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I wish it would not let me do that.

Because I never mean to.

This Internet thing is very technical. Get an expert to help.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.

But that one I meant.

You are not exempted from writing proper names properly simply because you are speaking English.

His name is Dalí.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (May 11, 1904January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed hi...

See?

Rhymes with Gaudí.

Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali. By George Orwell.

Hack

The tyranny of the typewriter is overthrown.

And your König shall come again.

9:03 PM

@tchrist it's funny you would teach me that, of all people.

I think @Vitaly might like this one

Tchrist is not that hard to bait after all.

The English can’t speak right and you know it.

@MattЭллен now... about the music... he has only one music?

@RegDwightАΑA maybe

9:13 PM

@RegDwightАΑA I had no idea Dali was cruelly insane like that.

Now seems like a good time to let the balance that hitherto existed tip in favour of disliking his work.

Why did I come back in here?

No one knows...

@tchrist bloody well right.

@cornbreadninja What time is it for you? It is only 4:16 for me.

Chat is what I do when I'm waiting for posts to flag...

user19161

Geezis. Debian 7 is switching to XFCE as the default DE! The world is ending!

9:20 PM

@Luke 4:22 Central Daylight

@Cerberus Not sure about that, actually. Perhaps the works can be regarded separately from their author; perhaps they must. It's just that I personally can only do that to an extent. I find some of his drawings weirdly fascinating, but I am always aware that it took an insane mind to produce them, even if it's just an otherwise completely innocent melting watch. Same with Cyriak's videos.

@cornbreadninja Whoops I thought you said "bloody good night".

@MattЭллен that one is very apropos. It requires lots of skill, and I can't even label it disturbing with a straight face. But I can't shake off the feeling that it's not a child of a sane mind.

user19161

@Luke I note that you are 15, so I shall be more reserved in my speech with you.

@JasperLoy that was for tchrist.

9:25 PM

@RegDwightАΑA I'm not so sure about an insane mind's being absolutely required for twisted art, but it is certainly abundantly represented. I, too, can in most cases separate artist and art. In fact I usually don't know much about the artist, nor do I care to. However, if someone is not just insane, but criminally and immorally so, the matter becomes more difficult. With Dalí, I was always on the verge of disliking his art, so this was the little nudge I needed.

user19161

@cornbreadninja Huh. I just meant exactly what I said, no more no less.

@JasperLoy k

user19161

@cornbreadninja If this is the incomprehensible room, JLO is the incomprehensible person.

J-Loy!

I needn't shout.

user19161

And someone suggested I change my username to Captain Obvious in the other room.

9:26 PM

This is good music!

OMG Dutch music.

@Cerberus The composer was American

Still.

@RegDwightАΑA It's difficult to tell for sure. It's not the sort of thing I think about. Well, until I watch it. MOO! has some... interesting scenes too.

9:28 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Entrie? Why are you doing this to me!

Ik ben verliefd!

I thought entrie was a cute misspelling. So tellingly Dutch.

user19161

Any XFCE users here?

@RegDwightАΑA Not sure it is even Dutch...it is an abomination.

Who likes this piece?

That girl is atrocious.

Her accent.

Her face.

And those lyrics, oh, dear.

The metre is terrible.

9:30 PM

@RegDwightАΑA You’re just feigning being a flutterbudget to try to distract from your floop. And you switched subject and object on your funniness.

user19161

Hey @caleb! What's up?

Have I posted eh what was her name again?

@JasperLoy The sky.

Hey.

@Cerberus It's ESC. Ease up. Her entrie is on par with Nino Rota's What is A Youth compared to most of the rest.

What is ESC?

The song festival?

9:32 PM

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest () is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. The contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything b...

Ah.

We don't call it a contest.

Yeah. Used to be Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson.

Why do people watch that shit anyway? It gets massive numbers of viewers.

I watch it every year. It's awesome.

@RegDwightАΑA And you know this because...

And you watch this because...

9:33 PM

@Cerberus Watch your language. I'm only 15.

@Cerberus Because it's awesome.

Is it the same reason why you watch Hollywood films?

And sports?

Hello <red>@Luke</red>.

???

Hello <fail></fail>!

9:34 PM

Lots of shit, but hey that's entertainment. Also, the shit mostly comes from the most prominent participants. It's the tiny gems in the rough that shine.

We’ve decided that all our minors should be rendered in red so that we know they will get all embarrassed if we say CENSORED.

I genuinely do not understand this at all. Not one bit.

Put it on MSO...

@Cerberus here. Have a good one.

Tell me this ain't phantastic.

user19161

@Luke I usually note all the minors in this room. There are a few.

9:35 PM

@RegDwightАΑA And you're English SE mod? "phantastic"?

@Luke gotcha.

