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3:00 PM
@Riker Kiwi is the best fruits, rest are all fine.
 
I don't particularly like kiwis <shrug>
@AnkitSharma that makes sense
 
@Riker well, allergic isn't the correct term. his body doesn't process it and it makes him really sick
 
yeah same
 
he doesn't break out/etc
 
it's techniciallyl an "intolerance"
 
3:01 PM
I am not allergic to any food but if food raise my body heat then I can get nose bleed easily
2
 
@AnkitSharma Ahhh, I see.
 
@DForck42 yeah, I just start to vomit up whatever the hell I ate
@AnkitSharma that's pretty unique
 
@AnkitSharma Like spicy food?
@Riker There's no such thing as "pretty unique". Either something's unique or it's just rare.
</pedant>
 
I might be mildly allergic to some food, but I couldn't yet figure out what food it is. It's also possible that it's pollens and other non-food things causing my allergy only.
 
@Randal'Thor not spice food but like almonds, raisins, Cashew, hot chocolate etc
 
3:02 PM
@Randal'Thor you get pedantic about this, but not the weird little "not touching the bottom"ness of the veg logo?
>.<
unpredictable pedants: the worst kind
@AnkitSharma uhh why almonds
I get hot chocolate, but raisins and nuts?
 
@Riker fun
 
It's also get affected by outside temperature too like in summers I have to abandon dry fruits etc
 
@DForck42 exceedingly
@AnkitSharma don't you live in india? isn't it always hot there?
 
@Riker Not touching the bottom isn't provably wrong; it's just a matter of taste, rather than violating a definition.
 
@Riker dry fruits have hot temperament
 
3:03 PM
I have no clue really, I live across the world from you
@Randal'Thor true
 
@Riker that's a myth, Indian have all kind of seasons
 
ah okay
do you get snow?
 
The city I am currently in is neither hot nor cold
@Riker not here but India have many snowy places
 
ah ok
 
India is a big place.
There must be a lot of variations in climate from one end to the other.
 
3:05 PM
@Randal'Thor like California, probably
 
India is a lot bigger than California.
:-P
 
@DForck42 can confirm, it's 40 degrees about 4 miles up the road
but yeah we're much smaller
 
We have places with minus temperature to non bearable heated place
 
@Riker I was allergic to all food coloring when I was younger. Haven't tried it in forever though.
 
ah nice
how do you avoid it though?
I just have to eat a lot of quesadillas
 
3:07 PM
No not nice. I broke out in hives at school
 
I find Quesadilla weird
 
And now I don't go to school
@Riker mother is a food health person
 
ooh boy
@Mithrandir :/
@Mithrandir those can be interesting, what do you eat?
 
@Randal'Thor the idea was to use something for us americans. California has the largest north to south expanse in the us, and it also have several mountainous regions, so climate in California varies a lot
 
friend of mine with that eats smoothies every day
and taht's about it
 
3:09 PM
I'm allergic to bounty fabric softener
that was a fun couple of months
 
3 hours ago, by Rand al'Thor
@Mithrandir Good for you! :-)
 
@DForck42 is there a desert in California? or jungle?
 
@Mithrandir go watch doctor who and come back
@Randal'Thor you agree with him not going to school?
 
@Riker I will recommend Breaking Bad
 
I personally agree that's just a confusing quote
@AnkitSharma I will not for a homeschooled 14 year old with a food-health mom
 
3:10 PM
@Riker pretzels and pistachios. My mother is allergic to wheat and dairy.
 
ouch
 
Yes...
 
@Riker wow, you guys are super young
@Mithrandir holy moly
 
@AnkitSharma that's like showing south park to an actual 4th grader
@AnkitSharma not that bad
 
@Riker lol
 
3:11 PM
can confirm: watched south park as a 4th grader
 
She makes/buys stuff that She can't eat though
 
it is part of the reason I am on the internet right now
 
@Riker that's why poor @steelersquirrel have to adopt you all
 
@Mithrandir ah, that's nice of her
 
@AnkitSharma Nearly all the top users of Literature are youngsters. Mith, Beastly, and Riker are 14, Emrak is 20, and I think HDE and CHEESE are also pretty young.
 
3:12 PM
@AnkitSharma yes it's very sad i have an internet mom who lets me do anything the world is ending
 
@Riker Not into comedy, specially parody, so not into it
 
@Randal'Thor huh, didn't know beastly was that young.
 
@Riker He might even be 13. I forget.
 
@Randal'Thor HDE's a college student
 
in The Sphinx's Lair, 3 hours ago, by Rand al'Thor
Nearly all the top users on Lit are youngsters, for some reason. Mith, Riker, and Beastly are 14, Emrak is 20, HDE is pretty young too, and I suspect so is Cheese.
 
