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my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. one day, one of the outlets in an upstairs bathroom stopped working. my stepdad went crazy trying to figure out why - checking the wiring, the fuses, everything. eventually he admitted defeat and called in a professional electrician. it took the guy hours to figure out what was wrong. eventually he emerged from the garage, visibly disturbed and slightly disheveled. he had fixed it. it turned out that the light in the garage door opener had burned out. my stepdad had removed the burnt-out bulb, but hadn't yet put in a new one. for some absolutely inscrutable reason, this caused the upstairs outlet to stop working. the upstairs outlet only works if there is a working lightbulb in the garage door opener. no one understands why.
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Keru posted:I think they meant Roma, who are not Travelers, though? Travelers are their own thing and primarily a british isles offshoot, complete with it's own british version of 'oh they all steal you know?'. Maybe he ment tourists? As someone who used to live in a touristy area you could do the same thing by saying the words look at the snow bird taking a picture of a palm tree to me.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. this is the kind of poo poo doctors would write a case study on if it were a dude instead of a building  are your parents going to get their wiring redone? i would be afraid to sleep in that house on the off chance that a full moon would align with venus and set the refrigerator on fire
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Jun 18, 2018 17:07
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. That's cool your stepdad lives in the Resident Evil mansion
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My ol' wifenheimer were hunting for our first house together and thought we had found a pretty decent starter home. It had some quirks, but nothing we didn't think we could sort out or afford to pay someone else to sort out. Then we got the inspection. The HVAC was powered by an extension cord that had the end cut and bare wires twisted together. This is also how the dishwasher was hooked up under the kitchen sink, so one can assume there were more examples of this elsewhere. The breaker box was of course a shitshow. The list of deficiencies was long and the inspector said it was in his top 10 worst houses ever, but my person favorite feature was the insulation in the attic: 100% packing peanuts.
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Jun 18, 2018 17:19
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. Their house is basically an old string of christmas lights where they're all in series.
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Jun 18, 2018 17:21
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Friend posted:
That is solid fuckin gold right there.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. What's terrifying to me is that in all probability, a bunch of the world's biggest computer-based services are the same way. Just a big pile of spaghetti and when you change the wording on a checkout page in Brazil, suddenly the payment system in Denmark is in Hebrew, etc.
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wayfinder posted:What's terrifying to me is that in all probability, a bunch of the world's biggest computer-based services are the same way. Just a big pile of spaghetti and when you change the wording on a checkout page in Brazil, suddenly the payment system in Denmark is in Hebrew, etc. As a software developer, I guarantee you this is the case.
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Jun 18, 2018 17:42
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my mom & stepdad's house has some grover-level electrical weirdness. it has a lot - like a lot - of outlets, many of which are in weird places. my parents joked that the house had been built by an amateur electrician who was practicing his trade. Spanish Manlove posted:Their house is basically an old string of christmas lights where they're all in series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXaw70X7wb4
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Jun 18, 2018 17:48
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Field Mousepad posted:That is solid fuckin gold right there. Found the inspection report 
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wayfinder posted:What's terrifying to me is that in all probability, a bunch of the world's biggest computer-based services are the same way. Just a big pile of spaghetti and when you change the wording on a checkout page in Brazil, suddenly the payment system in Denmark is in Hebrew, etc. It's all of them. All code is terrible and every program is a tangled mess of gross hacks, badly organized structure, dependency on libraries that haven't been updated in 20 years, and prayer. The internet is accurately described as "always burning down all the time."
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Jun 18, 2018 21:27
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"if you ever feel like you're cheating when programming, remember that a computer is a rock we tricked into thinking." edit, as the follow-up from the original author was something like "well, first we have to flatten the rock then put lightning inside of it"
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Jun 18, 2018 21:29
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it turned out that the light in the garage door opener had burned out. my stepdad had removed the burnt-out bulb, but hadn't yet put in a new one. for some absolutely inscrutable reason, this caused the upstairs outlet to stop working. the upstairs outlet only works if there is a working lightbulb in the garage door opener. no one understands why.
