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7:00 PM
Also shrunken. As in head.
 
Ich habe viel Bier gedrunken.
I used to know that.
 
Getrunken.
 
geschtroodel?
 
Nein, nein, Oziffier, ich habe keine Bier getrunken.
 
I think, when you haben viel Bier getrankt, it becomes less important how you spell them.
 
7:02 PM
Kleine?
 
Ja! Beiherhund.
 
Was ist das denn?
 
Das ist das Wurst-Käs-Szenario!
 
Immer ich gange so
 
Wie du sagst.
 
7:03 PM
Hey Kit's incomprehensible in German now.
 
Wurt und Käse, hmm...
 
Progress.
 
Well done.
 
Wohoo!
That's what I was going for.
 
Immer.
 
7:04 PM
*gange
 
tch Not ganger. Was ist das thingy?
 
Ganger style.
 
Ich immer so gehen.
 
Wow.
 
Ich gehe immer so.
 
7:05 PM
You sound like...a Turk.
 
Says Google translate. That seems to miss the walking thing I meant to splutter.
 
Ich am Freitagmorgen immer so.
 
Maybe Google Translate was created by Turks.
 
I now use Google Translate occasionally on my phone when I'm reading in bed. But it is so horribly bad, even for single words.
 
From the Turks, by the Turks, for the Turks.
 
7:07 PM
Nein, nein, Oziffier, ich habe keine Bier getrunken. Ich stolpere immer so.
 
Kein.
 
Stolpern is not the verb you're looking for.
And I've no idea who Oziffier even is.
 
@RegDwighт You don't know WHAT Kit immer so does.
 
The Grand Ossifier of the German Nation.
 
@RegDwighт It's the German equivalent of "Ociffer"
 
7:08 PM
Ich weiß immer, was Kit so tut.
@Cerberus so he's from East Germany?
 
Ist sie ja so transparant?
 
Ossi bezeichnet umgangssprachlich: * gelegentlich auch abwertend einen ehemaligen Bürger der DDR, siehe auch Wessi * die Ostfriesen, Bewohner Ostfrieslands * die männlichen Vornamen Oskar, Oussama, Osman und Oswald * den weiblichen Vornamen Oswalda * Ostwestfalendamm, die autobahnähnlich ausgebaute Bielefelder Stadtautobahn * Abkürzung für Oszilloskop Ossi steht für: * einen traditionellen finnischen Vornamen * Ossi, Sardinien; sardische Gemeinde in der Provinz Sassari; siehe Ossi (Sardinien) OSSI als Abkürzung steht für: * Open Source Software Institute Siehe auch: * OSSI 1 * Ossy,...
 
@RegDwighт All must become Ossis!
Ja, weiß ich doch.
 
No, no, ociffer, I haven't been drinking. I always stumble this way.
 
I don't always stumble, but when I do, it is this way.
 
7:09 PM
Gibt es auch 'nen Namen füf Leute aus Österreich?
 
Ösis.
 
As in the common drunken inversion of "officer."
 
Yeah yeah metathesis we get it.
 
Really?
 
Sure. Now you do.
 
7:10 PM
They say Ösis?
 
I got it
 
I always get it.
 
So what's stolpern?
 
We all got it.
 
What do we get?
 
7:11 PM
Stumble, but more like once. Not walking in sinusoidal lines.
 
@DavidWallace We get to wear these shoes.
 
That's what years of incomprehensibility does to a person.
 
@RegDwighт Oh. Like trip, kind of.
 
@DavidWallace Kit's thing.
 
So what's a better verb for that?
Weaving?
 
Plaudern?
 
WTF, plaudern means blather.
 
torkeln?
 
@KitFox that's the one.
 
@RegDwighт Cool.
@RegDwighт I had no idea what the intended meaning was.
 
7:13 PM
Nein, nein, Oziffier, ich habe keine Bier getrunken. Ich torkele immer so.
 
Is it like speaking with a lisp?
 
Is that better, at least?
 
Kein.
 
