Successfully combining principles of science and mathematics—as well as creativity, among other things—to solve certain problems is not something every one of us can do. But engineers have pushed their limits of greatness time and again by completing even the most complex of tasks.
Not only are these great minds capable of doing wonderful things at work, they use brain power elsewhere as well; coming up with science-based jokes, for instance, which, thanks to the internet, we all get to enjoy. Today we’ve listed some great examples of that, shared by the ‘Wonderful Engineering’ Facebook page, so scroll down to find them and enjoy the hearty giggle.
In order to better understand what determines people’s inclination towards a certain type of humor, Bored Panda has reached out to psychologist and former lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Bruce Wilson, Ph.D., who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions. Scroll down to find his thoughts in the text below.
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HP and all other printers nowadays have tech that stops it from working, whether it be locked to acct or ink cartridge chips not being allowed by the system. Problem is people like me and the guy who printed this can fix anything. If it's locked I can fix that too. If you want something that lasts forever, use a dot matrix printer, just need to squeeze permanent marker onto the inks felt wheel.
I actually have a printer in its original unopened box that I’m putting out near the street tomorrow. Hopefully it will get used by someone just like this!
He/she got a HP printer to work. Truly, the age of miracles has not yet passed.
I have the same problem, I guess my social skills just can't be found
It might just have been *425* in the morning... /s
Load More Replies...Worked in a massive building owned by an international corporation and it was numbered 404. Everyone hated working there and it picked up the nickname, the Shark Pit.
Oh, that's why the error code is 404 when a webpage can't be found! Thanks!!
Load More Replies...404 is the error code for a webpage that can't be found
Load More Replies...I don't get social gestures or any of that s**t and that is in the way of me talking and having a good conversation
Amazing how people fail to notice such a common numerical sequence that they undoubtedly seen many dozens, if not hundreds of times. I would have laughed knowing I found another one of us
this is a japanese artist. The wall itself is actually part of the diorama
With over 4.2 million likes and even more followers, the ‘Wonderful Engineering’ Facebook page was started back in 2012. Since then—for over a decade now—it has been presenting its fans with everything from the latest news in the realm of engineering to sources of inspiration.
In their own words, “‘Wonderful Engineering’ is a platform for engineers where they learn about innovative design and smart engineering happening around the world.” However, there’s plenty of entertaining (yet often educational nevertheless) material as well; and this list is excellent proof of that.
Health insurance called ME yesterday & transferred me to a waiting queue to speak to a rep who was experiencing high volume calls - seriously? Gonna call me to put me in queue, so I hung up. If they want me.so bad to call, don't put me in a high volume queue
Jeez! Whenever someone calls, unless there's an emergency, they don't make you wait. No matter the issue, don't call unless you're available, full stop.
Load More Replies...Whenever I’m on hold for ages, I’m so tempted to say “please hold” when someone finally picks up the line
Do it. Then hum off key elevator music and every once in awhile say" thank you for holding, your business is important to us, someone will momentarily be on the line"
Load More Replies...THIS. This should be sent to 95% of companies. Just be honest. Your TOO CHEAP to train and keep good employees. And you wonder why people are done with your c**p.
me to airline customer service "I am returning the airline's call to me and have been on hold longer than the flight in question. I know it's not your fault but if I sound annoyed that's the reason."
I love it when you ring them at 3am. Apparently they're experiencing high volumes then too.
First unoriginal lie: Your call is important to us.... hence we keep you holding forever.
Technically it COULD work that way, but the math behind it is improbable. It would require each day to have more calls than the one before it. Anyone can see this begins to fall apart at some point...
Or simply that they count the time they are closed and not accepting calls in the queue in calculating the average.
Load More Replies...Sure. But no-one ever calls when there is lighter-than-average volume.
I've done it - I found that mythical moment once, though I don't doubt it will never happen again. It wasn't even a case of calling right as they open either - just a random time. I don't even think I hit the queue, I went right from the menu to speaking to someone.
Load More Replies...Just like u can't have record break profits and also raise prices because the cost of providing said product has gone up
Makes me think of a joke my dad used to tell "did you hear about the band who called themselves the Three Skins? They had to change it after they got another member."
Why can't they just change their name to four sk- ...oh.
Load More Replies...No, the IV Guys are standing by for people who finish a whole order of those delicious fries!
Even though you don’t necessarily have to be an engineer to get a kick out of engineering-based memes, one of the reasons they might find them particularly amusing is because they can relate to the situations such memes depict.
When discussing what affects our preference for a certain type of humor, psychologist and former lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Bruce Wilson, Ph.D., suggested that such inclination is usually determined by identification.
“When we can identify with a particular type of humor it becomes personalized and makes perfect sense to us. This is why most comedians self-deprecate during their stand-up routines; they realize the value of identifying with the humor of the moment.”
The lighting, muted color palette, even the models are perfect. ❤️
Load More Replies...I love that at least two real people went out of their way to do this. It’s perfect!
This is the work of photographer Freddy Fabris. It is part of his Renaissance Series.
All of the pictures are magnificent. I think I saw them here long ago.
