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12:52 AM

@GraceNote I am so relieved to hear you say that.

@JasperLoy Re: Stan
He got ticked off.
See his last comment: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/35837/why-is-the-word-bologna-pronounced-like-baloney/35846#comment-65544

Grace Note

Heh

Cerberus

1:09 AM

Oh, dear.

user19161

1:59 AM

@Kit Since the answerers got ticked off, I gave them each a little something to pacify them. I'm the nice guy here you see.

Kit

That's naughty. Pity upvotes are bad for the site!

user19161

Well, I could read the answers in detail and think whether I agree or not. But that's too tiring! And Malvolio and Stan seem to be quite nice people, so...

user19161

I am surprised Cerberus is not asleep yet, but maybe he is.

Kit

As far as I can tell, @Cerberus and @Vitaly are real night owls.

Even so, it's the wee hours of the morning where they are.

user19161

Now you have woken up Cerberus! And 'bye' is an interesting display of angst.

trg787

2:07 AM

Malvolio - is a personage from a play by Ben Jonson?

user19161

@trg787 No idea, but sounds Italian.

Cerberus

Boo. I am trying to write a code, but it behaves...shall we say, unexpectedly.

user19161

@Cerberus Boo!

Kit

@trg787 Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, I believe.

@Cerberus Stupid code!

What kind of code is it?

Cerberus

@JasperLoy You weren't really scared.

trg787

2:12 AM

Malvolio - of course its Italian - means "Wicked Will"

Cerberus

@Kit Thank you! Autohotkey, the only code simple enough for a total layman like me.

What is the colour white?

Please tell me it's FFFFFF?

user19161

When code becomes stupid, it's time to sleep, and return to it another time. Words from the wise chicken here.

Cerberus

But...but...

Kit

@Cerberus Let me check.

user19161

@trg787 it's

Cerberus

2:14 AM

My colour picker says it is FFFFFF.

And yet my cursor jumps to what I think may be black! I mean, come on. Is that just to freak me out?

Kit

Yes, it's FFFFFF in hex.

Cerberus

If it were jumping to gray...

user19161

@Cerberus My Fedora says so too!

Kit

Did you put a # in front?

Cerberus

@Kit Thanks!

I put 0x in front, as Autohotkey wants me to.

user19161

2:15 AM

Ya put the hex in front.

user19161

Hexes, jinx!

trg787

Who of you ever read "Reineke Fox" by Goethe? Very funny

Kit

I haven't used Autohotkey in a dog's age (no offense). I forget the notation.

@trg787 Sounds familiar.

user19161

@Kit Strictly he's not a dog. He's a cerberus.

Kit

@JasperLoy Cerberus is a tricephalic dog.

Therefore, a dog.

user19161

2:16 AM

And in real life, he's a hunk.

Kit

"Hunk" is not the right word to describe Cerberus.

Cerberus

Dog will do.

Stupid code!

Ohh!!

It wasn't the code after all.

Kit

User error?

Cerberus

It was my stupidity.

Kit

I hate those, especially when the user is me.

Cerberus

2:18 AM

X comes before Y, d'oh!

user19161

Duh!

Kit

There, there. It happens to us all.

Cerberus

The stupidity is both the user's and the coder's, who are both the same person.

user19161

Another animal has just joined us - looks like a lizard.

Kit

I spent two days troubleshooting a problem that turned out to be stupid.

ChaosGamer

2:20 AM

If Cerberus is Cerberus, Then I am am Hydrus.

Kit

And my fault.

ChaosGamer

or Hedgehog, which ever you perfer.

user19161

@ChaosGamer then, not Then.

ChaosGamer

@JasperLoy typo.

Cerberus

@Kit Two days? Oh, my.

I prefer Hydra.

ChaosGamer

2:21 AM

2Kit was it about? Computers?

Kit

@Cerberus The worst part was—do you want to hear the worst part?

