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12:07 AM

@Robusto Spent a very long time at various doctors' offices today. After a lot of flushing and vacuuming and other worse things, I can hear my radio and cats again. I have an infected eardrum, which was all full of pus but unreachable by antibiotics or even sound till impaction was cleaned out. Now on cipro drops instead of oral augmentin.

@tchrist Hey, good to hear. That sounds like what my friend had. He made a full recovery, btw.

Getting one's eardrum cleaned is painful.

I can imagine.

Not only painful, but the knowledge that someone is fucking with that precious organ makes it worse.

@Robusto Is it in Japanese? The title, I mean? — Araucaria 2 hours ago

They dusted it with some sort of special powder. I can't get it wet nor use the drops till Saturday.

It's got to feel good that A. they found the problem, and B. it's only a matter of time now.

What is Araucaria going on about now?

12:12 AM

I also got a diagnosis of the tensor tympani muscle going into myclonus (spasm/twitch). It is sometimes too strong to play piano because of.

And it turns out that it's mostly from jaw tension, but it still triggers on the higher pitches.

I don't know what that is. Sounds annoying.

You better believe it.

I got some good medical news myself today.

What's that?

Long story short, I started having kidney-stoneish feelings Saturday, and the told me to go to the ER, where they did a CT scan. No stones, but they found sclerotic areas on the bone and they told me to see my doc ASAP to test for myeloma.

12:16 AM

And?

So I spent a needles-and-pins several days thinking I was going to die. Still one test to get results from, but so far all the tests are negative.

I wonder what the sclerotic areas were from then.

No idea. From what I gather, sometimes scans just show that shit and it means nothing.

Well yes.

I fucking knew I shouldn't go into the ER, but I've had kidney stones in the past, and that is one pain I wish to avoid having again.

Thing is, you go into the ER and they do scans and they're going to find something they don't like.

A friend of mine says "Never go to the hospital in the summertime." Especially on the weekend, cuz you're gonna get the B-team for sure.

12:20 AM

Had two friends go through unexpected prostate cancer diagnoses and surgeries last year, one ~10 years older and one ~10 years younger. Both were discovered completely by accident while being checked out for something else on their wives’ behests. Saved their lives.

Prostate cancer was what they thought first. That was negative too.

Have two other continuing cancer cases in a close family member and a fairly close friend. The latter has chronic leukemia, and is about to get married for the first time at 45. The family member is through another round of chemo because some got away.

There's a recent New Yorker article by a doctor talking about how we do too much testing and frighten people with bullshit way too much.

> Middle Ear myoclonus occurs in the muscles of the middle ear. These muscles may include the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles. It can involve the muscles surrounding the Eustachian tube, which include the tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini, and salpingopharyngeus. Sufferers describe it as a thumping sound or sensation in the ear.

I can't imagine how shitty it must be to go through chemotherapy.

12:22 AM

Some people opt to die without it.

Yeah. That thought occurred to me.

There are worse things than dying.

The very worst form of allopathic medicine.

Yes.

Strategy of coming so close to dying with the hope that the thing that's killing you doesn't make it quite so far.

Had kidney stones once, maybe half a lifetime ago. Prefer avoiding them ever again.

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Meaning?

Meaning I am Level 19 in Spanish now instead of Level 18.

Whatever that signifies.

I didn't used to be able to do the timed practice, and now I mostly beat the clock.

BTW, I'm hearing more and more of the dropped /s/ phenomenon. Possibly I just never noticed it before earlier in my learning.

12:37 AM

I think it means you can now cast hechizos más espectaculares que antes.

Possibly. I'll get my wand and check.

Among some populations it is universal; among others, it is considered a mark of poor education or carelessness.

Thanks for hechizos, btw. Good word to know.

I only remember things that are automatic now. I can't really look for them and retrieve at will. It’s the word that sprang to mind.

Interesting that I had mostly scoffed at Spanish my whole life as being the language that the dumb kids in school took, and now I'm learning it at my age.

Quite enjoyably, too, I might add.

For one thing, it feels like a climbable mountain. Japanese never did, however near the top I got.

