@@Hanno300bc As an engineer I know why. You find a shirt you like and it fits well and you buy a dozen of those so you don't have to buy another one for years. Steve Jobs got the idea for wearing a black turtleneck all the time from one of the engineers working for him.😀
2:41 Shit. I lived in Europe for 27 years and have lived in the US for 33... so technically I'm still in the Atlantic Ocean... 54.5246N, 46.0889W, to be mathematically precise...
To be mathematically precise, it depends if you're doing euclidean geometry or non-euclidean geometry. In one, you're inside the Earth crust on average, on the other you're on the Earth crust on average. If you lived in Australia and Europe, your average is near the Earth core.
Technically originally from your dad! That little guy had to start the long trek out. But you remind me of the Stephen fry joke at a talk where he says "that's the last time I've ever going to be in one of those again (he's gay in case you dunt know)
@@kurtsudheim825you know that the "little guy" is only 50% of your DNA? Not only is the other 50% from the mother but also the whole development of the child takes place in her body makes "from my mother" the correct answer. with 50% of the DNA plus pregnancy makes her part in the existence of the baby a looot bigger then thecfather who just "donated" some sperms.
Love that nerdy shirt Don is wearing! It just shouts "I'm and engineer!!" LOL. He is such a riot. I work with a retired electrical engineer and ironically his name is Don! And my Don is just a clone of this Don. How funny! And my friend Don is SO much the typical engineer as illustrated by this one.
I live in Springville, 5 miles south of Provo. It's Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs Utah. The words are just close together thre on the map. Just so you know.
I was about to point out the same thing, but I figured he wouldn't be "from there" long enough to correct the inaccuracy in time. By now, he from the spot where we fire off homemade rockets and shoot at old refrigerators...
There's plenty non blue comedy, & tbf, they're is also good blue comedy (note thos also depends on your taste), but if you're referring to Whitney Cummings type who can't talk sit sitting other than her pushy types, then no, not infuriated there's plenty classless people around
@@ishibi Yeah, I noticed when a friend and I who live relatively close had completely different “top in your country” lists. Looked it up and turns out, yeah that’s just a lie
I lived in Europe for 27 years and have lived in the US for 33... so technically I'm still in the Atlantic Ocean... 54.5246N, 46.0889W, to be mathematically precise... Great Circle.
@@Nicoder6884 That was 1897, little guy. You're 127 years behind the times. Meanwhile, it's against the law for residents of Long Beach, CA to use their garages for any purpose other than parking vehicles.
The town is Eagle Mountain it is right next to Saratoga Springs, UT. On the map it does look like Eagle Springs but there are two small towns there. They are much larger towns now.
Dont know how this came on my screen but I really and honestly laughed my ass off at „You will always be mine“ (Don’t know if this is a real saying. I am from Europe, so I am allowed to laugh asses off) 😂😂😂
But the second line shouldn't have been straight. The second line should have been curved, in the curve should be dependent on the ratio of time spent between the two California locations 😜😂🤣
I have the same problem. From birth to college graduation I was in various parts of eastern Massachusetts. For my late 20’s to mid 30’s I was in the Seattle area. Since then I’ve been moving between various towns in the SF Bay Area. So “where are you from?” can have different answers depending on what they actually want to know: “where did you start your current trip that landed you here?”, “where did you grow up?”, “where were you born?”, “where did you live before moving locally?”, even sometimes “where are your familial ancestors from?”. The people that live their whole lives in the same area where their family has lived for several generations have an easy answer to this question.
From the east coast and moved to the west coast, suddenly it makes sense why all his great logic goes out the window when it comes to a certain political party
Man, I so wish we'd had you do a show for our maths/computer science faculty. But alas, it's been a while since I've been to uni and I didn't know you back then. Great stuff!! 😂
I was once on a trip into the Mammoth Cave System in Kentucky with Jim Borden, caver extraordinaire. We were taking photos for a book he was writing. The beauty of cave photography is that the cave is a perfect darkroom, and if the camera is on a tripod you can simply leave the shutter open and set off the flash a few times. Mike Yocum was setting the camera's exposure, and I was handling a separate flash unit. Mike asked, How far are you from Jim? (the subject of the photo) and I said, Oh, about 20 feet. Jim scoffed and said, "Twelve feet. If you take a weighted average based on credibility, that's 12.001 feet."
One of the managers at my job uses this kind of drippy-looking spooky-style font for his official print-out notes and every time I'm like "are you taking this seriously?"
