Humor Random Comments Thread

[Andy44]

In response to Urwumpe's description of Germany I want to post an ASCII facepalm but this isn't the right version of Random Comments.

So instead here's an Israeli Air Force fighter cat.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Meanwhile, rugged Russian LED indicates a slight overload...

 

[Notebook]

Safety Message!

http://www.westyorksfire.gov.uk/new...e-cigarette-battery-is-caught-on-cctv-camera/

Smoking can seriously damage your health.

Have a good celebration folks, see you in next year.

N.

 

[jedidia]

And that's why I smoke a pipe

 

[Urwumpe]

Hint for Germans: If you are working in another town and get an apartment or hotel room for that time, you only need to register your new residence if you stay longer than 6 months.

Strangely the executive wants you to always register and does not mention the exception. So, a lot of paperwork less for me.

 

[bisbeejim]

I just heard about the terrible news out of Germany

I felt bad when I heard what happened in France, and now Germany. My decendants are German. They moved to England for a couple generations before moving to America. That was about 150 years ago, but I still feel a connection.

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Change the subject for a moment.
Check this out.

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Oh yeah Enjo, I've been to your page and loved it. In fact, it was your page that played a part in me deciding to go ahead and try making teams. I was really bursting with enthusiasm back then.

 

[RisingFury]

My decendants are German.

You probably meant your ancestors. :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Less merry christmas is planned in Augsburg this year. On the first day of christmas, 54000 citizens (from 32000 apartments) have to be evacuated because they are planning to disarm a HC 8000 LB cookie from WW2. This will be the biggest evacuation in German history after WW2. 800 police officers will be deployed.

 

[Artlav]

On the first day of christmas, 54000 citizens (from 32000 apartments) have to be evacuated

Hm? Is Christmas a holiday in Germany?
That sounds like some odd timing.

 

[Urwumpe]

Hm? Is Christmas a holiday in Germany?
That sounds like some odd timing.

Yes, the 25th and 26th. The 25th is a Sunday anyway and most bombs are disarmed on a Sunday, if possible.

 

[RisingFury]

Less merry christmas is planned in Augsburg this year. On the first day of christmas, 54000 citizens (from 32000 apartments) have to be evacuated because they are planning to disarm a HC 8000 LB cookie from WW2. This will be the biggest evacuation in German history after WW2. 800 police officers will be deployed.

Less merry? How so? I would have thought that not living next to a giant bomb would be a rileaf

 

[Urwumpe]

Less merry? How so? I would have thought that not living next to a giant bomb would be a rileaf

Optimistic calculation: Regardless where you go in Germany, you are always less than 1000 meters away from an unexploded bomb.

 

[Notebook]

18:45 in, but wait for the punch-line 2mins later.

N.

 

[steph]

Northern Italy these days:

I descend in the fog every day in the morning and get back out in the evening never seeing the sun. :lol:

At least it looks epic in the moonlight as seen from the higher areas. The creepiest thing though is radiative fog at night (low fog, a few meters at most ) in areas without light pollution . You can clearly see a lot of stars, but your foreground is a black mess. I could barely make out the trees a few meters away. Forget about ground detail :lol: There were a few cows (not the bipedal ones :rofl: ) close to me, and I only knew it because I was hearing them.

Edit: Thinking of it, it would be the perfect situation for a night ambush...if only the attackers stayed in the dark and the victims had lights.

 

[Andy44]

Regardless where you go in Germany, you are always less than 1000 meters away from an unexploded bomb.

That should be a meme or something.

I heard a similarly constructed statement once:

"Once you're south of the Mason-Dixon Line, you are never more than half a mile from somebody having sex with his sister."

(Sorry, Southerners, but the guy who told me that was a US Marine from South Carolina and he thought it was pretty funny for some reason. He also used more colorful language.)

 

[Notebook]

Not as funny, but twice as confusing.
Been using Train simulator on Steam for some time. Paid up for the beta thing this December, CWS or something, but it looked good..
Just got a 112MB download, and Steam says it doesn't have an executable, or something.
Any else similar?

N.

 

[jedidia]

Usually only happens when the devs really messed up their release package...

 

[RisingFury]

Usually only happens when the devs really messed up their release package...

Happens surprisingly often...

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Optimistic calculation: Regardless where you go in Germany, you are always less than 1000 meters away from an unexploded bomb.

I once had a darkly comedic but somewhat serious discussion with some friends about what what sorts of activities we could engage in when we were old or diagnosed with a fatal disorder and near the end of healthy life; when deadly risks were on the table and getting blown to smithereens was not necessarily an unwelcome outcome.

Sounds like "gardening in Germany" might be one of these activities.

 

[Andy44]

I once had a darkly comedic but somewhat serious discussion with some friends about what what sorts of activities we could engage in when we were old or diagnosed with a fatal disorder and near the end of healthy life; when deadly risks were on the table and getting blown to smithereens was not necessarily an unwelcome outcome.

Sounds like "gardening in Germany" might be one of these activities.

I read an old short story once about a guy who, getting on in years and losing the spring in his step, decided he would go mountain climbing and take extreme risks, figuring that "deceleration sickness" would be a pretty good way to go out. Of course, things didn't exactly turn out the way he planned. I think the story was called "Action".

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I found it: 'Action' by C. E. Montague

It's in this book, which my dad gave me a long time ago, and which now apparently commands a high price: https://www.amazon.com/ACTION-ADVENTURE-George-editor-Bennett/dp/B002ATVF3K

Lots of great stories on there, including the first Arthur C. Clarke story I ever read, and 'Leiningen Versus the Ants' by Carl Stephenson, which was made into a pretty good film starring Charleton Heston.