The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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(Zimmer frame == walker.)
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Disappointing title. He wasn't stabbed with the zimmer frame. He was stabbed with a knife by someone who had a zimmer frame.
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"Penis Captivus," and other spells JK Rowling decided not to use:
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@PJH said:
"Penis Captivus," and other spells JK Rowling decided not to use:
Nodus Canis?
Taurus Excrementum?
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I didn't realise that Mr Torvalds was so buff.
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Unless that's a picture of the angel...
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fRL57VFsm0kCprVw.webm (567.9 KB)
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Trigger warning for @Fox. The T-Word comes up at the end.
Haven't we seen this before? In this very thread?
Barney did it better. Simpler, funnier, classier. This guy is a clumsy clown.
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This @TheTweetOfGod account is hilarious.
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https://youtu.be/GhYYGR3UKAY?t=4444
(no spoilers from the point in the video I linked to the end) (that I know of)
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Oh look, a DF recipe!
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That's almost as bad as the cake recipe from Portal
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There's two more pages of "instructions" but I CBA to do the work of copying them.
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That can't possibly be a Dwarf Fortress recipe. Here are three very common Dwarf Fortress recipes:
Egg Biscuits
- an egg
- another egg
Mushroom stew
- a mushroom
- prepared dragon eyeballs
- another mushroom
Flour roast
- finely minced flour
- finely minced flour
- finely minced flour
- well minced flour
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Funny response, but he's asking for legal problems.
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I thought "slices of lemon juice" seemed idiomatically Dwarfian in spirit.
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It would have been better if one guinea pig had went apeshit and killed the other at the end.
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Funny response, but he's asking for legal problems.
Without looking at anything but that one picture, it seems like a fairly clear-cut case of acceptable parody. If he's running a parking business, it might be different.
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Funny response, but he's asking for legal problems.
Meh. It is general consensus that trademark and copyright does not cover municipal symbols, flags, national symbols and seals, etc. They are public domain and fair use as long as you do not use them to impersonate a public official. He should be able to easily get it thrown out on those grounds and under laws protecting parody.
That is not to say that they cannot make him spend some time and money in order to prove so. But that could reasonably fall under harassment and he could recover damages. It all depends on how much of a point he wants to make.
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Yeah, the time and money aspect is generally damaging enough. If that sort of thing is enough of a danger for this guy, he probably doesn't want to worry about a counter-suit.
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That is not to say that they cannot make him spend some time and money in order to prove so.
How expensive is it to point to the ?
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How expensive is it to point to the ?
It's not just the time in court, it's the time for all the filings, and preliminary hearings, and all the shit before you get a chance to point to the .
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"It's all the way down!"
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It's not just the time in court, it's the time for all the filings, and preliminary hearings, and all the shit before you get a chance to point to the .
Anyone know if Oklahoma's got a strong anti-SLAPP law? Those have a tendency of cutting right through all that lawfare.
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Funny response, but he's asking for legal problems.
Like what? Be specific.
No competent lawyer would recommend the city actually attempt to prosecute this, and no court in the land would believe that's infringement and not parody.
The correct reaction is to chuckle and move on with your life. Obviously the City of Tulsa doesn't have any "take the stick out of your ass" training for civil servants. (And having spent a week there once, this doesn't surprise me.)
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Like what? Be specific.
Given that the City of Tulsa account specifically claimed that the city seal was protected by ordinance and copyright, I wouldn't put it past them to try a lawsuit against him. That's legal fees, court time, and so on, that this guy probably doesn't have.
Like I said, "legal problems".
No competent lawyer would recommend the city actually attempt to prosecute this, and no court in the land would believe that's infringement and not parody.
You'd be surprised. Plenty of infringement cases get settled before they ever make it to court. Several years back, shortly after Photoshop CS5 was released, I had the opportunity to purchase several copies of Photoshop CS3 at overstock prices. Since CS3 was still selling on eBay for 2-3 times what I was able to pay, I bought 3 copies, one to keep and 2 to sell. Right after I shipped the second copy off to my buyer, I received a letter from Adobe's representatives claiming that I was selling pirated software (not that they had any way to prove that) and demanding that I send them all the money I had been received for the copies I sold, the information for where I purchased the software, and an additional $200 per copy as an infringement fee. If I didn't comply within 60 days, they would then file suit, and so on. Fortunately, I have a few friends who work in IP law, and one of them let me mention the name of his law firm in my response stating essentially that they had no case. I never heard back from Adobe's legal reps after that.
My point is, competent legal counsel knows that tactics like this can work and that they may not end up with time in court.
The correct reaction is to chuckle and move on with your life. Obviously the City of Tulsa doesn't have any "take the stick out of your ass" training for civil servants.
This may very well be the case.
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I received a letter from Adobe's representatives
Really?
Or just some scammer using their name? Because that's the world's oldest scam.
I never heard back from Adobe's legal reps after that.
I'm not convinced you heard from Adobe's legal reps in the first place.
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Really?
Or just some scammer using their name? Because that's the world's oldest scam.
Considering that they had the authority to get my sales unlisted from eBay, I'm betting that they were legit.
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Fuck @lorne_kates give this guy money:
https://i.imgur.com/nRcupr5.png
Since when is autocomplete on @ broken ?
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Since when is autocomplete on @ broken ?
Like the rest of Discourse, it is intermittently and inconsistently broken, whenever the server is in a bad mood.
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Considering that they had the authority to get my sales unlisted from eBay, I'm betting that they were legit.
Knowing ebay, I wouldn't be at all certain about that. But it does strengthen the case.
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There are no leads.
Well, there's your problem...
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for missing Mythbuster
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Sometimes it's more important to get it out than to get it right.
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Sometimes it's more important to get it out than to get it right
Sounds like you are aiming for the wrong hole there ...
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It is general consensus that trademark and copyright does not cover municipal symbols, flags, national symbols and seals, etc. They are public domain and fair use as long as you do not use them to impersonate a public official.
Parody is a form of impersonation.
Albeit one that has special legal protections that impersonation alone doesn't, but still.
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You can even impersonate a public figure for some purposes and get away with it.
The central Illinois city of Peoria tentatively agreed Wednesday to pay $125,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man whose home was raided by police over a Twitter account he created depicting the mayor as a lewd fan of drugs and alcohol.
The deal includes no admission that Peoria did anything wrong, but it calls for the city to send its police department a directive emphasizing that parody does not fall under an Illinois statute regulating false personation of a public official, which was used to obtain warrants to arrest Daniel.
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I used to be quite interested in tractors, but not so much these days.
I'm an ex-tractor fan.