Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

type in

Do a barrel roll

into google...

theres quite a few more of google's easter eggs outlined here

^ i happened to see that photo somewhere else yesterday, apparently the father asked his son to pull an 'evil face'. he did a good job i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTTu4Hmx6s

I'm so behind the curve, just tell me it's re-post but this really improved my Friday...

wow

ha this is very true, it never occurred how tricky british double speak must be for non-native english speakers

Very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTTu4Hmx6s

I'm so behind the curve, just tell me it's re-post but this really improved my Friday...

Like most gymnastic events this shows a few physically impressive things interspersed with lots and lots of superfluous dancing.

Very interesting.

I keep on threatening to write a translation for customers of bike shops: for example :

"We haven't quite finished it but it will be ready by this evening" actually means, "er we haven't quite started the job...."

A "hit a small hitch" means the most junior and incompetent mechanic/teaboy has dropped the wrench of Godzilla on your carbon frame and fatally cracked it, the boss is trying to fly in a replacement.....

ha this is very true, it never occurred how tricky british double speak must be for non-native english speakers

Yeah, that is ace. But Ive always got the impression that english was quite tricky for others. Even the spellings and grammar are contradictory/illogical (clearly an afterthought to the language).

Its the dry humor/sarcasm that doesnt translate.

Fucks me up all the time.

Its the dry humor/sarcasm that doesnt translate.
Fucks me up all the time.

True fact.
I was discussing this kind of thing with a mate who hangs with a diverse international crowd.
He remarked that "non native English speakers don't understand you Willis because you talk your own distinct dialect of nonsense that is hard enough to follow even for native English speakers"

If you're charging £1/kg for something which is on tap in every home for 0.1p/kg, your advertising is going to have to give the illusion that the stuff is cheap enough to throw around.

its stock photo's not adverts

Epic physics fail; lightyear is a unit of distance, not time, and most of the stars visible to the naked eye are less than 1000 lightyears away

its a joke, not science

True fact.
I was discussing this kind of thing with a mate who hangs with a diverse international crowd.
He remarked that "non native English speakers don't understand you Willis because you talk your own distinct dialect of nonsense that is hard enough to follow even for native English speakers"

or in other words:

^ Quite.

Repped

it's a shame that the websites from AD aren't still up..

Epic physics fail; lightyear is a unit of distance, not time, and most of the stars visible to the naked eye are less than 1000 lightyears away

This thread.... not for you

its a joke, not science

This thread.... not for you

The gag would still work* with correct physics, so there was no call for it to be wrong beyond ignorance.

*as long as you only wish on supernovae

^ I agree. This idea that humour and truth are incompatible is so wrong

yeah this took me years to figure out fully. i now master it to perfection however.