English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Noah

2:03 PM

Hi

Does job offer at the table sound correct?

Or should it be on the table all the time.

Can it be colloquially correct?

Matt Эллен

2:20 PM

@its_me yes

Noah

@MattЭллен

How are you doing

?

Matt Эллен

@Noah on the table. You never put an offer at the table.

@Noah I'm fine, thanks. how are you?

Noah

Good.

But Google seems to turn up some results? Is it okay to use it informally?

Matt Эллен

you can say anything you like, informally. People will get what you mean.

Noah

No, will it be considered wrong?

Jez

2:26 PM

I swear I have gotten my system set up before to play FLVs in Firefox once the Flash plugin is installed but I can't seem to replicate it. Am I just imagining this?

(FLVs on my local file system, I mean)

KitFox

5 mins ago, by Matt Эллен

@Noah on the table. You never put an offer at the table.

Matt Эллен

@Noah most of the stuff I see on Google isn't "put an offer on the table" using at, it's things like "See what's on off a the table top gaming stand" and the like, just coincidences

Noah

Okay.

KitFox

That was a weird meeting.

Matt Эллен

what happened?

Noah

2:28 PM

But I heard this from a friend who is a native speaker: I will think about what I get at the table.

She was basically talking about a job offer.

Matt Эллен

I guess they were going to a table?

KitFox

@MattЭллен I just thought you were joking when you said you were going to meet with me.

@Noah That sounds normal to me.

"We'll see what they offer when I'm sitting at the table."

Noah

Oh, I see.

@KitFox Thanks.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox So you were at the meeting about the monthly management meeting too!

KitFox

I thought it was wicked funny, the way everyone kept talking over each other.

Because the boss had to join via phone and couldn't see or hear anybody.

Of course, she usually talks over people anyway.

Matt Эллен

2:33 PM

I liked the fact that one guy outright said that this meeting was a waste of time

KitFox

I thought that was you.

Who am I kidding? You're not that bold.

Matt Эллен

I'm not

KitFox

Hell, I'm not that bold.

However, I am bold enough to stride down the hallway and slam the door of the classroom shut.

Because they have some audio thing that they feel the need to turn up with their door open.

Because there couldn't be any people working here.

Matt Эллен

I was seething in the meeting yesterday. I put it partly down to tiredness, but really the whole meting made no sense and told us nothing.

Jez

erm, you think that's bad? try working near a woman with the most loud, obnoxious laugh in history

Matt Эллен

2:36 PM

but I said nothing

KitFox

I am hungry or I wouldn't have slammed the door.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox so frustratings. They're refurbishing the office right next to me. not disturbing in the least.

Jez

and the rest of the ppl in my office just gossip all the time

with varying degrees of irritatingness

Matt Эллен

@Jez stop being so funny and you'll never nkow she's there

KitFox

I do that quietly.

Jez

2:38 PM

nah, she's gossiping to other women whom she always finds hilarious

KitFox

By typing all my gossip to people in the ether.

Matt Эллен

yay!

gossip gossip gossip gossip. football football

KitFox

Hey, this refactoring is going to make one big sproc. Maybe I should divide it up anyway, for readability?

Matt Эллен

lol

KitFox

@MattЭллен We do "golf golf football golf."

@MattЭллен Why is that funny?

I need lunch. Only twenty more minutes.

Matt Эллен

2:41 PM

@KitFox because you were consolidating it to make less work. it seemed funny to me that you would split it up again for even less work

KitFox

Oh yes. That would be funny.

Matt Эллен

you should nibble on a pistachio nut until then

KitFox

Is that some kind of innuendo?

Matt Эллен

it wasn't, but anything is possible at zombocom

KitFox

sooo hungry

Jez

2:46 PM

keep thinking about hunger. that'll make it go away

big juicy Sunday roast dinners

KitFox

thai food.

Matt Эллен

yes. focus on how empty your stomach feels and how much better you'd feel if you ate something

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Jez

nah, thai food would just make me throw up

KitFox

spring rolls

escargot

Matt Эллен

2:47 PM

frog

KitFox

I bet that feels good if you're a frog.

Matt Эллен

speaking of which, I made toad in the hole on Saturday

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен oh, for realz? not just for a limerick?

KitFox

The kind with sausages?

Matt Эллен

I like how the snails stares at the camera when it's fully on top of the frog

@KitFox yes

KitFox

2:48 PM

drools a bit

Look, I can't even type.

Less than usual.

