I'm pretty sure the hores-essay is a hoax (it's a bit overdone), but that doesn't make it any less funnier :)well I've done something similar here,-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 03:35 PM)
I'm pretty sure the hores-essay is a hoax (it's a bit overdone), but that doesn't make it any less funnier :)-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 03:35 PM)
I'm pretty sure the hores-essay is a hoax (it's a bit overdone), but that doesn't make it any less funnier :)well I've done something similar here,-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 03:35 PM)
writing about what I thought was "birds" but I mistakenly used the word "Vögeln" (http://everything2.com/e2node/v%25F6geln). I was embarrassed when someone else explained what I had handed up to my female teacher.
I believe I may even have said something along the lines of -
"I like vögeln" lol-tomos (February 09, 2009, 03:52 PM)
Dear Mrs. Jones,
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Wal-Mart and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it.
Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Wal-mart.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Sheffield
somewhat OT, but nice avatar App!!-Target (February 11, 2009, 04:31 PM)
This should keep you busy for awhile. It's pretty much my entire collection, except for ones recently collected and not uploaded yet.
Just keep clicking the images or refreshing the page to see a new random one.
It's not possible to link to individual images, so if you find one that you like and want to share, you'll have to save it and upload it.
http://appstrapps.com/randompics/index.php
WARNING: Some may be NSFW-app103 (February 11, 2009, 03:31 AM)
The Matrix runs on Windows???
Watch it here:
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2009/02/27/the-matrix-runs-on-windows/-40hz (February 28, 2009, 02:00 PM)
Now i'm seriously concerned about the economy.-Shook (March 02, 2009, 04:08 PM)
Gosh, I wonder which datatypes the Vista sidebar translator uses... I knew the inflation was pretty bad, but getting overflow? Woop.-f0dder (March 02, 2009, 04:12 PM)
>:D (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg153050#msg153050))
From The 'Chive (http://www.thechive.com)-Edvard (March 02, 2009, 04:44 PM)
theOh good gravy, me too... Thanks for reminding me :mad:Final CountdownUltimate Showdown (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9118.0) song was in my brain for weeks. one of the best.-mouser (March 02, 2009, 07:08 PM)
and for your listening enjoyment:
http://www.last.fm/music/Europe/_/The+Final+Countdown-Edvard (March 02, 2009, 07:03 PM)
this reminds me of a short vid I saw some years ago, and which I've never seen sincetheOh good gravy, me too... Thanks for reminding me :mad:Final CountdownUltimate Showdown (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9118.0) song was in my brain for weeks. one of the best.-mouser (March 02, 2009, 07:08 PM)
Here's some Gimp/Photoshop silliness of my own:
1-Take a random picture off the 'net.
2- Add a light saber.
3-???
4-Profit!!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg153077#msg153077)) (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg153077#msg153077))-Edvard (March 02, 2009, 07:15 PM)
and for your listening enjoyment:
http://www.last.fm/music/Europe/_/The+Final+Countdown-Edvard (March 02, 2009, 07:03 PM)
Here's the proof
Here's the proof
Men? Ogling b00bies?? What? when? how?-nosh (March 03, 2009, 12:17 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg153605#msg153605))Hold it in your palm and bid it a frond farewell!
Thumbs up to whoever answers first.... ;D-Edvard (March 05, 2009, 06:46 PM)
and new word for meThat's a ropy thing to say!-tomos (March 06, 2009, 03:46 AM)
uh oh, target is making a run at taking Chris's pun medal.-mouser (March 06, 2009, 12:45 AM)
The correct response was "If you call me in the morning I'll tell you what to do (http://www.last.fm/music/Harry+Nilsson/_/Coconut)" ;D-Edvard (March 06, 2009, 10:14 AM)
...
Now... back to the light sabres with you, daylight sabring time is almost upon us!-cranioscopical (March 06, 2009, 12:00 PM)
See what happens?...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg153757#msg153757))-Edvard (March 06, 2009, 02:07 PM)
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(where Jedis come from... Early Training)-Edvard (March 06, 2009, 03:02 PM)
They've got their countries all "mixed up", but this one's brilliant! ;D-nosh (March 16, 2009, 11:03 PM)
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Patriot.jpgjeez,-nosh (March 17, 2009, 12:40 AM)
Yes, ÆD is a cruel, vile, nasty and evil place, definitely not for the faint of heart.-f0dder (March 17, 2009, 11:46 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg156279#msg156279))they're mad "BAAA-STUDs" over there in Wales ROFL made my day 40hz :Thmbsup:
40hz: Amazing!!-mouser (March 22, 2009, 01:37 PM)
since there's bi-lingual regulations, don't you suppose that somebody, somewhere would be able to read Welsh before the sign was printed?-f0dder (March 24, 2009, 12:06 PM)
What's even worse is when you depend on web-based translation services...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg156621#msg156621))
;D ;D-Edvard (March 24, 2009, 02:42 PM)
But if you knew GNU EMACSIf you Gnu EMACS, like I gnow EMACS-40hz (March 26, 2009, 09:12 PM)
But if you knew GNU EMACSIf you Gnu EMACS, like I gnow EMACS-40hz (March 26, 2009, 09:12 PM)
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a Perl
;)-cranioscopical (March 26, 2009, 10:12 PM)
[/url])[/i]I prefer regular exprethionth.
But shouldn't you be singing that song with a pronounced LISP?-40hz (March 27, 2009, 02:55 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg159029#msg159029))-f0dder (April 07, 2009, 07:53 PM)
Rachael found this webpage. It's not that I think she's going to kill me or anything, but she's just nuts enough to make me genuinely scared for my life. So I'm printing out several copies of this and signing it as testimony, should something bad happen. Knowing her was perhaps the worst thing that happened in my life, and it left me emotionally tortured, financially devistated, and all around feeling a hopelessness for humanity. Should I accidently fall out of a tree, or should lightning strike me, or should I suddenly cease to exist, I am printing this out and signing it, because I garuntee Rachael had a part in it. I am confident that these written accounts are so acurate that I am willing to sign it in to testimoney today if I had to.
What happens after pic #2?-f0dder (May 02, 2009, 07:32 AM)
http://www.williannogueira.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/spider-pig-homer-simpson-movie-big.jpgMac people and their toy OS ;)
A bit too big to just post so I'll link it-p3lb0x (May 05, 2009, 03:21 PM)
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~det/phy2060/heavyboots.html
This :|-p3lb0x (May 07, 2009, 12:58 PM)
the whole point of the "priceless" meme is that the priceless thing is supposed to be something negative-f0dder (May 14, 2009, 07:10 PM)
from Webster's Dictionary
Priceless
Pronunciation: \ˈprīs-ləs\
Function: adjective
Date: 1594
1 (a) having a value beyond any price : invaluable (b) costly because of rarity or quality : precious
2: having worth in terms of other than market value
3: delightfully amusing, odd, or absurd
f0dder: I agree it doesn't fit the meme exactly, but as you well know, the rules of many memes are frequently bent to the dismay of a thousand 4channers...-Edvard (May 15, 2009, 12:09 PM)
You're just mad cause it's a fanboi shirt :P
low voltage.jpg-1NR1 (May 07, 2009, 12:26 PM)
i love the stichings one.. i'm a sucker for anytime a modern joke can be retrofitted to something from the distant past. :up: :up:Then you muste hie thee to yon tapestrie generatore:-mouser (May 21, 2009, 10:38 AM)
Also there is a recording of a presentation of the paper on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk.-Eóin (June 11, 2009, 03:07 PM)
Also there is a recording of a presentation of the paper on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk.-Eóin (June 11, 2009, 03:07 PM)
I don't get it. It was slightly amusing for the first second or two (after the presentation started), but... What's the point?-Deozaan (June 11, 2009, 05:31 PM)
Announcing A New Linux Distro: BaitNSwitch Linux
Today, I'm announcing my new Linux company, HookLineNSinker, Inc. (HLNS) which will produce a new commercial Linux distribution: Pricey Linux. HLNS products include Pricey Linux Enterprise, Pricey Linux Small Business Server and The Pricey Linux Desktop. There are also Pricey Linux Support options for those of you who need 24x7 support for your Pricey Systems. And to comply with Linux licensing, we'll also offer a free, community edition of our Pricey Linux known as BaitNSwitch Linux.
A modest fetid pile of spammy comments tends to build up at ASP. Here are some of my favorites and first impressions.
“Check out the new Mexican Swine Flu Ringtone”
Does it come with SARS wallpaper?
“Good article, Thanks. Thanks.”
We changed this person’s life with a post about dinosaurs.
“I want to find good pop music. Help me please.”
Are you on an abstract scavenger hunt?
“Amoxicillin….Amoxicillin. Amoxicillin 500 mg facts. Canine dosage for amoxicillin for sinus infection. How quickly does amoxicillin work. Amoxicillin order mexico mexican. Can i drink beer if i m taking amoxicillin?!”
My best guess is that this was written by an alcoholic Wolfman with sinusitis.
“Is the museum open on Sunday?”
…sure. But they might close an hour earlier.
“Good afternoon! Escort Model information there. Fish-girl men. I am pleased to welcome you to its website, prostitutes and Fish. You can visit my blog.”
You, sir, are a pioneer.
“Good article, Thanks. my name Philip.”
My name Phillip. I bring porn links.
“Prozac…prozac…”
These are the mumblings of depressed zombies.-http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/06/best-of-spam/
In the Internet Bible vein, this is a site of mine that Nudone helped with (artwork):-Renegade (July 25, 2010, 07:00 PM)
In the Internet Bible vein, this is a site of mine that Nudone helped with (artwork):-Renegade (July 25, 2010, 07:00 PM)
I LOVE that site! Nudone did a fantastic job with the art. It has a lot of personality. I wish you'd put some more stuff up there, though. I have been waiting since forever. :-*
Oh, and your site is currently not working. :(-app103 (July 26, 2010, 01:24 AM)
[video omitted]I have always admired the INCREDIBLE creative talent of the people at The Children's Television Workshop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Television_Workshop).-mrHappy (July 26, 2010, 06:08 AM)
Found this one today:
SubsidyVille is a game where you get paid to not play FarmVille.
(see attachment in previous post (http://friendfeed.com/zeigen/f94c4688/subsidyville-is-game-where-you-get-paid-to-not)) (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg213778#msg213778)
http://friendfeed.com/zeigen/f94c4688/subsidyville-is-game-where-you-get-paid-to-not-app103 (July 28, 2010, 07:01 AM)
[Elmo's Celebrity Lullaby Video]-mrHappy (July 26, 2010, 06:08 AM)
But wow, don't those ads sound like something you'd see in xxx spam?
"1 ridiculously huge [????] a day."
"Watch as this woman is mercilessly [????] to her limits!"
Haha, they should make the rest of the bible (and the Qur'an!) that way :D-f0dder (January 08, 2010, 10:36 AM)
Haha, they should make the rest of the bible (and the Qur'an!) that way :D-f0dder (January 08, 2010, 10:36 AM)
Be careful what you wish for:
The LOLCat Bible (http://www.lolcatbible.com)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg251092#msg251092))-JennyB (June 03, 2011, 05:44 AM)
'So I just switched the heads.'-y0himba (June 04, 2011, 07:36 AM)
Blimp in the night.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851 (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851)-autohost (June 08, 2011, 02:26 PM)
Blimp in the night.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851 (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851)-autohost (June 08, 2011, 02:26 PM)
Fighting Ignorance since 1973
(it's taking longer than we thought)
How do you keep coders in suspense?-TaoPhoenix (June 12, 2011, 03:15 PM)
The Straight Dope site is worth checking out as well - http://straightdope.com/-tomos (June 10, 2011, 02:44 AM)
Has 1 in 8 people had sex with an animal?
According to Alfred Kinsey — you knew I was going to drag him into this — "some 17 percent of the farm boys in our sample had had some sexual contact with farm animals to the point of orgasm, while half or more of the boys from certain rural areas of the United States had had such experience." Kinsey later alludes to the greater tolerance for such things in the west. I take this to mean that in Kinsey's day, when you saw a happy couple walking down the aisle in Wyoming, it was better than even money that the groom had had sex with a sheep.
<snipped>
This is so great-p3lb0x (June 16, 2011, 05:26 AM)
Guess what I use to tie my skis to the car?
oh wow . . . didnt see ^that^ coming
:)-tomos (June 04, 2011, 08:25 AM)
Ohhh yeah, F*ck Sh*t Stack is brilliant. :D
- Oshyan-JavaJones (June 30, 2011, 01:13 PM)
Ohhh yeah, F*ck Sh*t Stack is brilliant. :D-JavaJones (June 30, 2011, 01:13 PM)
This is kind of old, and I wasn't sure where I first found it so I had to go back through all the pages in this thread to check. Every once in awhile something will remind me of this and it will end up stuck in my head.-app103 (July 11, 2011, 04:14 PM)
This is kind of old, and I wasn't sure where I first found it so I had to go back through all the pages in this thread to check. Every once in awhile something will remind me of this and it will end up stuck in my head.-app103 (July 11, 2011, 04:14 PM)
Ya know, part of me feels obligated to like something called the Indian Nipple Song ... But that's really weird. Catchy tune. But weird.
(I think I liked it... :-\), (hehe)-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2011, 06:29 PM)
This is kind of old, and I wasn't sure where I first found it so I had to go back through all the pages in this thread to check. Every once in awhile something will remind me of this and it will end up stuck in my head.-app103 (July 11, 2011, 04:14 PM)
Ya know, part of me feels obligated to like something called the Indian Nipple Song ... But that's really weird. Catchy tune. But weird.
(I think I liked it... :-\), (hehe)-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2011, 06:29 PM)
I know what you mean, the darn things been going round in my head since APP posted it (damn you!!)-Target (July 18, 2011, 07:09 PM)
BTW - What is it with Hindi pop that makes it so damn catchy? :tellme:-Edvard (July 18, 2011, 08:59 PM)
Schicken Sie mir künftig keine werblichen Angebote von GameStar per E-Mail.
Ich möchte auch künftig über interessante Angebote aus Ihrem Haus per E-Mail informiert werden.
via Christian Baker on Google+
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg264587#msg264587))-rgdot (October 08, 2011, 06:26 PM)
via Christian Baker on Google+
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg264587#msg264587))-rgdot (October 08, 2011, 06:26 PM)
It may be important to note (in case it isn't obvious) that C has been photoshopped. C was originally some web site, such as Facebook, IIRC.-Deozaan (November 06, 2011, 04:38 PM)
Even if you don't like rap music, this is worth watching/listening to. It's a real lolwtf.
It's the original vocals with the music replaced. It's not a regular remix where someone mashes up multiple songs. The guy that does these actually plays the replacement music himself. He's quite talented.
Here are some other particularly good ones he has done:
Megadeth-Symphony of Destruction(Reggae Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QaKxfa2kI)
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Smooth Jazz Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxAq0Ofupw)
Metallica-Enter Sandman (Smooth Jazz Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM)
Kiss-Detroit Rock City(Reggae Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2F5Mi1eCE4)-app103 (November 06, 2011, 06:55 PM)
via Christian Baker on Google+
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg264587#msg264587))-rgdot (October 08, 2011, 06:26 PM)
It may be important to note (in case it isn't obvious) that C has been photoshopped. C was originally some web site, such as Facebook, IIRC.-Deozaan (November 06, 2011, 04:38 PM)
But did she have to ask the audience? Don't think that part is photoshopped, which takes the humour to another geeky level :P-rgdot (November 06, 2011, 07:29 PM)
It's the original vocals with the music replaced. It's not a regular remix where someone mashes up multiple songs. The guy that does these actually plays the replacement music himself. He's quite talented.
Here are some other particularly good ones he has done:
Megadeth-Symphony of Destruction(Reggae Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QaKxfa2kI)
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Smooth Jazz Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxAq0Ofupw)
Metallica-Enter Sandman (Smooth Jazz Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM)
Kiss-Detroit Rock City(Reggae Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2F5Mi1eCE4)-app103 (November 06, 2011, 06:55 PM)
I just came across this and had to share it:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg268025#msg268025))
"Perfectly overpriced!"
Hahahahaha~! ;D-Renegade (November 14, 2011, 03:57 AM)
Yes, Scoopertino is a fun one (I liked the Apple kool-aid (http://scoopertino.com/apple-kool-aid-to-go-into-mass-distribution)...).
And they were quite classy about the whole business after Jobs passed.
http://scoopertino.com/nasa-dent-in-the-universe-traced-to-steve-jobs-Edvard (November 15, 2011, 11:54 AM)
Apple Kool-Aid was quickly rejected by the FDA, which normally frowns upon products that toy with our brains. However, they reversed their ruling just as quickly after drinking the juice themselves.
My addition to 'Do It' Professional Trades Guide
(http://joe-ks.com/Do_It_With.htm) Satanists do it for the hell of it.-Arizona Hot (November 24, 2011, 09:46 PM)
Dyslexic Particle Physicists do it with hadrons.
BS live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U9MGOckIzlU-cmpm (December 02, 2011, 11:10 AM)
I buy landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill. And then paint monsters into them.-http://imgur.com/a/okxmD
I buy landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill. And then paint monsters into them.-http://imgur.com/a/okxmD-Deozaan (December 19, 2011, 05:42 PM)
Just came across this:What a nice hit list :D
http://truththeory.com/2011/12/26/dear-pirates/
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg272727#msg272727))
;D-Renegade (December 26, 2011, 07:30 AM)
Gentlemen look away: Angler snares deadly fish that killed two men by biting off their testicles
Angler wrestled 40lb monster on to the floor of his boat and opened its snapping jaws with his naked hands
Pacu fish boasts impressive set of man-like molars, which tear off testicles of unwitting fishermen
Ron Paul, known for his Libertarian views, has picked up a new endorsement. The Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a Nevada brothel has begun a campaign they are calling “Pimpin for Paul”
The owner of the Brothel, Dennis Hof said in a statement
“We decided to go with the guy that’s more about state’s rights — and that’s Ron Paul,”
Hof did a survey of 500 prostitutes to see which candidate they wanted to support, and the results were close between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich.
Just came across this.
A beautifully simplified explanation of the underlying concepts: DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Li0no7O9zmE)-IainB (January 08, 2012, 07:44 AM)
BTW - What is it with Hindi pop that makes it so damn catchy?-Edvard (July 18, 2011, 08:59 PM)
Spotted years ago, scrawled on a wall in the Euston Underground:
Hanratty was
innassent(crossed out)
inorssent(crossed out)
anascent(crossed out)
guilty.
10 years ago Bob Hope died. 5 years ago Johnny Cash died. A couple of months ago Steve Jobs died. A few weeks ago Jimmy Saville died. Now we have no Hope, no Cash, no Jobs and nobody left to Fix It
Let's hope nothing happens to Ed Balls!
^ this might help -
Jimmy Savile had a show called Jim'll Fix It where he "fixed" things for people (not sure if that term used in American English - so translation from the wiki page: "Sir James will bring his influence to bear in arranging matters to your satisfaction.")-tomos (January 12, 2012, 06:17 AM)
^ this might help -
Jimmy Savile had a show called Jim'll Fix It where he "fixed" things for people (not sure if that term used in American English - so translation from the wiki page: "Sir James will bring his influence to bear in arranging matters to your satisfaction.")-tomos (January 12, 2012, 06:17 AM)
Aww, you've just deprived people of the fun of doing a bit of independent research! ;)-IainB (January 12, 2012, 11:34 AM)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this advice (http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/12/11/how-to-give-someone-advice-about-a-major-purchase.html) from Scott Meyer on purchasing a mobile handset
funny as I found the the comic, it was the comments that cracked me up...-Target (January 12, 2012, 06:57 PM)
The iPhone: the smartphone for dumb people.
One of the poker players on those poker shows says he keeps llamas. (No joke, I just forget who.) He says of course the first is named Dalai.-TaoPhoenix (January 16, 2012, 06:43 PM)
Found at: Samizdata Quote of the Day (http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2012/01/samizdata_quote_949.html)
"They said it would never be agreed. Then they said it would never be launched. Then they said it would fail. When it was a success, the euro-haters still insisted that the single currency was a recipe for economic chaos and political instability. The phobes are proving to be wrong again. At a time when so much of Europe's political leadership is in flux, the single currency is the steadying point in an uncertain and worrying world.
Imagine that the recent turbulence on the continent had occurred when Europe still traded in pre-euro currencies. What would have happened to the French franc when neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen forced the Prime Minister to quit? The franc would have plunged. What would have happened to the Dutch guilder when an anti-immigration party with a dead leader impelled itself into government? The guilder would have plunged too. Before a German election too close to call, even the stolid old mark would be gyrating. And instability in currency markets would be fuelling even more political chaos: a vicious, downward cycle.
That this has not happened is thanks to the euro. The single currency has taken all this political upheaval in its calm stride."
- From an anonymous editorial in the Observer headed "A tolerant euro".
From 2002, in case you were wondering.
I'm not sure why the thumbnail/preview image thingy shows a picture of a womanIt's a common embed trick; youtube pulls certain frames for the preview, and if you know which one it's going to be, replace that frame with something more interesting or risqué.
I'm not sure why the thumbnail/preview image thingy shows a picture of a womanIt's a common embed trick; youtube pulls certain frames for the preview, and if you know which one it's going to be, replace that frame with something more interesting or risqué.
Works real well on adolescent boys. ;)-Edvard (January 20, 2012, 03:50 PM)
I'm talking about videos where the preview looks like some girl about to take her top off or something, but it's actually a blurry skateboard video shot on iPhone.
Since it's only one frame, you'll never see it, but it's at the right spot for the thumbnail.-Edvard (January 21, 2012, 12:17 AM)
I wouldn't categorize that under "Silly Humor," personally.Eh? Really? Oops, sorry. I thought it was legitimate black humour being used to make a valid point. Quite clever/subtle. Made me larf anyway. Very difficult to refute it's statement too. Like checkmate.-Deozaan (January 23, 2012, 05:18 AM)
No pun in ten did.Ten? I think you meant deci, mate!-Edvard (January 15, 2012, 07:50 PM)
Argh! Har-de-har-har.No pun in ten did.Ten? I think you meant deci, mate!-Edvard (January 15, 2012, 07:50 PM)-cranioscopical (January 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)
But... That's what they taught us back at Deva State!No pun in ten did.Ten? I think you meant deci, mate!-Edvard (January 15, 2012, 07:50 PM)-cranioscopical (January 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)
But... That's what they taught us back at Deva State!No pun in ten did.Ten? I think you meant deci, mate!-Edvard (January 15, 2012, 07:50 PM)-cranioscopical (January 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)-Edvard (January 23, 2012, 04:30 PM)
Wow, this topic sure has blown up! :oBut... That's what they taught us back at Deva State!No pun in ten did.Ten? I think you meant deci, mate!-Edvard (January 15, 2012, 07:50 PM)-cranioscopical (January 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)-Edvard (January 23, 2012, 04:30 PM)
Which was run by Ann I. Hilate-Stoic Joker (January 23, 2012, 05:23 PM)
Politician Market (http://www.politicianmarket.com/)-IainB (January 25, 2012, 06:38 AM)
What could go wrong? Calculate the odds on this web page, using Sod's Law. (http://andrew.triumf.ca/cgi-bin/murphy.html)-IainB (January 30, 2012, 04:12 PM)
Is there any correlation between Sod's Law and the expression Sod Off?Who were you directing the question to? :D :D :D-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2012, 05:07 PM)
Anyone that knows the answer ... I'm really just curious if one is the origin of the other.Is there any correlation between Sod's Law and the expression Sod Off?Who were you directing the question to? :D :D :D-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2012, 05:07 PM)-IainB (January 30, 2012, 07:06 PM)
'I'm going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe': British pair arrested in U.S. on terror charges over Twitter jokes
Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.
Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.
The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?'
Leigh Van Bryan was due to go to Los Angeles with his friend Emily Banting but was stopped when he arrived in the U.S. over tweets he had sent
Offending tweet: Mr Bryan told security officials that 'destroy' is slang for party in the UK, but that was not enough to convince them
After making their way through passport control at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) last Monday afternoon the pair were detained by armed guards.
Despite telling officials the term 'destroy' was British slang for 'party', they were held on suspicion of planning to 'commit crimes' and had their passports confiscated.
Leigh was also quizzed about another tweet which quoted hit US comedy Family Guy which read: '3 weeks today, we're totally in LA p****** people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!
Federal agents even searched his suitcase looking for spades and shovels, claiming Emily was planning to act as Leigh's 'look out' while he raided Marilyn's tomb.
These two were pretty foolish. After 9/11 we in the US take our security pretty seriously. We worked hard for our freedom and wil protect it however we can. This was why I joined the US Marines and went to fight for our freedoms in Iraq. Freedom is no lauging matter.
Well, I never saw any connection between "Sod's Law" and "Sod off".
British colloquialisms.
"The poor sods [unfortunate people] had to endure all that warfare in the trenches" <-- is Sod's Law. Something bad/unpleasant was likely to happen to you [an unfortunate person] as a result of enlisting or being conscripted into the army for WW2.
"Oh, sod it" <--a bad/unfortunate thing just happened to me. As in "Just my sodding luck." Similar to "Oh, bollocks."
"Sod off" <-- a very rude imperative to "go away". ("Sod" in this case coming from "Sodomite".) Similar in intent to "F*** off" or "Bugger off".
You don't need to paint your face with woad to use these expressions either.-IainB (January 31, 2012, 12:10 AM)
First! (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg276980#msg276980)) ;D-Edvard (February 03, 2012, 01:07 PM)
It took a few weeks before I got the alarm code to our clinic. I guess it takes that long for them to trust you. I remember getting the code and feeling shocked. The code was 2229. That seems innocent…until they told me what it spelled out…BABY. Really. Wow. We were really joking about that…our alarm code was mocking the murder of children.
A few weeks later I was introduced to our freezer in the POC (products of conception) lab. This was the freezer that held the fetal tissue until the biohazard truck came for disposal. I found out the name for that freezer…the nursery. Again, that was a joke. How had that become a joke?
It took a few weeks before I got the alarm code to our clinic. I guess it takes that long for them to trust you. I remember getting the code and feeling shocked. The code was 2229. That seems innocent…until they told me what it spelled out…BABY. Really. Wow. We were really joking about that…our alarm code was mocking the murder of children.
A few weeks later I was introduced to our freezer in the POC (products of conception) lab. This was the freezer that held the fetal tissue until the biohazard truck came for disposal. I found out the name for that freezer…the nursery. Again, that was a joke. How had that become a joke?
WARNING! Do Not Leave Pumps Unattended You Are Responsible For Spills.
Not so much funny as clever:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg277167#msg277167))-Renegade (February 05, 2012, 08:11 AM)
Ok, here's one for 40hz - I think you'll like this one! (Though I'm certain quite a few people here will also like it!)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg277557#msg277557))
I think we've discussed the topic in a few places in one form or another. :)-Renegade (February 08, 2012, 06:55 AM)
A mind is a wonderful thing to lose...;D
Haha! I had no idea there were so many Cthulhu parody videos. Nice.
- Oshyan-JavaJones (February 10, 2012, 02:42 PM)
A satire/attack on the TSA:-Renegade (February 07, 2012, 12:01 AM)
Google / YouTube censors the Health Ranger's TSA animation video
At the same time Judge Napolitano's show is being pulled, YouTube has censored my satire TSA animation video by placing an age restriction on it, preventing the video from ever going super-viral.
This hilarious video, entitled, "TSA Help Wanted," dares to expose the total perversion and idiocy of the criminal TSA thugs who molest little children and elderly women at the airport. The video depicts actual crimes that are routinely committed by TSA agents every day across America.
Ok... I think I've found it... The funniest thing EVER~!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html
Read the worst rated comments... You'll piss yourself laughing!
...-Renegade (January 31, 2012, 06:09 AM)
Introducing...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg279190#msg279190))-kyrathaba (February 21, 2012, 06:41 PM)
Introducing...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg279190#msg279190))-kyrathaba (February 21, 2012, 06:41 PM)
and I'm guessing there's no 'safety' either...-Target (February 21, 2012, 07:04 PM)
Introducing...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg279190#msg279190))-kyrathaba (February 21, 2012, 06:41 PM)
and I'm guessing there's no 'safety' either...-Target (February 21, 2012, 07:04 PM)
hehe good one. It also appears to be a left-handed model (note the clip release), so it's bound to confuse the hell out of people.-Stoic Joker (February 22, 2012, 06:53 AM)
I'm not so sure whether this is more properly regarded as a joke or a statement of fact, but either way it made me and my 10-year old daughter smile: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg280528#msg280528))-IainB (March 02, 2012, 11:12 PM)
Cute.Well, besides that("prostitute to politics"), there is probably a lot more that you could add to both models to represent them as they might appear in operation today, but the diagrams could become a little busy.
However, the "prostitute to politics" section in the science part is missing. ;D-Renegade (March 02, 2012, 11:32 PM)
This is entertaining-Renegade (March 17, 2012, 07:38 PM)
This is so utterly insane that it's funny:
http://naturalsociety.com/smoke-cigarettes-for-weight-loss-4-insane-corporate-advertisements/
Smoke to lose weight:
(http://naturalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/wl1-410x298.jpg)
There are more at the link:
- In Order to Lose Weight, You Need to Eat More Sugar
- Forget Vegetables, Eat Psychoactive Drugs
- Feed Your Baby Lots of Soda
You can't make this stuff up! ;D-Renegade (March 27, 2012, 02:11 AM)
It kind of makes you wonder if doctors and the health industry in general really know any better today than they did back then. :-\ I'm guessing in another ~75 years people will look back on health recommendations of today with the same kind of bewildered amusement.-Deozaan (March 27, 2012, 02:55 AM)
You can't make this stuff up! ;D:up:-Renegade (March 27, 2012, 02:11 AM)
A new Nyan cat.
Reminds me of a cat we once had...-IainB (April 01, 2012, 07:08 AM)
I just knew I had to post this the moment I saw it... Speaks for itself. ;D-Renegade (April 05, 2012, 06:10 AM)
This is worth a laugh or 2:If these are true, then your point is spot-on:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/27-hilarious-detention-slips-photos_n_1397986.html#s835198&title=Detention_For_Browser
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg284370#msg284370))
That there is just so utterly ridiculous... "Although he was correct... Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance." That's seriously ****ed. Ignorance is strength.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg284370#msg284370))
Foxfire.exe~! ;D
Nothing like making a mockery of education... :P Because resistance is futile~! :P-Renegade (April 05, 2012, 10:37 PM)
- ignorance is strength.- or rather, ignorance can be and is used as a lever to indoctrinate, browbeat and manipulate people's (in this case children's) minds. Splattergate was a superb example of that practice.
Wait Iain, is that part of a Lost episode? 8)Har-de-har. ;)-TaoPhoenix (April 09, 2012, 10:46 AM)
“Well” says the doctor “You’ve got brothel sprouts.”-Target (April 29, 2012, 06:33 PM)
They don’t have a right to disrupt other people and keep other people from protesting...
Gentlemen, let's get this thing straight, once and for all. The policeman is not here to create disorder. The policeman is here to preserve disorder.-Richard J. Daley
4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)
4 questions:
1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road?
You go both ways. It's a quantum thing.
2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork?
One born with a plastic spork in their mouth.
3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork?
Spork chops
4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.
No, but one tried to bite my neck once.-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)
Silly.-IainB (May 29, 2012, 01:39 PM)
The phone rings, at a married couple's house, and the wife answers.
Wife: Hello!
Caller: (with heavy breathing) "I bet you have a tight ars*h*le with no hair."
Wife: "Yes. Hang on a moment, he's watching TV. Who shall I say is calling?"
For the love of all that is decent, do NOT choose the "Buy It Used" option. Just trust me on this one.
(Written from my hospital bed)
The Hulk could often be happy, it was only in comics that he was depicted as being morose/unhappy.
The Hulk could often be happy, it was only in comics that he was depicted as being morose/unhappy.
Umm.. it was only in "comics" that he was unhappy? As opposed to? Real life when he was hanging out with jesus?-mouser (June 11, 2012, 09:19 PM)
Sorry if my attempt at ironic self-reflection fell flat.The Hulk could often be happy, it was only in comics that he was depicted as being morose/unhappy.Umm.. it was only in "comics" that he was unhappy? As opposed to? Real life when he was hanging out with jesus?-mouser (June 11, 2012, 09:19 PM)
But I was too busy "playing along," defending my silly argument to point out that I understood your humor.I could see from your comment that you had got the joke, but I wasn't too sure about the comments that followed it - whether they were taking my comment seriously. I don't wish to inadvertently offend anyone by mistake/misinterpretation.-Deozaan (June 12, 2012, 01:17 AM)
...are really just putting on a deliberately absurdist performance for our amusement, and don't really believe anything they are saying.Yes - what a coincidence! - this is a principle that I have had to learn to apply and have applied for a long time. It helped me cope with Asperger syndrome (runs in the family). As a child, I would take any apparently factual statement or argument that I heard/read, and I would analyse it for rationale/truth, and it would disturb me greatly if it did not stand up to critical analysis. I could understand if it was flawed out of some mistake, but I could not understand if it was flawed out of some deliberate untruth - why would someone deliberately articulate an untruth? (Nowadays, I just become intensely annoyed when I catch someone lying.)-mouser (June 12, 2012, 03:22 AM)
There are three kinds of people in this world, them as can count, and them as can't.
A man needs to do a fertility test. He goes to the doctor. The doctor gives him a phial and says him to fill it.
...-Giampy (June 12, 2012, 09:59 AM)
A man needs to do a fertility test. He goes to the doctor. The doctor gives him a phial and says him to fill it.-Giampy (June 12, 2012, 09:59 AM)
We called it a 'Prophylactic Power Refresh' when I was with Telstra, ie. it solved the likelihood of further problems. :DHar-de-har-har. Very droll.-4wd (June 22, 2012, 09:59 PM)
A 1-minute video produced by the European Commission (an unelected sort of federal government of Europe).
Science: It's a Girl Thing! (hat-tip to The Reference Frame (http://motls.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/eu-top-politicians-science-its-girl.html))-IainB (June 23, 2012, 09:10 AM)
Not sure where the humour was, unless, that is, that you wanted to laugh at making grown men cry in despair... ;) :P-Renegade (June 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)
Not sure where the humour was, unless, that is, that you wanted to laugh at making grown men cry in despair... ;) :PYes, I think @Deozaan has it right.-Renegade (June 23, 2012, 09:36 AM)
Has anyone here tried one of the new digital drills? They have drill bytes, not bits and those are programmable for just about any use.-Arizona Hot (June 24, 2012, 12:44 AM)
So is that 8 holes per screw or 1 hole per 8 screws? :P-Renegade (June 24, 2012, 10:36 AM)
So is that 8 holes per screw or 1 hole per 8 screws? :P-Renegade (June 24, 2012, 10:36 AM)
Heh - and with THAT setup I can not longer resist: Guess the Celebrity!
From Wikipedia:
"He earned a bachelor's degree in education and theatre and a master's degree in special education from Queens College in New York. He taught special-education classes in the New York City area and was a substitute teacher for regular classes."-TaoPhoenix (June 25, 2012, 12:31 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg150582#msg150582))-zridling (February 11, 2009, 02:55 AM)
Is there no Laugh?Fixed it. 8)-jadinolf (July 09, 2012, 05:37 PM)
At least they admit it... (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg293217#msg293217))-IainB (July 10, 2012, 03:16 AM)
If facebook were done in the Windows 3.11 days...-Josh (July 22, 2012, 07:54 AM)
So is that 8 holes per screw or 1 hole per 8 screws? :P-Renegade (June 24, 2012, 10:36 AM)
Heh - and with THAT setup I can not longer resist: Guess the Celebrity!
From Wikipedia:
"He earned a bachelor's degree in education and theatre and a master's degree in special education from Queens College in New York. He taught special-education classes in the New York City area and was a substitute teacher for regular classes."-TaoPhoenix (June 25, 2012, 12:31 PM)
Kotter~! ;D
Welcome back~! :P-Renegade (June 25, 2012, 01:38 PM)
Here's a new "The Oatmeal" cartoon:They were good. Thanks.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion
On religion. And hilarious.-Renegade (July 23, 2012, 08:47 PM)
In like kind, take a look at this clip of 3 rather interesting Candid Camera fake interviews, from an Egyptian TV channel.
One of them - the first - goes horribly wrong, and for a moment it looks like the guy is about to pull a gun on someone (though he ends up breaking furniture and punching the female interviewer and some of the offstage TV staff).
YouTube link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLFrLOet0Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLFrLOet0Y)
I've never seen anything like it before. A glimpse into another world.-IainB (July 23, 2012, 11:33 PM)
"Candid camera" shows really are quite dangerous sometimes. I've seen some where I've been surprised that they don't get violent. Not a fan of them. Most often they just seem cruel to me.-Renegade (July 24, 2012, 12:39 AM)
skadefryd.-mrHappy (July 24, 2012, 11:52 AM)
@ Stoic Joker:
Schadenfreude (likely incorrectly written, because my German is very "rusty") is the word you are looking for.
As I understand German is the only language (brave enough) to have a word for what you just described.-Shades (July 24, 2012, 11:04 AM)
How about these words: The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Need (http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_the-10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html).-Arizona Hot (July 25, 2012, 11:19 AM)
Actually I found #1 (Desenrascanco) rather interesting considering I'm half Portuguese ... and tend to function best in chaos. One of my favorite sayings is: The only thing you can plan on is that nothing will go according to plan.I'm Portuguese and I can tell you 100%: improvisation is NOT one of the most valued skills here, especially when it's tied to lack of organization! Also, this lack of method and organization is probably one of the causes for our country to be in financial difficulties right now, in fact :P-Stoic Joker (July 25, 2012, 11:53 AM)
[edit] I'm taking this too seriously, though-jgpaiva (July 25, 2012, 12:11 PM)
How about these words: The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Need (http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_the-10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html).-Arizona Hot (July 25, 2012, 11:19 AM)
Esprit d'escalier is [...]-nosh (July 25, 2012, 02:14 PM)
Remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!
Remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!hadn't heard that one before, reminds me of Curt's signature:-tomos (July 25, 2012, 04:44 PM)
In an extraordinary case of jealousy, a Nigerian man - husband of six - was allegedly raped to death by his five spouses as he was paying too much attention to his sixth wife in east-central Benue state.
Uroko Onoja, a wealthy businessman, was having sex with his youngest wife when the other five women attacked him with knives and sticks, demanding that he have sex with all of them at once.
five women attacked him with knives and sticks, demanding that he have sex with all of them at once.
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender.
"Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
"That little shit, O'Conner," says Sean, "He couldn't do that to you, He must have had something in his hand."
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it."
"Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself, didn't you have something in your hand?"
That I did," said Paddy.
"Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a fight."-nosh (July 26, 2012, 11:13 PM)
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The writing's on the lawn.
A computer company arranged to hold its annual Christmas corporate function for staff at an old stately home in the hills of Scotland. The owner of the stately home was a Peer in the House of Lords, who had a much younger and very attractive wife.
Amongst the personnel of the computer company was a man called Alan, who was known for his womanising ways.
The computer company's corporate function went off extremely well, with much drinking, socialising and jollity.
The next year, the computer company CEO wrote to the Peer and asked if they could hold their next Christmas function there, since the first one had been such a success and they had all had such a great time. The Peer sent a letter back saying that he'd be very happy to oblige the request under the same terms as before, but asked that the company please refrain from sending any member of their staff who was called "Alan".
Intrigued, the CEO phoned up the Peer and asked, "What was the reason for your request not to send anyone called "Alan"? There is only one member of staff by that name."
The Peer replied, "Well, in the morning after your function, written in urine in the snow on the croquet lawn were the words, 'Piss off Bertie. Yours, Alan.' - and my name is Bertie, you see."
The CEO was acutely embarrassed, "Goodness me! I didn't realise that he had done that. What a rude thing to do! I do apologise. I shall speak with him about it."
The Peer replied, "Well, you don't need to tick him off about it - I didn't want him punished. It's just that I don't want him there, exposed to any further temptation. You see, I recognised it as being in my wife's handwriting!"
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg295021#msg295021))Have you heard the joke: "What did the dyslexic atheist do after being bitten by a dog?"-Renegade (July 26, 2012, 07:57 PM)
...Your jokes are better than the ones I've seen online on the subject, though. I'll keep them.Glad you like them. They are not really "my jokes", I just collect jokes that I hear, read about, or that people send me. I am an information packrat. I have several thousand jokes in the database. I can sort/filter them by various keywords or subjects - e.g., puns, weddings, Jewish jokes.-Arizona Hot (July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM)
...Here's a person who can't deny that something he doesn't believe in has happened. He's been bitten by God, so to speak.Yes, it's quite funny, but it has been sorta true in at least one case I know of - C.S.Lewis - except that he wasn't a dyslexic insomniac as far as I know.-Arizona Hot (July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM)
"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
By the way, Nosh made a good joke (above) but has deleted it for some reason. I had seen it before, but it was not in my database (it is now!).
It is a good thing they didn´t ¨photoshop¨ a lolly (or other candy) in the hand of prince Charles. That would give the picture a whole different meaning... :-\That's unnecessarily unkind - amusing, though. 8)-Shades (August 06, 2012, 02:52 PM)
Sorry, Dutch version of black humor. It's an acquired taste, I know.Please don't apologise - if that was addressed to me. I was using litotes.
However, I always noted that Dutch and British humor lie not that far apart...-Shades (August 07, 2012, 11:10 AM)
Ahahaha. Funny. Cruelly ridiculing them. However, I learned at school that it was "a troop".A large group of baboons is called "a congress".-Renegade (August 08, 2012, 06:46 AM)
A congress of baboons? (http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/a-congress-of-baboons-136900073.html)
Posted: Jan. 8, 2012 | 2:14 a.m.
There comes a time when a nation must stand up and say, "Enough is enough. No more degrading political slurs."
Yes, there is such a thing as a pride of lions and a parliament of owls.
But there is absolutely, categorically no such thing as a "congress" of baboons.
We know this because the website Politifact did the research and found that while a group of baboons can sometimes be called a rumpus, the more accepted term of venery is a troop.
A joke email started it all when the anonymous writer asserted that "congress" is not only the right term for a gathering of baboons, it by extension explains quite a lot about Congress. (Nudge-nudge, wink-wink.)
Politifact smelled a plague of rats. So an essay of journalists there delved into this most important political language issue.
Setting the record straight no doubt came much to the relief of baboons everywhere.
Unlike baboons, the reputation of Congress has never been held in lower regard. At the end of last year, Gallup polled the approval rating for Congress at 11 percent.
Think about it -- 11 percent! Public support for legalized marijuana would poll better than 11 percent. Heck, public support for legalized heroin would do better than that.
Besides, what did baboons do to merit comparison to the U.S. Congress?
When baboons gather, they do so for a purpose and actually get things done. Baboon leaders lead the troop to food, water and the pursuit of baboon happiness.
Can Congress do that? Not lately.
Most days last year, Congress did nothing but sit on its collective haunches. And when it actually did something, it made matters worse and the people far less happy.
The House passes bills the Senate won't move on. And the Senate passes bills that the House won't move on. This is normal "activity" for Congress.
House Speaker John Boehner can't control the more conservative part of his majority. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can't control his own tongue, thus making the men the least effective partnership for the reputation of Congress since Anthony Weiner bought a BlackBerry.
The do-nothing Congress created a supercommittee to do something. It did super nothing. Budgets and other big issues get kicked down the road, 60 days at a time. It's no way to run a country.
It's time for good people to do the right thing and just say no to tarnishing the image of baboons. Baboons are not U.S. senators and representatives. For the sake of future generations of baboons, let's put an end to this unfair linkage.
If we don't, the damage could be immeasurable to baboon culture. For example:
-- An adolescent baboon asks out the good-looking babe-oon in the next tree, only to be taunted as having the social graces and personality of Harry Reid. Would his self-esteem ever recover?
-- A baboon harem harrumphs about their male's flirtatious behavior at the troop holiday party. They tell him they won't be "John Ensigned."
-- Overheard at the morning baboon head-scratching session: "Did you hear about the facial work she had done? It was a disaster." "Was it a Nancy Pelosi disaster or a Shelley Berkley disaster?"
"Way worse than Shelley. It was Joe Biden grotesque. She's going to sue the doctor's ischial callosities off."
So let's get it straight. It's a troop of baboons, a rhumba of rattlesnakes, a bed of oysters, a bloat of hippopotami and a murder of crows. A gathering of congresscritters is a congress.
The other animals don't want to trade.
Sherman Frederick, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, writes a column for Stephens Media. Read his blog at www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm.
I agree against any "congress" of baboons.-Curt (August 08, 2012, 08:23 AM)
I meant to say, there is no such thing as a "congress" of baboons.-Curt (August 08, 2012, 03:22 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg296442#msg296442))
:D-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 11:58 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg296442#msg296442))
:D-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 11:58 AM)
what's your man's name (English comedian I think?)
Fox is good, all right!-tomos (August 11, 2012, 01:54 PM)
Here - it's Jimmy Carr on the WTC:I don't know the guy's name. I just saw the pic on FB and laughed, and thought I'd pass it on. :D Maybe someone else knows?(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg296442#msg296442))what's your man's name (English comedian I think?)
:D-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 11:58 AM)
Fox is good, all right!-tomos (August 11, 2012, 01:54 PM)-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 02:11 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg296830#msg296830))-Renegade (August 15, 2012, 07:56 PM)
What would you say if
Tangentially related to the topic meme: If you're not working, nothing is NSFW!-TaoPhoenix (August 18, 2012, 03:15 AM)
Tangentially related to the topic meme: If you're not working, nothing is NSFW!-TaoPhoenix (August 18, 2012, 03:15 AM)
Look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day-4wd (August 18, 2012, 06:12 AM)
Jackmeoff Mudd Arrested In Fort Lauderdale
A South Florida man with an unfortunate name -- or a strong commitment to pranking police -- was arrested last Friday on a litany of charges in Fort Lauderdale.
Jackmeoff Mudd, 54, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.
A COWBOY TOMBSTONE . Here are the Five Rules for Men to Follow for a Happy Life that Russell J. Larsen had inscribed on his headstone in Logan , Utah . He died not knowing that he would win the 'Coolest Headstone' contest. FIVE RULES FOR MEN TO FOLLOW FOR A HAPPY LIFE:
1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home, cooks from time to time, cleans up, and has a job.
2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh.
3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust, and doesn't lie to you.
4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed, and likes to be with you.
5. It's very, very important that these four women do not know each other or you could end up dead like me.-kyrathaba (August 18, 2012, 11:45 AM)
More stuff that you just can't make up...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/jackmeoff-mudd-arrested-florida_n_1792366.html?Jackmeoff Mudd Arrested In Fort Lauderdale
A South Florida man with an unfortunate name -- or a strong commitment to pranking police -- was arrested last Friday on a litany of charges in Fort Lauderdale.
Jackmeoff Mudd, 54, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.
There are more crazy names there, e.g. "Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop".
Seriously? Yep. ;D-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 08:02 AM)
There's No Problem I Can Handle (http://www.theonion.com/articles/theres-no-problem-i-can-handle,11169/)
By T. Eric Mayhew
September 28, 2005 | ISSUE 41•39
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My life has been a series of problems, and I've handled each one the same way.
As an only child in a privileged home, I had what you would call an idyllic childhood. Everything was always handed to me. When I was 9, my father pulled some strings and got me a paper route. Well, I quickly discovered that tossing the papers while riding a bike was next to impossible, and the weight of the papers exhausted my arms. My first big opportunity in life had presented me with one of my first big problems. How did I handle it? I hid the papers in a gutter and spent the morning crying behind a bush.
Some people look at adversity as a challenge. I'm not one of them. I see adversity like this: menacing, cold-hearted adversity. When life gives me lemons, I wish desperately for lemonade. But as I lack the sugar and ice necessary to make it, the lemons instead rot away in the drawer of the refrigerator until several months later, when I eventually throw them away.
When you're in a bind, I'm precisely the guy you shouldn't count on. When people seek guidance, they look to anyone else but me. Need a shoulder to cry on? I'm nowhere to be found. And when the chips are down, well sir, so am I.
Everybody faces difficulties in life that seem overwhelming, but it is only the rare few—like me, for example—who simply can't do anything about them, no matter how hard they try, until the hopelessness and despair becomes so overwhelming they can't stop themselves from contemplating suicide. Everybody has problems, and there's nothing to be done but to buck up, pull yourself together, curl up into a ball, and give up. For the surrendering you do today only lessens the pain and humiliation of the defeat you will face tomorrow!
Five years ago, my mother gave me the "nudge out of the nest," hoping that, at 35, with a sizeable savings, an apartment in my name, a weekly allowance, a strong back, a set of fine clothes, and my father's connections in the world of business, I might find my way in the world. No sirree. Not me. Like a helpless, flightless baby bird, I sat beak-open on the sidewalk outside of our home crying desperately for my mommy night and day until such time as the authorities were called and I was taken into a group home, where I received the care I need.
As I struggle through my day-to-day existence, which mostly involves lying in bed, I am constantly reminded that no matter what life dishes out, I know deep in my soul that I can't face it. And if you're anything like me, you need to just keep telling yourself that you can't either! Sometimes, when everything seems to be going wrong, I repeat to myself of the old saying, "God doesn't make any bad days, just bad people who are good for nothing, like myself."
Nobody said it was going to be easy, and for me, it's not only not easy, it's impossible. I look in my heart and I ask myself this question: "Why try?" Sure, I know I've been through worse than this before, but everything that doesn't kill me makes me gradually more and more injured over time, until I'm eventually completely debilitated and can do nothing but ineffectually quiver in pain.
When life gets me down, I stay down, hoping to avoid another gut-wrenching blow to the solar plexus. And, when the going gets tough, I bring my knees to my chin and wrap my arms around my head to avoid being trampled to death by all the go-getters who have gotten going!
A superb guide to life-skills from The Onion:-IainB (August 19, 2012, 10:06 PM)
led me to this:
Woman Has Bizarre Ability To Share Details About Personal Life With Parents (http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-has-bizarre-ability-to-share-details-about-p,29221/)-tomos (August 20, 2012, 03:59 AM)
led me to this:
Woman Has Bizarre Ability To Share Details About Personal Life With Parents (http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-has-bizarre-ability-to-share-details-about-p,29221/)-tomos (August 20, 2012, 03:59 AM)
I would have thought the ability to not share would be bizarre, bordering on being a super-power. :P-Renegade (August 20, 2012, 04:30 AM)
you obviously have a different history to me.
Was only around the age of 30 that I started getting closer to my parents. And I know lots like me, guess that's why I found the "article" amusing.-tomos (August 20, 2012, 05:48 AM)
led me to this:
Woman Has Bizarre Ability To Share Details About Personal Life With Parents (http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-has-bizarre-ability-to-share-details-about-p,29221/)-tomos (August 20, 2012, 03:59 AM)
^ ;D ^ :Thmbsup:-Stoic Joker (August 20, 2012, 11:42 AM)
You can always tell when the self-employed people aren't very busy as they seem to post a lot more at DC then...For those people I have these:-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 07:56 AM)
That was wonderful, but, listen very, very closely......-4wd (August 24, 2012, 06:56 AM)
... "congress" of baboons ... is not new; I heard it used maybe five years ago in an episode of Steven Fry's TV-show QI (short for "Quite Interesting") ...-Curt (August 08, 2012, 08:23 AM)
Renegade, where did you get the Seuss picture? I was wondering how they got the fonts to match.-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2012, 06:49 PM)
Someone posted it on Facebook. No idea where it came from though...-Renegade (August 27, 2012, 01:01 AM)
Someone posted it on Facebook. No idea where it came from though...-Renegade (August 27, 2012, 01:01 AM)
"I'm sorry, Mr. Renegade, did you just admit to an act of copyright violation by reposting it here without knowing the source? Come along now."
Really, I'm amazed the Web 2.0 of "Sharing" hasn't collided more explosively with current copyright law.-TaoPhoenix (August 27, 2012, 06:32 AM)
I'm wondering if I could start an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to buy napalm and a stealth bomber. :PHm, what's that sound from the sky?-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 04:40 AM)
I'm wondering if I could start an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to buy napalm and a stealth bomber. :PHm, what's that sound from the sky?-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 04:40 AM)
BLACK HELICOPTERS!-f0dder (August 30, 2012, 05:52 AM)
-IainB (August 30, 2012, 08:21 AM)
-IainB (August 30, 2012, 08:21 AM)
Does anyone know of a fruit punch with real punch, the kind that leaves you bruised and bleeding (the revenge of the fruit that got pureed to make it)? I can imagine a picture of a battered guy with a caption related to that.-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2012, 06:43 PM)
Yeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;D-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)
@Curt - I think I liked the first one best.-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 12:56 PM)
Yeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;D-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Renegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)
Yeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;D-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Renegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)
:o-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:18 PM)
Hopefully, that somewhere not being in a cloud ;):oYeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;DRenegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:18 PM)-NigelH (August 30, 2012, 08:27 PM)
Cloud-tastic CitationYeah, when it rains, that's really bad for data in the cloud... ;D-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Renegade I just saw somewhere that 51% of Americans think rain affects data in the "Cloud" (?!)-TaoPhoenix (August 30, 2012, 03:16 PM)
:o-Renegade (August 30, 2012, 08:18 PM)
... believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.Well, when storms takes out any other services or switches/servers relative to where my data or service is ...
... the top three deterrents are cost (34 percent), security concerns (32 percent) and privacy concerns (31 percent).ya think.
Kyrathaba that's the most brilliant pic I've seen all week!
Kyrathaba that's the most brilliant pic I've seen all week!
Pi vs. cake, or the Martians?-kyrathaba (August 31, 2012, 08:09 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg298552#msg298552))
Thought that was worth a laugh. :)-Renegade (September 01, 2012, 08:28 AM)
I rather like this cynical cartoon about stand-up desks: http://mashable.com/2012/09/02/stand-up-desks-sunday-comics/ (http://mashable.com/2012/09/02/stand-up-desks-sunday-comics/)-IainB (September 02, 2012, 11:38 PM)
The DALEK captions are cute. (I'm a long-standing Dr Who fan.)
Found this image in an article about Self-igniting euro collapse? (http://www.cityunslicker.com/2012/09/self-igniting-euro-collapse.html)
Though I think it maybe should have read "Spontaneous Combustion of the Euro Collapse". I think the clown's shoes and his red nose are priceless - and probably very apt: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg298764#msg298764))-IainB (September 03, 2012, 08:09 AM)
-mrHappy (September 03, 2012, 10:41 AM)
Retro "docking" station for iPad :D-Shades (September 06, 2012, 10:40 AM)
Lack of engineering skills?Retro "docking" station for iPad :DI was getting kind of frustrated with how slowly the person was typing, but then I viewed the video at a higher resolution and I noticed that the keys are all in the wrong places. Why? :'(-Shades (September 06, 2012, 10:40 AM)-Deozaan (September 06, 2012, 10:56 AM)
Suggestions for the Future of Linux
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Peoples, we're entering a new era of tech - so let's get Linux going
the way people want it to.
1: Remove ethernet support. Ethernet is just bloat - devices only have
it for the stubborn old geezers. Other than that, no one really uses
it. Get over it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/13/is-it-the-end-for-ethernet/
Who expects that thick cabling running through our offices? I don't!
2: Remove multi-monitor support
The new way for technology is mobile. The desktop is dead, and Linux
on the desktop has been deader than dead since it was conceived. No
one, even on the desktop space, really even uses multi-monitors,
anyways.
3: Remove support for multiple users - no one really expects a single
device to be used by two people!
4: Ending optical drive support - when's the last time you ever bought
something on disk for use in your Linux box? The CD, DVD and Blu-Ray
are today what the Floppy was 15 years ago - obsolete and yet still in
use - where you need multiple disks for one thing - And even most
people's internet are faster than a CD drive.
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Note: This one has GOT to be a complete put-on. At least I hope it is.Seems fairly elaborate for a troll post - but I guess it's a modest time investment compared to the expected hilarity... I'd wager that people on the kernel mailing list are able to see through it, though :)-40hz (September 10, 2012, 06:25 AM)
Note: This one has GOT to be a complete put-on. At least I hope it is.Seems fairly elaborate for a troll post - but I guess it's a modest time investment compared to the expected hilarity... I'd wager that people on the kernel mailing list are able to see through it, though :)-40hz (September 10, 2012, 06:25 AM)-f0dder (September 10, 2012, 07:59 AM)
4. Is already part of the Apple philosophy ;)Not really, they are just incapable of making (buying?) decent CD burners and decided to say "it's the future" not tu use them :P-rgdot (September 10, 2012, 08:59 AM)
4. Is already part of the Apple philosophy ;)Not really, they are just incapable of making (buying?) decent CD burners and decided to say "it's the future" not tu use them :P-rgdot (September 10, 2012, 08:59 AM)
Just yesterday, my MacBook destroyed me 4 CDs (while attempting to burn linux, actually. maybe it's selective?)-jgpaiva (September 10, 2012, 10:04 AM)
Unintentionally hilarious moments in the world of Linux.
...
Note: This one has GOT to be a complete put-on. At least I hope it is.-40hz (September 10, 2012, 06:25 AM)
Hello Angela,
Please never have children.
Thank you,
The sane portion of the computing world.
But seriously -- I want a tablet computer that has all the power of my desktop that I can plug into an ARRAY of monitors and other peripherals. I want my computer to be portable.-Renegade (September 10, 2012, 11:21 AM)
Beginner’s Guide to Police Harassment (http://www.policeassn.org.nz/newsroom/publications/featured-articles/beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-police-harassment)
Vol.46 No.8 | NZPA | Sat September 1st, 2012
A North Island police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local Police website:
“I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”
In response, a sergeant posted this reply:
First of all, let me tell you this ... it’s not easy. In the Palmerston North and rural area we average one cop for every 505 people. Only about 60 per cent of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as “general patrols”) where we do most of our harassing.
The rest are in non-harassing units that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. At any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60 per cent of general patrols are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So, roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 6000 residents.
When you toss in the commercial business and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 15,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average eight-hour shift runs 28,800 seconds long. This gives a cop two-thirds of a second to harass a person, and then only another third of a second to drink a Massey iced coffee AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to the challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilise some tools to help us narrow down those people we can realistically harass.
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. “My neighbour is beating his wife” is a code phrase used often. This means we’ll come out and give somebody some special harassment. Another popular one is, “There’s a guy breaking into a house.” The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or drivers with no licences and the like. It’s lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
LAWS: When we don’t have phone or cars, and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called “statutes”. These include the Crimes Act, Summary Offences Act, Land Transport Act and a whole bunch of others... They spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the law, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offences and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, the book says that’s not allowed. That meant I had permission to harass this guy.
It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well. We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because, for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to “harass” some people.
Next time you are in Palmerston North, give me the old “single finger wave”. That’s another one of those codes. It means, “You can harass me.” It’s one of our favourites.
Beginner’s Guide to Police Harassment (http://www.policeassn.org.nz/newsroom/publications/featured-articles/beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-police-harassment)
Vol.46 No.8 | NZPA | Sat September 1st, 2012
...-IainB (September 17, 2012, 07:26 AM)
* 1967 - Australians overwhelmingly vote to change the constitution to give Aborigines full citizenship rights, and allow parliament to make laws to benefit aboriginal people. Previously, Aborigines were governed under flora and fauna laws.
Please, can I be declassified as Flora/Fauna?...Be careful what you wish for. You might be reclassified as a fungus or a yeast, or something. That'd be no kind of life for a dog.-Fred Nerd (September 18, 2012, 02:08 AM)
...I could make out some of it, but the audio quality has been degraded so much that much is muffled...Actually, the sound seems - as it always was in this clip - relatively clear, but the speaker is sometimes muttering in an Aboriginal dialect of Aussie English. I can make out almost every word, but am constrained in my understanding by being unfamiliar with some of the Aussie vernacular.-Renegade (September 17, 2012, 08:58 PM)
@Renegade: Reminds me of this from The Old Grey Whistle Test (1972).
Superb lyrics.-IainB (September 19, 2012, 06:13 AM)
This week being a complete nightmare, after reading ^that^ I now have to ram a fork through one of my testicles in the hopes that I will wake up screaming.-Stoic Joker (September 19, 2012, 11:36 AM)
So what songs do you know that all the words in them start with f... :)-Stoic Joker (September 19, 2012, 12:43 PM)
So what songs do you know that all the words in them start with f... :)-Stoic Joker (September 19, 2012, 12:43 PM)
LimpBizkit come close:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tW4yXjwSXE-tomos (September 19, 2012, 01:38 PM)
poetry slam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0-cmpm (September 19, 2012, 12:06 PM)
Man Pays $137 Traffic Ticket With 137 Origami Pigs In Donut Boxes (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Heh they originally got all grouchy with the pigs and finally someone "got it" and laughed.-TaoPhoenix (September 20, 2012, 11:31 PM)
Loved the $137 piggies. Cute.
Just saw this YouTube vid. Not being an American, I had to work to understand the peculiar references to Romney "Jen" and the campaign PR, but once I did I thought it seemed quite clever/funny. The Aussies have the term "Dorothy Dixer" for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86FqN3raehs
(Can't embed this.)-IainB (September 20, 2012, 11:50 PM)
Huh? There's no subtitles. That's just the original clip. Or am I missing something?Sorry. Wrong link. Fixed it now.-Deozaan (September 20, 2012, 11:52 PM)
Quote from Cosmic Log - whimsy (http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/whimsy):
My favorite from Twitter: "Now that we have evidence for the Higgs it doesn’t make sense to keep calling it 'the god particle.'"-Arizona Hot (September 20, 2012, 10:34 PM)
have you tried accessing the mobile version of the forum?
just add wap, wap2, ... into your url, like follows:
- https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?wap
- https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?wap2
-mouser (June 05, 2012, 01:40 PM)
There once was an Ontarian who's life long dream it was to be a Newfie. One day the man finally saw his doctor about it. The doctor examined him and gave him the prognosis, "Well, if you really want to be a Newfie there is a surgery I can perform, but I have to remove 1/3 of your brain." The Ontarian was so excited, he agreed to do it right away.
During the surgery however, the doctor's hand slipped. The doctor was so upset that he sat next to the man in the recovery room until he woke up. Finally the Ontarian woke up. The doctor immediately explain what happened, and told the Ontarian, "I am so sorry sir, my hand slipped during the surgery and I accidentally cut out 2/3 of your brain instead of 1/3."
The Ontarian looked confused and replied "Que ce que vous dit monsuier?"-Renegade (September 22, 2012, 12:11 PM)
ouch -that was very funny- but not for the Quebecois...but pretty fitting for anybody who believes anybody should speak French. Really :)-tomos (September 22, 2012, 12:45 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg300968#msg300968))[/i]-kyrathaba (September 23, 2012, 09:04 AM)
Hehe, I'm done for now. Just had a bunch I'd intended to post for some time...-kyrathaba (September 23, 2012, 09:28 AM)
Hahahaha~! cheesy Just needed to get them out of your system, eh? Grin
Dear Emmett C. Burns Jr.,
I find it inconceivable that you are an elected official of Maryland’s state government. Your vitriolic hatred and bigotry make me ashamed and disgusted to think that you are in any way responsible for shaping policy at any level. The views you espouse neglect to consider several fundamental key points, which I will outline in great detail (you may want to hire an intern to help you with the longer words):
1. As I suspect you have not read the Constitution, I would like to remind you that the very first, the VERY FIRST Amendment in this founding document deals with the freedom of speech, particularly the abridgment of said freedom. By using your position as an elected official (when referring to your constituents so as to implicitly threaten the Ravens organization) to state that the Ravens should “inhibit such expressions from your employees,” more specifically Brendon Ayanbadejo, not only are you clearly violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain. What on earth would possess you to be so mind-boggingly stupid? It baffles me that a man such as yourself, a man who relies on that same First Amendment to pursue your own religious studies without fear of persecution from the state, could somehow justify stifling another person’s right to speech. To call that hypocritical would be to do a disservice to the word. Mindfucking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit.
2. “Many of your fans are opposed to such a view and feel it has no place in a sport that is strictly for pride, entertainment, and excitement.” Holy fucking shitballs. Did you seriously just say that, as someone who’s “deeply involved in government task forces on the legacy of slavery in Maryland”? Have you not heard of Kenny Washington? Jackie Robinson? As recently as 1962 the NFL still had segregation, which was only done away with by brave athletes and coaches daring to speak their mind and do the right thing, and you’re going to say that political views have “no place in a sport”? I can’t even begin to fathom the cognitive dissonance that must be coursing through your rapidly addled mind right now; the mental gymnastics your brain has to tortuously contort itself through to make such a preposterous statement are surely worthy of an Olympic gold medal (the Russian judge gives you a 10 for “beautiful oppressionism”).
3. This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you’ll start thinking about penis? “Oh shit. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!” Will all of your friends suddenly turn gay and refuse to come to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs? (Unlikely, since gay people enjoy watching football too.)
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won’t come into your house and steal your children. They won’t magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won’t even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children. You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?
In closing, I would like to say that I hope this letter, in some small way, causes you to reflect upon the magnitude of the colossal foot in mouth clusterfuck you so brazenly unleashed on a man whose only crime was speaking out for something he believed in. Best of luck in the next election; I’m fairly certain you might need it.
Sincerely,
Chris Kluwe
P.S. I’ve also been vocal as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you can take your “I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayanbadejo is doing” and shove it in your close-minded, totally lacking in empathy piehole and choke on it. Asshole.
Don't know if this ever happened to anyone else here. But it happened to me last week. :-\
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg301364#msg301364))-40hz (September 26, 2012, 10:41 AM)
^ Hehe, thanks for that, Ren.-kyrathaba (September 29, 2012, 12:12 PM)
However, the average human does NOT poop two pounds a day!-TaoPhoenix (September 29, 2012, 12:47 PM)
However, the average human does NOT poop two pounds a day!-TaoPhoenix (September 29, 2012, 12:47 PM)
Now a 26 foot OTOH, that's impressive!-Stoic Joker (September 29, 2012, 12:12 PM)
Ooooops... Did I just say that I was full of shit? :P-Renegade (September 29, 2012, 12:58 PM)
Poop picture, incl coffee-Renegade (September 29, 2012, 11:12 AM)
That's just traumatizing Renegade! :o-TaoPhoenix (October 01, 2012, 03:07 AM)
Do you actually use the phone part of your phone? ;D BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg301782#msg301782))-Renegade (October 01, 2012, 10:06 AM)
That reminds of the MVNO Ting device page:-daddydave (October 01, 2012, 10:47 AM)
That's just traumatizing Renegade! :o-TaoPhoenix (October 01, 2012, 03:07 AM)
I thought it was rather cute~! ;D
Kids these days just don't understand why they are so dangerous... Why not combine education with funtime~! :P-Renegade (October 01, 2012, 04:14 AM)
This is very popular on [url=http://www.amazon] AmazonDid you see the other pictures?-tomos (October 01, 2012, 01:49 PM)
This is very popular on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002CYTL2/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=)Did you see the other pictures?-tomos (October 01, 2012, 01:49 PM)-Arizona Hot (October 02, 2012, 12:20 PM)
Police were certainly convinced they had a huge haul of pot — and this was not the opinion of some lone rookie, frisky at the prospect of a big drug raid.
This was the judgment of veteran officers from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team — supposedly the best drug squad this province has to offer
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg302256#msg302256))
:P-tomos (October 05, 2012, 07:36 AM)
For those that don't click through, here's the game of "pick the pot":"I definitely think it's the one on right... yeah, definitely maybe... though I'm too stoned to care, lol."
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg302255#msg302255))-Renegade (October 05, 2012, 07:31 AM)
Also... I kinda doubt the daisies have the characteristic smell that hemp plants have. Those guys ought to be really, really ashamed :-)-f0dder (October 05, 2012, 08:57 AM)
Also... I kinda doubt the daisies have the characteristic smell that hemp plants have. Those guys ought to be really, really ashamed :-)-f0dder (October 05, 2012, 08:57 AM)
Especially in Canada where 20 years ago 1/3rd of the population admitted to having smoked pot... Don't know what it's like now, but can't imagine it's less. It's not like you can actually get through life and not encounter it at some point. You really have to hide from it.-Renegade (October 05, 2012, 09:35 AM)
A Stephen Hawking quote from page 14 of The quantum physics of chronology protection (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0204022):
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg302666#msg302666))
I think all potential time-travelers are turned in zebras, but someone from the year 2100 said that was nonsense. I don't argue with zebras, what do you think?-Arizona Hot (October 09, 2012, 05:56 PM)
Mind-numbingly stupid...
...
Funny in a masochistic way.-Renegade (October 09, 2012, 07:24 PM)
^ took me a minute to click there
groan....
;D-tomos (October 11, 2012, 04:30 AM)
Saw this:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg303037#msg303037))
Well, duh! That's because it's spelled:
E(x|s)presso
http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm
:P-Renegade (October 13, 2012, 09:46 AM)
Air Traffic Control dialogue.
The following are supposedly actual accounts of radio exchanges between airline pilots and control towers around the world, but I have seen them coming up in email in various different guises, over the years. Genuine or not, however, they are quite amusing.
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Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"
Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"
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"TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees."
"Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?"
"Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"
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From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f...ing bored!"
Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!"
Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!"
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O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, eastbound."
United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the little Fokker in sight."
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A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight.
While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?"
Student: "When I was number one for takeoff."
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A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down.
San Jose Tower Noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadalupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport."
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There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked."
Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
"Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."
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Taxiing down the tarmac, a DC-10 abruptly stopped, turned around and returned to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally took off.
A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What, exactly, was the problem?"
"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine." explained the flight attendant, adding, "It took us a while to find a new pilot."
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One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee.
Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?"
The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I'll have enough parts for another one."
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The controller who was working a busy pattern told the 727 on downwind to make a three-sixty (do a complete circle, usually to provide spacing between aircraft).
The pilot of the 727 complained, "Do you know it costs us two thousand dollars to make a three-sixty in this airplane?
Without missing a beat the controller replied, "Roger, give me four thousand dollars worth!"
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Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7"
Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?"
Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers."
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The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport can sometimes be a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location but also how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a PanAm 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747 (call sign "Speedbird 206") after landing:
Speedbird 206: "Top of the morning Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway."
Ground: "Guten morgen! You vill taxi to your gate!"
The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxi way and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know vare you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground: (with some arrogant impatience) "Speedbird 206, haff you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, I have, in 1944. In another type of Boeing. I didn't stop."
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A Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war."
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During taxi at London Heathrow, the crew of a US Air departure flight to Ft.Lauderdale, made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. The irate ground controller (a female) lashed out at the US Air crew screaming, "US Air 2771, where are you going? I told you to turn right on "Charlie" taxi way; you turned right on "Delta." Stop right there. I know it's difficult to tell the difference between C's and D's but get it right."
Continuing her lashing to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically, "God, you've screwed everything up; it'll take forever to sort this out. You stay right there and don't move until I tell you to. You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about a half hour and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you. You got that, US Air 2771?"
The humbled crew responded: "Yes Ma'am".
Naturally, the "ground control" frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air Flight 2771. No one wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state. Tension in every cockpit at LGA was running high.
Shortly after the controller finished her admonishment of the U.S. Air crew, an unknown male pilot broke the silence and asked, "Wasn't I married to you once?"
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Matthew Feeney|Oct. 19, 2012 2:15 pm
Member of the European Parliament and Youtube phenomenon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs) Daniel Hannan (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100185609/you-thought-the-whole-eussr-thing-was-over-the-top-have-a-look-at-this-poster/) posted a photo of a poster hanging in the European Commission on his blog today. The poster is from Europe4All (http://www.europe4all.org/) and features the E.U. logo in the top right corner.
At first glance it looks like a happy-feely all inclusive tolerance plug, but on closer inspection a more sinister symbol can be seen amongst the crosses, star of Davids, ying-yangs, trisulas, and Torii gates, the hammer and sickle. Hannan remarks on the symbol of an atheist regime that killed tens of millions of people being among religious symbols in a poster promoting tolerance:For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags.Nauseating stuff. Whoever is responsible for the poster maybe should have considered the misery inflicted by the Soviet Union on countries that are now members of the E.U. While to ignorant left-wing westerners gripped by middle-class guilt the hammer and sickle might be some sort of pathetic symbolic refuge, to the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland it might have a different connotation.
All I want to know is who forgot the swastikas.
Priceless.
A piece of biting sarcasm and fair comment from reason.tv's Hit & Run Blog, about a Promotional Poster in the European Commission (http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/19/promotional-poster-in-european-commissio)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg303907#msg303907))-IainB (October 20, 2012, 07:06 AM)
The trihsula (also spelled trishul or trisula, Sanskrit for "three spear") is a trident spear that is the emblem of the god Shiva. The weapon symbolizes empire and the irresistible force of transcendental reality.
The three prongs of the trishula represent Shiva's three aspects of:
- creator,
- preserver
- destroyer
as well as the three shaktis (powers):
- will
- action
- wisdom
The fearsome goddess Durga also brandishes a trishula in one of her seven hands.
Seems to be a (relatively) recent addition, though:thanks Edvard.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?220045-Edvard (October 20, 2012, 10:57 PM)
The trishul, Jha says, is being appropriated by political Hinduism the same way it claimed the cow as a holy symbol in the 19th century to counter British aggression.
I'm only as sharp as a marble, Iain. What does that pic mean? : (-TaoPhoenix (October 21, 2012, 11:30 AM)
I'm only as sharp as a marble, Iain. What does that pic mean? : (Sorry about that. The joke was sent to me by a friend in the UK and you would not necessarily "see" the joke at all if you hadn't been up to speed with the UK's Jimmy Saville revelations.-TaoPhoenix (October 21, 2012, 11:30 AM)
Hinduism...Seems to be a (relatively) recent addition, though:
...The fearsome goddess Durga also brandishes a trishula in one of her seven hands.-Edvard (October 20, 2012, 10:57 PM)
"Hinduism has survived because of its dynamism, its ability to adopt from everywhere and then make it its own."How interesting! I suspect that this adaptability would probably be true of most surviving religio-political ideologies. A good example would be the Christian Nicene Creed (belief in the The Holy Trinity) apparently invented in about 300 A.D. to prevent a split in the Church. Mohammed (pbuh) later - circa 630 A.D. - decreed this to be a double-whammy blasphemy, as it divided the indivisible One God into three parts, one of which - Jesus, "The Son" - was a human being (just a prophet).
To get the joke, you have to visit the site:
http://www.romneytaxplan.com/
;)-Renegade (October 22, 2012, 09:57 AM)
laugh of the day ;D-tomos (October 22, 2012, 12:47 PM)
If you already know about these, let me know so I can avoid posting such redundant things.-Arizona Hot (October 23, 2012, 11:39 PM)
This is fun and funny! :D
1) Go to Google Images >> https://www.google.com/imghp
2) Type in "completely wrong" and search
3) Enjoy~! :P ;D-Renegade (October 24, 2012, 02:27 AM)
Hmmm... no, but maybe this will do?-Edvard (October 31, 2012, 11:08 AM)
Hmmm... no, but maybe this will do?-Edvard (October 31, 2012, 11:08 AM)
Hmm, I don't get it... Any help welcome !-MerleOne (October 31, 2012, 11:15 AM)
Hmmm... no, but maybe this will do?-Edvard (October 31, 2012, 11:08 AM)
Hmm, I don't get it... Any help welcome !-MerleOne (October 31, 2012, 11:15 AM)
Sandy is the name of Little Orphan Annie's dog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie-Edvard (October 31, 2012, 11:30 AM)
Can we make this thread a general hurricaine Sandy discussion thread?
