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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 02:35 PM »

Rather droll headline at democracynow.org: "Diplomaculate Conception": U.S. Helped Jailed Cuban Five Member Artificially Inseminate His Wife

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 11:28 AM »

...Ummm... once?  Unless you're projecting your own experiences.  But of course, I couldn't possibly comment.

-wraith808 (January 28, 2015, 11:16 AM)

Nooo...not quite the point I was obliquely suggesting (though your response is a good one and gets half-way there).
Never mind.   

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 11:22 AM »

At this time of year we are being beset my mossies at night. I have purchased a couple of electronic fly-swatters that burn the little blighters up with a high voltage burst of electricity, on contact. Revenge.
However, there are limits to their use - e.g., little children should not get to use them as they could be hurt.

I was thus struck by the following piece of purportedly ancient Chinese wisdom that was emailed to me today by a friend:

The Great Lao-Tsu said "It is only when you see a mosquito landing on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence ...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 10:58 AM »

@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.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Does CHS handle Rich Text?

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 05:13 AM »

When I have played about with CHS, I have sometimes, under certain conditions (copying text from my Concise Oxford Dictionary app.), been able to see that it does seem to support rich text to some extent (e.g., coloured text) but only in the single latest clip in the Clipboard buffer. That formatting was expunged as soon as the next clip was brought into the top of the buffer.
That was under Win7-64, but I can't seem to get it to work at all now, under Win8.1-64 PRO.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 28, 2015, 04:21 AM »

Awww. Polar bears are sooo cute!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2015, 06:53 PM »

Ah! Thanks for correcting me on that @wraith808 - I had not known there was such a film, and thus assumed (apparently erroneously) that it was a spoof on "Rosemary's Baby". Your comment makes sense - e.g., I did wonder where the wicker baby basket came from, as that was not on the RB poster as far as I could recall (I last saw it many years back).
I looked up "It's Alive" on IMDB, and thought it seems like a silly horror movie. The theme of "a couple's infant child turns out to be a vicious mutant monster that kills when frightened" is replicated to some extent in the SF movie "Looper", where the boy child seems normal but is innocent and a telekinetic and cannot control his damaging powers when he is frightened. The surprising outcome in the story is that he is to be part of changed history (alternative futures) for the better.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2015, 09:52 AM »

^^ ... and I only came across this one the other day:



Fortunately, black humour is alive and well in the US, it seems.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 27, 2015, 05:01 AM »

^^ That sort of grisly humour reminds me of this, which I think I posted to this thread to much acclaim, some time back:

Spoiler

For those who might not get it, it's a rather clever spoof of the horror movie "Mary's Baby".

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2015, 03:24 PM »

Brilliant cartoonist Martin Honeysett has died at the age of 71. Here's a couple of his rather bitingly dark humour, from Punch:

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2015, 10:35 AM »

As a keen cyclist with children, I had always been in favour of the New Zealand law making it compulsory to wear a bicycle helmet. However, the outcome of that law is apparently not what one might have intuitively expected - according to a 2012 report from the NZ Medical Journal. I'd not seen it before. Very interesting statistical analysis.
Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law - New Zealand Medical Journal

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2015, 07:34 AM »

I don't know if this is related, but I have often found CHS to be inexplicably slow when displaying consecutive clips. I had assumed that pruning out the clips database to a bare minimum should help. and it seems to, but that means I have to hold far less clips than I would like.
28,000 clips would seem like a lot though.

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Living Room / Re: The Rant Thread!

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2015, 07:00 AM »

Got to Korea. 27 hours by air. Laptop is hosed. Worked at home. Tablet has errors now. Can't install anything now. Google Play Services errors. Smartphone stopped booting. Had to rent a phone. Disaster. I'm a bit pissed off.
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-Renegade (January 24, 2015, 08:37 PM)

Just as problem analysis: Why do you say your laptop was "hosed"? What exactly were the symptoms?
What do you suppose the cause was?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Evernote Desktop v2.2.1.386.0 appreciation thread

« Last post by IainB on January 25, 2015, 04:13 AM »

Interesting. That seemed to be a piece of software with superb, but not realised potential. I didn't appreciate that it still worked with Evernote though. I thought it had been deprecated/hobbled because they belatedly realised it didn't fit with the Evernote lock-in  - oops, sorry, "business model".
In the various comments I have posted on DCF and OutLinerSoftware.com, I have often referred directly or obliquely to this defunct software.
One of the main reasons I use OneNote now is that Evernote pulled that client software.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 20, 2015, 05:29 AM »

I didn't get the Slovakia thing. So, I did a search...

-Renegade (January 20, 2015, 04:25 AM)

No, I didn't get the Slovakian thing either. My 13 y/o daughter was told the joke by her Iranian friend (a girl), who apparently was told it by the Croatian father of one of her friends, or something.
I did a DuckGo search and after wading through the results I came to the conclusion that Slovaks seem to sometimes be the default nation to be the butt of jokes in some (mostly European?) countries. As far as I could determine, a lot of the jokes seemed to denigrate the Slovaks and were thus not very nice, but this one could be atypical because, whilst the implication would seem to be that Slovaks can't even tell a funny joke, the idea that a penguin might say "Radio" a propos of nothing, to another penguin standing nearby is preposterous, and therefore could be amusing. Anyway, for that reason, my daughter decided it was quite funny in and of itself and told it to me. My initial reaction though was "Huh? I don't get it."

