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12:02 AM

@Cerberus But do you trust big pharma?

12:12 AM

@JohanLarsson I trust that they are mostly unwilling to destroy themselves by defying health authorities...

You realize you must commit right?

Jez is chat reg which makes him family.

@Cerberus ^

yeah

what Johan said

failure to commit means one loses one's chat regular pass ;-)

wow we're up to 118 now

we were briefly at the top of the Hot list :-D

i love building up these sites to beta. it reminds me of when we were doing it with French Language.

it's exciting anticipating how the beta will go. i certainly plan to play a major part. looking forward to helping to shape the community and learn about health

reading up on health on the web, i've already learnt a few things i've been doing wrong and am living a bit more healthily

Where do people go when they go away?

Is it somewhere else or just being quiet?

12:30 AM

I'm always lurking at some %

Watching a tutorial.

Where did you go?

12:57 AM

ha ha. commuting. now i know.

@Mitch I assume you found the questions.

1:33 AM

Yeah. They were in the back of the book.

2:11 AM

@JohanLarsson Nah-uh!

1 hour later…

Phonics The Hedgehog

3:28 AM

@JasperLoy you wrote this? i.imgur.com/Ru7FlBf.png

@PhonicsTheHedgehog No, they were just playing with me.

Phonics The Hedgehog

Aw. I was hoping you did that lol

How long ago was this? Been busy lately. How was Christmas and New Year?

@PhonicsTheHedgehog I am not good, still struggling with my mental illness. What about you?

Phonics The Hedgehog

@JasperLoy Mm, Sounds serious. Let me know if you need anything. I'm doing well!

Currently tackling precalc stuff, but well.

@PhonicsTheHedgehog Are you still Christian? Mahnax stopped being one.

Phonics The Hedgehog

3:33 AM

@JasperLoy Well, people change religions. I'm still Christian tho.

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5:21 AM

Hello @medica, happy new year.

5:32 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 How do you get free Lego? Oh, and my Lego Christmas present (would never have thought of it but for you) was a big hit, for a small Lego. :)

Hi, Jasper. Same to you!
Did you start studying? I have been hoping that you have.

6:17 AM

Good morning all!

6:59 AM

Hi

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Matt Эллен

9:01 AM

morning

9:43 AM

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Q: To be or not to be?

I am sure you heard that question many many times, and you think it's "unprofessional" to ask it here. But this question hauted me for nearly a decade and I was never able to find an answer. also,if it is possible to leave a link for the"to be or not to be"passage in a simplified and explained fo...

literature literary-english

Welcome to Existentialism Language and Usage!

@Cerberus ur stupid. Downvoted.

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11:12 AM

sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/483079?programid=1302

In Swedish

11:33 AM

@JohanLarsson yay, I can understand the gist of a Swedish text!

I ran it through Google translate afterwards, to get it all. It produced the most amusing prhase

> But the classic administrators, such as secretaries, clerks and clerks

WTF is going on in Paris.

I hope that they translate the book, I'd read it.

@RegDwigнt Paris? Am I missing some important piece of international news?

Eleven people killed with AKs and a rocket launcher.

Probably for printing Mohammed caricatures.

Charlie Hebdo victime d'une attaque à l'arme automatique

@rumtscho :)

11:48 AM

@RegDwigнt I’d hoped you were kidding.

12:01 PM

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Hm. It's not even a caricature. It's completely innocent and childish.

"100 lashes if you don't die laughing". I've seen stronger wordings.

Well, they've changed the masthead as well.

What does the tiny type at the end of the red stripe say?

Click to magnify.

It was probably a bunch a bakers incensed that the cartoon uses two pieces of bread as a cap in a sacrilegious fashion.

That's not what it says.

"Mohammed, editor in chief".

Matt Эллен

Mahomet: redacter in chief

oh!

12:05 PM

oui!

Redacteur.

@tchrist you misspelled "oui !".

Your face is broken.

Is that a threat?

I sew no threads I do not weave.

I’m starting to get pissed at the instant revenge-downvotes anything I say immediately garners, particularly since I think I know who's doing it.

Your threads are raveled. And unraveled.

12:08 PM

Bolero, whoa oh oh oh.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist yeah, that down vote on occupancy is weird, given the other answer offers the same word but did not get a down vote

@MattЭллен That’s what I thought.