3:12 PM
@Randal'Thor I was 13 in december so I'm at the young bar
 
@Riker So not as young as you guys, but maybe around Emrak's age.
 
I am 27.5
 
@Mithrandir lol repeating yourself I see @Randal'Thor
@AnkitSharma congrats on almost being a perfect cube, but ya screwed it up
 
Beastly said 13 iirc
 
:P
@Randal'Thor "a prospective astrophysics major" from his profile
so yeah he's about there
@Randal'Thor did you star that?
 
3:15 PM
@Riker No.
 
I can't decide whether to flag for Robert to undelete that. It was posted so that everyone would know that he declined it, and would stop mentioning it in chat.
 
Now I need to get back to SFF meta to recycle from my old avatars, can't get fresh working idea
Maybe it's better if I save all my avatar links on my system soemday
 
@Mithrandir If anyone actually nominates him, he can edit in a "declined" then.
If the only people who'd want to nominate him know that he doesn't want the job, then there's no issue.
 
I suppose you have a point.
 
@Mithrandir undelete what/
 
3:21 PM
4 hours ago, by Mithrandir
@AnkitSharma I haven't watched TV since I was 7 years old. I'm 14 now.
 
I know
go watch it and come back now
 
ah okay
I think it should stay deleted
 
Doesn't onebox because it's deleted
 
@Mithrandir I already flagged
 
3:23 PM
Ah okay
Looks like I might have to disappear again now.
 
see ya
 
@AnkitSharma no jungle, but it does have a desert or two, and death valley
 
yes I have a couple cartons of ice cream in my freezer
more than 2
 
@DForck42 then it disqualify. India have snow valley, desert, jungle, mountain, rivers , beaches etc
 
@AnkitSharma ...I wasn't trying to directly compare the two...
 
3:28 PM
we have snow mountains, desert, not-snow mountain, river, beach, forest, tundra
 
I knwo :P
 
3:53 PM
Knwo? :P
 
@Riker Tundra?
 
in the sierras, yeah
below freezing there but most often no snow
 
I really hate the cold...
 
I don't
much better than hot
 
4:49 PM
@Riker I disagree vehemently.
 
There's hot and there's cold... :P
 
And I much prefer warm :P
 
I think we got 5 cm of snow last night
 
It actually never snows here, which is very good.
 
If my phone wasn't broken, I'd send you a picture :)
 
4:51 PM
How'd it break? From the cold? :P
 
But there isn't really that much snow :/
@Mithrandir Umm... There's actually a really funny story behind it. I was taking it out, it slipped from my hand...
And me in my panicked, im-not-thinking mind decides to catch by launching my arm from on top of the phone. Like always, I miss. I hit my phone. Phone is now a rocket ship flying to the ground.
Glass shattered, but it still works.
 
o_O
 
My alarm went off for 9 days in a row, and I had no way of turning it off
 
Tip: Don't drop it next time. And get yourself a new one now :D
 
@Zizouz212 I've done exactly that! I had a phone which survived so many bumps and drops -- and then a year in I swatted it spinning a couple of feet while trying to catch it and its screen smashed.
 
4:54 PM
Nah, I'm going to get it fixed
I'm like, in love with my phone
 
I got my first phone like a month ago...
 
@doppelgreener Yeah, my phone was like a knight. Could take any fall, except that one.
 
It still hasn't broken.
 
Are you celebrating that?
 
Yep
 
4:55 PM
My phone (if it wasn't broken) would be celebrating its 7th birthday at the end of the year.
 
Congratudolences.
 
> Which province was the site of Operation Habbakuk, a top-secret WWII military project to build a prototype aircraft carrier out of ice?
o_O
What on earth is wrong with Canadians?
 
O_O_O
 
@Zizouz212 oh my, older than mine by a long shot
what kind of phone?
 
iPhone 4 :)
It used to be my mom's, but she got a 5S, and gave the 4 to me
Hmm... I just noticed
Why is there a pinned message by Shog about treating each other with respect?
 
4:59 PM
There was a bit of an argument and the place was put in timeout.
 
I'm not going to ask...
 
It was about memes.
 
@Zizouz212 cause some people were being a-holes in chat
he actually locked the room for an hour
 
Wow
Well...
 
Chat has died! Live long the... main site! Or meta! or... chat?
 
5:07 PM
I just suck at starting conversations
 
Lit is still in private for another 6 days? Hmm.
 
Why do you think that?
 
This is its 15th day in beta, right?
 
14th I think
Area 51 says 13, so 14.
13
Literatureliterature.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for scholars and enthusiasts of literature.

Currently in private beta.

 
5:10 PM
Area 51 is always wrong
 
Exactly.
So 14th day.
 
My Enthusiast badge says I've visited Literature for 15 days
 
First question was the 148h.
 
