English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

1:00 PM

Look in the stat box on the right.

@RegDwigнt English is my Wikipedia of choice.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Yeah that's Wikipedia.

skill patrol

in Mathematics, 54 mins ago, by scummy

I'm 7th grade

RegDwigнt

Nobody, ever, called it that. Not even in their wildest dreams of being gang-raped by Freddie Kruegers.

skill patrol

I feel like a pedophile now :(

RegDwigнt

Now Бесик is something people will actually use. It doesn't hurt that it means "little devil".

Likewise the French flag is a сибек and the Dutch one is крабес, another good mnemonic because crabs.

Robusto

1:03 PM

I thought Бесик was a simple programming language.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Yeah here's a thing you should know about Russia. Nobody at all remembers the 80s. Nobody still in the country was born before the nineties.

It is literally populated by people for whom "ancient" means "blu-ray".

Robusto

Well, that is ancient. Who buys media when you can steal it online?

RegDwigнt

Precisely. Here is your Medal for Sounding Like A Hero of The USSR.

Robusto

Is that from the Great Patriotic Download?

RegDwigнt

crl

1:05 PM

@skillpatrol this is somewhat young no?

skill patrol

4 mins ago, by skill patrol

I feel like a pedophile now :(

RegDwigнt

@Robusto all downloads are great and patriotic. Except those through iTunes. Luckily no one has ever heard of any such thing as iTunes.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I first thought the screw looked a little long until I realized it was probably intended to have to pierce eight layers of overcoat.

RegDwigнt

And your heart.

You are forgetting the heart.

Robusto

Good luck trying to find that.

RegDwigнt

1:06 PM

Never forget the heart.

The heart must be pierced purple.

skill patrol

@crl he was in here yesterday chatting

Robusto

These are Russians we're talking about.

RegDwigнt

> a word for many different situations

I think, dear sir, you are looking for the word "vodka".

> What's the difference between whether and rather?

Okay seriously folks stop trolling me.

It was fun yesterday, but I can't handle two days in a row.

skill patrol

who me?

RegDwigнt

I don't know who it is. But seeing how it was Rob who is silent now, and how it was Rob who kept linking to such questions yesterday, I have a prime suspect: tchrist.

tchrist

1:13 PM

Your what hurts?

skill patrol

:D

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Someone is getting testy. I think I'll post a troll question of my own on ELU.

skill patrol

No wonder we've lost so many wanna be trolls in this room...you guys are awesome.

Cerberus

@Robusto You call that "a few" clicks! Besides, with the Home and Pro versions, you cannot turn it all off: you're stuck with "basic diagnostic and usage data". You need to edit a registry key(!) in order to set that to 0. 30 Ways Your Windows 10 Computer Phones Home to Microsoft

Robusto

@Cerberus OK, OK. I'm not upgrading, so I guess I don't care.

Cerberus

1:18 PM

Same here.

Robusto

But I suspect Win 7 will start "acquiring" unusual computer rot in the coming months.

Cerberus

But still, it is good for people to be aware of this.

RegDwigнt

What the fuck. Comments are not allowed to contain kanji now?

tchrist

This is what happens when you let the bots talk to each other.

@RegDwigнt Yes.

Cerberus

@Robusto Computer rot?

tchrist

1:18 PM

Is in log.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Whaaaaa?!

Cerberus

Against spam.

tchrist

Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam and kanji.

RegDwigнt

Robusto

Bit rot

Bit rot may refer to: Bit Rot, a story written by Charles Stross Data rot, the electric charge of a bit in RAM disperses, possibly altering program code or stored data; or the phenomenon of storage media gradually decaying over time Software rot, a deterioration of software performance over time or its diminishing responsiveness because of the changing environment in which it resides...

RegDwigнt

1:19 PM

Fucking fuck you. I am not a spammer.

tchrist

Take it up with Shog.

RegDwigнt

If I want to say fako yoo in Katakana, it is my constitutional right to do just that.

tchrist

He turned it on last night, because the controls were already in place. He couldn’t hack the code and release to make it more discerning.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist so how the hell do they converse on JLU now? Or has that one been shut down?

