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4:00 PM
4/5!
@Mitch I guess so.
 
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@Mitch She looked very different before becoming a star.
 
orange, globetrotting, coconut, grilled cheese, bling
 
@JasperLoy You were orange before. The change is very subtle
@JasperLoy she grew up being a star
 
@Mitch That is also what I heard.
 
man, I gotta read a book
any book
I can't keep attention for more than
@KitZ.Fox which line? I can't find it to cue up on youtube.
 
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4:06 PM
ams.org//bookstore is a very weird address because it has two slashes. Why?
 
1.3 billion views.
@JasperLoy reserved space?
Some sick math joke?
 
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@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I am looking for some good movies to watch. Any recommendations?
 
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@KitZ.Fox The snow on your blog looks lovely.
 
@JasperLoy the Alan Turing movie?
 
@JasperLoy Their web server ignores repeated slashes. Put in as many as you like.
 
4:11 PM
@Mitch I'll find it. Half a tick.
 
There's no Kurt Goedel movie because it would be boring
 
@JasperLoy Thanks.
 
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I have a 2016 calendar on my desk now. Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 nice! you can play many times with all new words every time.
 
4:13 PM
Oops. Wrong time stamp.
 
@Mitch I never did better than 4/5. :(
 
@JasperLoy Wow. I'm still mentally a couple months ago. I'll be very shocked when Jan comes.
 
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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Will you be going to Aruba again? I remember you go there many times a year.
 
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I thought of cutting out the first column of the calendar which is Sunday and putting it as the last column.
 
"Strong and wise and you are love
And when the tide it comes you will float above"
 
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4:17 PM
Another idea is to cut the calendar into 365 squares and paste it all over the wall, lol.
 
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@JasperLoy That reminds me of this:
 
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@JasperLoy I go once a year at most.
 
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@Arrowfar When is your exam?
 
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4:21 PM
9th and 11th of December.
 
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They are pretty tough and my prep is okayish. Let's see.
 
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Well, you can always take it again if you fail, I guess.
 
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Yeah sure.
 
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I have cleared some papers on second and third attempts anyway.
 
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<feels embarrassed>
 
4:22 PM
Now that we have a source to check your delusions against, we'll have to reassess you with the Baader Mein Kampff-Voight test
@Arrowfar study in many small chunks; lightly exercise between chunks; reward yourself with snacks or meals (that you are looking forward to).
It's science!
 
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@Mitch Good advice :)
 
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My strategy is to study in one big chunk, then eat, then sleep, then repeat.
 
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I studied so hard for the high school exams that I did not have to study anything just before the exams.
 
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Everyone brought along books and files but I only brought along a pencil case to the exam venue.
 
Oh yeah, lots of sleep. even small naps. better to sleep than to stay up late learning more (unless you never went to class or read the book in the first case)
 
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4:28 PM
But school did not teach me how not to go mad, and I went mad, and all that study was useless. School should be reinvented to teach you the truly important things.
 
1) smaller chunks
2) very light exercise
3) snacks or meals as conscious reward
4) naps during studying, bed early before exam day
 
@Mitch I passed that no problem. pfft. Yeah. Like you thought I wouldn't, because that would be weird.
 
I answered all boring. Of course I would swipe away the wasp. Why would I turn over the turtle, that's just weird. And Why are they asking about my mom? That's messed up.
Also I don't like boiled oysters or dog, so that was an easy choice.
 
I know, right? I was all like, just give me a goddamn cigarette. And show me the killing jar.
 
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Is there pork floss in your part of the world?
 
4:31 PM
That sounds gross.
 
I can't remember the last time I had a goddamn cigarette.
 
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@KitZ.Fox It comes in cigarette sizes and tastes salty, quite nice.
 
@MετάEd July 11, 2007 for me.
 
@KitZ.Fox shrimp flavored crackers sounds weird but they're might tasty. too much salt and cholesterol. gotta draw the line somewhere.
@KitZ.Fox the first 50 years are the hardest
 
4:33 PM
I can't eat shrimp.
 
They don't agree with you?
 
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I never smoked. Sometimes I think I might try.
 
They make me throw up and my lips tingle.
 
Hm.
 
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I don't eat prawns because I can't deshell them properly to eat them.
 
4:34 PM
Yeah, other things being equal I would also not eat shrimp then
 
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I don't like using my hands to eat.
 
@JasperLoy also, they look at you while doing it.
 
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@Mitch Same thing goes for the fish, isn't it?
 
@JasperLoy nah, they always seem to be looking the other way
 
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I really like raw salmon sashimi style.
 
4:36 PM
I wish I could eat that. It looks so good.
That and tuna.
 
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Tuna is also nice but not as much flavour.
 
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And tuna is more expensive than salmon usually in sashimi.
 
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But my favourite fish is cod fish cooked which is too expensive here.
 
@JasperLoy Is that like pulled pork?
 
