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I don't live in a house and get annoyed when I accidentally refer to where I live as my house

Annoyed?

at myself

because I don't live in a house

I finally live in a house so I never have to be annoyed again

I get annoyed when I'm inaccurate like that

7:05 PM

It was one of those things that generally got stumbled over.

Hi @Matt.

hi @Kit :)

I sent a terse email. I was annoyed.

I might get myself fired before I get another job.

@MattЭллен Or maybe it's not inaccurate, and maybe it's just a secondary sense of the word that you don't need to be ashamed of!

Fraught.

@KitFox what's going on?

7:07 PM

The project lead called me to ask me about the status of the site because we got an email from a teacher leader asking when it would open.

I didn't say it, but my email screamed "If you hadn't ignored the last progress meeting on Monday, you would fucking know what the status was and wouldn't be bothering me right now."

ah

I'm sure it'll be fine

men don't notice subtle things like subtext

I don't think that's the issue.

did you light a bag filled with poop on his porch?

s/did/Would/

s/light/like/

I think the issue is that I was secretly hoping to have heard back by now, and I haven't, and I'm disappointed.

7:09 PM

@MετάEd lol

@KitFox hmmm

s/porch/head/

@Cerberus hus=house, lägenhet = apartment

@MετάEd You never know. Maybe it was on facebook

@MετάEd Yes. Thank you.

s/head/face/

7:10 PM

Also, my bits are chafed.

try talc!

I just need some air.

I woke up this morning like I'd been underwater all night.

very wet?

Is it hot in your house?

@JohanLarsson So if you live in an apartment, could you say, "let's go to my hus"?

Or is that absolutely impossible?

@MattЭллен With a big gasp, like I'd been holding my breath.

7:15 PM

@Cerberus It feels wrong, vi går hem, let's go home, could be said for both of course.

@KitFox oh! I've done that before

It could be sleep apnia

or it could be something else

I think it might be symbolic.

could be

@JohanLarsson How about, "shall we go to your hus, or my hus?"?

I'm not insinuating anything, by the way!

@Cerberus not if it was an apartment. Ska vi gå hem till dig eller hem till mig? Shall we go home to you or home to me, feels most right.

7:19 PM

Your place or mine?

yes

@JohanLarsson So it feels completely impossible to use hus there?

Do you think other people might use hus there?

@Cerberus if one of them is an appartment it feels wrong. If both have houses it feels a bit unnatural.

Oh...

A house is more of a thing and less of a place.

7:20 PM

^

@JohanLarsson Thanks for ruining my Proto-Germanic hypothesis!!

sorry about not being proto enough for you. No idea what it means :D

Heh.

Proto-Germanic is the language your and my ancestors spoke 1500 years ago.

everyone has a home, and if you don't have a home, you can buy one here!

►

@aediaλ Haha. I bet Ikea has a lamp called Johan.

7:27 PM

IKEA is pretty good ime, decent quality despite the low prices.

Oh yeah. I love Ikea.

My boys have spöka from there.

One doesn't hold its charge anymore, but the other lasts well beyond the advertised 5 hours battery life.

It's more like 72 hours.

Oh my goodness that's adorable.

They change colors slowly, in the blue spectrum.

wants

It's a trek to an IKEA from here though.

Yeah, ditto.

7:37 PM

I should have bought more stuff I didn't need when I was just a hop away from the College Park MD one.

My bed is from IKEA.

@JohanLarsson It depends.

@Mahnax My everything is from Ikea.

@Cerberus always does

@Mahnax My guest bed is too! It's my futon that survived the U-Haul ride across states after serving me well for a couple years in a studio.

Bed, wardrobe, couch, some curtains, some linen.

@JohanLarsson Well, I have seen plenty of Ikea furniture go squeaky and wobbly after a while.

7:43 PM

Can anyone get this?

ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80149785

Most likely in stock at the one nearest me.

> Op voorraad bij IKEA Amsterdam: 49

goes to Kitland

I could order it for your, but shipping will be as much as the thing is worth!

My store isn't built yet.

Someone has one on ebay for $20.

7:44 PM

It's two dollars cheaper in Canada.

ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/80149785

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 an Ikea store?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 But it's only € 5!

@MattЭллен yes!

Laminated cardboard, and it is handwash only?

:O

7:45 PM

@Cerberus I know. Well, I sort of know.

@Mahnax Funny.

I'd think you shouldn't wash it at all.

Yeah.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I know you know.

@Cerberus O_O

7:46 PM

Yes, oh underscore oh!

It's like you're reading my mail!

@Cerberus ok I have not seen much furniture other than beds and kitchens I think.