@tchrist wtf why the comments? No spammer ever comments! They need rep for that!

What the actual what.

tchrist

I know, I know. As I said.

10 hours ago, by tchrist

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by Normal Human

Aha, Chinese is now blacklisted network-wide, presumably with exception for language sites.

10 hours ago, by tchrist

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by Shog9

Exceptions are: SO, meta.SE, chinese.se, japanese.se, ja.so, and anime.se (and their associated meta sites)

Robusto

1:22 PM

@tchrist Except that wasn't Chinese. @Reg was trying to paste in some Japanese.

Cerberus

Apparently, he couldn't fine-tune it to exclude comments and high-reps: apparently it was all or nothing, site-wide.

tchrist

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 hours ago, by Normal Human

Is it feasible to waive the regex blocks for users with 10+ rep? I.e., make it a part of new user restrictions?

RegDwigнt

Well. That's it.

Sep 15 '13 at 0:44, by RegDwighт

I quit.

tchrist

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 hours ago, by Shog9

not tonight

Today is not last night.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I'm sure they will fix it today or tomorrow...

Robusto

1:22 PM

@RegDwigнt Yeah, what the actual fuck? I guess Japanese.SE is going straight down the toilet now.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah go try explain the difference to them. I'll wait.

Cerberus

@Robusto Japanese.se is excepted.

RegDwigнt

No, that's the whole point here, they wouldn't have to learn either. They'd just write that "конодоккидокиваназетомаранаи" is Chinese for "give me three vodkas" and be done. — RegDwigнt ♦ 58 secs ago

Robusto

Oh.

RegDwigнt

So Russian spam is allowed now or what.

tchrist

1:23 PM

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 hours ago, by Shog9

This is what is blacklisted, FWIW:

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 hours ago, by Shog9

CJK Unified Ideographs

The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background. In the process called Han unification the common (shared) characters were identified, and named "CJK Unified Ideographs". Unicode defines a total of 80,388 CJK Unified Ideographs. The terms ideographs or ideograms may be misleading, since the Chinese script is not strictly a picture writing system. Historically, Vietnam used Chinese ideographs too, so sometimes the abbreviation "CJKV" is used. This system was replaced by the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet in the 1920s. == CJK Unified Ideographs blocks == === CJK ...

RegDwigнt

BRB spamming Russian whores.

Cerberus

We've had nightly Chinese spam waves two nights in a row.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Is there any other kind?

RegDwigнt

Yeah there's ton of impostors produced in Czechia and Slovania and the Ukraynland.

Do not buy counterfeit products from Eastern Europe! CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!!

Cerberus

@FaheemMitha I don't want to "manage", I want to make full use of my computer. Dropping 90% of computer programmes is not an option for me. Autohotkey alone is irreplaceable. Etc. Alas.

Robusto

1:25 PM

Interestingly enough, hiragana goes through just fine.

RegDwigнt

Haha, there's Mr Shiny and New.

He is now permabanned on all of the network.

Robusto

それはいぬです。

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah I was wondering about that

MRS1367

Hi all

Cerberus

OMG magic!

Robusto

1:26 PM

What you get for chatting above your station.

Cerberus

Hi!

skill patrol

Hi pal

RegDwigнt

You are carrying a concealed hanzi. Get the fuck out the car.

Robusto

それは犬です。

And so does kanji in chat.

tchrist

@Reg FYI you can get around it by using &xCODEPOINT; escapes in posts, just not in comments.

Robusto

1:27 PM

But not in comments.

MRS1367

can anyone check this Video Clip:

sendspace.com/file/8sgqnw

tchrist

ESPAMMO?

Robusto

You mean we've been having waves of Chinese spam and all I got was a lousy two flags out of it? Gyp.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

MRS1367

and help me about what the other woman say in 1:12-1:14 time...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:27 PM

okay at least I can say my name in chat

tchrist

Woman problems.

Robusto

The chat that dare not speak its name.

