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12:03 AM
@snailboat hahahah but yeah
 
user174558
@tchrist You seldom laugh.
 
2:46 AM
Hello. I have a question - anyone around?
(That wasn't the question. :) )
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A: If I swallow part of an animal, am I not entitled to say "I swallowed an animal"?

LawrenceAs framed in your question and link, an animal refers literally to the whole animal (or at least its edible portions). Eating a horse means consuming the whole horse, not just a small bite of it, hence the force of the idiom I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. However, the puzzle posed in your li...

Consider this sentence: You can swallow chicken (the food) and live, but if swallowed by chicken (a group of live fowl), you'll die.
The second usage of chicken isn't really a collective noun or even plural, is it? Any idea what to call it?
The parenthetical expression "(a group of live fowl)" isn't critical; it may be replaced.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Word for the smell of freshly printed books? by lily on english.stackexchange.com
 
user174558
3:50 AM
@Lawrence Yes. I am around, lol.
 
@WillHunting Any thoughts on the above?
 
user174558
@Lawrence Nope. I am bad at grammar.
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver Your system.out.printdoesn't flush the buffer, so nothing gets printed before trying to read. Use println instead.
@WillHunting Ok.
 
user174558
@Lawrence Anyway, I would write that as 'swallowed by chickens'.
 
user174558
@Lawrence What's your favourite movie?
 
4:01 AM
@WillHunting Thanks. In the puzzle, the plural isn't stated; it just uses two first-person pronouns. I've taken it as implicit that the same word should be used in place of both pronouns.
@WillHunting I don't keep track, but How to train your dragon was nice.
 
user174558
@Lawrence That's surprising. I don't particularly like animations.
 
@Demisemihemidemisemiquaver You also have 2 input lines (lines 13 and 14). What do you enter as input?
@WillHunting Why not?
 
user174558
@Lawrence No particular reason. Like and dislike is just that. In the same way, you can't really explain why you love a girl.
 
@KitZ.Fox :O
@WillHunting Ok.
 
user174558
@Lawrence Hmm, you don't need to say OK all the time, lol.
 
user174558
5:04 AM
@Lawrence No need to remove the OK, no need to fear me, I am not human, lol.
 
9:53 AM
What's the meaning of this sentence?
"I keep my finger crossed for you"
 
10:23 AM
@Shafizadeh to keep fingers crossed means to wish someone luck. It's meant to ward off jinxing.
 
10:39 AM
@KitZ.Fox Ah I ee
See *
 
 
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1:09 PM
my wife ees sometimes. Usually when there's a spider. "eeee!"
 
Hello people. I have a minor grammatical question about an old question of mine, which I just looked at after a year.
The last para says:
> NOTE: I think "The Dear Boy" was the kidnapper's approving term for the Russian boy, because he didn't resist, but I'm not sure about that.
 
Anonymous
I'm very frustrated today.
 
If kidnappers is plural, is that correct?
Or should it be kidnappers'?
 
kidnapper's is singular. So yes, it should be kidnappers'
 
Anonymous
I got one question wrong in English exam today, and I still don't believe I made a any mistake.
 
Anonymous
1:16 PM
Not sure if I should confront the school or just accept it.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ah, ok. Thank you.
 
@samayo Do you remember the question?
English exams are notorious for grading according to made-up rules.
 
Anonymous
1:33 PM
Yeah.. something like;
 
Anonymous
> In Scotland pubs are often open until 11PM ...
 
Anonymous
Question: What can we understand from this?
 
Anonymous
(a) foo (b) bar (c) pubs are not open everyday (d) pubs are not open very often ..
 
Probably b then
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@WillHunting Naked Gardening Day is Saturday.
 
1:49 PM
> Saturday: Isolated thunderstorms in the morning, then mainly cloudy during the afternoon with thunderstorms likely. High 57F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 80%.
 
Anonymous
Yeah it was. I think I'll try to take a picture of the whole sentence, as I am certain there was that something more that made me go for (d).
 
Good luck with that.
 
Anonymous
Got like 99/100 because of that.
 
@tchrist Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Yay.
 
I'm trying to write Star Wars trivia questions. I find that I am feeling resentful this morning.
 
