I realize this is pretty nonspecific, but what things do you find funny? For example..TV shows, websites, stuff like that.
Aside from normal humor, I find some things funny that most people don't find funny, and vice versa.
It's quite hard to specify.
I like amusing things, irony, etc.
I don't like most jokes that put someone/a group into weird light, such as blonde/negro jokes or Chuck Norris jokes. As an exception, I do like some lightbulb jokes, such as this one about lojbanists:
Q: How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb?
A: Two: one to decide what to change it into, and one to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light.
I guess a lot of TASVideos members are like that, including me.
Bisqwit wrote:
okaygo wrote:
䑥慲⁂楳煷楴Ⱐ坨慴⁰牯杲慭浩湧慮杵慧敳牥⁹潵潯搠慴㼠坨楣栠慲攠祯畲慶潲楴敳?
Sorry, I don't speak Chinese.
I see. Our favorite joke is to take lame "jokes" and make them lamer. It's some kind of fad.
As if I didn't know that already. :|
I think a lot of people who have read this will appreciate not only this video, but especially many of the comments on it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1Js9P3urw
I realize this is pretty nonspecific, but what things do you find funny? For example..TV shows, websites, stuff like that.
Aside from normal humor, I find some things funny that most people don't find funny, and vice versa.
It's quite hard to specify.
I like amusing things, irony, etc.
I don't like most jokes that put someone/a group into weird light, such as blonde/negro jokes or Chuck Norris jokes. As an exception, I do like some lightbulb jokes, such as this one about lojbanists:
Q: How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb?
A: Two: one to decide what to change it into, and one to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light.
I guess a lot of TASVideos members are like that, including me.
Bisqwit wrote:
okaygo wrote:
䑥慲⁂楳煷楴Ⱐ坨慴⁰牯杲慭浩湧慮杵慧敳牥⁹潵潯搠慴㼠坨楣栠慲攠祯畲慶潲楴敳?
Sorry, I don't speak Chinese.
I see. Our favorite joke is to take lame "jokes" and make them lamer. It's some kind of fad.
As if I didn't know that already. :|
I think a lot of people who have read this will appreciate not only this video, but especially many of the comments on it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1Js9P3urw
Excellent post, snorlax! I especially enjoyed the first 20 lines. Please continue to post like that.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
So far scientists have managed to teleport light and are currently working on trying to teleport small objects, I wouldn't trust it because teleportation requires the subject to be melted and recreated.
Sorry, but as for an answer to my question, that's about as useful as IBM's prediction after seeing the computers that take dozens of cubic meters of room, that "there's probably need for about ten computers in the world in total".
(Not an exact quote; I am paraphrasing.)
AKA wrote:
As for cloning, technically its already been done. Although not with all the same experiences intact. I doubt it could ever happen without side effects.
I meant the "create an identical copy of the live being", not growing a new organism from zero, type of cloning. Like Kage Bunshin, if you're watching Naruto :)
AKA wrote:
As Einstein pointed out getting into the past isn't the main problem, its getting back again, as getting back into the future requires exceeding the speed of light.<...>
Interstellar travel<...>
Error EBOXED: Need more out-of-box thinking.
mr_robrets_z wrote:
Basically through slopes.
There are many different theories as for how it might have been accomplished, but as far as I know, there's no established & agreed theory yet. But that's of course an interesting one.
mmbossman wrote:
SMB3/MM
Please don't start/revive third party arguments in this thread.
It looks like you're mixing up Teleportation with Quantum teleportation. As stated in the article you linked "I think teleporting of [the human] kind is very, very far away," Dr Lam says. "We don't know how to do that with a single atom yet. "
I don't like most jokes that put someone/a group into weird light, such as blonde/negro jokes or Chuck Norris jokes.
Does this include in-jokes about your friends, or just on a more general scale? Also, is it because you don't like jokes that are designed to (to some extent) insult other people, or simply because you don't find them funny?
As a kind of follow-up question, what's your stance on political correctness and censorship relating to it? I don't know about how it is in Finland, but I know it's all over the place here in Sweden.