ChaosGamer

@Cerberus Hydra is a female water snake.

Cerberus

@Kit Isn't it always our fault?

@Kit Yes!!

I mean, yes.

user19161

I prefer Medusa.

ChaosGamer

Hydrus is male.

Cerberus

2:21 AM

@ChaosGamer A huge monster, rather!

ChaosGamer

@Cerberus does size really mater?

Cerberus

Well, fine, I hereby give you permission to create a male Hydra and name it Hydrus.

@ChaosGamer If you knew my sister, then, yes.

Kit

I originally learned VB 6. I scoped a global variable. Global variables don't scope the same in VB .Net. I just needed to use the viewstate. Stupid. Really stupid.

ChaosGamer

@Jasper and arnt you a chicken?

user19161

@ChaosGamer Girth matters more than length.

Cerberus

2:23 AM

I think we both share only the same father.

ChaosGamer

@Cerberus thanks.

Kit

@Cerberus Speaking of your sister, how's the Sphinx these days?

user19161

@ChaosGamer aren't

Cerberus

@Kit Ehh I don't understand it at all, except that I have a faint idea of what a scope is—but it sounds stupid! Thanks, now I feel better.

@Kit Are we related?

ChaosGamer

However, I perfer Scourge the Hedgehog; a real character in Sonic the Hedgehog comics!

Kit

2:24 AM

@Cerberus Yes, I think so. Chimera as well.

user19161

@Kit How would you know? Unless you've been checking him out as well...

ChaosGamer

which is located im my pic. And also he is originaly green, he only goes purple when he goes super.

Kit

@Cerberus Um. Translates roughly to spending an afternoon trying to figure out how to plug your network cable into a wireless printer. That stupid.

Cerberus

I believe there are several Sphinges...

user19161

@ChaosGamer in, originally

Cerberus

2:26 AM

@Kit Haha I might do that.

Kit

@JasperLoy I saw the pic he posted. And even hadn't I, @Cerberus is way too smart to be a hunk.

ChaosGamer

Who represnets Maticore?

user19161

@Kit Ah, that pic didn't show much. And smart people can be hunks too.

Kit

@ChaosGamer Manticore?

@JasperLoy Um, no. Hunks are dumb as hunks of meat.

ChaosGamer

I mean, Cerberus is Cerberus, I am Hydrus, then who is Manticore?

Kit

2:28 AM

@ChaosGamer Wait, when did you become Hydrus? I thought you were a hedgehog.

user19161

@Kit I have only heard of dumb blondes.

ChaosGamer

@Kit I;m both. most likely combo. XD

user19161

@ChaosGamer represents

user19161

There should be a Strunk and White for the chat room as well.

Kit

@JasperLoy Apologies. I forget sometimes that your experience is limited.

user19161

2:31 AM

@mana maaaaaaaaaaaaaan

ChaosGamer

Yo mana

Mana

Hello.

Kit

Do do do do do. Mana mana mana.

user19161

@Kit That's true.

ChaosGamer

...do ... mana?!

That sound wrong..

user19161

2:32 AM

I hope to increase my experience by visiting more pubs soon...

Kit

@JasperLoy That's one way to do it.

user19161

@Kit The other way is to visit massage parlours.

Kit

The nice thing about experience is that it happens to you no matter what you do.

@JasperLoy I wouldn't touch a Singapore massage parlour with a ten foot pole. Not even a well-wrapped one.

trg787

I want to cxharaxcterize Russians from inside, so to speak

Grace Note

...eh?

ChaosGamer

2:34 AM

@Kit why is that?

user19161

@trg787 I see you have not fixed keyboard.

trg787

@Jas , aha

ChaosGamer

@Grace you've been here all this time?

user19161

@trg787 I know everything here, I'm a spy.

Grace Note

@ChaosGamer I've been in the room this whole time.

Kit

2:35 AM

@ChaosGamer The entirety of Southeast Asia is filthy with blood-borne pathogens. No thanks.

