Rated X wrote:
I was under the impression you live in Germany. I didn't want to break out the "Master Race" jokes because someone might find it offensive. I never said Miami is the capital of the world. I'm aware there are different climates across the world. But with that being said there are also different styles of humor around the world. Obviously, I'm not a big fan of Chinese dry humor. So I threw in some Southern wet humor. I don't feel embarrassed for not knowing the butt of an old joke actually exists today. I just know better now. Many highly educated, analytical Transformers collectors have an extremely different view about what is funny to them. if they want to play make believe that they are getting a tree sized Unicron, then so be it. Ive used the flashlight joke countless times over the years and got well received ovation of laughs. its not my fault they didn't get it.
I do live in Germany, and like most Germans I love self-deprecation jokes, just the Nazi jokes get a bit old, especially coming from others.
Again, we all got the joke, we just pointed out that it's not funny, because the punch-line of the joke is now stating a fact. It's like trying to make fun of Star Trek for having a portable computer and laughing at how stupid those people need to be to think that a computer will ever be small enough to be held in one hand. Sure, it might have been funny back then, but today we have computers that are smaller than the Star Trek ones, and also more powerful and versatile.
Solar powered flashlights have been around for a good while, and they work. Solar powered heating too, heck that's even a super old concept.
You asked why anyone would need heating during the day when the sun is out, I told you why. Miami might be hot all year round, but other places that's not the case. The sun shines during winter as well, it's cold, but the sunshine is strong enough to power solar panels for electricity or solar heating boxes, which are basically just black tanks filled with water that heat up the water in them so it can be used for heating or warm tap water for showers etc, it's the cheapest and best way of regulating the temperature of an inside swimming pool.
It's even a super easy DIY project to do, all your need for a simple homemade solution are a bunch of water tanks, piping, and maybe a pump, and of course black paint to cover the tanks and the piping in, if they're not black already.
You see, mocking silly fantasy concepts is only funny, if they really are silly fantasy concepts that don't exist and work.
And the joke with this Unicron here, is the fact that people keep wanting in-scale versions of impossibly big characters, like Fort Max etc, MT made fun of that by posting a teaser of an in-scale Unicron. Which is so big nobody could afford it, or even display it.
It's essentially the kind of joke you tried to pull of with the solar powered flash light, only tailor made for TF collectors, and actually still silly unlike the joke about something that exists.
And great, the joke seems to still work with people who live under rocks, so it's still funny, in the right company. I mean for a long time people thought that it was comedy gold when someone got a pie in the face.
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I get that the flashlight joke fell flat. It's the 