Apparently you get a downvote for being the first to answer now.

Still I wouldn't take it personally ever since I conducted that research I can't find anymore.

Oh here it is.

I remember this bugging you, but I don’t remember the research.

Oct 28 '14 at 12:02, by RegDwigнt

Voting patterns of two users. Each has 3000+ votes, and both have pretty much the same upvote/downvote rate. Yet the vote distribution couldn't be more different. Fascinating.

Oct 28 '14 at 12:00, by RegDwigнt

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12:11 PM

Democrat vs Republican.

> The explanation, of course, is that this is just the top 140 targets for each user. So the left one hides all their downvotes in the long tail. Say, by downvoting random spammers and the like. Conversely, for the one to the right it is the upvotes that form the long tail. Just a couple upvotes per user should be enough!

I think I may have a lot of downvotes against random spammers and the like.

Lately I’ve been nervous about the reverse of that, the perception that I might always upvote all answers by user X, Y, or Z.

The problem is that users X, Y, and Z keep posting good answers.

So I have no reason to downvote them.

Yes. That is a problem.

We should suspend them.

That might work.

I'll get right onto it.

Matt Эллен

12:16 PM

lol

ta

Q: How do you downvote somebody without downvoting somebody?
A: By upvoting everybody else instead.

A rising tide that lifts all ships but one.

Yes. But. Work.

The aunties won’t be on your ass that way.

Where auntie is Gibson-speak for algorithm.

Just finished reading Lou's Pseudo 3d Page. Very insightful.

12:53 PM

I want beland put back into English so that I have a better translation for the first part of El Cantar de Mio Çid, which is known as "El Cantar del Destierro", in which the king belands Rodrigo.

It normally gets translated as banish or exile.

I would have understood belands to mean grants land to.

OE belandian meant to bereave someone of their lands.

To take their lands from them.

And no, there is no way you could have known which be- was used there out of context.

It’s in the behead, belimb list.

Not in the bestow, bequeath list.

Right.

There is an unland verb, but it doesn’t get used very much.

12:58 PM

I thought you were younger.

@JohanLarsson That's just creepy.

Yeah, not very funny

And we're standing outside of this wonderland, looking so belund and so beleft.

I think I'll go in and give notice today.

Beleft is rather sinister. Is this more islamocensorship?

1:02 PM

@Robusto lately you seem to have been getting the hang out of giving notices.

You get to be of a certain age, it's less and less easy to tolerate bullshit.

Right. The terrists in Paris are probably over 80 years old.

@Robusto Yeah, do it. We can't have you miserable. Great guys should feel great.

@RegDwigнt They need to be desterrados from the France.

A former boss offered me 10% more than I'm making to come back and work for him. I may not even take that. We'll see.

1:04 PM

@JohanLarsson Stop hitting on the nurse. It's just drag.

Apr 13 '11 at 9:55, by Robusto

Stop staring at my twice.

Technically I don't stare at it. I am using a periscope.

@Robusto We can offer insanely long workdays. But JS is banned here.

@JohanLarsson Luddite.

How does it make me a Luddite to prefer technology that actually works?

1:06 PM

Very, very quickly.

Genuflect when you say that.

Matt Эллен

JS works

what are you? me from 2001?

You can probably do js == works

Julia Stiles works like shit.

@MattЭллен I speak from a placve with very little skill.

1:07 PM

And Johann Strauss doesn't work no more.

Matt Эллен

Julia Seesaw, on the other hand

Never heard of that one.

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson ah, so me from 2001 ;)

Speaking of not hearing, Jessica Simpson is dead or what.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt I made it up :D

1:08 PM

@MattЭллен my statement still stands.

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt not according to Wikipedia.

@Robusto 80% of the time, that is true 100% of the time.

@RegDwigнt If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

@MattЭллен so you're saying that even Wikipedia doesn't know or care she's been dead for a decade.

Matt Эллен

1:09 PM

@RegDwigнt apparently

@Robusto what if it's a spoon?

And a bald child tells me it's not there?

tries to make ROFL joke with German word for spoon. Fails.

tries to make ROFL joke with German word for spoon. Succeeds.

Matt Эллен

tries to fail. Succeeds.

fails to try

1:11 PM

tries to fail. flails.

Matt Эллен

tries to nail. Screws up.

I am failing, I am failing, stormy waters, cross the sea.

