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KitFox

18:02

yawns

user116900

Hi @KitFox!!!

KitFox

Hello.

user116900

Wow I got 10 helpful flags thanks to him, lol.

Alraxite

@JasperLoy Spammer?

user116900

@Alraxite Yup, he is still at it NOW

Cerberus

18:07

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Matt is a beast.

tchrist

@KitFox I implore you to make it stop.

Alraxite

@JasperLoy Who?

user116900

@Alraxite Well, he uses different accounts, just go to the list of recent questions.

Alraxite

@JasperLoy Oh, okay.

user116900

@Alraxite I see you are a novice in using the site.

medica

18:11

@KitFox - just FYI (in case you're not aware), we have a couple of new spammers active since last night. Thanks.

Alraxite

@JasperLoy I thought you were talking about some chat room.

medica

@KitFox - ah, sorry. I see you've already been alerted.

@JasperLoy - Hi, Jasper; I see you're back!

user116900

@medica Yes, though you can never be sure it is me!

user116900

Maybe the spammer is using multiple IP addresses.

medica

@JasperLoy - :)

This site is addictive. :)

user116900

18:15

-8

Q: LovE Vashikaran specialist baba+91-*9166526260

Vashikaran specialist baba +91-9166526260

single-word-requests

user116900

Funny this one is older than the ones deleted already.

Payod Panda

Hello people.

Haha that is an Indian mobile number.

user116900

I guessed so.

user116900

From his ads.

Payod Panda

Yea.

user116900

18:16

They are all gone, for NOW.

Payod Panda

Oh I'm sorry I don't really know what you're talking about - I just jumped right in.

Is he like a serial spammer or something

user116900

Seems to be.

Payod Panda

Oh okay.

user116900

Is he your neighbour?

Payod Panda

Well I'm not really sure. I can confirm tomorrow if you want.

user116900

18:50

17 zombies in this chat.

Johan Larsson

looks shopped

user116900

@JohanLarsson Somehow I never liked animals, or even human babies.

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: The girl on her phone was quite pretty But all of my lines are quite shitty So I kept to mysel…

posted on May 14, 2014 by sgdi

The girl on her phone was quite pretty But all of my lines are quite shitty So I kept to myself Up here on the shelf And composed this short little ditty

Mitch

19:10

@JasperLoy I'm a zombie!

Dammit, now I'm not

@KitFox ha ha... that just made me yawn.

user116900

@Mitch I don't dare to ping her, seems she is busy, lol

aedia λ

@JasperLoy Braaaaaains?

user116900

-5

Q: SpEcIaLiSt LOVE bAcK 91-9828956507 iNtEr cAsT LOVE mArRiAgE

SpEcIaLiSt LOVE bAcK 91-9828956507 iNtEr cAsT LOVE mArRiAgE SpEcIaLiSt LOVE bAcK 91-9828956507 iNtEr cAsT LOVE mArRiAgE SpEcIaLiSt LOVE bAcK 91-9828956507 iNtEr cAsT LOVE mArRiAgE SpEcIaLiSt LOVE bAcK 91-9828956507 iNtEr cAsT LOVE mArRiAgE

single-word-requests

Mitch

@JasperLoy I dared.

user116900

Spammer is back, HAHAHAHAHAHA

user116900

19:15

I think that guy is MAD

user116900

At this rate I am gonna run out of flags, lol

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JasperLoy muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh

user116900

People are downvoting but not flagging, which is why spam doesn't disappear

Alraxite

I wonder why he's going through the trouble of randomly capitalizing his post like that.

user116900

@Alraxite Making it more attractive?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

19:26

@JasperLoy I flagged it.

user116900

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 And it's gone, yay!!!

Payod Panda

19:40

Does flagging require permissions? I mean a certain amount of rep points?

user116900

Not sure.

Grace Note

15

Far less than the requirement for downvoting, though.

Do note, though, that flagging doesn't preclude a person from voting as well.

Alraxite

@GraceNote So, you could flag a post and upvote it as well?

Grace Note

Yes

Alraxite

I'll keep that in mind.

Payod Panda

19:59

Down vote requires 125 I think.

So that is why I did not see a flag option - I have ONE rep point. Haha.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

YES.

Vacation planned.

sings Taking Care of Business

aedia λ

20:23

Yay for vacations!

Cerberus

Oops.

I meant hello.

Mitch

@Cerberus Oops is right. That was embarrassing.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 What? You have to plan them? I thought one just got in the car and went.

Cerberus

@Mitch Very.

