« first day (1134 days earlier)      last day (3785 days later) » 

Ste
9:05 AM
Morning all!
 
Ste
9:15 AM
Reopen @Hugo 's Christmas question. I'm only seven votes from Gold!
 
9:43 AM
13
Q: One word for Christmas?

HugoIs there a single word that means "Being merry at Christmas" but excludes being merry or happy at New Year?

ha ha:
 
Huh.
Why create an account for that?
 
@RegDwigнt I guess it'll create at least a first post review
maybe some others? I didn't make it btw
 
Oh I can see that you didn't alright.
 
That is hat piracy >8(
!!wiki piracy
 
Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal...
 
9:48 AM
Bah, variable naming again. I'll let others handle the closing.
That's four reviews for the close queue.
 
Ste
I finally got Robocop so I don't need any more reviews for now.
 
I now have 3 hats.
 
Hey cool.
That is +200%.
@Ste congrats.
Robocop was extremely annoying.
I think I don't need any more reviews ever.
 
Ste
Especially not being able to track progress!
Haha!
 
Yes, especially that.
 
9:56 AM
What is happening on Dec 20? Why ask people to drop in?
 
"Winter is coming"
 
@JasperLoy Special hats!
 
maybe they got the (northern hemisphere) winter solstice dates wrong
 
But don't tell Cerberus, lest the hat hater won't show up on principle.
 
it can be on 20th but is 21st this year
 
10:02 AM
A hat hater is not a hatter.
 
Matt is not here today.
 
10:31 AM
@RegDwigнt whenever I get to the review queues there's nothing there, so I thought I'd help people out who needed it
@JasperLoy yeah, I'm else where, doing other things.
 
Don't you think these are some of typical "cool" names used in movies?
Kiddo, Freddo, Mr. (Frank, Nick and etc), West, East, North, South
 
Boah annoying MSO arguments are annoying.
Obviously it's a-okay to say "I and everyone I know know Chuck Yeager", but it's not a-okay to use the exact same argument structure and say "I and everyone I know have never so much as heard the name Chuck".
Bah.
They flat out told me, "I'm afraid you should be embarrassed!"
 
I called them true Scotsmen in return, but they refused to accept that.
@Lightness: all I am saying is that your no-true-Scotsman argument is incredibly arrogant. If everyone already knew what everyone else already knows, then Stack Exchange would not exist. — ЯegDwight 17 mins ago
 
I'd never heard of Chuck Yeager
 
10:39 AM
I'm afraid you should be embarrassed.
I know you already are anyway, but perhaps you could be embarrassed harder.
 
I've been to RAF bases, ones run by Americans at that. Noöne so much as mentioned him
 
The thing is, go ask 10000 people on Times Square, noöne will know him there, either.
So in a way he's right, it doesn't merely have to do with distance.
 
But distance is a factor.
If you go ask 10000 people on the Beautiful Square, even less than nöone will know him.
 
I wonder if Chuck Yeager knows who Chuck Yeager is
 
10:41 AM
Is he still alive? I forget.
 
90 years young
 
I want to forget all about him now.
Anyway. I'm now trying to catch up somewhat on ELL.
Hat-wise.
Already up from 55th to 16th.
 
I'm in 56th
 
24
A: Is "rain is falling" entirely wrong?

J.R.It is raining is how we normally describe the weather on a rainy day. However, that doesn't make rain is falling gramatically incorrect. That construct may not be a common way to describe the weather, but it's not "wrong." The word rain can be a verb, or a noun; as a noun, it refers collectively...

 
I could earn one hat...
 
10:44 AM
Give JR a hat for silver.
@MattЭллен you could edit an old CW post for three hats at once.
Link, Stallman, and Cerberus.
 
@RegDwigнt I'll get frosty, while i'm at it
 
Good thinking.
I wonder if they have any Guru candidates on their meta.
 
damn
Similar thing happened again after Eunji Ban..
Why would he go outside to meet an unidentified person at night with $15,000 on him?
Detective Inspector Rod Kemp = "It's different to Eunji Ban, thank goodness for that,
 
I'm afraid I should be embarrassed. I've never heard of Eunuch Ban.
 
Are you from Australia?
It's not Eunuch Ban, it's "Eunji Ban", lol!
 
