• bvs23bkv33 (unregistered)

    beavers? why beavers are not delivering pucks?

  • Quite (unregistered)

    There's bound to be a pun thread starting. Musquash that.

  • John Niemann (unregistered)

    Thanks for the laugh!

  • donk (unregistered)

    over here in australia we're known to still use dinosaurs a.k.a fax

  • Ross Presser (google)
    [image]

    Addendum 2017-11-27 09:51: [img src=https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5e/f2/e8/5ef2e8004d0a9e5b44c03febe6f27b99--unique-mailboxes-moose-decor.jpg]Moose[/img]

    Addendum 2017-11-27 09:52:

    Fargh. Mod, please delete this. Humor killed by formatting confusion.

  • Uhm (unregistered)

    So which part here is the WTF? that the russians made a silly joke, or that the canadians have too much bureaucracy to remove it?

  • Matt (unregistered)

    Biggest WTF is that CorrespondenceDeliveryMethods is in plural. Should be named CorrespondenceDeliveryMethod.

  • C0wboy (unregistered)

    National stereotypes. What's that aboot? eh.

  • siciac (unregistered)

    So which part here is the WTF?

    That the author doesn't know what a stereotype is. A stereotype is a true statement, albeit often an oversimplification. For instance, "men commit most violent crime" is a stereotype about men, and easily verified from crime stats. It's still bad to assume from that that a specific man must be a violent criminal. "Canadians ride moose" is not a stereotype, it's a myth.

  • Rafa Larios (unregistered) in reply to siciac

    "Canadians ride moose" is not a stereotype, it's a myth.

    ahem.... https://www.google.com.co/search?q=Canadians+ride+moose&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB-YD9mt_XAhXMRiYKHdADAj0Q_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=933

  • Ross Presser (google) in reply to siciac

    "Canadians ride moose" is, as shown by Rafa's image search, a generalization with many true specific instances. Moreover, it's a poorly specified generalization; it should be more clearly given, such as "Some Canadians sometimes ride moose" or "Some Canadians have ridden moose in the past", both of which are true; or "All Canadians ride moose all the time" or even "All Canadians ride moose sometimes", both of which are are false.

  • Decius (unregistered) in reply to siciac

    "men commit most violent crime" is a statistic, not a stereotype. "Men are violent criminals" is a stereotype that uses that grain of truth to propagate.

  • Friedrice the Great (unregistered)

    Sorry, only PROGRAMMERS are violent criminals. Look at all the horrendous software they inflict upon us! ;)

  • Worf (unregistered)

    A stereotype is just a gross oversimplification of an attribute to a group.

    E.g., "Asians are terrible drivers" Or "Canadians are polite" Or "Americans are crude" Or "IT workers have poor hygiene" Or "IT workers have poor social skills"

  • Olivier (unregistered) in reply to donk

    How true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xOtyUgtZ8&t=0s :)

    It is worth mentioning that Matt Parker is Australian.

  • Uhm (unregistered)

    A Sociologist, a Physicist and a Mathematician travel to a foreign country, and see two black sheep.

    The Sociologist claims: "All sheep are black in this country" The Physicist replies: "That is too general, you can only say 'there are at least two black sheep in this country'" The Mathematician counters: "Actually, that is still too general. you can only say 'there are at least two sheep, who are black on at least one side'"

  • Carl Witthoft (google)

    TRWTF is they left out "... and squirrel"

  • TIL (unregistered)

    Apparently, I'm a Finn. Shame about the country I was actually born into, though.

    I'm so sick of people by this point, however, 3 meters might be on the low side.

  • airdrummer (unregistered) in reply to siciac

    actually, every stereotype has its prototype:-\

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to airdrummer

    Sounds like javascript

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