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11:02 AM

Q: word for six-month period

In English, we have 7 days >> a week 14/15 days >> a fortnight Is there any word for six months? The closest I've got is the word semester. Example of what I'm looking for: once a fortnight.... once a week.... once a semester..... Over a semester later.....

Dupe.

Nikanor Teratologen

Nikanor Teratologen, verkligt namn Sten Niclas Birger Lundkvist, född 27 oktober 1964, är en svensk romanförfattare, översättare och litteraturkritiker. Han debuterade 1992 med romanen Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen, vars transgressiva innehåll och språkbehandling väckte skandal, föranledde spekulationer om personen bakom pseudonymen och så småningom nådde kultstatus. Den fick en uppföljare 1998 i Förensligandet i det egentliga Västerbotten, och författaren har därefter givit ut ytterligare tre böcker: Apsefiston, Hebbershålsapokryferna och Att hata allt mänskligt liv. Teratologi är läran o...

I think ^is another reason to learn Swedish, have not read him yet.

Proselytizer.

what does it mean? Clearly > $5

thefreedictionary.com/proselytize

I'm not nagging, I just ask the same thing many times.

Learning Swedish would be really dumb, it would be beautiful.

11:11 AM

Just saw Mad Max: Fury Road yesterday.

< meh?

No, it was actually quite good.

Surprised the hell out of me.

surprises me that it surprised you

Did you see it?

nope, I watch only a handful of movies per year.

Most completely random, if gf starts to watch something and I happen to not be busy coding for example.

Adding it to the list.

11:14 AM

When are you ever not busy coding?

GF says I talk about code when I sleep so dunno what to answer really.

I guess "never" would be an appropriate response.

@MattE.Эллен, @AndrewLeach: Dupe, red in tooth and claw.

~never then

Did you complete your front-end project yet?

the web thing?

No abandoned it.

11:19 AM

Slacker.

yea

@JohanLarsson How'm I gonna learn Swedish if you can't be bothered to learn JavaScript, a far easier language?

hmm

Swedish does not have null.

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12:23 PM

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2:11 PM

I have a toilet question.

Matt E. Эллен

yes, you can go

Don't keep it bottled up.

It leaks a bit from the floor bolt.

Matt E. Эллен

oh dear

What's a floor bolt?

2:12 PM

You need a new seal

the marshmallows at the bottom

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 thanks!

Glad to help

I don't know. It comes straight out of the marshmallow.

Apparently there are gaskets in there.

2:13 PM

Right. I have a feeling either we have different names for things, or we're not talking the same language at all.

when you take the toilet off the floor, there's usually some kind of seal that connects the base of the toilet to the pipe in the floor.

Yeah.

The wax ring thing.

yeah

though my GIS for "toilet seal" just showed me that there are non-wax ones

2:16 PM

IANAP but I'd guess your seal is broken

from what I saw when a plumber came to my house to snake the toilet drain, you just take the old seal off and put a new seal on then bolt the toilet down. I'd check the diy stackexchange for tips, but I think that's all there is too it.

... OR ... maybe your toilet is cracked inside.

Oh dear.

those are my two wild-ass guesses.

UK ones don't usually go straight into the floor inside the pan profile. They have a pipe which comes out the back.

The refrigerator also pees, but that seems to have stopped since we turned the ice maker on.

yay new house

2:48 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The ice maker will shut off though, once it makes enough ice

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hmm.

Crazy Ninja

Hi, Very Good Evening guys!

3:08 PM

Hello

Crazy Ninja

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 are you busy? can i get some assistance from you at this moment for choosing a most appropriate image for my situation which i'm dealing with right now?

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RegDwigнt

More Russian architechture for @Cerberus:

Q: Help translate from Russian to English (or "I do not speak English")

@RegDwigнt Did you answer the Russki's question?

Phrase: Простите, я с Английским на Вы. It also: I'm sory, I have English on "you" ?

translation russian

Poor guy. He got English on somebody.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I'd check the water supply first. I had what looked like a leak from the floor bolt area and it turned out to be a very small leak coming from where the water supply connected to the tank. I would experiment with turning off the water supply when you're not using the toilet and seeing if the leak still happens.

3:26 PM

@Robusto will do!

Yeah turning off and leaving for a couple of days sounds like a decent idea.

Also feel the length of the water supply to see if you can find any wetness, especially up near the tank.

If the water container is filled with cold water there will be condens? on the outside.

If the dew point is low enough there will.

Toilets are often sweaty.

3:30 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者: Is the leak on the same side of the toilet as the water supply? It doesn't have to be, but that would give a little more evidence.

To speed things up you can of course fill it with room temperature water after turning off the supply.

@Robusto yes!

Aha!

Take on me.

???

3:32 PM

@CrazyNinja Sorry, I was busy, didn't see your question.

Two ninjas one broken toilet.

cornbread > crazy

We should all update our usernames to be more ninja

Who's gonna be crap ninja?

You can, if that's what you're into

I'd be Mr. Shiny and Ninja, of course

3:37 PM

That would be chrome ninja.

could be, I guess

^c(\w)+ ninja$

@JohanLarsson That only works if you're matching an entry in a form or database. Anywhere else you'd have to remove the start and end indicators, or at least allow for leading or trailing whitespace.

sure, could be relaxed a bit

not to mention @cornbreadninja麵包忍者 has some decorations on her name

3:41 PM

also ignore case, I was too lazy to look it up

maybe ?i

Crazy Ninja

Ninjas forever!

Mitch

I'll be Minja

4:18 PM

I'll be nonja.

ronja

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crl

7:18 PM

sinja