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@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I did an image search and it doesn't look like it.
 
4:39 PM
Is it floss like cotton candy is called candy floss?
 
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It's similar to candy floss but more compact.
 
Ah. I did my own image search!
 
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So it still feels pretty solid.
 
Rousong, also called meat wool, meat floss, pork floss, flossy pork, pork sung or yuk sung, is a dried meat product with a light and fluffy texture similar to coarse cotton, originating from China. Rousong is used as a topping for many foods, such as congee, tofu, and savoury soy milk. It is also used as filling for various buns and pastries, and as a snack food on its own. Rousong is a very popular food item in Chinese cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine. == Production == Rousong is made by stewing cuts of pork in a sweetened soy sauce mixture until individual muscle fibres can be easily teased apart...
 
So like shredded beef jerky?
 
4:40 PM
Should be able to make a sweater out of it.
 
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Maybe. But I never heard of pulled pork or shredded beef here.
 
@MετάEd "mmmm I love your sweater"
 
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Pork balls and beef balls there are here.
 
Oh, I've heard of rousong.
 
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I just learnt it is called rou song, lol.
 
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4:43 PM
My Chinese is quite bad.
 
@KitZ.Fox easy to guess why that date in particular.
 
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I guess the rou means meat and the song means loose.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Really?
 
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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Is it her birthday?
 
yes, for anyone who was paying attention in 2010 when you, I, and JSB noted how our kids were all the same age
 
4:45 PM
Oh. Yes, that is true.
 
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Aha, my friend now has three boys, lol.
 
@JasperLoy Is he/she starting a collection? Gonna get them all?
 
*gotta catch 'em all
 
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I was surprised at the rate they popped out, two years apart.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 It's very very dry. It's like meat-flavoured cotton candy. It tastes better than it sounds.
 
4:48 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think I had some in China.
 
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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, it's actually pretty good for me.
 
@JasperLoy That is a pretty good rate. I don't understand why people would want to spread them out farther. Of course sometimes they have no choice. Also, putting them closer together is crazy. just saying.
 
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How do mothers carry triplets? It must be tough.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 totally agree
Although I suppose there is something to be said for having one in school before you have a second. Or having one out of diapers.
 
@JasperLoy they're a lot smaller in multiples
 
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4:52 PM
In Species 2, the alien babies grow very quickly.
 
@KitZ.Fox I've heard for college financial age, you get more money if you have more than one in college at a time.
but that math sounds iffy
 
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They pay parents to have more kids here, to increase population size.
 
It's true, probably. I got the most because I was the youngest.
 
@KitZ.Fox sometimes that forces the issue
 
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In the past, they told people to stop at two, and now we have a shortage, hence the huge foreigner influx.
 
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4:55 PM
Considering how the Malays reproduce more than the Chinese, this place might have a Malay majority in a few years, lol.
 
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I like how the window maximises when you drag the top bar to the top of the screen.
 
@KitZ.Fox I feel like if one gets out of diapers before the second comes along, then you're just prolonging the agony when the second arrives and you have to start that process all over again.
 
I agree.
 
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I was thinking if there is a way to train babies so that they don't need diapers after a month or so...
 
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That would be called evolution of the human race.
 
5:00 PM
It's called elimination communication. People do it.
 
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Now that I have watched Species 1 and 2, time for 3 and 4.
 
@JasperLoy cats can be trained to go in a toilet. why can't babies?
 
I'm not good at the timeline game
 
5:29 PM
 
That's a lot of babies.
 
@Mitch I'm never sure whether or not that is actually possible.
I have heard reports, but...
 
5:45 PM
Haha.
That is a good start, although it could be improved upon, especially the ending...
But is that like a freak act, or a freak cat, or is it something all cats can learn?
 
A single easy instance proves the general case. Not only is it possible, it is probably not hard to repeat.
Also, I'm eating and don't really want to check all the many videos of cats poooping.
 
Are you sure?
Understandable.
 
I'm sure the cats wouldn't do it if they weren't very inclined.
 
Some cats do the strangest things...
Doesn't mean your average cat will.
 
I thought it was funny how the cat 'prepped' the toilet water by scratching it.
That goes back to before reptiles.
 
5:56 PM
Yeah.
Does it?
 
(i.e. reptiles do the same thing with their poop)
 
I have seen cats flush, even.
I see.
 
People would too excpet it's nasty. We dig holes first.
 
Do we?
 
We dig cat holes, actually. Hmm.
 
6:02 PM
No atheists in catholes.
 
There have been a lot of atheists in foxholes, she said obliquely.
 
6:26 PM
Quite a few of them are assholes, too.
Not me, of course, them other atheistses.
 
6:40 PM
Out of interest what happened to josh61's question...english.stackexchange.com/questions/291705/…
 
@Christopher Deleted by OP.
 
oh..ok..do you know why?
 
@Christopher Nope.
 
ok...thanks..
 