^
 
Fascinating
 
5:11 PM
Gosh darn it
 
So does mine
 
First question was the 18th.
 
I'm wrong
 
@Mithrandir are you going to try to hit 2k?
 
So, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1
How many is that?
15
 
5:12 PM
yeah
 
So today is the 15th day in beta
 
@Riker I started a bounty. Maybe. I need another 2 to break even today...
 
ye
@Mithrandir ah oaky
 
Private betas were extended to be 3 weeks long, so that explains why it says there are 6 days left
 
At least 6 days
 
5:12 PM
ye
 
crosses fingers
 
Nah, I doubt it will be longer. And you're going onto public, guaranteed
383 questions is a whole lot. Open Source has been at it for over a year and only has around 1200 questions.
 
@amaranth Yes, you are progressing, but technically not because of this post. The nomination process starts before the final evaluation is complete — but as a purely pragmatic matter, if it doesn't look like the private beta is going to make it, there's enough flexibility in the timing of this post to avoid putting the community through the motions. — Robert Cartaino ♦ 2 days ago
 
I'm sure he's just saying that
If he made a nomination post during private beta, you're moving along
Speaking of which... Robert made a comment on one of my posts, added a DV, then I made a comment, and then he deleted both of our comments
 
@Mithrandir my vim has :chat set up for this:
:chat
E492: Not a useful command: chat
go think about your life
@Mithrandir lel I went to review stuff just in case, and your tag wiki edit showed up as "2 seconds ago"
 
5:17 PM
But meh. Literature has seen a whole ton of activity - lots of users and questions. Kind of difficult to stop it now :)
 
The trouble in messaging a girl - when she puts a ^.^, I don't know if she uses that smile for everyone, or tries to show her affection towards me offtopic
 
Umm
 
~ is even worse
I never know what it means when somebody attaches ~ to the end of a message
 
Neither do I~
 
>_>
 
5:19 PM
There, I'm even for today on Lit.
 
Never seen anyone attach a tilde to a message
 
It's a "natural break"
Whatever that could mean. Never seen it before.
 
hl3 confirmed
 
lol
 
5:21 PM
not even a photoshop
waits for zizouz or mith to destroy it
 
Why would I?
 
@Riker if I award that bounty...
 
And how could mith destroy it?
 
upvoting
@Mithrandir yep
@Zizouz212 or his bounty
 
29 secs ago, by Mithrandir
@Riker if I award that bounty...
 
5:23 PM
Hmm...
I could downvote it :P
 
ninja'ed
 
That's the only way I could mess it up..
I could un-upvote
 
can you? has it been edited?
 
Maybe
Wait I can't o_o
So I can only award the bounty to mess it up.
 
lol
 
Totally LQQ
 
yes
It's entirely a quote
 
yes
 
Quotes only really kind of do nothing
 
5:25 PM
@Riker ever read ?
 
of course
 
Especially if it's 10 paragraphs long
 
we need the delete votes @Randal'Thor
 
@Riker To what was that?
 
your rriordan message
 
5:26 PM
So ask a question :P
14 mins ago, by Riker
@Mithrandir are you going to try to hit 2k?
 
I feel like it's almost impossible for me to hit 1k at this rate...
 
@Zizouz212 If I can have the answer that used to be the top (now it's tied), then you can hit 1k.
 
What answer?
 
28
A: Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decide to kill off this character?

MithrandirHe simply got tired of writing about Holmes, and he wanted to focus on his other writing. I'm going to quote from a book called The Best of Sherlock Holmes, by Wordsworth Classics: However, even before the ink was dry on the manuscript of 'The Copper Beeches' its author had wearied of Sherlo...

 
And how will giving you the top answer again help me hit 1k?
 
5:29 PM
it won't
 
???
 
Then...
 
You misunderstood
the irony
I'm saying that anything's possible
Jan 28 at 19:38, by Mithrandir
<topic change> someone else get an answer that gets a score of more than 28,it's freaking me out that I have the top answer on the site
 
lol
@Riker Sending a whole bunch of tag excerpts your way
 
afk
 
5:38 PM
afk?
 
away from keyboard
 
Oh
I don't know any of these sills acronyms :P
 
reviewed all 3
 
Yaay! ^-^
6 more rep for my goal to 1k :P
 
you can do some more if you want
 
5:44 PM
Nah, I think I'll wait it out. I want lunch
 
Back.
And I can review edits if need be.
 
don't worry
 
So, Commander Riker, have any RR questions for me?
 
I improved them so insta approve
@Mithrandir not right now playing undertale
 
I think Riker is liking the "Improve" button :P
 
5:45 PM
yes, why?
 
Just sayin :)
 
So since my area of expertise is Rick Riordan, I'm waiting for questions :P
 
lol
 
Why do we have an [authors] tag?
 
