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@Jasper Ohai. It's over for the day, yes.

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Lethal Seduction is about a cougar seducing a high school kid. In the end, she tries to kill him and his mum and his friend, but gets killed by the rescuer.

1:23 AM

That sounds familiar.

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Yeah, I like to watch all these sexualised movies to make up for my lack.

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It's Tue, second of February, or a 2 2 2.

Did your groundhog see its shadow?

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Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day (Canadian French: Jour de la Marmotte; Pennsylvania German: Grundsaudaag, Murmeltiertag) is a traditional holiday celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will persist for six more weeks. Modern customs of the holiday involve celebrations where early morning festivals are held to watch the groundhog emerging from its burrow. In southeastern Pennsylvania, Groundhog...

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Ah, I did not know about this!

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1:37 AM

I think most of your holidays and my holidays are different.

Probably.

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I have been eating instant noodles for 30 years. My favourite brand is Nissin, chicken flavour.

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple falls on 2 February and celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, it is one of the twelve Great Feasts, and is sometimes called Hypapante (Ὑπαπαντή, lit., "Meeting" in Greek). Other traditional names include Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, and the Meeting of the Lord. In some Western liturgical churches, Vespers (or Compline) on the Feast of the Presentation marks the end of the Epiphany season. In the Church of England, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple is a Principal Feast celebrated...

It's dark. I need to candle más.

Rajesh Dachiraju

3:45 AM

Hi @all

Yasashii Eirian

5:11 AM

Sorry. What is the name of the following exercise in English?

Please poke me if you answer this question. Thanks in advance.

Lawrence

@YasashiiEirian Looks like leg raises to me.

Yasashii Eirian

@Lawrence OK. Thanks for the keyword. It might be called "Hanging leg raises.".

Lawrence

@Jasper Then there's Methuselah.

Shafizadeh

9:05 AM

I'm looking for a English letter for <kbd> tag in the markdown-editor . (Ctrl + {what?})

I can not use B and I, because they are reserved ..

Ctrl + B (Could be fine because it is stand for Button) But I use it for Bold
Ctrl + I (Could be fine because it is stand for Inputs) But I use it for Italic

11:45 AM

K

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11:57 AM

@Shafizadeh You can use any letter you like. This is not an English question.

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@YasashiiEirian I poke you.

@MattE.Эллен That's a wise answer

thanks

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@Gigili Is my answer wise?

@Jasper Yours is also quite wise, I have to admit

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12:05 PM

Thanks. I thought you looked down on all my answers.

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I often felt I was slighted by you.

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@MattE.Эллен Interesting that you get a star for saying K.

@Jasper You must have mistaken me for someone else.

@Jasper OK

I miss you @Reg and @Rob

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12:12 PM

I miss you @gigili, lol.

bursts into tears

@Jasper You say lol when there is something funny.

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@Gigili I say it like all the time, lol.

Actually you're not supposed to use the expression

no lols in this chat, as they put it

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Yeah, since I am so sad.

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At first, I thought Gigili was Italian.

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12:15 PM

Sounds very Italian.

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I just watched 13 Sins, very good movie.

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I am going to sleep.

Yasashii Eirian

12:40 PM

@Jasper So what does it mean?

What's the verb for turning a cardinal into an ordinal?
What's the verb for turning an ordinal into a cardinal?

I don't know

1:19 PM

@tchrist defrocking? indoctrination?

1:38 PM

To turn a cardinal into an ordinal, you ordinate him.
To turn an ordinal into a cardinal, you hatch him.

Except a cardinal is already ordained.

Morning.

Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, ergo spring is nigh!

3

1:56 PM

@KitZ.Fox I don't get how that works. Does he know somebody in charge?

No, he has weather control powers.

Kind of like Storm.

Punxsutawney Phil's predictions are wrong more than randomly (p<0.05). He CAN predict the weather, we've just gotten the indicator backward.