12:44 AM

It is a big problem. I have a friend at Los Alamos who majored in Spanish with me and whose brother spent the same year living in Madrid as I did, but her kids take French instead because there is no good Spanish being taught there in the only state that's legally bilingual. It's considered a grubby language.

We're considering retiring to NM now.

I’m not sure you would like it, but perhaps.

There are many nice places there, however.

Why might I not like it?

My brother's in the Albuquerque area, and we have visited him. He loves it there.

It's a bit culturally distant unless you live close to the capital, and you don't want to live there I imagine.

Well, ok. I just dislike the traffic in Albuquerque.

Ha, my brother says it's non-existent.

12:48 AM

It's a light you can see a hundred miles away.

When you consider the traffic I face here every day . . . well, I can't imagine it isn't worlds better.

Probably.

But that's just one of the places we're considering. I think Denver would be too cold, ultimately. Really really really sick and tired of snow and winter.

We were all getting that way last year.

Just tired of it.

There's a reason Frank Lloyd Wright had both Taliesin and Taliesin West.

At some point you just don't feel like fighting it anymore.

12:51 AM

Lot of things like that, I'm learning.

> A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. —Frank Lloyd Wright

That one, yeah.

He knew some of his stuff was a mistake.

We used to bike out to the famous Wright home in Oak Park.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio at 951 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Frank Lloyd Wright lived there with his family. Frank Lloyd Wright purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a $5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan. He was 22 at the time, and newly wed to Catherine Tobin. The Wrights raised six children in the home. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark four years later. ��2...

> Wright designed the Taliesin structure two years after leaving his first wife and home in Oak Park, Illinois with a mistress, Mamah Borthwick.

Yeah, the back story on Wright was not pretty.

12:55 AM

How nice of him to have left a mistress to his wife when he dumped her.

And then there was the axe murder of his family . . .

That wasn't him of course.

No.

> On August 15, 1914, while Wright was working in Chicago, Julian Carlton, a male servant from Barbados who had been hired several months earlier, set fire to the living quarters of Taliesin and murdered seven people with an axe as the fire burned.[45] The dead included Mamah; her two children, John and Martha; a gardener; a draftsman named Emil Brodelle; a workman; and another workman's son.

1:08 AM

oh crap forget an important birthday today. good thing not quite too late yet for a call.

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3:36 AM

@Cerberus Just had a Goldilocks moment: found a long golden tress (4.33") in my bed and momentarily went Who's been sleeping in my bed?! before realizing it was one of Lorin's tail-hairs. Isn't that crazy? So puffed out his tail is 8+" wide!!

If the rest of him had been like that, I'd've had to keep a room refrigerated for him during summer.His back-hair is about half that, and face- and leg-hair shorter of course. Still, he looks like a little tiger with the start of a lion's mane though.

5 hours later…

8:45 AM

@Robusto gee that thing is hideous as hell.

I suggest planting a vine forest. Then burning it down together with the house.

2 hours later…

10:34 AM

@Cerberus: we have a guest star today, Indonesia.

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10:48 AM

@RegDwigнt Beauty. Eyes. Beholder.

True. And yet he made things that everyone including this beholder found elegant.

So while the elegance in each eye is subjective, the overall elegance becomes an objective quantity you can measure.

You should go inside sometime. It really is quite magnificent.

That I believe immediately.

Things from the inside and things from the outside are not the same things.

Also, it helps if you are wooing a nubile young woman at the time.

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Q: "He weeps at school." and "He weeps in school." are both alright and the same meaning?

I wonder whether both sentence A and sentence B are correct and the same thing or not. Sentence A => "He weeps at school." Sentence B => "He weeps in school." Thanks.

Smart Humanism, eh?

And yeah, just a quick reminder: this whole dialogue exists because there's that quote of none other than himself. How do we know his vine comment was not including, solely directed at, or exclusively prompted by that very building.

10:56 AM

Do you see any vines in the picture?

Vines would be a clue.

It talks about advising clients. Do you see any clients in the picture?

Absence of clients would be a clue.

Do you doubt that there were clients when the house was built?

Just because you don't see them?

For that matter, how many pictures of houses include pictures of clients? Do the houses not exist if no clients are shown?

Do you doubt that half a century is enough time for a vine to die?

Do you have any familiarity with the hardiness of vines in the Chicago area?