Grace Note

I may, may have wasted an hour and a half at TVTropes, though. May have.

On just one article.

ChaosGamer

@Kit quite an insult. Does that include Korea? It better not.

Mana

@Grace Don't worry, I've done worse.

user19161

@Kit I see. But perhaps the same may be said of other places.

Grace Note

@ChaosGamer Korea is East Asia

Kit

2:36 AM

@GraceNote Had I known you were listening, I would have tried to entice you to stalk me.

Grace Note

(I'm never sure whether Taiwan is considered East Asia or Southeast Asia, since we're kinda around both)

Kit

@ChaosGamer Not the last time I checked. Unless Korea has started slouching.

Grace Note

@Kit That'd be a difficult task to accomplish

Kit

@GraceNote The journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.

I will possess your heart.

Grace Note

@Kit I can't even believe that I somehow misread that as "just one strip"

user19161

2:38 AM

@GraceNote As far as I know, Taiwan is not in SEA.

Grace Note

@JasperLoy That's because it's in OCEAN ♪

trg787

Russians are thieves, very lazy, inaccurate..... just stupid animals In fact I 'm myself of this kind

Cerberus

As if the prostitutes of Europe and America were so healthy...

Kit

@GraceNote See? It's working already.

user19161

@GraceNote Good one!

user19161

2:39 AM

@Kit Sounds like Confucius to me, but I think he is a very confused man.

Kit

@Cerberus I didn't mean it in an insulting fashion.

ChaosGamer

Who do you think is more sexier, Russians or Japanese?

Grace Note

Pass.

Kit

Women or men?

user19161

@Kit I know, but seriously Cerb is right.

Cerberus

2:40 AM

@Kit OK.

ChaosGamer

Woemn

user19161

@ChaosGamer Women

Kit

@JasperLoy No, no, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be an ass, but the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis is much higher among sex workers in Southeast Asia than it is in Europe and the US.

Grace Note

...when did massage parlors turn into sex workers?

trg787

My mom stole from her fabric so many combs :)

user19161

2:42 AM

@Kit You're not a donkey, you're a fox.

Cerberus

@GraceNote They are here. I think. So...

Mana

I'm finding it amusing that in spite of all the stereotypes about gamers there seems to be a lot more discussion about sex-related things in here.

user19161

@trg787 I don't understand.

Cerberus

@Mana whistles

Grace Note

@Mana We have underage on the Bridge.

user19161

2:42 AM

@Mana Didn't they tell you stereotypes are crap?

Grace Note

Also I broke away from discussion of the case details, which helped for today's quotient.

Kit

What are the stereotypes about gamers?

Maybe I should start hanging out with some.

user19161

@GraceNote The cheaper ones here all are.

Cerberus

whispers to code: if you will not comply, expect a dead letter in the mail tomorrow...

Grace Note

@Kit Most stereotypes involve them being sex-starved home-staying non-productives

trg787

2:44 AM

@Jas , She worked at a factory which did combs, plates

Cerberus

@GraceNote Oh I was once saw a documentary about a camp to get gamers off their addiction. It was magnificent.

Kit

@GraceNote So why would they talk more about sex? Sounds like they wouldn't know much about it.

ChaosGamer

@Grace True that.

Grace Note

As well they have all that stereotypical depiction of both sexy women and guy-candy in games.

ChaosGamer

@Kti thats because they watch sex videos.

Grace Note

2:45 AM

@Kit I wish I could believe that if I didn't know a veritable textbook case who couldn't shut up about it.

user19161

I wonder what kinds of questions there will be when the sex site is launched.

Grace Note

The only thing that made that scenario worse is that we were in a free-form RP forum together.

ChaosGamer

@Jasper I ahve one: How to be a good kisser.

Kit

@ChaosGamer Don't drool.

Grace Note

I can... do a good hug!

user19161

2:46 AM

@kit But I think I will save my virginity for that special someone.

