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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
2:48 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer: Word for people who assume the emotions of the people they're with by winnie on english.SE
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:23 AM
 
 
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RAJMOHAN
RAJMOHAN
9:10 AM
Guys please check whether there is any grammer mystake
"I have also a sunday that all you have.But my sunday is not for taking rest.It is another layer of hardworking time.
Coaching for public exam have been happening on last few month. "
@MAR
@Tonepoet
 
 
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
12:41 PM
What do we do to answers to SWRs that aren't SWs?
 
sumelic
sumelic
@M.A.R. I don't think anything necessarily has to be done. If the answer is not useful, people will downvote it. See Should I downvote multi word answers on single-word-requests?
@RAJMOHAN Yes, there are some mistakes there. It is a bit difficult for me to understand the meaning of some parts. "I have also a sunday that all you have." Is this supposed to mean "I have a schedule for Sundays like you do"? "But my sunday is not for taking rest" seems fine. The grammar of "It is another layer of hardworking time" is correct, but the choice of the word "layer" is odd. I would say something like "It is another time for hard work."
@RAJMOHAN "Coaching for public exam have been happening on last few month" should be something like "Coaching for public exams has been happening in the last few months." To make a complete noun phrase "public exam" needs to be plural or to have an article. Since the subject of the sentence is "coaching," the verb "has" should be singular.
And in "last few months" the word "months" needs to have the plural suffix "-s" and the whole phrase needs the definite article. In general we say "the last few [plural noun]"
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
1:43 PM
Ukrainian BBQ.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
1:54 PM
@RegDwigнt Hello.
What am I seeing, exactly?
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus How can we know what you're seeing?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus an impromptu BBQ in the streets. Over a waste bin.
And speaking of impromptus,
Dear God, please just kill everyone. Just everyone. Please.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus You're in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water.
Up ahead you see a whirlpool forming
 
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwigнt Wait. We can do better than that.
 
Mitch
Mitch
and your boat starts to turn around it
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:06 PM
Also, a rhapsody can be an improptu performance. QED
 
Mitch
Mitch
Your boat starts to go quicker and quicker around the center of the whirlpool
 
Robusto
Robusto
Wait, we still haven't heard what problems the doggy is having.
 
Mitch
Mitch
YOu pull back from the force of the spin
but you're able to look in to the center of the maelstrom
and from what you see you want to never see anything else again
that's what you're seeing
 
Robusto
Robusto
The question is, would you be able to fart yourself out of the maelstrom?
 
Mitch
Mitch
It's something you can never leave
@Robusto That's just impossible. Basic physics
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:10 PM
I fear @Cerberus has been sucked in already.
@Mitch Farting is about as basic as physics gets.
 
Mitch
Mitch
You can however nullify the rotational force. but you have to reach infinite angular velocity.
Again, basic physics
 
Robusto
Robusto
I think black holes are overrated.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto Biological constraints are a logical implicature of physical ones, but there are so many layers of lossy reductions that you might as well ignore the axioms and start from scratch every time.
 
Robusto
Robusto
I always start from scratch when farting.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto There are many possible opinions about black holes. You've chosen one of them
@Robusto I always scratch when I'm farting
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:13 PM
Welcome to the bubbleverse.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Farting dinosaurs were the cause of the asteroid that killed them. Lesson learned.
 
Robusto
Robusto
There's another bubble verse.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto That's a bit sassy for this time of the morning.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Where is the doggy now that we have some doggerel for him?
 
Mitch
Mitch
Dogs are smarter than cats.
Worse breath
depends on the size of the dog
hm... I've never gotten close enough to a big cat to judge
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:16 PM
Why are dogs smarter? Because they do what people want them to do? Pfft.
 
Mitch
Mitch
pfft
cats just sit there
what good is that?
Cats are idiots
 
Robusto
Robusto
They don't just sit there. They also break things.
 
Mitch
Mitch
like people
Oh I'll give them that.
like breaking wind
cat farts are the worst
just bringing it back on topic
 
Robusto
Robusto
Cat with lampshade on his head. Proof of intelligence, and he ain't even drunk.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Breaking the wind
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:19 PM
Beware of people wearing windbreakers.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto That's no lampshade!
And that's no cat!
 
Robusto
Robusto
It is too, and it is too.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto haha. I will point that out to the next person i see wearing such
 
Robusto
Robusto
You're welcome.
 
Mitch
Mitch
takes off wind breaker
Cats. Pfft.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:24 PM
 
Mitch
Mitch
haha. that's one of the hardest pieces to play
 
Robusto
Robusto
Indeed.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Like 4' 33"
for prepared piano
in three movements
the second is the hardest
 
Robusto
Robusto
Feb 21 '11 at 14:12, by Robusto
When he heard about this piece, Igor Stravinsky said he hoped Mr. Cage would marshall his energies and produce a work of "major length" in the same style.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto If Were drinking tea right now I would snort it out of my nose.
Not by choice of course
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:27 PM
2 mins ago, by Robusto
Indeed.
 
Mitch
Mitch
There's a time and place for everything
@Robusto I'm no music lover, but some of those prepared piano pieces aren't entirely unlistenable.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Some. Just proves you don't need traditional instruments to produce music, which hardly needed proving.
 