Load More Replies...The top layer should be tarmac with loads of huge holes and a piece of broken spring with the state roads are now.
No idea why you were downvoted, have an upvote for a very valid comment.
Load More Replies...In my country, the top layer would have a "Under Construction' sign in the middle.
It’s the lady-pointing-at-cat-meme-that-I-don’t-know-the-name-of!
I don't think I could have figured this one out, have an upvote +1
Load More Replies...it is already explained earlier in the comments its woman yelling at cat meme
Load More Replies...“Humor also demonstrates awareness,” Wilson added. “When we understand the hidden message we demonstrate our intelligence and our emotional diversity.”
He suggested that jokes make us more psychodiverse, which is healthier than being stuck in a constant state of seriousness. “Life has become very serious and we need the release of humor to balance our lives.”
My daughter (10) : How big is the universe ? Infinite ? They say, it is expanding... but, then it needs infinitely more room...so there must be an awful lot of space behind the universe. Or it can't expand, right ? Me : ...(Think we need more bananas )
Is it the small banana or the large banana? I can't tell from this angle.
Lol...That was the whole point! A banana is miniscule compared to a galaxy.
Load More Replies...In my country, we have sizes for the fruit- banana. Right from finger size to hand size, I wonder which size they used for scaling. ? SMH.
They’re using all bananas for all of time, from the very first banana to appear, to every banana that will exist.
Load More Replies...When I took some training classes many years ago, the youngest students were puzzled by the “Honda icon.”
You think that's frustrating? In the 80's they told us we'd all have flying cars by the year 2000. I'm still waiting and feel very ripped off. I was really looking forward to that, lol.
We had flying cars in 2000. We had them in the 80s. We've had them since the early 1900s. They're called aeroplanes.
Load More Replies...Disease and hunger "eradicated" because the previous two centuries of pandemics have reduced the population of homo sapiens to a few thousand. Mars is "terraformed" by robots extracting no-longer-needed minerals...
Also why were they called floppy disks when they didn't flop like their predecessors did?
You guy, when seeing a floppy disk: "Cool, someone 3D printed the save button"
Make it, like, more, like make it pop. But subtle. Also add puppies.
I want it whimsical but not childish. And use a jewel palette but without it being TOO jewel-y. Also I don't really LIKE those colors so like different but with the same VIBE. And can you have it by 5? Thaaaaaaaankss.
Load More Replies...We want seven lines, all perpendicular to each other, all of them red, but drawn with blue ink.
It should be a really subtle red, but also something that catches your eye and says "look at me". Oh and I want it by tomorrow.
Load More Replies...Try some free AI image generators. Even the most specific text gets ignored.
"Make it cooler. Idk, just, y'know, cooler. It needs to be about 20% cooler."
But not like TRENDY...so cool but not popular but definitely what everyone is into. By 5.
Load More Replies...The next thing will be AI's using captcha to make sure you are a human before it flips out trying to find out if that thin line at the edge of the square is part of the traffic light or not
I don't think Ai is in trouble when you describe what you want, while looking at it, and a person doesn't 'get it'!.
But it’s not only complex, multilayered humor that can help ease the state of seriousness we live in; some straightforward jokes can be equally—if not more—amusing as well (including all sorts of engineering-based puns).
“The fusion of opposites attracts people to the funny side of anything. We seem as a species to enjoy the idea that nonsense is funny. Even slapstick humor of the last century is a form of the same idea, a fusion of opposites,” the psychologist explained.
I didn't know vandalization was a word, Annymoose. In the UK we say vandalism.
Load More Replies...As nature intended it. Just don't put Trump there. His ego is already big enough.
I see Jabba in everything that is large, "wrinkley" & lumpy
Load More Replies...The little white man ruined a sacred mountain of the AmericanIndians. Shame on all the Europeans that robbed the lands through out the World. Unfortunately this continues today. I'm Caucasian, yet I can feel the great unjusts that all the countries and populations have endured being colonized.
...and back to square one. I think the big 5 remaining in vanle6have to merge before that tho
It probably won’t take that long. We went from headphones to AirPods, and now they have a string that attaches to the AirPods, so you don’t lose them. It’s only a matter of time. But for real let’s bring back blockbuster video.
Just leaving this here for those who don't know: TUBI, Plex, Pluto, Samsung tv, are just some of the 100% free tv you can watch, Plex alone is over 200 free channels.
and if you're not picky about what type of servers (legal vs not I mean) you're getting your content from, Susflix and Sflix have wonderful selections of movies and series and neither require any sort of sign up.
Load More Replies...they've already started releasing one episode a week... if I wanted to wait and not binge I'd have stuck with cable
I'm still waiting for a streaming service to offer just one channel. For example, I subscribed to youtube tv just to watch ABC news in the evening and they kept upping the price until it was $73/mo and I cancelled it. All I want is one channel. And there's a free ABC app, but you have to watch it live, you can't play the 6pm news at 7, which is really inconvenient. Why are we still dealing with this inefficiency?
Amadistubyhulflix+ just doesn't strike me as a catchy name tho. Needs some work.
