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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: What does it mean by“ fuck you”? by Shaloni Sharma on english.stackexchange.com

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Q: What does it mean by" fuck you"?

We all know that fuck mean sex, so speaker says fuck you means what? fuck me has meaning he/she has to asking to sex him. but what does it mean by" fuck you" ?

ELL fodder. :)

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: If “fuck” means to have sex, what does “fuck you” mean? by Shaloni Sharma on english.stackexchange.com

1:43 AM

This one ain’t too hot either, Smokey:

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9:21 AM

A single word for squeezing water out of a cloth/an object, bitte

Yeah, I know how much you love SWR questions

9:40 AM

wring

1 hour later…

11:04 AM

@skillpatrol I think your Raiders will beat my Bears this week.

11:48 AM

@Robusto Just winning more than 50% of our games is a feeling I have not had in 13 years.

Well, it's still early days. Don't get too comfy.

true dat

enjoying any rugby?

I don't pay attention to rugby.

I've only recently begun to watch soccer, and that only because it helps me nap on the couch because there are no commercials for long stretches of time.

:D

Lionel Messi is exciting to watch, but they can't feature him in every game.

12:00 PM

ya, he's a one man show...

...like gretzky used to be

Exactly. He's the one player who makes scoring look like it's intentional, not just lucky.

well, as the old baseball saying goes: I'd rather be lucky than good :P

12:18 PM

Except you can't be lucky every time.

That's why the best hitter in baseball history in his best year made an out 3 out of 5 times he stepped up to the plate.

and who might that have been?

Hint: He played for the Red Sox.

Others had better years, but he was the last in the modern era to hit > .400 for a season.

certainly not mr october

You're killing me.

sorry, not a big fan of the game

12:23 PM

How can I say Red Sox and you think of a Yankee?

So you've never heard of Ted Williams?

yes

amazon.com/Science-Hitting-Ted-Williams/dp/0671621033/…

I have seen old footage

I made this required reading for my Little League teams.

you coached?

12:27 PM

10 seasons.

nice

My teams were always competitive, and three of the 10 seasons they won their division.

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Just leaving this here.

@skillpatrol Yeah, I enjoyed it. I'm actually a natural teacher, so I could tell the kids how to do things in a way they could understand.

No wonder you went CRAZEH.

12:30 PM

Not at all.

See.

I didn't even say "thank you".

CRAZEH

@Robusto why did you give it up?

@skillpatrol My kids stopped playing.

I see.

That's how good of a teacher he was!

12:32 PM

@RegDwigнt They stopped playing because Little League has an age limit.

That's loser talk.

When kids couldn't hit with power, one of my favorite tricks was to have them stand at the plate. I would stand where the catcher would be and grab the barrel of the bat and say, "OK, now pull it out of my hand." They would try and eventually realize they had to twist their bodies to get enough leverage to pull the bat away from me. At which point I'd say. "Feel the muscles you used to do that? Those are exactly the same muscles that help you hit a ball hard."

No, "loser talk" is when a loser talks.

5 mins ago, by Robusto

My teams were always competitive, and three of the 10 seasons they won their division.

I no longer talk the loser talk. I just walk the loser walk.

Then carry a big stick.

12:39 PM

A baseball bat is a big stick.

Yep.

makes notes

this may help

:-)

I got my first 502 error ever this morning, and it came from ELU. 502 is apparently "bad gateway" . . .

Anybody else experiencing delays on SE sites this morning?

No. But I wasn't online this morning. And now it's evening.

Also: noob! I get 502 errors all the time!

12:49 PM

You have more access to those in Yourup, I'm guessing.

Yeah. Also, 911s and 4711s.

The Mountain That Codes just jumped up to try to grab a stickie high up on a white-board. The earth shook.

I don't know who could have placed it that high. He's by far the tallest person in the office, and if he had to jump to retrieve it, someone else had to have been standing on a chair to place it.

