The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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Don't be silly. A copper is either a policeman or a 1 or 2 pence coin. It could also be worked into a pun about "cop a feel" or something
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Don't be silly. A copper is either a policeman or a 1 or 2 pence coin.
Listen, I've seen that episode of Doctor Who where the skin-person takes over Rose's mind and starts talking in chav/rhyming slang, and that's the point where I quit trying to parse Olde Englishe.
I mean, Duracell batteries call themselves copper tops, so perhaps you meant "cop" when you wrote "copper", because "cop" rhymes with the "top" in "copper top".
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It could also be worked into a pun about "cop a feel" or something
Copper? I hardly know 'er!
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I mean, Duracell batteries call themselves copper tops, so perhaps you meant "cop" when you wrote "copper", because "cop" rhymes with the "top" in "copper top".
Far too similar. Copper in rhyming slang would be something like "copper and tin" -> "bin"
"I got some money off the copper, but it was all in coppers so I chucked it in the copper"
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Far too similar. Copper in rhyming slang would be something like "copper and tin" -> "bin"
"I got some money off the copper, but it was all in coppers so I chucked it in the copper"
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That's crazy.
What? You could file a point and/or an edge on....hm, well, anything, really...that's made of steel. You are talking about the country that frowns on self-defense[1].
[1] I said it that way on purpose--there's plenty of people with loud voices, including newspaper editors--who don't believe there even is a right to self defense, before we even get into the absurd notion of proportionate response the law uses.
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You are talking about the country that frowns on self-defense[
Yes, and just because they do certain crazy things doesn't mean I won't call them out on new to me crazy things they do.
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It was embarrassing enough buying teaspoons
You're buying spoons. That's about as controversial as buyng milk.
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Everything is embarrassing when you're 16
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Admittedly, it's been 14 years since I was 16, but I had no problem whatsoever going into a shop and buying stuff
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If so, can they ban those horrible glacé cherries? I really hate it when one of those gets into my drink…
Anyone who doesn't like maraschino cherries is,is ... well, i don't know.
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You're buying spoons. That's about as controversial as buyng milk.
Oh, I wanna know why they were asking for his age? There's some products that will, and they make you when you hear it, but there's a sort-of plausible reason.
Teaspoons? I bet the reason is "you can use them to heat up heroin before injecting it" or whatever it is they do in movies.
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I bet it's a case of 'We need an age check on knives', and the person who programmed it just did it for all cutlery without thinking
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Theobromine is also a poison, yet you can buy that in large quantities from supermarkets. Some of the better examples come in purple packaging, and are branded 'Cadburys'
Good fucking luck eating enough in a sitting to kill yourself. I don't think you have the requisite stomach capacity.
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which is a strong sign I've been spending too much time on here lately
To the YKYBSTMTOWTDWTF thread with you!
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all cutlery
Spoons aren't cutlery, and neither are forks. Those are silverware.
Only knives are cutlery.This factlet brought to you by the Master Cutler of the Company of Cutlers, via an idiot on the Internet.
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That's crazy.
At a guess, the rule is something like "sharp knives and related products", and stuff for sharpening them gets lumped in. In the same way that all tobacco products have an 18 age limit including papers for hand rolling. And yes, I also got IDd for a pack of papers once. I was 20 and the limit at the time was 16, so I was pretty annoyed
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I was once barred from buying a screwdriver. Admittedly that can be used as a weapon, like a million other household objects, but I was over 18. The store had a policy of not selling them to under 21s.
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This will be due to the rising number of instances of 18-21 year olds using screwdrivers to maliciously dismantle things like police cars, old people, and the internet. I fully support the Daily Mail's campaign against this scourge, and if I was the cashier at the time I'd have called the police.
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That's about as controversial as buyng milk.
You think you're being funny but...
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And in order to consume that amount, you'd need to break open the cartridges and drink the contents directly; used through the proper equipment, the doses will get nowhere near those levels.
What? You can buy small bottles in shops. You could (if you were an idiot) easily drink it from them.
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When the gum came out I knew a 3-pack-a-day smoker who tried to quit with the gum. Instead, within a few days he was smoking and chewing. I was surprised he didn't have a heart attack.
I tried to quit with the gum a few years ago. It tasted so nasty I often had a smoke afterwards to get rid of the taste.
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FOIA to get Osama's porn stash released:
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I'm not sure where to put this, but it seems quasi stupid - ly awesome.
There's video at the link, but here a gif:
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This is the point where I mention the arrowhead with a shotgun shell in it. I gather it's somewhat of a gimmick.
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Why is my first thought "moohahaha" when seeing those 2 together...
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I assume a steel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxCT1Faw6k
I can't find the scene with all the penguins carrying mortar rockets on YouTube. Alas.
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Confession: Today I wrote some code that runs explain plan to extract the table names from a SQL query. This saves 50 lines of code, and removes instrumentation from ~120 SQL queries.
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don't have a wikipedia account anyway and without one of those summary reverts are the norm IME.
Not my experience, but then nearly all the few edits I have made were simple spellar/gramming fixes (and one [citation needed] for something that may or may not be correct, but is counter-intuitive, so it ought to have some explanation available, I think).
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If I'm going to die from theobromine poisoning, it's likely to involve ■■■■■■■ at some point…
NoI'm partial to a quality Swiss myself
No
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So I was watching a video and thought "I feel like at this stage of my life I should have already made a point-and-click space singleplayer MMORPG"
So I made this:
If I don't realize how stupid this idea is in the morning, I might actually go through with it.
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singleplayer MMORPG
Wat?
If I don't realize how stupid this idea is in the morning
It's morning. Have you realized it yet?
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http://benlubar.github.io/space-boring-simulator/
What does it... do?
So far I found out that if you click "boring" it goes to the Wiki page for "boring" (a hole). Oh and now it's playing some audio but I can't hear it because I'm at work and my computer's muted.
But it's hardly Please Don't Touch Anything.
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The audio is heavy static underlaid with some DTMF tones.
Yes, it is as horrible as it sounds.
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And DTMF stands for--
DTMF stands for Dual Tone - Multi Frequency and it is the basis for your telephone system. DTMF is actually the generic term for Touch-Tone (touch-tone is a registered trademark of ATT). Your touch-tone® phone is technically a DTMF generator that produces DTMF tones as you press the buttons.
To your credit Google has a definition box for that one, but WHY THE HOLY SHIT IN HELL would you assume people know THAT acronym? Goddamned, people.
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@ben_lubar said:
singleplayer MMORPG
Wat?
That's marketing for "Single-player RPG with always-online DRM"
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Again with the replacing a thing with itself!
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I'm going to allow offline play, but take every other bad decision an MMORPG has ever made and run with it.
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I had to change the title from "SPACE BORING SIMULATOR" to "SPACE, BORING SIMULATOR" because one of my friends pointed out that "space boring" could refer to interesting things like wormholes.
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The first two words might better be swapped.
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The joke is that both definitions of the word boring work.