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AIQ

01:31

ooohh maaahh gaaaaawwwd

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CowperKettle

04:02

Word of the day: bottomry

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CowperKettle

06:20

> What do you call a reluctant potato?
A hesitator...

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CowperKettle

10:51

- I'm a vegetarian to the power of two.
- How's that?
- Well, the cow eats grass, that's a vegetarian to the power of one. I eat the cow..

Færd

11:27

How 'bout I go vegetarian to the power of three then.

CowperKettle

A human eats a cow = power of 2.
An earthworm eats a human = power of 3.
A bactera eats the earthworm = power of 4.

Hm..

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CowperKettle

12:42

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle Hmm, I think you posted this a while ago

CowperKettle

13:11

Oops

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M.A.R.

16:08

@CowperKettle Cycle of life!

It all makes sense now

CowperKettle

16:40

A black hole eats a planet = power of 9

Færd eats the black hole = power of 10.

Or maybe it's "A star eats a planet = power of 8"

Then a black hole eats a star is power of 9.

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userr2684291

18:04

@cybermonkey: That's not an "answer", bub. And this one bears no resemblance to that phrase. Are you sure you commented on the right answer? — Lightness Races BY-SA 3.0 Apr 18 '15 at 17:26

I searched for that person's nickname and the word bub because I saw them using it somewhere. Anyway, what I wanna know is whether the word bub is used there in the sense listed here: "An aggressive or rude way of addressing a boy or man."

The same dictionary (as well as LDOCE) labels the word as belonging to AmE, while that person is a BrE speaker. When I asked some people (Americans mostly) about this, they told me the word doesn't necessarily have such overtones at all.

Anonymous

No? Just seems plain rude to me.

userr2684291

It sure does, especially in that comment, so that's why I'm asking.

Anonymous

I flagged the comment right after you linked it.

userr2684291

Alright. Thanks.

CowperKettle

The debubbing of StackExchange has been going well behind schedule

userr2684291

18:26

Unlike the debugging...

Also, rubber baby-buggy bumper.

I first heard that here:

Pinky and the Brain, Tongue Twister

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Wait, what's the point of video embedding if it can't be played from here? It just takes more space, it seems.

CowperKettle

rubber baby buggy bumper

Noun: rubber baby buggy bumper (plural rubber baby buggy bumpers)

(slang) A contraceptive diaphragm.

AIQ

Bub is something that Wolverine always says.

userr2684291

18:41

AIQ

lol. Where is this?

Anonymous

@userr2684291 At the time, I think the idea was just to show you what the video was before you click.

Anonymous

@CowperKettle Season one of Stranger Things was good.

userr2684291

@AIQ Wikipedia.

AIQ

No, I meant the video

I thought it was something you captured

userr2684291

18:44

Oh, no.

Also Wikipedia. I just wanted to see whether it'd become embedded.

So I posted that pic instead after it wouldn't.

AIQ

@snailcar Yes, I didn't like the other 2. I sat through them, in pain. There were too corny.

userr2684291

I watched the first episode until it got scary.

Anonymous

@AIQ I don't really like where the series has gone :-(

Anonymous

But that's okay. I don't watch a whole lot of TV shows lately.

Anonymous

I should find something good to watch in French.

Anonymous

18:51

I talk to my friend every day in French, and I've got some stuff to read, but I don't do any actual listening practice outside of conversations.

AIQ

How many languages do you know?

English, Japanese, French

Anonymous

Those are the only three I use actively.

Anonymous

I've studied other languages, but I'm not very good at them because I don't use them.

AIQ

Wow! I wan't to learn French, well really just that I need to

@snailcar You could apply for the CIA if you practiced the rest

CowperKettle

I tried watching "Stranger Things" but I was not impressed.

It felt like they wanted to recreate the Stephen King's nostalgic feeling that's sometimes exists in his books, but with no good plot.

userr2684291

19:01

Yes, please @snailcar. This is it.

CowperKettle

@snailcar Wow

userr2684291

This is your chance.

Mom's spaghetti. Etc.

I can see it already: "Plane. Snailplane." (:

Alright, I'll stop.

AIQ

@userr2684291 What do you mean by this?

userr2684291

@AIQ It's that Eminem song. "If you had one shot, or one opportunity..."

I just fast-forwarded a little bit.

The song is entitled Lose Yourself.

M.A.R.

19:33

@userr2684291 Oh jeez. My newly found university friend is drilling into my head with this song

@userr2684291 If I heard I would take it the guy wanted too much to sound cool. Lightness? Yep, that figures.

If SE had any "cool kids", Lightness would have been the oneliner guy in that gang. The problem is when some of that SciFi.SE attitude leaks elsewhere.

Finally we are no longer living in sin, for on the matter of close votes it is written: "three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out." — Jeroen Mostert Dec 3 at 21:38

userr2684291

@M.A.R. What, he won't give up that easy? No? You won't have it? He knows...

M.A.R.

I can confirm that a side effect of listening to rap is talking even more nonsensically than you did before

userr2684291

19:50

@M.A.R. You wish.

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AIQ

22:46

I need to improve this answer. I don't know how. The words I suggested does not exactly incorporate OP's two definitions at the same time. ell.stackexchange.com/questions/233428/…

Let's say I am a painter. I want people to tell me how great my paintings are. In this case, "ostentatious" does not work at all (too obviously showing your money, possessions, or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you; intended to attract admiration or notice). OP wants "someone who loves to be admired or loved for what they did"

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