Humor Random Comments Thread

[Athena]

Usual comment when one of us leaves the door open in our classroom. :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

I have found a new word to describe someone who always came in fourth place in every competition and everything he do: it's called Andy Murray.

15 months and one Olympics and two Grand Slams later...

 

[Quick_Nick]

Houston drivers

 

[mojoey]

Houston drivers

Yo dawg I heard you like boats...

 

[Izack]

It's been a couple of days with a new Internet connection. There was a transient problem yesterday in which all HTTPS requests failed, but it got solved with (as Ripley said) the Universal Repair Method: turning the modem off and on. Now, streaming videos, Minecraft online, downloading from Orbithangar without driving 30 minutes down the road to steal wifi, etc. are all available after years without. It's been nice.

Ping's a bit high (steadily 0.6 seconds) but I won't complain with a fresh memory of the crap we've left behind.

 

[Codz]

I've been playing an interesting, if obscure, mid to late era Cold War flight sim lately. Interesting selection of various NATO fighter aircraft from the 60's-80's, and several dynamic campaigns set in Western Europe during several hypothetical World War III scenarios. Nothing like flying close air support missions over Germany in an A-10!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Random level: over 9000

 

[jedidia]

Skype for android: Microsofts reminder that it still knows how to make useless software, just in case we were prone to forgetting... :facepalm:

 

[Scav]

Houston drivers

:idea:

I know what that is! Sandy Plankton saw one. He called it a . . . uh . . . he said it was called a . . .

 

[Athena]

Objective completed.

School Duration D, go to school 4 days in a row.

 

[Quick_Nick]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

 

[goaowonk]

You've reminded me this:

Spanish chovinists => green=Spain :rofl:

There are more absurd maps here: http://foroparalelo.com/general/hilo-de-los-mapas-sin-sentido-43341/

 

[Izack]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

That page nearly ran me out of memory. Why did the images have to be so huge? :lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Living by Ellington former AFB means occasional mornings like this where my alarm is the sound of multiple jet engines at high speed. Not sure what it was. Saw T-38s last month; but this sounds more like fighters. (I think)

 

[Codz]

Living by Ellington former AFB means occasional mornings like this where my alarm is the sound of multiple jet engines at high speed. Not sure what it was. Saw T-38s last month; but this sounds more like fighters. (I think)

Well, technically the T-38 is a fighter, airframe-wise, as it's based on the F-5. Anyway, you likely heard F-16C/D's from the Texas ANG.

 

[Linguofreak]

That page nearly ran me out of memory. Why did the images have to be so huge? :lol:

I was going to say "how little memory do you have?", but Opera only seems to load the images that are currently on screen. When I tried opening it in Firefox, Firefox's memory usage shot up from ~80 megs to 1 gig.

 

[Pipcard]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

Siphonia (an alternate take on a "drained oceans" scenario)

There's even more here.

 

[MattBaker]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

To be honest what bothers me about this what-if is the remaining sea.

The Red Sea gets cut of from the rest...but stays there?

I think a lot of the new 'lakes' would at least get smaller by a lot, for example the Mediterranean Sea.

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And I'd like to add a realistic ocean draining, done by Germans because no one else thinks about such mad stuff:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa"]Atlantropa[/ame]

Not done because obviously no Corsican wants Italians on his isle.

 

[jedidia]

Not done because obviously no Corsican wants Italians on his isle.

I have the slight feeling that Croatia and Montenegro wouldn't have found it too funny either, being bereft of their major source of income. For the Balkans in general it seems like a really bad Idea to give them even more land to quabble about. :facepalm:

 

[Artlav]

Nah, all that is thinking too small.
How about Globus Cassus?
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_Cassus"]Globus Cassus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Just rebuild the planet into something Jupiter-sized, with a lot of living space.