@Robusto the houses only exist if they fall over in the woods.

@Robusto 63% and counting.

10:58 AM

Wrigley Field has had vines for over a century. And the Cubs still haven't won a World Series in that time.

Anyway. Just because you advise clients to do shit, doesn't mean they will do shit. Just because you asked the subcontinent to use their brain and write in plain English, does not mean they will.

In fact, chances are they will not.

Yet they're at it again, even as we speak.

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Q: ... moral conscience about those in the new cities

Does "a moral conscience about those in the new cities" mean: To feel guilty about the workers in new cities To make the workers in new cities feel guilty To feel responsible about the workers in new cities To make the workers in new cities feel responsible Context: There was an unresolved t...

meaning-in-context

Tell me this is not from the SC.

This is not from the SC.

What do I get?

Not $3000.

So, $300000000, then?

11:05 AM

That is one possibility out of infinite possibilities. Keep guessing.

By the way, if I close my eyes and appear to have fallen asleep, it's just that I'm resting my eyes. I'm still listening.

Better than you ever did. Looking like a true survivor. Feeling like a little kid.

Speaking of the SC, I just read that in the northeast portion they have been burning women as witches.

That's law and order, baby.

Aye, but it is.

Just because eating poo is not law in Malaysia, doesn't mean it can't be in Kansas.

They made her eat poo as well.

More laws. Always good. Better than unmore laws.

11:10 AM

A friend of mine in Maine was saying that her state is better than Massachusetts. I told her look at our record on witches. Maine had few, if any, witch burnings. Many witches were not even charged. Whereas we are famous for witch justice.

In your face, Maine!

Well. Obviously, she's a witch.

In which case she is objectively correct in saying her state is better.

@RegDwigнt Clearer proof than this does not exist.

More to the point, who needs one.

@RegDwigнt I think the word you're looking for is subjectively.

If you are a witch, then not being burned is better for you quite objectively.

It is, of course, at the same time quite objectively worse for everyone else not to burn you.

11:12 AM

Still subjective. From the viewpoint of the person is the very definition of subjective.

That is your subjective definition.

We should rename Meta "The Wah-Wah Room."

There, that's subjective.

It's where you go to cry about your question being closed.

@Robusto No, that is a 100% accurate law of nature.

@Robusto no, meta is where you go to cry that you can't find the meta.

Saying things like "I only found it because I was looking for it".

Apple should really rename Objective C to Subjective C. Because it is just so capricious to reinvent C.

Pfft. C is so 1960.

It's World War Z now, dude.

11:15 AM

What ever happened to Tyler Durden?

Oh wait, he is reincarnated in @Terdon!

Somehow I didn't realize Terdon is a portmanteau of Tyler Durden. D'oh!

You're terdon me apart, Lisa!

Hmmm ... let's see, I'm trapped on top of Saruman's tower. What time is the next eagle?

Wann fährt der nächste Adler?

Sep 25 '12 at 12:32, by Robusto

That's the precise time in Middleearthian.

@Robusto duh, Adler ist ein Hotel. Das fährt nicht.

Ese fue el nombre del hotel en "No es país para viejos".

11:32 AM

@Robusto Damn! I've been exposed!

> Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Yo dawg.

Matt E. Эллен

@terdon You were the narrator all along! So, I guess that makes you Tolkien.

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@terdon No exposing yourself in chat.

Matt E. Эллен

+7 495 692-60-30

11:36 AM

@terdon is only a token Tolkien, who may or not be tokin' right now, for all we know.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt they sound a bit fed up

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Q: Active voice to passive voice

How to convert "He sat on the chair" to passive voice? can you explain about the active voive to passive voice?

Yes, I can. Next question.

I am a master of voive.

Matt E. Эллен

That must be a duplicate

Yep. But @Reg closed it as ELL fodder. Just as well.

Yes it's a dupe of a dupe of a dupe, but it's also retarded, and retardation always outweighs.

It's an intransitive verb. How the hell are you supposed to do something that cannot be done to it.

What are you even hoping to achieve.

Matt E. Эллен

11:44 AM

so longer as it's no longer on my lawn...

and by "my lawn" I mean "our site"

He might as well have asked how to convert the sentence to Australian dollars.

