The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Don't be such a coffeeist. there are times for each type of coffee.
Except instant, instant is what you drink when there's nothing else in a 15km radius
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Except instant, instant is what you drink when there's nothing else in a 15km radius
Whose side are you on again?
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uhm, on the side who prefers good coffee, but won't reject a free cup.
also, some scones would be good too.
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Admittedly it's been a long time since I've studied German, but at the time there were a lot less hieroglyphics.
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I just got a text message from a nearby pizza place.
They're offering 3 medium-sized pizzas of four or more ingredients for the price of 1.The catch? It's for orders between the 25th and the 27th of October.
October comes around once every year, so you just have to wait a while. I imagine they're counting on you forgetting by then.
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Stalks? Amateurs!
Must have been in the pre game controller era.
> The Citroën Traction Avant is an executive car
I don't know, it's probably nothing special, but it seems weird to me to base a pickup on your executive series.
What's un-executive with fueling the passengers as well as the car?
Does the US get third brake lights?
I remember the discussions when some folks wanted to introduce that in Germany. Someone said, it made sense in the US because they had one color for every back light there so that was almost the only way to tell if someone was decelerating or something was broken.
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What's un-executive with fueling the passenger
sas well as the car?FTFY. The astonishment wasn't because of the barrel. Just imagine a pickup based on BMW 7 series or Mercedes-Benz S Class.
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I remember the discussions when some folks wanted to introduce that in Germany. Someone said, it made sense in the US because they had one color for every back light there so that was almost the only way to tell if someone was decelerating or something was broken.
Are you saying third brake light is not mandatory in Germany? And you don't consider third light a good idea?
Even with "normal" non-US rear lights, cars using a single bulb for position and brake lights (only differing in brightness) could become confusing. Now, less so, because everyone tries to make lights fancy, but back in the day certainly, when one car's position lights could be brighter than other's brake lights.
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cars using a single bulb for position and brake lights (only differing in brightness) could become confusing.
Can it? Cars have done this for years, it's never confused anyone that I'm aware of.
I thought the 3rd brake light was mandatory in new cars in Europe but can't be bothered to look it up.
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Does it count if I listened to a voicemail as a part of testing a phone system I deployed?
Functions tested:
Dialing voice mail system.
Voice mail playback
Dialing other extensions
Dialing outside line
Dialing long distance
Inward dialing
Forwarding
etc. about a thousand more.Well, it's a start.
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October comes around once every year, so you just have to wait a while. I imagine they're counting on you forgetting by then.
I was beginning to think no-one was going to mention that.
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you forgot:
play Scootergotta give the poor tester something to enjoy
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it's never confused anyone that I'm aware of.
It must have confused someone, why else would we have regulations requiring the third light?
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I don't know. I've never really thought about the 3rd brake light. It's just there.
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I was beginning to think no-one was going to mention that.
I intended to, but couldn't make a funny enough joke out of it, and just saying "What about next year?" felt stupid.
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My first car had somehow rear fog lamps wired as position lights.
Later I found out the previous owner couldn't make single bulb position/brake lights work (when I took it to the service, there was some serious wiring fuck-up), so he decided to wire fog lamps as position lights and normal dual function lights as just brake lights. Somehow it passed inspection apparently and I've driven that way for almost a year until one of the lights died and when trying to replace it, I noticed something's amiss.The point is: car was so old it wasn't really obvious that fog lamps were way too bright to be used as position lights because really they weren't that bright.
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why else would we have regulations requiring the third light?
The CHMSL is intended to provide a warning to drivers whose view of the vehicle's left and right stop lamps is blocked by interceding vehicles. It also provides a redundant stop light signal in the event of a stop lamp malfunction. In North America where rear turn signals are permitted to emit red light, the CHMSL also helps to disambiguate brake lights from rear position lights and turn signal lights.
So maybe it confused Americans? Dunno, the first two seem more like the reasons I'd have come up with had I thought about it.
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All of those sound like pretty good reasons.
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So maybe it confused Americans? Dunno, the first two seem more like the reasons I'd have come up with had I thought about it.
The ironic thing is the third brake light came about because cheap-ass automakers would wire the blinker to the red taillights, overloading their function. Fewer parts, fewer bulbs, less glass, etc.
Now that we have a third brake light, virtually all automakers make blinkers yellow. I think the only exception I've seen recently is the Mustang, and even then it does a little animation with the LEDs so it's clear the red light is being used as a blinker.
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In the office I just drink what the machine gives me. It tastes good enough and generally is able to wake me up
You should demand for a Nespresso machine, it is much better than just good enough :) I have made it a resolution to install one in any new job I happen to work on.
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Nespresso
Seems to be not available around here. Anyway I doubt I'd be able to appreciate it - as long as it's black, sweet, hot and with a lot of caffeine, it's good enough for me.
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Seems to be not available around here
it's not like it's made by a big company or something and there are totally no commercials for it
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it's not like it's made by a big company or something and there are totally no commercials for it
I'm not sure what's your point.
It's not like I'll buy a freaking half-a-grand coffee machine for my office on my own dime, and then buy my own coffee too, I guess, when there's a perfectly fine machine with a perfectly fine coffee already there for free.
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It's not like I'll buy a freaking half-a-grand coffee machine for my office on my own dime, and then buy my own coffee too, I gues
I just looked the thing up, damn that's a pricey coffee machine. It also seems to be 25p per coffee pod A jar of Nescafe is 5p per serving. I'm sure it makes awesome coffee if someone else is paying though.
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It also seems to be 25p per coffee pod
Still a pretty cheap alternative to Starbucks or the like, even accounting for initial investment.
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I'm not sure what's your point.
a point? Since when is this required? nobody told me!
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Still a pretty cheap alternative to Starbucks or the like, even accounting for initial investment.
I guess I'm just tight ;) I don't know how people afford spending so much on highstreet coffee, that would cut into my beer budget.
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Ah, carry on then.
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Yeah, I almost never drink "highstreet" coffee at prices I could buy a month's supply of coffee for.
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I don't know how people afford spending so much
I went through a few weeks where I was spending £35-50 a week on coffee at Costa... then I added it up one day, and went back to the free vending machine
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"highstreet"
Probably a Britishism. Google thinks it translates as 'chain store' for the US.
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I don't know about organic...
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Don't look up.
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Yeah, I almost never drink "highstreet" coffee at prices I could buy a month's supply of coffee for.
But... if you bought all that coffee, you'd have to make it, too!
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I swear I saw this not 10 posts before in this same thread.
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11 is not 10. You are correct.
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But there were 10 posts between them.
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Fair point.
That leaves me with the office coffee which is free, both as in beer, and as in freedom from slavish coffee making labour.
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Teaches me to post before catching up on the topic.
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I guess I'm just tight I don't know how people afford spending so much on highstreet coffee, that would cut into my beer budget.
Speaking of which, I can't understand people who go to bars all the time. Where do they get the money?
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I heard a mortgage ad this morning saying the first thing you need to do is get pre-approval.
Well, shit, that's what I've been doing wrong, trying to wait til the end of the process to get pre-approved!
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Where do they get the money?
Presumably they don't have kids and other important things to spend money on.
Or they're excessively well-paid.
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@obeselymorbid said:
Yeah, I almost never drink "highstreet" coffee at prices I could buy a month's supply of coffee for.
But... if you bought all that coffee, you'd have to make it, too!
Exactly! There are no downsides.