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10:00
!!youtube reg dwight
Oh come on, Bluesology?
I'm over that shit.
there's no accounting for youtube
I almost ended up calling myself Dean Baldry because of Bluesology. True story.
I prefer Elton John
10:02
I mean, Sir Dean Baldry? Just how gay would that make me?
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A: Explicitly correcting yourself while writing - how appropriate is it ?

RobustoCorrecting yourself in mid-sentence is not only grammatically and contextually fine, it is one of the classical rhetorical figures, called metanoia. In his book Classical English Rhetoric, Ward Farnsworth defines it thus: Metanoia (met-a-noi-a) means correcting onself; the speaker is, to tak...

This should never have been migrated from ELU.
It's not just about writing.
Fucking puristas here.
You sound metanoied.
I've not seen this question before.
I never metanoia I didn't — no, let me correct that. I don't think I ever metanoia I didn't like.
Going by the date, you were like migrated by Kosmo or somethin.
Though I see no indication on the question that it was migrated at all.
Shouldn't there be a notice?
10:11
Could be. Like I said, puristas. Linguistas have interpreted ELU for too damn long.
@RegDwigнt Maybe after a while it's grandfathered in.
Did Writers even exist in 2011?
I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong utterly about this.
I'm going through your deleted answers here right now to see if you are.
It's in the back of my memory, though.
But since you have OVER 9000 pages of deleted answers, that will take a year.
10:12
Just because I may be wrong, that doesn't mean I can't have a good rant.
I have OVER 9000 pages of deleted answers? Really?
Yeah that's what I should be asking you.
Like, show some restraint, dude.
@RegDwigнt Simpler to look up 0xff0000's deleted questions. Should be simple; his nickname is "Red".
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@Cerberus the 'logic' part of an online application test
@MattЭллен "flower is to flower pot as camera is to camera case" this is really not obvious
@Robusto Hm, when I scan through your question titles real quick, it merges into some really interesting stuff. Like "should I use Sir or Bollocks?"
Also, he has a LEGO gravatar, kind of.
10:15
Actual question title I actually just read before I realized it was from two different places.
@RegDwigнt Bollocks, of course.
@n11 it's the only one that makes sense, though
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my reasoning was flower is in the context of a pot as a camera is in the context of a wedding party (or landscape could have worked but I'd have picked it, but pot means more indoor and constrained)
sure. these questions are a problem in exams as well as captures
but you put a flower in a flower pot and a camera in a camera case
The kicker is, the question with "sir" doesn't even mention "sir". It's actually about "sick".
10:16
Linkies?
Try clicking on these. A couple times.
Meanwhile I'm still hunting for your metanol shit.
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!!wiki flowerpot
A flowerpot, flower pot, or plant pot is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed. Historically, and still to a significant extent today, they are made from terracotta. Flowerpots are now often also made from plastic, wood, stone, or sometimes biodegradable material. An example of biodegradable pots are the so-called "Jiffy" pots. There are often holes in the bottom, to allow excess water to flow out, sometimes to a saucer that is placed under the flowerpot. The plant can use this water with its roots, as needed. Recently, some flowerpots have been mad...
@n11 I think you're one of very few people who would have thought that.
@RegDwigнt Look for 0xFF0000's metanoia shit.
10:18
@Robusto you keep using that number. I don't think I know what it means.
Oh. It's an actual user...
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@MattЭллен indeed, dam, I didn't know the meaning of a flowerpot :))
Weird. He has no profile views, even though I'm looking at it.
but, like I said, that's why these types of questions are a problem, because who is to say what is valid?
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I was thinking of plant pots, with ground inside
With dirt or earth or soil inside. Not ground.
10:21
Well, I'm done with your awful deleted answers now.
If that question got migrated, you only answered it after that.
Hmm, OK. But at least I had a good rant. And I coined two terms. Not bad for a morning's work.
And I learned the difference between Sir and bollocks.
It was sick.
I think purista and linguista ought to go into the lexicon.
They are. Just check the Jar-Jar-Binks version.
purrista n. — one who does impressons of cats
10:23
@RegDwigнt Now don't go all Star Wars on me. We used to be friends, man.
Mista ista stillsta friendster vista yousta.
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@MattЭллен but once you've picked a flower, there's no way you put it back in pot after..., it can't even germinate
In other newsta, I deleted an imperial gallon of old questions today. You may have losta some repsta.