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:D

@RegDwigнt Looks like you Russkies start your cross-dressing early.

And don't tell me that's not your dress. It says "RUSSIA" in big letters on the front.

12:55 PM

We have to start them extra early because we have to finish them extra early because Putin.

You need to work on the facial hair, though.

That's a dead giveaway for transvestites.

And children.

That's not the Wurst I've seen.

Oh, do you have Netflix in your country?

We do.

But I don't care.

There is a show called Daredevil, which features characters who speak Russian.

12:57 PM

Read: not Russian.

I'm wondering how good their accents are.

Terrible.

They sound better than most of the faux Russian accents I hear on TV.

I'd be interested to hear your opinion of these particular ones.

Hm.

Well, sucks then that I don't care for Netflix.

You got a YouTube video?

I mean, most are downright laughable.

12:58 PM

Oh, and as an aside: WTF, Russians? Again? In Daredevil?

Jesus Christ, pick on Iraqis or something.

@RegDwigнt They're no fun anymore.

Fun fact: there is not a single American in any Russian or Soviet movie ever.

Lots of Nazis, yes. But Americans? Fuck them.

For that matter, don't remember any Frenchies, either.

@RegDwigнt Can't find one.

Well if the show's still new I guess we just have to wait.

@RegDwigнt How about Sierra Leonians?

1:01 PM

Yeah no shit. I bet there's more Sierra Leonians than Frenchies and Amies combined.

Andorrans?

Bhutanese?

And? Or? Ra?

@Robusto not Bhutanese, but lots of Mongolians fo sho.

Oh, and, Dude, Mongolian is not the preferred nomenclature. I think you mean "people with Down's Syndrome."

Family Guy - Down Syndrome Girl song + video

Funny that in Russia the nomenklatura is always preferred.

1:04 PM

Well. It's either that or a bullet to the head.

I need to go get my stupid Mac fixed.

Bye for now.

CU

Next time get a Dell. At least that one cannot be fixed.

A Dell or a doll?

A dull.

A doll is always preferred to an stupid Mac.

1:29 PM

Not always.

New York Dolls are an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971. Along with the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, they were one of the first bands in the early punk rock scene. Although their original line-up fell apart quickly, the band's first two albums—New York Dolls (1973) and Too Much Too Soon (1974)—became among the most popular cult records in rock. The line-up at this time comprised vocalist David Johansen, guitarist Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane, guitarist and pianist Sylvain Sylvain, and drummer Jerry Nolan; the latter two had replaced Rick Rivets and Billy Murcia...

@Cerberus If the evil eye is your own, then it's totally OK, you have good reasons to use it. But someone else's is totally uncool man.

@Robusto I had a new york doll when I was a kid. Or rather my sister did, and I stole it. Then I threw it away. after dismembering it and setting it up in a combat scene with my toy soldiers and model airplane. Firecrackers and glue were involved.

Wait. That's the plot of Toy Story I. And I wasn't the main character in my own movie! (I think I was mr potato head. It would explain a lot.

@RegDwigнt That's how tolerant Americans are. All those evil Russians in american movies. Nicaraguans. Cubans. Iranians... wait, does this mean we're opening up diplomatic relations with Granada now?

2:06 PM

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It's tough to be a monk.

2:24 PM

I know! No dessert.

2:58 PM

Once you reach nirvana all that self-abnegation crap seems so ... arbitrary.

> It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. – I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

@RegDwigнt Well, the Dalai Lama just said it's all right to have a female Dalai as long as she's hot. Because if she's not, "she would be useless."

news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-09/28/c_134668588.htm

Oh, his exact words were: "Otherwise not much use."

What I want to know is why women follow any of this crap.

@Robusto All that humility, all that saintliness, all that understanding? Just a way to get chicks. Hoes are all over that sensitivity shit.

But you always hear women complaining about stuff like "The Pope won't let us be priests." So don't be Catholic! Start your own religion. Or better yet, become an atheist.

