A Call For Humor!

[Andysu]

audio philes oh the ones that should , take a seat what are you doing with that amplifier ?

 

[Berwhale]

German


Did you eat any? Not so sure that's real German food. It's very popular here on the US west coast as original middle east shawarma and variation Brazilian shawarma. It's good but it's not fast food around here yet.

Not yet, but I'm planning to take them up on their first order from mobile app offer with a colleague when i'm back in the office (the new office is only 2/3 mile from the old one).

Also considering bringing one of these back to the office as my boss is German...

 

[Jimi Floyd]

My understanding is that once the caps become separated from the bottles they either get lost in the environment or become difficult to separate from other recycling. So keeping them together ensures the caps get recycled and enables them to be separated from the bottles at an appropriate time in the recycling process.

Hoping so

 

[thewas]

 

[Nutul]

I walked past my old office last week (in Southern England) and discovered that the Subway franchise opposite had been turned into a GDK View attachment 520794

This somehow doesn't make me feel so good. Cannot say why, though. Nevertheless it does feel a little bit disturbing.
Now, we all do agree that this is a fun thread. But...

 

[somebodyelse]

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It's often been said that 1984 was meant to be a warning not a playbook. I suppose we now have to say the same about Idiocracy.

 

[Nutul]

It's often been said that 1984 was meant to be a warning not a playbook. I suppose we now have to say the same about Idiocracy.

You heard that "1984" (but it may be well Mr Orwell as a whole...) gonna be banned from institutional (in the States, I mean) education, right...?
Howdya feel about?
(disclaimer: I am from Europe, so let's just see if the information deception is indeed true, or just - let's hope so - pure bullsh*t)

Just in case, cheers.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Bleib]

It's often been said that 1984 was meant to be a warning not a playbook. I suppose we now have to say the same about Idiocracy.

"The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
-Collected Essays [21]

I've read quite a lot Orwell..

 

[thegeton]

Oh joy.

Is there even one day of the year where people aren't playing with their balls, either professional or amateur?

Sunday. I never play with my balls on Sunday.

Seriously

No, really.

 

[TheLastGerman]

 

[Andreas007]

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I don't mind it myself, and I understand the reasons

It's funny, but I still don't get all the fuss about it.
Even small things can help keep our environment clean, and if you ask street cleaners in cities whether they still find plastic bottle caps compared to the past, the answer is: almost none at all. And, besides that: Go to Japan, no littering, no silly attached caps needed. I guess we are simply uncivilized.

 

[Andysu]

 

[Keith_W]

I guess we are simply uncivilized.

If there is a Western country that is as clean and as disciplined as Japan, it would be you Germans.

I was in the Feldberg ski resort during New Year celebrations. There was a huge party in my hotel which went way past midnight. I don't know what time it ended, I went to bed soon after the year ticked over but I could still hear the celebrations downstairs. In the morning, I woke up for an early breakfast. My wife and I joked that the dining room would look like a bomb had gone off. But when we walked in, it was absolutely pristine. All the tables were laid out and breakfast was served. My wife said one word: "Germans!".

 

[LTig]

If there is a Western country that is as clean and as disciplined as Japan, it would be you Germans.

I was in the Feldberg ski resort during New Year celebrations. There was a huge party in my hotel which went way past midnight. I don't know what time it ended, I went to bed soon after the year ticked over but I could still hear the celebrations downstairs. In the morning, I woke up for an early breakfast. My wife and I joked that the dining room would look like a bomb had gone off. But when we walked in, it was absolutely pristine. All the tables were laid out and breakfast was served. My wife said one word: "Germans!".

You'd experience the same in many European countries (Switzerland, Austria, all Scandinavians, ...).

 

[mhardy6647]

If there is a Western country that is as clean and as disciplined as Japan, it would be you Germans.

I was in the Feldberg ski resort during New Year celebrations. There was a huge party in my hotel which went way past midnight. I don't know what time it ended, I went to bed soon after the year ticked over but I could still hear the celebrations downstairs. In the morning, I woke up for an early breakfast. My wife and I joked that the dining room would look like a bomb had gone off. But when we walked in, it was absolutely pristine. All the tables were laid out and breakfast was served. My wife said one word: "Germans!".

