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tchrist

1:00 AM

Please do not ask them.

I know nothing.

skullpatrol

He was talking to me :(

Cerberus

Huh, why?

Did he do something bad?

tchrist

I am just saying this because it is what how long suspensions are supposed to be handled, through team consensus.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy What gay message?

I never saw him say anything worthy of suspension.

tchrist

The gay message was far from the worst, trust me.

Jasper Loy

1:01 AM

@Cerberus I think he said that a certain religion was gay. But I am not sure now.

Cerberus

Haha. I could have said that.

@tchrist Then what did he do?

tchrist

Telling people to untastefully dine upon his gentleman’s packaging was in particularly poor taste.

Cerberus

> Even so, the core concept was sound and work keeping in one form or another. [a fun case of regressive assimilation across word boundaries and dissimilar consonants]

@tchrist Um, O. When and why did he say that?

And to whom?

skullpatrol

He was talking to me.

Cerberus

He did get a bit hysterical on occasion, but it was not so bad usually.

tchrist

1:04 AM

Oh wait.

Jasper Loy

Maybe he was suspended for something even though the message was not deleted.

Cerberus

@skullpatrol Why did he tell you to eat his dick, if that was what he said?

tchrist

He also said he hoped we would all go hang ourselves.

That was really a nasty thing given poor Robin Williams.

Cerberus

Why did he say that?

skullpatrol

He is a high strung kid

tchrist

1:05 AM

@Cerberus No, it was either lick or suck his testicles, but using cruder language. And in bold.

He smokes pot every day. He is a loose cannon.

Jasper Loy

I see some mods here. That means there were some flags.

tchrist

Consider his avatar.

Cerberus

Oh.

That is not exactly dining.

tchrist

I was being delicate, per my wont and your desire.

Cerberus

@skullpatrol Yeah. But what triggered him?

@tchrist In reported speech, such is not my desire.

Jasper Loy

1:06 AM

He was also a bit nasty to me, but it was alright.

Cerberus

He was always fine with me.

tchrist

He also said a few nasty things to a moderator and quickly deleted them.

Cerberus

Like what?

tchrist

As though that would protect him.

Cerberus

Well, it might help.

tchrist

1:07 AM

@Cerberus How?

Cerberus

Deletion means you take it back, you acknowledge that you were out of line.

skullpatrol

He apologized right away too

tchrist

@Cerberus It may, yes.

Jasper Loy

But 30 days makes us wonder what it was all about.

skullpatrol

It is a sad show of power

tchrist

1:08 AM

@JasperLoy Of course it does. But we cannot know, so it is not going to get very far.

Jasper Loy

Another mod could unban him if needed I think.

tchrist

While I do not deny that it was probably good for me, I have left this room for the whole day before just because I could not stomach his penchant for super-offensive crap.

Cerberus

I still haven't heard why he uttered such primitive language.

Jasper Loy

Hello @MadScientist welcome to this chat.

Cerberus

@tchrist Like what?

He was never very offensive in my presence, if you don't count his Apple love...

tchrist

1:10 AM

I’d have to go back and look at it, and I do not want to unsettle my stomach. It made me sick.

Jasper Loy

Well, the ban would do him good I guess.

tchrist

That wasn’t what made me self-ban to escape him. That was before.

skullpatrol

It was about repeatedly telling the OP this question is a duplicate.

tchrist

The straw that broke the riverhorse’s back is somewhere around here, but most of it is now deleted and so unreadable by us.

I’m sure our team looked at a lot more than just today to dispense that sort of sentence.

Cerberus

Hmm.

@skullpatrol Oh?

skullpatrol

1:14 AM

He had a valid point.

tchrist

There were also like five other non-ELU moderators here at the time.

Jasper Loy

OK, what was the worst thing he said?

tchrist

Who knows?

And everyone will have a different opinion on “worst”.

skullpatrol

Lick my nuts

Jasper Loy

I have not been following his words closely.

tchrist

1:15 AM

Plus most of those were uttered when I was not even here, so I would not know.

@JasperLoy I think that is one of the wisest moves you could have made for your own mental and emotional health and wellbeing.

Cerberus

@skullpatrol Hardly shocking, but...did people tell him to quit the puerile language? And he wouldn't listen?

tchrist

Yes.

And then he argued it was not meant to be sexual.

Which is a lie.

skullpatrol

He calls people idiots a lot

tchrist

And he tried very hard to troll.

And then he flagged my cute kitten pix as offensive.

Jasper Loy

I think he is just high, that's all.

skullpatrol

1:17 AM

He is a clever troll

Cerberus

Hmm all that does sound annoying.

But 30 days is too much, if that is all there was.

tchrist

I think the bottom line is that he was disruptive.

Cerberus

Why not 1 day?

tchrist

Ours is not to reason why. . . .

skullpatrol

But to question policy?

tchrist

1:18 AM

@Cerberus I can think of a possible reason for that one.

Jasper Loy

I have come to hate several SE users for different reasons. I won't list them here. But who whould have thought it could get so dramatic?

tchrist

So let’s say the moderation team contacted him with a warning. Possibly in email, possibly in a private room. And he shat all over them for doing so, very nastily.

