The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@boomzilla renting?
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@boomzilla I think I know that guy.
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@Mason_Wheeler I believe this is because the ships are actually flying themselves using AI, the pilot is mostly making suggestions such as "I want the engines on" and "Maybe go this way" with their pea-brain switch bashing...
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@Tsaukpaetra What do you think astronav droids are for? Hiding lightsabers in?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra What do you think astronav droids are for? Hiding lightsabers in?
Snarky remarks that few people understand.
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@Benjamin-Hall I thought that's what TDWTF is for.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall I thought that's what TDWTF is for.
Hey, only some of us are robots with AI. The rest of us are more like AS. But all of us are @boomzilla.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
your choice
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
your choice
or maybe
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Hiding lightsabers in?
Obviously to hide hologram messages in
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@Luhmann If it's obvious, it's not really hidden, is it?
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@HardwareGeek
If you are obviously related you shouldn't try to shag it either
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@PleegWat I think astromech droids are for repairing spacecraft shields while running through a blockade, aquatic/underwater scanning and studies of biological entities, and hacking into garbage compactors.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra What do you think astronav droids are for? Hiding lightsabers in?
Snarky remarks that few people understand.
Bleep bibbledeeboodle weenk fotz!
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Some people develop "brain fog" after Covid.
A few cases are documented where that was actually very beneficial, e.g.
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@Arantor And playing space chess with walking fur carpets who are known to rip off arms when they lose. Hence they're named like E2-E4.
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@topspin If there's one guy who could pick a deadbolt
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I used to go to judo camp for most years in the 90s and a few in the early 00s.
At the YMCA camp we often shared with rugby players. They are some tough MFers.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
At the YMCA camp we often shared with rugby players. They are some tough MFers.
As I understand it, all the beer just makes you not care.
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@dcon My son gave that two thumbs up. No, wait; those weren't his thumbs.
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@HardwareGeek For a real "dumb", that was posted on FB. As a video. I think the edges waved a little like a curtain.
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Status" how much you think for this knock-off someone's showing me?
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@dcon Some years ago on a Usenet group we had the Brits laughing and pointing at the American practice of using 's to indicate the plural of a word or sequence of letters used as a word or sequence of letters. They said we should italicize the word (or "italicise" as they would prefer to spell it) and then append a bare s to indicate the plural. This despite being a pure-ASCII environment where italics and similar markup are impossible.
One sample sentence I offered would have come out as "He never dots his is, and all his us look like as". Didn't even have the option of changing the "letters used as letters" to uppercase because the sentence implies a context involving penmanship; the lowercase i, u and a must be represented as such for it to make any sense.
Never did come up with a solution to the sentence "I proofread and corrected his document, changing all the erroneous it's's to its's".
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@da-Doctah Hm, I would (single)quote the “letters used as letters” on both sides. I.e. “He never dots his 'i's, and all his 'u's look like 'a's”, and probably just upgrade to double-quotes for the second example, so “I proofread and corrected his document, changing all the errorneous "it's"s to "its"s”.
… though, well, you /can/ italicize in ascii… /like this/. … “He never dots his /i/s and all his /u/s look like /a/s” is an option when all you've got is ascii (or typewriter… that convention is older than computers).
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
… though, well, you /can/ italicize in ascii… /like this/. … “He never dots his /i/s and all his /u/s look like /a/s” is an option when all you've got is ascii (or typewriter… that convention is older than computers).
It certainly was common on usenet. it still throws me off sometimes that markdown doesn't use
/italic/
_underline_
*bold*
. And that slack uses different rules than here.
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@PleegWat I suspect that while to a human it's clear when
/
is used for emphasis (italics) or other purpose, there wasn't sufficiently simple rule to distinguish it for a computer so most simple markups went with either_
for italics and*
for bold or one of_
or*
for italics and two of them for bold.
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@Bulb I blame URLs. And/or humanity in general.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb I blame [...] humanity in general.
Always a wise move.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat I suspect that while to a human it's clear when
/
is used for emphasis (italics) or other purpose, there wasn't sufficiently simple rule to distinguish it for a computer so most simple markups went with either_
for italics and*
for bold or one of_
or*
for italics and two of them for bold.At least it isn't like Skype, which went with
{code}this{code}
to get something to render asthis
.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat I suspect that while to a human it's clear when
/
is used for emphasis (italics) or other purpose, there wasn't sufficiently simple rule to distinguish it for a computer so most simple markups went with either_
for italics and*
for bold or one of_
or*
for italics and two of them for bold.At least it isn't like Skype, which went with
{code}this{code}
to get something to render asthis
.Yeah, at least BBCode would use slashes!
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@dkf JIRA says hi in the background, while blowing bubbles of its nose, Ralph Wiggum style.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon Some years ago on a Usenet group we had the Brits laughing and pointing at the American practice of using 's to indicate the plural of a word or sequence of letters used as a word or sequence of letters. They said we should italicize the word (or "italicise" as they would prefer to spell it) and then append a bare s to indicate the plural. This despite being a pure-ASCII environment where italics and similar markup are impossible.
One sample sentence I offered would have come out as "He never dots his is, and all his us look like as". Didn't even have the option of changing the "letters used as letters" to uppercase because the sentence implies a context involving penmanship; the lowercase i, u and a must be represented as such for it to make any sense.
Never did come up with a solution to the sentence "I proofread and corrected his document, changing all the erroneous it's's to its's".
Yeah, if you're writing a grammar puzzle and you're restricted to only using that string of words, maybe.
The first example, "He never dots his I's," isn't actually ambiguous because you never need to dot a capital I.
The second sentence should be written as His lowercase U's look like lowercase A's."
The third example should be I changed all the erroneous instances of the word "its" to "it's".
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
maybe.
Maybe people want to be ambulatory, did you think of that?