The h Bar

Anonymous

12:01

@CooperCape What is AS?

Anonymous

Are you joining uni this year?

CooperCape

exams you take year before end of college (highschool us?)

no, AS come before A levels...

0celóñe7

NSFW; relevant to all Indians

Anonymous

@0celóñe7 bwahaha. Typical western problems....

Anonymous

@CooperCape So you still have to give the A level final exams ?

0celóñe7

12:03

@Blue I've never had problems with spicy food except for my super spicy chili

CooperCape

yeah we got another year of study which incorporates this year as well.

0celóñe7

it makes me cry when I eat and it hurts a little when it comes out

CooperCape

so in US equivalent I've finished 11th grade and going into 12th in 3 weeks.

Anonymous

@CooperCape Oh, great. Congrats :)

CooperCape

all the stress of applying to uni tho :p ty.

Phase

12:06

@JohnRennie I feel like the reason the Sterling is falling is just due to the fact that everyone was so scared of Brexit that they pulled everything out of it in Preparation. Like some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

0celóñe7

the economy is 75% that

Phase

^ I'm not a leaver tho, just my two cents [approx two pennies]

Yeah

What the hell is going on with Bitcoin

Anonymous

@CooperCape C'mon. You're in UK :P So many good unis you have there :) Also you don't have to face crap competitive exams which determine which subject you'll get to study (rather than giving a choice). All the best though!

CooperCape

yeah the american university system confused me...

you have to continue with multiple subjects then filter down or something?

Anonymous

I don't know much about the American system. Can't say

Anonymous

12:14

They have to give SAT I guess

CooperCape

oh fair... sorry I just assume everyone's american as a good starting point.

Phase

Apparently UK has passed a law that basically shoots our internet privacy in the Head

this following intent to censor 'hardcore' porn from the internet entirely

Wtf is wrong with the UK government

CooperCape

(Starts rapidly going through internet history)

Phase

No use, it seems they allowed ISPs to keep logs

and for various people to read them if they so desired

I'm sure 99.9% of people won't have their stuff read but it's the principle that's gross

CooperCape

Rip. privacy

downloads vpn

Balarka Sen

12:20

@Phase Tom Lehrer disapproves. NSFW, by the way.

Phase

Never heard of him but damn never heard a dude sing about stuff like that whilst being so happy

Balarka Sen

Then you have heard nothing, clearly.

Tom Lehrer - The Irish Ballad - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

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Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) - with intro - widescreen

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Phase

The Irish ballad reminds me of another guy I listened to a while ago. Contemporary, but in this sort of folk ballad style

Balarka Sen

The source of the sublimest of satires of Tom Lehrer is in the morbidest (that a word m8?) of the human tragedies

Phase

with dark humour

Balarka Sen

12:24

Indeed?

Phase

Yeah. Had a lot of other vibes in other songs though, and he seems to be a bit hit or miss

I'll link the closest song I can remember if you want

Balarka Sen

sure

Phase

Meh haven't listened in ages so can't remember the songs I'm thinking of, but here's a decent one imo albeit not quite the same vibe

Balarka Sen

hahah i like this

Phase

Nice!

I've just spent the last week listening to various Death grips / Death grips mashup songs

Some are... better than others

Balarka Sen

12:31

death grips is a huge source of meme

Phase

It's great yeah. I hated them at first but Idk, the more I listened the more I grew to like them

I guess it's an acquired taste?

this is one of the.. Strangest

Balarka Sen

they're more amusing to me than interesting

skullpatrol

me too

Balarka Sen

@Phase lol

skullpatrol

cheap thrills, as they say

Phase

12:34

This one's pretty nice to listen to imo

some shouldn't be made

Not ever

skullpatrol

a bit "addictive" though...

Phase

I assume you haven't been able to avoid this tumour of a meme?