11:00 AM
I am from the opposite of Australia.
 
5 more views needed for kit!
 
You mean, slightly lower quality Australia, New Zealand?
 
@MattЭллен post it on Tumblr.
@EnglishMaster come again? NZ >>> Australia.
They've even got earthquakes.
 
and dragons and hobbits
 
and Alpacas
and Llamas ^_^...
 
11:03 AM
Well, that's where the dragons come from.
Earthquakes are the mother of all things.
 
all Australia has are the matrix and soap operas
 
And Nicole Kidman.
 
Do you eat Llama over there like Aussies eat Kangaroos?
 
@MattЭллен link? There's about 5 here
 
@RegDwigнt all Australian actors come from soap operas
 
Ste
11:03 AM
What is Kit's link again?
 
12
Q: Is there a semantic difference between "pedophile" and "pederast"?

KitFoxIf I understand the etymology of pedophile and pederast, both mean child lover. Is there a difference in their connotation? In some recent local news stories that discuss changing sex offender laws, the controversy has centered around dividing the pedophiles and the rapists from the more questi...

 
@MattЭллен I wouldn't know, I struggle to name an Australian actor.
 
@RegDwigнt Nicole Kidman
 
@MattЭллен she's an actor?
 
that's what she'll tell you. who am I to disagree
 
Ste
11:04 AM
Now only needs 4!
 
1
 
Now 7 again.
 
I hope there are fireworks when it hits 10k
 
!!wiki fireworks
 
11:05 AM
@badass No result found
 
Ste
Haha
 
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic, cultural, and religious purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics) is a display of the effects produced by firework devices. Fireworks competitions are also regularly held at a number of places. Fireworks take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke and floating materials (confetti for example). They may be designed to burn with flames and sparks of many colors, typically red, o...
 
!!youtube fireworks
 
All these premature fireworks.
 
11:07 AM
1 to go!
 
Ste
One more view!
 
think about baseball ;-)
 
@RegDwigнt Prematurity sounds about right.
 
I don't understand why Korean people consider going on "Working Holiday" is a must-do thing in their life
 
Ste
@Hugo - I'll award you your bounty in a couple of hours once I'm allowed.
 
11:10 AM
@Ste Oh! on which question? I could get IG-88
 
@EnglishMaster because that's the Gundam style.
 
@MattЭллен Oh! How?
 
9 hours ago, by KitFox
@Robusto A question with a bounty. You answer during the bounty period. The bounty goes to someone else. You get IG-88.
 
!!youtube gangnam style
 
Ste
11:12 AM
38
Q: What did "google" mean in the 1900s?

JimI know that Google got its name from the word googol (10100), and that Google/google referring the search engine/using the search engine are recent additions to the dictionary. Their definitions are easily found for such meaning (example). However, just for kicks, I did a Google Ngram search for...

 
And I'll be doing:
3
Q: Is the phrase "having a rave up" still in use?

jhsowterI found the title of a 1965 album by the Yardbirds called Having a Rave Up quite funny when I first saw it. Dictionary.com defines "rave-up" as "a party, especially a wild one," and notes that this is an informal, British term. The reason it seems funny to me is because, although I have heard the...

 
Yeah, but it's a busy place to live
 
icic
 
!!youtube hangman style
 
11:14 AM
lol
 
Ste
@MattЭллен - Add an answer to either the rave up or google question then as Hugo and I are reciprohatting on those. Don't give me the bounty on your "wanting to believe" question then I can get IG-88
 
@Ste gotcha
 
Hey @KitFox!
 
I think my family moved here because house price around here was going to skyrocket
 
did it?
 
11:15 AM
yeah
 
nice
 
They should've done the same in Shanghai too
 
Morning.
 
8 mins ago, by badass
think about baseball ;-)
 
but you can't buy properties there anymore because it's already too expensive
 
11:16 AM
hey
 
Hi, DarkHorse
 
Hi @Cerberus @DarkHorse
 
Ste
Morning all.
I'm on the train for 5.5 hrs on Saturday. I'm going to spend the entire time collecting hats.
 
@Ste why you need to do that?
 
Ste
@DarkHorse I live in Sunderland but work in Berkshire.
 