Or like that woman just executed in Jordan who was a failed suicide bomber. What was her reward going to be? Not 72 virgins, certainly. There's nothing there for you, dear. Why are you supporting your oppressors?

Go on strike, if you can.

Are you suggesting a sex strike so they can get into the religion?

3:22 PM

DEATH OF A NOTEBOOK!

DEATH OF A NOTEBOOK

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

> Complete notebook destruction by angry and evil Legos! No CGI, only real fire and explosions!

@Mitch If it's too much trouble for them to simply reject the religion.

BTW, maybe it was not a good idea to have a flush-to-ELL path here. English Language Learners implies people actually want to learn. There should be a different path available to English Language Losers. It would look like a real SE site, but other than that, just tumbleweeds.

Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds (The Big Lebowski BSO) | La Gran Fiestoski

That is exactly what I had in mind.

Sometimes there's a man...

Sometimes there's a man . . . well, he's the man for his time and place.

jinx

3:28 PM

Haha.

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Search result for "Big Lebowski coke"

Hahaha.

Too good.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt This is why I lock my minifigs up in a big box.

John Turturro's "coke pinky" . . .

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

And their weapons in a different box.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But can't they open the box from the inside?

3:30 PM

Not without the weapons, no they can't.

He keeps saying to himself.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Robusto apparently not.

One day Mr. Shiny will simply not be around. We'll have to search the Canadian newspapers for tragic minifig homicides.

"He thought he was safe!" trumpets the headline.

3:50 PM

"The minifigs seemed nice enough, but usually kept to themselves. They always seemed so cheerful. They babysat my kids once."

Ah! Mini-figures. Right.

I wondered what small fruit had to do with anything.

@AndrewLeach Some of them may be gender bending, but I don't think it's quite fair to call them "small fruit."

Perhaps minifigs need minifigs for, um, intestinal dysfunction.

miniprunes

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@Mitch No miniprudes in chat.

You think minifigs are harmless, but did you know they tried to take over the world?

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That is a new kind of reductio ad Hitlerum, IMO.

@Reg can't see that, fortunately. Otherwise he could be put in prison.

4:09 PM

Rather worrying that Lego contains pieces that are just the right size to make a convincing Nazi flag.

Mahlzeit!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

4:45 PM

@AndrewLeach well, geometric shapes are what they excel at.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Also world domination.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well, they are the world's largest tire manufacturer, and the world's largest toy company, and minifigs nearly outnumber humans if they don't already.

2 hours later…

6:36 PM

hi

7:01 PM

lo

oh I never realized the Hakenkreuz was tilted like that

8:04 PM

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Is that a lot? Seems like a lot.

Ah... it looks like old answers to really old questions. Should that count? I'd like it to not.

8:22 PM

Anyone know the etymology of tit in the sense of you silly tit?

@terdon tit is the same as boob in both senses (dolts and mammary glands).

> An atheist is a person with no invisible means of support.

@Robusto I'd have thought that you tit came from the birds rather than the glands.

I posted a question, let's see if anyone knows.

I was making a joke. But there is truth in it.

@Robusto Actually, there are birds called boobies aren't there?

Ah, yes, the booby.

9:07 PM

bearded tits are the worse

9:43 PM

Nine hundred thirty-five bottles of beer on the wall. . . .

Exactamente nueve ciento trenta y cinco?

Yes. He counted.

Your nove flips me into the wrong language. :)

(nueve)

I kept reading novecento in Italian.

Estaba vacilando con eso

Se nota.

There's still a mountain of reviews. And to think we had it at double-digits briefly. Now it threatens four.

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935

10:09 PM

Sigh. I've got my hands full on U&L

What's your number?

What's annoying is that the time to the next review seems to much much much worse now.

@tchrist This is not a sudden influx. Looks like a new routine was used to figure out what is a late answer on a new question, or else an old one and somebody just ran it for the first time.