RegDwigнt

@MRS1367 I don't have sound here. Perhaps someone else can help.

Robusto

I don't open random links at work, sorry.

MRS1367

I can't get the mixed words that is said by two women simultaneously in that video clip

RegDwigнt

1:29 PM

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: 物質の状態は、相の違いにより区別される物質の状態である。 [русские-идут]

Ah, better.

@RegDwigнt What did you get that from, a packing list?

RegDwigнt

Include the "http" bit then it will inline.

@Robusto yes. Commonly known as Wikipedia.

Faheem Mitha

@Cerberus 90%? Good grief.

Cerberus

1:31 PM

> and there are no annoying phonecalls

RegDwigнt

物質の状態

物質の状態は、相の違いにより区別される物質の状態である。歴史的には、物質の状態は巨視的な性質により区別されていた。即ち、固体は定まった体積と形を持つ。液体は定まった体積を持つが、形は定まっていない。気体は体積も形も定まっていない。近年では、物質の状態は分子間相互作用によって区別されている。即ち、固体は分子間の相互配置が定まっており、液体では近接分子は接触しているが相互配置は定まっていないのに対し、気体では分子はかなり離れていて、分子間相互作用はそれぞれの運動にほとんど影響を及ぼしていない。また、プラズマは高度にイオン化した気体で、高温下で生じる。イオンの引力、斥力による分子間相互作用によりこのような状態を生じるため、プラズマはしばしば「第四の状態」と呼ばれる。分子以外から構成される物質や別の力で組織される物質の状態も、ある種の「物質の状態」だと考えられる。フェルミ凝縮やクォークグルーオンプラズマ等が例として挙げられる。また、物質の状態は相転移からも定義される。相転移は物質の性質の突然の変化から構造の変化を示すものである。この定義では、物質の状態とは他とは異なった熱力学的状態のことである。水はいくつかの異なった固体の状態を持つといえる。また、超伝導の出現は相転移と関連していて、「超伝導状態」という状態がある。液晶や強磁性が相転移により特別の性質を持つのと同様である。 ��2�...

tchrist

BUG!

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> nope

tchrist

Idiots keep splitting atomic characters.

MRS1367

the other woman

Cerberus

1:32 PM

Ohh.

MRS1367

My main language is Persian

and I can't get her words

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Your tags are questionable.

MRS1367

I get these:

> … sir, Let's me can the HQ

RegDwigнt

@tchrist Thanks for the headsup! One of those things killed half the Netherlands over the Ukraine.

MRS1367

but I know that it's wrong

Cerberus

1:33 PM

I can't hear it either.

RegDwigнt

I can't hear anything.

Cerberus

Maybe something like, sir, I'm happy to hold...

skill patrol

@MRS1367 @ what time interval?

RegDwigнt

Speaking of which, how's your ears @tchrist.

MRS1367

@skillpatrol ->

6 mins ago, by MRS1367

and help me about what the other woman say in 1:12-1:14 time...

Cerberus

1:35 PM

It is too difficult to actually hear, and I can't think of any standard phrase that might fit the context and the sound.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Healed. Still can’t hear as well in the left as the right. It was the right whose eardrum was infected.

Cerberus

When did that happen?

RegDwigнt

A friend of mine had a drum burst a couple years ago. He said the pain was otherworldly.

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> Thank you mate for your efforts :)

RegDwigнt

But yeah it healed just fine.

Cerberus

1:36 PM

@MRS1367 Good luck...

@RegDwigнt How did it happen?

@tchrist How did that happen?

tchrist

@Cerberus The infection or the hearing loss?

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> So, what can I replace instead of it?

RegDwigнt

I don't remember and I don't know if he actually knew. Like, it wasn't a complete burst, just some stupid minor crack in it that just happened one day somehow.

Faheem Mitha

@Cerberus I run Debian, and don't find it a burden, nor do I feel that I am running my computer with reduced functionality. But your needs may be different.

Cerberus

@tchrist The infection?

MRS1367

1:37 PM

@Cerberus -> you said:

> sir, I'm happy to hold...

