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[WWGD]

It's been a long while since I last visited PF. Still the nice, friendly, insightful community I remembered [emoji2]

Your fur still looks healthy :).

 

[fresh_42]

I have a descaling agent. I recognized, that vinegar evaporates in a few hours, the agent does not. So I wondered what it was and read the label. It's obviously bio stuff, will say they claim that it only(?!) contains citric and lactic acid. Now I'm asking myself whether I could use it for sourdough or similar foods ...

 

[Borg]

For the seriously obsessive - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/141...of-cables-that-belong-in-a-modern-art-gallery

 

[WWGD]

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Ah, you refreshed my memory: Asterix and Obelix! There used to be a place called Asterix Burger . Those #$% Gauls! I thought my previous GF was the one who harbored grudges for a long time, but the French still have it out for the Roman brigades that were in their country some 2,000 years ago. Now, _that's_ keeping grudges.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe Clint Eastwood lives in the Northern part of the Westwood area. There seem to be fewer ( less?*) Southern-related adjectives than the others : East, West, North.
* Never learned well which one to use when.

 

[Ibix]

The coffee shop near my office has a sign for customers to read saying that they can't yet accept smart watch payments. Apologise for the inconvenience.

Um... Sorry you had to put up a sign, I guess?

 

[WWGD]

Strangely, after reading the reference on Asterix by Fresh, my mind rebels, and it calls it asterisk instead, won't call it anything else.

 

[dkotschessaa]

For the seriously obsessive - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/141...of-cables-that-belong-in-a-modern-art-gallery

Nailed it:

 

[dkotschessaa]

Heard the other day in office: "It's passive aggressive awareness day. Not that you'd KNOW anything about that."

 

[fresh_42]

Heard the other day in office: "It's passive aggressive awareness day. Not that you'd KNOW anything about that."

What are you implying there? Could you point to the place at which I was allegedly passive aggressive$^*)$?

$^*)$ The difficult part here is, to constrain the amount of jokes and even more difficult, to make them recognizable as such ...

 

[OCR]

"...Not that you'd KNOW anything about that."

What are you implying there?

The difficult part here is...to make them recognizable as such ...

It would seem that.... lol

 

[fresh_42]

I moved the last 3 jokes in the "Lame Jokes" forum to better keep them apart.

 

[collinsmark]

I moved the last 3 jokes in the "Lame Jokes" forum to better keep them apart.

I thought @dkotschessaa's joke was kinda funny. What am I missing?

 

[fresh_42]

I thought @dkotschessaa's joke was kinda funny. What am I missing?

The last three have been real jokes that's why I moved them to the joke thread. The others, @dkotschessaa's and mine, were more of a normal, although not quite serious talk. It's not always possible to draw a line, but these:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/lame-jokes.25301/page-198#post-5813622 ff.
are definitely funny jokes, o.k. maybe better in the science jokes section because they are more nerdy than lame ...

 

[collinsmark]

The others, @dkotschessaa's and mine, were more of a normal, although not quite serious talk.

The way I interpreted it:

Somebody at the office saying, "Not that you'd KNOW anything about that," is being passive aggressive to the other office worker. It's a really passive aggressive thing to say.

But what is he/she talking about in the first place? Passive Aggressive Awareness Day. The office worker was being passive aggressive about knowing about Passive Aggressive Awareness Day.

There's humor in that.

 

[fresh_42]

I interpreted

"Not that you'd KNOW anything about that [passive aggression]"

meant: "I do not assume this addresses you" which is more of a compliment, than a hint towards a deficit. But generally, you're right: the usage of "you" tends to result in a personal attack.

But now it seems, I don't understand you. I haven't done anything with these posts about a passive aggressive attitude. Did you mean I should have moved them, too, or that the jokes about the sports teams shouldn't have been moved?

 

[collinsmark]

I interpreted
But now it seems, I don't understand you. I haven't done anything with these posts about a passive aggressive attitude. Did you mean I should have moved them, too, or that the jokes about the sports teams shouldn't have been moved?

That's where I don't understand. How is this about you?

I thought it was just @dkotschessaa making a joke about an invented office worker (invented for the joke). I don't know, do you work in the same office? That's what I don't understand.

To me it was a joke that was moved out the joke thread for some reason. I don't understand why it was moved or how you fit into it.

 

[fresh_42]

To me it was a joke that was moved out the joke thread for some reason. I don't understand why it was moved or how you fit into it.

Nobody moved anything, except three jokes about the names of hockey and baseball teams (see links above), which I did and commented here in case someone would miss them. It had nothing to do with the (also funny) conversation here about passive aggression. I just sorted jokes to jokes.

 

[collinsmark]

I guess I just misunderstood then.

