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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:01 PM

Did I use it wrong? is it too offensive? I've heard it on TV or somewhere.

Matt E. Эллен

it's a little bit more offensive than calling someone a masturbator, but not much more

you used it correctly

simply because masturbator is higher register than tosser and higher register words are less offensive.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

phew! cancels recording of youtube "faux pas" video

> "Tea stains & digestive crumbs" the most British mess ever

Matt E. Эллен

Mitch

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Q: Do you think emoticons should be banned on EL&U

As is known, an emoticon is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal non-verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation...

I thought it had been 'should be supported'.

So what do the votes count for then when you totally switch the direction of the title?

Anyway...looking at the edits, it seems it was rolledback and forth a couple times from the original 'supported'

Kit Z. Fox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I thought we were friends.

@MattE.Эллен How does wanker fit in there?

Delta Escher

8:16 PM

@KitZ.Fox A twist worthy of the great Shyamalan

Kit Z. Fox

Also, I discovered this weekend that my husband had not heard the term fap before.

Matt E. Эллен

wanker is more offensive than tosser

I don't know why, though

Kit Z. Fox

And I had not heard of The Fappening before.

Matt E. Эллен

I have not heard of it either

Delta Escher

@KitZ.Fox They made a documentary about me?

Kit Z. Fox

8:18 PM

Just don't google it.

And don't google gordita either. I learned that in this chat, and shared it in that fapping conversation.

Matt E. Эллен

I remember that

Delta Escher

Never search Trypophobia

Not NSFW, but creepy.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitZ.Fox Yeah I don't count my online friends and my irl friends together. Different spheres.

Kit Z. Fox

Now I'm hurt.

Inexplicably.

Matt E. Эллен

@DeltaEscher yeah, some of those pictures freak me out

Kit Z. Fox

8:20 PM

It's like you think I don't exist.

But I have this hat! It's real! So I must exist.

user116848

It is a bit weird thing to say but before coming to SE I hadn't heard the word fap.

user116848

Delta Escher

@KitZ.Fox Look up Typophobia

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Feb 15 '12 at 20:13, by MetaEd

Delta Escher

It's a new species of cute kitten

Kit Z. Fox

8:21 PM

@Arrowfar I don't think I had either.

Delta Escher

not really

Kit Z. Fox

@DeltaEscher I know what it is.

user116848

@KitZ.Fox Oh :-)

Kit Z. Fox

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 omg right.

Delta Escher

When the internet was so small you didn't know what shock sites were

And actually had to see them

Kit Z. Fox

8:22 PM

We haven't started the Many Memes of Chat Meta post!

And that should be on it!

(Not trypophobia)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It's somewhat a dead meme now

Kit Z. Fox

It should still be preserved.

Matt E. Эллен

memes must be allowed to die for culture to evolve!

Kit Z. Fox

But animated gif!

Matt E. Эллен

:D that can stay

Kit Z. Fox

8:26 PM

I can't find it though. Is it still extant?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

New one! just made from that list MetaEd compiled

Kit Z. Fox

claps hands

Matt E. Эллен

weird. it doesn't come up in the search for .gif for @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

Kit Z. Fox

Maybe it's expired?

Matt E. Эллен

maybe, but 404s were coming up for other things

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:31 PM

Animated owl .gif gif generator here fodey.com/generators/animated/talking_owl.asp

that should be findable later

Kit Z. Fox

@MattE.Эллен Oh there's one that should be there and isn't. Must have something to do with how it ...

trails off, suddenly bored

Jul 11 '12 at 13:05, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Matt E. Эллен

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I think there was an older one

Jul 11 '12 at 13:06, by RegDwight ΒВB

@MrShinyandNew安宇 see how useful all these guidelines are? They just prevented us from getting shut down. Phew! Now, no not thanking me in this chat!

I guess we need to add "No not thanking me in this chat!"

Kit Z. Fox

Huh. That was before I was a mod.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it's weird, innit? we had lives in the past. things happened. Discussions discussed. But here we are in the present, and things haven't always been like this.

Kit Z. Fox

8:41 PM

There was a "cute guy" in my office according to the dusty chat room we resurrected earlier today.

I can't think of who that could possibly be.

Four years ago.

hahaha some of our conversations are hilarious.

Jul 11 '12 at 14:45, by KitFox

And anyway, the problem isn't with me. The problem is getting what I need when I need it.

Starting there.

The some-odd following interaction made me literally laugh out loud just now.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Jul 11 '12 at 16:10, by KitFox

@cornbreadninja What is that emoticon? Saggy boobs?

oop, found another "No .* in this chat"

Kit Z. Fox

Hahaha

I forgot about the creepy project lead too.

Jul 11 '12 at 16:05, by KitFox

People might get the wrong idea and think I was doing inappropriate things in here.

Anyway, someone ought to make the chat memes post. @Mr.Shiny or @Mitch. Or someone.

Or maybe not.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:58 PM

I'm conflicted about that.

Kit Z. Fox

I can't figure whether it will help or harm camaraderie.

Anyway. I'm off. Later!

1 hour later…

Mitch

10:18 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think the post would be endless.

@KitZ.Fox it would be fun for those who are aware of them, and no fun for those who are not (and it would strip all fun for the old timers to have to explain them). Inside jokes. People are idiots. Interesting factoid. The hoi polloi. You said that already. I'm conflicted. TPTB. Android vs Pineapples. What did the German say to the Romanian Shark? P.* on the chain wax.

Endless.

Andrew Leach

11:13 PM

@Mitch It was. It is again.

Cerberus

11:47 PM

I have written my first long answer of the year.

The asker was nice enough to thank me, but she didn't vote me up.

Which is fine.

I have all the reps I need.

Faheem Mitha

@Cerberus She probably didn't realise she should. Is he or she low rep?

Cerberus

@FaheemMitha 14 reps. So yes probably.

Alina, Riga, Latvia

14 2

pronouns reference that

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox No documenting culture in this chat.

Faheem Mitha

@Cerberus Probably someone should gently point it out to her. Not you, obviously, because it would look like you were fishing. But I can if you post the answer.

Cerberus

Oh, no need, I don't need the reps.

But this is the question:

Q: Is the pronoun THAT used as anaphora or cataphora?

"When we analyzed all the news stories and removed just ONE STORY, here's how the world looked. What was THAT story? THE DEATH OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH. This story eclipsed every country except Iraq, and received 10 times the coverage of the IPCC report." As I understand it, the pronoun TH...

pronouns that reference

Faheem Mitha

11:59 PM

@Cerberus Anyway, done.