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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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M.A.R.

Nov 6, 2024 23:22

I don't really wanna go digging it up. Just food for thought. I don't wanna read a whole bunch of -phobic comments after Cheeto The Great is back in power, it's a bad start

Robusto

Sep 4, 2024 18:59

@Mitch Starred so nobody else will feel obligated to star your silliness today.

Dannyu NDos

Dec 14, 2024 08:23

The impeach request of Yoon is approved.

Robusto

Nov 4, 2024 21:52

Why I'm not worried about the election.

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CowperKettle

Dec 14, 2024 01:58

Word of the morn: to knock smb into the middle of next week

Conrado

Sep 27, 2024 20:04

General Relativity in words of four letters or less

M.A.R.

Oct 31, 2024 21:04

@Cerberus I think he should just send the mod message. Threatening to send a mod message lessens its impact.

Cerberus

Oct 31, 2024 18:13

Send them moderator messages, warning them to close far fewer questions?

Cerberus

Aug 24, 2024 20:54

Language is the most important element of culture.

Robusto

Dec 8, 2024 01:02

Henry was not kind to Lollards.

HippoSawrUs

Dec 7, 2024 21:50

It seemed like a good idea at the time

HippoSawrUs

Dec 7, 2024 21:43

It's almost like heroin but better

tchrist

Dec 7, 2024 20:53

I wish people would edit to make the question more answerable instead of just close voting everything as a sort of knee jerk reaction to seeing a low quality question appear.

tchrist

Oct 25, 2024 12:54

Word of the Day: aëtheogamous

tchrist

Dec 7, 2024 01:15

@think_meaning_buildß Hats are no more.

Cerberus

Dec 7, 2024 00:56

They all suffer from conjunctionitis?

M.A.R.

Oct 22, 2024 23:57

@think_meaning_builds whoa dude. What do you think this is, a soup kitchen? SO, like any other company, will not lift a finger unless there's a combination of PR gains and expectations from a large enough number of users.

M.A.R.

Sep 14, 2024 20:55

I will petition for halal Tightrope without any alcoholic beverages or bacon of any kind

MetaEd

Oct 21, 2024 20:54

@Mitch you could fairly describe the Star Trek transporter as a monoclonal antibody

Robusto

Oct 21, 2024 14:12

@think_meaning_builds He's not good at math. Leave him alone.

HippoSawrUs

Dec 5, 2024 01:45

So they still say "bonkers" (Boris Johnson) in the UK. Hmm. I watched a whole series for that takeaway.

M.A.R.

Dec 4, 2024 23:25

@Cerberus God was really hands-on with the problems of the proletariat back then

tchrist

Dec 4, 2024 01:01

Hastur rules.

GratefulDisciple

Dec 3, 2024 22:39

@Mitch But since in English.SE the threshold is only 3 than the usual 5, if there are 3 frequent closers then in practice they're "monopolizing" since they don't give other voices a chance? Maybe the solution is to increase the threshold to 5?

jlliagre

Dec 3, 2024 18:07

@CowperKettle Stalin is underrated.

Cerberus

Aug 7, 2024 00:57

Thanks for the link, but I'm not really looking to spend 16 minutes watching a video, sorry.

Mitch

Dec 2, 2024 15:02

Sunny and mild is overrated.

tchrist

Oct 16, 2024 16:53

@Mitch 𝑰 𝘿𝙊𝙉❜𝙏 𝘿𝙊 𝘼𝘾𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙔𝙈𝙎

Mitch

Dec 1, 2024 21:03

@HippoSawrUs service amphetamines? Man we had mom made homemade. We used to ride our bikes from drug store to drugstore picking up AAA batteries and Sudafed.

Robusto

Nov 30, 2024 20:09

A: Limiting Reviews by User

I agree with this. Currently all the current limit does is offer people the chance to earn housekeeping badges by voting to close questions upon only the most cursory of inspections. This practice is inimical to the notion that SE sites should be welcoming and helpful. It says to newcomers that w...

Robusto

Sep 4, 2024 19:34

Dec 31, 2012 at 21:07, by Robusto

Supposedly Twain tweaked one of his British friends by feigning no knowledge of the place known as Niagara Falls. After several attempts by the Brit to explain to him what location he meant, Twain exclaimed, "Oh, you mean Niffles!"

Cerberus

Oct 13, 2024 22:41

> Widespread availability of cheap fast food perpetuates our national obesity epidemic, a problem that worsens every year and contributes to the skyrocketing costs of healthcare.

CowperKettle

Nov 29, 2024 03:38

Conrado

Nov 28, 2024 13:22

Word of the day: [to be a] pistol: US, informal : a person who has a lot of energy and spirit — usually singular.

M.A.R.

Nov 28, 2024 06:15

JD Vance sounds like the newest offroad Jeep model.

M.A.R.

Oct 9, 2024 18:39

They love repeating that Goethe admired Hafez, as sort of a redeeming point for westerners in general

MetaEd

Jul 22, 2024 13:06

"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." ---Lily Tomlin

Robusto

Oct 7, 2024 15:30

@GratefulDisciple If you're looking for consistency, language (especially English) is the last place you want to look.

Cerberus

Oct 5, 2024 22:55

@tchrist Just yesterday, I had a date with an Englishman, who mentioned corn fields, then corrected himself to say wheat.

Mitch

Oct 4, 2024 15:51

> A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot.

It found:

- No change in productivity
- No change in burnout levels
- A 41% increase in the bug rate!??

CowperKettle

Nov 24, 2024 00:06

Dannyu NDos

Oct 3, 2024 05:09

Korean idiom of the day: The words become the seed — meaning that something spoken can motivate the conseqences to actually happen.

jlliagre

Aug 19, 2024 22:57

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.

CowperKettle

Nov 22, 2024 23:59

@think_meaning_buildß Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI

MetaEd

Nov 20, 2024 21:27

Must be me, I can hear the drums.

Dannyu NDos

Feb 22, 2024 21:45

I graduated today.

tchrist

Nov 20, 2024 01:00

> Biden has authorized the provision of antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine...

MetaEd

Jul 2, 2024 20:33

"Normal times may possibly be over forever."

tchrist

Nov 18, 2024 00:18

> The name La Mancha is probably derived from the Arabic word المنشأ al-mansha, meaning "land without water".

M.A.R.

Nov 17, 2024 08:50

A soldier with a wounded leg wouldn't become addicted to injected morphine. But if they take some while they're fine and not experiencing a lot of pain, then yeah.