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12:15 AM

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Suppose tissue identical to that of a pig could be created synthetically (with kosher ingredients) in a science lab. The meat would be completely indistinguishable from pig meat, but it would never have actually been part of a real, live pig. Would this be kosher? If so, would it be meat or parv...

tchrist

12:27 AM

Huh!

TRiG

@tchrist This is Judaism. Of course they've already considered that question.

tchrist

@GraceNote Welcome back to our humble demesne. How may we regale you?

@TRiG Angels. Head. Pin.

TRiG

@tchrist Aye. But Jews seem to do it better than most.

KitFox

I'm sorry, what?

starts packing booze

Hey. You know what? If I drank all this booze, then I wouldn't have to pack it.

tchrist

12:43 AM

Why are you packing booze?

Why are you packing?

Mitch

He said "Aye. But ..." oh...you did hear that?

O0oO0oOO0ooO

OMG OMG I gotta pee!

Funny animated gif of dog doing pee-pee dance

tchrist

Make it stop!

Caprica Six

HAMMERTIME!

KitFox

Because we are moving.

tchrist

12:44 AM

Don’t make me flood the channel with narrow poetry!

It’s not your moving that bothers me.

It’s that . . . that thing’s.

Thank goodness!

KitFox

So who's going to help me drink all this stuff?

tchrist

Moving, really, like whole kit and kaboodle?

TRiG

@KitFox Not I.

KitFox

Why do people keep asking me that? Have I really not been talking about it for a whole year?

tchrist

I said boodle not poodle!

TRiG

12:46 AM

I was at a LGBT Pride over the weekend. Lots of drunk people. I had approx. one glass of rose.

KitFox

@TRiG Which one are you, the Cat, the Dog, or the Duck?

tchrist

Pride in August?

Usually it’s in June so it’s not too hot.

TRiG

@tchrist Cork, Galway, Sligo, and Kilkenny all have Prides this month.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Dog: Omg Omg I gotta pee
Owner: Aint no body got time for that!

tchrist

Unless it’s in Palm Springs, when it’s in like November.

Mitch

12:47 AM

Seriously, Kit, I don't get it. Does this mean you're moving?

KitFox

pours out remainder of handle of gin

tchrist

Cork Pride sounds risqué.

facepalm

@tchrist Hmm.

Almost Portuguese.

12:48 AM

I met a very nice guy whom I completely failed to get off with.

KitFox

@tchrist Sounds like a good time to me.

tchrist

Too drunk?

TRiG

@tchrist Nah. Just wasn't happening.

Nevermind.

tchrist

Oh, I won’t.

KitFox

Apparently I have some of the "finest French brandy".

tchrist

12:49 AM

If it were any other day but Pride, I’d’ve suggested “hit it off with” instead.

KitFox

My tester, on her last day, asked me if I was doing anything for Pride weekend. I responded in a very stupid way.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

When I walk into an exam I'm actually prepared for

Another freaking animated gif

tchrist

The last guy I knew who failed to get off at Pride was because his date was grazed by a stray bullet at San Francisco Pride this year.

Don’t

Like

Movies

It’s obnoxious.

TRiG

@tchrist It does distract the eye, doesn't it?

Johan Larsson

@tchrist the gif?

KitFox

12:51 AM

I was like "Oh, no. I mean, I didn't know it was this weekend. I mean, I would. Are you doing something? Except I won't be here anyway. I mean, not that we'd go together. Well, you weren't asking, but, if you were. Uh, no, I'm not. I have other plans."

TRiG

Should I repost my Tom Daley gifs?

@KitFox Ah. Flustered.

tchrist

@TRiG Who he?

Daily?

KitFox

@TRiG I was.

Mitch

@KitFox You mean "had".

tchrist

O Tom! Give us this day our daily gifs, and lead us not into flustration.

KitFox

12:52 AM

Um. Right.

@TRiG It was pretty funny in retrospect, but my cheeks were burning. I couldn't stop talking.

Johan Larsson

I have posted it here earlier, you can collapse messages here in chat with this, works for any message

TRiG

@tchrist A diver. Here is a picture of Tom Daley taking his clothes off. (Enjoy!)

tchrist

A man of divers interests, I see.