At least then you could stream exactly what you want to watch from all networks whenever you want, and not have commercials interrupting everything continuously. (Yes I know "On Demand" exists, but not for everyone network and not for every show, and there's STILL commercials despite paying for the frickin cable!)
There will still be ads even on streaming. I pay a lot of money for Amazon Prime, and then some more money to watch the Discovery package through my Amazon account... and most of the Discovery shows *still have ad breaks.* I pay for that content *twice* and it's still not ad-free.
Load More Replies...In a piece for Psychology Today, Bruce Wilson pointed out that, “the human brain is believed to have intrinsic constraints as part of a general intelligence of context. This allows the brain to filter through all the possibilities and make connections through a synthesis of analyses, a cognitive synergy.”
He added that human cognitive synergy stands alone when it comes to creating humor out of nonsense, and suggested that a sense of humor is based on perception of what people find funny, which differs with each individual.
But that sheet though. My mom always say have light plain sheets so u can spot any crawlies easy (lived in a tropical place)
Not really. Instead of using bolt cutters on a single lock, you just cut those two thin pieces of metal the lower locks are attached to (which are probably way easier to cut than a lock) and slide out the pin. All this really does is make it harder for someone who should have access to get in.
Load More Replies...Because if you do that then if one person loses their key you have to replace the lock and issue 6 new keys to 6 different individuals. This way if one person loses their key you only have to replace the lock and issue one key.
Load More Replies...It took me a long time to figure out how that would work, but that’s cool!
Clever, but all I’ve ever seen is a short chain and each lock becomes a link.
As done for for many generations. Simple and effective.
Load More Replies...But this setup isn't for securing Ft Knox. You mostly see it in a situation where several individuals or families share access to a piece of property. Like gated access to shared pasture land or a private road. This way allows access and if one person leaves, or loses their key, no one else has to get new keys. No one's really worried about someone cutting a lock and stealing a pasture.
Load More Replies...Can some kind person tell me how that works for lock 15/18? I'm probably tired, but I can't see it.
Took me a while too for those two: they’re attached to a plate that goes *through* the thin metal rod, with another lock attached above the thin rod. If you unlock the bottom one you can slide the plate together with the top lock out of the thin metal rod, and then slide that rod out of the big metal rod.
Load More Replies...I see this directly after the guy who looks like a T-Rex at first glance and now I am wondering if the Velociraptor was named after „velocity“.
Despite humor perception differing from person to person, it is arguably safe to assume that people who have a lot in common—who work in the same field, for instance, or receive similar education—might enjoy similar jokes as well. That could explain why quite a few engineers often appreciate humor of the same kind.
Zippia revealed that there are nearly 230 thousand engineers employed in the US alone. In the meantime, the ‘Wonderful Engineering’ Facebook group has amassed over 4.3 million followers globally, from experts in the field to non-professionals interested in all-things-engineering.
Oh I am so HAPPY now.. I learned something that is new, old , and geeky all at once.
The really cool thing about that is that it gives you a really easy to understand visual representation of how commonly a letter is used too. Lower case e is obviously the most commonly used letter because it has the biggest tray.
Load More Replies..."ETAOIN SHRDLU" It's a great documentary about linotype machines. They filmed the last day the New York Times was printed on the old mechanical linotype printers. Guys who spent fifty years using printers cases just like this were retiring and the computers were being introduced. Kind of melancholy but beautiful
Somewhat related: for anyone interested in this sort of thing, I recommend a book called “Everything in its place: The curious history of alphabetic order”. I picked it up on a whim and it was fascinating. We’re so used to alphabetical order that it feels natural and fundamental but it’s actually a very recent invention, particularly absolute alphabetical order, which is what we use now, where every letter is considered in sequence.
I'm trying to find that book, but you're are multiple different books with the same title. None seem to fit! Could you give the author's name, please?
Load More Replies...I had to memorize them in HS printing class. It was worse than an affliction trying to commit those hundreds of boxes to memory.
Load More Replies...Interesting bit of the english language, we just call them "Big" and "small" letters XD
Could be regional I guess, but I even for little kids learning to write big and small letters are not used. I'm English, and a teacher I generally refer to uppercase as capital letters when writing - but never big letters.
Load More Replies...Just wait untill your odometer hits.... 8675309.... Stop... roll down the window and yell.. JENNY
Haha i just changed jobs and my new work number ends in 6006.
Load More Replies...Yes! U I did this too in my old vehicle (except I was bad & didn't put over, took the shot on the drive) - also at 100k & 200k but it didn't make it much longer till it was more expensive to fix than sell
Haha I have a photo of this on my phone, and yes, I did pull over on a highway to take it
Load More Replies...Just hit the 123456 miles milestone in my 96 caprice about a week ago (trip counter beneath is not impressive imo)
How is the trip counter under the odometer not impressive? It's cool enough to get a picture of your car at 123,456 miles but to have the trip counter continue that sequence perfectly all the way through to 0 is pretty damn impressive imo.
Load More Replies...It was always a big deal when our odometers turned over to 100,000.0 miles
You’d have to plan ahead to get the trip meter to show the right numbers. This is obsession to a very high order. Well done.