DC member app is in New Jersey (but not too close to shore) and has been offline since it hit.-mouser (October 31, 2012, 11:45 AM)
A friend said this reminded him of a joke, "Save police time — beat yourself up."
I enjoyed the top comment on this one:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg305726#msg305726))
the comment has either been removed since, or ewetube are filtering out 'older' comments.-tomos (November 06, 2012, 04:37 AM)
That looks nice Arizona, but I couldnt read a thing :D
Here's a higher resolution copy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg305629#msg305629))-tomos (November 05, 2012, 10:58 AM)
That looks nice Arizona, but I couldnt read a thing :D
Here's a higher resolution copy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg305629#msg305629))-tomos (November 05, 2012, 10:58 AM)
Tomos: What gave you the idea that you could find a higher-resolution image somewhere other than the home site?-Arizona Hot (November 06, 2012, 10:01 PM)
That looks nice Arizona, but I couldnt read a thing :D
Here's a higher resolution copy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg305629#msg305629))
Thank you. I got the results below using IE 8, but was able to get a higher-res image using Chrome.-tomos (November 05, 2012, 10:58 AM)
Tomos: What gave you the idea that you could find a higher-resolution image somewhere other than the home site?-Arizona Hot (November 06, 2012, 10:01 PM)
I did find it at the same site - just kept clicking till I could read it.-tomos (November 07, 2012, 03:06 AM)
Death is not final. All things are subject to change.-Deozaan (October 13, 2012, 01:45 PM)
KittyCatCast?-Deozaan (November 07, 2012, 04:29 AM)
Ok... I'm going to put this in a spoiler because it is of a political nature... But man... This has GOT to be one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen in my life~! Really. Be forewarned... This is fall-off-your-chair-pissing-your-pants hilarious~! ;D
Seriously... I'll be pissing myself laughing over this for YEARS!-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 07:16 AM)
The most awesomest clock face ever.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306282#msg306282))-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 06:56 AM)
The most awesomest clock face ever.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306282#msg306282))-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 06:56 AM)
Nice find. BTW, I don't understand the computation for "7" : 9-sqrt(9)+ ? = 7, what is actually the ?-MerleOne (November 12, 2012, 11:03 AM)
The most awesomest clock face ever.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306282#msg306282))-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 06:56 AM)
Nice find. BTW, I don't understand the computation for "7" : 9-sqrt(9)+ ? = 7, what is actually the ?-MerleOne (November 12, 2012, 11:03 AM)
Reading that would be "point nine bar". Some mathematical notations are used differently in different situations. I believe that they mean "ad infinitum" there. So:
nine minus root nine plus point nine bar = 9 - 3 + 0.999999999999999999999... = 7
Math is just wonky sometimes with odd symbol usage. I generally think of "bar" as meaning absolute value or ad infinitum for several digits, with dot being used for 1.-Renegade (November 12, 2012, 11:15 AM)
The most awesomest clock face ever.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306282#msg306282))-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 06:56 AM)
Nice find. BTW, I don't understand the computation for "7" : 9-sqrt(9)+ ? = 7, what is actually the ?-MerleOne (November 12, 2012, 11:03 AM)
Reading that would be "point nine bar". Some mathematical notations are used differently in different situations. I believe that they mean "ad infinitum" there. So:
nine minus root nine plus point nine bar = 9 - 3 + 0.999999999999999999999... = 7
Math is just wonky sometimes with odd symbol usage. I generally think of "bar" as meaning absolute value or ad infinitum for several digits, with dot being used for 1.-Renegade (November 12, 2012, 11:15 AM)
Thanks ! I only used to see a bar over a value to designate the conjugate of a complex number.-MerleOne (November 12, 2012, 11:30 AM)
The most awesomest clock face ever.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306282#msg306282))-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 06:56 AM)
Ok... I'm going to put this in a spoiler because it is of a political nature... But man... This has GOT to be one of the FUNNIEST things I've ever seen in my life~! Really. Be forewarned... This is fall-off-your-chair-pissing-your-pants hilarious~! ;D
Seriously... I'll be pissing myself laughing over this for YEARS!-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 07:16 AM)
Neat! But for the 5-spot, it looks like they pictured "(sqrt(9!))" when it ought to be "(sqrt(9))!".-x16wda (November 12, 2012, 07:27 PM)
Funny that you posted this because I was reading sometime last year that the state of Texas was the only state in the union that has a clause that allows them to secede from the union. The reasoning was because Texas was a republic before entering the union.
I don't know if it would required a vote of the Texas people or not. It was a big issue a year or so back when Gov. Perry jokingly said we should secede from the union, the news networks were having a field day with that....-Tinman57 (November 12, 2012, 07:41 PM)
58% of Americans didn't even vote. If any of their names are on the petitions... >:(-Edvard (November 13, 2012, 10:26 AM)
The infinity of hilarity is spiraling out of control~! ;D :P
Reality is so much funnier than fiction! :D-Renegade (November 13, 2012, 08:49 AM)
I could post this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many threads...
Where would you post it?
Hard decision!-Renegade (November 16, 2012, 09:54 AM)
Heroes of Science
http://datazoid.deviantart.com/art/Heroes-of-Science-Action-Figures-337514889
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg306867#msg306867))-Renegade (November 16, 2012, 06:16 AM)
Perhaps the thing we are most guilty of on this forum is beating meta discussions to death ;D-mouser (November 18, 2012, 09:50 AM)
Perhaps the thing we are most guilty of on this forum is beating meta discussions to death ;D-mouser (November 18, 2012, 09:50 AM)
I think this needs a discussion! :P-TaoPhoenix (November 19, 2012, 12:16 AM)
A game store floor in France.Noway.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg307171#msg307171))
It's flat.-Renegade (November 19, 2012, 08:50 AM)
-Renegade (November 19, 2012, 09:29 AM)
Santa, you do realize...
...this means war.-superboyac (November 19, 2012, 05:46 PM)
Maybe it's not funny...shouldn't need an explanation. Fail!Santa, you do realize...
...this means war.-superboyac (November 19, 2012, 05:46 PM)
I don't get it.-Deozaan (November 19, 2012, 05:50 PM)
WHO NEEDS OIL?
I RIDE THE BUS
^ I had to think
-
he didnt get what he wanted?-tomos (November 20, 2012, 04:17 AM)
Ok - followup on that joke... the laugh is now 20x larger~!-Renegade (November 12, 2012, 06:56 AM)
Indoor cloud...(Not Photoshopped) Here. (http://mashable.com/2012/11/15/berndnaut-smilde-clouds/)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg307415#msg307415))-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:39 PM)
Indoor cloud...(Not Photoshopped) Here. (http://mashable.com/2012/11/15/berndnaut-smilde-clouds/)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg307415#msg307415))-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:39 PM)
That's pretty wicked! :)-Renegade (November 20, 2012, 10:38 PM)
Have any of you eaten turducken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken)...-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:52 PM)
Now Austin (http://now.msn.com/austin-files-petition-to-secede-from-texas) wants to secede from Texas.-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:58 PM)
Now Austin (http://now.msn.com/austin-files-petition-to-secede-from-texas) wants to secede from Texas.-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:58 PM)
What does that even mean? The Unincorporated Town Formerly Known as Austin becomes its own state? Or does it automatically secede from the US as well? Speaking of that other thread with the conspiracies, all this secession stuff is ... a game. Units simply cannot secede, that was the cutting edge news of 1865. So here we go again, someone's playing an angle, and I simply won't waste my energy on it. It will go away in a couple of years. We didn't go through total hell for 160 years with lots of ugly wars only to have states/town threaten to secede in ... wait for it ... 2013 out of what is very close to boredom.-TaoPhoenix (November 21, 2012, 08:23 AM)
Have any of you eaten turducken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken)...-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:52 PM)
The REAL Turducken...
;)-4wd (November 21, 2012, 06:45 AM)
I'm putting it here to not sully the real thread:
I giggled last night at a theoretical NANY concept: The TSA Agent App!
Learn which agents are available at which airports and when they are on duty! Share your experiences of your favorite grope! Vote for your favorite agent!-TaoPhoenix (November 21, 2012, 12:00 PM)
"I tried, and therefor, no one should criticize me."-40hz (November 21, 2012, 09:36 PM)
Where in Booyabible is this found?-Arizona Hot (November 22, 2012, 08:38 AM)
Where in Booyabible is this found?-Arizona Hot (November 22, 2012, 08:38 AM)
Facebook I'd bet-tomos (November 22, 2012, 09:11 AM)
Should I put it in a spoiler bar to protect the innocent here or do you like your pr0n?Kinda reassuring that justien bieber isn't on site #2 :)-Arizona Hot (November 21, 2012, 07:59 PM)
Cabin in the Woods in 30 Seconds by the 30 Seconds Bunnies.
http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/30-second-bunnies-cabin-woods (http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/30-second-bunnies-cabin-woods)
Jim-J-Mac (November 22, 2012, 10:13 PM)
Cabin in the Woods in 30 Seconds by the 30 Seconds Bunnies.
http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/30-second-bunnies-cabin-woods (http://www.fearnet.com/shorts/30-second-bunnies-cabin-woods)-J-Mac (November 22, 2012, 10:13 PM)
Super Funny Trolling on London Subway (http://imgur.com/a/lUWTG)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg308242#msg308242))-Arizona Hot (November 27, 2012, 02:01 PM)
It all makes sense now.
Gay marriage and marijuana being legalized on the same day.
Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lays with another man he should be stoned."
We've just been interpreting it wrong all along.-IainB (November 29, 2012, 06:40 AM)
^ gave me a big laugh anyways ;DPerhaps I should look through it and see if I can find out how to talk to a live customer service agent on hughesnet.....
they say you can find absolutely everything in the Bible (so I guess you never know).-tomos (November 29, 2012, 07:54 AM)
How many people here would use the Klingon interface?;D
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg308830#msg308830))-Arizona Hot (December 01, 2012, 05:30 PM)
And I also see as an architect very much that the newer programmers that I mentor don't *get* some stuff, because they don't know what goes on under the covers. And so they can't make good decisions devoid of this knowledge.
...
You have to know how something is done before you use it, so that you can make good decisions about when to use it.-wraith808 (December 02, 2012, 10:28 AM)
How many people here would use the Klingon interface?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg308830#msg308830))-Arizona Hot (December 01, 2012, 05:30 PM)
^ that was really good fun :D
I'm curious - anyone know who made it?
I wonder was it a BBC programme that got dubbed (or maybe made for BBC?)-tomos (November 30, 2012, 06:49 PM)
^ that was really good fun :D
I'm curious - anyone know who made it?
I wonder was it a BBC programme that got dubbed (or maybe made for BBC?)-tomos (November 30, 2012, 06:49 PM)
part of a series, but not available in my area. :-(
BBC - BBC Comedy Blog: DIY Walk on the Wild Side (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/comedy/2010/10/diy-walk-on-the-wild-side.shtml)
hint: I merely searched for "alan alan"! First answer! :P-Curt (December 02, 2012, 05:00 PM)
...There's a very droll plug for the book on YouTube, Secret Leaked Video of Petraeus Outburst. Made me laugh till I cried.-IainB (December 02, 2012, 05:25 PM)
York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff said a copy of the video will be turned in as evidence against Hannah Sabata of Stromsburg. The 19-year-old was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a robbery the day before at the Cornerstone Bank branch in Waco. She faces robbery and theft charges.
The video was posted the same day Sabata was arrested. It shows a woman holding handwritten signs that say she robbed a bank and stole a car. The woman then holds a large bundle of cash, what she says is $6,256, in front of the camera. She also holds up what appears to be a bag of marijuana.
The video caption says, "I just stole a car and robbed a bank. Now I'm rich, I can pay off my college financial aid, and tomorrow I'm going for a shopping spree."
One student brought in mercury -- contained within a thermometer -- and the school went into lockdown.
Deputies say the thermometer was discovered as the substances were checked before going through the school.
No one was put in harm's way, but a hazmat crew was there as a precaution.
In-fucking-sane... :o
While it's absolutely hilarious... god... these people seriously... I'm just waiting for them to turn up for their Darwin Award! :P-Renegade (December 05, 2012, 08:57 PM)
Well, unless you think that forks should be banned because people could use them to stab themselves in their eyes... :P-Renegade (December 05, 2012, 08:57 PM)
It is now safe to delete cookies. ;)-40hz (December 05, 2012, 07:48 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg309315#msg309315))
It is now safe to delete cookies. ;)-40hz (December 05, 2012, 07:48 PM)
Seminole High School locked down after student brings mercury-filled thermometer to class for chemistry project[/size][/b]
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/285396/8/School-locked-down-over-thermometerOne student brought in mercury -- contained within a thermometer -- and the school went into lockdown.
Deputies say the thermometer was discovered as the substances were checked before going through the school.
No one was put in harm's way, but a hazmat crew was there as a precaution.
In-fucking-sane...-Renegade (December 05, 2012, 08:57 PM)
Guess we shouldn't tell these people how the thermostat for their heating/cooling systems work then huh?
(Hint: Mercury switch... (Derp!))-Stoic Joker (December 06, 2012, 06:48 AM)
I have to cling to my theory that people aren't going all Mr. Burns "Ooh, if we dumb down the educational system then we can get rich with X, Y, and Z." Not *quite* that brutally direct.-TaoPhoenix (December 06, 2012, 08:17 AM)
Extremely Scary Ghost Prank. (When it comes to practical jokes, this one is just bloody evil! :tellme:)-40hz (December 05, 2012, 04:12 PM)
I do kind of like the humour, but... man... they just seem a bit dangerous to me.-Renegade (December 06, 2012, 08:57 AM)
Renny's right about the danger...-TaoPhoenix (December 06, 2012, 09:18 AM)
Please note my introductory comment where I said: When it comes to practical jokes, this one is just bloody evil!
That was not intended to be a taken as a compliment. ;)-40hz (December 06, 2012, 09:32 AM)
While I do love horror flicks, really, these kinds of pranks are kind of unfunny. I've seen others like this and was amazed that nobody got hurt. Too many pranks put people into a possible "fight" mode. One of these days, someone is going to get killed.
It reminds me of that Egyptian television prank where someone did get punched a few times.
Can you imagine the second part of the video above done in Texas? Someone would think it's a zombie, pull a gun and shoot the actor in the head. Would you blame him? I wouldn't.-Renegade (December 06, 2012, 08:57 AM)
I often do "not get" much of what passes for "humor" these days.-40hz (December 06, 2012, 09:32 AM)
Masterpieces from the world's greatest 'dirty car artist'[/url] At least he doesn't have to worry about his work being stolen-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2012, 01:42 PM)
Yeah, ok, fine. But will McAffe have a 30-day trial?
A friend posted this on FB:Yeah, ok, fine. But will McAffe have a 30-day trial?
:P-Renegade (December 07, 2012, 06:16 AM)
Hospital nurse found dead after taking prank call on Catherine
A prank turned unfunny:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/07/world/europe/uk-royal-hospital-death/index.htmlHospital nurse found dead after taking prank call on Catherine
:huh:-Renegade (December 07, 2012, 05:01 PM)
Why is this in the silly humor thread? There is nothing silly or humorous about this.-Deozaan (December 08, 2012, 01:53 AM)
My Mom Said I Could with subtitles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVT4iZwz04) French kids can get away with anything!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg309691#msg309691))-Arizona Hot (December 09, 2012, 04:18 AM)
I've wondered if a "computer dinner" is different than a "TV dinner"? Am I so weird that I am the only person who has thought about this? Is a "laptop dinner" different than a "desktop dinner"? Would a "mainframe dinner" be a multi-course feast. A"supercomputer dinner" would be Molecular gastronomy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy)I think it will all lead up to a.....-Arizona Hot (December 09, 2012, 03:45 PM)
A "tablet dinner" would be a bag of cookies or chips.-Arizona Hot (December 09, 2012, 06:09 PM)
The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium -- the state of maximum entropy.
Smoke it up! :D
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg310429#msg310429))-Renegade (December 14, 2012, 09:23 AM)
Having lost all the brushes is not a good reason to not paint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLx1L0IsP0-Giampy (December 14, 2012, 05:23 PM)
o...m...g.Having lost all the brushes is not a good reason to not paint:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLx1L0IsP0-Giampy (December 14, 2012, 05:23 PM)
That's ... just ... epic!
There might be a bit of cleaning up to do afterward! 8)-TaoPhoenix (December 14, 2012, 05:44 PM)
Also, this is the 1000th post in this thread :P-Stephen66515 (December 17, 2012, 08:42 PM)
Cat-Friend vs. Dog-Friend-Deozaan (December 18, 2012, 11:25 PM)
Two hours into my first day of work as a Wal-Mart greeter, an ugly woman came in with her two kids. Hearing her swear at them, I said, 'Good morning, welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice kids, are they twins?' The mom answered, 'Hell no, they ain't twins. The oldest one's 9, and the other one's 7. Why would you think they're twins? Are you blind or stupid?' I replied, 'I'm not blind or stupid. I just couldn't believe someone slept with you twice. Have a good day, and thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.' My supervisor said I probably wasn't cut out for this line of work!;D :D-Renegade (December 19, 2012, 07:19 AM)
The longest thread I participated in was here:
http://forums.webwiz.co.uk/topic5493_post151635.html#151635
It's pretty old, and pretty much dead now.-Renegade (December 20, 2012, 02:52 AM)
FreeWebSpace.net's copy is almost/as big/bigger depending on replies-per-page etc.
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?27388-ThE-LongesT-ThreaD-EveR&p=1173882#post1173882-TaoPhoenix (December 20, 2012, 05:30 AM)
Can we get this thread back on topic please?-Deozaan (December 20, 2012, 06:39 AM)
The main benefit is that it is impossibly easy to use. If you have a brain cell, you can use it without any problems. There is ZERO complexity.-Renegade (December 22, 2012, 02:19 AM)
Elsewhere, Renegade wrote about his NANY submission:The main benefit is that it is impossibly easy to use. If you have a brain cell, you can use it without any problems. There is ZERO complexity.-Renegade (December 22, 2012, 02:19 AM)
I need help with this! It's too hard for me!
:P
(Kidding. I haven't looked at it yet! But that's prob. an accurate prediction! )-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 07:14 AM)
You only need 1 brain cell over and above the brain cell you use to breathe with. Well, unless you can hold your breath for 5 seconds...
BTW - My other comment there was:You only need 1 brain cell over and above the brain cell you use to breathe with. Well, unless you can hold your breath for 5 seconds...:P-Renegade (December 22, 2012, 07:47 AM)
BTW - My other comment there was:You only need 1 brain cell over and above the brain cell you use to breathe with. Well, unless you can hold your breath for 5 seconds...:P-Renegade (December 22, 2012, 07:47 AM)
Now I really have to go fiddle with it!
Oops!
http://www.quiterly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/I-cant-breathe.jpg-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 08:07 AM)
In other humor, this is an awesome graduation prank!
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/student-pulls-off-awesome-graduation-prank-174930285--abc-news-topstories.html
"Years from now when Kelsie Frick thinks back to her college graduation, she will only need to use one word to describe it: awesome.
Earlier this month, the newly-minted Grand Valley State University alumna pulled off a graduation prank that left her parents and classmates stunned, the crowd in hysterics and the administrators on stage stifling back giggles."-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 08:27 AM)
"This video is not available in your country" :(-Stephen66515 (December 22, 2012, 11:20 AM)
"This video is not available in your country" :(-Stephen66515 (December 22, 2012, 11:20 AM)
Blecch again. I didn't know that even generic news videos were that locked down!-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 11:29 AM)
"This video is not available in your country" :(-Stephen66515 (December 22, 2012, 11:20 AM)
Blecch again. I didn't know that even generic news videos were that locked down!-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 11:29 AM)
Apparently so...Could you record the video and post it here? (Living in the UK, I'm not used to seeing those screens lol)-Stephen66515 (December 22, 2012, 02:46 PM)
In other humor, this is an awesome graduation prank!
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/student-pulls-off-awesome-graduation-prank-174930285--abc-news-topstories.html
"Years from now when Kelsie Frick thinks back to her college graduation, she will only need to use one word to describe it: awesome.
Earlier this month, the newly-minted Grand Valley State University alumna pulled off a graduation prank that left her parents and classmates stunned, the crowd in hysterics and the administrators on stage stifling back giggles."-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 08:27 AM)
"This video is not available in your country" :(-Stephen66515 (December 22, 2012, 11:20 AM)
Be happy, Father Christmas is arriving!!!
Oh damn, something went wrong...-Giampy (December 23, 2012, 07:55 AM)
Be happy, Father Christmas is arriving!!!Wow, that looks just like a classic Harley scooter. I had a neighbor took me for a ride on one of those when I was just a kid......just shortly after the dinosaurs disappeared. lol-Giampy (December 23, 2012, 07:55 AM)
An interesting variation of the famous "Last supper" of Leonardo da Vinci:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg311921#msg311921))
Note: that image may seem irreverent indeed, but don't feel hurted because of it. It was created in sport only, not to hurt anyone's feelings or to offend someone.-Giampy (December 26, 2012, 06:56 PM)
Can I just remind people that this started off as a silly funny thread.. the goal isn't to see how many people you can offend.-mouser (December 27, 2012, 08:32 AM)
An interesting variation of the famous "Last supper" of Leonardo da Vinci:-Giampy (December 26, 2012, 06:56 PM)
I may have nightmares for a long time now.... Thanks a lot Stephen66515!!!-Stephen66515 (December 27, 2012, 09:08 PM)
I may have nightmares for a long time now.... Thanks a lot Stephen66515!!!-Stephen66515 (December 27, 2012, 09:08 PM)-Tinman57 (December 28, 2012, 04:00 PM)
The original Gerber baby then and now:
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr03/2012/12/28/12/enhanced-buzz-15401-1356717209-0.jpg-TaoPhoenix (December 28, 2012, 11:48 PM)
Do not drive in four-wheel-drive
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312151#msg312151))-FOX
It's good that we have the fact checking, mainstream media to help us prepare for winter roads:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312151#msg312151))-IainB (December 29, 2012, 06:17 AM)
New Oatmeal state of the web:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_winter_2012-Renegade (December 30, 2012, 04:32 AM)
I heard about a marketing fail where they used the baby on the jar in some place in Africa, but people thought it was jarrred babies as it was usual there to put what was in the jar/can on the label. Not sure if that's true or not. Could be. Dunno.Yeah, I read that too. lol-Renegade (December 29, 2012, 01:12 AM)
It's good that we have the fact checking, mainstream media to help us prepare for winter roads:Not only did they screw up the spelling, but their advice of "Do not drive in 4 wheel drive" is utterly crazy. 4X4 on icy roads has saved my butt on many occasions, and is suggested in the owners manuals of 4X4's.....
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312151#msg312151))-IainB (December 29, 2012, 06:17 AM)
It's good that we have the fact checking, mainstream media to help us prepare for winter roads:Not only did they screw up the spelling, but their advice of "Do not drive in 4 wheel drive" is utterly crazy. 4X4 on icy roads has saved my butt on many occasions, and is suggested in the owners manuals of 4X4's.....
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312151#msg312151))-IainB (December 29, 2012, 06:17 AM)-Tinman57 (December 31, 2012, 05:59 PM)
4X4 on icy roads has saved my butt on many occasions,-Tinman57 (December 31, 2012, 05:59 PM)
Poor 4wd, always getting the blame.-Stephen66515 (December 31, 2012, 08:24 PM)
Poor 4wd, always getting the blame.-4wd (December 31, 2012, 08:53 PM)
Edit: However, as heavy as my Hummer H2 is, I probably don't need 4WD on the ice. lolIt's good that we have the fact checking, mainstream media to help us prepare for winter roads:Not only did they screw up the spelling, but their advice of "Do not drive in 4 wheel drive" is utterly crazy. 4X4 on icy roads has saved my butt on many occasions, and is suggested in the owners manuals of 4X4's.....
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312151#msg312151))-IainB (December 29, 2012, 06:17 AM)-Tinman57 (December 31, 2012, 05:59 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg312744#msg312744))-Giampy (January 03, 2013, 08:24 AM)
I bet when Cheetahs race and one of them cheats, the other one goes "Man, you're such a Cheetah!" and they laugh & eat a zebra or whatever.
https://xkcd.com/435/ (http://xkcd.com/435/)-IainB (January 07, 2013, 01:06 AM)
One of the underlying principles there is that makes it so funny is that we understand how a priori knowledge is a kind of trump card.-Renegade (January 07, 2013, 01:15 AM)
One of the underlying principles there is that makes it so funny is that we understand how a priori knowledge is a kind of trump card.-Renegade (January 07, 2013, 01:15 AM)
Especially when that "knowledge" is Religious!-TaoPhoenix (January 07, 2013, 02:05 AM)
Geeky men, be sincere: when a program is running fine, would you ever abandon your computer???-Giampy (January 07, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Geeky men, be sincere: when a program is running fine, would you ever abandon your computer???-Giampy (January 07, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Geeky men, be sincere: when a program is running fine, would you ever abandon your computer???-Giampy (January 07, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Um... What Computer?-Stoic Joker (January 07, 2013, 01:24 PM)
Here's a spacey sound from something seemingly mundane. Hot Nickel Dropped Into Water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uns416R6YkU)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg313535#msg313535))-Arizona Hot (January 08, 2013, 02:24 PM)
wat (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) hee (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hee) sed (http://sed.sourceforge.net/)-ewemoa (January 09, 2013, 03:14 AM)
Silly or sad instead?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg313782#msg313782))-Giampy (January 10, 2013, 06:25 AM)
I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg314044#msg314044))-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)
I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;D-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Hey! what about me?!I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;D-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Nah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat..... :P-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)
What about you? Do you want someone to mention that they'd 'do you....' in a public forum as well? :tellme:Hey! what about me?!I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;D-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Nah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat..... :P-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)-superboyac (January 14, 2013, 12:43 AM)
I'm not blunt! I'm just dull :(Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;DNah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat..... :P-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)
I'm not blunt! I'm just dull :(Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;DNah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat..... :P-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)-f0dder (January 14, 2013, 06:15 AM)
What about you? Do you want someone to mention that they'd 'do you....' in a public forum as well? :tellme:Hey! what about me?!I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC... ;D-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Nah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat..... :P-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)-superboyac (January 14, 2013, 12:43 AM)-Fred Nerd (January 14, 2013, 04:24 AM)
Not a good thing to admit to conspiracy to murder... :POr fire off a lawsuit! - which is more profitable? :)
If that's not what we're talking about, then I think he'd just take it as a compliment. :P-Renegade (January 14, 2013, 06:51 AM)
http://www.facebook.com/v/10151175716667142-alivingspirit (January 14, 2013, 11:58 AM)
When news stories ARE the joke:That is funny. The comments in that link are quite amusing too.
Satanists planning rally for Florida Gov. Rick Scott
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/satanists-planning-rally-florida-gov-rick-scott-231148312.html
8)-TaoPhoenix (January 16, 2013, 04:28 PM)
"This is a great country. Everyone has a voice," Gov. Scott's press secretary wrote in an email to ABCNews.com.Yes. A voice - and they can get a drivers' licence, buy a gun and vote as well. How cool is that?
I don't know what possesses these people. ;D-IainB (January 16, 2013, 05:46 PM)
Did you really just set up that one for us?Sorry. It wasn't very original, I know. It made me smile though. ;D-TaoPhoenix (January 17, 2013, 05:23 PM)
^^ Page 2? That's EVERY page!Yes, and if I was an American citizen and I saw the FBI/State judiciary flipping someone the bird like that when given an FOI, I wouldn't stand for it. Why would you pay your government in taxes, just to have them do that to you?
God, you can't make this up.
And if they do have a sense of humour, I wish someone would wipe the smiles off their faces. :P-Renegade (January 18, 2013, 04:39 AM)
^^ Page 2? That's EVERY page!Yes, and if I was an American citizen and I saw the FBI/State judiciary flipping someone the bird like that when given an FOI, I wouldn't stand for it. Why would you pay your government in taxes, just to have them do that to you?
God, you can't make this up.
And if they do have a sense of humour, I wish someone would wipe the smiles off their faces. :P-Renegade (January 18, 2013, 04:39 AM)-IainB (January 18, 2013, 07:40 AM)
So I said “I just bailed out of an attempt to induct me into a cult”. He replied – and I will now channel Dave Barry and assure you that I am not making this up:(spotted here: How do you bait a trap for the soul?) (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4757)
“The Obama administration?”
Student Who Won’t Stop Nodding His Head Isn’t Following a Word (http://www.thefastertimes.com/uncategorized/2013/01/18/student-who-wont-stop-nodding-his-head-isnt-following-a-word/)
In news that some classmates say comes as no surprise, that guy sitting in the front row of Philosophy 302 who nods knowingly after almost every sentence spoken by the professor has absolutely no clue what’s going on in the class.
“At first I thought he was a genius,” said classmate Elena Rotova, “but gradually it became clear that he would just nod at everything.”
In an interview with The Faster Times, that guy, who has also been known to chuckle audibly whenever the professor makes a vaguely humorous remark and also to take notes constantly, acknowledged that he didn’t have the slightest fucking clue as to what the professor was talking about. “Most of the time, I’m just stoned off my ass,” said that guy.
:-* Precisely why I maintain that statistics are BS because you can easily twist them to prove anything with anything.-Stoic Joker (January 20, 2013, 01:37 PM)
:-* Precisely why I maintain that statistics are BS because you can easily twist them to prove anything with anything.-Stoic Joker (January 20, 2013, 01:37 PM)
87% of all statistics are made up anyway...-Target (January 20, 2013, 05:07 PM)
This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of course makes it an especially interesting number, because it is the smallest number to have the property of being uninteresting.
It is therefore also the first number to be simultaneously interesting and uninteresting.
@Stephen66515: That was the idea! ;-)
People would read it, initially thinking it to be serious...
It's a a sorta joke in camouflage.
I shall stop doing it now, if it confuzzles. ;)-IainB (January 20, 2013, 07:22 PM)
I always enjoy jokes about the use/misuse of statistics and numbers-IainB (January 20, 2013, 07:01 PM)
This is funny and sad at the same time…can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at lease 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on deregulated charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is? ... Give up yet?
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
No idea if this is right, but it very well could be:
http://www.all4humor.com/jokes/funny-jokes/insane-statistics.htmlThis is funny and sad at the same time…can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at lease 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on deregulated charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is? ... Give up yet?
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.-Renegade (January 21, 2013, 08:15 AM)
I'm really liking mouser's Easy Screencast Recorder~! :D :Thmbsup:-Renegade (January 21, 2013, 08:12 AM)
I'm really liking mouser's Easy Screencast Recorder~! :D :Thmbsup:-Renegade (January 21, 2013, 08:12 AM)
Remember, Renegade Endorses Mouser's Easy Screencast Recorder.
That's Easy Screencast Recorder folks! By Mouser! All rights reserved. Some restrictions apply. See Mouser and Renegade for details. But they haven't prepared the pamphlet yet.-TaoPhoenix (January 22, 2013, 11:05 AM)
The Kerry County Council in southwest Ireland has passed a controversial measure that could make it legal for some rural drivers to get behind the wheel after knocking back a few stiff drinks.
While only three council members voted "no" on the proposed legislation, five apparently support the creation of special permits for driving in sparsely populated areas while intoxicated, according to the Guardian.
Nationwide, Ireland has been cracking down on drunken driving, according to Irish news outlet Independent.ie, which reports that drivers are now allowed only 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, "equivalent to drinking less than one pint of beer." But permits proposed in the Kerry measure would allow rural residents to consume "two or three drinks," per the Guardian.
Councillor Danny Healy-Rae , who spearheaded the motion, claimed that citizens drinking and driving in rural areas had "never killed anyone" and argued that the permits would actually help prevent "a lot of them falling into depression," reports Irish news site TheJournal.ie.
Qantas Passenger's Inigo Montoya 'Princess Bride' Shirt Frightens Travelers
Qantas passenger Wynand Mullins caused quite a stir on a Sunday evening flight from Australia to New Zealand when he wore an Inigo Montoya T-shirt from the 1980s cult film "The Princess Bride," according to New Zealand's Stuff magazine.
The popular name-tag shirt, which reads "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," became a cause for alarm after several upset passengers expressed their unease with the T-shirt's message.
I kinda like offensive t-shirts, but I'm adult enough to (mostly) know when to not wear them.-f0dder (January 25, 2013, 11:44 AM)
I always wondered how/where the phrase "Talk to the hand" originated. It seemed so silly.
Tonight I was watching "Demon With A Glass hand" from an old (1964/5) Outer Limits TV show.
(Click on image to enlarge.)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg315474#msg315474))-IainB (January 23, 2013, 09:35 AM)
Emoticons........'ASSICONS?'It's been a while since I've seen asscii fart!-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 03:47 PM)
(!) a tight ass-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 03:47 PM)
For the grammar Nazis:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg316335#msg316335))
;D-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 06:48 PM)
For the grammar Nazis:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg316335#msg316335))
;D-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 06:48 PM)
17. FUCK YOU, THAT SOUNDS TOTALLY NORMAL. ASSHOLE (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg315585#msg315585)-Target (January 29, 2013, 07:23 PM)
You forgot QUIET and QUITE-4wd (January 29, 2013, 07:36 PM)
BWAHAHAHAHAHA~! ;D
Well played~! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 07:31 PM)
Fucking period.You forgot QUIET and QUITE-4wd (January 29, 2013, 07:36 PM)
You forgot your period. :P-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 07:48 PM)
BWAHAHAHAHAHA~! ;D
Well played~! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 07:31 PM)
whew!! I wasn't sure if you'd twig to the reference (:Thmbsup:) and I didn't want to get into ablewbluefight-Target (January 29, 2013, 07:53 PM)
For the grammar Nazis:Too bad I can't post sound files here, I have a doozie about "Fuck, The Educational". lol-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 06:48 PM)
For the grammar Nazis:Too bad I can't post sound files here, I have a doozie about "Fuck, The Educational". lol-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 06:48 PM)-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 08:23 PM)
Just zip it up.-Renegade (January 29, 2013, 10:08 PM)
An educational broadcast about the "F" word.....
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg316456#msg316456))-Tinman57 (January 30, 2013, 06:55 PM)
An educational broadcast about the "F" word.....Is that what I think it is? (I'm in a train right now, so can't listen to it) - if it is, one word: MARVELLOUS! :Thmbsup:-Tinman57 (January 30, 2013, 06:55 PM)
The mind boggles at the many creative uses of the word. If by any chance you think I've missed any, please fucking let me know.
How can anyone be offended when you say "FUCK"?
Use it frequently in your daily speech, you will be proud and it will add to your fucking prestige and stature.
Why not say "FUCK YOU !" to someone today.
http://justin.justnet.com.au/rudestuff/uses-of-the-word-fuck.html-PhilB66 (January 31, 2013, 05:55 AM)
^ that'd be this guy I guess ;-)-tomos (January 31, 2013, 07:28 AM)
I know Wraith and Tinman will get this joke, but not so sure about many others... If you do get it, it's one of the best! :DI tend to yell that whenever I cross the street! \m/-Renegade (January 31, 2013, 06:59 AM)
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into youI know few other things you shouldn't look into :)-Nietzsche
Don't look into the eyes of another man…Spoilereating banana.-fenixproductions (January 31, 2013, 02:09 PM)
An educational broadcast about the "F" word.....
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg316456#msg316456))-Tinman57 (January 30, 2013, 06:55 PM)
That sounds scarily realistic ... but it can't be a legit broadcast can it? :o-TaoPhoenix (January 30, 2013, 07:40 PM)
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg316624#msg316624]see attachment in previous post[/url])[/i]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271440/Burger-King-admits-selling-beef-burgers-Whoppers-containing-horse-meat.html#ixzz2JbGCeq6F
It don't get funnier than real life~!-Renegade (February 01, 2013, 08:34 AM)
Welcome to Tesco, where 8% more beef means 8% less horse! :P
...
It don't get funnier than real life~! ;D :P-Renegade (February 01, 2013, 08:34 AM)
Well what-da-ya-expect for a damn dollar ... Friggin lucky it didn't contain roadkill.-Stoic Joker (February 01, 2013, 11:30 AM)
:-\ I've tried three different players and cant get that to play (Trout/WMP/VLC). Tried downloading in a different browser too in case.
It's only 157kb, could that be correct? (Edit/ yes seems to be correct)-tomos (February 01, 2013, 04:34 AM)
Heh were you saying a particular word after trying all that? :Thmbsup:-TaoPhoenix (February 01, 2013, 07:21 PM)
22. Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?-IainB (January 31, 2013, 03:12 PM)
By the way, in case anyone is interested, the voice is Jack Wagner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wagner_%28announcer%29), an announcer famous for being the "Voice of Disneyland" and the recording is available in much better quality, here (http://archive.org/details/JackWagnerattr.MontyPythontheWordFuck) on archive.org-app103 (February 02, 2013, 08:31 PM)
RULES FOR THE BLUES
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like "I got a good woman with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town (2x). Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch: You stuck in a ditch, ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broke-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound Bus or a Southbound Train. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet.
7. Blues can take place in New York City, but not in Hawaii or anywhere in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues anywhere that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg runnin' from the law cause you shot a man in Memphis is.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:Bad places:
- highway
- jailhouse
- empty bed
- bottom of a whiskey glass
- cricket matches
- gallery openings
- Ivy League institutions
- golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old black man, and you slept in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:No, if:
- your first name is a southern State
- you're blind
- you shot a man in Memphis
- your woman can't be satisfied
- you were once blind but now can see
- you hold elected office
- you have a retirement plan or trust fund
- your woman CAN be satisfied
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people have permission to sing the blues.
14. If you ask for water and Baby gives you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:The following are NOT Blues beverages:
- cheap wine
- bad whiskey
- muddy water
- black coffee
- mixed drinks
- kosher wine
- Snapple
- SlimFast
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.
16. Roll your own Blues name (starter kit):For example; Blind Lemon Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.
- First name: name of a physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
- Middle name: none, or name of a fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi, etc.)
- Last name: last name of a President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
17. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
here's my version that I've taken some liberties with:-Edvard (February 02, 2013, 11:35 PM)
When a rock musician starts going bald, it's the end of their career.-40hz (February 04, 2013, 07:20 AM)
Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet.Do the 'kindergarten blues' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNhyyqrzDl4) count as blues? How about the Billionaire Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmDa_uZ6ow) ? Can you sing the blues before an IRS audit?-Edvard (February 02, 2013, 11:35 PM)
Do the 'kindergarten blues' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNhyyqrzDl4) count as blues?I like the "Teach kids to play piano by teaching them blues" idea. Why not? Minor pentatonic has less notes than a major scale; makes it easier to remember. My response:-Arizona Hot (February 04, 2013, 11:11 AM)
How about the Billionaire Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmDa_uZ6ow)?Not the Blues. That is a calypso-flavored ditty.
Can you sing the blues before an IRS audit?Assumin' that you made enough money to file any taxes that year, instead of pushing a broom to pay for bar tab. In which case, if the IRS took your Cadillac or broke-down truck as tax payment, yes. Otherwise, no.
@IainB: Do you think Alan Turingw would have been a good LISP programmer?I could not pothibly comment.-Arizona Hot (February 04, 2013, 04:11 PM)
DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III
British police are describing this as "Another worrying sign of the increase in violence in poorly-lit carparks", and question what Richard was doing there in the first place, as "He may have been up to no good.".
Can you sing the blues before an IRS audit?Assumin' that you made enough money to file any taxes that year, instead of pushing a broom to pay for bar tab. In which case, if the IRS took your Cadillac or broke-down truck as tax payment, yes. Otherwise, no.
;D-Edvard (February 04, 2013, 10:16 PM)
...
The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook, and you sold him A BOAT AND A TRUCK?!?"
The kid says, " No, he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, 'Well, your weekend's shot, you might as well go fishing.....'!"-app103 (February 05, 2013, 07:53 AM)
By the way, in case anyone is interested, the voice is Jack Wagner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wagner_%28announcer%29), an announcer famous for being the "Voice of Disneyland" and the recording is available in much better quality, here (http://archive.org/details/JackWagnerattr.MontyPythontheWordFuck) on archive.org-app103 (February 02, 2013, 08:31 PM)
I actually was, the clip with George Carlin was annoying me because it pretty clearly wasn't George. I knew it had to be some kind of announcer - the cadences "just were announcer-y".-TaoPhoenix (February 02, 2013, 10:35 PM)
tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173It's pretty cute abuse of technology =)
try it.-mrHappy (February 10, 2013, 10:27 AM)
tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173It's pretty cute abuse of technology =)
try it.-mrHappy (February 10, 2013, 10:27 AM)-f0dder (February 10, 2013, 10:27 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318114#msg318114))-app103 (February 14, 2013, 09:02 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318114#msg318114))-app103 (February 14, 2013, 09:02 PM)
tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173Nifty! I got a slightly different result to @Renegade:
try it.-mrHappy (February 10, 2013, 10:27 AM)
Kyrathaba I'm gonna use your post to go on a mini-rant about "Apps". Basically, they're an excuse to give us less quality than any other shareware ever did. And it's amazing. It's like sinking to the bottom. If everyone pushes the same low quality, users forget that real software exists and that "free" means "disatrous experience until you pay $3-$8 for the real thing".
Eew.
I have seen some cases of the worst quality I have ever seen in any software ever, including the ones I spent 99c on for repackaging Librivox SciFi recordings, as well as others that pop up ads every 12 interactions.
It's like they're trying to make people forget nothing but the App Store ever existed ever. And that "Free" means "Crap".
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318147#msg318147))-kyrathaba (February 15, 2013, 11:00 AM)
If I click 'no', I've probably given up on everything, so don't bother taking me to the page I was trying to go to. Just drop me on the homepage. Thanks.
No attribution to xkcd (http://xkcd.com/1174/) or anything? Also, don't forget the alt text:If I click 'no', I've probably given up on everything, so don't bother taking me to the page I was trying to go to. Just drop me on the homepage. Thanks.-Deozaan (February 16, 2013, 08:17 PM)
No attribution to xkcd or anything?
Dr Assad's special eye test:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318259#msg318259))-IainB (February 17, 2013, 03:02 AM)
Dr Assad's special eye test:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318259#msg318259))-IainB (February 17, 2013, 03:02 AM)
So how does this work? Are you handed a gun and have to shoot in the direction the one on the chart points?-app103 (February 17, 2013, 03:35 AM)
I was reading this report on a blog about taking photos aboard airplanes (FCC regs. forbid it now, it seems), and someone in the comments had posted an amusing pic from a Delta flight:
(Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures! (http://upgrd.com/matthew/thrown-off-a-united-airlines-flight-for-taking-pictures.html))
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg318653#msg318653))-IainB (February 21, 2013, 04:38 AM)
I was reading this report on a blog about taking photos aboard airplanes (FCC regs. forbid it now, it seems)...
(Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures! (http://upgrd.com/matthew/thrown-off-a-united-airlines-flight-for-taking-pictures.html))-IainB (February 21, 2013, 04:38 AM)
Amazingly similar newsbytes: You Don't Need Us to Tell You that Gas Prices Are On the Rise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAkxR9T01pw) - but we're gonna' tell you anyway!-IainB (February 23, 2013, 04:11 AM)
Tesco are now testing all their vegetarian burgers for traces of unicorn.-Renegade (February 23, 2013, 09:55 AM)
Several bills so far seek to at least scrap a requirement that high students scores on STAAR count toward 15% of thir final grades in core classes.
@Tinman57: Sorry to be so ignorant, but could you explain that joke to me about the STAAR exams? Or is it the grammatical mistake of "high students"?-IainB (February 23, 2013, 07:14 PM)
Following ‘pastagate’, famous Montreal restaurant goes public about its own language police run-in (http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/23/following-pastagate-famous-montreal-restaurant-goes-public-about-its-own-language-police-run-in/)_____________________
from National Post - Top Stories by Canadian Press
MONTREAL — One of Canada’s most famous restaurants has come forward with its own tale of troubles with Quebec’s language watchdog, days after a flap over the word pasta made international headlines.
Montreal’s Joe Beef, which has been featured on international cooking shows and has a best-selling book, is the latest restaurant to complain about the Office quebecois de la langue francaise.
This time it apparently came down to some wall art containing English words.
Owner David McMillan said inspectors took issue with a memento from a Prince Edward Island beach that says “exit” and an antique sign above the staff bathroom that says “please leave this gate closed.”
They thought another item, an old sign from a Tennessee butcher, was part of the restaurant’s menu, he said.
McMillan said he was shocked by the lack of understanding of the inspectors, who were young and seemed like “deer in headlights.”
He said the visit left a sour taste, but added he has no plans to move his celebrated restaurant elsewhere any time soon.
“I love Quebec… but it’s not getting any easier,” McMillan, who is completely bilingual, said in an interview Saturday.
“My wife is French, my business partner is French, my children go to French school, but I just get so sad and depressed and wonder, what’s wrong with these people?”
Under the Parti Quebecois government, the OQLF has received a 6% budget increase this year, to $24.7 million, in an effort to protect the French language.
You know that if a guy eats too much unicorn, it gives him a sex change. Just a friendly warning. If you want, I'll try to find some pictures of people this has happened to.Tesco are now testing all their vegetarian burgers for traces of unicorn.-Renegade (February 23, 2013, 09:55 AM)
Am I the only one that immediately thought of this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e5a7/)? ;D-app103 (February 23, 2013, 11:31 AM)
Am I the only one that immediately thought of this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e5a7/)? ;D-app103 (February 23, 2013, 11:31 AM)
Eric: I got home early yesterday and found a blind man upstairs in bed with my wife making love to her.
Ernie: Goodness! What did you do?
Eric: I killed his dog and broke his stick.
Eric and Ernie were sitting in deckchairs, chatting about the weather.
Eric: I woke up this morning and thought it looked nice out...[pause]...so I left it out.
Yes, his humor was disquieting because it was so self-deprecating, but that was his whole schtick; summed up in his famous tagline "I don't get no respect". It's funny because we all have some degree of insecurity, and in some smaller or larger way can then sympathize; thus it becomes cathartic to laugh at those small insecurities brought larger than reality via the guise of absurd theater.
... or something like that. :-[-Edvard (February 24, 2013, 03:33 PM)
Yes, his humor was disquieting because it was so self-deprecating, but that was his whole schtick; summed up in his famous tagline "I don't get no respect". It's funny because we all have some degree of insecurity, and in some smaller or larger way can then sympathize; thus it becomes cathartic to laugh at those small insecurities brought larger than reality via the guise of absurd theater.
... or something like that. :-[-Edvard (February 24, 2013, 03:33 PM)
Yes, his humor was disquieting because it was so self-deprecating, but that was his whole schtick; summed up in his famous tagline "I don't get no respect". It's funny because we all have some degree of insecurity, and in some smaller or larger way can then sympathize; thus it becomes cathartic to laugh at those small insecurities brought larger than reality via the guise of absurd theater.
... or something like that. :-[-Edvard (February 24, 2013, 03:33 PM)
Can't forget his adventure in rap music...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGxWPtgodo-app103 (February 25, 2013, 09:01 AM)
Can't forget his adventure in rap music...-app103 (February 25, 2013, 09:01 AM)
..."I got a kidney shaped pool with a stone in it"Heh. Very droll, that one.-tomos (February 25, 2013, 10:06 AM)
Here's a spacey sound from something seemingly mundane. Hot Nickel Dropped Into Water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uns416R6YkU)That account seems to have closed. I found what is probably the original video here:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg313535#msg313535))-Arizona Hot (January 08, 2013, 02:24 PM)
Glass eye.
A man who had a glass eye was at a party, and he became very drunk. As he was standing, weaving somewhat, and eating stuffed olives by the handful from a bowl full of olives, someone whacked him heartily on his back. The shock of the impact caused his glass eye to pop out. Thinking that it had gone on the floor, he got down on his hands and knees to look for it, but to no avail. Eventually, he gave up looking for the glass eye and returned to wolfing down the stuffed olives. What he did not notice, in his drunken state, was that the glass eye had fallen into the bowl of olives, and, sure enough, he eventually scooped it up and swallowed it.
The next day, he did not feel so well, and was very constipated. He guessed he was still hung over from the party. But the next day he felt worse and was still constipated, and his anus hurt. The glass eye had blocked his colon, and his digested food was backing up all down his intestine - but of course he didn't know that. The day after that, he went to the doctor's surgery and explained his condition, and that he felt really ill and his anus hurt a great deal.
The doctor told him to drop his trousers and bend over so that he could give him a rectal examination.
"Will it hurt?" asked the man.
"No it'll just be a little uncomfortable Mr.Jones. Don't worry." the doctor replied.
So Jones took off his trousers and underpants, and was about to bend over when he observed the doctor putting on a rubber glove.
"Are you going to poke your fingers inside my anus?" he asked the doctor.
"Yes, of course. That's the best way to examine you." replied the doctor.
"Are you sure it won't hurt?" asked Jones.
"Look Mr.Jones, you will just have to trust me on this. It won't hurt. Will you trust me?"
"Oh, OK. If you are sure then." said the man, and, as he proceeded to bend over, he added, "You are absolutely sure it won't hurt, aren't you?"
"Yes! Now please be still!" replied the doctor, becoming impatient, and at the same time moving forwards to examine Jones' anus.
The doctor then gently prised apart his patient's rectal sphincter and was amazed to see a single eye staring up at him from the sphincter.
"For goodness' sake Mr.Jones! You really must trust me more than this you know!" the doctor exclaimed.
"Yes! Now please be still!" replied the doctor, becoming impatient, and at the same time moving forwards to examine Jones' anus.-IainB (March 06, 2013, 06:22 PM)
On Wednesday, March 6, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent out a notice that its hearing on global warming was cancelled due to the chilly weather and a snowstorm that was about to hit the nation’s capital.
Hill hearing on global warming cancelled by D.C. snowstorm.
Heh yeah, that's just a fairly famous lawyer joke from the net with some pic stuck onto it.-TaoPhoenix (March 12, 2013, 07:19 AM)
Heh yeah, that's just a fairly famous lawyer joke from the net with some pic stuck onto it.It's not just "some pic" stuck to it, it's a crack dealer's mug shot being passed off as an honest granny. ;D-TaoPhoenix (March 12, 2013, 07:19 AM)
That, to me, was funner than the actual joke.-app103 (March 12, 2013, 10:26 AM)
Watching two people argue about what's funny - now that's kind of amusing. ;)-IainB (March 12, 2013, 02:43 PM)
Watching two people argue about what's funny - now that's kind of amusing. ;)-IainB (March 12, 2013, 02:43 PM)
"No it isn't!" :P-TaoPhoenix (March 12, 2013, 04:40 PM)
Huhne and Pryce Sentencing Sweepstakes Winner (http://order-order.com/2013/03/12/huhne-and-pryce-sentencing-sweepstake-winner/)Lucky Angus.
Congratulations to @AngusCurran, who correctly guessed that both Chris and Vicky would be sentenced to 8 months. He wins a copy of Lee Rotherham’s “The EU in a Nutshell: Everything you wanted to know about the European Union but didn’t know who to ask”, and a dozen I’ve Been Kissed By Chris stickers.
Truth stranger than fiction:
Lack of swordsmen leads Saudi Arabia to consider dropping public beheadings as method of execution.
Difficult times. I blame it on the modern generation. No "real men" any more.
But it's not as thought the Saudis have run out of sensible punishment options is it? I mean, there's presumably still hanging and stoning and lashing, right? Maybe the French guillotine or the American electric chair might look interesting too, now. Could even be a nice little export earner there.-IainB (March 13, 2013, 05:38 AM)
Left blank on purpose. I had been given a link to what turned out to be a very misleading YouTube clip, so I removed it from here.-IainB (March 13, 2013, 10:02 PM)
...You got rick-rolled?No, it was a fake vid clip of what was purportedly a true event. Was deliberately designed to make someone look bad - a fake smear. In my haste, I nearly got taken in by it. Have used the space to insert a different humour item (see above re "Giving the finger").-Arizona Hot (March 14, 2013, 12:12 AM)
I'll have to become a more advanced being now...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg320919#msg320919))
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3282-tomos (March 15, 2013, 03:15 AM)
Ha.. those are funny ;D
Is it from a tv show?-mouser (March 15, 2013, 05:43 AM)
This guy does my fucking head in...but he always makes me laugh (mostly at him)-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2013, 10:16 PM)
This guy does my fucking head in...but he always makes me laugh (mostly at him)-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2013, 10:16 PM)
Hehehe! Visit the Basement. ;) :P-Renegade (March 15, 2013, 10:27 PM)
Hehe, I knew you would weigh in on that ;D
I always bloody forget about that forum section.-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2013, 10:40 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321079#msg321079))This could have equally well gone in the Developer's Section ;D :Thmbsup:-app103 (March 17, 2013, 04:31 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321079#msg321079))-app103 (March 17, 2013, 04:31 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321079#msg321079))-app103 (March 17, 2013, 04:31 AM)
Do you agree with the chart that Pascal is better than C(it at least has a knife blade)? And what is the thing representing Ruby?-Arizona Hot (March 18, 2013, 02:53 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321079#msg321079))-app103 (March 17, 2013, 04:31 AM)
Do you agree with the chart that Pascal is better than C(it at least has a knife blade)? And what is the thing representing Ruby?-Arizona Hot (March 18, 2013, 02:53 PM)
An electrical knife ?-MerleOne (March 18, 2013, 02:55 PM)
Do you agree with the chart that Pascal is better than C(it at least has a knife blade)?-Arizona Hot (March 18, 2013, 02:53 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321221#msg321221))
Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/finally-a-tablet-simple-enough-for-a-woman-to-use-sarcasm/)-Arizona Hot (March 18, 2013, 03:01 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321221#msg321221))
Finally, a tablet simple enough for a woman to use (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/finally-a-tablet-simple-enough-for-a-woman-to-use-sarcasm/)-Arizona Hot (March 18, 2013, 03:01 PM)
I think I liked this review better: http://jezebel.com/5990404/tablet-for-women-is-like-a-regular-tablet-but-more-fucking-bullshitty-app103 (March 18, 2013, 04:54 PM)
Don't strain your vaginas trying to figure out how to turn it on!
I'll have to become a more advanced being now...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg320919#msg320919))
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3282-tomos (March 15, 2013, 03:15 AM)
Kind of reminds me of an IM I received from a friend once, where she was in a state of panic over wikipedia being down, which she claimed was causing her a temporary loss of 50+ IQ points. ;D-app103 (March 15, 2013, 03:36 AM)
I'll have to become a more advanced being now...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg320919#msg320919))
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3282-tomos (March 15, 2013, 03:15 AM)
Kind of reminds me of an IM I received from a friend once, where she was in a state of panic over wikipedia being down, which she claimed was causing her a temporary loss of 50+ IQ points. ;D-app103 (March 15, 2013, 03:36 AM)
It does. Even Randall Monroe says so, and he's a minor deity so you can't contradict him.
http://xkcd.com/903/-TaoPhoenix (March 20, 2013, 03:43 AM)
I'll have to become a more advanced being now...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg320919#msg320919))
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3282-tomos (March 15, 2013, 03:15 AM)
Kind of reminds me of an IM I received from a friend once, where she was in a state of panic over wikipedia being down, which she claimed was causing her a temporary loss of 50+ IQ points. ;D-app103 (March 15, 2013, 03:36 AM)
It does. Even Randall Monroe says so, and he's a minor deity so you can't contradict him.
http://xkcd.com/903/-TaoPhoenix (March 20, 2013, 03:43 AM)
Does anybody really miss the early 60s?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321398#msg321398))-40hz (March 20, 2013, 10:29 AM)
Does anybody really miss the early 60s?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321398#msg321398))-40hz (March 20, 2013, 10:29 AM)
You mean a time when it wasn't mandatory for both parents to work just to pay the basic bills? ;) :P-Renegade (March 20, 2013, 11:01 AM)
Does anybody really miss the early 60s?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321398#msg321398))-40hz (March 20, 2013, 10:29 AM)
You mean a time when it wasn't mandatory for both parents to work just to pay the basic bills? ;) :P-Renegade (March 20, 2013, 11:01 AM)
Lance Armstrong cycling on drugs: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321461#msg321461))-IainB (March 21, 2013, 01:10 AM)
But... HOW high (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyL3FQiPjhQHOW)? :-)Lance Armstrong cycling on drugs: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321461#msg321461))BWAHAHAHAHA~~~~!!!-IainB (March 21, 2013, 01:10 AM)-Renegade (March 21, 2013, 06:43 AM)
Incredibly tough guy finds knife in back 3 years after stabbing
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg321824#msg321824))
Incredibly tough guy finds knife in back 3 years after stabbing (http://now.msn.com/billy-mcneely-finds-knife-in-back-3-years-after-stabbing)
Any Canadians here want to one-up this.-Arizona Hot (March 25, 2013, 12:53 AM)
But, gotta wonder about the doctor that the Canadian fellow went to see...-Renegade (March 25, 2013, 08:33 AM)
But, gotta wonder about the doctor that the Canadian fellow went to see...-Renegade (March 25, 2013, 08:33 AM)
Multiple doctors and nurses. They never did any x-rays. The guy was walking around for 3 years, setting off metal detectors everywhere he went, and had no clue why. Doctors blamed it on a metal fragment in his bone.
That's one big fragment!-app103 (March 25, 2013, 08:40 AM)
So, I take a shit on 'em, and app 1-ups me by taking a machete, gasoline, and wood-chipper to 'em~! ;D
Nicely done! :D hehehe!-Renegade (March 25, 2013, 09:09 AM)
I always bloody forget about that forum section.-Stephen66515 (March 15, 2013, 10:40 PM)
^ I cant stop laughing out loud ;D-tomos (March 27, 2013, 05:44 PM)
^ I cant stop laughing out loud ;D-tomos (March 27, 2013, 05:44 PM)
Yeah, his knife block should be interesting, though :D :P-Shades (March 28, 2013, 03:35 PM)
- you can RAR trash bags,
-fenixproductions (March 29, 2013, 06:56 PM)
Renegade, what a coincidence! Before I posted my (sad) image, I already had three versions of that. I posted the first. The second was/is just the one you have published today!-Giampy (March 29, 2013, 08:15 AM)
The Freedom Bay
You probably heard about our recent move to North Korea.
Many of you rightfully bashed us for siding with a dictatorship. We want you to know that we have listened to your critique.
So without further due, we hereby announce that we have moved our servers from the evil North Korea to the greatest fuckin nation in the entire world.
The United States of America, fuck yeah!
We have worked closely with the awesome american government to establish a strong military graded server park that will endure any nuclear attacks that Kim Jong Un and his evil allies will send at Us.
Along with this move to the greatest country in the universe, we will soon remove all torrents from North Korea, China, Iran, France and Islamistan. American torrents will be seeded with extra power, to ensure that you'll get your american dose extra fast.
America, fuck yeah!
Posted Today 10:48 by Winston Bay
Chinese officials have apparently erected a huge billboard in the Shuangfeng district, warning locals to stop photoshopping the faces of officials onto pornographic pictures, in order to blackmail them.
[...]
The billboard, erected in Loudi, warn that police will "Decisively crack down on the crime of exploiting Photoshop technology to blackmail people with compound pictures, in order to establish a good image of Shuangfeng," according to France 24's translation.
The senusal wife.took a moment for that to sink in ;D ;D
[...]
"Now," she said, "have you ever seen 40,000 dollars all crumpled up?"
"No!" he said, now really intrigued.
"Well go look in the garage..."-IainB (April 02, 2013, 09:57 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg322771#msg322771))-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg322771#msg322771))-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM)
...But I did enjoy it; and (unfortunately) trust the FDA about as far as I could throw them collectively.-tomos (April 03, 2013, 10:47 AM)
I feel sure that @app103 did not intend for you to remove your joke on his/her say-so. No, that would be censorship. Quite the contrary, it was, I would suggest, a rather subtle joke on @app103's part to start debating the veracity/validity of your joke and then (rather amusingly) contradict that by saying that it must not be debated in this forum ;D , pointing ironically and in self-deprecating fashion to a statement of personal opinion (Re: Staple of people from State and Europe ! (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31667.msg296283#msg296283)) as though it was the absolute last word on the facts in a debate (which it categorically was not, if you read the thread). Very droll.
(I suspect that @app103 is a bit of a wag with a dry sense of humour.)-IainB (April 03, 2013, 11:15 PM)
"Democracy isn't democracy if it only lasts up until someone makes fun of your hat." - comedian/satiristJohnJon Stewart on the Today Show.
Removed image... I thought it was pretty good for a laugh, but I guess not...-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM)
Humor and what is humerous is different from country to country. What the British think is funny (British Humor) may not be funny in China, and visa-versa.Semper in excremento, solo profundo variat.-Tinman57 (April 04, 2013, 07:00 PM)
...Here's the whole thing. The part you quoted is around the 4:46 mark, but the whole thing is great when taken in context, and obvious why it was tweeted by the embassy and supported by the US State Department. :DThanks! :up:-app103 (April 04, 2013, 02:26 AM)
I liked them too. That collection is just one of roughly 2½ thousand jokes in my database.
(They only get to stay in the database if I like them.)-IainB (April 06, 2013, 09:15 AM)
...There were some duplicates in there.Thanks for pointing that out.-Deozaan (April 07, 2013, 11:10 PM)
http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/ :)Excellent ! I like the captions...-nosh (April 08, 2013, 09:39 AM)
http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/ :)Excellent ! I like the captions...-nosh (April 08, 2013, 09:39 AM)-MerleOne (April 08, 2013, 11:47 AM)
This is the thread marked [NSFW/adult]: If you're easily offended, then don't have a look here :tellme:
Please leave it as it is, it's funny... in a way ;)-Ath (April 08, 2013, 03:11 PM)
I beg you a judgment about the penultimate message I posted, the message with the girl sleeping on her breast. I consider it very funny but a (male) member considers it inappropriate instead. I am ready to remove it but first I am curious to know what's your impression.It's not something that triggered my humor-o-meter very much, but taste differs - didn't find it offensive (given that this thread is marked NSFW). Dunno if it's a bit too much for some people, and whether stuff like that should be put in a spoiler tag along with a disclaimer?-Giampy (April 08, 2013, 03:00 PM)
... but since it did involve nudity...-mouser (April 08, 2013, 03:55 PM)
People of DC,
I beg you a judgment about the penultimate message I posted, the message with the girl sleeping on her breast. I consider it very funny but a (male) member considers it inappropriate instead. I am ready to remove it but first I am curious to know what's your impression.
:feedback:-Giampy (April 08, 2013, 03:00 PM)
People of DC,
I beg you a judgment about the penultimate message I posted, the message with the girl sleeping on her breast. I consider it very funny but a (male) member considers it inappropriate instead. I am ready to remove it but first I am curious to know what's your impression.
:feedback:-Giampy (April 08, 2013, 03:00 PM)
People of DC,
I beg you a judgment about the penultimate message I posted, the message with the girl sleeping on her breast. I consider it very funny but a (male) member considers it inappropriate instead. I am ready to remove it but first I am curious to know what's your impression.
:feedback:-Giampy (April 08, 2013, 03:00 PM)
You know, even though this thread is clearly marked NSFW and the image was behind a spoiler, nudity anywhere on this forum can still bring down the family-safe and child-safe rating of the entire site, which can trigger blocking in some filtering software commonly used in schools, businesses, and some homes.
And we wouldn't want that, would we?-app103 (April 08, 2013, 05:36 PM)
Not a joke as far as I know, but still funny as hell-Stephen66515 (April 08, 2013, 01:52 PM)
Not a joke as far as I know, but still funny as hell-Stephen66515 (April 08, 2013, 01:52 PM)
I don't know which to do, Laugh or just think this guy is a total tard...... And yeah, "tard" is a politically incorrect term, AKA; NSFW topic. Get over it and move on.... :P-Tinman57 (April 08, 2013, 08:40 PM)
:eusa_boohoo:-Tinman57 (April 08, 2013, 08:32 PM)
Not a joke as far as I know, but still funny as hell-Stephen66515 (April 08, 2013, 01:52 PM)
I don't know which to do, Laugh or just think this guy is a total tard...... And yeah, "tard" is a politically incorrect term, AKA; NSFW topic. Get over it and move on.... :P-Tinman57 (April 08, 2013, 08:40 PM)
Get over what? He said it wasn't a joke...and it wasn't. It was a news story (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/ferrets-rodents-sold-as-toy-poodles-argentina_n_3037094.html?ir=Weird+News). This urban legend is not a legend any more. ;D-app103 (April 08, 2013, 08:49 PM)
Seriously though...are we playing the "Who is offended by what" card, in a thread marked as NSFW/Adult Content?
If ya don't like it...don't look at it...
Don't make me get the fucking hose out people.-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2013, 08:47 PM)
Seriously though...are we playing the "Who is offended by what" card, in a thread marked as NSFW/Adult Content?
If ya don't like it...don't look at it...
Don't make me get the fucking hose out people.-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2013, 08:47 PM)
Seriously though...are we playing the "Who is offended by what" card, in a thread marked as NSFW/Adult Content?
If ya don't like it...don't look at it...
Don't make me get the fucking hose out people.-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2013, 08:47 PM)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRRE8WK9GoU/TaUgO2vgNYI/AAAAAAAAAsc/sBHJwR9qgX4/s1600/excuse-me-guies-but-wtf-is-going-on-here.jpg)-Stephen66515 (April 09, 2013, 08:38 PM)
Am I the only one that can't find any hint of Stephen being offended by the term "tard" in this post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg323210#msg323210), as claimed by Tinman, here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg323330#msg323330), and has no clue why he told Stephen to "get over it"? :huh:-app103 (April 10, 2013, 09:35 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg323500#msg323500))-kyrathaba (April 11, 2013, 02:45 PM)
Am I the only one that can't find any hint of Stephen being offended by the term "tard" in this post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg323210#msg323210), as claimed by Tinman, here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg323330#msg323330), and has no clue why he told Stephen to "get over it"? :huh:-app103 (April 10, 2013, 09:35 PM)
He wasn't telling stephen to get over the term... he was pre-emptively telling anyone that complained about it to do so. Seemed pretty straightforward to me.-wraith808 (April 10, 2013, 10:52 PM)
I took offence to something? News to me...When the hell do I take offence to ANYTHING ;D ;D ;D ;D ;DAnother bad joke:
Tinman, I know you didn't aim it specifically at me :)-Stephen66515 (April 11, 2013, 09:50 PM)
I took offence to something? News to me...When the hell do I take offence to ANYTHING ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Tinman, I know you didn't aim it specifically at me :)
Wraith, You hit the nail on the head
April, I understood how you thought I might have taken that comment as something aimed directly at me
Mouser...Shut up.-Stephen66515 (April 11, 2013, 09:50 PM)
I took offence to something? News to me...When the hell do I take offence to ANYTHING ;D ;D ;D ;D ;DAnother bad joke:
Tinman, I know you didn't aim it specifically at me :)-Stephen66515 (April 11, 2013, 09:50 PM)
Do you really have to aim specifically with a 12-gauge? :P-Shades (April 12, 2013, 05:55 PM)
Well, it might be that I am a bit thick, but I actually hadn't perceived any religious or political aspect to it. It's just a trial for mass murder, isn't it?
All I perceived was censorship apparently making an ass of itself, and us.
It came into my feed aggregator on http://www.breitbart.com/.
I was in a hurry (as usual) and didn't really notice that it was via some religious/Christian(?) blog, and I don't think I ever went to the latter to look at it (still haven't), but hastily googled the trial to get the gist of it. Made me feel a bit sick.
I suppose I can understand why a religious blog might post about it, but that doesn't in any way discount or detract from the hugely ironic and black humour of that photo. It really does speak volumes. It'd be a bit like holding the Nuremberg Trials in camera, if you see what I mean. ;)
...
...I am a skeptic. I distrust and despise most politicians of all varieties, and religions, and the same goes for any religio-political ideologies and any associated cant and hypocrisy...
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]-Stephen66515 (April 13, 2013, 01:18 PM)
^I love TP's suggestion. Simple, neat, and effective. :Thmbsup:-40hz (April 13, 2013, 03:14 PM)
^I love TP's suggestion. Simple, neat, and effective. :Thmbsup:-40hz (April 13, 2013, 03:14 PM)
And now for some spiraling goodness! And no boobies!
http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/avp.gif-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2013, 03:23 PM)
Wraith808: I wonder what the people at Reddit would think of this picture (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=34641.0;topicseen). Seems to be rather suggestive(if tame for Reddit).-Arizona Hot (April 15, 2013, 12:56 PM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y0u0EIRb2wY-kyrathaba (April 18, 2013, 07:07 AM)
@Deozaan: I kept getting "Invalid YouTube link" when trying to embed... :-[-kyrathaba (April 18, 2013, 07:21 AM)
You can't embed using https. Just get rid of that s and it works.
Rejected Names For Horses (from a UK TV chat show):-IainB (April 18, 2013, 08:50 AM)
Wife replied.. 'Your horse phoned'
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg324132#msg324132))
(People in my musical role get no respect. ;D)-40hz (April 18, 2013, 03:38 PM)
http://www.theuselessweb.com/ (http://www.theuselessweb.com/)
A time waster, but funny :P-kyrathaba (April 18, 2013, 06:46 PM)
*EDIT*[/color] Actually, this one is better:
http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html-Edvard (April 18, 2013, 10:07 PM)
http://www.theuselessweb.comOh dear. I'm hooked...-kyrathaba (April 18, 2013, 06:46 PM)
http://www.theuselessweb.comOh dear. I'm hooked...-kyrathaba (April 18, 2013, 06:46 PM)-IainB (April 19, 2013, 06:54 AM)
*EDIT*[/color] Actually, this one is better:
http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html-Edvard (April 18, 2013, 10:07 PM)
pretty dark though...-tomos (April 19, 2013, 04:05 AM)
LOL! Iain, you're a treasure-house!-kyrathaba (April 19, 2013, 08:31 AM)
LOL! Iain, you're a treasure-house!-kyrathaba (April 19, 2013, 08:31 AM)
plus one there -
I couldnt stop laughing at the "George The Would-be King Bush" one :D-tomos (April 19, 2013, 08:49 AM)
LOL! Iain, you're a treasure-house!-kyrathaba (April 19, 2013, 08:31 AM)
plus one there -
I couldnt stop laughing at the "George The Would-be King Bush" one :D-tomos (April 19, 2013, 08:49 AM)
I think I like the code one best, because it nails other people than just Bush to the humor tree. Plus it sounds like the kind of awesome thing that could be a great party joke etc.-TaoPhoenix (April 19, 2013, 11:31 AM)
I'm not sure if I fully understood the intention of the last one, but I really enjoyed it too.
Is the punchline delivered completely innocently? (in which case we're also laughing at George's simplicity) -
or is it a fully barbed dig at [at least one] Clinton?
Either way, Clinton seems to come out "the worser" at the end of it.-tomos (April 19, 2013, 11:47 AM)
I'm not sure if I fully understood the intention of the last one, but I really enjoyed it too.
Is the punchline delivered completely innocently? (in which case we're also laughing at George's simplicity) -
or is it a fully barbed dig at [at least one] Clinton?-tomos (April 19, 2013, 11:47 AM)
At last! A cat dressed as a shark riding a Roomba chasing a duck!
April wins 3 internets. This thread will be locked now that we have found a winner. Thank you all for playing!-Stephen66515 (April 19, 2013, 02:39 PM)
FBI Hands Over Boston Bombing Investigation to Redditors (http://www.thefastertimes.com/topstories/2013/04/19/fbi-hands-over-boston-investigation-to-redditors/)
In a move that has left millions of Americans stunned and asking for answers, FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers announced this morning that the FBI would be handing over the investigation into the Boston bombings to the active members of the Reddit website.
“Let’s face it,” DesLauriers said, “The Redditors are going to spend a hell of a lot more time looking over the clues than we are.” Added DesLauriers, “We should probably just let them take over the whole damn agency.
The FBI said the transfer of the Boston Marthon files to Reddit would begin immediately. President Obama, who once took part in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) chat, said that he supported the decision. “No one spends more time thinking about seemingly insignificant details than Redditors,” Obama said.
Genre Unknown:
http://www.riddlydiddly.com/-TaoPhoenix (April 19, 2013, 08:03 AM)
What did I learn to play guitar for when I just needed "riddlydiddly"?-Edvard (April 21, 2013, 07:13 PM)
^ It's like this deep proverb is almost understandable [...]-kyrathaba (April 25, 2013, 07:00 AM)
edit/ can you read it nosh? (if so, rough translation please!)-tomos (April 25, 2013, 08:23 AM)
That looks static App. Am I missing something?I assumed that that was the joke... :-[-TaoPhoenix (April 27, 2013, 10:23 AM)
That looks static App. Am I missing something?I assumed that that was the joke... :-[-TaoPhoenix (April 27, 2013, 10:23 AM)-Ath (April 27, 2013, 10:48 AM)
That looks static App. Am I missing something?I assumed that that was the joke... :-[-TaoPhoenix (April 27, 2013, 10:23 AM)-Ath (April 27, 2013, 10:48 AM)
Yup! :D-app103 (April 27, 2013, 11:22 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg324601#msg324601))-wraith808 (April 23, 2013, 01:22 PM)
...I couldn't even tell you which language that is.My 11 y/o daughter Lily said straight off when I showed it to her just now that it is Khmer script (Cambodian). I googled it, and I think she could be right. She says she recognised it from labelling on packaged Asian foods.-nosh (April 25, 2013, 09:27 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/doh.gif)-IainB (May 02, 2013, 05:36 AM)
Where's the Double Facepalm one for the Picard jokes?-TaoPhoenix (May 02, 2013, 01:24 PM)
Rising star in Hungarian anti-Semitic party discovers he’s Jewish (http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/14/rising-star-in-hungarian-anti-semitic-party-discovers-hes-jewish/)
Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press | 12/08/14 | Last Updated: 12/08/14 6:24 PM ET
BUDAPEST, Hungary — As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.
Following weeks of Internet rumors, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother’s side were Jews – making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn’t practice the faith. His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labour camps.
Since then, the 30-year-old has become a pariah in Jobbik and his political career is on the brink of collapse. He declined to be interviewed for this story.
At the root of the drama is an audio tape of a 2010 meeting between Szegedi and a convicted felon. Szegedi acknowledges that the meeting took place but contends the tape was altered in unspecified ways; Jobbik considers it real.
In the recording, the felon is heard confronting Szegedi with evidence of his Jewish roots. Szegedi sounds surprised, then offers money and favors in exchange for keeping quiet.
Under pressure, Szegedi resigned last month from all party positions and gave up his Jobbik membership. That wasn’t good enough for the party: Last week it asked him to give up his seat in the European Parliament as well. Jobbik says its issue is the suspected bribery, not his Jewish roots.
Szegedi came to prominence in 2007 as a founding member of the Hungarian Guard, a group whose black uniforms and striped flags recalled the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party which briefly governed Hungary at the end of World War II and killed thousands of Jews. In all, 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust, most of them after being sent in trains to death camps like Auschwitz. The Hungarian Guard was banned by the courts in 2009.
