English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

KitΘδς

4:00 PM

@Cerberus State troopers can make a courtesy stop across state lines, I think. It's just more paperwork.

z7sg Ѫ

They have different state laws and courts and everything don't they?

Cerberus

Not that we're there yet by a long stretch in Europe...

KitΘδς

At least, local cops and county sheriff and staties have this arrangement.

Cerberus

@KitΘδς Courtesy stop?

KitΘδς

@Cerberus "It's not my jurisdiction, but this person is breaking the law seriously enough that it is worth my time to stop him for you and fill out all the necessary forms."

Cerberus

4:02 PM

Ah, OK. I imagined the police car stopping at the border for a moment to give the policemen the chance to curtsy.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus actually, the US states are different enough from one another that it's reasonable that they have different police forces and jurisdictions. (and of course european countries are more different yet)

Robusto

1

Q: Etymology of seemingly weird collective nouns

An unkindness of ravens, a shrewdness of apes, a murder of crows... In these collective names, i cannot find any remote relation to a "group". What is usually the reason for such collective names to have originated?

This is a dupe.

KitΘδς

Local law enforcement, for instance, has no jurisdiction to pull me over for speeding on the interstate, but he might if I'm an a$$hole.

JSBᾶngs

and really, it's pretty trivial. when you're about 10 mi away from the border, you call the people on the other side and tell them you're bringing in a presnt

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Any signs that these separate state laws might be abolished?

JSBᾶngs

4:03 PM

@Cerberus i certainly hope not. horrors

KitΘδς

@Cerberus You want to start the Civil War all over again?

Cerberus

Well, it seems silly. You have one big country, so reap the benefits? Just make NY law apply everywhere!

I know, I'm just provoking you guys a bit.

I wonder whether there will ever be an Atlantic Union.

aedia λ

@Cerberus If it was NY law, I wouldn't complain... it's those other, backwards states I'm worried about ;)

Cerberus

@aediaλ I know, I know...

KitΘδς

@Cerberus Maybe some sort of North Atlantic Treaty perhaps?

JSBᾶngs

4:05 PM

@Cerberus given the record that the european union has, i really hope not

Cerberus

@KitΘδς That's a novel idea!

KitΘδς

@aediaλ Don't talk trash about my state!

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Well, what record?

KitΘδς

Ever read Infinite Jest?

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus um, half of your countries are in financial default?

Rhŵdri

4:06 PM

@Cerberus We took it away and made them stick to Beethoven :-)

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Oh, that has nothing to do with the Union. Besides, don't you have several states that actually stopped paying their bills? That hasn't happened here yet.

KitΘδς

In it, David Foster Wallace has Mexico, the US, and Canada in the Organization of North American Nations. It took 500 pages to realize that this reduced to ONANism.

Cerberus

@Rhŵdri Haha now that would be a good move.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus we have that problem, too

Cerberus

@KitΘδς Haha, brilliant.

@JSBᾶngs What surprised me, however, was that it should be California—one of the strongest states, economically.

aedia λ

4:08 PM

@KitΘδς How you know I'm not talkin' about JSB?

Cerberus

Germany and Holland would never go bankrupt. In fact, we are profiting immensely from the crisis.

The same applies to Scandinavia, and, to a lesser Extent, England, France, and a few other countries.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus yes, and the EU makes a limited amount of sense for those countries. it's been very, very bad for the periphery. i'm especially mad at what it's done to my beloved Romania, and I'm rooting for the whole thing to fall apart any day now

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Oh, what has it done to Romania? I agree that some of the southern and eastern countries should never have joined.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus ruined the local industry by flooding it with cheap imports. caused high unemployment, forcing huge numbers of people to move abroad to find work. strangled the local agriculture, which was previously doing pretty well, by forcing on them a whole pile of ridiculous regulations

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Hmm... so why those cheap imports?

The Romanian farmers should have gotten the same subsidies as ours?

Which shouldn't be there at all, by the way.

JSBᾶngs

4:14 PM

@Cerberus not so, since subsidies are controlled by the nat'l gov't. but the regulations are international. tons of small farmers have been forced to close

they recently forbid garlic cultivation in the entire country. that and a whole pile of other things have ruined the previously thriving small romanian farmers

Cerberus

But why?

