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@Robusto There is the problem about actually spending it. € 500 notes are not accepted in normal shops or by normal civilians. And companies and banks may investigate and/or call the police.

Matt Эллен

according to wiki, we only have up £50 notes

Cerberus

Wow!

Matt Эллен

> Higher-value notes are used within the banks – particularly the £1 million and £100 million notes used to maintain parity with Scottish and Northern Irish notes.

Cerberus

Huh? Why do banks need notes?

Matt Эллен

I do not know

Cerberus

9:10 PM

Hmm...

Matt Эллен

> Bank notes are no longer redeemable in gold and the Bank of England will only redeem sterling banknotes for more sterling banknotes or coins

this makes me sad

as a child I often day dreamed about getting my money turned into gold

Robusto

@MattЭллен You can still buy gold with money.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto yeah, but not a pound for a pound :D

Robusto

No. A pound of gold may weigh less than a pound of feathers, but it is still worth more than a pound sterling.

Matt Эллен

"Barstensvol smaak"

foreign words are funny

Cerberus

9:21 PM

@MattЭллен Hmm when was the last time a pound was really a pound?

I think that was very, very long ago.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I don't actually know.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Eww that's ugly advertising language.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus probably

but I was a child! so it's ok :D

Cerberus

Hehe.

I never even contemplated that as a child.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus it is! it's from a Pringle's tube

Cerberus

9:23 PM

I knew it!

user19161

Is the chat user rep supposed to show the total rep or the parent site rep?

Cerberus

Total.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I think some adult told me that you could redeem your money for gold at the BoE

Cerberus

Wow.

user19161

It shows the badges for the parent site but clicking change sometimes toggles the rep between the two options.

Matt Эллен

9:23 PM

It pleased me that currency meant something

Cerberus

The Dutch gold standard was revoked during WWI I think.

user19161

Perhaps it is a bug.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting yes, I noticed that the other day - I thought it odd, but not enough to trouble meta SO with

Cerberus

And it was long before that when a bank note was actually tied to an unchanging weight of a precious metal.

Probably when coins were still made of gold and silver.

user19161

@MattЭллен I noticed some other bugs too but never mind.

Matt Эллен

9:25 PM

@Cerberus yeah, well you know how adults love to lie to kids :)

@WillHunting what did you see?

user19161

@MattЭллен On meta posts with accepted answers are not in green on your user page.

user19161

And sometimes you see the same chat message appear twice like now.

user19161

Of course the repeated one disappears like now.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Of course the repeated one disappears like now.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting That happened to me yesterday! I thought it was a glitch in the matrix.

user19161

9:27 PM

Am I in Twilight Zone?

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting mine are

user19161

Maybe I am in Twilight Zone all these years, and I have yet to escape...

Robusto

The Twilight Zone claims another casualty.

Matt Эллен

causality

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Caucus-alley tea.

user19161

9:34 PM

So I just clicked change parent user on the chat user page. It shows site rep, total rep pseudo-alternately but not strictly alternately.

user19161

This is fascinating!

Robusto

Pseudo-alternately but not strictly alternately?

user19161

What kind of code can produce this pattern?

Matt Эллен

it's probably just based on how it comes out of the database - abitrarily

user19161

@Robusto Yeah, like 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, etc.

Matt Эллен

9:36 PM

I get told to select a site, I'm not shown the users to select from

aedia λ

@MattЭллен giggles your non-rhoticity reveals itself

Robusto

Life is hard.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ hehehe. I would never have spotted that if it weren't for the spell checker :D

user19161

@MattЭллен I spotted it but I am too busy thinking about this mystery.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto why though? Tell me? What is so great about life being hard?! Stupid life.

Robusto

9:38 PM

@MattЭллен I never said it was great. I just said that it is.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Like Santaclaus?

Matt Эллен

The universe seems to think it very important, that's all

user19161

Life is difficult. --- David M Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Travelled

user19161

Life is dukkha. --- The Buddha

user19161

Life is hard. --- Robusto

Matt Эллен

9:40 PM

@Cerberus yeah :D and just silly stuff. My friend's nephew is just now (he's just started school) catching on to the lies his uncle tells him

silly things about dinosaurs and how things work and stuff

forgets

that's going to make the transcript that little bit more incomprehensible :D

user19161

@MattЭллен It is the page with your own chat profile.

user19161

You can navigate there by clicking on the left avatar and choosing user profile.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting yeah, I went there, but I'm just given a text box to select - no list of choices

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Who would lie about dinosaurs!

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Santa Claus

Cerberus

9:45 PM

That's evil.

Matt Эллен

he will tell children anything, such an attention whore

user19161

@MattЭллен click change, and then type in say eng.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting oh, right, you were actually changing things

user19161

It will show a list of sites containing eng.

Matt Эллен

I thought they gave you a list and you were seeing the scores there

user19161

9:46 PM

By the way I tried to choose the SE site itself which showed up but that could not be selected.

Matt Эллен

"Oh hey kids! Anything you want for Christmas? Just write me a note and I'll it get for you!"

"Also, dinosaurs could drive cars"

user19161

@MattЭллен You omitted "it".

user19161

@MattЭллен Now that is ungrammatical.

