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12:29 AM
@Robusto Dexter.
And fck me, the cliffhangers only get worse. This time it's the one where two major characters get shot. You gotta be friggin kidding me. I had like 90 minutes of sleep in the last 40-odd hours, and it doesn't appear I'll be getting a 91st any time soon. They should have ended with the happy-go-lucky scene before that, the entire family on the couch. Jeez.
Off to episode 5! FFS.
 
 
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1:50 AM
@RegDwightАΑA I saw that thread just this morning. Please do!
@RegDwightАΑA I was like that with Breaking Bad.
 
 
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9:51 AM
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Q: Witness To Allegiance

Stomp He witnessed to his allegiance to the king. According to definitions 4 & 5 of this dictionary does the example mean 1) he gave proof of his allegiance to the king, or 2) he made grand statements about his allegiance to the king?

 
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Nortonn S ^
 
10:50 AM
@RegDwightАΑA Is the new season running? I'll have to start watching it then. No spoilers, please.
 
11:49 AM
Morning.
 
12:00 PM
hi
 
Hey.
 
How are you?
 
12:53 PM
I'm awake at last, and the sun is shining. How about about you?
 
1:32 PM
15 hours ago, by RegDwight АΑA
I'll take the answer offline. Season 4, episode 3.
I think that indicates Season 4.
But seriously, you think I'll have access to the next season before you? I wish.
4th is the one you recommended, with John Lithgow as special guest star.
@cornbreadninja I guess so will I. Robusto's been pitching Breaking Bad like mad. I just don't have access to it yet.
 
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@reg Can't we just delete NS questions instead of merging? Merging encourages him to keep asking.
 
It's more complicated. Usually it's undelete old question, close new question as dupe, delete old question again, delete new question.
But some questions are not dupes and some are legitimate and even get good answers.
It's a judgment call.
 
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But if it is Nortonn S, he should not be posting anymore. Our merging makes the suspension invalid.
 
I think @Cerberus right there would like to have a word with you.
I have a line to walk.
 
user19161
This encourages him to post and post and post, and we will be like idiots doing all the work for him while he laughs.
 
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1:43 PM
@RegDwightАΑA OK, enjoy the walk!
 
Again, we do delete 9.5 out of 10 questions. Often within an hour or less.
I doubt it's the 0.5 questions that keep him posting.
Keep in mind all the other sites he's terrorizing at the same time.
They delete his stuff, too. He keeps posting more stuff.
 
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OK. I have a feeling this will last many years, possibly even after I am dead.
 
The man is working for the government. He is bored.
 
user19161
I wonder if the government is the mental hospital instead.
 
@JasperLoy I hope he will run out of IPs faster than IPv6 gets implemented.
 
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1:46 PM
@RegDwightАΑA By then, there will be IPv8. Reminds me of vgv8!
 
That's different. Vgv8 is in Russia. They only have one IP. What's with communism and all.
 
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I think we should let Thursagen and vgv8 return and suspend NS for life.
 
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Also, I hope the voting starts soon. I am dying to cast my votes.
 
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@RegDwightАΑA Another JLO! Amazing.
 
fastest commenter in the west.
 
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1:55 PM
@MattЭллен How is your Weekend?
 
It's OK, ta. How is yours?
 
user19161
Same.
 
user19161
I cast 16 delete votes today.
 
I've cast none today
 
user19161
I think 16 is the max.
 
user19161
1:57 PM
I wanted to cast more but was stopped by the system.
 
I think it's fewer for me
 
user19161
I think JA and JS can cast infinity.
 
probably
yes, I can only cast 5 per day
 
user19161
Do you know what a crazy cat lady is?
 
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I only found out yesterday.
 
1:59 PM
a lady with a lot of cats who lives by herself
 
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Meow!
 
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30 hours left for nomination.
 
Then hurry up!
You wanted to be the eleventh.
 
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Maybe Martha will pull a last minute one.
 
2:02 PM
yeah, that would be good
or @Cerberus
 
user19161
I announce that I have confirmed who to vote for and the order, shh...
 
Hello.
 
@marthaª still visits regularly, but she flies below radar.
 
user19161
SHe is on a Stealth.
 
2:04 PM
Not sure how involved she wants to be anymore.
But yeah, here's a ping for her.
 
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I think I will quit after casting my vote. I hope I succeed this time.
 
Cerberus has decided that he's a chicken.
 
Yeah. You go talk at him. I failed.
 
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@RegDwightАΑA No nomination = chicken?
 
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2:06 PM
What kind of QED is that?
 