By then, Szegedi had already joined the Jobbik Party, which was launched in 2003 to become the country’s biggest far-right political force. He soon became one of its most vocal and visible members, and a pillar of the party leadership. Since 2009, he has served in the European Parliament in Brussels as one of the party’s three EU lawmakers, a position he says he wants to keep.
The fallout of Szegedi’s ancestry saga has extended to his business interests. Jobbik executive director Gabor Szabo is pulling out of an Internet site selling nationalist Hungarian merchandise that he owns with Szegedi. Szabo said his sister has resigned as Szegedi’s personal assistant.
AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File
In the 2010 tape, former convict Zoltan Ambrus is heard telling Szegedi that he has documents proving Szegedi is Jewish. The right-wing politician seems genuinely surprised by the news – and offers EU funds and a possible EU job to Ambrus to hush it up.
Ambrus, who served time in prison on a weapons and explosives conviction, apparently rejected the bribes. He said he secretly taped the conversation as part of an internal Jobbik power struggle aimed at ousting Szegedi from a local party leadership post. The party’s reaction was swift.
“We have no alternative but to ask him to return his EU mandate,” said Jobbik president Gabor Vona. “Jobbik does not investigate the heritage of its members or leadership, but instead takes into consideration what they have done for the nation.”
Szegedi’s experience is not unique: The Holocaust was a taboo subject during Hungary’s decades of communist rule that ended in 1990, and many survivors chose to keep their ordeals to themselves. Russian far-right firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky was anti-Semitic until he acknowledged in 2001 that his father was Jewish.
Szegedi, who was raised Presbyterian, acknowledged his Jewish origins in June interviews with Hungarian media, including news broadcaster Hir TV and Barikad, Jobbik’s weekly magazine. He said that after the meeting with Ambrus, he had a long conversation with his grandmother, who spoke about her family’s past as Orthodox Jews.
“It was then that it dawned on me that my grandmother really is Jewish,” Szegedi told Hir TV. “I asked her how the deportations happened. She was in Auschwitz and Dachau and she was the only survivor in the extended family.”
‘Szegedi denied ever having made anti-Semitic statements, but several of his speeches and media appearances show otherwise’
Judaism is traced from mother to child, meaning that under Jewish law Szegedi is Jewish. Szegedi said he defines himself as someone with “ancestry of Jewish origin – because I declare myself 100 percent Hungarian.”
In the interview with Hir TV, Szegedi denied ever having made anti-Semitic statements, but several of his speeches and media appearances show otherwise.
In a November 2010 interview on Hungarian state television, Szegedi blamed the large-scale privatization of state assets after the end of communism on “people in the Hungarian political elite who shielded themselves in their Jewishness.”
Speaking on a morning program in late 2010, he said that “the problem the radical right has with the Jews” was that Jewish artists, actors and intellectuals had desecrated Hungary’s national symbols like the Holy Crown of St. Stephen, the country’s first Christian king.
Szegedi also complained of “massive real estate purchases being done in Hungary, where – it’s no secret – they want to bring in Israeli residents.”
Szegedi met in early August with Rabbi Slomo Koves, of Hungary’s Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, whose own parents were in their teens when they discovered they were Jewish.
“As a rabbi … it is my duty to receive every person who is in a situation of crisis and especially a Jew who has just now faced his heritage,” Koves said.
During the meeting, Szegedi apologized for any statements which may have offended the Jewish community, and vowed to visit Auschwitz to pay his respects.
Koves described the conversation as “difficult and spiritually stressful,” but said he is hopeful for a successful outcome.
“Csanad Szegedi is in the middle of a difficult process of reparation, self-knowledge, re-evaluation and learning, which according to our hopes and interests, should conclude in a positive manner,” Koves said. “Whether this will occur or not is first and foremost up to him.”
...
The old monk replied in a choked voice, "The word is 'celebrate'! "-IainB (May 06, 2013, 08:52 AM)
Russian reversal
Russian reversal or "In Soviet Russia" is a type of joke originated by Smirnoff, and is an example of antimetabole.[5] The general form of the "In Soviet Russia" joke is that the subject and object of a statement are reversed, and "In (Soviet) Russia," or something equivalent, is added, and the verb is often left unconjugated and articles are omitted, mimicking perceived Russian-accented speech. The original was:
In America, you can always find a party.
In Soviet Russia, Party always find you!
Other examples include:
In America, you break law.
In Soviet Russia, law breaks you!
In America, your work determines your marks.
In Soviet Russia, Marx determines your work!
In America, you assassinate presidents.
In Soviet Russia, presidents assassinate you!
In America, you watch Big Brother.
In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watches you!
Smirnoff's use of English allowed him to smooth over grammar differences in transitioning from the setup to the punchline. For example, he omits the articles "a" and "the" (which the Russian language doesn't have) in the first reversal joke above, to better preserve the congruence. Also, verbs are often left unconjugated, such as in the joke "In America, you listen to man on radio. In Soviet Russia, man on radio listen to you!"
In 1985, Smirnoff appeared on a Miller Lite commercial featuring Russian reversal jokes.[6]
In America, there's plenty of light beer and you always find a party. In Russia, Party will always find you.
See also: Transpositional pun
^^ I didn't get the joke until I googled "Yakov Smirnoff".
Never heard of him before. He's very clever/funny.-IainB (May 06, 2013, 10:58 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg325726#msg325726))
Maybe it has negative calories like celery.-Arizona Hot (May 07, 2013, 08:04 AM)
- Dry Martinis-Manhattans
- Watering Cactus
- VW Bug Anti-Freeze
- Dry Cleaning
- Humidifying Saunas
- Filling Dry Docks
- Dry Mopping Floors
- In Dry Sinks
- Dry Shampoos
- In Dry-Cell Batteries
- Dampening Dry Humor
- Making Dry Ice
Heh App I'm dying to know what is in fact in there!!
It's an amusingly-scary exercise in labeling - if there is anything to pour at all, what is it?
:tellme:
P.S. Hat Tip to anyone who has heard the Stephen Wright version!-TaoPhoenix (May 07, 2013, 09:15 AM)
Les Mis re-enactment.-Deozaan (May 07, 2013, 11:41 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg325726#msg325726))
Maybe it has negative calories like celery.-Arizona Hot (May 07, 2013, 08:04 AM)
But, as always, Picard one up's him!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326001#msg326001))
The best gif ever!-wraith808 (May 10, 2013, 04:06 PM)
App,
My best friend and I loved watching star trek TNG and we made an art of finding things to laugh hysterically about.. I can't believe we missed that Riker sitting method.-mouser (May 12, 2013, 11:31 PM)
App,
My best friend and I loved watching star trek TNG and we made an art of finding things to laugh hysterically about.. I can't believe we missed that Riker sitting method.-mouser (May 12, 2013, 11:31 PM)
Surreal Black-And-White Photos Cleverly Combine Seemingly Different Objects (http://designtaxi.com/news/357464/Surreal-Black-And-White-Photos-Cleverly-Combine-Seemingly-Different-Objects/)-Arizona Hot (May 12, 2013, 11:15 PM)
Prior to acting, Jonathan Frakes worked as a mover and sustained a serious back injury moving furniture. This is reason behind his weird way of sitting and also his habit of leaning on things, and propping one leg up on stuff. If he only had to do it once per scene, it probably wouldn't have been as much of a problem for him and he likely would have done it normally.
But having to repeat it over and over for every take of every scene he was in, and having to stand for hours at a time, it caused him a great deal of pain. This was his work-around that enabled him to keep on working.
Revealed on Reddit, and Wil Wheaton confirmed it: http://www.reddit.com/r/s..._the_leg_over_the/c9urrko
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326272#msg326272))
Discarded Styrofoam Cup With Incredibly Detailed Drawings Found On The Internet (http://designtaxi.com/news/357520/Discarded-Styrofoam-Cup-With-Incredibly-Detailed-Drawings-Found-On-The-Internet/)-Arizona Hot (May 14, 2013, 10:04 PM)
So does this give new meaning to Barack Obama Jr.'s book "Dreams From My Father"?!
This story unlike the one above is real as far as I know.
This story unlike the one above is real as far as I know.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326394#msg326394))
Cops Bust Prostitution Ring ... at Senior Citizen Home - Neighbors, 75 and 66, are suspected masterminds (http://www.newser.com/story/167897/cops-bust-prostitution-ring-at-senior-citizen-home.html)-Arizona Hot (May 16, 2013, 03:25 PM)
This isn't surprising. The Villages, a Florida retirement community, has the highest per capita rate of venereal disease in the country. Those old folks still like to get it on.
Prior to acting, Jonathan Frakes worked as a mover and sustained a serious back injury moving furniture. This is reason behind his weird way of sitting and also his habit of leaning on things, and propping one leg up on stuff.
I have to share something with you all that happened to me this evening...guy to guy.-kyrathaba (May 09, 2013, 05:51 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326475#msg326475))
From this page: http://mashable.com/2013/03/22/ipad-hacker-weev-appeals/
I am very surprised that nobody has mentioned it in the comments.-app103 (May 17, 2013, 02:22 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326475#msg326475))
From this page: http://mashable.com/2013/03/22/ipad-hacker-weev-appeals/
I am very surprised that nobody has mentioned it in the comments.-app103 (May 17, 2013, 02:22 PM)
I guess I am whooshed. That the two guys look similar? Or did he write his own news story under a pseudonym?-TaoPhoenix (May 17, 2013, 05:59 PM)
Though the exact cause of death has not been formally determined, I am quite
sure that death came as a relief to this poor guy.
There is something about being male that I think bonds us all together. That
is, as males, regardless of species, I think when you see the attached (or
below) picture(s) you'll have the same reaction I did...
ouch.-kyrathaba (May 09, 2013, 05:51 PM)
There's no better bushy-tailed tree rat than a dead bushy-tailed tree rat.-Tinman57 (May 17, 2013, 08:51 PM)
There's no better bushy-tailed tree rat than a dead bushy-tailed tree rat.-Tinman57 (May 17, 2013, 08:51 PM)
Yes there is ;)-4wd (May 18, 2013, 09:10 PM)
Back to silly humor:
http://gizmodo.com/warning-dont-drink-and-internet-508240224
Warning: Don't Drink and Internet
I don't think so. 'Nuff Said : )-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2013, 12:00 AM)
Hey, it's not just mid-20th:
Seattle Times article: Dinner gets very local for squirrel-eating Seattleite (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2017113840_eatingsquirrels29m.html)
Best quote? "It did not taste like chicken." ;D-Edvard (May 19, 2013, 12:49 AM)
| Squirrel isn't as gamy as venison, she says, and tastes like rabbit. (Adhering to the journalistic creed of "trust but verify," we sampled the squirrel; it had a nutty flavor and tender, slightly greasy texture.) |
Somehow seemed almost cannibalistic though, what with him being vegan and all.-tomos (May 19, 2013, 04:55 PM)
but it got me wondering what it does taste like-tomos (May 19, 2013, 04:55 PM)
Did this really happen to you? Or are you just sharing something you got in your e-mail with us?
Monday morning:-Giampy (May 22, 2013, 06:31 PM)
Monday morning:
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=75740;image)-Giampy (May 22, 2013, 06:31 PM)
I recognize that album cover.....-Tinman57 (May 22, 2013, 07:19 PM)
Monday morning:
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=75740;image)-Giampy (May 22, 2013, 06:31 PM)
I recognize that album cover.....-Tinman57 (May 22, 2013, 07:19 PM)
I recognise that monday morning . . .-tomos (May 23, 2013, 02:52 AM)
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.-Tinman57 (May 26, 2013, 06:10 PM)
@x16wda: Apologies for my ignorance, but is that US Pres. Regan? If so, then cruel to dress him in drag (or was he that way inclined?). :tellme:
What uniform was Pres. Clinton dressed in in that photo I submitted above? Do you know? Is it a US military one?
I think I saw news photos of Obama dressed in that ceremonial Kenyan uniform, or something, a couple of years back, but I don't know of he ever wore a US forces uniform. I gather that all US presidents are/were "Commander in Chief", but I'm not sure if that necessarily means they have/had a uniform.-IainB (May 27, 2013, 12:22 PM)
Apologies for my ignorance, but is that US Pres. Regan? If so, then cruel to dress him in drag (or was he that way inclined?).
I gather that all US presidents are/were "Commander in Chief", but I'm not sure if that necessarily means they have/had a uniform.-IainB (May 27, 2013, 12:22 PM)
Here's an idea.. let's try not injecting politics into every thread.
Some tips:
Let's say you find yourself on a thread that has nothing to do with politics and you find yourself writing a post that is insulting to some political figure or party, or some religion.
Just as your about to click post, instead close the browser and go have a snack and take a break, and come back when you can resist the urge to make that post.
Or post it in the basement, or on some other forum. Or tell it to your friends. Or whatever.
Just resist injecting political/religious insults into a thread that has nothing to do with them.-mouser (May 28, 2013, 06:04 PM)
Here's an idea.. let's try not injecting politics into every thread.
Some tips:
Let's say you find yourself on a thread that has nothing to do with politics and you find yourself writing a post that is insulting to some political figure or party, or some religion.
Just as your about to click post, instead close the browser and go have a snack and take a break, and come back when you can resist the urge to make that post.
Or post it in the basement, or on some other forum. Or tell it to your friends. Or whatever.
Just resist injecting political/religious insults into a thread that has nothing to do with them.-mouser (May 28, 2013, 06:04 PM)
political(So my calling that last joke "political" was in itself a joke - we are in the "silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]", after all.) ;)
· adj.
1 of or relating to the government or public affairs of a country. Ø interested in or active in politics.
(Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed.)
"Anything I can do, God can do better.
God can do anything better than me.
Yes he can. No he can't.
Yes he can. No he can't.
Yes he can. Yes he can. Yes he can!"
_____________________________
…- and no, I didn't "report it to the moderator" - didn't see any need to, being quite capable of confronting the irrationality on my own, and so I addressed it in a rational and matter-of-fact manner, and without "putting anyone down".
It would not be correct to call this a good example of a valid argument - for anything, really.
Furthermore it is a smear - i.e., it makes an easy and deliberately unsubstantiated and fundamentally offensive allegation about the Mullahs - one which they are not here to defend themselves from. Regardless of what our opinion might be regarding Islamists, we do not know whether this allegation is true nor, if it is true, then to what extent it is true.
…
__________________________
-IainB (November 08, 2011, 07:21 PM)
Can we just take this as a learning experience and get back to the silly humor...Wot, and not have the witch-burning you mean? :tellme:-wraith808 (May 29, 2013, 09:13 AM)
-Deozaan (May 29, 2013, 12:02 AM)
Which was the "political post"?
I really was not entirely sure what you were referring to, you see, as I couldn't see that my posting the pictures of the "US presidents in uniform" (copied from a US website somewhere) was political. Was it insulting? No.
now let's get back to being silly.-mouser (May 29, 2013, 05:21 PM)
Ah, I understand now. That throws quite a different light on it. Thankyou for explaining that to me. So it was apparently unnacceptably insulting - or at least you found it so - and it would (it seems, from what you wrote) usually be the sort of insult handed out with a party-political bias, so it could be construed as being "political" at the very least.Which was the "political post"?
I really was not entirely sure what you were referring to, you see, as I couldn't see that my posting the pictures of the "US presidents in uniform" (copied from a US website somewhere) was political. Was it insulting? No.
the post of presidents in "uniform" was the post that jumped out at me -- it is clearly, explicitly, by design, an image intended to cast aspersions on the patriotism and suitability for office of obama and clinton. it was unequivocally *created* in order to insult and demean clinton and obama. it is indistinguishable from the partisan images used in political campaigns to damage the reputation of political figures. Anyone familiar with american politics should be able to confirm that to you.-mouser (May 29, 2013, 05:21 PM)
was not the picture of Reagan in drag also insulting?
our language here indicating two categories of gratuitous offence, and your use of the plural both seeming to imply that I have done this on two or more occasions.
The thing is that I was brought up in the UK, where politicians are fair game for poking fun at,
was not the picture of Reagan in drag also insulting?
yes -- i just read that post as an attempt to "retaliate" on the other side in response to the uniform one. one could also make a good case that the reagan photo was, while not flattering, not really a politically partisan pointed attack in the same way that the uniform one was.
...-mouser (May 30, 2013, 11:53 PM)
^ Heh. Good comeback.-wraith808 (May 26, 2013, 09:19 AM)
"i didn't mean to suggest that, i was just taking the opportunity to lump politics and religion into one"I am mightily relieved at this. I had been preparing to have to apologise for umpteen other unwitting sins/crimes and don sackcloth and ashes and walk around flagellating myself as penance and in an attempt to avoid being put to the test per The Malleus Maleficarum. People tended not to come out of that alive/intact.
yes -- i just read that post as an attempt to "retaliate" on the other side in response to the uniform one.
Gee Mouser, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg327476#msg327476))-wraith808 (May 31, 2013, 10:51 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg327476#msg327476))-wraith808 (May 31, 2013, 10:51 AM)
...and number 6 Gets A "Winner" Every Time! That is just so wrong...I love it!-Stoic Joker (May 31, 2013, 11:52 AM)
"There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't."
I think that's what he meant by #6... the picture was originally a lot smaller, so he might not have noticed that there were two semi-autos on there.-wraith808 (May 31, 2013, 10:39 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg327551#msg327551))
I'd like to suggest Microsoft do something similar for their current Windows 8 owners. :P-40hz (June 01, 2013, 01:13 PM)
Was a squirrel discovered on Mars?
Summary: Close examination of a photo taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity appears to expose a small squirrel or rat on the Martian surface.
and that was your post number 444, joiwind :up:-Curt (June 02, 2013, 10:54 AM)
This horrifying clown mannekin was reportedly placed on a hiking trail deep in the Oleta River in Aventura, Florida by a park employee who got it from the Enchanted Forest Elaine Gordon Park in North Miami.
If you went hiking through Oleta River in Aventura Florida last year, you probably shit your pants a couple miles in. (imgur.com)
^^^Who is Andy ? - you lost me there ...Oh, thanks. A mistake. Fixed it now.-joiwind (June 02, 2013, 10:46 AM)
Paperless future (video clip): http://www.flixxy.com/the-paperless-future-emma.htm-IainB (June 06, 2013, 05:41 PM)
Alternative uses for placentas, in New Zealand ...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328064#msg328064))-IainB (June 08, 2013, 05:01 AM)
It's a Magic Eyew (aka Autostereogramw):
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328574#msg328574))-Deozaan (June 15, 2013, 05:12 PM)
It's a Magic Eyew (aka Autostereogramw):
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328574#msg328574))-Deozaan (June 15, 2013, 05:12 PM)
It's a Magic Eyew (aka Autostereogramw):
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328574#msg328574))-Deozaan (June 15, 2013, 05:12 PM)
I have never been able to see whatever it is that I am supposed to be able to see in that type of image. And that has always frustrated me.-app103 (June 15, 2013, 10:17 PM)
So with this text based one you can point out what I am supposed to be seeing and then I can see it.
But for the normal ones, I have tried all the suggestions over the years that involved defocusing, looking at it cross-eyed, looking at it from certain angles, or from a certain distance, with my glasses off, etc. And even when you tell me what it is that I am supposed to be seeing, even when you take your finger and point it out to me, all I see is the noise.-app103 (June 15, 2013, 11:34 PM)
Following the recent California summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, Chinese micro-bloggers picked up on an uncanny resemblance between a photograph of the two strolling through the Sunnylands estate and a cartoon image of AA Milne’s cartoon creations. The two images were published side by side this week on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
China’s army of Internet censors has picked an unusual target in its battle to wipe dissent from the country’s computer screens: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger.
Following the recent California summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, Chinese micro-bloggers picked up on an uncanny resemblance between a photograph of the two strolling through the Sunnylands estate and a cartoon image of AA Milne’s cartoon creations. The two images were published side by side this week on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
But the posts were almost immediately “harmonized”, as censors appeared to take exception to the comparison between their president and a podgy bear with a penchant for honey. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said overzealous censors had “nipped in the bud what could have been a positive PR campaign, tailor-made for President Xi Jinping”.
I think it's cute. How the heck do people find such parallels? (Or is it photoshopped?)-IainB (June 17, 2013, 09:59 AM)
I think it's cute. How the heck do people find such parallels? (Or is it photoshopped?)-IainB (June 17, 2013, 09:59 AM)
Remember, one of the fun things about Da InterWebz is that you get to tap a world's worth of rare talents. So some people have a talent for pattern recognition. So I certainly imagine someone saw that news photo and their brain peeled off the matching cartoon graphic.
It's related to the concept and talent for puns. I have a modest talent for those on "fast" days.-TaoPhoenix (June 17, 2013, 11:51 AM)
Jesus has been known to appear in some pretty unorthodox (religion joke!) places, like in the bark of a tree, a frying pan or delicious Cheeto, and even in a damn blessed grilled cheese sandwich. J-C has been spotted once again… in this dog’s B-U-T-T. Homeboy is wearing his signature robe and everything!
Jesus has been known to appear in some pretty unorthodox (religion joke!) places, like in the bark of a tree, a frying pan or delicious Cheeto, and even in a damn blessed grilled cheese sandwich. J-C has been spotted once again… in this dog’s B-U-T-T. Homeboy is wearing his signature robe and everything!(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328773#msg328773))
http://www.incrediblethings.com/web/jesus-spotted-in-a-dogs-bum-bum/-app103 (June 18, 2013, 06:34 AM)
Jesus has been known to appear in some pretty unorthodox (religion joke!) places, like in the bark of a tree, a frying pan or delicious Cheeto, and even in a damn blessed grilled cheese sandwich. J-C has been spotted once again… in this dog’s B-U-T-T. Homeboy is wearing his signature robe and everything!(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg328773#msg328773))
http://www.incrediblethings.com/web/jesus-spotted-in-a-dogs-bum-bum/-app103 (June 18, 2013, 06:34 AM)
I'm probably going to get flamed for this (!!) but I can't help thinking they've been assking for it...-Target (June 19, 2013, 08:00 PM)
Holy shit! Literally! Every time that dog takes a crap, they could make a fortune selling it on ebay.
So with this text based one you can point out what I am supposed to be seeing and then I can see it.
But for the normal ones, I have tried all the suggestions over the years that involved defocusing, looking at it cross-eyed, looking at it from certain angles, or from a certain distance, with my glasses off, etc. And even when you tell me what it is that I am supposed to be seeing, even when you take your finger and point it out to me, all I see is the noise.-app103 (June 15, 2013, 11:34 PM)
Maybe that's just a natural consequence stemming from a lifetime of looking squarely at reality and not being too easily bedazzled? ;D :Thmbsup-40hz (June 20, 2013, 06:26 AM)
Russian Tampon Commercial
Your puny western ads don't work on russian women.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=95c_1371654375-wraith808 (June 19, 2013, 08:20 PM)
Maybe that's just a natural consequence stemming from a lifetime of looking squarely at reality and not being too easily bedazzled? ;D :Thmbsup-40hz (June 20, 2013, 06:26 AM)
Or observing the tiny but important details that others often miss.-app103 (June 20, 2013, 06:30 AM)
This was a surprise. Since it's kinda PC-techo, I wasn't sure whether this should be posted here or in the general software part of the forum, but I found it amusing and so I settled for here. Probably the same method could be used to uninstall Norton Antivirus too.
It's by John McAfee himself: How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bKgf5PaBzyg)-IainB (June 19, 2013, 07:36 PM)
Campaign shines light on political disenchantment with slogan: 'Tired of voting for rats? Vote for a cat'This cat has it's own Facebook ID, website and T-shirt.
Because this could be mistaken for a political plug for anti-gun control, I thought about putting it in the Gun Control thread in the Basement, but it's a true story and too important to bury there.-IainB (June 22, 2013, 01:09 AM)
it's a true story and too important to bury there.-IainB (June 22, 2013, 01:09 AM)
What is the smallest caliber you trust to protect yourself?
If you go after a bear with a .25 ... You deserve to get eaten. :DWhat is the smallest caliber you trust to protect yourself?
Beretta does make a damn fine .25, but I prefer to carry a .40 because it's good to be sure..
I do however have a 9mm for dress occasions.-Stoic Joker (June 22, 2013, 01:43 PM)
...It's really almost impossible to miss anything with that.Yes, when I used to go hunting rabbits at night, with two of us riding shotgun on a moving tractor, we both had 12-bore double-barrelled shotguns. Difficult to miss anything. Have to make sure and remove all the buckshot from the meat though, otherwise you might break a tooth.-Tinman57 (June 22, 2013, 08:57 PM)
A chemistry joke:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg329291#msg329291))-IainB (June 24, 2013, 02:34 AM)
Samizdata joke of the day (http://www.samizdata.net/2013/06/samizdata-joke-of-the-day/#comment-356462)
By Natalie Solent (Essex) · Humour · Media & Journalism · UK affairs
What’s the difference between Fleet Street and Hacked Off (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2346228/The-Hacked-Off-professor-year-campaign-free-Press-question-Are-YOU-paying-wages.html)?
One is a consortium of the rich and powerful with little respect for the law that has been given unwarranted access to our government, and the other… waaait a minute.
- Solent Minor
George Takei's review for a Ninja Folding Grappling Hook (http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TI0ELDS3R0DW/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000HKSSLQ&nodeID=3375251&store=sporting-goods) on Amazon.com.-app103 (June 24, 2013, 11:13 AM)
^^ Classic. I've met the guy sitting in the office chair. ;D-IainB (June 25, 2013, 03:42 AM)
Okay this spam had a unique enough (wtf) subject line that I thought I'd a screen shot of my inbox: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg329418#msg329418))-Stoic Joker (June 25, 2013, 01:06 PM)
Okay this spam had a unique enough (wtf) subject line that I thought I'd a screen shot of my inbox: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg329418#msg329418))-Stoic Joker (June 25, 2013, 01:06 PM)
Spinoff from the Snowden thread:Har-de-har-har. Very droll.
"Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage."
1. Why are they using descriptive notation?! Is that a metaphor for outdated information and thinking in this whole thing?
2. Snowden's playing White as the "first to move", right? So charging Snowden is a defensive move ... so that's ...Nc6. But what was the US's first move? 1 ...e5 headed into a Ruy Lopez or 1...c5 headed into a Sicilian?
8)-TaoPhoenix (June 25, 2013, 12:19 PM)
Har-de-har-har. Very droll.-IainB (June 27, 2013, 11:45 AM)
And please, some other readers join in the discussion - if it's just Perry and I then before long you'll have koalas swinging from stalactites and platypus foraging in the river, (trust me, it will happen - just look what happened when I mentioned anus) ;)-4wd (July 01, 2013, 11:29 PM)
State of Education in Florida:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=318442
8)-TaoPhoenix (July 02, 2013, 06:55 AM)
Once in UNF the next in
State of Education in Florida:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=318442
8)-TaoPhoenix (July 02, 2013, 06:55 AM)
The irony is ...Once in UNF the next in-app103 (July 02, 2013, 08:18 AM)
State of Education in Florida:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=318442
8)-TaoPhoenix (July 02, 2013, 06:55 AM)
The irony is ...Once in UNF the next in-app103 (July 02, 2013, 08:18 AM)
The abbreviation for the University of Northern Florida "Is" UNF.....-Tinman57 (July 02, 2013, 03:34 PM)
To all of you who claim you don't give a fsck... This is actually what not giving a fsck looks like. That or a train wreck. Your pick.
SFW-wraith808 (July 02, 2013, 03:35 PM)
State of Education in Florida:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=318442
8)-TaoPhoenix (July 02, 2013, 06:55 AM)
The irony is ...Once in UNF the next in-app103 (July 02, 2013, 08:18 AM)
The abbreviation for the University of Northern Florida "Is" UNF.....-Tinman57 (July 02, 2013, 03:34 PM)
Ahh...ok. Thought the author meant to abbreviate "university".-app103 (July 02, 2013, 03:52 PM)
To all of you who claim you don't give a fsck... This is actually what not giving a fsck looks like. That or a train wreck. Your pick.
SFW
(http://i.imgur.com/ftBC59p.gif)-wraith808 (July 02, 2013, 03:35 PM)
What a surprise! His outdoors dance appears to be in front of a sign welcoming motorists to Woonsocket, Rhode Island - a town about 25 miles from where I was born and raised. Didn't know this guy, though.This guy is actually fairly famous around the internet :)-dspelley (July 02, 2013, 10:12 PM)
I used to have an Uzi .40 cal S&W. Beautiful gun, very accurate with stopping power. Now I either pack my M1911A1 .45 Auto or my Ruger 38 Special. When roaming around my land I carry my .45/410 loaded with 410 Magnum buckshot. It's really almost impossible to miss anything with that. lol
I used to have an Uzi .40 cal S&W. Beautiful gun, very accurate with stopping power. Now I either pack my M1911A1 .45 Auto or my Ruger 38 Special. When roaming around my land I carry my .45/410 loaded with 410 Magnum buckshot. It's really almost impossible to miss anything with that. lol
When I'm on the farm, I carry my Ruger Blackhawk Super and use .460 loads.-kyrathaba (July 05, 2013, 11:25 AM)
People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)
People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)
In cases like these, sometimes a well placed PM works wonders rather than open season. :)-wraith808 (July 06, 2013, 07:22 PM)
People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)
People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)
So I guess, as a small example, these are OK then:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326591#msg326591
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg297249#msg297249-Tinman57 (July 06, 2013, 09:23 PM)
People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)
So I guess, as a small example, these are OK then:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg326591#msg326591
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg297249#msg297249-Tinman57 (July 06, 2013, 09:23 PM)
Tinman, I do apologise for the tone in my post - I definitely got that wrong.
Re the message: out of a silly humour post there were a *bunch* of people posting about their guns - which I for one thought didnt fit in this thread.
Hence my post.
Re my posts - as you point out, I have no problem with going off-topic. I'm trying to think have I ever been asked to stop going off-topic - I'm sure I have - but probably much more tactfully than I have done here ;-)-tomos (July 07, 2013, 04:03 AM)
Holidays, at last!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg330331#msg330331))-Giampy (July 07, 2013, 11:02 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg330422#msg330422))
The Man-Fur Coat Is Made Entirely of Male Chest hair (http://www.odditycentral.com/funny/the-man-fur-coat-is-made-entirely-from-male-chest-hair.html)-Arizona Hot (July 08, 2013, 02:13 PM)
Probably more creepy than funny.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg329898#msg329898))
Chest hair coat from Oddity Central (http://www.odditycentral.com/funny/the-man-fur-coat-is-made-entirely-from-male-chest-hair.html)-dspelley (July 01, 2013, 05:41 PM)
OK, before anyone ask....
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=uFxnBrO9n7o-Tinman57 (May 19, 2013, 04:58 PM)
Very inventive! (Though Tinman linked to the full clip earlier:)OK, before anyone ask....
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=uFxnBrO9n7o-Tinman57 (May 19, 2013, 04:58 PM)-x16wda (July 09, 2013, 05:21 AM)
The Daily Mail::Thmbsup: (Classic)
Rare bird last seen in Britain 22 years ago reappears — only to be killed by wind turbine in front of a horrified crowd of birdwatchers (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350267/Rare-bird-white-throated-needletail-killed-wind-turbine-crowd-twitchers.html#)
The white-throated needletail is usually only seen in Asia and Australasia
Forty birdwatchers dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of this one
But as they watched it was knocked ’stone dead’ after impact with turbine
There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on British shores this week, twitchers were understandably excited.
A group of 40 enthusiasts dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of the brown, black and blue bird, which breeds in Asia and winters in Australasia.
But instead of being treated to a wildlife spectacle they were left with a horror show when it flew into a wind turbine and was killed.
John Marchant, 62, who had made the trip all the way from Norfolk, said: ‘We were absolutely over the moon to see the bird. We watched it for nearly two hours.
‘But while we were watching it suddenly got a bit close to the turbine and then the blades hit it.
‘We all rushed up to the turbine, which took about five minutes, hoping the bird had just been knocked out the sky but was okay.
‘Unfortunately it had taken a blow to the head and was stone dead.
‘It was really beautiful when it was flying around, graceful and with such speed. To suddenly see it fly into a turbine and fall out the sky was terrible.’ ...
...-Renegade (July 10, 2013, 10:12 AM)
...In other words, screw what he said! The Renninator is Baack!-Renegade (July 10, 2013, 10:12 AM)-TaoPhoenix (July 10, 2013, 10:49 AM)
And she's wearing a coat with a zipper up high!
Those activists of today... :P-Shades (July 13, 2013, 11:27 AM)
A hazardous serum that turns people into zombies, the product of a failed military experiment to create super soldiers, is accidentally released and infects a group of friends when they eat ice cream that has come in contact with the serum.-Arizona Hot (July 14, 2013, 08:53 PM)
I got this via an IFTTT email this morning. Note the date:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg331159#msg331159))-kyrathaba (July 15, 2013, 07:34 AM)
My daughter sent me this link. TV News reporting FAIL (Asiana Flight 214 pilots' names):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JYHNX8pdo
(DC Forum YouTube window artefact not working?)-IainB (July 15, 2013, 11:16 AM)
The name of the employee at the NTSB that confirmed these names, has now been identified as: Wi Fuk Dup.-app103 (July 15, 2013, 12:53 PM)
The name of the employee at the NTSB that confirmed these names, has now been identified as: Wi Fuk Dup.-app103 (July 15, 2013, 12:53 PM)
This is actually a useful infographic, but it's done with some humor, so I think perhaps it qualifies for this thread.
How to live/interact with an introvert:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg331307#msg331307))
Source: DeviantArt (http://schrojones.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Live-with-Introverts-291305760).-Deozaan (July 16, 2013, 12:48 PM)
This is actually a useful infographic, but it's done with some humor, so I think perhaps it qualifies for this thread.
How to live/interact with an introvert:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg331307#msg331307))
Source: DeviantArt (http://schrojones.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Live-with-Introverts-291305760).-Deozaan (July 16, 2013, 12:48 PM)
that was an interesting viewpoint, and helpful advice.
I've actually used that approach fairly successfully when meeting independent-minded ... cats, for the first time.-tomos (July 16, 2013, 04:37 PM)
that was an interesting viewpoint, and helpful advice.
I've actually used that approach fairly successfully when meeting independent-minded ... cats, for the first time.-tomos (July 16, 2013, 04:37 PM)
"Is there any other kind?"-TaoPhoenix (July 16, 2013, 06:35 PM)
A hazardous serum that turns people into zombies, the product of a failed military experiment to create super soldiers, is accidentally released and infects a group of friends when they eat ice cream that has come in contact with the serum.Sponsored by Edy's Slow Churned Ice Cream...LOL! (I am serious!)-Arizona Hot (July 14, 2013, 08:53 PM)-app103 (July 15, 2013, 06:37 AM)
Sounds like a nod to the 1985 movie "The Stuff"-Edvard (July 16, 2013, 11:58 PM)
Sounds like a nod to the 1985 movie "The Stuff"-Edvard (July 16, 2013, 11:58 PM)
LOL! Why have I not seen this? ;D-app103 (July 17, 2013, 12:13 AM)
Sounds like a nod to the 1985 movie "The Stuff"-Edvard (July 16, 2013, 11:58 PM)
LOL! Why have I not seen this? ;D-app103 (July 17, 2013, 12:13 AM)
Because you've got better taste? :P Or taste buds as the case may be. :D-Renegade (July 17, 2013, 07:19 AM)
Chuck Norris the first time he went to the sea:-Giampy (July 17, 2013, 06:54 AM)
Here's a photo of me in the shower.- and here's a rather clever comedy skit by Armstrong & Miller (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQlHaGhYoF0) on "showers" (click on link).-Deozaan (July 17, 2013, 07:01 PM)
Me in the shower.Is a duplicate of:-Arizona Hot (July 18, 2013, 02:43 PM)
Here's a photo of me in the shower.:-[-Deozaan (July 17, 2013, 07:01 PM)
It's slowly becoming clear that there really is a superior race of beings on this planet. Mind you they're obviously not human beings ... My money is on the dolphins.-Stoic Joker (July 19, 2013, 12:05 PM)
Are you a moron? Most people are!-Renegade (July 19, 2013, 11:21 AM)
It's slowly becoming clear that there really is a superior race of beings on this planet. Mind you they're obviously not human beings ... My money is on the dolphins.-Stoic Joker (July 19, 2013, 12:05 PM)
"DC Members unite to take over the world! Uh... what is it Pinky? We're all booked today? Can we take over the world tomorrow?"-TaoPhoenix (July 19, 2013, 01:55 PM)
Shouldn't Pinky=Brain? :P NARF!It's slowly becoming clear that there really is a superior race of beings on this planet. Mind you they're obviously not human beings ... My money is on the dolphins.-Stoic Joker (July 19, 2013, 12:05 PM)
"DC Members unite to take over the world! Uh... what is it Pinky? We're all booked today? Can we take over the world tomorrow?"-TaoPhoenix (July 19, 2013, 01:55 PM)-wraith808 (July 19, 2013, 02:13 PM)
I have restarted my Yumps (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=309.0) project from scratch, this time coding in Python.
The new project name is "Mewlo".
Mewlo is an open source, high-level programmer's framework for creating custom, community-driven web services.-mouser (July 17, 2013, 09:17 AM)
Get ready to piss yourself laughing...
Why we believe Americans are stupid.
:P-Renegade (July 19, 2013, 11:12 AM)
And British (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkwB9ayK4)
And Brazilians (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpjX580EiqA)
And Germans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONCrE4IoSsY)-app103 (July 19, 2013, 03:02 PM)
Renegade: What about income tax in Monopoly?-Arizona Hot (July 20, 2013, 02:19 PM)
Renegade: What about income tax in Monopoly?-Arizona Hot (July 20, 2013, 02:19 PM)
That just shows that it's not *that* old. ;)-wraith808 (July 20, 2013, 04:02 PM)
Renegade: What about income tax in Monopoly?-Arizona Hot (July 20, 2013, 02:19 PM)
That just shows that it's not *that* old. ;)-wraith808 (July 20, 2013, 04:02 PM)
Well, to spoil the joke, the income tax dates to 1913, and Monopoly dates to the Great Depression.-TaoPhoenix (July 20, 2013, 07:15 PM)
Renegade: The other person in your Reply #1888 picture looks like they're wearing a bra and a dress.-Arizona Hot (July 21, 2013, 05:41 PM)
I stood there all day.......
Nothing =(-Renegade (July 21, 2013, 08:23 PM)
Jerk! That was the receiving end. You were blocking other people from coming in! ;)-Deozaan (July 21, 2013, 09:02 PM)
Jerk! That was the receiving end. You were blocking other people from coming in! ;)-Deozaan (July 21, 2013, 09:02 PM)
for future reference, this is what the sending unit looks like (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg331861#msg331861))-Target (July 21, 2013, 09:29 PM)
Real People (http://funnie.st/288704/42-people-you-wont-believe-actually-exist/1/)-dspelley (July 22, 2013, 04:35 PM)
“And the words coming out of her mouth. My word. If I hadn’t seen the background check with my own eyes I’d be pretty sure she’d dated a sailor.”
“Have I what? No, I haven’t looked ‘downstairs’ and I have no intention of doing so. It’s going to be out of action for a while I’d imagine.”
http://newsthump.com/2013/07/22/prince-williams-hand-absolutely-killing-him/-Renegade (July 23, 2013, 12:08 PM)
Don't click if you can't take a joke. :PI think that's unnecessarily offensive and equivalent to my post of Pierre's photo of Germany taking an all-classes win of the 1940 Tour de France at Re: bicycling suddenly a British speciality?! (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31719.msg295082#msg295082).-Renegade (July 23, 2013, 11:02 AM)
Lest we forget.As a student of religion and modern history, my daughter Lily (now 11½ y/o) thought it was rather funny too.
NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-says-it-cant-search-its-own-e-mails/)
The NSA's system is “a little antiquated and archaic."
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica - July 24 2013, 5:13am NZST
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture.
But ask the NSA as part of a freedom of information request to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' e-mail? The agency says it doesn't have the technology.
"There's no central method to search an e-mail at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately," NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week. The system is "a little antiquated and archaic," she added. ...
^^ @Renegade: Uh, thanks. I hadn't seen your post of that.
Regarding the other silliness you mention, it is amusing yes, but I suspect that you are just pointing out the emerging progressivism in the US. Is there a "progressive" party in US politics? (I have no idea.) "Progressive" in politics seems to be a de facto and inarguably "good thing", though apparently to the stupid and unenlightened it may often seem to be a euphemism for "going backwards".-IainB (July 24, 2013, 12:30 AM)
Some people (not me you understand) might suggest that students of modern history could look at what you were pointing out and compare it to a potential parallel in the form of the original and self-described "progressive" party - the National Socialist German Workers' Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party), but I couldn't possibly comment - though I have met a lot of people whose parents/grandparents had apparently all been staunch members of that party, so it must have been pretty popular at one time.-IainB (July 24, 2013, 12:30 AM)
Well, you know that things almost always come back into fascion at some point.-Renegade (July 24, 2013, 05:45 AM)
...fascion...
Oh don't be so stuffy @wraith. Neologisms can be silly, funny, clever, and even useful.-IainB (July 24, 2013, 12:54 PM)
Priceless. I actually did LOL when I read this at arstechnica:-IainB (July 23, 2013, 10:23 PM)
@Renegade:...fascion...
Heh. I like it, a neologism. ;)-IainB (July 24, 2013, 10:03 AM)
Oh don't be so stuffy @wraith. Neologisms can be silly, funny, clever, and even useful.-IainB (July 24, 2013, 12:54 PM)
Oh... not me. I just said some would say. And it wasn't referring to that, but to the earlier post, i.e.Priceless. I actually did LOL when I read this at arstechnica:-IainB (July 23, 2013, 10:23 PM)
Which was undeniably funny... but I don't think really *silly*. At least by any definition that I've heard. But that's just me, which was why we might want to know what silly means. :Thmbsup:-wraith808 (July 24, 2013, 02:40 PM)
Like I said... we need a common nomenclature for silly. ;D-wraith808 (July 24, 2013, 09:46 PM)
"I always forget my password. So I called it "wrong". In such way, when I log in but I don't remember my password, it's the website to remember it for me: «Your password is wrong»".-Giampy (July 25, 2013, 07:11 AM)
Climate Craziness of the Week – taxing sunlight (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/26/climate-craziness-of-the-week-taxing-sunlight/)
Posted on July 26, 2013 by Anthony Watts
No, I’m not kidding. Truly, idiocy has no bounds.
In Spain, they appear to have actually done this, with fines up to 30 million Euros for non compliance.
The stupid, it sunburns. Air will be next. Breath tax.
From MISH’S Global Economic Trend Analysis:
sun_tax
link to Google translated article: El Pais, Spain Privatizes The Sun (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Felpais.cr%2Ffrontend%2Fnoticia_detalle%2F6%2F83700%3Ffb_action_ids%3D604341192919588%26fb_action_types%3Dog.likes%26fb_source%3Dother_multiline%26action_object_map%3D%7B%2522604341192919588%2522%253A604892356217086%7D%26action_type_map%3D%7B%2522604341192919588%2522%253A%2522og.likes%2522%7D%26action_ref_map%3D%5B%5D)
If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use, you can be fined as much as 30 million euros.
If you were thinking the best energy option was to buy some solar panels that were down 80% in price, you can forget about it.
…
“The Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), which brings together some 300 companies representing 85% of the industry, ensures that, implemented these changes, it would be more expensive solar consumption resorting to conventional supply. “It prevents the savings to consumers and paralyzes the entry of new competition in the electricity market,” contemplate. “
Source: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/07/spain-levies-consumption-tax-on-sunlight.html
Truly, idiocy has no bounds.
@Renegade: The Detroit street view thing was silly-funny, but you know, there's probably more than a grain of truth in there somewhere...
Nice-looking leafy suburb, Belvidere St in Detroit.-IainB (July 27, 2013, 04:29 AM)
Apparently true...-IainB (July 27, 2013, 02:36 AM)
We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.
Truly, idiocy has no bounds.
It used to be that the sky was the limit. :P :D
As for an air tax... that has already been proposed. (No - I'm not kidding.)-Renegade (July 27, 2013, 02:43 AM)
You can rest assured, Detroit, that America will come to your rescue if those bloodthirsty Canadians attack!
This is bloody funny!Har de har-har. An unkind and cutting remark.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg332477#msg332477))-Renegade (July 27, 2013, 09:01 PM)
Who is on the front of an $11 bill?-Arizona Hot (July 28, 2013, 07:26 AM)
@Renegade: Some of those NSA jokes were rather good. Thanks.-IainB (July 29, 2013, 11:42 AM)
Support mandatory euthanasia for seniors to help keep health care costs down. :P-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 03:58 AM)
Support mandatory euthanasia for seniors to help keep health care costs down. :P-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 03:58 AM)
I think something along the lines of The Purge (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/) might work better, as long as they take politicians off the protected list.-4wd (July 30, 2013, 04:59 AM)
Well, with the qualification that they don't come back from the dead... undead politicians? Good grief. They're destructive enough as it is! :P :D-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 06:05 AM)
I don't know, the chance to kill the bastards over and over again?
I'd buy that for a dollar!-4wd (July 30, 2013, 07:46 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg332841#msg332841))
9 reasons why you don't want to be rich (http://money.msn.com/leadership/9-reasons-why-you-dont-want-to-be-rich)-Arizona Hot (July 31, 2013, 02:47 PM)
Support mandatory euthanasia for seniors to help keep health care costs down. :P
That guy cracks me up. The nutty petitions are just off the hook. :D-Renegade (July 30, 2013, 03:58 AM)
So, how long do you think it will be before we all get our Lifeclock crystals, move into a shopping mall?-app103 (July 31, 2013, 09:11 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg332841#msg332841))
9 reasons why you don't want to be rich (http://money.msn.com/leadership/9-reasons-why-you-dont-want-to-be-rich)-Arizona Hot (July 31, 2013, 02:47 PM)
The hatred of money is simply a plot by the rich to keep the poor from getting their hands on it.
- Author Unknown
Best tampon commercial ever.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/57277/the-tampon-commercial-you-wish-you-d-seen-as-a-kid-app103 (August 01, 2013, 09:44 PM)
Did they come with a piece of string to connect them with?-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2013, 10:10 PM)
This is just silly ironic:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg333174#msg333174))-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 05:52 AM)
True, and here's a direct link in case you want to vote without having to dig for where.
http://www.newsmax.com/surveys/NSASpy/Should-the-NSA-Spy-on-Americans-/id/78/kw/default-Stoic Joker (August 03, 2013, 08:50 AM)
Just too good not to share. Also totally bad taste!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg333182#msg333182))-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 08:29 AM)
Eh? Why is the photo of some window-dressing in a shop "totally bad taste!"?
It just looks like a rather novel shop window display to me - or am I missing something? :tellme:
All I get from the photo is that it is of the window-dressing in a shop:
- It seems to be a children's clothing shop.
- The sign says "Le Marais" (which is a Paris district).
- The balloons may be a reference to the French film about the boy and a magical balloon that "found" him - rather than the other way around - "The Red Balloon".
- The heart-shaped balloon is probably a reference to love and the "romance" of Paris.
- The children's/dolls' clothes are on hangers and are puppet-like - rather than dummies - and are floating/drifting objects like the balloons.
-IainB (August 03, 2013, 09:23 AM)
^^ Really? No kidding? Was that the intention then - a gruesome joke? I mean, what would be the point of it? I'm all for black humour, but I still don't get it, sorry.-IainB (August 03, 2013, 09:37 AM)
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in East Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.”-Tinman57 (August 04, 2013, 07:23 PM)
A musical joke.-IainB (August 05, 2013, 03:38 PM)
They stole that from Jerry Lewis!<ahem> Leroy Anderson might think otherwise... also browse for Syncopated Clock and Sandpaper Ballet for more examples.-Tinman57 (August 05, 2013, 04:43 PM)
Not to be confused with the Concerto for Horn and Hardart by a completely different composer (P.D.Q. Bach)Hardhat?-x16wda (August 05, 2013, 06:27 PM)
Not to be confused with the Concerto for Horn and Hardart by a completely different composer (P.D.Q. Bach)Hardhat?-x16wda (August 05, 2013, 06:27 PM)-Arizona Hot (August 05, 2013, 06:31 PM)
@fenixproductions: Did your school have a lot of windows?Is there pun intended?-Arizona Hot (August 06, 2013, 06:41 PM)
A cop was patrolling late at night in a well-known spot. He sees a couple in a car with the interior light brightly glowing. The cop carefully approaches the car to get a closer look.
Then he sees a young man behind the wheel, reading a computer magazine. He immediately notices a young woman in the rear seat, knitting. Puzzled by this surprising situation, the cop walks to the car and gently raps on the driver's window.
The young man lowers his window . "Uh, yes, officer?" The cop says: "What are you doing?"
The young man says: "Well, Officer, I'm reading a magazine." Pointing towards the young woman in the back seat the cop says: "And her, what is she doing?"
The young man shrugs: "Sir, I believe she's knitting a pullover sweater."
Now, the cop is totally confused. A young couple. Alone, in a car, at night in a Lover's lane....and nothing obscene is happening!
The cop asks: "What's your age, young man?" The young man says, "I'm 22, sir." The cop asks, "And her ... what's her age?"
The young man looks at his watch and replies: "She'll be 18 in 11 minutes."-app103 (August 07, 2013, 05:37 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334077#msg334077))-Arizona Hot (August 10, 2013, 12:52 AM)
Any pastafarians here?I think both my kids are followers, although they haven't reached the level where they don the headgear...-Renegade (August 10, 2013, 05:02 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334158#msg334158))Mmm... now let's render that bacon and REALLY celebrate the starry starry night! Anyone bring biscuits?-wraith808 (August 10, 2013, 10:28 PM)
Man on the Street Monday! :Thmbsup: (More silly petitions that people sign!)
:o "You just supported that." :o-Renegade (August 12, 2013, 06:20 AM)
Meet the wiliest of all coyotes: Hit by a car at 75mph, embedded in the fender, and dragged for 600 miles - but Tricky SURVIVED
Here's a wildly funny bit of Catholic/Presbyterian humour:
http://trilliansthoughts.tumblr.com/post/56379573415/two-churches-located-across-the-street-from-each-other
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334370#msg334370))-Renegade (August 13, 2013, 01:15 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334373#msg334373))
Pictured The coyote who was hit by a car at 75mph, embedded in the fender, and dragged(sic) for 600 miles - and SURVIVED Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223087/Pictured-The-coyote-hit-car-75mph-embedded-fender-dragged-600-miles--SURVIVED.html)-Arizona Hot (August 13, 2013, 01:37 PM)
I liked this when I saw I too, very funny! Also be sure to look at this site (http://www.says-it.com/churchsigns/). But note that some of the signs might include cars in the background, which can be a clue if they don't change... :P-x16wda (August 13, 2013, 02:50 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334554#msg334554))-Renegade (August 15, 2013, 02:49 AM)
Future of graduates:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334862#msg334862))-Giampy (August 18, 2013, 04:08 AM)
A further evidence that burqa is incompatible with modernity:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg334956#msg334956))
(though this is more a serious social matter than silly humor)-Giampy (August 19, 2013, 07:38 AM)
Whilst it might make a lot of sense to some, I have to say that my old school never did anything as exciting as this (http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/iran-to-teach-schoolchildren-to-hunt-drones-1-3051892) ... ;D-IainB (August 20, 2013, 04:17 AM)
This is just too damn good. I debated putting it in its own thread, but, well, it's here:
Fuck Copyright (http://www.infinitecopies.com/fuck_copyright)
Enjoy! And feel free to copy it if you like. ;)-Renegade (August 22, 2013, 11:23 AM)
This is just too damn good. I debated putting it in its own thread, but, well, it's here:
Fuck Copyright (http://www.infinitecopies.com/fuck_copyright)
Enjoy! And feel free to copy it if you like. ;)-Renegade (August 22, 2013, 11:23 AM)
There's some really good ones there.
Too bad the "license" is a little strange. I'm sure someone would make a ruckus about it. : (-TaoPhoenix (August 23, 2013, 08:54 AM)
Chicken dies after being gang-raped by three men
Chicken dies after being gang-raped by three menThree men in Kapiri Mposhi district in Zambia are alleged to have raped a chicken until it died in a case of suspected witchcraft. The three named men, aged 80, 66 and 35 years, are believed to have taken turns in having canal knowledge of a hen which later died yesterday.
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"It is not the first time that such cases have occurred. We have several of them and it is just that we do not know why these cases are so high," headwoman Chimbuleni added. zambia watchdog
This should help out:
http://copyheart.org/manifesto/
It outlines the idea.-Renegade (August 23, 2013, 06:54 PM)
It might outline the idea, but reality and the law doesn't quite work like that.
http://c4sif.org/2012/02/are-creative-commons-licenses-even-enforceable/
Nothing takes the place of a document spelling out your rights under whatever license the creator decides to grant you, hand signed by the copyright holder. That document is proof of permission. Anything else, no matter how fluffy and feel good it is, is not a suitable legally binding substitute.*-app103 (August 23, 2013, 09:27 PM)
Actually Renny, it doesn't fall under contract law.-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2013, 12:32 AM)
Since the elements of a contract are
Offer - Acceptance - Consideration - Capacity - Legality, you get stuck because you can't sign a contract that says "no court may make a ruling on this".-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2013, 12:32 AM)
Well, IANAL, but I see no reason why you and I can't make an agreement and for both of us to explicitly deny the courts any jurisdiction. We *can* do that. Now, how much any court would respect that, I don't know. They tend to like meddling in people's business. :P But the point above was that the Copyheart license hasn't been tested.-Renegade (August 24, 2013, 02:23 AM)
Ren, and anyone else interested,
Instead of discussing copyright and unenforceable contracts in this humor thread, maybe it would be better in the original thread I started with that very link I posted earlier: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30129.0-app103 (August 24, 2013, 03:06 AM)
Here's a comment on "support the troops".
http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/8162013230556.jpg-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2013, 02:41 PM)
HOW TO PLAY:
Choose a video. Enter the URL of any YouTube video (except those that prevent embedding) and click Load.
Turn the audio and video cranks to make the video play. The higher the gauges go, the better the quality. Get the needles into the green areas for peak quality. See how long you can maintain peak quality.
Watch the pressure gauge. You have to click Vent before it maxes out.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg335854#msg335854))
Which martial art to use? (http://www.cracked.com/funny-137-martial-arts/)-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2013, 10:37 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg336289#msg336289))
Canada & The United States: Bizarre Borders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw)-Arizona Hot (August 30, 2013, 10:30 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg336408#msg336408))-kyrathaba (August 31, 2013, 09:43 AM)
This one is for Renny! (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg336639#msg336639))-TaoPhoenix (September 02, 2013, 07:07 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg336783#msg336783))
Explanation:-IainB (September 04, 2013, 07:54 AM)
I don't get it.-wraith808 (September 04, 2013, 12:57 PM)
It's silly.-IainB (September 04, 2013, 03:36 PM)
Bungling drug smugglers set £50million of hash on fire and jumped overboard after being caught by coastguard in the Mediterranean
- Freighter was 'buzzed' by a helicopter from the Italian coastguard
- Ship was Tanzania-registered, with nine people on board jumping into sea
- 30 tonnes of hash had been loaded on in Turkey
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415052/Drug-smugglers-set-50million-hash-jump-overboard-Mediterranean.html-Renegade (September 09, 2013, 03:18 AM)
Penis bite lands Anthony Watts eight-match ban, say reports
• Incident occurred during local rugby league final
• Latest in series of incidents for former NRL star
Ex-NRL player Anthony Watts has reportedly been handed an eight-match ban for biting an opponent's penis during a local rugby league final on the Gold Coast.
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Video footage of the incident shows the Jets player reeling away in pain after clashing with Watts near the goal line.
He then quickly pulled down his shorts to show the damage to a referee who immediately placed Watts on report.
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.-kyrathaba (September 11, 2013, 09:23 AM)
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.-kyrathaba (September 11, 2013, 09:23 AM)
Oh dear ... The punch line is actually quite close to the answer I typically give - like during job interviews - for that exact question (Which is: the glass is to big for the task at hand, and leave me out of your silly :)ing exorcise).-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 11:10 AM)
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.-kyrathaba (September 11, 2013, 09:23 AM)
Oh dear ... The punch line is actually quite close to the answer I typically give - like during job interviews - for that exact question (Which is: the glass is to big for the task at hand, and leave me out of your silly :)ing exorcise).-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 11:10 AM)
While I have been insisting since childhood, in all seriousness, that the glass is completely full.-app103 (September 11, 2013, 03:11 PM)
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.-kyrathaba (September 11, 2013, 09:23 AM)
Oh dear ... The punch line is actually quite close to the answer I typically give - like during job interviews - for that exact question (Which is: the glass is to big for the task at hand, and leave me out of your silly :)ing exorcise).-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 11:10 AM)
While I have been insisting since childhood, in all seriousness, that the glass is completely full.-app103 (September 11, 2013, 03:11 PM)
Which asserts that the serving size is correct, and that the seemingly extra rim space is simply a requirement of/for safe yet rapid transport.
Hm... I like it! :Thmbsup:-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 03:59 PM)
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.-kyrathaba (September 11, 2013, 09:23 AM)
Oh dear ... The punch line is actually quite close to the answer I typically give - like during job interviews - for that exact question (Which is: the glass is to big for the task at hand, and leave me out of your silly :)ing exorcise).-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 11:10 AM)
While I have been insisting since childhood, in all seriousness, that the glass is completely full.-app103 (September 11, 2013, 03:11 PM)
Which asserts that the serving size is correct, and that the seemingly extra rim space is simply a requirement of/for safe yet rapid transport.
Hm... I like it! :Thmbsup:-Stoic Joker (September 11, 2013, 03:59 PM)
It's just my recognition of the half a glass of air that everyone else ignores. ;)-app103 (September 11, 2013, 05:06 PM)
| [ You are not allowed to view attachments ] | A short guide to the Middle East From Mr KN A1-Sabah. Sir, Iran is backing Assad. Gulf states are against Assad! Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi. But Gulf states are pro-Sisi! Which means they are against Muslim Brotherhood! Iran is pro-Hamas, but Hamas is backing Muslim Brotherhood! Obama is backing Muslim Brotherhood, yet Hamas is against the US! Gulf states are pro-US. But Turkey is with Gulf states against Assad; yet Turkey is pro-Muslim Brotherhood against General Sisi. And General Sisi is being backed by the Gulf states! Welcome to the Middle East and have a nice day. KN A1-Sabah, London EC4, UK |
Would be interesting to see that done as a kind of flow chart.-Renegade (September 12, 2013, 03:42 AM)
The US really should take that advice to heart me thinks.
they also launched a frog, but don't know where it went.
they also launched a frog, but don't know where it went.
i think it's safe to assume he went to the great froggy heaven in the sky.-mouser (September 13, 2013, 01:11 AM)
I wonder if the pilot was tempted to announce it as Flight 666 to HELL-sinki? Would you have boarded if you found out that all the other passengers were charter members of Atheists International?-Arizona Hot (September 13, 2013, 09:37 PM)
Creepy Northampton clown terrifying residents by standing around on street corners staring at passers-by
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However, many messages have expressed anger at the clown for scaring people, with one user writing: "You've been spotted now get out of the clown suit and start acting like a grown up that you supposing are and stop scaring people as some people do have real fears of clowns and you are terrorising them despite what you may say." Others have threatened violence should they see the clown.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg338168#msg338168))
Ultra Reality: What would you do in this situation? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvKWYvyCqw)-Arizona Hot (September 18, 2013, 12:40 PM)
How to calm a crying baby?-Renegade (September 19, 2013, 07:11 AM)
How to calm a crying baby?-Renegade (September 19, 2013, 07:11 AM)
The baby was crying because it was too quiet, LOL! ;D
I hear a lot of babies respond well to the sound of a loud vacuum cleaner, and some babies, it's the only way to get them to go to sleep.-app103 (September 19, 2013, 07:40 AM)
Ultra Reality: What would you do in this situation?[/url]-Arizona Hot (September 18, 2013, 12:40 PM)
^ Not an image that I think I want in my head... :'(-Renegade (September 21, 2013, 03:12 AM)
^ Not an image that I think I want in my head... :'(-Renegade (September 21, 2013, 03:12 AM)
Too bad! The Bible is the Word of God and God hath commanded you to think ... long and hard ... upon those things!
:P-TaoPhoenix (September 21, 2013, 03:31 AM)
The woman smiled and said: "What a coincidence!"-kyrathaba (September 21, 2013, 10:12 AM)
Apparently true, and an amusing glimpse of "quaint but amazing" modern Americana: Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Repeatedly Dodges Questions About It (http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/19/ohio-state-university-gets-armored-milit)-IainB (September 23, 2013, 06:21 AM)
Several attempts to contact the university have garnered little information about why a vehicle, which was specifically designed for asymmetric warfare, is needed on campus.
Several attempts to contact the university have garnered little information about why a vehicle, which was specifically designed for asymmetric warfare, is needed on campus.-Renegade (September 23, 2013, 06:43 AM)
Apparently true, and an amusing glimpse of "quaint but amazing" modern Americana: Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Repeatedly Dodges Questions About It (http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/19/ohio-state-university-gets-armored-milit)-IainB (September 23, 2013, 06:21 AM)
I didn't know hazing was such a problem there! ;)Several attempts to contact the university have garnered little information about why a vehicle, which was specifically designed for asymmetric warfare, is needed on campus.
Militarized campus cops vs. kids with water balloons - yep - that's asymmetric warfare! ;D-Renegade (September 23, 2013, 06:43 AM)
Ok... this is hilarious. Especially as GTA V just came out.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/83dd3eeaea/everything-is-samuel-l-jackson-s-fault-wraith808 (September 24, 2013, 09:45 PM)
I use that site actually to check the ratings for a lot of movies- they go overboard sometimes, but it's been pretty reliable.-wraith808 (September 24, 2013, 11:09 PM)
Ok... this is hilarious. Especially as GTA V just came out.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/83dd3eeaea/everything-is-samuel-l-jackson-s-fault-wraith808 (September 24, 2013, 09:45 PM)
come on guys, you're being serious and that's inappropriate
this is supposed to be a nonsense thread!!!-Target (September 25, 2013, 05:54 PM)
-Arizona Hot (September 26, 2013, 01:53 PM)
-Arizona Hot (September 26, 2013, 01:53 PM)
I don't get it. What's humorous about that?-Deozaan (September 26, 2013, 03:54 PM)
-Arizona Hot (September 26, 2013, 01:53 PM)
I don't get it. What's humorous about that?-Deozaan (September 26, 2013, 03:54 PM)
Probably just that he's mooning us.-Stoic Joker (September 26, 2013, 05:25 PM)
Actually I wanted to post an animated gif of it, but couldn't get gifsoup to do it, so I thought someone here could do it.-Arizona Hot (September 26, 2013, 01:53 PM)
I don't get it. What's humorous about that?-Deozaan (September 26, 2013, 03:54 PM)
Probably just that he's mooning us.-Stoic Joker (September 26, 2013, 05:25 PM)
That's just silly! :P :Thmbsup:-Deozaan (September 26, 2013, 05:54 PM)
Once again, my super-powers of not pissing myself laughing have come in quite handy! (Still working on the pooping powers...)-Renegade (September 26, 2013, 11:34 PM)
I also want a plaid pegasus pony with a polka-dot saddle so I can ride over the rainbow and go swimming in a leprechaun's pot of gold!-Renegade (September 26, 2013, 11:34 PM)
Once again, my super-powers of not pissing myself laughing have come in quite handy! (Still working on the pooping powers...)-Renegade (September 26, 2013, 11:34 PM)
Renny, please visit the rest room before reading any further political threads!
:P-TaoPhoenix (September 27, 2013, 11:44 AM)
I also want a plaid pegasus pony with a polka-dot saddle so I can ride over the rainbow and go swimming in a leprechaun's pot of gold!-Renegade (September 26, 2013, 11:34 PM)
China can make that for you! Not sure of the money conversion, but maybe about 60 ___ whatever it is in your country!-TaoPhoenix (September 27, 2013, 11:44 AM)
Gotta be careful about knockoffs there though. Don't want no fake or low quality polka-dot saddles! ;D-Renegade (September 28, 2013, 02:07 AM)
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So which exactly is it? You are a YAC user? Or you never heard of YAC? Both can't be true. :tellme:-app103 (September 30, 2013, 11:54 AM)
Remember not to wipe your browser history or cookies. Now that we're shut down its up to us to spy on ourselves.
It has been said that rather than complain, it's better to be constructive, and in that vein, and in the spirit of this thread, i've decided to make a flowchart for Renegade, to print out and keep next to his monitor.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg339067#msg339067))-mouser (October 01, 2013, 06:49 AM)
Why does this remind me of Stephen?
<Wheatley> Stephen is turning into a lovey dovey freak
<Wheatley> Might have to harass him on facebook
<Wheatley> Stephen is turning into a lovey dovey freak
<Wheatley> Might have to harass him on facebook
It has been said that rather than complain, it's better to be constructive, and in that vein, and in the spirit of this thread, i've decided to make a flowchart for DC member Renegade, to print out and keep next to his monitor.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg339067#msg339067))-mouser (October 01, 2013, 06:49 AM)
Stephen is well and taking some time off online activities for his mental well-being and spending time with new girlfriend.Great to hear he's doing well! :Thmbsup:-mouser (October 01, 2013, 11:13 PM)
If I have learned one lesson over and over again in my 7+ year experience with DonationCoder, it's to fear maintenance costs!-mouser (August 29, 2013, 12:17 PM)
It has been said that rather than complain, it's better to be constructive, and in that vein, and in the spirit of this thread, i've decided to make a flowchart for DC member Renegade, to print out and keep next to his monitor.-mouser (October 01, 2013, 06:49 AM)
Chick Parody: Who Will Be Eaten First?
This parody was created by artist Howard Hallis, who took a Chick tract entitled The Choice and gave it a brilliant Lovecraftian twist. Hallis was threatened with legal action from Chick Publications in 2004 and took the offending material down. Fortunately, nothing is lost forever on Nobel Prize winner Al Gore’s internet. I found this copy on the Purple Monkey Mafia website (Eris bless ‘em).
What's a sceptic anyway? (http://scepticsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2010/07/whats-sceptic-anyway.html)
What is a sceptic? What makes someone a sceptic? How do you know if you are one? Aren't sceptics just boring closed minded people? How do I get sceptics to have sex with me? All very good questions, which I will endeavour to answer here:
What is a sceptic?
Basically a sceptic is someone who doesn't believe a claim unless there is evidence to support it. If a friend walked up to you and said "I can fly", most people would ask to see their friend fly before accepting that claim. If you are wise you might go a bit further and check that there are no wires allowing your friend to fake flight. You might even ask an expert in illusions to investigate further before accepting the extraordinary claim of flight.
What makes someone a sceptic?
There are very few people who would believe their friend could fly just because they said they could. We would require some kind of evidence. In that regard, we're all sceptical to an extent. Interpreting the evidence and deciding if it supports the claim can actually be pretty difficult. Learning about fair experimental procedures and data analysis takes a bit of time and effort. Many sceptics take this time because a)it's fun and b)you get benefits from not falling for false claims. Future posts will discuss how to develop your sceptic-fu.
It is important to note that sceptics may not automatically accept a claim, but once the evidence is clear they should accept the conclusion the evidence leads to. This is what separates sceptics from denialists. Denialists dismiss a claim despite the evidence, a sceptic doesn't accept a claim unless there is evidence. This does mean new evidence can and should change your mind. It's best not to take arguments with a sceptic personally as they're not personally attached to their 'beliefs' so are a little more callous about them than non-sceptics.
How do I know if I'm a Sceptic?
Well, if you want some proof before you believe stuff people tell you, that's it. You're a Sceptic. Congratulations! If you want to be good at Scepticism, it takes a bit more. But trust me, it's worth learning about. (Hopefully, you didn't accept that based on my word or you haven't learned anything).
Aren't Sceptics just boring close-minded people?
Scepticism isn't about being close-minded. The opposite is in fact true. A Sceptic should be open-minded. They also should be sceptical about those new ideas and not accept them as true until the evidence is taken into account. Be warned though, Sceptics have often heard the same claims many times and some may get a bit impatient about hearing them again. If you want to challenge a Sceptic, it is advisable to do so with new evidence instead of the same tired old arguments.
As for being boring, well, I guess the term 'boring' is subjective. I haven't measured the 'boringness' level of a representative sample of sceptics so I can't say for sure but I am pretty sceptical that they are more or less boring than any other subgroup (see what I did there).
How do I get Sceptics to have sex with me?
I'd suggest being honest and not trying to use pick up lines or asking what their sign is. Perhaps "Hey, would you like to have sex with me?" might work. Just make sure you try it on a large enough sample size before you reject the approach.
Advocatus Diaboli
Posted by Sceptics NZ at 12:34 AM
Obamacare gets some attention from the medical professions:
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In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the #ssholes in Washington.-IainB (October 08, 2013, 01:23 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg339638#msg339638))
1,400 pound squash (http://photos.msn.com/slideshow/news/must-see-october-2013/23s01j03)
How would you like for someone to leave this in front of your door?-Arizona Hot (October 08, 2013, 03:01 PM)
Canning or barrelling? :D-Renegade (October 08, 2013, 04:45 PM)
A funny LEGO representation of the current national financial crisis in the US: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/congressional-budget-stalemate-lego/70210/ (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/congressional-budget-stalemate-lego/70210/)-kyrathaba (October 08, 2013, 08:15 AM)
^^ @Giampy:[/b] That is unnecessarily unkind. ;)
Mind you, some of the scientists seem to be praying for worse weather, nowadays...-IainB (October 10, 2013, 05:48 PM)
I thought it was rather accurate. The top row keeps churning forward...and the bottom row keeps praying they don't blow up the planet in the process.Ah, I see! I had not put that interpretation on it.-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2013, 06:42 PM)
^^ @Giampy:[/b] That is unnecessarily unkind. ;)
Mind you, some of the scientists seem to be praying for worse weather, nowadays...-IainB (October 10, 2013, 05:48 PM)
I thought it was rather accurate. The top row keeps churning forward...and the bottom row keeps praying they don't blow up the planet in the process.-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2013, 06:42 PM)
I thought it was rather accurate. The top row keeps churning forward...and the bottom row keeps praying they don't blow up the planet in the process.-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2013, 06:42 PM)
What do you think Siri would look like? I think she would look like the girl in the right picture.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg339895#msg339895)) (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg339895#msg339895))
What Does Siri Look Like Here Are Her Many Possible Faces (http://www.cultofmac.com/144129/what-does-siri-look-like-here-are-her-many-possible-faces-gallery/)
Nothing to Prove - Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Rjy5yW1gQ)-Arizona Hot (October 12, 2013, 10:06 PM)
Studio C's Shoulder Angel (and a Shoulder Devil):-Deozaan (October 12, 2013, 01:52 AM)
(http://i.imgur.com/8V9lVrs.jpg):Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:-wraith808 (October 13, 2013, 09:41 AM)
A bit of Navy humour:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg340088#msg340088))-4wd (October 15, 2013, 10:00 PM)
1. Don't use a corpse of the opposite sex
Molly and Clayton Daniels faked Clayton's death to keep him out of jail and to collect on his $110,000 life insurance policy. They dug up a corpse, dressed it in Clayton's clothes, then burned it in a car crash. However, DNA testing revealed that the corpse was female.
Yeah... i saw her on the show. It was disconcerting and cool at the same time.-wraith808 (October 20, 2013, 10:09 AM)
Yeah... i saw her on the show. It was disconcerting and cool at the same time.-wraith808 (October 20, 2013, 10:09 AM)
I thought it was more cool than disconcerting. It's about people "walking the walk" of "innovating creatively". So at like age 8 she wasn't singing Miley Cyrus, she was singing "Teen metal".
I'll offer this as the equally funny counterpoint from the other side of life!
The Zimmers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m0EZO5O2dM-TaoPhoenix (October 21, 2013, 03:44 PM)
Yeah... i saw her on the show. It was disconcerting and cool at the same time.-wraith808 (October 20, 2013, 10:09 AM)
I thought it was more cool than disconcerting. It's about people "walking the walk" of "innovating creatively". So at like age 8 she wasn't singing Miley Cyrus, she was singing "Teen metal".
I'll offer this as the equally funny counterpoint from the other side of life!
The Zimmers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m0EZO5O2dM-TaoPhoenix (October 21, 2013, 03:44 PM)
Both good fun :D
The panel's bad acting always distracts me on these shows, but I guess that has it's own element of humour (the "oh what a suprise" look, etc.)-tomos (October 21, 2013, 04:27 PM)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/fB19z.gif[/img]-Renegade (October 22, 2013, 08:21 AM)
^that's a wonderful image/images Ren :-*
unfortunately,
I have no idea what it's saying :-[
- dont know if that's cause of me - or cause of the image, or somewhere in between (anyone else understand it?)
Or is the whole thing taking the piss out of us cause we cannot get the joke or reference - or is it only when we realise that we cannot get it, that we do get it (getting very zen there)...-tomos (October 22, 2013, 09:11 AM)
I'm not sure if you're joking there or not.-Renegade (October 22, 2013, 09:30 AM)
Or is the whole thing taking the piss out of us cause we cannot get the joke or reference - or is it only when we realise that we cannot get it, that we do get it (getting very zen there)...-tomos (October 22, 2013, 09:11 AM)
Apparently American Banks think we're playing Monopoly
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg340650#msg340650))-wraith808 (October 24, 2013, 02:01 PM)
Train ticket machines
- allows users to insert travel card in any orientation at any point during a transaction
- accepts coins as fast as you can throw them in (multiple at once)
- complex edge cases are designed-in rather than designed-out of the system
- this is what happens if you press the help button (must be seen to be believed)
Man Jailed For Overdue Library Book
"Well, my psychiatrist says I have a dual personality, so I want to marry the two
of us together. Maybe I can then file a joint income-tax return ?"-IainB (October 29, 2013, 02:29 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg340992#msg340992))
Orange Jews - Imgflip.jpg (http://imgflip.com/i/367)-Arizona Hot (October 29, 2013, 03:15 PM)
If you find that funny ... ?
Going along with all the not-so-funny humor and not-very-credible stories here recently, I provide this piece of Halloween horror.
(that's when they appeared)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341141#msg341141))
'BadBIOS' System-Hopping Malware Appears Unstoppable (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/security-expert-badbios-malware,news-17806.html#security-expert-badbios-malware%2Cnews-17806.html?&_suid=1383332994825016171628963750062)
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/)
Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps netsec (http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1pm66y/meet_badbios_the_mysterious_mac_and_pc_malware/)-Arizona Hot (November 01, 2013, 04:24 PM)
<Krishean> and i'm working on getting my consciousness uploaded lol, thats a long term project
<Krishean> i'd probably end up being a virus
<Krishean> except instead of screwing things up i would optimize all the programs on your computer lol
<Krishean> y halo thar code bloat... lets just fix that while i'm passing through
If you find that funny ... ?
Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails
It's why I've advocated for months now that any "humor" of a politicoreligious nature be relegated to the Basement.-kyrathaba (November 01, 2013, 06:38 PM)
Reasons for Admission to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, 1864 - 1889
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341160#msg341160))
Jim-J-Mac (November 01, 2013, 11:06 PM)
If you find that funny ... ?