It's good for replacing with it?

RegDwigнt

Cerberus talks at fifty people at once

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Hmm okay, no piercing object or loud bang?

RegDwigнt

Reg grabs popcorn

MRS1367

or I can replace it with better words?

@RegDwigнt :D

Cerberus

@MRS1367 I really don't know: I was just guessing, but it may something else.

MRS1367

1:38 PM

@skillpatrol -> Can you help me about it?

@Cerberus -> I know

Cerberus

Why don't you just write <telephone mumbling>?

Why do you need to know this?

RegDwigнt

Why don't you just quit this rubbish job.

Cerberus

Reg...

RegDwigнt

And become a HELICOPTER PILOT!

@Cerberus hey what, I didn't know you were the only one allowed to ask questions here.

tchrist

@Cerberus Infection spread from sinus infection via eustachian tubes, but eardrum was impacted with solid wax from the other side, so no air circulating, and the normal lack of blood flow to the eardrum rendered oral antibiotics ineffective at treating it.

skill patrol

1:40 PM

@MRS1367 I get "will that be all mumble, mumble..."

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> It's for creating a video clip from that

in the Persian Language

Redesigning it in Persian

Cerberus

@tchrist Ah, I see, that sounds bad. So it would be good to have the wax cleaned out regularly?

@MRS1367 OK then just leave it out or replace it with a random line from a standard telephone conversation.

RegDwigнt

Cerberus

Who dat?

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> It's not better that I replace it with a conversation about the subject of the Video Clip?

For example:

tchrist

1:42 PM

@Cerberus Probably.

MRS1367

Hello sir, How can I help you?

Cerberus

That would be fine.

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> Thank you :)

Cerberus

Or, even better, make it annoying.

MRS1367

Thank every body helped me

Cerberus

1:43 PM

Because the video is talking about annoying phone calls.

@tchrist Hmm very annoying. At least it mostly healed.

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> So, can you gimme an example sentence?

skill patrol

4 mins ago, by skill patrol

@MRS1367 I get "will that be all mumble, mumble..."

will that be all for you?

Cerberus

> ...Sir, would you like to receive future offers? [because that would be an annoying kind of phone call you might get if service providers have your personal info]

skill patrol

close enough^

MRS1367

@Cerberus -> Thank you

skill patrol

1:46 PM

it fits the context

MRS1367

it's very better

@skillpatrol -> Thank you too :)

Cerberus

@skillpatrol Is that what you hear?

skill patrol

@Cerberus I can only "guess"

its a tough one

Cerberus

Right.

tchrist

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy.

skill patrol

1:48 PM

-_-

Cerberus

?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Do you hear what I hear?

is what tchrist is prompting.

skill patrol

?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

41051.com/xmaslyrics/douhear.html

Andrew Leach

The new tag button for this room links to a URL with question-marks in it.

english.stackexchange.com/tags/…

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:04 PM

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: 物質の状態は、相の違いにより区別される物質の状態である。 (no tags)

I guess the tag system didn't like Reg's joke

tchrist

33 mins ago, by tchrist

@RegDwigнt Your tags are questionable.

crl

peaches are remarkably water-repellent

RegDwigнt

36 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: 物質の状態は、相の違いにより区別される物質の状態である。 [русские-идут]

Read the transcript. Nobody ever reads the transcript. The tag is a simple and effective test to tell if someone reads the transcript or not.

crl

RTFT

Andrew Leach

I have read the transcript. The Cyrillic turned into question-marks in the URL.

RegDwigнt

2:10 PM

Magic, ladies and gentlemen.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it turned into question marks in the tag too.

RegDwigнt

What will it turn into next, and where?

Stay tuned.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh and how was that a joke. That was a warning.