Balarka Sen

@Phase Rick Astley mashups are still the best

Phase

Hot Dad made a cover that'll warp your brain if you know the Lyrics to the original

Balarka Sen

Crash Bandicoot - Never Gonna Woah You Up

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Phase

12:37

Warp your brain

skullpatrol

lol

Phase

As cute as crash is, I want that meme to die

Balarka Sen

@Phase HAH

THIS

this is too good

Phase

Hot Dad is great

I Really, Really, Really Like This Image

►

skullpatrol

memes never die; they just multiply

Balarka Sen

12:40

I'd normally say my favorite Rick Astley is Never Gonna Shoot Your Stars or the Big Smoke ft but that just made my brain die

Phase

@skullpatrol what about Harambe

True

@BalarkaSen did you just say BIG SMOKE

Balarka Sen

follow the damn train

Phase

@0celóñe7 Why did you delete it

what is this censorship of the truth

Balarka Sen

More woah cancer

Mithrandir

@Phase it was flagged as rude and deleted.

Phase

12:43

W h a t

Mithrandir

Please remember to Be Nice.

skullpatrol

Truth means nothing to Big Brother.

Phase

Mithrandir

Do you know what Harambe is

Mithrandir

Yes.

Vogel612

oh ffs... please just nuke the whole meme conversation and get the room back on topic ...

skullpatrol

12:44

Hi @Mithrandir

Mithrandir

hello, @skull

Balarka Sen

@Vogel612 This room doesn't really have a particular topic, despite being the general chat for physics.

Phase

Well, I don't see how what @0celóñe7 wrote contradicted the Be Nice page

Balarka Sen

Ask any arbitrary regular.

Vogel612

@BalarkaSen which is kinda the whole problem of this room?

skullpatrol

12:45

We meant no harm...

...it's kinda my fault.

Balarka Sen

@Vogel612 Uh, I don't see why that should be a problem, sounds like a logical jump of a conclusion to me.

Vogel612

@BalarkaSen if the room doesn't have a topic, it has no raison d'ètre

Phase

@Vogel612 I was under the impression that it's just a room for physics-minded people to talk

not necessarily about Physics

That's what I was told about Half a year ago

Vogel612

also ... there is a just fine topic, the problem is that apparently nobody can be arsed to keep the room at least roughly on it

I've been here for flags so often in the last few weeks and every single time the room has been completely derailed...

Balarka Sen

I think this meta-conversation about focussing on a topic from a non regular is more irrelevant to the room than a non-topic.

But that's just my opinion.

user228700

12:47

@JohnR: ARE YOU AROUND?!

John Rennie

I'm here!

Phase

Jesus, he descends from the sky for the call

user228700

I'm shouting because my laptop...I'm afraid something's happened to it. IT IS AN EMERGENCY, if there ever was one!

John Rennie

What's up?

user228700

@JohnRennie Oh, thank heavens. TELL ME WHAT TO DO, laptop man!

skullpatrol

12:49

Amazing @Phase

John Rennie

What's going wrong? What are the symptoms?

user228700

IT REFUSES TO SWITCH ON!! :'-(

skullpatrol

Check the plug.

Anonymous

Charge it?

Phase

Am I watching IT crowd?

John Rennie

12:50

Are you on the mains or the battery?

user228700

It's fully charged!

John Rennie

So you're on the battery?

user228700

When I switched it off this morning, it was perfectly alright! :-(

user228700

Fully charged too!

Phase

HOW COULD I FORGET THIS @BalarkaSen @0celóñe7

user228700

12:51

@JohnRennie Yup.

Anonymous

Is it working via direct connection with the charger (w.o. the battery) ?

user228700

@Blue I checked and no.

John Rennie

So the laptop is off - all the lights are off - and when you press the power button nothing happens?

skullpatrol

He can't answer @Phase

Phase

Wait why not

Balarka Sen

12:52

@Phase Ah yeah Alex Jones is a worldwide meme. But he's bit of a dead meme in my opinion.

Phase

Don't tell me he got muted over the Harambe comment

skullpatrol

30 min

Phase

@BalarkaSen -"I love Rick Astley"

John Rennie

@Kaumudi.H do you want to switch to gchat so we don't annoy everyone?

Phase

Also @BalarkaSen - "Alex jones is a dead meme"

user228700

12:52

@JohnRennie Something does: the power button lights up and then there is a krrr sound. Then, all is still once more.

user228700

@JohnRennie Right, of course.