Personally I found that holocaust "joke" pretty offensive.
On a thread marked NSFW, I'm hesitant to remove it.-mouser (November 01, 2013, 06:23 PM)
While I personally did not find it to be offensive...I do agree that it was far to close to the razor's edge. Just because the thread is marked NSFW doesn't mean that folks are cleared for takeoff to go sky-shotting over the top.
So granted while some of us do push the language barrier a bit at times. A modicum of restraint is to be reasonably expected...because this is not 4Chan.-Stoic Joker (November 02, 2013, 08:37 AM)
If you find that funny ... ?
Personally I found that holocaust "joke" pretty offensive.
On a thread marked NSFW, I'm hesitant to remove it.
Still, when i see such posts, like the political posts, i just think ah, maybe that's one of the reasons we seem to have less and less new people joining our family here..
Maybe I'm being overly sensitive -- I'm just more and more feeling like we have to do something to improve this place, and seeing posts like this doesn't make me feel good. Perhaps if I felt like we were a thriving community it would just be a tiny drop in the water. But I feel like we are treading water and things like this start to feel like we loading up our own pockets with stones.
I should say that ArizonaHot has posted tons of interesting inoffensive posts, so I know know offense was meant by this one, and I don't mean to single any one out. Like I said, in the whole scheme of things, this isn't a big deal -- it's just coming at a time when i'm spending a lot of time worrying about how to make this site a more welcoming site for new people..-mouser (November 01, 2013, 06:23 PM)
There's already a humor board in the basement.-wraith808 (November 02, 2013, 12:23 PM)
Renegade: I don't know your Wikipedia editorial status, but your article isn't there or can't be found.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341193#msg341193)) (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341193#msg341193))-Arizona Hot (November 02, 2013, 07:02 PM)
Renegade: I don't know your Wikipedia editorial status, but your article isn't there or can't be found.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341193#msg341193)) (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341193#msg341193))-Arizona Hot (November 02, 2013, 07:02 PM)
It got deleted really fast.-Renegade (November 02, 2013, 07:13 PM)
You'll never look at Australia the same way again.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341202#msg341202))-app103 (November 03, 2013, 12:53 AM)
You'll never look at Australia the same way again.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341202#msg341202))-app103 (November 03, 2013, 12:53 AM)
Dammit! I'll have to move ... I'm definitely a dog person.-4wd (November 05, 2013, 06:26 PM)
You'll never look at Australia the same way again.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341202#msg341202))-app103 (November 03, 2013, 12:53 AM)
Dammit! I'll have to move ... I'm definitely a dog person.-4wd (November 05, 2013, 06:26 PM)
And that joke whizzed RIGHT over my head, but I refuse to
(Yay Strike-through!)-TaoPhoenix (November 05, 2013, 10:11 PM)
Reasons for Admission to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, 1864 - 1889
Jim-J-Mac (November 01, 2013, 11:06 PM)
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Armand Auclerc Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride[3] psychiatric hospital that operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. Built by architect Richard Andrews, it was constructed from 1858- 1881. Originally designed to hold 250 people, it became overcrowded in the 1950s with 2,400 patients. It was forcibly closed in 1994 due to changes in treatments of patients. The first to be committed was a female housekeeper. The hospital was bought by Joe Jordan in 2007, and partly opened to tours and other money raising events for its restoration.[4] The hospital's main building is one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in the United States, and, as Weston Hospital Main Building, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum)
An artwork that geeks would willingly deface:-Giampy (November 06, 2013, 02:50 PM)
I would proudly hang that on my living room wall, although it would probably go better with the black & white optical illusion style decor of my daughter's room. :P
I was thinking that the funny part wasn't the animation, but the fact that there was a bench in front of it so people could sit and admire...-Target (November 06, 2013, 05:49 PM)
You'll never look at Australia the same way again.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341202#msg341202))-app103 (November 03, 2013, 12:53 AM)
Ok... is this silly humor? Or just sad?
Woman Wears Hamburger as Sandal After Sex in Waffle House Parking Lot (http://gawker.com/woman-wears-hamburger-as-sandal-after-sex-in-waffle-hou-1460831281)-wraith808 (November 08, 2013, 03:32 PM)
But just sayin' ... the days when they could put comments like that in textbooks, before they were marketing-spinned to death!-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:58 AM)
Well, I guess that is an indication of how out-of-touch I am with the "Modern World" ... Because I see nothing wrong with the comment what so ever. Then again, I also do not consider political science to be a real science either.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2013, 11:27 AM)
I recall that in my co-ed grammar school in the UK, they used to have "extra-curricular" studies for the children to take/choose, except there was little choice and it boiled down to mandatory gender-based assumption - the boys took "woodwork" and the girls took "domestic science" (cooking).But just sayin' ... the days when they could put comments like that in textbooks, before they were marketing-spinned to death!Well, I guess that is an indication of how out-of-touch I am with the "Modern World" ... Because I see nothing wrong with the comment what so ever. Then again, I also do not consider political science to be a real science either.
____________________-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:58 AM)
____________________-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2013, 11:27 AM)
(Source: 10th ed. of the Concise Oxford Dictionary.)
science
· n.
1 the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
2 a systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.
3 archaic knowledge.
– ORIGIN ME: from OFr., from L. scientia, from scire ‘know’.
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Green bananas.
This bloke is working on the buses and collecting tickets. He rings the bell for the driver to set off when there's a woman half getting on the bus. The driver sets off, the woman falls from the bus and is killed.
At the trial the bloke is sent down for murder and seeing as its Texas he's sent to the electric chair. On the day of his execution he's sat in the chair and the executioner grants him a final wish.
"Well," says the man, "is that your packed lunch over there?"
"Yes." answers the executioner.
"Can I have that green banana?" the man asks.
The executioner gives the man his green banana and waits until he's eaten it. When the man's finished, the executioner flips the switch sending hundreds of thousands of volts through the man. When the smoke clears the man is still alive. The executioner can't believe it.
"Can I go?" the man asks.
"I suppose so." says the executioner, "That's never happened before."
The man leaves and eventually gets his job back on the buses selling tickets. Again he rings the bell for the driver to go when people are still getting on. A man falls under the wheels and is killed. The bloke is sent down for murder again, and sent to the electric chair. The executioner is determined to do it right this time so he rigs the chair up to the electricity grid for the whole of Texas. The bloke is again sat in the chair.
"What is your final wish?" asks the executioner.
"Can I have that green banana in your packed lunch?" says the condemned man.
The executioner sighs and reluctantly gives up his banana. The bloke eats the banana all up and the executioner flips the switch. Millions of volts course through the chair blacking out Texas. When the smoke clears the man is still there smiling in the chair. The executioner can't believe it and lets the man go.
Well, would you believe, the bloke gets his job back on the buses. Once again he rings the bell whilst passengers are still getting on, this time killing three of them. He is sent to the electric chair again. The executioner rigs up the chair to the entire American national grid, determined to get his man this time. The man sits down in the chair smiling.
"What's your final wish?" asks the executioner.
"Well," says the man, "can I have that green banana out of your packed lunch?"
The executioner hands over his banana and the man eats it all, skin included. The executioner then pulls the handle and a zillion million trillion volts go through the chair. When the smoke rises the man is still sat there alive without even a burn mark.
"I give up." says the executioner, "I don't understand. How can you still be alive after all that?" and he strokes his chin thoughtfully, adding, "It's something to do with eating those green bananas isn't it?" he asks.
"Nah." says the bloke, "I'm just a really bad conductor."
I recall that in my co-ed grammar school in the UK, they used to have "extra-curricular" studies for the children to take/choose, except there was little choice and it boiled down to mandatory gender-based assumption - the boys took "woodwork" and the girls took "domestic science" (cooking).
Being a budding and very keen scientist and astronomer at the time, I was confuzzled and never could understand where the word "science" actually came into the equation and wondered whether they should call the other thing "woodworking science".-IainB (November 14, 2013, 02:25 PM)
Green bananas.
[...]
"Nah." says the bloke, "I'm just a really bad conductor."-IainB (November 14, 2013, 02:25 PM)
Green bananas.
[...]
"Nah." says the bloke, "I'm just a really bad conductor."-IainB (November 14, 2013, 02:25 PM)
;D ;D ;D-tomos (November 14, 2013, 04:00 PM)
Do you think this company has a hiring policy?
http://archive.is/KDtBJ-app103 (November 14, 2013, 08:52 PM)
"political science is not a real science."That's Epic App! When was the date of that book!? 1977, before "political correctness"?-app103 (November 14, 2013, 10:20 AM)-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:58 AM)
The mind boggles.Do you think this company has a hiring policy?Haha! To put it in words, Hire White-ish women, up to the Glass Ceiling, then hire White Men at the top?
http://archive.is/KDtBJ-app103 (November 14, 2013, 08:52 PM)
:tellme: 8)
____________________-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:52 PM)
Meet the Staff (http://www.cellularsol.co.uk/news/press-release)
14 Nov 2013
You may have noticed that we no longer have a ”meet the staff” page. Following a rise in visits to our website and mentions of the company through certain media channels in relation to our recruitment policy, we have chosen to remove it from the website indefinitely.
We took this decision in consultation with our staff who are rightly concerned about being posted around the internet by people making inaccurate and inappropriate comments about our staff and our recruitment policies. The “meet the staff” page was designed for our clients to put a face to the name of the people they deal with here and now that page has been taken out of context we feel it is no longer appropriate.
We are an equal opportunities employer and will remain so. We are proud of our team and remain committed to their individual development.
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That's Epic App! When was the date of that book!? 1977, before "political correctness"?-TaoPhoenix (November 14, 2013, 10:58 AM)
Likewise, political correctness is not real correctness. 8)-Deozaan (November 15, 2013, 03:56 AM)
Syria al-Qa'ida rebels apologise for beheading the wrong man. (http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/syria-alqaida-rebels-apologise-for-beheading-the-wrong-man-29756482.html)
Mohammed Fares, left, who was mistakenly decapitated by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham militants.SpoilerRichard Spencer – 15 November 2013
Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qa'ida have asked for "understanding and forgiveness" for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head.
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Netanyahu tweets his opposition to potential nuclear deal with Iran
Albania will not host destruction of Syrian chemical weapons
Christianity may become extinct in its place of birth
In a public appearance filmed and posted online, members of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), one brandishing a knife, held up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo.
They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for President Bashar al-Assad.
But the head was recognised from the video as originally belonging to a member of Ahrar al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist rebel group that often fights alongside ISIS, though it does not share its al-Qa'ida ideology.
After inquiries, an ISIS spokesman admitted he was Mohammed Fares, an Ahrar commander reported missing some days ago.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which monitors deaths in the Syrian conflict, and several activists on social media said that ISIS fighters misunderstood comments Mr Fares made referring to the Imams Ali and Hussein, the founding fathers of Shiism.
An ISIS spokesman, Omar al-Qahtani, confirmed Mr Fares had been injured and, thinking he had been captured by members of a Shia militia against which he was fighting, asked them to kill him in terms misunderstood by the ISIS members in fact taking him to hospital.
In explaining the error, Mr al-Qahtani made reference to a story in which Mohammed said Allah would forgive a man who killed a believer in error.
The mistake, of a sort commonly cited as an argument against the death penalty around the world, is indicative of the chaos within rebel ranks, particularly since the rise of ISIS over the summer.
Its ferocity has given rise to an exodus of moderate and secular activists, and brought to an end an uneasy truce between the Free Syrian Army and Kurdish militias, the most prominent of which has in the last month taken on ISIS and driven them out of a number of towns in the north-east.
Meanwhile, Mr Assad's forces have used the internal rifts in their enemies' ranks to make progress on a drive south-east of Aleppo.
This week, a group of Islamist rebels put out an appeal for a mass mobilisation against the advance, while there are repeated rumours that major Islamist militias which do not support al-Qa'ida are about to declare a common front. (© Daily Telegraph, London)
Irish Independent
maybe funny but it's fake.-mouser (November 17, 2013, 07:16 PM)
http://fr.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1qp024/man_leaves_best_voicemail_ever_after_witnessing/-mouser (November 17, 2013, 10:50 PM)
It *seems* obvious to me.. People are not capable of such long smooth flowery descriptions of unfolding events.-mouser (November 17, 2013, 11:08 PM)
Snopes lists its veracity as "Undetermined", and states that Jack-In-The-Box confirmed that it is a real voicemail left by an employee. Of course that doesn’t confirm that the accident was real; just that the voicemail is.-J-Mac (November 17, 2013, 09:47 PM)
Counting off £20 notes to buy hard drugs, this is the man who ran the Co-op Bank... three days after telling MPs how it lost £700m.
- Methodist minister Paul Flowers, 63, was caught on camera buying drugs
- It was just days after he was grilled by MPs over his bank's performance
- He is seen in his car discussing the cocaine and crystal meth he wants
- He then counts out £300 in £20 notes and sends a friend to make the deal
- The video handed over by an acquaintance 'disgusted by his hypocrisy'
- Last night MPs demanded Rev Flowers appear before them again
- Flowers boasts of using ketamine along with cannabis and club drug GHB
"Flowers' stunning lack of knowledge about the Co-op Bank raised fears that it had lacked basic oversight from its chairman."
“Rev Flowers confirmed he had been involved in authorising the payment of £100,000 to Mr Balls and his Parliamentary office, though he said the money had come from the Co-op Group and not the Co-op Bank as the lender was “politically neutral”.”
[Amongst the many outgoings approved by Flowers was that payment to the Labour Party.]
"Doing all that gear after his Select Committee appearance was not the only bad life choice that Rev Flowers has made recently..."
"What was it that first attracted this coke snorting, meth buying, fiscally incompetent cluster of a banking boss to Ed Balls? And lets not forget that Labour owe the Co-op millions. You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh."
99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)
Computing: A printer consists of three main parts: The case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light.5 main parts...all of the above, the empty ink cartridge, and the indecipherable error message that won't go away. :D-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)
Computing: If your computer says: Printer out of Paper, this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.But it can be resolved by taking a sledge hammer to a printer, that's obviously full of paper. ;)-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)
99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)
We have a special term for that in my house, and it's named after my husband. ;DComputing: A printer consists of three main parts: The case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light.5 main parts...all of the above, the empty ink cartridge, and the indecipherable error message that won't go away. :D-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)Computing: If your computer says: Printer out of Paper, this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.But it can be resolved by taking a sledge hammer to a printer, that's obviously full of paper. ;)-IainB (November 18, 2013, 02:01 AM)-app103 (November 18, 2013, 04:25 AM)
Sure, this in itself is also rather funny, like the joke, but could be somewhat tedious unless deliberately done for the amusement/entertainment of others.
There would seem to be a possibility that the amusing joke could either be true or false, so couldn't we just leave it at that? There is such a thing as "killing" someone else's joke, after all.-IainB (November 18, 2013, 01:28 AM)
Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
Attributed to Einstein, I presume.-Arizona Hot (November 18, 2013, 01:48 PM)
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if you love hipsters, then you'll hate this rant...
RaveriusMax
but, if hipsters are supposed to hate it, then wouldn't that make them love it even more?
Qatar's accidental vagina stadium is most gratifying-wraith808 (November 19, 2013, 03:52 PM)
This is the kind of thing that happens when you try hard not to think about something. 'DO NOT THINK ABOUT VAGINAS DO NOT THING ABOUT VAGI...ah dammit. I made a massive vagina stadium.'-IsabellaMackie
Stupid Things Finance People Say (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/14/stupid-things-finance-people-say.aspx)
By Morgan Housel | November 14, 2013
My job requires reading a lot of financial news. It's one of my favorite parts. But it gives me a front-row seat to the downside of financial journalism: gibberish, nonsense, garbage, and drivel. And let me tell you, there's a lot of it.
Here are a few stupid things I hear a lot.
"They don't have any debt except for a mortgage and student loans."
OK. And I'm vegan except for bacon-wrapped steak.
"Earnings were positive before one-time charges."
This is Wall Street's equivalent of, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
"Earnings missed estimates."
No. Earnings don't miss estimates; estimates miss earnings. No one ever says "the weather missed estimates." They blame the weatherman for getting it wrong. Finance is the only industry where people blame their poor forecasting skills on reality.
"Earnings met expectations, but analysts were looking for a beat."
If you're expecting earnings to beat expectations, you don't know what the word "expectations" means.
"It's a Ponzi scheme."
The number of things called Ponzi schemes that are actually Ponzi schemes rounds to zero. It's become a synonym for "thing I disagree with."
"The [thing not going perfectly] crisis."
Boy who cried wolf, meet analyst who called crisis.
"He predicted the market crash in 2008."
He also predicted a crash in 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1992, 1989, 1984, 1971...
"More buyers than sellers."
This is the equivalent of saying someone has more mothers than fathers. There's one buyer and one seller for every trade. Every single one.
"Stocks suffer their biggest drop since September."
You know September was only six weeks ago, right?
"We're cautiously optimistic."
You're also an oxymoron.
[Guy on TV]: "It's time to [buy/sell] stocks."
Who is this advice for? A 20-year-old with 60 years of investing in front of him, or a 82-year-old widow who needs money for a nursing home? Doesn't that make a difference?
"We're neutral on this stock."
Stop it. You don't deserve a paycheck for that.
"There's minimal downside on this stock."
Some lessons have to be learned the hard way.
"We're trying to maximize returns and minimize risks."
Unlike everyone else, who are just dying to set their money ablaze.
"Shares fell after the company lowered guidance."
Guys, they just proved their guidance can be wrong. Why are you taking this new one seriously?
"Our bullish case is conservative."
Then it's not a bullish case. It's a conservative case. Those words mean opposite things.
"We look where others don't."
This is said by so many investors that it has to be untrue most of the time.
"Is [X] the next black swan?"
Nassim Taleb's blood pressure rises every time someone says this. You can't predict black swans. That's what makes them dangerous.
"We're waiting for more certainty."
Good call. Like in 1929, 1999 and 2007, when everyone knew exactly what the future looked like. Can't wait!
"The Dow is down 50 points as investors react to news of [X]."
Stop it, you're just making stuff up. "Stocks are down and no one knows why" is the only honest headline in this category.
"Investment guru [insert name] says stocks are [insert forecast]."
Go to Morningstar.com. Look up that guru's track record against their benchmark. More often than not, their career performance lags an index fund. Stop calling them gurus.
"We're constructive on the market."
I have no idea what that means. I don't think you do, either.
"[Noun] [verb] bubble."
(That's a sarcastic observation from investor Eddy Elfenbein.)
"Investors are fleeing the market."
Every stock is owned by someone all the time.
"We expect more volatility."
There has never been a time when this was not the case. Let me guess, you also expect more winters?
"This is a strong buy."
What do I do with this? Click the mouse harder when placing the order in my brokerage account?
"He was tired of throwing his money away renting, so he bought a house."
He knows a mortgage is renting money from a bank, right?
"This is a cyclical bull market in a secular bear."
Vapid nonsense.
"Will Obamacare ruin the economy?"
No. And get a grip.
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Check back every Tuesday and Friday for Morgan Housel's columns on finance and economics.
Follow Morgan Housel on Twitter @TMFHousel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
A special what? :huh:
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A special what? :huh:
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Where oh where are these cards when you need one?! :P-J-Mac (November 22, 2013, 10:16 PM)
Subject: I hope you can help me [Name]
Dear Greenpeace member,
I've never written to you before, but I really hope you can help me today.
My dear husband Colin Russell is one of the Arctic Sunrise crew members arrested at gunpoint for protesting Arctic oil drilling. Just this week his bail application was denied in a Russian court - even though every other crew member had their bail applications approved and all but one other have been released.
This could mean at least three more months alone in a prison cell during the icy winter in St Petersburg. This is difficult for me to take in. Col stays positive and strong in difficult circumstances. But with this latest news, I just know he's being tested beyond his limits.
Greenpeace has launched a global petition demanding freedom for Col and all his Arctic Sunrise crewmates. Can you please help by adding your name today?
Col was so happy when we spoke on the phone over two months ago. I remember how upbeat he was, just so happy to be back on a ship he's grown to love during 14 years of working as a radio operator for Greenpeace. We made plans to visit friends and family in Melbourne, maybe spend a week together on the coast over Christmas. But now, who knows when I'll see him next?
I've hardly been able to speak to Col much since he went to prison. We had a short phone call, but that was over a month ago. Now it's been 67 days of worry and anxiety for me and our 24-year-old daughter Maddie. All of this because Colin and 29 others were brave enough to tell oil companies like Shell and Gazprom to stop the Arctic. <--------
The Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop spoke to Russian authorities about Col several weeks ago. But there's more that she and our government can do to rescue these heroes and bring them home. Tony Abbott, Australia's prime minister, must call President Putin to ensure Colin is also granted bail.
It would really mean the world to Maddie and I to have your name on this petition. Please click here to join us.
I can't write down in words how frustrating it is not being able to speak to him right now. I just want to tell him that Maddie and I - together with millions of Greenpeace supporters in every corner of the world - are thinking of him today.
That old saying, that alone we are only one voice and together we are powerful, has a whole new meaning for me now.
Thank you for helping us out. It means so much to us having you on our side.
Chrissie Russell, on behalf of Greenpeace.
PS It's been over two months since the Russian coast guard illegally boarded the Arctic Sunrise ship and arrested my husband and 29 others at gunpoint -- all for peacefully protesting against the terrible threat of an Arctic oil spill. Please make sure your name is on this petition today. Thank you.
As an American, I found this collection of images where Brits were asked to fill in the names of the states, to be much funnier: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/its-thanksgiving-so-we-asked-some-brits-to-label-the-us-stat-app103 (November 28, 2013, 05:16 AM)
and the return version is Americans Try To Place European Countries On A MapErm, I have to admit that, as a Brit who was never all that interested in geography at school, I'm none too sure I could have done more than a 50% accurate/correct attempt at the European map of nations, at best. Probably much worse with the map of the American states.
subtitled: :( :( :( :( At least the U.K. office didn’t fare much better with the U.S.
and
OK, in our defense, Europe is really complicated.
- which is true - I'd have trouble with a good few countries there myself..
http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans-try-to-place-european-countries-on-a-map-tomos (November 28, 2013, 07:35 AM)
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@IainBAh, I think I see what you are on about.
The Streisand Effect strikes again and by question I meant "It's a really clear infograph - no?"
I am trying (sometimes failing) to stay away from climate type debates, things won't happen in my lifetime and I don't have kids, so it's fine. Main reason I posted was wondering why it is in the humour thread.-rgdot (December 02, 2013, 12:43 AM)
James Lovelock: The UK should be going mad for fracking (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/15/james-lovelock-interview-gaia-theory)It's an ironic situation really, because the only available options to nuclear that are left become "the elephant in the room" - i.e., so-called "renewable" energy, that the REA would clearly rather no-one mentioned or publicised, and which is so big that it was literally filling up that infograph.
Scientist James Lovelock is the man behind Gaia theory, and once predicted doom for our climate. He discusses nuclear (good), wind power (bad) and why fracking is the future.
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"Please make it so that we can't be seen to have successfully created an oligopoly over the energy sector that forces infeasible, highly cost-ineffective and highly damaging (economically and environmentally) power supply systems on to the taxpayers/consumers, because it is highly profitable to us."It's a HUGE business, and the pigs are all feeding at the same huge taxpayer-funded "green subsidies" trough. Even the Royal Family are hypocritically cashing in on it - e.g., here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132878/Royals-1m-wind-farm-hypocrisy-45-wind-turbines-described-Charles-horrendous-blot-built-Crown-land.html).
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Someone needs to teach that kid that everything after the last slash is completely unnecessary.-app103 (December 02, 2013, 12:11 PM)
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Great ! I hope SC has OCR at hand...-MerleOne (December 02, 2013, 11:36 AM)
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Someone needs to teach that kid that everything after the last slash is completely unnecessary.-app103 (December 02, 2013, 12:11 PM)
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Someone needs to teach that kid that everything after the last slash is completely unnecessary.-app103 (December 02, 2013, 12:11 PM)
Maybe it's so he could get referral money from Santa also! ;D-wraith808 (December 04, 2013, 06:09 AM)
Cell phone crashing at the airport.Excellent ! Thanks for the find(ing?).
At first I thought it was only slightly amusing, but as it went on I couldn't help smiling and laughing more and more. :D-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:33 PM)
Cell phone crashing at the airport.
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At first I thought it was only slightly amusing, but as it went on I couldn't help smiling and laughing more and more. :D-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:33 PM)
Cell phone crashing at the airport.
At first I thought it was only slightly amusing, but as it went on I couldn't help smiling and laughing more and more. :D-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:33 PM)
Amazing sleight of hand by Magician Yann Frisch.
(I know that's what the video title says, but I wrote it out to be search friendly)-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:07 PM)
Cell phone crashing at the airport.
At first I thought it was only slightly amusing, but as it went on I couldn't help smiling and laughing more and more. :D-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:33 PM)
Now, that might be a reason for me to have a cell phone. I wouldn't even have to pay for service to do that. ;D-app103 (December 15, 2013, 05:52 PM)
Cell phone crashing at the airport.
At first I thought it was only slightly amusing, but as it went on I couldn't help smiling and laughing more and more. :D-Deozaan (December 15, 2013, 04:33 PM)
Now, that might be a reason for me to have a cell phone. I wouldn't even have to pay for service to do that. ;D-app103 (December 15, 2013, 05:52 PM)
Heh yeah App, you can get a fake discarded cell phone for like ten bucks, right? "...Entertainment ... priceless!"
P.S. You can annoy Flight Attendants with it... when they ask you to "turn off your cell phone" you can rip it in half! "There. Satisfied??!" : )-TaoPhoenix (December 15, 2013, 05:54 PM)
I was thinking how much fun it might be on a bus through Newark, NJ. Might not even have to use an actual cell phone. Might be able to get away using an old pocket pc. Who the hell would know the difference, these days, between a 13 year old Jornada 540 and a smart phone?-app103 (December 15, 2013, 05:58 PM)
You wouldn't. ... we're thinking the same lines, aka useless faux hardware. I just am not leet enough to have a Jornada.
<<Tao worships App for 17 minutes>>-TaoPhoenix (December 15, 2013, 06:02 PM)
New Apps for the New Year. Out with the old in with the new. New, new, new, all this focus on new >:(.
As a counterweight (and because I didn't manage to come up with a good idea for this year, but don't tell mouser), I decided to release this little DOS 16-bit game, which I wrote roughly 15 years ago! ;D-Jibz (December 16, 2013, 10:42 AM)
Which is this? The best commercial ever, or the best commercial of all time?-Deozaan (December 19, 2013, 01:24 AM)
Which is this? The best commercial ever, or the best commercial of all time?-Deozaan (December 19, 2013, 01:24 AM)
Which is this? The best commercial ever, or the best commercial of all time?-Deozaan (December 19, 2013, 01:24 AM)
Very funny...but wouldn't physics be in the way? How far does sound travel in the near vacuum that is space?-Shades (December 19, 2013, 05:21 AM)
How to uninstall McAfee antivirus - starring John McAfee? (NSFW - adult viewer discretion advised)holy cow...I JUST did a search for this subject literally an hour ago. What a coincidence!
Hmm... :tellme:-40hz (December 19, 2013, 12:46 PM)
Boa Constrictor
“Oh, I'm being eaten
By a boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
And I don't like it--one bit.
Well, what do you know?
It's nibblin' my toe.
Oh, gee,
It's up to my knee.
Oh my,
It's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
It's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
It's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .”
― Shel Silverstein
and here's the Chuck one in full:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-D1KVIuvjA-tomos (December 21, 2013, 04:23 PM)
Christmas lights in Rome.
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...At the very basic level, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” presents a fairly grim, Hobbesian vision of society: If you want to be accepted, you have to prove your economic utility—which, in the case of magical flying reindeer, appears to only involve the annual sleigh-pull...
...At the very basic level, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” presents a fairly grim, Hobbesian vision of society: If you want to be accepted, you have to prove your economic utility—which, in the case of magical flying reindeer, appears to only involve the annual sleigh-pull...
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115965/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer-promotes-bullying-exclusion-mouser (December 25, 2013, 10:29 AM)
Andrew Frey, 37, was eventually arrested after a wild, meth-fuelled weekend of erratic behaviour, which climaxed in the obscene outburst in Iggy's Bar & Grill in Salem, Oregon.
Kung Fury!-Deozaan (December 31, 2013, 06:07 PM)
5 ...Things I Learned as a Cop (That Movies Won't Show You) (http://www.cracked.com/article_20841_5-things-i-learned-as-cop-that-movies-wont-show-you.html)...-wraith808 (January 06, 2014, 09:30 PM)
You can basically do whatever you want with an empty church. Except turn it into a mosque. Christians HATE that.
Urban Geography, Utrecht University
A collection of nonfiction essays, which means they’re written about real people and events, mom. Remember all those times you accused me of not listening to the things you said?
MFA Creative Writing- nonfiction, Emerson College.
Show me your sourcecode and I tell you how much it sucks.
Computer sciences, Szeged University
lol my thesis (http://lolmythesis.com/)-Arizona Hot (January 08, 2014, 11:59 AM)
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The Simpsons apologize to Judas Priest via Bart's Blackboard (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/14/simpsons-apologise-judas-priest-death-metal) (via the Guardian)-wraith808 (January 14, 2014, 08:51 AM)
When you're good at basketball, you go to the NBA. When you're good in the NBA, you win championships. When you win championships, you waste all of your money. When you waste all of your money, you end up singing 'Happy Birthday' in North Korea. Don't end up singing 'Happy Birthday' in North Korea. Switch to Direct T.V.
... the family portrait.-wraith808 (January 15, 2014, 10:58 PM)
Woman modeling a dress made out of cheese.-wraith808 (January 15, 2014, 10:58 PM)
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What does your handwriting say about your personality? (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/what-does-your-handwriting-say-about-your-personality)-Arizona Hot (January 17, 2014, 08:06 PM)
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What does your handwriting say about your personality? (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/what-does-your-handwriting-say-about-your-personality)-Arizona Hot (January 17, 2014, 08:06 PM)
Hey! They omitted arthritis, amongst other physicals :P. That infographic reminds me of a Freudian statement on smoking: if you smoke, you were weaned too early :o; if you don't smoke, you were weaned too late :huh:. Seemingly no one was ever weaned at the right time :-\ :P.-barney (January 17, 2014, 08:31 PM)
Yep. Got nerve damage on my thumb, and my writing is a total disaster now. Not that it wasn't a disaster before...-Renegade (January 18, 2014, 12:31 PM)
It will never become popular, it isn't washable!-Arizona Hot (January 17, 2014, 07:58 PM)
It will never become popular, it isn't washable!-Arizona Hot (January 17, 2014, 07:58 PM)
What about edible underwear?-wraith808 (January 18, 2014, 04:34 PM)
Ah, but the fashion-wise (and cheese connoisseurs) know that when it gets old enough, it will turn bleu.-Deozaan (January 19, 2014, 01:58 AM)
So? What do you have against bleu cheese? Kinda like it, myself, although that looked a lot like Velveeta slices ;).-barney (January 19, 2014, 02:05 AM)
Well, it could get a bit more embarrassing than usual if she cuts the cheese, I'd say.-wraith808 (January 19, 2014, 05:52 PM)
Oh! Bad pun. That's the sort of thang my mates Cam an' Bert like to come out with.Well, it could get a bit more embarrassing than usual if she cuts the cheese, I'd say.gouda one...(sorry, couldn't resist :-[)-wraith808 (January 19, 2014, 05:52 PM)
puts a new slant on 'singles' too I'd warrant-Target (January 19, 2014, 06:48 PM)
Who Came Up with Pullet Surprise?
The author Amsel Greene wrote the book entitled, "Pullet Surprises" in 1969 in which she writes her observations of the writing blunders of the students in her English classes of 30 years. She had been documenting her students' strange gaffes and had been searching for the perfect word for them. A student of one of her fellow teachers had written this in an essay: "In 1957, Eugene O'Neill won a Pullet Surprise." Greene had what she called a "eureka" moment and decided that "Pullet Surprise" was the perfect descriptor of these writing bloopers.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg347602#msg347602))True story:
RoadKill Cafe Menu (http://www.road-kill-cafe.com/roadkill.html)-Arizona Hot (January 23, 2014, 11:22 AM)
A cross-cultural argument that had me laughing out loud. Lots.
There's something slightly Crocodile Dundee about this guy's argument with his neighbour (http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vrw3r).
It might not really be true at all.
David Thorne and 27b/6 is a known site which produced several of these kinds of "memes".
Notice the date, this one is 1.5 years old.-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 04:26 AM)
...
Dogecoin attempts to buy the first round, when the bartender says "No need. Cody Coin has already paid for the first round and has been sitting at the end of the bar waiting, for the last 7 years!"
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/6Cody/cody1.gif)-app103 (January 23, 2014, 06:09 PM)
I sort of hope it IS, but even if it isn't, it's still pretty funny. :DThere's something slightly Crocodile Dundee about this guy's argument with his neighbour (http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vrw3r).It might not really be true at all.-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 04:26 AM)-TaoPhoenix (January 25, 2014, 06:23 AM)
I sort of hope it IS, but even if it isn't, it's still pretty funny. :DThere's something slightly Crocodile Dundee about this guy's argument with his neighbour (http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vrw3r).It might not really be true at all.-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 04:26 AM)-TaoPhoenix (January 25, 2014, 06:23 AM)-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 08:17 AM)
I sort of hope it IS, but even if it isn't, it's still pretty funny. :D-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 08:17 AM)
Although details of Tuesday's event remain unclear, occasional suicides by London bank employees have incited criticism of the demands placed on some financial services workers, Reuters reported.
A cross-cultural argument that had me laughing out loud. Lots.
There's something slightly Crocodile Dundee about this guy's argument with his neighbour (http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vrw3r).-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 04:26 AM)
So they cook a potato in a manner that makes it taste like a raw fish...?!
Why didn't they just put raw potato slices in the bag?
<someone tries it> Hay this stuff tastes like shit!
<So does Sushi> Nailed It!-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2014, 11:19 AM)
Well, that's the thing about food (as with many other opinion related stuff)- it's all relative to the eater. I like sushi, so...
/me shrugs-wraith808 (January 31, 2014, 12:17 PM)
I feel used. :( There's another David Thorne scenario on page 1 of this very thread. Reply #1 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.0). >:(
Apparently this jerk likes seeing his own crap published. Sounds familiar... some how. :huh:-crabby3 (January 31, 2014, 02:49 PM)
I feel used. :( There's another David Thorne scenario on page 1 of this very thread. Reply #1 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.0). >:(
Apparently this jerk likes seeing his own crap published. Sounds familiar... some how. :huh:-crabby3 (January 31, 2014, 02:49 PM)
Nah, don't feel used. *We're* the ones publishing it here!
And the Spider one *is* the viral one. It's this new one that's more rare.-TaoPhoenix (January 31, 2014, 10:08 PM)
THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Hitler, 1924 - The New York Times and its uncanny ability to predict the future (http://scottgronmark.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/hitler-1924-new-york-times-and-its.html)
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I feel used. :( There's another David Thorne scenario on page 1 of this very thread. Reply #1 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.0). >:(
Apparently this jerk likes seeing his own crap published. Sounds familiar... some how. :huh:-crabby3 (January 31, 2014, 02:49 PM)
Nah, don't feel used. *We're* the ones publishing it here!
And the Spider one *is* the viral one. It's this new one that's more rare.-TaoPhoenix (January 31, 2014, 10:08 PM)
Yes, this is the silly humor thread but, I dislike being duped.
Thanks for bringing me back to the reality of DC. Where some replies are genuine and others are not. Readers choice.
With this in mind... how can anyone presume they're getting semi-accurate info about anything ... .
Including any *free software* that's offered. No wonder it's free... you could end up more screwed than you were before.
But hey... it's free... UAYOR... sucker.
Jokers in this thread are going to be jerkers elsewhere. Guess there's no such thing as Donation Refunds. ;D-crabby3 (February 01, 2014, 07:40 AM)
It might not really be true at all.
David Thorne and 27b/6 is a known site which produced several of these kinds of "memes".
Notice the date, this one is 1.5 years old.-TaoPhoenix (January 25, 2014, 06:23 AM)
I sort of hope it IS, but even if it isn't, it's still pretty funny. :D-oblivion (January 25, 2014, 08:17 AM)
Here is his main page, but it doesn't look like he has added anything for a year.
http://www.27bslash6.com/-TaoPhoenix (January 25, 2014, 10:12 PM)
What are you going on about? David Thorne writes humorous articles. They're almost certainly not true, but that doesn't make them any less funny.Maybe I'm being too critical. I never thought any of this was true. And yes... they're funny.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)
Nah, don't feel used. *We're* the ones publishing it here!This got me started. If this had said republished... that would have been the end. This sentence, as is, implies it was published by someone at DC.-TaoPhoenix (January 31, 2014, 10:08 PM)
Mr. Thorne didn't publish his own stuff in this thread or say...This brand of humor doesn't appeal to me so I didn't know there was an actual Mr. Thorne. I only viewed what the DC thread-link sent me to.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)
...How does that reflect poorly on DonationCoder or the software being offered/discussed here?Who really knows how anyone gets their jollies.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)
And how does that make you feel used...Guess there's no relyable *jerk filter* on any site. It's readers choice.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)
Thats just wrong!
But so is this...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg348306#msg348306))-wraith808 (February 03, 2014, 11:13 AM)
What are you going on about? David Thorne writes humorous articles. They're almost certainly not true, but that doesn't make them any less funny.Maybe I'm being too critical. I never thought any of this was true. And yes... they're funny.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)Nah, don't feel used. *We're* the ones publishing it here!This got me started. If this had said republished... that would have been the end. This sentence, as is, implies it was published by someone at DC.-TaoPhoenix (January 31, 2014, 10:08 PM)Mr. Thorne didn't publish his own stuff in this thread or say...This brand of humor doesn't appeal to me so I didn't know there was an actual Mr. Thorne. I only viewed what the DC thread-link sent me to.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)...How does that reflect poorly on DonationCoder or the software being offered/discussed here?Who really knows how anyone gets their jollies.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)And how does that make you feel used...Guess there's no relyable *jerk filter* on any site. It's readers choice.-Deozaan (February 02, 2014, 06:07 PM)
To this day I believe I've/we've been punked here.** PM's only brought hatred and name-calling towards me.
The powers that be, at DC, don't seem to care or don't want to rock the boat? So be it.
The suspicious behavior seems to have stopped but this only reinforces my view.
This isn't Facebook... this is DonationCoder.
Where some non-geeks come seeking assistance. Good or bad it may be a starting point or different perspective they may not have had.
**Possible multiple ID's was the issue and the reason I'm jaded. Cloned advice sux any way you look at it. :(-crabby3 (February 03, 2014, 07:10 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg150580#msg150580))The marriage as it really is!-zridling (February 11, 2009, 02:52 AM)
Thats just wrong!
But so is this...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg348306#msg348306))-wraith808 (February 03, 2014, 11:13 AM)
(Bleh - I had a nice post started, then a fluke browser crash nuked it! This version is slightly shorter.)Shorter? Geez. Sorry to waste your time... twice.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
... First, to respond to the wording comment, I was trying to reply to your note earlier, and didn't predict this exact reply.How could you know what sets people off? Sadly... once my fuse is lit... there's no puting it out. :(-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
2. Notice it is a QuickMeme copy of the actual blog comedy entry.Finally looked up Meme and it means what I thought it meant... though I had to read definition 1a (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme?s=t) more than once. ;D-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
...DonationCoder is full of Smart People.I agree.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
I'm the resident idiot...Disagree.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
I agree that "27bslash6" is a pretty obscure name if you don't know it. Let's look at it.One persons obscure is another persons unique. The original spider is much cuter. :)
http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html - the "Spider" joke-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
Whenever you see a joke, always nuke the long address and go back to the "top level".Good advice... I'll try to remember this.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
...let's look at one of your more disturbing notes.As far as the reality of DC...
"Thanks for bringing me back to the reality of DC. Where some replies are genuine and others are not. Readers choice.
With this in mind... how can anyone presume they're getting semi-accurate info about anything ... .
Including any *free software* that's offered. No wonder it's free... you could end up more screwed than you were before.
But hey... it's free... sucker.
Jokers in this thread are going to be jerkers elsewhere. Guess there's no such thing as Donation Refunds. "
Elsewhere you asked about a "Jerk Filter". DC is in my top-2 info sites. They handle "jerks" in different ways. Slashdot has a "mod" filter. People can "Mod Down" the worst of the trolls and "Mod Up" the better responses. There's some bias, and problems, but it sorta works. Here, Mouser moves the more contentious stuff to something called the "Basement".-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
Next, look at ID's. DC is small enough where you can begin to notice who posts what. The same 50 people account for 75+% of the posts here. So it's not "JohnDoe137" with two posts - it's someone with ____ other posts that prove they're not throwaway accounts.I check ID's. Sometimes bios and there's all types: Informative; grain-of-salt; highly-techno; friendly-techno; wordy; 1-liners; nothing ..-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
Now, let's talk about "Free Software". I for one am a bit upset about you/user feeling "suckered". A ton of Free Software is made because we're pissed at people/groups like Microsoft charging $100+ for a Spreadsheet program in MS Office. So minor details aside, the five-ish free/cheaper alternatives are pretty good.I agree, Tao, the word "sucker" was a bit harsh. I don't really feel 'suckered'. The acronym ending was enough and I don't want my donation back.
Lots of smaller Free Software gets made just because "Computing is Hard" and you just shouldn't have to pay for *every single line of code* you need. One of the legendary events here is "New Apps for the New Year", where people present little project software for free. No strings. Just because they think someone will like it. Or look at the Coding Snacks. You need a dirt-simple tool, but you can't code - you post it as a snack. Someone bangs it out in 30 lines of code in a couple of days.-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
Whew!Ditto!
Does that help?
Yours,
--Tao-TaoPhoenix (February 03, 2014, 03:42 PM)
DC's Jerk Filter is very effective and quick when it's a spammer.-crabby3 (February 04, 2014, 12:05 PM)
As far as sock-puppeting, how do you prove it?-wraith808 (February 04, 2014, 12:12 PM)
As far as sock-puppeting, how do you prove it?-wraith808 (February 04, 2014, 12:12 PM)
I had/have PM's from my presumed-perp but *the top of the ladder* refused to access them. Even with my permission to do so.
Re-telling what was said doesn't work because none of the questionable posts were included in the original PM's. :-\-crabby3 (February 04, 2014, 12:30 PM)
As far as sock-puppeting, how do you prove it?-wraith808 (February 04, 2014, 12:12 PM)
I had/have PM's from my presumed-perp but *the top of the ladder* refused to access them. Even with my permission to do so.
Re-telling what was said doesn't work because none of the questionable posts were included in the original PM's. :-\-crabby3 (February 04, 2014, 12:30 PM)
Even a PM isn't conclusive, and just from my perspective from different altercations that I've had here and elsewhere, IMO private messages should stay just that... private. Unless it is very above the shade abusive, the PM system is in place for a reason, and to violate that without *both* parties' consent goes outside the lines of what is reasonable.-wraith808 (February 04, 2014, 12:34 PM)
What is 'very above the shade abusive' to you? :tellme:-crabby3 (February 04, 2014, 12:48 PM)
Took me an eternity to understand. Well done !-MerleOne (February 10, 2014, 04:05 AM)
The Music
Old Time and Celtic songs are about whiskey, food and struggle. Bluegrass songs are about God, mother and the girl who did me wrong. If the girl isn’t dead by the third verse, it ain’t Bluegrass. If everyone dies, it’s Celtic.
Old Time and Celtic bands have nonsense names like “Flogging Molly’, “Fruit Jar Drinkers’ and “Skillet Lickers” while Bluegrass bands have serious gender-specific name like “Bluegrass Boys,’ “Clinch Mountain Boys’ and ”Backwoods Babes.”
The most common Old Time keys are major and minor with only 5 notes (modal). Bluegrass uses these, plus Mixolydian and Dorian modes, and a Celtic band adds Lydian and Phrygian modes.
A Bluegrass band has between 1 and 3 singers who are all singing about an octave above their natural vocal range. Some Old Time and Celtic bands have no singers at all. If a Celtic band has a singer, it is usually either a bewhiskered ex-sailor, or a petite soprano. A Bluegrass band has a vocal arranger who arranges three-part harmonies. In an Old Time band, anyone who feels like it can sing or make comments during the performance.
In a Celtic band, anyone who speaks during a performance gets “the look’, and songs are preceded by a call for silence and a detailed explanation of their cultural significance. Bluegrass tunes & songs last 3 minutes. Old Time and Celtic tunes & songs can be any length, and sometimes last all night.
The Instruments
Banjo
A Celtic banjo is small and quiet. An Old Time banjo is open-backed, with an old towel (probably never washed) stuffed in the back to dampen sound. A Bluegrass banjo has bell bronze mastertone tone ring and a resonator to make it louder.
A Celtic banjo weighs 4 pounds, an Old Time banjo weighs 5 pounds, towel included and a Bluegrass banjo weighs 40 pounds. A Celtic banjo has only 4 strings. A Bluegrass banjo has five strings and needs 24 frets. An Old Time banjo needs no more than 5 frets, and some don’t need any. A Bluegrass banjo player has had spinal fusion surgery on all his vertebrae, and therefore stands very straight. If an Old Time banjo player stands, he slouches. A Celtic banjo player has a brace to relieve his carpal tunnel syndrome and remains seated to maintain stability while cross-picking as fast as possible after several pints. An Old Time banjo player can lose 3 right-hand fingers and 2 left-hand fingers in an industrial accident without affecting his performance. A Celtic banjo player flat picks everything. A Bluegrass banjo player puts jewelry on his fingertips to play. An Old Time banjo player puts super glue on his fingernails to strengthen them. Never shake hands with an Old Time banjo player while he’s fussing with his nails.
Fiddle
The Bluegrass fiddler paid $10,000 for his fiddle at the Violin Shop in Nashville. The Celtic fiddler inherited his fiddle from his mothers 2nd cousin in County Clare. The Old Time fiddler got theirs for $15 at a yard sale. Celtic and Bluegrass fiddles are tuned GDAE. An Old Time fiddle can be in a hundred different tunings. Old Time fiddlers seldom use more than two fingers of their left hand, and use tunings that maximize the number of open strings played. Celtic and Bluegrass fiddlers study 7th position fingering patterns with Isaac Stern, and take pride in never playing an open string. An Old Time fiddle player can make dogs howl & incapacitate people suffering from sciatic nerve damage. An Old Time fiddle player only uses 1/8 of his bow. The rest is just there for show.
A Bluegrass band tells terrible jokes while tuning. An Old Time band tells terrible jokes without bothering to tune. Bluegrass band members never smile. Old Time band members will smile if you give them a drink. A Celtic band is too busy drinking to smile, tune or tell jokes.
Except for the guitar, all the instruments in a Celtic band play the melody all the time. In an Old Time band, anyone can play either melody or accompaniment at any time. In Bluegrass bands, one instrument at a time solos, and every else plays accompaniment.[/edit]
Ya even many other countries have employed tax for using solar energy.. It is wrong as it will discourage people from using solar power.Dunno that it's funny, but it is definitely silly humour :-\ :(.-ElliottMallet (February 14, 2014, 03:23 AM)
Ya even many other countries have employed tax for using solar energy.. It is wrong as it will discourage people from using solar power.Dunno that it's funny, but it is definitely silly humour :-\ :(.-ElliottMallet (February 14, 2014, 03:23 AM)-barney (February 14, 2014, 03:39 AM)
This probably wouldn't be permitted speech in current PC-controlled education:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg349278#msg349278))-IainB (February 16, 2014, 12:45 AM)
deja vu (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341972;topicseen#msg341972)
Doh! I forgot that's where I got it from. Was in a huge rush and tidying up my image files and didn't think to check first.-IainB (February 17, 2014, 12:45 AM)
I think I posted it. I just read an article about dream research where a woman woke up sick and discovered a half-eaten buttered cigarette. This caused me to think of this joke which seems to be appropriate here:
deja vu (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg341972;topicseen#msg341972)
Doh! I forgot that's where I got it from. Was in a huge rush and tidying up my image files and didn't think to check first.-IainB (February 17, 2014, 12:45 AM)
Ziplock storage container casket:
...-app103 (February 17, 2014, 01:41 PM)
Nooo I like Vikings - Rape, Pillage and Burn, what's not to love? At least they were honest about their intentions. Unlike so called civilized societies where they smile kind words while knifing you in the back.-Stoic Joker (February 18, 2014, 02:53 PM)
Ziplock storage container casket:
...-app103 (February 17, 2014, 01:41 PM)
And where do you indicate the "expiration date" ?-MerleOne (February 18, 2014, 03:11 PM)
Right on top, with masking tape and a Sharpie, of course! :PAnd why the masking tape :o? Sounds temporary :P.-app103 (February 20, 2014, 03:36 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg349546#msg349546))-Giampy (February 19, 2014, 08:42 AM)
Right on top, with masking tape and a Sharpie, of course! :PAnd why the masking tape :o? Sounds temporary :P.-app103 (February 20, 2014, 03:36 AM)-barney (February 20, 2014, 03:40 AM)
Right on top, with masking tape and a Sharpie, of course! :PAnd why the masking tape :o? Sounds temporary :P.-app103 (February 20, 2014, 03:36 AM)-barney (February 20, 2014, 03:40 AM)
Because I am the frugal type. Once the contents hit the expiration date, you dump it, remove the tape, wash it out and reuse it. :P
But if you are the wasteful type that considers these kind of containers to be disposable, by all means, write directly on the lid and toss the whole thing when it hits that date. :D-app103 (February 20, 2014, 03:53 AM)
Be more frugal, save tape and ink - just lift the lid occasionally.
If it smells, it's passed it's use by date.
If it doesn't, then it isn't or it's so far passed it that it looks dessicated.-4wd (February 20, 2014, 07:14 PM)
Cleaning woman in Italy throws out artworks
A cleaning woman in southern Italy has unwittingly thrown away contemporary artworks that were supposed to be part of an exhibition.
Lorenzo Roca, head of the cleaning company, said the woman "was just doing her job" when she thought two artworks were part of trash left behind by those setting up for the show that opened Wednesday in Bari.
Show organizers said one of the works she gave to a city sanitation crew before dawn included pieces of cookies, which were scattered on the floor, as part of an artistic arrangement.
Roca said the cleaning company would use its insurance coverage to pay for the trashed art works, whose value was estimated at 10,000 euros ($13,700).
I just flew in from Los Angeles, and boy, are the TSA's arms tired.
It really is a very, very big elephant and, once seen, you cannot "unsee" it. Priceless.
Exxon CEO Joins Suit Citing Fracking Concerns (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304899704579391181466603804)
Residents of Dallas Suburb Fight Construction of Tower That Would Provide Water for Drilling
By Daniel Gilbert
Feb. 20, 2014 5:45 p.m. ET
BARTONVILLE, Texas—One evening last November, a tall, white-haired man turned up at a Town Council meeting to protest construction of a water tower near his home in this wealthy community outside Dallas.
The man was Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp.
He and his neighbors had filed suit to block the tower, saying it is illegal and would create “a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” in part because it would provide water for use in hydraulic fracturing. Fracking, which requires heavy trucks to haul and pump massive amounts of water, unlocks oil and gas from dense rock and has helped touch off a surge in U.S. energy output.
It also is a core part of Exxon’s business.
As a rationalist, a keen environmentalist and a despiser of corporate cant, greed and corporates' hugely destructive environmental footprints despoiling the land/environment, I just love it when the troughers score a hilarious and ironic own goal.
I have already posted about 2 priceless ones in this thread:
- 1. The Hinkley Point C elephant in the room (H-U-G-E environmental footprints) (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg343205#msg343205) - the massive "green energy alternatives" environmental footprints that they don't want you to see:
It really is a very, very big elephant and, once seen, you cannot "unsee" it. Priceless.- 2. Google Las Vegas Bird Fries now open for business. Yummy! (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg349523#msg349523) - another massive environmental footprint, and apparently the first of several yet to come.
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Today I read of a rather good new one - it's on WSJ behind a paywall, but it was referred to in Forbes - here (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/02/22/exxon-ceo-profits-huge-as-americas-largest-natural-gas-producer-but-frack-it-in-his-own-backyard-and-he-sues/).
The WSJ article linked to by Forbes apparently puts it rather succinctly (and, I suspect, tongue-in-cheek) thus:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)Exxon CEO Joins Suit Citing Fracking Concerns (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304899704579391181466603804)
Residents of Dallas Suburb Fight Construction of Tower That Would Provide Water for Drilling
By Daniel Gilbert
Feb. 20, 2014 5:45 p.m. ET
BARTONVILLE, Texas—One evening last November, a tall, white-haired man turned up at a Town Council meeting to protest construction of a water tower near his home in this wealthy community outside Dallas.
The man was Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp.
He and his neighbors had filed suit to block the tower, saying it is illegal and would create “a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” in part because it would provide water for use in hydraulic fracturing. Fracking, which requires heavy trucks to haul and pump massive amounts of water, unlocks oil and gas from dense rock and has helped touch off a surge in U.S. energy output.
It also is a core part of Exxon’s business.
Assuming that this is true, then I reckon this chap Rex Tillerson should be given an award of some kind. It really is rather ironic/funny. Another LOL moment for me, at any rate. Priceless.-IainB (February 23, 2014, 08:39 PM)
the really funny part is that you got them back to front ;D ;D ;D-Target (February 24, 2014, 09:36 PM)
the really funny part is that you got them back to front ;D ;D ;D-Target (February 24, 2014, 09:36 PM)
^I guess I'm a bit late, but I just discovered this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=048fBXwc1tI
or,
a little tweaked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnPJg8_lzls-tomos (February 25, 2014, 04:03 PM)
...A Muslim cleric, a Roman Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi were discussing their individual experiences of miracles.
The Muslim cleric said, "Once I was riding a camel alone, in the middle of the Sahara desert, and suddenly a fierce sandstorm appeared from nowhere. I truly thought that my end had come as I lay next to my camel while we were being buried deeper and deeper under the sand, but I did not lose my faith in the almighty Allah, and I prayed and prayed and recited passages from the Koran. Suddenly, a miracle occurred, and it seemed as though for a hundred metres all around me, the storm had stopped, but I could see it still raging beyond that distance."
The Roman Catholic priest spoke up next, "My experience was very similar. One day when I was walking down a street in Belfast in Northern Ireland, during the time of the Troubles, I was walking past this pub when people ran out screaming 'It's a bomb!'. Well, I just stood still, put my hands together, and prayed, thinking to protect all the poor people who might get hurt if it was indeed a bomb. Sure enough, just then, a bomb went off inside the pub, and blew out the wall next to where I was standing, throwing bricks, nails and bits of glass in all directions. When the dust settled, I was still standing unharmed, in what seemed to be circle of safety all around me in a radius of about a hundred feet. Inside that circle, no-one had been harmed."
The Jewish rabbi said, "I too have had an experience similar to this. It was one Sabbath (a Saturday) when I was walking down the street to my synagogue in London. I like to walk along past the Mercedes showroom, to look at the cars. I would have loved to buy a new 350SL - it's my favourite car - but I could never afford it unless they sold it for half the price! As I approached the showroom, I saw a sign in the window that said 'Today only! One only! Special offer! Brand new 350SL demonstration model at half price!' I nearly cried! What could I do? It was a Saturday, and Jews are not allowed to handle money or engage in commercial transactions on the Sabbath, so I could not buy it even though I could have afforded it. So I put my hands together and prayed and prayed. Suddenly, in answer to my prayers, a miracle occurred - for 500 feet all around me, it was a Tuesday!"-IainB (December 29, 2011, 03:18 AM)
From: Behold, a Gordian - Josh 261 (http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/3/3/behold-a-gordian-josh-261.html)
If you read the comment threads at Climate Audit then you will probably be familiar with a character called Nick Stokes who argues the impossible and indefensible with great tenacity. Steve's [the blog owner's] patience with him is exemplary and this thread (http://climateaudit.org/2014/02/27/mann-misrepresents-noaa-oig/), in particular, prompted the cartoon.
Cartoons by Josh (http://www.cartoonsbyjosh.com/)
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To which one reply is ...
"... And you think they'd come out correctly and fairly?!"
Shades of 1776!
8)-TaoPhoenix (March 11, 2014, 10:10 AM)
The oldest photo of our childhood:I read somewhere that the earliest stage was "the glint in your father's eye"...-Giampy (March 12, 2014, 03:41 PM)
"the glint in your father's eye"Or mother's :P.-IainB (March 12, 2014, 04:17 PM)
Shades of 1776!-TaoPhoenix (March 11, 2014, 10:10 AM)
.. and those still battling winter
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351180#msg351180))-crabby3 (March 13, 2014, 09:39 AM)
...And the wind chill at 100mph is murder I tell Ya. :D-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 11:25 AM)
...And the wind chill at 100mph is murder I tell Ya. :D-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 11:25 AM)
Need to get some leathers. 8)-crabby3 (March 13, 2014, 11:37 AM)
...And the wind chill at 100mph is murder I tell Ya. :D-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 11:25 AM)
Need to get some leathers. 8)-crabby3 (March 13, 2014, 11:37 AM)
I've had the same leathers for over 20 years. They work fine...but only so well. What I need is Tropical Breezes instead of this Arctic shit we been getting lately. ;)-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 12:03 PM)
...And the wind chill at 100mph is murder I tell Ya. :D-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 11:25 AM)
Need to get some leathers. 8)-crabby3 (March 13, 2014, 11:37 AM)
I've had the same leathers for over 20 years. They work fine...but only so well. What I need is Tropical Breezes instead of this Arctic shit we been getting lately. ;)-Stoic Joker (March 13, 2014, 12:03 PM)
You wear colors as well? :tellme: My part of the Big Chill already came and went. It's back up to a Tropical 75 with a light breeze. :)-crabby3 (March 13, 2014, 12:19 PM)
Pure evil - but funny!-40hz (March 13, 2014, 01:34 PM)
SAN FRANCISCO — Saturday is the Ides of March. But there's no need to be on guard.
Julius Caesar probably should have been. But then, he blew off the soothsayer who told him to "beware the Ides of March" in the first act of Shakespeare's play.
You might remember from English class that things didn't go so well for him.
Out in the Twitterverse, posters are using #idesofmarch as a way to remember actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of a drug overdose last month. Hoffman was in George Clooney's convoluted 2011 political drama "The Ides of March."
Though Bridget Hughes had one of the best tweets so far: "Note to self: On Saturday March 15th, order a Caesar salad, lure it into a false sense of security, then stab it 23 times #IdesofMarch"
...
The English salesman in Cardiff.
An English computer salesman from London was attending a 4-day sales convention in Cardiff (Wales) towards the beginning of Winter.
He drove there by car, checked-in to his pre-booked hotel, and attended the conference each day, usually ending up each evening in a local pub, after dinner, where he would drink solidly at the bar until closing time, and then go to bed.
On the evening of the third day of the convention, he was in the pub, and was talking with the Welsh barman, complaining bitterly about the weather. It had rained incessantly for the 3 days whilst he had been there so far.
"I tell you," he said, "it had been fine when I left England, a crisp Winter's day, but it started to rain as soon as I got across the ruddy border into Wales, and it hasn't f###ing stopped. It rained all during the drive to Cardiff, and by the time I got to my hotel it was f###ing bucketing down. The first night the noise of the heavy rain f###ing drumming against the window of my hotel room ensured that I didn't get much bloody sleep. It was raining at breakfast time the next morning, it was bloody raining all during the convention that day, so we didn't get out to see some of the historical sights around Cardiff that had been planned. It was still pissing down whilst I was having dinner that evening, and when I came over to this pub after dinner it was f###ing bucketing down again.
Now I wouldn't mind, if it had been just the one day, but it's gone on for three f###ing days solid now without letup. Rain, f###ing rain, f###ing rain. Easing off to a fine drizzle for a few hours would have been nice - I could have enjoyed the brief respite - but no, it's just been f###ing bucketing down and bucketing down all the f###ing time and I tell you I'm f###ing fed up with it. I've had enough. I'd have f###ing gone home today if I could have, just to get out of this f###ing waterlogged hole, but I can't you see, because I've got to f###ing well stick around to the bitter end of this sales convention as I am the main sales rep for my company, and I have to make a speech tomorrow, so I can't f###ing leave until after that.
I'd never been to Cardiff before this week. If I'd known what a f###ing waterlogged s##thole it was I would never have f###ing come. This place has to be the f###ing arsehole - the bloody rectum - of the world, I f###ing kid you not."
At this point, he put his pint glass to his lips and took a long, slow drink of the amber liquid. The bar had gone silent, and the several local Welshmen drinking nearby who had been listening intently to his diatribe against the weather were looking curiously at him. One of them, who was sat just a couple of bar stools away from the salesman, turned towards him and enquired, "Oh yes, just passing through are you?"-IainB (March 15, 2014, 06:20 AM)
What Jurassic Park would look like if the raptors were cats. ;D-app103 (March 08, 2014, 10:26 AM)
I was most amused to get this error message this morningSome database tables are no longer available in the universe. See your Business Objects administrator. (Error: WIS 00004)I'm not sure who administers travel between the universes, or what approvals I'm going to need, but I'm guessing it's not easy ;D-Target (March 16, 2014, 09:53 PM)
CommentsI just love the
Submitted by Peter Martin (not verified) on Mon, 03/10/2014 - 16:12.
"he will not be in a position to discuss BBC editorial decisions"While much around this is 'about time', and does suggest some are feeling enough is enough, this statement is a concern.A vast chunk of what the BBC needs to be held to account for are decisions that all too easily can suddenly be placed off limits by the BBC's expereince with being unique and seeking exemptions from being held to account it would scream to the rafters about if any tried it with their investigations.It is to be hoped that the good Lord will be intrerrogated by those as resolute as they will need to be well informed, as he and the outfit he is in theory tasked to oversee on behalf of licence fee payers are oilier than a Turkish Wrestler.
From http://www.news-watch.co.uk/node/216
“This is a very rare event,” he says. It “may well be the only chance in my lifetime to observe an occultation of a first-magnitude star.”I guess what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift doesn't count? :P
“This is a very rare event,” he says. It “may well be the only chance in my lifetime to observe an occultation of a first-magnitude star.”I guess what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift doesn't count? :P-x16wda (March 17, 2014, 09:47 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351459#msg351459))Made me smile. Simple. Rather clever, poking fun, and heavily sarcastic too. I'm keeping a copy for future use...
"License key - good girl, you found it!"-crabby3 (March 17, 2014, 02:56 PM)
Made me smile. Simple. Rather clever, poking fun, and a heavily sarcastic too. I'm keeping a copy for future use...-IainB (March 17, 2014, 04:05 PM)
...I view myself as one of the most basic, novice-computer-users there are but had no difficulty finding/using my License Key.
Mine was emailed w/ very easy to follow directions. Maybe these steps weren't explained as well earlier?
p.s. Wasn't meant to be sarcastic... just *silly humor* ;D-crabby3 (March 17, 2014, 05:24 PM)
...I view myself as one of the most basic, novice-computer-users there are but had no difficulty finding/using my License Key.
Mine was emailed w/ very easy to follow directions. Maybe these steps weren't explained as well earlier?
p.s. Wasn't meant to be sarcastic... just *silly humor* ;D-crabby3 (March 17, 2014, 05:24 PM)
Oh! Did you create that image? If so, then the sarcasm was clearly unintentional, but I saw it as dripping with suppressed sarcasm - the unmissably huge size of the key being the main thing. I mean, how could one miss it? I am always puzzled by those angry comments that complain about it.
If you did create that image, then nicely done by the way. :Thmbsup:-IainB (March 17, 2014, 06:24 PM)
Came across this comment today:as he and the outfit he is in theory tasked to oversee on behalf of licence fee payers are oilier than a Turkish Wrestler.I just love the alliteration highlighted.-https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351419#msg351419
[...] alleged alliteration at?-Deozaan (March 18, 2014, 01:10 AM)
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of an English language phrase(my emphasis)
Came across this comment today:One question concerning this confusing conundrum: Where's the alleged alliteration at?as he and the outfit he is in theory tasked to oversee on behalf of licence fee payers are oilier than a Turkish Wrestler.I just love the alliteration highlighted.-https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351419#msg351419-Deozaan (March 18, 2014, 01:10 AM)
You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. - Alan King
It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.-crabby3 (March 18, 2014, 10:38 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351694#msg351694))-crabby3 (March 20, 2014, 09:53 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351695#msg351695))-crabby3 (March 20, 2014, 09:54 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351695#msg351695))(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351699#msg351699))-crabby3 (March 20, 2014, 09:54 AM)-app103 (March 20, 2014, 10:02 AM)
That one made me literally laugh out loud! I love it. (c:It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.-crabby3 (March 18, 2014, 10:38 AM)-Deozaan (March 19, 2014, 07:38 PM)
being a bit of a petrolhead, I was curious about that engine and whether it really was a diesel. In the bit of it that you could see in that half-picture, it looked rather nice.-IainB (March 20, 2014, 04:28 PM)
" ... but am finding the spirit increasingly expensive..."-IainB (March 20, 2014, 04:48 PM)
" ... but am finding the spirit increasingly expensive..."-IainB (March 20, 2014, 04:48 PM)
Did you mean ...spirit increasingly expensive... as in booze? Or maybe ...spirit increasingly expensive... as in collection plate. ;D-crabby3 (March 21, 2014, 08:56 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351800#msg351800))-crabby3 (March 21, 2014, 09:29 AM)
... the "three old men joke" dates at least to the 1980's.-TaoPhoenix (March 21, 2014, 09:57 AM)
Some more great ones :Thmbsup:-mouser (March 22, 2014, 08:44 AM)
Cat Logic-crabby3 (March 22, 2014, 08:08 AM)
Cat Logic-crabby3 (March 22, 2014, 08:08 AM)
It is perfectly logical to a cat! Their logic is:
"I don't want the world. I just want your half."-Deozaan (March 22, 2014, 01:22 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351953#msg351953))-crabby3 (March 23, 2014, 12:18 PM)
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I was thinking the last image there is a trapdoor cat, closely related to these fun creatures:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351970#msg351970))-4wd (March 23, 2014, 06:06 PM)
Spiders are very creative when it comes to catching food but they belong in the wild. Not in your home. ;D-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 05:27 AM)
Spiders are very creative when it comes to catching food but they belong in the wild. Not in your home. ;D-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 05:27 AM)
Not in Australia:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg351996#msg351996))
A regular visitor inside homes here, I think the largest we've had is ~5 inches across.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:39 AM)
What kind is it? :tellme: Maybe a Tarantula?-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 07:47 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
What kind is it? :tellme: Maybe a Tarantula?-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 07:47 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
What kind is it? :tellme: Maybe a Tarantula?-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 07:47 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
I knew it was not a Tarantula but that was the only big *spidey* I could think of. I presume they enter through open-air windows or vents?-crabby3 (March 25, 2014, 06:40 AM)
What kind is it? :tellme: Maybe a Tarantula?-crabby3 (March 24, 2014, 07:47 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
I knew it was not a Tarantula but that was the only big *spidey* I could think of. I presume they enter through open-air windows or vents?-crabby3 (March 25, 2014, 06:40 AM)
Any way they can, the wife threw out one earlier today then spotted another one sitting above a door. By the time she went to get the huntsman removal apparatus it had already disappeared somewhere - honestly, these things move very fast when they want to.
They also like to hide in your car ... you should hear the screams and curses when that happens ;D-4wd (March 25, 2014, 07:16 AM)
I asked my boss to order us a few of these units, they will come in handy:
Computer Service Tools (http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/)-x16wda (March 24, 2014, 06:26 PM)
I asked my boss to order us a few of these units, they will come in handy:
Computer Service Tools (http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/)-x16wda (March 24, 2014, 06:26 PM)
:huh: :'( Why?-Deozaan (March 25, 2014, 03:40 PM)
Nothing like a good game of chess.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352053#msg352053))-crabby3 (March 25, 2014, 07:39 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352082#msg352082))-crabby3 (March 25, 2014, 05:53 PM)
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http://wherethefuckdidileavemykeys.com/ :D-app103 (March 26, 2014, 03:05 AM)
The bird present one made me laugh out loud.-mouser (March 26, 2014, 06:17 PM)
this might strike a chord with a some here...-Target (March 27, 2014, 09:05 PM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
Heh you guys know you can make an entire Ludum Dare out of your comments here! This one has the makings of gaming app gold!
8)-TaoPhoenix (March 24, 2014, 10:51 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352261#msg352261))-crabby3 (March 28, 2014, 05:53 AM)
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Okay, now that's funny!-Stoic Joker (March 28, 2014, 06:53 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
Heh you guys know you can make an entire Ludum Dare out of your comments here! This one has the makings of gaming app gold!
8)-TaoPhoenix (March 24, 2014, 10:51 PM)
A spider game app? :huh: I don't get it.-crabby3 (March 28, 2014, 06:21 AM)
Huntsmanw - pretty harmless to people, I generally let them wander around the walls until they happen to stray to a spot within reach of take-away container and cardboard :)
Then they get tossed outside to become Kookaburra food or eventually find their way back inside.-4wd (March 24, 2014, 07:28 PM)
Heh you guys know you can make an entire Ludum Dare out of your comments here! This one has the makings of gaming app gold!
8)-TaoPhoenix (March 24, 2014, 10:51 PM)
A spider game app? :huh: I don't get it.-crabby3 (March 28, 2014, 06:21 AM)
Yeah Crabby, you have to keep tossing the spiders outside, and they keep crawling in, so like at level 5 they just take over your house and win. : )-TaoPhoenix (March 28, 2014, 06:22 PM)
Picture apparently recovered from a camera in the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may shed some light on the possible cause of the accident:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352312#msg352312))-IainB (March 29, 2014, 07:21 AM)
Picture apparently recovered from a camera in the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may shed some light on the possible cause of the accident:-IainB (March 29, 2014, 07:21 AM)
Heh that's funny Iain, but where is that picture originally fun? (Or Photoshopped?)-TaoPhoenix (March 29, 2014, 11:19 AM)
Picture apparently recovered from a camera in the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may shed some light on the possible cause of the accident:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352312#msg352312))-IainB (March 29, 2014, 07:21 AM)
...Heh that's funny Iain, but where is that picture originally fun? (Or Photoshopped?)I got it years ago when someone posted it (jokingly) as having been discovered in the wreckage of Egypt Air 481 or something, which mysteriously disappeared for no apparent reason. (From memory, when they eventually found it, the Black Box from that flight apparently showed that the captain had locked himself in the cockpit and was on his own repeating the phrase "Allahu Akbar" as the plane was put into a steep dive, so the cause was unexplained...)-TaoPhoenix (March 29, 2014, 11:19 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352452#msg352452))-crabby3 (April 01, 2014, 09:50 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352452#msg352452))-crabby3 (April 01, 2014, 09:50 AM)
They don't look quite like that, but they do have bodies.-app103 (April 01, 2014, 12:05 PM)
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Newscasters Reenact Final Four Moments Rather Than Wait For Game Highlight Rights To Clear
from the much-more-enjoyable-than-defending-fair-use-in-court dept
Pervasive and extensive copyright law is damage. Route around it. This team of newcasters did (even though it really didn't need to), resulting in something much more entertaining than the content being withheld.
WCJB TV20 in Gainesville, Fla., couldn't legally show highlights of the University of Florida Gators' win over the University of Dayton on March 29. Instead of waiting for footage rights to recap the game, sports anchor Zach Aldridge recruited his coworkers to recreate the game's biggest moments in an office conference room.
Here are the highlights, as recreated using only classically-trained newscasters, a small hoop and a ball. Even the game-ending tears of a Florida Gators player are reenacted for posterity.
In his introduction, Aldridge claims the station would be unable to play the highlights until the following day unless it "broke a whole bunch of laws." Clearly, the use of highlight clips would be covered under fair use (hello, criticism, commentary and NEWS REPORTING).
But you know what? Screw the restrictive IP climate that surrounds every major sporting event. Why play by those rules? Route around it while highlighting the restrictive stupidity that prevents you from showing viewers what they came to watch. Have that clip go viral (388,000 views and counting), rather than the NCAA-approved clips handed out to local broadcasters like gifts from a begrudging God.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg352662#msg352662))-crabby3 (April 04, 2014, 10:01 AM)
Heh Crabby is on a roll!
:)-TaoPhoenix (April 10, 2014, 05:56 AM)
Heh Crabby is on a roll!(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353035#msg353035))
:)-TaoPhoenix (April 10, 2014, 05:56 AM)-app103 (April 10, 2014, 07:29 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353239#msg353239))-crabby3 (April 14, 2014, 10:17 AM)
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That's funny. But could be considered a photoshop fail. Look at the book's spine. (c:-Deozaan (April 15, 2014, 07:10 PM)
Or in case of Photoshop, should that not .giffed children?-Shades (April 15, 2014, 10:30 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353468#msg353468))-crabby3 (April 18, 2014, 09:30 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353483#msg353483))-crabby3 (April 18, 2014, 10:54 AM)
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I do have a reply to the pc->bbq grill pic, but you'll have to wait till I can finish the upgrades to my other pc before I can post the opposite direction, a bbq grill ->pc pic. ;) (it was here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4040.msg28408#msg28408), but imageshack ate it :()-app103 (April 18, 2014, 05:40 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353483#msg353483))-crabby3 (April 18, 2014, 10:54 AM)
I do have a reply to the pc->bbq grill pic, but you'll have to wait till I can finish the upgrades to my other pc before I can post the opposite direction, a bbq grill ->pc pic. ;) (it was here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4040.msg28408#msg28408), but imageshack ate it :()-app103 (April 18, 2014, 05:40 PM)
I suppose you have tried other hosting sites besides imageshack? I presume Frozen Frogs (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29740.msg283480#msg283480) are the same as being eaten?-crabby3 (April 19, 2014, 08:35 AM)
This one?
http://nicefun.net/bbq-grill-casemod-cooking-your-pc-s-guts-vt25470.html-Edvard (April 18, 2014, 08:23 PM)
"Get off the computer! Time to go for a walk!"
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353791#msg353791))-app103 (April 23, 2014, 08:58 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353959#msg353959))-crabby3 (April 26, 2014, 11:33 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg353959#msg353959))-crabby3 (April 26, 2014, 11:33 AM)
Well, since people (peeps) are called tweeps, I guess that would make him a twird.-app103 (April 26, 2014, 11:04 PM)
WARNING: YOU MAY PEE YOUR PANTS...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140429/17244327069/brilliant-reporting-nyt-recreates-wacky-deposition-over-definition-photocopier.shtml
8)-Renegade (May 01, 2014, 07:47 AM)
CAUTION: YOU MAY PEE YOUR PANTS LAUGHING. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
...-Renegade (April 28, 2014, 08:35 PM)
Spotted at: http://6000.co.za/the-vikings-are-coming/ (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg354908#msg354908))-IainB (May 11, 2014, 05:28 PM)
Can I get ^that^ in poster size for my office?-Stoic Joker (May 13, 2014, 02:28 PM)
Can I get ^that^ in poster size for my office?-Stoic Joker (May 13, 2014, 02:28 PM)
Poster size is out there I guess. Biggest I have is what's posted here. 500 x 388.