Oh, Cerberus, you'll be happy to know that I am considering buying one of the new iPhones.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Of course I am. I can neither confirm nor deny that I work for the NSA & co.

@Cerberus I understand.

7:47 PM

@JohanLarsson A man only needs food and a bed.

@Mahnax ...

And clothes. Please.

I'll block you if you do!

I don't believe it anyway.

How silly.

No, but I am serious.

No!

I like the way they look.

And I like the way they work.

7:48 PM

Okay, now I'm 100 % sure you're trolling me.

@Cerberus I also need internet and a decent computer, not much more though.

Look down on me if you want, but I'll be getting it on the cheap since my 3 year contract is just about up.

Gotta run, bye!

@JohanLarsson You can have those in bed.

yes, they are meant for bed

@Mahnax Haha, I know you don't have a smartphone yet, so no expensive contracts. So you're busted!

For the record, that doesn't mean I would have believed you otherwise!

@JohanLarsson I hear many people say that, but I actually never use a computer in bed, I personally don't see the point.

I either get up or I don't.

7:51 PM

What if you're sick or something?

Or cold?

or what if you feel like you weigh 1000 kg in a good way?

that happens every day

@aediaλ Okay, maybe then. Although that only happens like once a decade to me.

Ugh, why do I have 30 tabs open again?

There are ten articles I need to read, and the rest are research for a question on Ling.SE.

Stupid.

I use the computer in bed a lot less now that my bed isn't also my couch in the same room as everything else, though. Now it's kinda gotta be intentional to go back in there.

Right!

> Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 675,438 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

8:04 PM

@aediaλ I moved the other way, turned my bedroom into storage/guestroom and moved the sofa there. Moved bed to livingroom.

Wow, really?

But why?

That means you have to actually...make your bed!

Or people will see that you didn't.

or never invite people!

I don't think your mother is going to like that.

but why?

Well, she may want to visit you?

Besides, you're sort of contradicting yourself: you have a guestroom, but you never even have people in your sitting room.

8:08 PM

I don't think she has a problem with it,

@Cerberus good point, gf's father sleeps there now and then when he is here for work

lately i have preferred e-friends to meat-friends in my sparetime

Meat-friends!

rolls eyes

I'm sure your girlfriend approves.

@JohanLarsson So you have to make your bed when your future father in law is staying in your house, right?

@Cerberus I would not loose sleep if I think he saw the bed unmade. Think gf has arranged it those times.

It's not a capital crime, but still.

@Cerberus yes, we are a democratic unit, she instantly knew it was right when we got the idea.

I also find it a bit...private. I don't need my guests to all see my bed.

@JohanLarsson When you switched to e-meat?

Or when you decided to move your bed?

8:13 PM

move the bed

OK.

That's good.

Does she live with you?

@Cerberus i don't have a problem with someone seeing it, sitting in it would be different though. I would not want to sit in someone else's either.

@Cerberus yes, fulltime

OK cool.

@KitFox @RegDwighт someone please protect this

Jez

evening

Q: What is a word that could define someone who likes to cause conflict?

8:17 PM

15

What would you call someone who does things knowing specifically that his/her actions will cause pain and/or conflict or completes an action just to get someone in trouble or hurt them? For example, in Private Peaceful there are two people that are in love, but the Colonel goes out of his way t...

meaning

oh gods

I can't "protect" it.

I should answer "Jesus"

@Cerberus You should be able to, Mr. 30k.

@MattЭллен :D

Anyone with 15k can.

also, Mensch

8:21 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 blushes

But I can't.

@Cerberus :D

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 not yet we can't

I think there's a two days grace period

Hmm.

oh, OK, one day

How is SWR.SE coming along?

8:22 PM

english.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions

did it get proposed?

!!!

the question is only 12 hours old, so no protecty

@MattЭллен Nah.

OOOOOIC

Jez

8:24 PM

there's a mug in my office with this on it: "if you love animals, why eat them?"

and i'm like, "yeah, but I love chocolate too"

Is there a way to view source in a tab instead of a new window? Boyfriend keeps losing all of his tabs.

the thing I love about them is the taste, duh

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 maybe middle click the menu option?

RegDwighт

Guess programming language by „Hello, world!“ snippet.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 why is protecting important?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you could use firebug to view the DOM in the same window as the page. not exactly what you asked, but....

8:27 PM

@RegDwighт I can't tell the lisps apart :D

@JohanLarsson it's in the autocolander and getting crap answers.

@RegDwighт scored 300

@MattЭллен ok.

I got 200.

500 then 700

I've not heard of xtend, so I thought it was Java

I got 1600 the next time through. Lots of languages I've never heard of.

