The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I lived in this country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS5t6iNVVM0
for 8 years.Wow
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@Magus said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I lived in this country:
They have some good commercials.
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@FrostCat That's actually the one I went looking for.
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And so it begins...
http://imgur.com/gallery/sxvAZth
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@flabdablet said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@asdf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I might still read the books, though.
Cue obligatory Axis of Awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLCOvZOh1oHaha it is me, only after they fucking changed the plot!!!11! The book is much better, I stopped watching when it was obviously not the same. Now have to wait for the next book to know what happens because of the stupid TV show! I am angryyyyyyy
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http://i.imgur.com/acxZWCX.png
http://i.imgur.com/SVFyXFX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lNIXE8T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xBM4F1U.png
http://i.imgur.com/puIZraw.jpg
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@Magus They would never get away with having a commercial like the first one in the U.S.
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@chozang Pretty much.
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@anotherusername what really halppens is the reverse, people keep asking the mother about the baby and saying is cute
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That website looks very legit, and has no ads whatsoever!
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@dse said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That website looks very legit, and has no ads whatsoever!
Daily caller is on the up-and-up. Tucker Carlson, who used to be on CNN, runs it.
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@Boner Sure just steal jokes from my Twitter, but with about 57 generations of JPEG compression applied.
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@Boner I KEEL YOU!
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lmfao who did dis 😂😂😂
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Paging @erdogan
Who?
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/recep-tayyip-erdogan-goats-men/
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This comment below the article is gold, though:
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@blakeyrat image jokes on the internet are all stolen
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It's old, but I like this one:
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@cartman82
Looks like is a about to shoot though
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@Rhywden Hope the guy who replied wasn't in
TurkeyEurope.
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@CoyneTheDup but... You never told us if they were Linux light bulbs, embedded light bulbs, or if they keep nagging you to update!
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@CoyneTheDup but... You never told us if they were Linux light bulbs, embedded light bulbs, or if they keep nagging you to update!
The German word for lightbulb is "Glühbirne" (glow pear).
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@aliceif huh, TIL.
Guess it made sense at the time considering the shape of incandescent bulbs.
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I ran into maybe one of @accalia's relatives today:
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@CoyneTheDup but... You never told us if they were Linux light bulbs, embedded light bulbs, or if they keep nagging you to update!
It doesn't really matter...controversy just as loud.
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In my heart of hearts I believe that this is @boomzilla
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@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Guess it made sense at the time considering the shape of incandescent bulbs.
not as if english doesn't have similar cruft
- dialling someone (no dial)
- taping something (no videotape)
- car (from carriage)
- slush fund (see link)
and for the more computer literate
/dev/tty
(what teletype?)- the return key (no carriage is being returned)
- 'upper'/'lower' 'case' (there are no cases to hold the letters and so there isn't an upper or lower one around.)
- [sorta..] floppy disks (3'' aren't - well the case wasn't)
- 'drive' or 'disk' in general if it doesn't have something round and rotating in it
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@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Onyx said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@CoyneTheDup but... You never told us if they were Linux light bulbs, embedded light bulbs, or if they keep nagging you to update!
The German word for lightbulb is "Glühbirne" (glow pear).
No, it isn't. It's "Glühlampe". It's the same thinking which calls fluorescent lights "Neonröhren" (Neon tubes) even though they work completely different from actual neon lights.
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@all_users said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
slush fund (see link)
I've never heard of a slush fund, and that link seemed to think it was obvious and didn't need explaining
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, it isn't. It's "Glühlampe". It's the same thinking which calls fluorescent lights "Neonröhren" (Neon tubes) even though they work completely different from actual neon lights.
How is this the same thinking? "Glühbirne" is (or at least was) a relatively accurate description of the light generation process concatenated with the name of a roughly equivalent shape to the glass containment, while "Neonröhren" only gets the containment shape right. (And at least around here "Lampe" colloquially usually refers to the entire device mounted to e.g the ceiling, not just the light producing piece inside. I know this is different in other German speaking regions.)
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've never heard of a slush fund, and that link seemed to think it was obvious and didn't need explaining
it appears to explain it to me, though it doesn't necessarily stand out as actually explaining the term to someone who has never heard of it before:
After the U.S. Civil War, the term was applied to a contingency fund set aside by Congress, outside of the regular operating budget, that was often used for bribes and other corrupt purposes. .
which, by and large, is an example of the current-day usage of it
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/slushfund.asp
Money earmarked for a loosely defined, but legitimate, purpose that is instead surreptitiously used for an illegitimate purpose. The term "slush fund" indicates a fraudulent use of money. Expenses paid for out of a slush fund may be disguised as legitimate expenses, such as salaries, but not be commensurate with the work performed.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I've never heard of a slush fund, and that link seemed to think it was obvious and didn't need explaining
It's money set aside to be used for bribes (of varying legality), basically.
A slush fund might be used to treat a "valued potential client" to a few hours at the strip club, or to provide a union leader a 60' yacht the maintenance of which might keep him too busy to organize that strike, or maybe Big Vinnie needs it to cover his medical bills after he threw out his back pouring all that cement, etc.
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@xaos said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, it isn't. It's "Glühlampe". It's the same thinking which calls fluorescent lights "Neonröhren" (Neon tubes) even though they work completely different from actual neon lights.
How is this the same thinking? "Glühbirne" is (or at least was) a relatively accurate description of the light generation process concatenated with the name of a roughly equivalent shape to the glass containment, while "Neonröhren" only gets the containment shape right. (And at least around here "Lampe" colloquially usually refers to the entire device mounted to e.g the ceiling, not just the light producing piece inside. I know this is different in other German speaking regions.)
It's not a piece of fruit.