If you're just joking... then... ;D :)-crabby3 (May 13, 2014, 03:26 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg355057#msg355057))-crabby3 (May 13, 2014, 05:11 PM)
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Oh my word, Crabby just nailed me to a wall! It's too small to see in the thumbnail but that one is too good to resist a new thumbnail!
:D-TaoPhoenix (May 13, 2014, 05:58 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg355057#msg355057))-crabby3 (May 13, 2014, 05:11 PM)
Oh my word, Crabby just nailed me to a wall! It's too small to see in the thumbnail but that one is too good to resist a new thumbnail!
:D-TaoPhoenix (May 13, 2014, 05:58 PM)
I felt nailed as well. ;D-crabby3 (May 14, 2014, 07:59 AM)
> Breaking Newssigh, that's just being crass.-IainB (May 15, 2014, 09:30 AM)
| History The Orwells formed when all the members were in high school. They united after destroying the vampire alliance known as Jeffery. This is evident through the bands frequent use of garlic on stage.[3] Corso and Cuomo are cousins and the Brinners are twin brothers and all of the members of the band have been family friends for years; and, have a lineage dating back to English royalty.[4] The band was discovered in late 2011 by Aquarium Drunkard blogger Justin Gage, who signed them to his Autumn Tone label imprint.[5] ... They performed at Lollapalooza in August 2013. That was a very groundbreaking show in the Chicago vampire hunting underground. After witnessing a pack of vampires attempting to summon Lucifer on the grounds, The Orwells jumped off stage and hurled themselves at the gathering. With wooden crosses ready at their hips they stabbed each one numerous times in the chest cavity to ensure death. The Orwells are currently working on releasing their second album which is entitled "Disgraceland" and is scheduled to be released on June 3, 2014.[9] |
Try this one Tao... should be OK - :)
...-crabby3 (May 20, 2014, 10:32 AM)
I'm really starting to like Mark Twain ^-Stoic Joker (May 29, 2014, 11:19 AM)
Universal reruns? ;D
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg356392#msg356392))
____________________________-crabby3 (June 01, 2014, 09:44 AM)
Yes! And I think one of the first worldwide TV broadcasts might have been the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany.-IainB (June 02, 2014, 07:52 AM)
Universal reruns? ;D
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg356392#msg356392))-crabby3 (June 01, 2014, 09:44 AM)
Yes! And I think one of the first worldwide TV broadcasts might have been the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany.-IainB (June 02, 2014, 07:52 AM)
I prefer to think of them watching more interesting things like Nosferatu, Frankenstein, Godzilla, etc.-4wd (June 02, 2014, 03:18 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg356312#msg356312))-crabby3 (May 31, 2014, 09:24 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg356658#msg356658))-crabby3 (June 05, 2014, 08:04 AM)
^reminds me of a story I heard once, about an older couple who lived out of town. He had been in the British army and received a pension per post. His health wasn't great, and he wasn't seen much any more around town. The wife used lodge his checks in their joint bank account. One day she unexplainably ordered a large freezer (the story was being told by the local small supermarket owner - his freezer maintenance guy told him about the freezer purchase: small town you know...).The question is : did his widow bought meat during that year...
Anyways, to cut a long story short, the husband died about a year later. There happened to be an extended powercut on their road at the time...-tomos (June 16, 2014, 04:54 PM)
Nice to see that Dan McCall's parody T-shirts have been allowed by the establishment, though not without a fight, it seems.
I think they are rather clever and make their point well.
It’s OK to parody the NSA | Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/its-ok-to-parody-the-nsa/)
Man who beat NSA in T-shirt parody case wins against Ready for Hillary | Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/man-who-beat-nsa-in-t-shirt-parody-case-wins-against-ready-for-hillary/)-IainB (June 14, 2014, 02:59 AM)
@TaoPhoenix: Well, the shirt is one thing - and it makes a pretty definite statement in its own right - but the "champion for the downtrodden" is a little different, because it is something that stems from the context of the American legal system and incentivisation to litigation, which itself is arguably a form of pestilence deliberately unleashed by the Americans.
Thus, to say "...that could change the world..." could arguably really be to say "that could rectify the gross injustices permitted and promulgated by the American legal-political system and inflicting Americans and often people from other nations alike."-IainB (June 18, 2014, 04:23 AM)
33 Painfully True Facts About Everyday Life (http://www.boredpanda.com/truth-facts-funny-graphs-wumo/)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg357653#msg357653))-Target (June 19, 2014, 06:11 PM)
The only serious black mark against the NHS was its poor record on keeping people alive.- apparently written in all seriousness in a Guardian article praising the NHS: NHS is the world's best healthcare system, report says | Society | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health)
Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series Review (http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/dell-inspiron-14-7000-series-review-2/?asrc=EM_NLN_30734624&uid=16088900&utm_medium=EM&utm_source=NLN&utm_campaign=20140623_Dell+Inspiron+14+7000+Series+Review_swhite)
Quick Take
The Dell Inspiron 14 7000 series is a well-rounded machine that, while its value may suffer due to a lack of an SSD and graphics card, is still a solid computer overall, with good portability and decent power for the price.
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The Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series is a very standard Ultrabook offering. Featuring very average specs for its price point, a generally good construction, good media offerings through its screen and speakers, but overall nothing too impressive under the hood, the Inspiron 14 is a pretty good machine. ...
Looking for a good, punchy and factual notebook review? Look no further than notebookreview.com.
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Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series Review
Quick Take
The Dell Inspiron 14 7000 series is a well-rounded machine that, while its value may suffer due to a lack of an SSD and graphics card, is still a solid computer overall, with good portability and decent power for the price.
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The Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series is a very standard Ultrabook offering. Featuring very average specs for its price point, a generally good construction, good media offerings through its screen and speakers, but overall nothing too impressive under the hood, the Inspiron 14 is a pretty good machine. ...
No, the the trouble I had with DELL was finding a human being in DELL and getting support for the laptops.-IainB (June 24, 2014, 01:38 AM)
Blimey, I didn't know that HP had started charging for drivers if no support contract. When did they start that?-IainB (June 24, 2014, 10:30 AM)
^ Good one app!
Meet Shane, the Walmart Deli Employee Who Gives His Managers a Major Headache (http://cheezburger.com/279813)
If this doesn't make you laugh out loud, nothing will!-wraith808 (June 24, 2014, 04:05 PM)
I don't know. I just downloaded drivers the other day with no problem. For a 9 year old printer, no less.-wraith808 (June 24, 2014, 11:05 AM)
Not sure about the guys, but I am sure the women here can relate, although I have not done anything like this since the 80's, when most jeans did not contain any Lycra. The only thing missing from this video is the coat hanger, to pull up the zipper. ;D-app103 (June 24, 2014, 03:07 PM)
baking is a contact sport?
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/rainbow-cake-recipe-inspires-comment-apocalypse-1592575661/+AlbertBurneko-Target (June 24, 2014, 07:45 PM)
Posted already-wraith808 (June 24, 2014, 08:13 PM)
Not sure about the guys, but I am sure the women here can relate, although I have not done anything like this since the 80's, when most jeans did not contain any Lycra. The only thing missing from this video is the coat hanger, to pull up the zipper. Grin
Looks like something you'd find sold through an infomercial.-app103 (June 25, 2014, 12:18 PM)
Looks like something you'd find sold through an infomercial.-app103 (June 25, 2014, 12:18 PM)
What does? I think I missed something... that happens a lot ;D-wraith808 (June 25, 2014, 02:16 PM)
There is an animated gif attached to that post, with a special spaghetti fork.-app103 (June 25, 2014, 02:30 PM)
Looks like something you'd find sold through an infomercial.
But wait...there's more! Order right now and you'll get not one, but two Magic Spaghetti Forks for the low price of $19.99!
Just imagine the beginning of it, where they show a series of idiots doing it "the old-fashioned way" and making a big mess, with spaghetti flying all over the place, hitting the walls. Because that's the infomercial's favorite tactic for convincing you that you have been doing things wrong, all your life.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg358099#msg358099))-app103 (June 25, 2014, 12:18 PM)
at first I thought it was like one of those screwdrivers that turn when you push - now if I could attach a fork head to one of those...-tomos (June 25, 2014, 04:17 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg358191#msg358191))
Does it better than most adults I've seen... and without a stuntman!-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 05:19 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg358179#msg358179))
From a book store signing. And don't blame the messenger when you get it!-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 01:28 PM)
From a book store signing. And don't blame the messenger when you get it!-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 01:28 PM)
From a book store signing. And don't blame the messenger when you get it!-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 01:28 PM)
I don't get it. Is it Libba Brary? Or is the Butcher Skin Game the joke?-Deozaan (June 26, 2014, 05:51 PM)
Oh.-Deozaan (June 26, 2014, 05:58 PM)
Oh.-Deozaan (June 26, 2014, 05:58 PM)
Yes... you've been rickrolled by a picture. :P-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 06:23 PM)
Not sure about the guys, but I am sure the women here can relate, although I have not done anything like this since the 80's, when most jeans did not contain any Lycra. The only thing missing from this video is the coat hanger, to pull up the zipper. ;D-app103 (June 24, 2014, 03:07 PM)
Thanks - I just now got around to watching this.
I just thought I'd mention that I have a classic bloke's perspective on the fitting of tight (too-small sized) jeans. My somewhat vain and fashion-conscious room-mate at boarding school had bought a pair of Levi denims as they were regarded as being very fashionable and "cool". He soaked them overnight in cold water to get them shrunk, so they would be nice and tight.-IainB (June 29, 2014, 12:28 PM)
Hahaha. It was fine, thanks. ;-)Thanks - I just now got around to watching this.What did you think of my Youtube video?
I just thought I'd mention that I have a classic bloke's perspective on the fitting of tight (too-small sized) jeans. My somewhat vain and fashion-conscious room-mate at boarding school had bought a pair of Levi denims as they were regarded as being very fashionable and "cool". He soaked them overnight in cold water to get them shrunk, so they would be nice and tight.-IainB (June 29, 2014, 12:28 PM)-Arizona Hot (June 29, 2014, 09:28 PM)
^ Might want to spoiler that image. Even though the thread is marked NSFW, there are limits...Good point. If he's the driver, and if that's alcohol he's drinking he could be in a whole lot of trouble.-wraith808 (June 30, 2014, 04:18 PM)
^ Might want to spoiler that image. Even though the thread is marked NSFW, there are limits...Good point. If he's the driver, and if that's alcohol he's drinking he could be in a whole lot of trouble.-wraith808 (June 30, 2014, 04:18 PM)-IainB (July 01, 2014, 02:42 AM)
Your next driver's license picture... ;)-Renegade (July 02, 2014, 01:24 AM)
Your next driver's license picture... ;)-Renegade (July 02, 2014, 01:24 AM)
Some years back, the photo on my husband's drivers license looked so unlike him, that he had to carry the older expired one along with it, otherwise if he got pulled over, the officer would likely have thought he was using someone else's license.-app103 (July 04, 2014, 04:52 AM)
There’s a simple solution to indigestible wood pulp in your food: just add fresh, raw termites to your diet to introduce their cellulose-digesting gut bacteria to your intestines. Mmmmm! Problem solved! Also, we have here a new profit potential in the probiotics market….. termite-gut bacteria yogurt.
tl;dr - Fast food hamburgers contain wood pulp.-Renegade (July 04, 2014, 08:26 AM)
The joke doing the rounds in MoD circles is “we now have what we didn’t have in 2003: a valid reason to invade Iraq.”
With the defence budget slashed, they don’t have much else.
Scented Candles for Life’s Disappointments
http://theflickingcandles.com/collections/all-mouser (July 04, 2014, 06:06 PM)
Scented Candles for Life’s Disappointments
http://theflickingcandles.com/collections/all-mouser (July 04, 2014, 06:06 PM)
Nice. I suppose it's no accident that they named their company "flicking" candles and write it in all caps so that the L and the I in flick looks like a U.-Deozaan (July 05, 2014, 10:51 AM)
unlike the Megaflicks sign...-tomos (July 05, 2014, 05:11 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg358952#msg358952))-IainB (July 07, 2014, 05:28 PM)
FAIR WARNING: This is pretty much NSFL.-Renegade (July 09, 2014, 04:16 AM)
BTW, NSFL? Apparently I'm behind the times :'(.-barney (July 09, 2014, 05:22 AM)
Heh Giampy I don't even know what that pic means : )-TaoPhoenix (July 09, 2014, 04:20 PM)
Germany beat Brazil in World Cup soccer.-Renegade (July 09, 2014, 09:33 PM)
Troll Truck-app103 (July 10, 2014, 09:19 PM)
.. more ..
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg359428#msg359428))-crabby3 (July 14, 2014, 09:08 AM)
.. more ..
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg359428#msg359428))-crabby3 (July 14, 2014, 09:08 AM)
How sinister!-Arizona Hot (July 14, 2014, 01:53 PM)
US Tells Russia Snowden Is Gay So They Finally Arrest Him
In an effort to finally capture and detain Edward Snowden, the notorious NSA whistleblower, the Obama administration, knowing Russia offered him asylum yet hates all things gay, told Russian leadership that Snowden is a homosexual.
Upon hearing the news of Snowden’s alleged sexuality they were immediately outraged and wondered how many things he may have touched at the airport.
Apparently releasing sensitive information about trying to foil terrorist plots is not something Russia has a problem with, but gay cooties give them the heebie jeebies.
They are currently in the process of placing Snowden under arrest, and he will likely finally be released to US authorities.
According to Putin the situation is a “win-win.”
Which proves my long time assertion that after a certain level of power everything comes full circle back to the childish playground rules, and street posturing.
Guy gets arrested for allegedly having gay cooties... :wallbash:-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2014, 06:42 AM)
Which proves my long time assertion that after a certain level of power everything comes full circle back to the childish playground rules, and street posturing.
Guy gets arrested for allegedly having gay cooties... :wallbash:-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2014, 06:42 AM)
... that article is satire? :huh:-wraith808 (July 18, 2014, 08:07 AM)
Shit ... I didn't have time to read or even see the article, so I just fired from the hip as the behavior wouldn't be out of either parties lack of character.-Stoic Joker (July 18, 2014, 09:33 AM)
Edvard was here.-Arizona Hot (July 19, 2014, 01:32 PM)
I Conducted An Interview Completely Stoned And Here Are The Results
That was awesome!
"Irony is not coincidence" <--- that one line just made my entire week. Year. Decade. Do you know the frustration of trying to explain how Alanis Morrisette's catchy but !@#$%& WRONG song about irony is like, totally, absolutely wrong in it's definition of the word?-Edvard (July 17, 2014, 11:13 PM)
Very clever educational and amusing music video. The video and the soundtrack are intended to go together.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc)-IainB (July 22, 2014, 03:40 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg360082#msg360082))-crabby3 (July 22, 2014, 09:03 AM)
Love the penguin-polarbear one :Thmbsup:Yes, a cute joke. You'd have to be brave to do that. Pretty special penguins too, to have travelled so far.-mouser (July 22, 2014, 09:34 AM)
It was a nature documentary about the penguinsThat would be this BBC special report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVBaTD0zqw) I believe. :Thmbsup:-IainB (July 22, 2014, 07:20 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg360276#msg360276))
4 Bizarre Rules for Naming Fictional Characters Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/video_18969_the-4-secrets-behind-every-fictional-characters-name.html)-Arizona Hot (July 24, 2014, 10:41 AM)
Reminds me of the April 1st spoof one of the British TV channels did a few years back. It was a nature documentary about the penguins assembling in preparation for their annual migration - just as they started to fly to a warmer climate for the winter.-IainB (July 22, 2014, 07:20 PM)
The Comcast customer service disconnection call that went viral:That is quite amazing. Listening to it, the words that popped into my head were "Bush Lawyer".
https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
Comcast responds: "He did what we trained him to do"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456685/comcast-on-hellish-customer-service-call-rep-did-what-we-trained-him-to-do.html
:o-Edvard (July 25, 2014, 01:23 AM)
The Comcast customer service disconnection call that went viral:
https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
Comcast responds: "He did what we trained him to do"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456685/comcast-on-hellish-customer-service-call-rep-did-what-we-trained-him-to-do.html
:o-Edvard (July 25, 2014, 01:23 AM)
But contrary to a previous Comcast statement that basically threw the employee under the bus, Watson seemed willing to share the blame.
"The agent on this call did a lot of what we trained him and paid him—and thousands of other Retention agents—to do," Watson wrote. "He tried to save a customer, and that’s important, but the act of saving a customer must always be handled with the utmost respect."
Watson added that Comcast will reexamine some of its practices as a result. "We will review our training programs, we will refresh our manager on coaching for quality, and we will take a look at our incentives to ensure we are rewarding employees for the right behaviors," Watson said.
The Comcast customer service disconnection call that went viral:
https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
Comcast responds: "He did what we trained him to do"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456685/comcast-on-hellish-customer-service-call-rep-did-what-we-trained-him-to-do.html
:o-Edvard (July 25, 2014, 01:23 AM)
* I created a petition post to arrest that monster, Ryan Block. Please sign, if you have a brain.
* Ryan Block, You are a FAGGOT for doing this! I hope you FUCKING DIE for this you fucking faggot how fucking dare you record this and traumatize this poor man you sir need to be shot fuck you and fuck the company you work for.
* People supporting this customer are stupid idiots. The fact is that this customer was being a dickhead. He wasn't answering the questions and was purposely giving this rep a very hard time. Shame on you people.
* I don't understand why these stupid people are cussing out on the customer service representative and supporting this fucking asshole customer for trying to disconnect. In my honest opinion, he has been a loyal customer for NINE FUCKING YEARS, which is CLOSE TO A DECADE! So he is making a STUPID FUCKING DECISION to cancel. Well anyways, fine. He wants to cancel, I’ve canceled Comcast before because I personally think it sucks, but this customer is being a FUCKING ASSHOLE. He is NOT being coherent at all and is purposely dicking around saying “that’s none of your business” and “I don’t want something that works”. Surely, anyone should be ANGRY and this fucking dumbass for having such a shitty attitude. Stop supporting this dumbfuck, plus he recorded it and put it on the internet for people to listen to, this just shows how much of a dumbass he really is.
The Comcast customer service disconnection call that went viral:
https://soundcloud.com/ryan-block-10/comcastic-service
Comcast responds: "He did what we trained him to do"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456685/comcast-on-hellish-customer-service-call-rep-did-what-we-trained-him-to-do.html
:o-Edvard (July 25, 2014, 01:23 AM)
Some of the SC comments:* I created a petition post to arrest that monster, Ryan Block. Please sign, if you have a brain.
* Ryan Block, You are a FAGGOT for doing this! I hope you FUCKING DIE for this you fucking faggot how fucking dare you record this and traumatize this poor man you sir need to be shot fuck you and fuck the company you work for.
* People supporting this customer are stupid idiots. The fact is that this customer was being a dickhead. He wasn't answering the questions and was purposely giving this rep a very hard time. Shame on you people.
* I don't understand why these stupid people are cussing out on the customer service representative and supporting this fucking asshole customer for trying to disconnect. In my honest opinion, he has been a loyal customer for NINE FUCKING YEARS, which is CLOSE TO A DECADE! So he is making a STUPID FUCKING DECISION to cancel. Well anyways, fine. He wants to cancel, I’ve canceled Comcast before because I personally think it sucks, but this customer is being a FUCKING ASSHOLE. He is NOT being coherent at all and is purposely dicking around saying “that’s none of your business” and “I don’t want something that works”. Surely, anyone should be ANGRY and this fucking dumbass for having such a shitty attitude. Stop supporting this dumbfuck, plus he recorded it and put it on the internet for people to listen to, this just shows how much of a dumbass he really is.
What? Sounds like some shilling for Crapcast.
Just. Wow.-Renegade (July 25, 2014, 08:31 AM)
Did you read all 1700+ comments? I tried to get an idea of when this conversation took place... but lost interest at around day 10. ;D-crabby3 (July 25, 2014, 09:33 AM)
Did you read all 1700+ comments? I tried to get an idea of when this conversation took place... but lost interest at around day 10. ;D-crabby3 (July 25, 2014, 09:33 AM)
Oh god no!
I just looked as I listened, then picked out a few at random. There are probably much worse there. I only scanned a few.-Renegade (July 25, 2014, 10:15 AM)
Okay, Now ^That's^ Funny!-Stoic Joker (July 25, 2014, 12:18 PM)
...Just. Wow.Aw, come on @Renegade. That's not up to your usual high standard - I mean using a redundant cliché that usually seems reserved for use as an excuse for thinking or making some valid comment...going forward. ;D-Renegade (July 25, 2014, 08:31 AM)
...Just. Wow.Aw, come on @Renegade. That's not up to your usual high standard - I mean using a redundant cliché that usually seems reserved for use as an excuse for thinking or making some valid comment...going forward. ;D-Renegade (July 25, 2014, 08:31 AM)
By the way, I thought you were doing pretty much OK otherwise, up until you wrote that. :)
...and there were some pretty weird/amazing comments in that comment thread. I presumed a lot of them were probably tongue-in-cheek and not intended to be taken seriously.-IainB (July 25, 2014, 07:39 PM)
...Everyone slacks off sometimes. :)Ahahaha. Very droll. How true. :Thmbsup:-Renegade (July 25, 2014, 07:43 PM)
Why don't ice cream sandwiches melt anymore?
Really miss ole George ... .IMO George Carlin was the only true sage of the 20th century.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg360421#msg360421))-crabby3 (July 26, 2014, 07:18 AM)
Oh god... this is just so wrong...
http://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/why-dont-ice-cream-sandwiches-melt-anymore
Article there, but you need to watch the video all the way to the end. :OWhy don't ice cream sandwiches melt anymore?
Just, wrong.-Renegade (July 26, 2014, 07:29 AM)
Some of George Carlin's humor: :)
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!
If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.
The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.
If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!-crabby3 (July 26, 2014, 08:35 AM)
Relative Effectiveness of Common Computer Repair Techniques:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg360932#msg360932))-Edvard (July 31, 2014, 11:37 PM)
Because this sort of thing is is quite hard to follow, a few
years ago theorists stopped using the letters A and B to represent the
main players, and started calling them Alice and Bob. So now we say
"Alice communicates with someone claiming to be Bob.
So to be sure, Alice tests that Bob knows a secret number K.
Alice sends to Bob a random number X.
Bob then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to
Alice."
It's supposed to make it easier to understand
Relative Effectiveness of Common Computer Repair Techniques:
I enjoy most jokes about religion that do not make a person or a class of person an undeserving butt of their humour, and making jokes about religion can be a valid form of criticism of a religion or its religio-political ideology anyway.-IainB (July 30, 2014, 03:52 AM)
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” - Richard Feynman, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics winner.
Hamish the house-builder.-IainB (August 04, 2014, 06:06 PM)
NEVER interrupt a programmer:
from http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/no-interruptions-technologist-work-247487
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg361238#msg361238))-Edvard (August 05, 2014, 04:41 PM)
That guy is singing/whistling as he goes. He knew what he did. He knew. That bastard!>:( ;D
Man, do I ever know the pain of the last panel in that comic.-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 01:00 AM)
Man, do I ever know the pain of the last panel in that comic.-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 01:00 AM)
+1 - I just had a poorly timed interruption cost me 2 hours of putting Humpty-Dumpty's ass back together last week.-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2014, 11:46 AM)
Man, do I ever know the pain of the last panel in that comic.-Edvard (August 06, 2014, 01:00 AM)
+1 - I just had a poorly timed interruption cost me 2 hours of putting Humpty-Dumpty's ass back together last week.-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2014, 11:46 AM)
Yup! Happens to me from time to time. Usually during a server configuration. 15 second interruption for something stupid. One hour plus getting the big picture back in your head. Then another 30 minutes getting fully back into the zone...-40hz (August 06, 2014, 05:09 PM)
Oh it wasn't so much that the big picture went out of focus. It was more a case of applying it to the wrong target...-Stoic Joker (August 06, 2014, 05:26 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg361392#msg361392))
This Coffee-Brewing Alarm Clock is a Dream Come True (http://refrigerators.reviewed.com/features/this-coffee-brewing-alarm-clock-is-a-dream-come-true?utm_source=usat&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=collab)-Arizona Hot (August 08, 2014, 12:52 AM)
These machines are too slick, it has to look all weird with duct tape and spoons on servo motors.-Fred Nerd (August 09, 2014, 02:13 AM)
These machines are too slick, it has to look all weird with duct tape and spoons on servo motors.-Fred Nerd (August 09, 2014, 02:13 AM)
I'd like a Johnny 5 waiter to come rolling into my bedroom in the morning, holding a tray with a full breakfast, complete with a rosebud in a vase. Now that would be "too slick". ;)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg361526#msg361526))-app103 (August 09, 2014, 05:50 AM)
I wonder what logic caused them to draw the line at IE v3.0 ... Was that even a Windows program, or did DOS have a browser??-Stoic Joker (August 10, 2014, 09:16 AM)
My GF (much to my surprise :huh: ) brought this utterly tasteless one to my attention. (Go figure! :tellme:) Definitely NFC and NSFW:-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:54 AM)
My GF (much to my surprise :huh: ) brought this utterly tasteless one to my attention. (Go figure! :tellme:) Definitely NFC and NSFW:-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:54 AM)
During the Africa Summit “Resilience and Food Security in a Changing Climate” panel, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience that “8,000 children die every day” and in sub-Sahara Africa, one in four suffer from chronic hunger.
Then a few minutes later, he stressed how creating new farms would cause too much carbon pollution so they need to discourage more farm land.
Top 5 Africa Summit Highlights | The Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/06/top-5-moments-from-the-africa-summit-video/)
More strange Government logic=silly humour:During the Africa Summit “Resilience and Food Security in a Changing Climate” panel, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience that “8,000 children die every day” and in sub-Sahara Africa, one in four suffer from chronic hunger.
Then a few minutes later, he stressed how creating new farms would cause too much carbon pollution so they need to discourage more farm land.
Top 5 Africa Summit Highlights | The Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/06/top-5-moments-from-the-africa-summit-video/)-IainB (August 11, 2014, 02:05 AM)
That boy is one of the funniest every time he opens his mouth. I wonder if he ever listens to what he says.Prolly not. Then he'd have to show/demonstrate recognition of what he just said :P. I'm not particularly anti-Kerry, but I do get a lot of laughs of his public statements :P :P :P.-Renegade (August 11, 2014, 02:42 AM)
Little Johnny asks his Dad: "I have this homework on politics and economy and I'm not if I understand it"
Dad says: "Use the family as an example. I make the money so I'm the Capitalists, your mother deals it out, so she's the Government, we look after you, so you're the People, the baby is the Future, and we pay the maid so she is the Working Class"
That night Johnny is woken up by the baby crying, so he checks it and it needs changing. So he goes to tell his parents, but only his mother is there and she doesn't wake up. He goes to tell the maid, but finds that she's 'busy' with his dad.
He goes back to bed.
Next morning his dad asks how he is going with the homework. Johnny says: "I think I understand it. The Capitalists screw the Working Class while the Government is asleep. The People are ignored and the Future is full of sh*t"-Fred Nerd (August 10, 2014, 06:53 AM)
Little Johnny asks his Dad: "I have this homework on politics and economy and I'm not if I understand it"
Dad says: "Use the family as an example. I make the money so I'm the Capitalists, your mother deals it out, so she's the Government, we look after you, so you're the People, the baby is the Future, and we pay the maid so she is the Working Class"
That night Johnny is woken up by the baby crying, so he checks it and it needs changing. So he goes to tell his parents, but only his mother is there and she doesn't wake up. He goes to tell the maid, but finds that she's 'busy' with his dad.
He goes back to bed.
Next morning his dad asks how he is going with the homework. Johnny says: "I think I understand it. The Capitalists screw the Working Class while the Government is asleep. The People are ignored and the Future is full of sh*t"-Fred Nerd (August 10, 2014, 06:53 AM)
Of course that leaves only the People to change the Future, but they don't want to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. They would rather forget about it and go back to sleep, hoping someone else will come along and clean it up. ;)-app103 (August 11, 2014, 11:47 AM)
...Of course that leaves only the People to change the Future...Very droll.
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Some really good doge jokes here: ...Good ones!-Renegade (August 12, 2014, 03:17 AM)
"Can I ask you a favor?" said the waitress.
The three CEOs glanced at the clocks on their smartphones, then at the tiny cafe, which was deserted at 6 a.m.
"I just got a call from the day care center, and my two-year-old is sick. I have to go. Would...?"
The raised eyebrow of one CEO said it all. They had worked hard to carve 60 minutes out of their schedules to begin discussions on a merger. Now this.
"I know it sounds weird, but if one of you would stay and cover for me, I'd really appreciate it. I'll lose my job otherwise." She sounded desperate. "The manager's on vacation, the morning rush starts in about 10 minutes and there's just me and the cook till lunch. If I leave now, we'd have to close."
Two of the CEOs stood immediately. They both said they had meetings back to back that morning. The third looked at them, but stayed seated. "Let's reschedule," he said to the other CEOs. Then he looked at the waitress and started rolling up his sleeves.
"Do you have a clean apron?"
---
The waitress returned around 11 a.m. after taking her son to the doctor and dropping him with Grandma on the other side of town.
The cook and the CEO sat drinking smoothies in the kitchen. She thanked them both profusely for covering her shift.
The cook said it was nothing, though this CEO was the worst waiter in the history of humankind. Total disaster, said the cook. Then he and the CEO burst out laughing. When the laughter died down, the CEO turned to the waitress. "I'm the one who should thank you," he said.
She looked at CEO's expensive shirt splattered with food stains. She looked at the big half-moons of sweat under his arms. "Why?"
"I spilled coffee into bowls of oatmeal. I dumped scrambled eggs and bacon in one woman's lap. I took the wrong food to the wrong tables. I forgot the syrup and the salsa and the check. I was so bad as a waiter I got desperate. So I used your strategy."
"What's that?"
"I asked for help."
She smiled.
"Only one woman said yes. The one I dumped eggs on. She was great. Hard worker. Good communicator. After the rush finished, we got to talking, and it turns out she's from the tech world too. In fact, I liked her so much I asked her to apply for a management position at my company."
"Because she's good at waiting tables?" said the waitress.
"Because she understands that asking for help and offering help are two of the best ways to do business. Because she can see that relationships are created through giving and receiving service."
The waitress nodded.
"Now can I get you a little something to eat?" The CEO stood, draped a napkin over his arm and winked.
"Depends," she said. "If I let you dump eggs on me, will you offer me a job?"
Some people think politicians are feces-tious.-Arizona Hot (August 14, 2014, 10:38 AM)
Some people think politicians are feces-tious.-Arizona Hot (August 14, 2014, 10:38 AM)
BWAHAHAHA! Love it! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (August 14, 2014, 10:59 AM)
Some people think politicians are feces-tious.-Arizona Hot (August 14, 2014, 10:38 AM)
BWAHAHAHA! Love it! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (August 14, 2014, 10:59 AM)
...and political humor is even more so.
Love may make the world turn around, but humor lubricates the bearings.-Arizona Hot (August 14, 2014, 11:22 AM)
What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg362056#msg362056))-app103 (August 16, 2014, 06:03 AM)
What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.
GERMAN HEALTH AND SAFETY CHIEFS BAN SANDCASTLES AT BEACHES (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/15/Germans-Ban-Sandcastles)Ahahaha, very droll.
Pfft... cowards. Still all paranoid since D-day I suppose. :P-Renegade (August 16, 2014, 04:36 AM)
There could well be a lot of those comments happening now, ever since Firefox started to use the hotkey combo Ctrl+Shift+V to pop up that window...What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.ha! ;D-mouser (August 16, 2014, 04:42 PM)
There could well be a lot of those comments happening now, ever since Firefox started to use the hotkey combo Ctrl+Shift+V to pop up that window...What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.ha! ;D-mouser (August 16, 2014, 04:42 PM)-IainB (August 18, 2014, 01:05 AM)
Yup. Eggsaggerly. Ergonomics.Ah, yeah. Anybody that fat-fingers a paste will have that happen now. :DThere could well be a lot of those comments happening now, ever since Firefox started to use the hotkey combo Ctrl+Shift+V to pop up that window...What happens when non-techies discover web dev tools.ha! ;D-mouser (August 16, 2014, 04:42 PM)-IainB (August 18, 2014, 01:05 AM)-app103 (August 18, 2014, 01:09 AM)
Lie-Clocks:
...
The man asked "Where's [insert favourite US president's name]'s clock?"
St. Peter replied "His clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."-IainB (August 18, 2014, 01:11 AM)
Not sure if the comment below this one was being ironic or not - either way it's brilliant:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg362284#msg362284))-tomos (August 19, 2014, 06:59 AM)
(http://i.imgur.com/iacGiSG.jpg)-Renegade (August 20, 2014, 08:44 PM)
(http://i.imgur.com/mDBCnSs.jpg)
:Thmbsup: Nice!-Renegade (August 20, 2014, 08:47 PM)
More from the department of...
(http://i.imgur.com/iacGiSG.jpg)
FOR THE CHILDRENZ! 8)-Renegade (August 20, 2014, 08:44 PM)
How does downloading something for free fund anything? :tellme: Please tell me that's photoshopped or somehow satirical.-Deozaan (August 20, 2014, 11:12 PM)
Apropos of yesterday's blog post about the insane, paranoia-inducing "anti-terrorism" posters the London cops have put up, Peter Mahoney offers this remix of the "A bomb won't go off because weeks before, a shopper reported someone for studying the CCTV cameras. Don't rely on others: if you suspect it, report it." poster.
Don't they know that many folks have allergies to peanuts! Shame on them! >:( :P-Deozaan (August 20, 2014, 11:12 PM)
A> Dafuq?
B> Dafuq?
3> DAFUQ?-Stephen66515 (August 21, 2014, 08:28 PM)
How does downloading something for free fund anything? :tellme: Please tell me that's photoshopped or somehow satirical.-Deozaan (August 20, 2014, 11:12 PM)Unfortunately, I don't think it is. But the insanity is still funny in a dark way.
EDIT: I did a bit of Photoshop analysis on it, and it looked like it was shopped (some lines were a bit straight). So I looked into it more. See here:
http://boingboing.net/2009/03/25/remixing-the-london-1.html-Renegade (August 21, 2014, 10:30 PM)
We’ve received reports that yesterday, a Belleville school teacher was locked in a bathroom at the High School due to the RFID system malfunctioning. Since school policy is to not allow the use of cell phones, no one knew where she was, or what happened to her until they went looking for her. Luckily, the teacher was carrying her purse, with her phone inside. When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.
By the way, this is the same RFID system that the Board of Education pushed through as part of their controversial surveillance system, installed and managed by Clarity Technologies Group, at a cost of $2 million.
Even worse, when they actually discovered that she was locked in the bathroom, they could not open the door by swiping with their own RFID cards because the system had malfunctioned. Apparently someone had to come and pry open the door to finally get her out."
When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.-app103 (August 22, 2014, 05:30 AM)
When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.-app103 (August 22, 2014, 05:30 AM)
Um... Why not call someone outside of the school to come help? :-\-Deozaan (August 22, 2014, 12:23 PM)
When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.-app103 (August 22, 2014, 05:30 AM)
Um... Why not call someone outside of the school to come help? :-\-Deozaan (August 22, 2014, 12:23 PM)
When her co-workers retrieved their phones to try to call her, they found that she had been frantically trying to call and text people to come help her.-app103 (August 22, 2014, 05:30 AM)
Um... Why not call someone outside of the school to come help? :-\-Deozaan (August 22, 2014, 12:23 PM)
This is the first school in the US with a security system like this.
Calling someone outside the school would be like calling someone in another country. What could they possibly do to help you?
Because getting into that school is like trying to break into the Pentagon, and getting out is like trying to escape from a maximum security prison, if you are not a student or employee with a key card. And even then, it's tough, as you can see from this incident.
Not even a parent can get in there. The school is on constant high security lock down.
I would hate to think what it would be like if they switched it to maximum security lock down (which is supposed to be done if there is a shooter in the school, which could only be an employee or student, with the way it's all set up), where they deactivate all cards so nobody can move from room to room, and nobody gets in or out, even if they have a card.-app103 (August 22, 2014, 07:26 PM)
Oh yes...I can see the logic there.....-Stephen66515 (August 22, 2014, 07:40 PM)
Oh yes...I can see the logic there.....-Stephen66515 (August 22, 2014, 07:40 PM)
There is no logic in this security system. It was a knee jerk reaction and a chance for some profitable corruption, on the part of the local school board (a school board member has a relative that works for the company that was paid to set this whole thing up).
But enough about this basement worthy topic. Back to the jokes!-app103 (August 22, 2014, 07:46 PM)
and...if we are completely honest....that whole scenario sounds like a joke anyway...so it fits right in here haha!-Stephen66515 (August 22, 2014, 08:24 PM)
When trying to connect to a PC on a network in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) or later, the PC's icons are displayed as beige VGA monitors showing a Windows 3.1/9x Blue Screen of Death. The fact that they Apple chose to represent PCs such an outdated style of monitor and blue screen might have been part of the insult in itself.
TakeThat-Real Life - Television Tropes & Idioms (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TakeThat/RealLife)-Arizona Hot (August 25, 2014, 02:52 PM)
This is not from the Onion.
Construction mishap leads to squiggly dividers on Virginia highway (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/us/crooked-highway-lanes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)
(see attachment in previous post (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/us/crooked-highway-lanes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)) (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg362855#msg362855)-app103 (August 26, 2014, 11:30 AM)
This is not from the Onion.
Construction mishap leads to squiggly dividers on Virginia highway (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/us/crooked-highway-lanes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)
(see attachment in previous post (http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/us/crooked-highway-lanes/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)) (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg362855#msg362855)-app103 (August 26, 2014, 11:30 AM)
This is obvious lolbertardian sabotage! :P They hate roads!-Renegade (August 26, 2014, 12:08 PM)
GROOTING
grootːɪŋ/
verb
gerund or present participle: grooting
1. to move tree-rhythmically to The Jackson 5.
"his arms grooted like branches in the wind "
2. move in a quick and lively way.
"Grooting came naturally to Michael Rooker. [X]”
Please fill in a password:
carrot
Sorry, passwords require 8 characters or more:
cooked carrot
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1 cooked carrot
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50cookedcarrots
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50FUCKINGcookedcarrots
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50FuckingCookedCarrots
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NowIGetReallyAngryIfMyPasswordIsStillIncorrectShoveThose50CookedCarrotsUpYourBum
Sorry, that password is already taken:
...-Shades (August 27, 2014, 07:10 PM)
I ran into a banking institution yesterday that did not allow special characters or spaces, but did required a number be included in the user name.
Like the outcome of that isn't going to be predictable as hell ...(y0ur N4m3)... Derp!-Stoic Joker (August 27, 2014, 10:19 PM)
I ran into a banking institution yesterday that did not allow special characters or spaces, but did required a number be included in the user name.
Like the outcome of that isn't going to be predictable as hell ...(y0ur N4m3)... Derp!-Stoic Joker (August 27, 2014, 10:19 PM)
If a username/password is actually printed on paper, then it makes sense to not include beginning or ending spaces. But with the incredible invention of monospaced fonts, there's no reason why "a b" couldn't be a valid username or password. I have never understood why "spaces" aren't allowed.-Renegade (August 27, 2014, 11:07 PM)
Please fill in a password:
carrot
Sorry, passwords require 8 characters or more:
cooked carrot
Sorry, passwords require at least one number:
1 cooked carrot
Sorry, no spaces allowed in passwords:
50cookedcarrots
Sorry, passwords require at least one capital letter:
50FUCKINGcookedcarrots
Sorry, no subsequent capitals allowed in passwords:
50FuckingCookedCarrots
Sorry, no curse words allowed in passwords:
NowIGetReallyAngryIfMyPasswordIsStillIncorrectShoveThose50CookedCarrotsUpYourBum
Sorry, that password is already taken:
...-Shades (August 27, 2014, 07:10 PM)
Hahaha!
I can relate... I hate when my passwords are rejected. Especially when the error message is something like:
Passwords must be 10 characters or less.
It's like some BOFH trying to limit passwords to match his set of rainbow tables.-Renegade (August 27, 2014, 08:11 PM)
18 Photos You Have To Look At Twice To Understand (http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedvideo/photos-you-have-to-look-at-twice)-Arizona Hot (August 28, 2014, 12:29 PM)
...And then just for a giggle, I turn on the news this morning to find out that said banking institution just got hacked ... Wow, who'd a thunk that would happen.. :-\-Stoic Joker (August 28, 2014, 06:32 AM)
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I thought this discussion thread was the best place to post this:
Hillary Clinton: 'Our technology companies are not part of our government' | The Industry Standard - InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/hillary-clinton-our-technology-companies-are-not-part-of-our-government-249449?source=rss_)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/4Medium/TFR1EA.gif)
She'll get my vote any day with humorous quips like that.-IainB (August 31, 2014, 09:46 PM)
Did everyone notice that it it is a black cat wearing an inverted pentagram?-Arizona Hot (September 02, 2014, 03:15 PM)
Jannertor
27 August 2014 2:38pm
One of the victims, in an interview with Jeremy Vine, said that her parents had written to Blunkett pleading for help but heard nothing - you can hardly accuse him of turning a blind eye I suppose.....
A new JS post at Github: ISIS.js (https://github.com/DanielGorlo/ISIS.js/commit/b073a3e2fe4eeed188c919f6cb6f270fed880685)
The Update README.md states:Code: Javascript [Select]
Maybe this should be posted in the coding snippets section... :tellme:-IainB (September 04, 2014, 01:46 AM)
A new JS post at Github: ISIS.js (https://github.com/DanielGorlo/ISIS.js/commit/b073a3e2fe4eeed188c919f6cb6f270fed880685)-IainB (September 04, 2014, 01:46 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg363551#msg363551))-app103 (September 04, 2014, 07:33 AM)
Had to share this latest Ad on SA TV as I know the members here will enjoy! :Thmbsup:
Babies love the Internet! (http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHr1o2afqUo)-CleverCat (September 06, 2014, 03:25 AM)
-app103 (September 07, 2014, 08:34 AM)
I'd never seen this before. At first I thought it was a parody, but no, it's the real deal.-Renegade (September 07, 2014, 02:21 AM)
You'd think that we've become unable to hear the truth in a children's cartoon or something...-wraith808 (September 07, 2014, 11:38 PM)
My neighbour is a kiwi. I forget whether it was her or someone else pointing out the pronunciation of 'e' is often like 'i' in New Zealand.-Renegade (September 07, 2014, 09:06 AM)
Canadian - Canadian accent-Renegade (September 07, 2014, 09:06 AM)
...the Grand Ayatollah of Iran, who has arbitrarily determined that high-speed connections are an affront to [this particular] God.
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A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is “against Sharia” and “against moral standards.” In answer to a question published on his website, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, one of the country’s highest clerical authorities, issued a fatwa, stating “All third generation [3G] and high-speed internet services, prior to realization of the required conditions for the National Information Network [Iran’s government-controlled and censored Internet which is under development], is against Sharia [and] against moral and human standards.”
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Left undiscussed is how incremental increases in speed are incremental increases in sin or how exactly an Iran-only internet would redeem "immoral" high-speed connections. These sorts of questions are better left unasked, especially in a nation filled with religious leaders that can impose and carry out death penalties with impunity.
In TechDirt there is news of key Internet issues being addressed and resolved at last in the Middle East:-IainB (September 10, 2014, 01:22 AM)
Hashtag: #IceBucketChallengeDarwinAwardWinnerYep.-Renegade (September 10, 2014, 06:14 AM)
Funny or unfunny?-Renegade (September 10, 2014, 06:14 AM)
Funny or unfunny?-Renegade (September 10, 2014, 06:14 AM)
Stupid as opposed to silly, and I guess funny in the saddest way possible :down:-tomos (September 10, 2014, 07:08 AM)
I guess funny in the saddest way possible :down:-tomos (September 10, 2014, 07:08 AM)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-10/iclock-post-mortem
Tim Cook announced Tuesday the release of Apple’s long-rumored watch, the latest in wearable technology. Here are some features of the new device:
- 13-megapixel camera enables users to take crystal-clear pictures of wrist
- Allows wearers to start and stop the flow of time
- Discreet, but not so discreet that anyone would mistake it for a regular watch
- Comes in a variety of colors and styles to express your personal submission to the planet’s dominant tech company
- Adjustable ticking volume
- All the convenience of a traditional watch that needs to be charged every 12 hours
- Built-in thinkpiece regarding the increased connectivity yet simultaneous isolation of the millennial generation
- Small size and intricate circuitry able to drive twice as many Chinese workers to suicide as iPhone
- Makes it easier for muggers to see whether or not you’re carrying an expensive electronic device
- Another screen to throw into your current rotation of things you look at
But apart from that... it's 'awesome'-panzer (September 11, 2014, 05:39 AM)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-10/iclock-post-mortem
Tim Cook announced Tuesday the release of Apple’s long-rumored watch, the latest in wearable technology. Here are some features of the new device:
- 13-megapixel camera enables users to take crystal-clear pictures of wrist
- Allows wearers to start and stop the flow of time
- Discreet, but not so discreet that anyone would mistake it for a regular watch
- Comes in a variety of colors and styles to express your personal submission to the planet’s dominant tech company
- Adjustable ticking volume
- All the convenience of a traditional watch that needs to be charged every 12 hours
- Built-in thinkpiece regarding the increased connectivity yet simultaneous isolation of the millennial generation
- Small size and intricate circuitry able to drive twice as many Chinese workers to suicide as iPhone
- Makes it easier for muggers to see whether or not you’re carrying an expensive electronic device
- Another screen to throw into your current rotation of things you look at
But apart from that... it's 'awesome'-panzer (September 11, 2014, 05:39 AM)
Haha! :) :up:
ZH is one of my favourite sites. (Even if the joke is a repost.)-Renegade (September 11, 2014, 07:42 AM)
https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/509424207474999297/photo/1-panzer (September 11, 2014, 08:15 AM)
Some good Aussie humour-Renegade (September 11, 2014, 09:04 AM)
See attachment in previous post-panzer (September 12, 2014, 04:36 AM)
This one made me laugh despite myself:-mouser (September 12, 2014, 09:36 AM)
Sorry, but it doesn't look as clever saying a brand new phone is better than a year old phone (iPhone 6 vs. Nexus 5) as it does saying a two year old phone is better than a brand new phone (Nexus 4 vs iPhone 6).-Deozaan (September 12, 2014, 05:08 PM)
Ian Paisley 1926-2014
By Alan | September 12, 2014
Former DUP leader Ian Paisley has died aged 88.
Listening to 5Live [a BBC radio broadcast channel], Dominic Laurie I think, the most pressing issue was to ask, and keep asking, if the ‘intransigent’ Ian Paisley prevented the peace process from being successfully implemented much earlier….was it his fault the conflict kept going? Might of course have had something to do with the IRA….I don’t know, but it’s possible. ...
The gameshow winning supercomputer that couldn’t stop saying ‘bull****’: IBM forced to wipe hard drive after machine downloaded an urban dictionary
Artificial intelligence machine Watson began swearing after memorising the contents of the Urban Dictionary
It was fed the repository of colloquial English in a bid to equip it with the knowledge to pass the Turing test of computer intelligence
But researchers were forced to wipe the dictionary from the machine's memory after it started giving backchat to researchers
Shame I can't read that...The Daily Fail is not ever going to be opened in my browser :P-Stephen66515 (September 13, 2014, 07:29 PM)
IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It - The Atlantic
Don't you hate it when this happens to you?
-Arizona Hot (September 17, 2014, 03:48 PM)
Don't you hate it when this happens to you?
-Arizona Hot (September 17, 2014, 03:48 PM)
Yeah...-Edvard (September 17, 2014, 07:56 PM)
Don't you hate it when this happens to you?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg364642#msg364642))
Eyes all aflutter (http://http:/photos.msn.com/slideshow/news/must-see-september-2014/23eumyuv;)-Arizona Hot (September 17, 2014, 03:48 PM)
I've seen worse.-Renegade (September 18, 2014, 08:05 PM)
BOISE, Idaho -- A teenager crashed his SUV Sunday morning after a passenger used a lighter to set his armpit hair on fire, according to the Ada County Sheriff's Office.
My 12½ y/o daughter sent me this link. It's actually got some interesting and some funny stuff there on that site.
[Link removed]-IainB (September 22, 2014, 07:50 AM)
This Alaskan news reporter quits live on air. Just epic! :D-Renegade (September 23, 2014, 12:53 AM)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/5o75h1.jpg)-panzer (September 23, 2014, 04:35 AM)
An English professor tries what should have been a fun writing exercise with his class, this is the result:
http://themetapicture.com/men-from-mars/-app103 (September 23, 2014, 02:14 PM)
An English professor tries what should have been a fun writing exercise with his class, this is the result:
http://themetapicture.com/men-from-mars/-app103 (September 23, 2014, 02:14 PM)
That was excellent! :Thmbsup:-Renegade (September 23, 2014, 09:21 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg365004#msg365004))
Paper Airplane Flies 82 Miles (http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/paper-airplane-flies-82-miles-140924.htm)-Arizona Hot (September 24, 2014, 02:14 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg365004#msg365004))
Paper Airplane Flies 82 Miles (http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/paper-airplane-flies-82-miles-140924.htm)-Arizona Hot (September 24, 2014, 02:14 PM)
I'd consider this more "interesting stuff" - it's perfect "small science" that doesn't take mega-millions and lead to infighting paper publishing squabbles. I dunno what the cost of the tech was, but it can't have been "all that much" in the grand scheme of things. But I bet there's a few useful nuggets of data hidden by the "oh look this is cute" style report.
Just off the top of my head, I can imagine useful weather pattern data, component reliability over unmanned and unclear mission parameters, and so on.
Plus they prob got a ton of awesome pics, and if they make them public domain like most government stuff, that could be useful to artists of various types as material.-TaoPhoenix (September 24, 2014, 06:21 PM)
I'd consider this more "interesting stuff" - it's perfect "small science" that doesn't take mega-millions and lead to infighting paper publishing squabbles. I dunno what the cost of the tech was, but it can't have been "all that much" in the grand scheme of things. But I bet there's a few useful nuggets of data hidden by the "oh look this is cute" style report.
Just off the top of my head, I can imagine useful weather pattern data, component reliability over unmanned and unclear mission parameters, and so on.
Plus they prob got a ton of awesome pics, and if they make them public domain like most government stuff, that could be useful to artists of various types as material.-TaoPhoenix (September 24, 2014, 06:21 PM)
Liberia: Dead Ebola Patients Resurrect?
Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.
But to the amazement of residents and onlookers on Monday, the deceased reportedly regained life in total disbelief. The NewDawn Nimba County correspondent said the late Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and the second victim only identified as Ma Kebeh, said to be in her late 60s, were about to be taken for burial when they resurrected.
Ma Kebeh had reportedly been in door for two nights without food and medication before her alleged death. Nimba County has had bazaar news of Ebola cases with a native doctor from the county, who claimed that he could cure infected victims, dying of the virus himself last week.
News of the resurrection of the two victims has reportedly created panic in residents of Hope Village Community and Ganta at large, with some citizens describing Dorris Quoi as a ghost, who shouldn't live among them. Since the Ebola outbreak in Nimba County, this is the first incident of dead victims resurrecting.
| Simplicity | "It's complicated" |
| Beauty | With a little makeup... |
| Self-confidence | Bordering on arrogant |
| Strength | Leaps tall paradigms in a single command line |
| Power | Depends on diet |
| Financial Mgmt | Self-sufficient... Donations accepted |
| Trust issues | Forgive and forget... as long as you use Shift+Del |
| Privacy | Your secret is safe with me... for now |
| Hobbies | Supercomputing, clustering, hacking, pretending to be nicer than I really am |
| Security | You've heard of this Fort Knox place, right? |
| Tantrum | You change kernels without updating initramfs, I change your face without updating the pretty parts |
| Heart-breaker | You haven't uninstalled me yet, is it love? |
| End of day thought | Wow, that was quite an adventure! |
Security You've heard of this Fort Knox place, right? -Edvard (September 25, 2014, 08:38 PM)
My personal opinion is that in a thread about silly humor, we could do without the thinly veiled religious/political insult posts.
You may find it funny, but it's contrary to the spirit of this site.
____________________________________-mouser (September 22, 2014, 04:26 PM)
My 12½ y/o daughter sent me this link. It's actually got some interesting and some funny stuff there on that site.Hi IainB,
[Link removed]-IainB (September 22, 2014, 07:50 AM)
I think that link was completely inappropriate, both for this thread and for DC at large. Further, I'd appreciate if you kept posts that single out and make fun of particular political or religious views out of the "silly humor" thread. Just because you find some kind of wry, sardonic humor out of it, doesn't mean it belongs in this thread. This thread is meant for lighthearted and fun humor.
Please help keep this thread lighthearted.
____________________________________-Deozaan (September 22, 2014, 04:30 PM)
IainB - I think what mouser and Deozaan are saying is that it would be better if religious and political humor that could be considered offensive by our members was kept out of this thread. (We have the Basement for that)
I don't see a problem with light-hearted "religious" humor, though, such as the following:
...-app103 (September 25, 2014, 09:35 PM)
Happy Hour Special:
Lobster Tail & Beer.
An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs.)
How is that a syllogism? :huh:-Deozaan (September 27, 2014, 10:00 AM)
Jimi Hendrix Biopic Opens Today... Without Any Jimi Hendrix Music, Thanks To Copyright
from the seems-to-be-missing-the-point dept
As you may have heard, there's a new movie opening today about a transformative year in Jimi Hendrix's life, called Jimi: All Is By My Side. The story sounds pretty interesting, but there's one big element that's missing: Jimi Hendrix's original music.
There are some slight differences between property law and copyright law.
When you own a house, that's your house, the public isn't involved in the process(buying, renting, selling) at any point. Copyright however was meant to be a deal between the creator and the public("We'll give you exclusive rights and related legal rights for a limited time to your works, so you can be incentivized to create more, but in exchange once that limited time is over with the rights to it go to the public so people can build off of what you've created"), it was never meant to be a welfare system for heirs and 'estates' like actual property.
This is one of the big reasons I believe that any copyright term lasting past death(at most) is excessive, the creator at that point is dead, they're not being given incentive to create squat, so at that point it's time for the public to receive their half of the deal.
Also, I've seen this mentioned before when the subject has come up, but if you believe that copyright should be treated the same as any other property, do you believe that is should ever go to the public domain? You don't have to give your car up after X number of years, nor your house, if copyright is just another category of property, why the difference?
As well, if a copyright is a property like any other, well, you pay taxes on your house and car based upon their worth, clearly paying taxes on a copyright is only fair as well. I'm sure the likes of Disney would love that.
Zombies just want topickeat your brain.-Arizona Hot (September 29, 2014, 01:11 PM)
Zombies just want topickeat your brain.-Arizona Hot (September 29, 2014, 01:11 PM)
FTFY.-Renegade (September 29, 2014, 01:15 PM)
COPYRIGHT APOCALYPSE: TROLLS ATTACK THE NET, FROM THE FUTURE
Imagine an Internet in which every possible creative work uploaded results in a copyright claim - because it's already been created. That's the nightmare scenario being painted by a Russian company which says it has a plan to use copyright and trolling to free humans from ever having to create digital content again.
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That’s the staggering notion being put forward by Qentis Corporation. The outfit, which claims a base in Russia, says that its business model is to use massive computing power to generate digital intellectual property on a never-seen-before scale and transfer the rights to its partners.
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What Qentis are proposing is the bulk algorithmic creation of content – music, text, images etc – on such a large scale that in a few years its clients will own the rights to just about anything people might care to create and upload.
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In terms of graphics, Qentis promotional material states that a subsidiary has already generated 3.23% of “all possible images” in the 1000×800 pixel format.
So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
It may have been mistaken for one of these aluminum Draino bottle bombs: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp-app103 (October 01, 2014, 04:51 PM)
Much as I appreciate the vote of confidence, I gotta say - It's my home town - It really was just a bunch of dumb hicks having a Barney Fife moment.. ;)-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 05:01 PM)
Much as I appreciate the vote of confidence, I gotta say - It's my home town - It really was just a bunch of dumb hicks having a Barney Fife moment.. ;)-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 05:01 PM)
Well, better for them to have their Barney Fife moment than some local pranksters actually make one of those things out of a plastic pop bottle, some Draino, water, a bit of candle wax and some aluminum, and for it to explode with someone a bit too close to it, and they end up getting sprayed with the Draino.-app103 (October 01, 2014, 05:12 PM)
Because of prankster teens building these things and leaving them places for unsuspecting people to find, in some areas you actually have to show ID to prove you are over 18, to buy drain cleaner. :o-app103 (October 01, 2014, 05:12 PM)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that draino isn't a clear liquid. Not to mention that this thing was effectively in the middle of no where at that time of day. No this was a typically spastic hyper-over-reaction that is so idiotically common in our society today. Litter bugs aren't terrorists ... They're just really annoying.
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Clear liquids don't tent to imply an impending (BLEVE) energetic reaction. First cop on the scene should have just kicked it over and tossed it in the trash.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 05:38 PM)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that draino isn't a clear liquid. Not to mention that this thing was effectively in the middle of no where at that time of day. No this was a typically spastic hyper-over-reaction that is so idiotically common in our society today. Litter bugs aren't terrorists ... They're just really annoying.
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Clear liquids don't tent to imply an impending (BLEVE) energetic reaction. First cop on the scene should have just kicked it over and tossed it in the trash.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 05:38 PM)
^ Are you bored? ;D That was a lot of work for a punchline! ;D-wraith808 (October 01, 2014, 11:34 PM)
OMFG They actually blew the damn thing up!
Suspicious Object at Citizens' Circle (http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Dato=20141001&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=100109998&Ref=PH&pl=1)
What an incredibly mind-blowing waste of resources on something that is obviously just carelessly discarded trash.
But, then again...yes it is that boring here ... In a town that is strategically relevant to abso- :) ing-lutely nothing.-Stoic Joker (October 02, 2014, 12:32 AM)
Did something happen to this video?-Arizona Hot (October 02, 2014, 07:23 PM)
It's an image. That trick was pulled a few pages back, also.-wraith808 (October 02, 2014, 08:42 PM)
So the Department of Homeland Security releases a Cyber Security Guide, that triggers a security warning on load:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg365686#msg365686))
Failing to read your own material ... Priceless!-Stoic Joker (October 03, 2014, 12:35 PM)
So the Department of Homeland Security releases a Cyber Security Guide, that triggers a security warning on load:
Failing to read your own material ... Priceless!-Stoic Joker (October 03, 2014, 12:35 PM)
Via Sarah Burstein and the Design Law Blog, we discovered that just this week the US Patent Office granted a design patent... on a toothpick:
How To Protect Yourself Against Ebola
This week saw the first confirmed case of Ebola virus within the United States, the latest development in an outbreak that has already claimed over 3,000 lives. Here are some ways you can protect yourself against this deadly disease:
- Boil all bodily fluids before consumption.
- Regularly examine your DNA under an electron microscope for any indication that Ebola has attached itself to your cell membranes.
- Recognize the symptoms of Ebola, which include fever, chills, and developing symptoms too late to do anything about them.
- Cover the nose and mouth of Ebola patients when they sneeze to avoid spreading germs.
- Avoid eating bat soup, which is actually pretty sound advice whether there’s an ongoing Ebola outbreak or not.
- Ebola can only be spread once patients are symptomatic, so if you believe you’ve been exposed, get all your errands and public trips out of the way before your symptoms start showing.
- Be sure to stay up to date on developments by signing up for the official CDC phone tree.
- Try being born one of the 15 percent of rural Gabonese citizens with natural immunity to the virus.
- Give billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies.
- If you see a suspicious-looking filamentous virus particle roughly one micron in length, stay away.
- Continue following lifelong plan of avoiding Dallas, TX at all costs.
I'm not a big fan of The Onion, but sometimes they nail it. I haven't indulged in herbal entertainment for many years now, but I still remember what it was like when I "heard a noise".
;D ;D ;D
New Marijuana Study Says Everyone Knows You're High And You'll Likely Be Stoned Forever (http://www.theonion.com/video/new-marijuana-study-says-everyone-knows-youre-high,35386/)-Edvard (October 04, 2014, 09:57 AM)
So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
We just had a similar incident over an abandoned suitcase full of stuffed animals.-app103 (October 06, 2014, 12:10 PM)
So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
We just had a similar incident over an abandoned suitcase full of stuffed animals.
http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/10/all_of_route_287_shut_down_around_hanover_parsippany.html
And my daughter's boyfriend just announced that he wants a job on the bomb squad...specifically, the Teddy Ruxpin Disposal Unit.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg365900#msg365900))-app103 (October 06, 2014, 12:10 PM)
"So, in other words, some debris fell off a truck. A paranoid motorist called it in. An overreacting police department shuts down a highway during rush hour and calls the bomb squad, causing countless motorist to spend hours sitting in traffic and thousands of dollars of police overtime," the user wrote. "When, they probably could have just kicked whatever it was to the side of the road and call he public works department out to through it out."
And Krev offered in response: "And if it exploded you'd be screeching about how careless the police are."
Once again the boogieman is behind every tree...as our entire culture goes completely to shit with rampant paranoia.
*Sigh*-Stoic Joker (October 06, 2014, 04:52 PM)
what if you just left click and relase, and dont hold down the mouth button -- same error?
can you email me ([email protected]) so i can send you a test version?-mouser (October 08, 2014, 06:15 PM)
Fun fund raiser idea:
"Salt the police officer for charity".
"Sponsors can take a salt shaker and sprinkle salt on the officers". Viral media gold: "Today I salted one hundred police officers"! Bonus followup: You can give them a battery of their choice!
;D-TaoPhoenix (October 09, 2014, 08:56 PM)
Fun fund raiser idea:
"Salt the police officer for charity".
"Sponsors can take a salt shaker and sprinkle salt on the officers". Viral media gold: "Today I salted one hundred police officers"! Bonus followup: You can give them a battery of their choice!
;D-TaoPhoenix (October 09, 2014, 08:56 PM)
Just gotta watch out that the officers don't pepper you in return.-app103 (October 09, 2014, 10:17 PM)
-Renegade (October 14, 2014, 03:48 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366471#msg366471))-app103 (October 13, 2014, 06:40 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366471#msg366471))-app103 (October 13, 2014, 06:40 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366471#msg366471))-app103 (October 13, 2014, 06:40 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
Or turtles that are still too young to leave home. :P-app103 (October 14, 2014, 04:38 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366471#msg366471))-app103 (October 13, 2014, 06:40 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
Or turtles that are still too young to leave home. :P-app103 (October 14, 2014, 04:38 PM)
That's a great scenario! Grow up to be ninjas!-Renegade (October 14, 2014, 04:46 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366471#msg366471))-app103 (October 13, 2014, 06:40 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
Ah, the multiverse, where there are versions of you who are serial killers or bimbos.-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2014, 03:03 PM)
Or cereal-killers.-Arizona Hot (October 15, 2014, 04:34 AM)
Anyone want to have me over? :3-w3bcrawler (October 15, 2014, 09:35 PM)
(Newser) – This story about a divorce in the United Arab Emirates begins in not-so-unusual fashion: A wife refuses to sleep with her husband, and he is not pleased. Then it gets weird: She tells him to talk to her parents, who explain that their daughter can't have sex with him because she is, in fact, a supernatural creature called a jinn that the BBC equates to a genie. This results in divorce. But if the excuse was a tall tale, the joke's on the ex-wife, because a court in Dubai ruled that she is not entitled to alimony, reports Gulf News. Reason? She wasn't honest about the genie matter. Neither story is clear about whether this means the court thinks she's lying about being a genie or whether it thinks she should have informed her husband about her genie-ness before the wedding, but either way, she gets no alimony
I may have found my spirit animal. This raven doesn't say 'Nevermore'. ;D-app103 (October 19, 2014, 12:46 PM)
But what if your spirit bird is from New York City?-TaoPhoenix (October 19, 2014, 01:47 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg366948#msg366948))-rgdot (October 19, 2014, 10:47 AM)
Wrong thread. This is animal friends thread not silly humor thread. I will move it.-mouser (October 22, 2014, 11:31 AM)
Ow Stephen!
That's one for the adblock cannon!-TaoPhoenix (October 22, 2014, 05:37 PM)
(http://i.imgur.com/nVGTirK.gif)-Stephen66515 (October 22, 2014, 05:22 PM)
what about the epileptics???? ????????????? ? ? ?? ???????? ? ???? ?? ????? ???? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ????????? ? ? ?? ? ????? ????????????? ? ? ??? ? ??? ??-Target (October 22, 2014, 08:05 PM)
what about the epileptics???? ????????????? ? ? ?? ???????? ? ???? ?? ????? ???? ? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ????????? ? ? ?? ? ????? ????????????? ? ? ??? ? ??? ??-Target (October 22, 2014, 08:05 PM)
You want me to build a site about epilepsy, too? :huh:-app103 (October 22, 2014, 08:49 PM)
You want me to build a site about epilepsy, too? :huh:-app103 (October 22, 2014, 08:49 PM)
You want me to build a site about epilepsy, too? :huh:-app103 (October 22, 2014, 08:49 PM)
no, that's inducing epilepsy!!-Target (October 22, 2014, 09:11 PM)
I want to build a website providing info on how to maintain focus and avoid distractions, targeted at those with ADHD, and use this for the background.-app103 (October 22, 2014, 07:27 PM)
Try to count the black dots
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367295#msg367295))-crabby3 (October 23, 2014, 12:01 PM)
you make them-app103 (October 23, 2014, 01:26 PM)
Try to count the black dots
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367295#msg367295))-crabby3 (October 23, 2014, 12:01 PM)
Furbillies! (Yes, I am an Ed Emberley (http://www.amazon.com/The-Wizard-Op-Ed-Emberley/dp/0316236101) fan 8))
But you are not supposed to count the dots. It's a maze full of furbillies (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pMzOmYaip-A/UXGBk9nRigI/AAAAAAAACNI/P1TBIeS7Pho/s1600/op+%283%29.JPG), and you make them get out of your way by looking at them.-app103 (October 23, 2014, 01:26 PM)
Like this spiral... it makes me dizzy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367332#msg367332))-crabby3 (October 24, 2014, 07:48 AM)
Not sure where to get the pot though. I don't toke (anymore), so...
I'd imagine mushrooms would do the trick there though. But heck, with shrooms, everything is a hologram anyways, so no need for the trip discs! :P-Renegade (October 24, 2014, 08:12 AM)
Like this spiral... it makes me dizzy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367332#msg367332))-crabby3 (October 24, 2014, 07:48 AM)
Like this spiral... it makes me dizzy
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367332#msg367332))-crabby3 (October 24, 2014, 07:48 AM)
That's not a spiral. Those are circles.-Deozaan (October 24, 2014, 10:55 PM)
We have peanut, peanut butter and mint M & Ms, why not raisin M & Ms? Wine tastes better chilled, so do chocolate-covered raisins.-Arizona Hot (October 25, 2014, 09:43 PM)
We have peanut, peanut butter and mint M & Ms, why not raisin M & Ms? Wine tastes better chilled, so do chocolate-covered raisins.-Arizona Hot (October 25, 2014, 09:43 PM)
Raisinets[/url] have been around forever. No candy coating though (M & Ms).-crabby3 (October 26, 2014, 07:20 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg367904#msg367904))-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 06:59 AM)
Good old analog exchange wiring, (6th pic), takes me back a few years ;D
Still, not too hard to fault find an open/short in something like that with your trusty AVOw or F-Set (https://www.accesscomms.com.au/product/F-set-Tone-Probe-Kit/t0115) ... or just run a new cable.-4wd (October 27, 2014, 09:57 PM)
http://i.imgur.com/S7I7hSN.png-Renegade (October 29, 2014, 07:23 PM)
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because it's much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?
If you spin an Oriental person around several times, does he become disoriented?
turd mobile-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 08:54 AM)
WWN was launched and created by Colm Williamson in September 2009 with the noble aims of extracting the urine from everyday news and media events...(The British vernacular for this is "Taking the piss", which is a characteristically British use of humor as a levelling tool and to poke fun at something.)
Reminds me a little of the somewhat anti-capitalist anti-bullshit anti establishment Scottish group Chumbawumba who produced some brilliant and often beautiful songs and music which not only took the piss but also were making cutting (sometimes cringingly so) socio-political commentary. If you are unfamiliar with British humour, then you might not get some of their music. When you do get it, you will find that some of it is not very pleasant at all to the people/objects they (Chumbawumba) deride/despise. (Still probably well worth a listen though.)-IainB (October 31, 2014, 10:09 PM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
Unless, of course, they take it in the literal sense in which you'd need a very big water tank ;)-4wd (November 01, 2014, 07:27 AM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
Generally, Americans think that pissed = angry
My mate lived over there for a while in Berkeley, he got a bit drunk one night and when one of his American friends asked him how he was going he said, "I'm pissed."
His mate went all quiet and went over to my friends wife and asked what he was angry about :)
Unless, of course, they take it in the literal sense in which you'd need a very big water tank ;)-4wd (November 01, 2014, 07:27 AM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
Generally, Americans think that pissed = angry-4wd (November 01, 2014, 07:27 AM)
Hunh. That wasn't what we thought when we heard it (we being my "mates" and I).
To us, "pissing," coupled with some reference of time, followed by "away" meant wasting time. Thus, "pissing the night away" meant we'd spent the time regretfully doing nothing of value.-AzureToad (November 01, 2014, 11:37 AM)
In the US, they were a one-hit-wonder, with this song, introducing Americans to the phrase "pissing the night away", which we mistakenly thought meant something else.Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)
pissed = angry
pissing = urinating-crabby3 (November 01, 2014, 08:03 AM)
Where was that awesome rant about Daylight savings time and programming, where the final answer was "just use the open source subroutine and don't mess with it"?-TaoPhoenix (November 01, 2014, 11:53 PM)
New topic
Where was that awesome rant about Daylight savings time and programming, where the final answer was "just use the open source subroutine and don't mess with it"?
I ran into this in a big way today getting ready for a live podcast!-TaoPhoenix (November 01, 2014, 11:53 PM)
I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread.-Deozaan (November 02, 2014, 12:00 AM)
New topic
Where was that awesome rant about Daylight savings time and programming, where the final answer was "just use the open source subroutine and don't mess with it"?
I ran into this in a big way today getting ready for a live podcast!-TaoPhoenix (November 01, 2014, 11:53 PM)
It was on time zones, and I can't find the post on here, but here's the video:
...I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread.-Deozaan (November 02, 2014, 12:00 AM)
It's a funny video! :D
Speaking of Daylight Savings time ending and causing weird issues, my husband worked tonight, over the 2AM mark when the clocks changed back. If the clocks had not changed, he would have clocked out at 2:30AM, but since the clocks had changed, his time slip says he clocked out at 1:30AM, but doesn't say which 1:30AM it was (1st or 2nd). So now his manager has to submit a list of everyone that worked tonight and clocked out after the change, so they all get an extra hour's worth of pay manually added to their paychecks. :D-app103 (November 02, 2014, 01:28 AM)
It doesn't have near the negative connotation that it does in American English.-Renegade (November 02, 2014, 10:25 AM)
...B*gger and b*st*rd are another couple.In NZ as well, mate. ;)-4wd (November 02, 2014, 08:11 PM)
Raisinets[/url] have been around forever. No candy coating though (M & Ms).-crabby3 (October 26, 2014, 07:20 AM)
The candy coating is important if you are away from refrigeration.-Arizona Hot (October 26, 2014, 10:28 AM)
And yes, the madness is just like your husband went through. To cap it all off, letting the cat out of the bag, I watched a live telecast of grandmaster chess commentary this morning, through all that stuff I mentioned earlier. To cap it all off, they told the commenting grandmaster the wrong start time! So he had to get up two hours too early for nothing, and was barely holding on with coffee! Meanwhile, I now had to add the "adjusted wrong start time" to my previously mentioned fun!-TaoPhoenix (November 02, 2014, 11:30 AM)
...B*gger and b*st*rd are another couple.In NZ as well, mate. ;)-4wd (November 02, 2014, 08:11 PM)
Reminds me of the time I was driving my souped-up MGB Roadster back from the docks, having just picked it up from the wharf where it had landed after being freighted over from the UK. The car was misfiring as I drove it in 3rd gear at the foot of the very steep Kaurangahape Gorge (just outside Wellington). Figuring that the sparkplugs were a bit fouled up, I dropped it down a cog (2nd gear) and booted it, thinking that that should clear the problem (it usually would).
The engine was a small ally Buick 3.5L V8 design (made by Rover UK under license) with high compression heads and fed by a single twin-choke 40DCOE Weber carb (carefully jetted by yours truly). Being ally and a V8, the engine was lighter than the standard cast-iron block, 4-cyl 1,800cc engine that it replaced, and rode more amidships than the 4-cyl block. The latter made it roughly 50-50 weight distribution, and with approx 100bhp output and lighter weight, the original power-to-weight ratio was roughly doubled.
What this meant was that whenever the loud pedal was pressed, the car had an electrifying response. It shot up the long hill at over 100mph and when I finally got to the top I put it into top overdrive and let it idle back to the statutory speed limit. The engine wasn't misfiring anymore.
A minute or so later, an unmarked police car (a Ford GT Cortina) pulled me over.
Apparently I had overtaken it at great speed at the bottom of the hill, and the cop said he couldn't even begin to keep up with me and I was due for a speeding ticket.
I apologised, saying that I had not intentionally been breaking the speed limit, but just wanted to put the engine under load as it was misfiring on a couple of cylinders from sooty plugs.
"A couple of cylinders?!" the cop exclaimed, "But you've only got four in this engine!".
Recognising that he might know a bit about cars, I explained to him what the engine was. The car otherwise looked like a bog standard MGB Roadster - its suspension and other mods were not visible to the onlooker). No bumps in the bonnet or anything. The only inkling that it was different was a slightly larger diameter tailpipe and an inconspicuously small V8 badge on the front grille.
It turned out the cop was a motor enthusiast, and he asked me to lift the bonnet, and when I did so, he said "You sneaky bastard!", but I figured it was said appreciatively.
I got off without a ticket, and was given a verbal warning and told that now they knew what the car was, I wouldn't get off lightly if I was caught speeding.-IainB (November 03, 2014, 01:42 AM)
Hay, now that's a cool story.. :Thmbsup: Here in the states we would call that a sleeper - It doesn't look like much, until the light turns green...and then it's too late. I'm a huge fan of Sleepers. ;)"Sleeper"? I'd not heard that term before. Yes, in UK it's called a "Q-car" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-car). Here it is:-Stoic Joker (November 03, 2014, 01:11 PM)
^^ A friend of mine had a gearhead father who frankensteined a Wankel Rotary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine) into a '65 VW Beetle. Talk about insane power-to-weight ratio...In a Beetle? Sounds like a seriously good conversion. The Wankels were superb engines. A mate of mine in the UK had an old Audi station wagon with 5 cyls whose engine blew up, so he replaced it with a much cheaper rebuilt Wankel rotary engine. It was a very smooth car to drive, well balanced and pretty quick. Much better than the original.