Kit

@GraceNote You're not talking about me, are you?

user19161

@ChaosGamer have. I think you need to practise typing.

Kit

@JasperLoy That's a good plan.

Grace Note

@Kit You aren't a sex-starved single boy.

ChaosGamer

No: It is to bite the lower lip of the women.

user19161

2:47 AM

@Kit In the mean time, I'll just do myself.

Kit

@ChaosGamer I would punch anyone who did that to me.

ChaosGamer

@Jasper you mean masterbate?

@grace lol.

user19161

@ChaosGamer masturbate

Kit

@JasperLoy Just remember that there are a whole range of fun, satisfying things you can do with a partner that don't involve penetration.

Grace Note

I knew a guy who was obsessed with bondage and brought that up nearly in every opportunity he could that involved what he deemed a cute girl. I thought that was bad enough before I met this boy and his talk of so many theoretical beddings. Where it is obvious even to a virgin that he knows nigh nothing about courtship or any step past that.

ChaosGamer

2:49 AM

..Ok we need change of discussion.

Kit

@ChaosGamer Sorry, youngling. Is this too weird for you?

user19161

I see a lot of nice girls who are devoured by the bad guys. It's sad. I guess they just haven't met me yet.

Grace Note

@ChaosGamer is a young one?

user19161

@ChaosGamer OK point noted.

ChaosGamer

@I'm old enough.

opps

user19161

2:50 AM

@ChaosGamer Now you are messing with the @.

Grace Note

That only places you at the minimum 13.

user19161

@ChaosGamer oops

Cerberus

Ahhh! Stupid code! This time it was your fault.

Kit

He's 19 according to his profile.

user19161

@Cerberus It is the coder's fault...

Grace Note

2:51 AM

Hrm. My status as the youngest one in the room being challenged diminishes my ability to mock all the older people for being old.

Kit

@Cerberus Blame not the code, but the coder.

user19161

@Kit Checking him out, eh?

Kit

@JasperLoy It took me a minute to process Gracie's comment about underage earlier.

I did a quick scan of the users I don't know well.

Cerberus

How am I supposed to know that you refuse to accept percentage signs in this parameter when it is an expression? YOU HAD NO PROBLEM WITH THE SIGNS WHEN IT WASN'T AN EXPRESSION, SO SHUT UP!

Kit

Including you.

Mana

2:52 AM

Hello @Knu. You've stumbled in at an interesting time.

Cerberus

No, this really wasn't my fault. Arg.

Kit

@Cerberus You need to escape it, don't you?

Grace Note

I always placed @Jasper as elder than me.

Cerberus

No, no escaping necessary.

It is just stupid.

Knu

Hi, are you some kind of bot @mana? :)

user19161

2:53 AM

@GraceNote I think older would be a better word here.

Cerberus

It will not accept this:

Mana

bot.respond("No, I am not a bot. What makes you think that?"

Cerberus

MouseMove, %ClickPlaceX%, %ClickPlaceY%+5, 0

But only this:

MouseMove, %ClickPlaceX%, ClickPlaceY+5, 0

Mana

oh crap, didn't match up my parentheses

<_< >_>

Cerberus

How stupid and illogical is that?

Grace Note

2:54 AM

@JasperLoy I've a callous disregard for vocabulary that kicks in when I feel like being antagonistic at the language.

Kit

@JasperLoy Or "elder to"

Cerberus

@Mana Haha cute.

Kit

@Cerberus About as stupid and illogical as using Autohotkey to accomplish anything.

user19161

@Kit I am not that old...

Cerberus

@Kit Hey but it is quite good in general! This is really the only thing.

trg787

2:55 AM

But Russians are wonderful ppl. We can do everything. Want Gagarin? No problem. Want H-bomb? No problem too.

Cerberus

It is so much more powerful that it seems at first.

