ELL's Cabin

Damkerng T.

00:28

@StackExchange Yay!

@Man_From_India Don't forget to secure your position! (You're #72!)

Aww... I don't see @snailplane and @TIPS on the first two pages.

Hmm... I don't see many other familiar names either.

Ah, it looks like all the emails had already been sent out!

Damkerng T.

01:42

> If you're not on the list, don't worry too much about it — we've got some extra swag stored we can send to you for events and such!

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. haha that's great :-)

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Hehe!

I hope they'll consider sending the shirt to other established users, too.

Man_From_India

Who else are there?

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India If you can find your name among the top 72 users in the first two pages here, we have a surprise for you!

ell.stackexchange.com/users

Man_From_India

@DamkerngT. i agree. There are users who have written fantastic answers over the years. You too, DT.

Damkerng T.

01:44

I'm not sure which tab they use, though.

If he used the tab "all", snailplane would be on the first page.

@Man_From_India Thanks! You, as well!

But if they used the tab "month", ... hmm... I think the tab "all" makes more sense.

Man_From_India

"month" tab :( whoever is more active recently, will get his/her into.

@DamkerngT. agree

Man_From_India

02:12

@DamkerngT. You got his form?

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Yes!

Man_From_India

Yay! :D

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I got the email saying I was on the list :-)

Damkerng T.

@snailplane Yay! Congrats!

When I clicked that link, my default setting was "month", so I was afraid that you might not be on the list!

Now I'm hoping that they won't send me a ladies shirt. :P

CowperKettle

02:27

Good morning, @snailplane!

On the list for what?

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle This:

8 hours ago, by Stack Exchange

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Q: English Language Learners Stack Exchange - Top User Swag!

We want to congratulate and thank everyone that helped this site and community grow healthily into what they are today! If you can find your name among the top 72 users in the first two pages here, we have a surprise for you! We want to send you a token of our appreciation for being among the mo...

You must've gotten an email from them by now.

CowperKettle

Really?

I should check my inbox

Damkerng T.

Really!

CowperKettle

Yes, it is there

> After these two weeks are gone, I'll get to shipping it, which should take... well, the usual 6 to 8 weeks. No, but seriously, I'll try to get it shipped as fast as humanly possible.

It takes about 20 days to arrive to Russia, as far as I recall

> Oh! Please don't use any characters with diacritics on 'em, since FedEx does not recognise those and will often print gibberish. I know your name or address may need a ´, a ~, a ¨, or even a ç here or there, but if you included these we'd have to go over the entries and remove them ourselves manually, which would delay the whole process for everyone — at least we won't ask you to enter a "valid" name when you're entering your actual name ;)

What do they mean by "Address line 1, address line 2, address line 3"?

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Three lines of your address, I think.

Normally, it's either two or three.

CowperKettle

02:34

In case I have three apartments?

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. It's most often one here.

Anonymous

The city, state, and zip code are separate from that.

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Not anything like that! They'll concatenate the lines and print it on the label.

CowperKettle

So I can cramp everything in Line 1?

I managed to.

Anonymous

It's a usability problem on websites. It's very common for people to be confused about what "line 2" is supposed to be.

Damkerng T.

02:35

If you can!

I can't cram my address in 35 letters anyway. :D

CowperKettle

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@DamkerngT. You have some cool address

Damkerng T.

Y'know, any name in Thai tends to be long. :D

CowperKettle

T-shit size: I see no "44-46" there. (0:

Damkerng T.

44-46 would be an XL. :D

(according to districtclothing.com/fit-guide)

CowperKettle

No, I know it's "M"

It's the Russian 44-46

Damkerng T.

02:40

Oh!

It could be like XXXL over here. :D

CowperKettle

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Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Our sizes are getting bigger and bigger here.

Damkerng T.

Hah!

The scale is confusing anyway. Except for international brands and department stores that they know there will be lots of tourists, the scale can vary a lot over here.

Anonymous

Well, our people are also getting bigger and bigger.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. I guess it's chaos everywhere!

Damkerng T.

02:45

I guess the 53-55 chest size could go like XXXXXXL (maybe more X's!) over here! (LOL)

CowperKettle

In Yekaterinburg, twice as much schoolkids are overweight as was back in 2000 (a recent news report)

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. They start saying 2X, 3X, and 4X, I think.