11:19 AM
@EnglishMaster well you can only buy so much real estate at one time
Cost/risk wise
 
@Ste okay, But why is hats?
not other thing?
 
Hiya.
 
three wise men?
 
Yes.
 
Is there anyone come from China?
 
11:21 AM
And usually people buy there first real estate (investment) with their bank lawn so if your plan doesn't work out then you will end up with mountains of debts
 
But they can't get to Bethlehem, because...
 
...the great wall is in the way?
 
@Cerberus Bethlehem was in Judea, which no longer exists :D
 
@DarkHorse Are you from that place called "Ghoung-go" but westerners decided to call it "China" because most Chinas were made there?
 
@badass The Israeli government built a wall blocking Palestinians.
 
11:24 AM
icic
 
@MattЭллен Don't tell that to the Israelians!
 
"bank lawn" -> "bank loan"
 
@Cerberus oh dear. what if mossad are listening!
 
@EnglishMaster Never heard of "Ghoung-go"
 
@DarkHorse Zhong guo
 
Ste
11:25 AM
@DarkHorse - Hats on StackExchange!
 
@EnglishMaster your spell is right. Do you come from there?
 
So I learned Zhong guo means centre of the entire world, right?
 
@EnglishMaster lol
 
@MattЭллен Oh, they are...but no doubt they will keep inconvenient truths from their leaders?
 
ah! of course
 
11:28 AM
 
I hope so, But in fact it's the bottom of hell
@EnglishMaster
 
Well, it's a dynamic and creative place, in my opinion. When Buddhism arrived in China, they invented Kung-fu out of it. Indian people couldn't do that, you know?
Indian people weren't creative enough
 
They were to busy creating zero.
Or something out of nothing.
 
@EnglishMaster so you like China? where are you from?
 
11:33 AM
!!wiki three wise men
 
@badass The Gods of Wikipedia did not bless us
The Magi ( or ; Greek: μάγοι, magoi), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were in Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They are regular figures in traditional accounts of the nativity celebrations of Christmas and are an important part of Christian tradition. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the only one of the four Canonical gospels to mention the Magi, they were the first religious figures to worship Jesus. It states that "they" came "from the east" to wors...
 
-Story of zero -
Indian guy: "Hmm, I want to buy that bag of rice. How much does it cost?"
Shop owner: "It's 10 ruppees, my friend"
Indian guy: "Is there any discount price?"
Shop owner: "No no, 7 rupees is lowest I can offer"
(Indian guy draws a circle with his a stick on the floor)
Indian guy: "What is this mysterious circular number value.. hmm, very fascinating. Wait, this is what I want to pay for this bag of rice!!.. ZERO!"
 
:D
@EnglishMaster how much do you want pay for it?
 
Shop owner cries after seeing the greatest mathematical discovery in human history and hands over the bag of rice for ZERO
ZERO, mate!
 
my English is very poor, how to improve it?
 
11:38 AM
 
@badass thanks for the reference
 
@badass what's this? report 404 error
 
@DarkHorse come here and practice, practice, and practice
 
Or even practise.
 
that^ too
 
11:40 AM
Are you guys all from India?
 
Why do you ask that?
 
I'm from India, my friend
 
what's your intention to take part into this room?
 
How do Chinese people view India?
 
@EnglishMaster A big country with the most people in the world
and The train is always filled with people even on the top of it. :D
 
11:42 AM
How do Indian people view China?
 
I like movie of India
 
What the...
0
Q: "Went to school happily" vs. "happily went to school" vs. "went happily to school"

user57916 The boy went to school happily. The boy happily went to school. The boy went happily to school. If the adverb “happily” is allowed to be put in the three places above, what are the different impressions you think it will give to readers?

0
Q: What are the differences between "go to school happily", "go happily to school" and "happily go to school"?

Ning GuoThere are three similar phrases which I would like to know the differences between: go to school happily go happily to school happily go to school I have long been confused by the placement of adverbs. From my personal view, there are definitely tiny differences, but I'm not sure...

 
especially for action movie
 
Some class is collectively on ELU.
 
should be on ESL
 
11:44 AM
Anyone still needs obsolete flags?
 
nein, danke
 
danke, nein?
 
