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Goodbye.

@Cerberus I do not.

11:02 PM

Techno kitteh.

Get ready to bounce.

@Cerberus But okay, I think your definition is better.

@JohanLarsson Thanks for the guidance to the site for the overheating laptop @MattЭллен :-)

@JohanLarsson Yes.

Did you guys validate the "but he is a dick" flag?

I was on the fence, but I clicked valid.

@Alraxite Thanks!!

11:06 PM

That's too bad. He'd just apologized and said he'd change it.

I won't forget it.

no, but there will be a "ban skullpatrol" flag soon

Ban skullpatrol.

Jez

@tchrist dare i ask what that cat is doing?

Is this ^ the flag?

11:06 PM

yep

Johan Larsson

@KitFox ok I read it, at least saw the text on my screen.

Now what happens?

I won't ban you!!

@KitFox Perhaps I shouldn't have.

I'm sure it's fine.

you are in the minority pally

@Jez hunting.

11:07 PM

@Jez Dare you?

Looked like it would be a good idea for him to calm down.

See, getting people from other rooms to respond to flags under time pressure really, really sucks.

@skullpatrol Why would you say that?

@KitFox I know that kind of behaviour.

@Cerberus intuition

Though this one is rather excessive.

@skullpatrol That all?

Who flagged whom where.

More context gone amiss.

11:09 PM

@Cerberus I keep getting this room confused with the math room where they flag me constantly

Tell them about variables.

@RegDwigнt From the Linux room, I think, just now. Someone called Gilles a dick.

@Cerberus haha.

@skullpatrol Haha. But they flag everyone there constantly!

Well I'm sure Gilles can handle it himself.

11:10 PM

I don't think he was there.

@Cerberus except Jasper, for some weird reason.

But, yes, someone was defending him.

@RegDwigнt have you seen my variables question?

@skullpatrol no. I am very sorry!

@RegDwigнt Even the Math room can't flag Jasper!!

11:11 PM

Awww

It's Jasper's inner person.

Or inner duckling.

agreed

Nice!!

jasper abuse^

11:12 PM

I can follow the plot of that one.

@Cerberus stop posting from your iPhone.

If only they had added another second.

@RegDwigнt How dare you accuse me of homosexual acts!!

Question for main site: "Isn't 'another second' redundant?"

@Cerberus It is by way of your spelling.

@RegDwigнt I second another.

11:14 PM

@Cerberus Um, upper left? :/

It's bugging me.

one more second

@RegDwigнt Umm I don't get it. Duckling is Apple talk?

Oh come on.

@tchrist That cat sure knows what he wants!

Feb 9 '11 at 21:45, by Kosmonaut

My officemate is Russian and he swears constantly, and I always know if he is IM'ing me from his iPhone because suddenly he will use the word "ducker".

11:15 PM

@Alraxite What?

!!youtube one more night

Jarvis the Bot

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We need a meme thread on our meta, if only just for Cerberus.

@RegDwigнt Ohh of course. I'm sorry for not remembering something someone else said 3+ years ago. When I wasn't in the room.

11:16 PM

@Cerberus yeah you also did not remember any of the six times I quoted it right back at you, when you were in the room talking to me with no one else around.

Your apologies are getting all slacky!

If I was there, that means my memory was there. And we both know what my memory does not do?

It does not download? From DownloadMoreRAM?

@Cerberus This.

@RegDwigнt No, it has a setting for that. What it does not do is remember things.

Or did you just mean left?

11:17 PM

1 min ago, by Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Ohh of course. I'm sorry for not remembering something someone else said 3+ years ago. When I wasn't in the room.

Look at this sentence.

The upper left is the beginning, the "front".

I will look at this sentence for three thousand dollars.

@Cerberus Um, why upper?

@RegDwigнt I wasn't atting you!

@Cerberus and I wasn't looking!

Still amn't.

11:18 PM

@Alraxite Well, sentences can be on two or more lines. A word that is one line above another word but to the right of it still counts as "more to the front".

@Alraxite Upper is short for supper, which Cerberus really likes, especially this late at night. It's a Freudian slip if you will.

I went out running at midnight, and now I'm back. No supper.

@Cerberus I will start the countdown till your posting of mayo burger images.

I couldn't.

11:20 PM

@Cerberus Ah, okay.

I do have boterkoek...

Not sure why I used till but I don't care.

Do you have boterkoek?

I mean, really, that was unnecessary.

@RegDwigнt Not sure why you used a gerund, rather.

11:20 PM

You could have just said left. Or before.

@Cerberus No, silly, you have it! You just admitted to it yourself and already forgot?

(but OK)

@Alraxite You would not have accepted "before", if you did not accept "in front of".

I needed to be exact.

@RegDwigнt You know, not one person always has to have the entire cake. Cakes can be shared.

It's a piece of cake, really.

@Cerberus Alright, I see. :/

OK.

Not happy?

11:22 PM

No, I am!

Looking for that nohat comment, but not finding it, so I'll paraphrase.

@Alraxite it is not a rule of English that anything that can be removed, must be removed.

Where is that comment anyway?

I don't even quite remember the question it was on.

Must've been in the first four months or so.

@tchrist Ohh I could use a cat like that.

@RegDwigнt But true nonetheless.

11:25 PM

I think tchrist has used up his bandwidth. His images keep loading slower and slower.

That is how the Internet works, right?

@Cerberus You now have four stars and a buncha teasers.

@RegDwigнt Yes, I noticed that too!

@tchrist I like them. But why I specifically?

I know the last one, by the way.

I especially liked the one I starred.

Really?

in EL&U 2014 Election, 2 hours ago, by Cerberus

I'm so confused!

11:27 PM

@Cerberus No. I am lying.

