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3:00 PM
@Robusto Yeah, I heard they have a great sense of humour and a common one.
 
@Robusto This is like the guy who takes a triple dose of Viagra before he goes to the airport, just to mess with the TSA patdown screeners’ heads.
 
@tchrist Hahaha. And wouldn't it be funny if they just waved him through?
 
No, he asks for a patdown in exchange for not going through the scanner. This is always an option.
You can google it up.
 
No, I believe you. The point of my joke was that they patted him down and didn't notice anything unusual.
Let me spell it out for you: he had a small penis. Very small.
 
You're so funny.
 
3:04 PM
I の right.
 
And non-obsessed.
 
And here, etc. Google for "Viagra TSA".
 
and you give, and you give, and you give
 
Well.
That is...unusual.
 
3:09 PM
It's nice to know people are pushing the envelope on important research for our benefit.
 
What is this doing in my street?
The aliens have located me at last?
 
Oh good, now you get to finally go home.
 
I don't want to!
Besides, why did they pick the gay-pride day?
I feel like there is something they aren't tell me.
 
Today's Pride? Really? I thought it was last month. Nobody ever tells me anything.
 
It is more than a week, actually.
But today is the big canal parade.
I eh missed it too.
 
3:17 PM
Oh, it was June 16–17th in Denver.
 
Oh.
Bummer.
 
I had thought it was a while back.
 
Well, gay and straight are feeling up the futurist car.
 
Oops, it's apparently September 16th here in Boulder.
 
There is still time to work on your abs!
 
3:18 PM
But Denver gets about 250k for its Pride, and I doubt Boulder gets 10% of that.
Not enough time. :)
 
Perhaps it is just three gays dancing on it?
On the boulder, I mean.
 
In Boulder, you don't really notice if it's going on, because it's just like any other summertime weekend artsfartsy fair down on the mall.
But in Denver, it is massive.
 
It is like that here.
 
Streets blocked. Huge parade. Fabulous people everywhere.
 
We (Amsterdam) get hundreds of thousands of visitors for the gay pride.
And nearly a million watch the Amsterdam canal parade on television.
 
3:22 PM
In Denver it is a really really really big thing. Yes, hundreds of thousands of visitors. It is something of a civic event, and a lot of watchers and visitors are not Family members, if you would. Just a general city party.
 
Same here.
Any old big street party involves lots of boats, tourists, drink, and music.
Although Queen's day is the biggest event of the year, with probably a million visitors.
 
It can be a fun day if you have people to hang around with. Yes, that's exactly it, but no boats here. Well, there are boats in the parade, but they're being pulled.
I should think Queens’ Day and Pride Day would be the same day. :)
 
Hehe.
 
@Cerberus I see what you did there.
 
@ΜετάEd Tchrist did it, not I.
So the gay pride gets 380,000 visitors, Queen's Day 800,000.
 
3:25 PM
bows flamboyantly
 
You would look great on a boat.
 
Or a float.
Crossing a moat.
With a goat.
 
Actually, I don't believe those numbers entirely: people have interests. They want to make the number appear high so as to please advertisers.
 
Always.
 
But it's lots of people anyway.
Oh, we also have Sail, which gets 2,000,000 visitors.
 
3:27 PM
ponders whether gay pride day is the dominant exonym for Pride
 
Lots of boats and ships from all over the world on display.
 
Helps to have water for that.
 
@tchrist Heh, I don't know, nor do I know the dominant endonym.
 
Endonym is just Pride, alone.
 
@tchrist You should have Rock Day or something!
 
3:28 PM
People greet each other with “Happy Pride!”. It’s odd at first.
 
People greet each other?
Among my gay friends, all they do is mock it.
 
Jaded.
It's easy to mock a big production.
 
Sure we go to town, but we still disparage it.
@tchrist Easy and right.
We flee the centre to have a decent dinner.
Actually, I should take a shower.
 
I think amongst the gay community, it would not make sense to qualify pride with gay pride. There's some sort of needless redundancy there that falls out in context.
 
Gay community?
 
3:31 PM
I should go down to the farmers market.
 