@RegDwigнt Who sir, me sir?
No, the royal you.
10:25
I ain't lost any rep yet, that I can see.
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@MattЭллен to be honest if it was a plan and a plant pot, then yes I'd have chose the camera *= camera case
s/plan/plant, s/chose/chosen
Basically everyone including myself could have losta rep. I didn't check the answers.
Fire all of your guns at once, eh?
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because in this case a plant fits in the pot, but a flower doesn't fit in a the pot
I'm not visiting that Math room.
They will force me to load scripts again.
10:27
You could unload scripts. It could work that way too.
@Robusto all guns or no guns at all. Wimps and posers, leave the hall.
Like a true nature's child, you were born to be wild.
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$e^{e^{e^{e^{e^{e^{e^{e^i}}}}}}}$
I was bored to be wild.
That is a quote from Hesse or one of his derivatives.
10:28
You have to use the simple past there.
Born is the perfect female aorist.
Nothing like a breakfast of aorist roots, which may not actually happen.
@n11 are you choking there or what?
Brace yourself, man.
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@RegDwigнt yoy can bookmark that startmathjax script
I will embrace myself. And then pxbrace myself and ptbrace myself.
@n11 yes, I can also not bookmark it.
And you are witness to my doing just that.
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10:31
:))
math is to english what flower are to flower pots
Why do Russkis often give you the tail-end of Lisp functions? ))))))))
True story: I dropped my new keyboard a couple months ago, and the caret key fell off. I tried to attach it but it never resumed working. And I have never needed it ever since. The end.
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!!xkcd 297
Oh, a reference to LISP. How funny.
Big Bang KCD.
10:33
@RegDwigнt The caret and the stick are strong motivators.
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punny
@Robusto in Rus Sky layout, there's a ё there. Goes to show how often I need to say "yo".
@Robusto also, there's a question for that.
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Q: What does ")))" mean at the end of a sentence?

MrHenSomeone I know keeps ending their chat messages with ))): A: Except if you're not good at jokes B: Then you can still copy jokes from others.))) I assume that this isn't some newfangled emoticon gone wrong. What is its purpose?

Nepotism at work. MrHen asks about my shit and Matt answers it.
@RegDwigнt Я.
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but sorry, seriously this question i.imgur.com/OH3X1T7.png was terrible, the whole plant should have been in the picture..
@Robusto Ты?
10:36
@RegDwigнt No. Russo-German pun.
@Robusto яя дайне муттер.
@RegDwigнt I knew this. I was just joshing. Again.
@RegDwigнt УУУУУУ . . .
This is the only true joshing.
Josh James Brolin (; born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985. He is known primarily for his roles in the films Thrashin, The Goonies, W., No Country for Old Men, Milk, American Gangster, True Grit, Men in Black 3, Gangster Squad and "Oldboy". Early life Brolin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron (Agee), a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. Brolin was raised on a California ranch with little exposure to his father's acting career. His parents di...
I refute it thus.
You and your bromance.
10:39
@n11 depends on how you do it. cuttings allow you to take part of a plant and plant it in a pot to grow a "clone" of the plant you've taken the cutting from
!!wiki cuttings plants
Cutting is the division or separation of a physical object with an edged instrument. Cutting or cuttings may also refer to: * Cutting (automobile) * Cutting in line, the act of entering a queue at any position other than the end * Cutting (plant), a technique for plant propagation * Cutting (sport), an equestrian event * Cutting (transportation), an excavation to make way for a transport route * Cutting, Moselle, France * Weight cutting, the practice of rapid weight loss prior to a sporting competition * Cutting in, the act of taking a dance partner from another * Film editing * A bodybu...
Cutting is an equestrian event in the western riding style where a horse and rider are judged on their ability to separate a single animal away from a cattle herd and keep it away for a short period of time. Description A cutting horse is an athletic and willing animal possessing an innate "cow sense" and ability to respond quickly and turn sharply that is trained to keep a cow from returning to the herd. The horses involved are typically American Quarter Horses, although many other stock horse breeds are also used. In the event, the horse and rider select and separate a cow (typicall...
Plant cutting, also known as striking or cloning, is a technique for vegetatively (asexually) propagating plants in which a piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil, potting mix, coir or rock wool. The cutting produces new roots, stems, or both, and thus becomes a new plant independent of the parent. Technique Typically, striking is a simple process in which a small amount of the parent plant is removed. This removed piece, called the cutting, is then encouraged to grow as an independent plant. Since most plant cuttings will have n...
