The Joe Man posted:

At Half Price Books I used to find fully complete/mint big box PC games in the clearance section for like 50 cents until they hired some fat nerd behind the counter who would actually check rarity/prices. They had a scratched up CD-only copy of Alice: Madness Returns in a plastic bag and it was priced at $40-something and I looked over at him and he looked over at me and we knowingly glared at each other for what seemed like an eternity.

a crisp refreshing Moxie posted:

Cool to know HPB sells mirrors now.

PurpleXVI posted:

Scissor lifts own. Nothing like cranking one up to full height and enjoying the view.

Blistex posted:

Omitting the first sentence left me in stitches.

Alhazred posted:

On august 4th 1945 the US ambassador in Soviet received a hand carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a symbol of friendship between the two countries. The ambassador thought it was a lovely gesture and hung it in his office. In 1952 it was discovered that the plaque was bugged.

CoolCab posted:

one of the most ingenious bugs of all time to be fair, it wasn't like they left a big cartoon microphone in there. they didn't find it because it relied on a technology that the american government didn't even fully understand yet, thus it's amazing name. it was totally passive and relied on energy broadcast from afar which is similar to RFID chips.

it would probably have lasted for decades if someone didn't accidentally tune into the signal, lol.

the holy poopacy posted:

wikipedia posted:

The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin,[4] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Ah, so a wizard did it.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

As with all genius inventors, they rewarded Theremin by putting him in a camp.

Red Bones posted:

afaik he invented the spying device when he was in the camp (it was a gulag for scientists to do research for the soviets). I'm not sure why he got put in the camp initially - it might have been for moving to the US for a while, it might have been for inventing electronic music. Maybe he just looked at someone funny.

Brawnfire posted:

Perhaps Theremin got too close to something and it raised an alarm

snergle posted:

i took german in high school and my german penpal was 9 yrs old. he wrote to me in english and i wrote to him in german. he wanted to call me on the phone to practice his spoken english and i would practice my spoken german. he called me and i was taught by a bavarian lady. he told me i sound like a Rword hick and he is sorry but he can no longer be my penpal.

JohnnyThreeToes posted:

Crossed signals really isn't possible. This girl was doing all the girly poo poo to let a guy know (playing with my hair, giving me "gently caress-me eyes", asking when I get off of work) that she is down. There really was no room for misinterpretation. I was flirting back and she was digging it. Plus, girls know that when a guy asks for their number that it isn't to play Scrabble.

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Downtown Abey posted:

Well, since the thread isn't very good to begin with and you, for some reason, decided to troll people giving you honest insight, you've got 12 hours to apologize to the three posters above the quote & myself for such a horrific transgression.

JohnnyThreeToes posted:

gently caress you.

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Platystemon posted:

Person One: “Play Freebird!”

Person Two, hard of hearing: “Why Three Bird?”

Simply Simon posted:

I'm reading "#3" as "number three". Help a guy out

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

Pound three

Inceltown posted:

*laughing in Australian*

Brawnfire posted:

¡ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐH

Imagined posted:

For sale: sex couch, never used.

mobby_6kl posted:

How do you use it? I don't see any... openings

CaptainBeefart posted:

If you don't see any openings, you're the opening.

Zetsubou-san posted:

https://twitter.com/rusmclaughlin/status/1440436991150071815?s=20

christmas boots posted:

And it took how long for the 9/11 first responders to get their bill?

QUACKTASTIC posted:

I don't think Elvira's girlfriend was involved in that one

PizzaProwler posted:

RFC2324 posted:

my brain always wants to parse it as 'Elrond Hubbard'

Elrond Hubbard posted:

Same

Zero One posted:

Captain Hygiene posted:

That's a username joke that works out basically once in a lifetime

Captain Hygiene posted:

That's a username joke that works out basically once in a lifetime

B-Nasty posted:

Yesterday I got recruiter spam where the recruiter, before listing the jobs they 'had', was attempting to sell his old car. Now I can't even joke about tech recruiters being like used car salesman.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

CommissarMega posted:

Ten Inch Tails was right there, come on!

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I feel like the sonic fandom would not handle this innocent pun very well

Lobok posted:

OwlFancier posted:

If I had to install my own plumbing, I would instead be making GBS threads in a hole in the ground, so I don't feel like that is a great argument tbh.

Powered Descent posted:

* looks up from hole*

Are you saying there's a better way?

Brawnfire posted:

What the- you again?!? Get the gently caress out of my latrine you pervert!

Bruceski posted:

I love it when collections include previously unseen games like Circle of the Moon.

flavor.flv posted:

(it's a backlight joke)

The Lone Badger posted:

Unfortunately due to material shortages we were only able to produce one wunderwaffle for the entire nation. As it was made using slave labour it may contain ground glass and/or razor blades, the user is encouraged to inspect carefully before consumption.
The wunderwaffle is too large for any of our serving plates and so we cannot transport it from the kitchen to the table at this time, please instead enjoy this pleasing propaganda description of it.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

make jaxyon an ik

Herstory Begins Now posted:

watch 20 of the worst posters will now trip over themselves to say 'oh god no'

Jaxyon posted:

OH GOD NO

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Super Hornio Bros 2 is actually a redub of another film, "Dicky Dicky Pornfic"

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Scratch Monkey posted:

https://twitter.com/grifferslol/status/1441550408174997505?s=20

Paladinus posted:

Something-something, Assaulta Claus.

Knormal posted:

Ol' Saint Kick?

Rectovagitron posted:

Please, it's a tannenbomb.

Stultus Maximus posted:

About a week ago, my father passed away.

When I was six, he gave me a hammer for Christmas. I still have it.
When I was seven, I got a crosscut saw. I still have it.

He was of the generation of men who would never express love or caring in words. It's just not how he was raised. My mother always worried I didn't know he loved me or that he was proud of me, but I did know. I understood that he expressed it in actions for and with me. I spent a lot of time each summer growing up working with him. He was a teacher, so we had a lot of time to work. Digging fence posts, car maintenance, gut renovation of the entire second floor of the house - there was always plenty to do. Not a lot of talking, but the work spoke all that needed to be said.

He taught me a lot, but the most important thing was the value of work. Not the monetary value or the utility of the results, but the dignity of labor. He was an educated professional but he didn't feel like he actually worked except when it was with his hands.
He taught me that working with sweat, with muscles, with hands, with skill - that work is something sacred.

When he was in the hospital dying, my sister sang to him. One of her gifts is a truly beautiful soprano voice. I didn't have anything like that to offer. I didn't even have much to say - our conversations were never with words, but with actions.

So I went home and did the only thing I could think to do. I made his final resting place.

The Maestro posted:

What is that, a coffin for ants?