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Anonymous
00:04
I’ve been watching a show lately too. It’s called The Good Place. I like it a lot.
AIQ
AIQ
I enjoyed Fargo season 1.
What's it about snailcar?
Anonymous
Also, it’s ending soon, so if anyone wants to binge watch it, you’ll be able to do it from beginning to end.
Anonymous
It’s a comedy about philosophy and the afterlife.
Anonymous
@AIQ Breaking Bad has kind of a low point two and a half seasons in. I’d recommend picking it back up and giving it another chance. You might be able to get back into it and enjoy the second half of the show.
AIQ
AIQ
Ah ... I see. I will give it another go. I am sure it can't get any worse than the lastest seasons of GOT
The only comedy shows I have watched are friends and HIMYM
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
05:36
I saw a sign at a store.."Cast Iron Sinks"...Was there ever a doubt about this?
 
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V.V.
V.V.
09:51
Merry Christmas to old and new friends !
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Anonymous
10:10
Nice to see you stop in here again, @V.V. Merry Christmas!
Anonymous
11:25
@AIQ Oh, sure. That does depend on the person, though. I use all sorts of words, and sometimes people get grumpy about it. But I'm used to that. It's been like that since I was young, when the other children told me to stop using big words.
Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with using a rare word if it's the right word. The problem is that, being rare, it tends not to be :-)
Anonymous
You use language to communicate, right? And communication, as they say, is a two-way street. It's not just about you and what words you want to use, it's about the listener and what words will get your ideas across to them.
Anonymous
Sometimes that might require a little extra work on the listener's part. Maybe you decide to use a rare word because it communicates precisely what you want, and it lets you be concise about it. It saves you a lot of work. But the listener might not know the word, or indeed the ideas the word signifies. They might need to look it up, or you might need to have a discussion about it afterwards. But that doesn't necessarily make it the wrong word.
Anonymous
Maybe they don't want to do that work, so you can just leave the word there, a signpost they can come back to if they ever want to find their way to the information your choice of words encapsulates. If they're interested, they can find out more; if they aren't, they're free not to.
Anonymous
But that's just how I see it.
Anonymous
11:31
Of course, I like using little words. I use them much more frequently than big words. :-)
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
13:33
What does Amazon do with all the liver from the packages they deliver?
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
15:16
@CowperKettle I heard they pooled them somewhere in the UK.
Anonymous
I don't know about pooled, but one of my friends had a packaged rivered. He was checking the live tracking information online, and it showed the package heading toward his house for delivery. After a bit, the dot on the map took a detour into the middle of a river, at which point the tracking info said "2 stops away". It didn't show up, though. The package was declared damaged and undeliverable.
Anonymous
Some say you can still hear the screams of the drowning package from beneath the surface of the river.
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
15:43
@userr2684291 And they give them to the royal guards as uniforms. Y, you ask? I don't know. Maybe because the Queen's Guards are all pompous asses.
userr2684291
userr2684291
16:12
@snailcar Don't quote me on this, but that might have been part of the whole transparency campaign these companies did a while ago, where they made a couple of select package deliveries part of a live stream.
On second thought, if this was Amazon, there were a couple of stories circulating about how they're returning to a model that's "true to their name". Someone at the company finally taking deliveries by Amazon more seriously.
I think that's all I can think of now that's not too rough-hewn.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
18:32
Arbitrium
Arbitrium is a viral peptide produced by bacteriophages to communicate with each other. It is six amino acids long, and is produced when a phage infects a bacterial host. It signals to other phages that a host has been infected. == Discovery == Arbitrium was first observed by a team led by Rotem Sorek, a microbial geneticist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. They were studying communication in Bacillus subtilis bacteria - in particular, how bacteria infected with phages warn nearby uninfected bacteria about the presence of these viruses. They found that the phages (strain ph...
WOW
Amazing.
Nothing short of it.
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
19:37
Word of the day: hemidemisemiquaver
Hm. It can go further than that, apparently. The next prefix is either quasi-, or semi-, which restarts the cycle. Wikipedia lists semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver, for example.
I'm a little disappointed they're not all different, ad exhaustum (that's not a real Latin expression, as far as I'm aware).
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
20:39
@userr2684291 This kinda pops every year or so in this chat
But OK, you win the Weirdest Comment prize
@CowperKettle Holy crap
They came up with the internet long ago
@userr2684291 "[T]hat might have been part of the whole transparency campaign these companies did a while ago, where they made a couple of select package deliveries part of a live stream." — userrrrr
@V.V. Merry Christmas!
Also Merry Christmas everyone
AIQ
AIQ
21:32
ayyyyy Merryyyyy Chrissssttmassss everyyyyoneeeeeeeeeee
It's finally that time of the year when I am the most loneliest ... :D
AIQ
AIQ
21:57
Aaaaaaahahaha I sound so grouchy! I am not. :)
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
23:30
Merry Christmas!
(:
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
Happy holidays
Hey I think they are having a hat sale! Five hats these afternoon. Three of them are secret hats
AIQ
AIQ
23:46
Where Eddie Kal?
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
the wild blue yonder
AIQ
AIQ
Wait are you talking about real hats or these SE hats?
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
:))))
SE hats ofc
I was jealous of how many you got

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