0bvious things you’ve only just realised (2019 edition)

[Blue Jam]

I used to wonder why the Adidas trefoil logo only had two stripes in it when Adidas is "The Brand With The Three Stripes"

Negative space innit? Ahhhhhh:

[Twed]

I like that the two people use different speech marks.

That's an obvious thing I've just realised. "Speech marks", because they were invented by Mark Speight.

Can you cut it out please? I can't keep putting your stuff in the GUFFAW thread.

[Lordofthefiles]

I like that the two people use different speech marks.

That's an obvious thing I've just realised. "Speech marks", because they were invented by Mark Speight.

That's true, he used them extensively in his suicide note.
Pretty hard to make out from the image but they're definitely there.

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town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall is a legal & legitimate sentence in english.

It's also a legal and legitimate address.

[touchingcloth]

When you italicise stuff, even the full stops go slanty. Same goes for bold, but that's less surprising.

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I have never once needed a slanty full stop ever, so they have wasted their time coming up with it.

[Ambient Sheep]

Well then, you just haven't lived.

[touchingcloth]

I have never once needed a slanty full stop ever, so they have wasted their time coming up with it.

Neil? Neil, mate, he's slagging the shit out of your slanty dots. Ban him. BAN HIM IMMEDIATELY.

[mjwilson]

town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall is a legal & legitimate sentence in english.

How?

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How?

The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the words town hall:

as a proper noun to refer to a specific place named Town Hall;
as a verb (uncommon in regular usage) to town hall, meaning "to skirt, pontificate" or "to debate in circles"; and
as a noun to refer to a town hall.  The plural is also town hall.

An expanded form of the sentence which preserves the original word order is: "Town Hall halls, that other town hall halls pontificate, also engage in circular debate with town hall halls."

[Gregory Torso]

Deodorant = de - odour - in't.

Also "Charmin" toilet paper really should be called "Chandin" because no one sticks their entire arm up their arse when they wipe it.

[NoSleep]

Also "Charmin" toilet paper really should be called "Chandin" because no one sticks their entire arm up their arse when they wipe it.

Nor does anyone stick an "and" up their arse, entirely or even partially.

[touchingcloth]

Nor does anyone stick an "and" up their arse, entirely or even partially.

Amateur.

[NoSleep]

Amateurs.

FTFY

So somebody is getting paid to do this and it's even their chosen career path. Meanwhile, people like myself, who should be doing this just as a hobby, aren't.

[Gregory Torso]

Chfingerin, then. Or maybe Chdoesntwipe.

[olliebean]

town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall is a legal & legitimate sentence in english.

Furthermore, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

This works because the plural of buffalo is also buffalo. However, regarding your version, I dispute this:

as a noun to refer to a town hall.  The plural is also town hall.

How is the plural of "town hall" also "town hall?" It's "town halls," surely?

[touchingcloth]

Furthermore, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

This works because the plural of buffalo is also buffalo. However, regarding your version, I dispute this:

How is the plural of "town hall" also "town hall?" It's "town halls," surely?

No, it's "town hall", hence "town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall town hall".

[kalowski]

Towns hall.

[Cerys]

Town all.

[DrGreggles]

Town all.

[touchingcloth]

The Facebooks use facial recognition to apply cat ears and whiskers to live videos of people's faces:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48663289

"Hey, human people! We've given you the kind of technology your parents' generation wouldn't have imagined was ever possible ever, let alone in their lifetimes.  Oh, and because we're feeling nice we'll make it so it runs on something which can fit in your pocket!"

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"Hey again, human people! Remember that pocket-sized yet powerful tech we gave you a little while back? Just thought we'd check in and see what you did with it, if that's OK? Catching criminals with ease, I'd imagine? Or making money transfers simultaneously easier and more secure? We know, we know, there were always going to be privacy concerns about this sort of tech, but we had full confidence that you'd be able to address them, and with the time you've had them available to you those concerns must be squarely in the past by now!

Oh. You did what with it?

Why?"

[kittens]

not obvious out really interesting but i just realised netherlands is one missed keystroke away from being an anagram of neanderthal. if the s was a a. pretty amazing

[touchingcloth]

not obvious out really interesting but i just realised netherlands is one missed keystroke away from being an anagram of neanderthal. if the s was a a. pretty amazing

I remember the day when I realised that "Fukushima Blow Up" is an anagram of "Pikachu has balls". So apropos.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Just watching the film His Girl Friday and a poet says he needs to get his rhyming dictionary.

I suppose they would be a thing, now you mention it.

[zomgmouse]

rhymezone.com

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I bet he also has a special dictionary to help him win I Spy.  They always do.

[a duncandisorderly]

Town all.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Just watching the film His Girl Friday and a poet says he needs to get his rhyming dictionary.

I suppose they would be a thing, now you mention it.

I thought of the idea for a 'thesaurus of rhymes' when I was in school and I started making one. It was called 'The Rhymenocerous'. First I discovered that rhyming dictionaries already exist, and then years later Flight of the Conchords stole the name. If it wasn't for those two things I'd be rich by now.

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Your version would make more sense as "Rhymnosaurus" - a kind of dinosaur.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Yeah but I drew a rhino on it