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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 1, 2023 6:02:13 GMT -5
Our meeting today had a late start to allow us to tune in via zoom to a keynote address and awards ceremony from a professional conference in Sydney. The keynote address, by a former opera singer with a PhD in communications had us all in stitches, as it was so ridiculous. Added to that, the volume was so low at the start we had trouble hearing her, and the camera was in the wrong place so we had trouble seeing her. Various colleagues had great fun with the exercises she had people doing. We are glad our employer paid for us to attend, as the whole thing would have been a waste of money. By the end of the speech, the volume had faded to a point that no one could hear properly, so our bosses decided collectively that we could leave early, as we wouldn’t have heard the awards ceremony.
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Post by sprite on Nov 1, 2023 6:57:22 GMT -5
BUT WHAT IS THE PUNCHLINE?! I need to know what you call two witches who live with Jesus Christ. oops. mistyped. should have been, 'what do you call a witch who lives with another witch?' Only partner jumped out as he was about to say 'another witch' so 'Jesus Christ' came out instead. the answer is, 'broommates.'
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 1, 2023 7:47:21 GMT -5
That is far funnier than the original joke!
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Post by sprite on Nov 3, 2023 10:54:06 GMT -5
A DJ just tried to 'interview' John Lennon using an AI program. It was predictably almost, but completely not, right.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 3, 2023 12:58:55 GMT -5
Gross
I mean - I'm sure absolutely hilarious, but conceptually gross
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Post by sprite on Nov 3, 2023 17:40:39 GMT -5
No, gross is the animal-dug hole in my garden with 4 different shit deposits. either from 4 animals, or one animal experiencing either deterioration or improvement in its digestive health. which is also a bit funny, if one isn't that animal.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 3, 2023 19:46:48 GMT -5
Ughghghgh
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Post by groo on Nov 4, 2023 20:57:39 GMT -5
For the Australians. For others, insert your RWNJ of choice.
/photo/1
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 4, 2023 21:56:06 GMT -5
Last night at the gig the main band pulled the support act on stage and they did a cover song. It was well done, fun and most of the crowd were singing along to it.
I didn't have a clue what the song was, figured I'd ask Clipper later, as he often keeps up with new music better than I do.
We get outside, I ask him, and he said he was waiting to ask me, as he didn't know what it was either!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 4, 2023 22:15:19 GMT -5
Yay, someone has finally updated setlist FM and I know what the song is.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 5, 2023 5:56:32 GMT -5
groo, that made me laugh way too loudly for 6:00 in the morning
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Post by kneazle on Nov 6, 2023 3:21:19 GMT -5
John Oliver did a segment on his show about NZs bird of the century competition. So funny.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 6:11:51 GMT -5
I'm going to have to look for that, kneazle.
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Post by sprite on Nov 6, 2023 9:49:10 GMT -5
For the Australians. For others, insert your RWNJ of choice. /photo/1 I also have no idea who these people are either, but still I laughed very hard. Mainly because 75% of the time I see the original quote on social media, it's from people in love with the autocratic right-wing power nutsn it was written about.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 6, 2023 15:14:45 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 6, 2023 15:27:03 GMT -5
Thank you— yeah this country is becoming more and more like a group of isolated islands of sanity in a vast sea of authoritarian BS
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 7, 2023 18:08:00 GMT -5
I just read that thing in that other thread about how horses can't vomit, so in the middle of absolutely nothing à propos I started to declare to pero "Horses can't vomit," which somehow sent me into hysterical laughter to the point that all I could get out was "Horses can't" to which he's like... "Yes?"
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Post by sprite on Nov 8, 2023 8:50:45 GMT -5
There is some sort of singer whose bands does impersonations, and he's just riffed Christopher Walken doing lines from Harry Potter.
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Post by sprite on Nov 8, 2023 8:52:04 GMT -5
I just read that thing in that other thread about how horses can't vomit, so in the middle of absolutely nothing à propos I started to declare to pero "Horses can't vomit," which somehow sent me into hysterical laughter to the point that all I could get out was "Horses can't" to which he's like... "Yes?" I vote for just saying, "horse vomit" everytime someone says something ridiculous.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 9, 2023 1:51:49 GMT -5
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Post by psw on Nov 9, 2023 10:48:26 GMT -5
Driving behind a Toyota - caught a glimpse of the license plate which began 1VW.
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Post by Queen on Nov 9, 2023 14:59:52 GMT -5
NZ is famous again
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Post by tzarine on Nov 9, 2023 15:44:30 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 9, 2023 21:58:43 GMT -5
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Post by groo on Nov 9, 2023 22:18:21 GMT -5
Gomer Pyle?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 10, 2023 1:04:25 GMT -5
Last night we started watching Kleo on Netflix.
Discussed whether to go for subtitles or dubbing - I wanted subtitles, the others said we could try the dubbing. we lasted less than two minutes, the dubbing was dreadful.
Switch to original German with subtitles, but we didn't realise the closed caption subtitles were also on. So Kleo walks down the tunnel, and suddenly on screen are the words 'the rat squeaks Ahk' (something like that). We giggle, but LC absolutely loses it, falling off the couch he was laughing so much, which makes us laugh even harder.
Thankfully we then worked out how to switch off the CC bit and just stick with the normal subtitles
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Post by Queen on Nov 10, 2023 2:33:57 GMT -5
One of my favourite closed captions << foreign music >> or sometimes just << foreign >> when they can't decipher what was said, on occasion that includes a Geordie accent
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 10, 2023 3:08:56 GMT -5
Oh yes, this was giving the lyrics for the songs before we switched it off.
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Post by riverhorse on Nov 10, 2023 12:18:58 GMT -5
Last night we started watching Kleo on Netflix. Discussed whether to go for subtitles or dubbing - I wanted subtitles, the others said we could try the dubbing. we lasted less than two minutes, the dubbing was dreadful. Switch to original German with subtitles, but we didn't realise the closed caption subtitles were also on. So Kleo walks down the tunnel, and suddenly on screen are the words 'the rat squeaks Ahk' (something like that). We giggle, but LC absolutely loses it, falling off the couch he was laughing so much, which makes us laugh even harder. Thankfully we then worked out how to switch off the CC bit and just stick with the normal subtitles OMG I loved that series! Enjoy!
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 10, 2023 18:08:46 GMT -5
I was in the kitchen and heard knocking - but it didn't seem to be the door, it sounded more like a window. So I followed where the sound was coming from, and it turned out that this crow was looking down from the skylight and knocking on the skylight with its foot. I swear they do that to get us to walk up the stairs and look.
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