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@Robusto Very impressive, holy shit

2:08 AM

@Robusto the donuts. The donuts and the chicks.

2:23 AM

I noticed the chicks. But doughnuts? Where are they?

Jun 10 at 15:03, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Right. Serve doughnuts when I'm asleep why don't you all?

sorry.

Anyway, that one is short of a hole.

they don't stay fresh long enough to send them to you in tomorrow's world

@DavidWallace yeah it's a filled donut

2:33 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, but you didn't even try.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Right, and I have a loaf of emptied sandwiches in my fridge.

@DavidWallace you can complasin all you want but those are donuts. the filling can be custard or jelly.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 is that caramel?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Next you'll be telling me that you don't actually mean jelly when you say jelly.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 maple

2:36 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 drools

hands Cornbread a tissue

@DavidWallace my grampa gave me an apple cucumber.

@DavidWallace what can I say. Around here, donuts are more evolved than simple ring-shaped pastries.

Do you have those?

this says you do

Jelly doughnut

Jelly (or jam) doughnut varieties include the German Berliner, Australia and Britain's jam doughnuts, sufganiyot from Israel, and the jelly-filled doughnuts sold in the United States and Canada. Japanese anpan are similar to the Berliner, except they contain red bean paste. Krafne from Eastern Europe also include a jelly-filled variety. In Tuscany and Florence, bomboloni are popular. Austria also has a jelly doughnut known as krapfen that is typically filled with apricot jam and topped with powdered sugar. The Polish pączki is also similar to a jelly doughnut. United States A 1942 hea...

2:39 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They're very rare here. I think I may have had one once. And it actually said we had them before 1934, before you Americans stole them.

._.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What a bizarre title. American terminology but British spelling. I would have expected either "jam doughnut" or "jelly donut".

It's a bizarre world we live in.

Ich bin ein berliner.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Really? A tasty one?

2:41 AM

some parts of it are tasty. The food parts.

There are non-food parts in a "jelly donut"?

no, the world.

I am the walrus.

I have had people mishear my surname as Walrus.

DavidWalrus!

2:43 AM

and if I recall correctly, apple cucumbers are fairly tasteless.

Or maybe it was just that one.

I'm going to eat some cake.

May I have some?

cornbread's cakes are always lies

She's just doing science on you

it's a Portal joke.

I have no idea what that means. Should I laugh?

you should play Portal

2:47 AM

Before or after Cornie does her science on me?

during.

That would seem rude

If Cornbread is doing science on me, I would like her to devote 100% of her attention to said science, to prevent things from going fatally wrong. In return, I will devote 100% of my attention to the process - I won't sit there playing some video game.

the video game will be part of the experiment.

I suppose you're the sort of person who would doze off during surgery?

It will be a sort of test.

depends on the surgery, I guess.

And whether I'm performing or receiving it.

2:53 AM

I don't mind so long as the cake's real. Do you know whether Cornbread sounds like Ellen McLain?

no. I don't know Ellen McLain's voice

It is she who is GLaDOS in Portal.

You know who played GLaDOS but don't know that the cake is a lie?

anyway, no. They don't sound that much alike.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I have access to the Internet.

what a weird world you must live in

full of unlikely combinations of trivia

anyway i'm going to go play bioshock infinite.

have fun doing science.

2:58 AM

Have fun. Now all I can think about is KitFox's recording of "reticulating splines", whatever that means.

@Cornbread, what sort of cake are you giving me?

5:20 AM

Hi

@DavidWallace How are you doing?

Hope you are doing fine.

Akhi Noah!

Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.

Hope you are doing fine.

Still?

Wsalam. Kaifa Haloka

Yes, I am fine, thank you. How are you?

5:24 AM

I am good.

A friend has lost his Mac.

Anyhow, how's life?

Good. Back in 20 minutes.

Take your time.

Ill be here for a few hours anyway.

Evening.

5:40 AM

Hello @Mah

Hi!

How's it going?