See, a girl can get screwed and nailed at the same time.

tried an ale and threw up

lol

1:12 PM

@Robusto so can Russian cars in Russian car factories.

@RegDwigнt I didn't know they had car factories in Russia.

@MattЭллен That is when you upgraded VS the last time right?

@Robusto it's a trade secret.

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson sigh yeah, about then :(

We have car factories in America. It's just that we locate them in different countries.

1:14 PM

Yeah like Detroit.

It's a different planet alright.

Matt Эллен

put your hands up for Detroit!

Detroit is the moon.

Jinx.

Moon's no planet.

That's no jinx.

@MattЭллен I have so much wpf-spam and so few wpf friends :)

Same difference.

Matt Эллен

1:14 PM

It's a fully operational battle station

Okay okay.

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Here's "Detroit coke" for you.

First hit.

That is one huge coke addiction.

Huge guys should feel huge.

@medica No, I did not. My mental condition worsened recently. Now I am trying to get better first, so maybe I will start next year.

Next year is not now.

1:17 PM

Wait. This is next year.

Nah. This year is so 2015.

I am drinking some cold water. Better to go off tea and coffee for now.

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Next year never dies.

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson yeah, WPF folks are few and far between. although I do know one other WPFer where I live. I want him to want to work here, but he doesn't want a job where he can't work from home.

1:26 PM

Every wonder why we get so many questions from <somewhere> about politeness, especially when compared with how many questions we get about politeness from <elsewhere>?

Or rather, don’t get, in the latter case.

Because everyone's polite elsewhere.

It almost makes one thing that <somewhere> has an obsession with politeness that <elsewhere> either lacks or cannot appreciate.

Case in point: how many Britons or Germans ask politeness questions on ELU?

Ever wonder how similar the words "polite" and "politics" are?

Again, I'd say it's the opposite.

If you're obsessed with politeness, surely you know all about it.

You only ask about things you don't have the slightest idea about.

Also, PC is not politeness, it's idiocy. And that explains a lot.

One party to rule them all, one party to find them. . . .

1:30 PM

@tchrist That's because we know exactly how to be rude with maximum effect for minimal effort.

Something something your mother.

@AndrewLeach I just want to know how you managed to put up an obliviousness filter at the Urals.

jinx

Are Ur'als coming to the party?

URL's?

Matt Эллен

ursome's

1:37 PM

You are Als.

Matt Эллен

ur ur ur

@RegDwigнt Star!

Always get your Ural Passes from Dr. Wheedon.

@MattЭллен No Tim Allen in this chat.

But I think Tom meant Asia?

Matt Эллен

1:37 PM

urrr?

Steve Urrrkel.

I see.

What has happened to my room?

Who ate the people?

It moved to the Netherlands.

And pooped out insane ugly monsters?

Sorry we didn't warn you.

Matt Эллен

1:38 PM

did you get a bat and then it pooped everywhere?

Uriah Heap in your netherbits.

Well.

@tchrist: uriah hipster.

We serve only Guano Riquitiquísimo here.

Ahorítica.

1:40 PM

@Cerberus Go ahead, dig your way out of that one.

People are obsessed with politeness for the same reason they are obsessed with bringing Desert Eagles to a diner: insecurity.

Laterz.

Have fun noticing.

I noticed

Matt Эллен

@Mitch where did you noticed?

1:54 PM

At the Academy for applied No(ta)bility.

Matt Эллен

not a billy tee

@tchrist Out of which one?

I didn't' even understand it.

@MattЭллен No! Ta, Billy Tee.

Matt Эллен

good old Billy Tee

@Cerberus the well I guess.

1:56 PM

If that was a horrible faux pas, then...I, too, need etiquette lessons.

Wait.

Etiquette is not good. Just use common sense.

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Here's a nice Etikett for you.

@RegDwigнt By PC, did you mean political correctness, or polite conversation?

Now learn from it.

@Cerberus personal computer, silly.

Etiket in Dutch.

@RegDwigнt Seriously, you did meant political correctness, didn't you?

Matt Эллен

1:57 PM

@Cerberus punctual conviviance

Poor Matt, have you been suffering from that for long?

Poo Constipation.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus from time to time

@Cerberus Of course. I've not heard of "polite conversation" before. You dowdy giggling mawkes.

Oh, good.

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