• (disco)

    It seems this has the wrong caption:

    http://thedailywtf.com/images/15/q2/e170/Pic-4.jpg

    TRWTF is buying "organic yogurt".

  • (disco)

    The alert should be asking "why" — as in, why would anyone want to visit Cleveland, even online? Amirite?

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    Cleveland's not so bad. There's.... um....

    there's....

    there's....

    sports? Maybe? Sometimes?

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue

    They don't even set the river on fire any more.

  • (disco)

    Stay away from Australia because you'll be out of the habitable zone for life.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    set the river on fire

    I expect with all the oil and burned debris afterwards, it was rather black water.

  • (disco)

    TIL you can pay for ranch dressing with metal dust…

  • (disco)

    OK but really what's with that snake?

  • (disco) in reply to jkshapiro

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32732870

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    why would anyone want to visit Cleveland

    Well, that guy had that show that claimed "Cleveland Rocks", but I think he meant Clevelanders have rocks in their heads, or else expressing admiration for the black guy from Family Guy.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    "I make fun of Cleveland because everybody makes fun of Cleveland. Every country has one city they always make fun of - back in Russia, we used to make fun of Cleveland." - Yakov Smirnoff

    Actually, in defense of my fair city, it has more going for it than you might think:

    • One of the top 5 orchestras in the country

    • A top-notch art museum with free admission to most exhibits

    • One of the top 5 leading hospitals in the US, and the medical research that goes with that

    • One of the most extensive park systems in the US

    • A theater district that just won a Tony Award more-or-less created specifically to honor it

    • A great microbrewery culture (the best known being Great Lakes Brewing Co, but there are a bunch of other good ones)

    • The Daily WTF (last I checked), and one of the coolest or at least most unusual tech office locations you'll ever see.

    • Cheap to live in and visit - good meals are $15 a person, for example

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    A great microbrewery culture
    \*starts planning a visit*
  • (disco) in reply to Jerome_Viveiros

    Most all of Australia was completely uninhabitable even before they moved it so far from the sun, no? (choose wisely: hot desert // hot mountain // swamp with a zillion biting insects // killer marsupials )

  • (disco) in reply to cellocgw

    Well it certainly doesn't seem to have benefitted much since they moved it back closer to said sun. :stuck_out_tongue:

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    , in defense of my fair city

    I was only making fun of Cleveland for the same reason Yakov does.

    I'll demonstrate my impartiality by slagging on Dallas: You'd have to have rockslava[1] in your head to want to live in such a brain-meltingly hot place.

    [1] SWIDT?

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G2l_A9nB0

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    A great microbrewery culture
    EatenByAGrue:
    One of the top 5 leading hospitals in the US
    EatenByAGrue:
    The Daily WTF

    All legitimate :)

    EatenByAGrue:
    good meals are $15 a person
    Where are you getting good meals in Cleveland? >.>
    EatenByAGrue:
    A top-notch art museum

    Man, the art museum folks are snooty as hell. Every time I have to work with them on something they put out these pretentious messages about how we are to behave, as if we were all small children rather than members of the community.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    TRWTF there is Python --- oh wait...wrong Python.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Where are you getting good meals in Cleveland? >.>
    - Chinese: [Li Wah][1] - Hippie stuff: [Tommy's][2] - Indian: [India Garden][3] - Burgers: [B-Spot][4] (created by Cleveland's favorite Iron Chef Michael Symon) - Italian: [Trattoria][5] (and a half-dozen other good Italian places in the neighborhood) - Mexican: [Mi Casita][6] Any other styles you're looking for?
  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue

    B-spot's the only one of those I've heard of thus far. Other than Superior Pho, I've been pretty disappointed with the quality of food around these parts. I'll give some of the others a try.

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    Hippie stuff: Tommy's
    Has a meat pie on their menu called 'Aunt Gay'.

    That's an odd name for a pie…

  • (disco) in reply to cellocgw

    Don't forget snakes! I saw on some TV show that 19 of the world's ten deadliest snakes live in Oz.

  • (disco) in reply to EatenByAGrue

    Vietnamese and Thai? North African? Greek?

    EDIT: French? The most obvious one.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Man, the art museum folks are snooty as hell.

    They know the joke about what arts graduates say to STEM graduates: "Do you want fries with that". And they resent it.

    DJSpudplucker:
    Don't forget snakes! I saw on some TV show that 19 of the world's ten deadliest snakes live in Oz.

    Don't worry, most of them get killed by the spiders.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    A pet python in the Australian city of Adelaide undergoes surgery to remove a pair of BBQ tongs it accidentally ate

    How do they know it was an accident? It might have been deliberate. Almost anything is possible with Python.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    Don't worry, most of them get killed by the spiders.