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Jun 18, 2018 21:29
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RabbitWizard posted:Neutral from the lightbulb goes to "hot" in the outlets. No lightbulb (to close the circuit), no hot. Sounds like soldering a washer into the light socket is the only solution.
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Jun 18, 2018 21:34
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CaptainViolence posted:are your parents going to get their wiring redone? no they've just accepted that that's the way the house is. eventually yeah they'll die because the ice cube maker in the freezer will run out of water and that will cause the ceiling fan in their bedroom to burst into flames RabbitWizard posted:Neutral from the lightbulb goes to "hot" in the outlets. No lightbulb (to close the circuit), no hot. i dont know what this means chernobyl kinsman has a new favorite as of 22:42 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Jun 18, 2018 22:38
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So... Um... Not to continue the Grover topic too heavily, but did no one call Grover out for drugging his loving wife?!
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Jun 18, 2018 22:40
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Slimy Hog posted:Did you just come into some money or something? Aphrodite posted:Only because he was out of tissues. worth at least a sensible chuckle
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Jun 18, 2018 22:42
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DicktheCat posted:So... Um... Not to continue the Grover topic too heavily, but did no one call Grover out for drugging his loving wife?! Vincent Van Goatse posted:Those are fake quotes.
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Jun 18, 2018 22:42
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chernobyl kinsman posted:no they've just accepted that that's the way the house is. eventually yeah they'll die because the ice cube maker in the freezer will run out of water and that will cause the ceiling fan in their bedroom to burst into flames I think he means that it’s wired in such a way that the lightbulb literally completes the circuit, kind of like if you took the middle section out of a bridge and used a barge to fill in the missing section.
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Jun 18, 2018 22:48
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i dont know what this means This is a normal electrical installation:  Power goes from + to - This is your installation:  The lightbulb is needed to complete the first part of the circuit, without it, no way for the power to go to the outlets. Or I may be totally wrong, so this is the place to go: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3090739
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Jun 18, 2018 22:58
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DicktheCat posted:So... Um... Not to continue the Grover topic too heavily, but did no one call Grover out for drugging his loving wife?! Nobody did because that never actually happened.
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Jun 18, 2018 23:25
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Here's Vincent Van Goatse at it again, trying to gaslight the whole forum and no one calls him out on it.
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Jun 18, 2018 23:26
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's all of them. All code is terrible and every program is a tangled mess of gross hacks, badly organized structure, dependency on libraries that haven't been updated in 20 years, and prayer. The internet is accurately described as "always burning down all the time." I also left an easter egg in my code by defining "constant HAMPRINCE" but not using it for anything.
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We have strayed very far from funny forums quotes. I would like to request people post some of the little bits of fiction that pop up from time to time. I'm talking about things like the stories from the Seasteading and Glenn Beckistan threads, as well as the little vignettes that just appear in threads. Impromptu fiction jams are my favorite recurring feature of these forums. I almost got one started in the "hole in my roof" thread, but it petered out. I'd go dig up some good ones, but I don't have archives.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:We have strayed very far from funny forums quotes. I would like to request people post some of the little bits of fiction that pop up from time to time. I'm talking about things like the stories from the Seasteading and Glenn Beckistan threads, as well as the little vignettes that just appear in threads. Here's some classics from threads gone by: A PRIZED MULE! posted:HAHA one time this guy called for pizzas and got mad because we didn't deliver (pick up only). after five minutes of arguing and him being all gansta out of no where he goes BITCH I'M GONNA MISS 'MARTIN'!!!!! poo poo!!!!. i was so fed up with arguing that without even thinking i returned with WELL I HAVE TO WORK WHILE "MARTIN" IS ON AND I'M NOWHERE NEAR A TV SO I'M MISSING IT TOO HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL!? seebs posted:Actual content: Most cats can be rebooted. If you've ever had to deal with a cat who wanted to mess with something, they can be pretty persistent in trying to get at it after you hide it. Solution: Reboot the cat. Basically, you have to give it a handful of stimuli too