KitFox

@tchrist thwack

tchrist

You know what North Americans call them thingies, don’t you?

TRiG

12:55 AM

@tchrist *snigger*

@tchrist Which thingies?

tchrist

Divers.

We call them loons.

TRiG

in The Clubhouse, Feb 13 at 21:14, by TRiG

Ah, finally I've found a chatroom where I can post pictures of cute divers without being off-topic!

The Clubhouse is so slow-moving that that message, with one star, is still shown in the sidebar.

tchrist

I think the young ones are the cutest.

See what I mean?

KitFox

Perv.

Augh! Attacked by lentils!

tchrist

The worst is the watchful parent with the red eye of doom, tracking your every glance.

Johan Larsson

12:59 AM

@tchrist storlom, they make spooky sounds at night. Spooky in a nice way.

tchrist

Lommar.

KitFox

My ex-gf won a loon-calling contest when she was 12.

tchrist

They also talk to each other on a quiet lake, which is different than their haunting flight call.

When the mated pair are close, they talk to each other. You can only hear them if you are pretty close and it is pretty quiet.

Mitch

I know. I'd break up with that too.

tchrist

@KitFox You had a 12-year-old girlfriend? Really? I’ve known guys like that. It never ends well.

KitFox

1:02 AM

It was kind of fun during sex, but quickly lost its novelty.

@tchrist I did, in fact, have a girlfriend, who, at one point in her life, was 12 years old.

Shocking, I know.

tchrist

Can you prove that?

Johan Larsson

are we running out of topics?

tchrist

@JohanLarsson What kind of pics are those?

I shudder to imagine!

KitFox

@tchrist Not definitively.

I suppose she could have been born a man.

tchrist

These things happen.

KitFox

1:04 AM

I think she still would have to have been 12 years old at some point though.

Johan Larsson

@tchrist I react the same way every time, first I check if I made a typo, then I puke :D

tchrist

It is difficult to avoid this side of the grave.

KitFox

Especially since she is my age. I don't think she could have skipped it.

TRiG

tchrist

Well, that’s one possibility.

TRiG

1:05 AM

*shrug* You did ask.

KitFox

Aww, the old tin of Folgers from our honeymoon.

I should throw it out, but...

tchrist

I was expecting Top Shop pix.

TRiG

It must be every pop star's dream to one day appear in the line-up on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

tchrist

Pop star?

Mitch

Duh throw out the coffee, keep the tin, and put your expensive coffee in instead. Nobody will touch it.

TRiG

1:08 AM

Julie Andrews' Dirty Songbook

KitFox

Certo Liquid Fruit Pectin, use before...anybody care to guess?

TRiG

@KitFox 3rd July 1976?

KitFox

Interesting date.

But no. Slightly more recent.

Mitch

Pectin lasts forever. Keep it.

TRiG

6th July?

KitFox

1:11 AM

28 Sep 2001

Mitch

Wow. Has it moved with you?

KitFox

Oh yes, several times apparently.

Johan Larsson

pectin sounds like some kind of protein, wonder what happens with it.

KitFox

I probably bought it at a Kroger's in NC.

It's a glucosamine, I think.

Johan Larsson

it is not very expensive I think

Mitch

1:14 AM

Glucosamine? What? You mean I can just eat jello and get the same life saving properties?

KitFox

@JohanLarsson No, it's not. Super cheap.

tchrist

Sweet.

KitFox

@Mitch Well, it's fingernails and hair, essentially.

Well, no, that's gelatin.

tchrist

Hooves.

KitFox

Same thing.

Johan Larsson

1:15 AM

^

Undo

Could someone visit this link and tell me what you see? api.stackexchange.com/2.1/…

KitFox

Gelatin is different than pectin, but I can't remember exactly.

Pectin seems like a complex sugar-type thing.

@Undo A lot of JSON.

But it's been ages.

Either way, blech.

1:16 AM

@TRiG Ditto.

Undo

@TRiG Nothing about a throttle violation?

Mitch

That's wrong. I like gelatin. I don't care for horses hooves. Kinda funky.

TRiG

@Undo Nope. That's probably IP-based.

tchrist

You didn’t cook ’em long enough.

