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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46710 on: April 02, 2014, 06:01:54 am »

Microinch is 0.00254 centimetres
Wouldn't that be a milliinch?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46711 on: April 02, 2014, 08:05:16 am »

Yardmetre is 3.60 metres.
Shouldn't a yardmetre be 1 yard x 1 m = 0.9144 m˛?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46712 on: April 02, 2014, 08:58:18 am »

Shoo, you and your logic.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46713 on: April 02, 2014, 09:08:46 am »

Hint, when deciding go to a restaurant always check to see if there are people of the ethnicity the restaurant food is eating at said restaurant.
That's racist.
But not entirely inaccurate, albeit for a different reason. Namely, the non-chain family-run restaurants tend to be the best, and the family-run restaurants tend to belong to families who at some point immigrated from the region, which then means that they're using something closer to authentic recipes. The more of a hole in the wall it is, the better the food will be. Family places also tend to avoid that bullshit you get from chains where "spicy" is measured in pinches of dehydrated pepper shreds and the spiciest they'll make it is barely enough to notice. If you're weeping uncontrollably by the end of the meal, you're in the right place.

That aside, I've been to one of those "asian buffets" and walked out after I saw the onion rings. It's like going into a period-style diner, ordering a milkshake, and watching it be poured out of a bag.
This thread moved quickly overnight.

Anyways, I was wondering how that statement would be taken. I actually agree with your assessment, but wanted to know how the thread would react. You shut it down in the very next post. Not sure if happy or disappointed.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46714 on: April 02, 2014, 09:41:45 am »

Somebody at my university thought that it'd be a great April Fools joke to show up outside the dorms last night with a longgun of some sort, pace around until everything was put on lockdown, and then drive away.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46715 on: April 02, 2014, 09:59:25 am »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46716 on: April 02, 2014, 10:01:33 am »

Somebody at my university thought that it'd be a great April Fools joke to show up outside the dorms last night with a longgun of some sort, pace around until everything was put on lockdown, and then drive away.

BUT WERE THEY JOKING????!!?

Seriously though, that's pretty dang funny.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46717 on: April 02, 2014, 10:41:14 am »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46718 on: April 02, 2014, 11:48:52 am »

Hint, when deciding go to a restaurant always check to see if there are people of the ethnicity the restaurant food is eating at said restaurant.
That's racist.
But not entirely inaccurate, albeit for a different reason. Namely, the non-chain family-run restaurants tend to be the best, and the family-run restaurants tend to belong to families who at some point immigrated from the region, which then means that they're using something closer to authentic recipes. The more of a hole in the wall it is, the better the food will be. Family places also tend to avoid that bullshit you get from chains where "spicy" is measured in pinches of dehydrated pepper shreds and the spiciest they'll make it is barely enough to notice. If you're weeping uncontrollably by the end of the meal, you're in the right place.

That aside, I've been to one of those "asian buffets" and walked out after I saw the onion rings. It's like going into a period-style diner, ordering a milkshake, and watching it be poured out of a bag.
This thread moved quickly overnight.

Anyways, I was wondering how that statement would be taken. I actually agree with your assessment, but wanted to know how the thread would react. You shut it down in the very next post. Not sure if happy or disappointed.
It's in that hazy area where the stereotypes hold water and it's hard to decide if it's racist or just honest. It's not as if it's a one-way street, either; food does tend to be better when cooked by people who are familiar with how it is supposed to taste and be prepared, assuming equivalent levels of cooking ability, regardless of what sort of food you're talking about. It's the same as how I'd much rather have a cheeseburger from a little hole-in-the-wall family restaurant than from a fast food chain, the only difference is that that sort of food doesn't necessarily carry the connotations of "otherness".

And, frankly, calling the one racist but not the other is pretty damned racist in and of itself, seeing as how it's defining family restaurants run by [insert ethnicity here] families as being somehow different from those run by [insert other ethnicity here]. The bottom line is that, as I said, food is better when cooked by people who are intimately familiar with how it is supposed to be, regardless of what sort of food it is. The only really notable difference is that "ethnic" food tends to have a larger share of that sort of restaurant because it hasn't been totally supplanted by chain garbage.

Somebody at my university thought that it'd be a great April Fools joke to show up outside the dorms last night with a longgun of some sort, pace around until everything was put on lockdown, and then drive away.

BUT WERE THEY JOKING????!!?

Seriously though, that's pretty dang funny.

Are... Are you sure? That's a really good way for someone to get shot or seriously disrupt a lot of people.

Frankly, I don't even feel comfortable walking around with my color guard rifle even though it's little more than a rifle-shaped bit of plastic wrapped in white tape. People freak out over less, like camera tripods.
That's my initial assumption is that it was some moron's "no really guys, I have this awesome idea for April Fools" joke, considering that from the reports he basically just hung around long enough for the lockdown to be announced, then hightailed it out of town before the police arrived.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46719 on: April 02, 2014, 01:31:19 pm »


Somebody at my university thought that it'd be a great April Fools joke to show up outside the dorms last night with a longgun of some sort, pace around until everything was put on lockdown, and then drive away.

BUT WERE THEY JOKING????!!?

Seriously though, that's pretty dang funny.

Are... Are you sure? That's a really good way for someone to get shot or seriously disrupt a lot of people.

Frankly, I don't even feel comfortable walking around with my color guard rifle even though it's little more than a rifle-shaped bit of plastic wrapped in white tape. People freak out over less, like camera tripods.
That's my initial assumption is that it was some moron's "no really guys, I have this awesome idea for April Fools" joke, considering that from the reports he basically just hung around long enough for the lockdown to be announced, then hightailed it out of town before the police arrived.
Noone took his plates?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46720 on: April 02, 2014, 01:33:35 pm »

I suspect they didn't want to get shot. It's hard to maneuver around to a place that has a good angle to read a plate and also close enough to read it. Also: night, meaning it was dark.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46721 on: April 02, 2014, 02:11:15 pm »

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She should have told her politics friends it was actually bestiality porn.
It could have gotten her out of trouble with them. Maybe.

Is it wrong that I thought that it was because the Nazis approve of bestiality and not because Nazis think blacks are animals?

Also WTFing me is the fact that Chrome's spellchecker flags common words, but not "bestiality".
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46722 on: April 02, 2014, 02:42:39 pm »

I visited a Chinese restaurant, where they brought out these fried noodles with ketchup.
Was it a Chinese restaurant, or an *Asian* restaurant? (you know, that small-town phenomenon where all Asian cuisines are combined [horribly] under one roof?)

Y'know, the Asian restaurant in the town I live near seems to be the exception to that kinda stuff. Good food, clean restaurant, pleasant décor, etc.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46723 on: April 02, 2014, 02:47:35 pm »

One of my friends at work learned today that her grand-son, who had been peeing blood, is peeing blood because he has three goddamn kidneys. How fucking awesome is that? Not the peeing blood thing. The extra kidney.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #46724 on: April 02, 2014, 02:51:29 pm »

Naa, that's just an extra problematic organ. If he was awesome, he'd have two livers, because that's the bit that deals with preventing alcohol poisoning.
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