Robusto

20:45

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 And working overtime?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mitch depends on a lot of things.

@Robusto work out.

Robusto

Where are you going for vacation?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@aediaλ yay!

@Robusto Estes.

Robusto

Park?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Indeed.

Robusto

20:49

That's right in @tchrist's neck of the woods.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Dad used to drive us there every summer. We'd leave on Father's Day and stay in a cabin for a week.

tchrist

yes

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

We're gonna stay in the same cabins.

@Robusto And Mork. And Mindy.

Robusto

Robin Williams is going to be there?

And Pam Dawber?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Nanu.

Robusto

20:52

had massive crush on Pam Dawber

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

had slight crush on Robin Williams

I think he's why I'm so into chest hair.

You're . . . you're looking at pictures of Pam Dawber, aren't you?

Robusto

Wow. You are psychic.

Frankly, now I don't know what all the fuss was about. Of course, back in those days I could get a massive crush on a bar of soap if it was kind of curvy-shaped.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Many of them were.

Caress, for instance.

Robusto

Don't get me started on Caress . . .

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

. . .

Raise your hand if you're Sure.

Robusto

20:55

raises hand briefly, then takes it down

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You're not fully clean unless you're Zestfully clean.

Aren't you glad you used Dial? Don't you wish everyone did?

Robusto

Actually, the '70s TV actress I really had the hots for was Marilu Henner.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 everybody

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

No love for Barbeau?

Robusto

whistles the Old Spice tune

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

takes shower

Robusto

20:58

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I only know her from Carnivále.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

And then there's Maude.

Robusto

Never watched that.

skullpatrol

and then there's Maude

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

This guy gets it.

Robusto

Maude is the name sadistic parents give their little girls.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

21:00

Yes.

She has a large rack.

Robusto

Oh.

skullpatrol

!!wiki Maude

KitSox

Maude (TV series)

Maude is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978. Maude stars Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance store owner Walter Findlay (Bill Macy). Maude embraced the tenets of women's liberation, always voted for Democratic Party candidates, strongly supported legal abortion, and advocated for civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and so...

Robusto

I'm one of those unusual men who thinks ~~large~~ ginormous racks are overrated. Anything beyond perfection is excess.

tchrist

Don’t go to Estes then.

Robusto

21:02

Actually, that should be "gynormous" I think . . .

tchrist

The elk’s racks will stun you.

Robusto

@tchrist Not talking about members of the Cervidae family.

tchrist

makes cervid sounds

Robusto

@tchrist Actually, I've been. You can't go to RMNP without going through EP.

tchrist

@Robusto Untrue, in several senses.

First, you can come in from the west.

Robusto

21:04

I've always gone in from the other direction.

And I don't know the back roads or trails.

Just by car.

tchrist

Second, there are earlier entrances along Peak to Peak Highway that lead to trails but not through-highways.

Robusto

Now that we've dispensed with the hair-splitting, I repeat my assertion. For normal folk who want to drive through RMNP from the east, EP is pretty much what has to happen along the way.

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Q: To goose takership

What does "to goose takership" mean? I can't seem to find any hints of that through mere googling. Even "takership" on its own is unclear to me. Sample context: I wouldn't read much into the fact that the new product is winking at us to proceed as they [the company proposing the new prod...

meaning

Ouch.

Mitch

@Robusto Royal Mounted Nanadian Police?

Rottweiler's Massive Neck Pectorals?

Robusto

@Mitch Remy Martin's Nirvana Pickles.

Mitch

Reheat My Napalm Packets?

@Robusto mmm... pickles.

Robusto

21:10

Not just pickles . . . nirvana pickles.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Rabid Nationalist Monk Party

Mitch

@MattЭллен Holy crap. That's a lot of calculation. If there's only one mistake in there I'd be impressed.

@Robusto The best kind.

Robusto

Absolutely. Come as you are.

Mitch

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 My god, you can't let those monks go anywhere.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mitch right?

Robusto

21:13

Racoons Make Nice Pets.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Thelonious or Buddhist?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto Buddhist.

Robusto

Buddhists don't do jazz.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

They don't do much of anything, do they?

Robusto

Except act superior.

Like they're above it all.

When they're not.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Real Men Need Parasols

Robusto

21:16

Real men already have parasols. It's the poseurs who don't. The ones who didn't get the Real Man lessons.

There are a lotta rules.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Sounds exhausting.

Robusto

It is. You think you've got it tough? Think again.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Can't. Exhausted.