I don't like most jokes that put someone/a group into weird light, such as blonde/negro jokes or Chuck Norris jokes.
Does this include in-jokes about your friends, or just on a more general scale? Also, is it because you don't like jokes that are designed to (to some extent) insult other people, or simply because you don't find them funny?
I don't find them funny if the only "fun" in them is to insult someone. If the joke is creative and clever enough, I may still find it funny though.
Neophos wrote:
As a kind of follow-up question, what's your stance on political correctness and censorship relating to it? I don't know about how it is in Finland, but I know it's all over the place here in Sweden.
It's a hot topic around here as well.
This year they managed to get the Internet censorship law through with the excuse of blocking access to child pornography sites. However, it was soon revealed that the anonymous official who maintains the blocking list has their own interpretations on the law. Blocked are several pornography sites (that are not child porn), and even sites that have nothing to do with pornography, just happen to share a DNS address with some site that has some page that has some comment form where a link to some child pornography site was posted. (Not to mention the fact that the censorship solves no problems at all.)
But they are contemplating on extending the censorship to things like piracy sites (The Pirate Bay for instance), Internet gambling (Poker), etc.
Then there's the fact that posting opinions can get one charged. Especially those that are in opposition to the official truth regarding multiculturalism ― the official truth being that multiculturalism enriches the culture and if the native population perceives a significant portion of (african) immigrants as muggers and criminals in general (which is supported by the police investigation statistics), it's because the native population "is not integrating well enough".
For the same reason, most newspapers practise sorts of newspeak with news regarding immigrant incidents. I believe Swedish newspapers do the same. When they use the word "youth" or "youth groups", it almost certainly means somali groups.
Though I don't know what you're referring to exactly with political correctness.
Political correctness is just another form of censorship, really. I always saw it as just coming up with elaborate titles for minorities, in an effort to make them feel special. Cartoon Network once spoofed this by referring to The Hillbilly Bears as 'Mountain-Dwelling Ursines of Rural Appalachia'.
It's a hot topic around here as well.
This year they managed to get the Internet censorship law through with the excuse of blocking access to child pornography sites. However, it was soon revealed that the anonymous official who maintains the blocking list has their own interpretations on the law. Blocked are several pornography sites (that are not child porn), and even sites that have nothing to do with pornography, just happen to share a DNS address with some site that has some page that has some comment form where a link to some child pornography site was posted. (Not to mention the fact that the censorship solves no problems at all.)
But they are contemplating on extending the censorship to things like piracy sites (The Pirate Bay for instance), Internet gambling (Poker), etc.
Sounds like Sweden and Finland got pretty similar events, then. I know Sweden had a similar ban earlier, although it got removed pretty quickly after a lot of raging and shouting.
Though I don't know what you're referring to exactly with political correctness.
Pretty much exactly this:
Then there's the fact that posting opinions can get one charged. Especially those that are in opposition to the official truth regarding multiculturalism ― the official truth being that multiculturalism enriches the culture and if the native population perceives a significant portion of (african) immigrants as muggers and criminals in general (which is supported by the police investigation statistics), it's because the native population "is not integrating well enough".
For the same reason, most newspapers practise sorts of newspeak with news regarding immigrant incidents. I believe Swedish newspapers do the same. When they use the word "youth" or "youth groups", it almost certainly means somali groups.
A lot of special lingo ("Cultural enricher" is the official term used for immigrants), "soft-bans" on speaking against immigration in any way (thinking swedens stance on immigration is bad is almost always translated as "a horrible racist"), etc. The swedish forum Flashback (known for being against any kind of censorship) made a "Politcally Correct phrase book" which parodies the PC-lingo.
-- If a time machine is devised some time in the future, can it be used to change the history? Can it be used to change the future? Are there parallel universes?
you couldn't change the history of this universe, only the history of the parallel universe you go to. it would be impossible to travel back in time and stay in the same universe/timeline because the fact that you go there makes that universe different from this.