And what are those cheap imports?

Rhŵdri

They probably made the mistake of assuming they had to pay attention to EU directives.

JSBᾶngs

local industry was weak but improving, but it all closed (or was bought out) when it faced competition from german mfg

basically everything that was local to romania has been fscked

Cerberus

Ah, OK.

I was never in favour of Romania's joining.

JSBᾶngs

neither was i

user19161

4:17 PM

@JSBᾶngs Careful, in case you are suspended!

Cerberus

But perhaps the decline of local industry and agriculture is a painful, harsh shock that will nevertheless bring greater prosperity on the long term? I mean, apparently they weren't very efficient.

JSBᾶngs

@JasperLoy what, for checking a file system?

KitΘδς

2

Q: Can I say "speakers were amplifying their laughter"?

Is it correct to use speakers were amplifying their laughter? For example: At the beginning Jack and Jill were just laughing between themselves. But five minutes later they came up to the counter and began to laugh into the cashier's microphone. Now all the speakers in that eatery were ...

word-choice phrases

I don't like this question. Nor do I like FF's answer.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus they weren't very efficient, but they were getting better. but when you take a fragile, developing economy and expose it suddenly to competition from a larger, more mature economy, it just falls over and dies.

that's not "development". that's "the germans buy everything, all the romanians lose their jobs, and they have to move to western europe to do menial labor for western europeans to replace their lost wages"

Cerberus

Perhaps so. But didn't the government foresee this?

JSBᾶngs

4:21 PM

@Cerberus they probably did, but the political class and the wealthiest capitalists profited enormously

Cerberus

Ah, yes.

JSBᾶngs

i don't think that the existing gov't particularly cares what happens to the small romanian farmer

Cerberus

But I think something similar happened to Poland, though not as badly; and they managed to get through it.

JSBᾶngs

possibly. one can always hope. of course, one can also hope that romania just leaves the EU

user19161

Anyone any idea why it seems that many werewolf movies are filmed in Romania?

user19161

4:28 PM

@JSBᾶngs Same thing for the photo management software f-spot.

user19161

By the way, I did get into trouble for saying the things f-spot was meant to refer to in real life.

Rhŵdri

@JasperLoy It's got a lot of relatively undeveloped areas to film in, so you don't have to be so careful framing shots to not get electricity pylons or the like in shot

JSBᾶngs

@Rhŵdri and it's cheap, but not too difficult to get in and out of

Rhŵdri

Also it's cheap (see above).

Jinx!

JSBᾶngs

jinx

gah! have a coke

Rhŵdri

4:30 PM

Glugluglugluglug Ahhh! Thanks, I needed that.

user19161

Have a Kit Kat instead.

Cerberus

Dracula comes from Romania.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus depending on what you mean by that. romanian folklore actually has no such thing as vampires

user19161

The Western ghosts are not scary at all as anyone who has watched the movies with Eastern ghosts will tell you.

Cerberus

The classic by Bram Stoker puts him in Transylvania, doesn't it?

user19161

4:34 PM

I sed to be scared of vampires too, but I have started to adore them after Twilight.

Cerberus

That is not wise. If you encounter on in real life, he will eat you.

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus it does, and he is supposedly based on Vlad Tepes. But to romanians, Vlad Tepes is a national hero for his work in fighting the turks, not an immortal monster

user19161

The spooky thing is, several people died when filming Twilight Zone I think.

Rhŵdri

Sparkly vampires. Pah.

user19161

@Cerberus Eternal life is not bad!

Cerberus

4:36 PM

@JSBᾶngs Yeah, OK. But foreign film directors associate Transylvania with monsters in any case.

user19161

And all the three supermen got into accidents in real life, making them unsuper.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Not all bites give you that...

JSBᾶngs

@Cerberus they do. romanians are somewhat annoyed by this

Marthaª

@Cerberus No, Dracula comes from Ireland and England. "Transylvania" was just a nicely foreign-sounding placename.

Cerberus

@JSBᾶngs Understandably so.

user19161

4:37 PM

@Cerberus Oh ya, I look forward to one from you then.

