The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Also available with leaves and bark.
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@jinpa reread this as
hamstershumans and was trying to decide whether to award a or a .
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@HardwareGeek nope, not since the Enclosure Act. Not sure whether that predated forks.
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@da-Doctah Nope. The image looks like the mealworms they feed to insectivores in the zoo.
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@Bulb Yeah, but with 4 (5?) blackberries on top, that makes all the difference!
Hang on, wait... what's that...?
, zoom, enhance, engage high-tech image processing and text recognition..."Serving suggestion"
Damn. Not even blackberries.
I want to know what is the "McDonald's hot coffee"-like trial case that has led to all packaging having to specify "serving suggestion" even when the picture is just a bowl (i.e. without the blackberries). Did someone really think the bowl would be included in the package?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I guess the joke is that two of them are wrong?
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Serving suggestion"
Damn. Not even blackberries.
I want to know what is the "McDonald's hot coffee"-like trial case that has led to all packaging having to specify "serving suggestion" even when the picture is just a bowl (i.e. without the blackberries). Did someone really think the bowl would be included in the package?
I'm not even sure there was one. A lot of legalese is just cargo-cult. In the past ten years or so, a lot of free stuff on the net requires you to state that, "I have read (the ten pages of fine print) and fully understand this agreement." Places that want your money never require you to state that, you just have to agree to something, not state that you have read it. The additional clause is unnecessary. Contracts are valid just by agreeing to it, you don't have to state that you have read it.
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@jinpa angry noises
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Contracts are valid just by agreeing to it, you don't have to state that you have read it.
Yes... but which clauses are valid will be uncertain until there's been a test case that's actually looked at those specific clauses. Stuff gets cargo culted in legal circles to try to avoid having to do that to know what something means because test cases are very expensive.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Contracts are valid just by agreeing to it, you don't have to state that you have read it.
Yes... but which clauses are valid will be uncertain until there's been a test case that's actually looked at those specific clauses. Stuff gets cargo culted in legal circles to try to avoid having to do that to know what something means because test cases are very expensive.
But it's also expensive to lose strictly honest customers (a low but non-zero percentage of the population) by pressuring them to state something false. This is why you seldom if ever see this clause before making an actual purchase. (I was able to get IntelliJ to stop demanding this.)
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a low but non-zero percentage of the population
If it is a low enough percentage, why bother caring?
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a low but non-zero percentage of the population
If it is a low enough percentage, why bother caring?
Who cares about a 2% loss of profits for no reason, any way?
Actually, a 2% loss of receipts would be a greater loss of profits than 2%, because it is marginal. There is no additional cost to them in capital and overhead. So the 2% unnecessary loss of receipts would be a higher percentage in profits lost.
Not to mention that there is a higher percentage of those who have enough of a conscience that they will consider a moral problem when it is brought to their attention.
A lot of people will ignore ethical concerns as long as they are allowed to think, "Everybody is doing it." But some of them will consider a problem when it is brought to their attention. Sometimes even people in decision-making positions in a small company.
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A marketing budget typically range from 5 to 25 percent of a company’s revenue or revenue targets
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Who cares about a 2% loss of profits for no reason, any way?
But is it that much? If it was 0.1% would you care? Almost nobody cares.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Did someone really think the bowl would be included in the package?
Well, duh!
On a semi-related note, I got Safeway to give me a discount yesterday because they forgot to take down the little yellow tag that said "instead of 4.99/item, pay 1.99/item when you buy 3". (Who looks at the tiny "valid thru" print on those things!)
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Safeway
Takes the cake for the highest priced grocery store I've ever been to. Publix, at least, had better quality and service to make up for high (relatively) prices and their prices weren't as high as Safeway's. Safeway doesn't even have that.
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Ah, I get it, it's a group recreation of a famous, but apparently banal and unfunny, conversation from some very funny literature I've not read.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Safeway
Takes the cake for the highest priced grocery store I've ever been to. Publix, at least, had better quality and service to make up for high (relatively) prices and their prices weren't as high as Safeway's. Safeway doesn't even have that.
Never been to Whole Paycheck, I see.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Click through and read the whole thread.
For those who don't want to go to twitter.com for whatever reason:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Click through and read the whole thread.
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.Let this be a lesson boys and girls: Think ahead before you insert something in a bodily orifice. Don't be part of the long queue in first aid of people who fell on their shampoo bottle.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Click through and read the whole thread.
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.Let this be a lesson boys and girls: Think ahead before you insert something in a bodily orifice. Don't be part of the long queue in first aid of people who fell on their shampoo bottle.
Nothing ends up in your anus by accident.
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@GOG Over the years, there has to have been one or two that were really accidents. And those might be some interesting stories. Would have to ask someone who specializes in foreign object removal if there's ever been a patient's explanation that he actually believed, where something ended in there by accident.
But in the meanwhile, here's the 2002 Jackass clip on the subject:
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@acrow A friend of mine was an EMT for many years, and still works at a hospital. He had a lot of amusing and educational stories, as one might expect, but I don't recall any of them ever being the result of a genuine accident.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GOG Over the years, there has to have been one or two that were really accidents. And those might be some interesting stories.
A couple years back I read about a guy who was impaled by the upper part of a defective pressure cylinder from an office chair that penetrated the thin plywood seat before his butt. Sounds like a thing that could happen and if so, is not too likely to have been intentional.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
is not too likely to have been intentional.
These days, you can never be sure about that...
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's on purpose, every single Dr. Pepper drinker is into that. Same gene.
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Might as well:
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Ook, indeed.
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@boomzilla Ah, I see you've met the librarian.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Ook, indeed.
I had thought ook was an orangutan word, but apparently it's Dutch.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
orangutan word, but apparently it's Dutch
:same_picture:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla Ah, I see you've met the librarian.
Yes, I believe that was the intent. In addition to writing "Ook" he posted this picture:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
orangutan word, but apparently it's Dutch
:same_picture:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-orangutan/orang-utan-prefers-blondes-idUSL0418702120071004
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@Gribnit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's on purpose, every single Dr. Pepper drinker is into that. Same gene.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
If you remember when that was their slogan, you just might be a geezer.
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@jinpa I am a geezer, but I don't remember that.
There are a lot of other things I don't remember any more, either.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@jinpa I am a geezer, but I don't remember that.
There are a lot of other things I don't remember any more, either.
There was a couple of years where 7-Up's slogan was, "Make 7-Up yours." You might have missed it.
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