Congrats on your new mods. In fact I came by specifically to hekkle @kitfox who seems to be out. Meanwhile, I spotted this ... you guys should talk to the folks over at Mathematics

> 2,698 voters were eligible, 604 visited the site during the election, 695 visited the election page, and 137 voted

How did you guys get more people to the election page (on site) than came to the site in the first place?

user19161

@Caleb They had two new mods as well as two went on break.

I have a fly in my face. Literally

@Luke @Reg is certainly being historically accurate to the point of impeccability. NB: A. 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh Rem. (1664) 126 ― According to the diversity of the eye, which offereth it unto the phantasie.

9:37 PM

If I flag a mod's post, will he be able to review it himself?

This chat has its shibboleths. Before you correct anyone in here, double check whether there's a loaded gun pointed at your foot.

@JasperLoy Ya, I just don't know simchona. Yet :)

@RegDwightАΑA Much better. But...

@Caleb English. It doesn't obey the rules of Maths. It gets sh8 done

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@Luke And here from only last millennium: 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. vii 258 note, ― Their union with the Deity was··through the phantasy.

9:39 PM

good night!

user19161

I am sorry but I still can't get over the shock that Debian is defaulting to XFCE...

user19161

@MattЭллен Night!

@Luke @Reg isn’t antediluvian like @Cerb. He is merely antebellumian.

@MattЭллен This is what I was going to say.

goes to dictionary.com

user19161

9:40 PM

@RegDwightАΑA Also, before correcting Reg's spelling, make sure you check two dictionaries of your choice.

Seven. No, make that eight.

@Luke 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 481 ― All those other phantastick Gods, were nothing but Several Personal Names.

@tchrist Jazz may be antebellic, but I am not bound by earthly periods.

I get the picture- you guys are archaic.

@Cerberus Only mensual ones.

user19161

9:41 PM

Archaic? I am beyond time!

@Luke I bet you're older than me.

@tchrist No? Why should I?

@JasperLoy What in the name of blazes!?!?

whistles at the moon

It's your bugs, not mine.

9:42 PM

@Luke 1846 Trench Mirac. i. (1862) 115 ― Phantastic and capricious miracles.

Not even the snakes on my neck will eat them.

No dictionary has antebellumian. What is it???

Mitch

@cornbreadninja Dude..All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked.... that is so...midwestern.

user19161

@Caleb Yes, you can do a google for that. This is what is tentatively planned for Wheezy.

sigh

9:42 PM

@tchrist I think he's been informed of the general direction of your drift.

@Luke It does not exist, and it would be malformed if it did. He means simply before the War.

If you had used a real dictionary, your fingers would have paused next to antebellum.

And you would have found the word.

Which one? WW1

But you used a bad electronic one.

And therefore the exact lookup failed, and you found nothing.

@Luke Antebellumian is a popular Armenian family name. You should be checking an Armenian dictionary.

9:43 PM

BTW, good electronic ones behave like paper ones here.

@Luke Yes. However it does create a permanent record that other mods could audit if a mod were ever to mis-behave. And it's pretty common (as in 100% on the sites I moderate) for moderators to let somebody else handle flags against their own posts.

Maybe I shouldn't be using ones in the plural, though.

user19161

I use the CALD. I know, very few words but I like it.

@tchrist use zeros.

Oh Lordy Lordy Lordy, the Blue Devils are upon us!

9:44 PM

???

Which ones?

Caleb and I.

user19161

@caleb Btw, after Wheezy comes Jessie.

Why are you so blue?

Because I feel 65.

9:45 PM

Why?

user19161

Age is just a number.

Whoosh.

@JasperLoy No, after wheezy comes whelk.

user19161

And in some beliefs, you go back to 0 age after death.

Oh, God, that.

9:45 PM

Harharhar.

I was 17 or so when that came out. We even listened to it.

I am listening to it right now.

Who's up for a slushee?

@JasperLoy Huh. Maybe I'm a little out of touch with the shifting sands of Linux DE's. I'm quite content without one at all.

@Luke Isn’t that one of those NC-17 things?

user19161

9:47 PM

@Luke What is a slushee? I really dunno.

Though I guess I'd rather listen to, um. Not Eiffel 65.

Slushees? You've never had a slushee??? looks dumbfounded

Slush (beverage)

A slush, sometimes known as a slushie or slushy, is a flavored frozen drink. Types There are a number of different kinds of slush drinks: * Frozen carbonated beverages, typified by the Slurpee or ICEE, are made by freezing a carbonated drink. These machines are complicated and expensive, and notably require a carbon dioxide supply. They make a very fine and 'dry' slush. * Frozen uncarbonated beverages are made by freezing a non-carbonated juice or other liquid. These machines do not require a pressure chamber, and so are much cheaper and easier to maintain. These machines usually ...

Oh, we always make them vodka and dry ice.

Slush is so 1970. It's bubble tea now.

The vodka doesn’t quite freeze, but the rest does, and it’s gets all slushy.

9:49 PM

Does Mobil on the Run give 50 cent slushees outside of St. Louis when the Cards score 6?