I'd been sorting out my jokes database a bit today - hence the two golfing jokes - and thought I'd toss in the Slovakian one to see the effect, because it's kind of a case in point regarding what I wrote above:

...We all have different paradigms - e.g., I only belatedly got @crabby3's rather clever photo joke about the cat's headstone. ...
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-IainB (January 19, 2015, 08:59 PM)

I wouldn't save the Slovakian joke into my database, because it didn't make me larf.
By the way, I thought "the bridge named Chuck Norris" was quite amusing.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 20, 2015, 04:11 AM »

Penguins.
Two penguins were standing on an iceberg.
One said to the other, "Radio".

(It's apparently what is described as "a Slovakian joke".)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 20, 2015, 04:09 AM »

Golf genie.
One fine day in Ireland, a gentleman was out golfing and teed up his ball on the 16th hole. He smashed the golf ball with his driver. Unfortunately, his drive went into the woods. He walked down the fairway and went looking for his ball. After searching for a while, he found a little man unconscious with the golf ball lying next to him.

"Goodness," said the golfer, and proceeded to revive the poor little guy.

Upon awaking, the little guy said, "Well, you caught me fair and square. I am a leprechaun. I will grant you three wishes."

The man said, "I can't take anything from you. I'm just glad I didn't hurt you too badly."

The man then turned and walked away.

Watching the golfer depart, the leprechaun thought to himself, "Well, he was a nice enough guy, and he did catch me, so I have to do something for him. I'll give him the three things that I would want. I'll give him unlimited money, a great golf game, and a great sex life."

A year went by and the same golfer went golfing on the same course at the 16th hole. He hit his drive into the very same woods and went off searching for his ball. When he found the ball he saw the same little guy and asked how he was doing.

The leprechaun said, "I'm fine, and might I ask how your golf game is?"

"It's great! I hit under par every time."

"I did that for you. And might I ask how your money is holding out?"

The golfer said, "Well, now that you mention it, every time I put my hand in my pocket, I pull out a hundred pound note."

"I did that for you. And might I ask how your sex life is?"

The golfer looked at him a little shyly and said, "Well, maybe once or twice a week."

The leprechaun was floored and stammered, "Only once or twice a week?"

"Well, that's not too bad for a Catholic priest in a small parish."

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 20, 2015, 04:08 AM »

Golfing buddy.
One Saturday, a keen golfer brings his best golfing buddy home for dinner at 6.30pm, after playing golf all afternoon, without warning his wife that he was bringing anyone home for dinner.

His wife goes ballistic, and yells her head off at her husband whilst his friend stands watching open-mouthed at the tirade.
 
"My bloody hair and make-up are not done, the house is a f****** mess, the dishes aren't done. Can't you see I'm still in my f****** pyjamas and anyway I can't be bothered with cooking tonight!   Why the f*** did you bring him home without telling me first, you idiot?"

The husband answered, "Because he told me on the golf-course today that he's thinking of getting married!"

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2015, 09:24 PM »

^^ Yes, made me laugh too. Very good images. That's why I thought I would augment it!   

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2015, 08:59 PM »

^^ As one of my friends (a teacher) said when I asked him how he enjoyed stimulating the minds of his students, "Some days you try, some days you sigh."

We all have different paradigms - e.g., I only belatedly got @crabby3's rather clever photo joke about the cat's headstone.

That's one of the reasons I rarely - if ever - criticise other peoples' jokes. That is, it could quite well be that I am missing the point of their joke entirely - and anyway, who am I to criticise? I usually find it a useful habit of mind to try and open up my mind a tad to the possible ways in which something that doesn't look/seem funny to me at first glance could perhaps be deemed to be funny from a different perspective, and then I might get the joke after all, maybe as a kind of pleasant surprise, instead of it going right over my head and being lost on me altogether.

Of course, one doesn't necessarily have to approve of a joke just because one might thus be able to understand what could be perceived - by some people - as being funny about it, but then, that goes back to the need to criticise and whether one feels the world must operate according to one's paradigms. For example, there is probably good reason to suppose that the Charlie Hebdo killers would not have seen, allowed, nor accepted that there was any humour whatsoever in the cartoons depicting Mohammed.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 19, 2015, 09:11 AM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 01:44 PM)

When I was a kid, I lived in the basement...

-Renegade (January 18, 2015, 05:30 PM)

Really? Was that where your parents usually locked you up?  Enquiring minds need to know.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on 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.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 18, 2015, 12:15 PM »

...
  = me if you are serious.

-crabby3 (January 17, 2015, 11:29 AM)

Oh, I'm sorry. I hadn't realised you had deliberately removed the cat and put in a headstone as a joke. I just saw the cat wasn't clearly there, didn't notice the headstone, and simply thought it was a bad case of lossiness.

Belated har-de-har-har anyway.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 18, 2015, 12:08 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.
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-Stoic Joker (January 17, 2015, 01:09 PM)

I think you probably meant "...I can't really...".
Sorry, I didn't wish to start an argument, it was simply that you made a bald statement of (I presume) POV that I could not see as necessarily being true, so I thought I would point that out, but by all means continue in the Basement if you think that will be "safer" and (say) prevent me from being shot with an AK-47, or something, as I sit at my keyboard...       (((:~>

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on January 17, 2015, 11:02 AM »

Eh... I think it depends on context.  And along those lines, silly humor from tosh.0
http://tosh.cc.com/v...s-it-racist----slurs
Low Quality version from youtube..
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-wraith808 (January 15, 2015, 08:46 PM)

Interesting 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.

-Stoic Joker (January 16, 2015, 11:30 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.



This reminded me of the following - seems a reasonably concise/accurate definition of "political correctness":

"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)