Tweeted by badnetworker on February 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM

So there.

Apparently Beauregard Lee is more accurate.

@KitZ.Fox but what is his reasoning? "no shadow -> cloudy -> I'll give em a break; shadow -> ooh too early -> moar clouds" ?

@KitZ.Fox my this is a nice interface

1:59 PM

@MattE.Эллен INO,RITE!?

You can even edit that to put a comma in.

font too small, can't change

Oi!

hahaha

😁

oooh emoji

Android give you lots of Gemini 🐵🐸🐼

Also autocorrect.

anyway, back to real typing

2:02 PM

Watching Cracked bbl maybe never.

lol

yeah

Little Mermaid. So disturbing. I am never letting my kids watch this.

I made my husband watch Frozen this weekend. I blubbered through half of it.

I never cry at movies, so it was kind of funny.

"Twenty is not an impressive amount of corkscrews." rofl shh shh I'm at work.

2:18 PM

@KitZ.Fox :D I haven't seen it.

I think I only have two and both are on pen knives

You haven't seen the Little Mermaid?

@KitZ.Fox I might have. I thought you meant Frozen

I can't remember

I've seen bits of both of them

There's a song where she makes it obvious that she doesn't know much about human culture. She shows her friend a box of "thingamabobs -- I've got twenty."

also, I've watched "Once Upon a Time"

@KitZ.Fox ah!

So Daniel said "Those thingamabobs are corkscrews. And twenty is not an impressive amount of corkscrews. They aren't something people collect." I guffawed and tried to parlay it into a cough.

Woo! I'm feeling cheery today.

2:21 PM

@KitZ.Fox oh! :D well, 20 is a lot for one person. I think Daniel's privilege is showing!

@KitZ.Fox yay!

His rationale is that most people just need one, so twenty would be seen as weird.

oh

yeah, I guess that makes sense

You should watch Frozen. I wouldn't often recommend kid movies, but it's got a lovely feminist message and it makes fun of Disney princesses.

OK

@KitZ.Fox I didn't cry at Titanic. But I did think it was a bit heartless of Rose to let Jack sink into the Atlantic when there was quite enough room on the raft with her.

2:26 PM

I never watched the whole thing.

There's a boat with a lot of people on it.

It sinks at the end.

And there's this old lady, the whole time you wonder if the make up on Kate Winslett is too thick or if the old lady is just a bit stiff in front of the camera.

@KitZ.Fox I saw it. The story was interestingly different than usual, but I just didn't get what was so enthralling about the whole thing. I mean 'let it go' is useful advice n all sometimes, but a bit lame to make an anthem out of.

@Mitch It's a girl thing. When you've lived with that kind of thing, it's very liberating to watch someone break free of it.

"Be a good girl and don't think dirty, naughty thoughts."

that was the theme of that song?

"We're keeping you in ignorance for your own good, and blaming you for it too."

@Mitch It was about casting off the bullshit and embracing who you are.

I thought the theme was 'why doesn't my sister like me?' and the answer was "It's not you, I'm just a solitary person, also maybe it's eczema"

2:34 PM

Take your judgement and shove it, kind of thing.

ok yes it was more complex.

@Mitch OK, I see why it didn't click with you.

sleeping beauty was not complex. just weird, don't think about anything too hard

Sleeping Beauty was a creepy rape story. I can't believe we sell this stuff to little girls.

exactly.

little mermaid, ugh

2:36 PM

Mostly to make sure they think it is their fault when bad things happen to them.

give up your voice? wtf

I just watched a Cracked thing about that. Want the link?

sure.

you're basically destroying my entire morning

5 Ways 'Little Mermaid' Is The Most Terrifying Disney Movie - Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder

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but thank you.

2:37 PM

^ Cracked rabbit hole.

"our children are toilet people"

spews coffee

"eric eats ariel's friends"

Speaking of which, the only movie I've ever cried at is...

