The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Gern_Blaanston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk0B0dVq4gE: damnit @Applied-Mediocrity, that was literally seconds.
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@topspin Your post shows Elizabeth Banks, so it's obviously superior.
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@Zecc it also shows me beside her, in an alternate universe where I'm good looking.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I met Ariana Grande's cousin once. Ariana Venti.
And how... ahem... close do you know said cousin?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The same artist has done a few of them.
Some of these are perfectly understandable to a non-Dutch speaker:
What is this one? (kneeling pig traffic barrier Google translate):
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@hungrier shouting zone, I believe.
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@Gustav
nicely corrected because that is 'obviously' ment but 'lawaai' is more generic like noise.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gustav
nicely corrected because that is 'obviously' ment but 'lawaai' is more generic like noise.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat I am not sure if it's the worst water to use for coffee, but it's certainly up there.
It can't make it worse; it's already coffee.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Wetboek
You should keep your boeks dry; they're hard to read when they're wet
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There's even one for @Karla:
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's even one for @Karla:
It's a throw, not a kick.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There's even one for @Karla:
It's a
throwchop, not a kick.
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@Mason_Wheeler Heh, there's a lot of commentary in this photo...
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"Do you realize how bad that sounds? Let's rename it to Zucker-Cox machine."
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've posted before about the time I was on a group bike ride on a winding mountain road. The people at the front of the group started shouting a warning of "Duck ahead!", and we assumed they meant something like that. No, a mother duck and her ducklings were crossing the road.
I thought it was some reference to untitled goose game
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Fucking government regulations ruin everything
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Do you realize how bad that sounds? Let's rename it to Zucker-Cox machine."
The best part of the Wikipedia article is not in the screenshot.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Do you realize how bad that sounds? Let's rename it to Zucker-Cox machine."
The best part of the Wikipedia article is not in the screenshot.
I’m not sure “best” is the correct English translation to describe the donation begging box.
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@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Do you realize how bad that sounds? Let's rename it to Zucker-Cox machine."
The best part of the Wikipedia article is not in the screenshot.
The reference to this page?
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Do you realize how bad that sounds? Let's rename it to Zucker-Cox machine."
The best part of the Wikipedia article is not in the screenshot.
I’m not sure “best” is the correct English translation to describe the donation begging box.
I didn't see that one, guess uBlock deals with it. More like the "Name origins".
ed: @dkf also, yes.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
So Alec Baldwin is merely a victim of Schrödinger’s Gun?
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@izzion don't count Murphy out.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You can't know if a gun is loaded even after a trigger pull, unless it goes off. If nothing happens, then uncertainty continues.
(Which is why infantry training manuals dictate a 2-minute wait after misfires, with the gun pointed at the target, before the failed cartridge may be manually ejected.*)
* - Not applicable during combat in wartime**.
** - Not explicitly stated in most manuals.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think the Murphy's Razor should be “Anything that can be simple will only seem so” to be properly in line with his law.
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@Gustav
it's 'koriander' in Dutch
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@Luhmann … and most other languages including many dialects of English. I don't know how the Spaniards managed to mangle the name that bad.
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@Luhmann And it should be "KORIANDER VERBODEN"
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@PleegWat
No need to make it more German then necessary
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
(Which is why infantry training manuals dictate a 2-minute wait after misfires, with the gun pointed at the target, before the failed cartridge may be manually ejected.*)
This reminds me of a story I heard (and may even have already retold here?), about someone tracking down how their father?grandfather?uncle?relative? died during WW2.
They found out a report that stated that the guy was in door-to-door combat in some village in northern France or Belgium, and while storming a German position his gun misfired. Apparently the (unofficial??) procedure when that happened was to slam the butt of the gun on the ground. But in the heat and stress of combat, the poor guy forgot one part of the instructions, namely to take care to not point the gun towards your head while slamming it down...
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@remi Ah... The M3 "Grease Gun" SMG.
Early models had a charging handle that connected to the bolt via a cable. The system was prone to failure. And when it did, the only remaining way to cock the gun was indeed to slam it to the ground butt-first. This would impart the bolt enough backwards inertia to reach the sear again.
However, if you didn't use enough force or something impeded the movement of the bolt, such that it just failed to engage the sear, the bolt would slam back forward. In a hammerless open-bolt design this will cause a bullet to be fired. So, if at all possible, the procedure should be performed with the magazine removed.
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How many times have you had a job like this?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How many times have you had a job like this?
Some days I think I'd prefer a job like that
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@loopback0 just imagine it could be worse, you could be uploading Excel files to OneDrive, only to open the contents via the Excel HTTP API.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
only to open the contents via the Excel HTTP API.
Is that worse than the OOXML api?
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@hungrier dunno, but I love requesting a range, say, D11:J25 in a sheet and getting it back as nested 0-based arrays meaning I have to remember what I asked for to know what cells I actually get...
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 just imagine it could be worse, you could be uploading Excel files to OneDrive, only to open the contents via the Excel HTTP API.
No one could be dumb enough to do that! Oh wait.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 just imagine it could be worse, you could be uploading Excel files to OneDrive, only to open the contents via the Excel HTTP API.
No one could be dumb enough to do that! Oh wait.
Believe me, this wasn’t my choice. The application I’m building needs a very particular set of skills, and opening a super precise, super super janky set of Excel files is in the list.
PHPExcel chokes on the invalid formulas, Numbers chokes on different invalid formulas, LibreOffice chokes on different-again invalid formulas.
Excel sitting over here be like… it’s fiiiiiiiiine. It’s smoking the formula equivalent of On Error Resume Next.
For bonus points, some of the files I’m handling have macros. Mostly so they can put big menus with snazzy buttons in (that look entirely from the 1990s) and use that as navigation to guide users through which tabs they have to fill in.
Not to help them actually fill it in, mind. All of the content validation is done in formulas…
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@Arantor That's not that … well, how dumb it is mostly depends on whether the forms are well designed for the purpose and whether there is a good reason for them to end up on the sharepoint.
I realized we are actually using that Excel HTTP API too, but(t):
- The application is a server application that pumps data filled in excel forms into the accounting system, so it needs the Excel forms uploaded somewhere anyway (and is triggered by uploading the filled form in the correct folder).
- The form has named tables in it (yeah, I didn't know that's even a thing until I saw that) to make it easy to pick the right parts. We use Azure “logic app”, which has components for the API calls and serializes the extracted bits as JSON so the rest of the app doesn't have to know anything about Excel.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a very particular set of skills
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor That's not that … well, how dumb it is mostly depends on whether the forms are well designed for the purpose and whether there is a good reason for them to end up on the sharepoint.
I realized we are actually using that Excel HTTP API too, but(t):
- The application is a server application that pumps data filled in excel forms into the accounting system, so it needs the Excel forms uploaded somewhere anyway (and is triggered by uploading the filled form in the correct folder).
- The form has named tables in it (yeah, I didn't know that's even a thing until I saw that) to make it easy to pick the right parts. We use Azure “logic app”, which has components for the API calls and serializes the extracted bits as JSON so the rest of the app doesn't have to know anything about Excel.
Are the forms well designed for purpose…? Eeeeeeh. This spreadsheet has a 79 page PDF user guide on how to fill it in. I should add, government-blessed official document for recording the data at hand, and is the interchange format for this data. Not negotiable.
The only reason they’re on SharePoint/OneDrive is because I need to read the formula processed values out, and write new data in. And the tools I might otherwise use to do this from a web app are not behaving.
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