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Cerberus

8:09 PM

Hi!

Kitḫ

Ohai!

aedia λ

@MattЭллен literally covering mouth trying to stifle laughter

Cerberus

Hello!

aedia λ

I had to go find that on my phone and that is almost never worth it and this time it so was. I can't stop laughing.

Cerberus

Look at the cute, choking, log-reading unicorn.

aedia λ

8:19 PM

@Cerberus Hi!

Cerberus

@Kitḫ I called on your male counterpart. I expected that you were doing the honours in his absence.

Kitḫ

@Cerberus Oh, I see. He doesn't hang out here anymore. I hear he has new digs elsewhere.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I just had to kill five questions unilaterally. The community is failing. I am a sad panda.

Kitḫ

Sorry, Reg.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I had to beg for close votes earlier today, if you remember.)))

Ending in me closing those questions unilaterally, too.

Kitḫ

8:22 PM

I don't remember any begging.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Well, then it was too subtle.

So perhaps I should start being more stern.

Kitḫ

I got distracted.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Off-topic stuff is off-topic. Do not answer. Vote to close.

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Jul 20 at 17:10, by RegDwight

Hint @everyone: if you don't know what the OP means, don't guess and answer. Vote to close and comment.

Daniel δ

FumbleFingers and Barrie never chat.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Haha, quite good indeed! Man he is a fast talker. As a non-player, I sometimes lacked the CPU time to process what he could have been referring to. But all the more funny.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

8:26 PM

Oh, and to add insult to injury I find this in my inbox.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ All covered in plastic?

Kitḫ

@Cerberus No, that's his sister.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Aww. Have some bamboo. It's canned, but surely you will grab whatever you can get.

@Kitḫ So confusing.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Haha that is so funny it isn't even funny any more.

Kitḫ

8:29 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 strokes soft owly feathers

How about a nice, juicy vole?

Um.

Ahhh not again.

What's with the cute sad labrador image?

Cerberus

I hate all this.

There.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

8:33 PM

Yeah I found it by the file name.

Cerberus

I was trying to reply to your panda.

Kitḫ

Aww.

Cerberus

Oh, and I need to go to the shop before it closes, BRB.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus I remember a certain image exchange in a certain other room.

You lost.

Have fun BRBing.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 What room? It was an abomination, the seed of all evil. It had almost destroyed this very website when Shog rescued us all.

Kitḫ

8:35 PM

Later, peeps!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

CU

aedia λ

I brought you a clover?

looks hopeful

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I eated it. Now let's see if wurks.

Baaaaah. It does not.

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Q: What is the meaning of "way better"

I sometimes hear people use "I hope you feel way better","This is way more than I was expecting" and etc. Could you explain this type of usage and what is the difference between "feeling better" and "feeling way better"?

Six upvotes?

What for?

aedia λ

It sort of has a coherent sentence in it?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And?

3

(^ a coherent sentence)

Now upvote me sixthce.

And yeah, I know I'm preaching to the choir.

aedia λ

8:47 PM

And I didn't see it and thwack it sooner?

I'm not a very good choir. I haven't even had time to answer lately.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 Do re mi fa sol la ti do!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Good edit.

Your shipment of fail was about to arrive.

Daniel δ

Yeah, looks like you might need to keep on preaching, doesn't it? :)

@Mahnax Why exactly is Pushka to be revered?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

For real. Every child knows that only Tsar Pushka is to be revered.

Any other Pushka is to be not revered, or at the very least not to be revered.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 I am not a child, so I didn't know that - why is it?

aedia λ

9:01 PM

@Reg Is there any way for us to see truly useful statistics about the site? Not, like, % answered or questions/day, but things that might matter for us in judging quality, like how many answers questions get, or how long answers usually are, or how often questions are getting closed as gen ref?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ Well, just try not to revere Tsar Pushka. Just you try. I dare you.

Daniel δ

@aediaλ Ever seen data.SE?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Daniel δ

@aediaλ data.stackexchange.com/english/queries

aedia λ

@Danielδ I forgot that existed.

Whoops.

Daniel δ

9:02 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Irreverent raise of the eyebrow

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@aediaλ Actually so did I.

Can't remember the last time I visited.

