A Call For Humor!

[xanalog]

I must've gone through most of our 'a-call-for-humor' thread pages but I skip over the youtube links.
Recently, there was mention that someone was missing the old "Darwin Awards"... which is DOA since 2022 awards[?].
Replacement:

Improbable Research

Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK

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[KellenVancouver]

 

[TheWalkman]

I must've gone through most of our 'a-call-for-humor' thread pages but I skip over the youtube links.
Recently, there was mention that someone was missing the old "Darwin Awards"... which is DOA since 2022 awards[?].
Replacement:
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Improbable Research

Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK

improbable.com

I’ll take credit for the Darwin Award comment.

I’ll never forget the award winner who attached a solid rocket motor to his car and lit it. The cat handled great on the straights but didn’t do well on the curves.

 

[Bleib]

 

[Soundproof]

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Have been through a few reorganisation and certitfications processes as many others, the worst being 1: It is evident at the start that there will be no change and it ends up without changes as was obvious. 2: Documenting and certifying the present organisation, strategies and the lot, when it is obvious (and known) that the organisation soon will change into something entirely different, and the certification will have to be redone. Total waste of cash, and totally disruptive for the daily operation.

As for the latter, we had a big meeting where the go ahead conclusions and roadmaps were presented, and the organisational support for the entire project and of course the meeting, was torpedoed by one single question. "Where are the customers in all of this?". None of the directors were able to come up with an answer.

So, thinking twice before being critical in a meeting might not be such a bad idea

 

[respice finem]

Have been through a few reorganisation and certitfications processes as many others, the worst being 1: It is evident at the start that there will be no change and it ends up without changes as was obvious. 2: Documenting and certifying the present organisation, strategies and the lot, when it is obvious (and known) that the organisation soon will change into something entirely different, and the certification will have to be redone. Total waste of cash, and totally disruptive for the daily operation.

As for the latter, we had a big meeting where the go ahead conclusions and roadmaps were presented, and the organisational support for the entire project and of course the meeting, was torpedoed by one single question. "Where are the customers in all of this?". None of the directors were able to come up with an answer.

So, thinking twice before being critical in a meeting might not be such a bad idea

The letter "c" in the word "meeting" stands for customers

 

[Multicore]

“Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

A rather parochial remark there from Vonnegut but an important one about the anglophone world. For a while I worked for Nokia and found that Finns do not share this behavior. And I've worked with several Russians and they were similarly straightforward. I liked working with them.

I suppose Western Europe may be somewhere between. Idk.

What's it like where you are?

 

[Jimi Floyd]

“Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

A rather parochial remark there from Vonnegut but an important one about the anglophone world. For a while I worked for Nokia and found that Finns do not share this behavior. And I've worked with several Russians and they were similarly straightforward. I liked working with them.

I suppose Western Europe may be somewhere between. Idk.

What's it like where you are?

I have always told the naked truth without any respect for diplomacy. The most humiliating for somebody, the better. I'm from Italy, this attitude is quite common here and I like it.

 

[Soundproof]

Would argue Europe is a bit of a coctail, but that goes for other parts of the world aswell. Besides, the corporate culture may deviate form the national norms of behaviour.

In northern Europe and British Isles and so on, I'd say Fins, Norwegians and Dutch are pretty direct, Swedes are more diplomatic, Germans more formal, Danes and English more political, Ires and Scots more direct again, as are Icelanders. But this is a bit stereotypical and I am happy to be proven wrong.

Would argue a cultural coctal it can be an issue until getting used to it. Direct seen as brash/unpolite and lack of conduite, diplomatic and political seen as evasive and weak. Interesting things can happen when these cultural behaviours are misinterpited, thus it is important to recognice and understand the reasons.

 

[Philbo King]

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(She was only 16 when she said it but... still funny)

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I’ll take credit for the Darwin Award comment.

I’ll never forget the award winner who attached a solid rocket motor to his car and lit it. The cat handled great on the straights but didn’t do well on the curves.

I recall reading the car hit the side of a mountain at an estimated 350 mph after going airborne. Seems a bit impractical for daily commutes...

 

[Earth]

https://imgur.com/a/ZMq2T5c

 

[Spkrdctr]

The compressed music was so much better! WOW, it really brought in a nice underlying beat that hammered home the sound of the guitar.

 

[mhardy6647]

So... a while back I posted an eBay photo of a vacuum tube that caught my... ahem... eye.

A Call For Humor!

Me shopping online after deciding I need a larger SSD and thinking "they aren't that expensive, the last one I got was cheap" :

www.audiosciencereview.com

I was searching for something else tubular using ol' gurgle google this morning, and discovered that this is, apparently, a thing.
I mean, I knew about the trope of buxom, bikini-clad young women proffering their... uhh... vacuum tubes, but the tubes with eyes thing... oy.

... like something out of Disney's Fantasia... or maybe Dumbo.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[mhardy6647]

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This is exactly why I kept a couple of garishly patterned, silky double-knit shirts from the '70s.

 

[Timcognito]

This is exactly why I kept a couple of garishly patterned, silky double-knit shirts from the '70s.

With all the other stuff that you have from the '70s, nobody is really surprised.

 

[Ropeburn]

There has to be a balance. plenty of eisbein mit sauerkraut and appropriate volumes of beer MUST be balanced out with enough schnaps.
..or Gerda may grab the phone from Ulf after a while.

Simple logic: you eat all the greasy stuff and it's yummy and then you're nauseous and need medicine. Of course the house apothecary got a nice selection of fine destillates...

 

[respice finem]

Simple logic: you eat all the greasy stuff and it's yummy and then you're nauseous and need medicine. Of course the house apothecary got a nice selection of fine destillates...

And it's important to stay positive - even if you eventually barf it all out, it can't make you gain weight anymore

 

[Ropeburn]

And it's important to stay positive - even if you eventually barf it all out, it can't make you gain weight anymore

 

[respice finem]

Lieber eine Fettleber vom Saufen, als einen Buckel von der Arbeit