Nein-nein, Herr Wachtmeister, ich habe kein Bier getrunken. Ich torkele immer so.
Let's cut to the chase and then cut to something else.
 
I suppose you don't call your cops "Officer."
 
7:14 PM
We do. We just use the German word for it, not the English one.
 
I thought you meant a military officer.
But surely you also say Agent(in), don't you?
 
Offizier is an army title.
Rank.
 
Oh. Huh.
 
Well, not rank. Hypernym for several ranks.
You get the idea.
 
Yeah, same here.
 
7:15 PM
Yeah.
 
Frau Agentin, können Sie mir bitte helfen? Ich bin so alleine und Sie so hübsch.
 
Is that your pickup line?
 
But we also call them "police officers" so they are sometimes addressed as just "officer."
 
Good afterble, constanoon, as we say in New Zealand.
 
Yes...does it work?
 
7:16 PM
@Cerberus well you sure go from you to thou very fast.
 
@DavidWallace Haha.
 
You also fixed the wrong word.
Better.
 
It was in a TV ad, for not driving drunk.
 
Arg. Yes, it's Dutch informality.
 
@RegDwighт who is that guy?
 
7:17 PM
@JohanLarsson why, the most interesting man in the world!
No, really.
 
So is an Agent not a policeman?
 
So would you actually address a cop as "Herr Wachtmeister" or is that the made-up funny part?
 
I guess they don't have cheap memes in Sweden. Just like whores or booze.
@Cerberus an agent is an agent. MI6, KGB, CIA.
 
Okay.
 
I see that meme guy all over the place, dunno who he is though
 
7:18 PM
The Dos Equis guy.
 
In Dutch, a (politie)agent is a policeman.
 
@KitFox no, that's the actual address.
 
@JohanLarsson What is it in Swedish?
 
What if he isn't politie?
 
Oh, they usually are.
 
7:19 PM
@RegDwighт Watchman? Really? You're not pulling my chain?
 
@Cerberus I never saw a Swedish meme with him I think.
 
Haha, no, I meant the word for "policeman".
 
@KitFox not watchman. Guard master. Tsk tsk tsk.
 
Nein-nein, Herr Meiswachter, ich habe kein Bier getrunken. Ich torkele immer so.
 
Der Wachtmeister ist ein militärischer Unteroffiziersdienstgrad. Bei der Polizei in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland war er bis in die 1980er Jahre der unterste Dienstgrad, in der Volkspolizei der DDR bis 1990 der höchste Mannschaftsdienstgrad. Militär Deutschland In der Deutschen Marine wird der personalbearbeitende Bootsmann an Bord größerer Schiffe als Wachtmeister bezeichnet. Er ist ähnlich einem Kompaniefeldwebel (im Volksmund: Spieß) in den Heereseinheiten und hat den gleichen Dienstgrad im Range eines Unteroffiziers mit Portepee (im Regelfall Hauptbootsmann oder höher). In den...
 
7:20 PM
There. Perfect.
 
It sounds like something from Thomas the Tank Engine.
 
> Trotzdem hat sich in der deutschen Umgangssprache die Bezeichnung „Wachtmeister“ als Anrede für uniformierte Polizisten, unabhängig von deren tatsächlichem Dienstgrad, bis heute erhalten.
 
@RegDwighт I just didn't want you to be too impressed with me.
 
Never Polizist, I suppose.
 
7:21 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 AWWWWW!
 
Duck!
 
:D
@DavidWallace I was too late!
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Awww.
And he's falling asleep again!
 
Not poor. He's perfectly happy.
 
7:22 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 have you been in aww! recently :D
 
I feel so sleepy.
 
@MattЭллен it were in my tumblr stream!
 
@KitFox beer commercials?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 mine too!
 
7:23 PM
I subscribed to the Perfect Loops subreddit a week ago and it's marvellous.
 
I could watch it until it scrolls off the top.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 oh :D lol
 
@JohanLarsson Yes
 
@MattЭллен I just noticed that.
 
7:23 PM
Here's one for Kit.
 
@RegDwighт go, man, go!
 
Gonna make it...gonna make it...
 
