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[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

"Um, yeah. I'm gonna need you to seek glory Sunday as well, so we can sort of play catch up."

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'd say make it Worf and a Mek'leth, maybe throw mirror Bareil in the background

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And my axe!

  • Starfleet-Commander Gimli, senior Patronus Officer, X-303 Prometheus
[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

sniff finest ship in the fleet

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

You know what, Madred, if you want me to see five lights, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make them five lights?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This here ^ needs WAY more upvotes.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Michael, with the printer and a baseball bat.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I was rolling laughing at this, and then I had to try to explain it to my wife. It is basically unexplainable.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So basically, it's a meme originating from Star Trek wherein a species communicates exclusively through idioms and descriptions of events, making it impossible to translate without an understanding of their overall culture and history. Shaka When the Walls Fell probably means failure, it can be translated as "wow" in best case or "this is devastating" in the worst case.

If my Ink Tank Printer suddenly posted SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL then I would be taking a few steps back and grabbing some towels.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This almost sounds like a prediction of contemporary meme culture where every situation or emotion is conveyed though a shared collection of phrases and images.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You would be the 487,962nd person to think that. Yolo, you’re so Skibidi, you’re so Fanum tax.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I always thought this was a funny scene, because if you know what the parts of a printer are called, it’s obvious what “PC Load Letter” means. So Michael is obviously just bad at his job.

Load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, in case you didn’t know.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, in case you didn’t know.

HIS EYES UNCOVERED!!!!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wtf is letter sized paper?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Freedom paper! 8.5"x11". There's also legal for when you're in trouble or spending a ton of money: 8.5"x14".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

In the US, they don't use A4, they use "letter", which is slightly wider, and "legal", which is slightly longer.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

We need the widest and longest of papers to contain our drawings of gnomes.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Wait, so printers from the rest of the word wouldn't work properly in America with American paper? (Assuming they don't have an adjustable paper tray or something)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think I've ever seen a printer that doesn't have some sort of adjustable tray.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've seen plenty of home/personal printers that can only take A4

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Weird, all the ones I've seen could at least switch between A4 and US sizes.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Standard paper size for printers.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whatever the comparable size is, yeah.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which country do you think Office Space, a 1999 American satirical black comedy film, takes place in?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The fictional land of Amexicanada?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Now I'm picturing the movie opening up with a title card that says "Paris" for the Italian dubbed version. Every international version says it takes place somewhere else

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Probably not the same one that the person replied to lives in

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It makes more sense than many error messages.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh shit it's the blue screen of SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Windows 95 with Bill Gates on Stage.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How could translators possibly know what is a proper noun and what isn't in an alien language?

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