@JasperLoy you misspelled "!"
 
parrot porn
@RegDwightАΑA I've suggested @Cerb run for co-mayor several times. He'd be really good, IMO.
 
I would leave all questions open. That's not good for you.
But thanks.
 
Or you could have your way with SWRs
 
@Cerberus you helped close 44 questions. You are a liar! That is bad for us!
You even voted to close two questions as not a real question! Not one, but 200% more than that! What kind of person are you?
 
2:17 PM
Mods don't do much in the way of closing, anyway. It's more cajoling the proles into action.
 
@RegDwightАΑA Learn2math.
 
and quieting them down when they get stirred up
 
I am not at all motivated for interacting with the proles, I am afraid.
 
Math is allowed to wait when you convict a very, very evil person!
 
200 % more than one = 3 ≠ 2.
 
2:19 PM
You might wish to look up joke, or troll, or Ben Affleck.
 
2/1 * 100 = 200%
 
@MattЭллен Again, learn2math.
 
@Cerberus NO U
 
Shut up the both of you.
 
2:20 PM
lol
 
I am the only one here who studied math. (Which means that I am the only one who's allowed not to be able to count.)
 
*lowl
 
My, you have a large mouth, gramps.
 
It is beautiful, is it not?
 
2:22 PM
Nowt.
 
Is that the girl from Aliens?
Oh, I forgot. You don't know what movies are.
 
What bird does a Yorkshireman dry his hands on? T'owl
 
@RegDwightАΑA What?
@MattЭллен Wait, why a Yorkshireman?
 
@Cerberus Exactly. QED.
 
2:24 PM
she mostly memes at night, mostly
 
QED indeed.
 
@Cerberus it's part of the Yorkshire dialect to abbreviate the to t'
 
Ah, I see.
 
Ah yes. Yorkshiremen. Blazing the trail for article-free English since 1873.
Wow what kind of stupid notation is this?
 
notation for the criminally blind
 
2:29 PM
I mean, it's harder to read than actual notes.
 
sort of like guitar hero
 
The principle seems easier, but try to actually play after the video!
You'd need a third hand to hit pause every hundred milliseconds.
 
luckily for me, I can't play before the video
 
If it were condensed a bit, and if you had a large vertical screen...
 
Why vertical?
 
2:31 PM
is it the equivalent of a playerpiano scroll?
 
In fact the fewer notes you see, the easier.
If the entire screen is filled with green bars, that's only more confusing.
 
or cylinder or however those things work
 
When I play a prima vista, I don't look four bars ahead, either.
@MattЭллен yeah totally reminded me of a hurdy-gurdy or a street organ.
 
Feb 16 at 13:48, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
 
2:35 PM
crazy Lego people
what will they think of next?
 
The idea is great, even the execution in terms of LEGO is fantastic, but clearly these people have no idea how music works.
The video is unbearable with sound on.
 
I could recognise the tune
 
Exactly.
 
similarly with 8 bit sprites, I can tell what it's meant to look like
sort of
If I squint
 
@MattЭллен that is actually very different if you think about it.
With sprites you only have so many pixels. You have to make compromises.
 
2:37 PM
they work with what they've got to produce adequate results
 
Here, many notes were fine, but every now and then they'd play a note like half a second too late, or not at all.
 
oh, yeah
I was filling in a lot, I just noticed
 
Certainly it would be possible to move the top of the corresponding structure one stud back or forth.
 
Haha.
 
In other words, you have a way better resolution with that barrel than with a sprite.
And when you're taking on a project that complex and awesome, why settle for less than perfect? Might as well not try in the first place.
 
2:40 PM
no! failure brings learning
 
You mean it sounded even worse at one point? Possible.
 
well, at one point there would have been just one note :D
 
One note on itself cannot be right or wrong. :P
Oh crap, it's 5 pm already?
I need a breakfast and a shower.
 
no! it's 15:43
 
Be gone with your heathen Unchristian Anglican time.
 
2:44 PM
You be gone with your unclean self
 
That's what I'm advocating, yes.
 
Latorz.
 
Good day, everyone.
 
2:47 PM
Hi, Mahnax
 
How are you this afternoon?
 
I'm OK, ta. How are you?
 
I am doing well.
Last night a Briton actually said ta to me, and I was thrilled.
 
:D where were you?
 
At work.
 
2:51 PM
I see.
 