I totally agree that Font Matters, as well as accuracy, but I'm not an engineer, but I am totally not a Math person. So, in part of my brain, there must be an Engineer trapped. But the "Not-a-Math" person is bigger and won't let her out.
As an Engineer, I absolutely HATE Calibri, and detest that it is the default font for Windows Office. And do you know why I'll show you. And since this phone also uses Calibri as the default font, I just DID. (Capital I and lowercase l, if you see this in a different font.)
I swear this showed up on my news feed because yesterday I commented on a political site about how much I missed Jay Leno's gentle yet insightful humor. I feel happy and creeped out at the same time.
The joke about the average being in Indiana is really good :) Thanks. That's an engineer joke though. The same joke from a physicist would place the average in Michigan since this looks like a Mercator map. The straight path between the two points would appear as a curve on this map, passing a bit more to the north.
1:02 Why isn’t the Miss You font not in the Miss You font? It looks like that one I always scroll by but never read… Hattenschw-something? edit: Okay I scrolled past it again, it’s Harlow-somethin.
When I was a child we moved around a lot. We moved to Victoria, TX and when adults asked me where I was from I would answer I was born in Arkansas. They responded “hillbilly.” Which as far from accurate. The only hillbilly I know anything about was the Beverly Hillbilly and my family was nothing like them. . . Now, I answer Round Rock, TX. . .
A friend needed a copy of his baptismal certificate before he got married. I told him to counterfeit one. He asked how to do this. I replied, "You can, it all depends on the font."
I was in Texas for Nine years. I was in Colorado for over ten years. I have been in New Mexico for two years. Mathematically I am from somewhere in the Oklahoma panhandle.
I used to look at a site called clientcopia, on which graphic designers posted funny horror stories about their clients. One I recall: Client: “More fonts! Use more fonts!” Designer: “How many do you want?” Client: “How many do you have?”
My instructor insisted that I lay out my research paper in 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced, single column and in...a Word doc. Times New Roman for fux sake! It hurt writing that paper.
About 7 years ago, I got my certification in Child S-xual Abuse Risk Reduction For Youth-Serving Organizations. They printed the official certificate in COMIC SANS! There will never be a worse time than this for using Comic Sans.
A new employee starts at the machine shop, and is asked why he left his previous job. "I got the sack because I was ten thou out on a piece of work." "Just 10 thou? That seems a bit strict. Where did you work?" "The bank."
My takeaway from this is that you're 62 years old. You look fantastic for being 62.
Wiki says 66 so something is missing somewhere...
So I was not the only one trying to calculate that 😅
What intrigues me is, has he been wearing the same checkered shirt all those years?
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThenwhat's missing is that this clip is from 4 years ago
@@Hanno300bc As an engineer I know why. You find a shirt you like and it fits well and you buy a dozen of those so you don't have to buy another one for years. Steve Jobs got the idea for wearing a black turtleneck all the time from one of the engineers working for him.😀
"You know you're an engineer if you always have to be accurate."
Meanwhile, the same engineers: e = pi = 3
No, that's physicists. "close enough"
I don't know any engineers that would take Pi as 3. At work it's 3.14159 , rest of the time 3.14.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 I kinda pile them into the same group.
He didn't say we have to be precise.
my brother in maths to make the calculatitons simpler lets assume pi = 1
You know you're an engineer when you do your stand-up bit through Power Point.
2:41 Shit. I lived in Europe for 27 years and have lived in the US for 33... so technically I'm still in the Atlantic Ocean... 54.5246N, 46.0889W, to be mathematically precise...
Hey, with a bit of luck you'll be living on the Titanic for a short period of time.
Just keep swimming, eventually you'll make it back to land.
To be mathematically precise, it depends if you're doing euclidean geometry or non-euclidean geometry.
In one, you're inside the Earth crust on average, on the other you're on the Earth crust on average.
If you lived in Australia and Europe, your average is near the Earth core.
@vukkulvar9769 I did just follow the great circle approach, since i prefer to live on the earth's surface.
Welcome to Iceland ... I think you will like it here.
i used to imagine "what if Declaration of Independence was written in comic sans" and thank goodness it wasn't
yeah, Papyrus would be much better :))
@@JanHavel💀
@@JanHavel You little pot-stirrer.
@@JanHavel I hear a faint trousel of bones
There's worse...
What about Wingdings? 😝
Finally! A stand-up comedian for engineers.
but technically he was already standing..
but technically he is not only for engineers but also for all us spouses of engineers.
People ask me "Where you from?". I sometimes, in a smart ass tone, say "My mother."
