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[-] jawa21@startrek.website 85 points 7 months ago
[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] Zorque@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And my axe!

  • Starfleet-Commander Gimli, senior Patronus Officer, X-303 Prometheus
[-] ReplicatedSoda@startrek.website 53 points 7 months ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

sniff finest ship in the fleet

[-] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 7 months 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 7 months ago

This here ^ needs WAY more upvotes.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago
[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 7 months ago

Michael, with the printer and a baseball bat.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

HIS EYES UNCOVERED!!!!

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Wtf is letter sized paper?

[-] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

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

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Standard paper size for printers.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Whatever the comparable size is, yeah.

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago
[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 7 months ago

The fictional land of Amexicanada?

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[-] mirror_slap@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] doctorcrimson 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 months 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 6 points 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago

It makes more sense than many error messages.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Windows 95 with Bill Gates on Stage.

[-] Izzy@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago
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