Balarka Sen

@Phase lool

well if you want something hot and fresh, check out jake paul

Phase

'fresh'

skullpatrol

Did you guys notice how fast that comment got flagged?

Phase

Dude you wanna see something savage?

FULL SONG: The Fall Of Jake Paul (Official Video) FEAT. Why Don't We

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Balarka Sen

12:54

seen it

Phase

Did you see the second part..?

Balarka Sen

absolute cringe over this bro fight

yeah

Phase

The second part is borderline bullying

It's pretty mean

Balarka Sen

there's also a fantastic meme on that logan paul song

skullpatrol

The message was flagged within 30 seconds :-/

Phase

12:56

@BalarkaSen Nice

@skullpatrol yeah it's pretty weird considering i cant even see how it could be offensive

skullpatrol

The word "killed" must of done it.

Phase

I mean... It's a gorilla..

That died how long ago..? Meh

Mithrandir

let's not dwell on it

skullpatrol

He's my pal, ok?

Mithrandir

There's nothing wrong with that.

But discussing a suspension rarely makes for a productive conversation.

Phase

13:00

@Mithrandir if people think something is unjust should they not express that? Could you please cite exactly what it is that was on the Be Nice page that he broke?

Seeing as it was linked

skullpatrol

Then back off.

Phase

@skullpatrol no need to get edgy

Balarka Sen

meh this discussion is more trashy than my memes

the problem about this room is not an absence of a specific topic everyone 24/7 talks about, but it is the drama.

which being said, i'm off. i should have started working half an hour ago. later :P

skullpatrol

cya, pal

Phase

cya

0celóñe7

13:18

@BalarkaSen Is there somewhere I can reach you outside of this cancerous place?

@Phase I did

Secret

in Mathematics, 1 min ago, by s.harp

btw I just found this: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/history.pdf (history of n-categories)

skullpatrol

13:34

Thanks for sharing @Secret

Avantgarde

13:49

@JohnRennie Yes, exactly like that. How do you do that?

ACuriousMind

@Avantgarde You post the permalink to the message, which you get from the menu that opens when you click on the arrow to the left of a message

Avantgarde

31 secs ago, by ACuriousMind

@Avantgarde You post the permalink to the message, which you get from the menu that opens when you click on the arrow to the left of a message

Did it go right?

Think it did, @ACuriousMind, thanks

skullpatrol

Yup :-)

chat.stackexchange.com/faq#permalink

Avantgarde

Aha, should've read FAQs

skullpatrol

np

Avantgarde

13:57

Thanks

skullpatrol

Frequently asked questions are frequently asked because they're good questions.

Avantgarde

I've probably skimmed through that, but evidently too quickly to forget this

skullpatrol

Yeah, skimming does have that down side.

Avantgarde

How youdoin

skullpatrol

Chillin', you?

Avantgarde

14:06

chillin like a villain

Wrichik Basu

Can anyone tell me the equation of the XY plane? Is it $z=0$?

Avantgarde

yes sir

Wrichik Basu

@Avantgarde Thanks sir:-)

@Sid how're thee?

Sid

Just returned to room. So, a tad tired. :-)

Leaky Nun

@WrichikBasu it's how art thou

Sid

14:13

And now, I have to complete the HW that I procrastinated for the last week

Wrichik Basu

@Sid take rest. Life in hostel is different.

Leaky Nun

> The barman says, "what'll it be?"
A tachyon walks into a bar.

Sid

@LeakyNun I see your avatar has changed.

Leaky Nun

@Sid yep, it's my identicon. It's who I am.

Wrichik Basu

@LeakyNun OK, OK, I'm not good in that English, but reading Shakespeare, I've acquired it. :-)

Sid

14:15

@LeakyNun Don't quite see you around here... though.

