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  • alien@mastodon.greenA alien@mastodon.green

    @cstross nobody is talking about the come on please, I think it's hilarious

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    @alien @cstross It's just asking for us to trust it.

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    • tezoatlipoca@mas.toT tezoatlipoca@mas.to

      @cstross Between two uzmeruyamu? Isn't Uzmeruyamu that anime horse-girl racing game?

      kaleissin@wandering.shopK This user is from outside of this forum
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      @tezoatlipoca @cstross Urotsukidoji, surely *snigger*

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      • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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        @cstross I think in these trying times we all too often forget that pacclabmech is not mehee yem.

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        • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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          @cstross Uh oh, I did 6 muhym, I hope I'll be okay

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          • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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            @cstross

            Real "Send three and fourpence we are going to a dance" energy there. Did someone dictate it into something set for the wrong language?

            Mayor Snorkum would approve.

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            • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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              @cstross Being careful in time of death is overrated anyway, but the pacclabmech... really? That's too much.

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              • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                @cstross

                Sigh....

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                • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                  @cstross Don't be so careful in time of death. Do you want to muhym forever?

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                  • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                    @cstross I think I just had a stroke.

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                    • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                      @cstross is that OK that I can actually read and understand the whole instruction and the third sentence in particular?

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                      • tezoatlipoca@mas.toT tezoatlipoca@mas.to

                        @cstross Between two uzmeruyamu? Isn't Uzmeruyamu that anime horse-girl racing game?

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                        @tezoatlipoca @cstross Surely that would be Umamusume (馬娘).

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                        • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                          @cstross I want all warning labels to start with "Come on, please!"

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                          • blotosmetek@circumstances.runB blotosmetek@circumstances.run

                            @cstross I'm pretty sure the original was in Russian. "muhym" is misinterpreted "минут", ie. "minutes" (in handwriting Cyrillic и looks exactly like Latin u and н looks like n) etc.

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                            @blotosmetek
                            Okay, but that would mean that what happened here wasn't just a straight Russian to English text translation.

                            Instead it would seem that there's been an image with Russian text which then was read in with some dumb OCR software that had no understanding of cyrillic alphabet.

                            Then the already broken Russian langauge was translated to English resulting in even more broken English.
                            @cstross

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                            • shadowdancer@mstdn.socialS shadowdancer@mstdn.social

                              @blotosmetek
                              Okay, but that would mean that what happened here wasn't just a straight Russian to English text translation.

                              Instead it would seem that there's been an image with Russian text which then was read in with some dumb OCR software that had no understanding of cyrillic alphabet.

                              Then the already broken Russian langauge was translated to English resulting in even more broken English.
                              @cstross

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                              @shadowdancer @cstross exactly so! Probably with some effort, even with my very rusty Russian, I could recreate the original text…

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                              • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                                #25

                                @cstross
                                Item 5 does kinda make sense though.

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                                  @Knitronomicon @cstross

                                  This torpid moose reckons he will starch his moustache.

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                                  • cstross@wandering.shopC cstross@wandering.shop

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                                    @cstross

                                    I’d like to see a logic chain on the pizza box instruction

                                    Open before eating

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                                    • mdm@mcnamarii.townM mdm@mcnamarii.town

                                      @cstross Uh oh, I did 6 muhym, I hope I'll be okay

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                                      @mdm please do not the 6 muyhm @cstross

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                                      • D drchaos@sauropods.win

                                        @cstross I want all warning labels to start with "Come on, please!"

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                                        @drchaos with a crude drawing of someone getting poked with a stick
                                        @cstross

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                                        • cadbury_moose@wandering.shopC cadbury_moose@wandering.shop

                                          @Knitronomicon @cstross

                                          This torpid moose reckons he will starch his moustache.

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                                          @Knitronomicon @cstross

                                          Meanwhile, on BlueSky, Simon ‪(@thedenature.bsky.social‬) has noted:

                                          A pachelbelsmech is armed with Pachelbel’s Canon.

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