Humor Random Comments Thread

[jedidia]

Well, at least you can't complain that they're forcing you to wear a hardhat for no good reason

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Oh no. As a tall dude I've rang my bell several times. Once hard enough to break it. I had to lay down in the floor and hope to not throw up for about 15 minutes once. Kinda sad about that, it was my hardhat from my fossil days. Lots of dirt, grease, and grime embedded in that thing. It had character.

I hate to have a pristine looking hardhat. It's embarrassing. Makes it look like I don't turn wrenches for a living.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Despite all the time I've spent around airliners and airplanes, I've only smacked my head hard enough to see stars twice... Once on the pre-conditioned air unit beneath a jetbridge, and once on the vent mast on the #2 engine of a Jetstar when coming out from under the wing during a tire change. Given that I'm 6'2"/188 cm... that's not bad! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Despite all the time I've spent around airliners and airplanes, I've only smacked my head hard enough to see stars twice... Once on the pre-conditioned air unit beneath a jetbridge, and once on the vent mast on the #2 engine of a Jetstar when coming out from under the wing during a tire change. Given that I'm 6'2"/188 cm... that's not bad! :lol:

I got my worst knockout from jumping into my parents van at full speed. Hit the roof spar of the car, but thankfully, a metal plate on my baseball cap caught the worst damage and left a lasting impression on the car. But I was really counting the stars for the next hour. Luckily, I got better quick. Safety helmets are important!

 

[Donamy]

Worst I hit my head, was when I was a kid ice skating. Got my feet taken out by someone who fell. No helmet, my head hurt for days. Didn't go to the doctor, for things like that back then.

 

[Notebook]

Work begins to remove Severn toll booths on M4

Bridges over the River Severn, one of the main routes between Wales and England

As the title says, removing the toll booths. Don't know if its common, but this is an asymmetric toll. You pay to get into Wales, but its free to get out.
As you can imagine, its been the source of much humour(mostly not very good)


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46539162

 

[tl8]

Bridges over the River Severn, one of the main routes between Wales and England

As the title says, removing the toll booths. Don't know if its common, but this is an asymmetric toll. You pay to get into Wales, but its free to get out.
As you can imagine, its been the source of much humour(mostly not very good)


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46539162

Cool! Last time they removed toll booths here they replaced it with tags, and increased the cost...

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Bridges over the River Severn, one of the main routes between Wales and England

As the title says, removing the toll booths. Don't know if its common, but this is an asymmetric toll. You pay to get into Wales, but its free to get out.
As you can imagine, its been the source of much humour(mostly not very good)


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46539162

San Francisco uses a similar set up on the bridges coming into SF... You have to pay to enter, but departure from the city is not charged. There are ways into the city without paying the toll, but you have to detour around the entire southern half of San Francisco Bay.

 

[Urwumpe]

Hell freezes over... its coming home, its coming:

"Dinner for one" will be shown in British TV for the first time, despite having become highly popular outside Britain.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...dinner-for-one-to-air-on-uk-tv-for-first-time

 

[Notebook]

Hadn't heard of this, he was popular here on tv variety shows.

I think I rememmber him as a guest on one show, doing a routine as a drunk with a lampost! Of its time.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnohFw-yPNE"]Freddie Frinton & The Patton Brothers - I Must Go Home Tonight - YouTube[/ame]

Seems he got a tv series:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6dffv5

Don't remember it.

N.

 

[jedidia]

Hell freezes over... its coming home, its coming:

"Dinner for one" will be shown in British TV for the first time, despite having become highly popular outside Britain.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...dinner-for-one-to-air-on-uk-tv-for-first-time

Yeah, I have a british brother in law, and was kind of shocked to find out that he had never heard about that one. Like, it's a staple in swiss new years TV, and it is *always* aired in english without translation. Then the guy told me that *nobody* in england knows about this thing.


He still found it pretty funny when he finally watched it, though.

 

[Fabri91]

It's known only in German-speaking countries, no?