Because BP sets are just sets from other sites. Namely Reddit, but all SM. Often times they just appropriate Buzzfeed or vice versa. BP doesn’t compile the content, they comment on the content, which we then comment on.
Load More Replies...If you need more proof that engineers and humor can go hand-in-hand or if you simply want to have a hearty laugh, make sure to browse Bored Panda’s list of the best engineer jokes next. And if you feel like delving deeper into what exactly it is that they work on, marvel at some pretty impressive wonders of engineering here.
But...heh...they obviously haven't taken into account the chaos that would ensue from shoving a steel rod up a cat's butt. That condition notwithstanding, wouldn't the cat just spin and not turn the shaft? OK I need to EtchASketch my brain from this now...
Load More Replies...Although it might be a lo less noisy to just use two buttered bread pieces back to back...
We object to this! *washes her murder mittens* *pounces Bouche's murder tail*
as soon as you attach cat-bread to the rod, they technically no longer falling, thus no free energy. Back to the drawing board!
Wrap cat-bread in copper wire and replace the rotor of the generator with the copper wire-cat-bread contraption.
Load More Replies...This is funny, though I hate it when people say cats always land on their feet yet that’s obviously not true
I remember the buttered cat theory doing the rounds on email, in the early 90s.
I wasn't baby talked to much when I was born, and I consider myself pretty smart. It actually helps.
same here, as an only child my parents never baby talked to me and i ,to this day, never talk down to kids.....an old friend told me that her daughters loved me because i never talked down to them.....just treated them as small, but smart people!🤣
Load More Replies...Not saying it's completely true but there is a YouTube channel, the pior family. Those girls are probably 3-4 years old. They have pretty advanced vocabulary for their age.
I went down the rabbit hole on this a while back. While using regular language and conversation with your infant (caveat: infant) you can help them develop their language and communication skills at 2 to 3 times that of average. However, if you also use baby talk with them, which typically comes with emotional gestures, you can help them develop their emotional intelligence. One of the examples that was used was the fictional character “Leonard“ from the big bang theory. He’s an excellent example of an adult who never had baby talk, but was inundated with adult examples of language and behaviors. He has the emotional development of a lizard. Yet he’s very loquacious and intelligent. It’s great to want your child to have communication skills and intelligence, but what’s the good when they can’t maintain healthy interpersonal relationships? So, why not do both and do your best to assure both?
Do you mean Leonard or Sheldon? Because Leonard is probably the most normal of the lot?
Load More Replies...Not that inconceivable. My son could say "ridiculous" at 2.
They can name every dinosaur by age 4. Definitely possible.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I use complete sentences when talking to the dogs, and it's amazing what they start to pick up. Obviously they aren't learning the *meanings* of the individual words; they're dogs, but it's still cool when the dog drops a ball too far away and you say "I can't reach that" so they move it closer.
I never speak to my daughter. We practice telepathy in our home. She uses mind control on the neighborhood children and dogs. The weekends are interesting.
And here I thought we were *all* trying to raise intelligent children without any need to boast.
Right?! People talking about their kids like a prize show dog!
Load More Replies...I propose that the official term for that hidden end of a roll of tape be "Waldo"!
In my house we save the rectangular plastic tab used to hold together the open end of a bag of bread, and stick it to the tail end of the tape to make it easy to find and start.
… apparently airlines didn’t think that dinosaurs would want to fly.
Load More Replies...Maybe being stuffed into an airplane is what is causing all those passengers to flip out. People need distance !
I'm barely 5 feet and even I feel squished in. I can't imagine what it's like for taller people.
No, the human needs to be replaced with the poo emoji, they treat customers like sh**
I discovered that first class on Alaska is only a little bit more than coach. I've found my go-to airline.
They built a tunnel. They did the same thing along the waterfront here in Seattle.
Load More Replies...The Giant Crane Robots ate the roads and stole a whole building!!!! Why was this never in the news!? Terrifying.
Boston did this. It cost every single man, woman and child alive in America $100, or every single Bostonian $30,000.
And they will be benefitting to the tune of how many dollars, given the average US medical bill?
Load More Replies...Check out downtown Seattle on the waterfront before/after the hideously ugly double-decker viaduct was demolished!
They replaced a highway with a park and walking areas. How opposite of the usual!
Wouldn't that just be eleven onety one? Or oneteen onety one if you want
As an American, I've always complained about us not getting on board with metric... Until now!
🎶dum dum dum, dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum! Dum dum dum, dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum! Dum dum dum dum da da dumdumdum! Dum da dumdumdum! 🎶 Admit it, you sang along.
I've labored over trying to override Ms word tendency to decide whats best for your formatting so this happens!
I mostly use a text editor, but when I need an actual word processor, I use Open Office. It does everything Word does—except randomly reformat and whimsically change font—and you can even save files in Word format. Plus, it's free.
Load More Replies...I used Word to write travel diaries that included numerous photographs when we went on holidays. The 'fun' of having to re-adjust the position of individual photographs if you even breathed too heavily, apparently, resulted in homicidal thoughts towards the responsible staff who maintained MS Office software
Every time they try to line up the windows, an empty building pops up underneath.