Leaky Nun

@Sid I mainly lurk in the math chat and the ppcg chat

@WrichikBasu it's just another pronoun

Sid

@LeakyNun and you haven't been around at Contact for a long time. :-)

Leaky Nun

I vs thou, me vs thee, my vs thy (thine before a vowel)

And then you use -th instead of -s for he/she/it and -st for thou

skullpatrol

What's the equation of the yz plane? @WrichikBasu

Leaky Nun

@skullpatrol sorry

skullpatrol

14:17

>8(

and the xz plane?

Leaky Nun

@Sid I was busy with visas

Sid

@LeakyNun Oh, of course. Real life issues...

Anonymous

@LeakyNun You're DHMO (if I am not wrong)?

Sid

Pretty sure Leaky knows programming and has a fair knowledge of Biology from my interactions with them. So, @blue what you are saying is plausible

skullpatrol

I doubt it.

Anonymous

14:21

I don't mean that. There was an user called DHMO who suddenly disappeared from the Math chat few months back.

Anonymous

And he used to visit the h-bar also frequently.

Sid

@Blue *they. You never know who is sitting behind the screen. :P

Anonymous

@LeakyNun Ah, my guess was right :) Welcome back!

Anonymous

Why did you change profiles though? @LeakyNun

Anonymous

DHMO

2.7k 4 20

Leaky Nun

14:22

@Blue I used that account when I was preparing for exams

Anonymous

@LeakyNun Oh, so your exam is over? I guess you're in university now?

Leaky Nun

@Blue I'll be in uni in October

Anonymous

@LeakyNun Wow. Congrats. Which university?

Leaky Nun

@Blue I do know what uni stands for :)

@Blue Imperial College

Anonymous

@LeakyNun Awesome :D

Sid

14:24

@LeakyNun Cool! Which major?

Anonymous

You did tell me that you're applying to ICL. :)

Leaky Nun

@Blue did I? I forgot

@Sid pure mathematics

Slereah

Anonymous

@LeakyNun Yup. You did.

Leaky Nun

Jan 28 at 9:04, by DHMO

@JohnRennie i'm in fact waiting for an offer to do maths at Imperial College...

Interesting

Anonymous

14:26

It was probably in the Maths chat

Anonymous

not here

Leaky Nun

@Blue can't find it there either

skullpatrol

Does imperial college have a policy about not using this site to prepare for entrance exams? @LeakyNun

Leaky Nun

@skullpatrol no

I just wanted to dissociate myself

Wrichik Basu

@skullpatrol $x=0$

0celóñe7

14:29

@skullpatrol there is a bot that flags me

Leaky Nun

...your mother. — Sam Apr 26 '11 at 5:15

skullpatrol

Good job @WrichikBasu

Wrichik Basu

@Blue what's the political situation? Was hoping to see you in TV ;-)

skullpatrol

Maybe s h o g programs them @0celóñe7

Anonymous

@WrichikBasu lol

Anonymous

14:32

I stay miles away from campus politics

Sid

@Blue Yeah, yeah. What's happening?

Wrichik Basu

@Blue but very near it, physically.

@Sid he is running, with politicians after him ;-)

Anonymous

@Sid hindustantimes.com/kolkata/…

skullpatrol

Like "The Terminator" robots @0celóñe7

Sid

...duh. That's a bummer. Political agitations can be so interesting.

Wrichik Basu

14:35

@Sid problem is that, the government of bengal passes a bill, and the Dean of the university is in a problem of strike under students, though he was in no way responsibile for the bill.

Anonymous

@Sid Here's something that'll serve your fantasy better: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/…

Sid

@Blue Lol. Locking up the VC. Poor guy.

ACuriousMind

@skullpatrol Do you think that writing Shog's name summons him, and that is something you want to avoid? :P

Anonymous

The "locking up" stuff is most probably a lie.

Anonymous

@Sid

Wrichik Basu

14:39

@Blue is it? Newspapers were raging with that issue.

Anonymous

Media houses cook such lies to increase readership. Any news about JU sells like hot cakes in Bengal.

Anonymous

@WrichikBasu Yep. Sure about that

ACuriousMind

@Blue Did the banner makers run out of colour halfway through "undemocratic"? :P

Wrichik Basu

@Blue always true.

0celóñe7

@ACuriousMind The anti-short one has bots that summon him.

