• (disco) in reply to loose
    loose:
    dkf:
    dead horse left unflogged

    And there was me thinking that we take a rod to our own backs when we use this forum software. [spoiler]You may need to squint a bit whilst looking at the first two words of the quote to get the joke[/spoiler]

    AN IMAGE MACRO

    [image] # ABOUT SEEING SOMETHING # THAT SOMEONE DID SOMEWHERE
  • (disco) in reply to Jarry

    Its better than having something as silly as this written into law:

    Formerly, starting and ending dates were variable, but in 2008, a decree (No. 6558 of 9 September 2008) established a permanent rule: DST starts at 00:00 on the third Sunday in October and ends at 00:00 on the third Sunday in February— **unless the latter falls during Carnaval:** in this case, the end of DST is postponed by one week.

    Of course Carnaval is the only thing important enough to trump DST here.

  • (disco) in reply to fbmac

    Ah, great way to live the stereotype, there, Brazil.

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar
    ben_lubar:
    Uh, that's pretty close to what I meant, Wolfram|Alpha...

    Wolfram|Alpha Can't is quite amusing for a quick giggle.

    https://twitter.com/wacnt

    wacnt twunted:
    shortest regular expression that matches the name of everyone at the Council of Elrond but nobody in KISS
  • (disco) in reply to Cursorkeys

    https://twitter.com/wacnt/status/658795373599703040

    Hmm...it's difficult just to come up with the sports. Roller derby is all I've got so far.

    EDIT: So maybe this... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rollergirl-Totally-True-Tales-Track/dp/0743297156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349959127&sr=8-1

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Relay racing?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Motorsport is technically a team sport (some brands at least) Hockey uses a puck American football, as we all know, is played with an egg

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    American football, as we all know, is played with an egg
    [image]

    :-D

    it's true

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    :smiley:

    it's true

    Shit...you get the weird UK eggs in Maine, too?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    What, the eggs that haven't been fucked up so much they can't survive out of a fridge?

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa

    Is the weird extra pointy shape important to that?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Dunno, ask your wife

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    Dunno, ask your wife

    She'd probably complain it's too small.

    Filed under: Did I do that right?

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar

    https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/1/81d5882d1e3bc29e792d20941c5f341bd3ce2d0a.png

    Ok I was going to say shivering lemur, but now that I can see it full size, it's clearly an angry calendar lynx.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    There's like 80 ski-based sports that don't use balls.

  • (disco)

    return DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("o"); // zulu time or return DateTime.Now.ToString("o"); // local time with +/- offset

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    something must be going on during the bath if you still smell like you need a bath after the bath.

    We weren't talking about what I smell like after a bath; we were talking about what the dogs smell like after they have a bath. (I need a bath after they have one, because I'm covered in stinky dog bathwater, too.)

    Tsaukpaetra:
    I assume you're just not washing with the correct stuff.
    Maybe. I buy the cheapest dog shampoo I can get, with no dyes or fragrances. They're dogs. They don't care about fancy shampoos; they'd rather not have any shampoo (or bath) at all.
  • (disco) in reply to Mason_Wheeler

    That is definitely the correct version - heck I came to the forums just to correct the blunder in the WTF post. ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    There's like 80 ski-based sports that don't use balls.

    Does that stuff really count as team sports?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    blakeyrat:
    There's like 80 ski-based sports that don't use balls.

    Does that stuff really count as team sports?

    not really? i mean it's team score, but all individual performance....

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    not really? i mean it's team score, but all individual performance....

    Exactly.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Curling motherbitches!!!

  • (disco) in reply to fbmac
    fbmac:
    Of course Carnaval is the only thing important enough to trump DST here.

    Can't have that carnival shortened by a whole hour, can we?

    I hope I didn't mess it up. I can't remember when it's a missing hour and when it's an extra hour. I just let my phone and PC deal with it which they do surprisingly well.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track

    Damn clickbait book covers.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    they'd rather not have any shampoo (or bath) at all

    Occasionally my cat needs a bath and she is absolutely clear that she regards me as Hitler for doing so. I then get the silent treatment for days. Leather apron and gauntlets make it reasonably painless for me though.

    I had to bath my rats once and if you thought a well-soaped rat wouldn't be able to claw up the inside of a skinny-jeans clad leg you'd be wrong :confused:

  • (disco) in reply to Cursorkeys
    Cursorkeys:
    Occasionally my cat needs a bath and she is absolutely clear that she regards me as Hitler for doing so. I then get the silent treatment for days. Leather apron and gauntlets make it reasonably painless for me though.

    When I moved house a few hundred miles, my cat was brought up in a 4 hour drive during which he crapped in his catbox and rolled all over it. He then ran away and hid in the chimney when we got him in to the new place. Washing a shitty, sooty, angry cat is one of the hardest things I've ever done, and to top it all I was known as a crazy cat guy afterwards because when asked what I got up to at the weekend I said "I washed my cat", and people assumed I did it for fun or something

  • (disco) in reply to obeselymorbid
    obeselymorbid:
    boomzilla:
    Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track

    Damn clickbait book covers.

    TIL alliteration and assonance are clickbait.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    TIL alliteration and **ass**onance are clickbait.

    I added emphasis to correct you. The clickbait was the cover graphic, I'm pretty sure.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Yup, with that cover I expect it to be at least a soft p0rn or something. Instead it's a boring biography of some rollerskater.

  • (disco) in reply to obeselymorbid

    Yeah, it's a sport that's about watching chicks in short skirts skate around a track. I think there's rules and scoring and stuff, but I'm not totally sure.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    watching chicks in short skirts

    I'm not usually into sports, but that's the kind I might actually enjoy.

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    I washed my cat

    At a previous job long, long ago, one of the other engineers was forevermore teased for having once declined some after-hours social activity with the excuse, "I need to wash my cat."

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    it's a sport ... rules and scoring and stuff, but I'm not totally sure.

    I can vaguely recall watching it on TV when I was a kid, probably on long, boring summer afternoons when it was too hot to play outside, and there was nothing better to do. I think I understood the rules at the time, but that was decades ago, and I've long forgotten them. My impression, filtered through the haze of time, is that it is a "sport" in rather the same way as professional wrestling; it's all staged and rehearsed. The outcome may not be predetermined (people on skates crashing into each other may fall down in unplanned ways), but it's not exactly serious competition, either.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    My impression, filtered through the haze of time, is that it is a "sport" in rather the same way as professional wrestling; it's all staged and rehearsed.

    I think the televised stuff is, but there are amateur leagues, at least.

    http://novarollerderby.com/

    As I recall, there are particular skaters (who wear an armband or something?) on each team and the goal is for them to lap the other team or something in order to score.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    You seem to know more about it than I remember, but your statement is consistent with what little I do remember.

  • (disco) in reply to Cursorkeys
    Cursorkeys:
    cat needs a bath

    For future reference, start doing it when the cat is a kitten. It will get used to it over time and not fight you. Also, if you do it regularishly, people who are allergic to cat dander will have fewer problems around the cat.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    Cat doesn't have to be a kitten, as long as you wash her enough so she remembers last time she was washed there was no real harm done. My cat does flea meds every 3 months-ish, so I always just wash her the day before giving her the meds. Result: she's completely unconcerned about being washed, but still hates the flea meds on the back of her neck.

    If you have a long-hair, you have to wash them as they get older (or I guess you could be a horrible asshole pet owner), because it becomes really difficult for them to wash themselves.

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