A little humour

A Former User

@Newell-Post That was pretty awful. Beautifully awful. There still ought to be a come back for really bad attempts at humor. How about..........

tjcombo

@SSmith1226 That was bonzer Sport! A grouse effort for a Septic!

SSmith1226

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 That was bonzer Sport! A grouse effort for a Septic!

A perfect illustration of my point!!! I have no idea what this means, or for that matter whether it is spelled correctly. I even put it in “Google Translate” and it came up with:

It’s as confused as I am!!! I always thought Captain James Cook spoke the King’s English. He was from Yorkshire after all. America was different. It was discovered by Columbus who was an Italian working for the Spanish, which explains dialects in many big American Cities. Or perhaps it was discovered by the Vikings, which explains dialects and accents in Minnesota.

BigDub

Also. That is proof of how bad Google translate can be at its worst.
I use it, but find myself very disappointed most of the time.
For Spanish, I usually make changes afterward to make it more conversational. You can’t use English grammar and sentence structure when translating from other languages which do not use English grammar rules.

BigDub

neal085

stumac

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 That was bonzer Sport! A grouse effort for a Septic!

Translation: bonzer = good, sport = mate , friend, grouse = (a small ground dwelling bird), great, excellent, Septic = cockney rhyming slang, septic tank = yank (american).

tjcombo

@SSmith1226
I thought the Google translation was flawless

BigDub

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226
I thought the Google translation was flawless

Precisely

moshe

The actor who starred in the 1960's TV show "McHale's Navy"
later co-starred in the 1990's TV show "Star Trek Voyager".

Ernest Borg-of-Nine
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/

Morris / moshe

Tobylou8

A Former User

Hi Tobylou8,
Something a lot of people don't realize;
You don't need a parachute to skydive.
You need a parachute to skydive twice!

A Former User

@Tobylou8
Parallel lines have so much in common.
Its a shame they'll never meet.

BigDub

@Dr-Mark said in A little humour:

Hi Tobylou8,
Something a lot of people don't realize;
You don't need a parachute to skydive.
You need a parachute to skydive twice!

And, furthermore, people can survive a fall from many thousands of feet. It’s the sudden stop at the end that seems to be the problem.

A Former User

@BigDub said in A little humour:

It’s the sudden stop at the end that seems to be the problem.

This seems to be the problem with a lot of things. It's not the act but the sudden stop of that act that seems to be the problem. Just ask an alcoholic who tried to go cold turkey from alcohol. I had a keyboard player that was steeped in talent but a stone cold boozer. One day he decided to man up and quit cold turkey. As you probably guessed, he seized out during a show. Once he came to, I explained to him that he ought not to quit in such a manner as this can and was the result. I'm happy to say with the use of rehab and diazepam, he's been clean for years now.
Yep, its the sudden stop that's killer.

Kehaulani

Busy today?

A Former User

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

Busy today?

Not even close to busy today and it's wonderful!

Tobylou8

moshe

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

I frequently reminisce about my very earliest memories,
when I was about 5 years old in 1961.

We got a fancy new console TV.
Black and white.
With a remote control !!!!!!!!!!

But you would have to see it to believe it.
There was only 1 button on the remote control.
And when you pressed that button,
a motor actually turned the dial.
You could see and hear the channel dial turning clock-wise.
click-click-click-click.
And it could only get you one UHF station.
You had to go to the TV and turn a separate UHF dial by hand to the UHF station you wanted.
So that when the remote went to channel 11 then 12 then 13 then UHF, that would be the UHF channel yu would get.

It was like the cheesy equipment you see on old episodes of the original Star Trek.

But we had some of the best TV technology of the time !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morris / moshe

BigDub

When I was still working, one of my friends was the maintenance person for the same store I worked in.
A woman in one of the departments was never comfortable with the temperature. It was either too hot or too cold. She constantly demanded, pleaded with my friend to do something about it......every day. At least.
One day, he decided to surprise her and showed her that he had installed her own thermostat, right there on the column near her work area. See, he said, turn it this way and it will get warmer, and this way, to the left, it will get cooler, just like that!
She never, ever, complained again.
End of story.
Not so fast, there. He, my friend, never wired it to anything...and when she retired, he gave her the thermostat in a box with a bow on it. Here. Now you can be comfortable wherever you go, he said.