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[Doktor Howl]

Okay. Accurate joke time:

Two men walk into a bar.
They order beers and get drunk.

How many beers?  What are their body weights?  Did their blood/alcohol reach .08?

guy 1 drank 6.7 beers, guy 2 drank 8.9.
Guy 1 weighs 94 kilograms (207.234 pounds), guy 2 weighs 87.987 (193.978 pounds)
They both reached blood/alcohol levels of point zero eight one.

How sure are you on the 6.7/8.9 number?  Did you do this by weight or volume?

Both. I am a conscientious man when it comes to bar joke accuracy.

Okay.  I think we can assume it's okay to laugh at that one.

Everyone laugh now.

[Triple Zero]

HA HA HA HA.





.. you know, this puts the BAR pretty high, for jokes?

[Doktor Howl]

.. you know, this puts the BAR pretty high, for jokes?

Was that an attempt at unregulated humor?

[EK WAFFLR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yspHR4IxKiU

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yspHR4IxKiU

Nannywall. 

Cain, can you vett the clip for accuracy?

[CorbeauEtRenard]

Seems both accurate and precise to me. But I'm not yet certified to confirm that sort of thing.

[EK WAFFLR]

It's an order to give everyone cavity searches.

[Doktor Howl]

It's an order to give everyone cavity searches.

Well.  Can't argue with THAT.

[EK WAFFLR]

It's an order to give everyone cavity searches.

Well.  Can't argue with THAT.

THEY MIGHT BE INVOLVED!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Personally I can't see why we can't have both, btw. Jokes are good, but at least a few of the pedant remarks were interesting, too (like ECH's one about trawling).

That wasn't a joke thread, though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Okay. Accurate joke time:

Two men walk into a bar.
They order beers and get drunk.

How many beers?  What are their body weights?  Did their blood/alcohol reach .08?

guy 1 drank 6.7 beers, guy 2 drank 8.9.
Guy 1 weighs 94 kilograms (207.234 pounds), guy 2 weighs 87.987 (193.978 pounds)
They both reached blood/alcohol levels of point zero eight one.

God, I love that joke!

[Triple Zero]

Personally I can't see why we can't have both, btw. Jokes are good, but at least a few of the pedant remarks were interesting, too (like ECH's one about trawling).

That wasn't a joke thread, though.

Oh, you're right But still. IMO the only thing stopping a joke thread from going on is not riffing and posting new jokes. Not the "serious" stuff in between.

Although RWHN's post was quite a downer.

(but in all fairness I didn't really enjoy the jokes about cutting either, from having seen such up close and they weren't attention-whoring, instead covering up their scars and wishing they could stop. well you said you have similar experiences, so I guess you know what it's like. still I can't really help being bothered by it, which is simply what I feel. btw to end on a positive note, those friends got over it in the end [at least concerning the cutting])

ANYWAY

it kind of made me wonder today, what if instead of linear threads we'd have branched threads? you know like Reddit has, for instance.

sometimes on Reddit people go on a pun-off, and it doesn't jack the thread, because it's just a single branch.

same for people being pedantic, or perhaps honestly having something interesting yet dry to tell, can post that in a joke thread, while the jokes continue in the main branch. depending on which discussion is more popular of course.

i know we talked about this before, there were some downsides, I forget which, but it was just a thought I had

[AFK]

Eh, wasn't trying to kill a thread.  And what some people want to call "pedant" I would call, clarifying information, and information I think is important. 

But, you know, everyone could've just ignored it and moved on instead of wasting time getting all passive aggressive about it. 

I mean, it's happened to me plenty of times where I start a thread with a certain intend, and someone steers it somewhere else with a post.  Maybe it's just me, but I don't get all bent out of shape over it.  I just chalk it up to "it is what it is".

But yeah, sorry I ruined your thread.  You're an admin Dok, just cut the fucking offending post out and move on.   

[Doktor Howl]

Eh, wasn't trying to kill a thread.  And what some people want to call "pedant" I would call, clarifying information, and information I think is important. 

But, you know, everyone could've just ignored it and moved on instead of wasting time getting all passive aggressive about it. 

Whoa.

The irony meter just blew up.

[Doktor Howl]

(but in all fairness I didn't really enjoy the jokes about cutting either, from having seen such up close and they weren't attention-whoring, instead covering up their scars and wishing they could stop.

Well, the whole idea of the OP was to be utterly over the top.  Suicide isn't a "funny" topic, and neither is cutting.  In fact, they aren't a topic anyone talks about at all.  Making a sick joke out of it sort of rips the taboo away from it.