Rabbit Meat Noodle Paradise

Reg Must Never Partake

Mitch

Ricotta Marmalade Nicotine Pancakes

runs to write down recipe

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

!_!

Restful Marshmallow Neck Pillow

kicks chat

Robusto May Need Pants

@Kit! kisses

skullpatrol

21:31

hi @KitFox

KitFox

Hi! kisses back

Hi skully.

skullpatrol

:-)

KitFox

I came to share an anecdote with @Mr.Shiny.

My son had as a visitor the son of a very religious woman.

I should also preface this with a "confirmation bias" statement.

That'll do.

Anyway, this kid, we'll call him Bob, was telling my son that he tried to sneak his iPod from his Gram's purse because she wouldn't let him play.

My son says "That's dishonest!" in a semi-shocked way.

Bob says, "Well, I didn't do it because I'd get in trouble."

Matt Эллен

@Mitch I have found it. I put a two where there should be a 4 and the other mistake isn't a mistake. woo!

KitFox

Which I think nicely sums up why you shouldn't raise your children with religion.

Matt Эллен

21:36

@KitFox awww

KitFox

The end.

Matt Эллен

@skullpatrol good for you

always listen to Kit

KitFox

I like your handwriting.

Matt Эллен

thanks!

KitFox

Oh! I owe you an email. You asked me a really important question.

Matt Эллен

21:37

I was concentrating

KitFox

Sorry I forgot to reply. I thought it to you, but obviously that didn't work.

Matt Эллен

:D no worries. I assumed you were busy

skullpatrol

@KitFox I don't get the point :(

KitFox

2 mins ago, by KitFox

Which I think nicely sums up why you shouldn't raise your children with religion.

Matt Эллен

@skullpatrol sorry to interrupt your train of thought

skullpatrol

21:39

@MattЭллен np pal :D

@KitFox so what's the difference?

KitFox

brews tea ♪ a little bit of lapsang souchong ♫ I like making my own tea ♪

Matt Эллен

it's the tea time song

KitFox

@skullpatrol My son has internalized morals. Her son avoids punishment.

Ergo, I am a superior parent.

I hate having to explain that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

So why did he do it?

skullpatrol

@KitFox I'm just a numbskull sometimes, sorry.

KitFox

21:41

Nah, you're supposed to think about it.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Why did he try to take his iPod?

attempts to upload incredibly complex thought pattern

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox oh, I thought it was hers.

Numbskull, party of two. Numbskull.

KitFox

She took it because she didn't want him to play with it.

Tool of the devil or somesuch.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Indeed.

KitFox

I didn't even bother to ask his mom if Bob was allowed to play D&D. I just told my son they couldn't play it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

:(

KitFox

21:45

I'm trying to be respectful, so I came in here to be snarky.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

But kitties!

KitFox

The boys got into a huge argument once about how the solar system was created.

That was tricky.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh dear.

skullpatrol

"created"?

Matt Эллен

collision and conservation of momentum are clever inventors

skullpatrol

21:48

@MattЭллен inventors of what?

KitFox

Well, Bob was sure God created the solar system. My son was sure it was an accretion of spinning dust and gas.

I reminded them that those were not mutually exclusive conclusions.

Then I had to explain what "mutually exclusive" meant.

Matt Эллен

@skullpatrol everything

skullpatrol

icic

Matt Эллен

n e way. I should go to bed.

skullpatrol

later

KitFox

21:51

But wait!

I haven't answered your question yet!

sighs

Well, I'm off to continue feeling superior right up until I fail again.

So about three or four minutes, I'd guess.

skullpatrol

later

thanks for explaining the story

KitFox

I hope it was clear that I was trying to make myself feel good at someone else's expense.

skullpatrol

Aahh..I see now.

KitFox

I figured it would be OK because she's not actually here to be offended/injured by it.

In fact, I could have just made this whole thing up.

skullpatrol

true dat

Mitch

22:08

@KitFox Well, at least if you do fail, you will recognize that which makes you better than them.

KitFox

*when I do fail

Mitch

@KitFox what about 'accretion'? and 'God'? and 'the'?

KitFox

... what?

Mitch

they were confused about 'mutually exclusive'. I thought they might have problems with those other words. I threw in 'the' to be silly.

KitFox

Oh. No. Well. My son knows the word accretion.

Bob might not.

Children to bed. Night!

Cerberus

23:06

Hi.

Mahnax

23:20

Hi hi.

Robusto

23:33

@KitFox They're not really that far apart then.

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