8:30 PM

1500

400

w00t a Hello, World! program by poiuy_qwert
lol iz 72
rofl lol
lol iz 101
rofl lol
lol iz 108
rofl lol
rofl lol
lool iz 111
rofl lool
loool iz 44
rofl loool
loool iz 32
rofl loool
loool iz 87
rofl loool
rofl lool
lool iz 114
rofl lool
rofl lol
lol iz 100
rofl lol
lol iz 33
rofl lol
stfu

wtf?

lolcode or omgrofl or brainfuck. well, it's not brainfuck

It's not LOLCODE.

8:32 PM

no

yeah

I guess omgrofl

@RegDwighт 1500

it's omgrofl

I guessed

> Your score is 0!

I just got a whole page of shakespeare

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Bard.

Is Bard an option?

8:34 PM

public class Main
{
  public static void main(String[] arguments)
  {
    println "Hello World"
  }
}

java

looks like java, but it's (supposedly) groovy

wait, there's no semicolon.

no System.out

Also, Java is public static void main (String[] args)

or whatever

8:35 PM

        HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

There's ur LOLCODE.

2500

yup

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 is println java?

2000 this time

@JohanLarsson System.out.println

8:36 PM

ok I don't know java :)

@JohanLarsson I posted that code here in case they had it wrong and I could point out the errors to you all and thereby increase my status here.

in Lounge<California> on Stack Overflow Chat, 51 secs ago, by not-rightfold

@JohanLarsson 6200

But they didn't call it java so I had no cause to complain and WTF a pair of squirrels just ran into my patio door

@JohanLarsson highest score is 6300

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 very hard to increase from where you started imo.

8:37 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 lol. squirrels :D

@MattЭллен he is a language geek

see y'all t'moro

@MattЭллен CU!

I'm heading out too. have fun everyone.

CU2!

8:38 PM

greatlanguagegame.com

3

This one is more fun! Listen to a language and guess which language it is.

You get to choose between 2, 3, or 4 languages.

> Final score: 400

They made me choose between Bosnian and Croatian, which are the same fucking language anyway.

And I had to choose between Cantonese and Khmer!

@Cerberus 150 :(

@Cerberus is Khmer as angry as Cantonese?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 It's hard!

I'm at work and wasn't expecting sound.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Haha I don't know, it was Cantonese, but I think there are several samples per language.

Oh, dear. Your colleagues were startled?

My speakers aren't that loud.

But maybe!

I must commute.

8:42 PM

Bye!

Bye!

I have never heard of the language Shona...

Happy testing!

@Cerberus 500, luck again

Nice.

> Final score: 700

This game is hard!

Sometimes there are several languages I have never heard of in one question.

But it is educational, I like it!

It is a bit like Geoguesser: you learn stuff about the world, very educational!

@JohanLarsson Luck is important, yes.

Choosing between Shona and Ttyira is impossible.

Choosing between a Slavic language and French is easy.

Stack Exchange

9:01 PM

Limerick Machine: NSBIHQ

posted on September 11, 2013 by sgdi

Whatever you do don’t text back Your phone they’ll be able to track And with your location They’ll steal information And then put you in a black sack

would have been nice to hear some Finnish in that game

I think I heard Finnish!

Or, no, that was Estonian.

very similar i think

(´･_･`)

Yeah.

I was vacillating between the two, picked the right one.

star for the game so others can find it

9:08 PM

Yay!

I can usually tell which half of a continent each language is from.

I had never heard about many of the languages

Like North-East Asian, South-East Asian, South-Asian, West-Asian. Or North-African, South-African.

@JohanLarsson Same here.

but you knew Proto-German!

And I actually had no idea what Basque sounded like. I had to pick between Hungarian and Basque, but Basque had some similar sounds to Spanish.

@JohanLarsson I don't speak it, alas.

alas is a word that I think I should learn.

9:12 PM

You already know it!

Doesn't Swedish have a word like it?

Dutch helaas, French hélas.

not sure

I can' think of a German equivalent.

@Cerberus Weh!

Yes, weh! But it is a different word.

Dutch wee!

English woe.

> Com. Indo-European interjection, used as a natural exclamation of lament; its forms fall into types distinguished by variety of vocalism, and reduplicated forms are characteristic of several of the Germanic langs.; most of these langs. have developed a substantival use of the simple forms (through such constructions as that in A. 6), and English and German have developed an adj. use.

Ouais.

Silty plate.

9:19 PM

> Teut. *wai is the source of the exclamations F. ouais, It. guai, Sp. guay.

Ouais.

You mean, ouais!