Good Will Cutting.
Due to the recession, no doubt
10:45
Speak of the Devil.
@RegDwigнt Damn. You just had to go and rub the lamp again, didn't you?
Reg is Aladdin, QED.
All my jeans are from the bottle.
Couldn't leave it alone.
@WillHunting The devil is a name for a manifestation of evil, especially in Christianity
10:46
@RegDwigнt Is that why you blue me?
I blue sology.
blue solo guy
Blues, O low guy.
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue.
Wow, I'm blown away. Fabulous answer. I'm glad I asked it on Writers ! — 0xff0000 Apr 21 '11 at 4:19
D'oh! The answer was right there all along.
10:50
I have a question to ask Is it true that Australians don't like Chinese?
Well. Good thing I checked every single one of your answers here.
@WillHunting wrong site.
Ask on Travelling Skeptics.
Or Ubuntu.
@RegDwigнt Many people have been telling me that.
@WillHunting well, that's a hint, no?
@RegDwigнt Oh, I mean they tell me that Australians hate CHinese, lol
That might qualify for a hint as well.
10:52
have Australians been telling you that?
or Chinese Australians?
@MattЭллен No.
"Random people off the Internet told me X. Consequently, I would like to ask random people off the Internet if X."
@MattЭллен For example, my friend who goes there for a holiday, etc.
@WillHunting I see
I did not believe it, but I keep hearing that until it seems true, lol.
A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth
10:55
A truth repeated a thousand times becomes a lie.
if I tell 1000 different lies, does that make me the truth?
I intend to read all the Buddha's suttas this year. That's a few thousand pages, lol.
@MattЭллен You need OVER 9000 lies before that starts to happen.
@WillHunting I think you mean sutras.
@Robusto Well, sutta is in Pali and sutra is in Sanskrit.
Suttarain in French.
10:59
@WillHunting English spoken here.
Se habla Englesco.
Se habla Ionesco.
I will not shave your cantatrice.
Anyway, two days ago I went out and saw two very beautiful women, probably European.
You may shave my cockatrice.
11:00
I walked past them again to take a second look, but I did not dare to take a third look.
> I hear the strain of strutting chanticleer.
I am not a doctor. Take your cockathritis elsewhere.
Nov 13 '12 at 22:00, by Robusto
"People who talk in metaphors can shampoo my crotch." — Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets
Better shampoo than real poo.
Sometimes, my cock itches, lol.
11:03
poo for my sham friends
Paint your car shamois.
nah, you buff your car with shamois
You are the shampions of the world.
Your puns are not funny, lol
Still funnier than your lol.
11:06
there's not mushroom for shampions
Anyway, I have downgraded from Debian 7 to Debian 6 for various reasons.
You mess with your machine fifty times a day. I can't keep track of this shit.
my home desktop has given up the ghost for the time being.
How are your Ubuntu machines?
they're fine
well, I only have one ubuntu machine
I have one raspian
and another xandros
11:07
I have a raspian sea.
oh, and an Android phone
I think my phone is Android too.
> Batman is always the least interesting character in everything he's in. — Ben "Yahtzee" Crenshaw
I spent the last three weeks catching up on every episode of Zero Punctuation ever.
> That's because of how Hollywood makes films — Matt Ellen
11:09
You should watch Devious Maids, lol.
Devious maids bear watching. Also Debian maids, if any exist.
It's from the makers of Desperate Housewives.
Devious maids go bear watching
We'll have to wait and see.
We'll have to weight and sea.
Who calls their system Debian? Haven't they had any Latin?
"Moronian".
11:10
Deborah and Ian
I saw the meta post. Should ELU be renamed?
Debilis in musica.
@WillHunting I saw that meta post, too! We should congratulate one another!
@WillHunting depends on how big our brand is and how many people we'll lose by rebranding
We can try "New ELU", and then when everyone hates it, make it "ELU Classic".
I always think that ELL should merge with ELU, as you know.
11:13
You also end every sentence in lol, so.
Then the two sites can be called English Language.
No need for the Usage.
and everyone with an ounce of sense will leave as we are deluged with stuff that doesn't belong
Anyway, people on that question must not forget that we only see what we see, we don't see what we don't see.
It's like those folks in WWII who tried to put more armor on planes where they had the most bullet holes.
When in reality they should have been putting the armor on all the other places.