Mitch
Mitch
There was some 1960's composer who took Bach cello sonatas and put random rests in for notes. That was dumb
doing the actual work was unneeded.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Meta takes over everything, eventually.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Meta. Pfft
As pfft as cats
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:30 PM
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer. He released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played a variety of musical styles spanning a period of more than four decades, but is best known for his work in jazz fusion. Holdsworth was known for his advanced knowledge of music, through which he incorporated a vast array of complex chord progressions and intricate solos; the latter comprising myriad scale forms often derived from those such as the diminished, augmented, whole tone, chromatic and altered scales, among others, resulting in an unpredictable...
R.I.P.
And on that sad note, I must ready for my ride. Laterz.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Robusto You can do anything!
Even outside zombo.com.
@RegDwigнt Oh it is a wastebin, yeah, that's nice.
Inventive.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Robusto I once looked at a book of jazz chords. most of them seemed to be best described as 'a bunch of notes'.
@Robusto perfect timing. excpet for @Cerberus. gotta go too.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in answer: Do I keep myself "up-to-date" or "up to date" on something? by user231929 on english.SE
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch Adios!
P.S. I vote for a deus ex machina in the story.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus can you keep up the convo while we're gone? Just continue from where we left off.\
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:36 PM
OK.
keeps up convo
Done.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus Yeah. exactly. go with that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
goes
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
2:47 PM
Can someone explain to me why I woke up with the music from RENT in my head? Cuz I'm not really sure why that would happen.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
3:06 PM
@Mitch only for a woman.
A man can sight-play that piece first try, blindfolded.
 
 
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Færd
Færd
5:02 PM
3 hours ago, by Robusto
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> To watch the lovely colors change,
As fast the bubbles grow.
Shouldn't that be as fast as?
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Færd "Fast" modifies "grow". "Fast the bubbles grow" is a poetic reordering of "The bubbles grow fast".
So you could read that as "watch the lovely colors change, while the bubbles grow fast".
 
Tonepoet
Tonepoet
5:32 PM
@M.A.R. The Single Word Request tag indicates that a single word answer is applicable. Sometimes it's combined with phrase-requests or similar if people don't care whether their answer is not really a single word, as with the word request tag on E.L.U., and many of the questions which lack that tag should probably have it, esp. based upon accepted answers. However, some questions are legitimately single word requests, which makes it a little difficult to ascertain a universal rule.
 
Færd
Færd
6:00 PM
@MetaEd Well explained.
 
Mitch
Mitch
6:41 PM
@RegDwigнt and then spend more time mansplaining how only men can do it so well.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Mitch "son, it's complicated"?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Færd But yeah, your intuition is right, in normal speech 'as fast as the bubbles grow' would be the way to say the colors change as fast as the bubbles grow. But in weirdo peotry world the poet is saying what @MetaEd said.
and that is why poetry is so annoying.
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
And that's why I'm so annoying too, because I live in weirdo poetry world.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Weirdo
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
You can call me Edweird.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
6:46 PM
Weirdo
 
Mitch
Mitch
"What are you? Are you some kind of weirdo?"
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Mitch I'm gonna post a [feature-request] to change that to "Are you some kinda Metaed"?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. I read that as 'Meat Head'
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, he looks more like a tree trunk now
So vegetable head
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I could but we'd all get real uncomfortable explaining how I know that.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
6:53 PM
Man, being able to downvote increased site UX for me by 1000 %.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. I find the sound of the song much more compelling than the visuals.
@M.A.R. Just having the opportunity is liberating.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Mitch Yeah, feels like peeing
 
Mitch
Mitch
but also doing it has a good kind if naughty feeling to it.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
4 days and 37 downvotes
 
Mitch
Mitch
@M.A.R. haha...right, like off a cliff
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
6:54 PM
@Mitch Especially anonymous downvotes
 
Mitch
Mitch
or into a urinal that somebody dumped ice into
@M.A.R. you mean 'downvotes'?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
What?
Oh
No, I meant downvotes without comment
 
Mitch
Mitch
non-anonymous downvotes are special and laborious. if we were required to explain every downvote I'd just not bother voting at all.
except on maybe comments
where there is no downvote at all
there are a lot of comments that need downvoting
@M.A.R. haha. well not really. downvotes need no explanation (the sw doesn't force you to do it) and I think that is a good thing.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
It's confusing because both anonymous downvotes and anonymous downvotes are called "anonymous downvotes".
o.o
@Mitch Yep. I've studied about the philosophy a lot
Every week, meta.SE gets a self-righteous "let's require comments with downvotes" post
 
Mitch
Mitch
'anonymous downvote' is a pleonasm. the 'marked' (uncommon) meaning should be specified, that is 'downvotes that come with an accompanying explanation' or 'non-anonymous downvote'
@M.A.R. on regular SE?
I understand that a downvote is emotionally draining and therefore the desire to get an explanation unlike an upvote, where you just don't care at all why they liked it. An unexplained upvote is like finding a bag of cash lying on the ground in front of a bank. Don't you think someone should know why it is there?
or is it laying?
like a chicken
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
7:07 PM
Laying.
Like a golden goose
 
Mitch
Mitch
7:22 PM
@M.A.R. a chicken bone is a sliver but a goose egg is golden
 
 
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Tonepoet
Tonepoet
8:37 PM
@sumelic That's an interesting quotation from the O.E.D.
I might have to rework the introduction of my answer.
 
 
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MetaEd
MetaEd
10:13 PM
@Mitch Lying. As in a wad of cash dissembling in front of a bank.
 
 
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Tonepoet
Tonepoet
11:24 PM
This analogy does not quite work. Votes just don't come out of nowhere. They are applied to a post, which presumably put in enough effort and already legitimized itself to the extent where no further explanation is necessary. We have an expectation that our answers are good, and thus worthy of agreement. Although this is not quite a perfect analogy either, it is closer to getting a paycheck than randomly finding a wad of cash in this regard than it is randomly finding cash.

On the other hand, continuing on with this analogy with nays, well those are more like getting a docked paycheck. You…
@M.A.R. I've seen several members refer to votes without comments as "drive-by downvotes" to metaphorically liken them with drive by shootings. I do not know just how acceptable that nomenclature is anymore though.
 

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