Matt Эллен

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 indeed :D glad you read it

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен I subscribe by RSS

Matt Эллен

oh god. Geocities has leaked into tumblr

sakrifice.tumblr.com

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 what do you use to read your rss feeds?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен feedly

Matt Эллен

interesting

KitFox

2:53 PM

I'm too old to figure out how to use RSS feeds. I thought I subscribed but... shrugs

old and hungry

did I mention hungry?

Matt Эллен

I'm subscribed to a bunch of rss feeds in Thunderbird, but I never read them

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

RSS revolutionized the internet for me. I used to open tabs for dozens of websites every day. Now I get all the articles all in one place. And with Feedly I can read them on my phone or at my desk and it keeps track of the subscriptions and what's unread in a centralized place

Matt Эллен

@KitFox maybe you should think about how you will eat your food when you finally have it. You're going to be late going for lunch, by the way. /portent

Stack Exchange

KitFox has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Matt Эллен

I've yet to see the unicorn feed appear

KitFox

2:56 PM

Lunch. I will eat now. brb

Stack Exchange

KitFox has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Mitch

3:07 PM

@KitFox Make sure they flush the tree afterwards.

Yum.

that was quick!

Tasty too.

@MattЭллен I blame Harry Potter.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch for increasing the number of women in family films?

@KitFox what did you eat?

KitFox

3:12 PM

Meatball sub.

Matt Эллен

nice

KitFox

reviews emergency evacuation procedures

Funny. The procedures are "Leave the building immediately."

Mitch

@MattЭллен ha ha, no. For the lack. Because women writers will still feel their stuff will only sell if they provide it from a male viewpoint.

KitFox

It's kind of true.

Mitch

It's good advice.

depending on the emergency.

KitFox

3:13 PM

I was thinking this morning that I am in a community of approximately 17% women.

Which is to say that of my friends and family, most are men.

Mitch

It's not good advice if your emergency is GI related.

Matt Эллен

I think that fewer than 17% of the employees here are female

KitFox

I have two boys, my two closest friends both have two boys and one girl.

My brothers and brothers-in-law have four boys and one girl altogether.

Mitch

also, if there's a tornado. go to the basement, away from windows. Earthquake, leave the building. Hurricane, drive far far away. Fire...oh shit... I don't know.

Matt Эллен

for fire, you must wait until you are surrounded on all sides then jump from the highest window

Mitch

3:15 PM

@KitFox it's the water. also, it must have been 2 degrees warmer than usual when the moms were all gestating. That's how science works.

KitFox

tries really hard to not think about fire

@Mitch It's genetics.

My husband's family is predisposed to produce boys.

Mitch

@MattЭллен actually, burn a circle around you well before the fire gets to you.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch but if you have a well then you can use it to put the fire out

Mitch

@KitFox no way! really? I think that's bogus.

@MattЭллен ooh ooh, I know... stay in the well.

Matt Эллен

like bart simpson

Cerberus

3:18 PM

squeek

hello!

I'm still hungry.

Hello!

Hi.

@Cerberus Why for dist thou squeeketh?

KitFox

3:20 PM

*wherefore

Matt Эллен

@KitFox just a few lines up

Cerberus

I was trying to remain undetected.

Mitch

@Cerberus did someone just step on a mouse? bite into farmer's cheese? make a sharp turn wearing tennis shoes in a gym?

Cerberus

But I failed.

KitFox

@MattЭллен I was correcting you.

Matt Эллен

3:21 PM

@KitFox I know what you were doing.

Cerberus

Bite into farmer's cheese?

Mitch

open a rusty old door?

KitFox

@MattЭллен Oh I see, so rather I didn't know what you were doing and thus the mouse became the cheese.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox lol

Mitch

yeah, farmer's cheese. It is basically cottage cheese pressed into a more dense lump.

Cerberus

3:22 PM

What is farmer's cheese, and why does it squeak? Because there's a mouse in it?

Mitch

hm maybe 'farmer's cheese' is not the term.

Robusto

@Cerberus You should have thought of that before you added that third head.

Cerberus

Hey, blame my parents.

KitFox

reduces problem to one previously solved

Cerberus

I'm not blaming you for your oddities.

Mitch

3:23 PM

Farmer cheese

Farmer cheese (also farmer's cheese or farmers' cheese) in American English refers most often to pressed Cottage cheese, an unripened cheese made by adding rennet and bacterial starter to coagulate and acidify milk. Farmer cheese may be made from the milk of cows, sheep or goats, with each giving its own texture and flavor. During coagulation the mixture separates into curds (solid) and whey (liquid), then the whey is drained off. Further pressing out of the moisture yields the malleable solid results of pot cheese, whilst even more pressing makes farmer cheese, which is solid, dry and ...

