Rater's Ridiculously Rambunctious Random Ranter #229

[enderlord99]

Does the (first) Spongebob Squarepants movie have redubbed or edited audio in the UK, or do Plankton and Karen still refer to it as "plan zee" like they do here in the US?

[Bartmanhomer]

Moths are cute but not that cute.

[LaZodiac]

I can damn well try!

I'm actually interested in this now.

Can I get a vote: Who here would consider this humanoid bug person "cute?"

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Susan here is roughly where Id put the midpoint between a spider and a human, so I figure she wors as a decent enough baseline to work with when trying to figure out the "average cutoff point for where big buggy thingy stops being cute."

...Honestly, it'd probably work better if it was a different picture of her, since there's a Venom in the way, but this is the only picture I can find where she doesn't have a mask covering her terrifying spider-mouth.

I'm love her so much. And thank you for finding one where her bug mouth is there because I love that **** (and need to find a good way of describing what something like that looks like...)

[Rater202]

I'm love her so much. And thank you for finding one where her bug mouth is there because I love that **** (and need to find a good way of describing what something like that looks like...)

The scientific name for those kinds of mouthparts is chelicerae, but I don't think that works when you're trying to describe it to someone who isn't already intimately aware of arthropod body parts.

[Anonymouswizard]

Bugs can be cute and fuzzy. They can also be counted clothes destroyers.

Also host, I've probably got to talk to management next week about how I'm Earth I'm meant to get in when the buses aren't running.

[BisectedBrioche]

I'm late to the convo, but; bugs are cute, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise!

[DataNinja]

Bugs can be cute and fuzzy. They can also be counted clothes destroyers.

Thankfully, when they're made out of fabric they don't tend to eat it. Usually. I consider that a win-win.

[Form]

Bugs can be cute and fuzzy. They can also be counted clothes destroyers.

Also host, I've probably got to talk to management next week about how I'm Earth I'm meant to get in when the buses aren't running.

Do you at least have somewhat understanding management or do you expect them to be... difficult about this?

[Tvtyrant]

I'm late to the convo, but; bugs are cute, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise!

Bugs are cute as long as they follow Tyrant's Law of Movement: Things should only move at speeds slow enough that TVTyrant can fully track their movements and get away from them. The smaller the animal the slower it should move.

Hence beetles and butterflies are good boys/cute, while house centipedes are banished to the Bad Bug list for their rapid movement.

[Anonymouswizard]

Do you at least have somewhat understanding management or do you expect them to be... difficult about this?

Considering I had holiday booked and confirmed over Christmas there's at best been a miscommunication somewhere, at worst somebody's essentially ignoring their superior. My primary hope is to get out of there before the fireworks start.

I don't actually mind working Christmas, my problems are 1) I'd need transport provided because seriously **** walking four hours on a route I don't know both ways and 2) if I'm not going to get a holiday can I have the hours back please. I go through enough problems with management thinking that people shouldn't have hobbies that require other people, I'd really like to use my
limited holiday allowance to have a holiday.

Also centipedes and millipedes have silly names. There isn't a hundred or a million of anything there.

[Fyraltari]

Bugs are cute as long as they follow Tyrant's Law of Movement: Things should only move at speeds slow enough that TVTyrant can fully track their movements and get away from them. The smaller the animal the slower it should move.

Hence beetles and butterflies are good boys/cute, while house centipedes are banished to the Bad Bug list for their rapid movement.

Man, someone is gonna have bad day when they learn about electrons and subatomic particles.

[Tvtyrant]

Man, someone is gonna have bad day when they learn about electrons and subatomic particles.

Photons burn me up something awful too :C

[Rater202]

My aunt was fired for taking a month off from work.

She took a month off from work becuase she was infected with Covid and had to quarantine that long to fully recover and make sure she wouldn't give it to anyone else.

[Peelee]

Also centipedes and millipedes have silly names. There isn't a hundred or a million of anything there.

