The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@cheong The Chinese lines say the same as the English ones or something else?
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@cheong The Chinese lines say the same as the English ones or something else?
The Chinese lines use the meaning of "positive" as "be tested positive in COVID tests", and "patient" as "those who are sick and needs treatment".
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@boomzilla How else are you supposed to walk into the <appropriate> office and say "See, this paper is wrong! I'm alive."
: Not according to the paper. GUARDS! Bury this corpse.
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@boomzilla While that is certainly funny, the actual website does not have the "myself" option for that certificate. They're using a template for several different certificates and on that page, they simply used
display:none
for this button. So someone went into the dev tools and made it visible again.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So someone went into the dev tools
Isn’t hacking a government website considered a serious crime?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla While that is certainly funny, the actual website does not have the "myself" option for that certificate. They're using a template for several different certificates and on that page, they simply used
display:none
for this button. So someone went into the dev tools and made it visible again.The guy who posted it said he contacted them and they fixed the form.
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@kazitor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So someone went into the dev tools
Isn’t hacking a government website considered a serious crime?
I'm on it.
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@obeselymorbid Bad enough to have that demon in the guys' living room, no need to summon it all over Reddit, too
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB 'd somewhere here, IIRC.
Somewhere last century. I'm pretty sure I've heard a variation of this joke in grade school.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can think of a few situations where the left option would be useful. All of them can be summed up as "some idiot accidentally marked me as dead in government systems and now I have so many problems because of it that sometimes I wish I died for real".
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
As we approached Y2K, I did some checking and discovered that the Ford Motor Company still had the rights to a model name that my parents bought one of in 1965. Unfortunately, nobody at Ford thought to put out, for the year 2000, a special edition Millennium Falcon.
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@da-Doctah they did, however, make a real Ford Galaxy a few years after it appeared in Spaceballs.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can think of a few situations where the left option would be useful. All of them can be summed up as "some idiot accidentally marked me as dead in government systems and now I have so many problems because of it that sometimes I wish I died for real".
The estate of the deceased is technically acting on behalf of the deceased. So depending on a few cultural factors, that "Myself" could be valid there too.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Guybrush: I'm cashing in this insurance policy. Give me a lot of money.
Stan: But this is a LIFE insurance policy. You collect when the policy holder
dies.Guybrush: No, honest! I WAS dead for a really long time!
Stan: And you just "got better?"
Guybrush: Well, yes.
Stan: Do you have any proof of this miracle?
Guybrush: As a matter of fact, smart guy... I've got your proof right here!
He places the death certificate on the coffin before continuing.
Guybrush: A death certificate!
Stan: Well, this must be some kind of mistake.
Guybrush: Uh-uh. It's right there, in high-res black-and-white. I died. Give
me a lot of money.
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@Atazhaia that also happened in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Guess how.
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@Gąska Considering how many times people die and gets resurrected by different Shenlongs, yeah... It's nice when the author puts in a limit for dramatic tension and then comes up with ways to negate the limit.
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@Atazhaia When it comes to DB, death is best seen as taking time off for some serious training.
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@Atazhaia the most ridiculous one was "dragon balls weren't supposed to be used that often!" from GT. Thank God it's not canon.
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I'm a disappoint. "Spending a year dead for tax reasons" is nowhere to be seen.
( It was never funny and it isn't now!)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm a disappoint. "Spending a year dead for tax reasons" is nowhere to be seen.
( It was never funny and it isn't now!)What tax would you even dodge with that?
: And you'd lose more in accumulated pension funds anyway, at least in Finland.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What tax would you even dodge with that?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah they did, however, make a real Ford Galaxy a few years after it appeared in Spaceballs.
There was also a Ford Prefect, and he appeared in the Hitchhikers Guide.
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@dkf and apparently US audiences thought this was a typo of “Ford Perfect”, without realising the Prefect was a model sold in the UK.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Ford Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival[1] form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
From the same era of automobiles that gave us the Ambassador?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB 'd somewhere here, IIRC.