Wait, did you get the kind with iron?

Undo

Shoot. Must have got a shared IP that's maxed out.

tchrist

1:20 AM

topics

scipot

potsic, nite

nite

copsit

optics.

1:36 AM

isotcp

topcsi

copist

Joseph Weissman

sitcop

tocsip

tchrist

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cispot cispto cistop cistpo citops citosp citpos citpso citsop citspo coipst coipts coispt coistp
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Cerberus

tchrist

q=60?

Cerberus

From NASA, posted by Cerberus, your favourite purveyor of gifs.

tchrist

1:44 AM

The one on the bottom is broken.

Wai?

All white, all ways.

Hmm?

Antarctica.

Poor thing.

Cerberus

It's just cold.

Like Greenland.

tchrist

1:48 AM

Putting the lie to its name.

?

Whiteland.

Oh, Greenland.

And there are no formicating bears at that other place, either. It should change its name.

Robusto

Hey, @JohanLarsson. I dig your script, but it seems a little complicated. Here's basically the same thing in one line, with a more convenient (to me) UI: $('.messages').click(function(event){$(this).find('.message').toggle()});

You can just click the container and collapse the contents or reinstate it. No dropdown to mess with.

Hmmm, I think I better make one leetle adjustment.

Better: $('.messages').on('click',function(event){$(this).find('.message').toggle()});

This collapses a whole individual's message container, not individual messages. Usually that's what you want anyway.

It could get fancier, but the point is, it doesn't have to be as complicated as you made it.

Kudos to you for a good idea, though.

Go ahead, click on this message and watch all my words disappear! Then click again and they're back. That's a bingo!

O0oO0oOO0ooO

2:25 AM

Instinct is a strong skill, my instinct tells me to choose a certain answer but I also highly doubt it but at the end it's a correct answer, so just choose answers that your instinct tells you ;D

Instinct is a strong skill when it comes to choosing a girl to marry

Alright?

;D

My Chinese friend just posted a facebook message saying "I'm Asian and I'm proud of it"

TRiG

@O0oO0oOO0ooO There's no need to "accept" an answer on SE.

Do if you want, but feel free not to.

> One Million Moms is a website based on intolerance and the inability to count. It's named the same way a kid might call himself Commander Badass Boobtoucher: desperate wish-fulfillment and blatant lies.

Cracked.com

tchrist

2:43 AM

@TRiG Innumeracy is a terrible thing.

@Cerb What grade did they start teaching you English? 4th grade? 7th grade?

O0oO0oOO0ooO

What kind of jokes do you have in your country to describe a raining day? In korea, when I was in kindergarden, my friends and I used to say Jesus is either peeing or taking shower

Robusto

So let's see if it works for new ones.

Yep. Here's the new, improved chat message toggle:

$('#chat').on('click','.messages',function(event){$(this).find('.message').togg‌le()});

The earlier one didn't take into account new message containers. Duh!

And I'm out.

Cerberus

3:00 AM

@tchrist 8th grade, but I think your grades mean different things!

I was 12 or so.

Why?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@SomeGuy thanks!

tchrist

Because I know some Norwegians who had to start in like 1st or 2nd grade.

And I wondered whether it was the same for you.

Cerberus

And how old is one in 1st grade?

tchrist

age = grade + um um 5?

k = 5

so 1st is 6

Cerberus

Ah.

Well, we didn't.

tchrist

3:03 AM

you start 12th grade at 17, graduate at 18. usually.

I thought that Norway that early was unusual.

And this was the generation before me even!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus yeesh

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Korean companies are r-tarded

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It's breathing.

Cerberus

Perhaps it was an unusual school? I'm sure there are some schools here where you start earlier. But what do you learn in primary school anyway...

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Exactly!

tchrist

We could ask our resident rutabaga if he were here.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:08 AM

That's a good safe word, rutabaga.

Cut that out!

me?

Exactly.

@Cerberus Well, he’s from a very educated family. Professor now. All his family are. Well, not his wife, actually. She’s a nurse.

It may be he went to a better school than normal. I don’t know.

Cerberus

It's not about better.