You wouldn’t pick the lowest number and say 6+6=12 oh right, now I need to add one!
Load More Replies...No, that's how normal people do it. If you just had the entire addition/subtraction/multiplication tables memorized, THAT would be weird.
A lot of people can do the 20*20 times tables really quickly
Load More Replies...Isn’t this what they mean by “new math”? Sorry, I don’t have kids…and I’m old, so I only know old math
Sort of. "New" math involves teaching kids there's more than one way to get to an answer. This is great because guess what--there's more than one way to get to an answer, and some people do it differently. I did similar stuff like this meme, but was told it was the wrong way. So, I felt like I was bad at math and I hated it. Although I don't always understand the different ways my kids are learning how to math, I do appreciate that it isn't just one way, or just memorize it. It also helps kids see the building blocks of how to do calculations. Although in earlier grades it might seem excessive, as the kids get older and the calculations get harder, they remember those broken-down steps and are able to work through the problems more easily.
Load More Replies...7+3=10 so take 3 from 6 add it to 7 and get 10 then add the remaining 3 to get 13 :)
At school I couldn't do it, but I got better in adulthood. I can stop and calculate in my head if the multi-pack of something I'm about to buy is actually cheaper.
Load More Replies...I thought 7 + 7=14 & 6 is one less than 7 so 7 + 6 must be 13 WAS normal addition!!
Who's to say what's normal? It's a legitimate way to do it.
Load More Replies...I play Killer Sudoku. That one really makes you good at remembering all the various permutations of "X+Y=Z"...
The powers of an analytical mind - at least he only went 1 less than 3
When I explained to my grandma that an <3 is a picture and asked her to guess what it is standing for, her first ideas were "ice cream" and "silly triangle with a little bootie". Grandma's still creative!
Sometimes we do. Or we use our knowledgebase. But the real trick is knowing what to type in the search. And yes, we have to use our manuals, there are tens of apps used daily and other tens of apps used sometimes, it is impossible to remember them all. And all their error codes.
Load More Replies...It might be just me but I’ve always thought dating apps to be a weird concept
As a former tech support person, so is tech support.
Load More Replies...Nope, support would be to WAIT for hours to have 2 minutes of talk. So it's still the preferable option!
But in both cases you did accomplish something: you found out what doesn't work!
Maybe if you could accurately describe what the issue is and not get snippy.....
You have to put in 8 butterflys. Then its ice cubed.
Load More Replies........Well I can see three butterflies. If there's another six underneath, that would be a cube........
Language evolves. Water, frozen into a portion small enough to be used to cool a drink, is an “ice cube”. (Another way to think about it, even the old fashioned “ice cubes” were not equal on all sides.)
Deal with them, you mean creating folder “Everything” and move it there?
Load More Replies...Catch the spinoff "Folder - Shortcut" - the latest addition to the Folderverse
I just did that very thing with "untitled document" this week. It's a mystery series I'm working on.
My favorite so far is "untitled document 12", it was a wild one for sure, threw me right into a loop
Load More Replies...Nobody told me they changed it from the prequel 😵💫
Load More Replies...And one more thing....If apple did this there would be a queue for its release
I definitely was when I was 11. 17 now and 33Kg (I healthy, I just can't put on weight 🤷♀️)
Load More Replies...I doubt if 'it' is the brother's preferred pronoun. Being called an 'it' was a high insult when I was a kid.
Ah, isn't Apple an inventive company that love's their users money the most? If only one had not bought a laptop (and not a made up markettting word) where replacing a screen doesn't cost you an arm and a leg and has a cheaper price to begin with? I just love my iFreedom!
Mmm,no. A little underweight. Will cost a fortune in maintenance.
I used 98% one month and stretched 1% for three days after they alerted me. I was bombarded with ads from them afterwards to sign up for double data. I guess marketers calling it kind of unlimited wouldn't sell
As far as I know, "unlimited" means the first so many gigs is high speed then all the rest is at a lower speed.
Why does my plan have 20G rollover data that I can't use once my plan data is gone?
Unlimited plans will slow you down when you hit the cap, most of your plan is 5g they drop to 3g. Some companies cut off the data, which could be counted as false advertising if you reached the cap and got cut off, or if network ever went down it's not so "unlimited" either
We had that problem when we switched carriers for an unlimited plan. Come to find out we live in a 3 block radius that due to some unknown reason, absolutely no carrier is allowed to offer unlimited. We went back after day 3 when we started getting notifications and fees. As soon as that other tech saw our address she knew the problem right away. Why only one tech knew, and their system didn't, we don't know. Luckily 6g doesn't apply to whatever rule says we aren't allowed unlimited. 🤷♀️
This is what made me quit my first ADSL ISP. When I signed up the said "Unlimited", then they changed it to "unlimited but with reasonable use". When asked what "reasonable use" constituted they ummed and ahhed, but finally admitted "3GB a month". I ended up going to a different ISP that also offered 3GB a month but at least they were honest about it up front. On a different note: it's hard to believe 3GB a month was a lot when I recently installed Diablo IV over the net and it was something like 80GB by itself...