    The spiders aren't a problem though. The salties take care of that.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    The spiders aren't a problem though.

    uh...

    https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/question-for-the-crooks-the-brits-kicked-out/48711/5

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    kupfernigk:
    Don't worry, most of them get killed by the spiders.

    The spiders aren't a problem though. The salties take care of that.

    That's nothing...

    https://youtu.be/1oHmNSAtqZE

  • (disco) in reply to locallunatic
    locallunatic:
    Spiderwebs. [image]

    Explains a lot. The spiders are getting organised and working on a web big enough and thick enough to catch crocs. It's OK by me, I don't mind spiders. Which is just as well if your garden has many thousands of them. The good news is, the flies don't make it to the house much. People who hate spiders don't usually stop to think about how much they would enjoy a house full of flies.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Man, the art museum folks are snooty as hell. Every time I have to work with them on something they put out these pretentious messages about how we are to behave, as if we were all small children rather than members of the community.

    If the denizens of TDWTF are representative of programmers, I don't blame the art museum folks for telling them how to behave.

  • (disco) in reply to cellocgw

    Back in the day when the Teutonic Plates were nice and cosy and hugging up to each other and stuff. Something must of happened because Australia appeared to drift of by itself. The question is: Was Australia pushed, or did it jump way from group?

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    The spiders are getting organised and working on a web

    Which reminded me of this: [image]

    For more information, see Spider Webs… on drugs?

    [spoiler]Chloral Hydrate, are sleeping pills and if you do visit the site, my favourite is the LSD one[/spoiler]

  • (disco) in reply to loose
    loose:
    Teutonic Plates

    http://rlv.zcache.com/coat_of_arms_of_the_teutonic_order_marylandchinaplate-r860066d4bc354ff89be1949c409758b2_z78kn_324.jpg?rlvnet=1

  • (disco) in reply to dkf

    Good catch :thumbsup: Tectonic / Teutonic Meh! It was early in the morning.

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Teutonic Plates

    They were drifting away from one another in an effort to get more Lebensraum.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    Lebensraum

    Damn, I was hoping this was alcoholic based refreshment so I could post:

    (With an Australian accent) Hic!

    But then, I should not be surprised, as I've hinted my views about German words before.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk
    kupfernigk:
    People who hate spiders don't usually stop to think about how much they would enjoy a house full of flies.

    The other day I was trying to kill a fly. It was being evasive until it dodged my swatter and into a web. Ahha! Then I watched as the spider came down to prepare its prey buy then the fly buzzed so the spider ran away. Fly stopped buzzing and the spider approached. Fly started buzzing again and the spider retreated. I was mesmerised for like 10 minutes by this cycle repeating over a dozen times.

  • (disco) in reply to loose

    I got what you were talking about. I was just wondering when the plate(s) that make up Australia were connected to the plate(s) that comprise what is now northern Europe, but not enough to bother looking up when/if they were ever connected,

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    To help the inclinationary impaired, generally:

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to loose
    loose:
    inclinationary impaired

    :+1:

    I've been called apathetic and lazy, but this sounds better. :smile:

    Getting back to the topic (which has drifted MUCH faster than tectonic plates), if Australia was ever connected directly with Europe, it was long before even the formation of Pangea, so for all practical purposes, it never happened.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    I think the postulated idea was that Austria and the rest of the world went their separate ways. The question was then posed as to why?

    On a more humorous note: Accepted that there are only 4 "snapshots", what was so interesting about Asia's nether regions that made India want to shove it's head in there so damn quickly (1 frame)?

  • (disco) in reply to loose
    loose:
    **Austria** and the rest of the world went their separate ways
    :wtf: :stuck_out_tongue:
    loose:
    what was so interesting about Asia's nether regions that made India want to shove it's head in there so damn quickly
    …Chinese food?
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    …Chinese food?

    Your wrong, but I like the way you're thinking...... :wink:

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    Austria

    I mistyped and accepted the first alternative. :stuck_out_tongue:

  • (disco) in reply to loose
  • (disco) in reply to loose
    loose:
    Austria and the rest of the world went their separate ways.

    Granted, Austria hasn't done much of importance recently, but being annexed by Germany at the start of WWII was not exactly "going its separate way," and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was very involved in world affairs in WWI and prior.

    Why was Österreich — Eastern kingdom/empire/realm — anglicized to "Austria" so that it is confused with "Australia" — from Latin austellis, south?

  • (disco) in reply to hungrier

    See, I'm not the only one

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    very involved

    Bit of an understatement there :)

  • (disco)

    Well, I always learned that Australia is really far away from here (in Europe). That would explain the sun. But I could be wrong, of course:

    http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aD3nARG_700b.jpg

  • (disco) in reply to JBert
    JBert:
    TRWTF is buying "organic yogurt".

    Why? Inorganic yoghurt is quite hard to imagine. A silicon based yoghurt in a glass bottle might be quite a hard sell.

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