Amusing/Entertaining/Interesting things you stumbled upon on the Internet

Seftin

I.. what?

Kresslack

Happy Birthday to Pinhead (aka Doug Bradley).

Synbios

[all not in favor, say 'neigh']

Achimrst

                       

Dortheron

I don't know if someone else posted this before, but just found this today

Kresslack

I need to see this.

Saeva

Oh that's awesome. I always wished we taught kids about the Krampus here. Demons dragging chains coming to eat you if you're a bad kid. That'll teach 'em.

Achimrst

BLAM!              

Eld

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68348/watch-weatherman-casually-say-58-letter-long-welsh-town-name

Klendathu

Eld said:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68348/watch-weatherman-casually-say-58-letter-long-welsh-town-name

Liam Dutton is a legend. But really, it's not that hard to say, especially if you have the teleprompter write it out phonetically! It's written all down the wall of the underpass in Cardiff Central station with the phonetic spelling underneath.

Achimrst

                         

Krypton

Klendathu said:

Eld said:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68348/watch-weatherman-casually-say-58-letter-long-welsh-town-name

Liam Dutton is a legend. But really, it's not that hard to say, especially if you have the teleprompter write it out phonetically! It's written all down the wall of the underpass in Cardiff Central station with the phonetic spelling underneath.

Zenui

Today's SMBC is amusing enough on its own, but being a former Shallamite player gives it another dimension of humor for me. (Utilitarian ethics leads to loathing cloaked by civility? Sounds about right.)

Eld

Klendathu said:

Eld said:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68348/watch-weatherman-casually-say-58-letter-long-welsh-town-name

Liam Dutton is a legend. But really, it's not that hard to say, especially if you have the teleprompter write it out phonetically! It's written all down the wall of the underpass in Cardiff Central station with the phonetic spelling underneath.

Sure, go and ruin the magic.

But seriously, even with the phonetic version, I wouldn't be able to do it. Couldn't do the Welsh "ll" phoneme to save my life. And if it were really that easy, surely he wouldn't look so pleased with himself!

Eld

Zenui said:

Today's SMBC is amusing enough on its own, but being a former Shallamite player gives it another dimension of humor for me. (Utilitarian ethics leads to loathing cloaked by civility? Sounds about right.)

Permalink for the alt-text and votey. The problem with comparing it to Shallam (or Britain, or any real society) is that it only works if the "opaque cloak of civility" really is opaque. Once the internal loathing starts sneaking out into actual behaviour, it does start decreasing utility for the loathed, which will at least limit the amount of secret loathing in the optimal situation. It may well turn out that the optimal version is one in which everyone is pretty sure they're better than almost everyone else, but you don't need to commit to any particular system of ethics to make that happen. 

Eld

Eld said:

Klendathu said:

Eld said:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68348/watch-weatherman-casually-say-58-letter-long-welsh-town-name

Liam Dutton is a legend. But really, it's not that hard to say, especially if you have the teleprompter write it out phonetically! It's written all down the wall of the underpass in Cardiff Central station with the phonetic spelling underneath.

Sure, go and ruin the magic.

But seriously, even with the phonetic version, I wouldn't be able to do it. Couldn't do the Welsh "ll" phoneme to save my life. And if it were really that easy, surely he wouldn't look so pleased with himself!

I did just find this helpful video, though.

Cynlael

Can definitely relate.

Berenene

I wonder if he got it from al Harrington

Trey

This.... is a child's costume.



 





 

Cynlael

right foot green
SPARTA

Cidusii

#justjaredthings

Kerria

I can't stop laughing... so much

Ruth

I laughed so hard at this one.

Exelethril

          

Kresslack

      

Exelethril

Driving through a forest fire at night 

Cynlael

r.i.p Eleusis. Oh well, no great loss.

Melodie

Exelethril said:

Driving through a forest fire at night 

Stuff of nightmares.

I have a sort of vague memory of being a child (like 5 or younger) and there being this large forest fire going on on the way back from something we went to. It was night, and I guess my parents wanted to go see it, so we drove there, and it was... huge. Like 20+ feet high in the air fireball with only a thin sheen of trees to ward you off from it huge. I used to think maybe it was just a nightmare, but my mother recently confirmed the memory and mentioned how maybe they shouldn't have stopped by with me there.

I have forever since had a deep foreboding about forest fires in general.

Athelas

I ran through a grass field fire, exactly once.

I will never, not for all the tea in China, try that again. Unlike Athelas I can't MORPH ICEWYRM.

Kerria

Yesterday at the game I attend, some boys were sitting on cars in the parking lot yelling "nerd go home". 
After the authorities were politely notified (as sometimes people who heckle go overboard, as an example once I was almost hit by a truck because someone thought it would be funny to drive though us) our "boss" went to speak to them to ask them to leave.

as he was talking most of the younger women (not me) decided to go give home hugs and pecks on the cheek. The young men, now flabbergasted that there were pretty girls here (we assume by the slight drooling and slack jawed stares at the girls) apologized and left....

so so this was passed around after game.