Debunking Humor...

[John J.]

I just noticed that it strongly resembles this famous perfect best ever orb picture, which is not a butterfly at all...

Absolutely.
Utilising Microsoft Paint special image-clarifying software, I believe we have an Ephemeral Blue Admiral butterfly.

The ephemeral blue's almost imperceptible body is believed to be a desperate evolutionary strategy attempting to compensate for the dark blue and white wings, so readily visible to predators against the clear Italian skies.

With no precursors in the fossil record, it may be the first confirmed case of unintelligent design.

The Ephemeral Blue Admiral plays a key role in pollinating the spaghetti crop, still grown today by artisan farmers in much the same way as in the past, relying entirely on knowledge passed down through families (and generous local/ EU subsidies to a number of those Italian families who continue to follow traditional ways).

Of course, this premium product is expensive, and most "spaghetti" on our supermarket shelves is the manufactured variety.

 

[RTM]

I wonder is it bigger on the inside that it looks from the outside?

 

[Ann K]

Utilising Microsoft Paint special image-clarifying software, I believe we have an Ephemeral Blue Admiral butterfly.

No, not enough stripes to be an admiral.

 

[Gary C]

Hope this is not a repost ...

 

[RTM]

 

[JMartJr]

Hope this is not a repost ...

Subtle humor, I like it!

 

[Mendel]

They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.
https://xkcd.com/2953

 

[JMartJr]

Posting this in the humor thread because sometimes it is better to laugh than the despair...

Scam video that FaceBook algorithm thought I wanted to see for some reason.

 

[Ann K]

Scam video that FaceBook algorithm thought I wanted to see for some reason.

My head hurts, and for some reason there's a big dent in my desk.

 

[JMartJr]

My head hurts, and for some reason there's a big dent in my desk.

I was heartened by the comments, in which several people noted that the speaker's mouth was almost never seen moving, almost always covered by a word block, as one might do when making a video where the speaker (I assume a celebrity I don't know) had never said the nonsense that he was supposedly saying. The Lazyology Principle would suggests that since it is easier to just slap something over the mouth than to go to the trouble to write a script that matched the lip movements of the speaker.

Nice to see some sharp eyed and sharp minded debunking going on out there!

 

[RTM]

There's quite a bit of hashtag hop-scotch going on from grapes to hair loss to Doctor Sebi and then holistic health.

 

[JMartJr]

Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1001185654889757


Looks like the UFO crash site recovery folks are going to have a busy weekend...

 

[John J.]

Let's hope no alien micronauts decide the Paris Olympics are the perfect stage to reveal their existence to humanity,
and come down during the Olympic trap shooting event.

 

[Duke]

Let's hope no alien micronauts decide the Paris Olympics are the perfect stage to reveal their existence to humanity,
and come down during the Olympic trap shooting event.

It's happened before.

 

[JMartJr]

On the other hand, if it is going to come down to Interstellar War, it would be nice if our adversaries were weak to shotguns...

 

[John J.]

This thread, Triangular UFO filmed in San Diego, California, June 2010
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/tr...diego-california-june-2010.13538/#post-318432

A detail on the apparent skyline of this screengrab made me think of someone.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Posting this in the humor thread because sometimes it is better to laugh than the despair...
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Scam video that FaceBook algorithm thought I wanted to see for some reason.

Grapes are fake??!! No wonder my grape vines suck. Worked my ass off this season with online classes and pruning just right and counting buds and chasing leafhoppers and deer fencing and fixing water lines I drilled through putting up said fence and hardly any grapes. I guess I'm just supposed to buy fake ones and glue them on. Which does sound a lot easier.

 

[FatPhil]

Source: https://i.imgur.com/YYI0wKn.jpeg

 

[Gary C]

 

[John J.]

Grapes are fake??!! No wonder my grape vines suck.

Had to get an expert opinion on this:

Currant evidence gives us a bunch of raisins to think this is just a seedy rumour. Let's hope it doesn't bear fruit.
Pip pip!
Dr Vinny Culture, University of Napa

 

[MonkeeSage]

I was heartened by the comments, in which several people noted that the speaker's mouth was almost never seen moving, almost always covered by a word block, as one might do when making a video where the speaker (I assume a celebrity I don't know) had never said the nonsense that he was supposedly saying. The Lazyology Principle would suggests that since it is easier to just slap something over the mouth than to go to the trouble to write a script that matched the lip movements of the speaker.