It's going OK, Mah. My office has closed down because of the earthquakes. I have been trying to work at home, but without any luck. There's just too much other stuff to do.

That's awful. I'm sorry to hear that.

I hope your office gets up and running again soon, and I really hope the damage to everything isn't too severe.

Oh, it won't be so bad. I was in the office after most of the earthquakes. But it has been cordoned off because there is an unsafe section of the building next to mine, which will be demolished this week.

All of that must be very stressful for everyone, though. I hope it settles down.

5:52 AM

Yeah, I'm not too worried by it, having lived in the Wellington area my whole life. Some of my workmates were pretty upset on Friday though, when it was all happening.

Laundry, brb.

For a period of about an hour, there was a moderately strong earthquake every couple of minutes. In the end, I got sick of hopping up and down between sitting on my chair and crouching under the table.

Hey, Could someone help me out quick xD

I got a problem, I don't know how to write something properly.

"The player is supposed to create a special bind/bound/binding with the character he plays."

Which one would be correct

Maybe you are looking for bond?

@Mahnax thank you, my brain is completely melted : | Writing a game design document non stop for a day, 20 pages and counting "homophones" are all the same now LOL

Sitting 20 hours infront of a screen is not healthy ;/

6:05 AM

@MikolajMarcisz I'm happy I could help :)

:)

But yeah, I've worked seven days in a row at the coffee shop I work at and everything is about coffee in my head right now.

Haha, I still remember going with an Australian woman to a dancing lesson in Buenos Aires. The teacher spoke in English to us, and in Spanish to the rest of the class. But at one moment, he said to us "you must bond with your partner". He meant physically, of course, but we both just cracked up.

xD

Dancing with Bond, double o'7 : )

Those B words are following me : /

That system makes it much easier for everyone to create quests and missions, because the class based system is a bind on the game designers hands.

I no longer know if that is correct xD

Apostrophe at the end of "designers", but otherwise it's fine.

6:15 AM

"designer's"?

@DavidWallace I thought that you write it without an apostrophe, never seen it that way...

List of game designers

:This page primarily is meant to list non-video game designers. Please see list of computer and video game industry people for a list of well-known video game designers. A game designer is a person who invents games at the conceptual level. Most game designers are "unsung"; for example, no one knows who invented Chess or Hearts. However, there are many public figures in game design, including commercial game developers and game-inventing mathematicians. Some game designers include: * Dave Arneson - Co-designer of Dungeons and Dragons, an early influential role-playing game * Frank Chad...

You are talking about their hands. So it's possessive, but plural. It should be "game designers' hands."

Oh, I get it now, thank you for the pointer. I will stick to the rule :)

8:27 AM

9:43 AM

Hi

@DavidWallace

Around?

Yeah

@DavidWallace is it a good idea to follow up with an employeer after a job interview?

yes

what kind of position?

I have been interviewed for a position and have been through 3 interviews.

It's media related.

So how long before you know whether you have the job?

9:47 AM

I dont know. They never told me. The guy told me that he was going on leave for a week and will be in touch. Now the week has passed and I havent heard from him.

I'd say give him a few more days, then try to contact him.

Okay

Good luck.

SO it's not rude or unprofessional to contact an employeer after an interview?

Like until the end of this week?

Umm, yeah, I guess so. It's OK to ask whether he's had time to consider your candidacy, provided you're tactful about it.

9:49 AM

And would you give him a call or send him an email?

Not sure. How old is he?

And how could you be tactful?

30, I guess.

If he's 30, I'd send an email. If he were over 35, I'd probably recommend a phone call.

No, he is always online. I dont know much about his age. But he seems to be pretty good with computers. He carries an iPHone.

He is also on my Skype.

So I am confused as to which medium to use.

Email. Not skype.

9:54 AM

Okay. How would you approach him?

Dear Mr X,
You interviewed me on X August for the position of XXX. I am just contacting you to find out when you are likely to be making a decision on this position. Please, can you contact me soon to let me know whether my candidacy was successful?

