Random Silly Grins

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 2:22pm

I didn’t think that… um… "that sort " of videos used a lot of CGI. Perhaps I’m just hopelessly naive.

kxkvi · February 5, 2019, 2:24pm

Oh.

just figured it out

chgoliz · February 5, 2019, 2:51pm

EITMLI5?

(yes, that’s a full sentence…the system doesn’t seem to like the above without some sort of explanation)

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 2:57pm

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 3:02pm

Discourse doesn’t like all-caps.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:08pm

DISCOURSE CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 3:08pm

Well, you see, some people like watching videos of people being sprayed by Super Soakers.

But the problem with Super Soakers is that they can only hold so much water in their tanks. And, even if there’s enough water in the tank to satisfy the people who would want to watch someone get soaked, there’s a limit to how much pressure it’ll come out with, no matter how much you pump it up first.

So, I think that the suggestion is to use the footage of the spray can to show someone getting soaked with enough water, with enough pressure, to satisfy the kind of people who would watch those kinds of Super Soaker videos.

Or, that’s how I would explain it to a 5-year-old.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:10pm

Huh. I didn’t even cheat. Maybe @chgoliz’s post wasn’t long enough?

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:18pm

TEST

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:21pm

Okay, I had to cheat for that one. Discourse wanted a complete sentence, as @chgoliz said. All-caps wasn’t the issue.

(Now Discourse wants me to consider replying to several posts at once )

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 3:23pm

Discourse-ting, ain’t it?

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:25pm

If only I could pick and choose — some features from Discourse, some from Datcourse…

gadgetgirl · February 5, 2019, 3:38pm

Oh.

I was thinking more commercials for things like paint, makeup, breakfast cereal that stays crunchy in milk, shampoo…

Guess I gotta work on getting my head in the gutter.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 4:04pm

kxkvi · February 5, 2019, 4:40pm

What does that mean? Googling it gets no closer to the TRUTH.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 4:49pm

I had to do some googling and guessing before I figured it out. The acronyms vary a bit. ETMLI5 seems a bit more common, and stands for “Explain to me like I’m five”*

*< Pedant> “As if I’m five”. < /pedant>

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 5:11pm

Yeah, I normally see it written as “ELI5” (like the subreddit) but it was close enough that I could figure out the remainder of the acronym.

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 5:18pm

*< Pedant> “As if I were five”. < /pedant>

Daveb · February 5, 2019, 5:34pm

Sentence fragment consider revising.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 5:50pm

Excessive irony.