I used to hang out there day in, day out.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 It seriously needs a data dump, though.

Cerberus

Back.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus Enjoy the shop?

Cerberus

@Danielδ As far as one can enjoy a supermarket, sure!

Interesting link!

aedia λ

9:10 PM

@Cerberus Wuzzat?

Kitḫ

Holla.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@aediaλ The number of comments with a given score?

Cerberus

@aediaλ What the owl howls.

Or hoots.

What do owls do?

Daniel δ

Cerberus

Nice.

Daniel δ

9:13 PM

Though I do have a 27er.

Cerberus

Huh?

Daniel δ

Since the last data dump.

Cerberus

Then why doesn't it show up?

Oh.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

So Cerberus has almost twice as many comments as I do?

Nonsense.

Kitḫ

More comments = more controversial?

hunts for decaf beans

Daniel δ

9:15 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Even I have as many.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Something's broken.

Kitḫ

What's your money for jam, @Reg?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

In fact, they seem to have changed the format.

My money for jam query is broken.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 It is possible. I am known to discuss things in comments.

Daniel δ

@Cerberus *known

(Jasper isn't here)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:17 PM

Wait, no. Reloading it fixed it.

Cerberus

Haha, I was just going to say, you sound like a slower Jasper.

Since I had already fixed it.

Kitḫ

Damn it. How many scoops did I put in?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

data.stackexchange.com/english/s/866/money-for-jam-modified

Daniel δ

@Cerberus I wasn't sure whether to take the part...

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I am barely in the top 10 anymore.

Kitḫ

9:19 PM

I'm confused. Why is Daniel still drm?

Daniel δ

@Kitḫ Data dump.

Out of date.

Needs to be updated.

Kitḫ

OIC

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Oh man. Not the despite question. Good times. Sheds a tear.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 Though I really don't understand why I am the second in that query.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 What?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:20 PM

@Danielδ You are not JSBangs.

Oh wait.

Haha.

Sorry.

Never mind.

Must learn how to scroll.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 I never said I was!

Oh wait.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ Yeah but I said you did and I was wrong.

Daniel δ

You said I said I said I was?

Kitḫ

Let's all hug.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus The despite question.

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Q: Is it "despite" or "despite of"?

Should I always use 'despite' instead of 'despite of'?

grammaticality differences prepositions

Kitḫ

9:22 PM

Man. Good times.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

These were the days when such questions would stay open and get answers from two linguists and, well, me.

As I was saying, tears, shedding, yadda, etc.

Kitḫ

And you could actually prove them wrong.

Daniel δ

@Kitḫ Hence the tears.

Kitḫ

I miss Kosmo, and his voiceless uvular fricatives.

Daniel δ

@Kitḫ I joined during the tail end of his career, so I don't know him.

Kitḫ

9:25 PM

Luckily, there is still @JSB, with the laminal denti-aveolar obstruents.

fans self

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ There was no end to Kosmo's career. His career is thriving more than ever. It's just that we are no longer witnesses.

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Kitḫ

Must go self-flagellate. BRB

RegDwight Ѭſ道

CU

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Very nice. +1

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Haha, no way.

You can't be telling me you never seen this.

Cerberus

9:27 PM

@Kitḫ Kosmo was an incurable chatter and discussor, if ever there were such an one. That was, in my view, one of the things that made him great.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Of course I haven't. Or I would have upvoted it before. Where was I supposed to see it anyway?

I was about to be born at the time.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Well, that question pops up every single time TPTB start a discussion about "basic" questions.

Then again, you miss many of those as well. :P

Kitḫ

@Cerberus I loved the way he embarrassed me because I knew so little, but still felt like I had to say something ignorant. A lot of the things I've forgotten I learned from him.

Cerberus

Maybe my internal Index blocks anything related to TPTB.

Daniel δ

@Reg, why did you run a rep recalc the other day?

I lost 9 whole rep!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ Because I had been planning to for a year or so.

It was long overdue.

Daniel δ

9:30 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Why don't you do it every day?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Because I have a life.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Well, he was no Saint either. He had many goodie-goodie ideas about prescriptivism that seemed a tad hypocritical to me. I told him so, and he took it like a man, so I didn't think any less of him; but still.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 Is the recalc a stressful process, then?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Nah, you just hide in Paris.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Paris? Why Paris?