He did ask that. His entry was in code.

Matt E. Эллен

12:35 PM

@reg is it possible to link directly to COCA results?

You can get a direct link by checking your history. But from time to time it will be broken. Then they'll fix it. Then it'll be broken again. Because of OMG FRAMES DIS IS GOLD MUST USE.

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Q: How can I link to a result in the COCA corpus?

I want to respond to the question Is it common to use “perverted” as an adjective? with evidence from the COCA Corpus. But I don't want to link to the generic COCA main page or landing page, I want to link to particular results. Ideally, I'd like to provide a link so the OP could see a page lik...

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A: How can I link to a result in the COCA corpus?

Following a tip from the user @RegDwigнt on Meta.EL&U, it turns out COCA does have officially-supported mechanism to share links to specific results, but it requires that you register an account (accounts are free). Steps: Register a COCA account Follow the instructions in the registration ema...

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt ah! thanks :D

I honestly struggle to name any other site that still uses frames.

Matt E. Эллен

12:50 PM

and it's really annoying the way the frames jump around the screen

Hey, stop trying to frame frames.

Might as well jump. Go ahead and jump.

No shitty latter Van Halen in chat.

House of Pain - Jump Around

Dein Wunsch ist mir Befehl.

How did you get from "No X" to "Some Y"?

12:55 PM

By leveraging experience and ROIng the SEO.

I'm going to keep bugging you about this. I won't stop nagging you, until you start accepting some of these answers. You've posted 46 questions, and never, not once, accepted a single answer. Users will, eventually, stop answering, if I were you I would stop (exploiting users) to reassess my attitude. — Mari-Lou A 2 hours ago

You know, she does have a point.

Huhuh she said asses.

Spoken as a man who doesn't know his sass from a wholly deserved reprimand.

I like the way she stopped responding to this user. Clearly she is going to ignore him to death.

Okay tchrist has officially gone insane and is talking in some strange Moldovanian lingo.

12:57 PM

Hm, works better with his sass.

Kiss my sass.

Kiss my sass.

jinx

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Matt E. Эллен

SAAS

1:00 PM

@RegDwigнt What part of Texas are you from?

I am from that part of Texas where for 120+ years nobody noticed that the Coca Cola slogan admits nobody enjoys it voluntarily, you have to tell people to enjoy it.

The teχ part of saß, clearly.

Your wiki is leaking.

Matt E. Эллен

Your wookie is luking

Your lychee is weaking.

1:02 PM

Fuck wookies. Cause I'm sure as hell not doing it myself.

lies

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Aug 22 '12 at 20:24, by RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist lies, damn lies, and tchrist.

@Robusto was soll ich lesen?

Man, I am wading into a mess here. Trying to compute relative offsets of scaled elements and then moving them proportionally to the percentage of scrolling.

Instructions unclear.

Something about trolling.

1:05 PM

Take some tea, then roll it.

Do I have to spell out everything for you.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto I am doing something similar finding parts of a photo.

it's maddening

I thought it would be straightforward, and it is if elements aren't scaled with a CSS transform matrix.

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@MattE.Эллен Tell me about it. No simple answers, it's all a great big mess of calculation, and even then it doesn't appear to work right.

God will set it all right for as long as you remember that pi is 3.

Matt E. Эллен

1:07 PM

@Robusto exactly (or not, in our cases). I've created a mask over the camera preview, and that's correct, but then when I come to get the pixels from the bitmap, the same calculation doesn't work. grrrrr

+1 for making me realize that the game ain't worth the candle. I have to do something simpler before I go mad. ^_^ — Robusto 24 secs ago

Holy crap, you have "the game ain't worth the candle" in English?

Yes. What language did you want it in?

@Robusto The B-team is first year residents, who are basically learning from their mistakes on you.

@Mitch So I gather.

1:10 PM

Fourth year residents can figure out the problem and cure you from across the room, when bringing in someone else for a sprain.

@Robusto every Russian child knows it. But it's been almost 40 years and this is the first time I hear it any other language.

Seriously?

Srsly.

