I. Uh. What is this layout.

Don't let tchrist see this.

@RegDwigнt @tchrist is gonna see it

Eew.

Ewe?

The old user profile looked way better. That was a few years ago.

Can we have a referendum to revert to that?

I want a referendum on whether I should have dessert.

@Mitch Uwe.

@Mitch What are your options.

All for, say aye

One option, cake.

All against, STFU

Yes, I really think we should go back to the original user profile page, when SE first started.

@Mitch Eye. You can have it, or eat it. Take your pick.

Nice.

Back in a sec.

What do you think @MetaEd?

@JasperLoy I've been studying too much Buddhism to be discontented with the current user profile page.

Maybe many others feel the same, but I always think that many websites, not just SE, looked way better years ago than they do now.

Let's make it look like pen and paper.

It's like every time they change it it looks worse.

And it's not because I am old-fashioned or something like that.

mmm

I think it would be better if sites fixed the existing bugs and genuine issues instead of fixing a good design that ain't broken.

cake

Google Mail and YouTube now look horrible after the change.

And yet now, I have messages missing in my Google Hangouts chat, and YouTube pages don't load properly.

@MetaEd You too attached to non-attachment

So it seems that as time goes by, things really do get worse.

@JasperLoy not everything

smallpox is gone

@Mitch Also I'm a militant pacifist, and I hate intolerant people.

colon cancer is slowly going away due to aggressive screening

@MetaEd Those people are the worst

@JasperLoy lots of people in India have toilets, and they didn't ten years ago

@Mitch I think there is a curve. Once things reach a certain level, they go downhill. Maybe it needs to reach rock bottom for it to go uphill.

percentage of people in dire poverty is very low now (5%?), when 30 years ago it was around 25% (?)

@JasperLoy Oh. Sure. Things could totally fall apart.

@Mitch Poop screening?

Like a leader of a major powerful country becomes incompetent but is still followed on many incompetent directives.

Oh.

Uh.

Shit.

By the way, is there any particular brand you would recommend if one is shopping for a computer preinstalled with Linux?

@MetaEd haha. C'est le cas de le dire!

@MetaEd Well, that's part of it but mostly colonoscopies.

It has been routinized.

Some rocket science involved (tiny cameras and tiny snippers)

@JasperLoy Any brand will do provided that it's made of iron.

but now it's an assembly line

@JasperLoy what does google say?

@MetaEd The latest Macbook Air is made from 100 per cent recycled aluminium!

@Mitch I usually don't use google for these things, not the best source of information. I thought the great people in this chat might know better.

@JasperLoy and at it's base is a unix version

@JasperLoy google is a first good pass.

@JasperLoy I don't mean the computer should be iron. I mean the brand should be iron.

searching Stackexchange (through google) would probably work best

That's what I personally would do.

but it is nice that mac's have unix as the cmd line OS

@MetaEd You?

@Mitch Oui

Oy

@Mitch Oyez

@MetaEd Whoa!

@Mitch wut

Hwæt?

@Mitch Hæc? Hoc?

Oh, you're going there. OK then.

@MetaEd Hunc, hanc, hunc

Hv̂ivs?

To be honest, I had to look that up.

the hun hanc hunc part.

I haven't yet looked up whatever magical incantation that you just said

@MetaEd I don't know, who is?

@Mitch THIRD BASE!

+1

@RegDwigнt I tried playing design-screw-up bingo on that, but my card runneth over.

Later my dudes. Enjoy yourself now, knowing it can always get worse. Or expect good things because it can always get better.

@tchrist Don't you get a bonus when every number on your card is called?

@Cerberus And making sure this never happens again is why Stack Exchange exists. XP

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@Mitch the referendum results are just in. 96% say you should vote Putin.

@Robusto Naahh you really think so?

@Tonepoet But what about all the fun!

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@tchrist Where is your answer on antonyms/opposites and all the possible varieties? There's a question that asks exactly for that.

I searched but couldn't find it.

@RegDwigнt Worst dessert ever.

@Cerberus You have the right to remain silent ...

Can you add really at the end of a statement as a marker for uncertainty?

Maybe not uncertainty, but I sense it sometimes makes the speaker sound less positive.

@Færd Sometimes it is done in an inquisitive tone, but if you misuse it you risk giving the opposite impression, and I would suggest that this particular context is not well suited to the practice.

@Tonepoet Well, in those cases that concern me here, it's used with a falling intonation, really.

So perhaps not inquisitive?

@Færd Hmm, I suppose I have seen that too, but I think in those cases it is merely expletive in purpose. The uncertainty is probably marked by the use of hmm, which suggests that you did not know the answer right off the top of your head.

I mean if you took the word really out of the sentence, then how much does the meaning of it change?

Also the I'd is probably for "I would" which further marks the statement as a conditional one.

And a personal condition at that, suggesting that somebody else might say something else.

That's a made-up example. I added the hmm and I'd to make the idea more vivid, not to account for the whole of the impression of uncertainty. I can imagine really working that way without such circumstantial help.

Maybe I'm wrong.

@Færd I doubt that I've ever seen it used like that, with the falling intonation, without the circumstantial help. Unfortunately, remembering quotations isn't my strong suit though.

Thank you.

@Mitch you fool! You forgot to put your Putin on the Ritz! That's why it tastes so bad.

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TIL ketchup is a smoothie.