The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Screw you, people who claim there's something called "color" that you claim to be able to "see".
And screw the people who put connectors like that on the back of the device.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Sure, there might be colours. Or the device side may all be in the same color with 'L', 'R', and 'V' tags.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Screw you, people who claim there's something called "color" that you claim to be able to "see".
And screw the people who put connectors like that on the back of the device.
Based on labeling, this is an output channel, which is typically permanently connected. There may be a line in with the same connectors on the front side.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Screw you, people who claim there's something called "color" that you claim to be able to "see".
And screw the people who put connectors like that on the back of the device.
Based on labeling, this is an output channel, which is typically permanently connected. There may be a line in with the same connectors on the front side.
It looks like Panasonic DVD player, there's no line in.
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Screw you, people who claim there's something called "color" that you claim to be able to "see".
And screw the people who put connectors like that on the back of the device.
Based on labeling, this is an output channel, which is typically permanently connected. There may be a line in with the same connectors on the front side.
It looks like Panasonic DVD player, there's no line in.
Could be any number of devices from that cropped shot. If it's a VCR (ie VHS) or an AV receiver, there probably will be a camcorder connection on the front. But indeed for a DVD player there won't be.
The phrasing 'line out' suggests 'line in' is a concept which is applicable to this type of machine.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Screw you, people who claim there's something called "color" that you claim to be able to "see".
And screw the people who put connectors like that on the back of the device.
Based on labeling, this is an output channel, which is typically permanently connected. There may be a line in with the same connectors on the front side.
It looks like Panasonic DVD player, there's no line in.
Could be any number of devices from that cropped shot. If it's a VCR (ie VHS) or an AV receiver, there probably will be a camcorder connection on the front. But indeed for a DVD player there won't be.
The phrasing 'line out' suggests 'line in' is a concept which is applicable to this type of machine.
I'm saying it looks like Panasonic DVD player, because I have one and it looks almost exactly the same.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The phrasing 'line out' suggests 'line in' is a concept which is applicable to this type of machine.
But perhaps only in the most general sense; it may have a "Line Out" simply because like that users know to pair it with a "Line In" on another device.
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm saying it looks like Panasonic DVD player, because I have one and it looks almost exactly the same.
To be fair, it could also be Pamasonic or Penesamic
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status: funneh!
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@dcon The fact that they had time, money, and other resources to make a semi-permanent stand and poster...
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@Tsaukpaetra Euston is a big station, it has a good many escalators. Odds of one going out of commission at a time quite high given moving parts and number of fucking idiots using them daily. Having a sign for the obvious outcome, especially a “jolly” one seems prudent.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Having a sign for the obvious outcome,
"The moving stairs aren't moving. If this bothers you, find a different stairs that are."
Sky is blue, water is black, yadda yadda...
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@Tsaukpaetra the idiots do need to be told that this is an expected outcome and to not wait for it to be fixed.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra the idiots do need to be told that this is an expected outcome and to not wait for it to be fixed.
Fuck, if they're going to queue on the stairs waiting for them to move, I say let them live their best life!
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She said it with a straight face >.<
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon The fact that they had time, money, and other resources to make a semi-permanent stand and poster...
I think it is just one of those A-frame poster stands, and those are easy to move around. Sticking a poster in one those is pretty quick too, especially when you've got a poster printer and template already.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra the idiots do need to be told that this is an expected outcome and to not wait for it to be fixed.
It's perfectly possible to ascend or descend using a broken escalator, as long as it's brake has activated properly (and you probably need more thorough barricading if it did not). Though my experience in these matters is with 5-10m escalators. 200m is just the same, except it is not.
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@PleegWat in most of these stations (haven’t been to Euston in a while to verify) there is usually a down escalator, an up escalator and a regular flight of stairs. And a queue. Bigger stations may also have lifts.
The non-functional escalator inevitably will be treated like stairs by the impatient but likely this is not entirely safe, as noted.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The non-functional escalator inevitably will be treated like stairs by the impatient but likely this is not entirely safe, as noted.
The biggest problem (assuming the brake is properly engaged) is that the risers on those steps are uncomfortably large.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(haven’t been to Euston in a while to verify) there is usually a down escalator, an up escalator and a regular flight of stairs. And a queue. Bigger stations may also have lifts.
