The funny/strange/interesting/random pictures thread

[aygart]

Those people are checkers? I thought they were entertainers hired by Costco to draw smiley faces on the receipts to make the kids happy!

Not talking Abie's advice?

[YitzyS]

You went to a store with your girls and your boys?

Well, I didn't think Costco was a big store full of toys until I got there and realized how every item in the store is a toy in the eyes of a child...

[Dawie]

Well, I didn't think Costco was a big store full of toys until I got there and realized how every item in the store is a toy in the eyes of a child...

are you the frum family from Howell in the Costco magazine this month?

[YitzyS]

are you the frum family from Howell in the Costco magazine this month?

no.

ETA: For those of you who are not familiar with what he is referring to, see here

[yungermanchik]

Not talking Abie's advice?

I would have said he has "kids who have good midos" but apparently they grab his phone.

[YitzyS]

they grab his phone.

no we dont

[ExGingi]

[ExGingi]

[stooges44]

[ExGingi]

Someone needs to teach Israelis some Yiddish. I always find it ridiculous, but it's extra ridiculous when it's a restaurant:



Just imagine if a restaurant in NY would call itself Bistro and would try to put a 9 day menu using French terms, but would misspell Poisson and instead write Poison...

[EliJelly]

Someone needs to teach Israelis some Yiddish. I always find it ridiculous, but it's extra ridiculous when it's a restaurant:



Just imagine if a restaurant in NY would call itself Bistro and would try to put a 9 day menu using French terms, but would misspell Poisson and instead write Poison...

How to you spell gift in Yiddish? They got the card wrong though, it's קארד, not כארד.

[yesitsme]

Someone needs to teach Israelis some Yiddish. I always find it ridiculous, but it's extra ridiculous when it's a restaurant:



Just imagine if a restaurant in NY would call itself Bistro and would try to put a 9 day menu using French terms, but would misspell Poisson and instead write Poison...

Come on its Hebrew not Yiddish

[yuneeq]

More accurately,
2-Jan

Why the most useless date format is the default is another question

For a program that was created to work with numbers, Excel is absolutely horrendous at formatting them. 164849398282 by default turns into scientific notation like 163748e+3, you convert it to a number and half the time it gets truncated and turned into zeroes at the end. So you get lucky one time and it converts over cleanly, you save it, and open the file again and it’s back in the old useless format. Or when your number starts with a zero. You try putting a zero before, convert to text and pray it stays.

Or the times there’s a number in a cell and it doesn’t recognize it as a number even if you try converting it to a number, currency, or anything else. So you can’t sum it or use it in any formula. But once you double click on the cell, the number magically awakens, aligns itself to the right, and is suddenly recognized as a valid number.

I’m sure there are ways to solve the issues mentioned above, but typically the solution is tedious, unintuitive hacks.

[ExGingi]

How to you spell gift in Yiddish? They got the card wrong though, it's קארד, not כארד.

גיפט in Yiddish means poison.

Come on its Hebrew not Yiddish

Last I checked neither גיפט nor כארד are words in Hebrew. If it was spelled in English it would be a non issue, but since there's no word in Hebrew or Aramaic that is spelled גיפט, one could think of other languages that use the same alphabet. I am not well versed in Ladino so I am not positive that there is no such word in Ladino, but my knowledge of Yiddish is decent, and when I see a word spelled גיפט it registers as Yiddish.

[yesitsme]

גיפט in Yiddish means poison.

Last I checked neither גיפט nor כארד are words in Hebrew. If it was spelled in English it would be a non issue, but since there's no word in Hebrew or Aramaic that is spelled גיפט, one could think of other languages that use the same alphabet. I am not well versed in Ladino so I am not positive that there is no such word in Ladino, but my knowledge of Yiddish is decent, and when I see a word spelled גיפט it registers as Yiddish.

So טראקטאר is also Yiddish?

[EliJelly]

גיפט in Yiddish means poison.

Last I checked neither גיפט nor כארד are words in Hebrew. If it was spelled in English it would be a non issue, but since there's no word in Hebrew or Aramaic that is spelled גיפט, one could think of other languages that use the same alphabet. I am not well versed in Ladino so I am not positive that there is no such word in Ladino, but my knowledge of Yiddish is decent, and when I see a word spelled גיפט it registers as Yiddish.

All fine but that's the way they write today in Yiddish the words that is only being referred to in their English version. When A Yiddish publication writes something about a gift card they'll do "גיפט קארד", not "געשאנק קארטל", and same goes for Hebrew. Just google the word גיפט קארד and see how commonly it is being used. If not for the misspelled כארד you probably wouldn't even notice the word גיפט on it's own.

[Saulius]

All fine but that's the way they write today in Yiddish the words that is only being referred to in their English version. When A Yiddish publication writes something about a gift card they'll do "גיפט קארד", not "געשאנק קארטל", and same goes for Hebrew. Just google the word גיפט קארד and see how commonly it is being used. If not for the misspelled כארד you probably wouldn't even notice the word גיפט on it's own.

In German, nobody says giftkarte, it's geschenkkarte. But these days very few outside Europe speak proper Yiddish, and mix every sentence with English words that it sounds ridiculous.

[Yehuda57]

164849398282 by default turns into scientific notation like 163748e+3, you convert it to a number and half the time it gets truncated and turned into zeroes at the end. So you get lucky one time and it converts over cleanly, you save it, and open the file again and it’s back in the old useless format. Or when your number starts with a zero. You try putting a zero before, convert to text and pray it stays.

Tell me you use UPCs in Excel without showing me your Excel sheets

[yuneeq]

Tell me you use UPCs in Excel without showing me your Excel sheets

Did you know I live in 8701?

[Yehuda57]

Did you know I live in 8701?

On this forum, there's nothing Yuneeq about that