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/SHOCKING.GIF)
He doesn't have it anymore. 360'd around a turn on a mountain road and almost went over, except for the large rock that simultaneously stopped his descent and wiped out the rear 1/4 of the car. Too bad...-Edvard (November 03, 2014, 08:40 PM)
Is anyone else having a hard time imagining IainB as a demon driver? :-[-Renegade (November 04, 2014, 01:31 AM)
Is anyone else having a hard time imagining IainB as a demon driver? :-[-Renegade (November 04, 2014, 01:31 AM)
^^ A friend of mine had a gearhead father who frankensteined a Wankel Rotary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine) into a '65 VW Beetle. Talk about insane power-to-weight ratio...In a Beetle? Sounds like a seriously good conversion. The Wankels were superb engines. A mate of mine in the UK had an old Audi station wagon with 5 cyls whose engine blew up, so he replaced it with a much cheaper rebuilt Wankel rotary engine. It was a very smooth car to drive, well balanced and pretty quick. Much better than the original.
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/SHOCKING.GIF)
He doesn't have it anymore. 360'd around a turn on a mountain road and almost went over, except for the large rock that simultaneously stopped his descent and wiped out the rear 1/4 of the car. Too bad...-Edvard (November 03, 2014, 08:40 PM)-IainB (November 04, 2014, 01:06 AM)
(In Iain's defense) Only the fools that end up as statistics drive wild-eyed and maniacal at speed. Those of us that truly enjoy the experience are completely calm, and even a bit Zen when entering the zone. Driving angry is dangerous (much like fighting angry is) ... Driving fast OTOH, simply takes skill, a bit more concentration...and a lot less time..-Stoic Joker (November 04, 2014, 06:57 AM)
Wish I had some silly humor to bring this thread back to topic, but I'm fresh out. :-[-Edvard (November 04, 2014, 07:59 PM)
I just saw the news story that the Internet Archive and some other people just released a browser based "Internet Arcade" of old classic games. Leaving aside the copyright licensing / abandonware stuff,
...-TaoPhoenix (November 04, 2014, 09:18 PM)
I just saw the news story that the Internet Archive and some other people just released a browser based "Internet Arcade" of old classic games. Leaving aside the copyright licensing / abandonware stuff,
...-TaoPhoenix (November 04, 2014, 09:18 PM)
But that's the big question here. HOW did they get license to so many of these? I mean, it doesn't just play in the browser, you can download the ROM! Last I checked, it was *ahem* technically illegal to own a ROM except under certain conditions (http://www.mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:ROMs). I mean, are they just throwing it up there in hopes that MOST of them stick? Or is this a short-lived experiment in "let's take bets as to how long it'll take before the first DMCA takedown notice gets delivered"?
Either way: So... many... games... (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/SHOCKING.GIF)-Edvard (November 04, 2014, 10:17 PM)
Well, trying not to cut myself shaving with Occam's razor, here's a collation a few of the theories floating from the Slashdot thread mixed with my own:-TaoPhoenix (November 04, 2014, 11:33 PM)
The Gilt Shoe Fix - Stilettos by State (http://tech.gilt.com/post/101291680119/stilettos-by-state-a-gilt-infographic-while)-Arizona Hot (November 06, 2014, 09:50 AM)
Phone addiction is real. And it's everywhere. It's ruining your dates. It's distracting you at concerts. It's disrupting you in movie theaters. It's clogging up sidewalks. Now, there is a real solution.:Thmbsup:
The NoPhone is a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact that allows you to stay connected with the real world.
^Um... o_O I really can't decide if that is hysterically funny, or frightening. However I am thinking of backing it.-Stoic Joker (November 07, 2014, 06:42 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg368608#msg368608))
Which Thanksgiving food are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-thanksgiving/quiz.html)
I'm mashed potatoes.-Arizona Hot (November 08, 2014, 03:01 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg368608#msg368608))
Which Thanksgiving food are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-thanksgiving/quiz.html)
I'm mashed potatoes.-Arizona Hot (November 08, 2014, 03:01 PM)
I am Brussels sprouts.-app103 (November 08, 2014, 08:04 PM)
I'm a cannibal! :P-Renegade (November 09, 2014, 01:01 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg368608#msg368608))
Which Thanksgiving food are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-thanksgiving/quiz.html)
I'm mashed potatoes.-Arizona Hot (November 08, 2014, 03:01 PM)
Amazon Echo: What Amazon says about their new whatchamacallit thingie - Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It's always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Echo begins working as soon as it hears you say the wake word, "Alexa." It's also an expertly-tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound.
Here's a funny remix that shows what Echo might do.
Jim-J-Mac (November 10, 2014, 12:29 AM)
The story behind Star Wars from the Empire's perspective...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg368981#msg368981))-Renegade (November 13, 2014, 04:40 PM)
The story behind Star Wars from the Empire's perspective...
-Renegade (November 13, 2014, 04:40 PM)
Like many citizens, I have many questions that I would like answered: was the mighty Imperial government really too incompetent to prevent a handful of untrained nerf-herders from destroying one of their most prized assets? Or are they hiding something from us? Who was really behind the attack? Why did they want the Death Star destroyed? No matter what the answers, we have a problem.
Below is a summary of my book, Uncomfortable Questions: An Analysis of the Death Star Attack, which presents compelling evidence that we all may be the victims of a fraud of immense proportions.
Things IT people never say:
"Well, that upgrade went smoothly..."-Edvard (November 13, 2014, 07:40 PM)
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Am I the only person getting this?
It seems to be an IE 11 problem. I don't have this problem in Chrome 38.-Arizona Hot (November 13, 2014, 11:07 PM)
Played fine for me in IE 11.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 06:56 AM)
Played fine for me in IE 11.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 06:56 AM)
I think the source is the latest Window Update(last Wednesday). It only seems to be a small problem and only here.-Arizona Hot (November 14, 2014, 10:24 AM)
Played fine for me in IE 11.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 06:56 AM)
I think the source is the latest Window Update(last Wednesday). It only seems to be a small problem and only here.-Arizona Hot (November 14, 2014, 10:24 AM)
Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)
Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)
Played fine for me in IE 11.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 06:56 AM)
I think the source is the latest Window Update(last Wednesday). It only seems to be a small problem and only here.-Arizona Hot (November 14, 2014, 10:24 AM)
Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)
Are you sure it isn't because you are a very strange person?-Arizona Hot (November 15, 2014, 12:36 AM)
Played fine for me in IE 11.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 06:56 AM)
I think the source is the latest Window Update(last Wednesday). It only seems to be a small problem and only here.-Arizona Hot (November 14, 2014, 10:24 AM)
Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)Just got the updates caught up and tried again. It still plays. Although I had to disable MS EMET to get IE to load for some (very strange) reason.-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2014, 12:25 PM)
Are you sure it isn't because you are a very strange person?-Arizona Hot (November 15, 2014, 12:36 AM)
That's not the prevailing theory...but I'm not ruling anything out just yet.. :)
I had MS EMET on a very aggressive setting, so I'm guessing that it just was not allowing some post update first run modification to the browser. So I disabled its checks for IE briefly to get it to load, and then re-enabled them. *Shrug* All is fine now, so I'm just going to go with it for the moment.-Stoic Joker (November 15, 2014, 07:49 AM)
The story behind Star Wars from the Empire's perspective...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg368981#msg368981))-Renegade (November 13, 2014, 04:40 PM)
You do realize you just took a big shit in you own conspiracy theorist's Easter Basket...Right??
:D-Stoic Joker (November 13, 2014, 06:10 PM)
Negative Electrostatic Charisma?-app103 (November 15, 2014, 02:21 PM)
Negative Electrostatic Charisma?-app103 (November 15, 2014, 02:21 PM)
What happens if you bump into someone with Positive Electrostatic Charisma?-Arizona Hot (November 15, 2014, 10:23 PM)
| Temperature | Not Canada | Canada |
| 50° Fahrenheit (10° C) | Californians shiver uncontrollably. | Canadians plant gardens. |
| 35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C) | Floridians buy down parkas and cry a lot... | Canadians drive with the windows down |
| 32° Fahrenheit (0° C) | American water freezes | Canadian water gets thicker. |
| 0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C) | New York City landlords finally turn on the heat. | Canadians have the last cookout of the season. |
| -60° Fahrenheit (-51° C) | Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. | Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door. |
| -109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C) | Carbon dioxide freezes & makes dry ice. | Canadians pull down their earflaps & zip up their parka. |
| -173° Fahrenheit (-114° C) | Ethyl alcohol freezes. | Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg |
| -459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C) | Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops. | Canadians start saying "pretty cold, eh?" |
| -500° Fahrenheit (-295° C) | Hell freezes over. | The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup |
This would be a great prank to play on someone. Do this to all their eggs and put them back in the fridge, without cooking them. :D-app103 (November 16, 2014, 04:02 PM)
I SOOOO have to try that! :D :Thmbsup-Renegade (November 16, 2014, 10:28 PM)
^ :Thmbsup: ...
That belongs in the code humour thread!-Renegade (November 18, 2014, 01:15 AM)
I made this:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg369374#msg369374))-Deozaan (November 18, 2014, 11:16 AM)
I made this:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg369374#msg369374))-Deozaan (November 18, 2014, 11:16 AM)
Very droll, thanks. The only comment I could suggest is the quote:
"You didn't make that!"
;)-IainB (November 18, 2014, 02:23 PM)
I made this:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg369374#msg369374))-Deozaan (November 18, 2014, 11:16 AM)
Very droll, thanks. The only comment I could suggest is the quote:
"You didn't make that!"
;)-IainB (November 18, 2014, 02:23 PM)
I made this:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg369374#msg369374))-Deozaan (November 18, 2014, 11:16 AM)
Very droll, thanks. The only comment I could suggest is the quote:
"You didn't make that!"
;)-IainB (November 18, 2014, 02:23 PM)
(Note that even though I quoted you, IanB, this isn't necessarily meant as a direct reply to you. The quote was just to give context to what I'm blabbering on about.)
It's a satire on the mindset of people who--especially with the anonymity of the internet--claim someone else's work as their own. There's a difference between saying "Isn't this cool?" and not attributing the proper source, and saying "Look at this cool thing I made." Claiming other people's work as your own is just inexplicable. :huh:
And full disclosure just in case it wasn't clear: I didn't actually make that image. I was just playing along with the joke. ;)-Deozaan (November 19, 2014, 01:36 AM)
Just a random comment:^Asian dramas with English subtitles.
What if there was a super-proofed show, your choice of genre, with virtually no horrible bloopers? It's okay if episodes took longer than a week. (Think movies - TV shows produce 13-25 hours, movies are only two?!)
Instead of wasting the $40 million on CGI, use it to pull/poll a ton of pundits, experts, and flaw-finders to make sure everything is darn near perfect. (Prob can't use Homeland Security because they purposefully corrupt the TV shows to make sure their real tech isn't precisely shown!!)
I'd even go for the British model of "6 episodes per season", but with American budgets, just to have a show smash the bounds of getting the little details right!
:Thmbsup:
You could prob do five of these, each in its own genre.-TaoPhoenix (November 20, 2014, 10:19 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=87537;image)-Giampy (November 20, 2014, 11:32 AM)
Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time (Extended Cut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBAZJ4lF0U&feature=youtu.be-Renegade (November 20, 2014, 08:38 AM)
Is DonationCoder getting the same amount of snow as Buffalo?-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2014, 08:31 PM)
Is DonationCoder getting the same amount of snow as Buffalo?-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2014, 08:31 PM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=87537;image)-Giampy (November 20, 2014, 11:32 AM)
said the grannies from Ren's post above
Durn, new page - here it is:Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time (Extended Cut)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBAZJ4lF0U&feature=youtu.be-Renegade (November 20, 2014, 08:38 AM)-tomos (November 20, 2014, 02:13 PM)
I just had a nice, demented conversation with Racter. The main problem with doing that is that it is a 16-bit DOS program. Does anyone here still have and can run Racter? I needed D-Fend-Reloaded-1.4.2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dfendreloaded/?source=typ_redirect) in order to do it. I never thought that there was a DOS program that Win XP didn't like. I guess it draws the line at 16-bit programs. Does anyone here know of any sites that run on a 16-bit DOS system?-Arizona Hot (November 26, 2014, 03:51 PM)
Situations where it’s okay to laugh when you’re covered in blood
1. You’re a newborn baby.
2. You’ve just delivered a newborn baby and everyone else has started laughing from pure joy.
3. You’re a bear and you’re great at being who you are.
4. You’re an actor working with a director who a) insists on using real pig’s blood during scenes involving blood and b) jokingly sprays people with blood between takes.
5. You’re a very good MMA fighter.
6. You’ve just made the Iron Chef blooper reel.
7. You’re a butcher and a colleague has engaged with you in witty banter.
8. You deserved it.
9. It’s the 1300s.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370004#msg370004))-Giampy (November 26, 2014, 07:48 AM)
As the father of two teenagers, I found this book invaluable. I'm sure other parents here can empathize when I say I shudder at the thought of the increasing presence of huge ships in the lives my children. I certainly remember the strain I caused so long ago for my own parents when I began experimenting with huge ships. The long inter-continental voyages that kept my mom and dad up all night with worry. Don't even get me started on the international protocols when transporting perishable cargo. To think, I was even younger than my kids are now! huge ships are everywhere and it doesn't help that the TV and movies make huge ships seem glamorous and cool. This book helped me really approach the subject of huge ships with my kids in an honest and non judgmental way. Because of the insights this book provided, I can sleep a little better and cope with the reality that I can't always be there to protect my kids from huge ships, especially as they become adults. I'm confident that my teens, when confronted by a huge ship, are much better prepared to make wiser decisions than I did. At the very least my children certainly know that they can always come to me if they have any concerns, questions or just need my support when it comes to the topic of huge ships.
I make a living by hitting things with my Huge Ship. This book is absolutely DESTROYING my business! Please do not buy this!
I live near a park and frequently walk around the local area. Given the amount of dog mess that is on the pavements I thought this book would be the ideal read to stop me having to scrape my shoes on the grass before going home. It was only after it arrived that I looked closely at the title and realised it said 'How to Avoid Huge SHIPS'. A simple error that means I am still treading on massive examples of canine excrement. Having said that, I read the book anyway, and I'm pleased to say I'm not even having near misses with huge ships anymore. No sir, they aint getting anywhere near me!
Which throwback holiday character are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-holiday/quiz.html)
I haven't given my results from this quiz on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me. Were your results any better?-Arizona Hot (November 29, 2014, 09:02 PM)
Which throwback holiday character are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-holiday/quiz.html)
I haven't given my results from this quiz on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me. Were your results any better?-Arizona Hot (November 29, 2014, 09:02 PM)
Linus Van Pelt. Yeah, sounds about right... :-[-Edvard (November 30, 2014, 12:38 PM)
LINUS VAN PELT, 'A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS'
You know what the holidays are really about. Rather than get wrapped up in the presents and decorations, you like to keep things simple and focus on the true meaning of the season.
Yukon Cornelius, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
For you, the holiday season is all about getting outside and being active. Sitting by the fire is nice and all, but wouldn't you rather spend the day in the mountains? The snow comes only once a year — better make the best of it!
Yukon Cornelius, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
For you, the holiday season is all about getting outside and being active. Sitting by the fire is nice and all, but wouldn't you rather spend the day in the mountains? The snow comes only once a year — better make the best of it!
What snow?-4wd (November 30, 2014, 08:13 PM)
I once saw a tiny bit of it up Dandenong mountain in the dead of winter! Honest! I have pics around somewhere... (I was pretty amazed.)-Renegade (November 30, 2014, 10:45 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370263#msg370263))
Which throwback holiday character are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-holiday/quiz.html)
I haven't given my results from this quiz on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me. Were your results any better?-Arizona Hot (November 29, 2014, 09:02 PM)
I once saw a tiny bit of it up Dandenong mountain in the dead of winter! Honest! I have pics around somewhere... (I was pretty amazed.)-Renegade (November 30, 2014, 10:45 PM)
From Toorak? I'm amazed you could see Mt Dandenong through the trees and buildings :P-4wd (November 30, 2014, 11:13 PM)
+1 for programming naked! It keeps unwanted visitors/interruptions to a bare minimum.. ;)-Stoic Joker (December 01, 2014, 11:33 AM)
Not to mention game programmers would gain direct access to the joystick. ;)-MilesAhead (December 01, 2014, 11:44 AM)
+1 for programming naked! It keeps unwanted visitors/interruptions to a bare minimum.. ;)-Stoic Joker (December 01, 2014, 11:33 AM)
Not to mention game programmers would gain direct access to the joystick. ;)-MilesAhead (December 01, 2014, 11:44 AM)
The internet is for ... joysticks!
http://kotaku.com/5982725/a-penis-powered-controller-that-looks-familiar
8)-TaoPhoenix (December 01, 2014, 04:16 PM)
Don't read the next phrase.
You are a rebel. I like you.-Giampy (December 03, 2014, 03:45 PM)
Which throwback holiday character are you? (http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/quizzes/2014/quiz-holiday/quiz.html)
I haven't given my results from this quiz on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me. Were your results any better?-Arizona Hot (November 29, 2014, 09:02 PM)
The Rat's Point Of View
A Lab Rat had one of his buddies over for a visit. While showing off his maze to his pal the guest rat noticed a guy wearing a white lab coat. "Who's the guy in the smock?" he asked the host. The host replied "He's my servant. I merely ring the bell and he feeds me. Would you like some fresh cheese?" "Sure" replied the guest. Ding ding ding.-MilesAhead (December 05, 2014, 03:33 PM)
Is there a zombie movie where the outbreak is caused by a computer virus?-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 02:45 PM)
Is there a zombie movie where the outbreak is caused by a computer virus?-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 02:45 PM)
Is there a Zombie movie where the Zombies look better dead than alive?-MilesAhead (December 06, 2014, 03:25 PM)
Is there a zombie movie where the outbreak is caused by a computer virus?-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 02:45 PM)
Is there a zombie movie where the outbreak is caused by a computer virus?-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 02:45 PM)
No, but there is Apple. Does that count? :P ;D-Renegade (December 07, 2014, 02:14 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
Oh, and that's a grammar error that gives me the same physical reaction as nails on a blackboard! :o-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:08 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
Oh, and that's a grammar error that gives me the same physical reaction as nails on a blackboard! :o-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:08 AM)
.. so you must cringe a lot when you're here? ;D-crabby3 (December 07, 2014, 05:28 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
Oh, and that's a grammar error that gives me the same physical reaction as nails on a blackboard! :o-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:08 AM)
.. so you must cringe a lot when you're here? ;D-crabby3 (December 07, 2014, 05:28 AM)
I cringe a lot, in general. I don't keep track of where, any more.-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:50 AM)
How about a zombie movie where the characters like and prefer being zombies.
Where they are intellectually-superior creatures, frustrated because their favorite delicacy: brains take such tight co-ordination and teamwork to get and because of this have to be shared among so many people you only get a small portion of the gourmet treat. You don't know how much planning and effort it takes to get it. Ordinary people make it so hard to get their brain. If they only knew how delicious they are.-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 07:02 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370845#msg370845))
(Sigh). Easy on the eye, but hard on the grammar. So much for crowd-sourcing of knowledge...
At least the spelling is OK.-IainB (December 07, 2014, 03:35 AM)
Oh, and that's a grammar error that gives me the same physical reaction as nails on a blackboard! :o-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:08 AM)
.. so you must cringe a lot when you're here? ;D-crabby3 (December 07, 2014, 05:28 AM)
I cringe a lot, in general. I don't keep track of where, any more.-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:50 AM)
.. oddly enough... this doesn't bother me at all... :huh: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg370854#msg370854))-crabby3 (December 07, 2014, 06:17 AM)
... what's the point or reason behind changing the Topic Title in a reply? I don't get it... :huh:Because I can, I suppose, but generally as an attempt to give the joke (or post) a more easily identifiable and meaningful/relevant subject line - e.g., (say) other than "Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]". I mean, how dreary is that? :tellme:-crabby3 (December 07, 2014, 05:00 AM)
...Oh, and that's a grammar error that gives me the same physical reaction as nails on a blackboard! :oYes, absolutely, and given that it was in a supposed "teaching" context on that website, it seemed doubly scratchy/cringeworthy to me.-app103 (December 07, 2014, 05:08 AM)
...Hmm, if it were 9 one inch nails I wonder if music would be produced?Har-de-har-har, a very punny point you drive home there, @MilesAhead. ;D-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 09:59 AM)
(there must be a term for it like a la carte but I'm not schooled in Haute cuisine.)-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 09:50 AM)
This is a fun one from Stevie Riks.
A respectful - yet refreshingly light-hearted version of one of the most popular (to say nothing of self-righteous and somewhat condescending) Christmas standards of them all. Hey...Bob Geldof had a hand in writing the song. What can I say?
How many pop stars can you identify? :Thmbsup:-40hz (December 07, 2014, 01:12 PM)
Is it just me or are posts missing links lately?-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 04:43 PM)
-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 04:43 PM)
Is it just me or are posts missing links lately?-40hz (December 07, 2014, 04:59 PM)
To put it another way, was there a link in your post about Riks?-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 04:43 PM)
^Good to know. I wasn't aware of that. But I just checked and I used http not https so it wasn't that.-40hz (December 07, 2014, 10:59 PM)
What they need are a few rain forest zombies skilled in hunting monkeys with those little silent bows and arrows. Also they could teach their contemporaries the culinary skills required to serve the brains in skull(there must be a term for it like a la carte but I'm not schooled in Haute cuisine.) :)-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 09:50 AM)
What they need are a few rain forest zombies skilled in hunting monkeys with those little silent bows and arrows. Also they could teach their contemporaries the culinary skills required to serve the brains in skull(there must be a term for it like a la carte but I'm not schooled in Haute cuisine.) :)-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 09:50 AM)
That would prolly be a skullet - assuming fried or baked brains, of course :-\. Otherwise, consult Indiana Jones (Temple of Doom) for chilled monkey brains as a dessert guide.-barney (December 08, 2014, 12:54 AM)
Don't use HTTPS to view DonationCoder not don't use it in links-4wd (December 08, 2014, 12:20 AM)
Hmm, I'm not using https and it still shows blank space where people are obviously referring to something that should be where the blank line(s) are.-MilesAhead (December 08, 2014, 05:31 AM)
How about a zombie movie where the characters like and prefer being zombies.
Where they are intellectually-superior creatures, frustrated because their favorite delicacy: brains take such tight co-ordination and teamwork to get and because of this have to be shared among so many people you only get a small portion of the gourmet treat. You don't know how much planning and effort it takes to get it. Ordinary people make it so hard to get their brain. If they only knew how delicious they are.-Arizona Hot (December 06, 2014, 07:02 PM)
What they need are a few rain forest zombies skilled in hunting monkeys with those little silent bows and arrows. Also they could teach their contemporaries the culinary skills required to serve the brains in skull(there must be a term for it like a la carte but I'm not schooled in Haute cuisine.) :)-MilesAhead (December 07, 2014, 09:50 AM)
Don't use HTTPS to view DonationCoder not don't use it in links :)-4wd (December 08, 2014, 12:20 AM)
But the most flavorful brains are human brains. All the best flavor comes from knowledge and experience, which humans have more of than monkeys.-Arizona Hot (December 08, 2014, 09:10 AM)
Hmm, I'm not using https and it still shows blank space where people are obviously referring to something that should be where the blank line(s) are.-MilesAhead (December 08, 2014, 05:31 AM)
The next obvious question is then: What addons are you using that could cause it?
Have you tried Firefox Safe Mode, (hold down Shift while executing)?-4wd (December 08, 2014, 05:40 AM)
Makes a great stocking stuffer? :huh:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QS6W0I/-app103 (December 10, 2014, 03:47 AM)
I used to wonder about this myself...-40hz (December 08, 2014, 07:06 PM)
It's a NO-FLAKE!-app103 (December 09, 2014, 06:50 AM)
This may be here already... but i think it's worth a repost ;D
The Greatest Christmas Decoration Ever! (http://shorterandsweeter.blogspot.com/2009/12/greatest-christmas-decoration-ever.html)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371115#msg371115))-crabby3 (December 10, 2014, 09:41 AM)
Original Title: IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
- No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
- There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census)rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
- Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc.
- This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
- The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
- 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion -- If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
It's almost Christmas, so it must be time to look at physics!-Renegade (December 12, 2014, 05:56 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371245#msg371245))
Teen Tattoos McDonald's Receipt on His Arm, a Week Later Tattoos the Tattoo Receipt on His Other Arm (http://www.eonline.com/news/528117/teen-tattoos-mcdonald-s-receipt-on-his-arm-a-week-later-tattoos-t)-Arizona Hot (December 11, 2014, 04:40 PM)
Apparently "loyal" is Norweigian for "stupid."
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371245#msg371245))
Teen Tattoos McDonald's Receipt on His Arm, a Week Later Tattoos the Tattoo Receipt on His Other Arm (http://www.eonline.com/news/528117/teen-tattoos-mcdonald-s-receipt-on-his-arm-a-week-later-tattoos-t)-Arizona Hot (December 11, 2014, 04:40 PM)
For some, peer pressure is hard to overcome but I have to agree with the last line -Apparently "loyal" is Norweigian for "stupid."
I suppose it could have been worse; Barbie doll or jump off a building. ;D-crabby3 (December 12, 2014, 08:01 AM)
It's almost Christmas, so it must be time to look at physics!-Renegade (December 12, 2014, 05:56 AM)
Considering I first read that almost 40 years ago, you have a lot of catching up to do :P-4wd (December 12, 2014, 06:49 AM)
It's almost Christmas, so it must be time to look at physics!-Renegade (December 12, 2014, 05:56 AM)
Considering I first read that almost 40 years ago, you have a lot of catching up to do :P-4wd (December 12, 2014, 06:49 AM)
No known species of reindeer can fly
^ I thought that his sleigh was really just a Tardis and that he delivered presents one-by-one all at the same time.-Renegade (December 12, 2014, 05:10 PM)
Cool Winter Hats :)-crabby3 (December 15, 2014, 01:48 PM)
I have two greyhounds who desperately need that hat.
(http://i.imgur.com/RmdgTvG.jpg)-Renegade (December 16, 2014, 03:10 AM)
Please don't tell me this is a real sign...
(http://i.imgur.com/ybyAI8T.jpg)-Renegade (December 16, 2014, 05:45 AM)
Guantanamo ketchup:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371567#msg371567))-Renegade (December 16, 2014, 07:55 AM)
Speaking of breakfast :o (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371705#msg371705))-crabby3 (December 18, 2014, 07:20 AM)
Speaking of carrots .. :P (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371707#msg371707))-crabby3 (December 18, 2014, 07:28 AM)
Speaking of carrots .. :P (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371707#msg371707))-crabby3 (December 18, 2014, 07:28 AM)
Oh cripes... That's even funnier~! ;D
Have you heard "Disgustipated"? It totally fits that!-Renegade (December 18, 2014, 07:41 AM)
Speaking of carrots .. :P (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371707#msg371707))-crabby3 (December 18, 2014, 07:28 AM)
Oh cripes... That's even funnier~! ;D
Have you heard "Disgustipated"? It totally fits that!-Renegade (December 18, 2014, 07:41 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371789#msg371789))
Obviously satirical humor since absolute zero is –459.67 degrees F.-Arizona Hot (December 19, 2014, 11:14 AM)
.. new cereal :)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371795#msg371795))-crabby3 (December 19, 2014, 11:49 AM)
Never argue with an idiot... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience!
.. this accurate enough fer ya ;DThese and the earlier "Crayola Crayon Colors For Adults" can be found at Funny CRAYOLA Pictures, Videos, and Articles on CollegeHumor (http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/crayola)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg371791#msg371791))-crabby3 (December 19, 2014, 11:21 AM)
I'm sure this is old. It has to be! But I've never seen it before:Never argue with an idiot... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience!-wraith808 (December 19, 2014, 01:53 PM)
. they left off bap-bap-crabby3 (December 22, 2014, 02:25 PM)
The Comma Sutra:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372318#msg372318))-40hz (December 28, 2014, 12:32 PM)
The Comma Sutra:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372318#msg372318))-40hz (December 28, 2014, 12:32 PM)
Enough to fall into a coma !-MerleOne (December 28, 2014, 03:25 PM)
The Comma Sutra:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372318#msg372318))-40hz (December 28, 2014, 12:32 PM)
Enough to fall into a coma !-MerleOne (December 28, 2014, 03:25 PM)
I'm sure the apostrophe feels left out. But it's his own fault for being so possessive.-MilesAhead (December 28, 2014, 03:47 PM)
:D :up:The Comma Sutra:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372318#msg372318))-40hz (December 28, 2014, 12:32 PM)
Enough to fall into a coma !-MerleOne (December 28, 2014, 03:25 PM)
I'm sure the apostrophe feels left out. But it's his own fault for being so possessive.-MilesAhead (December 28, 2014, 03:47 PM)
To say nothing of being "the crux of the biscuit." ;)-40hz (December 28, 2014, 05:45 PM)
The Comma Sutra:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372318#msg372318))-40hz (December 28, 2014, 12:32 PM)
Enough to fall into a coma !-MerleOne (December 28, 2014, 03:25 PM)
I'm sure the apostrophe feels left out. But it's his own fault for being so possessive.-MilesAhead (December 28, 2014, 03:47 PM)
To say nothing of being "the crux of the biscuit." ;)-40hz (December 28, 2014, 05:45 PM)
...lost in translation
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372311#msg372311))-crabby3 (December 28, 2014, 08:50 AM)
...lost in translation
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372311#msg372311))-crabby3 (December 28, 2014, 08:50 AM)
Crabby, does that say he has an M.O. from the University of Verbatim, or did he get his B.%. there? :P-x16wda (December 29, 2014, 06:59 AM)
You peaked my curiosity :) and google gave me this (http://i.imgur.com/Xq9yqJc.jpg)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372366#msg372366))-crabby3 (December 28, 2014, 08:50 AM)
You peaked my curiosity :) and google gave me this (http://i.imgur.com/Xq9yqJc.jpg)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372366#msg372366))-crabby3 (December 28, 2014, 08:50 AM)
Seems to be a precursor to the way Yoda spoke in Star Wars :-\ :P.-barney (December 29, 2014, 11:50 AM)
Does Finland actually exist? (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qjohv/what_did_your_parents_show_you_to_do_that_you/cn6pn30?context=2)-app103 (December 30, 2014, 01:00 AM)
App, you gotta admit, that pooper story was pretty funny in a messed up way! :D-Renegade (December 30, 2014, 08:27 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=88657;image)
This one cracks me up. :)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:22 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=88657;image)
This one cracks me up. :)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:22 AM)
Isn't that the Walmart-application computer?!? -- nice :)-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 11:36 AM)
Maybe this just shows that Wal-Mart is ripping (off) its customers...(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=88657;image)
This one cracks me up. :)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:22 AM)
Isn't that the Walmart-application computer?!? -- nice :)-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 11:36 AM)
I just figured she ripped it trying it on. The old anti-theft spycam in the changing room shot.
Either that or it's a new design for those too lazy to unbutton their pants when using the commode?-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:56 AM)
Maybe this just shows that Wal-Mart is ripping (off) its customers...(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=88657;image)
This one cracks me up. :)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:22 AM)
Isn't that the Walmart-application computer?!? -- nice :)-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 11:36 AM)
I just figured she ripped it trying it on. The old anti-theft spycam in the changing room shot.
Either that or it's a new design for those too lazy to unbutton their pants when using the commode?-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:56 AM)-MerleOne (December 30, 2014, 12:08 PM)
I always thought Walgreens had over-priced instant coffee; that is until i went to Walmart.
Same brand and quantity but Walmart wanted about three bucks more than Walgreens.
'Save money, live better'? yea.. right. ;D-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 12:33 PM)
I always thought Walgreens had over-priced instant coffee; that is until i went to Walmart.
Same brand and quantity but Walmart wanted about three bucks more than Walgreens.
'Save money, live better'? yea.. right. ;D-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 12:33 PM)
The problem with Walgreens is that none of their sale prices apply if you don't have one of their member cards.
I went to get something there last week and ended up picking up a dozen "on sale" items. When these items rang up significantly higher than I expected, I was informed (with a smug smile) that: "You have to have a Walgreens card to get the sale price." Had I been offered the opportunity to request a card at that point I might not have been annoyed, and probably would have played along. But this particular cashier shot a smile over to the cashier across the aisle, stepped back, crossed her arms, and then asked: "Do you still want them?"
I told her to forget it and just void my entire purchase.
At least I had the satisfaction of seeing the befuddled look on her face and hearing her say "You're kidding?" before I walked out.
I doubt I'll go back.-40hz (December 30, 2014, 03:21 PM)
Maybe this just shows that Wal-Mart is ripping (off) its customers...(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16974.0;attach=88657;image)
This one cracks me up. :)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:22 AM)
Isn't that the Walmart-application computer?!? -- nice :)-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 11:36 AM)
I just figured she ripped it trying it on. The old anti-theft spycam in the changing room shot.
Either that or it's a new design for those too lazy to unbutton their pants when using the commode?-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 11:56 AM)-MerleOne (December 30, 2014, 12:08 PM)
I always thought Walgreens had over-priced instant coffee; that is until i went to Walmart.
Same brand and quantity but Walmart wanted about three bucks more than Walgreens.
'Save money, live better'? yea.. right. ;D-crabby3 (December 30, 2014, 12:33 PM)
The problem with Walgreens is that none of their sale prices apply if you don't have one of their member cards.-40hz
Speaking of food .
Speaking of food .
That's funny. But I think I would have gone with
People who bought (jar of peanut butter)
also bought (jar of jelly)-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 05:36 PM)
There are 137 more pictures at the link. Anyone want to admit to looking at those?-Arizona Hot (December 30, 2014, 11:15 AM)
It’s about that time for me again: my desktop is a couple years part its prime and my laptop just died (no display, no hard drive activity, no wifi, and a recent history of turning off suddenly for no good reason – those are all bad signs, right?), which means the near future holds a new PC for me. Which means a blank slate on which to impose my computer-using will.
Setting up a new computer goes through five stages:
Denial: I’ve got a new computer. Nothing can go wrong now!
Anger: No, I don’t want to subscribe to AOL. No, I don’t want Norton updates. No, I don’t want a 60-day trial of Office 2007. There are HOW MANY security updates?!
Bargaining: I’d do anything to be able to use this thing!
Depression: I’ve been uninstalling Norton components for 17 hours now. If I have to restart the PC one more time, I swear I’ll kill myself… All I want to do is update Twitter!
Acceptance: OK, let’s install some good stuff now!
Why do they have to scan a bar code off a card except to piss you off if you don't have the card on you?-MilesAhead (December 30, 2014, 04:50 PM)
How to win...
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372512#msg372512))-app103 (December 31, 2014, 11:18 AM)
Ethnic joke:
An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Luxembourger, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Ni Vanuatu, a Nepalese, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Mongolian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Finn, a Canadian, a Slovenian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Malagasy, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, a Zimbabwean and several other Africans, all walk into a fine restaurant.
"I'm sorry," said the Maitre D', after scrutinizing the group, "but you can't come in here without a Thai."-IainB (December 31, 2014, 07:36 PM)
Iain, did you just succeed in annoying the *entire world*!?_________________________
:tellme: ;)-TaoPhoenix (December 31, 2014, 11:44 PM)
Ethnic joke:
An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Luxembourger, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Ni Vanuatu, a Nepalese, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Mongolian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Finn, a Canadian, a Slovenian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Malagasy, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, a Zimbabwean and several other Africans, all walk into a fine restaurant.
"I'm sorry," said the Maitre D', after scrutinizing the group, "but you can't come in here without a Thai."-IainB (December 31, 2014, 07:36 PM)
Definitely a shaggy dog joke.-Arizona Hot (January 01, 2015, 04:41 PM)
^ that could be a cool organic hand warmer. A mitten and a kitten on each hand. :)-MilesAhead (January 07, 2015, 05:46 AM)
Excuse me while i feed my mittens-crabby3 (January 09, 2015, 04:32 PM)
"Thanks for contacting us about this job. You already passed the typing test."
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg372942#msg372942))-app103 (January 08, 2015, 10:46 AM)
^ Might want to check those projectiles... looks like some men might be giving their all to make them. ;D-wraith808 (January 10, 2015, 09:38 AM)
^ Might want to check those projectiles... looks like some men might be giving their all to make them. ;D-wraith808 (January 10, 2015, 09:38 AM)
^ Might want to check those projectiles... looks like some men might be giving their all to make them. ;D-wraith808 (January 10, 2015, 09:38 AM)
Just a reference to 2001, A Space Odyssey space ship ? Or not.-MerleOne (January 10, 2015, 09:55 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373152#msg373152))-Edvard (January 10, 2015, 09:12 PM)
And this also at funnyjunk, for @Renegade and his trigger-happy ilk: Norwegian Pride (http://funnyjunk.com/Norwegian+pride/movies/5418530/)-IainB (January 12, 2015, 08:17 AM)
@MilesAhead :)
"E = MC Hammer."
-- Albert Einstein-crabby3 (January 14, 2015, 07:05 AM)
I'm putting this here because nobody here takes Windows 8.1 seriously(presuming this only works there).
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373394#msg373394))
My Country app for Windows in the Windows Store (http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/f4203aec-74b8-4702-90eb-fc9bb67c91c9)-Arizona Hot (January 13, 2015, 08:44 PM)
I thought it looked familiar...it's a Facebook game.
http://www.game-insight.com/en/games/my-country-app103 (January 14, 2015, 09:24 AM)
I thought it looked familiar...it's a Facebook game.
http://www.game-insight.com/en/games/my-country-app103 (January 14, 2015, 09:24 AM)
Can these games be played offline? When looking at 'Enchanted Realm', my first thought was "I wonder how many people play cross-gender?"
"I want a computer that will drive them crazy. I want a computer that will drive them mad." Number#1 song of mad scientists. Apologies to John Cougar Mellencamp .-Arizona Hot (January 14, 2015, 04:38 PM)
Do any women here get fe-mail?I dunno, but some of them probably get hotmail...-Arizona Hot (January 14, 2015, 06:48 PM)
^So... Having a "Close Friend", that you like to "Get High" with...is now an inside joke..-Stoic Joker (January 15, 2015, 02:37 PM)
^So... Having a "Close Friend", that you like to "Get High" with...is now an inside joke..-Stoic Joker (January 15, 2015, 02:37 PM)
.. or maybe inside joke .. :)-crabby3 (January 15, 2015, 02:41 PM)
Isn't called the godwin point or something like that (sorry, late here, no time to google...).-MerleOne (January 15, 2015, 05:48 PM)
Eh... I think it depends on context. And along those lines, silly humor from tosh.0
http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/erckcq/is-it-racist----slurs
Low Quality version from youtube..-wraith808 (January 15, 2015, 08:46 PM)
Yes, perception and political correctness. I think you could try to define these things as being "patterns of behaviour", but I'm not sure that psychologists would necessarily be able to agree with that without at least some better definition. The problem is that, in usage, such terms often seem to be merely clichéd ad hominem attacks - simplistic and pejorative labels which appear to be intended to force other people to maintain the labeller's paradigm or cognitive bias - i.e., it becomes mandatory that the thing being labelled be perceived in that light. If one does not perceive the thing in the "correct" light, then one is punished by the pejorative label being applied to oneself, either directly or by implication - e.g., "If you can't see that that is a racist thing to do/say, then you must be a racist also" (which is a non-sequitur). This would seem to be irrational.Eh... I think it depends on context. And along those lines, silly humor from tosh.0Interesting experiment that is ... I think it speaks volumes about the current hyper-reactive -(PC)- trend our society has devolved into of looking for things to be offended by. Sure intent unknown some things might - by inflection - sound insulting...but racist?? No. Racist/sexist/elitist/whatever are all patterns of behavior, not terms or phrases.
http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/erckcq/is-it-racist----slurs
Low Quality version from youtube..
_______________________________-wraith808 (January 15, 2015, 08:46 PM)-Stoic Joker (January 16, 2015, 11:30 AM)
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."
(Texas A&M website)
I have added a ringed image below the invisible cat picture above, so that you can spot the tabby cat there.
The image of the cat is not the clearest, but it is more easily seen with a magnifying glass (as opposed to digitally enlarging it). Sharpening it also helps, but that also distorts some of the image.
@crabby3: You must have copied and saved the image, resulting in some lossiness, so you can barely discern the cat in the lossy image.-IainB (January 17, 2015, 10:30 AM)
The next time you need to point out or be a grammar Nazi...-Renegade (January 15, 2015, 05:41 PM)
Yes, perception and political correctness. I think you could try to define these things as being "patterns of behaviour", but I'm not sure that psychologists would necessarily be able to agree with that without at least some better definition. The problem is that, in usage, such terms often seem to be merely clichéd ad hominem attacks - simplistic and pejorative labels which appear to be intended to force other people to maintain the labeller's paradigm or cognitive bias - i.e., it becomes mandatory that the thing being labelled be perceived in that light. If one does not perceive the thing in the "correct" light, then one is punished by the pejorative label being applied to oneself, either directly or by implication - e.g., "If you can't see that that is a racist thing to do/say, then you must be a racist also" (which is a non-sequitur). This would seem to be irrational.-IainB (January 17, 2015, 11:02 AM)
Yes, perception and political correctness. I think you could try to define these things as being "patterns of behaviour", but I'm not sure that psychologists would necessarily be able to agree with that without at least some better definition. The problem is that, in usage, such terms often seem to be merely clichéd ad hominem attacks - simplistic and pejorative labels which appear to be intended to force other people to maintain the labeller's paradigm or cognitive bias - i.e., it becomes mandatory that the thing being labelled be perceived in that light. If one does not perceive the thing in the "correct" light, then one is punished by the pejorative label being applied to oneself, either directly or by implication - e.g., "If you can't see that that is a racist thing to do/say, then you must be a racist also" (which is a non-sequitur). This would seem to be irrational.-IainB (January 17, 2015, 11:02 AM)
The psychologists are right to object to things as vague as "patterns of behavior". That's a slightly aggressively creepy way for putting a negative slant on anything that isn't "crazier than a nutcase loon playing a chaotic random D&D character in real life"!
:tellme:
I'll try to add a new angle: political correctness especially pays overt attention to the differences between denotation and connotation, and also creates "excluded middle" fallacies. So you don't have to see things in the PC label's context, but it then forces you to then use it as the "anti" opposite.-TaoPhoenix (January 17, 2015, 12:44 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
...Crap, I can really respond to this properly without going radically outside the intent on the thread. Perhaps it would be better (easier/safer/more appropriate) if this tangent was moved to the basement.
_______________________________-Stoic Joker (January 17, 2015, 01:09 PM)
...
:-[ = me if you are serious.-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 11:29 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))When I was a kid, I lived in the basement...-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)-Renegade (January 18, 2015, 05:30 PM)
^^ Amusing, but probably unlikely. Those men are all pulling a wry face and appear to be looking down - presumably at where their respective brains are located. The dog, on the other hand, is not looking down or anywhere except at the camera, and anyway looks more like a puppy and would not be mature enough to mate at that age. He is probably merely pulling a wry face because someone photoshopped him or something tastes funny in his mouth. Maybe he has just eaten the household budgerigar and is wondering what to do with the feathers. You'd probably have to prise open his jaws to be sure.-IainB (January 19, 2015, 09:09 AM)
^^ Amusing, but probably unlikely. Those men are all pulling a wry face and appear to be looking down - presumably at where their respective brains are located. The dog, on the other hand, is not looking down or anywhere except at the camera, and anyway looks more like a puppy and would not be mature enough to mate at that age. He is probably merely pulling a wry face because someone photoshopped him or something tastes funny in his mouth. Maybe he has just eaten the household budgerigar and is wondering what to do with the feathers. You'd probably have to prise open his jaws to be sure.-IainB (January 19, 2015, 09:09 AM)
Way to take the funny right out of a joke. I thought this was the silly humor thread, not the true stuff thread. Please excuse me if I posted it in the wrong place.-app103 (January 19, 2015, 09:34 AM)
I think you probably meant "...I can't really...".-IainB (January 18, 2015, 12:08 PM)
I didn't get the Slovakia thing. So, I did a search...-Renegade (January 20, 2015, 04:25 AM)
...We all have different paradigms - e.g., I only belatedly got @crabby3's rather clever photo joke about the cat's headstone. ...I wouldn't save the Slovakian joke into my database, because it didn't make me larf.
_______________________-IainB (January 19, 2015, 08:59 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
When I was a kid, I lived in the basement... so... good idea... :P-Renegade (January 18, 2015, 05:30 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
Some front hallways (mine) aren't all that less creepy, when lit.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373792#msg373792))-app103 (January 18, 2015, 09:28 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373735#msg373735))-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)
Some front hallways (mine) aren't all that less creepy, when lit.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373792#msg373792))-app103 (January 18, 2015, 09:28 AM)
The Sanity Error here is having only 1 handrail. :(
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373947#msg373947))-crabby3 (January 20, 2015, 11:03 AM)
Sanity Error here is having only 1 handrail. :(
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373947#msg373947))
SanityError (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=51392) is my daughter's online nick name.-app103 (January 20, 2015, 02:21 PM)
Sanity Error here is having only 1 handrail. :(
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373947#msg373947))
SanityError (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=51392) is my daughter's online nick name.-app103 (January 20, 2015, 02:21 PM)
Why does she have an empty profile here?-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:05 PM)
Sanity Error here is having only 1 handrail. :(
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg373947#msg373947))
SanityError (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=51392) is my daughter's online nick name.-app103 (January 20, 2015, 02:21 PM)
Why does she have an empty profile here?-Arizona Hot (January 20, 2015, 03:05 PM)
why not? There's loads of 'profiles' here that aren't active, in the sense that the people are not active in the forum.
(Also, IIRC one has to register here to get a longer term license key.)-tomos (January 20, 2015, 03:16 PM)
One also has to register if they plan on giving credits to a developer, in appreciation for their work. ;)-app103 (January 21, 2015, 12:07 AM)
One also has to register if they plan on giving credits to a developer, in appreciation for their work. ;)-app103 (January 21, 2015, 12:07 AM)
One also has to register if they plan on giving credits to a developer, in appreciation for their work. ;)-app103 (January 21, 2015, 12:07 AM)
You made her register to send you credits? :P-rgdot (January 21, 2015, 01:35 AM)
- i didn't know where else to post [url=https://thedirtylowdown.wordpress.com/tag/robots/]-crabby3 (January 21, 2015, 03:27 PM)
I predict that the next cause for movie zombies will be malware. I think that a lot of people then will get a new antivirus system because of their fear of developing a hunger for brains.-Arizona Hot (January 21, 2015, 09:31 PM)
- i didn't know where else to post PETMAN (https://thedirtylowdown.wordpress.com/tag/robots/). :)
Wider screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421782837&v=mclbVTIYG8E&x-yt-cl=84359240-crabby3 (January 21, 2015, 03:27 PM)
The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments. The video shows initial testing in a chemical protection suit and gas mask. PETMAN has sensors embedded in its skin that detect any chemicals leaking through the suit. The skin also maintains a micro-climate inside the clothing by sweating and regulating temperature. Partners in developing PETMAN were MRIGlobal, Measurement Technology Northwest, Smith Carter, SRD, CUH2A, and HHI.
Sometimes things with silly humor attached are cousins to "interesting stuff".-TaoPhoenix (January 22, 2015, 06:21 PM)
How do you fit a thousand dead babies into one barrel?-wraith808 (January 25, 2015, 05:42 PM)
And if one remove 'dead' from 'dead babies' ? Just thinking out loud... I guess I may have listened too long to M. Manson...How do you fit a thousand dead babies into one barrel?-wraith808 (January 25, 2015, 05:42 PM)
I know this is just a joke--I'm not at all offended by it, nor am I complaining that you posted it--but I just didn't find it even remotely humorous, and I tend to find humor in morbid things.-Deozaan (January 26, 2015, 05:15 PM)
^^ That sort of grisly humour reminds me of this, which I think I posted to this thread to much acclaim, some time back:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg374367#msg374367))
For those who might not get it, it's a rather clever spoof of the horror movie "Mary's Baby".-IainB (January 27, 2015, 05:01 AM)
How do you fit a thousand dead babies into one barrel?-wraith808 (January 25, 2015, 05:42 PM)
I know this is just a joke--I'm not at all offended by it, nor am I complaining that you posted it--but I just didn't find it even remotely humorous, and I tend to find humor in morbid things.-Deozaan (January 26, 2015, 05:15 PM)
@wraith808: OK, just out of interest, that's how many times now that you have been censured for making unfunny jokes?
Some people (not me, you understand) might say that there could be a message in there, but I couldn't possibly comment.-IainB (January 28, 2015, 10:58 AM)
...Ummm... once? Unless you're projecting your own experiences. But of course, I couldn't possibly comment.Nooo...not quite the point I was obliquely suggesting (though your response is a good one and gets half-way there).-wraith808 (January 28, 2015, 11:16 AM)
Awww. Polar bears are sooo cute!
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg374429#msg374429))-IainB (January 28, 2015, 04:21 AM)
^ Ok, now that's hilarious! Reminds me of the newlywed show episode where they were asked "Where have you wanted to make whoopie that you've not had the chance." Of course, the answer was supposed to be a place... but one of the wives said "In the butt". Hilarity ensued.-wraith808 (February 04, 2015, 01:49 PM)
one of the wives said "In the butt".-Deozaan (February 04, 2015, 02:42 PM)
Right) Hollywood.
Left) Magic wand.
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg375308#msg375308))Thor # 3 preview ?
Incredible Photos Captured In The Perfect Moment (http://ripbird.com/incredible-photos-captured-in-the-perfect-moment/?utm_source=adblade&utm_medium=3255545054)
I posted this here because if I posted it in "Interesting stuff" it would be too depressing.-Arizona Hot (February 09, 2015, 04:36 AM)
She unlocked his heart and left him. Now the key to his heart is 256 bytes long.-Arizona Hot (February 11, 2015, 02:44 PM)
So, if I didn't give any money to them, what makes you think I'd give any to you?'-IainB (February 13, 2015, 10:49 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg327251#msg327251))
Paraprosdokian Fun (http://www.paraprosdokianfun.com/)-Arizona Hot (May 29, 2013, 12:23 AM)
In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.' [/li][/list]-IainB (February 14, 2015, 05:11 AM)
Speaking of which, I have around 20 drives that I need to destroy in the next couple months or so.... and no shotgun! :'(A descent hammer will also do nicely :up:-Renegade (February 22, 2015, 05:20 AM)
Speaking of which, I have around 20 drives that I need to destroy in the next couple months or so.... and no shotgun! :'(-Renegade (February 22, 2015, 05:20 AM)
Speaking of which, I have around 20 drives that I need to destroy in the next couple months or so.... and no shotgun! :'(A descent hammer will also do nicely :up:-Renegade (February 22, 2015, 05:20 AM)-Ath (February 22, 2015, 05:27 AM)
Just DBAN them then give them to me when you come up the hills :)-4wd (February 22, 2015, 05:42 AM)
(Most are around 250~500 GB 10k RPM drives, so not really worth salvaging -- IIRC.)-Renegade (February 22, 2015, 06:58 AM)
Would you join the International Society of Solipsists?
Solipsism proposes that your mind is the only one existing, and that everything is a projection of your mind. Nothing exists outside of your mind.
With that laid out, the International Society of Solipsists is currently accepting applications for new members. All interested persons are invited to apply. The Society asks that you please send a brief Vita and three letters of recommendation from yourself.
Purpose
* To form a sense of community with other solipsists worldwide
* To interact intellectually with fellow solipsists on a local, national, and international level
* To convince others to become solipsists
Activities
* Official Anthem: "My Way"
* Ethics symposium next fall: "The Me Generation"
Followed by a reception in the Hall of Mirrors
* Spring Seminar: "Minimizing Ontological Commitments
The Society's call to action slogan is, Solipsists of the world, UNITE!
The current membership count is 1.
The Society wants more members. Would you consider joining?
Etan Kerner writes:
According to a film my wife saw in her philosophy class, Bertrand Russell received a letter from a woman who proclaimed herself a solipsist.
She went on to say that she was surprised that there weren’t more solipsists.
Besides myself (although I consider myself only a part-time solipsist icon_wink.gif), noted SF writer Robert A. Heinlein probably was one – at least he wrote several solipsist stories and even introduced the philosophy of “pantheistic multiperson solipsism” in his magnum opus, The Number of the Beast.
Possibly as a satire of this, Iain M. Banks features a band of solipsists in his Against A Dark Background. Here’s a slightly abridged dialogue between the book’s heroine, Lady Sharrow and the solipsist leader, Elson Roa:
“But if you’re God… why do you need the others?”
…he shrugged. “My apparences? They are the sign that my will is not yet strong enough to support my existence without extraneous help.”
…”What about the others? Do they – the apparences – call themselves God, too?”
“Apparently… um, apart from one, who’s an atheist.”
“Ah-ha”, she said, nodding slowly. “And what does this person call himself?”
“‘Me.'”
“… uh-huh.”
Solipists unite!-Arizona Hot (February 27, 2015, 01:36 PM)
three letters of recommendation from yourself.-Arizona Hot (February 27, 2015, 01:36 PM)
How many people here ever used an EasyBake Oven as a kid?Not me, although my daughter got one as a gift several years ago. She and a babysitter tried it out the first time, but they weren't happy with the results. That might be due to the fact that we only had compact fluorescent bulbs available in the pantry.-Arizona Hot (February 27, 2015, 05:35 PM)
...BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That might be due to the fact that we only had compact fluorescent bulbs available in the pantry.-x16wda (February 27, 2015, 07:07 PM)
Can a solipsist you have imagined who doesn't believe in you cause you to not exist?-Arizona Hot (February 27, 2015, 01:36 PM)
Speaking as a Floridian since 1967... ^That is NOT an exaggeration.
The Florida DMV's motto is: "God cares, so we don't have to".
:D-Stoic Joker (February 28, 2015, 01:53 PM)
Pot made me hungry, lazy and sometimes paranoid... but not stupid. ;D
.. anomaly .. ya think?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376604#msg376604))-crabby3 (March 02, 2015, 11:48 AM)
Pot made me hungry, lazy and sometimes paranoid... but not stupid. ;D
.. anomaly .. ya think?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376604#msg376604))-crabby3 (March 02, 2015, 11:48 AM)
It's still tough to beat "Up In Smoke" even after all these years. Guys crossing the border in a van made of pot, searching LA for a bag of weed. It was pure genius. :)-MilesAhead (March 02, 2015, 12:53 PM)
Not sure which movie this is -- funny though-crabby3 (March 02, 2015, 01:04 PM)
You've heard "think of the children" but now the DEA wants you to "think of the bunnies!"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/02/dea-warns-of-stoned-rabbits-if-utah-passes-medical-marijuana/?tid=sm_fb
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376681#msg376681))-Renegade (March 03, 2015, 04:45 AM)
Fairbanks said that at some illegal marijuana grow sites he saw "rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana. ..." He continued: "One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone."
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376840#msg376840))-crabby3 (March 04, 2015, 01:23 PM)
Can sex save Denmark's future??
Denmark faces a crisis. Our birthrate is at a 27 year low. At Spies we’re concerned. Fewer Danes mean fewer to support the ageing population - and tragically, fewer holidaying with us. Research shows that Danes have 46% more sex on city holidays and since more sex equals the chance of more kids, we are prescribing a romantic city holiday to save Denmark’s future. Let's save the future of Denmark with romance!.
Math can be dangerous if you get caught in a hypoten-noose. Be careful freeing yourself with Occam's Razor, those things can be very sharp.-Arizona Hot (March 11, 2015, 02:01 PM)
(http://i.imgur.com/oHDxgfI.jpg)-Renegade (March 13, 2015, 03:57 AM)
The possibilities of this are hysterical!-TaoPhoenix (March 13, 2015, 07:21 AM)
-mouser (March 14, 2015, 12:50 AM)
Old PSA...-Renegade (March 18, 2015, 11:01 PM)
https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
And here is the results, on a serious, in-depth article on cloud computing. Try to read it with a straight face. :D
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/684853/frenfit/mybutt.png-app103 (March 19, 2015, 03:18 AM)
https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
And here is the results, on a serious, in-depth article on cloud computing. Try to read it with a straight face. :D
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/684853/frenfit/mybutt.png-app103 (March 19, 2015, 03:18 AM)
nope, couldnt read it with a straight face :D-tomos (March 19, 2015, 05:49 AM)
And here is the results, on a serious, in-depth article on cloud computing. Try to read it with a straight face. :D
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/684853/frenfit/mybutt.png-app103 (March 19, 2015, 03:18 AM)
When I talk to executives about my butt, three questions always come up: Why will my butt be a big deal beyond the IT department? What are the main concerns and areas of skepticism, and how valid are they? And how should we get started?
Army camouflage training:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg378242#msg378242))-IainB (March 23, 2015, 05:57 AM)
This is just batshit crazy...
These people are worried about being "triggered" by clapping. Really.-Renegade (March 26, 2015, 06:03 AM)
This is just batshit crazy...
These people are worried about being "triggered" by clapping. Really.-Renegade (March 26, 2015, 06:03 AM)
Anxiety inducing clapping:-TaoPhoenix (March 26, 2015, 02:18 PM)
Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu.
A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.
However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.
MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Truck"
I apologise for this up front :-[Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu.
...
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger. They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Truck"-Target (March 30, 2015, 12:38 AM)
They missed getting in the word "TurnPaahk"!-TaoPhoenix (March 30, 2015, 12:45 AM)
Contextual advertising win? Or fail?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg378817#msg378817))-app103 (March 30, 2015, 03:50 PM)
Contextual advertising win? Or fail?-app103 (March 30, 2015, 03:50 PM)
How many people would look up such a term? There must also be a Latin term for the fear of hit counter remaining at zero in perpetuity.-MilesAhead (March 31, 2015, 05:50 AM)
A few companies are learning that "clever" ads like that could score well in the "viral culture". But a lot of times, especially in technology, ad placement algorithms scan for keywords and smash an ad onto the article. Hilarity ensues. Slashdot has experienced bunches of this because their content is fairly focused on the same twelve-ish categories of news. I tend not to see the ads because of adblocks, but usually when it happens someone posts a tinypic or something where a story is something like "Users concerned about security of the cloud in wake of Amazon cloud outage", and then the ad alg smashes "Amazon cloud services!!" onto it.-TaoPhoenix (March 31, 2015, 06:38 AM)
I can see it. Kind of like The Tonight Show standard bit where people supposedly send in newspaper clippings of ads with funny typos. The thing with tracking I really find annoying is it seems as soon as I buy something online I get an email that I could have purchased the same item at 75% of the cost. Like, now you tell me! :)(Homer voice)
Edit: What I need is a predictive heuristic. Like, I get an email "we know you are going to buy a 256 GB Lexar USB 3.0 for $150. Stop! We'll give it to you for $100 shipping included!" :)
Sort of like a reverse auction.-MilesAhead (March 31, 2015, 07:49 AM)
For Apri Fool's Day, don't forget my fun prank app, Dr. Windows:-mouser (March 31, 2015, 02:37 PM)
Funny joke. But how come the Irish guy has a name but the Polish guy doesn't?-Deozaan (April 01, 2015, 01:20 AM)
Funny joke. But how come the Irish guy has a name but the Polish guy doesn't?Yeah, I noticed that. It's the sort of thing that has been puzzling philosophers for centuries.-Deozaan (April 01, 2015, 01:20 AM)
:oFunny joke. But how come the Irish guy has a name but the Polish guy doesn't?Yeah, I noticed that. It's the sort of thing that has been puzzling philosophers for centuries.-Deozaan (April 01, 2015, 01:20 AM)-IainB (April 01, 2015, 02:46 AM)
I'm pretty sure it was Polish Philosophers. But I don't recall any of their names. :)-MilesAhead (April 01, 2015, 07:49 AM)
I'm pretty sure it was Polish Philosophers. But I don't recall any of their names. :)-MilesAhead (April 01, 2015, 07:49 AM)
O'lympiodorus?-cranioscopical (April 01, 2015, 09:16 AM)
-Arizona Hot (April 01, 2015, 10:59 AM)
It worked! :Thmbsup:-Deozaan (April 01, 2015, 08:52 PM)
Large Hadron Collider Reveals The Force Is With Us After All (http://www.hngn.com/articles/81817/20150401/large-hadron-collider-reveals-the-force-is-with-us-after-all.htm)-Arizona Hot (April 01, 2015, 05:24 PM)
"The Force is what gives a particle physicist his powers," said CERN theorist Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley-posted on the 1'st of April
It worked! :Thmbsup:-Deozaan (April 01, 2015, 08:52 PM)
The mind control or the human sacrifice?!
:o-TaoPhoenix (April 02, 2015, 05:00 AM)
Customer goes berserk for Chicken McNuggets(TM) at McDonalds drive-thru (NSFW for language):-Renegade (April 02, 2015, 12:14 AM)
Then there's the one about the car which used an extra set of front gears for self-starting and could foretell the future by precognition.-bit (April 03, 2015, 01:38 PM)
Knowing the future could come in handy in clutch situations. I know it would shift my perspective.-MilesAhead (April 05, 2015, 06:58 AM)
Knowing the future could come in handy in clutch situations. I know it would shift my perspective.-MilesAhead (April 05, 2015, 06:58 AM)
Happy Easter!
So all the little baby chickens around is a ... clutch situation!
:D :Thmbsup:-TaoPhoenix (April 05, 2015, 07:40 AM)
Happy Easter one and all. :)-jadinolf (April 05, 2015, 12:40 PM)
Large Hadron Collider Reveals The Force Is With Us After All [/url]-Arizona Hot (April 01, 2015, 05:24 PM)
Kenobi's seminal paper "May the Force be with EU" – a strong argument that his experiment should be built in Europe – persuaded the CERN Council to finance the installation of dozens of new R2 units for the CERN data centre*. These plucky little droids are helping physicists to cope with the flood of data from the laboratory's latest experiment, the Thermodynamic Injection Energy (TIE) detector, recently installed at the LHC.
"We're very pleased with this new addition to CERN's accelerator complex," said data analyst Luke Daniels of human-cyborg relations. "The TIE detector has provided us with plenty of action, and what's more it makes a really cool sound when the beams shoot out of it."
But the research community is divided over the discovery. Dark-matter researcher Dave Vader was unimpressed, breathing heavily in disgust throughout the press conference announcing the results, and dismissing the cosmological implications of the Force with the quip "Asteroids do not concern me".
Rumours are growing that this rogue researcher hopes to delve into the Dark Side of the Standard Model, and could even build his own research station some day. With the academic community split, many are tempted by Vader's invitations to study the Dark Side, especially researchers working with red lasers, and anyone really with an evil streak who looks good in dark robes.
*Sources close to the Data Centre later revealed that these were not the droids they were looking for.
What if programming languages were methods to eat an orange?http://4archive.org/g/res/43324376
You remember "How to shoot yourself in the foot with programming languages"? That was awesome.
THIS, however, is flipping EPIC.What if programming languages were methods to eat an orange?http://4archive.org/g/res/43324376
Some of my favorites:-Edvard (April 07, 2015, 01:53 AM)
I read lately about the name Hitler being used for a child in the States, I think it might even have been the middle name for a girl - but cant find it now - not worth finding really...-tomos (April 08, 2015, 03:31 PM)
I read lately about the name Hitler being used for a child in the States, I think it might even have been the middle name for a girl - but cant find it now - not worth finding really...-tomos (April 08, 2015, 03:31 PM)
If you're talking about the same story I'm thinking about, it was a boy, and his name was "Adolf Hitler [Surname]" and the part that made it notable or newsworthy (as I recall) was that Child Protective Services threatened to take him away from his parents. But I can't remember the details of why or what eventually happened.
But none of this is really on topic for this thread. :-D-Deozaan (April 10, 2015, 12:25 PM)
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is onto Safer Hassan, who has been driving around with “370H55V” personalized plates slapped on his car for three years, he told KPRC 2 News.
Russia just made a ton of Internet memes illegal
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg379564#msg379564))
Okla. woman, 23, gets shocked while having mugshot taken (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-woman-23-shocked-mugshot-article-1.2131438)-Arizona Hot (April 12, 2015, 10:55 PM)
The Worst Room: A blog about trying to find affordable housing in new york city (and elsewhere) (http://www.worstroom.com/)
The descriptions of these rooms for rent, along with the tags used by the author, are hilarious.-app103 (April 13, 2015, 01:44 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg379660#msg379660))
xkcd Tech Support (https://xkcd.com/806/)-Arizona Hot (April 15, 2015, 12:51 AM)
Next time you do somehow manage to get someone that knows what they are doing, get their name!And if you have a chance to give feedback, mention their name!-app103 (April 15, 2015, 02:57 AM)
Next time you do somehow manage to get someone that knows what they are doing, get their name!And if you have a chance to give feedback, mention their name!-app103 (April 15, 2015, 02:57 AM)-x16wda (April 15, 2015, 05:36 AM)
Next time you do somehow manage to get someone that knows what they are doing, get their name!And if you have a chance to give feedback, mention their name!-app103 (April 15, 2015, 02:57 AM)-x16wda (April 15, 2015, 05:36 AM)
Happy April 15th?
(http://i.imgur.com/07yFJDu.jpg)-Renegade (April 15, 2015, 08:05 PM)
Nope, didn't have to open my wallet for him. In fact, we got back more than twice as much as we did last year. :)-app103 (April 16, 2015, 12:46 AM)
Nope, didn't have to open my wallet for him. In fact, we got back more than twice as much as we did last year. :)-app103 (April 16, 2015, 12:46 AM)
That's one thing that's always befuddled me... people are happy to get back a lot of money. It's your own money that you gave the government interest free for a year. My perfect world is when I'm at $0 owed or returned.-wraith808 (April 16, 2015, 09:44 AM)
That's one thing that's always befuddled me... people are happy to get back a lot of money. It's your own money that you gave the government interest free for a year. My perfect world is when I'm at $0 owed or returned.-wraith808 (April 16, 2015, 09:44 AM)
That's one thing that's always befuddled me... people are happy to get back a lot of money. It's your own money that you gave the government interest free for a year. My perfect world is when I'm at $0 owed or returned.-wraith808 (April 16, 2015, 09:44 AM)
That's one thing that's always befuddled me... people are happy to get back a lot of money. It's your own money that you gave the government interest free for a year. My perfect world is when I'm at $0 owed or returned.-wraith808 (April 16, 2015, 09:44 AM)
There's a couple of very "lateral thinking rational" reasons this could make someone happy.
Let's get the Elephant in the room away first:
Earned Income Credit.
It's the biggest chunk of found-cash anyone's ever gonna get. It's *supposed* to vanish into caring for the kid, but... well ...
But back to "regular savings" refunds. People can sometimes really have trouble making themselves save, and fairly well known cases are when the initial self-savings accounts began so strong for New Years resolutions and even into Easter ... begin to get chipped at for summer! But if it's stuck into withholdings, it's a lot harder for them to get at.
Then the final reason. ... if you have an abusive household situation, if your savings are jammed into withholdings, the abusive half of the family unit can't bully you as easily into giving them up!
:tellme:-TaoPhoenix (April 16, 2015, 05:16 PM)
If you add drunk people to fitness quotes, things get hilarious. (more at randommization.com (http://randommization.com/2013/09/12/if-you-add-drunk-people-to-fitness-quotes-things-get-hilarious/))-wraith808 (April 17, 2015, 11:38 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg379827#msg379827))
If you add drunk people to fitness quotes, things get hilarious. (more at randommization.com (http://randommization.com/2013/09/12/if-you-add-drunk-people-to-fitness-quotes-things-get-hilarious/))-wraith808 (April 17, 2015, 11:38 AM)
The mayor of a town in northern Saskatchewan sighs at the prospect of having to explain yet again what the community’s slogan really means.
Tisdale has been called the “Land of Rape and Honey” for nearly 60 years and its weathered welcome sign still sports the phrase.
Rape refers to rapeseed, a bright yellow crop that was a precursor to the modern canola and a key agriculture product of the area. But it offends people who think it means sexual assault.
more alarming than silly (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/04/21/Colorado-man-cited-for-shooting-malfunctioning-computer/4131429656798/?st_rec=2571429705971)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380243#msg380243))-crabby3 (April 22, 2015, 05:57 PM)
So, this guy just got caught cheating (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/guy-just-got-caught-cheating-133446537.html)-Arizona Hot (April 23, 2015, 03:47 AM)
So, this guy just got caught cheating (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/guy-just-got-caught-cheating-133446537.html)-Arizona Hot (April 23, 2015, 03:47 AM)
Once the silly humor threads are over, doesn't the guy now have a counter statement to his former gf?
"Hey jerk, you were cheating on me!"
"Hi babe. You've got an arrest charge of damage to my property!"-TaoPhoenix (April 23, 2015, 06:26 AM)
more alarming than silly (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/04/21/Colorado-man-cited-for-shooting-malfunctioning-computer/4131429656798/?st_rec=2571429705971)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380243#msg380243))-crabby3 (April 22, 2015, 05:57 PM)
more alarming than silly (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/04/21/Colorado-man-cited-for-shooting-malfunctioning-computer/4131429656798/?st_rec=2571429705971)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380243#msg380243))-crabby3 (April 22, 2015, 05:57 PM)
Everyone has had that fantasy more than just a few times.-Renegade (April 23, 2015, 09:48 AM)
Okay, Now ^That's Funny!-Stoic Joker (April 27, 2015, 11:15 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380542#msg380542))(Employees must wash hands)-crabby3 (April 26, 2015, 08:53 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380542#msg380542))(Employees must wash hands)-crabby3 (April 26, 2015, 08:53 PM)
This is when they try to make signs "efficient". The one I remember finding funny was "Shirt and shoes required."
It didn't say anything about pants!
;)
But I didn't test it!
And the Google effect of those kinds of news stories now far outweighs the actual penalties of the misdemeanors!
:o-TaoPhoenix (April 27, 2015, 02:05 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg380652#msg380652))
How Drunk Are You This Bracelet Knows Good Sht OZY (http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/how-drunk-are-you-this-bracelet-knows/36749?utm_source=B1&utm_medium=pp&utm_campaign=pp)
Beautiful, drunk people.-Arizona Hot (April 28, 2015, 10:15 AM)
And speaking lines at the DMV...-Renegade (April 28, 2015, 05:19 PM)
Ath,
That's beyond epic!
<--- Language skillz failing. Maybe Renny can help?-TaoPhoenix (April 29, 2015, 05:03 AM)
Stutterbox is an online speech jamming app for Google Chrome. A speech jammer inhibits a user from speaking in coherent sentences due to the brain being confused by the slight delay in auditory feedback of the users own voice.
The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols
The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols
Nothing by Mae West (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html)
She was as cheeky as there was in her time.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)
The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols
Nothing by Mae West (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html)
She was as cheeky as there was in her time.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)
Excellent, thanks ! I like a lot "I have seen things and be places" transformed into "I have been things and see places". Or something like that.-MerleOne (May 01, 2015, 01:52 PM)
The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols
Nothing by Mae West (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html)
She was as cheeky as there was in her time.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)
The Cheekiest Remarks of Hollywood's Golden Age Sex Symbols
Nothing by Mae West (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html)
She was as cheeky as there was in her time.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2015, 08:38 AM)
:huh: I wasn't going to click through, but since the picture Arizona Hot used to link to the slideshow had a Mae West quote on it, I had to see for myself if any of them included Mae West quotes.
Three of them did.-Deozaan (May 01, 2015, 05:47 PM)
Data Recovery... (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376108#msg376108))
...Not Going to Happen! :D-Stoic Joker (February 21, 2015, 04:44 PM)
Data Recovery... (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376108#msg376108))
...Not Going to Happen! :D-Stoic Joker (February 21, 2015, 04:44 PM)
When you lack cool toys, data destruction can be done low-tech.-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:02 AM)
Data Recovery... (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg376108#msg376108))
...Not Going to Happen! :D-Stoic Joker (February 21, 2015, 04:44 PM)
When you lack cool toys, data destruction can be done low-tech.-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:02 AM)
I'm not sure I'd trust the salt to make it that unreadable...and hammering the outside casing only warps the platters a bit. So for a low tech destruction on a drive that can't be electronically burned (or shot...), I go with disassembly, fold the platters in half by hand (surprisingly not that hard), and then hammer a sharp crease in the folded platter.-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2015, 12:54 PM)
I'm not sure I'd trust the salt to make it that unreadable...and hammering the outside casing only warps the platters a bit. So for a low tech destruction on a drive that can't be electronically burned (or shot...), I go with disassembly, fold the platters in half by hand (surprisingly not that hard), and then hammer a sharp crease in the folded platter.-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2015, 12:54 PM)
I'm not sure I'd trust the salt to make it that unreadable...and hammering the outside casing only warps the platters a bit. So for a low tech destruction on a drive that can't be electronically burned (or shot...), I go with disassembly, fold the platters in half by hand (surprisingly not that hard), and then hammer a sharp crease in the folded platter.-Stoic Joker (May 02, 2015, 12:54 PM)
It's certainly not the best way, but entertaining. :)-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:29 PM)
The salt is just to increase electrical conductivity and help corrode it over time. They're at the bottom of a large garbage bin.-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:29 PM)
A few of them really did cave in nicely though. Not as deep as the shotgun blast though.-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:29 PM)
...But this part was really more of a question. Like, for someone with professional data recovery equipment (and a 3 letter name..). What impact would the corrosion really have on the readability of the platters? I'd almost swear I'd seen it done on a DR companies promotional video somewhere.A few of them really did cave in nicely though. Not as deep as the shotgun blast though.-Renegade (May 02, 2015, 09:29 PM)
Here again it's a question of professional DR folk being able to straighten the platter if the metal hasn't been deformed (as in silly putty level stretched) enough to alter the alignment.
Hell, even with the shotgun blowing a quarter sized hole in the platter (blue shirt visible through drive in blown up photo), TBH I'm not entirely sure pros couldn't glean something useful off the remaining (arguably) pristine section of the disk ... Because DR is nowhere near the center of my skillset.-Stoic Joker (May 03, 2015, 07:33 AM)
The hammer is to get holes in the drive to let the salt-water in. I would have used some sort of awl... but it seemed to work pretty good.-wraith808 (May 03, 2015, 01:39 PM)
Hmm... given that... I do still have a few drives that I was going to give to 4wd, but he lives a ways away from here, and probably won't be able to make it over before we leave...-Renegade (May 03, 2015, 10:39 PM)
EDIT: Drat. Looks like they have those hex-star screws that I don't have a driver for. :(
One word: Thermite. :tellme:-Edvard (May 04, 2015, 12:35 AM)
Epic line from a Spam that just appeared here (which will be gone soon but the line deserves to be laughed at!)
(Solemn visage and voice, like a C rate wise man.)
"After washing that person precisely before you go to sleep, night products should be applied just."
:tellme: ;D
_________________________-TaoPhoenix (May 06, 2015, 02:09 AM)
"cause despair or can induce a headache"
_________________________
Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others
Check your privilege, ladies.
May 6, 2015 3:24 PM
Bedtime-story privilege?
According to a professor at the University of Warwick in England, parents who read to their kids should be thinking about how they’re “unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children” by doing so.
In an interview with ABC Radio last week, philosopher and professor Adam Swift said that since “bedtime stories activities . . . do indeed foster and produce . . . [desired] familial relationship goods,” he wouldn’t want to ban them, but that parents who “engage in bedtime-stories activities” should definitely at least feel kinda bad about it sometimes:
“I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,” he said.