Cerberus

@Marthaª Yeah I meant it Stoker-wise.

93 % of all Vampire bites just kill the victim.

user19161

@Marthaª Does Transylvania really exist on earth?

Cerberus

Yes!

Marthaª

@JasperLoy Uh, yes!

Cerberus

It was independent for a while, I think.

JSBᾶngs

4:38 PM

@JasperLoy i've been there. it's very nice. no vampires.

user19161

Transylvania

Transylvania ( or ; ; , see also other denominations) is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crişana, Maramureş, and (Romanian) Banat. Transylvania has been dominated by several different peoples and empires throughout its history. It was once the nucleus of the Kingdom of Dacia (82 BC–106 AD). In 106 AD the Roman Empire conquered...

user19161

I see...

Marthaª

@Cerberus Yes, while the Ottomans occupied Hungary proper, Transylvania was an independent principality, at least for some definition of "independent" that includes "sometimes paid tribute to the Turks"

Cerberus

Principality of Transylvania (1571–1711)

The Principality of Transylvania was a semi-independent state under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, ruled primarily by Hungarian princes. As a semi-independent state, the Principality existed from 1571 to 1711. Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Szapolyai family On 29 August 1526, the army of Sultan Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire inflicted a decisive defeat on the Hungarian forces at Mohács. János Szapolyai (Zápolya) was en route to the battlefield with his sizable army but did not participate in the battle for unknown reasons. The youthful King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia fell ...

@Marthaª But you guys apparently governed it!

Marthaª

@Cerberus And populated it.

KitΘδς

4:40 PM

Transylvania = "across the woods"?

Marthaª

@KitΘδς Something like that. Its real name is Erdély.

aedia λ

I come back and there's vampires? Eeek! I definitely haven't been eating enough garlic.

Marthaª

@aediaλ Where do you see vampires?

user19161

@aediaλ just get a cross or some holy perfume instead.

Cerberus

@Marthaª Ah, so is it mostly Hungarian now?

aedia λ

4:46 PM

11 mins ago, by Rhŵdri

Sparkly vampires. Pah.

user19161

Jacob removes shirt and rushes to protect Aedia from the vampires.

JSBᾶngs

@Marthaª its real name is certainly not a Hungarian word, miss foreign oppressor

Marthaª

@Cerberus Well, not anymore. For decades, Romanian policy was to relocate ethnic Hungarians away from the region, and encourage/force ethnic Romanians to relocate to the region.

Matt Ellen Д

@Marthaª Thanks :) Sorry I wasn't immediately summoned i was doing that thing I get paid for. It occasionally distracts me from chat.

Marthaª

But Transylvania was in some sense a part of Hungary from 1003 to 1920.

Cerberus

4:47 PM

@Marthaª Ah, OK. I suppose that's what happens in most countries with minorities.

user19161

@MattEllenД What message did you get for suspension? Mine was 'inappropriate content'.

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy Oh, I can't remember. probably the same

Marthaª

@MattEllenД I think you meant @KitΘδς?

Matt Ellen Д

@Marthaª oh

sorry, I must have copied the wrong message

user19161

@MattEllenД I think they would probably have ignore it if you have not followed up on my one, then they decided to throw me in as well.

Matt Ellen Д

4:50 PM

@KitΘδς thanks :)

KitΘδς

@MattEllenД What? Who? Which dates aren't validating correctly? I thought I fixed that... snerk snore

user19161

@MattEllenД Sometimes clicking on the right arrow replies to another message when a new one is being posted as this moves things upwards.

Marthaª

@JSBᾶngs Certainly it's a Hungarian word. Comes from the Hungarian word for forest, erdő.

Matt Ellen Д

@JasperLoy ha! sorry then. I honestly think the flagging was an overreaction, especially for you. But there you go, that's the internet

JSBᾶngs

@Marthaª it's pretty unambiguous that the Dacians (=Romanians) were there before the Magyars, since they've lived in the area since roman times. but the two ethnic groups were very thoroughly mixed throughout the region by the time the 20th century rolls around

Matt Ellen Д

4:52 PM

@JasperLoy I copied the permalink. I must have deleted the last number of the comment ID

KitΘδς

@MattEllenД It totally was. And without our mods here, you guys got the short end from a mod who doesn't know you.