@RegDwigнt pi can be 3 in a spherical space. I'm just sayin'

Jan 14 '13 at 16:45, by Robusto

@MattЭллен: Can you go ping John Lawler from ELU Blog Chat and move him along toward becoming a blogger there? He's beginning to think the game is not worth the candle.

1:12 PM

You're a spherical space.

Matt E. Эллен

better than being a hemispherical space

@Robusto yeah quoting yourself is cheating. You're still just one person. I can say shit in English, too.

In fact, there's nothing I do better.

But I was only one person saying it just now in chat.

And you went all OMG on me.

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A: How to guarantee getting downvotes without explanation

There is only a casual relationship between upvotes and answer quality in general. Glib, facile answers can garner scores of upvotes, while seriously thought-out, informed, articulate answers garner one or two — if that. Meanwhile, excellent answers accrue downvotes because they yank some invisib...

I use it in this answer, too.

Yes. Still the same person using it.

Matt E. Эллен

The fame isn't worth the Grendel

1:14 PM

Like, I used "in and on itself" for years. Because I was unaware that is must be "in and of itself". So I can quote fifty instances of "in and on itself" for you. But it's still just one dumb guy doing his dumb shtick.

You know me well enough that I never make shit up. Everything I say has been said before by others. "The young poet mimics, the mature poet plagiarizes." I think Eliot said that.

@Robusto sorry, I cannot believe you until you prefix that sentence with "fact is".

@RegDwigнt I can't take that as a compliment because it is not true, but thank you for the sentiment.

But the point remains that you went all OMG on me, which if you really doubt my usage why wouldn't you doubt that instance of it.

Fact is, everything I say has been said before, but that argument somehow never works for you when I say things like "a drywall" you go all pineapple on my sorry ass even though I am channelling native speakers.

There is literally not a single word of English that I am not repeating after someone else.

1:17 PM

@RegDwigнt you've said that before

Nov 25 '12 at 17:36, by RegDwighт

I said that before, I think.

Please throw a premature Protect on this, it’s gathering flies:

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Q: I need a single word for describing an item that would need to be replaced over time

Is there a word used to describe items that would need to be replaced over time (either due to wear and tear or just regular usage)? It would be similar to "perishable" in regard to food products, but for mechanical parts, etc...

single-word-requests

@Robusto I didn't go OMG on you. What is it about you that makes you special. I just went OMG in general.

In response to everything in general, or to something specific that I said?

@tchrist that's 'degrading'

@tchrist How about "everything that ever was"?

1:19 PM

@Robusto Well, I would like to Protect everything that ever was, but I thought that would be too much to request.

I'm offering an answer to the OP's question.

@Robusto I never responded to you. Who are you?

@tchrist yeah no. How about closing.

@RegDwigнt Yes, ok.

Hint: if the answers to your question are "cat", "dog", "mathematics", "instantaneously", and "lilac", your question is not clear.

How about "item"? On a long enough time scale, everything perishes. Even items. — Robusto 37 secs ago

1:22 PM

Romani item.

Romani idem, Romani fidelis.

Andara a Roma senza vedere il papa.

Pfft. Delis.

Them's bubble tea shops now. Get with the programme.

@tchrist Hey, Google translates "Andate" as "Andate" but in the context of the film I'm watching it seems to mean "Go away" or "Get out" . . .

@Robusto Yes.

1:24 PM

Yup, I'm a tokin' token Tolkien.

Ándate is like véte.

That andates you.

@terdon tollkühn.

Tony! Toni! Toné!

Tony! Toni! Toné! is an American soul/R&B group from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. During the band's heyday, it was composed of Dwayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins) on lead vocals and bass, and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley on drums and keyboards. Other members were Elijah Baker, Carl Wheeler, Randall Wiggins, and Amar Khalil, who is the current lead singer of the group, and Antron Haile. Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it had a nice ring...

Toniculi, Tonéculá.

Il remedio e peggio del male.

1:27 PM

@tchrist Is it dialectical or mainstream?

It’s American.

They don’t use it as much in Spain.

This was Argentinean.

That’s American. :)

Again.

Don't those Argentinos have anything to do except make films?

Burn money?

1:28 PM

From what I hear, burning Argentinean money is cost-effective.

Related verbs are ir, andar, caminar, pasear.

@Robusto hey inflation and bankruptcy are high on their list of skillz.