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A: Word meaning "close in time, or presently happening"

Ongoing : Continuing, permanent : Presently or currently happening; being in progress

That is one of the "late" answers to an old question. And it's from 2013.

@Robusto Jon Erickson bumped the rep from 10 to 50.

Why? So we'd have more shit to wade through?

What, twelve days later?

That seems not right.

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Q: Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?

I would like to raise the bar for late answers to enter the Late Answers Review Queue to 50 rep, which is the threshold after which users gain the ability to comment. Here are some answers that were posted by users with between 10 to 50 rep (yes, there's a little selection bias to be sure. I susp...

feature-request status-completed featured review late-answers

10:13 PM

That was six weeks after the question in 2013.

And us still here with barely 24 close votes to bless ourselves with.

@Robusto I took my Junes for Julies.

Six weeks is surprisingly unlate.

Maybe.

Just read the lede:

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A: Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?

Queue growth Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and accurately) cleared. A queue such as close votes on Stack Overflow that never seems to get to 0 fails to provide time-sensitive feedback that aids learning. So if we raise the bar for late answers which increases the nu...

Why not drop it to six hours? Then we'd have an even bigger queue.

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A: Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?

This is terrible. Our review queue on EL&U was just getting down to double digits from ~300+, and now it's skyrocketed to OVER 900. And many of these are from years ago, involving answers that were given a few weeks after the original answer. I'm sure you meant well, but this is having disastrou...

I wonder whether we were harder hit that other sites.

@tchrist U&L went to ~700, AU to ~4k so no, not particularly.

@terdon Good, that's what I was expecting to find.

10:24 PM

@terdon AU?

Meanwhile, ELL is at 0's across the board: ell.stackexchange.com/review

That's fishy.

@Robusto Ask Ubuntu

Oh.

Super User is at ~6k.

So was at like 600 when I looked.

10:26 PM

Woah! SO is empty!?

@tchrist: In "Lee y Kirby también recuperaron algunos personajes y conceptos clásicos de Timely Comics" does the adjective "clásicos" modify both nouns or just "conceptos"? Or is it ambiguous?

In speech you could tell.

Wow, I have just received an up-vote for a post from 2010.

In writing, it is probably just the second.

But that's using sense not grammar.

Well, my solution is to leave the ambiguity: "Lee and Kirby also revived some classic concepts and characters from Timely Comics"

Although that doesn't really feel as ambiguous in English.

10:30 PM

I don't think most people would read it the other way in Spanish, either.

Probably just my English sense of word order polluting my understanding of the Spanish then.

11:04 PM

What's happening with the ridiculous review queue? There's so many answers around, why is everyone jumping to change a policy when someone selects their own group of favourite bad answers?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

11:17 PM

These people can shred!

Vivaldi: Vier jaargetijden/Quattro Stagioni - Janine Jansen - Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I didn't know you liked Janine!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus It's my first time!

Yay!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yes!

I know the director of the ensemble.

11:22 PM

@tchrist: There's a guy named Phil with your last name who is vandalizing the Duolingo translation exercises. I hope this is no relation.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus yay!

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Vivaldi was a virtuoso violinist, who made his living teaching young women and coaching their ensembles. Those concerti were first played by the equivalent of middle-schoolers, if you can believe that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I can. We are studying the Baroque period.

He earned millions in his day and died mysteriously in poverty. :|

Studying where? Taking courses?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto always.

11:27 PM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I blame the girls.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh wow

I just heard something I wanted to play very badly as a child.

What was that? And why didn't you want to play it very well?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Vivaldi: Vier jaargetijden/Quattro Stagioni - Janine Jansen - Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival

That part. It was the sound logo for some 80s TV production company.

It was at the end of a show we always watched.

BBL.

I remember it being used by some TV show, but can't remember which one.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 This particular performance is heavy on the bravura, but is perhaps a bit too rock-star for my taste.

I have that piece by I Musici and these guys:

Vivaldi - Seasons - I Solisti di Zagreb - LIVE - full

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