Technically originally from your dad! That little guy had to start the long trek out. But you remind me of the Stephen fry joke at a talk where he says "that's the last time I've ever going to be in one of those again (he's gay in case you dunt know)
I'm like the proverbial umbrella. Born in Baltimore and raised all over the world.
@@kurtsudheim825you know that the "little guy" is only 50% of your DNA? Not only is the other 50% from the mother but also the whole development of the child takes place in her body makes "from my mother" the correct answer. with 50% of the DNA plus pregnancy makes her part in the existence of the baby a looot bigger then thecfather who just "donated" some sperms.
ah, so you came out from the place where i came in, weird....
oh no, my son!!!
"I'M FROM MY FATHERS BALLS!" Blue Mountain State, Episode 1
I am a 70 year old recovering engineer (naval propulsion, electrical, & software). You're killing me man. Brutally funny.
I hope you recover soon, I know some people who never fully got better after becoming an engineer.
Typographically contemporary dad jokes. I love it. 🥰
On "Where am I from?": You forgot to account for the curvature of the earth... 😉
& what about the date, earth moves around the galaxy, why if you ask 6 months after my bday?
Yes please recalculate via the Great Circle Route.
Yes, he's from underground right now.
@@kurtsudheim825 guess I'm from space then. neat
Within an acceptable degree of probability, I am from directly above the centre of the Earth.
"YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MINE" 😂
☠️
Normal
Loving
Found on bathroom mirror from crazed stalker.
yOu WiLL aLwAyS bE MiNe
I just love the idea that someone typing an rabid angry comment is so out of it, that they get all the capitalisations wrong
I only discovered Don a week or so ago and he's already in my top three favorite living comedians.
As a German, I'll be in Montana for half of 2025. It would be awesome if I would have the chance to see this guy life. =D Best nerd comedy there is!
Montana is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. In Summer 😂
So, depending on how old you are, you might be from France when you return back home.
I've waited my whole life for font-centric comedy.
Love it! {My wife grew up in Woodcrest; when we got married we were in Windsor Park before moving to Long Island.}.
Love that nerdy shirt Don is wearing! It just shouts "I'm and engineer!!" LOL. He is such a riot. I work with a retired electrical engineer and ironically his name is Don! And my Don is just a clone of this Don. How funny! And my friend Don is SO much the typical engineer as illustrated by this one.
Coincidence. Not irony.
Riches await thee whom invents the sarcasm font 🧞♀️
Yeah, we would stop using outdated sarcasm signs then
wE hAvE aLrEaDy InVeNtEd It.
@@JohnYow1yeah but that's a pain to type with
@LegorocketsAnimation nAh, YoU tYpE iT rEgUlArLy, JuSt UsE tHe DiFfErEnT fOnT
Italics
Very Dave Gorman-esque! 😂👍
I live in Springville, 5 miles south of Provo. It's Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs Utah. The words are just close together thre on the map. Just so you know.
And one of his jokes was that engineers have to be accurate! Haha!
I was about to point out the same thing, but I figured he wouldn't be "from there" long enough to correct the inaccuracy in time. By now, he from the spot where we fire off homemade rockets and shoot at old refrigerators...
Proof that great humor exists without obscenity. The top hits from Netflix are full of yelling cringe obsessed with bodily fluids.
The „top hits“ are curated by your watch history. They’re not actually top anything
There's plenty non blue comedy, & tbf, they're is also good blue comedy (note thos also depends on your taste), but if you're referring to Whitney Cummings type who can't talk sit sitting other than her pushy types, then no, not infuriated there's plenty classless people around
@@arnerademacker I didn’t know that. Thank you for sharing.
@@ishibi Yeah, I noticed when a friend and I who live relatively close had completely different “top in your country” lists. Looked it up and turns out, yeah that’s just a lie
Not true though....
Love your intelligent humor!
What projection were those lines on? Was that Mercator? Big circle? It matters!
I lived in Europe for 27 years and have lived in the US for 33... so technically I'm still in the Atlantic Ocean... 54.5246N, 46.0889W, to be mathematically precise... Great Circle.
@@Neverforget71324what’s it like living in the middle of nowhere?
@jakeg3126 chilly this time of year... and wet.
In 3 dimensions he's deep underground, under Utah.
You can still use mercator, but the line would be curved
That was actually hilarious! Bravo 🤣🤣🤣
Indiana is a great state to be mathematically from.💓
Yeah, but the weather stinks.
There are certainly areas I can't recommend.
@@freethebirds3578 There are states with better weather, but there are also states with MUCH worse weather.