@AndrewLeach still needs some.
Here are some obsolete comments. Flag before I merge the question.
 
@Mitch @transmission Americans admit Indian diplomat was fingered. nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/12/19/…
> Volgens het Amerikaanse OM kreeg de diplomaat privileges die normale Amerikanen niet zouden krijgen. Zo zou haar toegestaan zijn om te bellen. Het feit dat ze gevisiteerd werd, is volgens de aanklager een standaard veiligheidsprocedure.
 
@RegDwigнt Flagged five. How many do I need still?
 
11:51 AM
@DarkHorse Are you a Chinese programmer?
 
@AndrewLeach you need five for a hat, but fifteen for another. I don't know how many you flagged already in the last two days.
But unlike reviews, flags are free, you are not taking away from others, so just flag the hell out of everything until you have both hats.
 
@EnglishMaster May be
so?
 
@RegDwigнt Ah, OK, thanks. I already have this rather fetching eagle face.
 
Poor DarkHorse! No hats at all?
 
How much do I need to pay you for an hour to do some programming work?
 
11:53 AM
@AndrewLeach right. So now you'll only need five more at most.
 
I have 21 hats but no Milliner. is there a trick to it?
 
@EnglishMaster thirty thousand Euro.
 
per hour?
 
do the hats have to be non-secret hats?
 
@MattЭллен you don't have 21 hats on ELU.
 
11:55 AM
I keep frogetting that secret doens't have a seilent t
 
The Apple PC and the Old Hat are from other sites.
 
@RegDwigнt oh!
 
You need to have 20 on one site.
So one more and you'll have two more.
 
@MattЭллен are you wearing the unicorn hat?
 
11:58 AM
@badass yes. I like to think of myself as a unicorc
 
Ste
Does anybody else want to answer the bounty question for IG88 before I give the bounty to @Hugo ?
 
could I get an up vote for my answer, just in case I need it for IG-88?
 
@MattЭллен icic so, the two mythical creatures don't cancel each other out?
 
Ste
@MattЭллен Done.
 
thanks!
@badass some do, but in this case we make each other better
 
12:00 PM
hmm... hyper-mythical
 
Ste
It still says I need to wait another 2 hours before I can award a bounty.
 
I wonder if there's a secret hat if all the votes in a day are downvotes.
 
yay it's called a downer
 
@tchrist I think I once read that hugger-mugger was of Indian origin.
@RegDwigнt It's called Breaking Bad.
 
12:03 PM
@RegDwigнt well, there's that secret hat with the face covered in grey patches. I've no idea what that's for
 
@Robusto Ozymandias would be even better.
Everyone goes down.
 
Dimple Pinch Neat.
 
You got it.
@MattЭллен perhaps that one's for inventing a device for stabbing people in the face over SE?
 
@EnglishMaster He stole that from me.
 
12:06 PM
socks?
 
Robusto invented English.
 
Yeah. "You got me fucking socks?" I trademarked that a long time ago.
 
That includes inventing socks. It also includes inventing everything. Including including and inventing.
 
You owe me royalties for all those words, btw.
LinkedIn keeps asking me if I know my wife. I just laugh.
 
I don't know what "owe" or "royalties" means. You invented them.
 
12:08 PM
@Robusto Star!
 
bows
 
Where is Linked In, it should bow.
 
No, it's true though. It gives me a list of three people and asks me if I know them: my wife, and two people I never heard of. Way to go, LinkedIn.
Better check your heuristic combobulator.
@RegDwigнt Ignorance is no excuse.
 
Ignorance is merely an excuse.
It's no defence.
 
De fence goes round de property.
 
12:13 PM
I find lawyers are good for defence. if you put one in the way as someone swings a punch in your direction, you don't feel a thing.
 
This just in: "Top News for Robert: Facebook Launches Auto-Play Video Ads." Wow, pinch me. Thanks, LinkedIn, you are a godsend. What would I have done without that information?
 
At least you know to write a Greasemonkey script now.
And I know another reason not to join Facebook.
 
See? Twitter knows how to feed me what I need. Take a lesson, FaceBook and LinkedIn.
 
@Robusto I'll ignore that.
MultiCollider material:
1
Q: What is a term for someone who is bad at communicating with other people?

