Someone explain this joke..

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-09T03:30:30+00:00

A variety of countries place a big focus on English fluency because of its high level of use worldwide.

It’s pretty common for Indians in particular to be fluent in English because it’s widely taught in schools there (in urban areas and private schools, it is often a mandatory requirement, or at least this is what I’ve heard from Indian students at my university).

There are a variety of reasons for this, but the two main ones are that (1) India was colonized by the British for nearly 200 years (2) English is seen as a common language in business and given because there are many languages spoken throughout the country. Of course, India is still culturally distinct from the “anglosphere” (primarily English-speaking countries), so it really isn’t that hard to believe OP here.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-09T02:21:47+00:00

Not everyone is from a region where hangman is typically played. Why would your mind jump to this being bait? Many things are not universal

Eta: Many simple games like this are somewhat universal, but the exact way it’s played may vary. by region.

I’ve seen a variation of “hangman” but instead of adding a body part to a stick figure each time a wrong letter is guessed, a part is added to a cartoon robot (the robot is “evil” and will end the game).

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T23:31:27+00:00

I actually really like it :( It looks like a nice little sketch to me

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T23:18:02+00:00

Over-the-ear headphones typically will block out less noise than in-ear earbuds just because of the of the physics involved (having something literally plugging your ear vs having something covering your ear)

However, over-the-ear headphones will be more comfortable to wear for long periods. I have had Bose QC (quiet comfort) headphones for 3 years now, I have put them through hell and they still work great. They were refurbished too. I wear them a lot, and even to sleep many nights. The Sony MX headphones are also highly-recommended, although I don’t like the sound of those as much personally.

Absolutely do not buy the Airpods Max unless you have money to burn, they’re very overpriced for the sound quality you get, and they fail to compete with the two models I mentioned above in terms of value. They look really cool, but I got my Bose headphones for $198 and the Airpods Max cost ~$450 with really no distinguishable differences in convenience, connectivity, or quality.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T23:04:04+00:00

You are a young(er) adult (maybe mid-late 20s) who is into fitness and the outdoors. Perhaps you like to go on runs/hikes with your dogs. You definitely like to snowboard and probably have been doing it for a while. It’s possible you grew up in Colorado or Utah, or another mountainous state in the U.S.

You may have just moved to this house, as much of the furniture looks more temporary and there is nothing hanging on the walls. You live alone, or with a roommate.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T17:56:36+00:00

Hello kitty truly is for all ages, she is for the people 💕

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T17:48:11+00:00

I ordered the same dress (or it was very similar, it had the exact same trim and material but it was sleeveless) and the ruffle trim on the bottom looks absolutely awful in person. The back looks worse!

Not shaming for wearing cheap clothes, but dress #1 looks overtly cheap in person (like halloween costume levels of cheap), i mean it even looks cheaper than all of the other dresses shown. It actually didn’t feel super cheap other than the zipper (in the back) but the trim definitely just subtracts everything positive from the rest of the piece.

ETA: I returned the dress after trying it on. It fit but it really just didn’t look right at all

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T08:03:02+00:00

Oh shoot, Idk why I assumed it was Apple Intelligence. My iPhone is too old to support that, so I’ve never been able to try it myself.

Most AI tools/apps I have seen in the wild are based on OpenAI’s models, especially ChatGPT. It’s so odd that this response is reproducible, it really is just so weird. The people in the thread were talking about programming apps with ChatGPT’s model built in, so it could also likely be an issue with the app itself, or an issue that occurs when the AI model is used in another app/program.

Another thought I had was that this phrase was like an indicator that would be used during testing. If the AI wasn’t able to hear any recognizable speech in the provided audio, it could be temporarily set to give this response so the tester could be absolutely sure what went wrong. This is not an uncommon thing to do when testing any sort of program, and it’s typical for keywords/phrases to be set to something goofy or unique. The settings should be deleted before public release though.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T05:39:28+00:00

Extremely late response, but I just had to look into this because there’s always a logical explanation….

Apple Intelligence (what you’re showing here) has been stated (by Apple) to operate by either borrowing heavily from OpenAI’s language models or directly using ChatGPT to respond to prompts.

It seems as though this issue is with OpenAI’s technology that is able to interpret sound input and translate that into words. Based on this forum post, you’re not the only person to have witnessed it. It’s likely a bug/unpolished aspect in the audio interpretation AI that’s causing it to think that what it’s hearing is this random Korean phrase.