Where is this community?
 
Well, there is that.
In fact, that's a bit of a sticking point.
No pun intended.
Honest.
 
Heh.
Sure.
 
I hate that this thing doesn't let me type as fast I as I please.
 
In a way, semi-naked people standing on a boat harm the emancipation of others.
I know, it sucks.
It blows.
Okay, no way around the pun.
 
3:33 PM
I think it's the outrageous drag-queen floats that always get on TV that make it worse.
 
Yeah.
 
I don't want to quench people, but gosh.
 
The majority will think, "oh no, I'm nothing like that, I just want to be normal, and now everything will think I am like that".
But such is life.
They will get over it.
 
First time I got dragged off to Denver's Pride parade, I was completely shocked.
 
I have actually never met a drag queen who wasn't lower class.
 
3:34 PM
Then I went to Burning Man for ten years.
Nothing compares.
 
What is that again? A festival, I believe?
 
Oh yes.
 
With lots of nudity and extravagance?
 
It's Mad Max meets Mardi Gras for a miraculous week and a day as Brigadoon appears in the desert.
Black Rock City is Nevada's 4th largest city.
 
Mardi Gras, isn't that in Norlens?
 
3:36 PM
Population 50,000 for a week and a day. Population 0 the rest of the year.
 
I don't know the other thingies.
 
I'm making metaphor.
Sorry, wrong cultural context.
Mad Max is a scifi movie.
Brigadoon is an old old movie.
 
Ah.
 
Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September, which coincides with the American Labor Day holiday. The 2012 Burning Man Festival is August 27 to September 3. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC. In 2010...
 
Sounds Celtic.
I'm sure it is a hoot.
 
3:37 PM
There is nudity, yes, but really, one doesn't notice it after a bit.
 
But I have to go.
 
It is.
Bye.
 
Good.
Later!
 
3:48 PM
@Cerberus Hmm, I'm not sure. I keep my computer plugged in for most of the time.
 
4:10 PM
Shhhhhh.
 
@Mahnax OK perhaps it is nothing.
 
sewing forever
 
4:35 PM
Is that a sweathouse or a cathouse?
 
4:55 PM
@rob do you still live in Chicago?
 
5:08 PM
this feels like a dupe of something, but I can't think what the noun before was
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Q: Why isn't "hour" in "it's a 5 hour drive" plural?

Richard PiankaIf one asked how long the drive takes, I would say "it takes 5 hours."

 
5:23 PM
Aw!
I feel good
dananadana
I can't decide who to vote for.
I got 3 votes,
 
vote for the 3 most likely to improve the site :Þ
 
I but I want to vote 6 people.
They all equally deserve my vote...
What can I do?
cries
 
choose the 3 whose moderator traits overlap the least
 
@Matt You mean yourself, right? :P
Shameless self-campaigning.
Oh, and I can't just decide not to vote.
I automatically voted one person before I knew what I was doing.
 
all votes are changeable until the election is over
 
5:28 PM
@Matt but I don't really want to call back the vote...
 
well then, all is well :)
 
But I have 2 more votes left.
Wait, can you vote for same person three times?
 
Dang.
ಥ_ಥ
 
you been peeling onions?
 
5:33 PM
You don't have to use them all right now
 
@Matt No, but I frequently drink onion skin extract for my health.
 
You can vote over the rest of the weekend
 
@sim and worry about it for rest of the weekend...
Should I roll 10 sided die?
 
I would think only a D6 would be necessary, if you say there are 6 who deserve you votes
 
@Matt make it 9.
 
5:35 PM
ok
 
@Sim You didn't tell me that you reached 1000 flags! :)
We should have gold badge for 1000 flags...
Idk, some sort of honorary title.
 
there's a gold badge for 500
I think Simchona is the only one to have it!
 
checks
By golly, you're right!
Almost let that mistake go.
Phew
Your vs You're =_=
 
heh
I make that mistake myself
 
@Matt I don't believe you.
I mean, you making that mistake?
Say ain't so!
Opp, gotta go.
 
5:40 PM
C ya!
 
