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Seasonal frist
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Only a few lines in and I'm already cringing. Fuck. I could not work here.
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I'm not a hunter, but even I know brown-and-green camouflage for hunting is a Really Bad Idea™, unless you want to get yourself shot. Unless you're hunting humans, your prey is almost certainly colorblind, and brightly colored (read: orange) camouflage pattern is just as effective, but lets your (hopefully not colorblind) fellow hunters see that you're not prey.
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I don't mind hillbillies or hunting (my dad and his family are hillbillies), just not in the office. It's just such a bad mix.
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Me neither, but I know quite a few. They all seem to really like beer. But definitely not while they're hunting.
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At least not the ones who come back from hunting.
"Warning: Side effects of beer can include drowsiness, blurred vision and natural selection. Please enjoy responsibly."
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The best thing about seasonal frists is that stores start selling them several months in advance.
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Continuing the discussion from 'Tis the Season:
Surely that's the idea?
Get all your staff to wamble around in the middle of nowhere, half-drunk (or more), wearing camo that makes them look like prey, and pick off, one by one, the useless ones you're too craven to dismiss. All such incidents are easily explained away as "hunting accidents".
Buck is clearly one of those who has been slated by upper management so as to be afforded this treatment. Unfortunately, the laptop mishap which sent him back prematurely to the office caused that plan to misfire (no pun intended) and so the CEO will have to wait till next year to "fire" Buck.
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And given his name...
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"Both tape and musk led to his manager Buck’s office."
That would be the first ever 0pt. buck. Not only nothing on its head but nothing inside either.
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Elk-hunting season is coming up here. That's when you fetch grandad out of the retirement home, drive him out into the forest, and prop him up with a gun and a bottle of vodka.
.. The clever hunting teams "forget" to give him any shells.
INB4: Of course you fetch him back at the end of the day and put him back into the retirement home, sans the gun and the bottle.
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You're right about the 'camo' blaze orange, it's a good safety compromise.
However, deer actually can see a little color in the red zone, as indicated by examining their retinas. Large areas of blaze orange are noticeable to them, especially if they move.
I leave my blaze orange balaclava hanging within arms reach, so it is noticeable to humans, but motionless.
And definitely no beer. I'm not a Darwin Award candidate ;)
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Oh, I dunno...a drunk, well armed geriatric might spice things up a bit down at the Dunroamin' Retirement home...maybe just give him a magazine of blanks.
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I agree, but you miss the point of the retirement homes. They're there to keep the elderly nicely drugged up and sedated while waiting for death. Excitement is the last thing we want them to have -- that'll just run up the drug bill.
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If they've got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin, then maybe the shock of sudden gunfire - as grandpa fights off his somnambulistic wartime demons - will give them the 'nudge' they need to shuffle off to the other side.
I don't feel proud about writing any of this. I love old people :)
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Waat :interrobang: And make the people working at the retirement home unemployed? Nonononononono!
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This is a myth. Most mammals have three types of receptor: red/green, blue and low level rods. Primates have re-evolved three colour vision, but it is not as good in colour discrimination as the three colour vision of reptiles or the 4 colour vision of birds. (This by the way is one of the most convincing demonstrations of evolution in action.) Because skylight has different colour temperatures at different times of day, a colour combination which resembles another to a 2-colour mammal in noon sunlight will not do so under different conditions. However, there are other kinds of camouflage which are not based directly on colour but on breaking up apparent outlines, and these can result in patterns visible to people but harder to see for e.g. deer.
Oh, and finally on the hunting theme - it is Duck Tape (a trademark) not duct tape. Real Duck Tape is still on sale, so it is not a generic. In the UK the generic is usually called Gaffer Tape due to its use by theatre/ciné technicians (the senior one is called the gaffer.)
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Real gaffer's tape is different from duct tape (or Duck Tape, which is indeed a trademark for a brand of tape similar to the silvery-gray tape used for sealing air ducts). The tape has a matte surface, without the plastic surface of duct tape, and the adhesive is designed to be removed without leaving a sticky residue.
The gaffer is the head electrician (there are other sorts of technicians running around, too). In US usage, at least, "gaffer" is limited to the movie/TV industry; theatre simply calls him/her the head or chief electrician.
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So in this short timespan I got confirmed that mammals don't see colors but yes they do. And learnt why we call it "gaffah" tape. If you keep this up, I'll rival Wikipedia in a few years.
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This article scream BS to me. I think it was written entirely on stereotypes.
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YMBNH
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Nitpickery denied. Duck Tape is duct tape. Says so right here:
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Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_incident
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Calling that type of tape "duct tape" is always correct. Calling it "Duck Tape" only correct if you're specifically referring to Duck® Brand Duct Tape.
"Duct" is the kind of tape, "Duck®" is a brand name.
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So, it "Duck Tape®" is for taping ducts, what do you use for taping ducks?
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What about calling it “duck tape” without capitalisation?
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This, this is management as she should be practiced.
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Duck® Brand Duct Tape is for taping ducts. Duck® Brand also makes other kinds of tape which would not be appropriate for taping ducts.
For taping ducks, I'd recommend using MP3, AAC, or your other preferred audio format.
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FLAC 192kHz
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hunter2
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Or some other recreational substance
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Whether or not "Duck Tape" is trademarked, it is in fact named that way because it's adhesive added to duck cloth, a specific weight of sailcloth from those bygone years before ripstop nylon.
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"Duck, tape!" [image] ProTip: never hire me as an artist
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Especially since my first impression definitely had no thoughts of tape. Definitely of ducking.
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This Duck Tape duct tape thing smells with patent troll who wants to get rich quick by suing people who fail to make the space between the two T's clear enough when speaking fast in commercials.
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Where I live most people don't pronounce "duct" any differently from "duck", although you can when you need to.
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What is Scotch Tape for then? :smile:
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Measuring the quantity remaining?
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[quote="LB_, post:36, topic:50949”] https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/c/2cc23c9e6c96015dc9b59a53f160dda7ba4e0401.png ProTip: never hire me as an artist [/quote] Why not? Your drawing skills are better than those of the people who illustrated the childrens’ books that were forced upon me in primary school.