They tried to pass a bill that made π = 3.2
@@Nicoder6884 That was 1897, little guy. You're 127 years behind the times. Meanwhile, it's against the law for residents of Long Beach, CA to use their garages for any purpose other than parking vehicles.
I really loved the where are you from joke. Will use it next time somebody ask me this question. Thanks for sharing this video.
This is so funny lol
My cousins live in Cherry Hill. I grew up in a Navy family and was in the Navy for 22 years. . I’m from everywhere.
Amazing and wonderful to enjoy.
Wow! I’m “from” Cherry Hill too! 1980-1989. I consider that my home since that was my teen years. I’m also an engineer. lol
The town is Eagle Mountain it is right next to Saratoga Springs, UT. On the map it does look like Eagle Springs but there are two small towns there. They are much larger towns now.
Just brilliant. Thank you Sir.
Just brilliant! 😀
Happy to see a new bit of hilarious material. I almost know by heart the logic doors bit.
You are utterly mental, mate!
And very funny.
101☝✊☝
He's an engineer. :)
This guy cracks me up! And technically I am not an engineer.. I was in IT, now retired.
Brightened my morning :)
Dont know how this came on my screen but I really and honestly laughed my ass off at „You will always be mine“ (Don’t know if this is a real saying. I am from Europe, so I am allowed to laugh asses off) 😂😂😂
But the second line shouldn't have been straight. The second line should have been curved, in the curve should be dependent on the ratio of time spent between the two California locations 😜😂🤣
Means Don McMillan was not a great engineer 😅
@@cool-aquarian 😜😂🤣
Clearly he missed out on the triangulation section of his studies, but I get that he’s placating the locals here so it gets a pass from me.
I have the same problem. From birth to college graduation I was in various parts of eastern Massachusetts. For my late 20’s to mid 30’s I was in the Seattle area. Since then I’ve been moving between various towns in the SF Bay Area. So “where are you from?” can have different answers depending on what they actually want to know: “where did you start your current trip that landed you here?”, “where did you grow up?”, “where were you born?”, “where did you live before moving locally?”, even sometimes “where are your familial ancestors from?”. The people that live their whole lives in the same area where their family has lived for several generations have an easy answer to this question.
Civil engineering student here, expecting to finish studies next year. Glad to see I have caught on to the engineer mindset to get these jokes.
This is the best.
As someone who moves a lot I am stealing this. I also never know what to say. 😂
Lol. My coworker still using comic Sans for his email font. I tell him nobody takes him seriously because of his font choice.
Comment, because you deserve it for being awesomely smart funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊
Hi Don, Thanks for performing at Wave. You were great!
Accuracy matters. Today it is Eagle Mountain or Saratoga Springs...not Eagle Springs my friend. Great humor! 😂
From the east coast and moved to the west coast, suddenly it makes sense why all his great logic goes out the window when it comes to a certain political party
I’m 63 and still live in the county that I was born in. I may use this method to determine what part of the county I now reside in though.
Man, I so wish we'd had you do a show for our maths/computer science faculty. But alas, it's been a while since I've been to uni and I didn't know you back then. Great stuff!! 😂
It’s Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs lol!!
I was once on a trip into the Mammoth Cave System in Kentucky with Jim Borden, caver extraordinaire. We were taking photos for a book he was writing. The beauty of cave photography is that the cave is a perfect darkroom, and if the camera is on a tripod you can simply leave the shutter open and set off the flash a few times. Mike Yocum was setting the camera's exposure, and I was handling a separate flash unit. Mike asked, How far are you from Jim? (the subject of the photo) and I said, Oh, about 20 feet. Jim scoffed and said, "Twelve feet. If you take a weighted average based on credibility, that's 12.001 feet."
One of the managers at my job uses this kind of drippy-looking spooky-style font for his official print-out notes and every time I'm like "are you taking this seriously?"
The "you will always be mine" part is genius
My doctor once printed out the results of one of my blood tests in comic sans.
"Your results are in, and it appears you have extremely goofy blood"
LMAO the thumbnail was small so I thought the second image was in some profound ancient hyerogliphs and died laughing for the wrong reason
“I will find you wherever you are”:😇
“I WILL FIND YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE”:💀
Smart jokes! The kind I like
As a professional graphic designer, this is my all day, every day!!!
With all the moving around to different locations, when he goes out for walks in unfamiliar places, I can imagine he's been many times new roamin'.
I do proofreading as part of my job. Font choice matters to me as well. Plus I too have to be accurate.
2:10. Funny, even better if he used a great circle route to place his “average”! 😂
Font choice matters in Graphic Design too for many of the same reasons! :))
This calculation puts me in Budapest. I should travel there someday...