Except his ears magically fill.
 
Too bad that neither is a perfect loop, actually. Those people are very nitpicky.
@KitFox and the glasses disappear off the table, and his hair flashes.
 
7:25 PM
Blah blah.
It's funny. The least perfect of the three.
 
Anyway. Those people will literally spot one-pixel imperfections.
And then they will collaborate on ironing them out.
 
I see the burp in that one.
 
The face has to shift back a little.
 
His finger jumps.
 
7:27 PM
hee hee hee
 
@RegDwighт puts on visor and armband thingy
 
This is the original.
 
Name of the game is five-card stud. Aces wild.
 
They already came a long way.
 
sends them virginia slims
 
7:28 PM
AFK
 
misses smoking
 
snerts at cigarette advertising to women
curses Edward Bernays
 
in Aww!, Jul 5 at 17:07, by Matt Эллен
in case you want moar
 
Oh geez! The abrupt dismount.
 
The adorable little peeping.
 
7:33 PM
so cute
 
Jules is going to come to my house for lunch tomorrow.
I figure I can use my children as human shields.
 
ahahaha
 
look out, ducky!
 
I love that one.
 
@KitFox sounds plausible. kids are resilient like that
 
I'm fucking crying here.
My abs are gonna hurt tomorrow.
 
@MattЭллен "What's that? Why haven't I talked to you in the last few months? Were my feelings hurt? Um...um...oh my god, look how cute these children are!!"
It sure beats "I don't want to talk about it, but thanks for bringing food."
 
7:38 PM
true
 
It's my own fault for wanting to be friends with people and really hating them all at the same time.
 
@KitFox I love you.
 
Thanks.
 
Let's be misanthropic together.
 
I don't know. I've heard that one before.
How do I know you mean it?
 
7:41 PM
Two random mosquito pics, here and here, not a good fishing trip.
 
@KitFox I can give you phone numbers of people who haven't seen me for years.
@JohanLarsson O_O
 
not this year, found them in my archive
 
That's nightmarish.
 
it was, we had been walking 20 km with a lot of gear, plan was to stay for four days. We slept one night and in the morning we made a fire and had breakfast in the smoke, then walked home.
 
I'd set them on fire, too.
 
7:48 PM
A flamethrower would probably be pretty good against them
 
Wow, I start up one Chrome window and immediately eight chrome.exe processes appear in the task manager.
 
Chrome is getting worse, two years ago I never noticed it, now it is annoying at times, deadlocks etc.
Still ok overall imo
 
Why do browsers get worse with each successive version, rather than better?
 
I was attracted at first because the dev tools were better than Firebug, but now Firefox has very competitive built-in dev tools of its own.
 
IE got better I think
 
7:53 PM
It still has a long way to go.
 
but I don't do web dev so I don't know much
 
IE is still the dumb kid in the corner eating paste.
 
Firefox best?
Opera any good?
 
There was a time when IE4 was the best browser.
 
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Q: What does it mean to "eat glue"?

Icode4foodI have come across this phrase a time or two and can't seem to make any sense out of what it means. As a web developer and in the context of this graphic, I have a little idea what it may mean, but I'm not sure...

@DavidWallace Yes. From 2002 until Firefox came out.
 
7:55 PM
@JohanLarsson Oh my fucking God!
I thought that only happened in the tropics.
 
@Robusto Much longer ago than that.
 
Horrendous.
kisses city walls
 
@DavidWallace Ah, you're right. IE4 was like 1998 or something. The first browser that gave you full access to the DOM.
Remember document.all?
 
Yes, I do. Tried writing code that will run in both IE4 and Netscape 4?
 
@DavidWallace I am a veteran of those times, yes. Layers vs. document.all.
 
7:57 PM
Layers. Ahhhhhhhh.
 
@Cerberus it is not always like that but it can be brutal.
 
@Robusto Brilliant.
 
Whelp. Taken care of my mod duties and now it's time for home. Question is, should I eat at my MiL's house or mine? Decisions, decisions. Poor me.
 
