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12:01 AM

then I do not understand lack of time as a reason. perhaps apathy? I myself don't much care for sexual things. I'd rather play with my gadgets or study Beethoven.

there's what I have so far. does it look too childish?

I meant it to be a little childish.

the hippo is singing christmas songs!

Jasper Loy

I think it looks lovely. Margaret will like it.

George Pompidou

(that's me)

the elephant opens up. and I will put a happy message in there.

I do not know what message yet.

@JasperLoy ^.^ thanks

now I need to craft a new baggy for this necklace because I destroyed the one it came in by accident

with sticky fingers…

Cerberus

12:23 AM

Hey, now it's orange!

Cute.

@GeorgePompidou What does your girlfriend say about that?

George Pompidou

I think it's the camera. this time I took it with my iPhone camera rather than the one on my computer

Cerberus

Most odd.

George Pompidou

I still do things with her. but it's mostly for her, rather than for me.

Cerberus

Hmm.

Do you look at other women?

Or men?

George Pompidou

I'm writing my message with my new Lamy 2000

such a pleasure to write with.

Cerberus

12:26 AM

Everyone had Lamy pens in primary school!

George Pompidou

what do you mean by look at

Cerberus

I think I had a Parker.

George Pompidou

I had a few Parkers myself.

Cerberus

Or maybe a Pelikan?

George Pompidou

Pelikans are really nice too!

Cerberus

12:26 AM

Look at with desire.

George Pompidou

oh. haha, not really. usually my friends are like "oh did you see that girl she's so hot" and I'm like "what girl?"

Cerberus

And do you look at guys?

George Pompidou

I did look at girls with desire before I had my girlfriend. I am, after all, not devoid of mammal instinct.

Cerberus

But if you don't look at those any more, nor at your girlfriend...

George Pompidou

just now I feel like that area is satisfied and I do not feel the need to satisfy it more.

I do look at her with desire. I think she is very attractive.

Cerberus

12:28 AM

But you don't want to do things with her?

George Pompidou

all I meant to say is that I think I appreciate sexual interaction less than most.

Cerberus

That is possible.

How about on your own?

George Pompidou

haha, almost not at all.

Cerberus

I see.

George Pompidou

12:47 AM

hooom!

(that's what hippos say)

George Pompidou

12:59 AM

@Cerberus do you appreciate pens at all? or just in primary school?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:00 AM

@Cerberus I think you misunderstand how Play Services work. It's just shared library code that apps can use. The main difference between Play Services and every other app is that Play Services is upgraded out of band and not through the Play Store.

George Pompidou

2:58 AM

I wish I had a pirate hat.

how do you earn a gold badge?

what is a gold badge

there are badges on this site?

how did I get this silver badge?

viele Fragen, nicht so viele Leute

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@GeorgePompidou english.stackexchange.com/help/badges

George Pompidou

my god, those are all quite difficult.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The easiest one is to get 100 upvotes on an answer, especially for really popular questions.

George Pompidou

the only one that seems plausible is to visit the site 100 days in a row, I could easily write a script to do that

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

that will take 100 days

not likely to be completed in time for the pirate hat

George Pompidou

3:09 AM

that is a long time and hats will be gone.

I don't know how to write an answer that 100 people will like

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

put a picture in it

George Pompidou

is there any way to see how many times I've done certain things on the site?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

your closest one is the abortion/capital punishement one. Find a suitable pic for that

your user page has stats: english.stackexchange.com/users/85526/george-pompidou

George Pompidou

huh. so you think an old answer can get future attention?

that one's from a long time ago

oh ^.^ 11 helpful flags.

I could go for that one

only 489 more

so you're saying if I put a picture of an abortion and another of capital punishment in my answer people will go to it and upvote more?

whimpers I just want a pirate hat…

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@GeorgePompidou yeah that was a joke

but yes, in general, to get the gold hat, you need a gold candidate from before the hat dash

though I got one on meta.se

my one and only post there

George Pompidou

3:14 AM

oh… quickly closes windows with gruesome abortion pictures

yeah I knew you were joking.

I mean duh.

I made a post on the elu meta that kitfox said was a good post!

