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3:00 PM
Ignorant wankers are the worst.
Well, they are the best wankers.
 
How can they be the best and the worst?
This is too many for me.
 
Multitasking.
 
Multitasking is too many for me.
 
multitouch?
 
Elephants can do multitusking pretty much without any effort at all, though.
 
3:02 PM
Multitouch and laugh.
 
mul tit ouch
 
It's only gay if the balls multitouch.
 
That's what you get for playing with mule tits.
 
Better a mole than a mule.
 
If you don't want to play with them, that's a mule tit pass.
 
3:08 PM
It took nearly three years, but EL&U chat finally got around to discussing mule tits and the problems they entail.
 
@RegDwighт Discrimination!
 
Well yes. That's how he feels.
Especially since he gave him no reason.
 
However, I see a new market opportunity. Kid rentals at Legoland theme parks!
 
Here's the kicker: he actually does have kids. They are in their thirties now. Had he brought them with him, he still wouldn't get in.
 
3:10 PM
29 secs ago, by Robusto
However, I see a new market opportunity. Kid rentals at Legoland theme parks!
The free market solves all problems.
 
So you're saying the market in Toronto isn't free.
I blame the French.
 
It's Canada. Whaddya expect?
 
I blame Steve jobs for patenting the Free Market
now only America has one
 
@Robusto The queen on every stamp.
 
They give their citizens free health care. How much more Communist can you get?
 
@MattЭллен Steve Jobs owns all intellectual property ever.
 
Jez
UK government has trial in secret court. what's their problem? nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
 
@Robusto so that's why Steve Jobs killed Michael Jackson: to get the rights for The Beatles.
Everything makes sense now.
 
@Jez hahaha. good point :D
 
That's only the tip of the iceberg.
 
3:13 PM
It's always just the tip.
 
Hey, that's my line.
 
No Bon Jovi quotes in this chat.
 
Who is No Bon Jovi and what do they quote in this chat?
 
Mostly G. K. Chesterton.
(That's the answer to both questions, mind you.)
 
ah! good
> When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
because we wanted to wear our stocking and now we can't
 
3:20 PM
You can't wear your stockings and eat them too.
 
You could still wear them under your arm.
 
Jez
new hangman
 
Sadly she doesn't understand Technic, or own it. So it keeps breaking.
 
@RegDwighт yeah this is what I was thinking. "No way that construction technique will yield a working leg"
I mean, it's not even a very nice-looking leg. I guess she gets points for novelty. A real AFOL would've made it using flesh-coloured parts only.
 
why stop at the leg? build an exosuit
 
3:29 PM
LEGOcop.
 
lol yes!
 
You heard it here first. Copyright 2013 lego shark.
I keep running into real cool models today.
 
snazzy
 
Even I had to look twice to notice.
And I'm normally like know-it-all.
Also I got the 70003 today and now I'm wondering which cool animals I could build using all the new wing parts.
 
@Mahnax excellent then. that's a lot of money.
 
3:33 PM
 
@RegDwighт my neighbour drives a car like that.
 
That's two new wings in four colors.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 your neighbor is very small!
 
Jez
gotta find shorthand for CU
2 letters, annoying
 
3:39 PM
@RegDwighт Yes. He's a minifig.
But seriously, my real neighbour does drive a car that looks a lot like those models.
 
That's because they won't admit him to the LEGO Discovery Center, so he has a lot of money to spend on other things.
 
4:27 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Nice.
Actually, I wouldn't mind, except that it will be inconvenient to hold in that position.
Your fingers are too spread out.
 
Hi.
Oh. Now I have to go. Bye.
 
@KitFox hibye
 
@MattЭллен Haha.
 
that was my reaction too :D
 
OMG such a coincidence.
 
Perhaps Scotland needs more education, like a tour around a real zoo, or access to biology books.
 
Wales' national animal is the dragon
not the Whale, as many would imagine
Britain's national animal is the bulldog, apparently. Although I think it's really the lion
not least because the royal crest has a lion and a unicorn on it
 
Odd.
A bulldog is so ugly!
Most countries have lions or eagles.
We have a lion.
 
it's a good choice :D
 
And very original, too!
I notice that roosters, wolves, bears, and falcons are also popular.
Just the roosters are a bit surprising.
 
5:24 PM
they are very loud. especially if you're trying to sleep
 
:This article is about the novel. For the film, see The Mouse That Roared (film) The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Wibberley went beyond the merely comic, using the premise to make still-quoted commentaries about modern politics and world situations, including the nuclear arms race, nuclear weapons in general, and the politics of the United States. The novel originally appeared as a six-part serial in th...
> with Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
 
@MattЭллен One would rather shoot them than make them a national emblem.
 
He’s crowing because he just cockle-diddle-did a hen.
 
Good evening.
 
@MattЭллен see, I get a two miles long list of people who liked that post, and yet I don't see a button anywhere to like it myself. Or to navigate anywhere else on the site. Or really do anything at all other than close the tab.
 
5:33 PM
Hyvää huomenta!
 
@Cerberus But it's evening?
 
Well, you know.
 
You can say 'hyvää ilta' or just 'ilta' if you want.
 
But it counts as morning if I got up late!
 