-- How were the pyramids built, really? Why are there pyramids in South America as well?
the pyramids (the big ones) were not built using slaves or muscles. there are pyramids in many places because when the sons of god (the giants) had to leave their homeland (which was about to get destroyed), they had to build them to store their equipment, like the 'ark of the covenant' as it's called in the bible.
-- Will interstellar travel be devised before the current human civilization expires / exhausts its resources?
yes, humans will be on earth for many millions of years. how long has this humankind been on earth? maybe 7,000 years... so imagine our technology after 700,000 years. when you think about that, it's no wonder how the ancients could build those pyramids, even without "technology". they had been here a very long time.
AKA> As Einstein pointed out getting into the past isn't the main problem, its getting back again, as getting back into the future requires exceeding the speed of light.
That's a rather idiotic statement and I doubt Einstein made it. Getting to the future is automatic.
Also pyramids contain mostly gravel and filler material. The giants sure had sucky tools. :/
One question for Bisqwit:
How do you feel about the fact that the police statistics show that the vast majority of criminals are men, and around your age (or younger, I am not sure of your age)?
You have to pardon me, nfq, that I don't take your answers as God's word.
ehehhehehehhe, that's ok, you don't have to believe me if you don't want to. i just wanted to tell you because i think it's interesting.
Warppi wrote:
What "parallel universe"? There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever about any "parallel universes". It's 100% pure speculation.
well... if there were not parallel timelines, there would be paradoxes, for example if i would go back in time and kill my parents so that i'm never born.
edit: fixd it mozooh. the point is... i could actually travel into the past and kill "me" but that wouldn't be me, just an identical person
Trunkantti wrote:
How do you feel about the fact that the police statistics show that the vast majority of criminals are men,
men are more agressive than women, they are more animal than women because they have more hair. (not true)
AKA> As Einstein pointed out getting into the past isn't the main problem, its getting back again, as getting back into the future requires exceeding the speed of light.
That's a rather idiotic statement and I doubt Einstein made it. Getting to the future is automatic.
In that case you either haven't interpretted what I said correctly. That statement you made suggests your even less qualified to make any theory or judgement on the issue. Just because one thing is achieved i.e. time travelling into the past. Doesn't mean you could automatically arrive back in present time or go into the future.
You don't give birth to yourself, your mother does.
It was my dad who gave birth to me, my mom just made me grow larger.
I wonder though... was it really my father who gave birth to me? It's more like... I was just transferred to his body because of something he ate.
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Your mom helped as well, remember. Sex is generally a two person activity when it comes to procreation.
Also, your dad probably did not lug you around in a huge tummy, eat large amounts of ice cream and pickles to give you nutrients as a fetus, and undergo the immensely painful labor that comes with childbirth. So when you think about it, your mom did most of the work, while your dad just poked in the right place once and occassionally changed your diaper once or twice in your infancy because he was told to.
Happy belated mother's day to all you mothers who squeezed out us nerdy gamers.
Doesn't mean you could automatically arrive back in present time or go into the future.
uh... no, you interpreted what he said incorrectly.
Take right now for instance. You're going forward in time! See how that works? The fact that just about everything in the universe is time-travelling forward tends to suggest that it would be easier to 'speed it up' or 'slow it down' than 'reverse it', no?
I've always thought getting into the past required exceeding the speed of light, hm..
Yes, if you attempt to do it with relativistic travel.
However, other means may exist, such as a wormhole where a time differential between ends has been achieved by accelerating one end. Then sending something from the future end will emerge from the past end. Assuming wormholes aren't one-way and are traversable (even if with photons only) and the ends thereof can be moved separately.
(But, creating an artificial wormhole may require something akin to collecting a blob of material having negative mass.)
Ten hours left until Large Hadron Collider activation. Do you think the result will be of global importance?
No.
People are hoping for higgs bosons and fearing for earth-gobbling black holes or strangelets, but I think neither is going to happen.
Don't ask why.
Would be cool though, place a black hole in an electromagnetic container in a museum.