Kit

@JasperLoy I have two elder brothers. One is practically my Irish twin. Elder's got nothing to do with absolute age.

Grace Note

My elder brother is only by not even two years. for demonstration.

Kit

@trg787 I love Russians. Especially White Russians. Especially at midnight.

ChaosGamer

Dudes... lets talk about astronomy, or we can talk about Michael Jackson. Which ever you guys perfer.

Kit

2:56 AM

@Cerberus Just making a joke. :P

user19161

@trg787 I like their math and their girls.

Kit

@ChaosGamer I thought you wanted to stop talking about sex.

ChaosGamer

@Kit Exxaccttllyyy.

user19161

@ChaosGamer whichever

ChaosGamer

so lets talk about something else!

Cerberus

2:57 AM

@Kit I know hun.

Kit

@ChaosGamer Well, talking about Michael Jackson is out then.

Grace Note

We did, last I checked

Mana

@Chaos You missed the joke. It's okay.

ChaosGamer

Dang.

user19161

@ChaosGamer let's, OK!

Kit

2:58 AM

@GraceNote (see MJ joke)

Grace Note

I'm just trying to finally select an image for the English site, which I've put off too long.

@Kit Time compression delay.

Knu

@kit I think there are 2 type: the casual gamer (just playing for fun, to relax) and hardcore gamer (tweaking his console, computer, settings / playing for hours / taking part in leagues and clans)

Kit

@GraceNote You could always try a unicorn.

Mana

Image for the English site?

ChaosGamer

...???

user19161

2:58 AM

@GraceNote You just changed your image right?

Grace Note

@JasperLoy For general and for Gaming.

Mana

hm, isn't your gravatar global though?

user19161

@Kit Unicorns are ambiguous.

Mana

Oh, I didn't know you could do it by site. That's neat.

Grace Note

I use a different one on every site. I haven't selected one for English, which is why my name is an anagram.

trg787

2:59 AM

Guys, I seriously rexcommensd you, in spare time, to reasd abt testing H-bomb on 1961/10/30 ..... It's more terrible than any SFixction

Kit

@JasperLoy Ambiguous always reminds me of the Ambiguously Gay Duo.

Grace Note

@Kit Doesn't fit the theme I've got so far, even if I partly broke the theme with this new one (in having picked short hair)

Kit

@trg787 Truly. "Hey, this might set the atmosphere on fire. Oh well, let's try it anyway!"

user19161

Well, not really expecting one.

user19161

@ChaosGamer Nvm, it's a long story.

Grace Note

3:01 AM

Not sure what aspect to pick as the thematic link to English. I can thematically link to England, but English is a lot harder.

@Kit ...I need to stop trying to drink when you're in here...

user19161

@Kit Oh dear, that was too obvious!

ChaosGamer

@Grace because you just spit it out, right?

Grace Note

@ChaosGamer Almost

Kit

@Lauren Personally, I think he's crazy to even consider dating a red-head. Having had a few in my day, I know you are all insane. <3, Kit

user19161

@GraceNote That is ambiguous.

Grace Note

3:03 AM

@JasperLoy I'm not even sure what the secondary meaning would be in this scenario

Kit

@GraceNote I make you not want to be alcoholic anymore?

ChaosGamer

im gonna be gone for a short while guys. ttyl. :)

Grace Note

@Kit Oh. Right. I forgot that.

ChaosGamer

But i'll be back.

Grace Note

Later, @Chaos ♪

Kit

3:04 AM

@ChaosGamer Tschüß!

@GraceNote Thematic link to English. Let's all think.

trg787

@Kit , imagine: the cockpit started to melt... They gone to kilometers from the explosion.. but it was almost impossible to be in the plane

Knu

Why is this the only SE chat active? :)

Mana

@Grace How do you configure it so that your gravatar only changes for one site?

user19161

@trg787 kilometers

Grace Note

@Kit Well, for example, for Japanese I picked someone from the Moon, to represent Moonspeak.

