The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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No, it's too late. The moment has passed. You already ruined it.
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I wanted the good part for myself. So there.
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The Princess Bride.
Watch, learn, be entertained.
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Is that two posts in a row?
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@Arantor said:
The Princess Bride.
I really need to watch that movie sometime.
You do. You really do. (The book's pretty good too.)
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@Arantor said:
The Princess Bride.
I really need to watch that movie sometime.
Someone who hasn't seen The Princess Bride? Inconceivable!
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A semi-detached house is halfway between a terraced and a detached house - it's half detached. Why is that a difficult concept?
Semi-detached is weird for me because it's approaching the attachment from the unusual side - most houses here are not attached at all so there's no reason to say it. We have dual occupancies, which is two houses, usually sharing a common wall and mirrored floor plans, on one block of land. We have townhouses, which I guess you call terraced even though that's not really right unless the street is on a slope or all the houses have paved terraces. Most houses though are just houses. You might call them bungalows but that's another word we don't really use.
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My grandfather had a cat that I described as "hemidecaudated".
(Back story: Christmas 1970. Three women puttering around an open-plan kitchen that normally held only one. Metal cabinets at all levels being opened and closed at random but frequent intervals. And a young blue-point Siamese tom trying to be a part of the frantic action. Cabinet door is opened, middle section of tail somehow finds itself between cabinet and door, cabinet door is closed suddenly, feline scream penetrates the air. The tail survived for a few days before becoming gangrenous and requiring amputation.)
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Continuing the discussion from 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Incidentally, the worst possible name for an office-supply company has to be "Staples". Sure, it evokes the spirit of office stuff, but when you're working in that office and need a box of actual staples, it's a huge distraction to walk into the supply room looking for them and be confronted by hundreds of boxes of every size, all with the word "Staples" printed on the side in humungous red letters.
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I'd think it would be a headache to look for targets at Target, too.
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So a detached garage is... just like a detached house, except that it's a garage.
I guess you might not have much use for a specific term for a semi-detached garage because a garage is only likely to be attached to one house. But it does make sense in the context of houses because houses may be attached on one side, both, or neither.
A semi-detached house is halfway between a terraced and a detached house - it's half detached. Why is that a difficult concept?
EDIT: what's a row house?
I think you know what a row house is, but I'd like someone to tell me the difference between a "row house" and a "town house" other than the price.
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I'd think it would be a headache to look for targets at Target, too.
From experience I can tell you that it is.
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We have dual occupancies, which is two houses, usually sharing a common wall and mirrored floor plans, on one block of land.
That's pretty much exactly what we're talking. It can lead to more efficient use of land, which is why it is rather common in the UK. (Why are we short of building land? Mostly due to our awful planning system I guess.)
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the difference between a "row house" and a "town house"
Easy!
other than the price
Oh. Um… The happy smile on the real estate agent after the deal is completed?
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I'd think it would be a headache to look for targets at Target, too.
Bonus:
Credit: comics by Korean artist Yang Young-soon
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That's pretty much exactly what we're talking. It can lead to more efficient use of land, which is why it is rather common in the UK. (Why are we short of building land? Mostly due to our awful planning system I guess.)
My guess is that it has something to do with population density, which is about 8x that in the U.S.
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My guess is that it has something to do with population density, which is about 8x that in the U.S.
I think that's not a helpful metric; there's quite a bit of the US East Coast which is close to European in terms of density (whereas the lack of people in Montana bothers nobody much), and discounts the fact that there's plenty of the UK which isn't heavily developed. It's probably got more to do with development happening in the wrong places and for the wrong reasons.
Can we have a referendum on persuading London, or even just Westminster and the City, into leaving the UK? That'd be really great thanks!
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Back story: Christmas 1970. Three women puttering around an open-plan kitchen that normally held only one. Metal cabinets at all levels being opened and closed at random but frequent intervals. And a young blue-point Siamese tom trying to be a part of the frantic action. Cabinet door is opened, middle section of tail somehow finds itself between cabinet and door, cabinet door is closed suddenly
For some reason I thought this was going to be another one of those stories that ended "and that's how Siamese cats got the kink at the end of their tail".
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I think you know what a row house is, but I'd like someone to tell me the difference between a "row house" and a "town house" other than the price.
My understanding is that "town house" is a vertically-oriented design, or rather is a floor plan, as opposed to meaning something different. So you could have a row house consisting of several single-floor houses, which would not be a town house.
Could be wrong, though, and it might be different in England.
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Why are we short of building land? Mostly due to our awful planning system I guess.
You should knock down all the housing and replace it all with high-density apartment towers!
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(The book's pretty good too.)
Meh. Why read a book about a grandpa reading a book to a sick kid? It makes a better movie.
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Meh. Why read a book about a grandpa reading a book to a sick kid? It makes a better movie.
The book is funnier than the movie, because it has a bunch of stuff that's not in the book, including the running joke that the Goldman version of the book is an abridged version.
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@chozang said:
I think you know what a row house is, but I'd like someone to tell me the difference between a "row house" and a "town house" other than the price.
My understanding is that "town house" is a vertically-oriented design, or rather is a floor plan, as opposed to meaning something different. So you could have a row house consisting of several single-floor houses, which would not be a town house.
Could be wrong, though, and it might be different in England.
I also think that "town houses" are part of a development and require continued community association fees.
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I guess you might not have much use for a specific term for a semi-detached garage
There is... a semi-detached garage is typically a free standing garage that is connected to the house via a structure. My first house had a fully screened breezeway. My current one just has a roof.
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The book is funnier than the movie, because it has a bunch of stuff that's not in the book, including the running joke that the Goldman version of the book is an abridged version.
The book about the making of PB was pretty good too.
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what's a nubian?
because a like is not enough
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These Tripp and Tyler short movies are hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zw
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You should knock down all the housing and replace it all with high-density apartment towers!
I hear that's the current plan in London, combined with selling all the apartments as investment opportunities so that no ordinary person can actually afford to live in the city.
It's a strange place, far away…
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Not so far for some of us, but fuck that shit.
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Not so far for some of us, but fuck that shit.
Your betters will have you living in those towers if they can--how else are they going to reduce your carbon usage enough so that they can keep jaunting around the world on jets?
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Your betters will have you living in those towers if they can
Why? Then there'd be a chance we might damage their investment.
Our system is insanely broken…
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Lold at the restroom of the beach of the wedding we went to this weekend
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That's a shower. I'm not quite sure what's so funny about it?
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Some hint at what exactly to lol at would be helpful.
Is it the D ESSING SHEDS?
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Is it the D ESSING SHEDS?
Fun fact: While working on our GrandMA2 for lighting the stage, I happened to glance at the audio console right next to it. It had a knob labelled "De-Esser" above some inputs.
Turns out that it's a tool to dampen hissing sounds (usually the sharp s) - hence the name, quite literally: "s away" :)
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De-Esser
My first impression was something that makes you un-eat - a vomit inducer, perhaps.
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Yes, that's exactly what confused me at first, too. :)
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It had a knob labelled "De-Esser"
You should have put your De in, to see how good it could Ess it.While working on our GrandMA2
In english we have an idiom “teaching grandma to suck dick”, which means that a novice has been giving advice to an expert. That's not really related to anything here, just a funny little factoid that your post reminded me of.Some hint at what exactly to lol at
Sex stuff is always funny to begin with, but when you go to a fancy, picturesque little wedding spot like that, and some jokester has chosen the most obscure way possible to imply that there's a glory-hole in the changing rooms, that's hilarious. Well, it is to me, anyways.
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