Marthaª

@JSBᾶngs It's pretty unambiguous that the Dacians were there in the 2nd century AD. After that, it gets pretty ambiguous indeed.

user19161

@KitΘδς Let's just say that they have been too lenient with us all this while...

JSBᾶngs

@Marthaª bah. the real name is Ardeal, a completely romanian word

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy Pish posh.

Marthaª

4:54 PM

@JSBᾶngs Oh yeah? So, what does it mean?

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς Yeah, badp explained what happened. :-)

Marthaª

(Leaving aside the politics, I believe it can be shown from medieval documents that the Romanian word comes from the Hungarian word, not vice versa.)

JSBᾶngs

> I see diversions and hungarian propaganda presenting Ardeal being corupted from Erdely.... HERE IS THE TRUTH :

The words “Erdo” and “Erdely” are not of Finno-Uguric family and cannot be of Magyar origin, this means they are a corruption of another words . The Romanian word “Ardeal” was corrupted into “Erdel” and “Erdol” meaning “land of forested heights”. From the word Erdely, Erdo was then extracted to describe a simple dense forest, this is confirmed by linguists who have studied Magyar phonology.

Cerberus

@KitΘδς Did Wai do it?

KitΘδς

Still and all, I thought there were no such things as auto-flags. Did someone actually flag you?

Matt Ellen Д

4:56 PM

@KitΘδς apparently, yes. it was done by a human

JSBᾶngs

(note, this was copied from topix.com/forum/world/romania/TN3376BDED5PC7AT6, and may be completely bogus. i don't actually care much, i'm just pretending to defend the honor of romania from the hungarian oppressors :P)

user19161

@Cerberus It's alright, they are just doing their job.

user19161

But I don't know who flagged and who suspended. But it's our fault.

KitΘδς

I'm just surprised. Usually you get a verbal warning.

Cerberus

I was just wondering whether it was Wai.

KitΘδς

4:57 PM

I've screwed up before and gotten spanked for it, but never suspended.

Matt Ellen Д

in Chat feedback, 2 hours ago, by Matt Ellen Д

So are there words that are auto flagged?

I asked in the chat feedback room

KitΘδς

Being chastitised by @Reg was enough to set me straight.

user19161

@MattEllenД Reg says even f*** is not autoflagged.

KitΘδς

@Cerberus Maybe, but I think he came in after.

user19161

@KitΘδς I thought you have always been straight, but that's just a guess.

JSBᾶngs

4:58 PM

@JasperLoy kit is probably the least straight person in this chat

Marthaª

@JSBᾶngs My father will protest mightily at the thought that Hungarian is Finno-Ugric. It makes studying Hungarian etymology... interesting, when the very roots of the language have become such a political hot potato.

Cerberus

OK.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy Why in the world would you think I was straight?

Cerberus

@Marthaª But it is, isn't it?

JSBᾶngs

@Marthaª is he one of those that insists that Hungarian is descended from Sumerian or whatever?

user19161

4:59 PM

@KitΘδς Well, you are married with two kids. Though that is no guarantee.

Marthaª

@JSBᾶngs Or whatever, yes.

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς maybe the straight up dope?

(that's a good thing, right?)

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy It is very much no a guarantee.

Marthaª

@Cerberus As far as competent linguists can determine, yes.

user19161

@JSBᾶngs You can never tell here...

KitΘδς

5:00 PM

@MattEllenД I think it's just "straight dope."

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς ah. I'm not street smart :D

KitΘδς

I love that two of my favorite people are arguing over etymology.

@MattEllenД I'm not either, but I've been around the block a few times.

Cerberus

@Marthaª Ah OK.

KitΘδς

And it's neither good nor bad. Compare with "Give it to me straight."

Matt Ellen Д

ah

JSBᾶngs

5:02 PM

afk for lunch for a bit. leftover grilled corn from yesterday... yum

user19161

@JSBᾶngs Enjoy! yum=fedora package manager

user19161

@KitΘδς I am straight, though it may seem otherwise.

user19161

@MattEllenД Street-smart is really not well-defined. I consider the less street-smart people more stree-smart in many cases.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy You seem pretty straight. Well, I mean you don't mention boyfriends and stuff.