It's not unheard of.

skullpatrol

14:40

^

ACuriousMind

@0celóñe7 Oh, I'm not disputing it's technically possible

0celóñe7

Anything related to the country of umlauts and beer summons him.

Anonymous

@ACuriousMind bwahahaha. I didn't notice that :'D

0celóñe7

@ACuriousMind But why take the risk?

When people get suspended for talking about gorillas, anything is possible.

Wrichik Basu

@ACuriousMind where did you find that?

ACuriousMind

14:42

@0celóñe7 I just find it interesting that skull seems to a) want to talk about Shog and b) doesn't want him to know about that

Sid

@0celóñe7 ...what?

ACuriousMind

@0celóñe7 Aside from saying once more that the flag system is broken in some respects there's nothing I can do about that now.

skullpatrol

You can go ahead and report (a) and (b) to him, if you like.

ACuriousMind

@WrichikBasu In the first article Blue linked there's a picture of students standing in front of a banner. The word "undemocratic" is only coloured up to the 'r'

Wrichik Basu

@ACuriousMind oh okay, that one. Funding is less, so I guess..

Anonymous

14:46

@WrichikBasu What, "funding" for buying colors? :P

Anonymous

Clearly they were in a hurry to protest

Anonymous

So they went with incomplete banners

Anonymous

lol

ACuriousMind

@WrichikBasu Protests get funding?

Wrichik Basu

@Blue yes, I mean that. Pockets are empty after doing all nonsensical jobs.

@ACuriousMind just joking

These protests are all from student unions of political parties.

But they don't get anything except the right to harass everyone.

skullpatrol

14:48

Perhaps, all the colors were used up after the festival of colors ;-D

Sid

@ACuriousMind Protesters do. Mainly funded by political parties though..

skullpatrol

Holi

Holi ( ; Sanskrit: होली Holī) is a Hindu spring festival celebrated in India and Nepal, also known as the "festival of colours" or the "festival of love". The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. It is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. It lasts for a night and a day, starting on the evening of the Purnima (Full Moon day) falling in the Vikram Samvat Hindu Calendar month of Phalgun, which falls somewhere between the...

Enough politics, let's move on.

Anonymous

@Sid I don't know if that's true. I don't think there were political parties involved in the background (in this particular case). But, you never know...

Sid

@Blue I am saying in general and not about this specific case

Anonymous

Don't shout, dude

Anonymous

14:53

:P

ACuriousMind

@WrichikBasu No need to shout, it's impolite

Wrichik Basu

@ACuriousMind did I shout? I didn't know. Sorry.

Anonymous

Capital letters indicate shouting :)

Sid

@WrichikBasu Bold and Block letters are indicative of shouting

ACuriousMind

Using bold and all-capitals on the internet is generally considered the equivalent of shouting

Wrichik Basu

14:53

no more politics please.

Anonymous

^

Wrichik Basu

@ACuriousMind oh, didn't know that.

skullpatrol

"Equivalent"

Sid

gah, I have been procrastinating doing my HW for the last hour or so now...

Wrichik Basu

OK, I'm not so much used to chatting on the net. You see, I'm only on SE and not on FB or Twitter. So I don't know the rules.

Sid

14:55

@WrichikBasu fb chats are not chats. I don't consider them so. There is no etiquette in them

Wrichik Basu

@Sid as I said, I have no knowledge in that field.

@Sid what HW?

ACuriousMind

@Sid Well, they are chats - just not moderated ones like IRC channels or SE chat

Sid

@WrichikBasu Homework. in Environment Engineering and Biology.

Wrichik Basu

@Sid oh. :-(

skullpatrol

Define: chat?

Internet vs real

Wrichik Basu

14:59

@skullpatrol Internet chat has only emoticons while in real chat, you can actually express your feelings.

Sid

Oxford dictionary(sorry JR!) says: "Chat" (Real)- Talk in a friendly and informal way. "Chat" (internet) - Exchange messages online in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network.

Anonymous

Forget chat. Talk about chaat. Yumm :D

Wrichik Basu

Internet chat lowers active social life, and becomes an addiction.

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