Nobody tell AW about milliliters.

[Anonymouswizard]

Nobody tell AW about milliliters.

While apparently the pede is a unit, it's not an SI unit

Also, litre. Like metre. Liter looks like something used to measure volume.

[Fyraltari]

While apparently the pede is a unit, it's not an SI unit

Also, litre. Like metre. Liter looks like something used to measure volume.

Yes, that's what it's for.

[Peelee]

Also, litre. Like metre.

Liter. Like meter. Or theater.

[Mith]

I feel like I just walked into a "Who's on First?" skit here....

[Anonymouswizard]

Liter. Like meter.

So a unit of measurement is like a way to measure something?

[Bartmanhomer]

Nobody tell AW about milliliters.

The secret is out. AW knows already.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Also centipedes and millipedes have silly names. There isn't a hundred or a million of anything there.

Ahem.

I would like to chime in here, and not to split positrons and anti-protons, but

first, you have centi- right at meaning 100 or 1/100, but milli is 1000 or 1/1000. micro is 1 million.

[Anonymouswizard]

The secret is out. AW knows already.

I grew up in the UK, I had SI (referred to as 'Metric', but there are differences and we learnt SI) drilled into my head in school, with maybe two or three lessons with conversion to Imperial.

Ahem.

I would like to chime in here, and not to split positrons and anti-protons, but

first, you have centi- right at meaning 100 or 1/100, but milli is 1000 or 1/1000. micro is 1 million.

I made a mistake because I was on the way home from a ten hour shift. I'm shocked the Playground took this long to notice.

If you want to get technical I also got it the wrong way round, centi is 1/100 and milli is 1/1000. 100 is hecto, 1000 is kilo, 1000000 is mega. Except in computing, where kilo is 2¹⁰ and mega is 2²⁰. Kibibyte? Never heard of it. Or at least never heard anybody actually use it.

[Fyraltari]

Except in computing, where kilo is 2¹⁰ and mega is 2²⁰. Kibibyte? Never heard of it. Or at least never heard anybody actually use it.

Well, I do. Or rather did, been a while since I did any computing.

[Peelee]

I grew up in the UK, I had SI (referred to as 'Metric', but there are differences and we learnt SI) drilled into my head in school, with maybe two or three lessons with conversion to Imperial.

It's a bit silly to still teach Imperial. You guys should really switch that secondary system to American Customary Units instead.

[Anonymouswizard]

It's a bit silly to still teach Imperial. You guys should really switch that secondary system to American Customary Units instead.

Sorry, the UK only uses systems with a prestigious history.

Unfortunately the government still hasn't finished defining Commonwealthian so we have to use SI to plug the gap. Those histories take a long time to create, and other parts of the civil service need the TARDISes.

[Peelee]

Sorry, the UK only uses systems with a prestigious history.

Well that knocks out all systems originating in the UK, then, which I think is a shame.

[Sermil]

Wherever you feel that they stop being cute, I'd imagine. There's no objective Cuteness Meter. You can't measure something in KiloCuteons.

Of course there is. Fun fact: It's derived from the helen unit of beauty. One millihelen is enough beauty to launch exactly 1 ship and burn 1/1000 of a city to the ground.

[Rater202]

Of course there is. Fun fact: It's derived from the helen unit of beauty. One millihelen is enough beauty to launch exactly 1 ship and burn 1/1000 of a city to the ground.

But beauty and cuteness aren't the same thing.

a crackling bonfire is beautiful but nobody is gonna think it's cute.

[Tvtyrant]

But beauty and cuteness aren't the same thing.

a crackling bonfire is beautiful but nobody is gonna think it's cute.

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[Rater202]

Spoiler: ...Centaurs

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...I don't know what the purpose of this post is...

So, I had this discussion with a friend a few years ago: If you could have the full "Superman" package or something similar, but you have to (temporarily )shift into the form of a (healthy) little kid to do it, sort of an opposite "Shazam" situation, would you take that deal?