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Gigili

06:00

@Cerberus Then we both will have the same phone, which is not nice!

4 hours later…

Gigili

09:42

I did tell her anyway, and she is going to buy it, exactly the same phone and the same color. Pish.

Cerberus

10:41

@Gigili Haha, you are too kind!

On the other hand, I think it is kind of cool for sisters to have the same phone.

It's like, "yo, dude, we're sisters, we're the coolest, and we have the bestest phones".

2 hours later…

Gigili

12:18

@Cerberus Or "yo, dude, there were no other phones so we had to buy exactly the same phone."

It's really cheap now. I saw one at $350.

4 hours later…

Cerberus

16:12

@Gigili But everyone knows that's not true.

@Gigili Yay!

It's € 335 here.

4 hours later…

Mechanical snail

20:24

@Gigili Why? If you have the same phone it'll be easier to understand each other!

1 hour later…

Cerberus

21:33

@Mechanicalsnail Except if you use the same phone for several morphemes, like American can/can('t)...

David Wallace

21:57

@Cerberus But if you're going to use a different phone for each morpheme, it's hard to fit them all between your shoulder and your ear.

Cerberus

You don't need to use them all at once, silly.

You can just have the rest follow you in a train or something.

David Wallace

I wonder whether Americans think they use the same phone for can and can't.

Cerberus

They do complain about having to ask several times.

I wonder whether they emphasise the "right" interpretation by a slightly different pronunciation, like adding the t back in, or by saying yes/no, I can('t).

David Wallace

Thank goodness you edited that last remark. I was staring at it wondering what THE heck you could possibly mean.

Cerberus

Hehe.

I will leave you half sentences more often.

The main this is that A

David Wallace

22:12

Oh, now you're just teasing!

Cerberus

You don't say.

David Wallace

yes I do.

Cerberus

Are you trying to get back at me by posting the second half of a sentence?

David Wallace

All of my sentences are the second half of a sentence.

as Douglas Hoftstadter said.

yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Cerberus

You really are

David Wallace

22:19

and so's your mother.

Do you think Carlo expects an answer to the question he just asked me?

in fact Quine, not Hofstadter. My mistake. I also misspelt the latter's name at the same time as making the misattribution.

David Wallace

22:42

Hey @Cerberus are you there?

Cerberus

@DavidWallace Oh, yes?

@DavidWallace I don't know, it is a bit weird.

David Wallace

Requesting your expertise. I seem to have a flagged remark in the math chat room. Which is odd, because I haven't said anything there for weeks.

Is there any way I can tell what the remark is?

Cerberus

Umm I don't know.

Perhaps?

In your notifications, perhaps?

David Wallace

If I try to click the icon that's telling me I've got flags, it says "no flags".

Cerberus

Oh...

I really have no experience with this.

David Wallace

22:45

I have no new notifications.

Cerberus

You suspended me, and then there was something I could click on to see what for.

That's all I know.

David Wallace

Nothing like this happened to me when my remark to Jez in the ELU room got flagged last week.

Cerberus

I wish I could tell you more, but I am ignorant.

David Wallace

Never mind. I'm sure it will come out in the wash eventually. It just seems so odd, when it's not a room that I use a whole lot.

I'm wondering whether it's the same person who has been downvoting me incessantly lately.

Cerberus

Hmm could be?

He may have found some old line that he found offensive.

David Wallace

22:47

I seem to have been receiving a lot of downvotes since Tom and I last fought. Not that I'm drawing any conclusions about who the downvoter might be.

Cerberus

I was suspended for saying "Iphones are gay" six hours after the fact.

Tom Tchrist?

David Wallace

Hmm. A couple of days ago, he called me a dick. Today, he called me a nut. Next time he calls me a nut, I shall have the complete set.

I thought it was a bit OTT that he called Barrie stupid though.

Cerberus

He can be rude.

Rude enough to cross lines.

He crossed mine too.

David Wallace

Did he insult you specifically?

Cerberus

I respect him less since then.

He pretended I didn't exist for like 4 days.

All the while talking in the main room and not replying.