Yours sincerely,
Noah X.

Thanks.

11:31 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don't eat donuts. Can't say the same about chicks.

Morning.

@Robusto Chicks eat doughnuts, definitely.

Another fond myth shot to hell. Thanks.

Geez, when did the AskScience Subreddit get to be MythBusters? "You used to be beautiful, man."

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11:51 AM

I did not need that this morning.

@Robusto well, THAT was pleasant!

> Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus.

hai

Hiya @Matt!

Hiya @KitFox! :D

11:56 AM

Is that the Black Eyed Peas' Fergie? Or Beatrice and Eugenie's mother?

Hmm. I think I'd prefer it to be the BEPs' Fergie

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You tell me.

This guy is so goofy, yet he triggers my tingles every time.

Ooh, I want to slap him.

I know, right?

It's the condescending lilt. I can do that if I focus really hard.

But it takes a special talent.

Have you just been searching for ASMR videos non-stop?

11:59 AM

No, I have a list.

I couldn't keep a straight face if I were trying to talk like that.

He's got a great shirt though.

Ooh, black mark. Around 2:55, he says "it's just you and myself". I hate that use of "myself".

He says a lot of weird things.

Commute.

12:02 PM

cu soon

I'm just going to lay my ear on your chest. Is that OK?

Like that.

Oh! He mentions Professor Clemmons.

I can't work out whether he's hitting on the patient or not.

That's another storyline by a different asmrtist.

This is getting creepier and creepier as it goes on. Please tell me he's not naked by the end of it.

12:06 PM

I don't think so.

And at 8:43, he says "a phenomena". Where did he go to school?

I don't think he did.

Then "this phenomena" a little later.

You don't think he said it? Or you don't think he went to school?

I don't think he went to school.

Could be an artifact of his accent.

His accent sounds a little Australian to me.

12:15 PM

I thought so too. That makes me think he's probably South African.

Because all South Africans have Australian accents?

I'm certain he's not South African.

No, because if I think it sounds kind of Australian, but I can't say for sure, usually that means it's South African. But in this case, maybe not. Someone says he's from Gold Coast.

Right. I couldn't find any information about him online. But then, I didn't try very hard.

To me, Australian accents sound very different from South African accents, but that may be because New Zealand accents are somehow in between the two.

The tricky accents are Western Australian ones, which don't sound much like other Australian accents.

South African th is a really smooth buzz. That's usually how I identify it.

I have no idea what you mean, but the last time I heard a South African saying "paths", I thought she was saying "pods", which didn't make much sense in the context.

12:25 PM

Right, like that.

I have a close friend who is South African. I will listen carefully, next time he says th to me.

It sounds like the way a chestnut looks.

The inside or the outside?

The shell of the nut.

Not the husk.

Do other consonants sound like the look of other types of nuts to you?

12:30 PM

No.

It would be disconcerting if you went to South Africa.

Indeed.

I'd rather climb Kilimanjaro if I were going to go through the trouble of traveling to Africa.

Are you into climbing?

I used to be.

Oh, Stack Overflow is getting so annoying! It's too easy to post questions. People post poorly formulated questions, lots of people make wild guesses in an attempt to answer them, and then the OP posts an answer saying "d'oh, there was a bug in part of the code that I didn't post".

You should have to pass a basic IQ test before you're allowed to post a question.

I briefly took up climbing in an attempt to impress a girl once, but it didn't work.

12:44 PM

@DavidWallace What other skills have you undertaken in an attempt to impress girls?

I gave blood once, to impress a girl.

@KitFox I suppose she wanted the shirt off your back as well?

No, she wasn't impressed.

"pssh, everyone's got blood in them."

@KitFox Damn! You can't even take the blood back once you find out.

12:46 PM

thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/19/…

Well, I did donate regularly.

> The writer calls [the autistic boy] a “hindrance to everyone,” says he will always be like that and suggests that whatever “non-retarded body parts he possesses” be donated to science.

