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"Gene Attell Fischer"
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
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@Mason_Wheeler Obviously. Can't remember any repeating lines in the Lord's Prayer.
Then again, "baba yetu" propably translates directly to "father of ours", which is the name by which that prayer is known in several languages. So, to be perfectly , Baba yetu is the Lord's Prayer is Swahili, and Baba Yetu is a song based on said prayer.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
TBF, at least it required more than one typo to end up obscene.
Compare and contrast to "Anu Saukko".
"Anu" is a perfectly normal female name in Finland. "Saukko" is a regular family name that translates to otter. But if you move that space in between... "anus aukko" means, well, you can probably guess.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
Or you could just not have a middle name that no-one ever uses or uses more than the initial letter.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
Or you could just not have a middle name that no-one ever uses or uses more than the initial letter.
My middle name is apparently #32 in America.
The joke here is that my initials form a 3-letter word that's a pun with my siblings.
Edit: Though, I doubt the accuracy...
I'm 99.82 percent certain there are exactly 1 people in the US with that name...
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@Tsaukpaetra 1 is fewer than 1,657. Seems pretty accurate to me.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
Something Angelina Jolie forgot to do before naming her daughter with Brad Pitt "Shiloh". Or else she's never heard of spoonerisms.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
"anus aukko" means, well, you can probably guess.
Saved You A Wik:
Noun
aukko
hole gap opening (something that is open) (photography) aperture
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@Tsaukpaetra Yup, I know there are 2. The other one comes up all the time when I'm looking for something...
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Meanwhile in B*****m:
Burglar goes dumpster diving until he slides head-first into a container, trapping his hands behind his back. Police gets called after somebody saw a pair of legs sticking out of said container.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
One should never ever combine or allow leakage between one's sewer and one's drinking water.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
You'd hear satanic lyrics?
Why does that go to a generic link to discovery.com? Even the Google link does the same.
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@djls45 Have you tried reading the contents of discovery.com backwards?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
You'd hear satanic lyrics?
Why does that go to a generic link to discovery.com? Even the Google link does the same.
Presumably, because
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Why haven't cruise ships adopted traffic cameras yet? You'd think a car dash-cam with a memory card would be a minimal cost, versus all the benefits, like getting footage of the sinking.
...Now that I think about it, having cameras on the masts and chimneys, providing a good view of the ship and surroundings, might lower costs, since they reduce the need for manual walking around to check if stuff is still standing. Plus, added chance of noticing small boats and other hazards around the ship.
One benefit of a manual check is that a response can be implemented immediately upon discovery, instead of having to travel to the location from the closed-circuit camera control console.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Why does that go to a generic link to discovery.com? Even the Google link does the same.
Link rot in less than two weeks. Sigh. But they've gotta up their game if they want to beat MSDN.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."
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https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/minecraft-with-rtx-launches-april-16-and-it-is-breathtaking/
However, looking at the videos, they still seem to have some aliasing issues - everything looks quite blocky.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."That is some proper manly snoring you've got going if it's mistaken for a bear from another cabin.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/minecraft-with-rtx-launches-april-16-and-it-is-breathtaking/
However, looking at the videos, they still seem to have some aliasing issues - everything looks quite blocky.
Maybe they address it in the article () but hasn't it already been out for weeks or months? I've seen a bunch of videos of it.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I'm a compulsive replier.
@Tsaukpaetra is almost the same way.
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It's spring!
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
Sure, but you're not a summer camp counselor.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
Sure, but you're not a summer camp counselor.
True.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
But not "Mr <first name>" ? Because there are places, especially the American South, where men get called "Mr. <first name>".
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
But not "Mr <first name>" ? Because there are places, especially the American South, where men get called "Mr. <first name>".
That would feel really strange to me. More like an old-time country/black thing. But I've been formal my whole life. So...I'm not the best judge. And none of us use our first names professionally.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
But not "Mr <first name>" ? Because there are places, especially the American South, where men get called "Mr. <first name>".
I've seen this with children in places like pre-schools and in martial arts classes and Cub Scouts. Of course, it comes down to personal preference, but I find that it keeps the respect of the relationship between a child and an instructor / adult authority figure while being somewhat informal.
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@dcon Not sure the 282 is accurate. I was one of three that I knew of at one of the colleges I've attended. That seems statistically improbable.