You don't seem to have been following the news of late.

crl

a global warning

RegDwigнt

In which case the warning was all the more imminent.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt I read neither japanese nor anything Cyrillic so I assumed you were making a joke, as usual. I have no clue what the title or tag says.

tchrist

2:12 PM

-1

Q: WHAT IS THE CORRECT SPELLING(S) of phone? I am reading from a bulleted list of rules

• Please no cell phones. Keep your phone on silent volume. OR • Please no cell phones. Keep your phones on silent volume. OR • Please no cell phones. Keep your phones' on silent volume.

alternative

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Google Translate to the rescue!

> State of the material is in the form of substances that are distinguished by the difference in phase.

Or, you know, just read the transcript.

43 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

物質の状態

物質の状態は、相の違いにより区別される物質の状態である。歴史的には、物質の状態は巨視的な性質により区別されていた。即ち、固体は定まった体積と形を持つ。液体は定まった体積を持つが、形は定まっていない。気体は体積も形も定まっていない。近年では、物質の状態は分子間相互作用によって区別されている。即ち、固体は分子間の相互配置が定まっており、液体では近接分子は接触しているが相互配置は定まっていないのに対し、気体では分子はかなり離れていて、分子間相互作用はそれぞれの運動にほとんど影響を及ぼしていない。また、プラズマは高度にイオン化した気体で、高温下で生じる。イオンの引力、斥力による分子間相互作用によりこのような状態を生じるため、プラズマはしばしば「第四の状態」と呼ばれる。分子以外から構成される物質や別の力で組織される物質の状態も、ある種の「物質の状態」だと考えられる。フェルミ凝縮やクォークグルーオンプラズマ等が例として挙げられる。また、物質の状態は相転移からも定義される。相転移は物質の性質の突然の変化から構造の変化を示すものである。この定義では、物質の状態とは他とは異なった熱力学的状態のことである。水はいくつかの異なった固体の状態を持つといえる。また、超伝導の出現は相転移と関連していて、「超伝導状態」という状態がある。液晶や強磁性が相転移により特別の性質を持つのと同様である。 ��2�...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah, that message is indecipherable to me too.

Except the W.

RegDwigнt

That page has a Chinese version and an English version and a French version. For all your Canadian needs.

And hey, does not the picture tell you more than the thousand words?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Or I could just not care. And call putting that text in the room topic "a joke" and get on with my life.

RegDwigнt

Nonono. That is not how it works.

You have not paid enough for it to work that way.

In fact you have not paid enough for anything to work in any way.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:17 PM

That's good cuz it ain't working, not no way, not no how.

tchrist

Y-a-t-il plus sinophones qu’hispanophones dans le Canada?

And why do they have so many hy-phen-s?

RegDwigнt

What is this grammar?

Also that's not dans le Canada. That's aux Canada.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist That's a good question. I'd say maybe oui.

RegDwigнt

Toi pomme de pine, toi.

tchrist

Hm, is a city?

Or an islet?

I vote islet.

MRS1367

2:19 PM

What's the meaning of Okee dokee?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I also would have written "plus de sinophones_" but my French is more rust than iron.

RegDwigнt

They even put a mnemonic into their anthem just for you. "Aux Canada".

tchrist

I was going to.

RegDwigнt

@MRS1367 okay.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MRS1367 it means "okay" with a rhyming reduplication.

tchrist

2:20 PM

@RegDwigнt Combien?

RegDwigнt

Also it's spelled "okie dokie".

Since you're making a transcription.

MRS1367

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 -> Aha. Thank you :)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

You're welcome.

RegDwigнt

> Book Suggestions and Suggestions in General

MRS1367

@RegDwigнt -> Thank you

RegDwigнt

2:21 PM

Suggestion in General: never be rude to an Arab.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Suggestion in General: let the Wookie win

MRS1367

@RegDwigнt -> Thank you too

@RegDwigнt -> I'm not Arab

tchrist

Turnip?

MRS1367

I said my main language is Persian

Arabs' language is Arabic

RegDwigнt

@MRS1367 what are you trying to say? That we can be rude to you?

tchrist

2:22 PM

Swede.

MRS1367

@RegDwigнt -> nope

I just said that I'm not Arab

because you said:

2 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

Suggestion in General: never be rude to an Arab.

RegDwigнt

Yeah so.