I've often thought of getting something like this to put on inconsiderate parkers windshields. But then I think of those times where I've had to park badly because the person in the next space was right on the line. So if someone just saw my car, they'd assume I was the a*****e who parked poorly.
I have to go out and come back in, like, ten times to feel like I parked correctly.
As my »lawyer in law« I must ask you what these little ^^^ are used for? a² = b² + c² ••••• C³H⁵N³O⁹, do you have a light to shine?
Load More Replies...There is a little park next door that is about to be rebuilt. I hope they acknowledge the paths that people walked into it. Otherwise they will just reappear again.
Yes, they aren't really using Pythagorean Theorem, just the fact that the shortest distance between two points is a line?
Load More Replies...In the students’ defense, you’re not actively calculating numbers while taking a shorter route (I mean, usually)
New discovery, this theorem was actually used 1000 years before Pythagoras was alive. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/ancient-babylonian-tablet-pythagorean-theorem
A saw where a new college somewhere didn't put in the sidewalks between buildings until the students had made paths, THEN they put down the concrete. SMART
I've read about some cities that would build a park without any pre-set walkways, so they would let people naturally make paths in the grass and then they would put walkways on those paths.
Oh! Please give them back to the youngster then, I'm sure she is missing them :(
Load More Replies...Just draw fast, that yellow fission ball that gives everyone cancer is fast as hell
Only of the hospital is considered a single point...otherwise you could have 2 or even 3 dimensional displacement depending on x & y coordinates of where in hospital he was born v died - & very likely z as well since births don't generally occur on same floor as deaths
Load More Replies...Onlyif you assume the solar system realigned in the galaxy to be in the exact same spot..
If you don't allow for the Earth's rotation, the Earth's rotation about the Sun, the Sun's rotation in the Milky Way or the Milky Way's motion in the greater universe that is :P
Just because your start and end at the same place doesn't mean you have not gone many places... Even a few hours later, the planet spins on.
So important looking and they will all be worm food one day.
Load More Replies...They're boy scouts. There's a badge for personal fitness, hiking, inventing....
To the best of my memory North Korea has not been in a war since 1953. That is the most impressive set of participation trophies any military can provide.
We used to remark of the chestful of medal ribbons that every US service person seems to have that the US military must award medals for tying your own shoelaces, being first to get dressed in the morning, etc.
Load More Replies...McDonald's is healthier than the average North Korean diet.
Load More Replies...I'd like to get the name of these guys' tailor. So i can avoid him like the plague. C'mon, North Korea, use some of that dirty money to buy a tape measure, at least.
My favourite that after talking with my boyfriend he gets tampon adverts 😂 during those days for him earplugs would be more appropriate 😉
That is how I feel. I just have to THINK of something and I get ads for it.
Me: what’s Facebook being f*€£ed from behind by Google got to do with that?
I guess there would be no offspring from Meta and Alphabet then 😵💫
Load More Replies...Bro Yes, even GPS cause my dad was using it and my brother had to use the bathroom and told my parents and the GPS said that there was a bathroom at the location we were going to.
And if you have an Android phone, they are the same person (Facebook got converted into "system app and cannot be uninstalled" 😐)
K = C + 273.15 if I remember correctly... i don't think anyone has an IQ this high? Am I missing something here?
God damn it, why can't you be normal and use the Celsius scale? 20(°C) still is low enough of an IQ for most Americans... /s
And we're not here existing on our elaborate cell phones now. Thanks, Excel. Thanks for nothing. The economy collapsed and we fell into barbarism.
Gasp! Us lefties are NOT loose! I am offended! :O ....am joking XD
Load More Replies...You may laugh, but several left handed people die annualy due to accidents with right-hand based tools!
Slightly off topic, my Dad went to school in the 1920's. He was left handed but became ambidextrous because teachers smacked him with a ruler whenever they saw him using his left hand
Ahhhh yes! My dad was a lefty (born 1942) and while he was allowed to write left-handed, he was forced to learn to do almost everything else right-handed. He worked for IBM in the 80s and learned to use a mouse right-handed. I'm left-handed as well, but I ALSO use my mouse right-handed, as he is the one who taught me how to use a computer XD I'm full lefty for everything else, though! XD
Load More Replies...My father had a unique sense of humor. When I was nine and playing softball, I had a left-handed glove. So when Dad told me he was buying me a left-handed baseball bat, I fell for it. I'm almost 70 now and still haven't forgiven him for this, hah! Thanks, Dad!!
As a mollydooker, I can attest that left-handed things cost waaay more. I bought l-h scissors, but was so used to adapting to r-h ones, I couldn't use them.
Mollydooker! I have never heard this term before! I like it. Is this a Scottish term?
Load More Replies...I have sent apprentices to find this. and left handed crescent wrenches.
Actually, it's not exactly 89 degrees.
Load More Replies...I seem to recall that someone actually measured it, and it was something like 83°. As you say - it's too obviously not 90°
Load More Replies...That ain't right. (Even if you think its acute way to annoy me.)
