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Wabbit Ears

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

is that amount of need for attention not considered some sort of mental ilness (regarding hole in face guy)?

I can't ever imagine him working as a salesman! but I can imagine that in a few years time he'll regret it while looking for a plastic surgeon who can "fill pot holes"

Allyall

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

French Tank the Americans wanted

Who is supposed to appear worse here?

I read it that the Americans are too stupid to convert mm to inches, and ditched something that they seemingly wanted because they were so stupid. But the strip seems to imply the French are the daft ones..


EDIT - maybe ignore me, I was out for a friend going home after easter, and had a few too many....

Paddy Cow

Allyall wrote: »

Who is supposed to appear worse here?

I read it that the Americans are too stupid to convert mm to inches, and ditched something that they seemingly wanted because they were so stupid. But the strip seems to imply the French are the daft ones..


EDIT - maybe ignore me, I was out for a friend going home after easter, and had a few too many....

I'm still confused?

Artful_Badger

^^

America got gifted the plans of a tank they wanted to build, but as it was in metric and not imperial they passed rather than convert the measurements. That's how it seemed to me.

Allyall

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I'm still confused?

Believe it or not, I have no idea what way I was looking at that the other night.

I read over it, and it makes no sense to me. A bit of green snuck in with the drinks..

Allyall

Allyall wrote: »

Believe it or not, I have no idea what way I was looking at that the other night.

I read over it, and it makes no sense to me. A bit of green snuck in with the drinks..

Neither side was willing to do the conversion, there have been several "incidents" caused by incorrect conversions or no conversion at all.

Like on "The Apprentice" when a flag that should have been 6' x 4' ended up 60cm x 40cm.

Paddy Cow

Artful_Badger wrote: »

^^

America got gifted the plans of a tank they wanted to build, but as it was in metric and not imperial they passed rather than convert the measurements. That's how it seemed to me.

Really? I thought that was it but couldn't believe it and was looking for something more subtle that went over my head.

What a bunch of dipsh!ts.

actuallylike

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Really? I thought that was it but couldn't believe it and was looking for something more subtle that went over my head.

What a bunch of dipsh!ts.

It's not really as easy as simply converting measurements. All their tools and machinery to be used to create the tanks were in imperial also.

Cookie_Monster

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Really? I thought that was it but couldn't believe it and was looking for something more subtle that went over my head.

What a bunch of dipsh!ts.

not really, they ended up producing one of the best tanks of the war anyway and the French were only noted for having useless **** tanks so no real loss to the US.

Gokei

whats the story with the election poster?

Ken.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288

NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.

As a result, JPL engineers mistook acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds.

In a sense, the spacecraft was lost in translation.


Apparently the craft was doing about 17,000 mph when it hit the planet it thought was still a few thousands miles away.
"That is so dumb," said John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's space policy institute. "There seems to have emerged over the past couple of years a systematic problem in the space community of insufficient attention to detail."

Cookie_Monster

LOL, trying to blame "English" units even thought the US uses imperial and the UK doesn't by default. Even US imperial differs from UK Imperial for some measures.

Gokei

Gokei wrote: »

whats the story with the election erection poster?

fyp!

Pawwed Rig

It is not just an American issue. The metric system has been taught here for 30 years or so yet I still find people my age who cannot convert from miles to kilometres or stones to kilogrammes.

milltown

Deleted User wrote: »

fyp!

I still don't get it.

El Weirdo

Deleted User wrote: »

Neither side was willing to do the conversion, there have been several "incidents" caused by incorrect conversions or no conversion at all.

Like on "The Apprentice" when a flag that should have been 6' x 4' ended up 60cm x 40cm.

Not an imperial/metric conversion issue, but had to be posted.

Grimebox

"I don't think the problem was that the band was off tonight. I think the problem was that we had a stonehenge monument that was in danger of being trampled by a dwarf."

Darkglasses

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90091763&postcount=9303

Bravo, Mitch.

AlmightyCushion

Darkglasses wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90091763&postcount=9303

Bravo, Mitch.

That has to get post of the day.

locum-motion

TheFullDuck wrote: »

[video of oriental kid with BB gun]

darwin award?

Is he still alive?

Yes?

Then he's ineligible for a Darwin Award.*



*: Unless he somehow managed to give himself a vasectomy while he was at it.

GBX

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90134982&postcount=9359

Please??

Mr Freeze

GBX wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90134982&postcount=9359

Please??