So yes, then I started feeling offended.

David Wallace

22:50

Maybe he had "ignore"d you for some reason.

Cerberus

Nope.

I even had someone else apologise to him for me.

Ignored it.

David Wallace

Oh, and last week, he said I might become a proper person.

Cerberus

The suddenly he started talking to me again as though nothing had happened.

Yeah, I remember that.

David Wallace

He said something else offensive about me recently; I can't remember what, now.

Cerberus

No doubt.

David Wallace

22:52

I shouldn't have engaged him on the "been to" question, I guess, but it seemed so unfair.

Cerberus

I don't look at him as an equal any more.

But other than that everything's fine.

David Wallace

I am finding the ELU chat room a whole lot less enjoyable nowadays.

I have been waiting for him to leave, but he seems to lurk there 24x7.

I wonder whether he realises how offensive he's being, or whether he thinks his behaviour is normal.

Cerberus

Can't you just find a modus vivendi?

You can't fix people here.

It's not going to happen.

David Wallace

True. I was very annoyed by his answer to the WH question.

Oh, and I didn't know whether chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6325541#6325541 was directed at me.

Cerberus

What did he say?

@DavidWallace Why do you think it might be?

David Wallace

22:57

Oh, I had posted a comment that I say "hw" in "wh" words. Then his answer said that nobody says "hw" in "wh" words, or something. Silly of me to be offended by it, of course, but I felt it was worthy of a downvote.

Cerberus

It could be directed at me, although I don't understand it (nor do I care to).

@DavidWallace Yeah, that is annoying!

I know how you feel.

David Wallace

So I just can't be bothered going to any chat room where he is present.

Cerberus

Then again, it is some person on the internet being rude. Now you know what to expect of him, so can adjust your way of dealing with him, right?

David Wallace

Yes, but I can't be bothered. That's the key point.

Cerberus

You can just ignore whichever comment from him you dislike.

And whichever line.

David Wallace

23:00

Yes, I know. And I can't be bothered.

Cerberus

Is not doing something a bother?

David Wallace

So watch me not doing it.

Cerberus

Hehe.

David Wallace

Meanwhile, Carlo keeps asking me questions, about New Zealand, about Simchona (no idea why), about why I'm not in the chat room. I don't know whether I should answer him, or just stay out.

Cerberus

He's inactive, by the way.

@DavidWallace Just ignore him if his questions bother you.

David Wallace

23:02

Oh, no, mostly they don't.

Cerberus

Never give in to attention-seeking that makes you feel uncomfortable, or you're only feeding it.

David Wallace

But I can't answer without risking having Tom jump out at me.

Cerberus

Put him on ignore?

For half an hour or so.

David Wallace

I don't need to. I'm happy not to read his remarks.

Maybe I should open a one-on-one room with Carlo, just to answer his questions.

Otherwise, Tom will either demand that I define "vowel" all over again, or make more offensive remarks about Torah devotees.

Cerberus

You are saying he doesn't bother you, and yet you are jumping through hoops to not be bothered by him.

I think leaving a room for, say, a day can be a good way to cool off, but eventually you have to get back in.

David Wallace

23:08

I reserve the right to be irrational and self-contradictory. It wouldn't be the first time.

Cerberus

Hehe.

You woman!

Don't flag me.

David Wallace

Speaking of irrational and self-contradictory, it amused me that he was citing quotations with "degli Medici" less than an hour after claiming they never existed.

Cerberus

Exactly.

And ignored my referring to them.

But then I am used to that.

I stopped caring.

David Wallace

Thank goodness we have this rant room.

Cerberus

Hehe.

Linguistics aka Rant.

David Wallace

23:14

That flag has disappeared off my main chat screen. Maybe it wasn't for me. But I've never seen one before.

Cerberus

Weird.

David Wallace

Oh well, if I can be irrational and self-contradictory, I suppose it would be inconsistent of me not to extend the same allowance to our friend.

Cerberus

Hehe.

Now you're inconsistent.

David Wallace

Inconsistent is my middle name.

Cerberus

23:57

Every other day?

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