1:53 PM
I'm going to have 19°, feels like 21° on Saturday
still won't be gardening, naked or otherwise
 
I'll be at the Democratic Convention. I suppose I have to wear clothes for that.
 
@samayo The problem with questions like this is that it's difficult to disentangle reading comprehension with logical ability
 
crl
How many legs does a snake have?
 
I'm not sure what's appealing about naked gardening. I don't like the idea of getting dirt in my undercarriage.
 
@KitZ.Fox This is why I don't understand nude beaches.
 
Anonymous
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, that's exactly the problem.
 
crl
it's ventilating those parts
 
@MετάEd You sit on a towel. Just like on regular beaches.
 
@crl wait.. snake legs or lack of clothes?
 
crl
both, since both are naked
 
2:06 PM
@crl geek fact: some families of snakes have vestigial leg bones hidden inside.
 
crl
oh, 2 I guess, fun
 
it's not like they can use them to run.
 
crl
oh birds are in the reptile family..
 
@KitZ.Fox The car dealership will throw in a salt shield coating with the whitewalls.
@crl birds are in the dinosaur family. RAWR!
@KitZ.Fox Isn't that stuff all but decided?
Giving up on democracy is like giving up clothes for gardening.
 
It's an excuse for why Gramma has to take both kids for two nights.
 
user174558
2:14 PM
Hi @kit.
 
@KitZ.Fox OK I'll bite. Why? May the 4th?
 
Good morning, Jasper.
@Mitch Yes.
 
Nice.
any good ones?
 
It was just supposed to be a departmental activity - learn to fold origami Yoda! I said. Then everyone decided to make it an EVENT! And so what are you doing for the event, Kit? I don't know. I was just going to do origami. But it's an event, Kit. I didn't want it to be a big deal. If you want it to be a big deal, maybe you ought to do something instead of saying "We'll have a trivia challenge! Kit will write all the questions."
All the questions are stupid because I don't know what people who don't know Star Wars know.
 
Ah. Responsibilites.
 
user174558
2:16 PM
People are stupid, as Mitch would say.
 
So I thought - hey, what are light sabers made with? and everyone was like "what? nobody knows that?"
So then it was, ok, what was Luke's designation in the Battle of Yavin? and they were like "what are you even talking about?"
 
What color is Darth Vader's ... thingie? Also what do they call 'thingie', the weapon thingie, and why don't they just use a blaster?
 
Fine. Fuck it. What is the thing that they blow up called? ... The Death Star?k
 
user174558
Maybe Darth Vader lost his thingie down there, lol.
 
@WillHunting Not only would I say that, I do say that. I also say that people are idiots. But that is disparaging to people who actually are idiots.
@KitZ.Fox I know! Every movie!
@WillHunting Probably while gardening.
 
2:18 PM
@KitZ.Fox No, that's in Iron Man.
 
And they were all like "we should do this fun thing with skits" and I said "great!" and put that out to the group and literally nobody has said a word about being interested in that. Including the people who said we should do it.
 
or during that horrific fight scene in the volcano with Obiwan.
 
@Mitch No, I mean, they weren't even sure. How about WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE MOVIES? HOW MANY STAR WARS MOVIES ARE THERE?
 
@KitZ.Fox "Thanks Kit for taking care of all that!"
@KitZ.Fox Is the trivia game over already?
 
user174558
@KitZ.Fox Maybe you should tell them that having an event is not a good idea.
 
2:20 PM
Hence the resentment. Plus I brought my friend with me today and she's going through a separation and so I am being a good friend and sucking up all the crap she needs to vent, but for some reason I can't seem to shed it right at the moment.
@Mitch No, two hours from now.
 
Just send a link to every one by corporate email to a star trek trivia site. That'll be the appropriate effort.
 
Want to see the questions so far?
 
user174558
If you want to.
 
Sure.
 
1. What is Luke Skywalker's home planet?
2. Where do Obi Wan and Luke meet Han Solo for the first time?
3. Who is Luke's father?
4. Who is Luke's mother?
5. Who is Luke's sister?
6. Which bounty hunter freezes Han Solo in carbonite?
7. Which Jedi master trained Luke?
8. Who rescues Han Solo?
9. What forest moon is liberated in the final Death Star battle? (Yes, I mean the one with the little furry people.)
10. Who kills the Emperor?
11. What Force-wielding faction opposes the Jedi?
12. Name two of the Emperor's apprentices.
 
