this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to get this but if I am, I don't.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The cops aren’t around so they can freely violate the law of gravity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There are multiple moving violations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They're breaking the laws of physics

[–] capt_wolf 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honey, call the cops! John Wayne and Bing Crosby are defying the laws of gravity again!

Bonus: "Gravity is a law! I obey the law!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Gravity is a law! I obey the law!

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Love to see a Salvatore Ganacci reference in my feed

(Unless he's referencing something else then feel free to enlighten me)

[–] FiFoFree 23 points 10 months ago

This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] kewwwi 5 points 10 months ago

there weren't any surviving witnesses

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

The graphics remind me of pilotredsun's content

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Jeroom is great, unfortunately most of his content is in Dutch (unfortunate because I don't understand it)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Send me your favorite Dutch Jeroom comics and I'll translate them. (I'm Flemish)

Yes I know how stupid this sounds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I usually type the balloons into Google translate and get a sensible chuckle out of it, or sometimes I guess the joke only works in its original language. If I see one of those I'll ask you!

I thought he was Dutch btw, I remember he posted something about being in Amsterdam doing a show and I assumed he spoke Dutch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

He's Belgian, born in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, Flanders. We speak a couple of regional dialects collected under the name Flemish. It's basically Dutch with a twist.

Lots of comedians in Flanders also do shows in the Netherlands and the other way around. Not that many Dutch speaking people in the world, so might as well try and reach all of them I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to portuguese, my mind keeps associating Flemish with flamingoes and flamenco.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought flamenco was Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It is, but "a flemish person" would translate to "uma pessoa flamenga" in portuguese. 3 very similar sounding and written words that relate to very different things.

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

Gesundheit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

For this one the joke even only works in Flemish (not Dutch).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cheers mate, hadn't seen this one before!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Me neither. Hilarious!

[–] StarsBypass 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=YRCmmJZRyJs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would be a really fun but expensive project to mount a bunch of mini jet engines under a gondola and make a control algorithm so you could have a baloonless hot air balloon.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Jet engines aren't that efficient at low airspeed. What if you replaced them with one large low-speed fan? And mount it to the top so it's above the COG

[–] Zron 3 points 10 months ago

I know of few more terrifying phrases than “home made helicopter”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Because then it'd be visible (breaking the illusion of a no balloon balloon) and would be getting way too close to just being a bad helicopter. I'd think a few jet engines like gravity industries uses should do the trick, but the control algorithm would be pretty difficult.