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The Taylor-made CVPL Chat Thread!

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    #2882
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Tim Curry as "Darknes"s in "Legend", anyone?



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    #2883
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113889690&postcount=5230
    Reminds me of a story I heard many years ago.
    A packing line at a factory had an issue where every once in a while the box would "skip" the filler and be sent out empty, so management got a team of engineers to devise a solution.
    After a large amount of money, they had developed a device to weigh each box and eject the empty ones.
    The device was fitted to the line, but even it failed occasionally to find the empty ones.
    Shortly afterwards the failure rate went to zero, confused managers sent the engineers back to see what fixed the problem.

    The device was switched off and the line operator had a cheap desk fan flowing across the line, blowing the empty boxes off!


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    #2884
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,325 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    joujoujou wrote: »
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    Years ago, it was reputed that UCD students stole the LED sign from the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Ranelagh. Yes, they got a sign from God.


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    #2885
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Crasp wrote: »
    Which film is on the right?
    I know someone who is VERY upset at cute fluffy trolls.

    We had things to be very afraid of fairy tales for a reason.


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    #2886
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    Edgy or wha?


    Mod : Moved from YLYL thread. :)


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    #2887
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
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    This never happened.

    Also, that's Liam Brady from the 70s.

    Also, Liverpool and West Ham did have a player called Dicks in the 90s. It still never happened though.

    No surprise at the poster tbh. This kind of lazy stuff annoys me more than it should. If only there was a thread for things like that somewhere :)


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    #2888
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,333 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    cdeb wrote: »
    This never happened.

    Also, that's Liam Brady from the 70s.

    Also, Liverpool and West Ham did have a player called Dicks in the 90s. It still never happened though.

    No surprise at the poster tbh. This kind of lazy stuff annoys me more than it should. If only there was a thread for things like that somewhere :)

    And it is a repost


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    #2889
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    Does humour need to be based on fact now?


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    #2890
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    If the humour is based in part on a story purporting to be true, then it certainly shouldn't be blatantly nonsense on a number of levels.


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    #2891
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    cdeb wrote: »
    If the humour is based in part on a story purporting to be true, then it certainly shouldn't be blatantly nonsense on a number of levels.

    Isn’t that the basis of a lot of jokes?


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    #2892
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Not really, no.

    Like, obviously some jokes are made up. And others are funny because they actually happened. But as I said, if a good chunk of the humour is in the fact that the story is actually true, then it really shouldn't be completely made up.


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    #2893
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,325 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I'm sure someone has studied the theory of jokes, but I suspect a lot of it is 'suspension of disbelief' and similar principles. If that can't be achieved, then it may lack teh funneh.


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    #2894
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,715 ✭✭✭✭josip


    If someone wants a real Dicks football joke they could post a named Liverpool jersey that some supporters got when Julian Dicks joined.
    Coz that's how they felt when he left after only a year and they had to bin the jerseys.


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    #2895
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    cdeb wrote: »
    Not really, no.

    Like, obviously some jokes are made up. And others are funny because they actually happened. But as I said, if a good chunk of the humour is in the fact that the story is actually true, then it really shouldn't be completely made up.

    Jaysus, who p1ssed in your cornflakes?

    It's a joke, no part of it needs to be true.


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    #2896
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    But as noted above, if the funny derives in large from the fact that it is true, then yeah, it does need to be true.


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    #2897
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Can we apply the "Don't be a Dick" rule here?


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    #2898
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    That's up there with the

    "I lectured a nurse about vaccines at my kids school and told her about how dangerous they were. She immediately apologised and thanked me, she vowed never to give a child another vaccination. I'm just mom doing my best"

    levels of bull**** and therefore has no place in the thread


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    #2899
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    "My three-year-old just said *insert profound statement here that they clearly didn't say*" - not funny

    This, however -

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    Funny

    Simples :)


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    #2900
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,157 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    wally79 wrote: »
    Isn’t that the basis of a lot of jokes?
    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Jaysus, who p1ssed in your cornflakes?

    It's a joke, no part of it needs to be true.

    When somebody starts a "So a man walks into a bar...." story, nobody thinks he's telling a true story about a man in a bar.

    But funny news story in the paper, or other real life photos only funny because they supposed to be real.
    If there's no actual restaurant called Golden Shower, then whatever individual made up that "joke" leads a very sad existence.


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    #2901
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    That restaurant might just exist https://www.goldenshowerchinchin.com/ but from the website I think they have got the joke :D


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    #2902
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,626 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Look up Danaë. The Greek myth, I mean.

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    ^^^
    Danaë by Gustav Klimt


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    #2903
    [Deleted User]
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    Yes, I thought the photo was too good to be photoshopped.


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    #2904
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,149 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb1hrKDWoAEDJxl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
    I never noticed the seating upstairs on the old trams before. They should bring that back.


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    #2905
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,715 ✭✭✭✭josip


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I never noticed the seating upstairs on the old trams before. They should bring that back.


    You mean on top of the Luas?


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    #2906
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,149 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    josip wrote: »
    You mean on top of the Luas?
    Yeah, don't touch the wires, be grand.


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    #2907
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    NoviGlitzko wrote: »
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    OK so its funny I laughed, but its also true and someone died so is it really funny? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/woman-who-died-climbing-everest-wanted-to-prove-vegans-are-not-weak-a7043431.html


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    #2908
    pleasant Co.
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    GinSoaked wrote: »
    OK so its funny I laughed, but its also true and someone died so is it really funny? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/woman-who-died-climbing-everest-wanted-to-prove-vegans-are-not-weak-a7043431.html

    Apparently, them's the rules:
    cdeb wrote: »
    But as noted above, if the funny derives in large from the fact that it is true, then yeah, it does need to be true.


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    #2909
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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    Same joke was in an Oink magazine in about 1988. But it featured a dog that said bark covered tree trunks and the opposite of smooth was ruff.


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    #2910
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,157 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Jacob Tiny Rose wrote: »
    Same joke was in an Oink magazine in about 1988. But it featured a dog that said bark covered tree trunks and the opposite of smooth was ruff.

    TIL that jokes were crap in 1988


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    #2911
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,333 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Jacob Tiny Rose wrote: »
    Same joke was in an Oink magazine in about 1988. But it featured a dog that said bark covered tree trunks and the opposite of smooth was ruff.

    Oink Jaysus that is a throwback.

    I go bum bum tickle tickle Pappa Oink
    And then I don't feel sad......


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