The Nonsense Thread

Why are driveways called driveways when you park on them and parkways called parkways when you drive on them?

~Thylo:cool:
 
Is this where the cultural sensitivity seminar is being held? Last time I ended up in the wrong room and it smelled like tuna.
 
Nah, we're just talking about namings that don't make sense.



Why do they call it a search engine when no gasoline is required?
 
cleusk said:
Why do they call it a search engine when no gasoline is required?
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there are various types of mechanical engines which don't use gasoline. And in the case of a search engine the term does not refer to a mechanical engine anyway.
 
Thinking about engines made me think about trains. Thinking about trains made me think about rides. Thinking about rides made me think of carnivals. And thinking about carnivals made me think about cotton candy. So that raises this question - Why do they call it cotton candy when there's no cotton? Maybe they're using all the real cotton for those medicine bottles. And why do they put so much cotton in each bottle? I know its purpose, but why so much? You could make a bedspread from the amount of cotton they put in those bottles.
 
Maybe I should go into the bedspread making business. I could buy the medical bottles, remove the cotton, use the cotton to make the bedspread, and sell the bedspread. Never mind. I forgot how expensive medicine is.
 
DavidBrown said:
Is this where the cultural sensitivity seminar is being held? Last time I ended up in the wrong room and it smelled like tuna.
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I recall it was an American cultural sensitivity seminar to educate the ignorant on how we can't shorten names because of past American atrocities. Wait, can I say 'atrocities' or is 'detention' a more sensitive term? :D
 
Cotton candy (fairy floss in Australia) looks like a wad of cotton that just happens to be made out of candy.
 
nanoboy, where's that South Park clip you wanted to post in here? Also, what happened to the Twenty Questions thread? I was looking forward to tricking you all for a third time:D

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
nanoboy, where's that South Park clip you wanted to post in here? Also, what happened to the Twenty Questions thread? I was looking forward to tricking you all for a third time:D

~Thylo:cool:
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Oh yeah! I will try to find the clip. I keep forgetting when I use my laptop at home, but I will try to use my phone.

The twenty questions thread looks to be presumed extinct like the thylacine. I have not seen any recent proof of it being alive and well - just a crazy guy claiming it is alive with no proof. :D
 
Correction: many crazy guys. And you know, some park rangers, some people in government, some scientists, and completely unrelated natives of New Guinea. Now only if one of them carried a camera...

~Thylo:cool:
 
I saw this musical in Melbourne a few years ago. This was hilarious. I just watched the clip over breakfast. Now when did differentiating Oriental from Asian become un-PC? Yes, let's just lump 3 billion people into one group. ROFL. Now there is yet another term I can't use if I go to America. :( Reminds me of Mike Meyers in Cat in the Hat. "Don't call him a dog. We find the d word to be offensive. We prefer the term 'canine American'."
(PS. I can't find the South Park clip from my phone.)

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...mCK3NPiUcUHzQ_U_Q&sig2=Yltbkk5S19Mr3d21cLnTLw
 
nanoboy said:
I saw this musical in Melbourne a few years ago. This was hilarious. I just watched the clip over breakfast. Now when did differentiating Oriental from Asian become un-PC? Yes, let's just lump 3 billion people into one group. ROFL. Now there is yet another term I can't use if I go to America. :( Reminds me of Mike Meyers in Cat in the Hat. "Don't call him a dog. We find the d word to be offensive. We prefer the term 'canine American'."
(PS. I can't find the South Park clip from my phone.)

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&...mCK3NPiUcUHzQ_U_Q&sig2=Yltbkk5S19Mr3d21cLnTLw
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I was tempted to post that song on the Tuna thread, but thought it might escalate things. Its such a great song, as are most of the other Avenue Q numbers. I haven't seen the show, was it awesome?
 
zooboy28 said:
I was tempted to post that song on the Tuna thread, but thought it might escalate things. Its such a great song, as are most of the other Avenue Q numbers. I haven't seen the show, was it awesome?
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Well, it wasn't applicable on the tuna thread because no one was being racist - except maybe you for wanting to nuke people. :p How on earth am I supposed to know every un-PC American term? Until Avenue Q I thought 'oriental' was the polite and accurate term to use, and until I pointed out the culture in the Caribbean, you guys probably thought it was ok to refer to everyone of African descent as 'black'! :confused:

I'll let you guys (especially Americans) in on a little secret: non-Caucasians are pretty thick skinned when it comes to cultural sensitivity by virtue of being non-Caucasian. Shhhh! It's actually a bit insensitive to think they get offended when no offence is meant.

Funny story: there was a Vietnamese guy in class named 'Gook'. Now I thought he was winding me up the first time I heard his name. But, it turned out that his parents did indeed name him that name - clearly they should have attended a cultural sensitivity class, because I felt uncomfortable calling him by his actual name. :D:D (The war ended about 15 years before he was born.) Now come on, surely you guys see the humour in that? And this is why I asked if the actual people are offended by a term as compared to just Americans because of guilt.

Yeah Avenue Q was cool. Fascinatingly, you don't really notice the puppeteers, because you are so focused on the puppets. It was a funny musical.

Canine American clip here:
 
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Beans, beans. They make you smart. The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel. Eat beans for every meal!
 
In Michigan we always learnt it as "Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, so let's eat beans with every meal."
 
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