Overheard conversation:
Got carded at the liquor store, and my BlockBuster card fell out. Cashier LOL’d and said “Never mind”...
Overheard conversation:
Got carded at the liquor store, and my BlockBuster card fell out. Cashier LOL’d and said “Never mind”...
@jbert said in I think this settles the debate for who is the coolest tech billionaire:
@lolwhat They could always add an auger to the front so the kid can drill through.
But that would be Boring...
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
large legacy cabbages
How large does a cabbage need to be to have a legacy?
This picture was taken just before it ate him and took over his flower shop.
Just ran into a Microsoft “On Site” (I think that’s what he said he was) troubleshooter at my local smoke shop.
I said “If I gave you $50, would you go slap the crap out of everyone in the Window’s Update division?”.
Reply: “I’d love to, but it won’t help. They’re too far gone.”
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
https://i.imgur.com/aJoqXIC.jpg
I think that's called "arson".
Paging @Polygeekery ...
Second try:
@Polygeekery said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@ben_lubar said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@Polygeekery said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@LaoC said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@Gribnit said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
It's a typo, it was meant to be LiFePO4
But what it said was polonium.
TBF this battery nomenclature is a bit confusing. "LiPo" is actually not supposed to be LiPO, but "Po" means "polymer" there.
In LiPO, yes. I believe he was talking about LiFePO4 batteries, which means "Lithium Iron Phosphate".
is iron safe i heard it was very dangerous if a lot of it fell on you
Be sure to wear a hard hat.
Or else:
@sockpuppet7 if it were just labeled as "kiskadee", I'd probably still give it a try.
Oh Noes!
Someone’s forgot to either “do the needful” or “revert back” to the proper party:
@ben_lubar said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
przekroczenie prędkości = speeding
działalność gospodarcza = business
osoba towarzysząca = +1English speakers are lazy.
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@Gąska now look at what you caused. We ended up with logjam all over this thread.
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
A man succeeds in tackling a fire:
Council: Thanks for putting out the fire, now this nice bobby will tak you to be processed as a sex offender for whipping it out in public to do so. Have a nice day!
@TimeBandit said in There's no P in hamster...:
@PJH The word hampster (with a p) actually exist
FileUnder: Blame Canada
And this is why slapping someone with a fish should be legal.
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@GOG said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Paging Alanis Morissette, Ms. Morissette to the socially distanced, sanitised, white courtesy phone please...
Even the friggin pigeons are smarter than that.
That's a seagull.
I guess after staring on a screen all day I can’t see anymore.
Pigeon, seagull, they’re all just “sky rats”.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams That sounds gruesome.
Yeah, powerline/telephone pole guidewires are not a nighttime snowmobiler’s friend.
It would have been better had: 1, he not been starring at me; 2, not looked so surprised; and of course 3, not still been still in the helmet.
It was the first and last time I got sick at a scene...
Instead, use an attitudinal.
@ben_lubar , like this one?
Goddamn you're so ridiculously pedantic about language. Do you ever talk to normal people?
Oh the ironing is strong in this thread...
Apparently my sister's cat discovered how to activate the shredder by sticking her whiskers into the slot. Other than the constant noise from a shredder running unnecessarily, it's harmless, because whiskers are far too thin to get dragged into the machine.
This same cat used to stick her whiskers into the front fan of a desktop PC because the noise of her whiskers bouncing off the fan blades was amusing.
Ricky (he’s a black cat, his sister Lucy is an orange tabby) likes to “yodel” into the floor fan. Possibly because the fan makes it sound strange...
He’s, umm, kinda special...
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
Now all you need, is to shoot yourself with a stapler, and your journey to the derp side will be complete:
I already mentioned over in the guns thread that I once stapled a cardboard IDPA target to my hand.
Man, I thought that was @Polygeekery ...
Nope, I just shot myself with the staple gun but it didn't stick.
There is more than enough dumbassery to go around. I am happy to share it with @mott555
Last year my husband required 2-3 stitches each on four fingers by way of the hedge clippers.
Yesterday, i’m in the kitchen and see him exit the garage with hedge clippers. Cue me running out of the house screaming “You put that back! You’re not allowed to play with the power tools!”
@masonwheeler said in Me making a big mistake:
@M_Adams hmm?
He said "whatever you do, don't tuck your thumb in and curl your fingers around it; it may feel natural but it's a good way to break your thumb if you hit hard enough."
That’s true however having your thumbs pointed out will get them broken and severe damage to the socket at the base.
This is a proper fist, thumb out of harms way as you should be making contact with your first two knuckles in line with the bones of your arm:
@mrl said in WTF Bites:
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
Holey Moley. I replace my (10-15 pairs) socks about every 3 years!
I believe that how fast you walk is a significant factor in how fast they wear out. Also, how short you keep your toenails, especially the big toe.
And how often you play “attack the foot” with your cats...
@loopback0 said in Tumblr bans porn and proves that it is really serious:
@Zerosquare said in Tumblr bans porn and proves that it is really serious:
I know there's no accounting for taste, but I still can't imagine how one could be aroused by watching people do tech support and bad programming.
