That looks like a county fair! Is the picture shopped?
Posts made by chozang
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
I heard that Caesar also talked of himself in the 3rd person. Napoleon, too.
And Bob Dole.
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas thread
The scandal, in which management software detected when cars using the EA 189 motor were undergoing an emission test and put the engines into a low-emission mode, has already cost VW boss Martin Winterkorn his job, leaving him struggling with a €3.2 million severance payment and a €1 million annual pension. ®
I understand the need for corporate discipline, but this is just too harsh. Everyone makes mistakes.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
[1] every state feels the need to use a different name, like the way they can't agree on what to call "Driving Drunk" so it might be DWI, DUI, OVI, or something else.
At least in Maryland, we have both DWI and DUI. DWI is more serious then DUI.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
I think that one would work better if it was a brothel.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
For those in my diabetes insipidus group, that would be quite tempting.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
@anotherusername said:
once you just assume that FTL travel is possible, you pretty much eliminate the problem of enormous distances and mostly empty space.
Many years ago, I came up with the One Giant Truck Sized Plot Hole rule for good SF.
Good SF has one plot hole you could drive a giant truck through. It's a completely obvious plot hole. There is a gentleman’s agreement between author and audience that it shall be ignored; the payoff is that the author needs to be disciplined about not introducing other, smaller plot holes. An SF plot with two or more holes, even quite small ones, requires juggling too many suspended disbeliefs to be enjoyable.
I don't know, I think most SF has more than one. For example, Universal Translators, or whatever other way of dealing with language problems. A show/movie has FTL travel. Plus it has a magical Universal Translator, where if you contact a totally unknown civilization, your Universal Translator still works. Finding sci fi without at least these two is difficult.
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RE: 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread
@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
That is one of the reasons why they are used for life-saving: If they think someone is drowning they act first and ask for orders afterwards.
Fun fact. The Newfoundland was bred for saving drowning people, so successfully that they will often do so with no prior training. Newfies and some other breeds were crossed to create the Moscow water dog, with the intention of producing a new water rescue dog. The Moscow water dog would indeed instinctively approach struggling swimmers. Unfortunately, rather than pulling them to safety, the dogs only wanted to bite them. The breed is now extinct.
I think that is the best thing I have ever seen on TDWTF since 2008.
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RE: 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread
Not his dogs, of course, and the value of what an austrian zoologist said in the middle of last century may of course have been outdated by modern genealogy...
You know you're old when you hear that and your first thought is the 1800's.
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RE: 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread
You know. I never once heard that in all my edumacation. Clearly a british thing.
I learned this in American schools. I was unaware there were programmers who had not heard the term.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I thought @CoyneTheDup was thinking
abortionvoluntary interruption of pregnancy, but now I don't know anymore.What would we do without psychopathic euphemisms?
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RE: 📹 Blakeyrat's Videos Thread (Robots in the News et al.)
Also, factoid doesn't mean what you think it means. It means a statement that is wrong or unsupported by evidence, not trivia that is correct.
The internet supports both definitions.
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RE: Stupid things I've seen on Yahoo! Answers (but I repeat myself)
Not stupid per se, but :WTF:-inducing:
[url=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150923211047AA1qgb4]I'm looking for a dry erase board that I can wear around my neck, anyone know where to get some?[/url]Possibly a yogic spiritual practice known as mouni, or silence for a pre-determined period of time.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Playing with subcritical uranium cores is a Bad Idea.
On the day of the accident, Slotin's screwdriver slipped outward a fraction of an inch while lowering the top reflector, allowing the reflector to fall into place around the core. Instantly there was a flash of blue light and a wave of heat across Slotin's skin; the core had become supercritical, releasing an intense burst of neutron radiation estimated to have lasted about a half second. He quickly flipped the top shell to the floor.
I wonder what would have happened if he had not flipped the top shell to the floor. Would the whole place have become a mushroom cloud?
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RE: The Sad State Of (Atwood's) Web App Deployment
@Lorne_Kates said:
That's my old Lenovo laptop.
The screwdriver is to keep the screen open just wide enough to keep it from hibernating, but not so wide as to turn the screen on. Plus, ventilation. (that's also why it's being propped up by a 500MB hard drive)
You must be a fan of Louis Slotin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident .
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@chozang said:
You prepare the food with a minimal amount of salt, and then the recipients can salt it to taste.
Doesn't really work well for e.g. potatoes
I think it works excellent for potatoes. Potatoes are one of the few foods where I actually do use the salt shaker.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I have tried to tell my in-laws that on more than one occasion. The food they make would be better if they used enough salt. Not good, but less rubbish.
I always thought this was the purpose of salt shakers. You prepare the food with a minimal amount of salt, and then the recipients can salt it to taste.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@FrostCat said:
But I told him that if he kept coming here, once I recognized him I wouldn't ask him.
I like those people. I have a ton of local spots where I'm common enough that I never get carded. But it always throws me off when I recognize the bartender from multiple visits, and they still card me.
You see fewer bartenders than they see customers.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
@Jaloopa said:
Also, if I remove my goatee and moustache I look 14 again and can't get served for alcohol or tobacco anywhere.
Hah. I haven't been asked for ID since I was 14 (with legal age being 18). The one time I actually was, I was so genuinely confused by the question that the cashier just gave me the smokes. I haven't even been carded in the UK, even though they allegedly are supposed to ask anyone who looks under 25.
Even today I usually get confused looks from people when I tell them their guess of 27 is about seven years off.
When I was 17, I could buy liquor without getting carded. By the time I was 27, I could not even buy beer or wine without getting carded. The last time I was carded I was 45. It did not appear to be a joke.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
s.
