The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@FrostCat Hmm, it seems they're not pronounced hugely differently to their namesakes in the UK. Well, once you allow for differences of general accent.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@FrostCat Hmm, it seems they're not pronounced hugely differently to their namesakes in the UK. Well, once you allow for differences of general accent.
You'd kind of expect that, though, after you think about where the people who made the names came from. :)
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@DoctorJones said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@all_users said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
2 - 'Bis-ter'
Don't you mean "Bi - cess - ter"?
For when sexorring with blood relatives of just one sex isn't enough!
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@ScholRLEA Actually, that's “cess” as in “cess-pit”. Don't inquire further.
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@dkf the question is, why is Cecil so protective of his pit?
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@FrostCat is that one of them AR-15s I keep hearing about in the news?
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@bb36e Unless it's a lookalike that technically isn't one.
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@FrostCat You know, that image was probably funnier the first 50 times it was posted.
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@FrostCat is that one of them AR-15s I keep hearing about in the news?
Oh, they all look the same to you, is that it?!
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@anotherusername I lolled. I thought the Borat clip would be this one though:
What do you look for in a woman?
Plough experience.
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Sorry I'm not able to extract the gif...
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O_o
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You know, that image was probably funnier the first 50 times it was posted.
[Citation needed on 50 other references]
So are you going to police the other people who reuse images?
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@DogsB an upvote is not enough. I actually laughed out loud watching this.
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/8101/f-police-would-be-burglar-eats-his-words-calls-pardes-seleh
Oops.
Down at the bottom it said this guy had a long criminal record including trespassing at this c-store, so before this guy gets out of jail I hope the clerk finds a new job.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
[Citation needed on 50 other references]
got to be at least 30 in the guns thread
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
got to be at least 30 in the guns thread
I don't think I participate in that one, but if so, and it bothers Ben so much, he's welcome to jeff that post into that thread.
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@FrostCat She needs to check her milk supply privilege some women don't have enough and would never waste it like that.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
got to be at least 30 in the guns thread
I don't think I participate in that one, but if so, and it bothers Ben so much, he's welcome to jeff that post into that thread.
It doesn't bother me, but it's boring to see the exact same blurry jpeg gun meme all the time. Surely there are other blurry jpeg gun memes!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Surely there are other blurry jpeg gun memes!
Here ya go!
You asks, I delivers.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
jpeg gun
A gun that fill your guts with jpeg artifacts?
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@groo said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
jpeg gun
A gun that fill your guts with jpeg artifacts?
DCT this, motherfucker!
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Found this:
And had to laugh (or cry - certainly there were tears involved), when I considered the 2TB of my archived data that I'm trying to "organize".
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@loose said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Found this:
And had to laugh (or cry - certainly there were tears involved), when I considered the 2TB of my archived data that I'm trying to "organize".
Luckily I don't need to sort through /Pictures or /Movies. But all the disk images in /temp4... *shudder*
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@Tsaukpaetra Because of my backup policy during migration and upgrades during the 20+ years I've had a PC, I have a lot of replicated data. It is not enough to say "use the most recent" because it not contiguous, as I would only "restore" what I needed, if I needed it. Even then sometime I wouldn't as I would use the backup.
INB4: In most cases the "strategy" would be to use the original disk as an additional drive and /or have an image of it on my new drive.
INB42: I am a bit of a "pack rat" - you should see the size of my archived email store. Not so much compulsive as a result of considering deletion to be a last resort. Beside, it's fun to go back and discover the things I used think / do - it shows how much progress (or otherwise) I have made.
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@loose said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
a lot of replicated data
Totally not a problem. Available storage capacity per dollar increases exponentially over time, which means that everything you had in storage ten years ago now occupies less of your hard drive than two of today's movie files. Not worth optimizing. If you have enough storage for approximately the last ten years of your life, you have enough storage for all of it.