I happened to be in Quebec City (which is, umm, a city in Quebec, which is a something-or-other in Canada) for a professional meeting (Recovery of Biological Products conference, for those besides me who are into such things ) some years back (2008, per the ref.* below). We were in some huge-mongous hotel next to a (the?) big, big park or field. It turns out that we were there for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City**. I think Paul McCartney (noted French Canadian that he be) played an outdoor concert. It was an immense party.

On the morning after the climax (??), the area around the hotel looked like a battlefield after a war involving bottles and a lot of paper products had ended. We holed up in the conference center for the day. By late afternoon, when we emerged, the perimeter was spotless. Like it never happened.
Pretty amazing.

Typical egocentric, largely pointless decide below. Click if you dare.

Spoiler

Bizarrely enough, I gave a talk about... molecular biology stuff. My lab at the time was in the Cell and Molecular Sciences dept., and they didn't want to go and they knew I liked to talk... Our lab had done the analytical work for the study we presented, and I'd been involved in the study design (as I was, and this is the scary part, the local expert on statistics and things like designing good experimental controls). Sorry.... I digress. But me talking about selection of engineered cell lines is definitely apropos for the humor page!

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* https://www.recoveryconferences.org/previous_conferences.php?top=recovery-conference-series
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400th_anniversary_of_Quebec_City

 

[Multicore]

"Let us explain
Kikka punch
The power of the punch which comes from Kikkoman's unnecessarily-built body is far more than what you imagine. In addition, since Kikkoman is always using his gloves for brewingsoysauce, you'd be itchy when you get punched by him!"

A golden oldie.

 

[Petrushka]

I happened to be in Quebec City (which is, umm, a city in Quebec, which is a something-or-other in Canada) for a professional meeting (Recovery of Biological Products conference, for those besides me who are into such things ) some years back (2008, per the ref.* below). We were in some huge-mongous hotel next to a (the?) big, big park or field. It turns out that we were there for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City**. I think Paul McCartney (noted French Canadian that he be) played an outdoor concert. It was an immense party.

On the morning after the climax (??), the area around the hotel looked like a battlefield after a war involving bottles and a lot of paper products had ended. We holed up in the conference center for the day. By late afternoon, when we emerged, the perimeter was spotless. Like it never happened.
Pretty amazing.

Typical egocentric, largely pointless decide below. Click if you dare.

Spoiler

Bizarrely enough, I gave a talk about... molecular biology stuff. My lab at the time was in the Cell and Molecular Sciences dept., and they didn't want to go and they knew I liked to talk... Our lab had done the analytical work for the study we presented, and I'd been involved in the study design (as I was, and this is the scary part, the local expert on statistics and things like designing good experimental controls). Sorry.... I digress. But me talking about selection of engineered cell lines is definitely apropos for the humor page!

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* https://www.recoveryconferences.org/previous_conferences.php?top=recovery-conference-series
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400th_anniversary_of_Quebec_City

I arrived at Disney World on the coldest Florida day on record. 16F in Orlando.

All the plants were dead. Hundreds of acres of landscaping.

The next morning, it was all stripped down to bare dirt.

The temperature rose, and on the third morning, everything had been replaced. There was no trace of freeze damage.

 

[mhardy6647]

I arrived at Disney World on the coldest Florida day on record. 16F in Orlando.

All the plants were dead. Hundreds of acres of landscaping.

The next morning, it was all stripped down to bare dirt.

The temperature rose, and on the third morning, everything had been replaced. There was no trace of freeze damage.

... and people wonder how "they" built the pyramids?

EDIT:
PS Quebec. Disney World. The Pyramids. We must not speak of these things in the "UFO Thread".

 

[Bleib]

It's funny, but I still don't get all the fuss about it.
Even small things can help keep our environment clean, and if you ask street cleaners in cities whether they still find plastic bottle caps compared to the past, the answer is: almost none at all. And, besides that: Go to Japan, no littering, no silly attached caps needed. I guess we are simply uncivilized.

I always see comments on social media how many instantly rip it off...
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