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Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by English (or other languages) in the raw. That doesn't mean we want to talk about YouTube comments or hemorrhoids or other such topics.
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jlliagre
Nov 12, 2024 01:12
Unix guys are often climates.
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tchrist
Jan 2 02:25
Word of the Years to Come: Trumpomuskovia.
Vikas
Jan 1 14:23
HAPPY 2025
CowperKettle
Dec 31, 2024 18:02
@alphabet Compatibilism is something too complicated for my mind..
M.A.R.
Dec 31, 2024 16:09
Last last word of 2024: collateralization (in medicine, it means when the blood flow of some vessels increase due to occlusion in other neighboring vessels)
tchrist
Nov 7, 2024 01:58
I've just come to accept that this is how the world is, and that I will never understand many, many things. That's ok.
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Robusto
Dec 30, 2024 22:45
OK, I'm getting really tired of Gmail search. Why can't we use GREP to find what we're looking for? Surely the geniuses at Google can figure out how to implement that in a mailbox search.
Robusto
Dec 1, 2024 01:08
Happy birthday, Mark Twain. You are 189 years young today.
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Mitch
Sep 4, 2024 18:48
@Robusto Thank you for using that word plethora. It means a lot to me.
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Robusto
Nov 30, 2024 04:22
No two people probably assign exactly the same degree of seriousness to any expression.
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Mitch
Nov 29, 2024 16:07
@CowperKettle it makes me anxious trying to remember all the possible ways to reduce anxiety.
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tchrist
Dec 29, 2024 21:20
JIMMY CARTER DEAD AT 100
tchrist
Dec 29, 2024 16:14
Okay, what's with the biscuit obsession on ELU? :) We now have 263 posts mentioning biscuits! Of those 263 total posts, 65 are questions and 198 are answers — and 18 of those 65 questions are deleted, as are 25 of those 198 answers.
Robusto
Oct 10, 2024 20:02
'Swarm of raccoons': Poulsbo woman startled after over 100 raccoons surround her home
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Robusto
Oct 31, 2024 13:18
@tchrist I've always thought Portuguese sounds like a drunken Spaniard trying to speak French, or vice versa.
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Dannyu NDos
Dec 27, 2024 20:12
If there comes 3rd impeach request, South Korea is going into anarchy.
MetaEd
Nov 25, 2024 17:31
I'm still looking for the word/phrase used for people who elect themselves as topic police in a public forum. Anybody?
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Robusto
Nov 24, 2024 22:31
In other words, we are complicit. That is why I am forcing a vote.
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CowperKettle
Oct 1, 2024 01:10
That's just a Special Military Operation
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Robusto
Oct 24, 2024 14:41
If you created a computer-controlled conveyance for pushing babies around, would it run on buggy software?
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Cerberus
Dec 24, 2024 03:08
Single and double marks are often used somewhat indiscriminately, though within the same text one expects consistency.
Robusto
Dec 23, 2024 19:52
> Back in July, Azealia Banks dropped the single 'Fuck Him All Night', a raunchy and weird track that perfectly captured 2021's failed summer of love in all its horny, messy glory. Now, Banks is back with her very own "Fuck Him All Night" perfume
MetaEd
Dec 23, 2024 19:39
@Robusto Challenge accepted, ok. Like this? Obey love -- fuck him all night. (Sorry!)
alphabet
Dec 23, 2024 19:12
Question: if you verb UberEats, what's the correct preterite form? "I UberEatsed us some pizza" sounds terrible.
CowperKettle
Dec 23, 2024 03:38
> In 1959, 9 yo Ronald McNair was told he couldn't check out his books from Lake City's segregated library. He went on to become Karate champion, earned an MIT PhD in physics, and became a NASA astronaut.
CowperKettle
Dec 23, 2024 03:38
Word of the morn: osteopetrosis
Robusto
Dec 22, 2024 14:57
> Liu: Purple is the wordplay category. The four words in that group are not defined by their literal meanings. It’s words that end with ___ or homophones or something. Blue is trivia that is maybe a bit more specialized, not just definitions. Maybe it’s all movies or certain bands.
Sometimes that’s the hardest one. Yellow and green are other category types: They might be four things you bring to the beach, or sometimes they’re all synonyms for the same word. I would say that yellow is the most straightforward.
jlliagre
Nov 17, 2024 23:01
@tchrist Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.
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Robusto
Aug 29, 2024 19:14
@user20458579510081670432 Stop starring Mitch's silliness.
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MetaEd
Dec 20, 2024 18:52
“No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
tchrist
Nov 14, 2024 19:48
STOP GIVING HIM IDEAS!
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CowperKettle
Sep 18, 2024 01:14
@tchrist Hesbollah got pagers
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alphabet
Nov 14, 2024 02:40
Seriously somebody needs to talk to these three people--Greybeard, KillingTime, Chenmunka--and tell them to stop closing obviously on-topic questions.
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M.A.R.
Sep 15, 2024 09:34
We should, in the meanwhile, probably just stop worrying and love the bomb
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tchrist
Nov 12, 2024 00:42
People who share brothers are bromates.
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Cerberus
Sep 13, 2024 03:53
By house I mean any place where someone lives permanently and which is meant for that purpose, not being an hotel.
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Cerberus
Dec 17, 2024 23:45
> The riddle, related to this room: I am trying to log into my work e-mail, for which I need to use a one-time passcode from an application on my phone. But now it doesn't work, the page says my credentials are incorrect. What happened? What is the conexion?
MetaEd
Dec 17, 2024 21:40
From now on I'm referring to aqua ammonia as spirit of hartshorn.
Robusto
Dec 17, 2024 21:06
Word of the Gold Rush: fossick 1. To search for gold, especially by reworking washings or waste piles. 2. To rummage or search around, especially for a possible profit.
Ryder is not Rude.
Sep 11, 2024 12:51
You could try and say "please"?
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tchrist
Nov 9, 2024 17:47
You just can't get an accurate poll if you ask people whether they pick their nose in public.
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jlliagre
Aug 15, 2024 23:38
@Lambie In chat, unless you're a mod, typos, blunders, and blasphemes are final.
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tchrist
Oct 7, 2024 21:55
Overheard in dev work slack: You can't never not make it begin without a nondigit.
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Robusto
Nov 8, 2024 12:55
@M.A.R. If he can fuck something up, he'll fuck it up.
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tchrist
Dec 16, 2024 12:29
> I am a slow reader, and that’s a serious liability for someone who loves books and is running out of years. I attribute my plodding ways to having spent four years studying Latin, an inflected language that requires reading one word at a time, “not eyeful by eyeful,” as my Latin professor was fond of saying.
Robusto
Nov 8, 2024 00:24
@DannyuNDos What, you trusted him before then?
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Robusto
Dec 16, 2024 00:32
> Arizonans complain about how hot it is while ignoring the fact that they literally live in a fucking oven.
M.A.R.
Sep 7, 2024 09:58
This is 18-karat horseshit.
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tchrist
Dec 15, 2024 19:15
What are the rules for being Asian-American?
Robusto
Nov 7, 2024 02:07
@tchrist I'm damn tired of this shit, but I'm certainly not worn out. I will keep fighting the evil. It's all I know.
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