Jasper Loy

Another mod is here.

hichris123

Hi!

tchrist

I can see the team not taking well to that sort of thing and increasing the sentence accordingly.

I am not saying that that happened.

Jasper Loy

1:19 AM

@hichris123 Hi! Did you get many flags?

tchrist

I am saying that is a rational possibility.

hichris123

I don't think we got any..? I'm not sure.

Just came in here randomly. :P

tchrist

He isn’t supposed to say, exactly.

Jasper Loy

Oh, then never mind.

tchrist

There aren’t any new offensive flags.

Cerberus

1:20 AM

@tchrist OK noted.

Jasper Loy

But one wonders why 3 mods are in this room, lol.

Cerberus

@hichris123 Welcome!!

tchrist

There might be a mod-only flag asking for mediation, but if so, there would have been a blue armada sweeping in on us.

hichris123

Oy.

skullpatrol

I smell a lynching mob :$

hichris123

1:20 AM

backs away

tchrist

@hichris123 Y mañana.

hichris123

Somehow I get the feeling you don't like me... :P

tchrist

Naw.

Cerberus

@hichris123 We do!

We think.

Jasper Loy

But I think this is the most tolerant SE chat room.

hichris123

1:21 AM

@tchrist Hablo espanol?

Cerberus

Si!

hichris123

Gah, I don't have a spanish keyboard, so no tilde & dual question marks.

tchrist

Jasper was just trying to see whether you were part of the lynching mob, and if so, whether he could wheedle forbidden personal information out of you by trick questions. :)

Cerberus

Unless you meant "hablas"...

hichris123

... yeah, oops.

Well, I've only taken one year of Spanish so far so....

tchrist

1:22 AM

Sí lo hablo yo, entre otros tantos.

And yes, that was supposed to be dual-meaninged.

@hichris123 Neither do I, but the Mac escapes are mnémoñic and trivial.

hichris123

All I remember is Alt+168 = ¿

tchrist

Ick, that's impossible.

I type Shift+Alt+?, and voilà there it is.

hichris123

@tchrist Yup.

tchrist

Do you even know what a Spanish keyboard is?

It’s un teclado español, and its keys are teclas not llaves.

hichris123

... no. I've switched the keyboard virtually (maps keys to Spanish characters), but other than that no.

Cerberus

1:26 AM

coughs Autohotkey coughs

tchrist

Isn’t the thing that you got banned for linking to Wikipedia about?

Oh wait no, that was that other hot auto-XXX thing. :)

skullpatrol

I now know it's not much different from a Portuguese keyboard :D

De veras.

Oops my bad.

lol

1:28 AM

... okay then.

tchrist

@skullpatrol Las teclas de mi nuevo teclado no funcionan bien. -> As teclas do meu novo teclado não funcionam bem.

Cerberus

ladeedaa

Just testing.

tchrist

@Cerberus That’s Lady Di to you, not Lady Da.

Cerberus

We all know this is the true reason why we wanted the Wiki one-boxing improved.

She dead.

tchrist

Did you do the autofellatio link again? I was away.

Cerberus

1:31 AM

Just boobs.

I never did the autofellatio link!

What do you take me for, a pubescent boy??

tchrist

Really?

@Cerberus Cabe esperar. :)

skullpatrol

Matt would never suspend him for 30 days.

tchrist

I tell you, it has to have been a team decision.

skullpatrol

You don't know that with absolute certainty.

tchrist

Did I say that I did?

skullpatrol

1:35 AM

No

tchrist

Then clearly I already knew that.

skullpatrol

Absolute power corrupts

Cerberus

@tchrist Cabe?

#Ukraine says it reconquered Novosvetlovka near #Luhansk. If so, route planned for Russian aid #convoy is blocked http://t.co/KQf0gml7X6

Tweeted by hdevreij on August 14, 2014 at 4:16 PM

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol That is a strong statement.

Cerberus

The Trojan horse will be stopped.

tchrist

1:36 AM

@Cerberus Heh. I knew that one would stump you. I bet Google translate is useless on it.

Cerberus

I never use Google Translate.

I thought it might mean "one can hope".

Jasper Loy

I use Google Translate to translate stuff you people say in this room.

Cerberus

Haha.

tchrist

It’s a strong verb from capere with many meanings, some idiomatic like that one.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Utrum valet in Latinis?

@tchrist Which is...

tchrist

1:39 AM

The normal meaning it kinda like to fit into something.

Cabe X is probably like “it’s worth Xing for” or something.

skullpatrol

I don't like being apart of such a long suspension.

tchrist

Here.

> Dicho de una cosa: Poder contenerse dentro de otra.

It would fit to X, or something.

skullpatrol

First I put a mod on ignore and now this?

Jasper Loy

I wonder what the SE staff think about my frequent account deletion. They probably think that I am mad, which is true.

tchrist

Or se X que sí. Something like that.

One should hope so.

Or it’s something to wish for.

Something like all that.

Hard to translate.

One has the capacity for hoping.

Cerberus

1:42 AM

@tchrist OK got it. Although my hopes do not lie there at all.

tchrist

@Cerberus That is exactly right.