I was very happy. it did not get many upvotes I think, but I don't think that's as important as shiny people saying it's a good post!

well, I suppose now it's important. because I want this pirate hat.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

you'll have better luck with one of your other answers.

or try and post a really popular answer to a question you think will get widely distributed, and fast. example: today's question from tchrist about handeggs; I rep-capped on that one, which is rare for me.

this question is probably unanswerable, and yet broadly applicable to many SE users, so a really good neologism might get tons of votes

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:37 AM

My red baron candidate

George Pompidou

your hand arrow points to his arm.

took me a few seconds to catch that horrendous error, as in Romanian hand and arm are the same word and this is natural to me.

George Pompidou

5:04 AM

why do some helicopters have wheels?

surely they cannot scoot around on the ground.

Schwern

6:14 AM

Helicopters can taxi on the ground, and they can do a rolling take off to save fuel or carry a greater load. It's also for convenience to push it into and our of a hanger.

George Pompidou

7:00 AM

do they have drive in the wheels at all? or propellers that face forward?

George Pompidou

7:31 AM

how does stack exchange make money?

Hugo

8:15 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Arg, that was going to be my baron candidate, I'd drafted an answer and everything but was out of votes yesterday!

have some upvotes :)

Matt Эллен

8:50 AM

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George Pompidou

interesting.

not really a place, though, is it? more of a website.

my house is a safe place. thanks to my cool security system.

beep beep

boop

Hugo

9:45 AM

My red baron candidate! Please upvote answer to +5 and question to +3!

RegDwigнt

10:56 AM

@Robusto huhuh, you said highfellatio.

Jez

hey

cryptic christmas card for you all

Ste

Anybody on here got an android device who can try something for me please?

RegDwigнt

I don't know who an droid is.

And I don't get the christmas card.

@RegDwigнt No sane person would dispute the word of a Lego hippopotamus. Also, you may well have the best hat/avatar combination on the whole of Stack Exchange. That. Is. Awesome. — David Richerby 6 mins ago

We should put that up as our welcome message. Not this "site for serious etymologists" nonsense.

Ste

11:11 AM

I agree

Cerberus

@Ste What do you need?

Ste

I need someone to flag one of my comments. There is a bug which I think will award me a hat.

Can you flag this using the STack exchange app please?

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Q: What is the etymology of the pizza hat?

I have seen the terms but I don't know from where they originate.

Flag one of my comments if you can.

Cerberus

I'll try...

Ste

Thanks.

Jez

@RegDwigнt silent night

though I don't get the relevance of the F10 and F1 keys

Robusto

11:16 AM

@RegDwigнt I said no such thing. You blew it.

@Jez I read it as "mute bright" . . .

Ste

I had Volume Shine

Jez

lol

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I'm blew-dah-bah-dee-dah-bah-dye.

Robusto

You should get that looked at.

RegDwigнt

Which is why I'm showing it to you.

That's not the problem, the problem's entirely with you not looking. Or not looking hard enough.

Get it? Hard. Pun intended. Watch my pun. I'm witty!

Cerberus

11:28 AM

@Ste Done.

I had to install the application first.

RegDwigнt

No no no. First you had to stall the application. Only second could you install it.

Cerberus

I stalled it as long as I could.

RegDwigнt

You are my personal hero.

Cerberus

Then I had to collect my innings.

RegDwigнt

Holiday innings, hopefully.

@Ste who you call a volume schwein?

Ste

11:30 AM

@Cerberus - Thanks. Hopefully I will be hatted.

Cerberus

How does it work?

RegDwigнt

He sits there, then gets hatted.

Pretty sure that's the order.

Ste

I saw this and thought I'd try:

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Q: Received Bugdroid hat without using app

I got the Bugdroid hat last night on CodeGolf.SE. The thing is, I never used (or even downloaded) the Android app. Did this happen to anyone else, or should I be worried that my account got hacked (in which case, why would anyone use the app then)? As far as I can tell, there wasn't any activity...

bug status-completed android-app winterbash-2014

Cerberus

I see.

Good luck...

Let's hope he hasn't already fixed it.

Ste

He probably has...

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