 

[dlgoff]

Almost 11:30 pm and just started a pump-down.

 

[OCR]

Almost 11:30 pm and just started a pump-down.

You're joking !?....

 

[dlgoff]

You're joking !?....

Nope. I wish I were.
But after taking care of a vacuum leak and restarting the pump-down, good vacuum.

 

[OCR]

But after taking care of a vacuum leak and restarting the
pump-down, good vacuum.

...However...

You're joking !?....

Nope. I wish I were.

I guess I just misunderstood then.

Yup... I guess it's back to my day job...

 

[DennisN]

Amazing:
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada (National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/rights-exempt/2017/06/Nodosaur/nodosaur-fossils-man-lab-archaeology.adapt.676.1.jpg

 

[OCR]

Look at the water fall on the right, now look to the left side of, and a bit more, the same water fall...
Besides me... does anyone "see" a face in the rock wall ? ... lol

Put the little + sign on the left edge of the falls, about ½ of the way up, and left click to zoom... the picture is here .

 

[dkotschessaa]

I guess I just misunderstood then.

Ha. I think I started a lot of confusion!

The person at work I referred to was real. But yes, the joke is so subtle it's almost not a joke.

 

[DennisN]

 

[OmCheeto]

I've decided that I have a quantum roof.
I've been experimenting with fixing a 15 year old leak over the last two days, and determined that water, like those silly quantum thingys, might be taking multiple paths.
I guess I should have invested in "classical" shingles.

 

[fresh_42]

I've decided that I have a quantum roof.
I've been experimenting with fixing a 15 year old leak over the last two days, and determined that water, like those silly quantum thingys, might be taking multiple paths.
I guess I should have invested in "classical" shingles.

If you have some more time than these ridiculous $15$ years, you could wait for stalactites. Of course a source of lime nearby would help a lot, maybe shingles made of lime. These rains are notoriously low on lime. At least this method could get you the satisfaction that you will have subdued those evil quantum thingys by good all classical physics!

 

[OmCheeto]

If you have some more time than these ridiculous $15$ years, you could wait for stalactites. Of course a source of lime nearby would help a lot, maybe shingles made of lime. These rains are notoriously low on lime. At least this method could get you the satisfaction that you will have subdued those evil quantum thingys by good all classical physics!

I have Meyers lemons growing. Will they be an adequate replacement for "lime"?
Though, I don't think they'll be ripe for another 3 months.
Trying to get this fixed before the monsoons come.
It's been 15 years since we haven't had monsoons here.

Ok. "Monsoon" might be an exaggeration. We get year long "Drizzlesoons" here.
But they make it dreadfully difficult to diagnose quantum roofs.

 

[Borek]

 

[Borek]

When you try to shot landing on a windy night, but you get an unexpected guest (well, not that unexpected, Perseids peak is just days away) - a meteor.

 

[WWGD]

It seems the number of people called " Bruce" has declined to a chronic low. This is the only conclusion I can draw from the name of the company " Bruce , Inc. Emergency Supply" , and the fact that I have not run into anyone named Bruce for a while.

 

[Ibix]

It seems the number of people called " Bruce" has declined to a chronic low.

Perhaps they were all nihilist philosophers?

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe all Bruces died hard ...

 

[WWGD]

Maybe all Bruces died hard ...

Interesting, re the movie Live Free or Die Hard, prisoners in the state of New Hampshire produce license plates that read: "Live Free or Die" , which is the state motto. And, BTW, since every state has a motto, no one is ever stranded; they can always borrow the motto to get back home.

 

[fresh_42]

Just saw a documentation which explained Sgt. Pepper, song by song in a terms of music science. Very interesting and a pity that we so often just consume music and fail to see the many hidden details. It's almost as if people would use mathematics as a big toolbox and don't give a **** about the mathematical principles ... - oops!

 

[WWGD]

Data * overload may be a factor

Just saw a documentation which explained Sgt. Pepper, song by song in a terms of music science. Very interesting and a pity that we so often just consume music and fail to see the many hidden details. It's almost as if people would use mathematics as a big toolbox and don't give a **** about the mathematical principles ... - oops!

Data* overload may be a factor. Too much going on, must oversimplify/automate in order to function..

* Data, and not information

 

[WWGD]

Weird: I am using a new PC , almost identical to my other one and I do not see the new post red-sign alerts in my PF tab, like I do in my other PC. EDIT: I suspect it may have to see with the fact that I was ( unknowingly) using Explorer instead of Chrome/Mozilla , which I ( and I believe some 99%+ of people nowadays) used in the other PC.