@RegDwigнt There are only so many animated cat gifs the Internet can handle. With tchrist's help, we may have found the practical limit.

@tchrist Oh, that. I thought the cats were the teasers.

in EL&U 2014 Election, 23 mins ago, by Doorknob

Come on, why isn't anyone talking? :P

@RegDwigнt Liar!

@tchrist Yes, I sawrit.

@Robusto He really put the cat in practical. Then anagrammed it.

11:28 PM

@Cerberus Well, you know how it is. First they suck you in with porn. Then they bring on the cat pics.

@Robusto He used to get mad at me for posting a large picture in chat...

@tchrist I talk at doorknobs twice a day!

@Robusto I thought it was the other way around...

I'll take cats over porn any day! Heck, cats are porn!

@Cerberus Nononono.

First they suck you in with porn. Then they make you gay with gay porn.

11:29 PM

They suck you?

In.

And out.

@tchrist Uh, cuz the election is over maybe?

Totally gay, what should I say.

Do you need to buy a special accessory for that?

Yes, a suckor.

11:29 PM

Does it have an NSA "backdoor"?

@RegDwigнt And shake it all about.

Why so blue today?

@RegDwigнt In Soviet Russia, gay porn sucks you.

@Robusto das nennt man Service.

@RegDwigнt Senior Service?

11:30 PM

@Robusto The room was frozen, in case you didn't notice. But before my line there.

@Robusto I refuse to be sucked by retirees.

@RegDwigнt Me? Well, something happened and there it was. It takes a bit of getting used to.

Yay!

This one's rather typical.

11:31 PM

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EC ain't retired yet.

@AndrewLeach Congrats! By the way.

@Robusto he sang it, and I was born. Coincidence?

Yeah, congrats. Now get outta our way.

@RegDwigнt He's your daddy? Cool.

@Cerberus Thanks. I thought I had some idea of what I was letting myself in for.

Haha. Rob is on a streak. Kicking people out of chat since 2014.

A: How can I explain to people that the phrase “off of ” is grammatically incorrect?

11:31 PM

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How can I explain to people that the phrase "off of" is grammatically incorrect? You can't, because it's not. There are thousands of examples of “off of” in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, not just in spoken English, but in magazines, newspapers, and academic journals as well. “Off...

What with Matt and Andrew at the helm, perhaps we can now begin enforcing -ise at last.

@Alraxite By telling them that it isn't. Blew your mind, didn't I?

@AndrewLeach But you didn't?

@Alraxite wow, I am impressed.

And thanks.

11:32 PM

Turns out it's ... um ... well ...

"Different"?

That.

Yes, different sise.

Was the hazing rougher than expected?

@RegDwigнt Yay!

@AndrewLeach So in what way?

11:33 PM

@Cerberus Oh. I knew there was something I'd forgotten should happen.

For people who need to get rid of @tchrist's annoying cat pics: $('.onebox.ob-image .user-image').hide()

@tchrist Hawt!

@Robusto I like cat pics!

@AndrewLeach So now I'm curious, what was different?

@Cerberus Then you've come to the right place. Welcome to . . . teh Intertoobz.

Yay!

@tchrist another very typical one.

11:35 PM

@Cerberus They're in toobz.

Cats are in your Intertoobz.

Just like I suspected.

The thing is, for Cerberus you really only need two or three cat pics, then you could keep showing them to him every couple minutes without him noticing.

Yup.

Each head can remember one.

11:36 PM

So the current Internet is the result of a giant misunderstanding of how Cerberus works.

I think three. One for each head.

Cokes all around.

Ohh another one! But hat one is Photoshopped.

Looks more like gimped to me.

11:37 PM

Pretty gimped.

I can tell by the pixels and by having looked up gimp in a dictionary.

If you want it to happen automatically: setInterval(function() {$('.onebox.ob-image .user-image').hide()}, 4000);

Ah, that's so much less catty.

If you want what to happen automatically?

11:38 PM

Cat pix to disappear.

In favor of Rick Astley, I wager.

All other pix loaded into chat as well, though. I can't read photo content from JavaScript.

4000 represents four seconds. Dial up or down as needed.

@tchrist Awwwww.

@Cerberus The neighborhood fawns are always doing this to Randy. Or trying.

Especially on apres-midis.

11:40 PM

Well, yes. That’s because they’re siestando then.

Call careers, information / have you got yourself an occupation

@tchrist Really??

@Cerberus Yeah.

The moms don’t like it.

@RegDwigнt Hah. The words are probably related...?

@tchrist Because of the ticks?

So they are always trying to get the fawns away.

@Cerberus No, probably the lion smell.

11:41 PM

Why do they...lick cats?

@tchrist I was thinking more like Debussy, but okay. Also, nice save there.

@Cerberus Everybody likes cats!

@RegDwigнt Then what was he thinking of??

@tchrist Yes, obviously, but...I don't lick cats.

@Cerberus I dunno, I assumed he was making a different pun I was not getting.

@Cerberus Do cats lick you?

11:43 PM

They do!

Wow. Such question. Much personal.

Isn’t that a bit selfish of you?

That’s like 68.

You do me and I’ll owe ya one.

@RegDwigнt Right, I didn't get it either.

I pet cats. That shall be enough.

@tchrist hah. Where'd you get that one from.

Sounds like something an early Tarantino would write.

Kitty naps on nice sunny high spot in the tall tender grass. Deer come by eating grass. Baby deer want to play with kitty. Randy is kinda ok with it, but Lorin charges in where angels fear to tred and attacks the mommas.

@RegDwigнt I’m very persuasive. I’m afraid I may perish with a lifetime of debt in that department.

I’m on ante-comedian. People pay me to stop being funny. If you don’t ante up, I shall continue to do so.