2:21 PM
Also, check out scifi.SE. I bet they have lots of good ones.
 
user174558
I can answer almost none of the questions.
 
Yeah, I know.
And these aren't even hard ones.
I have no idea how to write these questions.
 
@KitZ.Fox Looks good. Another trivia question: what number in the series is first Star Wars movie?
 
user174558
I think maybe you can call off the event. Just explain it to someone.
 
@KitZ.Fox you need some more from #7
 
crl
2:23 PM
Dark vador is the answer to all
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like... holy crap I can't remember a thing about it.
Who is that Snopes character with the big ugly head?
 
@KitZ.Fox Questions you fold. Yoda origami you get.
 
@Mitch Fine. Who is Kylo Ren's father?
 
Wait... who is the girl? Their names all sound the same.
 
What main character does not appear in Star Wars Monopoly or in action figure character packs, or on basically any of the marketing materials?
 
user174558
2:25 PM
My favourite actor now is Brenton Thwaites. He is so handsome.
 
@KitZ.Fox I know. That's terrible. She's the center.
@WillHunting He's not in Star Wars.
I'm just sayin
 
@Mitch It's not just that. It's that they put Poe in instead. Who's in all of 3 scenes. Oh, and a stormtrooper and a tie pilot.
 
The panda?
 
which one is 'Poe'? Is that Oscar Isaac?
 
That's the X-wing pilot.
 
2:27 PM
@Lawrence hahaha
 
user174558
@Lawrence Do you like Kung Fu Panda? I hate it.
 
@KitZ.Fox is he supposed to be integral to the plot later? No spoilers!!
 
@Mitch No. He is approximately as important as Lando Calrissian.
Or maybe Boba Fett.
 
@WillHunting The action scenes are OK. in between they talk too much
 
It's like omitting Han Solo in favor of Lando Calrissian.
 
2:28 PM
@KitZ.Fox ooh ask one about Lando and PBR.
 
user174558
I know Jabba is the fat one.
 
they're related, right?
 
They are.
And no.
 
@KitZ.Fox Who was the prototype for the clones?
 
@KitZ.Fox wait, the girl is more like Luke than Han, right?
 
2:30 PM
Who shot first?
 
Use your easy ones, then ratchet up to hard ones.
 
What is the name of Jabba's majordomo? He has tentacles on his head.
 
user174558
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Medusa.
 
#16 Of what did Anakin have a great excess that convinced Obiwan that he was 'the one'?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I thought of that, but probably nobody would laugh but me.
@Mitch Yes and no.
 
2:31 PM
#29 Which pill did Neo take, blue or red?
 
oh shit, I know the answer to the jabba thing
 
Blue.
No! Yellow!
 
but it just left me
 
@Mitch Purple
 
user174558
@Mitch Isn't Neo from the Matrix?
 
2:31 PM
@WillHunting I don't hate it.
 
user208178
@Mitch You take the blue pill, the story ends.
 
@WillHunting It's all one story arc
 
user208178
Hello
 
What was the name of the old guy who ordered the destruction of Leia's planet? What was that planet called?
 
user174558
@Mitch He's not in Star Wars, I'm just saying.
 
2:32 PM
I need more Force Awakens ones. I have a lot of the classic ones.
 
By 2025, all movies will be either starwars spinoffs or Marvel comics.
 
Luke claimed that shooting the exhaust port on the death star would be easier than hitting what kind of animal?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I thought it was Aldebaran. But that's an understandable geek mistake.
 
Beggar's Canyon womp rats.
 
user174558
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Cockroaches. They run all over the place.
 
2:33 PM
@Mitch Oh. Oh my god. You're right.
My brain ... hurts.
It's like that time I realized that cavalry and calvary were not the same word.
 
user174558
Or neoplasm and pleonasm.
 
hello
" The rationale is to show core-strength of the solution and also to limit unnecessary exposure to client environment by performing LIVE-attacks on target systems"
is above correct English?
 