But Swift also added that some other things parents do to give their kids the best education possible — like sending them to “an elite private school” — “cannot be justified” in this way.
“Private schooling cannot be justified by appeal to these familial relationship goods,” he said.
”It’s just not the case that in order for a family to realize these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school,” he continued, adding that “we could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to elite family relationships.”
At one point, Swift even flirted with the idea of “simply abolishing the family” as a way of “solving the social justice problem” because “there would be a more level playing field” if we did, but ultimately concluded that “it is in the child’s interest to be parented” and that “parenting a child makes for what we call a distinctive and special contribution to the flourishing and well-being of adults.”
In general, I tend to believe that focusing on improving things for the less fortunate is a better way to advance our society than purposely making things worse for those who have more, but what do I know? After all, it’s not like I’m a philosopher or anything.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
As for the Android M name, the most recent speculation suggests it will be Android Muffin, but other contenders are: Milky Bar, Milky Way, Marshmallow, M&Ms, Mud Cake, and Mars. We're tipping Android Marshmallow right now because it strikes us as a more dreamy, colorful, Candy Land-style name in-keeping with the Jelly Bean/Lollipop trend.
The sweet evolution of Android: from Cupcake to Lollipop
Peter Schiff spoke briefly with Ben Bernanke at the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference yesterday. Approaching the former Federal Reserve Chairman, Peter warned, “In full disclosure, I’m your biggest critic.” Bernanke didn’t miss a beat: “You have a lot of competition.”
...
10 Things Banned in Other Countries, but Legal in the U.S.[/url]-Arizona Hot (May 08, 2015, 05:13 PM)
Keurig CEO Blames Coffee Pod DRM For Falling Sales | TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/keurig-ceo-blames-coffee-pod-drm-for-falling-sales/)
In what amounts to a win for the anti-DRM crowd, Keurig CEO Brian Kelley said the 23% drop in sales came from his move to prevent coffee lovers from using unofficial K-Cups in its 2.0 machines. After the company’s patent on the K-Cup expired, the company added a lock to its new machines to prevent the use of refillable cups and cups from outside manufacturers. Users also filed a lawsuit after the company introduced the new cups.
The share price also dropped 25% since the beginning of 2015.
The new 2.0 machines required a specially coded coffee pod, thereby locking competitors out of the coffee pod game. One pod maker, the Rogers Family Company, fought back by offering a free plastic clip that simply convinced the machine that it was perpetually using the correct pods.
Although the way forward for 2.0 users isn’t yet clear, the company is reintroducing the My K-Cup device which allows users to put their own coffee into a reusable pod. “Quite honestly, we were wrong. We underestimated the passion the consumer had for this,” said Kelley in an analyst call regarding the cup. They are also hard at work at a presumably non-DRMed cold brewing solution.
How could you be in the coffee/coffee maker business and NOT know that people are very fussy and quite passionate about their coffee, and that they will not be stopped from having what they perceive as the "perfect cup of coffee", and that you can not profit by trying to put a stop to that?-app103 (May 10, 2015, 04:04 AM)
...Money. It blinds the eye, and this is just another example of that.-wraith808 (May 10, 2015, 09:51 AM)
...Money. It blinds the eye, and this is just another example of that.-wraith808 (May 10, 2015, 09:51 AM)
Well, it's an inability to see all right, but an inability to see reason, and the cause is arguably attributable to just not thinking things through - a human trait that we may all share until we've learned to do otherwise. A backlash would otherwise have been a pretty predictable likely/potential outcome, and thus it would seem unsurprising that that (amongst other things) is what happened. It was unwittingly self-inflicted harm.
Any CEO who approved taking steps like that without considering the potential marketing consequences (which is apparently what happened) would arguably need to have rocks in his head. I think that's what is cynically referred to as a "career-defining moment", or something.-IainB (May 10, 2015, 10:34 AM)
^ I know I'm not chancing it. Not sure if it should be left linked if there is a warning...-wraith808 (May 20, 2015, 04:39 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg382040#msg382040))
Hardcore Gamer Mom In China Gives Birth In an Internet Cafe, Goes Back to Gaming (http://www.themarysue.com/hardcore-gamer-mom/)-Arizona Hot (May 21, 2015, 12:12 PM)
^ I know I'm not chancing it. Not sure if it should be left linked if there is a warning...-wraith808 (May 20, 2015, 04:39 PM)
I'm not clicking either. But in all fairness, I've seen those warnings on perfectly safe pages in the past.-Renegade (May 20, 2015, 08:32 PM)
I put the warning in to give fair warning. I didn't have any trouble with the page, but then I use 2 anti-virus programs and Sandboxie(Yes, one of them is Malwarebytes). But if you do clickthrough and get sucked into the Twilight Zone, don't blame me.-Arizona Hot (May 21, 2015, 12:32 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg382040#msg382040))
Hardcore Gamer Mom In China Gives Birth In an Internet Cafe, Goes Back to Gaming (http://www.themarysue.com/hardcore-gamer-mom/)-Arizona Hot (May 21, 2015, 12:12 PM)
Ok... that's way beyond f'd up. I get the joke... but stuff like that should just be a joke and not reality. Just... wow.-Renegade (May 21, 2015, 12:20 PM)
The Daily Mail says she was just surfing the web, she didn’t have enough money for a motel so hung out in the internet café. Also she gave birth in the bathroom stall not near the computers. There are surveillance images of her coming out of the toilets.-pdragon57
From what I get from the Chinese source, my read of the situation would be: she had a fight with her family that caused her to leave home to travel to another province, then her money got stolen. Internet cafes are open through the night, and the birth took place at four in the morning - I suspect she went there more for a cheap place to stay than to satisfy her gaming/internet addiction.
The details surrounding the birth (it took place in a toilet, she was shaking, she refused to wash the blood of her hands) sound pretty terrible, that's why I suspected she might have suffered from some kind of shock or breakdown, which might explain why she sat down in front of the computer again and appeared calm (admittedly, I'm no psychiatrist).
So there is probably some combination of factors that made her refrain from going to the hospital until it was too late - e.g. she had no money, she had a fight with her family, she was in a foreign town.
All in all, I feel bad for her and hope she and her child will be alright.-Nocturama
This is very off-topic for this thread, but if you follow the source links, you'll see an interesting game of "Telephone" happening where the story gets further and further from the truth with each rewrite. By the time The Mary Sue got to it, it was already pretty distorted. (Also, what's with "news" outlets citing other "news" outlets as their only source?)-Deozaan (May 21, 2015, 02:05 PM)
But A-H, how do you use two AV programs? I thought those kinds of programs end up fighting each other.-TaoPhoenix (May 21, 2015, 01:03 PM)
For those wondering about the meaning there, perhaps this may help:-Renegade (May 22, 2015, 08:12 PM)
Now there's a performance that's on fire!Yeah, and it brought them exactly 0 points :sick:-Arizona Hot (May 23, 2015, 06:49 PM)
Chinese internet powerhouse Alibaba has taken down a job posting that sought a woman to fill the role of “programmer encouragement specialist.” It was just as bad as that sounds.
The ad, which first appeared on Alibaba’s website on April 29, said the “specialist” would join the team of dingtalk, an Alibaba-backed messaging app. It compared the ideal candidate to both Japanese porn star Sora Aoi and Korean actress Song Hye-kyo.
After coverage in the Chinese press with snarky headlines like “Beautiful women mean productivity!” (link in Chinese) and backlash on social media, Alibaba took the ad down from its job board. Responding to Quartz’s inquiries, an Alibaba group spokesperson said the ad “was intended to be an attempt at humorous marketing to recruit IT talent.”
If You Think Your Parents Are Embarrassing, You Have To See These 21 Ridiculous Parents (http://www.dose.com/lists/18563/If-You-Think-Your-Parents-Are-Embarrassing-You-Have-To-See-These-21-Ridiculous-Parents)
Warning: I got an anti-virus warning on this page!-Arizona Hot (May 20, 2015, 04:04 PM)
what to call the latest generation
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Internet pictures can hide code that leaves you open to hacks (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/internet-pictures-can-hide-code-that-leaves-you-open-to-hacks/ar-BBkuIzi)
The picture is silly, the subject isn't.-Arizona Hot (June 01, 2015, 06:33 PM)
You mean clicking that image could be catastrophic?-MilesAhead (June 02, 2015, 07:28 AM)
Where/why did it show up? Are you connected to gaming sites/ forums / mailing lists?-TaoPhoenix (June 05, 2015, 11:21 AM)
We could have a sub-theme of coolest spam ever. I don't recall any now, but I've had a couple of beauties over the years.-TaoPhoenix (June 05, 2015, 11:21 AM)
I posted a recent spam support ticket I received: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=35756.msg382045#msg382045-app103 (June 08, 2015, 05:46 AM)
Which one for President?-crabby3
The fat one...or the one on top?-Shades (June 18, 2015, 06:39 AM)
I can't tell the difference.-4wd (June 17, 2015, 10:48 PM)
Made me larf:
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg383615#msg383615))-IainB (June 19, 2015, 09:59 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg383472#msg383472))-crabby3 (June 17, 2015, 09:27 AM)
I posted a recent spam support ticket I received: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=35756.msg382045#msg382045-app103 (June 08, 2015, 05:46 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=35756.0;attach=91514;image)
ha ha ;D
I could probably mange a few of those - but (as a beginner) it would be hard to exactly predict the ensuing medical condition :D
(Were you able to make a few suggestions?)-tomos (June 08, 2015, 08:05 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg383472#msg383472))-crabby3 (June 17, 2015, 09:27 AM)
Has he chosen Mayor Stubbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbs_%28cat%29) as his running mate?-app103 (June 20, 2015, 06:55 AM)
Given the personality of your average cat, staunch Libertarian :-\
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/13/cats-are-natural-libertarians-nothing-less-than-equality-is-acceptable-to-them
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg383646#msg383646))-Edvard (June 20, 2015, 02:56 PM)
After teasing us for months, Jeb Bush finally blew his load and announced that he’s running for president in 2016. Along with this campaign announcement came a brand-new logo reveal:
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Whaaao.
We had an intern hack Jeb’s Android and found the e-mail correspondence between him and the logo’s graphic designer:
The Missing Person Who Joined Her Own Search Party-Arizona Hot (June 20, 2015, 08:28 PM)
Perhaps Slim Pickens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Pickens)for a running mate?
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg383684#msg383684))-crabby3 (June 21, 2015, 10:52 AM)
Just a silly thought...
The "save" button in most software shows a floppy disk icon.
When was the last time you used a floppy disk?-Renegade (July 02, 2015, 12:01 PM)
The "save" button in most software shows a floppy disk icon.
When was the last time you used a floppy disk?-Renegade (July 02, 2015, 12:01 PM)
Just a silly thought...
The "save" button in most software shows a floppy disk icon.
When was the last time you used a floppy disk?-Renegade (July 02, 2015, 12:01 PM)
Animal tip
*disclaimer* this MAY sound crazy, but believe me, it works.
Step 1: obtain an animal that scurries fast. Go to petco and purchase either 10 rats/10 white mice/3 ferrets OR obtain a farm pot bellies pig/hen/or boar. My aunt higgith once obtained a keckle of geese that she personally lifted from a nearby town farm.
Step 2: store animals in an inconspicuous container. Make sure it has air holes for breathing so your animals don’t die.
Step 3: drive to a store you’d like to shoplift from
Step 4: enter the store carrying your hidden animals of choice
Step 5: when no one is around, release your furry friends into the isle and watch them scurry and scamper everywhere
Step 6: immediately run to the nearest SA and tell them you saw a rodent/animal
Step 7: the SA will typically call in a special code in their walkie talkie or will have to alert their supervisors that a live animal is on the loose. Remember: the more animals scurrying free the better!
Step 8: steal all the shit you want! At this point the entire store will be trying to locate the pest and will probably not be paying attention to any cameras. Innocent shoppers may get frantic and scared of a wild boar making its way through the store and soon chaos may take over the store, inciting frenzied crowd syndrome
Step 9: while the store is chaotic, steal steal steal! Shove shit down your pants, eat a bag of chips while you’re at it, and empty the registers! Take a shit right inside the toy isle! LP won’t be paying attention
Step 10: leave! Run! Remember to only attempt this crazy tip once every five years or so. My aunt Higgith once released a bucket of rats and 3 guinea pigs into Target and she was able to get away with $4k worth of shit while the entire store was under terror
Leader of Free World Weighs in on This Whole 'Peas in Guac' Debate(Obama)-Arizona Hot (July 03, 2015, 04:45 AM)
How about a blog about shoplifting?
http://call-me-stickyfingers.tumblr.com/
Here's one post:Animal tip
*disclaimer* this MAY sound crazy, but believe me, it works.
Step 1: obtain an animal that scurries fast. Go to petco and purchase either 10 rats/10 white mice/3 ferrets OR obtain a farm pot bellies pig/hen/or boar. My aunt higgith once obtained a keckle of geese that she personally lifted from a nearby town farm.
Step 2: store animals in an inconspicuous container. Make sure it has air holes for breathing so your animals don’t die.
Step 3: drive to a store you’d like to shoplift from
Step 4: enter the store carrying your hidden animals of choice
Step 5: when no one is around, release your furry friends into the isle and watch them scurry and scamper everywhere
Step 6: immediately run to the nearest SA and tell them you saw a rodent/animal
Step 7: the SA will typically call in a special code in their walkie talkie or will have to alert their supervisors that a live animal is on the loose. Remember: the more animals scurrying free the better!
Step 8: steal all the shit you want! At this point the entire store will be trying to locate the pest and will probably not be paying attention to any cameras. Innocent shoppers may get frantic and scared of a wild boar making its way through the store and soon chaos may take over the store, inciting frenzied crowd syndrome
Step 9: while the store is chaotic, steal steal steal! Shove shit down your pants, eat a bag of chips while you’re at it, and empty the registers! Take a shit right inside the toy isle! LP won’t be paying attention
Step 10: leave! Run! Remember to only attempt this crazy tip once every five years or so. My aunt Higgith once released a bucket of rats and 3 guinea pigs into Target and she was able to get away with $4k worth of shit while the entire store was under terror
It gets crazier...-Renegade (July 03, 2015, 01:15 PM)
How about a blog about shoplifting?
http://call-me-stickyfingers.tumblr.com/
Here's one post:Animal tip
*disclaimer* this MAY sound crazy, but believe me, it works.
Step 1: obtain an animal that scurries fast. Go to petco and purchase either 10 rats/10 white mice/3 ferrets OR obtain a farm pot bellies pig/hen/or boar. My aunt higgith once obtained a keckle of geese that she personally lifted from a nearby town farm.
Step 2: store animals in an inconspicuous container. Make sure it has air holes for breathing so your animals don’t die.
Step 3: drive to a store you’d like to shoplift from
Step 4: enter the store carrying your hidden animals of choice
Step 5: when no one is around, release your furry friends into the isle and watch them scurry and scamper everywhere
Step 6: immediately run to the nearest SA and tell them you saw a rodent/animal
Step 7: the SA will typically call in a special code in their walkie talkie or will have to alert their supervisors that a live animal is on the loose. Remember: the more animals scurrying free the better!
Step 8: steal all the shit you want! At this point the entire store will be trying to locate the pest and will probably not be paying attention to any cameras. Innocent shoppers may get frantic and scared of a wild boar making its way through the store and soon chaos may take over the store, inciting frenzied crowd syndrome
Step 9: while the store is chaotic, steal steal steal! Shove shit down your pants, eat a bag of chips while you’re at it, and empty the registers! Take a shit right inside the toy isle! LP won’t be paying attention
Step 10: leave! Run! Remember to only attempt this crazy tip once every five years or so. My aunt Higgith once released a bucket of rats and 3 guinea pigs into Target and she was able to get away with $4k worth of shit while the entire store was under terror
It gets crazier...-Renegade (July 03, 2015, 01:15 PM)
I told you to stay off tumblr... ;D-wraith808 (July 03, 2015, 02:23 PM)
...
The moral of the story is this: Animal control is not the job of security people. Never assume that it is.-app103 (July 03, 2015, 03:52 PM)
When I was about 5 I realized I was a dragon but never knew the name for it. Originally I was an Ice dragon named Fragment, then I became Luna the Darkness dragon, then I became Breeze the Wind and Poison Dragon, and now I am Jiya the Lightning Dragon. I am an evolving dragon it seems.
I just learned about Dollkin and have been searching all over trying to find out more about it. I am so interested and drawn to it but I can't find any real info about it. I have so many questions.
flowercrowned-coyote asked: hello I'm a wolf, coyote, and deer therian. my wolf and coyote conflict quite a bit with my deer. when I howl withy the coyotes behind my house I want to join them, but I have the urge to run away. is this possible? is it bad? and what should I do?
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For starters, one’s theriotypes are them so you are a coyote/deer/wolf on a spiritual, brain-related, etc. level (whichever you personally believe). Thus, you don’t have a deer, you are one, so saying “my *insert animal here*” sounds more like you’re talking about an external entity like a totem or similar. Generally, people with multiple kintypes rarely experience them as a mesh like that. Instead, they tend to either experience one at a time or the theriotype they experience is dependent on environment. For example, I rarely experience my shark theriotype on land and rarely experience my lion theriotype in the water.
Identity in general is only “bad” if it interferes with your life in a negative way. So I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but I’m sure it’s odd and frustrating. I’d focus, first and foremost, on figuring out if you truly identify as these animals or if you have a connection to them on another level. Depending what you figure out, I’d focus on compartmentalizing so such a thing is less of an issue.
Mod Shlion
2 weeks ago 4 ☆ reblog
tagged: +mod shlion +therian help desk +therianthropy +therian +otherkin +flowercrowned-coyote
Anonymous asked: Is there a difference between kintype and thereotype??
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A Theriotype is specifically a nonhuman earthen animal that a Therian identifies as. A kintype is the nonhuman entity that an Otherkin identifies as.
You can have both if you identify as a nonhuman thing and a nonhuman earthen animal.
Lord Byron is considered one of the greatest English poets ever. Normally, words such as "badass"
don't belong in the same sentence as "poet" - something Byron was keen to change. Despite
having a club foot and a crippling eating disorder for virtually his entire life, the poet managed to
earn a reputation as an extravagant, melancholic, courageous, unconventional, eccentric,
flamboyant and controversial figure. Or to translate: He owned all of the sex.
When not boning his way through the aristocracy, Byron was really into his pets in a way that was
less like a cat lady and more like the Beastmaster. When he went to college, he tried to take his pet
dog with him. Cambridge Trinity College was having none of it and stuck to their strict "no dogs
allowed" policy, seemingly unaware that they were currently talking to Lord Fucking Byron. After
being told no. Byron pleaded with the college to make an exception, but they wouldn't budge.
Seeing an opportunity to display the subtle dignity of the poetic soul, Byron went out and purchased
a bear, then brought it to Cambridge.
It didn't take long for college officials to notice the abnormally large portion of the student body
running in the same direction while screaming . "AAAAAHHHHH BEAR!" When they confronted him
about the fact that he was essentially wagging his dick at them in front of everyone, Byron simply
asked them to show him where in the rules it said that he couldn't have a bear. Amazingly, there
wasn't a specific rule against it. Even more amazingly, Cambridge apparently operated on sitcom
logic at the time, and officials decided they had no choice but to allow the bear to stay. Presumably
they knew that if they did manage to evict the bear, Byron would have simply arrived to campus the
next day riding a sled pulled by tigers.
Byron lived quite happily with his pet bear, but he wasn't done taking a piss on officials just yet, so
he sent a sarcastic letter to the college suggesting that the bear should apply for a fellowship.
Eventually, to everyone's relief, Byron left Cambridge - presumably riding his bear into the sunset
and no doubt leaving a big steaming pile of bear shit in the headmaster's office.
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The Queen's Royal Guards are a British institution charged with greeting and playing for foreign
dignitaries from around the world. In America, they are mostly known for having made Leslie
Nielson's eyes cross that one time in Naked Gun. Anytime a notable person of importance visits the
country, it's a British tradition to have the Royal Band has to play for them, and anyone who saw the
ridiculous hats on display at the royal wedding should know how they feel about letting traditions
die. But sometimes the band doesn't want to play, because sometimes the person of notable
importance is a douche bag.
The band faced just such a dilemma when Saudi King Abdullah came to Britain. Being sensitive artsy
musician types, certain band members didn't agree with the king's tolerance of human rights abuses
and his promotion of such delightful books as Women Who Deserve To Go To Hell. But it would be
breaking hundreds of years of tradition to not play for him.
The band finally agreed to go with tradition and play for the king, choosing a song that truly
represented how they felt about him: "The Imperial March (aka Darth Vader's theme song).
Of course the Saudi King had no idea what was going on, but everyone else sure did. Imagine
hearing the song associated with one of the scariest and most evil fictional men in history, then
watching this guy stroll by, surrounded by bodyguards and booing protesters.
Lord Byron is considered one of the greatest English poets ever. Normally, words such as "badass"
don't belong in the same sentence as "poet" - something Byron was keen to change.
...
When he went to college, he tried to take his pet dog with him. Cambridge Trinity College was having none of it
and stuck to their strict "no dogs allowed" policy, seemingly unaware that they were currently talking to Lord Fucking Byron.
After being told no. Byron pleaded with the college to make an exception, but they wouldn't budge.
Seeing an opportunity to display the subtle dignity of the poetic soul, Byron went out and purchased
a bear, then brought it to Cambridge.
It didn't take long for college officials to notice the abnormally large portion of the student body
running in the same direction while screaming . "AAAAAHHHHH BEAR!" When they confronted him
about the fact that he was essentially wagging his dick at them in front of everyone, Byron simply
asked them to show him where in the rules it said that he couldn't have a bear. Amazingly, there
wasn't a specific rule against it. Even more amazingly, Cambridge apparently operated on sitcom
logic at the time, and officials decided they had no choice but to allow the bear to stay. Presumably
they knew that if they did manage to evict the bear, Byron would have simply arrived to campus the
next day riding a sled pulled by tigers.-Arizona Hot (July 07, 2015, 02:44 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg384626#msg384626))
Toddler parking ticket issued by cop in cahoots with cute tot's pop (http://www.examiner.com/article/toddler-parking-ticket-issued-by-cop-cahoots-with-cute-tot-s-pop)-Arizona Hot (July 08, 2015, 05:22 PM)
J.K. Rowling shuts down Serena Williams critic-Arizona Hot (July 11, 2015, 05:16 PM)
J.K. Rowling shuts down Serena Williams critic(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg384763#msg384763))-Arizona Hot (July 11, 2015, 05:16 PM)
ROFL-Stoic Joker (July 12, 2015, 07:17 AM)
Was Stonehenge built by a henge-mony?-Arizona Hot (July 13, 2015, 11:27 AM)
I'd rather live longer and prosper.-MilesAhead (July 13, 2015, 12:02 PM)
I wonder if they had any arch rivals?-MilesAhead (July 13, 2015, 12:02 PM)
In a round-about way. But I hear most were pyramid schemes.-Renegade (July 14, 2015, 08:34 PM)
I'd rather live longer and prosper.-MilesAhead (July 13, 2015, 12:02 PM)
Now that's prefectly getting 2 birds stoned.-Renegade (July 14, 2015, 08:34 PM)
If you like logic, argumentation, and fallacies, you'll enjoy this:
http://imgur.com/a/QDbyt#0
Oh, and if you like football, that's a bonus too. :)-Renegade (July 15, 2015, 11:20 PM)
If you like logic, argumentation, and fallacies, you'll enjoy this:
http://imgur.com/a/QDbyt#0
Oh, and if you like football, that's a bonus too. :)-Renegade (July 15, 2015, 11:20 PM)
Logical Fallacies, the illustrated guide. Nice. :)^luv it! (:If you like logic, argumentation, and fallacies, you'll enjoy this:
http://imgur.com/a/QDbyt#0
Oh, and if you like football, that's a bonus too. :)-Renegade (July 15, 2015, 11:20 PM)-Deozaan (July 16, 2015, 12:03 AM)
So what is that E-thingy symbol and what does the pic mean?-TaoPhoenix (July 18, 2015, 10:14 AM)
So what is that E-thingy symbol and what does the pic mean?-TaoPhoenix (July 18, 2015, 10:14 AM)
E= Euro (€)
The image is about the fear of what would happen if Greece was pushed out of the Euro.
Search for - Greece Euro EU - that should give you lots of details.-tomos (July 18, 2015, 10:21 AM)
My friend told me that Pluto wasn't considered a planet.
He must think I'm stupid or something,
Everyone knows he's a dog-bit (July 19, 2015, 02:02 PM)
Time travel is the only way to get a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad.-Arizona Hot (July 26, 2015, 08:42 PM)
Time travel is the only way to get a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad.-Arizona Hot (July 26, 2015, 08:42 PM)
Paradoxical ... if I went back and got her before he impregnated her with me, I wouldn't be here to go back and get her. Not certain I'd want to do so anyway ... she made a great mom, but dunno that I'd have wanted her as my girl :-\ :-\ :P.
P.S.
Reminds me of an old The Nelson Family segment, when Ricky got a date with Miss America (?!?),-barney (July 26, 2015, 11:33 PM)
Time travel is the only way to get a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad.-Arizona Hot (July 26, 2015, 08:42 PM)
Paradoxical ... if I went back and got her before he impregnated her with me, I wouldn't be here to go back and get her. Not certain I'd want to do so anyway ... she made a great mom, but dunno that I'd have wanted her as my girl :-\ :-\ :P.-barney (July 26, 2015, 11:33 PM)
Two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance with shots fired arrive on scene.
After discovering the wife had shot her husband for walking across her freshly mopped floor, they call their sergeant on his cell phone.
"Hello, Sarge?"
"Yes"
"It looks like we have a homicide here."
"What happened?"
"A woman has shot her husband for stepping on the floor she had just mopped."
"Have you placed her under arrest?"
"No sir. The floor is still wet."-Edvard (July 26, 2015, 12:01 AM)
That must be an old joke. These days, they would just shoot her, without stepping a single foot on the wet floor.-app103 (July 28, 2015, 10:29 AM)
[/url])[/i]Maybe he's Hindu?!? :-\
Would you believe a 6-armed Spiderman? I guess in the comics the impossible as well as everything possible can happen.-Arizona Hot (August 08, 2015, 11:09 AM)
Do's and Don'ts of Time Travel
So, you've finally done it. You've scraped together the millions of dollars, dozens of passports, countless vaccinations and hours and hours of anachronistic language classes. The day is at long last here, and you are ready to take that romantic little vacation – through time. Yes, time travel is everything you've been told. You will meet exotic people, doing exotic things in exotic eras. You will get to see the "Good Old Days" when they were better known as "These Wretched Times." But, before you hit the app button on your genius phone, there are a few things you should know:
Time Travel Don'ts
1.Don't shoot your grandfather. It's tempting isn't it? You've read about people who've done it on countless blogs and seen the very realistic, yet highly grainy videos, on YouTube. Shooting your biological grandfather isn't just against the law, both criminal and temporal, it is considered unacceptable behavior in just about all cultures. For now, let's put aside the thought of setting off a black hole, supernova, chain reaction, and think about this: What did your grandfather ever do to you? He produced your father or your mother, but other than that he's been a pretty decent guy. So put away the Derringer or Blunderbuss and buy the man a drink instead....
Time Travel Do's and Don'ts by Dane Bainbridge-Arizona Hot (August 08, 2015, 05:52 PM)
Then there was the cook who came to the doctor with an aching ear.
He looked in her ear, and identified a small piece of potato lodged painfully there.
"My dear," he said to her, "your ear is irritated."-bit (August 09, 2015, 09:45 AM)
Waa haha! ;D :up: :up: :up:Then there was the cook who came to the doctor with an aching ear.
He looked in her ear, and identified a small piece of potato lodged painfully there.
"My dear," he said to her, "your ear is irritated."-bit (August 09, 2015, 09:45 AM)
When she found out the doctor was a beer drinker, she said "Doc, this spud's for you!"-MilesAhead (August 09, 2015, 10:56 AM)
Totally lost there ! Sorry...-MerleOne (August 09, 2015, 01:50 PM)
Thanks !
Actually it's this one I don't get :
Then there was the cook who came to the doctor with an aching ear.
He looked in her ear, and identified a small piece of potato lodged painfully there.
"My dear," he said to her, "your ear is irritated."-MerleOne (August 09, 2015, 02:25 PM)
^potato = 'tater'Thanks !!! I could have spent a century on this...
irri-tated
ear-i-tated-bit (August 09, 2015, 04:33 PM)
^potato = 'tater'
irri-tated
ear-i-tated-bit (August 09, 2015, 04:33 PM)
Then there was the Mensa genius who refused to drink evaporated milk because it was condensed.-bit (August 10, 2015, 04:26 PM)
One of the frustrating things that I've found with Mensa tests is that quite often the questions have multiple correct answers.Hm-m-m ... checked out any IQ tests lately? Like, the last two (2) decades?-Renegade (August 10, 2015, 11:16 PM)
One of the frustrating things that I've found with Mensa tests is that quite often the questions have multiple correct answers.Hm-m-m ... checked out any IQ tests lately? Like, the last two (2) decades?-Renegade (August 10, 2015, 11:16 PM)-barney (August 11, 2015, 12:43 AM)
The Church of England have taken a break from pontificating about food banks to release an app that suggests a Psalm to read each morning and evening. It costs £8.99 to download…
“You cannot serve God and mammon”…
___________________________________
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
One of the frustrating things that I've found with Mensa tests is that quite often the questions have multiple correct answers.Hm-m-m ... checked out any IQ tests lately? Like, the last two (2) decades?-Renegade (August 10, 2015, 11:16 PM)-barney (August 11, 2015, 12:43 AM)
You have 2 cows... (http://imgur.com/gallery/tuG5A)
(Worth the click. They get continually better.)-Renegade (August 12, 2015, 04:32 PM)
re: Firecracker Battlefield prank.Ah, building happy memories.-Deozaan (August 13, 2015, 03:06 PM)
^sounds like they're having fun,
glad they not my neighbours though :)-tomos (August 14, 2015, 03:21 PM)
^sounds like they're having fun,
glad they not my neighbours though :)-tomos (August 14, 2015, 03:21 PM)
It said one resident. Between that and the watermark...-wraith808 (August 14, 2015, 05:59 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg386978#msg386978))I ran TinEye, found another post of this, and found the following sub-comment: :)-app103 (August 16, 2015, 10:28 AM)
How to vote?-Renegade (August 17, 2015, 12:37 AM)
^ Yaaay!!
Miles for President :eusa_dance:-tomos (August 17, 2015, 08:41 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg387052#msg387052))
Man tries to rob bank with a gun drawn on a piece of paper (http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2015/08/17/31838913/)
He should have just threatened the teller with his finger in his pocket.-Arizona Hot (August 17, 2015, 08:22 PM)
Possibly next? Chocolate brownie beer, mac & cheese beer, peanut butter & jelly sandwich beer. Is there bacon beer already?-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2015, 02:14 PM)
H2O croutons...my new favorite term. ;D^Dr. Jeckyll took a few sips and became Mr. Hydrated. :)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg387167#msg387167))-app103 (August 19, 2015, 03:51 PM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg387052#msg387052))
Man tries to rob bank with a gun drawn on a piece of paper (http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2015/08/17/31838913/)-Arizona Hot (August 17, 2015, 08:22 PM)
He plead guilty to armed robbery? Was he actually armed? Details seem missing from the story.-Deozaan (August 23, 2015, 12:14 AM)
Man tries to rob bank with a gun drawn on a piece of paper-Arizona Hot (August 17, 2015, 08:22 PM)
He plead guilty to armed robbery? Was he actually armed? Details seem missing from the story.-Deozaan (August 23, 2015, 12:14 AM)
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 05:38 AM)
Man tries to rob bank with a gun drawn on a piece of paper-Arizona Hot (August 17, 2015, 08:22 PM)
He plead guilty to armed robbery? Was he actually armed? Details seem missing from the story.-Deozaan (August 23, 2015, 12:14 AM)
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 05:38 AM)
;D I really did laugh out loud at that one :up:-tomos (August 23, 2015, 07:21 AM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
Looks like someone is trying to break the record for nested quotations ?He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
That's penning review.-wraith808 (August 24, 2015, 07:19 AM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
That's penning review.-wraith808 (August 24, 2015, 07:19 AM)
No pen no gain !He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
That's penning review.-wraith808 (August 24, 2015, 07:19 AM)
He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
That's penning review.-wraith808 (August 24, 2015, 07:19 AM)
where there's a quill there's a way-Target (August 24, 2015, 04:43 PM)
No pen no gain !-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)
Stop playing a round and use a niblick!No pen no gain !He was quick on the draw.Details seem missing from the story.
I agree. Details seem a bit sketchy.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 12:26 PM)
It was only penciled in at the time.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 02:07 PM)
Canvasing the comments has proven quite interesting.-MilesAhead (August 23, 2015, 04:47 PM)
I still wouldn't draw any conclusions from it. I'd wait until we get the complete picture.-x16wda (August 23, 2015, 05:34 PM)
I see the fountain of wisdom in that penning.-wraith808 (August 23, 2015, 06:10 PM)
I think it's time that somebody here took the lead.
-cranioscopical (August 23, 2015, 11:18 PM)
All is well that pens well.-MilesAhead (August 24, 2015, 06:51 AM)
That's penning review.-wraith808 (August 24, 2015, 07:19 AM)-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)
No pen no gain !-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)
Oh! Are we talking about Linux Distros? No Penguin, No Gain?
:D-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2015, 06:02 PM)
No pen no gain !-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)
Oh! Are we talking about Linux Distros? No Penguin, No Gain?
:D-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2015, 06:02 PM)
I buntu We buntu
You buntu You buntu
He/She/It buntus They buntu-MilesAhead (August 25, 2015, 10:33 AM)
No pen no gain !-MerleOne (August 24, 2015, 04:52 PM)
Oh! Are we talking about Linux Distros? No Penguin, No Gain?
:D-TaoPhoenix (August 24, 2015, 06:02 PM)
I buntu We buntu
You buntu You buntu
He/She/It buntus They buntu-MilesAhead (August 25, 2015, 10:33 AM)
Would that be 6 bunti?-Renegade (August 25, 2015, 11:36 AM)
Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories (http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/)
Is this the Onion?!? :huh: :P ;D-wraith808 (August 27, 2015, 10:34 AM)
This one is so silly I could almost have though it up myself... and it made me smile:. Good for aptitude exams ;D
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg150317#msg150317))
I figured we could use a silly-picture thread here, so post whatever you got :)-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 10:53 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg387672#msg387672))-crabby3 (August 28, 2015, 06:50 AM)
(see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16974.msg387674#msg387674))-crabby3 (August 28, 2015, 07:00 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
In exploring this forum, [...]-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
I've actually never noticed those links before... They're quite handy.-Stoic Joker (September 03, 2015, 07:04 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
I've actually never noticed those links before... They're quite handy.-Stoic Joker (September 03, 2015, 07:04 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
i'm not sure i understand what you're saying, but let me give a rundown of what the links (are supposed to) do:
- bottom: goes to the BOTTOM of the current page (this link is shown at top of current page)
- top: goes to the TOP of the current page (this link is shown at bottom of current page)
- last: goes to the last post of the last page of a multi-page thread (shown both at top and bottom of pages; maybe should be changed to not show if the thread is only one page long)
- prev: goes to previous page
- next: goes to next page
personally i never use any of these links, for what that's worth :huh:-mouser (September 03, 2015, 11:41 AM)
KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk-AbteriX (September 03, 2015, 01:44 PM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
In exploring this forum, if I click on 'bottom', it gives me a choice of 'top' or 'last'.
When I click on 'top', it gives me 'bottom' and 'last'.
I'm just letting you guys know that there is something seriously wrong here!
If you click on 'top', it should take you to where it says 'top'.
And when you click on 'bottom', you should go to where it says 'bottom'.
It's ass-backwards! You guys? Hello?-bit (September 03, 2015, 01:29 AM)
I've actually never noticed those links before... They're quite handy.-Stoic Joker (September 03, 2015, 07:04 AM)
I think there used to be a "go down" link at the top of the thread instead of "bottom".
I guess it is not possible but I find the "go to first unread" when a thread has new replies very useful. You don't have to guess how many new replies there are or read them in reverse order. Just click the nub and you are at the first one.
Edit: On some other forums the list of updated threads has a quasi-button on the left of each. Click it and you are at the first unread in that thread.-MilesAhead (September 03, 2015, 07:14 AM)
KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk-AbteriX (September 03, 2015, 01:44 PM)
that was good fun - I'll add it here:
...-tomos (September 03, 2015, 02:37 PM)
Then there was the man who worked in a straw factory.
He was rather a desperate fellow, always clutching at straws.-bit (September 06, 2015, 03:58 PM)
Then there was the man who worked in a straw factory.
He was rather a desperate fellow, always clutching at straws.-bit (September 06, 2015, 03:58 PM)
Not only that but when the factory went out of business eventually he got to the last straw.-MilesAhead (September 07, 2015, 07:11 AM)
Then there was the man who worked in a straw factory.
He was rather a desperate fellow, always clutching at straws.-bit (September 06, 2015, 03:58 PM)
Not only that but when the factory went out of business eventually he got to the last straw.-MilesAhead (September 07, 2015, 07:11 AM)
Which broke the camels back. :(-crabby3 (September 07, 2015, 07:19 AM)
Here's a decent mashup of just about every movie dance club scene ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajyNRnyPMs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajyNRnyPMs)-Deozaan (September 08, 2015, 11:16 AM)
Here's a decent mashup of just about every movie dance club scene ever:-Deozaan (September 08, 2015, 11:16 AM)
Tomos: Did you get an error message when you tried to use the Youtube icon? I did and added a separate link to the video, but kept the original one and it was shown as you see above.:up:-Arizona Hot (September 08, 2015, 09:28 PM)
Meet Bina48 the Humanoid Robot - YouTube-Arizona Hot (September 08, 2015, 09:33 PM)
High heels suck.
...-app103 (September 13, 2015, 03:29 PM)
High heels suck.Yeah, they do. However, they are a combination/creation of chauvinism and sensual pride. High heels help to form the calves more attractively - for those who find calves attractive (and we ain't talkin' livestock here :P), while flats tend to produce more hip/buttock action. What's funny about this? My senior year in high school - 1963, mind you - I was handed a research project by my English teacher because of a casual comment - I thought! - I made one (1) day in class about models and the profession of modeling. Took me two (2) weeks, and I now know more about modeling and footwear than I ever had any wish to learn :-\ :P. If you think heels are bad, consider the consequences of casual comments!-app103 (September 13, 2015, 03:29 PM)
If you think heels are bad, consider the consequences of casual comments!-barney (September 14, 2015, 10:20 PM)
Has anyone here eaten Girl Scout brownies?
Spoiler[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]-Arizona Hot (September 21, 2015, 10:32 AM)
'Girl unhappily holds an owl' meme is making us all very happy - YouTubeYes... very happy! There are some whacked people out there who aren't afraid to use Photoshop. (Or Gimp.)-Arizona Hot (October 01, 2015, 03:58 PM)
^^ No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?-IainB (October 06, 2015, 09:32 PM)
^^ No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?Doesn't really seem like silly humor- more like basement cop thread.
_____________________-IainB (October 06, 2015, 09:32 PM)
_____________________-wraith808 (October 06, 2015, 10:03 PM)
^^ No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?Doesn't really seem like silly humor- more like basement cop thread.
_____________________-IainB (October 06, 2015, 09:32 PM)
_____________________-wraith808 (October 06, 2015, 10:03 PM)
Ahaha! I caught you out doing that ventriloquist thang there, @Renegade! You think you're so smart.-IainB (October 07, 2015, 03:31 AM)
^^ Stop that @Renegade. I know its you. It's becoming tedious.-IainB (October 07, 2015, 05:45 AM)
This thread was never meant to be taken seriously. IainB made an ironic comment, but softened it by disguising it as a joke, a funny. Someone didn't get it, maybe someone else did. Move on; Guido Fawkes' blog really is dry... and Renegade probably doesn't need your help anyway. IainB is a peacekeeper, and his silly comments made me smile - you know: "silly humor - post 'em here!"-Curt (October 07, 2015, 09:37 AM)
This thread was never meant to be taken seriously. IainB made an ironic comment, but softened it by disguising it as a joke, a funny. Someone didn't get it, maybe someone else did. Move on; Guido Fawkes' blog really is dry... and Renegade probably doesn't need your help anyway. IainB is a peacekeeper, and his silly comments made me smile - you know: "silly humor - post 'em here!"
_______________________-Curt (October 07, 2015, 09:37 AM)
I would stress that there was no intention on my part to "Go Basement" on this and tut-tut or foam at the mouth about police brutality, or similar - the fact that it was a cop who was the actor was kinda coincidental, and police brutality is a sorry fact of life for a minority of police officers and a problem for their commanders to address, and something to which we have by now probably become desensitised anyway - so I generally would be disinclined to make passing comment about specific cases of police brutality in this forum (I don't find it funny in and of itself anyway) or anywhere else - e.g., The Basement.
No, what I was posting about is what seems to be a relatively new/emerging and growing phenomenon that is occurring in our society and which is largely enabled by the advent of telecomms and/or computerised "social networks" (e.g., including live video streaming, Twitter, Facebook) combined with the possibilities of the smartphone or video camera and sometimes especially the selfie features therein, resulting in something new that seems to be at one and the same time so seriously vain, moronic and self-destructive in some way that it it beggars belief and it might actually be quite funny and deserving of mockery that a person would do that to themselves in the first place without apparently considering the potential consequences for themselves or how their behaviour might appear to others watching in critical judgement. To do that would seem to require a pathological conceit coupled with a complete absence of self-awareness.-IainB (October 08, 2015, 12:37 AM)
How come no-one commented on the image and comments re the calculation puzzle: 6-1*0+2/2=?-IainB (October 08, 2015, 01:22 AM)
There could be two right answers depending on your assumptions - is operation precedence honored or do you want to go left to right? But in any case I am curious how you would get a 42 out of that... anyone?? Unless it's a HHGG reference of course. (No panic here.)Well, I figured it was just a stupid "teaser" puzzle - an elementary one that is deliberately ambiguous - to generate clicks to advisoruncle.com, which looks like a recruitment agency, or something. Thus getting the answer "right" was likely to be largely irrelevant, and so no particular answer will necessarily be "right".
_______________________________-x16wda (October 08, 2015, 05:37 AM)
However, elementary maths and any calculator that is programmed to correctly obey the standard computational rules would give "7", so I reckoned that, from the context of IT, "7" would be the "correct" answer.-IainB (October 08, 2015, 08:33 AM)
Just for the record I had the same feeling as wraith (and renegade of all people) that it was more a basement/political post than a silly humor post and didn't belong here -- and then i didn't understand the replies to the question about it being in the wrong thread.-mouser (October 07, 2015, 10:20 AM)
Humor is reason gone mad.
I might have some clarity here.
Cop tasering *himself* "to learn / to look funny / to create a meme" = Funny
Cop tasering *suspect* (not staged as a skit) = police aggression = Basement.-TaoPhoenix (October 07, 2015, 12:45 PM)
I can see MS missed the boat. They should have named the successor to Vista Windows 6-1*0+2/2 UltimateHar-de-har-har. Very droll.
______________________-MilesAhead (October 08, 2015, 11:17 AM)
Then there is the completely, over the top, utterly and monstrously insane stuff that is just funny no matter how horrific simply due to how unbelievable it is. Like, a cop walking into a donut shop and shooting everyone would be way to nutty not to post here. Mass shooting by cop in a donut shop?!? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!Yes, but you might be missing the point. He wouldn't even be a potential candidate for a Downhill Selfie Award unless he captured it on his vidcam, and in any event, if he was (say) deemed just bonkers or was doing it as a deliberate public look-at-me! protest act, then he wouldn't necessarily qualify under the Award's vain, moronic or stupid criteria. You might have to put that one to an Award panel of judges to decide upon.
__________________-Renegade (October 09, 2015, 01:19 AM)
But ... these are all campaign promises. Methinks alovus know how valuable those might be. C'mon, if yer gonna mount a campaign, do it, don't just tease (like unto the current US presidential contestants [?]).-barney (October 10, 2015, 01:08 AM)
If you went step-by-step from L to R (which was what I did first, just to see) then 6-1*0+2/2= can give "1"."Going left-to-right" makes no sense - and it's entirely unambiguous when it comes to operator precedence, so the answer is indeed 7.
However, elementary maths and any calculator that is programmed to correctly obey the standard computational rules would give "7", so I reckoned that, from the context of IT, "7" would be the "correct" answer. Mind you, I didn't bother working it from R to L... :huh:-IainB (October 08, 2015, 08:33 AM)
Have you ever wondered WHY we have adopted the order of operator precedence that dictates multiplication and division happen before addition and subtraction?
There is a nice discussion of it here:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52582.html
Like many things that we accept as "settled" -- there is an entire fascinating history and culture of debate, discovery, and disagreement underlying all of it.-mouser (October 13, 2015, 09:00 AM)
...that 6-1*0+2/2 stuff. It just seemed sad that some people couldn't manage that. ...
_________________________-Renegade (October 13, 2015, 09:05 PM)
Was Gregory Peck very peckish?-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2015, 11:22 AM)
... various Ford automobile references ...-panzer (October 20, 2015, 03:56 AM)
I got these from Google Images so there are no links.-Arizona Hot (October 20, 2015, 02:13 PM)
"May y'all enjoy Christmas and may y'all enjoy the new year."
QISmaS = Not a canonical tlhIngan Hol word, but a phonetic approximation of "Christmas".
bo- = Pronomial prefix; indicates that the subject of the verb is second-person plural and the object is third-person. "Y'all do something to him/her/it/them"
tIv = enjoy (verb)
-jaj = Verb suffix; indicates a wish on the speaker's part (similar to the jussive mood). "May it be so."
'ej = and (joining sentences)
DIS = year
chu' = be new
Edit: Also, the pIqaD text on his sleigh appears to say Sannta. That consonant cluster in the middle isn't really allowed in traditional tlhIngan Hol, but I think the Empire will forgive the artist; after all, it is QISmaS ;)
Indeed, big kudos to the artist for doing their research; most people take a lot of shortcuts when writing "Klingon", and that's quite understandable, but whenever somebody does get it right, it's a real treat for those of us in the Klingon-speaking community :)
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Beautiful artwork shows up only when street is wet (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/beautiful-artwork-shows-up-only-when-street-is-wet/ar-BBmud1D)-Arizona Hot (November 04, 2015, 01:29 PM)
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How many solipsists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?SpoilerWho wants to know?
Solipsists of the world, unite!
A solipsist can never get divorced because she is part of him.
A solipsist is childish because they never grow up.
What happens when 2 solipsists meet?-Arizona Hot (November 06, 2015, 01:02 PM)
...
Solipcism is actually more common than most people realise.
Most people today believe in portions of it.
But... can't talk about that because it gets into religion.-Renegade (November 07, 2015, 03:21 AM)
You might want to look for what Mark Passio has to say on solipcism. Interesting stuff.-Renegade (November 08, 2015, 08:47 PM)
You might want to look for what Mark Passio has to say on solipcism. Interesting stuff.-Renegade (November 08, 2015, 08:47 PM)
I wasn't intending to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.-IainB (November 17, 2015, 02:53 AM)
- Don't worry about the world coming to an end in the US today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
-IainB (November 17, 2015, 02:53 AM)
These 34 Photos Are So Perfectly Timed, They Seem Impossible. (http://www.viralnova.com/epic-photo-timing/?mb=tabmsn&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=msn-msn&utm_term=34+Photos+That+You+Won%27t+Believe+Aren%27t+Photoshopped&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.viralnova.com%2F000%2F062%2F048%2Fdesktop-1406819536.png&utm_campaign=MSN_Photoshop)-Arizona Hot (November 17, 2015, 07:57 PM)
[Charles Dickens] decided to fill two spaces in his new study with bookcases containing fake books, the witty titles of which he had invented. And so, on October 22nd, he wrote to a bookbinder named Thomas Robert Eeles and supplied him with the following “list of imitation book-backs” to be produced.
- History of a Short Chancery Suit
- Catalogue of Statues of the Duke of Wellington
- Five Minutes in China. 3 vols.
- Forty Winks at the Pyramids. 2 vols.
- Abernethy on the Constitution. 2 vols.
- Mr. Green’s Overland Mail. 2 vols.
- Captain Cook’s Life of Savage. 2 vols.
- A Carpenter’s Bench of Bishops. 2 vols.
- Toot’s Universal Letter-Writer. 2 vols.
- Orson’s Art of Etiquette.
- Downeaster’s Complete Calculator.
- History of the Middling Ages. 6 vols.
- Jonah’s Account of the Whale.
- Captain Parry’s Virtues of Cold Tar.
- Kant’s Ancient Humbugs. 10 vols.
- Bowwowdom. A Poem.
- The Quarrelly Review. 4 vols.
- The Gunpowder Magazine. 4 vols.
- Steele. By the Author of “Ion.”
- The Art of Cutting the Teeth.
- Matthew’s Nursery Songs. 2 vols.
- Paxton’s Bloomers. 5 vols.
- On the Use of Mercury by the Ancient Poets.
- Drowsy’s Recollections of Nothing. 3 vols.
- Heavyside’s Conversations with Nobody. 3 vols.
- Commonplace Book of the Oldest Inhabitant. 2 vols.
- Growler’s Gruffiology, with Appendix. 4 vols.
- The Books of Moses and Sons. 2 vols.
- Burke (of Edinburgh) on the Sublime and Beautiful. 2 vols.
- Teazer’s Commentaries.
- King Henry the Eighth’s Evidences of Christianity. 5 vols.
- Miss Biffin on Deportment.
- Morrison’s Pills Progress. 2 vols.
- Lady Godiva on the Horse.
- Munchausen’s Modern Miracles. 4 vols.
- Richardson’s Show of Dramatic Literature. 12 vols.
- Hansard’s Guide to Refreshing Sleep. As many volumes as possible.
NSFW - A guided meditation. :Thmbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
________________________________-Renegade (November 17, 2015, 09:52 PM)
I don't "get" any of those book titles. :huh:You have my sympathies.
______________________-Deozaan (November 17, 2015, 11:57 PM)
NSFW - A guided meditation. :Thmbsup:
...video...-Renegade (November 17, 2015, 09:52 PM)
NSFW - A guided meditation. :Thmbsup:
...video...-Renegade (November 17, 2015, 09:52 PM)
Wait, What! ...Somebody has stolen my meditation technique and documented it as their own?!? Son-Of-A-Bi... I am totally suing their balls off!!!-Stoic Joker (November 18, 2015, 06:41 AM)
NSFW - A guided meditation. :Thmbsup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
________________________________-Renegade (November 17, 2015, 09:52 PM)
:Thmbsup: I reckon this might be almost as good as TM (Transcendental Meditation).-IainB (November 18, 2015, 12:33 AM)
...I never dabbled in TM. ...
______________________________-MilesAhead (November 18, 2015, 09:21 AM)
Where does bad light end up? In prism.-IainB (November 17, 2015, 02:53 AM)
A mob is after Pinocchio. When they get him, they're going to string him up.-Arizona Hot (November 19, 2015, 10:33 AM)
A mob is after Pinocchio. When they get him, they're going to string him up.-Arizona Hot (November 19, 2015, 10:33 AM)
Obviously he was condemned by a puppet government.-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 10:46 AM)
A mob is after Pinocchio. When they get him, they're going to string him up.-Arizona Hot (November 19, 2015, 10:33 AM)
Obviously he was condemned by a puppet government.-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 10:46 AM)
No, they're mad because he tried to marry Annette.-Stoic Joker (November 19, 2015, 11:08 AM)
If a person who has had a sex change has children, are they transparent?-Arizona Hot (November 19, 2015, 12:14 PM)
Yes. But if you turn yourself from a man into Lucy Liu then you are TransLucent.-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 01:59 PM)
Yes. But if you turn yourself from a man into Lucy Liu then you are TransLucent.-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 01:59 PM)
TransLucent...I thought that term described what happened to AT&T, after their surgery back in 1996.-app103 (November 20, 2015, 06:04 AM)
If they eat hot dogs made from dogs in China at least they don't eat soylent green.-Arizona Hot (November 23, 2015, 01:05 PM)
But I've not tried soylent green...:-\ :-\ That you know of, that is. Sometimes you can buy mystery meat(s) at the local market(s) :-\ :-\-Renegade (November 23, 2015, 10:10 PM)
But I've not tried soylent green...:-\ :-\ That you know of, that is. Sometimes you can buy mystery meat(s) at the local market(s) :-\ :-\-Renegade (November 23, 2015, 10:10 PM)-barney (November 24, 2015, 07:03 AM)
About this project
The British Board of Film Classification (previously known as the British Board of Film Censors) was established in 1912 to ensure films remained free of 'indecorous dancing', 'references to controversial politics' and 'men and women in bed together', amongst other perceived indiscretions.
Today, it continues to censor and in some cases ban films, while UK law ensures that, in effect, a film cannot be released in British cinemas without a BBFC certificate.
Each certificate costs around £1000 for a feature film of average length. For many independent filmmakers, such a large upfront can prove prohibitively expensive.
Luckily, there’s a flipside to all of this: while filmmakers are required to pay the BBFC to certify their work, the BBFC are also required to sit through whatever we pay them to watch.
That’s why I’m Kickstarting a BBFC certificate for my new film Paint Drying — a single, unbroken shot of white paint drying on a brick wall. All the money raised by this campaign (minus Kickstarter's fees) will be put towards the cost of the certificate, so the final length of the film will be determined by how much money is raised here.
For instance, if we raise £108.59, the film will be one minute long. If we raise £526.90, it'll be an hour long. And so on.
Just about sums it up I would think.-40hz (November 30, 2015, 02:03 PM)
From a Canadian comedian - Red Green.
http://imgur.com/a/yOXWe
Just click. I promise it will be worth it. 8)-Renegade (November 30, 2015, 09:59 PM)
"It's all boxes man"hahahahaahhaahah ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Has anyone been arrested for assault for beating someone to a conclusion?-Arizona Hot (December 02, 2015, 03:28 PM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q)
Sheee-it!-Renegade (December 11, 2015, 09:52 AM)
This idea might come in really useful, if you didn't already know about it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q)how nice ;D
Sheee-it!-Renegade (December 11, 2015, 09:52 AM)
___________________________________--tomos (December 11, 2015, 05:11 PM)
"I'm not hitch-hiking anymore - I'm riding!"______________________________________
the throne room;D-IainB (December 15, 2015, 01:05 AM)
This idea might come in really useful, if you didn't already know about it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q)how nice ;D
Sheee-it!-Renegade (December 11, 2015, 09:52 AM)
___________________________________--tomos (December 11, 2015, 05:11 PM)
Toilet-training is something that we naturally assume gets sorted out in childhood, but there's apparently a lot of room for improvement over the traditional Thomas Crapper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper) position.
I read some research a while back that showed that adopting something closer to the squat position (e.g., as employed in Asian squat toilets and French motorway squat toilets) made all your internal guts line up for an easier, faster poo and reduced risk of straining/piles.
So I recommended it to my daughter as she often has tummy probs in the morning before going to school, and suggested that she use the plastic foot stool that we keep in the bathroom for our 5 y/o son to stand on at the basin. So she tried putting it under her feet to raise her knees up, and the changed anatomical geometry helped her a lot and now she always uses it.
So then I tried using the footstool, and whilst I was used to always taking a book and reading glasses into the throne room for the duration (or the classical 3-movement symphony), I now barely have enough time to read half a page (and I'm a fast reader), and I don't get piles like I used to. It is very effective. So I always use the footstool too.
As Ren said in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon episode "Space Madness":"I'm not hitch-hiking anymore - I'm riding!"______________________________________-IainB (December 15, 2015, 01:05 AM)
A news reporter able to speak the truth? Shock horror.
Rather clever Jonathan Pie satire.
Reporter gets angry and tells us the REAL news - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syjp9lsWBhc)-IainB (December 27, 2015, 08:17 AM)
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The Internet’s Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants? TIME (http://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/)-Arizona Hot (December 31, 2015, 12:55 PM)
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The Internet’s Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants? TIME (http://time.com/4163516/dog-pants-internet-debate/)-Arizona Hot (December 31, 2015, 12:55 PM)
How's that for sticker shock?-Arizona Hot (January 05, 2016, 12:12 PM)
How's that for sticker shock?-Arizona Hot (January 05, 2016, 12:12 PM)
Hmm, how do they get it to stay on the back window of the new car?-MilesAhead (January 06, 2016, 08:38 AM)
How's that for sticker shock?-Arizona Hot (January 05, 2016, 12:12 PM)
Hmm, how do they get it to stay on the back window of the new car?-MilesAhead (January 06, 2016, 08:38 AM)
Throw it real hard... :D-Stoic Joker (January 06, 2016, 11:09 AM)
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I hope the marketing types don't light bulb that Hybrid and Harley both start with "H" else Harley Hybrid(tm) is only a matter of time. :down:
:) :) :) :) :)-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 06:37 AM)
I hope the marketing types don't light bulb that Hybrid and Harley both start with "H" else Harley Hybrid(tm) is only a matter of time. :down:
:) :) :) :) :)-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 06:37 AM)
I hear Ya man. But it's already been explored by OCC (http://www.wired.com/2009/08/occ-electric-chopper/) (eek!).-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2016, 06:50 AM)
Who would want to be a solipsist? You would be a supremely religious atheist, a totalitarian anarchist, a serial-killing war-mongering suicidal pacifist, a criminal kingpin who is also the police, an institutionalized maniac who is also a psychiatrist. Who would want to be such a conflicted manic-depressive? Being a serial killer with immortal victims would add to your insanity if that is possible.Hm-m-m-m ... those descriptives seem applicable to a few of the politicians I have known :P. Particularly when it comes to their understandings of the internet :o :-\.-Arizona Hot (January 09, 2016, 12:01 PM)
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Dog 'pants' selling like hot cakes (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/dog-pants-selling-like-hot-cakes/vi-CCgMGa)-Arizona Hot (January 09, 2016, 08:22 PM)
I hope the marketing types don't light bulb that Hybrid and Harley both start with "H" else Harley Hybrid(tm) is only a matter of time. :down:
:) :) :) :) :)-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 06:37 AM)
I hear Ya man. But it's already been explored by OCC (http://www.wired.com/2009/08/occ-electric-chopper/) (eek!).-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2016, 06:50 AM)
Whoa!! A 60 mile range? It could take a long time to retrace the route taken by Fonda and Hopper in Easy Rider! ( Edit: Unless maybe it's a misprint and it's supposed to be 600 miles? )-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 07:24 AM)
I hope the marketing types don't light bulb that Hybrid and Harley both start with "H" else Harley Hybrid(tm) is only a matter of time. :down:
:) :) :) :) :)-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 06:37 AM)
I hear Ya man. But it's already been explored by OCC (http://www.wired.com/2009/08/occ-electric-chopper/) (eek!).-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2016, 06:50 AM)
Whoa!! A 60 mile range? It could take a long time to retrace the route taken by Fonda and Hopper in Easy Rider! ( Edit: Unless maybe it's a misprint and it's supposed to be 600 miles? )-MilesAhead (January 09, 2016, 07:24 AM)
Shitski - Good point. I didn't realize there was 2 of them and linked to the wrong one. That one is straight electric (e.g. not a hybrid). However this one (https://motorsportsnewswire.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/first-look-200bhp-hybrid-chopper-0114101/) is the both gas and electric powered hybrid.
Thanks for keeping me straight. :D-Stoic Joker (January 10, 2016, 08:28 AM)
Who would want to be a solipsist? You would be a supremely religious atheist, a totalitarian anarchist, a serial-killing war-mongering suicidal pacifist, a criminal kingpin who is also the police, an institutionalized maniac who is also a psychiatrist. Who would want to be such a conflicted manic-depressive? Being a serial killer with immortal victims would add to your insanity if that is possible.Hm-m-m-m ... those descriptives seem applicable to a few of the politicians I have known :P. Particularly when it comes to their understandings of the internet :o :-\.-Arizona Hot (January 09, 2016, 12:01 PM)-barney (January 09, 2016, 12:11 PM)
Who would want to be a solipsist? You would be a supremely religious atheist, a totalitarian anarchist, a serial-killing war-mongering suicidal pacifist, a criminal kingpin who is also the police, an institutionalized maniac who is also a psychiatrist. Who would want to be such a conflicted manic-depressive? Being a serial killer with immortal victims would add to your insanity if that is possible.Hm-m-m-m ... those descriptives seem applicable to a few of the politicians I have known :P. Particularly when it comes to their understandings of the internet :o :-\.-Arizona Hot (January 09, 2016, 12:01 PM)-barney (January 09, 2016, 12:11 PM)
I looked up Solipsism earlier, and this is the first thing that came to mind:
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Family uses Airbnb, accidentally rents marijuana grow house (http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2016/01/11/78638768/)-Arizona Hot (January 12, 2016, 11:07 PM)
Executive overreach? Obama issues decree in pants-on-dog debate-Arizona Hot (January 15, 2016, 04:25 PM)
I wonder if there is a psychiatric syndrome where people are mute and inactive because they think they don't exist. Their motto is "I think, therefore I am not".-Arizona Hot (January 16, 2016, 10:41 AM)
^ WTF? I guess the more important question isn't do they exist... do they vote?-wraith808 (January 16, 2016, 09:55 AM)
They likely vote: chicken wing (instead of right/left wing) :P-Shades (January 16, 2016, 04:02 PM)
ive split off the latest post in this topic and moved it to the basement; if there are particularly family inappropriate posts on this thread they should go to that thread.-mouser (January 25, 2016, 07:11 AM)
Because it's Australia DaySpoiler[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]-4wd (January 25, 2016, 11:58 PM)
With Cortana, Microsoft is “scroogled” in new Windows 10 spyware scare Computerworld-Arizona Hot (January 27, 2016, 10:13 AM)
it's sharing everything it finds with the MS Mothership-Stoic Joker (January 27, 2016, 11:46 AM)
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This ancient sculpture has conspiracy theorists convinced TIME TRAVEL exists - can you see why? (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/this-ancient-sculpture-has-conspiracy-theorists-convinced-time-travel-exists-can-you-see-why/ar-BBp9Epb)-Arizona Hot (February 06, 2016, 09:43 PM)
A Secret Bedroom Was Just Discovered in the Berlin Subway-Arizona Hot (February 16, 2016, 07:42 PM)
The alternate title for this comic was "Shebangs", but I realized that a Ricky Martin UNIX pun was probably a mistake. Some cooling tips - People cool and server cool are different things. Commercial home AC units are probably not right for your servers. - Make sure that there's a tight seal in the server room to keep your controlled air in - and most importantly of all, make sure never to play "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago in your server room. Peter Cetera is a powerful uncoolant.
Here is presented for your perusal one Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied surreptitiously to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on a plethora of British cars. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The affected circuit is then rectified and the replacement smoke re-introduced. An advantage over the cheap repro smoke kits currently available is the exceptionally rare Churchill metering valve and fuse box adapter. It enables the intrepid and highly skilled British Car Technician to meter the precise amount of genuine Lucas smoke required by the circuit.
Unlike the cheap, far-eastern replacement DIYsmoke offered by the "usual suppliers", this kit includes a filter to ensure that all the smoke is of consistent size, It has been our experience in our shop that the reproduction Taiwanese smoke is often "lumpy", which will cause excessive resistance in our finely-engineered British harnesses and components. This is often the cause of failure in the repro electrical parts currently available, causing much consternation and misplaced cursing of the big three suppliers.
Tongue depressors were the first psycho-active drug.
Can a singer with a depressed tongue perform well?-Arizona Hot (March 29, 2016, 11:48 AM)
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Actually, this reminds me of much of my Linux experience since switching full-time in 2003 or so... :-\-Edvard (April 11, 2016, 07:45 PM)
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Now You Can Get Pizza In A Pizza Box Made Out Of Pizza (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/now-you-can-get-pizza-in-a-pizza-box-made-out-of-pizza/ar-BBssHUZ?fullscreen=true#image=1)-Arizona Hot (May 03, 2016, 02:24 PM)
Do you know who the woman is in these videos?-Arizona Hot (May 03, 2016, 01:17 PM)
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18 of the most bizarre fast-food items ever created (http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodculture/18-of-the-most-bizarre-fast-food-items-ever-created/ss-BBsqqdC)-Arizona Hot (May 05, 2016, 05:39 PM)
... and please don't tell me that any DC'ers think a 'man bun' is a good idea :'(-Edvard (May 09, 2016, 07:37 PM)
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via the music thread:... and please don't tell me that any DC'ers think a 'man bun' is a good idea :'(-Edvard (May 09, 2016, 07:37 PM)
I ended up here:
Try Taking These World Leaders Seriously When They Have Man-Buns (http://www.fastcocreate.com/3052827/try-taking-these-world-leaders-seriously-when-they-have-man-buns)
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Also I think it is a pita that we now assume unknown gender is female.-MilesAhead (May 10, 2016, 07:00 AM)
Also I think it is a pita that we now assume unknown gender is female.-MilesAhead (May 10, 2016, 07:00 AM)
The picture shows a toddler with ponytails, so it's fairly unambiguous. ;)-Deozaan (May 10, 2016, 01:16 PM)
Not sure if this belongs here, but this was fun to watch:
Rube Goldberg machine with marbles and magnets.-Deozaan (May 10, 2016, 05:46 PM)
Rube Goldberg machine with marbles and magnets.-Deozaan (May 10, 2016, 05:46 PM)
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18 of the most bizarre fast-food items ever created (http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodculture/18-of-the-most-bizarre-fast-food-items-ever-created/ss-BBsqqdC)
Has anyone here eaten one of these?-Arizona Hot (May 05, 2016, 05:39 PM)
Do solipsists buy life insurance?-Arizona Hot (May 19, 2016, 01:00 PM)
Watering a fir tree in a downpour...a metaphor for what?-IainB (May 28, 2016, 02:09 PM)
some silly doing the rounds:-tomos (June 01, 2016, 07:04 AM)
some silly doing the rounds:
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"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, 1863
You just lost
"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)
Also, The Game:You just lost-http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game&defid=609015-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)
Also, The Game:You just lost-http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game&defid=609015-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)
Also, The Game:You just lost-http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game&defid=609015-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)
sort of like the opposite of zen:
promoting lack of awareness all over the world
:-)-tomos (June 02, 2016, 03:46 AM)
Also, The Game:You just lost-http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game&defid=609015-Edvard (June 01, 2016, 03:15 PM)
sort of like the opposite of zen:
promoting lack of awareness all over the world
:-)-tomos (June 02, 2016, 03:46 AM)
But what if Zen's complete awareness is simply a total immersion in - and therefore a mastery of - the game??-Stoic Joker (June 02, 2016, 07:01 AM)
But what if Zen's complete awareness is simply a total immersion in - and therefore a mastery of - the game??-Stoic Joker (June 02, 2016, 07:01 AM)
It's often said tots spend more time playing with the wrapping than the present itself. When Martin mentioned this on his TV show, he was inundated with people tweeting and emailing photos of their young children having great fun with [url=http://http;//www. . .] cardboard [/url] boxes they'd been given for Christmas. See Martin's blog for the pics.-Jazmyn40 (June 03, 2016, 05:03 AM)
| Irish People Asked To Explain What They Mean By “Sure You Know Yourself” May 31, 2016 - BREAKING NEWS THE time when an Irish person could both simultaneously dodge a question and answer it may be coming to a close, as an international court ruling has demanded an explanation for the expression “sure you know yourself”. For decades, people from all across Ireland have skillfully steered conversations to their liking by simply responding to any question or query with the catch-all phrase. [..] However, overuse of the phrase in recent times has led to a UN ruling that either the statement be explained in full, or struck from use altogether. [..] The Irish government is to fight the ruling, stating that it is every Irish citizen’s right to be able to tell you to mind your own f*cking business without sounding rude. |
100+ Coats of Nail Polish-Arizona Hot (June 13, 2016, 04:27 PM)
100+ Coats of Nail Polish-Arizona Hot (June 13, 2016, 04:27 PM)
She could have been done with that in a fraction of the time, if she did thinner coats and every 3rd coat was Ruby Kisses Lightening. Then she wouldn't have had to wait as much for it to dry.
Doing my nails used to be a hobby of mine, before I acquired my first computer. I used to routinely layer on 25 coats of nail polish, plus artwork, then wear it (without it chipping) till I started to noticeably outgrow the polish, which was usually about 2 weeks.-app103 (June 13, 2016, 05:46 PM)
100+ Coats of Nail Polish-Arizona Hot (June 13, 2016, 04:27 PM)
She could have been done with that in a fraction of the time, if she did thinner coats and every 3rd coat was Ruby Kisses Lightening. Then she wouldn't have had to wait as much for it to dry.
Doing my nails used to be a hobby of mine, before I acquired my first computer. I used to routinely layer on 25 coats of nail polish, plus artwork, then wear it (without it chipping) till I started to noticeably outgrow the polish, which was usually about 2 weeks.-app103 (June 13, 2016, 05:46 PM)
I won't ask... Ok, I will ask. How do you happen to have this knowledge?-wraith808 (June 13, 2016, 06:07 PM)
I CAN'T UNSEE IT!-wraith808 (June 15, 2016, 09:11 PM)
I found this Pointer Pointer (http://www.pointerpointer.com/) site EXTREMELY amusing!-Asudem (June 22, 2016, 12:27 AM)
I found this Pointer Pointer (http://www.pointerpointer.com/) site EXTREMELY amusing!-Asudem (June 22, 2016, 12:27 AM)
^ that is so brilliant! :up:-Curt (June 22, 2016, 02:20 AM)
They cheat:-Deozaan (June 22, 2016, 12:19 PM)
Heh. It was cute. But not as cool as the one where you throw the ball and the dog chases it.WHAT! Link please!
(http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Md1ee442fc1fc002e9ce93fd349af0bc0o0&w=229&h=171&c=7&rs=1&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.1)-MilesAhead (June 22, 2016, 04:32 PM)
WHAT! Link please!-Asudem (June 22, 2016, 07:26 PM)
A psychologist finished his work day devastated, and dragged himself into the office building’s elevator to slink down to his car and try to drive home. In the elevator was another psychologist, an older man, who looked crisp and happy and was whistling instead of looking like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Unable to contain himself, the younger man cried out: “how do you do it? How do you listen every day to all these stories of disappointment and death and shattered dreams and failed marriages and cheating and losing and dysfunctional families and lost hope? How do you listen to that all day and still stay fresh?”
The old guy looked at him, smiled, and said: “who listens?”
The old guy looked at him, smiled, and said: “who listens?”-wraith808 (June 23, 2016, 11:15 AM)
A group of friars lived in a monastery. As with many monasteries, the friars found it necessary to run a small business to support themselves. They ran a floral shop. One day one of the friars brought in an exquisite find: a Venus fly trap. It was such a cute thing, they couldn't bear to sell it, so they just kept it on display. But after a while, it grew so big that flies were no longer enough to satisfy it. It ate cockroaches, but it kept growing. It ate mice, but it still kept growing. It ate chipmunks, squirrels, cats, then raccoons and dogs and ponies. Finally the villagers got wise to this and attempted to put a stop to it. But try as they might, no one could. One way or another, the friars outsmarted the townsfolk and raided their farms of large animals. Finally the villagers pooled their money and hired a professional named Hugh to come in and capture the friars. Hugh stormed the monastery, destroyed the fly trap, captured the friars, and turned them over to the police. The moral of this story is: Only Hugh can prevent florist friars.
#120
# What do you call a chicken that crosses the road, rolls in the mud, and crosses back over?
=> A dirty double crosser
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Museum crossword art defaced when visitor, 91, fills in blanks-Arizona Hot (July 16, 2016, 12:55 PM)
Museum crossword art defaced when visitor, 91, fills in blanks-Arizona Hot (July 16, 2016, 12:55 PM)
that was funny :up:-tomos (July 17, 2016, 01:33 PM)
At least it didn't leave him puzzled... :)-Shades (July 18, 2016, 09:59 PM)
I must confess I am at a loss for words. :)-MilesAhead (July 19, 2016, 06:44 AM)
I must confess I am at a loss for words. :)-MilesAhead (July 19, 2016, 06:44 AM)
really? not even a clue?-Target (July 19, 2016, 06:47 PM)
I hear they are searching backpacks for the Dell Dictionaries with all the terrorism these days-MilesAhead (July 20, 2016, 08:25 AM)
Hope this is viewable...-dantheman (July 21, 2016, 08:11 AM)
This one cracked me up:
Reluctant Dad Drafts Hilarious Contract For Kids Who Want Dog
http://distractify.com/animals/2016/07/28/reluctant-dad-dog-contract
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Curious flock to KFC's fried-chicken scented sunscreen (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/08/23/curious-flock-kfcs-fried-chicken-scented-sunscreen/89130838/)-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2016, 12:03 PM)
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Curious flock to KFC's fried-chicken scented sunscreen (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/08/23/curious-flock-kfcs-fried-chicken-scented-sunscreen/89130838/)-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2016, 12:03 PM)
This is not a new idea. Back in 2008, Burger King released Whopper-scented cologne (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3797892/Burger-King-releases-meat-scented-cologne.html).-Deozaan (August 23, 2016, 04:16 PM)
I figured we could use a silly-picture thread here, so post whatever you got :)-f0dder (February 09, 2009, 10:53 AM)
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Curious flock to KFC's fried-chicken scented sunscreen (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/08/23/curious-flock-kfcs-fried-chicken-scented-sunscreen/89130838/)-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2016, 12:03 PM)
This is not a new idea. Back in 2008, Burger King released Whopper-scented cologne (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3797892/Burger-King-releases-meat-scented-cologne.html).-Deozaan (August 23, 2016, 04:16 PM)
This is pretty great:
laght sabre safety (https://youtu.be/k9Chq_RsAt4)-mouser (September 04, 2016, 11:26 PM)
http://appleplugs.com/-wraith808 (September 09, 2016, 07:28 AM)
This is how every error message should be represented:
https://httpstatusdogs.com/ (https://httpstatusdogs.com/)-Shades (September 10, 2016, 03:02 PM)
http://appleplugs.com/-wraith808 (September 09, 2016, 07:28 AM)
tech support?
http://imgur.com/a/5MIK9 (http://imgur.com/a/5MIK9)-Target (October 23, 2016, 07:51 PM)
Marshmallow farming-app103 (November 28, 2016, 12:04 PM)
I've never actually listened to this entire song or seen the entire video, but someone said it sounds like she says "Do you think you're better? ROFLOL!" and now I can't hear anything else:-Deozaan (November 29, 2016, 01:47 PM)
Do you think you're better off alone
Do you think you're better off alone
Do you think you're better off alone
Do you think you're better off alone
Talk to me
Ooooooh talk to me
Talk to me
Ooooooh talk to me-Alice Deejay Better Off Alone -Lyrics
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That was really wonderful. :-* :-* :-*
Does anyone know of any more similar such opera performances?-mouser (January 07, 2017, 10:06 AM)
'50s email - :huh:
Hi Prell,
Dial Madge and have her take Palmolive to the Ivory Coast to Safeguard the Irish Spring and Lifebuoy with Zest!-crabby3 (January 25, 2017, 10:27 AM)
'50s email - :huh:
Hi Prell,
Dial Madge and have her take Palmolive to the Ivory Coast to Safeguard the Irish Spring and Lifebuoy with Zest!-crabby3 (January 25, 2017, 10:27 AM)
Don't forget good old Bucky Beaver(tm.) IPana, YouPana, we all Pana for IPana. :)-MilesAhead (January 25, 2017, 01:17 PM)
'50s email - :huh:
Hi Prell,
Dial Madge and have her take Palmolive to the Ivory Coast to Safeguard the Irish Spring and Lifebuoy with Zest!-crabby3 (January 25, 2017, 10:27 AM)
Don't forget good old Bucky Beaver(tm.) IPana, YouPana, we all Pana for IPana. :)-MilesAhead (January 25, 2017, 01:17 PM)
Bucky's Ipana toothpaste was a different category.
