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Cool Vids&Pics&Links Discussion Thread

The Recliner · 2012-05-11 07:40:30

Hi Guys and Gals This was suggested in the Feedback thread and it is something we have discussed before and think it would be a good idea This thread is for the discussion of pictures or videos that people don't understand or want more information on Its purpose is to keep chat and discussion out of other threads like You…

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#2342 18-04-2014 10:45pm

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http://i.imgur.com/HyUv5Z7.jpg

I love the unevenly dilated eyes on the cat. Makes it look really tripped out!

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#2343 19-04-2014 3:24pm

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Sulla Felix wrote: »

I love the unevenly dilated eyes on the cat. Makes it look really tripped out!

Yeah, it does look like they are trippin balls.
Have to wonder what exactly they dosed them with to get them that stoned cause, based on these ingredients,it wasn't from the product itself.

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#2344 19-04-2014 3:39pm

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Anyone explain the joke here?

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#2345 19-04-2014 3:44pm

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There's a famous painting called American Gothic

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#2346 19-04-2014 7:20pm

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#2347 20-04-2014 4:41pm

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Easter Sunday RTE Mass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKc5ho8y8I

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#2348 22-04-2014 2:40am

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Duggy747 wrote: »

Holes in cheeks and tongue.

What would possess someone to do that? :eek:

How the feck would he manage to eat without it all spilling out everywhere?

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#2349 22-04-2014 6:10am

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Paddy Cow wrote: »

What would possess someone to do that? :eek:

How the feck would he manage to eat without it all spilling out everywhere?

No more milkshakes for them

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#2350 22-04-2014 10:41am

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On the plus side, tooth brushing and flossing becomes easier.

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#2351 22-04-2014 6:22pm

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

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#2352 22-04-2014 6:55pm

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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"

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#2353 23-04-2014 1:33am

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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....

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#2354 23-04-2014 3:27pm

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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?

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#2355 23-04-2014 3:34pm

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^^

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.

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#2356 23-04-2014 3:38pm

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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..

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#2357 23-04-2014 10:08pm

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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.

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#2358 23-04-2014 10:42pm

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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.

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#2359 23-04-2014 11:37pm

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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.

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#2360 24-04-2014 3:15am

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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.

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#2361 24-04-2014 3:32am

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whats the story with the election poster?

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#2362 24-04-2014 3:52am

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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."

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#2363 24-04-2014 4:37am

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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.

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#2364 24-04-2014 7:23am

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Gokei wrote: »

whats the story with the election erection poster?

fyp!

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#2365 24-04-2014 9:15am

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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.

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#2366 24-04-2014 2:48pm

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fyp!

I still don't get it.

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#2367 25-04-2014 10:44am

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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.

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#2368 25-04-2014 10:48am

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"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."

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#2369 25-04-2014 1:41pm

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

Bravo, Mitch.

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#2370 25-04-2014 3:55pm

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Darkglasses wrote: »

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

Bravo, Mitch.

That has to get post of the day.

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#2371 28-04-2014 1:32am

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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.

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