As a font nerd I love this. Font choice is very important. So is proofreading. How on earth did you get two lowercase Ls in the scary font?!! 😂
Three, and the font is actually just like that. My question is why he didn't actually use Curlz or Miss You
This is some of the only humor I ever understand.
Phoenix is a great place, to be From!
😂😂 his origin is migrating
I totally agree that Font Matters, as well as accuracy, but I'm not an engineer, but I am totally not a Math person. So, in part of my brain, there must be an Engineer trapped. But the "Not-a-Math" person is bigger and won't let her out.
As an Engineer, I absolutely HATE Calibri, and detest that it is the default font for Windows Office. And do you know why I'll show you. And since this phone also uses Calibri as the default font, I just DID.
(Capital I and lowercase l, if you see this in a different font.)
@@andrewdreasler428 I don't like it either. It is my go away-from font.
@@jueneturner8331Good news! They changed the default from Calibri to Aptos just this year!
I don't think that anybody serious in the industry cares about fonts (except from graphic designers), but the vid was really funny
That was classy.
Eagle Springs 😂
I say I’m from another planet 😅
Man’s got a point about those fonts!
I swear this showed up on my news feed because yesterday I commented on a political site about how much I missed Jay Leno's gentle yet insightful humor. I feel happy and creeped out at the same time.
theres a parallel world where curls is the elegant font lol
The joke about the average being in Indiana is really good :) Thanks.
That's an engineer joke though. The same joke from a physicist would place the average in Michigan since this looks like a Mercator map. The straight path between the two points would appear as a curve on this map, passing a bit more to the north.
Actually, the average would probably be a bit under the earth because of the curvature
Did not follow why the average is skewed. Is it coz of the population
tf that was awesome
Font lives matter 😂
1:02 Why isn’t the Miss You font not in the Miss You font? It looks like that one I always scroll by but never read… Hattenschw-something?
edit: Okay I scrolled past it again, it’s Harlow-somethin.
Oh ya! I stand-up routine you can count on.
When I was a child we moved around a lot. We moved to Victoria, TX and when adults asked me where I was from I would answer I was born in Arkansas. They responded “hillbilly.” Which as far from accurate. The only hillbilly I know anything about was the Beverly Hillbilly and my family was nothing like them. . . Now, I answer Round Rock, TX. . .
If you lived in more than 2 places, then you can find the mass centre.😅
Crazy Im sitting here in Maple Shade Nj about a mile from the Cherry Hill township line.
The Indiana average wrecked me, lol
A former New Jerseyan? No wonder he's a smartass :)
Well actually the weighted geo midpoint is more like in Denver ☝
A friend needed a copy of his baptismal certificate before he got married. I told him to counterfeit one. He asked how to do this. I replied, "You can, it all depends on the font."
I’m so used to watching clips of British stand up comedians that I’m struggling to understand what an American comedian is saying lol
Yes, but are you using lat lon interpolation, or are you using geodesics?
I was in Texas for Nine years.
I was in Colorado for over ten years.
I have been in New Mexico for two years.
Mathematically I am from somewhere in the Oklahoma panhandle.
I have been in southern New Mexico for two years.
Mathematically I am from somewhere on the Western border of Texas and New Mexico.
I laughed.
I've lived in the US for 5 years, Thailand for 2 1/2, Sweden for 1, and Germany for 20 1/2. I wonder where I'm from xD
I have a background in graphics and I've always maintained that we could get along just fine with only a dozen fonts.
I used to look at a site called clientcopia, on which graphic designers posted funny horror stories about their clients. One I recall:
Client: “More fonts! Use more fonts!”
Designer: “How many do you want?”
Client: “How many do you have?”
Only those of us who have moved around understand the "where are you from"? My question is "why does it matter"!
My instructor insisted that I lay out my research paper in 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced, single column and in...a Word doc. Times New Roman for fux sake!
It hurt writing that paper.
About 7 years ago, I got my certification in Child S-xual Abuse Risk Reduction For Youth-Serving Organizations.
They printed the official certificate in COMIC SANS! There will never be a worse time than this for using Comic Sans.
At first I thought he would choose Comic Sans for the declaration.
A new employee starts at the machine shop, and is asked why he left his previous job.
"I got the sack because I was ten thou out on a piece of work."
"Just 10 thou? That seems a bit strict. Where did you work?"
"The bank."
Mathematically, I'm from Interstate 35. Several places within a few miles of it in Iowa, Kansas City and now Austin
I need a "where am I from" calculator