 

[fresh_42]

Weird: I am using a new PC , almost identical to my other one and I do not see the new post red-sign alerts in my PF tab, like I do in my other PC. EDIT: I suspect it may have to see with the fact that I was ( unknowingly) using Explorer instead of Chrome/Mozilla , which I ( and I believe some 99%+ of people nowadays) used in the other PC.

Dude, you must login! And what is an Explorer?

 

[WWGD]

Dude, you must login! And what is an Explorer?

I am logged in. I do see the red mark, but only when I am in the PF tab ( now that I am using Chrome, I also see it when I am using other tab). Explorer is just another major mistake by minisoft.

 

[fresh_42]

My new favorite quote:

Thinking outside the box only works well when you first understand what's IN the box.

 

[OmCheeto]

My new favorite quote:
phinds said: ↑
Thinking outside the box only works well when you first understand what's IN the box.

I fell in love with this "outside of the box" comment, the moment I saw it:

Integral; "You cannot think outside of the box if you have no idea where the box is."​

Being somewhat polite, I don't recall ever using a variation I came up with one day; "Seriously? You don't even have a box to think out of."

I like to think of myself as an "out of the box" thinker, linking seemingly disparate ideas from a room full of boxes.
Unfortunately, most of them are nearly empty.

 

[Borek]

Best model I can think of is a box full of air, put in a vacuum. Many people have no idea that when they say "I am thinking out of the box" they are actually drawing their ideas from the vacuum (and not even from a thin air).

 

[Ibix]

My favourite metaphor for doing science is doing a jigsaw, but we don't have the box and we're not 100% certain we've got all the pieces at the moment. All the time, people find pieces or find ways to make pieces fit together. And every so often someone has some great insight, like "you know, those two mountains are pretty much the same - do you think it's actually a mountain reflected in a lake?" And then there's a flurry of activity, flipping pieces upside down and trying to see if they fit that way up, and looking for other bits that might pair up as reflections.

And then along comes someone who's read about a jigsaw once saying "maybe it's a cat!" And then they look all hurt with our dogmatic insistence that this big grey thing with the trees and the snow is probably a mountain.

 

[OmCheeto]

My favourite metaphor for doing science is doing a jigsaw, but we don't have the box and we're not 100% certain we've got all the pieces at the moment. All the time, people find pieces or find ways to make pieces fit together. And every so often someone has some great insight, like "you know, those two mountains are pretty much the same - do you think it's actually a mountain reflected in a lake?" And then there's a flurry of activity, flipping pieces upside down and trying to see if they fit that way up, and looking for other bits that might pair up as reflections.

And then along comes someone who's read about a jigsaw once saying "maybe it's a cat!" And then they look all hurt with our dogmatic insistence that this big grey thing with the trees and the snow is probably a mountain.

O.M.G...

Someone get @Greg Bernhardt on the line. I want that on my next PF t-shirt:

"Maybe, it's a cat!"

 

[Ibix]

I want that on my next PF t-shirt:

"Maybe, it's a cat!"

Underneath a picture of a mountain, natch.

 

[OmCheeto]

Underneath a picture of a mountain, natch.

We need a "rofl" with tears shooting out our eyes emoticon!

That is so funny, I'm crying.

 

[WWGD]

My friends from India. One barely ever has any money: Lokash. The other one does not like to share: Selfeesh. EDIT: My name probably means something weird in other languages. Maybe non-Westerners are classier in not bringing it up, or , unlike me, have something actually funny to say..

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I went out to my little back lawn with my reclining garden chair last night to look for Perseids. I'd not cut the grass for a while (we are trying to encourage wildlife) and I accidentally trod (fortunately not too heavily) on something raised and scrunchy-sounding. On fetching my torch I found it was a hedgehog, visibly breathing but curled up. I went back indoors for a few minutes and when I came out again it had gone (but I saw a few nice Perseids).
After some repairs last winter, our back fence is now mostly continuous around the garden (apart from very small gaps) with the only large gap being under the gate on the concrete path around the side towards the road (where there is a bright street lamp), and I couldn't think of any obvious hiding places within our garden, so I was curious to know where it had gone. This morning I had an idea and looked under our small wheelbarrow, which we keep upside down near our shed (after two baby birds drowned in it when it was the right way up). I was surprised to see a large pile of leaves in the shape of the wheelbarrow, with a hedgehog in the middle. I immediately put the wheelbarrow down again, hoping I hadn't disturbed the hedgehog.
But now I hate the responsibility of knowing that there is a hedgehog there. What if I want to use the wheelbarrow - I guess I can't now there's a hedgehog living in it? It's probably living on the slugs growing in our unmown grass, so do I have to continue letting the grass grow? Did we accidentally trap it within the back garden when we last had our fence repaired, or is there still some hidden place where it can get in and out, or is it brave enough to go out via the path to the road?