Damkerng T.

IIRC, there are extra taxes for people with waist larger than 33" in Japan.

Anonymous

Actually, stores that specialize in very large sizes just say 2, 3, 4.

Damkerng T.

@snailplane XXL and XXXL are real around here, though.

Anonymous

02:46

Well, it varies here, too, so I'm sure you can find actual XXL and such.

Damkerng T.

I guess they would use 4X and such above three Xs.

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. You must be joking.

Anonymous

So in the Torrid scheme, I guess size 0 would be a large!

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle I did not!

What I'm not sure is whether the limit is 31" or 33".

CowperKettle

Fat tax

A fat tax is a tax or surcharge that is placed upon fattening food, beverages or on overweight individuals. As an example of Pigovian taxation, a fat tax aims to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the economic costs of obesity. A fat tax aims to decrease the consumption of foods that are linked to obesity. A related idea is to tax foods that are linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease. Numerous studies suggest that as the price of a food decreases, individuals get fatter. In fact, eating behavior may be more responsive to price increases than to nutritional education. Estimates suggest...

Damkerng T.

02:47

@snailplane Hah!

Anonymous

We had to invent size 0 and then 00 and 000 over here because sizes got so much bigger.

Anonymous

A size 0 now is larger than a size 8 was in the 50s.

CowperKettle

> the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets.

It must cost quite a penny to enforce this law

Damkerng T.

@snailplane I suppose those sizes are pronounced "oh", "ooh", and "ooohhh"! :P

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Haha!

Anonymous

02:50

@CowperKettle I wonder how well "sin taxes" really work.

CowperKettle

Enforcing sin taxes and syntaxes is a hard task.

Damkerng T.

nods

Anonymous

Syntax is one of my favorite things!

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Damkerng T.

BTW, I bought a jam and I can't open the lid no matter how hard I try!

CowperKettle

@snailplane Well, it's not a sin!

@DamkerngT. a can of jam

Damkerng T.

02:54

The lid is too thin to grasp tightly, but it's so tight!

Let's see if I can find its photo ...

CowperKettle

@DamkerngT. Mail it to me, I'll open and send it back

I take 20% of the content as payment

Damkerng T.

@CowperKettle Haha!

CowperKettle

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Damkerng T.

artofmanliness.com/2008/01/19/how-to-open-a-stuck-jar-lid

Brute force didn't work. Wrapping it with anything turned out to be basically impossible. There is no vacuum seal. Hmm... hot water is a good idea!

I could make some tea in the process!

Kurzd

Pierce the lid with something?

Damkerng T.

02:59

I wonder if I'll break the glass trying to piece it with anything.

Kurzd

Just, uh, stab the lid? Pretend it's an evil jar.

Anonymous

@DamkerngT. Yes, hot water!

Damkerng T.

I guess I'll go make some tea. :D

Kurzd

Prolly safer

So there's ç. Is there any language with a c-like character meaning "c as in key"?

Damkerng T.

I've got tea, but no jam!

@Kurzd Like cascade?

Or car, even!

Kurzd

03:11

Y-Yes. Like those. But with a special character in some language.

Superglue a stick on the cap, then turn it?

Damkerng T.

A-ha!

Household trick open a jar with a spoon

►

Did that and got the jam!

Apparently, I can't fight the vacuum!

Kurzd

You can fight it uploading a video on how to open this other jar

Damkerng T.

:D

Man_From_India

04:01

@DamkerngT. I just checked my mail, and I too got the mail :-)

Damkerng T.

@Man_From_India Yay!

Man_From_India

:-)

Damkerng T.

A new T-shirt in a couple months! ;-)

Man_From_India

I haven't filled the form yet, will do later tonight. Now office :-(

TIPS

09:18

@DamkerngT. You were prolly looking at the wrong sorting! Snail must be on the first page.

Damkerng T.

@TIPS Apparently, I was looking at the "month" page!

TIPS

I knew it! Ha

Although I didn't make it to page 2.

Damkerng T.

I wish you had answered questions more often. -- sad

TIPS

Oh well, I should hope to get a mod swag instead some time in the future.

@DamkerngT. Don't worry man, I already got the Chem swag!

Damkerng T.

A-ha! Neat!

TIPS

09:21

And it's one of the coolest swags that have ever existed.

Damkerng T.

LOL

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