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every time a question from skeptics.se shows up as an ad on a different site, i feel myself getting stupider

Ah nuts. I rep-capped at 8:30 in the morning. Now what do I do all day?

Last time I checked, I was from Russia, but I am not really sure now. It could be Iran, or Germany, or the USA. I dunno.

@Fx It got closed before any mod had a chance to even look at it.

A shot in the dark while someone next to you is actually holding the flashlight.

Yeah, but the answer is yet another case of "I have no idea what the question is really about, but let me nonetheless ignore the hints and links posted in the comments")))

@Vitaly Just like the butterfly is proud of a storm :P

Also, did you know what happened to Jesus after his resurrection? No, he didn't go to Heaven. According to Buddhism, he went to India to study... Buddhism.

@AlainPannetier The thing is, worshipping golden statues is worshipping golden statues, and paying priests for superstitious merchandise is paying priests for superstitious merchandise.

@RegDwight Well... don't forget the people near where I live.

our verbs are so verby they verb themselves

Wow. "That's the naked true".

All Russian words are just typos for English words.

They seem to come in spurts; it feels like someone is handing out this question as a homework assignment and all of them show up here asking the question.

@zizi Jump out from behind a tree and shout "Waaaaah", and wiggle your arms around, wildly.

@Kosmonaut — I still want to see Arnold stretch his role selection. I'm thinking he's ready for Hamlet. "To be oah not to be! Dat is da kvestion!"

If you want to retreat from your jinx, Mr. D, so be it, but only after handing over Robusto's coke.

Gawd, what I wouldn't give to live in a country where the vast majority of people don't believe in mythology.

I've wished that Google Earth would do a historical version, which you could run in time lapse.

No, I mean, it is good that bad answers are deleted; just that the site itself, basically its voting system, would already mitigate the problem of bad answers to some extent, because they will quickly move to the bottom of the page after downvoting.

Borky borky?

In fact, every language but English sounds, well, foreign. I'm surprised foreigners don't realize that.

"He was so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel."

Shit, I wish I could make money with anagrams. It's the only godlike power I possess.

Kosmonaut anagrams to "man tookus" — ROFLMAO!!!

Those Hungarians with their absolute power.

@RegDwight I shocked to hear that!

In Italy, when we are bored we steal money.

@RegDwight — At least we got rid of the color-coding Terrorist Threat Level here in the U.S. You can get up in the morning and not have to wonder "Will a yellow T-shirt go with the Terrorist Threat Level today?"

We're just fooling around most of the time.

yapfiles.ru/files/202591/mitoza.swf

Delete the whole series of comments there...or I'll get flagged for a suspension

Next time I quote something from the Bible in one of my answers, I will also include the corresponding panel from The Brick Testament.

The world is a bleak and barren place without it.

They got rid of the quote symbol? Surely the answer was to have a different type of display for examples...

Right! It is a mess too in Dutch, though we lack the vomiting.

I'm going to write a Stephen Hawking cookbook. I'll call it A Brief History of Thyme.

Hey I just realized that I could change the description of this room to read "General discussion for english.stackexchange.com. IN RUSSIAN."

You guys have just become so scared of women that you don't see their funniness, because you equate Woman with Boss, owing to your marriages...

@AlainPannetier — Is that an elven dating site? Mithridates?

John McWhorter: "English really is easy(-ish) at first and hard later, while other languages like Russian are hard at first and then just as hard later! Show me one person who has said that learning Russian was no problem after they mastered the basics—after the basics you just keep wondering how anybody could speak the language without blacking out."

@Cerberus — I think Linguistics.SE would be some kind of Armageddon. Once the seventh seal is broken and the Chomskyites are released, who knows what could happen?