silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

[Arizona Hot]

Classic Album Covers, Redesigned To Reveal The Bigger Picture

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[Renegade]

[app103]

http://i.imgur.com/S7I7hSN.png

-Renegade (October 29, 2014, 07:23 PM)

And now you know why Buckyballs needed to be banned! 

[app103]

I have a bucket containing about half of these, sitting on the table. I think I'll just eat all the Mounds. They are not on the list.

[mouser]

 

[Arizona Hot]

Ablank, Drew
Abone, Barry
Ant, Piss
Anus, Hanus
Areola, Rose E.
Bulltinkle, Wolfgang

A sample of the funny names here.

[Arizona Hot]

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?

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[IainB]

turd mobile

-crabby3 (October 29, 2014, 08:54 AM)

I don't think so. It looks to me like it's a 'shopped image of a loaf of wholemeal bread.

[IainB]

I just stumbled upon this rather Irish website today - Waterford Whispers News. The opening para on their "About" page says it all:

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.)

They have a "Random Article" button. Here is a random selection of some rather droll articles. Nothing is sacred:

• Mantelpiece A Perfect Place To Leave Any Old Shite, Finds Study
• The Edge Learns New Chord
• Bible Too Far-Fetched Even For Me, Says Pope
• Ireland Makes The Big Switch To Islam
• ‘Chick In That Sexual Harassment Video Isn’t Even That Good Looking’, Says Guy
• “It Feels A Lot Later Than It Is,” Claims County Limerick Man
• Tip Of The Iceberg Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Reveals Science Expedition

The standard of piss-taking seems quite good. Reminds me a little of the somewhat anti-capitalist anti-bullshit anti establishment Scottish group Chumbawamba 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 (Chumbawamba) deride/despise. (Still probably well worth a listen though.)

[app103]

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. 

[IainB]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

[4wd]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-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

[app103]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-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 this case, it was taken quite literally. And since that seemed too weird for a lovely female voice to be singing about, many thought she had to be saying something else, and white washed it, interpreting it as "dancing the night away", even though it doesn't sound like she is saying that at all. 

[crabby3]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-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)

pissed = angry
pissing = urinating
mate = wife, girl friend, significant-other or procreation
friend = bud, buddy, chum, pal...
torch = acetylene, blow torch or set something on fire.

[AzureToad]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-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.

[TaoPhoenix]

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)

I'm with AzureToad on this one - the "ing" form is far different than the "ed" form.

I'll also suggest there's a lot of drinking involved, because that's known to make you ______ a lot! But that also tends to be what most generic parties involve, aka having a good time mixed with potables, so it could be a triple word play that they were partying, and having a superficial good time (except maybe for the 9th beer!), but ultimately squandering deeper things of life.

[Deozaan]

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.

-app103 (October 31, 2014, 10:56 PM)

Curious. What did people think it meant when they first heard it?

-IainB (November 01, 2014, 01:14 AM)

When I and my friends first heard it, we thought the woman was saying "kissing the night away" but when it was pointed out that it was saying the other words, it didn't make sense and it had to be taken literally: as in "urinating all night long" which still didn't make sense, but that's what she was saying.

[IainB]

Brit. vernacular:
On the piss = heavy drinking (usually beer, which makes you pee a lot).
Getting pissed = getting drunk.
Pissed drunk - utterly drunk/wasted.
Pissed off = annoyed about something.
Pissing the night away = regular boozing/alcohol abuse.

The song seems to be about the booze culture of Brit. youth and how they seem to have been conditioned to waste their lives boozing in bars most of their spare time, brain numbed and poorer for it. Yet behind it all, they may still have an indomitable spirit and a kind of aggression. Futile existence.
Sadly, a lot of NZ youth seem to follow a similar pattern.

[4wd]

pissed = angry
pissing = urinating

-crabby3 (November 01, 2014, 08:03 AM)

Here's it's all about context and/or inflection.

pissed = drunk, annoyed, angry
pissing = urinating, getting annoyed, getting drunk, wasting time
mate = pretty much anybody (generally males though), friend, not friend

[TaoPhoenix]

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!

[Deozaan]

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)

I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread.


Here's more silly humor:

[app103]

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! 

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. 

[Renegade]

Drat... I'm a few posts behind on the British English stuff, but hey, I'm sure you'll excuse me as I'm half pissed.

To add into the vernacular there, I have a few Ozzie favourites. Root & cunt.

The Seoul Women's University cheer leading team is called the "Seoul Women's University Rooting Squad" or "SWURS".

Root in Ozzie English means "to f**k".

Root for your team? Oh... hell yeah! GO SWURS GO!

Cunt is a common word in Ozzie English for "fellow" (or similar). e.g. He's a decent cunt. It doesn't have near the negative connotation that it does in American English.

[TaoPhoenix]

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!  

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.  

-app103 (November 02, 2014, 01:28 AM)

Yep! It's indeed a funny video and thanks App for finding it! That was the one I was thinking of, but in a raw Youtube search I couldn't recall it was "computerphile".

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!

I just gave up and watched Rubik's-Clone puzzle videos for three hours waiting for it all to shake out! But at least my clocks are changed now!

PS. Wiki says one reason they changed the fall switch was to purposely kick it past Halloween to give kids more time to trick-or-treat!

(Homer) mmmmm ... little kids candy.... (/Homer)

[TaoPhoenix]

Tom Scott / Computerphile is great. Great comedic timing for what he presents.

Here's one where he and a friend had a silly little joke on a park bench ... and it spirals out of control into being an "App"!

Emojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k

And now for the emoji version of my Cthulu joke this week!