The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@loopback0 If I were you, Jean-Luc, I'd keep my mouth shut about what someone's head looks like:
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@Tsaukpaetra I can confirm the subs are 100% accurate.
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Randomized usernames are the best.
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Parking Skill: Expert
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@El_Heffe perpendicular parking!
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https://i.imgur.com/ABjVj6T.jpg
I just remembered we have a pareidolia thread. Oh well.
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I'm hesitant to ask what the joke is, but I'm assured it's funny.
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Just for the record...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm hesitant to ask what the joke is, but I'm assured it's funny.
This is what I'm upvoting, not the alleged joke.
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@El_Heffe but why did they have to specify it's English?
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@Gąska To narrow down the possibilities.
For the record, neither of the offered words are what I'd consider proper English. "Excel" (the software) is a name. Whereas "incel" is slang.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska To narrow down the possibilities.
But what other possibilities are there? Are they doing a multilingual crossword? Are multilingual crosswords even a thing? Especially in daily newspapers, which is what I assume it is based on its shape and the word "daily"?
Yes, I am nitpicking. But this is such a dumb thing that I can't even comprehend how the hell it could even occur to the author in the first place that it may be reasonable to specify the language in a scenario like this. It's like they've never seen a crossword in their entire life, much less somebody solving one, and have only seen them in movies or something.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Are multilingual crosswords even a thing?
Sort of. Round here crosswords regularly use shorter English and sometimes German words (all three of them :tro: - die/der/das and some others). I reckon it started when they wanted to make a real nice crossword, got pretty far, with fancy words and all, but then no words actually fit in the remaining places. So now they do it, because people know all those words already.
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@Gąska The comic is drawn in the Japanese style. If the joke is not translated, then maybe the author is aware of the subtext of their chosen style.
Also, even if we assume the original locale to be U.S., there's the possibility for the word being loaned spanish, pidgin, or ghetto.
Or, if the newspaper is Canadian, then it may be mixing English and French.
...I tried to check if the author is Canadian. "studionice2011" is on e.g. Twitter, but the bio blurb does not specify nationality.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I reckon it started when they wanted to make a real nice crossword, got pretty far, with fancy words and all, but then no words actually fit in the remaining places.
Haha fucking pussies.
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24x29. Every square is either a hint or a letter, no empty spaces. Maximum utilization. There's even a multi-word solution phrase. All in Polish, a language notorious for having unnecessarily long words without even compounding.
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I tried to check if the author is Canadian. "studionice2011"
I think you have your answer.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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- Write "kurwa" in every 5-letters word.
- Fill the rest with ą bûn̪çħ øf́ ąčçëňŧš.
- ???
- Profit!
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@acrow said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska To narrow down the possibilities.
For the record, neither of the offered words are what I'd consider proper English. "Excel" (the software) is a name. Whereas "incel" is slang.
That's good enough for a crossword puzzle though. The crossword puzzles here often even have words that are formed according to the rules of forming words, but I seriously doubt anybody ever actually used them outside of a crossword puzzle.
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe but why did they have to specify it's English?
Maybe they also do Japanese crossword puzzles.
Now I am wondering, are there Japanese crossword puzzles? Or Korean? Chinese? Hindi? Arabic?
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I reckon it started when they wanted to make a real nice crossword, got pretty far, with fancy words and all, but then no words actually fit in the remaining places.
Haha fucking pussies.
(click to enlarge)
24x29. Every square is either a hint or a letter, no empty spaces. Maximum utilization. There's even a multi-word solution phrase. All in Polish, a language notorious for having unnecessarily long words without even compounding.
What a butt-ugly crossword puzzle.
Every square is either hint or a letter is normal, but in a proper crossword-puzzle (any that paper ever publish around here) the squares with hints form a semi-regular pattern, and the answer reads in lines, not assembled from all over the place.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Haha fucking pussies. [...] (click to enlarge)
What's with the wavy lines and the grey boxes?
Edit: okay, the grey boxes are to fill the phrase at the bottom. I guess the wavy lines are separators between answers?