 

[Urwumpe]

It's known only in German-speaking countries, no?

No but pretty much northern Europe. Its always broadcast in English here, with few subtitles. Its not like you need a lot of English to understand the humor.

 

[C3PO]

It's also shown in Scandinavia with subtitles. (Not sure about Norway and Iceland)

 

[Notebook]

There is a UK forum called Digital Spy, relates to all things TV and probably other stuff.

Dinner for One has popped up on it:

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/comment/92251460#Comment_92251460

 

[steph]

Got an xbox one for the Christmas holidays. So far, the games really look good, even if I'm by and large a PC master race kind of guy.
But it's not plug&play. Well, it is, you just have to pass through way more hoops until you can actually enjoy the games. When I first started it, right off the bat it told me it needed a few hudreds of Mb of updates, without any skip option. On my internet connection, that took hours. Then tried to install The Witcher 3, and lo and behold, it needed 4 Gb of additional updates. So I just left it overnight to download all that. Even more annoying since you can't let it download the downloadable stuff while you're playing another game. The game dvd absolutely has to be in even if it's just downloading stuff for hours before it gets to actualy installing the game itself. So yeah, it's frustrating.
Tried to install Battlefield 1 today, but it needed around 18 Gb of additional stuff over the net, so I'm leaving that for the night. It might actually take days.

I don't get it. Most of the world doesn't have a lighting-fast internet connection and in the US the data caps are pretty harsh, AFAIK. How do people stand having such a data-hungry thing? I'm thinking I might have gotten one of the early models, since it needed all those updates. But so far, every game of the few I've tried needed extra stuff, so it's not like it does a global update and it's done. Not to mention that I'm starting to regret not getting the 1 To version instead of the 500 Gb, since my 40 Gb per game estimate seems woefully wrong. <with only Far Cry Primal and The Witcher 3 installed, the 500 Gb hard is about half full already after all the updates. Not that i expected to install many games, but still, it's way below my expectations.

 

[Artlav]

...The game dvd absolutely has to be in even if it's just downloading stuff for hours...

I'm just sitting there wondering how and when did mankind managed to go so wrong that a gaming console requires downloading stuff, never mind updates, never mind a freaking internet connection.

I blame Sega Dreamcast. It had a modem, and the modem wasn't compatible with Russia's dialing system, so i had to dial on a phone, press the connect button and plug the cable over with exact timing to get it to connect.

It was the only way to play a VMU game you wrote without having to burn a CD after each recompilation... Little did i know that this would become the norm.

These days a 32Gb flash drive would be cheaper than a DVD, compact in size, a DRM dream, kills all the downsides of having to download and also would invoke the cartridge days nostalgia. Why won't someone make a console that uses cartridges like that? Bizarre.

regret not getting the 1 To version instead of the 500 Gb

At which point i'm wondering just what's the point of a console now. It sounds like a croappy PC which can only run Steam and is not upgradeable, so why bother?

 

[Majid]

At which point i'm wondering just what's the point of a console now. It sounds like a croappy PC which can only run Steam and is not upgradeable, so why bother?

I'd say a large part is the control interface being controllers which is more conducive of group play. It's just not easy to play as a group on the same computer.

 

[Artlav]

I'd say a large part is the control interface being controllers which is more conducive of group play.

Hm? All the controllers are USB these days, and perfectly compatible with a PC.

I.e i got a PS4 controller for VR use some time ago, never had any problems with it under both Linux and Windows.
It even works over bluetooth.
It even works over bluetooth when connected to a microcontroller on a robotic spider.

I don't see how that's the problem.

 

[Quick_Nick]

These days a 32Gb flash drive would be cheaper than a DVD, compact in size, a DRM dream, kills all the downsides of having to download and also would invoke the cartridge days nostalgia. Why won't someone make a console that uses cartridges like that? Bizarre.

That's a Nintendo Switch. I think it doesn't even force updates on you except to play online/wireless multiplayer. But every game and hardware accessory is priced sky high.