I have a sesquifoot of new snow. There are no shadows.

2:56 PM

@tchrist Everything is white. like pingpong balls over your eyes. all day

@Mitch What? What was it?

@KitZ.Fox Oh...sorry...got distracted.

Babe.

Aww.

sniffles

At the end, when the pig successfully asks the sheep to go in the pen. And they did it so well.

and calmly. without being barked at

Because niceness is nice.

3:07 PM

they also ate the duck for christmas

the duck that wanted to be a rooster.

somebody you knew

lalalalala

you haven't seen it?

don't see the sequels.

I got sniffly at Dances with Wolves (saw it first time recently)

because...

I read the book. Not sure if I saw the movie, but I probably did.

well, it doesn't turn out well for some of them.

@KitZ.Fox There's a book for 'Babe'? I should read that

I don't know. I meant Dances with Wolves.

3:13 PM

Oh. Same question Really? A book for Dances with Wolves?

Yes. My mom meant to give it to me for Christmas that year, and found it in the cupboard a few months into the new year.

Sort of irrelevantly, there's some publisher in the midwest that made bound books out of memoirs of 10's of midwestern settlers, sort of variations of Little house on the prairie, but more adult.

like some woman's diary of the hardship of crossing the plains in a covered wagon, and there being a gap of a week or so in the diary and then starting up again mentioning the 'newcomer' (she had a baby) being all modest about it

So I'm not gonna do that.

... ok.

so very 'real life'

but sorta like what I expect the Dances with Wolves prop of the main character's diary must have been like.

3:31 PM

That sounds really cool.

3:44 PM

@Mitch yes. it's called sheepig, by Dick King Smith

I think it's called sheepig

it's actually called "the sheep-pig"

3:55 PM

@MattE.Эллен got it. yes, The sheep-pig

Not very believable. Why would sheep listen to a little pig?

4:10 PM

yeah. I don't think Dick King Smith had much grasp on intra-farmyard politics

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4:22 PM

@YasashiiEirian Sorry, I was just joking with you. I think Lawrence has given you the answer. =)

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@KitZ.Fox What is disturbing about it? Maybe I should watch it.

5 Ways 'Little Mermaid' Is The Most Terrifying Disney Movie - Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder

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Disney movies are highly sexualised.

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Indeed, Spring is nigh. It is next Mon.

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The time is 1234.

ermanen

7:22 PM

anyone here?

Do you think the question "What is when the engines fail?" sounds natural (as a Jeopardy-like question) in this Aviation question: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24862/…

I thought "What is" should be "What if" but some people said "What is when the engines fail?" is a Jeopardy-like response. So I couldn't be sure.

I'm not sure if this can be a good EL&U question also :)

"what is "when the engine fails"?" could be a question, I suppose.

doesn't make a lot of sense to me

from the reading the answer, I'm pretty sure they mean "what about"

I suppose it could be a Jeopardy like response

but even then

Jeopardy responses should be semantically coherent. Something like "What happens when the engines fail?"

I admit, I've never really watched Jeopardy!.

10:04 PM

@ermanen at best it sounds inarticulate. you're trying to use 'when the engines fail as a noun and it sounds infelicitous and unnatural. I can imagine it is acceptable to native speakers who are not used to writing.

Presumably what is expected is something like "What is it called when the engines fail?" or "What is a failing engine called?" or "What is a failing engine?"

MετάEd

Bork.

@MattE.Эллен Jeopardy is a trivia quiz show with the gimmick that presumably the answer is given and the contestants try to buzz in first to give the question that gives that answer. Of course it is hardly ever like that. It's never '17' with the response being "What is the size of the regular n-gon Gauss showed it is possible to construct using straightedge and compass?"

It's usually "The person buried in Grant's Tomb" with the response being "Who is 'nobody' because where they are buried is called a tomb but is really an above ground mausoleum?"

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He built a calculating machine in 1642.