I had some ice cream and a jar of hot fudge topping, the kind you heat up in the microwave. I really had to fight the urge to leave the ice cream alone and eat the fudge by itself.
When I was a bachelor I would buy the plastic jars of frosting.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
I do and I am. You can ask my wife how good I am at tuning out things in my environment.
Mine is very good at disrupting any tuning out.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
A toilet attendant asking people to tip based on their penis size
Every once in a while I'm glad I'm not wealthy. Not being able to afford restaurants with toilet attendants is a big plus.
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RE: The Official Good Ideas Thread™
And that's why you're the (second) fattest country in the world.
We are apparently 9th. http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html
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RE: Enlightened
@Onyx said:
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Key: "left_bracket"
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RE: Bing is reporting Mono Project as malicious
I did think that Google might want to look at that, then I remembered that if you pay enough you can get top slot.
Are you sure about that? There was a time when what Google meant by "We're not evil" was that they wouldn't do that.
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RE: The people calling me on the phone must be who they say they are
@Gaska said:
infinite money and infinite computing power
He's using this word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
In the non-geek world, I think that's what they call "forgivable exaggeration". Or so I've heard.
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas thread
What if somebody didn't want to be logged out? It runs automatically as soon as you hit the page...
"Whenever I go to Super Logout, it logs me out of several websites. I hate when that happens."
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Home schooling makes keeping track of grades so much easier.
Especially if you grade on a curve.
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas thread
http://superlogout.com/
What am I missing here? It looks like someone who wanted to be logged out of all of the sites would simply visit superlogout.com.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
first of all, whatever they are referring to as an outhouse is not a house, as the title claims. second, outhouse means something entirely different than whatever they are actually referring to in the article. I imagined some poor guy pants around his ankles tumbling ass backwards down that hill as his dipshit neighbor pulls away the half with the toilet seat.
According to Wikipedia, "Outside North America, the term "outhouse" refers not to a toilet but to outbuildings in a general sense."
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Agreed.
If I were looking at a car (say) with a view to buy and it was "scuffed" I would use "banged up". Equally you can be "banged up" in prison.
So there is yet a third use, unless you made that up for the sake of "equality".
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Saw this on TV last night, forgot to post then.
Game show host: "what is the artistic name of North American actor Alfredo Pacino?"
Contestant (after a lot of hesitation): "Robert De Niro?"
I can see how both of those actors would get stored in the same memory location.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
My mother-in-law likes birds so much she says she wants her head transplanted into the body of one.
Oh well, whatever makes her harpy, I suppose.
Just in case anyone doesn't know about this yet: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/09/10/worlds-first-head-transplant-patient-schedules-procedure-for-2017/
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Ok I think there is a joke in there, but to be on the safe side: In some English speaking cultures, to be banged up is to be pregnant.
I think this is a Yank vs. Brit thing.
My puzzlement was about the word "only", because both are expressions in American English.. The most common meaning of "banged up" means to scuff, like you would do with a bowling ball, or a car that had been in several accidents would be described as "banged up".. "Banged" also means the act that produces pregnancy, so by extension "banged up" would be rather obvious, though not necessarily pregnant. I also find it endlessly amusing that gang members are now commonly described in the news with a straight face as "gang bangers". In the 1970's, "gang-bang" meant a "bang" with several men and one woman.
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Ahh. Yes. No. But. Only the prostitute can get banged up in an alley
Huh? A bowling ball can't get banged up in an alley? I thought that's why bowlers polished their balls.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@dkf said:
I think that was due to a proprietary name that “went native”…
Maybe? AIUI both names are contractions of the longer, chemical name, that I CBA to look up; just they used different pieces of the word there v. here (and that's all I know on the subject).
If both acetaminophen and paracetamol are contractions of the longer chemical name, that must be one hekuva chemical name.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Maybe I'm showing my age here but... hipsterish? I keep running across the word 'hipster' here, but I have no idea what the reference is. To me, 'hipster' is an archaism, a reference to a sub-culture (the Beats) that was dead and buried a few years before I was born. I have no idea what you mean by it here.
It's not surprising, since I have no concept of current cultural trends (and didn't when I was younger, either), and don't want to have any, frankly, but it bothers me that I don't know what you're talking about.
"Hip" has two distinct meanings. It can refer to the stylish at a particular point in time (as you have done), or it can simply mean those who are on the cutting edge of stylishness, whatever era they're in.
Also, you mentioned the Beats. The successor to the Beatniks (the proper word) was the Hippies.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Did you know that lobster used to be extremely cheap, as most people refused to eat it? It was once akin to eating insects. Which...it kind of is.
It was given to prisoners for this reason.
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RE: In other news today...
I wasn't trolling, I was just in a terrible mood for some reason. I'm better now.
It's easy to overestimate the character level of the crowd here.
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RE: 🐧 Lunix
If you meet the Buddha on the road, troll him.
The historical quote to which you were referring is itself a troll. No wise person would ever suggest anything like that.
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RE: The failure modes of rsync
My inner grammar nazi cried when he saw a period where a space should be.
BITdoesnotcareaboutwhitespace,andneithershouldyou.
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RE: ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
So I can't trust a 32 bit hippy anymore?
2 bits = 25 cents. 32 bits = $4. CPI adjusted from 1967 to 2015 = $28.58. So, no, a hippie with that much in his pocket can't be trusted.
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas thread
They aren't discussing it as a proposal for something to do, but about the availability, do you have to free her if she becomes Muslim, what if your wife won't let you fuck your slave, etc.
One thing that the participants stated that was incorrect according to Islam. In fact, the child of a slave is also a slave. And converting to Islam after becoming a slave does not guarantee freedom, although it does confer some benefits.