I have 1000? Sweet.
 
1002, to be exact.
I can't believe you didn't know.
Oh, and I have few more minutes; before dad decides to use the computer that is.
 
@RegDwightАΑA have you ever seen черника (the European blueberry, not the American cultivar) on the market in Germany?
 
Blueberries!
Where? Where?
looks around
Wait, no!
We have been moved to 3rd in Gold Medal Rating Olympics by Britain.
I take back about what I said about Britains in Town Hall Meeting.
They have no class.
 
5:59 PM
we? who is we?
 
...
I see.
Dang it
Can't edit.
 
Google say top three are 1. USA, 2. China, 3. GB
 
We were third.
Until GB passed us.
 
Korea?
 
5:59 PM
I see
 
You know how patriotic we Koreans are.
And temperamental.
 
Hmm, everytime I activate my Game Bot, it gets significantly laggier.
 
activate it less! :Þ
 
Can't.
My Bot is more important.
 
6:02 PM
but eventually it will cause the heat death of the universe!
 
My Game is more important than the Universe...
 
@Vitaly I don't visit markets much, and when I do I can't tell a blueberry from a watermelon anyway. I think my wife at one point insisted that what was pictured on some marmalade jar was голубика and that черника was something else entirely, however I don't think there's even a difference in any of the languages I am familiar with. The label on the jar clearly said blueberry/Heidelbeere/myrtille/... which I would clearly translate as черника/черника/черника/...
Then again, nobody seems to have a word for земляника, either, though it's clearly not the same as клубника.
 
wikipedia calls them wild strawberries
 
6:06 PM
@MattЭллен yes, and in German you can call them "forest strawberries", except nobody would have the slightest idea what you were talking about.
As far as English goes, how do you tell a [wild strawberry] from a [wild] [strawberry]?
 
by how they look I guess.
I'm not sure if strawberries grow wild
 
Anything grows wild.
Leave a field alone for a year, bam, there you have whatever you had growing wild.
 
@MattЭллен the taste is completely different, too.
 
The global inbox is back to showing me deleted comments again.
 
6:09 PM
I've not had wild strawberries AFAIK
 
Yes. I have always hated клубника. Земляника, on the other hand...
 
@Vitaly so I see the proper word in English is bilberries.
TIL
Vaccinium myrtillus is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, commonly called "bilberry", "whortleberry" or "European blueberry", Huckleberry, winberry and fraughan. Range Vaccinium myrtillus is found natively in Europe, northern Asia, Greenland, Western Canada, and the Western United States. It occurs in the wild on heathlands and acidic soils. Its berry has been long consumed in the Old World. It is one of the wild origins and predecessors of the North American blueberry. Uses Fruit Vaccinium myrtillus has been used for nearly 1,000 years in traditional European medicine...
 
I can't tell the difference by looking
 
0
Q: In appropriate SORRY word usage

Jamal Abdul NasirIf someone make a mistake and say "I AM SORRY". This make sense because that person has made a mistake and is SORRY. But if someone's friend or relative dies or get an accident and somebody come for condolence and say "I AM SORRY". I think this is not the appropriate use of SORRY. Do you think i...

@MattЭллен actually I can.
 
Umm.
 
6:15 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Had you a comment in mind there, or do you presume it to be self-evident?
 
awe
@MattЭллен We had wild strawberries in the garden where I grew up. It was there naturally from when it was just a forest. When there were a lot of them, we used to pick and eat in a cup with milk and sugar.
 
@tchrist The comment's been up forever.
 
@awe what is their flavour like?
 
@RegDwightАΑA Cut it out. :)
 
But yes, before that I presumed it was self-evident.
As in, ELL.
 
6:16 PM
@RegDwightАΑA You definitely get stuff showing up chez toi faster than I do here. I saw no comment.
 
@tchrist drugs. Use them.
 
awe
@MattЭллен Not as sweet as the regular big ones. They can be a bit bitter if they have not got enough water in the growth, but when they are good, it tastes fresh and a bit sour-sweat.
 