@RegDwighт top right hand corner of the screen is a heart shaped box. this is the like button.
/eating
 
5:37 PM
@Cerberus Morning is unrelated to your personal history.
 
Putting oneself in the perspective of others is a hopeless enterprise.
@tchrist That's your perspective, perhaps...
 
Morning is a time of day.
Just because you get up at 10 o’clock at night does not mean that becomes morning.
Weep for the day that is past.
It shall not come again.
 
Objectivist.
 
My sundial cannot tell a lie.
 
Maybe you should stop spinning it to suit your mood.
 
5:43 PM
Hi again.
 
Hola!
 
I cannot stop the world as it turns.
 
sings Mariah Carey
 
Oh dear.
 
Sorry, sorry.
stops singing Mariah Carey
 
5:47 PM
Thanks!!
 
squeaks like Mariah Carey
 
What have they done to you in Finland?
 
Sing for the day
Sing for the moment
Sing for the time of your life
Come for an hour
Stay for a moment
Stay for the rest of your life
 
Well, a bee just stung me on the bottom of the foot, about 30 minutes ago.
 
Ouch.
Are you at hospital?
 
5:49 PM
No, no. I am not allergic.
 
Is your foot swollen up?
 
That sounds like an illegal sting operation to me: Europe outlawed feet.
 
But I didn't know that until just now, as I had never been stung by a bee before.
 
Why will my remote session not configure?
 
@KitFox Nope!
@KitFox I blame bees.
 
5:50 PM
That's good. I've been stung twice and the second time was worse than the first, so I worry that I am developing an allergy.
 
Why do so many models about "character traits" sound like horoscopes?
In psychology, the Big Five personality traits are five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality. The theory based on the Big Five factors is called the Five Factor Model (FFM) The Big Five factors are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The Big five has been preferably used, since it is able to measure different traits in personality without overlapping. During studies, the Big Five personality traits show consistency in interviews, self-descriptions, and when observed. Acronyms commonly used to refer to...
 
@Mahnax How could you have lived so long unstung?
 
@Mahnax Good idea. So does it still hurt?
 
> Openness is a general appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, imagination, curiosity, and variety of experience. People who are open to experience are intellectually curious, appreciative of art, and sensitive to beauty.
 
@tchrist I didn't get stung until I was 32.
 
5:51 PM
@KitFox Not really.
 
Weird.
I’m sure I was stung before I turned 5, and most years since.
 
> Extraversion is characterized by breadth of activities (as opposed to depth), surgency from external activity/situations, and energy creation from external means.[40] The trait is marked by pronounced engagement with the external world.
 
I am highly neurotic.
 
> Agreeableness is a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others. The trait reflects individual differences in general concern for social harmony. Agreeable individuals value getting along with others.
 
And not any of those other things.
 
5:52 PM
@KitFox Then you should be proud, because it is the least horoscopic of the lot!
 
@tchrist A lot of flailing about and screaming, probably.
 
What, you normally flail about and scream, and this dissuades bees and wasps and hornets and assorted vespids from stinging you? Or did? What changed? Did you stop screaming?
 
If I see a wasp/bee/hornet/stingy thing then I tend to leave the area, that's all.
 
These didn't notice because they were in the ground.
 
@tchrist ten mopre kg today was 24°C and 15m/s wind, could pick 'em in beach gear :D
 
5:55 PM
This bee happened to be lying in wait on the ground, and I stepped on it.
@JohanLarsson I went berry picking today! Many blueberries here.
 
It was just resting, having a nap, kicking back for a drink.
 
Yikes.
 
And you squishticated it.
 
Insects.
 
@tchrist I didn't see it.
 
5:56 PM
The poor creature!
What was its former species?
 
I had no way of knowing it was there!
 
> The results showed that, as theorized, participants with lower agreeableness did engage in more badmouthing. They also trended toward lower conscientiousness, although not to the point of statistical significance.
shocked
 
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the Orange-belted Bumblebee or Tricoloured Bumble Bee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee that is commonly found throughout the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Description Bombus ternarius is a small, fairly slender bumblebee. The queen is long, the worker and the drone . The queen and the workers are black on the head, with a few pale yellow hairs. The anterior and posterior thorax and the first and fourth abdominal segments are yellow, abdominal segments 2 to 3 are orange, and the terminal segments are black. The drone has a ye...
It looked like this.
 
Good thing. A wasp would have just kept stinging you.
 
@Mahnax That's a bumblebee!
 
5:57 PM
Yeah. That would have been painful.
 
That Bumble probably apologized to your foot as it died.
 
Bumblebees, yes, I have stepped in some, alas.
They get dizzy when it's hot and they just lie there.
 
The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject, and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera. His original paper in 1984 was an attempt to systematize and compare the hemolytic properties of insect venoms. The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a f...
 
Sorry, bumblebee :(
I didn't mean to!
 
But I kind of feel sorry for them.
@Mahnax Hey, it was more his fault than yours.
> People with more drug-and-alcohol photos of themselves online are more extroverted (something companies are sometimes looking for in sales and marketing positions) and no less conscientious (something companies are presumably always looking for) than people without such photos.
That is stupid.
If you post photos of yourself using drugs on Facebook, you are by definition less conscientious.
 

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