clothes closely close close to clothes
Even more?Hah! BuffaloN.
That N has lower bounds!
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@boomzilla Buffalo^8
E: damnit.
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@error said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The fun thing about resource dictionaries is that they can contain all sorts of things.