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@flabdablet There has to a rule not unlike the inverse square one, behind that. :) I totally agree that there is not a storage problem (I am almost certainly convinced that my network device is raided - I daren't take it apart to confirm that, and I @Tsaukpaetra shudder when I think about). I just have a massive version control one, especially on the more recent stuff. Just about every Duplicate File program I've tried breaks down in tears - so I'm writing my own that is based on duplicate or near duplicate directories trees.
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@loose I recently recovered a time capsule from high school with two puffed-up poetry pieces about being a dragon as a metaphor for sex... I think?
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@Buddy If my car had only 291 parts, I'd be really worried that a fuckton of parts went missing ...
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@loose said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
There has to a rule not unlike the inverse square one, behind that
I used the word "exponentially" in its strictly technical sense: a growth rate proportional to size.
The flip side of that relationship means that the integral of an exponential function is also proportional to its current value. Which means that when the size of the stuff you're accumulating grows by a roughly fixed percentage every year, it turns out that the sum total of everything you've ever accumulated is pretty close to the size of the stuff you accumulated this year multiplied by a constant.
Storage capacities do indeed grow according to a roughly exponential function, and working on the principle that what you store is determined in large part by what you can store, so does the overall size of any serious data hoarder's bit collection.
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@flabdablet it seems storage growth has slowed right down now. After terabyte drives got mainstream there hasn't been much growth. Seems like the focus now is on getting SSDs up to a compatible level at affordable prices
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@aliceif if the apple I ate for breakfast had 291 parts, I would be freaking out because that's too many parts for a piece of fruit.
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@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Sad thing is, the article is absolutely believable.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
it seems storage growth has slowed right down now.
Not really. The amount of storage you can get for a fixed price is still growing fast. It just might require being on more than one device.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
After terabyte drives got mainstream there hasn't been much growth.
Terabyte happened in 2007, and capacities have been growing at 25-30% per year since then. While it's true that growth rates before that have been faster, that's largely due to a few relatively sudden areal density leaps made possible by fundamental innovations: first PRML in 1990, then GMR in 1997. I'm expecting a similar jump fairly soon as manufacturers get the hang of HAMR and salt.
@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Seems like the focus now is on getting SSDs up to a compatible level at affordable prices
Yeah, no. Capacity is getting there (Samsung has a 4TB model out now, vs 10TB available in a spinning drive) but prices at the sweet spot are still around 25c/GB for SSD vs 3c/GB for disk. Flash has been about an order of magnitude more expensive than disks for a very long time and I don't see that changing soon.
By the time it does, both technologies might suddenly be obsolete. Maybe twice.
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@flabdablet Meh, I think my old freeservers pages are still online, including "Savage Desert", an attempt at writing a Ra's al Ghul/Vandal Savage slash fic from around 2000 (it was intended as a sort of joke, written in a deliberately hyper-serious manner, though even from that perspective it was embarrassing). Yep, it's still there.
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@Buddy said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@aliceif if the apple I ate for breakfast had 291 parts, I would be freaking out because that's too many parts for a piece of fruit.
It might shock you to learn, then, that the apple, like most other living things, contained innumerably many discrete factories, too small to see with the unaided eye, all containing dozens of even smaller complex working machines and parts.
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@flabdablet The problem is it's virtually impossible to actually run all those HyperCard stacks or THINK C 5.0 programs anymore.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@flabdablet The problem is it's virtually impossible to actually run all those HyperCard stacks or THINK C 5.0 programs anymore.
Your , you are supposed to insist that they SWFM and that it's only because people have been brainwashed into not trying to run them under
Windows 10OS X that no one believes you.
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@anotherusername Best racist (but not racist) joke in a while I've heard.
However the best kinda racist (but not racist joke) I've heard recently was my bro.
(My sister works in a cinema):
My sister - "We have a new guy he has really dark skin, I feel sorry for him because when we are trying to train him seating people, people walk past him because they can't see him in the dark".
My (younger) brother - "He should smile me more."