Think of the old Warner Brothers Speedy Gonzales cartoons, ¡Ándale, ándale, arriba, arriba!

Sounds stereotypically Mexican, by intent.

Meep, meep.

Oh, is that the German translation of beep beep?

1:32 PM

Roadrunner says meep meep, not beep beep.

@Robusto Really!?

Really-o truly-o.

@tchrist Haha you Basque separatist, your cover is blowing.

I always thought it was beep beep.

That's why we go over this stuff.

1:33 PM

Yeah. To put all spies in gaols.

Don’t think I’ve ever heard the word meep before.

Muppets, Beaker, how he communicates

@tchrist So how do I parse le in Ándale? "It" as in "go it"?

Órale.

Córrele.

Apúrale.

That is not answering my question.

1:43 PM

23 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

@Robusto you are very observant sir.

23 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

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You're making the beachball spin on my Mac. Cut it out.

Lol I am making your what do what on your what.

Who the fuck let a beachball into Mac. No wonder Steve Jobs died.

Or are you using a MacDonaldsbook.

Finnland Finnland Finnland. Finnland has it all.

The new finnish passport is fun!

@MattE.Эллен: I am solving for "not scaled" first, and pushing the hard part under the rug. Does that make me a bad person?

It makes you a Stockholm Syndrome. Which is a Good Thing.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto whatever works!

1:58 PM

Not scaled is so easy!

@MattE.Эллен Anything Else was better.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: What do you call a person who is always noisy on the Internet? by Jaeger Jay on english.stackexchange.com

Now I just package as a plugin and ship! When someone runs aground on the "scaled" issue I can just say, "Gee, I wish you'd said something before I started."

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So I go to IMDb and this is what I see.

WTF

Is that an actual thing?

Or have they been hacked?

Antman? Antman? ANTMAN?

And is that Catherine-Zeta?

Yeah. And why does it say "Jetzt im Kino" instead of "Now in Theaters"? You've definitely been hacked. I'd say by Germany.

2:02 PM

It seriously looks like The Onion.

No parece una cebolla.

Seriously. Dude. I am the one single most least educated person in this universe when it comes to comics, but I still know Aquaman and Matter-Eater Lad.

Antman, meanwhile... Antman?

No, Ant-Man. Antman is his Jewish sidekick (according to Paul Rudd on The Daily Show).

Yeah that's the next thing I was going to ask about. What is with Paul Rudd's nose. That's how Hitler would portray a Jewish ant.

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@RegDwigнt That's the unfunniest flow chart I have ever seen.

2:14 PM

On the plus side, it's the cashiest flow chart.

@FumbleFingers: I wish I had somebody like you in my team. — Dan 30 mins ago

Fumble has a new fan!

Note he doesn't say "on my team." Maybe there is a subversive meaning behind this.

Jul 2 at 12:13, by RegDwigнt

From time to time you have to read unbetween the lines.

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Q: Is it ok to not use any auxiliaries in our question?

My main question is can we omit the auxiliary verb in object question too or not? And is it correct to say how she likes instead of how is she like ? And in all the qustions which are about a word except subject we should use auxiliaries?? Ps: from object question i meant the questions that are ...

If ever there was a candidate for "Unclear what you're asking" . . .

> is it correct to say how she likes instead of how is she like

Yes. 100% correct. Just means a 100% different thing.

Should we have a pineapplese tag?

2:25 PM

We already do.

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English Language Learners – ell.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for speakers of other languages learning English.

Currently in public beta.

Is a pineapple a fruit?

Multiple fruit?

2:41 PM

It is a pineapple. As such, it is a perfect example of its class.

Classy pineapple.

It is what it is. As such, it is a perfect example of what it is.

You are what you are. As such, you are a bad example for yourself.

True.

Mosquito finds blood vessel

Foogin gross alien shit.

You'll never allow any mosquitoes in your country again.

2:53 PM

@skillpatrol You have some problem with the Law of Identity? Maybe this is a good time to remind you that it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

@RegDwigнt Looks like a horror picture. And, taken together with your gravatar, it's even a double feature.

Dr X will make a creature.

Not if I see you first.

Translation: he will make it with a 100% certainty.

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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…

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