Funny Pictures/Jokes Megathread

[Beavis]

For the Gotye fans:

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something i've just made that's pretty meta:

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[Rageissues]

something i've just made that's pretty meta:

[Saeran]

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[Ravenesss]

Damn nature you scary!

[mrbadxampl]

Damn nature you scary!

oh look, it's a 4-inch NOPE! ...wait, that's not inches! that's the metric system, which makes that one pretty much normal size. if y'all are gonna complain about COMIC SANS!!! (the horror?) then I'm gonna make some noise about your goofy metric system!

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oh look, it's a 4-inch NOPE! ...wait, that's not inches! that's the metric system, which makes that one pretty much normal size. if y'all are gonna complain about COMIC SANS!!! (the horror?) then I'm gonna make some noise about your goofy metric system!

Goofy? The metric system is superior to its american counterpart because of simplicity.

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oh look, it's a 4-inch NOPE! ...wait, that's not inches! that's the metric system, which makes that one pretty much normal size. if y'all are gonna complain about COMIC SANS!!! (the horror?) then I'm gonna make some noise about your goofy metric system!

Very relevant.

[Hoddie]

Imperial measurements were not arbitrary numbers. In this day and age the metric system probably makes most sense, but it's not as though the imperial system was decided on by rolling dice. The units had very real, practical uses. What's more, the imperial system remains in use across the world, in mostly former British-empire countries but also in many Asian and northern African countries.

Agree about the date thing, though as any programmer will tell you, YYYY-MM-DD makes the most sense.


OT, from Text From Dog:

[Adam Jensen]

Imperial measurements were not arbitrary numbers. In this day and age the metric system probably makes most sense, but it's not as though the imperial system was decided on by rolling dice. The units had very real, practical uses. What's more, the imperial system remains in use across the world, in mostly former British-empire countries but also in many Asian and northern African countries.

Agree about the date thing, though as any programmer will tell you, YYYY-MM-DD makes the most sense.


OT, from Text From Dog:
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Actually, as a member of the US military, I use Day/Month/Year. Our format is "26 May 12"

Now, moar pitchers:

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Damn nature you scary!

A 2 inch hornet is not scary? Bet you live in Australia where such beasts are commonplace.

[Chunkyman]

oh look, it's a 4-inch NOPE! ...wait, that's not inches! that's the metric system, which makes that one pretty much normal size. if y'all are gonna complain about COMIC SANS!!! (the horror?) then I'm gonna make some noise about your goofy metric system!

That's why it says CM and MM.. can Americans not read now or something?

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That's why it says CM and MM.. can Americans not read now or something?

Don't get your hopes up.

[Archangel Tyrael]

Don't get your hopes up.

SWEEEE?

Meanwhile, In Sweden

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SWEEEE?

Meanwhile, In Sweden

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Moose's are damn scary, especially when you're sitting in a small frikken car

[Archangel Tyrael]

Moose's are damn scary, especially when you're sitting in a small frikken car

Are they? xD

I haven't seen any when I was in Sweeeden

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Very relevant.

the imperial system might not seem logical at first, but as someone else mentioned, the system is pretty logical if you look at the past. one inch used to be called a thumb and was as long as a thumb thumb. for longer distances, they had the foot, which, you guessed it, is as long as an average foot. after that, you had the yard, which was about an arms length from shoulder to wrist, or in some jurisdictions from nose to thumb. finally, the mile is thought to come from the latin for thousand paces, one pace being 2 steps or about 1.4 yards.

the problem with these measurements was that, because they were dependant on body lengths, they were variable from person to person. many families even went so far as to send the person with the biggest feet to the store for cloth, because cloth was sold by the foot. around 1450, British legislation sought to end this, giving the inch, the foot, the yard and the mile government mandated lengths, with one inch being 3 dried barley seeds put one after another (barley seeds are usually pretty uniform in length). the foot and yard were in that same law connected to the inch. The mile wasn't linked to the inch until several hundred years later.

the pound was made out to be 7000 grains, but the ounce was the only measurement to be an arbitrary part of another measurement without historical background.

now for a funny image:

[Pope]

Sonata Arctica <3

[Glaziola]

So much win O.o