Jasper Loy

I also keep deleting email accounts. But I will stop now.

Cerberus

@skullpatrol Whom did you put on ignore?

@JasperLoy Yes.

skullpatrol

Kit

Jasper Loy

@skullpatrol Why?

Cerberus

1:43 AM

@skullpatrol Hmm OK. You're not the only one.

Jasper Loy

@Cerberus What?

Cerberus

Never mind.

tchrist

It’s a crazy-strong verb because of it has way-weird vowel changes.

skullpatrol

She was acting like a hypocrite

Jasper Loy

OMG, this is news.

@skullpatrol Where?

Cerberus

1:44 AM

Because of.

skullpatrol

Here

hichris123

... I swear this room is turning into a gossip room.

Jasper Loy

@hichris123 It has always been.

tchrist

Cerberus

@hichris123 Mainly because a new but regular user has just been banned for 30 days.

Jasper Loy

1:45 AM

@skullpatrol What did she say?

tchrist

So not only does a>u in the preterite, a>e in the 1s.

hichris123

@Cerberus Yeah, I can tell you there was a good reason behind it.

skullpatrol

Do as I say not as I do

tchrist

Which is weird.

Cerberus

I like ~~striking words through~~. I should use it more often, I like correcting language.

Jasper Loy

1:46 AM

@skullpatrol That is very vague, I don't understand.

Cerberus

@hichris123 More than what they have told me so far?

tchrist

@Cerberus Well, you need whiteout. But also you never seem to like it when people use correcting language on you.

Wait, you meant the other correcting language. :)

hichris123

@Cerberus Maybe? I dunno, I haven't been following this room too much.

skullpatrol

Long story. But when I questioned her she kicked me out of the room

Jasper Loy

Are Robusto and Kit alright now?

skullpatrol

1:49 AM

Same

Jasper Loy

It's all my fault then.

tchrist

Every Spanish 101 final exam makes you prove you can conjugate all the forms of caber listed in the table above. It has so many irregularities that people just won’t get right till they drill it into their heads.

skullpatrol

I am on robusto's side on this one

Cerberus

@tchrist Um when do people do this?

tchrist

@Cerberus Whenever I get the chance! :)

Cerberus

1:50 AM

@JasperLoy Not at all.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist and you can believe that for just 3000 dollars!

Cerberus

@tchrist So do we all.

Willkommen!

tchrist

Why is $3k the magic number now?

Why do you say goodbye when I say hello? Hello hello?

Cerberus

Only the hippo knows.

skullpatrol

Bye guys.

It's been fun.

Jasper Loy

1:52 AM

The interpersonal conflicts in this room are getting complicated...

Cerberus

Bye.

hichris123

... why'd you join then leave then join @RegDwigнt?

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Wear stilts.

@hichris123 He's probably drunk. And a hippo.

RegDwigнt

Cabía lo superficial,
Cabía también lo profundo,
Cabía el modo de pensar,
Cabía todo en este mundo.

Jasper Loy

@hichris123 He came in to reply.

RegDwigнt

1:53 AM

I think I pass. Do I pass? I think I pass.

tchrist

Sólo lo sabe el hipo solo, y no nos cuenta sus cuentos una vez que se muera.

Cerberus

Cabía que sí.

RegDwigнt

@hichris123 because I'm actually sleeping.

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt Can you shed some light on George suspension?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt You said you didn’t do Spanish poetry!

RegDwigнt

1:53 AM

@JasperLoy someone flagged something.

Cerberus

OK got it.

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt Has it been removed?

hichris123

@RegDwigнt So you're a sleeping... and chatting?

RegDwigнt

@hichris123 perhaps on both accounts.

tchrist

He’s a sleepchatter.

What is the Latin for that?

Sonambulant is not going to work.

RegDwigнt

1:54 AM

I can get no slip.

Cerberus

Somniloquist?

Jasper Loy

The mods have been kind to me. They unsuspended me a number of times.

tchrist

I wanted something chattier, but sure.

Chattier how?

1:55 AM

Ich geh ins H&M,
in die Zelt-Abteilung,
doch das Zehnmannzelt sitzt ein wenig knapp.
I can get no Slip.

Jasper Loy

Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

RegDwigнt

Damn this, I keep mixing up shift and ctrl.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Zehn jaegers for that man!

Oder chav, lo que sea.

RegDwigнt

Que sea sea, whatever may bee may bee.

Jasper Loy

Pourquoi me reveiller o souffle du printemps?

tchrist

1:58 AM

Sea como fuere, como como quiera.

Cerberus

I didn't know the Swedes had tents, let alone a tent Abteilung.

RegDwigнt

@JasperLoy À tes souhaits !

Jasper Loy

Ave Maria, gratia plena.

tchrist

Hic venit the Bird Lady again!

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus which is not exactly helpful in my getting slip now, is it.

Jasper Loy

1:59 AM

Nessun dorma, tu pure o principessa, nella tua fredda stanza.

tchrist

I thought that was your wifely vêtement.

RegDwigнt

Gosh now he's channeling a UK casting show.

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