Just different.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

3:12 AM

My Chinese friend is super funny

he likes to make confession to me

last time he confessed he never had a girlfriend before

Cerberus

How old is he?

tchrist

Father forgive me, it has been 17 years since my last confession.

Cerberus

14?

O0oO0oOO0ooO

and he's always at college building doing some weird stuff

He is older than me

I think 24

tchrist

Well, there aren’t many girls in China.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

3:16 AM

Yeah I think so

tchrist

There are other things in life than girls.

For example, there’s Lego.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Ain't nobody got time for that!

tchrist

Ok, then there’s computers.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

there's coldpop

tchrist

Cold pop doesn’t interfere with girls.

Except insofar as cold pop and hot mamma being opposites.

Oh and games. Don’t forget games.

Joseph Weissman

3:19 AM

\o/

I'm thinking of writing a dungeon master bot for SE chat.

You are having an adventure! :)

tchrist

Ooh, 2nd person narratives!

Maybe that is the cold pop connection.

Joseph Weissman

I once got an error that said "You can't even do that."

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Well, I woke up to get Coldpops, and then I thought somebody was Barbequing. I said oh lord jesus there's fire

tchrist

Just toss another heretic on the barbie.

Cerberus

At least you gnôthi seauton.

tchrist

3:34 AM

I went to the naval-gazing academy.

Cerberus

> US Soldier's 'Phone Sex' Intercepted, Shared

Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.

"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.

@KitFox In case you thought there were no people in the NSA willing and able to grossly abuse their powers and the spying programme.

abcnews.go.com/print?id=5987804

> NSA awarded Adrienne Kinne a NSA Joint Service Achievement Medal in 2003 at the same time she says she was listening to hundreds of private conversations between Americans, including many from the International Red Cross and Doctors without Borders.

"We knew they were working for these aid organizations," Kinne told ABC News. "They were identified in our systems as 'belongs to the International Red Cross' and all these other organizations. And yet, instead of blocking these phone numbers we continued to collect on them," she told ABC News.

tchrist

Wow.

Not that it happened, but that it leaked.

Cerberus

Hehe.

It's only a few people of the no doubt tens of thousands who did these things, and possibly still do.

The problem is that these things nearly always stay hidden, because the people involved have an interest in keeping it secret.

tchrist

That’s the thing. There are going to many orders of magnitude more actual instances.

Cerberus

*be

Yes.

At least the Dutch secret service is tiny, per capita.

But the English one is not...

tchrist

3:42 AM

per capita, no?

How does one know how big an SS is?

Cerberus

Arg.

Well, we know how much money they get and how many people they employ.

tchrist

And England’s is bigger than yours?

But England is a bigger country, too, so you have to look at head count.

WOW! english.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/33046

TRiG

@tchrist What a weird way to spam. Do you think it's an automated tool rather than a human been?

tchrist

I kinda hope so.

Appu

Hey everyone!

tchrist

3:57 AM

Hey look, it’s a poo!

Cerberus

@tchrist I did, per capita! But let me find the figures.

AIVD (Dutch): € 130 million.

English combined secret services: £ 2.6 billion.

tchrist

So do they have 20x your peeps?

Cerberus

> The U.S. intelligence budget (excluding the Military Intelligence Program) in fiscal year 2012 was $53.9 billion

@tchrist No, 3.5ish times.

And you have about 5 times the number of people of the Brits.

But perhaps the Dutch number is not entirely comparable.

tchrist

Please normalize. Pretty.

Cerberus

Normalise?

tchrist

4:04 AM

No.

Normalize.

Cerberus

Hao?

tchrist

Currency conversion.

And per-head-ness

Cerberus

Oh.

grumbles

tchrist

I would, too.

Cerberus

USA: € 129 pppc

Ugh, I misinterpreted the British number.

tchrist

4:09 AM

The Perseids are coming, the Perseids are coming!

TRiG

@tchrist You know, xkcd oneboxes anyway. You don't need to upload the image.

tchrist

Ah.

Cerberus

UK: € 48 pppc.

tchrist

I’m thinking of @O0oO0oOO0ooO and his no-girls friend.

Cerberus

Those figures were comparable after all.

tchrist

4:12 AM

So US pays ~2.5x UK for SS?

