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I think "he married his wife" is merely redundant, not illogical. (However, in terms of language, bear in mind that it need not be proven logical in order to be considered grammatical English and to be understood by everyone.) I think it is quite normal to have an attribution (e.g. relationship...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt Rubbish. All children had, at one point, a biological mother and father, but they don't necessarily still have them.

RegDwigнt

3:25 PM

Rubbish. Not all children had, at one point, a biological mother and father.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Which ones didn't?

RegDwigнt

What, you expect me to know their names?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yes.

RegDwigнt

You haven't named the children that did, either.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Instead of doing that, I'm going to post this:

Matt E. Эллен

3:27 PM

Thomas Cook holidays?

RegDwigнt

In that case, I suggest you google for "two biological mothers".

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt If you have two biological mothers, you have one biological mother.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that was spectacular until I started noticing all the illegal techniques.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

from here

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 so you still don't have a father.

FFS what is even wrong with this room today. It's tiring.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:29 PM

@RegDwigнt They're only illegal for Lego, not for everyone else

RegDwigнt

I am not everyone else.

I try to eat as much as I can, but I'm still nowhere near my goal.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt I googled it and only found speculative science.

RegDwigнt

Stop googling in the nineties, then.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

There were cases where there were three biological parents, but one of them was male.

RegDwigнt

Anyway, I am not discussing this any more. Complete killjoys here. Sucks.

3:33 PM

Robusto has parents. You have ancestors. This cinema has a roof. Case closed.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

from the same builder as the cinema

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt from the James Bond film?

RegDwigнt

3:38 PM

What the James Bond film?

And which the James Bond film played in Odessa?

Matt E. Эллен

(sorry, google translate gives Goldeneye as the translation of гоголя)

RegDwigнt

Of course. Of course.

Of course you just typed the letters off like that. Of course.

Matt E. Эллен

of course ;)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

off course

Robusto

@Cerberus I have two children. My efforts at being a parent are apparent. I doubt you could say the same.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Has anyone done Donald Trump's comb-over in Lego™ yet?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:42 PM

Robusto

RegDwigнt

Jinx.

Why am I even googling. I knew I heard MrShiny could do that, too.

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Naw. It loses something in the translation.

So... it's poetry?

Must be.

3:43 PM

Who flags "brat"?

That's Russian for "brother".

Robusto

It's also Wisconsinese for "dinner".

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's a kind of sausage. Probably a vegetarian.

Robusto

xnij

RegDwigнt

They make sausages out of vegetarians now?

Tasty.

Matt E. Эллен

3:44 PM

maybe they felt left out of the pack

Robusto

What else are they good for?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Why does SE insist on showing me an error message when I click the flag actions. Fucking just make the flag dialog go away. I don't need to know, nor care, if my action was successful in preventing the unnecessary deletion of a chat message. I can take no action except to dismiss a totally irrelevant error message.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I dunno, you could try throwing some at embrasures.

Or paving holes in asphalt.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

SE: Press this button! or that one!
Me: _presses button_
SE: Gotcha! Now you have to dismiss this totally useless error message!

RegDwigнt

I'm noticing a pattern here.

Robusto

3:45 PM

I use them to build revetments.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Look up. Look down. Look at my thumb. Gee, you're dumb!

That was such fun when I was five.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto sounds like a lot of vetted interest.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That could be yours for only $600

Robusto

But is it really Lego™ or just some mosaic?

Anyway, I was thinking 3D, not flat art.

What's the point of Lego™ if you're just going to do Paint-By-Number?

RegDwigнt

It's way more expensive?

I think that is one point that Trump in particular will like a lot.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

There's no way to tell if it's Lego or some other brand of brick. But it looks like a true Lego mosaic.

RegDwigнt

3:51 PM

Which reminds me: muting commies it is.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 the color gradients are fake. There aren't so many reds in any brand.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt I think that's just lighting and jpeg artifacts

Robusto

4:27 PM

@RegDwigнt Point taken.

terdon

4:53 PM

in Game Development, 2 hours ago, by Jon

Arnold Swartzenegger refuses to upgrade to win10, quoted saying "I still love vista, baby"

Cerberus

@Robusto I have you people, who are quite a handful to manage and feed intellectually.

Matt E. Эллен

5:28 PM

how to speak, while female

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Why did you think this would be valuable for us?

Matt E. Эллен

I can't tell you're not female

if consciousness is a lie, how can I believe anything?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен How can you believe consciousness? That's an anything.

Matt E. Эллен

anything that's an believe can consciousness

Which reminds me: I'm hungry

bbl

Robusto

Mission accomplished.

I was trying to get you to go for food. Can you bring me back some Jell-O?

crl

5:39 PM

@Robusto Ah.. interesting

The idea of Eugenics is a bit close to inbreeding, so it's quite stupid..

> Eugenics has, from the very beginning, meant many different things.[citation needed] Historically, the term has referred to everything from prenatal care for mothers to forced sterilization and euthanasia.[citation needed] To population geneticists, the term has included the avoidance of inbreeding without altering allele frequencies; for example, J. B. S. Haldane wrote that "the motor bus, by breaking up inbred village communities, was a powerful eugenic agent.

well I was wrong en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Cerberus

Forced euthanasia is murder, d'oh.

crl

6:09 PM

like unforced suicide

Cerberus

Populicide, or genoctony/genophony.

Exactly!

crl

6:21 PM

It must be hard to be named Eugene

1, 11, 21, 1211, ? < find next element in the series

Robusto

6:38 PM

@crl Not for some:

Eugene, Oregon

Eugene (/juːˈdʒiːn/ ew-JEEN) is a city of the Pacific Northwest located in the State of Oregon. It is the second largest city in the state (after Portland) and the county seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast. As of the 2010 census, Eugene had a population of 156,185, and Lane County (co-located with the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area) (MSA) had a population of 351,715. While Eugene has long been the second-largest city in Oregon, it...

Robusto

7:02 PM

@crl 111221