Marthaª

@KitΘδς But he does have a pic of Taylor Lautner as his avatar. Though that might just be wishful thinking?

(I mean, that guy is just so damn young.)

user19161

5:07 PM

@MattEllenД I am surprised you did not use streetwise since the dictionary says that is the UK version of street-smart.

KitΘδς

@Marthaª Well, given what I know about Jasper, I'd say it's more of hero modeling than lust, but I could be wrong.

user19161

@Marthaª Like we all are at heart.

KitΘδς

@Marthaª Jasper's not that old. And with his hurts, he's likely to act younger than his years.

Marthaª

@JasperLoy Eh. My warranty expired when I hit 30, and I've been going downhill since.

user19161

@KitΘδς More of physical attraction and wanting to be like him.

user19161

5:09 PM

@Marthaª You just reminded me, I am turning 30 in about 2.5 weeks.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy Yay! I have really enjoyed my thirties so far.

Cerberus

@Marthaª I hate people who throw away things after their expiration dates. Those dates are lies at any rate.

Marthaª

@JasperLoy Gads, you are young. Sheesh.

z7sg Ѫ

Strangely I have actually been much happier since I turned 30 although I often think <censored> where is my life going?

Marthaª

Just use "frell" as your f-word. :)

I keep trying to use "shiny" as a general-purpose interjection a la Firefly, but it has an annoying tendency to morph into "ooh... shiny" as in "ok, distracted now". :/

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user19161

5:13 PM

@Marthaª That is a good suggestion as it includes hell too.

user19161

I wonder what we will all think when we reach 40, 50, 60, 70, 80. Interesting.

Rhŵdri

@Marthaª Clearly you are a ferret :-)

Marthaª

@JasperLoy We could ask @Robusto what he thought of some of those... <evil grin>

KitΘδς

@Rhŵdri I have been called "magpie" for such behavior.

user19161

@Marthaª Better not, he is quite sensitive, I'm afraid we might piss him off.

Marthaª

5:15 PM

@Rhŵdri Hmm? (That whooshing sound you heard was your reference going right over my head.)

KitΘδς

@Marthaª How about Shazaam as a substitute?

z7sg Ѫ

I could use Frigg I suppose but I hate bowdlerisation, and self-bowdlerisation... no I cannot do that.

Marthaª

Ok, folks, my tummy is growling. AFK.

KitΘδς

See you soon!

user19161

@z7sgѪ That word actually means sth else possibly more offensive.

Rhŵdri

5:17 PM

@Marthaª (Sorry, I'm trying to find a good link to Kiki the Ferret in Sluggy Freelance.)

@Marthaª Bah. I give up. Just imagine something small, cute, furry, and very very easily distracted by-- Oh! Shiny!

user19161

@KitΘδς That is a good observation. It's called living the unlived part of your life.

z7sg Ѫ

@JasperLoy My concession to the overlords of banality is not to use those two words beginning with f and c as interjections. Everything else is staying on the menu. If someone else cannot handle an adult conversation about female masturbation or whatever, and flags me for it I can deal with that. :)

KitΘδς

@z7sgѪ What is this nonsense about female masturbation?

z7sg Ѫ

Ah yes the s word too, forgot that one.

KitΘδς

Females don't masturbate!

Matt Ellen Д

5:21 PM

I just found this great button in my flat!

z7sg Ѫ

No? It's just a collective male fantasy then?

Matt Ellen Д

Rhŵdri

@MattEllenД LOL!

KitΘδς

@MattEllenД Now you can push my button whenever you want.

z7sg Ѫ

Don't press the Kit button @MattEllen, whatever you do, do not press that button!

KitΘδς

5:22 PM

What's it for?

user19161

@KitΘδς I seriously doubt that.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy As well you should.

user19161

@MattEllenД I thought if I pressed it by clicking on it I would see sth else, but it was the same harmless thing.

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς it's has magical transatlantic powers!

KitΘδς

Installing update 8 of 271465709...

Matt Ellen Д

5:24 PM

or it puts my drum kit into play mode instead of instrument select mode

user19161

@MattEllenД where did you get the picture?