Those are the escalators to the food terrace. There are 3 but I can't remember if it's usually 2 up 1 down or the other way around. There's a lift too as noted in the sign.
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But also funny stuff
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the risers on those steps are
uncomfortably largeproperly sized if you're not a pony
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@Applied-Mediocrity They'd be large enough that I'd have to go up them one at a time!!!
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra the idiots do need to be told that this is an expected outcome and to not wait for it to be fixed.
It's perfectly possible to ascend or descend using a broken escalator, as long as it's brake has activated properly (and you probably need more thorough barricading if it did not). Though my experience in these matters is with 5-10m escalators. 200m is just the same, except it is not.
This one was broken down but not barricaded properly, as people kept walking onto it until the brake failed and the belt of stair steps spun around:
The man came out alive as far as the article author knows, but everybody must have learned something that day.
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INB4 "Kids these days don't know what half of these mean"
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@JBert the first three aren't that scary, but the last one might mean you're fucked.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity They'd be large enough that I'd have to go up them one at a time!!!
The system works,
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert the first three aren't that scary, but the last one might mean you're fucked.
IME with more modern cars the check engine light is the least scary as 99% of the time it is some damn sensor failing.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert the first three aren't that scary, but the last one might mean you're fucked.
IME with more modern cars the check engine light is the least scary as 99% of the time it is some damn sensor failing.
Or just to boards failing to talk to each other temporarily, something my car likes to do.
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@Dragoon Even if you're an escalator, it's not polite to stair.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Don't do today what you can postpone tomorrow.
It's never too late to do nothing
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert the first three aren't that scary, but the last one might mean you're fucked.
The third one means there's no more oil pressure. Maybe you're not fucked, but your engine is
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's never too late to do nothing
@TimeBandit it is once you've done something. The lesson to take from this fact should be obvious.
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TIL
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@JBert
Submarine, genie lamp and a bipolar persin
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
A joke from the era of German chancellor Helmut Kohl (many people thought that he was a stupid guy).
A minister tells Kohl: "Imagine what happened to me today. I used a lift to get from ground floor to the 10th floor, and somewhere up, the lift got stuck. I had to wait for an hour to get out."
Kohl: "Oh, that's nothing. In a shopping mall, I took an escalator to get up one floor, and it got stuck half way. I waited there 5 hours for it to start moving again."
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@BernieTheBernie I've heard that joke, but with two blonds.
"You just stood there for 5 hours? You're silly. Escalators are stairs. You could have sat down".
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@hungrier To tell a young woman to never come again is taking it too far, I think.
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@jinpa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier To tell a young woman to never come again is taking it too far, I think.
I just wanted to post it in the Fun with Maps thread, but as this is joke #1 my son on his perennial testosterone high makes all the time and that's #2 …
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
My initial glance at this saw only the top half, didn't read the text, parsed with a blue water assumption, and was very confused.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would just like to register that I have no idea what 2137 is supposed to mean. First time I'm seeing it.
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@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I would just like to register that I have no idea what 2137 is supposed to mean. First time I'm seeing it.
I had to google it as well. Here you go: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=2137
Now, what about the 31 in Turkey?
[edit: never mind, I found it]
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@GOG I also wondered (and the subtitle doesn't help much) and it would seem that John Paul II died at 21:37 and that Poles are getting bored of him being always referred to (that part I can easily believe) and took to use this number to mock him. Doesn't make for a hugely convincing reason but then again it's about Poland so...
Also, 31 in Turkey is for masturbating, with a couple of reasons such as the word for hand (which has an obvious use in masturbation...) being written with the same letters (sounds?) as 31. Again, not hugely convincing but then again the origin of 420 and other similar things isn't that much more convincing. It's just the kind of stupid reference that becomes ubiquitous for no good reason.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
then again the origin of 420 and other similar things isn't that much more convincing. It's just the kind of stupid reference that becomes ubiquitous for no good reason.
Yeah, I fondly remember a time when "420" wasn't a thing anybody recognized.
(Except for being a street number here.)