@MattЭллен Why don’t you fix broked Engrish when you edit? Seems like you might as well get it all while you’re there.
 
I hadn't noticed all the mistakes
 
Oh, ok.
@RegDwightАΑA don't close it. i want answers. — Jamal Abdul Nasir 2 mins ago
 
6:23 PM
Besides, the OP will (hopefully) edit, and then you'll have to fix it again. Easier to do it in one fell swoop.
 
Yeah well.
They did just edit. Doesn't improve things.
@RegDwightАΑA You’re right: my blood levels are running dangerously high in my caffeine stream.
 
Are you closed?
 
I took the edit out. It was meta info.
 
@simchona Beetcha. I made 4 edits in 3 minutes. SE thinks I’m a bunny.
 
@tchrist fabulous. Already had voted anyway.
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Q: What do you call an item that appeals to a human urge but is unnatural?

Evan CarrollI've heard this term before, let me provide a context. Chocolate cake is ______, it is more sweet than anything that occurs in nature and humans are drawn to it naturally because of a desire to have their taste buds stimulated in such a fashion. It's not merely supernatural which has a conn...

Damn that chocolate cake.
 
6:43 PM
@simchona I need to put all these “extra” (>200) votes in a rainy-day fund.
@simchona Prolly devil’s-food cake, really.
Which makes it diabolical.
 
I was about to say super normal, but then he said it himself
 
No, he said supernoramal.
 
I have plenty of time to ponder the jokes I never understood when I first heard them.
 
I was thinking of perverse.
 
6:47 PM
that's my brain fillnig in mistakes again
 
My world is full of sore thumbs.
 
@tchrist you're on fire today. — Evan Carroll 1 min ago
 
hurries outside to check for wildfire
Honey is sweeter than chocolate cake, and it is decidedly more natural.
 
@MattЭллен Can the "computer age" just be added to "classic thought"?
 
7:02 PM
I don't understand the question. "computer age classic thought" could be a title of some sort I suppose
 
Would that be a meaningful interpretation of this image?
 
oh
well any interpretation is meaningful, I suppose
depends on the person
to me it's suggesting that thinking has been substituted for reading the web, or watching TV
 
Or, maybe "think about what is on the internet"?
 
yeah, could be!
 
thanks :)
 
7:05 PM
no probs
 
To me the image is suggestive of the typical computer-illiterate demeanor where your user has a booby's look while staring at the book, I mean the screen.
 
@tchrist don't forget stevia. It's OVER 9000 times sweeter than honey with chocolate cake on top.
Stevia is a genus of about 240 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical regions from western North America to South America. The species Stevia rebaudiana, commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or simply stevia, is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener and sugar substitute, stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations. With its steviol glycoside extracts having up to 300 times ...
 
7:54 PM
@RegDwightАΑA Evan doesn’t know what he’s talking about with chocolate cake and sweetness, but the insane appeal of chocolate is widely commented upon.
Anyway, raw pure chocolate isn’t even sweet, so all the sweet in the cake derives from sugar.
But chocolate is full of all kinds of other stuff that may make one mad for it.
 
Oh that wily chocolate
 
I ate chocolate half hour ago.
It was delicious.
 
8:10 PM
Hi @Luke
 
8:35 PM
@simchona Hello
 
@Luke I just answered your Meta question.
 
You know whats really weird?
 
@Luke Also, if Evan decides to edit the phrase back into the question (which, knowing that user, is very possible), definitely consider flagging the question as "other" and enter a request for the post to be locked for editing because of that.
@SonicTheHedgehog What
 
Some long time ago, I asked a question on meta about tiny white holes inside the chatroom. Do you remember?
We arrived to a conclusion that Hover Zoom extension was causing it.
However, to this day I use Hover Zoom.
But that tiny spots in the chatroom disappeared after sometime. I don't even see it now.
 
Thanks @simchona
 
8:44 PM
@SonicTheHedgehog Maybe you just don't notice it any more
@Luke You're welcome. If you have more questions, feel free to ping me in chat. I'm in here quite a lot
 
@sim I'm not sure. I'm prone to notice things like that.
 

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