O0oO0oOO0ooO

That suddenly reminds of Wing mom's son Skippy

tchrist

Cerberus

NL: € 16.

@tchrist Yes.

And the UK pays 3x what we pay in inferis.

tchrist

And UK pays 3x yous.

jinx

Cerberus

I suppose the NSA has hijacked part of your defence budget, which has always been huge per capita?

I mean, their budget is part of the defence budget, or isn't it?

@tchrist Is that when they start, or peak time?

Because the Perseids are several days.

Obama, on the NSA:

> "Understandably, people would be concerned," the president said. "I would be, too, if I weren't inside the government."

tchrist

4:30 AM

Ick.

@Cerberus I believe that the day slips a day every year based on how close to a leap year it is.

I think this year’s peak is Monday.

> The annual Perseid meteor showers promising about 70 an hour each evening peaking on Aug. 11-12

Cerberus

4:47 AM

From 12 through 18 I will be in the country, with good vision, on a "mountain".

It is like over 100 m high, so that's huge.

And the house has a tower with an observatory.

The telescope is heavy and downstairs.

My great-great-grandfather had the tower built to watch the stars, apparently.

tchrist

You don’t use a telescope for meteors.

Cerberus

Or perhaps that was an afterthought.

tchrist

You just use eyes.

Cerberus

Yeah.

tchrist

You just have to be away from light pollution.

Oops, company.

Cerberus

4:49 AM

We watched the meteors last year there too.

OK bai.

tchrist

I have to go to bed now. It’s been a tough day. Have a good shower.

Cerberus

Company, in bed?

Interesting.

Have fun.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

6:13 AM

Oh no

gay-test.com

says I'm 37% gay

Cerberus

Aww.

You can work on it.

Go to gay bars, lectures.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Would you take the test and tell me your result?

Cerberus

31 %. And I'm actually gay, so you lose!

I really took it.

Some silly questions about shoe designers that I had never heard of.

And television shows/bands I had never heard of.

But I answered as best I could.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

6:31 AM

Damn, I was a gay!

Omg Omg Omg I am gay!

Dog doing the pee-pee dance gif

O0oO0oOO0ooO

6:57 AM

Oh lord jesus there's fire!

►

Appu

:o

Johan Larsson

8:51 AM

@KitFox nice!

@Robusto What script? I'm not following.

Johan Larsson

9:29 AM

Aha, Travis script.

KitFox

10:19 AM

@Cerberus Yeah, I wouldn't call that grossly abusing their powers. I would call that the same kind of thing as sharing funny videos you found on YouTube. Co-workers do stuff like that, like how I share some of the dumbass emails I get that are ostensibly private. A gross abuse would be something like using that information to blackmail people, or posting those calls up on a public website.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

Do you like your salad slightly warm or cold?

Matt Эллен

10:34 AM

@Cerberus aww. that's not fair. Being more gay isn't losing!

I achieved 33%

Matt Эллен

10:56 AM

@Cerberus it's quite USA-centric

plus no questions like "do you prefer having sex with men", so it's more of a campness test.

O0oO0oOO0ooO

11:21 AM

Guys, what is your schedule of a day

David Wallace

11:33 AM

@KitFox makes mental note not to send Kit any more dumbarse emails

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: For dinner

posted on August 10, 2013 by sgdi

A fish and a squid on a date In a restaurant known to be great For seafood divine And wine that is fine Were being served up on a plate

MετάEd

12:27 PM

Gag orders make me want to throw up.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:38 PM

Hullo.

MετάEd

yawn Howdy.

tchrist

Morning.

Ya know, I’m a tad underwhelmed by these answers.

Johan Larsson

2:43 PM

@MετάEd what is a gag order?

MετάEd

Gag order

A gag order (also known as a gagging order or suppression order) is an order, typically a legal order by a court or government, restricting information or comment from being made public, or in some cases, passed onto any unauthorized third party. The phrase may sometimes be used of a private order by an employer or other institution. Gag orders may be used, for example, to keep legitimate trade secrets of a company, to protect the integrity of ongoing police or military operations, or to protect the privacy of victims or minors. Conversely, as their downside, they may be abused as a usefu...

Robusto

2:58 PM

@JohanLarsson A gag order is no joke.

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