Kitḫ

9:31 PM

@Cerberus I meant my comment very affectionately.

Cerberus

Indexed books were usually printed in Amsterdam, not Paris.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ it's boring, thus the opposite of stressful, and yet just as gah.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 I would have thought it was as simple as anything.

Cerberus

@Kitḫ And I don't know what I meant or why I said it. I just say things.

Daniel δ

Do you have to do it manually for each user?

Cerberus

9:32 PM

I imagined it was a button press, but apparently it isn't. Not that I care in the least.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus How am I supposed to know why you were in Paris?

@Danielδ There's a link in the user profile, yes.

aedia λ

@Cerberus I think you just forgot the end of the sentence that goes "but still, we were damned lucky to have him and feel his absence keenly even now."

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Kitḫ

So I am trying to figure out what to make my family for dinner. There's nothing in the fridge, nothing in the cupboards...

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ Anyway. You are second in that query because your answer is young.

Daniel δ

@RegDwightѬſ道 Random dump date, I guess.

Kitḫ

9:35 PM

I dig down, down in the freezer, past the chopped spinach and the lasagna that someone made for us when my oldest son was born, and I find...

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 How am I supposed to know?

Kitḫ

Eggo Waffles!

Ding!

Daniel δ

@Kitḫ Oh, I thought you were going to say a cat skeleton.

Cerberus

@aediaλ Yeah I have said that like a thousand times in here. Especially when anyone connected to TPTB was here.

Kitḫ

OK. Now I must go feed them.

Bye!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:36 PM

@Danielδ Well, check back in 270 days, then we'll see if you still beat JSBangs.

@Kitḫ Mmm.

@Kitḫ Congrats!

CU Kit.

Sometimes I wonder whether Kozzie's bodiless spirit still haunts this room from time to time, observing us as we chatter about nothingness.

Daniel δ

It does.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:38 PM

You wish.

Daniel δ

Wonder on...

I've actually got to go make supper too.

It's getting late.

4:39 PM

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I've actually got to eat the supper I have made looong ago.

Cerberus

Is it good?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's pizza.

Cerberus

Frozen food can be like an Easter egg.

Hmm.

Pizza can be good.

Daniel δ

9:40 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 That's not an answer.

Flagged.

Cerberus

Add some extra Parmesan if you have it.

Haha.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Danielδ It is. I only post actual answers.

U no liek humor, i teik ball & go home.

Cerberus

I must validate Dan's flag, I'm afraid.

Hey, question:

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus And I must invalidate your nonsense about pizza being able to be not good.

Cerberus

Do supermarkets sell decent pie, like apple pie, where you live?

@RegDwightѬſ道 Take that back.

Or I shall have to go on.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:43 PM

Well, that's no pizza.

Cerberus

How much more do you need?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

One more picture of not a pizza, and I am out.

No further warning will be issued.

Read the file names.

Why?

Hawaiian pizza is a pizza that usually consists of a cheese and tomato base with pieces of ham, pineapple and bacon. Often versions will have mixed peppers and mushrooms. Another variety consists of pineapple and Canadian bacon. It is the most popular pizza in Australia, accounting for 15% of pizza sales. Despite its name, Hawaiian pizza is not a Hawaiian invention. The Village Voice, National Post, Toronto Sun, London Free Press and The Chatham Daily News have covered Sam Panopoulos' claim that he created the first Hawaiian pizza at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, Canad...

I will leave the defence to ponder the evidence and come up with a reply.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

9:46 PM

And I will leave to eat pizza.

You lose.

Cerberus

No, because I have delicious pie!

Matt Эллен

pizza isa good! pie isa good! can't we alla justa get along?

Cerberus

Fine. But I musta stipulata that it hava lotsa fat innitta.

aedia λ

Tomato saucea isa the most important parta!

Cerberus

Well, that too. But cheese!

Matt Эллен

9:53 PM

@Cerberus very true

keep or destroy?

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Q: What are the possible meaning of the expression " to hook up with someone"?

The meaning of this expression can be fond one the web, but the different meanings often differ. So what this expression means if those different contexts ? Would he hook up with you if ... ? They hooked up last night after the party. They hooked up and now are together.