Official "Separated at birth?" thread

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Jude Law and me.

I have been mistaken for a Hollywood star. They were in the same area as I was (they were on location for a TV shoot), I was wearing the same color clothes (top and bottom), I was ~70m away, and the person nearly instantly realised their mistake.

There is a notorious (local) criminal that I look like. I was in an electronics store near the TV's when a story came on about the trial and their face was plastered across the whole wall. I quietly stepped away from the screens and left the store.

My current famous (well known media personality) doppelganger has been caught up in scandal and been largely disgraced and lost work.

Oh, well.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I have been mistaken for a Hollywood star.

It never happened to me, and I didn't know about Jude Law until I was quite old, my "idols" as a child (and young/stupid adult), for JL's type of movies, like Sherlock, etc., were different (Peter Ustinov, Belmondo, Alain Delon, haha, I guess this shows my age, again). However, many "friends" (of both sexes) occasionally "compliment" me like "wow, you can have any woman you want", they show very limited intelligence, of course, because, first of all, I already have the woman I want (for almost 40 years!), and second, most probably you need more than looking like Jude Law to impress somebody (I mean, you need conversational skill, courage, time, money, tenderness, understanding, compassion, willing, persistence, whatever). Ladies today are not so easy to impress, haha.

This is like having a big dick, you don't go around showing it to the people. I have a friend who is "blessed' by the nature, we used to live together in dorms in high school and every time we took shower (like 60-80 boys together, we used to have warm water once or twice per week under the communism, etc) other boys were "wow!"-ing and awing, and complimenting him in a similar manner as above. We remained friends over the years, and last time I met him (like more than 10 years ago) he was a "family man", he had a normal life, a nice family, a lovely wife and two kids, and we used to make fun of the old times. And he told me something like "it is not a bless, you don't go around showing 'it' to the ladies, and every time when you sit on the toilet you need to hold 'it' with your hand otherwise 'it' falls in the water..."

So, men, stop dreaming...

Edit: I just learned the word "doppelgänger". Thanks.

[ewmayer]

@LaurV: Your "I have a vewy gweat fweind in Wome named Biggus Dickus" tale reminds me of the old joke about 2 guys proud of their, um, fishing tackle, standing on a bridge with their gear out, peeing into the river below and trying to one-up each other:

#1: That water sure is cold...

#2: And deep, too!

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

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reminds me of the old joke about 2 guys proud of their, um, fishing tackle, standing on a bridge with their gear out, peeing into the river below and trying to one-up each other:

#1: That water sure is cold...

#2: And deep, too!

Was it this bridge?

[Uncwilly]

Speaking of bridges and signs: I have seen this set of signs at a bridge.
Note: the stream bed might be called a wadi some places, an arroyo others. And the purple arrow is such that >50% of adult humans could stand in the stream and touch the bottom.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Speaking of bridges and signs: I have seen this set of signs at a bridge.
Note: the stream bed might be called a wadi some places, an arroyo others. And the purple arrow is such that >50% of adult humans could stand in the stream and touch the bottom.

Hmmm - so where *do* they carry out their public hangings in that area?

[Or was it perhaps a typo, intended was "pubic hangings", in order to prevent possible injuries resulting from drunken guys recreating "this water sure is cold" jokes from said bridge.]

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Hmmm - so where *do* they carry out their public hangings in that area?

Possible reason is that they would violate the requirements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Possible reason is that they would violate the requirements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops

From the linked article:

The Table remains in use in former British colonies that have retained capital punishment by hanging, such as Singapore

This reminds me one of my first (job related) trips to S'pore when I stayed "high" at Swissotel (well... company paid ), and they had a paper stuck to the interior of cupboard with the "rules and responsibilities" on both sides (hotel and guest) during the boarding period, and few of the rules, to my amusement, were really so funny that you were tempted to take the whole story like a good joke. For example, quite new resolutions about chewing gum were mixed with quite old, still not abrogated laws, like "if you tie your horse in front of the hotel and it gets stolen, then it is not the hotel's responsibility". (THIS IS REAL! They did provide parking, but then, I imagine McCloud riding his hose or even his camel in Singaporean traffic, with ERP*, and all the other modern things around, and I had to pause for 10 minutes to laugh my lungs off..).


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* "Electronically Robbing the People", as per one of my taxi drivers. Joking apart, I was quite amazed by it at the time, and spent a part of my time there trying to understand how the system really works, and that thing really works at fluidizing the traffic (mainly, by perceiving higher fees in busy areas, everything updated in almost real time, you force the drivers to take other, cheaper routes, but I was intrigued by the technical side, this was more than 15 years ago, before the smartphones and nowadays shaize).