I wasn't talking about you.

As best demonstrated by the fact that you are not an Arab.

MRS1367

@RegDwigнt -> Aha. Sorry :D

RegDwigнt

I was talking about that question I quoted in the line before that.

0

Q: Book Suggestions and Suggestions in General

3 years ago I used to talk English on a daily basis, because I was in an international school and I used to speak with proper grammar, however, that has changed because now I am not in an environment that has people that I speak English with, and my grammar has gotten worse and worse. I am looki...

grammar books

And "never be rude to an Arab" is a famous line from a famous Monty Python song.

tchrist

Celui-là n’est pas un Arabe.

RegDwigнt

2:24 PM

Monty Python - Never Be Rude To An Arab (with lyrics) - HD

►

Hahaha. "HD". Hahahahahahahaha. Hahahaha. Ha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

So anyway. I must ping @Rob because he just loves specific question titles such as "Suggestions in General".

He collects them and pets them and feeds them and treats them well.

Robusto

2:49 PM

@RegDwigнt I'm not seeing it. Can you be a little more specific?

Maybe it should be Vague Book Suggestions In The Abstract.

RegDwigнt

Question Title
Question Body?
[tag:help]

Robusto

Better.

RegDwigнt

Stupid formatting is stupid.

So here's my controversial theory about Persians.

Persians are Arabs.

Because every single time you mention the word "Arab" anywhere at all, some Persian will materialize out of thin air to inform you that he is not an Arab.

Robusto

Wait, Xerxes wasn't an Arab? I'm confused.

RegDwigнt

That is, every single time you talk about Arabs, Persians think you are talking about them.

You know who else does that? Arabs!

And do you know why they do that? Because they are Arabs.

Robusto

2:52 PM

Sounds Farsical to me.

RegDwigнt

In conclusion: Persians are Arabs.

Robusto

You forgot the QED.

RegDwigнt

Feb 20 '11 at 14:10, by RegDwight

QED.

I did not.

Nobody reads the transcript!

Robusto

I read it and then I forget it. I need to study harder.

RegDwigнt

Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger (* 12. April 1928 als Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger in Berlin-Wedding; eigentlich Franz Eberhard August Krüger) ist ein deutscher Filmschauspieler und Schriftsteller. == Leben == Krüger wurde als Sohn des Ingenieurs Max Krüger geboren und verbrachte seine Kindheit in Berlin-Biesdorf. 1941 kam er als Dreizehnjähriger auf die Adolf-Hitler-Schule (AHS). Mangels vorhandener Schulgebäude erfolgte die Ausbildung auf der Ordensburg Sonthofen. Zu seinen Schulkameraden gehörten u. a. Jakob Muth und Theo Sommer. Bis 1944 wurde Krüger an der AHS für eine künftige Führungsposition im NS-Staat…

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:54 PM

@RegDwigнt The transcript is 9% you telling people what's not allowed in this chat, and 90% you quoting yourself, so why would we read it?

RegDwigнt

Here, start by studying him.

Robusto

I wonder what our longest string of closed questions is. Yesterday we had about ten in a row at one point.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 so you would be best informed about those exact numbers. How else would you know it's not 9.1% and 89.9% respectively? How? HOW?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Yeah, the show Kraut for '60s movies. I know who he is.

RegDwigнt

Note he was born in wedding.

May 4 '12 at 9:46, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@MattЭллен You know, it's only 34km from Petting to Fucking, but a whopping 656km from Fucking to Wedding.

Robusto

2:56 PM

Berlin-Wedding. Or, as Billy Idol would say, "White Wedding" . . .

RegDwigнt

Billy Idol is coming to my general vicinity soon.

Along with Bob Dylan.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt It's easy. I've been here for years, and every time you do it again my confirmation bias moves those numbers closer to 100%.

RegDwigнt

Actually Bob Dylan will be "singing" like a mile away from my house.

Robusto

You'll probably have to get closer to hear him.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 see. Not everyone has been here for years. Be nice to noobs. They deserve the same level of informativitability as you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:58 PM

They can read the transcript.