Oh, has Kit been working on her story any more?
 
where did you read up to?
She's not shown me anything since the end of Macy's part
 
Hm, good question. I think I remember her blog URL so I guess I'll just look.
OK, looks like I've read as far as you have.
 
we've been working on the writing exercises Kit sets in the writer's chat
 
Oh, what are those like?
 
2:56 PM
well, there've been two so far
 
Oh, they're right there, by Twisted.
 
the current one:
in The Overlook Hotel, Jul 24 at 16:29, by KitFox
The exercise for next Tuesday is to write a dialog (only dialog!) between two people that includes within it pants and tacos.
the previous
in The Overlook Hotel, Jul 17 at 16:50, by KitFox
OK, then for next Tuesday, let's write a paragraph or two. The paragraph(s) should have no dialog, and contain a rusty nail, a tulip, and the word "spangled."
 
Neat.
 
yeah, it's fun :)
 
I bet!
 
3:01 PM
Feel free to join in! The more the merrier
 
I would love to! They're every Tuesday, yes?
 
Yes. So there's time to do the current one, if you like
 
Hmm. Well, I need to go. Bye!
 
OK, cya!
 
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Q: Gadsby - grammatically right?

asymptoticallyIn Gadsby, which is almost grammatically not wrong at all, occurs just a solitary construction that I thought was awkward. It is said that "... folks today who claim that 'a child don't know anything.'" "No child knows anything" could own its position, as it is grammatically right, and contains n...

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Q: "She 'don't' care about me": how to explain this?

mfadel Possible Duplicate: The grammaticality of “that don't impress me much” I know the rule, the correct form is: "she doesn't care about me," but I heard it in Lost series, I read it in many lyrics; is it a mistake by the speaker or the writer? Or is it informal? I googled...

Almost identical accepted answers, by the same user.
I'm off for a short walk around the block.
 
3:05 PM
toodle pip
 
3:30 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Probably the best season yet. Although Seasons 5 and 6 have their charms — and cliffhangers. The cliffhanger at the end of 6 is jaw-dropping.
 
3:43 PM
What you can do is make a photo copy of a novel (should take you 10 minutes for a short novel). Then use a marker to highlight any words that you would like to look up later, which you can do at your convenience, such as after finishing a chapter. Then you write down the meaning of each word in the margin. That way, you can later browse your novel and see if you still remember those words. You will have the immediate context with each word, which is a personalized, highly effective memory aid. I recommend this method. — Cerberus 21 secs ago
 
4:08 PM
Nominations close tomorrow brothers.
So, you can bet on which person to win, or last minute nominate yourself.
 
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@SonicTheHedgehog Hi!
 
4:29 PM
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Q: Evoking more power than "Titan"

Matthew PiziakEVE Online is a multiplayer game that takes place across a fictional galaxy called New Eden. Players pilot spaceships and fight for territory in large collaborative corporations. Here is a simplified list of the military-focused ship classes, going from smallest to largest: Frigate Destroyer C...

A carefully crafted question, but still subjective. And too localized.
 
 
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6:09 PM
another unfathomable:
Yeah, we use "pharmacy" (the store) and "medicine", but in some cases we can buy drugs (e.g.: morphina, etc.) in the "pharmacy" store. +1 — Carlo_R. 8 hours ago
Who is 'we'?
 
I never knew they spelled "are" as "r."
 
6:38 PM
See, this song sucks, but the video is good.
its an eternal problem for music videographers
 
6:51 PM
@AndrewLeach See my answer for an OED citation from Shakespeare (which while correct is fighting against Carlo’s automatic downvotes he applies to every answer he can find of mine). John also provides examples of its as a true possessive pronoun. — tchrist 51 mins ago
There's an eternal holy war with those two
 
7:33 PM
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Q: Peace Negotiation!

ShadowNortonnSI am willing to negotiate a peace treaty with members of this forum. Talk to me! Don't close this account yet; it's our only channel of communication. I promise not to post grammar-related questions on this forum or make new accounts while our peace talks are in progress. Yours truly, Norton...

This isn't a forum...
@MattЭллен What happens if he does post on Meta? My instinct is to say "three strikes, you're out"
 
this isn't a negotiation. he should stop posting until his suspension is up. There are no other things to discuss
@simchona yeah. I don't have anything to say to him, but he should at least post this question in the right place
 
I'm pretty sure he shouldn't get leniency at this point. This is his third suspension.
 
I don't know. He's harassed us for a long while so if I never see him again it will be no skin off my nose. And I know he's reading this.
 
There's a reason there's an election coming up
 
Anna assures us that's coincidental!
 
7:40 PM
She does?
 
