eEEVBlog dumpster dive scores: Bear Grylls moment inevitable? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 12:20:15 am
content: I can’t shake the feeling that some investigative reporter, reeling from the loss of viewership due to everybody moving to EEVBlog, will uncover the awful truth that the dumpester dive finds were actually placed in the dumpster for the purpose of the show. Will Dave have to put a disclaimer before every episode now to state that the show is dramatized but it’s fair dinkum if a Rooted Rigol finds its way to your hands serendipitously?

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 12:32:36 am
content: https://youtu.be/d_S9YsD9Y0c

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 12:42:09 am
content: maybe if there is some crack going around SydneyI think dave jones has better things to do then stage dumpster discoveries and people are not going to go into a corporate park with junk to put in a dumpster that is randomly checked. Sounds like a illegal dumping charge.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 01:16:56 am
content: Quote from: Wan Huang Luo on November 20, 2018, 12:20:15 amGood luck with that.

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 01:18:57 am
content: Nuts. This was entirely tongue in cheek and I failed at humor once again.Edit: I should have thought twice before trying to make a joke of this since it might have come up before with people making serious assertions about the dumpster. Be assured this was meant to poke fun at the doubters. If this thread is detrimental to the blog please delete it (I can’t do it myself)

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2018, 01:50:30 am
content: Quote from: Wan Huang Luo on November 20, 2018, 01:18:57 amI think people who took is serious need to be sent in for calibration

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 21, 2018, 03:12:29 am
content: Quote from: Wan Huang Luo on November 20, 2018, 01:18:57 amThere are some subjects that will almost always fail the humour path - because there are people who will seriously think that way.QuoteYep - and not just the dumpster.QuoteDon't worry about the thread. Deleting it won't serve any purpose and it will just slide into oblivion quickly enough anyway. If anything, it can serve as an example of humour failure, so that others can be a little more aware of the dangers in the future.Don't be embarrassed by your effort - you're not the first to have humour fall flat on its face and I doubt you'll be the last. Any sort of subtlety in communication (and humour can have many subtleties) often becomes lost in the Forum world. I liken it to trying to describe opera using a teletype.Humour here tends to work much better when it is centred around Dilbert style subjects. You know, commonly known management traits, technical issues and product peculiarities - not the sort of thing any ordinary Joe off the street would even understand.My best advice - forget about this and move on. Nobody will think about it in a week and nobody will remember it in a month - except, perhaps, yourself.