Somewhere last century. I'm pretty sure I've heard a variation of this joke in grade school.
The core idea for the joke is much older than that.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf and apparently US audiences thought this was a typo of “Ford Perfect”, without realising the Prefect was a model sold in the UK.
So my wife tried to get me to watch the TV show Mindhunter, which is about an FBI criminal profiler in the 1970s. Anyway, in the first episode, he gets transferred to his new office where the show takes place and about 30 people ask him, "Hey, new guy, what's your name?"
His name is Holden Ford.
Unsurprisingly, I could not get into the show.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
apparently US audiences thought
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What tax would you even dodge with that?
To be boring: at the time, at least, if you lived in the UK you'd spend as much time as possible not living in the UK to avoid paying income tax.
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@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
you'd spend as much time as possible not living in the UK to avoid paying income tax.
Does (or did) that make a difference? US citizens owe US income tax on all income, regardless of where they live or earn the income. Similarly, California residents owe CA income tax on everything they earn, even if it isn't earned or paid in CA. (CA non-residents owe CA tax only on income earned in CA.) When I relocated to WA, and again when I relocated to TX (after having returned to CA), I owed CA tax until I gave up my CA residence, put everything on a truck, and established permanent residence in the new state.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
you'd spend as much time as possible not living in the UK to avoid paying income tax.
Does (or did) that make a difference? US citizens owe US income tax on all income, regardless of where they live or earn the income.
If you're classed as residing in the UK (which depends on how much you're here in the tax year) you still pay tax on earnings abroad, but if you were also taxed in that country then you can get some or all of it back.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
if you were also taxed in that country then you can get some or all of it back.
That's similar to US, but
If you're classed as residing in the UK (which depends on how much you're here in the tax year)
with the US, it's citizenship, not residency, that matters. (Well, that matters, too; it's more or less an inclusive-or.) If you're a citizen and you have income, you owe tax, even if you've never set foot in the US (e.g., born abroad to US parents).
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@GuyWhoKilledBear alias Model T.
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For the music fans hereabouts: a Franck Sonata.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a Franck Sonata.
Dunno what Frank Sinatra has to do with music.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Franck Sonata
I'd have ed your post for the music, but just for that, you get nothing. NOTHING!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Franck Sonata
I'd have ed your post for the music, but just for that, you get nothing. NOTHING!
Well then I'll give him a sympathy just to offset your pendantry
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@izzion That was not pedantry; that was just dislike of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad puns (unless I'm the one telling them).
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf and apparently US audiences thought this was a typo of “Ford Perfect”, without realising the Prefect was a model sold in the UK.
So my wife tried to get me to watch the TV show Mindhunter, which is about an FBI criminal profiler in the 1970s. Anyway, in the first episode, he gets transferred to his new office where the show takes place and about 30 people ask him, "Hey, new guy, what's your name?"
His name is Holden Ford.
Unsurprisingly, I could not get into the show.
That would drive me crazy, I hate unnecessary repetition.
When singing karaoke (of songs that I like) I often end it early because I'm bored with the repetition. When I'm listening passively it doesn't bother me.
Generally, I don't like watching a movie more than once. I think The Incredibles was one of the movies I've seen at least parts of multiple times (except the Star Wars 4-6). I have re-watched the Jurassic Park movies with my daughter.
Also annoying, people who tell me the same joke many times especially if it is a common one.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I hate unnecessary repetition.
I was going to make a post saying this, repeatedly; but since you hate jokes that have been done, I won't.
I do wonder what you're doing on the internet and in this forum in particular then.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"not designed to sustain gross weight exceeding 12,000 lbs"
That should be OK even for the fatter part of the US population.
While in Ethiopia, a whole village population may use it at the same moment.
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@HardwareGeek this is why Boris Johnson renounced his American citizenship (yes), so you can amuse yourself with the notion that of his own choice, he can’t ever be the president of the free world.
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