Somewhere...
> Mostly it's just been a year since the last election and it's time to pick out a few moderators to help share the workload. Handling stuff like the recent abusive posts is part of that workload, but the timing of this election is accidental. :) – Anna Lear♦ Jul 24 at 19:18
that's a comment on MetaEd's nomination
 
Haha
Well, Waiwai deleted that post.
 
So how's your Sunday
 
It's OK ta, How's yours?
 
7:54 PM
Good good
 
8:07 PM
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Q: Proper use of aesthetic

Rajeshwar Definition: Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty Can this word be also used to describe a state of happiness? For example. I was aesthetic once I heard my score.

I really think he heard "ecstatic" and looked up "aesthetic" instead
 
I agree
 
@simchona between CR and tchrist or AndrewLeach and tchrist?
 
@Mitch Former
 
@simchona I think...how annoying to have to guess what somebody else misheard.
But then...sometimes ...sometimes I have that problem. 'Did so-and-so really say X?'
I also think ... OMG what a stupid ELL question..and then other times...hmmm why not help them out (for a reasonable question)?
Then other times...I really want eat cake...and other times I want to have it too. Then I realize 'oh I can -get- more cake'.
 
@Mitch it's true - we help Yoichi Oishi out when he can't hear things.
 
8:14 PM
OK...that reminds me...AFK to get some cake.
 
But then he does give us plausible alternatives.
 
@MattЭллен Exactly....the best kinds of...well his questions are not language learner questions, thy're more like a well educated person who is asking about strange turns of phrase that are unfathombale with cultural background.
 
Exactly
 
hm...that sounds like just YO.
So @simchona, you'll probably be voted in to be moderator to do things you're already doing? hopefully the tools you get will make it easier? (If by tools it means you can close with a single vote)
oops forgot..cake.
 
@Mitch I'll do the same things whether I'm mod or not, so the tools will make it easier
But I won't ragequit and be like "OMG you all sux"
 
8:46 PM
ragequits
 
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Q: Hard as adverb vs. hardly as adverb

Urgently She worked hardly. She hardly worked. Is one of the above wrong?

My NS-o-meter is buzzing
Trolls in the dungeon. Or UsingEnglish.
Hi @jake
 
9:33 PM
I see you're on Meta, @gigili
 
Hullo @sim.
 
When I saw your Meta question, at first I thought it was people flagging non-English, but then I realized they're flagging English
Also, while the room is pretty quiet I've been meaning to apologize to you for a long time, @Gigili
 
@simchona For what?
 
@Gigili For the non-English message snafu
 
@simchona Yes, that's really annoying and it's not the first time. Stupid people everywhere.
@simchona Oh, no problem.
 
9:38 PM
@Gigili I never copped to it before, but I really wanted to apologize for it
I overreacted and it was stupid of me
 
@simchona I'll forgive you under the condition that you make a big chocolate cake for us.
 
@Gigili Will coffee cake suffice?
 
Elected or not elected.
@simchona Umm, yes!
 
@Gigili Very well! A giant coffee cake for you it is
It will arrive in 6-8 weeks.
Additional shipping and handling fees apply
 
@simchona But ... That's a long time. I can't wait for 6-8 weeks to see it's not as giant as expected!
 
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9:48 PM
@Gigili Just imagine the cake is right in front of you now...
 
Hi @waiwai933
 
@simchona Hi
 
Is this user going to be merged with NS?
 
Possibly; there's something weird going on there that I'm taking a closer look at.
 
Weird how?
 
9:55 PM
Weird as in partially consistent with NS, but also partially inconsistent with NS.
 
Oh, that's complicated.
 
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@waiwai933 He might have switched his tactics to try to fool us.
 
And hello.
 
@waiwai933 The question seems simpler than usual, but it still seems like him
 
@JasperLoy The point is he can't fool us.
 
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9:56 PM
@Gigili I assure you he can.
 
He needs a tad less florescent kind of disguise.
 
user19161
@Gigili Given his past behaviour he can do anything. I am not going to trust him anymore, whatever he says.
 
10:46 PM
@MattЭллен I have to disagree on both accounts.
I found the video rather boring.
This went on for the entire 4:14 minutes.
The music, on the other hand, was exceptional. Very, very calm and peaceful.
 
Das tut uns leid.
 
Das ist gelogen.
But I must be off. Episode 8. Yay! And not of Star Wars. Double yay!
 
Ich langweile mich zu tode.
@RegDwightАΑA That is (yay)^2.
But have fun.
Episode 213434324534237996.
 

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