The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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TIL: @wood is racist against
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That's pretty good taxidermy. As opposed to this:
http://boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bad-taxidemy-10.jpg
Or this...thing:
http://i.imgur.com/tiUEHSm.jpg
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The best part is the similarity of the names: One different character, and one additional character in the one I linked.
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I bet it isn't done by Chuck Testa
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Those scenarios are so ridiculous they're rife for parody.
Also, what's a "smoking dock"? Like... you can't smoke unless you're floating on water? Or is the moron who wrote this too stupid to realize that loading docks frequently have smokers near them because a lot of truck drivers smoke and they're located away from the main entrance?
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That is the fakest fake news to ever fake a fake fake fake fake fake.
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Of all things posted on the internet that never happened, this never happened the most.
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That is the fakest fake news to ever fake a fake fake fake fake fake.
Look up, there's an ass coming for you.
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The :P ruined it! :(
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They still missed the joke.
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You joke doesn't work for people who know how to read English.
It says "use any ATM for free" not "withdraw money from any ATM for free".
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You don't believe in jokes.
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Except it does if you put a literal meaning on "use," which is the entirety of the joke. You somehow managed to miss the joke and get the joke at the same time.
Your stupidity is paradoxical. I'm impressed.
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Like the kid that won't sit still in class - that's not what's going to happen, that's a ridiculous exaggeration.
Well, it depends on what exaggeration is being made I guess. What I thought when I read this item was a 280# cop who can bench press 900# ripping a 100# girl out of her chair and throwing her twelve feet across the floor. But that's just me.
A lot of the items in that are unreal or mis-exaggerated...poor quality fiction. But then they say reality is stranger than fiction...
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@CoyneTheDup said:
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Why are you measuring mass in hashes?
He's not. He's measuring weight in pounds.
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No, he's measuring mass in hashes or pound signs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
The pound or pound-mass (abbreviations: lb, lbm, lbm, ℔) is a unit of mass...
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Usage of the unqualified term *pound* reflects the historical conflation of mass and weight. This accounts for the modern distinguishing terms *pound-mass* and *pound-force*.
It's historically a unit of weight, and nobody says they're measuring something in "pound signs" instead of "pounds". That's like saying you have "dollar symbols 15" in your wallet instead of "15 dollars".
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#historically
a unit of weightAlso, # is still not a standard abbreviation for "pounds".
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@anotherusername said:
#historically
a unit of weightAlso, # is still not a standard abbreviation for "pounds".
#historically
not a standard abbreviation for "pounds"...but if you crawl out from under that rock you'll observe that it's been in common use as such for ages
One theory I found was that £ and # were encoded identically on teletype, and the machines just used one or the other symbol depending on whether they were in England or the US, so they were both called the "pound" symbol often enough that the name stuck.
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I've never seen it used in my entire life, although I do know that back sometime between the birth of Discourse and the development of the Homo Erectus it was used for "pounds" in the food industry. But, obviously, that usage never became widespread and it is still considered outmoded.
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Yeah, in modern times, # means sharp.
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Cue the white guy that is going to get offended at this picture for the sake of other minorities the white guy assumes it will offend.
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Offendist!
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My favorite white privilege.
Not having to worry about someone who has not experienced and does not know anything about my life, get offended for me, because they've prescribed beliefs that I must have based on my race.
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I've never seen it used in my entire life, although I do know that back sometime between the birth of Discourse and the development of the Homo Erectus it was used for "pounds" in the food industry. But, obviously, that usage never became widespread and it is still considered outmoded.
It's usually when hand-written. One theory is that ℔ was hand-written as and eventually simplified to #: two horizontal and two vertical lines.
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It's a WebP file so I'm sure Discourse will fuck it up but I have no way of fixing that on my work laptop so cope.
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Yeah right. Just as ♭ means flat.
It's so modern that Boomzilla's cemballo teacher used to tell stories of the Cistercian monk who taught him how to use it.
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- I don't get it
- Amazing 'shopping ability there.
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No, he's measuring mass in hashes or pound signs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
I was being silly, The Funny Stuff Thread after all, but in North America, the symbol following a number means "pounds of weight". It doesn't mean the same in UK, even though the usage apparently derives from old Roman.
(This was actually an American Joke...Coyne the Dup, multi-cultural pretender, assumed all other countries use the symbol the same way.)
Number sign (note specifically the section Usage in North America).
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I was being silly, The Funny Stuff Thread after all, but in North America, the symbol following a number means "pounds of weight". It doesn't mean the same in UK, even though the usage apparently derives from old Roman.
Here we call it mostly a name that can be translated to "little fence", and it doesn't mean anything.
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I like my coffee how I like my women.
White.I like my coffee how I like my women too.
Ground up and in the freezer.
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I like my coffee how I like my men:
Not.
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@ben_lubar said:
@aliceif said:
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Discourse: at least it isn't smallpox
Is that a good or a bad thing? On the one hand, smallpox is a horrible disease that killed millions (?) of people. OTOH, it hasn't been seen in public for decades.