In less cryptic: thousands of people every day actually do realize that their question is off-topic before posting it. The ones we see are the ones who don't give a shit. No amount of renaming will make those ones care.
Just like people posting dupes are obviously not the type of people who search, so there's no point in telling them that there's a search function.
The people who do search just find the answer and never go ahead to post their dupe.
I think I sound like a frog.
11:21
I have no idea why my voice is so froggy.
maybe you've eaten too much frog
On the plus side, frogs don't have bad hair days.
Speaking of hair, I think I have lost half my hair.
how careless
It's not male pattern baldness though, just severe stress I think.
11:23
@MattЭллен Not if you want to become a frog, no it isn't.
I look like a cancer patient, perhaps.
@RegDwigнt true
@WillHunting just slap on some prison tats.
I have eaten frog only once, tastes like chicken.
I concurr
I didn't eat the skin though
11:24
Turkey also tastes like chicken, but is tougher
Turkey is also shaped like a frog.
Turkey tastes different to chicken, to me
I might go vegetarian later this year.
Yeah, like you might go retirement.
@reg I forgot. Are you vegetarian?
11:26
I have been for 20 years.
When I delete my account, it's for at least as much.
Wow, Reg is a holy Buddha.
In my local dialect, that means "butter".
There is a small chance I might become a monk this life.
Vochmelka, Czech Republic
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Oh my.
That tag.
Hard to tell if pic is male or female
11:33
Hard to tell if Czech or Republic.
Probably a male, but could be very hairy female
I have seen women with moustaches, look very weird
On the other hand, there are many men who shave it all these days, lol
real men have body hair
lol
Hair or no hair, probably genetic
11:39
Being a man or a woman is also genetic.
I am pro-choice.
Vickyace really doesn't seem to get the whole attribution thing...
I see a phoenix. I don't appear to have one
@RegDwigнt yeah
@MattЭллен "what you get" is not necessarily present. Could be at any point in the future.
In fact, it can't possibly be present... Then it would be "what you have".
@RegDwigнt hmmm. but I don't want a phoenix. so this goes from bad to worse
Unless by "get" they mean "understand".
11:52
I certainly don't understand
@MattЭллен how so? you might have decades of phoenix-freedom before you get it. I would say that's very much an improvement over having one right now.
@RegDwigнt but I wasn't expecting a phoenix, now I have to live witht he fact that I'll have one at some point. The threat looming over me like a giraffe
That's an old conundrum. Do you want to be warned and ready, or have it descend onto you with no prior heads up.
I don't feel like I can prepare for a phoenix
I remember my first conundrum
11:56
I need to look up conundrum, lol
I mean, will have to keep it in my flat?
I have a very very tiny vocab, lol
It's a funny embarrassing story.
One I'll never forget
Learning new words is so hard
Will I be able to get insurance againt it burning all my belongings?
@Mitch how does it go?
11:57
You mean that someone will pay you after you've burned all your stuff?
The story goes like this....
@MattЭллен that get, again, is at an unspecified point in the future. So the answer might be a yes, but also a too late.
@Mitch I'm not the one doing the burning, the phoenix is!
@RegDwigнt hmmm
It's your Phoenix right?
Three Phoenicaes make it a wrong.
@Mitch I don't know. does having got it make it mine?
!!wiki phoenix wright
11:58
3DS }} |genre = Adventure, Visual novel |modes = Single player |ratings = Apple: 12+ |platforms = Game Boy AdvanceNintendo DSMicrosoft WindowsMobile phonesWii (via WiiWare)iOSNintendo 3DS |media = 64 MB + 64KB EEPROM |requirements = |input =Face and shoulder buttons, touchscreen, microphone, Wii Remote }} Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released in Japan as , is an adventure video game published and developed by Capcom in Japan, North America, and Europe, and published by Nintendo in Australia. It was first released as in Japan exclusively for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, and was re-releas...
So my dad was taking me to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
!!wiki phoenix
Phoenix (; O'odham: S-ki:kigk; Yavapai: Wathinka or Wakatehe; Western Apache: Fiinigis; ; Mojave: Hachpa 'Anya Nyava) is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona. With 1,445,632 people (as of the 2010 U.S. Census), Phoenix is the most populous state capital in the United States, as well as the sixth most populous city nationally, after (in order) New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. The anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area (also known as the Valley of the Sun, a part of the Salt River Valley), it is the 13th largest metro area by population i...
Oh I get it!

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