@KitZ.Fox Yes.
 
6:50 PM
Out of curiosity, if we hypothetically didn't want the chatbot back, how would we vote that way? Not that I don't want it back.
 
Do we want the chatbot back? Please star for "no".
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where'd the pin go?
that's weird
I pinned it, then starred it for good measure and now it's gone
 
@MattE.Эллен Dunno. I see it pinned in the chat log but not on the sidebar.
 
@MετάEd I dunno what happened. It looks like it's back after I re-starred as interesting
 
@MattE.Эллен Maybe you found a bug.
 
6:55 PM
yes.
 
How about bring chatbot back but with changes (like maybe help only in a special chatbot chat room?
 
Or maybe with hangman removed.
 
hangman is fine if nobody else is in the room.
 
I'm not really sure what the value-add is, tbh.
It was handy for getting wiki pages.
Or definitions.
 
If we're requesting features for the chatbot, I'd like Siri/Ok-Google/Cortana integration, so that we can ask it complex questions and it gives useful responses.
 
7:10 PM
The rest were toys, iirc.
 
I found it handy to have those lego-set shortcuts. But I think I was the only one.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Keep in mind that I was the one maintaining the codebase. And that I often forgot to pull down changes.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh right! Yeah, that was cool.
feathers cap
 
@KitZ.Fox Yeah. You're awesome and can do anything. Including things like that.
 
fry face
 
oh, it needs a feature where if anyone says one of Cerb's fave phrases, like "the hoi polloi", he actually gets pinged.
I think he'd love that.
@KitZ.Fox what's a fry face
this?
 
7:14 PM
Yes.
 
I thought it was the kind of face you have after you hit it with a frying pan
 
7:30 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I was just going to arbitrarily make a decision after two weeks.
 
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8:04 PM
@KitZ.Fox I see you have the old avatar back.
 
8:41 PM
I've decided that Spanish chatters whose every sentence is peppered with jaja are no less annoying than English ones who use lol as pucktuation.
 
speaking of mejor, is that a trend, to end every sentence with 'mejor'? What does it mean if they do?
 
9:02 PM
@tchrist have you ever heard of that before?
 
@Mitch Not yet. But watching teenaged Spanish girls texting is bound to have all possible bizarreneses show up in the fullness of time.
 
9:16 PM
@tchrist so they laugh in spanish like /xaxa/?
 
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I am now skyblue.
 
I will never reload, just to keep the orange.
 
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@tchrist You misspelled bizarrenesses.
 
@tchrist are there any chat sites in Spanish or other languages comparable to here? or somewhere to find those?
 
9:40 PM
@JasperLoy This one was a present from Reg. I felt like wearing it.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: What's the proper elitist equivalent for the word slut? by Frosty The DopeMan on english.stackexchange.com
 
I wish all my synonyms were elite.
thanks smokey, we've already closed it.
 
Title says it all, @Mr.Shiny.
I think that's the most help we've given a SWR in about three years.
 
The titles always say it all, why do we even have question bodies? stupid website making me retype things.
 
I know. [and 24 more characters]
 
9:50 PM
we should have a minimum word count for SWRs. If you've typed fewer than 100 words, your SWR isn't clear enough.
 
He also gave a comment the same as the text the same as the title.
 
After I commented that the title didn't say it all. Yes, I noted that.
But if we're going to make him do all that thinking, he might just as well have come up with an answer himself.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: A person who criticizes his own homeland/city/country? by Droid on english.stackexchange.com
 
have a good weekend everyone.
 
@KitZ.Fox thinking is so annoying.
 
10:02 PM
inorite
I'm trying not to get too excited, but the flag queue is quite nearly into the single digits.
 
huh? Oh, the normal person action queue is at 131 for me. Is the flag queue always that bad?
 
Nah, I'm talking about the mod flags.
I don't ever look at the orange one.
That's your responsibility.
This answer is not even wrong. — MετάEd 5 hours ago
@MετάEd ... I can't decide to convert this with the comment or not.
Now I remember why I avoid the VLQs in the queue.
Too many is like reading YouTube comments.
 
later
 
10:17 PM
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Q: Contraction of "I was"?

Nour Alamel YousufIs there a contraction for "I was"? There are contractions for "I am" (I'm), "I will" (I'll), "I have" (I've), "I would" (I'd), and yet the simple past tense seems conspicuously missing. Why is that? Does that reasoning apply to "I did" and "I had" as well?

 
10:40 PM
@Mitch In chat, yes.
@Mitch /xaxa/
 
11:26 PM
@KitZ.Fox It's obviously an attempt to answer the question but I can't make any sense of it.
 
11:37 PM
"tantric engineer"
That is definitely my new term for the day.
 
@tchrist that's almost entirely one person /xaxa/
 
@Mitch JAJA TELL ME JAJA ABOUT IT JAJA
 
However "penal substitution" is a close second.
 
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