Actual things you actually said (or heard) in the last 24 hours

Soft Cell, surely?

“Nur weil es ein Expertensystem ist muss es nicht benutzerunfreundlich sein.”

paraphrased as “Just because it is an expert-system it doesn’t have to be user-unfriendly”

There’s some German language hi-jinx here that doesn’t take well to translation.
The better translation but less fun: “Just because it is a system for experts it doesn’t have to forgo user-friendliness”

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Whereas my thought processes went to the exciting sporting mash-up of Rugby mixed with an Egg & Spoon race.

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TheProfessionalsCarPhone

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Tobi, stop shouting at potatoes

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“So that’s how you met the love of your life?”
“No. I said that’s how I met my husband.”

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Ouch, that’s a burn right there.

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“Well, Norovirus/nits sounds like fair exchange to me”

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“Besser nichts als gar nichts”

Better nothing than nothing at all.

edit: my meeting is pure comedy.

“Neither do we want Battlestar Galactica in locations, nor do we want Anakin Skywalker in persons.”

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“When he bursts out of his human shell and eats your brains I will apologise to you. Until then, Weston-super-Mare!”

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“AIs do not have hands.”
No, I guess they don’t have hands for hands. From a Dune:Imperium solo tutorial explaining why AI players never take cards.

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PS. The use of Star Wars style text scrolling on a Dune game tutorial? That is either mentat level trolling or nerf-herder level faux pas.

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Was woken in the middle of the night by my yuongest (5) screaming my name. When I went in, he sobbed, "I had a dream where my sister had two presents and I only had one…”

For goddsakes children!!

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…so in revenge I began wrapping up three items…

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“holy crap he was pleasant”

A project manager updating us after a call he had with a customer that has every right to be upset

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“Do you think there is two of them?”

I had a similar experience, senior manager sent out a stinker of an e-mail. When I set up a meeting to discuss it was all jokes and good work.

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“In the land of the bitches, the slut is the Queen”

Things one overhears when using the toilet at work…

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“it’s like your chances of being killed by a sheep”

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“well, I know you have battle chickens…”

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That sounds like a perfect Terry Pratchett quote

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