> If they don’t like different people, they should move away and be a hermit, because life is full of unexpected stuff, and that’s what makes it interesting.

hear hear

The writer also can't punctuate properly.

Punctidiot.

@KitFox or spell

What's worse is that they will always be like that.

Perhaps their correctly punctuated sentences should be donated to science.

12:51 PM

Nice that the neighborhood turned out to support the family.

"Speaking as a mother, you should kill your child." hmmm.

Yeah, I'm thinking it wasn't a mother actually.

Yeah

Probably a kid, a teenager.

I would be surprised if it were a kid. Why would they care enough to bother writing this letter.

12:56 PM

Because they are uncomfortable about puberty and hate themselves and lashing out and bullying makes them feel better.

Possibly a group of teenagers working together.

I can imagine a teenager doing it.

@DavidWallace yeah or maybe that

Writer's chat today.

oh yeah!

Man gets fork stuck in his penis (with x-ray pic)

1:05 PM

What on earth was he doing?

Trying to get off.

Why else would you do it?

With a fork?

Reminds me of a series of pics of a guy who inserted all sorts of things in his urethra.

Seems like a smooth glass rod would be the best plan, insofar as putting anything in your urethra is a good plan.

Hmm. It happened in Australia.

About 30 years ago, there was a whole series of incidents here of schoolgirls having to have broken glass removed from their vaginas, after they were playing inappropriately with test tubes. But a man with a fork is something quite different from a schoolgirl with a test tube.

imgur.com/gallery/wGfdkyC

This is what I found searching for "what is in our urethra?"

2

1:12 PM

lol

You don't get the nice caption when it one-boxes.

What's with the idiot who claimed it belonged in the Gay News section?

Straight people never try to get off?

@KitFox "our urethra" sounds wrong to me.

@DavidWallace Because it was a man having sex with a penis, so obviously that makes it gay.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Come on, Kit is a very sharing sort of person.

@KitFox It seems that nobody has spoken up for the rights of the fork.

1:24 PM

It reminds me of the story of the man in China who inserted a live eel into his anus. Also trying to get off.

I'm trying to decide which is worse.

Sure, why not? It's wriggly.

Fork sounds more painful to me.

apparently, also bitey.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That actually kind of makes sense. I can understand inserting an eel into one's anus.

um. the eel tried to eat its way out.

Wouldn't you?

1:26 PM

pic

Wow, it got quite a long way.

I would have thought you'd want to leave enough tail hanging out, to be able to pull the eel out before it goes the slightest bit off-course.

So on one hand we've got a guy who inserts a large object into a tiny, tiny opening and gets it stuck. On the other hand we've got a man who inserts a wriggly object into a larger opening but forgets that said wriggly object has teeth and doesn't want to die.

I guess gerbil accidents are quite common.

@DavidWallace I would have thought that the teeth would put one off of the entire idea.

@DavidWallace really? common?

"About 1 in every 5 gerbils is prone to epilepsy, resulting in fits when they are under stress. The fit for instance when they are handled, or suddenly get into a new environment. "

1:31 PM

Gerbiling is a myth.

@KitFox what is 'oneboxing'? I've looked all over, and I don't know what it means. It sounds like it has something to do with displaying text in a browser in some fashion but after that I have no idea.

@Mitch It's the chat thing where a preview of the link appears in a box.

You mean like this:

22 secs ago, by KitFox

@Mitch It's the chat thing where a preview of the link appears in a box.

Like this:

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer, musician and actor. One of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King". Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and at the age of 13, he moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee. His music career began there in 1954, when he started to work with Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was an early popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-...

@Mitch You did it again!

1:38 PM

@DavidWallace oops?

@KitFox Yes, it seems you're right. This is intriguing though.

urbanlegends.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/…

@KitFox So is it a stackexchange thing or do they do it elsewhere?

@Mitch Actually, it seems we tweened each other the second time.

@Mitch The feature exists elsewhere. Whether it's called oneboxing or not...