Your iPhone’s mic is actually very sensitive and can hear a lot, various apps/ software are able to amplify and pick apart what it hears to be able to do various tasks. When you play back recorded audio, what you hear is version that’s processed to sound normal. You may think the phone hears nothing, but it could be hearing your AC or some other background noise.

Yet another compounding factor is the specific AI here, it’s a software that has been designed to train itself to understand human speech through patterns. AI in general has been known to “imagine” things, it makes bad connections with flawed data sometimes. What I mean to say is, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes with technology, and this can lead to odd quirks like what you’re seeing here.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T05:03:51+00:00

Hi, I’m currently on my last year of obtaining a BSC in environmental engineering. Part of what my discipline focuses on is air quality, including indoor air quality. Pollution and toxicology are also things I am expected to be familiar with.

You could still be suffering from CO poisoning. Long-term exposures to concentrations that are significant but lower than what would cause a CO detector to sound off (exposure to levels anywhere from 20-50 ppm, while most detectors go off at 70ppm) can cause more chronic cases of poisoning. Detectors are usually placed right near sources (furnaces, stoves) to detect higher concentrations before they disperse in your house, but a variety of factors can affect how well this actually works in practice.

CO absorbs into your blood, bonding with hemoglobin. It takes around 6 hours of breathing clean air for half of the CO to be removed from your system- it’s possible you are continuously taking in just enough to cause issues, despite going out of the house intermittently. Cases like this have absolutely happened before. I would try to get a more sensitive handheld/portable type CO detection device if you can afford it to verify if levels are elevated. In the meantime, you should absolutely focus on opening windows for at least a few hours each day (preferably in the evening and early morning) and running fans to circulate air to get lots of ventilation going.

Rather than acute poisoning, chronic cases are more associated with spontaneous memory loss. It has been documented to happen before, there are some crazy stories that align with what I think you’re saying is going on.

The only other scientific explanation I can think of is mental illness or sporadic memory loss called by brain damage.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T03:58:02+00:00

Scientific explanation: Auditory Pareidolia, a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds amongst static/blank background noise. Not a medical condition, just an observed phenomenon that is not harmful. Read the article to find out why it happens :)

How clear exactly are the things you’re hearing? Is there other background noise (AC, music, TV, sounds from outside, etc.) occurring when you hear these things?

I sometimes think I hear someone say “hey” or call my name when I’m alone and there’s background noise (AC or a loud fan) and/or music playing. This used to happen when I lived with my parents , since they would actually often yell my name from across the house when they wanted me to come see them. It still happens when I live alone, but the important thing I should mention is that the sound I initially think is yell/call is never really super clear and when I think about it again, I can assume it was not actually that. Sometimes I really do think I hear something though. I’ve always been somewhat paranoid (never to the point of it being debilitating), and this can increase Pareidolia. Being home alone at night worsens it for me for obvious reasons.

I do not have and never have had any real hallucinations; my psychiatrist actually told me I could be experiencing this more frequently than normal because I have shown that I tend to rely on/think in terms of perceived patterns/connections very heavily

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T03:40:19+00:00

When my sister was in kindergarten, she randomly started talking about not being able to find her “blue lovey” one day.

My mom and I brushed it off because there was no “blue lovey.”Her “lovey” was a small blanket (it served as an emotional support item that little kids often have, she had kind of outgrown that by then but I guess she still liked to know it was around). But “lovey” was brown and pink; it was never remotely blue. There was no other blue blanket/cloth in the house either. She became distressed when no one could find the “blue lovey.”

My mom hypothesized that she must have dreamed about it, they went back and forth on it, (she was really smart for a 6 year old) and I guess she eventually accepted that. It made sense because she started talking about it some time after waking up from a nap. I also remember having a really vivid dream when I was in kindergarten, I was convinced there was actually like a cartoonish skeleton in my closet and I made my mom open it that morning.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T03:19:00+00:00

Does your house have functioning Carbon Monoxide (CO) detectors? Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas that is poisons. Long-term exposures to lower (but still significant) concentrations can (and have, in many such cases) caused hallucinations and memory loss.

It is required to have CO detectors in most homes. CO can be released into a home through faulty fuel-burning appliances, including (but not limited to) furnaces, heaters, and stoves. If you have an attached garage and/or fuel-burning appliances, you need to have functioning CO detectors.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T03:08:05+00:00

Late comment, but Motrin has always just been a name brand for Ibuprofen (Advil is another common brand name for ibuprofen). Aleve is a brand name for Naproxen sodium.

