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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Definitely the tactic of a few ML members...
OH - you should ask Scott about the wall of text thing - you'll get a wall of text as a response.
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@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Definitely the tactic of a few ML members...
OH - you should ask Scott about the wall of text thing - you'll get a wall of text as a response.
Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text.
Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words.
"Why won't it just tell me what it's about?" said Boston resident Charlyne Thomson, who was bombarded with the overwhelming mass of black text late Monday afternoon. "There are no bullet points, no highlighted parts. I've looked everywhere—there's nothing here but words."
"Ow," Thomson added after reading the first and last lines in an attempt to get the gist of whatever the article, review, or possibly recipe was about.
At 3:16 p.m., a deafening sigh was heard across the country as the nation grappled with the daunting cascade of syllables, whose unfamiliar letter-upon-letter structure stretched on for an endless 500 words. Children wailed for the attention of their bewildered parents, businesses were shuttered, and local governments ground to a halt as Americans scanned the text in vain for a web link to click on.
Sources also reported a 450 percent rise in temple rubbing and under-the-breath cursing around this time.
"It demands so much of my time and concentration," said Chicago resident Dale Huza, who was confronted by the confusing mound of words early Monday afternoon. "This large block of text, it expects me to figure everything out on my own, and I hate it."
"I've never seen anything like it," said Mark Shelton, a high school teacher from St. Paul, MN who stared blankly at the page in front of him for several minutes before finally holding it up to his ear. "What does it want from us?"
As the public grows more desperate, scholars are working to randomly italicize different sections of the text, hoping the italics will land on the important parts and allow everyone to go on with their day. For now, though, millions of panicked and exhausted Americans continue to repetitively search the single column of print from top to bottom and right to left, looking for even the slightest semblance of meaning or perhaps a blurb.
Some have speculated that the never-ending flood of sentences may be a news article, medical study, urgent product recall notice, letter, user agreement, or even a binding contract of some kind. But until the news does a segment in which they take sections of the text and read them aloud in a slow, calm voice while highlighting those same words on the screen, no one can say for sure.
There are some, however, who remain unfazed by the virtual hailstorm of alternating consonants and vowels, and are determined to ignore it.
( source: The Onion )
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Touche.
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@nadnerB Thats great!
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The courier company had no idea of her winnings. “I knew something was wrong because I came back from lunch and the door to my office was closed,” said the manager. I slowly opened the door to discover the woman with her pants around her ankles, hunched over on my desk like a hippopotamus/cheetah dropping a massive poo on my desk. She shot her head towards me and locked eyes. I was frozen in shock and fear. In my peripheral vision I saw a huge mud-monkey sliming out of her butt like a Play-Doh fun factory.”
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http://files.explosm.net/comics/Kris/billion.png?t=7CB22E
God got a little dark after those 7 days...
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Effing Tourists.
The folks in the MDX opened their doors and started to get out to take pictures of the "cute bears" (my thought of what was in their mind). The bears took an immediate interest in them. They changed their minds right properly quick (RPQ)!
Black bears are fresh flesh eaters while brown like carrion for the maggots.
This pic was taken on a back road up into the mountains Northwest of Banff, Alberta a few years back.
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@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Black bears are fresh flesh eaters while brown like carrion for the maggots.
Whoa...TIL
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@PhlipElder it's kinda sad that nature didn't get to deselect them. Darwin award avoided.
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder it's kinda sad that nature didn't get to deselect them. Darwin award avoided.
My wife and I had a really good laugh over the situation afterwards. Breath was held there for a bit with my prepping for the possibility of an intervention.
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Holy crapspackle.... I know vintage guitars go for lots of money, but I think this might be one of the highest priced axes I've ever seen. One of only a dozen known to exist.
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Sometimes I have to amuse myself.
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Holy crapspackle.... I know vintage guitars go for lots of money, but I think this might be one of the highest priced axes I've ever seen. One of only a dozen known to exist.
$200G in Canuckistan dollars is pretty cheap given its vintage.
That's all nice and everything, but what does it sound like?