Peter Jackson has made 3 3hour films from around 200 pages of a book.

Penn

GBX wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90134982&postcount=9359

Please??

The Hobbit book was about half as long as one of the three Lord of the Rings books. Peter Jackson has stretched this book into three films as long as the whole LotR trilogy (by adding in a lot of short stories and appendices from Tolkien's other writings and expanding on them).

GBX

Penn wrote: »

The Hobbit book was about half as long as one of the three Lord of the Rings books. Peter Jackson has stretched this book into three films as long as the whole LotR trilogy (by adding in a lot of short stories and appendices from Tolkien's other writings and expanding on them).

Ah right cheers ... havent read the books so wasnt sure!

macplato

So who is he and what has he done, then?

Ken.

Steven Gerrard slipped against Chelsea at the weekend allowing Chelsea to score and subsequently win the match. He's the one in red in the middle their all pointing at.

Darkglasses

And here's that slip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcZeVt-wq0

macplato

Darkglasses wrote: »

And here's that slip...

I was actually gonna ask for a youtube link, and here it is Thanks guys!

I thought it was that the guys in blue thought the guy in red was amazing or something.

Capt'n Midnight

Penn wrote: »

Peter Jackson has stretched this book into three films as long as the whole LotR trilogy (by adding in a lot of short stories and appendices from Tolkien's other writings and expanding on them).

They only had rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Which is why they only name two wizards, and didn't use the Silmarilion / Unfinished Tales or the other stuff.

The result is like Bilbo said in LOTR “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

Cookie_Monster

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

They only had rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Which is why they only name two wizards, and didn't use the Silmarilion / Unfinished Tales or the other stuff.

there's at least 4 named

Gandalf
Radagast
Sauramon
The Necromancer / Sauron

Burt Macklin

I thought that a lot of the Gandalf side-quest stuff was lifted from the Silmarilion or other Tolkien writings. Although now I think about it, it might have been taken from the LOTR Appendices.

Orim

Burt Macklin wrote: »

I thought that a lot of the Gandalf side-quest stuff was lifted from the Silmarilion or other Tolkien writings. Although now I think about it, it might have been taken from the LOTR Appendices.

Everything in the first hobbit was made-up by Jackson or stuff that he left out of LOTR. Haven't seen Smaug yet so I dunno about but I'd guess it's the same.

AlmightyCushion

Any one know what that breaking bad one is about?

Burt Macklin

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Any one know what that breaking bad one is about?

Paddy Cow

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Any one know what that breaking bad one is about?

Walter throws a temper tantrum when Skyler makes him leave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKAzfd8oTWs

Penn

They also thought it'd take ages to try and get the pizza to land on the roof, including cleaning up after every failed attempt, but they actually did it perfectly first time

Cookie_Monster

i think the important question here is how long have they been making convertible cameros :eek: want want want

Allyall

TheBody wrote: »

North Korea Search for Flight

Is that a real picture? If so, what is that nutball at?

Allyall

Allyall wrote: »

Is that a real picture? If so, what is that nutball at?

I think it's real, maybe he's trying to emulate King Cnut but in his case the alternative letter order is more appropriate.

Youzername

Why am I not getting this Justin Timberlake and 'tomorrow its may' thing??

Seeing it everywhere lol! (I know its the first of may??)

AlmightyCushion

Youzername wrote: »

Why am I not getting this Justin Timberlake and 'tomorrow its may' thing??

Seeing it everywhere lol! (I know its the first of may??)

In some N Sync song he sings the words 'it's gonna be me' but he pronounces the word me as may.

mrDerek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtbMr-hElDY anyone know if theres any back story to this if its real and if so did he die?

ArtyM

Deleted User wrote: »

I thought it was that the guys in blue thought the guy in red was amazing or something.

Wild guess here, you're not a big football fan are you?

Ciderswigger

ArtyM wrote: »

Wild guess here, you're not a big football are you?

Lol. I hope he's not a big football!

ArtyM

Ciderswigger wrote: »

Lol. I hope he's not a big football!

Edited, fixed, and never to be mentioned again.
:pac:

Ciderswigger

ArtyM wrote: »

Edited, fixed, and never to TO mentioned again.
:pac:

Ha, I think your brain is faster than your typing!

Allyall

:eek:
Bbbbyaaaak.. :pac:

Kenjataimu

Why cant people add the title or description of the pics they repost from reddit.

Sometimes they don't make sense without context.

RobertFoster

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Or, they don't care.