Cerberus

Ah.

KitFox

It's an incredibly tasteless cheese.

Mitch

it is not aged. it squeks when you bite into it, because it is imitating the mouse that would have been eating it.

KitFox

Not tasteless. Flavorless?

Cerberus

I wonder why they drain the whey.

Mitch

3:24 PM

no it's tasteless.

also flavorless.

has negative flavor.

Robusto

So when Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey, why didn't they just say she was eating cheese?

Mitch

with an aftertaste of less than nothing.

KitFox

Why am I still hungry?

Cerberus

Cottage cheese is quite OK, but the texture is about half of its taste.

Mitch

because cheese.

Matt Эллен

3:24 PM

@Robusto cheese doesn't rhyme with away

Robusto

Cheese is the beer of foods.

KitFox

And frightened Miss Muffet ... asneeze.

Mitch

beer is the cheese of.... blechhh.

Robusto

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her cheese, they say
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet a whey!

...

See? And all the facts are in.

KitFox

a whey?

Mitch

3:26 PM

Did you just make that up?

Robusto

Yes. Yes to both of you.

Stack Exchange

Unicorn Daily: need! http://www.shopplasticland.com/fashion/p/P30708700.html

posted on July 09, 2013

need! http://www.shopplasticland.com/fashion/p/P30708700.html

Unicorn Daily: Am I allowed to submit photos?

posted on July 09, 2013

yes please!

Unicorn Daily: I LOVE YOUR BLOGGGGGGGG

posted on July 09, 2013

XOX My blog loves you!

Unicorn Daily: Surprise, you beautiful person!!! I hope you have a lovely day, and if you aren't, I hope you tal…

posted on July 09, 2013

awww thank you made my day

Unicorn Daily: That's why UK passports have a unicorn on it! Google it. The UK emblem is of a golden lion (Engla…

posted on July 09, 2013

I need to be living in a fairytale country!

Robusto

Can I flag that as spam?

Matt Эллен

little miss muffet
sat on her tuffet
eating some flavourless cheese
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet with ease

Cerberus

WTF is THAT!?

Matt Эллен

3:27 PM

that's the daily unicorn feed

no unicorns, for some reason

Mitch

@KitFox "to frighten sb a (thing)" means to frighten someone so much that they turn into that thing. Ms. Muffet is now a protein drink.

Robusto

I am slowing. Imperceptibly, but slowing nonetheless.

That rhymes with whey

Noah

Hi

KitFox

Little Miss Handwarmer sat on a stool
Eating her cheese, they say
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Handwarmer away!

Noah

Everyone

KitFox

3:28 PM

So I fixed the unicorn feed. Why did we have that?

Matt Эллен

@Robusto lol

@KitFox because it was gong to be pictures of unicorns, but not today, apparently

Mitch

@KitFox I'm trying to read something salacious into that, and it's not working.

Noah

Anyone fasting in this room?

Mitch

I'm not eating a thing in this room.

what, is today the first of Ramadan?

Matt Эллен

@Noah I haven't eaten since about twenty minuites ago, if that counts

KitFox

3:29 PM

Is it Eid Al-Adha already?

Robusto

What?

Matt Эллен

yes

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: Also, chew slowly

posted on July 05, 2013 by sgdi

The longer that someone must wait For food to appear on their plate It’s more tasty by far The more hungry they are They’re more satisfied once they have ate

Limerick Machine: It was the ground floor

posted on July 06, 2013 by sgdi

The crazy young man of Penang Declared “Everyone here should hang! I hate you all more. We are now at war" And out of the window he sprang

Limerick Machine: And sausages too

posted on July 07, 2013 by sgdi

I just made a toad in the hole Baked well in a deep casserole It’s made out of batter To make me get fatter Mixed up in a large plastic bowl

Limerick Machine: So long as you're supervised

posted on July 08, 2013 by sgdi

When I was a teen, it is true, I might have had more than a few Alcoholic drinks And despite what they think I’d say it’s a good thing to do

Limerick Machine: Why bother asking?

posted on July 09, 2013 by sgdi

When someone asks you for advice And you tell them something precise That would help them out Even if you do shout They ignore you and then pay the price

KitFox

Wish that were formatted better...

Noah

@KitFox No, it's the first day of Ramadan.

Robusto

3:30 PM

I just ignored the StackExchange troll.

KitFox

@Robusto Hey! Those were Matt's limericks!

Matt Эллен

Ramadan Mubarak

Mitch