@KitZ.Fox Dunno, who is it?
 
@WillHunting Well, yes and no. The Matrix plot was actually a holodek story line (a plot within a plot in a virtual room). This was the reasoning behind their eventual prohibition by the Butlerian Jihad
 
user174558
@Saladin The rationale is to show core strength of the solution and limit unnecessary exposure to the client environment by performing live attacks on target systems. Unless LIVE is some abbreviation.
 
2:37 PM
thanks @WillHunting
 
@KitZ.Fox What?
rubs eyes
 
@terdon I'll give you a hint. It's Star Wars currently only female lead role (in the movies).
 
@KitZ.Fox Leia or the new one?
 
I'd argue that Leia was a principal, but I'm referring to the new one.
The one the movie is about.
 
Oh wow. Rey? That's ridiculous, she's the lead!
 
2:39 PM
@KitZ.Fox What was the numeric designation of Finn? What did Finn recover from the wreckage of the stolen tie fighter? What was the name of the round droid? What was the name of the new planet-sized death-star? What planet did it destroy? Who owned the bar where Han, Rey, and Finn go? What did she have in her basement?
 
user174558
@KitZ.Fox Somehow now I think you are Alice in Resident Evil, LOL.
 
I think #7 is pretty unmemorable. Except for... well that one thing.
 
@WillHunting Yikes.
 
@terdon Exactly!
It's crazy. She's the center of the whole thing.
 
But the X-wing pilot you see three times in the movie will sell stuff better! Let's all be like him!
 
2:40 PM
@KitZ.Fox You know, you could say you don't like being forced into things :P .
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 OK. Two of those I lifted.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 All good ones. Also, I have no idea.
 
user174558
@Lawrence Yes, the Force awakens.
 
@KitZ.Fox I don't even remember who that is. I've only seen the new one once.
 
I know most of these but not all of them. I've only seen the movie once.
@terdon Exactly.
 
2:41 PM
Finn is a funny name for a black dude. Finn = blond in Irish... or something.
 
Also, I can't remember if I bragged about my eldest son (that's girl stuff!) choosing to play a female character in Minecraft because she knew all the cool redstone stuff.
 
Like in Shawshank redemption... ooh trivia qn: Why do the cal the Morgan Freeman character 'Red'?
 
@KitZ.Fox Heh, way to go kid!
 
@Mitch It's because his designation started with FN.
 
@KitZ.Fox Oh.
 
2:42 PM
@KitZ.Fox Which does not stand for free n... right?
 
Truth is so disappointing. even when made up.
 
Hell, I wouldn't put it past them.
 
@terdon Yeah, he also likes playing ... the lead from Metroid, I can't remember her name, when he plays Super Smash Bros, because she's super tough.
 
crl
Do any of you know a bit some works laws? In france for example, is it illegal to pay an Indian via paypal?
 
user174558
I remember Power Puff girls.
 
2:43 PM
Powerpuff Girls kick ass.
 
crl
(I didn't do that, but knowing this could help me)
 
Tommy Westphall, portrayed by Chad Allen, is a minor character from the drama television series St. Elsewhere, which ran on NBC from October 26, 1982, to May 25, 1988. Westphall, who is autistic, took on major significance in St. Elsewhere's final episode, "The Last One", where the common interpretation of that finale is that the entire St. Elsewhere storyline exists only within Westphall's imagination. As characters from St. Elsewhere have appeared on other television shows and those shows' characters appeared on more shows, and so on, a "Tommy Westphall Universe" hypothesis was postulated by...
 
user174558
@crl You should really ask a law professional there.
 
@crl Why does ethnicity matter in that context?
 
crl
@Lawrence just meaning a foreign person
doesn't matter indeed
 
2:44 PM
@crl law is hard enough in your own place, that much worse to know the intricacies of another.
 
user174558
@Lawrence It might matter in the law.
 
crl
thanks, ok, I'll ask to a professional
 
@crl why would you think that that is illegal?
 
crl
in France it's rather strict, but if the boss declares it, it's probably fine
 
@KitZ.Fox 'S weird how easily sexism creeps in. My sister is fiercely feminist, sexism is probably the most important issue in her life and she has done a great job of keeping macho crap out of my nephews head. Nevertheless, when I went to pick him up with my ex-GF who was a medical doctor, he was so impressed to see her driving he said "Wow, a woman who's a doctor and drives!".
Kid was 8 or so, but my sister still had a conniption.
 