Burn it
 
5:47 PM
for questions about authors specifically iirc
@Mithrandir no no no, burninate it
 
Yeah, but isn't that the purpose of author specific tags, like [george-orwell]?
 
no, those go on their books also
 
Yeah, but then what's the purpose of a general [authors] tag?
 
for questions about an author not related to his books
 
Yeah, but what's the point of including it, if we have author specific tags?
 
5:51 PM
it's a metatag
 
Exactly.
 
burn it if you wish
 
I'll raise it on meta, then burn it
4 seconds and 2 views...
But here ya go
 
2
Q: Why do we have an [authors] tag?

Zizouz212I was kind of surprised to see the authors tag up and about. The tag wiki excerpt reads this (emphasis mine) For questions which are explicitly about the author of the work. Do not use this tag unless your question directly relates to some literary aspect of an author's life (motivation for ...

 
6:09 PM
0
Q: Why do Jem and Scout call their father Atticus?

CHEESEMy question is not why they call their father Atticus as much as why he lets them do this, and what this says about their characters.

 
@Librarian burn it
 
Burn it?
 
that tag
 
Now?
 
why not ;)
 
A J
6:18 PM
Meta feed bot named as Librarian and main feed bot named as Bookworm. Great
 
Yeah. I'm going ahead
 
0
Q: Do we have enough visitors?

Joshua EngelThe Area 51 page for this SE: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238/literature has us doing reasonably well in questions asked (27.2/day, vs 10 required). Only 73% are answered, but that seems OK to me (though perhaps we should make a point of answering some unanswered questions, even...

 
Done
 
6:35 PM
@Librarian is it not too early to ask that in private beta
 
0
Q: Is there "required" background reading for "The Hero With a Thousand Faces"?

NKCampbellThe influence of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell is well documented. I have picked up the version published in the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series and have sadly found it be disjointed and in many cases extremely difficult to understand or find the through-line of ...

 
to be fair the area51 site doesn't say they're for public beta stats
 
somebody review edits pls?
not doppelgreener :P
 
@doppelgreener but no need to hurry
 
6:54 PM
@Gallifreyan I decided your answer has been there long enough.
accepted it
 
@Riker o7 yes sir, complying already
 
lol
 
7:10 PM
our question per day has dropped to a more reasonable 26
 
Everyone ask questions! Quick!
 
I'll psot some RR ones when I finish this essay :(
i hate essays
 
@Riker RR?
 
Wait till I'm not on my phone please :P
 
too many RR initials
 
7:22 PM
rick rioderanarasd
 
I type better on my computer. ..
 
JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, etc
 
too lazy to try to spel
 
@Riker lol
 
Rick Riordan
Pronounced like fireman
 
7:23 PM
i know
just too lazy to splell
 
Heh. Splell.
 
im a himarm
looky ma i has starz
 
ufff himarm possessed you
 
1 sec bringing out my himarm sock
 
oh god
 
7:25 PM
@HimarmforMod2017
 
here we go
i have both fwiw
my chem.se profile has ^^^ for name, law is himarm jr
I have accounts with a tiny bit of activity on both
 
O_o
 
i've bountied a friend's question on law, so I have 1 rep there
and I've asked a question on chem.se about last year's schoolwork
 
holy moly
 
wot?
 
7:28 PM
I have 19 accounts with more than 101 rep.
But only 10 with more than 300
And all of my 200+ ones are 300+
 
21 and 7
I have 217 on puzzling also, that's the only >200 and <300 one I hvae
 
I was thinking about a question for m&tv
 
I also have 19 sites where I've gained rep from anyway that's not an edit
 
@Mithrandir oh?
 
But it might be too broad or off topic for future works
 
7:32 PM
@Mithrandir if you pop over to the movies chat we can help you with it there
 
no I have 20 with rep not from edits
 
@DForck42 link for phone users please?
 
@Mithrandir I have 30

 The Screening Room

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselv...
14 accounts with 101 rep
 
I have flags on over 60
I killed two chats. I'm awesome.
@DForck42 I killed it
 
7:51 PM
@Mithrandir lol
 
8:32 PM
0
Q: Why is Camus asserting that "Marx scientific Messianism" is Bourgeois

TeddyIn "The Rebel" Camus asserts that "Progress, the futur of science, the cult of technology and of production are bourgeois myths." Why is Camus defining these themes as "bourgeois myths"?

 
Would a question such as: What brought about the end of the New Criticism movement?, be on-topic?
 
@Benjamin I have no idea, try it
 
@DForck42 DO you think it would be too broad?
 
8:49 PM
@Benjamin I don't know anything about it, so it's hard for me to judge it
i could see providing a bit of history of what it is and how it came about
 
@DForck42 I'll give it a try when I have time.
 
k
 
@Benjamin looks a bit broad to me
 
^
 

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