The Unofficial Official Chat Thread

Khaney · August 11, 2020, 10:20am

you know when I read this bullshit, instead of feeling angry, I felt sad and empathetic towards those half-witted idiots, the media DOES a great job in herding those cattle don’t you think Bolteh ?

https://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/48547675807/the-definitive-people-who-thought-chechnya-was-the

oh and I just read the breaking news on some of the news sites :

Officials: Bomb suspects appear driven by religious faith

…that’s just awesome

Bolteh · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

I’m a born-again Muslim.

bur · August 11, 2020, 10:20am

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that so many people don’t know the difference between Chechen and the Czech Republic, or even Czechoslovakia, (which hasn’t existed for, what, 20 years?), or the fact that all of them apparently hold an entire country responsible for the actions of two of its inhabitants, as if it’s the most natural thing to do.

samzala · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

europe is the cancer islam is the answer

Chickenprotector · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

This is why I rarely pay attention to news media.

Pyroclase · August 11, 2020, 10:20am

You’re doing a fantastic job of making yourself feel superior to others.

Khaney · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

define those “others”

bur · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

i dont think it’s wrong to feel superior to those people

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckmyspace barbarely works anymore

Maxey · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

Who the fuck still uses myspace? How hipster are you?

bur · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

lol (in case you werent joking, my space bar)

Maxey · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

Well buy a new keyboard then.

Bolteh · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

Do what I do: smash your space bar until one space is typed, select the space and ctrl-c it. Then ctrl-v whenever you need a space.

Problemsolving 101.

_rot_fodder · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

You are like the Red Green of cyberspace.

Pyroclase · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

I remember once when I was a kid, I tried to browse the internet on a computer without a keyboard. I used the mouse to copy-paste letters for about ten minutes until I gave up.

Maxey · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

Then you realized Windows has a Virtual Keyboard?

bur · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

Well, I only just smashed it.

Meh, might as well push space a second time if needed. It seems to be coming back now. I guess it wasn’t too bad.

edit: lol, i added some beer to the mix, new keyboard soon it is
maybe i’ll just take on of the qwerty ones we have lying around, i can type fine on those anyway (we use azerty in belgium)

danielsangeo · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

“Belgium” is evidently a swear word in most parts of the Milky Way galaxy.

bur · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

though i haven’t read the source, i am aware of that :3

danielsangeo · November 25, 2018, 3:24am

From the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Arthur had just been snubbed by a man he met at a party):

“What was that all about?” asked Arthur to a girl he found standing beside him. “Why did he tell me to win awards?”

"Just show biz talk; " answered the girl. “He just won an award at the Annual Ursa Minor Alpha Recreational Illusions Institute Awards ceremony, and he was hoping to be able to pass it off lightly, only you didn’t mention it so he couldn’t.”

“Oh,” said Arthur, “oh, well, I’m sorry I didn’t. What was it for?”

“The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word ‘Belgium’ in a Serious Screenplay. It’s very prestigious.”

“The most gratuitous use of which word?” asked Arthur, with a determined attempt to keep his brain in neutral.

“Belgium,” said the girl, “I hardly like to say it.”

“Belgium?” exclaimed Arthur.

A drunken seven-toed sloth staggered past, gawked at the word and threw itself backward at a blurry-eyed pterodactyl, roaring with displeasure.

“Are we talking,” said Arthur, “about the very flat country, with all the EEC and the fog?”

“What?” said the girl.

“Belgium,” said Arthur.

“Raaaaarrrchchchchch!” screeched the pterodactyl.

“Grrruuuuuurrrghhhh,” agreed the seven-toed sloth.

“They must be thinking of Ostend Hoverport,” muttered Arthur. He turned back to the girl.

“Have you ever been to Belgium in fact?” he asked brightly and she nearly hit him.

“I think,” she said, restraining herself, “that you should restrict that sort of remark to something artistic.”

“You sound as if I just said something unspeakably rude.”

“You did.”

In today’s modern Galaxy there is of course very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.

So, for instance, when in a recent national speech the Financial Minister of the Royal World Estate of Quarlvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another and the fact that no one had made any food for a while and the king seemed to have died and most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy was now in what he called “one whole joojooflop situation,” everyone was so pleased that he felt able to come out and say it that they quite failed to note that their entire five-thousand-year-old civilization had just collapsed overnight.

But even though words like “joojooflop,” “swut,” and “turlingdrome” are now perfectly acceptable in common usage there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the Galaxy except for use in Serious Screenplays. There is also, or was, one planet where they didn’t know what it meant, the stupid turlingdromes.

Maxey · August 12, 2020, 7:35am

So this is what passes for modern art these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJGiT7XnCvQ

Literally two stacks of construction bricks and the shadiest looking wood plank with a ceiling fan attached to it.

Dear god.