Mana

3:05 AM

@Knu Damn good question, and damned if I know.

Grace Note

@Mana I use a different email for every site.

Mana

Figured...lame.

user19161

@Knu It happens to have all the interesting people you see...

Grace Note

If you use a Google email, it's pretty easy to just add new email accounts to your Gravatar account as "name+summat@gmail.com", which will send the same as "name@gmail.com"

Mana

Oh well. Temporarily got my nerd face on while I hang out on this chat to try and seem smarter.

user19161

3:07 AM

@GraceNote Oh man.

Mana

Oh, that's cool.

Grace Note

So while I've had a +english account for a while, I haven't associated an image with it so I haven't assigned it to my English user.

user19161

@Mana Like you mana.

Knu

Wonder when/why that hr appears.

Mana

so, complete tangent time

Kit

3:14 AM

Oh my f*ck. I didn't realize how late it is.

I must sleep as quickly as possible.

Mana

One of my friends is telling me that the US is going to hit a debt ceiling or something in three days

Kit

@Mana Default. We're going to default on our debt = bad juju.

Mana

and I never cared for economics so I have no real idea what the effects of this are

oh okay

Kit

Catastrophic global economic collapse, and your response is "oh okay"?

Grace Note

Not much we can really do about it, though

Kit

3:16 AM

Right, sorry. Tired. Going to bed now.

Mana

well...It's not like freaking out's gonna help out much, yeah?

Cerberus

America is still going to be the interest on its out-standing bonds.

It may just not pay certain domestic stuff. Which is pretty bad already, of course.

trg787

Day October 30, 1961 was not included in the calendar of the USSR as a day of national pride of the Soviet people, but was proud of what. On that record - the sinister, of course, but in many ways forced - if we have not learned. October 30, 1961 in clear skies over New Earth lit up a second sun! It burned 70 seconds, illuminating the vast snow-covered archipelago piercing blinding light. It was the world's most powerful thermonuclear explosion of an air capacity of over 50 megatons of TNT.

By the explosion of "Tsar Bomb" began to prepare for five years before the set date. However, the la…

Cerberus

Is that an automated translation of the Russian Wiki article?

No, probably some other Russian article.

trg787

@Cer , it's from an article by a pilot from Brest who dropped this bomb. Of course auto - translation

Nikolai Grechanik, from Brest

Cerberus

3:34 AM

Ah, OK.

I know the Czar Bomb. It was detonated somewhere new Nova Zembla.

trg787

Novaya Zemlya = New Land

Cerberus

I know.

trg787

hardly smn needs it but just in case source nv-online.info/index.php?c=ar&i=12340 This pilot is still alive

Just now noticed: no any comment to his article on the link.... Generation Pepsi grown up

Cerberus

Well, I have defeated the code. It now lies sprawling on its back.

Or is it sprawled?

Good night.

trg787

@Cer, G'nite

Cerberus

3:48 AM

@trg787 Bye!

trg787

6:15 AM

Can you imagine? At distance 40 km your face is burned? I can't

trg787

6:27 AM

"polunaruzhny" means "half-outsisding"

Matt Ellen

8:12 AM

@Cerberus ta! I totally guessed the spelling :D

@GraceNote Can I recommend a queen? Since we're talking the Queen's English :D

Miss

10:08 AM

To my all Muslims, If i hurt you some where in any moment of life then please forgive me ..

You forgive to you Muslim Sister or Brother . Allah will forgive u at the day of judgement..

Hope People will forgive me if I hurted them some where in life...

Is that sentence right/?

Matt Ellen

hurted -> hurt

"You forgive to you Muslim Sister or Brother" -> "You forgive your Muslim Sister or Brother" (probably)

also .. -> .

Miss

10:39 AM

also- > ?

Matt Ellen

10:51 AM

you do not need two or more full stops to end a sentence. Just one is enough.

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