UrbycozI can only think of longer phrases. e.g. Don't worry about Geoff's manner. He's not a people-person. But I'm sure there's a more succinct term.

Will get 500 views by noon.
 
My effort at MC was a dismal failure. I don't have my finger on the pulse of the ignorati, I gus.
 
12:21 PM
@Robusto ask for the antonym of "ignorati".
You can thank me later.
It will literally get you ten answers within ten minutes. You'll skyrocket.
0
Q: Christmas Greeting

user3100870Are the below sentences grammatically correct? I wish a very happy Christmas and prosperous new year to you and your family.

See, this is how you do it.
Think simple.
 
Keep it simpe silly
Kiss
 
@kitfox Rory has the scarf! On Information Security, though.
 
@RegDwigнt Hmm, "the below sentences"—sounds like Indian pineapplese.
 
@RegDwigнt Hi!
Are those fireworks for me?
'Cause my birthday is in July.
 
@KitFox fireworks and a hat.
Gah you are silly.
 
12:26 PM
And a gold badge, which will last longer than a hat.
 
I just got the "Winter is Coming" hat, but it ain't December 20th yet.
Not even in Greenwich.
 
So Rory got a Notable Question three hours ago. And two Good Questions before that.
 
Oh! Oh! That hat!
brb
 
We are 84 hats behind the Linux & Eunuchs pukes. flogs horses, dogs, and kits
 
Do you using English dictionary?
why not getting hats by photoshop?
 
12:29 PM
I look up every word in an English dictionary before I use it. I also look it up in the copyright record.
 
@Robusto I think your speed is so fast when write this sentence
 
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Wait till I get off on a rant about something.
 
how can you do do that?
 
It is a gift.
 
seriously, if you are using English dictionary, tell me
 
12:32 PM
Like anagrams. Your name, for instance, is an anagram of "Rode Shark" (which, of course, implies jumping the shark because you can't ride the shark without jumping it).
 
refreshes compulsively
 
If it's compulsive, it's not refreshing.
 
can't getting you
 
Seriously, though, we have a rather broad definition of December 20th around here.
@DarkHorse I'm just 'avin' a larf.
 
can't getting you
 
12:34 PM
@DarkHorse What is your native language?
 
Yeah, what's up with "I have a hat that doesn't exist until tomorrow?" You been time traveling again?
 
@KitFox Apparently I have. Do you have a problem with that?
 
Same thing happened last year with the apocalypse, iirc.
 
Well, I'm keeping this hat. It keeps the dream warm.
 
@Robusto mandarin
 
12:37 PM
Is Mandrian anything like Mandarin?
 
lol
 
@Robusto It is already December 20 in the "Pacific/Wake" timezone.
 
Well, I ain't in the "Pacific/Wake" time zone.
I wish StackExchange would stop trying to make me older than I am.
 
Perhaps SE decided that December 20 lasted from when it starts anywhere to when it finishes a yard the other side of the Date Line. It will last something like 50 hours.
 
I bet they open their presents on the day before Christmas Eve, too.
 
12:44 PM
charistmas
good night
bye
 
bye
And thank you for charistmas. It's my favorite neologism of the past week.
@DarkHorse should be getting a warm hat soon.
 
I want a warm hat! Please?
 
I have this game where I expand the browser slowly and then watch my hat try to catch up to my gravatar.
 
"season's greetings" or "seasoned greetings" ?
 
@KitFox Do you have anything as good as "charistmas"?
 
12:48 PM
No.
And I have to go. Later!
 
Besides, you're #1 now. You shouldn't be begging for charity.
 
I AM!?
Woohoo!
But really bye.
 
Are "seasoned greetings" like spiced up greetings?
 
@KitFox we're joint-third network-wide!
and triple-joint-first here!
 
I got your joint-third right here.
 
12:54 PM
if anyone wants in on a (possible) IG-88 hat, post an answer here english.stackexchange.com/a/46112/9001 or english.stackexchange.com/a/142542/9001 soon as @Ste and I'll reward the bounties soon
 
Ste
@Hugo - How do you get Ghost of Winterbash Past hat?
 

« first day (1134 days earlier)      last day (3785 days later) »