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Haha fucking pussies. [...] (click to enlarge)
What's with the wavy lines and the grey boxes?
Edit: okay, the grey boxes are to fill the phrase at the bottom. I guess the wavy lines are separators between answers?
Betweem words for multi-
letterword answers./edit
I need coffee urgently.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What a butt-ugly crossword puzzle.
I sometimes see that style in English sources, and I don't particularly care for it. They often have a picture of some mysterious “celebrity” in the corner that's involved in one of the clues. (I've also seen numerous Swedish crosswords in that style, but those I can't do.)
However, the worst aspect of the crossword given is the way that some of the clues (quite a few of them now I really look) need a little bendy arrow to where their corresponding answer needs to be put in. That's outright inelegant, and a failure on the part of the setter.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What a butt-ugly crossword puzzle.
I sometimes see that style in English sources, and I don't particularly care for it. They often have a picture of some mysterious “celebrity” in the corner that's involved in one of the clues. (I've also seen numerous Swedish crosswords in that style, but those I can't do.)
However, the worst aspect of the crossword given is the way that some of the clues (quite a few of them now I really look) need a little bendy arrow to where their corresponding answer needs to be put in. That's outright inelegant, and a failure on the part of the setter.
You guys have some weirdly specific views about crosswords.
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You guys have some weirdly specific views
Welcome to TDWTF
about crosswords
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@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You guys have some weirdly specific views about crosswords.
We're used to ones designed by people who are… insistent on the æsthetics.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@MrL said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You guys have some weirdly specific views about crosswords.
We're used to ones designed by people who are… insistent on the æsthetics.
Hmm. Discussion about what makes a crossword easthetic aside, I don't think anyone cares about that around here. And crosswords are very popular in Poland.
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@MrL The big one that almost all crosswords (except the simplest) follow in both the UK and the US is to require some form of symmetry in the layout before you start filling it in. Can be either reflection or (more commonly) rotation symmetry. Apart from that, the US and UK favour very different styles of crossword layout and clue.
There's additional rules for cryptic crosswords' clues. I don't know them particularly well.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
However, the worst aspect of the crossword given is the way that some of the clues (quite a few of them now I really look) need a little bendy arrow to where their corresponding answer needs to be put in. That's outright inelegant, and a failure on the part of the setter.
I didn't even realize the first time around that there are some 1-cell runs that ‘obviously’ don't have a hint for them. Crossword puzzles I am used to are so that every hint cell that has a letter space to the right has a hint for that, every hint cell that has a letter space below has a hint for that, and hint cells that have letter space both right and below are split in half and have two hints. And every letter cell is part of two crossing words (so no one-cell runs at all), though one of them might be the secret (solution).
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
However, the worst aspect of the crossword given is the way that some of the clues (quite a few of them now I really look) need a little bendy arrow to where their corresponding answer needs to be put in. That's outright inelegant, and a failure on the part of the setter.
I didn't even realize the first time around that there are some 1-cell runs that ‘obviously’ don't have a hint for them. Crossword puzzles I am used to are so that every hint cell that has a letter space to the right has a hint for that, every hint cell that has a letter space below has a hint for that, and hint cells that have letter space both right and below are split in half and have two hints. And every letter cell is part of two crossing words (so no one-cell runs at all), though one of them might be the secret (solution).
That's pretty amazing to me.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@El_Heffe but why did they have to specify it's English?
… because the crossword puzzle is in some other language. I've had a couple of foreign words in almost every crossword puzzle I've seen lately.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Dragoon One of my favorite days when teaching various sciences was when I got to tell them "everything we've taught you? It was false. Or really only partially true." (leading in to a discussion about models, assumptions, and how there's really a lot more complexity we're hiding from you to make the intro stuff tractable). Always caused a bunch of mental fuses to pop in the students, leading to wonderful looks of panic, confusion, and "but but but but..."
This is what the Science of Discworld books called "lies to children". The entire teaching profession is all about telling various levels of lies to children, each time revealing what the previous lie was and why it was necessary