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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I appreciate this so much, thank you for filling those blanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Make the red text bigger whydoncha?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gamers and sailors: strong feelings about pirating.

Gamers and wine connoisseurs: lack of fine motor control being bad for business.

Sailors and wine connoisseurs: drunks.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

alternatively, gamers and wine connoisseurs: running windows apps on linux

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You forgot network admins!

Also most of the other overlaps:

Gamers and
Sailors: constant swearing
Connoisseurs: get told it's not a real job
Admins: bothered by ping issues

Sailors and:
Connoisseurs: always in search for the nearest bar
Admins: Surfing in their free time

Connoisseurs and Admins: explaing stuff to morons who just want to consume

Gamers, Connoisseurs and Admins: their private equipment is top notch as well (and probably in the basement)

Admin, Sailor and Gamer: the unwashed masses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Leave him, no one notices us until shit goes down.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

meanwhile network engineering students get mad at trunk ports

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know what's not a bad port? Dr. Aroused's Boxed Ruby Port.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Only for those with the most refined tastes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Also people who work with ancient industrial equipment that can only be programmed via serial RS232

[–] IrateAnteater 7 points 1 week ago

I get mad at Windows features occupying ports, even when that feature isn't in use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in 2 of these circles.

[–] tja 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sailor & wine connoisseur?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

More of a whiskey guy...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact that may or may not be true: The left side of a ship used to be called "larboard" (to go with starboard) because that's where the larder was - where the food was stored, and this was supposedly changed to port because that's also where the wine was stored and it was both easier to say and easier to identify as being different from starboard.

Another fun unverified nautical fact: The word shit originated as an acronym for the storage of cow manure during transport at sea - Store High In Transit. Dried cow pies apparently have...violent reactions to salt water.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Shit comes from the old English word scitte which then became middle English schyt.

It goes back to proto info Europeans and has cognates with many other euro languages, notably Scheiße.

[–] wildbus8979 5 points 1 week ago

NetBSD users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A guy I worked with had a real newspaper headline pinned up above his desk:

Port Asks Serial Levy for Terminal Access

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm all three. Kinda funny, but I don't drink much port and rarely find a bad one.