My sister's birthday is New Year's Eve. So she realized this year it's 123123
My customer: "I don't understand, I could get on the internet just fine this morning..."
PSA: don't use air cans, it just forces the dust into places it might not already be
Load More Replies...If you dust that, then you’ll have to dust EVERYTHING! Science: don’t disturb the dust.
Does a single click of it turn off system or do you need to hold it as well? Bc if it's the 1st I'd be downright angry all the time
Microsoft Outlook has the "flag as important" and "trash message" columns next to each other. Fortunately, there's "undo".
Done that a few times! It's a ridiculous setup. Clearly designed for aesthetics rather than actual use.
Load More Replies...Lol why, just what stupid engineer would move a power button within range of keyboard? It has always been fine outside laptop or away from keyboard. I'd literally slap a b!ch if they tried selling me this c rap
Back in '81 I used a Radio Shack TRS-80 (a.k.a. "Trash-80") personal computer. It had the "reset" button on the keyboard. Actually, it was quite useful. ^_^
Load More Replies...Legit just checked my laptop (I have an ASUS) and yep that's what it looks like. I've had this laptop for years now.
Well, there's a button I'll be happily removing. (I have removed the Num Lock key on every standard keyboard I've had, for years. But laptops are different: I accidentally popped off the . key last week and I *cannot* get it back on)
Many years ago I was stopping with a family and had a summer job in a hotel. One morning, the mother woke me up with a cup of tea, then told me she had heard on the radio that a nuclear weapon was about to be fired at us (it was a test, she had misheard). We looked at each other trying to work out what to do. I decided I had better go to work as everyone was going to need a cup of tea today. Looking back, I'm a bit miffed with my mind that when I thought it was the last day on earth this was where my brain went.
Living in Perth, Western Australia...I guess we would be some of the last ones left.
I think we'd be pretty safe down in New Zealand.
Load More Replies...I'd dig a small cavity under Ayer's Rock to hide in if I was in Australia.
If it worked how is it w stupid solution. There was thought put into this on where failure was occurring & then what can be.done to fix it
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Load More Replies...An old TV took out a village’s broadband daily for 18 months in Wales https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54239180#:~:text=The%20mystery%20of%20why%20an,with%20the%20entire%20village%27s%20broadband.
When customers are inputting their PIN. Never know who's gonna get all twitchy about you glancing in their general direction.
Heck, I've been with my boyfriend for 22 years and I STILL look away when he types in any password/PIN/phone security code XD
Load More Replies...Oh I feel this one, and then people tell you “it’s ok you can look my password’s not much of secret anyway”. No I can’t and YES IT IS (supposed to be), arrrgh!
I was replacing 100's of computers at Cummins Diesel, and I was supposed to have an employee bring in his computer and log into it so that I could transfer the contents of the old hard drive to the new one. After about the 20th person, I just started telling people, Write down your log in credentials and your name and phone number, when I'm finished I'll call you and let you know your new computer is ready. Like what does it matter... there is nothing I could do nefariously anyway. not like I'm going to be somehow inconspicuously walking around a diesel plant.
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If you had the please of playing wolfenstein or doom, this is way better than those!
I really don’t care how realistic and 3D the game is, I love 2D 8-bit style games a lot
Ok, who else played Pong in a pinball arcade. Me for sure on Santa Monica pier in the 70’s while I worked at the bumper car ride.
My brother and I: Dad can we have a quarter to play pong? Dad: I'm not wasting a quarter on that! Well gas was about 40 cents a gallon then, crazy high prices.
Load More Replies...The hunchback of Notre Dame needed a place to stay while they fix the fire at his old place and they built him a tower to stay in. Who do you think rings that little bell each time someone joins a zoom call?
Better question: why is Zoom making its employees return to office? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/zoom-back-to-office-1.6930585
Buy a cheap phone that does everything you need it to do and a nice Swiss watch that will last you the rest of your life.
I worked in a laboratory once, and you would not believe how much time is spent just washing the test tubes and such (I know because I was the one who had to clean 'em).
I worked in a lab once too. Wash the glass, wrap the glass, autoclave the glass, unwrap the glass test the glass - do an actual test, then repeat. Then I got a job as a teacher, most of my time spent preparing and marking and creating tracking and so on. At least in the lab, you are actually paid while you do all the things necessary to do the actual job.
Bare handed! Really? I hope it was nothing volitile or transmissable in those beakers. Either way your hands would be raw from the cleaning agent alone.
If you include mattresses a gaming PC and a bed are almost the same price
"Affect" is commonly used as a verb, meaning to influence or produce a change. "Effect" is primarily used as a noun, representing the result or consequence of an action.
Buuuuuttt ….. affect can mean a person’s emotional expression, a noun. Like a neutral affect or a flat affect. Thank you.
If you affect something, you create an effect. Remember that affect comes before effect in both the process and the dictionary.
It retrieves the information about where the nearest one is from a subsystem it was given access to it doesn't have access to your location (this was originally about Snapchat)
I don't mean for a spoiler, but if you've seen The Good Place, you probably understand why I say that.
