Talk:713: GeoIP
The title text is more than hyperbole: In the United States, if someone is "living in their mom's basement", it implies they can not or will not get a job allowing them to move out. i.e.: they are a loser. The resultant weak response "Screw you, GeoIP" seems to push that depiction even further. 173.245.56.186 23:11, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
- I don't get this. The title text goes "Meet hot young singles in your mom's basement today?" Not their. Isn't this another "yo' mama" joke, simply implying that your mama has hot young singles in her basement?Mumiemonstret (talk) 08:02, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think it just means that you can do the same trick on *your* IP, just replacing the string "low earth orbit" with "your mom basement". MGitsfullofsheep (talk) 17:12, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think this means that your mum is the hot young single in her basement... 141.101.98.241 12:27, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yes nothing hyperbole here. It is just another of Randall's many your mom jokes and can be insulting in almost anyway you think about the sentence. Have tried to change the explanation of the title text according to this. --Kynde (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think this is a "Your Mom" joke. I agree with the first comment. It is simply that GeoIP has gotten so accurate that it can now pinpoint the user's location to his Mom's basement. An adult living in his parent's house is termed shameful in US as it means that the adult does not have a job and cannot support himself/herself. That is why he's hiding in the basement in the first place, instead of it just being 'Mom's house'. The ad is usually like this -- "Meet hot young singles in <user's location>" where the <user's location> part is filled in from GeoIP. Clearly, there are no "hot young singles" in his Mom's basement and it feels like GeoIP is unknowingly shaming the user by reminding him that he is in his mom's basement, and hence the "Screw you" response. 199.27.130.216 00:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
- But it's your mom's basement, so that suggests you are online dating with a close relative? I don't understand it. That's right, Jacky720 just signed this (talk | contribs) 20:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- No that is simply GeoIP being fooled just like the ISS entry being put in. If someone living his his/her mom's basement got that ad, they already know there is no hot young girls in that area otherwise he would not be online trying to find close hot young girls. 108.162.216.166 13:38, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
- The title text is saying that GeoIP is very accurate, and, just like it "assumed" that there were "local girls" in low earth orbit, it "assumes" that there are local girls in "your mom's basement", even though there are actually none.TaperingBirch (talk) 14:05, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- No that is simply GeoIP being fooled just like the ISS entry being put in. If someone living his his/her mom's basement got that ad, they already know there is no hot young girls in that area otherwise he would not be online trying to find close hot young girls. 108.162.216.166 13:38, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
- But it's your mom's basement, so that suggests you are online dating with a close relative? I don't understand it. That's right, Jacky720 just signed this (talk | contribs) 20:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think this is a "Your Mom" joke. I agree with the first comment. It is simply that GeoIP has gotten so accurate that it can now pinpoint the user's location to his Mom's basement. An adult living in his parent's house is termed shameful in US as it means that the adult does not have a job and cannot support himself/herself. That is why he's hiding in the basement in the first place, instead of it just being 'Mom's house'. The ad is usually like this -- "Meet hot young singles in <user's location>" where the <user's location> part is filled in from GeoIP. Clearly, there are no "hot young singles" in his Mom's basement and it feels like GeoIP is unknowingly shaming the user by reminding him that he is in his mom's basement, and hence the "Screw you" response. 199.27.130.216 00:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
- Yes nothing hyperbole here. It is just another of Randall's many your mom jokes and can be insulting in almost anyway you think about the sentence. Have tried to change the explanation of the title text according to this. --Kynde (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Is it just me or do the girls look like they're floating in zero gravity? Tbodt (talk) 00:13, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
420??? 🌿 🌿 🌿 “in low Earth orbit; a distance of roughly 420 kilometers above the Earth surface” 42.book.addict (talk) 03:08, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
- It varies (like "413 perigee to 422 apogee" frequent orbital variation, with periodic decay/reboost over time), but yes. Hubble is at ~540km up, and Iridium sats are at 780ish. LEO is arbitrarily defined as up to 2000km, but usage is skewed to the lower end of the not-totally-scraping-the-atmosphere range, including all manned space-stations (and all manned missions that aren't trans-lunar) of past and present. 141.101.99.43 03:54, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
