Collection of Lame Jokes

[WWGD]

Shopping centers are so boring, because if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Spoiler: What?

you've seen the mall.

Mirror won't tell me. I'm still trying to figure out who's the fairest of the mall.

 

[nuuskur]

White to move. Mate in a week.

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that's really good exercise for both the body and the mind

 

[sbrothy]

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Embarrassingly, I'd never heard of Rust until your joke there. I had a nostalgia attack reading about it and seeing a reference to Dr. Dobb's Journal!

Rust does not use garbage collection. Memory and other resources are instead managed through the "resource acquisition is initialization" convention, with optional reference counting. Rust provides deterministic management of resources, with very low overhead. Values are allocated on the stack by default, and all dynamic allocations must be explicit.

Rust (Wikipedia)

Gotta love that expression.

 

[WWGD]

Embarrassingly, I'd never heard of Rust until your joke there. I had a nostalgia attack reading about it and seeing a reference to Dr. Dobb's Journal!



Rust (Wikipedia)

Gotta love that expression.

No diamonds? Or at least a Green Manalishi?

 

[sbrothy]

No diamonds? Or at least a Green Manalishi?

I'm afraid that joke didn't land here. Is it an age-thing?

 

[WWGD]

I'm afraid that joke didn't land here. Is it an age-thing?

Judas Priest are timeless. I've heard them in radios recently. Maybe you're more into pop than metal/Hard Rock. Or you love some baby but not a Manalishi.

 

[sbrothy]

I enjoy everything except rap and hip-hop. Especially hardcore metal and progressive (psy)trance. Also flamenco and opera. We have entire thread dedicated to the subject here.

I like beer. At least 7% alc. vol. Anything thinner tastes like water.

Post in thread 'Most Hard-Driving Music?'

May 29, 2025

From hard to soft:



Love it when in the next one he "sings" "Urgh!"



...and someone mentioned traditional black metal. With these guys you can almost smell the Norwegian wooden churches burning, points for scene show anyway:



Talk about angry young men!

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[WWGD]

I enjoy everything except rap and hip-hop. Especially hardcore metal and progressive (psy)trance. Also flamenco and opera. We have entire thread dedicated to the subject here.

I like beer. At least 7% alc. vol. Anything thinner tastes like water.

Post in thread 'Most Hard-Driving Music?'

May 29, 2025

From hard to soft:



Love it when in the next one he "sings" "Urgh!"



...and someone mentioned traditional black metal. With these guys you can almost smell the Norwegian wooden churches burning, points for scene show anyway:



Talk about angry young men!

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I used to intern , i.e., little more than being a Caffeine-Supply Engineer at this place that had a (Digital) radio on all the time. They'd switch stations occassionally. So I've taken in a vast swath of music over that time.

 

[sbrothy]

Hah! But you knew! You're just yanking my chain!

 

[gmax137]

Or at least a Green Manalishi?

I still like the Peter Green (RIP ) Fleetwood Mac original

 

[jtbell]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

 

[DaveC426913]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

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Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

And no one knew toilet paper was going to run until 2020...

 

[sbrothy]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

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Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

I know (or at least strongly suspect) that Y2K problems isn't the real issue here. Nevertheless, I remember being issued with a bunch of paper, the thickness of several telephones books (anyone know what a telephone book is anymore?), with C code, in small font on both pages, being asked if I would please use my free time to scan through it and see if there should be any problems.

I mean why on paper? And my free time?!

I'm glad I'm retired.

 

[WWGD]

I know (or at least strongly suspect) that Y2K problems isn't the real issue here. Nevertheless, I remember being issued with a bunch of paper, the thickness of several telephones books (anyone know what a telephone book is anymore?), with C code, in small font on both pages, being asked if I would please use my free time to scan through it and see if there should be any problems.

I mean why on paper? And my free time?!

I'm glad I'm retired.

You scanned toilet paper?

 

[sbrothy]

You scanned toilet paper?

It might as well have been.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It might as well have been.

I just used the same solution for Y2K, that we used for Y1K.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The moon landing conspiracies are back again thanks to Kim Kardashian.

Pure lunacy!

 

[fresh_42]

I just used the same solution for Y2K, that we used for Y1K.

The Euro was introduced in 1998 here. That meant a lot of examination of very, very old mainframe code in banking software, esp. as notations were swapped from the price of one dollar to the price of one euro. Checking the Y2K problem was a byproduct. I had never imagined seeing real-life assembler code before, but I did. At least it gave me the rare opportunity to watch Sylvester fireworks at the 21st level over the town.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Euro was introduced in 1998 here. That meant a lot of examination of very, very old mainframe code in banking software, esp. as notations were swapped from the price of one dollar to the price of one euro. Checking the Y2K problem was a byproduct. I had never imagined seeing real-life assembler code before, but I did. At least it gave me the rare opportunity to watch Sylvester fireworks at the 21st level over the town.

Only announced much later, we did have a Y2K related national defense system fail

This is from Google AI, but I remember when this information was released, which is how I knew to look it up.

One significant US defensive system experienced a failure shortly after midnight UTC on January 1, 2000 (which was still Dec 31st, 1999, in the US time zones). A ground-based computer failure temporarily blinded several US spy satellites.

The system, an intelligence processing station at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, went offline for two to three hours. The problem wasn't with the satellites themselves, which remained under control, but with the ground station's ability to process the incoming information due to a Y2K-related error in a software patch.

 

[WWGD]

I just used the same solution for Y2K, that we used for Y1K.

How about Y2038?

 

[WWGD]

Wonder why we don't have unisex stores where you can walk around in your underwear to try clothes on, so you don't have to repeatedly dress and undress when buying clothes?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Wonder why we don't have unisex stores where you can walk around in your underwear to try clothes on, so you don't have to repeatedly dress and undress when buying clothes?

Because the men would never leave?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

How about Y2038?

We are supposed to keep that a secret, so Colossus fails after taking over the world.

 

[WWGD]

Because the men would never leave?

I barely want to go buy clothes at all. I don't see myself wanting to stay in longer than necessary.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I barely want to go buy clothes at all. I don't see myself wanting to stay in longer than necessary.

With a bunch of women walking around in their underwear? The young guys would sit and never stand up!

 

[WWGD]

With a bunch of women walking around in their underwear? The young guys would never even stand u Maybe I misused the term 'Unisex'. I meant one exclusively for women and another exclusively for men.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I like the other option better.

 

[fresh_42]

I like the other option better.

Think about it again! A nude beach isn't half as exciting as it sounds.

 

[DaveC426913]

Maybe I misused the term 'Unisex'. I meant one exclusively for women and another exclusively for men.

WWGD has a point.

Unisex actually means 'single sex'.

We've always misused it to mean sex-agnostic or omni-sex.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

WWGD has a point.

Unisex actually means 'single sex'.

We've always misused it to mean sex-agnostic or omni-sex.

unisex
adjective
intended for use by both males and females:
unisex clothes
a unisex hairdresser's

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The term 'unisex' was coined in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. The combining prefix uni- is from Latin unus, meaning one or single. However, 'unisex' seems to have been influenced by words such as united and universal, in which uni- takes the related sense shared. Unisex then means shared by sexes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a>