Load More Replies...Sometimes people actually just KNOW where the closest Micky D’s is. It’s called being familiar with your surroundings. Also eating fast food.
don't know if it is a joke or if it's a genuine question, so in case you're genuinely wondering, it's the mic.
Load More Replies...Asking for help is easy. Getting that help to answer the phone, come over to where you are, and actually help you is hard.
Load More Replies...You don't need friends when you have pulleys, levers, and the wheel. It's amazing how much you can do using mechanical advantage.
I'm a self employed contractor and work on my own. I find it quite challenging and fun to complete many tasks on my own where others ask for help. It's enjoyable when the client says to me, "How the heck did you do THAT on your own?".
It's back to front. Splitting the atom isn't splitting helium.
Load More Replies...There is no "cloud". It's just Someone Else's Computer (tm). Also, you left out Magnetic Drum and Magnetic Tape.
Except it's not a single computer but loads of computers... That's why cloud - it is not a single physical location but dispersed over many
Load More Replies...I’m not impressed with cloud storage except for the capability to access your data from wherever. I have my 1/4 tb drive with me most of the time so, yes, I canceled my Google drive and my drop box.
Loads of routers (and NAS) have easy to set up VPN functionality. Just set it up and you can access your files from anywhere! There’s a chance your current router can do it too.
Load More Replies...Basically, if they are not there in 5 minutes, re-read the first message and wait another 5 minutes...and on and on...it's a repeating loop.
Load More Replies...I think the problem is that "if you don't" isn't correct English when the first phrase is "will be there". It has to be either the second phrase as "if you aren't (there)" or else change the first to "I will arrive". Then it's clearer.
Solar panels are more efficient when. They are cool
Load More Replies...Actually a hot water heater (solar powered), so maybe it gets too hot
It’s a hot water cylinder and you’d find it is in part either electric or gas and was probably overheating.
Or anywhere there's rednecks- even though solar for rednecks is a contradictio in terminis
Load More Replies...It's a screen capture from the Studio Ghibli film "The Cat Returns".
Load More Replies...https://tineye.com/search/cc96cd533274186e9bd05b9b86c94573fdadd37e?sort=score&order=desc&page=1 https://imgur.com/4txpXiX
Often only the power cord works. Way too often the power off button does nothing when the computer has frozen.
Load More Replies...You can't link a local file from your computer by copying the location and pasting it in a message. That person needs direct access to the computer the link was copied from to be able to see it.
Load More Replies...When I worked in tech support I used an image of BSOD as my lock screen. Had my manager freaking while I was at lunch.
Still this is much cheaper than a plane... I feel.for this person. It's an obvious lifelony dream to fly but likely cannot due to failing physical exam or misbehaving. You can tell this is his/her dream but somehow can't get there but can't give it up either
There's always the option of a medical condition that makes it impossible (I misread your physical description, but the point is still there 😊) This is a great alternative though. Live your dreams.
Load More Replies...Once Mom and I were visiting her brother and he was showing off his and his wife's new motorcycles and how it has Bluetooth so they communicate, a stereo, even AC of some kind. After we left Mom rolled her eyes and said, Yeah, just add a roof and two more wheels and you'll have a nice car.
This is accurate. Also, unless your name has been changed, it should be the same name in the last name field. Some people change their names, so knowing the different names in sequence is helpful. Is this what they meant for us to put in these fields? Probably not. Do we care? NO.
But she's slouching? You gotta know the angle of the slouch to determine how much lower she is currently than her max right?
Ah. Measure her head (measuring unit 1 IPhone, of course) and multiply by eight, this will give you the accurate height. You do not need to bother with guestimating the angle of slouch based on the position of the arm...assuming that she is doing the traditional "I have no chin"pout they should even out. Yes, I draw people.
Load More Replies...They're using an Apple instead. More damn product placement.
Load More Replies...He didn’t take into account the fact that the phone is closer to the camera
Mostly due to Apple using Samsung hardware in their products...
Load More Replies...This is some sci-fi dystopian stuff. Like this is straight out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
What was cause of fire? I don't think a car that expensive & formerly used as racecars would randomly overheat bc engineering is meant to.withstand extreme.stress of overheating that occurs in a race.
There was a window above the engine bay. The seal that kept the window in place was flammeble
Load More Replies...ChatGPT was banned in Italy for a while until they could work out some rules to protect users.
Load More Replies...My classmates are dumb but I’m pretty sure that nobody is this dumb
A bit more than 2.5. That's two significant figures and that's generally good enough.
Good for you, switching to the egg. Kids are really high in cholesterol. Plus they're always sticky.
Load More Replies...half of these don't have to do with engineering like the one with the turtle drawing
I have been entertained and will find something else to do now. Like find a cat and tie a price of buttered bread to it……
Good for you, switching to the egg. Kids are really high in cholesterol. Plus they're always sticky.
Load More Replies...half of these don't have to do with engineering like the one with the turtle drawing
I have been entertained and will find something else to do now. Like find a cat and tie a price of buttered bread to it……