fast for it to process them without forgetting what it was doing. For most cats I've had, that's about three things. My usual process: Pick the cat up, blow in its face, drop it (not like throwing it, just let it down pretty fast), then snap your fingers once on each side of its head. ol qwerty bastard posted:Tea Partiers are anti-government because they are old and racist; libertarians are anti-government because they are young and clueless. In theory they could ally with each other but they can't ever interact since Teabaggers don't understand the internet and libertarians don't understand "going outside". Coffee And Pie posted:If you have to sign a letter with "Not racist," you're probably racist. Normal people don't have that problem, you'll never see a note like "Bob- Be sure to buy milk, we're almost out. Not racist, Jim." I've got some others but I don't wanna use 'em all up in one post.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Here's some classics from threads gone by: Just tried this. My cat was sitting peacefully in a chair though, so when I rebooted her she looked around for a second, and then walked up to my dog and slapped him. Pretty sure that's in her startup folder though so I guess it worked
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I’m pretty sure the only thing my cats are really persistent about getting is food. I don’t know that I could trick them out of being able to smell chicken bones or whatever, but I guess it’s worth a shot!
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Eela6 posted:As a software developer, I guarantee you this is the case. How can this be the case when software engineers, as they'll tell you, are the most smarterest people in the world?
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Jun 19, 2018 01:47
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Pick posted:How can this be the case when software engineers, as they'll tell you, are the most smarterest people in the world? Software engineers who deny being idiots don't actually engineer software. They're probably, like, a manager
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all software is poo poo because software engineers can never be fired because any time someone who isnt a software engineer has to interact with a software engineer they just let out a HNNNGGGGG and get the gently caress away from them
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Pick posted:How can this be the case when software engineers, as they'll tell you, are the most smarterest people in the world? The guy or gal who wrote the code almost certainly had zero input into the architecting decisions.
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Phthisis posted:all software is poo poo because software engineers can never be fired because any time someone who isnt a software engineer has to interact with a software engineer they just let out a HNNNGGGGG and get the gently caress away from them Also because software engineers get wise to the fact that doing a lovely job is actually job security for them because they’re the only one who understands how their lovely programming works It’s the Radium approach
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My brother called me one night because he said he was having an issue with an outlet. I drove over, walked into his room, and immediately smelled burning plastic. I asked what the issue was and he said, "just watch the outlet", and then flipped off the lights. The outlet was projecting a red-orange light onto the floor like shadow puppet show. I went outside and turned off the main. I then ended up cutting out a big section of wall because the meth addicts that owned the place before him had apparently come up short on wire and had spliced in about 2 feet of old aluminum 1960s trailer house wire.
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Untrustable posted:My brother called me one night because he said he was having an issue with an outlet. I drove over, walked into his room, and immediately smelled burning plastic. I asked what the issue was and he said, "just watch the outlet", and then flipped off the lights. The outlet was projecting a red-orange light onto the floor like shadow puppet show. I went outside and turned off the main. I then ended up cutting out a big section of wall because the meth addicts that owned the place before him had apparently come up short on wire and had spliced in about 2 feet of old aluminum 1960s trailer house wire. I am guessing that when referring to the pair of you, you are known as 'the smart one'
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context - someone bragged about having met their spouse on a cwc-themed forum:whoflungpoop posted:My grandparents had a trunk full of the letters they exchanged while my grandfather was fighting in north africa and sicily in WWII.
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terrible steam games thread discusses a terrible game (I included the second post there to give you an idea of what kind of game it is without clicking the link - which is probably  btw)Largepotato posted:This is currently on the front page new and trending releases list. Light Gun Man posted:OK so a friend of mine gifted this to me and...it's actually pretty fun? And kinda funny? Like yes half the bosses are giant monster women that attack you with their rear end but...I dunno, I'm having fun.
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Ah, the old 'friend gifted it to me' defence.
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