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12:57 AM

Uhuh.

10 hours later…

Matt E. Эллен

10:54 AM

would everyone please vote their conscience on the following:

Q: Blacklist the [words] tag

The tag words has been heavily discouraged since the early days of the site. A few weeks ago I manually retagged every question that used words, and there are currently no questions with that tag, save one question that has since been migrated. This tag is really bad. It means nothing at all, an...

user174558

11:13 AM

I am now an orange.

Matt E. Эллен

not a mandarin or a clementine?

Just finished four satsumas with my coffee.

Matt E. Эллен

Did you earn an achievement?

12:12 PM

I achieved the fortification needed to make the “Mexican” seven-layer salad.

12:24 PM

I'm Chinese. May anyone help me understand what this video ISIS threatens 60 countries said about "... and there're thousands of ??? in schools for our ??? and ??? where they prepare themselves to share ..."

(If it's unsuitable to ask here, I apologize.

12:58 PM

@Stan Hi! Welcome here.

That video is rather odd.

The words don't make much sense to me either.

What I hear is something like "... and there're thousands of [messagic?] in schools for our cubs and pearls where they prepare themselves to share ..."

There are various Arabic words in the video that are unknown to me, so I'm guessing this word [messagic?] is also Arabic.

That is a rather awful video, by the way, combining two horrible ideologies: religious extremism and violence, and advertising.

@Cerberus Thanks for the reply :) I think so, those are Arabic words.

Yeah.

Where did you find that video?

@Cerberus just simply search the title in google, and find it in youtube.

It's a surprise to me that ISIS is targeting at China

Ah OK, who gave you the title?

Well, China fights Muslim Uyghurs in the east, doesn't it?

ISIS's position is precarious, even more so than ever. So it seeks support wherever it can find it.

I saw it in a forum discussing that issue and found the title there.

1:06 PM

Ah OK.

Andrew Leach

@MattE.Эллен I've added a wiki entry for that tag in much the same vein as your edit (to get rid of the default 'We need more details here' text).

Yes China does have some policy against them.

ISIS must have paid good money to an American advertising company.

Or perhaps they recruited some Americans working in advertising.

@Cerberus haha, the video really looks like a Hollywood trailer.

Exactly!

If you take the worst aspects of two cultures...

user116848

1:11 PM

Hi!

user116848

@Cerberus @Stan I watched the video. So the Arabic word is "masjids" we pronounce it as "masaajids" it means "mosques".

user116848

thefreedictionary.com/masjids

user116848

Well the video is kinda weird heh.

@Arrowfar Thanks a lot! Now the sentence makes sense.

user116848

You are welcome :)

user174558

1:20 PM

ISIS is a sissy.

Mitch

Nice color!

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user174558

6:52 PM

The orange is here.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

8:29 PM

It's almost time for HATS!

Kit Z. Fox

Hats!

Not for a couple weeks though, right?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

9:09 PM

Probably not. December 16th or so IIRC.

user174558

9:37 PM

Hello @cornbreadninja麵包忍者 and @KitZ.Fox! I love hats!

user174558

I have set all fonts on my laptop to super small, the way I like it.

user174558

It's almost 6 AM here.