KitΘδς

@MattEllenД Did you press it?

user19161

@KitΘδς what are you running there?

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς frequently!

z7sg Ѫ

You say 'flat', but why are there mysterious buttons in your flat? It sounds like a sort of criminal mastermind's lair or something.

Matt Ellen Д

5:25 PM

@JasperLoy from my camera. I saw the button (I was drumming) and couldnt' resist

but then, who can resist Kit!

KitΘδς

I have an ex- who is a drummer. He can resist me, I'm sure.

Well, pretty sure.

user19161

@z7sgѪ The lair could be in his flat, or the flat itself.

KitΘδς

I think a lair is too big for a flat.

Matt Ellen Д

@z7sgѪ muwahahahahahahaha. I'm still looking for the z7sg button...

user19161

@KitΘδς Just wear a sign saying: I am married!

KitΘδς

5:27 PM

@JasperLoy That doesn't usually work.

z7sg Ѫ

@MattEllenД Get yourself a rainbow button and the unicorns will soon follow.

user19161

@z7sg Why are there numbers in the names of all the russian speaking people: trg787 z7sg vgv8?

KitΘδς

Anybody know how to use a style sheet to prevent an area on a webpage from printing?

z7sg Ѫ

RegDwight? Besides those guys actually speak Russian, I am more of a hobbyist.

user19161

@KitΘδς You can select pages to print or grab a screenshot but I guess these aren't what you are asking.

KitΘδς

5:30 PM

@JasperLoy No, I mean using the stylesheet to determine the layout for printing.

user19161

@z7sgѪ I know, I just find it a great coincidence and thought it had sth to do with russian like maybe unicode or sth.

JSBᾶngs

@Marthaª i'm not yet 30. just FYI

user19161

@JSBᾶngs but getting there soon I know.

user19161

Now aedia has the lambda. Yay!

JSBᾶngs

@KitΘδς you want a print stylesheet. alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint

Matt Ellen Д

5:34 PM

@KitΘδς yes... there is the @media directive. it works more in the opposite direction, so it will only include things for print, but there are other things

w3schools.com/Css/css_mediatypes.asp

KitΘδς

@JSBᾶngs Great, thanks!

@MattEllenД Also, thanks!

Matt Ellen Д

no probs

user19161

@JSBᾶngs I was wondering why you gave a link to some romanian thing till you changed it.

JSBᾶngs

yes, it should be good

aedia λ

@JasperLoy Yep. But, so many meetings, interfering with my chat... It's terrible.

user19161

5:36 PM

@aediaλ Back to work then, no skiving!

KitΘδς

Doesn't skivving have two Vs?

user19161

@KitΘδς Nope, unless my dictionary is lousy.

KitΘδς

Ah well, that's too bad.

aedia λ

@KitΘδς Wiktionary doesn't seem to think so.

user19161

However it is skivvy.

user19161

5:40 PM

Skivvy means servant.

aedia λ

Skivvies giggles

user19161

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/skivvy_1?q=skivvy

KitΘδς

That would be a fun question.

Rhŵdri

@aediaλ Don't make me find my innuendo comment again :-)

KitΘδς

How did skivvies go from meaning a chambermaid to underpants?

z7sg Ѫ

5:42 PM

How long has @RegDwight has a iotified Big Yus???

user19161

@z7sgѪ I just noticed it.

KitΘδς

@z7sgѪ I can't see it yet.

user19161

Obviously he has been spying on us too.

z7sg Ѫ

Is that since today...? It's weird, like he's here but also not here.

user19161

Chat is too distracting for him.

z7sg Ѫ

5:43 PM

Me too. Work is suffering. :(

Rhŵdri

@JasperLoy That's no excuse. Chat's too distracting for me, but I'm still here.

user19161

Life is suffering. Buddha

KitΘδς

Yay! My print stylesheet works! Thanks guys!

Cerberus

Kongrats!

KitΘδς

And it was so much faster than I anticipated that I can goof off a little longer and no one will notice.

user19161

5:46 PM

@Cerberus No Dutch here!

Cerberus

Heh it isn't.

It is from Kongregate.com, where Kit plays Tyrant.

user19161

@KitΘδς That is the beauty of chat!