I just need guidance on this English thing, so I don't use 'oneboxing' in the wrong circumstance.

1:40 PM

The things that amuse me most on that list though, are the "toolbox" - how big was this? and the plantain with the condom. I guess you don't want a whole lot of baby plantains coming out your arse nine months later.

@Mitch I think it's SE lingo.

Like "I totally oneboxed that gerbil".

It makes sense to use condoms on pretty much anything you stick in your butt. Makes lubrication and clean-up easier.

Nothing to do with preventing pregnancy.

@Mitch Right, because you could totally say that and mean the wrong thing.

@KitFox writes notes

1:42 PM

@KitFox but a plantain?

Kind of a no-brainer. I mean, who wants splinters or baby spiders or dirt in their butt by accident?

Why not a plantain?

Whoa...too much imagination there.

I'm just saying, if you're putting things in orifices, it makes a lot of sense to cover them with something that's clean, smooth, and easily lubricated.

> A total collapse of modern civilization would be a serious blow to the already sluggish economy

fingers in ears

augh ... I shouldn't have said that.

1:44 PM

I guess men are more squeamish about that kind of thing, probably because you have outies.

I will never pick my nose unprotected again!

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 off topic. unless that is some kind of oblique reference to gerbil ...am... smuggling.

@DavidWallace you need nose condoms

@Mitch it is off-topic. Someone's gotta be.

(removing - just google youtube condom nose)

No, no, no.

covers eyes

1:47 PM

Brinksmanship... pushing gerbils to the brink.

@Mitch There are several hits; and all of them seem to be girls doing it. Don't men do this too?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 OK back to off -topic. Yes, I've heard the opposite, that a few plagues and peasant uprisings, though having a temporary economic collapse, would bring about an economic surge.

@DavidWallace that first one wasn't a dude? Aren't school lunch rooms the world over filled with guys trying to gross out their lunch mates by getting them to expel milk out of their noses?

It depends on the type of collapse, I suppose. My modern eugenics concept would cause a total collapse of society, but that would in turn be replaced with better humans who would be able to sustain an equitable economy.

@Mitch Sure. But that quote was in the context of a mountain-sized meteor which causes a 5-20° drop in global temperatures which lasts several years. Also a firestorm which engulfs north america.

Hahaha

1:53 PM

@KitFox are you ignoring the need in your scenario for a troglodyte population to be in effect the primary energy source either through manual labor in the elites factories or as a concentrated protein source? how else will the vanyar be able to live in their cloud ships?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 so south america is OK?

@Mitch well, aside from the global freezing and famine and loss of world tech like the internet, communications systems, oil shipping, etc....

so there's hope?

@Mitch okay that was SO WRONG.

Look man I'm just telling you it exists. I wasn't going to actually -watch- it.

What? you MUST WATCH IT

so you can appreciate how wrong it is

1:56 PM

I watched it. And it was NOT a dude.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think my imagination is strong enough to get that appreciation.

I want to know whether she rolled it up again when she'd finished with it, and used it for sex later.

I do not want to know that.

@DavidWallace dude! No!

It is now lubricated however.

1:57 PM

@DavidWallace I did not even consider that! Why did you have to make me consider that!?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What?

Yeah. Stop it! If you say that... I'm going to come up with worse things for you to think of.

I really don't see what the big deal is.

I wish I had never joked about nose condoms.

Now some asshole is going to try that with a rigged condom, just wait and see

How would you rig a condom?

2:00 PM

*ridged

ribbed.

that too

For me, the most disgusting part was her sucking on the condom before she started. Here, all condoms are covered in spermicide and lubricant. I've never tasted it, but I can't imagine it tasting particularly pleasant.

That's probably a banana-flavored one, particular for oral sex.

Given that it is yellow.

Right, I wondered about that. I am not a connoisseur of condom flavours.

In fact, I've never used palatable condoms.

2:03 PM

Well, they don't put spermicide and lubricant on the outside of ones that are designed for oral sex.

Because that tastes really gross.