Matt Эллен

:D

well, it's close enough

aedia λ

I bet those dinosaurs need someone to go back in time and sell them car insurance

Robusto

9:50 PM

1 hour ago, by Robusto

Matt Эллен

:D

aedia λ

I really want to tell people their questions are stupid, but I can't. Waah.

looks for something to eat to be less grumpy

Awwh thanks.

:)

10:15 PM

despite being in 240p resolution, this is still funny:

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aedia λ

10:29 PM

I think I've played too much Portal. I came across this warning symbol library and I just started laughing to myself...

I feel so bad for imaginary little shape dude but I can't stop laughing at the same time

Cerberus

Haha, both great.

I imagine that perhaps closing the alligator's jaws with your hands might work?

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ what does it mean?

do you have flying books?

Cerberus

Or you could ehm tightly hug his snout to keep it closed?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I guess that's how alligator wrestlers do it

Cerberus

Alligator wrestler??

Matt Эллен

10:36 PM

@Cerberus with a little kiss on his scaly snout

Cerberus

People actually do that?

Yes, that too.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus you've never heard of alligator wrestling?

Cerberus

Noo...

Madness!

Matt Эллен

oh

yes

but people are insane

Cerberus

True.

Matt Эллен

10:37 PM

he clearly doesn't know the trick

aedia λ

@MattЭллен It's titled "crush of whole body force applied from side" but I don't have one of those I need to warn people about, I hope

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ I am trying to parse that. does that need a comma between body and force?

is it one of them garden path sentences?

aedia λ

Um I'm not sure

Crush of whole body. Force applied from side.

Matt Эллен

whole body force is an odd thought - it would depend on the mass and acceleration of the body

aedia λ

Something like that

Matt Эллен

10:40 PM

ah, good :)

aedia λ

I don't think the warning is trying to be precise, it's in with the other things like not getting hit in the head by a bucketloader thing and not getting your fingers cut off in a wheely thing

Matt Эллен

:D I see

aedia λ

@MattЭллен It did make me think about that too, after I stopped mentally making them all Portal warnings

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ chuckles yeah, there are some good ones!

I really should play portal 2

@aediaλ are these things you're looking at for when you're exercising responsibility at the Odyssey of the Mind?

heeeyyyyy that's not alligator wrestling

aedia λ

@MattЭллен I was going to print some arrows for spare signs and then I got distracted.

Matt Эллен

10:48 PM

easily done

I don't think we have any of these where I work, and some of them could easily happen

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Crazy!

Matt Эллен

I would have him sectioned

Cerberus

The guy or the alligator?

Matt Эллен

the guy. the alligator is clearly sane

if somewhat aggravated

Cerberus

Heh.

Good point.

aedia λ

11:02 PM

It's just trying to do its alligatory things

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I've realised "sectioned" might be a Britishism - do you get the meaning?

Cerberus

Sliced to pieces?

Matt Эллен

ah, no - it means "placed into an institution for the mentally unwell"

aedia λ

Forced to write new legislation?

Ah.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ohh I see.

aedia λ

11:03 PM

Close, then.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ :D yeah

aedia λ

How did I get a coffee splash on the inside of my glasses that I've only just noticed?!?

Matt Эллен

(0_*)

Cerberus

Haha!

This guy is annoying, but somewhat funny:

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Mahnax

Hello friends.

Matt Эллен

11:11 PM

@Cerberus heh :D, at least the cops were cool about it.

@Mahnax hello!

Mahnax

@Cerberus Oh, that's a gooder.

Matt Эллен

someone said this about nicholas cage

his name is "ReasonablyRealistic" and 40 people agree with him

I just don't understand people at all

Mahnax

Nick Cage is not that great.

Matt Эллен

I hope he was being sarcastic

@Mahnax indeed. he is ok, but very samey

Robusto

In a post-ironic world, how can we tell if anyone ever means what they say?

Mahnax

11:20 PM

Matt Эллен

@Robusto do you mean that?

Mahnax

New Apple store in the Netherlands.

Robusto

@MattЭллен You'll have to sort that out for yourself.

Matt Эллен

@Mahnax people inside are moving so fast you can't get a photo of them

Mahnax

@MattЭллен What do you mean by that?

Robusto

11:21 PM

Them are geniuses. All certified.

Matt Эллен

@Mahnax oh, just that it's empty and I'm being snide about it

Mahnax

Certainly certified.

@MattЭллен Note the darkness; it is most likely closed.

Matt Эллен

I'm jealous really - I wish I could make things look so nice

Mahnax

Jealous of Apple?

Matt Эллен

Jealous of their good looks

Mahnax

11:23 PM

Fair enough.

Matt Эллен

and their ability to sell things for 2x the market rate

Mahnax

Heh.

I really do enjoy their products. The UIs are so beautiful.

Blah, I have work today.

And tomorrow.

And the day after that.

Matt Эллен

:(

Mahnax

I work for weekend Nazis.

Matt Эллен

they only fight for hitler on the weekends

the rest of the time, they're ok guys!

Mahnax

11:28 PM

Haha.

Well, I best get myself gone then.

Farewell.

Matt Эллен

I hope your work is at least a little entertaining! cya @Mahnax :)

aedia λ

11:59 PM

@MattЭллен Haha, just saw that.

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