Funny images that aren't quite WTF images - Page 143

fargon · 12-09-2016, 04:44 PM

WHS^

burns334 · 12-10-2016, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gtown

Albuquerque, though I don't think this is the exact same intersection:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1485...7i13312!8i6656

gtown, great find, trust me I looked for awhile. I to am sure it is same intersection but how did you ever find the cross street ie Academy?

gtown · 12-13-2016, 01:02 AM

Definitely some luck. The arrow made me think Moon must have sidestepped or restarted somewhere since it was helping people re-find it. I looked for cases on the street map where that happened going south (since the pic is facing east towards the mountains). Tried a few and found Moon St on the signs but then found this with just Moon.

elSicomoro · 12-15-2016, 10:22 AM

MacBook Pro: Cats love them

xoxoxoBruce · 12-25-2016, 01:04 PM

In charge...

Gravdigr · 12-25-2016, 02:13 PM

Damn straight.

classicman · 12-28-2016, 10:21 AM

I thought perhaps it was a new version of "Here, hold my beer ..."

Pico and ME · 12-30-2016, 07:43 PM

I would do that if I lived out there. It would look hilarious, but I'd much rather be pragmatic about it all.

Gravdigr · 01-08-2017, 04:30 PM

Clodfobble · 01-09-2017, 12:29 PM

I have a friend at a game company that is about to start on their first serious offering in VR. He says one guy at the office has already officially declined to work on it (he didn't quit, he just put in a request to be on a different project and the company said sure.) The coworker's explanation was that there have already been many reports from people who have used the headsets that, after only a few hours with it on their face, they have genuine difficulty re-integrating back into the real world. Like, they can't quite walk right, or coordinate tasks with their hands, and they have the specific psychological sensation that this world is not real.

Obviously some people are going to be less susceptible than others, but I think these things are going to fuck people up, big time.

footfootfoot · 01-09-2017, 12:49 PM

You don't think people are already fucked up big time? I mean by their technology.

There are countless TED talks about how people are beginning to lose the ability to socialize, create a sense of community, or bond with friends and loved ones, of people ignoring the people they are with in favor of their devices (including ostensible caretakers of children), texting WHEN YOU SHOULD BE DRIVING YOUR FUCKING CAR and so on.

Unless you just forgot to include the words 'also and 'continue' in "but I think these things are also going to continue to fuck people up, big time."

Gravdigr · 01-09-2017, 03:27 PM

Sometimes, if the print is particularly tiny, I use reading glasses (magnifiers). After reading for a couple hours with those glasses, I find that it takes a little while to see 'normally' again. I can't focus on things across the room.

I imagine a screen that close to one's face would have a similar effect.

Undertoad · 01-14-2017, 09:05 AM

Late to this thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

You don't think people are already fucked up big time? I mean by their technology.

There are countless TED talks about how people are beginning to lose the ability to socialize, create a sense of community, or bond with friends and loved ones,

Yeah we just gave $2000 to a charity in remembrance of our friend and loved one who died. You can't do that on the Internet. There's no community, no bonding.

~

The TED talks on the Internet? I should take some time out of my real-life socializing and bonding with friends to watch one of those.

~

So I AM fucked up big time by technology for the last 32 years. Or saved by it. I can't remember which.

classicman · 01-14-2017, 09:08 AM

... both!

limey · 01-14-2017, 10:58 AM

Quite apart from our donations to Sundae's memorial fund, and her own contribution to and enrichment of our lives (and ours of hers) via the internet, and the time we bought Toad a car, I have other friends for whom [other] social media has literally been a life-saving, health-saving resource. The picture is just not that simple.
Like escalators did not replace stairs, and e-readers will not replace books, e-interaction will not replace IRL-interaction. They all complement each other.

12-09-2016, 04:44 PM	#2131
fargon Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: La Crosse, WI Posts: 8,924	WHS^ __________________ Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind.

12-15-2016, 10:22 AM	#2134
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	MacBook Pro: Cats love them Attached Images

12-25-2016, 01:04 PM	#2135
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	In charge... Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-25-2016, 02:13 PM	#2136
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Damn straight. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

12-28-2016, 10:21 AM	#2137
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I thought perhaps it was a new version of "Here, hold my beer ..." __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

12-13-2016, 01:02 AM	#2133
gtown Master of the Domain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 238	Definitely some luck. The arrow made me think Moon must have sidestepped or restarted somewhere since it was helping people re-find it. I looked for cases on the street map where that happened going south (since the pic is facing east towards the mountains). Tried a few and found Moon St on the signs but then found this with just Moon.

12-30-2016, 07:43 PM	#2138
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	I would do that if I lived out there. It would look hilarious, but I'd much rather be pragmatic about it all. __________________ Jesse LaGreca in 2012 “Seven Deadly Sins: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Science without humanity, Knowledge without character, Politics without principle, Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice.” – Mahatma Gandhi

01-08-2017, 04:30 PM	#2139
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	__________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-09-2017, 12:29 PM	#2140
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I have a friend at a game company that is about to start on their first serious offering in VR. He says one guy at the office has already officially declined to work on it (he didn't quit, he just put in a request to be on a different project and the company said sure.) The coworker's explanation was that there have already been many reports from people who have used the headsets that, after only a few hours with it on their face, they have genuine difficulty re-integrating back into the real world. Like, they can't quite walk right, or coordinate tasks with their hands, and they have the specific psychological sensation that this world is not real. Obviously some people are going to be less susceptible than others, but I think these things are going to fuck people up, big time. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-09-2017, 12:49 PM	#2141
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	You don't think people are already fucked up big time? I mean by their technology. There are countless TED talks about how people are beginning to lose the ability to socialize, create a sense of community, or bond with friends and loved ones, of people ignoring the people they are with in favor of their devices (including ostensible caretakers of children), texting WHEN YOU SHOULD BE DRIVING YOUR FUCKING CAR and so on. Unless you just forgot to include the words 'also and 'continue' in "but I think these things are also going to continue to fuck people up, big time." __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-09-2017, 03:27 PM	#2142
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Sometimes, if the print is particularly tiny, I use reading glasses (magnifiers). After reading for a couple hours with those glasses, I find that it takes a little while to see 'normally' again. I can't focus on things across the room. I imagine a screen that close to one's face would have a similar effect. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-14-2017, 09:08 AM	#2144
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	... both! __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-14-2017, 10:58 AM	#2145
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Quite apart from our donations to Sundae's memorial fund, and her own contribution to and enrichment of our lives (and ours of hers) via the internet, and the time we bought Toad a car, I have other friends for whom [other] social media has literally been a life-saving, health-saving resource. The picture is just not that simple. Like escalators did not replace stairs, and e-readers will not replace books, e-interaction will not replace IRL-interaction. They all complement each other. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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