"Oh baby, do the needful. Do the needful hard "
Ooooh, revert back to me once completed...
@Karla said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
@Gribnit said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
@Zecc said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
You're allowed to step on a child on a lawn as long as it's your lawn.
The child's parents would like a word.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
40% less like a pedo.
Ditching your white window-less van could help too
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Cooking Thread:
@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
A great aunt of mine used to like sending us yogurt-coated macademias every Christmas. Ugh!
It was a polite way to say "I hate you"
HA! I got that beat. My husband's aunt (whom he doesn't speak to and I've never met) gave my husband's kids chocolate covered bugs for Christmas one year.
...except maybe that.
I'm sure they taste great, but I just can't get past the cringe factor.
Yeah, me neither.
Mmmmm... chocolate covered crickets 🦗....
Fucking weirdo.
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
But what is "boules"?
French word also used for breast
No, that's teton.
So there's a bunch of big French breasts in Wyoming?
Yep! That’s how/why the got their name. French explorers were a lonely lot...
BTW: Trust me on this. I’ve been in more than my fair share of biker bar bust-ups and never damaged my thumbs. I’ve broken all the bones in my hand itself, by hitting a metal door when the fucker zigged instead of zagging, but the thumb was just fine.
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I especially loved this line:
"In short, Lowe hates what the Army officially calls 'shit bags,' and shit bags aren't a protected category."
I’m “all in” on that exoneration.
@HardwareGeek said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@M_Adams And if it were me, I still wouldn't be able to find one when I need it.
I know 😢, 10,000 torx when all you need is a phillips.
@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@tharpa
<abbr title=“...May Greatly...”> YMMGV ¯\(ツ)/¯ .Smart quotes are great, aren't they?
I even have the abbr tag as a kb replacement macro on this damn iPhone with the correct type of quotes, and autocowreak just has to fuck with it
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Wasn't sure if this belong here, the Nope thread, or the Florida Man thread...
Or the driving thread... (I saw that article. I'm glad I wasn't the off-duty officer who actually saw it happen.)
Ahhh... Remembering being the newbie on an EMT team responding to my first snowmobile incident: Send the new guy to get that helmet...
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@M_Adams Exactly. What?
Shrimp on a Barbie!
(I LOL'd way more than I should have...)
It’s even more meta than that:
It’s shrimps on a barbie on a barbie!
Too much LOL!
@Zenith said in Reading the clipboard with every keystroke:
@dcon Yes but the context of my post was HTML tags.
But I often don't agree with control names. Radio button is another. It's usually rendered like circles on a ScanTron test. Looks and functions more like a checkbox than a button. That's why I call it a radiobox/radiomark. Yes I know it can be rendered as a button. So can a checkbox. Nobody calls that a check button.
There are so many weird aspects of UI. Enough that I wrote my own library on top of WinForms to fix as many as I could. I don't think it's a stretch to figure out what I mean with slightly different names.
They were named after these:
A radio with a row of five pop-out buttons
Radio buttons were named after the physical buttons used on older radios to select preset stations – when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, leaving the pressed button the only button in the "pushed in” position. [wikipedia Etymology section of “radio buttons”]
Needed instructions for humanity:
Somedays....
Well... if you pull it out of a duffel bag...
Presented w/o comment:
@El_Heffe said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Choose Adorpion
Belongs in Off By One.
Just saying...
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
With all this talk of making Puerto Rico the 51st state, is anyone considering that we ought to find two more?
53 is a nice prime number, just like the Pledge of Allegiance says, indivisible!
How about we sell California back to Mexico and call it a wash after inducting PR? We wouldn’t even need to change the flag.
@topspin said in EU Copyright Directive/Article 13:
@TimeBandit said in EU Copyright Directive/Article 13:
Posted in other news today first, but obviously this belongs here
Fuck me sideways with a chainsaw.
How about you fucking read it before voting on it.And don't tell me it's too long and/or complicated or some bullshit excuse like that. First off, it's your fucking job to do this. Second, if it's too long to read before voting on it, then it's too long to be let loose on the public.
Fucking politicians.
I heard they had Nancy Pelosi as a guest motivational speaker prior to the vote
@boomzilla said in Moar Cooties:
@HardwareGeek said in Moar Cooties:
@loopback0 said in Moar Cooties:
route: 95.85.70.0/24
descr: QualityNetwork OU
origin: AS57172"Quality" Cooties.
Postal code appears to be in Prague, east-central area.
According to cleantalk.org, some specific addresses in the /24 are known to have spam activity on 200+ websites.Also:
person: QUALITY NETWORK CORP
address: Office 14, Trinity House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles. SC-12
Saw that address a lot.
Cool! Now @Polygeekery has useful targeting info
@M_Adams Speaking of cats...
WTF of my day:
CATS - Official Trailer [HD] – 02:25
— Universal Pictures
My husband is a musical theater nerd. I’ve eaten slightly off foods to be able to duck out of going to: Cats, Stomp, Westside Story, Wicked, and Technicolor Coat. Was unable to avoid: Evita, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Les Mis, Into the Woods, Little Mermaid, and Rent. God how I wanted mild food poisoning instead.