JSBᾶngs

@KitΘδς i originally read "goof off" as "get off" and giggled

KitΘδς

@Cerberus No, I don't do any such thing.

Cerberus

@KitΘδς Not you, other Kit.

@JSBᾶngs Silly school girl.

KitΘδς

5:48 PM

@Cerberus Oh, OK.

Hey! It's @simchona!

Cerberus

It is indeed!

simchona

Hi Kit!

user19161

Hmm, I am wondering what the meaning of get off here is...

KitΘδς

Will anyone be offended if I post my boobs picture again for a few minutes, since she missed it last time?

simchona

Why does everyone have phis and cedilles and stuff after their names?

aedia λ

5:49 PM

Hallo, @simchona!

simchona

Hi @aedia lambda

user19161

@KitΘδς No but mods are watching!

KitΘδς

@simchona We can't agree why. It's for EL&U's birthday!

user19161

@simchona To celevrate EL&U birthday.

KitΘδς

Or because Alain did it!

user19161

5:50 PM

Jinx

KitΘδς

Or um, something else.

user19161

I think it started with Arda Xi symbol.

KitΘδς

Because we're χάοτικ!

@JasperLoy Well, Arda would have you think that, but it was because of @Alain's phi.

simchona

I thought Arda was female. And then he said he wasn't.

KitΘδς

OK, fair warning. Here is the picture again:

Matt Ellen Д

5:52 PM

woohoo!

simchona

Got it.

Matt Ellen Д

hooray for b**b**s

simchona

Someday I'll get my bfs permission to post my b**bs

Matt Ellen Д

!

KitΘδς

@MattEllenД Booboos?

simchona

5:52 PM

Bonobos.

user19161

@KitΘδς You are copying Cerberus who flashed himself to me.

Matt Ellen Д

@KitΘδς maybe

KitΘδς

@simchona Oh, did I need permission for that?

JSBᾶngs

i hate bonobos. stupid hippie apes

Matt Ellen Д

the censors won't tell me

simchona

5:53 PM

@KitΘδς Lol, my bf is...protective of my images

KitΘδς

Well, that might not have been me.

JSBᾶngs

so was that the real Kit? am habitually disbelieving of all images that people post online

besides, i already discovered that Kit is an omni-sexual robot from the future

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KitΘδς

But given the I have worked as an art model for ages, my husband never bothered to care.

user19161

@simchona Bonobos are bisexual.

z7sg Ѫ

Damn I missed something there. :(

simchona

5:54 PM

@z7sgѪ At least it wasn't me this time

KitΘδς

@z7sgѪ Didn't you see them this morning?

simchona

(S)he wants to see more.

z7sg Ѫ

I saw nothing.

user19161

@KitΘδς Then that was probably real.

KitΘδς

@JasperLoy Yes, that was real.

@JSBᾶngs Yes, it was the real Kit, from a pinup shot.

simchona

5:56 PM

Thursagan disappeared!

user19161

@KitΘδς Don't worry, I won't hunt for the face to identify you!

JSBᾶngs

@KitΘδς so in the future, omnisexual robot boob technology has gotten that advanced? i'm very impressed

KitΘδς

@simchona Banned until 2014.

user19161

@KitΘδς WTF?

simchona

Damn. For violating TOS?

JSBᾶngs

5:56 PM

yeah, what'd he do this time?

he seemed reasonably well-behaved from what i saw over the last few weeks

KitΘδς

Probably, but my guess is that's when s/he turns 13.

@JSBᾶngs Not ThursagEn, ThursagAn.

simchona

Oh, I foudn it

Thursagan

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user19161

@kit I think I should start working out again like in the past. Then I can flash mine here too.

simchona

it wasn't coming up on search for some reason

JSBᾶngs

i'm not going to post my picture, but you should all just assume that i look like a younger Daniel Craig

KitΘδς

5:59 PM

I have made a lot of money just for showing flesh.

Cerberus

Yeah post it!

Rhŵdri

@KitΘδς Is this related to his (?) being a prat on chat?

KitΘδς

@JSBᾶngs Funny, that's how I picture you.

Cerberus

Flesh? Ahh did I miss that.

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