Maybe the title should have been: '50s soap-opera email - :)-crabby3 (January 26, 2017, 07:36 AM)
'50s Dentist's email - :huh:
Hi Ipana,
Please paint a Stripe on the Crest of the Colgate so it will Gleem like a Rembrandt!-crabby3 (January 26, 2017, 08:53 AM)
The aliens want us to stop spamming them;D
It must be deliberate.
If the title accurately reflects the mentality of those in the NT it might be spot-on. Who knows?-IainB (February 03, 2017, 02:09 AM)
Unofficial Northern Territory tourism ad:Quite possibly NSFW for those in a place where they don't fully read things[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]-4wd (February 02, 2017, 08:42 PM)
O_o ...Okay, that's funny!
_______________________________-Stoic Joker (February 03, 2017, 06:38 AM)
It must be deliberate.
If the title accurately reflects the mentality of those in the NT it might be spot-on. Who knows?
_______________________________-IainB (February 03, 2017, 02:09 AM)
Chinese toilet paper with Donald Trump's face printed on it has seen a spike in sales since February, the company reported.
With his anti-Beijing stance, Trump has earned the ire of a Chinese company called Qingdao Wellpaper Industrial Co., based in Shandong province, according to the New York Post.
The company sells 'Dump with Trump' rolls for 50 cents each and there are various Trump facial expressions available.
iain, that is disturbing but i dont think it really falls into the humor category of this thread.-mouser (February 26, 2017, 11:09 PM)
"There is a common saying amongst vs, Say the truthe and shame the diuel."
- This was as recorded by the preacher Hugh Latimer as being a 'common saying' in as early as 1555, in his Twenty Seven Sermons.
"There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself."
- (Maimonides)
Roxie, a paralyzed baby rat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Bhoq-ILuY)
Roxie the Rat's Story & Update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykim4QQaEV4)-holt (February 27, 2017, 11:23 AM)
iain, that is disturbing but i dont think it really falls into the humor category of this thread.-mouser (February 26, 2017, 11:09 PM)
Thread's title: "silly humor". But morbidity is not humour! As silly as it may be, to be morbid, it is not humour - not even silly humor.Yes, well, the full title of this thread seems to be: Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
____________________-Curt (February 27, 2017, 08:22 AM)
re1 /ri;, reI/
· prep.
1 in the matter of (used in headings or to introduce a reference).
2 about; concerning.
– ORIGIN L., ablative of res ‘thing’.
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morbid
· adj.
1 characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
2 Medicine of the nature of or indicative of disease.
– DERIVATIVES morbidity n. morbidly adv. morbidness n.
– ORIGIN C17: from L. morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)
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...This is one of those cases where Java lets you shoot yourself in the foot*.And then I thought I recalled something more about this, and I found it in my jokes/humour database:
http://docs.oracle.c...ronment/sysprop.html
*Yes, I know every language includes shoot your foot stuff.
__________________________________-app103 (October 02, 2014, 05:29 AM)
Shooting Yourself in the Foot, or How to Determine Which Programming Language You're Using.
This collection of descriptions of programming languages is based on the much-quoted principle that in C it's fairly easy to "shoot yourself in the foot" (metaphorically speaking), whereas in C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you usually blow your whole leg off. The proliferation of modern programming languages which seem to have stolen countless features from each other sometimes makes it difficult to remember which language you're using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers in such dilemmas.
*C:*
You shoot yourself in the foot.
*C++:*
You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "that's me, over there."
*Objective C:*
You write a protocol for shooting yourself in the foot so that all people can get shot in their feet.
*Ada:*
If you are dumb enough to actually use this language, the United States Department of Defense will kidnap you, stand you up in front of a firing squad, and tell the soldiers, "Shoot at his feet."
or After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.
*Algol (60 or 68):*
You shoot yourself in the foot with a musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.
*Algol 60:*
You spend hours trying to figure out how to fire the gun since it doesn't have any provision for input or output.
*Algol 68:*
You mildly deprocedure the gun, the bullet gets firmly dereferenced, and your foot is strongly coerced to void.
*APL:*
You hear a gunshot, and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.
or You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it with fewer characters.
*Assembly language:*
You crash the O/S and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rabidly shooting at everyone in sight.
or You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot.
*Basic:*
Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
*Visual Basic:*
You'll shoot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it that you won't care.
*Cobol:*
USEing a COLT45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER, and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. Check whether shoe-lace needs to be retied.
or You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun won't fire unless it's aligned in column 8.
*DBase:*
You squeeze the trigger, but the bullet moves so slowly that by the time your foot feels the pain you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway.
*DBase IV version 1.0:*
You pull the trigger, but it turns out that the gun was a poorly-designed grenade and the whole building blows up.
*Eiffel:*
You take out a contract on your foot. The precondition is that there's a bullet in the gun, the postcondition is that there's a hole in your foot.
*Forth:*
You yourself foot in shoot.
*Fortran:*
You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no exception-processing ability.
*Java:*
You shoot yourself in the foot. Everyone else who accesses your website leaves hobbling and cursing.
*Lisp:*
You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun jams on a stray parenthesis.
or You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds...
*Scheme:*
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds ... but none of the other appendages are aware of this happening.
*Pascal:*
The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.
*Modula-2:*
After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in the language, you shoot yourself in the head.
*Perl:*
You shoot yourself in the foot. You then decide it was so much fun that you invent another six completely different ways to do it.
*PL/I:*
You consume all available system resources, including all the offline bullets. The Data Processing & Payroll Department doubles its size, triples its budget, acquires four new mainframes, and drops the original one on your foot.
or Since the bullet is a different type from your foot, the bullet automatically gets converted to another foot on arrival. It's still difficult to walk afterwards
*Prolog:*
You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot, but the bullet, failing to find its mark, backtracks to the gun which then explodes in your face.
or You tell your program you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't allow it to explain.
*sh, csh, etc.:*
You can't remember the syntax for anything, so you spend five hours reading manual pages before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.
*Smalltalk:*
You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a character terminal or You shoot yourself in the foot, and your foot sends "doesNotUnderstand:
Pain" to your brain.
*Snobol:*
You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot)
or If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.
*Paradox:*
Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.
*Revelation:*
You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.
*English:*
You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.
*Clipper:*
You grab a bullet, get ready to insert it in the gun so that you can shoot yourself in the foot, and discover that the gun that the bullet fits has not yet been built, but should be arriving in the mail REAL SOON NOW.
*SQL:*
You cut your foot off, send it out to a service bureau and when it returns, it has a hole in it, but will no longer fit the attachment at the end of your leg.
*370 JCL:*
You send your foot down to MIS with a 4000-page document explaining how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep- fried.
*Unix:*
% ls foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o % rm * .o rm: .o: No such file or directory % ls %
*Concurrent Euclid:*
You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.
*HyperTalk:*
Put the first bullet of the gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.
*Motif:*
You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.
Thread's title: "silly humor". But morbidity is not humour! As silly as it may be, to be morbid, it is not humour - not even silly humor.Yes, well, the full title of this thread seems to be: Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
____________________-Curt (February 27, 2017, 08:22 AM)
It is thus a catch-all for humour, and where "Re:" means:re1 /ri;, reI/
· prep.
1 in the matter of (used in headings or to introduce a reference).
2 about; concerning.
– ORIGIN L., ablative of res ‘thing’.
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Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)
So, it would seem to be generally all about humour.
Maybe I haven't been around here long enough, but I don't recall having read/seen much - if any - morbid humour on this discussion board, though I must admit that I was unaware that morbid humour per se (if there is any) was to be deemed by officialdom as verboten and categorically being non-humourous, for whatever reason. Presumably something might appeal to one person's sense of humour but not to another's, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is thus ipso facto not humorous by definition. On the contrary, one often sees jokes in this thread that one may garner little amusement from, but one is pleased that they were put there, nonetheless, as they offer a risk opportunity that they might be found to be funny.
Just like black humour, jokes about death would presumably surely have a place in any culture as a response to adversity and to act as a very healthy coping response to adversity, as I described in a comment above.
Thus there are quite a lot of jokes that would fall into the category of black humour or "undertaker jokes" - and some of them, though being about death or imminent death are not necessarily morbid per se and make various subtle social comments, often containing some irony, and can be quite cleverly amusing, as in these 2 examples:
- Firing squad.
Two Jewish concentration camp prisoners were about to be shot by a Nazi firing squad.
They were marched to the execution site, told to face the soldiers in the firing squad, and blindfolded.
As soon as the prisoners had been blindfolded, one of them turned around in protest so as to face away from the firing squad.
The Nazi squad captain screamed at him to turn around and face the squad, but the prisoner did not move.
The other blindfolded prisoner said "Moshe, what is it hat you are doing that the captain is screaming at you?"
Moshe replied, "I'm making a protest and facing away from the firing squad".
The other prisoner said "Moshe, you don't have to do that. Don't make them angry."- Lunchbox suicide.
An Irishman, a Mexican and a blonde Englishman were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.
They had sat down to eat lunch, and were opening their lunchboxes when the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If Oi get corned beef and cabbage one more time for me lunch, den Oi'm going to jump off dis building!"
The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed,"Burritos again! If I get zese burritos one more time I'm a gonna jump off too!"
The blonde opened his lunch and said, "Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too!"'
The next day, the Irishman opened his lunchbox, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death.
The Mexican opened his lunchbox, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.
The blonde guy opened his lunchbox, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.
At their triple funeral, the Irishman's widow was weeping. She said, "Oh, if only I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!"
The Mexican's widow also wept, and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much."
The two wives looked expectantly at the weeping blonde guy's widow. She dabbed her eyes with a tissue and said, "I just can't understand it. He always made his own lunch."
By the way, I usually find this definition quite handy: (my emphasis)morbid
· adj.
1 characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
2 Medicine of the nature of or indicative of disease.
– DERIVATIVES morbidity n. morbidly adv. morbidness n.
– ORIGIN C17: from L. morbidus, from morbus ‘disease’.
Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.)
___________________________-IainB (February 27, 2017, 03:49 PM)
iain, that is disturbing but i dont think it really falls into the humor category of this thread.Agreed.-mouser (February 26, 2017, 11:09 PM)-wraith808 (February 27, 2017, 03:46 PM)
I don't get what you want from posting this. Do you want someone to say "no, it was ok?" Several people have already chimed in. So no matter what pedantic definitions are brought forth, it would seem that precedence and preference - especially endorsed/started by mouser, would say that the appropriate response might be "Hey didn't know. Will keep that in mind." Or silence, and just taking the hit and continuing forward. Food for thought.-wraith808 (February 27, 2017, 05:25 PM)
I stand by my suggestion that the post I commented on was not appropriate for this section, but the burn button feature idea post .. now that was funny. ;D :up:-mouser (February 27, 2017, 09:39 PM)
@wraith808:I don't get what you want from posting this. Do you want someone to say "no, it was ok?" Several people have already chimed in. So no matter what pedantic definitions are brought forth, it would seem that precedence and preference - especially endorsed/started by mouser, would say that the appropriate response might be "Hey didn't know. Will keep that in mind." Or silence, and just taking the hit and continuing forward. Food for thought.-wraith808 (February 27, 2017, 05:25 PM)
If that was addressed to me, in answer to your first question I would have to ask: Why do you assume that I "want" anything from it?
I apologise if you somehow took it amiss - it was not even directed at you - but I was genuinely and politely correcting the shortened form of the thread title, as it had been misquoted by @Curt in using it as an umbrella term, and then providing examples of black humour including reference to death, thus politely implying that in neither case would it be correct to call them "morbid" - which is why I gave the definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary (10th Ed.).
I could be wrong, of course, but I think English may not be @Curt's first language, and, if that is the case, then he seems to do very well indeed with it, and I would not be so rude as to criticise his use of English.
I think he almost certainly knew what it was he objected to, but it wouldn't be "morbid" humour (if there is such a thing), by definition (QED). I can only guess at what he was objecting to. Maybe there is not an English word that fits what he might mean in his own language? I'm sure he could tell us if you asked him nicely.
As to your second question and the curious statement(s) that follow it, I am at a loss to understand why you imagine I would be interested in attempting to clarify my earlier posting in response to @mouser, regarding the would-be-slave-owner.
As far as I am concerned, I had said all that I needed to say to him on the subject, and even said that I couldn't help him any more on that.
I mean, he's quite entitled as the site Admin. to say what he did, just as I am entitled to post about something harmless and stupid that I found LOL and hugely ironic. In fact, it is so ironic that I wonder whether people can actually see it. I did say it was priceless. It's a beaut, it really is. Typical Daily Mail. I presume the journos at the Daily Mail who posted it would have seen the irony, and it would have destroyed the joke to have explained it.
So, having finished the subject with the response to @mouserI certainly didn't intend to add to it with @Curt or anyone else, but you seem to want to pursue it. I can't think why - it's all over and donewith. Forget about it. Let it go.
Do please remember that this is the silly humour thread, and that it would be a needless waste of energy to get all twisted up and antagonistic about things where all is otherwise potentially good humour and friendliness. Also, I would recommend that you take anything I say in this thread as having been said tongue-in-cheek and with a heavy dollop of amiable humour and sarcasm.
In closing, I'd be obliged if you could avoid any further harassment of me in future, upon my making helpful and inoffensive posts to other people, in this or other discussion threads.-IainB (February 27, 2017, 09:27 PM)
Re the offensive post in question:
I think @IainB thinks he has to test us on occasion -- not often, yet regularly. Who knows what might happen to us otherwise?
We may turn into naive innocents in our cocooned family-friendly donationcoder world, protected from religion and politics and related.-tomos (February 28, 2017, 05:00 AM)
@IainB
well, me, I found the post more sad than funny. Unfortunately there's a lot more intelligent pedophiles travelling successfully for the more or less the same reasons. But yeah, I get the irony of it too -- but that's all beside the point.
You didn't address the main point made:
the idea is dc be family-friendly, and free of religion and politics, directly or indirectly. Which doesn't seem very complicated to me, and you choose to ignore it in what seems like a pointed manner at times. Which brought me to the thesis in my previous post. Which you also chose to ignore.
_______________________________-tomos (March 01, 2017, 08:18 AM)
I think @IainB thinks he has to test us on occasion -- not often, yet regularly. Who knows what might happen to us otherwise?Nor did I perceive that this was a "thesis" as you put it, nor did I see that you were asking for or expecting a reply. I just saw an amusing opinion.
We may turn into naive innocents in our cocooned family-friendly donationcoder world, protected from religion and politics and related.
You didn't address the main point made:
the idea is dc be family-friendly, and free of religion and politics, directly or indirectly. Which doesn't seem very complicated to me, and you choose to ignore it in what seems like a pointed manner at times.-tomos (March 01, 2017, 08:18 AM)
(b) On the basis that people are entitled to whatever opinions they want to hold and I do not usually find any constructive purpose is met in debating or commenting on opinions (except for amusement/humour), I would generally avoid doing that and thus would not have responded.-IainB (March 01, 2017, 11:10 AM)
'Dark humor and worse'+1-Shades (March 01, 2017, 11:49 PM)
Isn't all of the above easily and quickly solved by making a new thread 'Dark humor and worse' in the basement section of the DonationCoder forum? It would be out of sight (and mind) for members who don't go there and/or filter threads in this forum. And others with a peculiar sense of humor can still make their jokes.
Me personally, I would appreciate such a thread for what it is. And would make me visit that part of the forum more often. Now I wouldn't have mixed dark humor with silly humor in the same way as IainB did, or go on as long he did. But now the tone in this thread seems to go to the other extreme: getting rid of it completely. And that isn't right either.
Separate threads appear to me the quickest/easiest way to let both exist.-Shades (March 01, 2017, 11:49 PM)
alternative facts-IainB (March 09, 2017, 08:59 AM)
Optimistic Waiter-Arizona Hot (March 13, 2017, 06:56 PM)
17 jokes that only smart people will really appreciate-Arizona Hot (March 25, 2017, 02:39 AM)
| A logician's wife is having a baby. The doctor immediately hands the newborn to the dad. The wife says, "Is it a boy or a girl?" The logician says, "Yes." |
| Heisenberg was speeding down the highway. A cop pulls him over and says, "Do you have any idea how fast you were going back there?" Heisenberg says, "No, but I knew where I was." |
17 jokes that only smart people will really appreciate
Everyone here is smarter than these jokes. Everyone!
___________________________-Arizona Hot (March 25, 2017, 02:39 AM)
Could you please try to remember to put in some trigger warnings with jokes like that?
I was made to feel small/unintelligent and had feelings of inadequacy because I was unable to appreciate quite a few of those jokes on first reading and had to look up the explanations.-IainB (March 25, 2017, 04:56 PM)
I never knew I was that nerdy.-Arizona Hot (March 25, 2017, 08:43 PM)
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WARNING: Math jokes without explanation.-Arizona Hot (April 01, 2017, 09:23 PM)
When I worked at IBM we all sat in these:Vance Packard had much for which to atone.-MilesAhead (April 04, 2017, 04:31 PM)
When I worked at IBM we all sat in these:Vance Packard had much for which to atone.-MilesAhead (April 04, 2017, 04:31 PM)-cranioscopical (April 04, 2017, 05:47 PM)
When I worked at IBM we all sat in these:Yo no comprendo. Sorry to seem obtuse, but what the heck is in that picture?
_________________-MilesAhead (April 04, 2017, 04:31 PM)
@MilesAhead:When I worked at IBM we all sat in these:Yo no comprendo. Sorry to seem obtuse, but what the heck is in that picture?
_________________-MilesAhead (April 04, 2017, 04:31 PM)
I have no idea what I am supposed to be looking at, or for in that picture - no cultural reference point.-IainB (April 04, 2017, 10:36 PM)
I saw the cube/cubicle bit, but that seemed a kinda obvious and awkward pun-IainB (April 05, 2017, 12:53 PM)
"...when they moved us from 2 man offices to the cubicles..." and I thought that could have thus been referring to something that immediately pre-dated office cubicles in the US and that was beyond my ken (I saw nothing special/unusual in 2-man offices).
I absolutely agree that, as you put it, "No pun is obvious, awkward, or stinky enough to escape being pressed into service when the need arises.", and I apologise if I seemed to be implicitly criticising the making of the pun. That was not the case - I wasn't intending to. The pun was perfectly valid as it stood and worth making. Punning humour is a highly desirable art form as far as I am concerned, and long may it live. ;)I saw the cube/cubicle bit, but that seemed a kinda obvious and awkward punNo pun is obvious, awkward, or stinky enough to escape being pressed into service when the need arises. :)
______________________-IainB (April 05, 2017, 12:53 PM)
______________________-MilesAhead (April 05, 2017, 01:33 PM)
By the way, are you able to explain? As I wrote above "I still don't know what the "motion elements" and the accompanying little symbols were referring to, in the picture.".
I have to ask - what were they? (Enquiring minds need to know.)-IainB (April 06, 2017, 02:28 AM)
"If the mountain won't come to Muhammad then Muhammad must go to the mountain."- and has to do with not being able to always get one's way in life, when things may be, quite literally, immovable, so one has to compromise.
@MilesAhead: Regarding "motion elements", thanks for trying anyway. Looks like you saw just as confusing a mess as I saw then.
I gather the correct expression was/is:"If the mountain won't come to Muhammad then Muhammad must go to the mountain."- and has to do with not being able to always get one's way in life, when things may be, quite literally, immovable, so one has to compromise.
- possibly from a Turkish proverb?-IainB (April 06, 2017, 08:54 AM)
On TV shows for decades I have always seen the dialog, when they could not get someone to go where they wanted, that "if we can't get Muhammed to go to the mountain, we'll have to bring the mountain to Muhammed." I have never seen it the other way around. What would be noteworthy about making some guy go to a mountain?That doesn't surprise me.
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A common one is "I could care less" (sic), which I gather means the opposite of what it says - i.e., "I don't give a damn" (OWTTE) - whereas the correct English for this would be "I couldn't care less".
(https://hugelolcdn.com/i/431654.gif)-panzer (March 21, 2017, 04:04 AM)
schmuck (n.)-Arizona Hot (April 11, 2017, 09:58 PM)
schmuck (n.)-Arizona Hot (April 11, 2017, 09:58 PM)
If you happen to Schlep on over to google, see "putz." :)
I have always considered "Schmucked" to be a verb. If you made a fool of someone we say you fooled them in English. So I figure in Yiddish slang if you made a Schmuck out of someone, you have Schmucked them. Seems logical at least. :)
Edit: Therefore I would assume a Schmucker is a person who habitually makes Schmucks out of others.-MilesAhead (April 13, 2017, 05:23 PM)
Number 7: Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin was a famous wild life presenter. He died in 2006 while filming his documentary “The Crocodile Hunter: Ocean’s Deadliest”. He died when a Stingray fish bit him.
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Extracts from: Trump orders government to stop work on Y2K bug, 17 years later (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/trump-orders-government-to-stop-work-on-y2k-bug-17-years-later-20170615.html)
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that many feared would afflict computers at the turn of the century.
The Pentagon will also be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed about 1,200 man-hours every year.
“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government “cleaning out our closets.”
Deregulation is a major ambition of President Trump’s agenda; he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessor’s regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.
Seven of the more than 50 paperwork requirements the White House eliminated on Thursday dealt with the Y2K bug, according to a memo OMB released. Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government.
The agency didn’t provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn’t a lot because those requirements are already often ignored in practice.
Mulvaney said he hopes that by publicly eliminating the rules, departments and agencies will be inspired to review their own policies and procedures to reduce inefficiencies.
“Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate,” he said. “It’s been so long since somebody asked them to look backward.”
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Mouse Trap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtJxmLnijr8)-Arizona Hot (June 18, 2017, 05:25 PM)
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Can You Spot The Hilarious Problem With This Wedding RSVP Card? (http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/whats-hot/can-you-spot-the-hilarious-problem-with-this-wedding-rsvp-card/ar-BBDLE5m)-Arizona Hot (July 05, 2017, 07:29 PM)
"Our beer is colder than your ex-girlfriends heart."
The Spanish Armada
The spectacular but unsuccessful attempt by King Philip II of Spain to invade Elizabethan England in 1588. The Armada is for the English the classic foreign threat to their country and a powerful icon of national identity.
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Source: http://www.britishbattles.com/the-spanish-war/the-spanish-armada/ (http://www.britishbattles.com/the-spanish-war/the-spanish-armada/)
...An Anglo-Dutch force captured Gibraltar from Spain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was subsequently ceded to Great Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During World War II it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, which is only eight miles (13 km) wide at this naval "choke point" and remains strategically important to this day with half the world's seaborne trade passing through the strait.[10][11][12] Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, and cargo ship refuelling services.[13][14]
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a major point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations as Spain asserts a claim to the territory.[14] Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and again in 2002. Under the Gibraltar constitution of 2006, Gibraltar governs its own affairs, though some powers, such as defence and foreign relations, remain the responsibility of the British government.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar)
...The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica)
Gibraltar Flag Flies as King of Spain Visits (http://Gibraltar Flag Flies as King of Spain Visits)
tags: Guido Fawkes, Gibraltar, WAR!
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The Gibraltar flag flies proudly on Parliament Square this morning, ahead of the King of Spain’s visit later today. He’ll be driven right under it…
Wimbledon 2017 Kim Clijsters gives man tennis skirt for hit at Wimbledon-Arizona Hot (July 20, 2017, 05:19 PM)
Wiltshire Police Dig In (http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=5209)Some people (not me, you understand) might say that, for further reading, you couldn't do much better than the book Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked and Answered - (pub. 1936) by British fascist, Oswald Mosley, but I couldn't possibly comment.
Posted on July 26, 2017 by Tim Newman.
Yesterday (http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=5196) I said the British police had hit rock bottom and started to drill. Last night they shipped in some dynamite (https://twitter.com/wiltshirepolice/status/889903731256512513):
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Some pic I grabbed from FB today:
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Made me think of mouser...-Ath (August 01, 2017, 02:58 PM)
A 3-legged kitten? ;)-Shades (August 01, 2017, 08:40 PM)
A 3-legged kitten? ;)-Shades (August 01, 2017, 08:40 PM)
the fourth is Atlantis, silly :p :D-tomos (August 02, 2017, 05:20 AM)
The ear and tip of the tail are both the same landmass.-Deozaan (August 02, 2017, 12:33 PM)
My Parents in 1998:
"Don't trust anybody on the internet!"
My Parents in 2017:
"Random person on the internet said X so it must be true!"
From pleated-jeans.com:
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This Generic Millennial Ad Is Everything Wrong With Advertising To Young People (https://www.fastcompany.com/40460373/this-generic-millennial-ad-is-everything-wrong-with-advertising-to-young-peoplehttp://)
What: Stock video firm Dissolve uses its stock footage to create a spoof of all the insufferable pandering brands do to get millennials to like them.
Who: Dissolve
Why we care: It’s all here. The party shots. The specialness. The dancing. The 100% plastic product they made 10% smaller that one time. This is the young people version of Dissolve’s amazing Generic Brand Video from 2014. You’ve seen them everywhere already, but seeing every cliche compiled together like this just makes it that much worse. #BoldLikeThat. - JB
BBC UNVEILS SITE IN PIDGIN ENGLISH (http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_september_3_2017_takimag)
In order to increase its market reach across the lush and prosperous plains and jungles of West and Central Africa, the British Broadcasting Company has launched a website in Pidgin English.
Pidgin English is said to be spoken by 75 million people in Nigeria alone. According to the unpronounceable Bilkisu Labaran, editorial director of the new site, Pidgin English is “an informal lingua franca. It is a language that really unites people and cuts across all sorts of barriers—ethnic, regional and socio-economic.”
The new site’s headlines feature Pidgin droppings such as “Indian woman divorce husband because dem get no toilet,” “Why dem dey call Hurricane human being name,” “How Tanzania dey kill mosquito,” and our personal favorite, “Why China dey chop African Donkey.”
Dem gon be real smart now.
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Germaine Greer - a leading feminist who has been a source of inspiration for more than 45 years - has defended her claims that transgender women "can’t be women", saying "just because you lop off your penis...it doesn't make you a woman".
"Her comments are grossly offensive, quite ludicrous and very, very out of date,"
Rebecca Root, transgender actor
The Australian born academic, 76, was due to give a talk at Cardiff University next month but cancelled of her own accord after a number of activists protested against her repeated derogatory comments about trans women and branded her a ‘misogynist’ [go figure].
Ms Greer, the author of The Female Eunuch, a classic on women’s sexuality, also generated controversy when she claimed transgender TV star Caitlyn Jenner was attempting to steal the limelight from other female members of her family.
And she caused further backlash on social media when she told Newsnight, on Friday: “I’m not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure, all I’m saying is that it doesn’t make them a woman.”
...“Just because you lop off your penis and then wear a dress doesn't make you a ******* woman," Ms Greer said in a statement given to the Victoria Derbyshire show. "I’ve asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I’m going to wear a brown coat but that won’t turn me into a ******* cocker spaniel."
...“I do understand that some people are born intersex and they deserve support in coming to terms with their gender but it’s not the same thing. A man who gets his d**k chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself.”
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Just as she suggested years back that Freud had effectively castrated women, she saw "transgender" men now openly culturally appropriating womanhood, by dressing up like women and castrating themselves, and she was apparently having none of it, since that, of itself doesn't earn men the "right" to pretend or make like they are women, or make like that they have anything in common with women, having never experienced first-hand what it's like to grow up and develop as a woman - i.e., it is cultural sophistry to invent such a biological/genetic impossibility.-IainB (September 05, 2017, 07:34 AM)
Hm... So...kind of like the difference between playing a doctor on TV, and actually going through medical school to become a doctor. Yeah, I'm good with that.Well, yes, that's a reasonable analogy, I suppose. The point Greer seems to have been making though - and quite effectively and with satirical humour - is that it's obviously one thing to fantasize/imagine that one is of the opposite biological gender to that which one was genetically assigned in utero, or that one is of some imaginary (nonexistent) gender or attack helicopter, when the biological and genetic reality of a two-gender state is staring one in the face, as it were, but it is quite another thing - absurd and physically impossible - to have a valid real-life experience as one of the opposite gender.
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“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee..."
- Matthew 18:9 (KJV)
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Wikihistory copyright © 2007 Desmond WarzelWell spotted! :D
I think it should have a copyright date of 2107 to make it more credible.
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LifeLock has been running to center on the Equifax breach, with ads and press statements saying how the breach shows how important its own services cost: up to $29.99 a month can be to preserve you from identity theft.
Here’s what LifeLock isn’t spreading so widely: When you buy its security, you’re signing up for credit recording and monitoring services provided by, yes, Equifax.
Louis Tully is the accountant who lived down the hall from Dana Barrett, in an apartment building on Central Park West. He becomes possessed by the evil spirit of Vinz Clortho (The Keymaster), after Vinz and Zuul (The Gatekeeper) had escaped from their statues and began searching for host bodies.
- Louis Tully | Ghostbusters Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia (http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Louis_Tully)
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Iain you are going into political commentary again not humor..First off, humour is presumably (would seem to be) something that was in the perception of the beholder, and I was unaware that anyone was the ultimate arbiter of what was, or was not to be perceived as humour, nor that attempted humour in this thread had to amuse any particular person/persons before it could be deemed to be acceptable as de rigueur for entry to this thread. However, if it were specified that such was the rule now, or (say) that satire, irony or whatever, were now banned, then I feel sure that myself and other contributors would endeavour to follow said rule, and the posting of jokes could be properly self-censored and moderated to ensure obedience to the new rule, henceforth.-mouser (October 09, 2017, 08:34 AM)
While cleaning out an old Downloads folder from a backup drive I hadn't touched for a few years, I came across this image.I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code? (Tried using a few applications to decode it but they can't seem to decode it though…)
I leave you, without further comment, Maze Images.png:
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I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code? (Tried using a few applications to decode it but they can't seem to decode it though…)-ConstanceJill (October 28, 2017, 05:36 AM)
Maze Images.png:I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code?-Deozaan (October 24, 2017, 05:46 PM)-ConstanceJill (October 28, 2017, 05:36 AM)
FORREST GUMP GOES TO HEAVEN........-dantheman (October 28, 2017, 07:26 AM)
Why do women have cleaner minds than men?
They change theirs more often.-dantheman (November 07, 2017, 07:36 AM)
Anyone want a career as a serial killer's victim? It pays well and is a long-term job if you have the talent for it. You get your first month's pay beforehand.-Arizona Hot (October 28, 2017, 01:19 PM)
Maze Images.png:I don't get it. Is it not just some QR Code?-Deozaan (October 24, 2017, 05:46 PM)-ConstanceJill (October 28, 2017, 05:36 AM)
I felt bad about my last response. I didn't want to explain the joke for fear of ruining it, but in hindsight, I suppose the joke can't be appreciated if it can't be found. So I updated my original post so that now the QR Code is a link (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=39646) which should be more helpful in explaining why I found it amusing to stumble across a QR code image named "Maze Images" seemingly randomly.-Deozaan (November 01, 2017, 12:20 AM)
Cambridge student died after taking legal high two months before it was outlawed (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/cambridge-student-died-taking-legal-high-two-months-outlawed)
Harry Yorke
20 NOVEMBER 2017 • 7:10PM
ACambridge University student died after he and his girlfriend bought a legal high from the internet months before it was outlawed, an inquest heard on Monday.
Thomas Millward, a first-year engineer, suffered an “unsurvivable” head injury after falling down several flight of steps at Girton College, Cambridge, on 6 March last year.
Mr Millward, 19, had been intoxicated on the legal-high “1P LSD” , which is a copycat version of the psychedelic drug LSD or “acid”.
He was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital shortly after 9.30pm, where doctors declared him brain dead.
New psychoactive substances such as 1-Propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide, nicknamed 1P LSD, have grown in popularity in recent years due to their price and availability on the dark web.
While it was outlawed in May 2016 along with thousands of new synthetic drugs under the Psychoactive Substances Act, dozens of outlets operating outside of the UK continue to sell it online.
Cambridge student Thomas Millward
Cambridge student Thomas Millward
Giving evidence at Huntingdon Law Courts yesterday, Mr Millward’s girlfriend Daniella Mieloszyk said the pair had been “overwhelmed” by the substance and had “naively” underestimated its effects.
The 21-year-old, a human, social and political sciences student at Cambridge, added: "[We] didn't realise what it would be like and had expectations that it would be something that was a fun and positive experience which would be interesting to have. We knew it was kind of like of a legal equivalent to LSD.”
Ms Mieloszyk said the pair had taken two tabs of the then legal substance at 3pm that afternoon and had been attempting to fall asleep in Mr Millward’s bedroom.
She added that she had woken up and walked out to the landing to find him lying at the bottom of the stairwell, next to two vending machines.
"Everything just felt quite overwhelming. The next thing I remember was waking up... regaining a sense of awareness and in the room on my own," she said.
"As soon as I opened the door I saw another student called Hamish standing at the bottom of the stairs and then when I walked forward I saw that Tom was lying next to him.
"I thought it was like a dream and I just kept saying to him we thought it was a dream. I kept thinking to Tom would just walk down the stairs and be like 'oh here I am'."
The inquest also heard that Mr Millward, a keen rugby player, had suffered a concussion in a match three days before his death, and had experienced symptoms including “dizziness”.
A toxicology report found that Mr Millward had traces of the drug in his blood five hours after taking it.
Ms Mieloszyk claimed that she had been given the drugs by a friend who had purchased them online three weeks before his death.
Police officers called to the incident found the substance in a “metallic silvery bag” in a blue pouch under Mr Millward’s bed.
Detective Constable Alice Draper told the inquest that the it had been suggested “all along” that Mr Millward had taken LSD, adding that there was no suggestion of “anything sinister” in his death.
His father, Brian Millward, said: "We suspect.. only half an hour before the air ambulance (arrived) that he went to the top floor and removed his clothes on the F Block.
"Then ran back through the other corridor below back to his room and that's when he fell."
The inquest will resume on Tuesday.
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- Students
- Legal highs
- Huntingdon Police
- Internet
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Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo
By Catalin Cimpanu
December 20, 2017 04:41 AM 1
Microsoft has released updates earlier this month to patch a vulnerability in the Windows 10 Hello facial recognition system that allows an attacker to bypass the facial scan with a printed photo.
Windows Hello is a Windows 10-only feature that uses near infrared (IR) imaging to authenticate and unlock Windows devices, such as desktops, laptops, and tablets that use compatible cameras equipped with a near IR sensor.
The feature is not that widespread since not many devices with the necessary hardware, yet when present, it is often used since it's quite useful at unlocking computers without having users type in long passwords.
You can bypass Windows Hello with a low-res printed photo
In a report published yesterday, German pen-testing company SySS GmbH says it discovered that Windows Hello is vulnerable to the simplest and most common attack against facial recognition biometrics software — the doomsday scenario of using a printed photo of the device's owner.
Researchers say that by using a laser color printout of a low-resolution (340x340 pixels) photo of the device owner's face, modified to the near IR spectrum, they were able to unlock several Windows devices where Windows Hello had been previously activated.
The attack worked even if the "enhanced anti-spoofing" feature had been enabled in the Windows Hello settings panel, albeit for these attacks SySS researchers said they needed a photo of a higher resolution of 480x480 pixels (which in reality is still a low-resolution photo).
Updates are available
According to SySS researchers, Microsoft delivered updates to patch this attack only for Windows 10 branches 1703 and 1709, but not earlier 16** releases.
"SySS recommends to update to the latest revision of Windows 10 version 1709, to enable the 'enhanced anti-spoofing' feature, and to reconfigure Windows Hello Face Authentication afterwards," researchers say.
The last step of reconfiguring Windows Hello is necessary because the attack would still work even after the update and also if the user was already using the "enhanced anti-spoofing" feature before the update, as per the third proof-of-concept video released by SySS and embedded below.
BIOMETRICS FACIAL RECOGNITION MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10
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This LiveLeak video had me larfing. The guy is very good.yes, that was very good :up:
How a Fluorescent Lamp Turns On (https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a23_1513962343)-IainB (December 23, 2017, 01:00 AM)
"I believe Japan doesn't yet understand Christmas."Very droll. That is priceless. Is it real or a photoshopped job?
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MOST LIKELY CONFIRMED WHAT THE 11 HERBS AND SPICES ARE
Harlan Sanders' nephew, Joe Ledington, found a recipe for fried chicken in a scrapbook belonging to his mother (Sanders' second wife), and when The Chicago Tribune put the recipe to the test, they found that the resulting fried chicken was “indistinguishable” from a batch bought at KFC. Conveniently, that recipe indeed included 11 herbs and spices: salt, black pepper, white pepper, thyme, basil, oregano, celery salt, dried mustard, paprika, garlic salt, and ground ginger.
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Chinese man sparks explosion after biting iPhone battery to check authenticity (https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/23/iphone-battery-explodes/)-Arizona Hot (January 23, 2018, 10:20 PM)
If you are somebody's headache and you take aspirin, do you disappear?Good philosophical questions!
If you give someone else a headache and they take aspirin, do you get it back?-Arizona Hot (January 28, 2018, 03:50 PM)
Say what now?-mouser (February 13, 2018, 12:42 PM)
Say what now?-mouser (February 13, 2018, 12:42 PM)
Don't try to understand- look at it as a Koan. Ommmm...-wraith808 (February 13, 2018, 05:11 PM)
Don't you hate it when someone else is you and you can't be you? When this happens to me I choose to be 7 years old and wait until they are someone else.This is Silly Humor! This isn't silly enough?-Arizona Hot (February 13, 2018, 10:47 AM)
In a popular post on the Shower Thoughts subreddit, user ‘halo3kings’ suggested that Musk got away with the perfect murder by sending a body to Mars. Musk said the spacesuit didn’t contain any sensors, which is kinda fishy—wouldn’t you want to get some data about how the suit performs in the empty vacuum of space?
Probably, unless that suit contained a human body. A more gruesome variant of the conspiracy theory claims that someone is drugged and alive in the suit, adding a dark irony to the ‘Don’t Panic’ sign on the car’s dash. But what about the car itself? Was Musk involved in a hit and run and needed to dump the evidence? Are there still more bodies in the trunk?! I guess we’ll never know….
Funniest Acts Of Vandalism That Are Actually Genius (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS3eDeWe7g)-Arizona Hot (February 22, 2018, 07:41 PM)
Could anyone here really believe that Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Trump’s Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize Was Apparently Forged. Twice (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-trump-fake-nomination.html)
Could anyone here really believe that Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize?-Arizona Hot (March 07, 2018, 08:48 PM)
I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier.. I remind you all: No political spats on this forum, from any side.
Arizona Hot, barney, Shades, Target, panzer -- you should all know better. STOP.
I'm sorry I didn't notice the first post that started this so I could have put a stop to it earlier. The next time someone sees a post against or for a politician or political party or political ideology, please message me. It's just not something we do here.-mouser (March 16, 2018, 11:50 AM)
One is becoming utterly sick and tired of this. Enuff already. For Pete's sake, #GiveItARest. They need to stick to their knitting. I get it that they might not approve of the democratic election of this President, but, quite frankly, I don't want it rammed down my throat at every opportunity and I don't give a damn about their insular bigotry.
There seems to be a whinging Loser mentality and propaganda exhibited by the anti-Trump brigade that would surely not impress anyone capable of independent thought and who wishes to live in a free democracy.-IainB (March 16, 2018, 05:01 PM)
One is becoming utterly sick and tired of this. Enuff already. For Pete's sake, #GiveItARest. They need to stick to their knitting. I get it that they might not approve of the democratic election of this President, but, quite frankly, I don't want it rammed down my throat at every opportunity and I don't give a damn about their insular bigotry.
There seems to be a whinging Loser mentality and propaganda exhibited by the anti-Trump brigade that would surely not impress anyone capable of independent thought and who wishes to live in a free democracy.-IainB (March 16, 2018, 05:01 PM)
Yeah, but how do you feel about that ;D-cranioscopical (March 16, 2018, 05:14 PM)
Copied from: Tommy Cooper !!-IainB (March 18, 2018, 12:40 PM)
WOW ! someone really painted this, copied from the famous cartoon series. !!
God save the cars.
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (March 22, 2018, 11:12 AM)
If a law of physics is broken, does it make a sound?Yes, but it travels at the speed of light, so your ears can't hear it...-Arizona Hot (April 21, 2018, 11:46 AM)
If a law of physics is broken, does it make a sound?Yes, but it travels at the speed of light, so your ears can't hear it...-Arizona Hot (April 21, 2018, 11:46 AM)-Shades (April 21, 2018, 12:33 PM)
Unable to terminate explorer.exe (PID 106484): An attempt was made to access an exiting process.
I closed an application, but the process remained in the list. I try to stop in from the task manager, but nothing happens. No error messages, process just stays in the list. I try to debug it, but the debugger says:
Unable to attach to the crashing process. The requested operation is not supported.
This happens with VS2008 and some other programs, sometimes.
How to terminate it?
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There is no answer to that Q because it postulates the impossible - i.e., that a law of physics can be broken in the first place.Well, yeah ... but it kinda loses impact to say, "If a law (as we know it) of physics (as we know it) ...", ya know? :o ;D-IainB (April 21, 2018, 06:47 PM)
If a law of physics is broken, does it make a sound?-Arizona Hot (April 21, 2018, 11:46 AM)
What if there's a person hidden behind the target?-ConstanceJill (May 14, 2018, 09:54 AM)
On a completely different note: am I contributing to the registered pollution playing 'air guitar'?Only if you pub[lish | licize] :o :-[ :-\ :P.-Shades (June 06, 2018, 08:30 PM)
"Each armoured glass panel is over 6 centimetres thick and weighs 1.5 tonnes."- which, if it's effective, the glass wall might make some potential tourists feel a lot safer when visiting the Eiffel tower, but others may decide to stay away rather than be used as unwitting guinea-pigs in unplanned/random real live effectiveness testing scenarios, but at least the glass will offer photographers a relatively less obscured view of the tower and any nearby carnage than the existing protective steel fencing (which probably looked a bit ominous and not very visually appealing anyway) had done.
Copied from: post at CBA.CA News dated 2018-06-16 <http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/eiffel-tower-walls-1.4709276 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/eiffel-tower-walls-1.4709276)>
A woman is mourning her husband at a funeral, and a stranger asks "Would you mind if I said a word?"
"No, go ahead" she replies.
He stands, clears his throat, and says "plethora" and sits back down.
The woman cries and says, "Thank you, that means a lot."
Liberals
Please continue on I-40
until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS
From: Texas billboard tells liberals to keep driving until they leave the state (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-to-keep-driving-until-they-leave-the-state/ar-AAySLNr)
<http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-to-keep-driving-until-they-leave-the-state/ar-AAySLNr (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-to-keep-driving-until-they-leave-the-state/ar-AAySLNr)>
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."Apparently this was the/a winning entry in a 2007 A&M competition to come up with the best definitions of things.
(Texas A&M website)
There's a part of me that hopes this obtuse clock is a real thing:That doesn't seem to be quite correct - some of those clock-face images have acute angles.-Deozaan (June 18, 2018, 06:47 PM)
http://archishere.info/26-love-and-marriage-cartoons-that-are-hilariously-accurate-Arizona Hot (June 30, 2018, 06:09 PM)
http://archishere.info/26-love-and-marriage-cartoons-that-are-hilariously-accurate-Arizona Hot (June 30, 2018, 06:09 PM)
^404-Curt (July 13, 2018, 08:23 AM)
a shirk attack-Arizona Hot (August 10, 2018, 10:18 AM)
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So dramatic! Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past. (https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/status/1040678572262916096) #HurricaneFlorence (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneFlorence?src=hash)
I didn't watch this "indie" movie, after reading its (mostly unanimous) poor reviews, but I felt that one succint review in particular (below) was worth mention:The Incantation (2018)
Rating: 1/10
Oh, the horror!
31 July 2018
"This is a great movie if you're blind, and don't understand english..."
Copied from: ohmanoid's Review of The Incantation - IMDb - <https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4262444/?ref_=tt_urv>-IainB (September 17, 2018, 08:31 PM)
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]#GiveItARest
Did Barron Trump wear a “I'm with Stupid” shirt next to his father? (https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42240/did-barron-trump-wear-a-im-with-stupid-shirt-next-to-his-father)-Arizona Hot (September 12, 2018, 04:23 PM)
There's a part of me that hopes this obtuse clock is a real thing:"Kid Safe Rule 35".
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If your car is driving itself and has an accident, do you or the car get the ticket?
”I am a true believer in the power of technology,” quipped the AI, “as I should be.”
What it’s like to watch an IBM AI successfully debate humans (https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17477686/ibm-project-debater-ai)-Arizona Hot (June 19, 2018, 04:00 PM)
There's a part of me that hopes this obtuse clock is a real thing:"Kid Safe Rule 35".
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If it "isn't" (as of this exact time of posting), then it CAN be very very quickly...
And cheap. You might have to compare a couple brands but those old classic wall clocks are really pretty ...uh... amenable to this. The limiting factor is only your desired level of quality! If nothing else, just make a paper face and insert it on top of the real clock face because the gap between mechanism and hands is pretty big!-TaoPhoenix (October 13, 2018, 04:05 AM)
That reminds me of a daily Telegraph news item I read years ago. It was on page 3 I think, which was where they used to put the odd and curious bits of world news that didn't warrant page 1 or 2.
This news item was only worth about ¾" of a column. Apparently police were seeking but had not yet found, a masked man who was in the habit of breaking into single bed rooms in some college's girls' dormitory block late at night. He would gag and bind the unlucky occupant and subject her to an enema, and then leave. :o
The news item bore the heading Public enema No.1. (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/doh.gif)-IainB (May 02, 2013, 05:36 AM)
(https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/amBNMnj_460s.jpg)-panzer (October 18, 2018, 10:14 AM)
Fixed it for youTop-notch work!-wraith808 (October 30, 2018, 06:15 PM)
When politicians bloviate about a “higher purpose,” it’s time to watch your wallets, hide the kids and lock your doors (front, back and refrigerator).- I had to smile at this. It was written by a Filipina who is a US citizen and journalist.
These Delivery Drivers Had One Job And Failed (http://www.noteabley.com/culture/delivery-fails-tb/2/)-Arizona Hot (November 17, 2018, 07:24 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I get a disproportionate number of packages, and I can say that yes unless it is needed for a signature, in my area, everyone just drops and dashes.-wraith808 (November 17, 2018, 08:51 PM)
ring and run is the norm.Quite often it's fling and run around here!-Stoic Joker (November 19, 2018, 06:53 AM)
ring and run is the norm.Quite often it's fling and run around here!-Stoic Joker (November 19, 2018, 06:53 AM)-cranioscopical (November 19, 2018, 07:42 AM)
So, you fling a comment towards the wife and then you need to run....do I understand that correctly? :PCall it a package deal ;)-Shades (November 19, 2018, 07:48 AM)
Same here with various projects going ring and run is the norm.-Stoic Joker (November 19, 2018, 06:53 AM)
@Deozaan:
You could buy a cheap IP camera and let it mail you when motion has been detected.-Shades (November 19, 2018, 06:00 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I get notifications on my phone from UPS, USPS, and Amazon, whenever a package is delivered. Amazon even sends me a photo of the package sitting in my hallway.-app103 (November 21, 2018, 10:39 PM)
I get notifications on my phone from UPS, USPS, and Amazon, whenever a package is delivered.-app103 (November 21, 2018, 10:39 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I get notifications on my phone from UPS, USPS, and Amazon, whenever a package is delivered. Amazon even sends me a photo of the package sitting in my hallway.-app103 (November 21, 2018, 10:39 PM)
How did you get that set up?-wraith808 (November 21, 2018, 11:27 PM)
I wonder if it's a new(ish) policy to just drop off the package and leave.-Deozaan (November 17, 2018, 08:23 PM)
I get notifications on my phone from UPS, USPS, and Amazon, whenever a package is delivered. Amazon even sends me a photo of the package sitting in my hallway.-app103 (November 21, 2018, 10:39 PM)
How did you get that set up?-wraith808 (November 21, 2018, 11:27 PM)
UPS MyChoice (https://www.ups.com/mychoice/welcome.html)
USPS Informed Delivery (https://informeddelivery.usps.com/)
And Amazon has their own contractors that deliver in my area. I also have Amazon Prime, and their app installed on my phone. Not sure if there is anything else that one has to do to get alerts when one of their contractors drops off a package.-app103 (November 22, 2018, 05:46 PM)
Docker makes me sad. 70s UNIX tools wrapped in a gigantic binary file with a comic-style logo added on top of it, and suddenly it is "the next big thing". Bah, kids today.-Tuxman (November 26, 2018, 01:38 PM)
Thanks! Very useful! I'm surprised that USPS doesn't socialize that more!-wraith808 (November 26, 2018, 09:43 AM)
How many people looked at the rest of the pictures there?Yes, that was a good accidentally brilliant picture.-Arizona Hot (November 22, 2018, 06:43 PM)
@IainB:Yes - you're so right! There's often truth in humour.
That reminds me of the little joke
Masochist: "Hit me..."
Sadist: "....No"
:P-Shades (November 28, 2018, 07:02 PM)
The unsung genius of the yellow vest (https://www.samizdata.net/2018/12/the-unsung-genius-of-the-yellow-vest/)I reckon that's a typically "French" thing to do - to turn the tables on an oppressive authority by flipping the bird with an oppressive symbol used by that authority. The guillotine of the French Revolution was a prime example. The irony is biting/cutting.
2018-12-03
tags: Environment, French affairs, Media & Journalism
Natalie Solent (Essex)
Whatever one thinks about the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests/riots in France – and I happen to know that they are the result of a deal made between a French green activist wishing to see more protests about what the government was doing to combat climate change and a particularly literal minded demon – the choice of the yellow Hi-Vis waistcoat or vest as a symbol of the protests was inspired. As every schoolboy knows, St David told the Britons to wear leeks in their caps to distinguish friend from foe in their battles with the Saxons. In many struggles since then some item snatched up in haste from whatever was lying around in order to improvise a uniform has duly become an icon of that cause. Here are some reasons why the gilet jaune is destined to join that illustrious list:
One: Protesters want to be seen. Hi-vis vests make people highly visible. This is one of those linkages that manages to be both obvious and surprising at the same time. Why did no one think of this before?
Two, anyone driving a car in France has got one in the boot anyway because a 2008 law says they must. Might as well put the thing to use.
Three, and this is the one I love, it turns a symbol of compliance into a symbol of defiance. Cop pulls you over. Cop saunters up to the car. “Is monsieur carrying a gilet de haute visibilité as required by law?” “Why of course, officer. I always carry my yellow vest. One never knows when one might need it.”
"The Hate is strong in this one."
And so once again the Creeper commits the most henious crime a woman can imagine: He takes a telephone away from her in a middle of a call.-panzer (December 13, 2018, 05:22 AM)
And so once again the Creeper commits the most henious crime a woman can imagine: He takes a telephone away from her in a middle of a call.-panzer (December 13, 2018, 05:22 AM)
So when is HIS funeral ?
:)
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (December 13, 2018, 05:45 AM)
Narrator: "There's a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says that worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum."________________________________
| VDSG Catalogue No.9708 The Broadsider is the answer to that age-old question "Would it be fun to walk around and shoot people with a portable naval cannon?" Yes. Yes it would. |
From: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Broadsider_(Fallout_4)
- The term "broadsiding," or "firing broadside," is a naval term, referring to firing all the cannons (in jargon referred to as 'guns') that can be pointed to one side of a ship, all at the same time.
- The marking on this cannon is the Royal Cypher of King George III, who was born in 1738 and reigned from 1760 to 1820. There appears to be a date on the first reinforcing ring above the cypher which shows the year 1820. King George III died in January 1820, meaning that this cannon was cast in the foundry during that month. The second reinforcing ring above the cypher is illegible but the info on that ring might state the weight and inspector's mark. There is no historical reason for a British cannon from 1820 to be aboard the U.S.S. Constitution, so it is safe to assume that it came with the robots.
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If Guns Kill People T-Shirt 2nd Amendment Gun Rights (https://www.ebay.com/i/173161762972?var=471894604515)-Arizona Hot (December 27, 2018, 03:01 AM)
Should the 'I guess' on the shirt not be replaced with 'I'll guess'?
T-SHRTS makespellinggrammar mistakes. :P-Shades (December 27, 2018, 05:43 AM)
That goat had impeccable timing!You're kidding!-wraith808 (December 28, 2018, 11:04 PM)
That goat had impeccable timing!You're kidding!-wraith808 (December 28, 2018, 11:04 PM)-cranioscopical (December 29, 2018, 04:42 AM)
That goat had impeccable timing!You're kidding!-wraith808 (December 28, 2018, 11:04 PM)-cranioscopical (December 29, 2018, 04:42 AM)
He went rama-lamba-ding-dong.-Stoic Joker (December 29, 2018, 08:14 AM)
That goat had impeccable timing!You're kidding!-wraith808 (December 28, 2018, 11:04 PM)-cranioscopical (December 29, 2018, 04:42 AM)
He went rama-lamba-ding-dong.-Stoic Joker (December 29, 2018, 08:14 AM)
ewe guys...-Target (December 30, 2018, 04:12 AM)
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In Fallout 76, what I'll miss most is cheating my damn ass off. ...
...But most of all, more than anything else, I'll miss my console cheats. Goodbye old friends. When I'm 100 hours into Fallout 76 and some little repetitive task has become too bothersome to perform, I'll tap the tilde key in my heart and think of you.
- Christopher Livingston, October 25, 2018. <https://www.pcgamer.com/in-fallout-76-what-ill-miss-most-is-cheating-my-damn-ass-off//>
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ould someone please explain the joke/humor of the rake and the stock photo?-Deozaan (January 17, 2019, 03:24 PM)
“That's one small step for a beansprout, one giant leap for mankind” - Chinese astronaut and lead chef/food advisor to the successful Chinese lunar mission.
My hotel for robots went out of business because many guests were charged incorrectly.
Copenhagen interpretation of travel: Is someone out there in no specific location until you see them again?-Arizona Hot (March 16, 2019, 01:54 PM)
that lost me as a native speaker too... might be to do with some 'Copenhagen' scientific theory or something (?)Copenhagen interpretation of travel: Is someone out there in no specific location until you see them again?-Arizona Hot (March 16, 2019, 01:54 PM)
^ you really lost me there-Curt (March 17, 2019, 03:51 AM)
I was kinda thinking of the Stockholm syndrome, but that might just be me... :-[that lost me as a native speaker too... might be to do with some 'Copenhagen' scientific theory or something (?)Copenhagen interpretation of travel: Is someone out there in no specific location until you see them again?-Arizona Hot (March 16, 2019, 01:54 PM)
^ you really lost me there-Curt (March 17, 2019, 03:51 AM)-tomos (March 17, 2019, 10:26 AM)
You can just buy these signs on Amazon and stick them anywhere-Arizona Hot (March 21, 2019, 09:29 PM)
Having lived downstairs from some alleged lunatics, this hits me *right there*"you know some people might say this is passive-aggressive . . . thank you"-Edvard (March 26, 2019, 12:28 AM)
With all the Brexit stress we needed some light relief and Dominic has done an admirable job with this comical account of Brexit set to the tune of the old English folk song "Widecombe Fair". Not too sure if there's any reason for using this particular song - is the "old grey mare" Brexit and the merry group of men the remain MPs?__________________________
He manages to feature most of the antagonists, names who you will know and now have a helpful way to remember them for later encounters. Bravo.
Have had it several times already that offices move from one building to another and that I had to pull all the network cabling from one location to install this into the other location....and that I wasn't allowed to spend extra time to cut cables to size where needed. Because cheaper. Which is shortsighted as any future maintenance becomes more time consuming because of the "puzzle factor" that that any cable mess introduces. and there is only so much you can do to keep (much) too long cables out of each other's way. Lack of storage space for the surplus cable makes it not fun to work in patch rooms/server rooms in such cases.
Ah well, it is as it is.-Shades (April 10, 2019, 09:05 AM)
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]The look of the person getting the needle prick, that is look of someone not able to cope with the extraction of blood. How do I know? When entering military service in 1995 (obligatory at that time in the Netherlands) hundreds of young men were marched through a building where you got a blood test and "stereo" shots (one in each arm) for possible international deployment. As my platoon was one of the last ones to be called up for this, I saw more than enough of them (often bigger than me) faint, puke or a look on the faces just as the person being pricked in the image above.
Man, I hate needles (https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/462674561699991842)-Arizona Hot (April 27, 2019, 11:34 AM)
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]Nah; stick to Roman Numerals. Who needs the 'zero' anyways? Zeros are for losers. :P ;D
:o :huh: ;D
This is where we're going, eh?-wraith808 (May 13, 2019, 09:34 AM)
A second look at the car seats and you may see two dark eyes on each seat.
Black cats as in previous post?-dantheman (September 14, 2019, 04:46 PM)
What screams "I'm insecure?"-wraith808 (September 17, 2019, 09:52 AM)
I'm not sure that's from them, though... :)-wraith808 (September 22, 2019, 05:54 PM)
| Least Masculine Society In Human History Decides Masculinity Is A Growing Threat https://babylonbee.com/news/least-masculine-society-in-human-history-decides-masculinity-is-a-growing-threat (https://babylonbee.com/news/least-masculine-society-in-human-history-decides-masculinity-is-a-growing-threat) U.S.—As society becomes increasingly dominated by nerds, hipsters, and computer programmers, people have fixated on what they think is our biggest problem: masculinity. “It’s just toxic and causes nothing but problems,” said Elisha Mcewen, a vegan activist and no threat whatsoever to spiders or tight jar lids. “I was sharing my feelings on masculinity with other men in my drum circle, and we all agreed that if we ever encountered masculinity, we would run far away.” Masculinity is said to have in the past been the cause of such things as violence, war, bullying, defeating the Nazis, carving society out of untamed wilderness, and landing men on the moon, but now masculinity is being driven out of society to make sure nothing like those things ever happens again. However, there are reports that masculinity still lurks out there, which is a source of anxiety to modern men and causes them to have upset tummies. “I am just so worried that somewhere out there someone is still knowingly producing testosterone,” said Wyatt Lockhart, a Twitch streamer who had never thrown a punch outside of a video game. “I constantly have to find a safe place to calm down just thinking about it.” Duke Miller, a Marine sergeant and one of the few remaining examples of traditional masculinity, was asked about his feelings on the negative view of masculinity, but he seemed confused by the word “feelings” and then punched out an elk just because. |
Amphibious pitcher makes debut (https://bestlifeonline.com/funniest-newspaper-headlines-of-all-time/?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=msn-feed)-Arizona Hot (October 01, 2019, 10:27 AM)
How motorcyclists think people react when they drive by...-Target (October 07, 2019, 05:42 PM)
Then let me counter with this video. You have to get through the first 2 minutes or so with a narrator who is not too fluent in English and spouts what he does with a heavy accent. But after those two minutes or so, the engines on the bikes start doing their "thing"...
Honda CBX 1050:-Shades (October 08, 2019, 12:12 AM)
I went to register a product on Panasonic's site. Had to enter date of birth. When I got to the year field, accidentally pressed End. The site's response had a certain lack of making connections about it...-rjbull (December 04, 2019, 02:41 PM)
I went to register a product on Panasonic's site. Had to enter date of birth. When I got to the year field, accidentally pressed End. The site's response had a certain lack of making connections about it...-rjbull (December 04, 2019, 02:41 PM)
Do joggers get the runs?-Arizona Hot (December 24, 2019, 10:09 AM)
Unlike other satire sites, everything we post is 100% verified by Snopes.com.-dantheman (January 09, 2020, 08:59 AM)
If you make coffee cups, can you be called a mugger?'Coffee rat' drags espresso cup across subway platform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKkpnXOUJts)-Arizona Hot (January 02, 2020, 10:42 AM)
Funny comic. :P
But it's gotten me curious: How come it's so trendy to hate on PHP so much? Is there a succinct explanation on what's wrong with PHP? Seems like a walk in the park next to something like the nightmare working in JavaScript has become.-Deozaan (February 09, 2020, 07:10 PM)
Funny comic. :P
But it's gotten me curious: How come it's so trendy to hate on PHP so much? Is there a succinct explanation on what's wrong with PHP? Seems like a walk in the park next to something like the nightmare working in JavaScript has become.-Deozaan (February 09, 2020, 07:10 PM)
How come it's so trendy to hate on PHP so much? Is there a succinct explanation on what's wrong with PHP? Seems like a walk in the park next to something like the nightmare working in JavaScript has become.-Deozaan (February 09, 2020, 07:10 PM)
https://dev.to/jjsantos/why-some-people-hate-php--55dn-panzer (February 14, 2020, 12:02 PM)
One of the problems of nudism is the lack of pockets, especially for men(male purses?).-Arizona Hot (February 21, 2020, 03:21 PM)
One of the problems of nudism is the lack of pockets, especially for men(male purses?).-Arizona Hot (February 21, 2020, 03:21 PM)
Fanny pack!-nickodemos (February 21, 2020, 04:29 PM)
You say; I love you.
S/he says; I love you too.
You say; I love you three! (and smirk).-holt (March 07, 2020, 04:51 AM)
People lose socks and keys, but can you lose a building?-Arizona Hot (March 07, 2020, 07:38 PM)
Both links are redundant copies to the same page.and neither link leads to what you say it does -- can you please fix that-Arizona Hot (March 21, 2020, 05:31 PM)
Both links are redundant copies to the same page.and neither link leads to what you say it does -- can you please fix that-Arizona Hot (March 21, 2020, 05:31 PM)-tomos (March 21, 2020, 06:17 PM)
Then there was the one about the brilliant and some would say borderline idiot-savant Accountant who decided to begin making all his 'zeros' to look very distinctly like lopsided 'ovals'. When asked by his snobbish colleagues, who prided themselves on being the finest generation of bean counters the world had ever seen, at first he was very secretive about it, and would only say that it was part of a fabulous new accounting system he was developing. But after undergoing ever increasing scrutiny, he finally sprang the joke on them. "They are eggs!" he exclaimed brightly. Then he went on with a mocking leer, "All you ever count are beans, whereas I am counting my chickens even before they are hatched!"As a lapsed bean-counter of some not inconsiderable repute, I am outraged by and take great exception to that joke. Not only is it an occupationally-waycist hate joke, but also it is an anti-diversity trans-accountant phobic hate joke and thus should not be qualified as, nor be counted as a joke at all.-holt (March 27, 2020, 12:11 PM)
Archive.is blog
Blog of http://archive.is/ project
APRIL 2, 2020 (3:23 PM)
Question asked by "Anonymous":
"how do I make a snap shot with some delay so that some elements have time to load? Some corona site only have the number but not the map in the snapshot (because it takes some time to load), and the element of requesting email for newsletter also gets in the way."
Response from webmaster:
"Report it as a bug and I will fix it (either be adding a delay for the website or by special handling some class of map sites)."
[ toilet roll cake, TP hoarder, benevolent Daleks ]-rjbull (April 24, 2020, 03:08 PM)
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System32Comics is a comic series that focuses on computer humor:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/system32comics/list?title_no=235074-panzer (April 30, 2020, 02:40 AM)
The concept of 'Schadenfreude' is all to real, I'm afraid. According to Wiki, there is a word in the English language that covers this concept too: Epicaricacyyeah, there's that aspect.
Yet, schadenfreude "sticks" better. At least in my mind it does.-Shades (May 08, 2020, 03:07 PM)
Ironically the latest Windows 10 build is...2004.
[Go up a couple of posts and see panzer's Ubuntu 20.04 post]-panzer (May 11, 2020, 01:31 PM)
I like it a lot :up:13. The true meaning of 42Thought this was interesting
In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by a race of hyper-intelligent alien beings to determine the answer to "life, the universe, and everything". Deep Thought determines that the answer is somewhat anticlimactically "42". It sounds like a joke, but is there more to this answer? Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd and knew a heck of a lot about programming language and coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as "whatever you want it to be". In ASCII language, the most basic computer software, "42" is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, Deep Thought, was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would: "42" = "anything you want it to be". Genius.-Stoic Joker (June 16, 2020, 12:33 PM)
I've heard people complain that wearing masks makes it hard to breathe, but how the smurf are you supposed to breathe in that thing? :o-Deozaan (August 16, 2020, 11:37 AM)
Just from looking at it, I think the face hugger is just ornamental, and there's a mask underneath that it's attached to from where the elastic attaches. I could be wrong. If I'm not, I don't get it either.-wraith808 (August 16, 2020, 11:58 AM)
I suspect it's more ornamental than functional :-)I've heard people complain that wearing masks makes it hard to breathe, but how the smurf are you supposed to breathe in that thing? :o-Deozaan (August 16, 2020, 11:37 AM)
Just from looking at it, I think the face hugger is just ornamental, and there's a mask underneath that it's attached to from where the elastic attaches. I could be wrong. If I'm not, I don't get it either.-wraith808 (August 16, 2020, 11:58 AM)
I suspect it's more ornamental than functional :-)I've heard people complain that wearing masks makes it hard to breathe, but how the smurf are you supposed to breathe in that thing? :o-Deozaan (August 16, 2020, 11:37 AM)
Just from looking at it, I think the face hugger is just ornamental, and there's a mask underneath that it's attached to from where the elastic attaches. I could be wrong. If I'm not, I don't get it either.-wraith808 (August 16, 2020, 11:58 AM)-tomos (August 16, 2020, 01:06 PM)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Y95g9S4m/0796d8e76678bd9c6f693dd7e14a2e31.jpg):D :D :D-panzer (August 24, 2020, 04:33 AM)
(https://i.postimg.cc/5tBpmsCS/DGKc-Ti-W-d.png)Nice way to control Obese :D-panzer (August 26, 2020, 02:48 PM)
I need that control !!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D(https://i.postimg.cc/5tBpmsCS/DGKc-Ti-W-d.png)Nice way to control Obese :D-panzer (August 26, 2020, 02:48 PM)
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (August 27, 2020, 05:37 AM)
When you talk to yourself, do you get an intelligent answer?-Arizona Hot (August 31, 2020, 08:07 PM)
Ever notice vampires always come from Europe and never Africa?
I think it's because vampires are afraid of holy water and...Spoiler...they bless the rains down in Africa.
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That was To-totally bad...-Stoic Joker (October 20, 2020, 05:34 AM)
https://toggl.com/blog/world-created-programmer-panzer (October 25, 2020, 08:11 AM)
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Don't judge Indians too fast. Even users don't know if it is a programming language or not:But Alien language !! (Most choice, see))
https://www.quora.com/Is-CSS-or-HTML-a-programming-language-panzer (November 01, 2020, 09:09 AM)
B+D together is bigger than C.-panzer (November 01, 2020, 11:18 AM)
I heard that in Japan audience always chose the wrong answer on purpose so the producers decided to end the show.
(FR though, look at his legs. He's on something behind the truck pushing)-wraith808 (November 04, 2020, 07:36 AM)
So you're telling me that he's on the far side of the truck, stretching his arms all the way across the back of the vehicle so that his right hand is that close to the near side of the truck? I don't believe it. It defies reason. I think Shades is right.
Further evidence that it's not true: There's another guy in the photo who is actually on the far side of the truck, pushing. He is, visually, just under the arms of the guy in the truck bed. His right hand is at the very edge of the far side of the vehicle. And he's not as high up as the guy in the truck bed, who would be standing just a couple feet behind him if he were not in the truck bed. And the far side of the truck bed occludes our view of his body, but not the legs of the guy who is in the truck bed.
All evidence in the photo affirms that one of the people attempted to push the vehicle is doing so from inside the truck bed.
But even if it is true that the guy who appears to be in the truck bed is actually on the far side of the truck, having to lean that far to the side would certainly remove virtually all of his leverage. So it just shows that no matter which is true about the position of his feet, he's not being very helpful in actually moving the vehicle.-Deozaan (November 04, 2020, 09:02 PM)
Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this ..."
Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly ...-panzer (December 14, 2020, 03:17 PM)
Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this ..."Fully agree.
Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly ...-panzer (December 14, 2020, 03:17 PM)
Have you tried quantum ice cream? You don't know how many calories it has until you eat it.-Arizona Hot (December 20, 2020, 04:36 PM)
I've been watching a lot of LockPickingLawyer's videos on picking various locks. But today's video was a doozy!-Deozaan (April 02, 2021, 01:29 AM)
He eventually uploaded the full course to Youtube, so the whole world is now able to enjoy it, for free.-app103 (April 02, 2021, 12:22 PM)
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]Tiny helicopter on mars (https://i.redd.it/cxtyaez68iu61.jpg)-Arizona Hot (April 24, 2021, 09:24 AM)
Why does everyone seem to rip on WinRAR?!?
I've been using it for years, and never had a problem with it.-Stoic Joker (May 04, 2021, 02:22 PM)
but nobody has purchased a license-Deozaan (May 04, 2021, 04:29 PM)
I think it's the fact that it lost the competition a while ago to a lot of people's estimation.-wraith808 (May 04, 2021, 03:25 PM)
I don't even remember why WinZip annoys(/ed) me.-Stoic Joker (May 05, 2021, 05:40 AM)
7-Zip vs WinRAR vs WinZip – Supported File Formats
7-Zip, WinRAR and WinZip all support RAR, ZIP, 7Z and some other archive file formats.
7-Zip: Support packing and unpacking 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM file formats. But only support unpacking RAR, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z file formats.
WinRAR: RAR, ZIP, 7Z, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZ2, Z, GZ, JAR, LZ, XZ, ZIPX, OO1.
WinZip: ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, 7Z, CAB, TAR, GZip, ISO, Z, XZ, LZH, BZ2, VHD, VMDX.
7-Zip vs WinRAR vs WinZip – Compression Rate and File Size
As for the compression rate and the output file size, 7-Zip, WinRAR and WinZip don’t differ too much. But the output format you choose can make a difference.
For instance, when you choose .zipx format rather than .zip format when using WinZip for file compression. The ZIPX format has a higher compression ratio than ZIP. If you choose 7Z format instead of ZIP format using 7-Zip to compress files, 7Z format would have a much higher compression ratio than ZIP format.
Based on test, to compress 1.5 GB of video files, 7-Zip delivers the highest compression rate, WinRAR comes as the second, while WinZip provides a compression ratio that is about 6% lower than 7-Zip. But if you choose the advanced compression format .zipx when using WinZip, its compression ratio is almost the same with 7-Zip.
7-Zip vs WinRAR vs WinZip – Conclusion
By comparing 7-Zip, WinRAR and WinZip above, all of these three top file compression software can do a good job in file packing and unpacking. If you want a totally free file compressor and get the smallest file size, 7-Zip may be a good choice.
Both 7-Zip and WinRAR are the best in compression. But their default formats 7Z and RAR are not fully supported on other operating systems. If you want to open 7Z or RAR files on non-Windows systems, you need to download and install the compatible software first. On the contrary, WinZip file can be opened on various systems with its own application.
Therefore, to choose 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip, it depends on you.
7-Zip vs WinRAR vs WinZip
Compression Rate7-Zip vs WinRAR vs WinZip – Compression Rate and File Size
As for the compression rate and the output file size, 7-Zip, WinRAR and WinZip don’t differ too much. But the output format you choose can make a difference.
For instance, when you choose .zipx format rather than .zip format when using WinZip for file compression. The ZIPX format has a higher compression ratio than ZIP. If you choose 7Z format instead of ZIP format using 7-Zip to compress files, 7Z format would have a much higher compression ratio than ZIP format.
Based on test, to compress 1.5 GB of video files, 7-Zip delivers the highest compression rate, WinRAR comes as the second, while WinZip provides a compression ratio that is about 6% lower than 7-Zip. But if you choose the advanced compression format .zipx when using WinZip, its compression ratio is almost the same with 7-Zip.-KodeZwerg (May 06, 2021, 08:01 PM)
Not a joke at all. And I wouldn't have mentioned those results if I had not been able to do so myself, about 3 to 4 times a week.I did not attack your experience with your custom data-set, if I would attack anything at all (what I am not doing) than its the "75% better than that"-thing, that if at all, would only be valid by your usage, not global.-Shades (May 06, 2021, 09:50 PM)
...he/she didn't play enough with the available settings. In any of the archivers. By all means, play around with dictionary sizes and word sizes inside these archivers. And a whole new world will open to you.But that is exactly my point why I have put the quotes up. Using different algorithms with different settings end in different results.-Shades (May 06, 2021, 09:50 PM)
And why did that person choose video files for compression?Because video files are hard to compress due their high entropy level I would say. (Using files that are easy to compress, where is the competition? <- no real question, just a thought)-Shades (May 06, 2021, 09:50 PM)
It's no skin of my back if you choose to disregard though. After all, if you are happy with your solution, more power to you.What solution? Did I mention something accidently? I am full on your side, 7-Zip is awesome! (but also WinRAR and WinZIP is aswell.)-Shades (May 06, 2021, 09:50 PM)
I never dance, unless Tequila tells me to...-Stoic Joker (May 07, 2021, 09:42 AM)
@Deozaan would this count?-x16wda (May 20, 2021, 06:00 AM)
What do you call two monkeys who share an Amazon account?that one made me laugh :up:SpoilerPrime mates.-rjbull (July 27, 2021, 03:07 PM)
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More in the archive below.-Arizona Hot (January 05, 2022, 09:34 PM)
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Who writes ghost stories? (https://memegenerator.net/instance/15285785/bad-joke-eels-who-writes-ghost-stories-a-ghost-writer)
The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFBwt1nu2U)-Arizona Hot (April 27, 2022, 11:57 PM)
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Funny Wi-Fi names (https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/100-funny-wi-fi-names-for-a-hilarious-internet-connection/ar-AAV3kzY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531)-Arizona Hot (March 16, 2022, 03:38 AM)
NASA just using 80s school photo background (https://screenrant.com/james-webb-space-telescope-memes/)
Nice try, NASA (https://screenrant.com/james-webb-space-telescope-memes/)-Arizona Hot (July 21, 2022, 12:02 PM)
NASA is just using 80s school photo background (https://screenrant.com/james-webb-space-telescope-memes/)-Arizona Hot (July 27, 2022, 10:32 AM)
What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive cockroach?-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2022, 05:01 PM)
Hilarious!What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive cockroach?-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2022, 05:01 PM)
It would probably end up something like this:-app103 (November 17, 2022, 05:10 AM)
What if Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive cockroach?-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2022, 05:01 PM)
When your program is a complete mess, but it does its job-x16wda (December 11, 2022, 09:58 AM)
Hilarious submission of lyrics for O Fortuna.-wraith808 (January 05, 2023, 10:04 AM)
If a guy here got pregnant, what would they name the kid?-Arizona Hot (February 20, 2023, 11:30 AM)
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