2:45 PM
@KitZ.Fox What dangerous creatures did Han Solo have aboard his ship? aside from pirates.
 
user174558
@crl Wait till you come to Antarctica.
 
crl
@Mitch For the foreign worker side, it's quite illegal
he doesn't pay revenue taxes
 
Holy crap. Antarctica. You can't look sideways without some law being broken
 
user174558
@terdon She is overdoing it. What your nephew said is totally fine.
 
@WillHunting um. not really.
 
crl
2:47 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 some hairy monkey
 
@WillHunting Well, while I agree that she is overdoing it, I don't think this is an example of it. Why in the world should a young child associate either the ability to drive or being a doctor with a specific sex? That's ridiculous.
 
user174558
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 He could mean that he has not seen many female driver doctors in his life.
 
@crl oh. wow. that's...protectionist. but anyway there are alternatives, like paying to a French account?
 
@WillHunting I'm pretty sure that was the first driving doctor of any sex he'd seen.
 
sick drivers
 
2:48 PM
he probably watches TV
 
@terdon luckily there was a doctor on hand to administer live saving treatment
 
@tchrist gloria mundi
@MattE.Эллен heh, her hands were kinda busy though.
 
user174558
@MattE.Эллен life, not live
 
Well, that too.
 
hi, Jasper
 
user174558
2:50 PM
Hello! To you and Maria, lol.
 
user174558
@MattE.Эллен Have your Greek classes begun?
 
no. they don't start until september
 
user174558
Geezis.
 
user174558
That's like light years away.
 
crl
2:51 PM
first lesson: financial crisis
 
@WillHunting You're entirely inside the Star Wars universe
 
@terdon Good think I know where my towel is.
 
user174558
@Mitch Maybe there is only one universe.
 
@KitZ.Fox Ooh #17 how many parsecs bla h blah Kessel Run?
 
@MετάEd Now all you need is a decent gargle blaster
 
2:53 PM
@WillHunting What I don't get about this multiverse thing... don't all of those multiverses together comprise the single universe?
 
@Mitch which is entirely inside Tommy Westphall's head!
 
user174558
@Mitch I don't know anything about physics, lol. Ubuntu has repositories called universe and multiverse, lol.
 
@MattE.Эллен Exac... whut?
@WillHunting That's ubuntu for you.
(I don't know anything about ubuntu, so I guess we're even)
 
user174558
@Mitch I think we are odd.
 
@MattE.Эллен I never saw that show. But I do know people who work there.
 
2:54 PM
@Mitch I'm looking for the connection... I can't pinpoint it yet. I'm sure I will. Laurence Fishburne put The Matrix inside Tommy's head.
 
@terdon Wow. I'm kind of surprised that those things were impressive. Sexism amongst my boys is generally related to "gender-normative" dress and color choices.
Then again, my boys also think that computer programming and robotics are things that girls do.
 
@KitZ.Fox Hmm, stereotype reversal.
 
crl
:)
 
No, it's just that I do it and my husband doesn't.
So they've generalized that to the population at large.
 
user174558
I am thinking if the world would be better if the words sexism and racism don't exist.
 
2:58 PM
I think the world would be better if the word moist didn't exist.
 
@KitZ.Fox It's the Mindstorms :) .
 
crl
and if cigarettes didn't exist too, and asshole bosses that don't pay the bill
 
"I am thinking if the world would be better if the words ... and ...don't exist."
doesn't have the same punch
 
@KitZ.Fox Why?
 
Because it is gross.
 
2:58 PM
@WillHunting Even if he's never seen that particular combination, neither should be surprising, and the fact that they are surprising is a sign of either basic ignorance, or sexism.
 
@KitZ.Fox Not with chocolate cake. Beats dry chocolate cake.
 
@terdon True. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good pangalactic gargle blaster at your side, kid.
 
@Lawrence I prefer my chocolate cake luscious.
 

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