That's Billy Carson. He claims all kinds of woo from being abducted by aliens, to there being a race of ancient giants, to Mars being colonized by Atlanteans, to secrets of free energy being found in some ancient tablets. Here's his gaia channel. So I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he said grapes are fake.

 

[JMartJr]

So I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he said grapes are fake.

Perhaps, but since his mouth is always obscured in these videos as posted by the "woo" doctor it strongly seems that he's not saying what the soundtrack indicates he is saying, and that they found it easier to just block the mouth rather than try to synch up what they want him to say with his lip movements. Perhaps it is not enough for them that he says wild stuff, they need to have him say wild stuff that also supports the snake oil being sold -- preferably with plenty of click-baitiness.

 

[John J.]

The thread "Szydagis' point 3: Interstellar travel is too hard"
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/szydagis-point-3-interstellar-travel-is-too-hard.12698/ for entirely obvious reasons now has much discussion of the philosophical problems caused by replicating adult human beings.

Of course, that human-replicating technology exists is of little doubt.
Some people here might be aware that the Euros (2024 UEFA European Football Championship) are taking place in Germany.

The manager of the England team is Gareth Southgate:

A group of England fans, their cognitive abilities apparently undiminished by ethyl alcohol, spotted a replica of Gareth working as a German policeman:



Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcwHJbm2qd4


(I think it's funny that the cop's colleague is filming him too!)

 

[NorCal Dave]

The thread "Szydagis' point 3: Interstellar travel is too hard"
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/szydagis-point-3-interstellar-travel-is-too-hard.12698/ for entirely obvious reasons now has much discussion of the philosophical problems caused by replicating adult human beings.

Of course, that human-replicating technology exists is of little doubt.
Some people here might be aware that the Euros (2024 UEFA European Football Championship) are taking place in Germany.

The manager of the England team is Gareth Southgate:
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A group of England fans, their cognitive abilities apparently undiminished by ethyl alcohol, spotted a replica of Gareth working as a German policeman:



Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcwHJbm2qd4


(I think it's funny that the cop's colleague is filming him too!)

All well and good, but does the German police officer KNOW he's really a copy of Gareth? Does Gareth KNOW his copy is German? Or does Gerhart (German equivalent of Gareth?) KNOW that his copy is a UK soccer coach and does Gareth KNOW he's a copy of Gerhart the German?

I see a new cantankerous thread in the future!

 

[John J.]

A group of England fans... ...spotted a replica of Gareth working as a German policeman

Let's face it, those fans are grade "A" Blade Runners.
Fuelled only by a Full English Breakfast and several pints of beer, they track down an armed replicant and before it can even start on "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...." or some such twaddle they pre-empt its mind games with a rousing song.

None of this Rick Deckard angst nonsense.
Having said that I'm having trouble selling my "Blade Runner Euro 2024" screenplay.

I see a new cantankerous thread in the future!

Are you going to perform a Bayesian analysis to predict when? Or do you only have this one data-point? Isn't that enough?
I don't know. My head hurts.

 

[FatPhil]

Gerhart (German equivalent of Gareth?)

Gareth would be from the latinate Gerontius "old man", ultimately from greek, where Gerhart is germanic, meaning "spear strong".

 

[JMartJr]

Are you going to perform a Bayesian analysis to predict when? Or do you only have this one data-point? Isn't that enough?
I don't know. My head hurts.

 

[John J.]

@JMartJr

Oh- I hope not too brutal! I genuinely don't understand the finer points of the discussion about Bayesian analysis.
Actually, I'm not that confident about the broader points either!
Kudos to the posters discussing it, they're top folk who contribute loads here.

 

[Dan Burt]

 

[eleggua]

Shots Rang Out

 

[FatPhil]

via: https://wondermark.com/c/1545/

 

[Mendel]

via: https://wondermark.com/c/1545/

For more piranhamoose content, go to https://wondermark.com/tag/piranhamoose/ (it's wholly fictional)

 

[RTM]

 

[Gary C]

 

[Mendel]

if the aliens come here for the food, why that food?

 

[MonkeeSage]

Related to the thread Can Chat-GPT4o Do Math?

It might be able to do math word problems, but it's still getting an F in geometry.

(This was from several months ago, I don't remember the exact prompt, something along the lines of "Plot a 3,4,5 right triangle")

 

[Mendel]

they even sold tickets

 

[NorCal Dave]

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if the aliens come here for the food, why that food?

Because tacos are about the most perfect food!

 

[Gary C]

 

[Dan Burt]