@JohanLarsson shudders
AFK
 
Mar 8 at 21:25, by Robusto
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Not in Canada it doesn't. You need an AR-15 to blow away the mosquitoes in Canada.
 
8:00 PM
Later.
 
When I was a kid I read a book about the Klondike gold rush of 1989. Some outlaws killed someone in a mining town and fled into the woods, only to return to face capital punishment three days later because they couldn't handle the mosquitos.
Anyway, bye.
 
hejdå
 
8:17 PM
@Robusto 1898, perhaps?
 
@francois Haha, I was looking at Robusto's comment and thinking something about it wasn't quite right!
 
my parents happen to be holidaying in Klondike as we speak - hope it's not mosquito season
 
8:34 PM
Oh, dear!
Where are they staying?
A tent does not bode well for their mental state...
I mean, a tent full of mosquitos...
 
a tent can be cleaned out easily
 
hey, that's the first time I've seen a Google+ place page
 
Ah, better.
 
8:55 PM
@francois Yes. Fumble-fingered that one. Of course it's 1898.
 
9:06 PM
Well, now, I just got a check-looking travel scam via snail mail.
 
do you know why scammers say they are from Nigeria?
 
No. Seems like kind of a mistake.
 
@JohanLarsson That is a very convoluted way of saying a simple thing.
 
I just read the abstract
 
9:18 PM
I'm talking about the abstract!
 
You can't handle the abstract!
 
You can just say, "making your scam sound hard to believe ensures that you only spend time on the most gullible people, because the others will just be a waste of time for you".
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I can, but do I want to?
@JohanLarsson By the way, I didn't mean that as a reproach towards you, just about the people behind the article.
 
np :D
 
OK.
 
@Cerberus naw, he played out.
 
9:24 PM
?
 
The abstract.
Nevermind.
 
9:53 PM
@JohanLarsson Yes.
 
Maybe.
Or not.
 
@MετάEd who is in your avatar now?
 
@JohanLarsson That is an image of yours truly.
Nude.
 
ah ok
 
10:10 PM
This still needs reopening:
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Q: Earliest use of an asterisk (*) to indicate a zero-to-many character wildcard?

AlbeyAmakiirI was explaining to someone what the * in "trans*" means (zero-to-many wildcard. In this case, it's used to refer to both "transexual" and "transgender" people with the same word), and another friend chimed in saying it came from computer programming. While I could tell them it was used in operat...

 
10:25 PM
You answered it yourself, then closed it, now want to reopen it?
But anyway, if you want to see it open, then I will reopen it, event hough I think it's off topic.
 
11:03 PM
It seems on-topic to me.
It would be off-topic on any of the computing-related sites.
 
11:23 PM
 
11:33 PM
@Cerberus No, I voted to close, then regretted it upon reconsideration, then answered it. It should be reopened to invite other answers. The question is about the etymology of "trans*", and that does intersect in a weird way with the star convention.
 
So you answered it after voting to close but before it was closed?
 
@Cerberus Correct. Obviously if it had been closed I could not have answered it.
 
You might have answered it before voting to close.
 
@Cerberus Yes. Which is what you asked. It's rare that I both answer and closevote a question. A closevote generally indicates there's something wrong with the question.
 
What difference would it have made?
 
11:41 PM
However if a question ought to be migrated it makes sense to close vote "off topic" and provide an answer.
@DavidWallace Technically, no difference. I think Cerb was trying to get at my motivations.
 
It ought not be migrated. This is the correct site for it.
 
Makes sense to you, but not to many others, I was given to understand.
 
@Cerberus I don't remember that scenario coming up for discussion. The more general scenario, answering and closevoting, has.
 
Answering off-topic questions was strongly discouraged by some people.
Not my opinion. I suppose there are different species of hawks.
 
Everybody's got one.
 
11:55 PM
A hawk?
I think you're confused about birds.
 
@Cerberus An as^h^hopinion.
 
Yes.
 
Anyway time for me to commute. See y'all on the flip side. If there is such a thing any more. Oh, right. There's DVD+R DL.
Used to be we just called them "albums".
 

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