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@abarker Based on your username I don't think blanking out your last name gives you that much additional privacy. Unless your username is a clever ruse to throw off identity thieves
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@hungrier I blame habit.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/14/minecraft-with-rtx-launches-april-16-and-it-is-breathtaking/
However, looking at the videos, they still seem to have some aliasing issues - everything looks quite blocky.
Maybe they address it in the article () but hasn't it already been out for weeks or months? I've seen a bunch of videos of it.
As a mod to the Java version, yeah. This one is for the App version.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I'm a compulsive replier.
@Tsaukpaetra is almost the same way.
Only in threads in which I'm unlikely to naturally appear.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
But not "Mr <first name>" ? Because there are places, especially the American South, where men get called "Mr. <first name>".
I've seen this with children in places like pre-schools and in martial arts classes and Cub Scouts. Of course, it comes down to personal preference, but I find that it keeps the respect of the relationship between a child and an instructor / adult authority figure while being somewhat informal.
A friend's sister raised her kids to refer to all men they talk to as "Uncle". Creeped me the fuck out. I don't even want to be called "Mister".
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@Tsaukpaetra That's kind of amazing to me, that the Java version had it first using mods.
I guess it makes sense, since the Java one had shader mods before the non-Java one even existed, but still
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Yeah. My students call me one of
- Dr Hall
- Mr Hall
- Dr Evil
But I've always been pretty formal. Other teachers get called by just a bare last name.
At least you're not Dr De'Ath, who (very) briefly taught me math at university. The pause between the parts is important!
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@Tsaukpaetra The “I’m well rested and not horny” thread?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
"Gene Attell Fischer"
You repeat the name over and over again along with every variation you can think of before you commit.
Or you could just not have a middle name that no-one ever uses or uses more than the initial letter.
My middle name is apparently #32 in America.
I have the 2138th statistically most popular first name as the name I use and near-6000th statistically most popular last name. My actual second name is a very uncommon one, at least in the West, except for a few regions, and it's >99.9% male, though I do know of one female with the same name who works for Fox.
The joke here is that my initials form a 3-letter word that's a pun with my siblings.
Edit: Though, I doubt the accuracy...
As probably already noted, there's a minimum level of data that they included, so anything not on their list gets this generic message. If I use the long form of my name, I get this message, but if I use the short form, I get some statistics as noted above.
I'm 99.82 percent certain there are exactly 1 people in the US with that name...
I'm fairly confident that there has never been, is not now, and possibly never will be someone else with my exact full name, unless they get named after me. (I do know of at least one person who was named after me, but only in part — his parents were really impressed with my family because I guess we were really good friends to them and I suppose they liked my name, so they named their next kid after me.)
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."That is some proper manly snoring you've got going if it's mistaken for a bear from another cabin.
I've even got more than one snoring pattern, which I learned when I went with a group of other college kids to NYC and then Israel. In NYC, the guys all stayed in the basement of a church, and the first morning after we all arrived, one of the guys told us that he woke up in the middle of the night and just listened to the city's night noises and the rest of us sleeping to try to get back to sleep. He tried to count how many people were snoring, but he kept coming up with the wrong number of people in one part of the room, and he wondered who had joined them. It was getting to him enough that he finally got up and went to check it out, and realized that I had been producing two separate snoring sounds that he had thought were from different people. I was able to help him prove it by consciously producing both sounds there at breakfast. I should also note that he thought it was absolutely hilarious.
Once we left there and started staying in hotels (in Israel), I got paired with the other really bad snorer, just so we didn't bother everyone else.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile in Little Britain:
Sorry, that was me.
When I was a counselor at a Bible camp one summer, a terrified kid (~10 years old) in my brother's cabin woke him up in the middle of the night. "Mr. <my-brother's-first-name>, do you hear that? Is that a bear?!"
My brother listened for a moment, and then started chuckling a little bit. "No, <kid>, there aren't any bears up here. That's just Mr. <djls45's-first-name>, snoring in the next cabin over."Is the "Mr. X" just a placeholder or would kids actually call you guys "Mr <first name>"?
The part between angle brackets is a placeholder. They used "Mister" or "Miss" or "Missus", as appropriate, with our first names.
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@mikehurley
Common thing in people from central Africa, like Congolese, where the village acts as a family. You are either a stranger or family.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley
Common thing in people from central Africa, like Congolese, where the village acts as a family. You are either a stranger or family.My anthropology professor told us about this tribe where the women would sleep with a visiting man so as to make him like one of the family. Otherwise, the other men would have killed him as a stranger.