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RegDwigнt

@Robusto have you heard him as of late? He really thinks he is a singer now.

Like, he takes Sinatra songs and then sings them.

Must be the old age.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 exactly. Thank you. QED.

Robusto

Must be nice to be that rich that you can put out a bunch of Sintatra songs with a voice that sounds like broken glass on sandpaper.

RegDwigнt

As the Germans say, "he must have eaten chalk".

Like the wolf from the fairy tale.

Robusto

hey there little red riding hood / you sure are looking good

RegDwigнt

Who ate chalk to sound like the goatlings' mom.

That's a different wolf.

Or maybe the same, who knows such things.

Robusto

3:01 PM

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood (HQ)

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@cornbreadninja麵包忍者: ^^

Funny that's the first hit on YouTube for Sam the Sham. Wooly Bully comes in second.

Ummm, Japanese? — Robusto 9 secs ago

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: この説明は中国語で書かれていないのですが、大丈夫です。 [not-chinese-so-is-ok]

RegDwigнt

Google Translate says it's not a "so" but a "but".

Robusto

That is true. I had kara at first but changed it to ga.

But I forgot to change the tag.

Oh well.

RegDwigнt

In conclusion: Persians are Arabs.

Robusto

QED

room topic changed to English Language & Usage: この説明は中国語で書かれていないのですが、大丈夫です。 [not-chinese-but-is-ok]

RegDwigнt

Sung by Whitney Houston.

Robusto

3:16 PM

Was she in The Mikado?

Mitch

4:15 PM

She is in the Mortuado

@RegDwigнt that should start a few fistfights]

@MattE.Эллен Once you get down, you gotta get back up again.

tchrist

@Mitch Tanatorio, from θάνατος.

Thanatory.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I just did the NYT one, and it had the soda/pop/coke question. Must be a random choice of 25 out of your 153.

tchrist

Latin America sometimes uses casa funeraria.

Mitch

@tchrist I tried

@Robusto ground glass on sandpaper on a blackboard...with a sore throat. and hangnail

Robusto

4:33 PM

Now you're talking about Tom Waits, not Dylan.

Mitch

Stevie Nicks

Robusto

No.

Mitch

You're right. Tom Dooley

Those lyrics are pretty rough

Robusto

I see what you did there.

Mitch

spoiler alert, he kills some woman. It starts ou sounding like a love triangle but ends up Tom just happens to knife the poor girl, and the other dude turns him in.

wait... classic turning the tables. poor poor tom dooley got framed.

@Robusto when I read old chat transcripts, it all looks like people rewrite things, and they don't make sense.

Just like when you read them as they happen, except it's later.

software management is like wildlife management. sometimes you have to let the poachers in.

Also, Cecil. poor poor Cecil.

@Robusto That's a meaningless but true statement

Robusto

4:50 PM

It has no meaning? Are you sure?

Robusto

5:08 PM

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Q: Are "Hitler" brand ice cream cones sold in India?

A number of recent articles (Daily Mail, Fox News, Hindustan Times) describe ice cream cones being sold in India which are labelled as "Hitler" distinctly on their boxes. If you think the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has nothing to do with ice-creams, you’re wrong. Photographs of an ice-crea...

india adolf-hitler commerce branding

Are you kidding me?

Faheem Mitha

@Robusto Something wrong?

Robusto

I guess I just don't associate Hitler with fun in the sun is all.

Faheem Mitha

@Robusto Well, he did own a holiday villa once.

Berghof (residence)

The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Other than the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair"), his headquarters in East Prussia for the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler spent more time at the Berghof than anywhere else during World War II. It was also one of the most widely known of his headquarters, which were located throughout Europe. Rebuilt, much expanded and renamed in 1935, the Berghof was Hitler's vacation residence for ten years. In late April 1945 the house was damaged by British aerial bombs, set on fire by retreating...

Interesting. Apparently "Mein Kampf" sells well in India. I wonder why.

Robusto

6:08 PM

I wouldn't know.

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