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[-] jawa21@startrek.website 85 points 1 year ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

"Um, yeah. I'm gonna need you to seek glory Sunday as well, so we can sort of play catch up."

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Zorque@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I'd say make it Worf and a Mek'leth, maybe throw mirror Bareil in the background

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And my axe!

  • Starfleet-Commander Gimli, senior Patronus Officer, X-303 Prometheus
[-] ReplicatedSoda@startrek.website 53 points 1 year ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

sniff finest ship in the fleet

[-] al177 27 points 1 year ago

You know what, Madred, if you want me to see five lights, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make them five lights?

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This here ^ needs WAY more upvotes.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago

Michael, with the printer and a baseball bat.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I always thought this was a funny scene, because if you know what the parts of a printer are called, it’s obvious what “PC Load Letter” means. So Michael is obviously just bad at his job.

Load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, in case you didn’t know.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, in case you didn’t know.

HIS EYES UNCOVERED!!!!

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wtf is letter sized paper?

[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Freedom paper! 8.5"x11". There's also legal for when you're in trouble or spending a ton of money: 8.5"x14".

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

In the US, they don't use A4, they use "letter", which is slightly wider, and "legal", which is slightly longer.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We need the widest and longest of papers to contain our drawings of gnomes.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Wait, so printers from the rest of the word wouldn't work properly in America with American paper? (Assuming they don't have an adjustable paper tray or something)

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think I've ever seen a printer that doesn't have some sort of adjustable tray.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I've seen plenty of home/personal printers that can only take A4

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Weird, all the ones I've seen could at least switch between A4 and US sizes.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Standard paper size for printers.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whatever the comparable size is, yeah.

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which country do you think Office Space, a 1999 American satirical black comedy film, takes place in?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

The fictional land of Amexicanada?

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now I'm picturing the movie opening up with a title card that says "Paris" for the Italian dubbed version. Every international version says it takes place somewhere else

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Probably not the same one that the person replied to lives in

[-] mirror_slap@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I was rolling laughing at this, and then I had to try to explain it to my wife. It is basically unexplainable.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So basically, it's a meme originating from Star Trek wherein a species communicates exclusively through idioms and descriptions of events, making it impossible to translate without an understanding of their overall culture and history. Shaka When the Walls Fell probably means failure, it can be translated as "wow" in best case or "this is devastating" in the worst case.

If my Ink Tank Printer suddenly posted SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL then I would be taking a few steps back and grabbing some towels.

[-] Floey@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This almost sounds like a prediction of contemporary meme culture where every situation or emotion is conveyed though a shared collection of phrases and images.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

You would be the 487,962nd person to think that. Yolo, you’re so Skibidi, you’re so Fanum tax.

[-] mirror_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now If you had said towel, I would have assumed it was the ultimate Douglas Adams reply, lol.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

It makes more sense than many error messages.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh shit it's the blue screen of SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Windows 95 with Bill Gates on Stage.

[-] Izzy@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How could translators possibly know what is a proper noun and what isn't in an alien language?

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
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