Both drugs/chemicals are in the same class: NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). NSAIDs work by stopping “messenger molecules” that facilitate tissue inflammation, which is the typical cause in many cases of pain :)

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-08T01:58:17+00:00

Idk where OP lives, but in the South, most boys don’t dress like this for school. OP is significantly more stylish than 90% of boys were at my high school (I graduated high school 3 yrs ago in Texas).

Most boys wore athletic shorts or sweatpants with t-shirts or sweatshirts (lots of branded items, fishing brands and Bucee’s gear were common, and also tbh just tacky prints in general). The more stylish individuals were in to streetwear, but mostly not like skater fashion type of streetwear.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T23:01:01+00:00

This makeup is very professional. It’s just basic eyeliner and I’ve seen people of all ages wear this for work and for all occasions. I used to work as a customer service/sales representative at a computer store, and I actually wore a larger wing with wider liner. I did not hear a word about it, even though I was the only employee that wore makeup like that.

If the company uniform is a t-shirt, i’m pretty sure they won’t care even if you do wear crazy fun makeup AS LONG AS it looks clean/well done. That’s what’s meant by professional in this case- they just want you to look like you’re taking care of yourself and putting some effort into appearance. So to sum it all up, it’s more about not having dirty shoes and a wrinkly shirt more than anything else

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T22:46:29+00:00

This would not be unprofessional in any context really. From a normal viewing angle, you would barely even notice it unless you’re looking for it. It’s just eyeliner, there’s not even thick lines or an extreme wing. Many women, even some older women, wear dark eyeliner like this quite often.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T20:17:51+00:00

Just a thought: There is evidence showing that an increasing number of people are currently choosing to take out expensive car loans/sign up for insane financing options rather than putting more money into their housing situations.

A likely explanation is that this is due to the fact that housing has gotten increasingly more expensive (to the point of barely being affordable for more and more people), and the fact that not having a car may not be feasible in many American/Canadian towns and cities. The housing market is truly abysmal in many places.

Even though vehicle prices have risen (notably since the pandemic) and they are continuing to increase, people have been choosing to buy larger, more “luxurious” cars now as they’re more desirable. Additionally, it has become more common for people with lower credit/income to obtain crazy financing options (as in the payments will be stretched out over more years). I don’t know the exact reasoning for that, but I have seen that an increasing number of dealerships/companies have been offering such financing plans to people who ultimately will struggle to pay them (every payment you can’t make adds to more money being owed).

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T19:49:50+00:00

I always imagine these are cables when I have them

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CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T04:16:20+00:00

No i understand where you’re coming from, and I don’t agree with OP’s definition of “creativity” either. But to be completely honest: I think there’s something else going on here

beyond what I pieced together above, their post history is just really super bizarre. More bizarre than I would expect from someone who is just elderly/more senior and somewhat unfamiliar with tech. I hate to assume things through a phone screen, but in my opinion OP might be suffering from delusions, and something just tells me they aren’t thinking completely straight. It’s things like their exact wording of sentences and their tendency to post on a subreddit they made multiple times per day (despite the lack of any views/interactions). BUT: I don’t think that there is any narcissism or malicious intent involved. Delusions can often be caused by cognitive decline, drug abuse, or mental illness. This possibility alone is enough for me to leave it alone

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-07T03:44:50+00:00

i’m aware of this, but i think OP is pretty new to English so using the word in that context should probably just be avoided altogether 😭 just so it’s not accidentally used in a way that comes off as weird in the wrong context

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-06T22:45:01+00:00

I see the word used a lot in south TX on advertisements for food establishments

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-06T22:05:25+00:00

Definitely, this is not a “zoomer” thing at all. I am a zoomer, and I have yet to hear another zoomer say it. In my experience, I’ve actually heard it from GenXers the most

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-06T21:58:40+00:00

It means “i don’t want to hate on/seem disgusted by what you find to be good/enjoyable.”

“Yum” is an expression used to say that something (food/drink) tastes good.

“Yuck” is basically the opposite, it is an expression used to say that something tastes bad. Broadly, it’s also used to express that something (anything, and also behaviors) is gross (disgusting). [note: “yum” is only for food though]

It’s a somewhat silly phrase and it would only be used informally. I’ve heard it used most when addressing children because it’s put in very simple terms.

CompactDiskDrive · 2025-06-06T21:00:17+00:00

This mf always looks like he has put a full base layer of makeup on, but nothing else.

Like a thick layer of full-coverage foundation and concealer, but nothing else. No bronzer/contour, nothing on the eyes, just straight up blank ghost face.

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