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hichris123

12:00 AM

Jun 23 at 13:14, by RegDwigнt

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Anonymous

It's the sequel to that feed :-)

GnomeSlice

12:15 AM

@KitFox How goes?

GnomeSlice

12:47 AM

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tchrist

@Mitch That’s so natural question a question that I hope you will be neither surprised nor disappointed that it should be accompanied by a Natural answer to decode it.

@hichris123 Recause Reg is a GLU mod, and there are a couple of other fairly competent German-speakers who are regulars here.

hichris123

@tchrist Wait, Reg is a German Language mod? Huh, I didn't know that. I knew this site... but not German. ;)

tchrist

Genau.

But Reg probably knows more Spanish than I know German, so I don’t count myself amongst one of the channel’s teutophones, just a kibitzer.

hichris123

Gah, you ELU people with your fancy words.

tchrist

@snailboat Could you explain what the “bad tag” stuff is in that display?

@hichris123 Sorry for the typo.

If such it be.

hichris123

12:57 AM

@tchrist I still don't know what it means. :P

tchrist

Kibbitzing is what the Wehrmacht turned to after they’d beaten their swords into plowshares. Well, or ploughshares, as you please.

@hichris123 Sorry, hadn’t realized you were not a native speaker. My apologies.

hichris123

@tchrist Oh, I am, I'm just... not exactly an adult, so I don't know all of these nuances.

skullpatrol

What do you guys think of a Wikipedia.SE?

hichris123

(i.e. I'm still in high school. :P)

tchrist

I just anybody who’d ever played cards knew what it meant to kibbitz.

Anonymous

12:59 AM

@tchrist I think you'd have to ask Reg, since he's the one who made it and it doesn't appear to have any further description.

hichris123

@skullpatrol Where people copy & paste answers from Wikipedia? :P

tchrist

@hichris123 For this they invented tag wikies.

hichris123

@tchrist Oh, I'm not much of a cards person so that explains it.

Anonymous

I can't remember where I learned the term, but I don't think it was from playing cards

tchrist

A rather more common word for teutophone is of course allemanophone.

But that is just too damned long to type.

A teutophone is when a couple who truly loves each other buys a pair of pre-mated phones.

Either that, or trying to talk while wearing a grass skirt.

@hichris123 Oh you’re in high school! That’s great!! How many books do you read a day? :)

What do you study?

Are you college-bound?

When do they untie you?

hichris123

1:12 AM

@tchrist Usually 1, but I'm taking more difficult courses now. :)

@tchrist ... in a few years, sure. :P

@tchrist All sorts of things. Biology, English, Electronics, Math... etc.

tchrist

@hichris123 What general type of stuff does your Electronics classs cover? I’m not sure I’ve heard of that. Are you making homemade radios, learning how to not electrocute yourself when changing a lightbulb, or is it really a strange cover for software engineering?

hichris123

Basically all sorts of stuff with circuits. Making them, how they work, all that stuff.

KitFox

1:41 AM

Did George get suspended again already?

hichris123

@KitFox Yes.

KitFox

That kid is going to be so confused.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Um, hi.

GnomeSlice

@KitFox Hey.

How is everything going?

Any better?

KitFox

Uh.

GnomeSlice

1:43 AM

Uh?

KitFox

Well, I decided that I would work some, in prep for tomorrow.

GnomeSlice

That sounds good.

KitFox

I think that means I'm stressed about it.

Ohai, @corn!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Tomorrow?

KitFox

Yeah.

hichris123

1:43 AM

Wait, what is "it" @Kit?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox hugs

KitFox

Amongst other things.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 hugs

GnomeSlice

@KitFox That sounds ungood.

KitFox

Hey, was I going to read your cards?

@hichris123 Tomorrow.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox I think so.

KitFox

1:44 AM

It's not that big a deal. Just yet another meeting with the person who is currently openly hostile toward me.

GnomeSlice

:/

KitFox

To try to talk her down and get her to stop backstabbing me.

GnomeSlice

How long has this been going on?

KitFox

Two weeks. Not long.

fiddles for cards

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Jerks.

KitFox

1:46 AM

I complained about it earlier.

I think my cards are downstairs. brb

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I ain't been around in a minute.

As the kids say.

KitFox

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don't know what that means.

I have my cards though, so when you're ready.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox Ready.

KitFox

OK.

Hmm.

The House. You are financially stable, have enough to eat, and have a good home life.

The Train. You are firmly set on a goal, which is likely to be successful.

King of Hearts upside-down. Disappointment in love, maybe, or possibly a choice between being successful in the way you imagine and being successful in your relationship. I'm not sure. It would help if I knew how you felt about your father.

Oh. You had the family v. you conflict.

So that makes sense. What is personal success to you is a disappointment for your parents.

Well. That's cheery.

Maybe I should get the tarot deck.

Oh. Or I could do...Wheel of the Year?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:02 AM

What?

KitFox

That could be interesting.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Wheel of the Year?

KitFox

It's a different spread. I haven't done it much.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I see.

KitFox

Gives a timeline of changes of the course of the year.

Shall I?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:04 AM

M"lady's choice.

KitFox

You have to be a little closer for that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh! Oh.

Well.

KitFox

OK. I can't remember where it starts. A recent financial windfall. Has that happened?

I think this starts in June.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hmm.

Does windfall imply that I didn't necessarily work for it?

KitFox

It might, but I didn't mean to imply that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:07 AM

Then no.

KitFox

I suppose maybe it starts at the beginning of the year then.

So some kind of happy financial thing, money or other material gain in October.

Safe harbor in November; something like putting down some roots or finding sanctuary or people who understand you.

Some kind of surprise news in December. Unexpected. Not necessarily unpleasant, but not what you expected.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh dear!

KitFox

Kind of like if you had made plans with your friend, and they said "I'll call you when I'm leaving town" and then they call you, but rather than leaving town, they had to change plans.

How would you say that? You were expecting something, but then something like it but different happens instead.

This is suddenly really bothering me.

Anyway. That. In December.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox Is this a single-word-request?

KitFox

Ha. I don't think so.

I can't figure out how to describe the situation.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:15 AM

Sorry.

KitFox

You were expecting a letter that said "Happy Birthday" and you got a letter, but it said "Get Well Soon".

No, that's kind of it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh, dear!

I was going to quit, but they're laying me off with severance.

KitFox

So it's not really a surprise that an event occurs, but what actually takes place is different.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh. Well. Hmm.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@KitFox I'm just supposin'.

KitFox

Yes, I think that might qualify.

It's closer to you thought you would get a raise, but you get laid off, but it's with a really great severance package.

So it ends up being OK.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:19 AM

I like it.

KitFox

Then the beginnings of a great plan in January becomes some kind of dangerously playful bid.

Either your honey or your father plays a significant role in March.

This leaves you feeling out of control and full of self-doubt in April, but May brings a slow recovery and by June you are back in the game.

And focused on love.

July is the time when you feel the bursting of your innate talent and creativity, when the seeds you planted in January and February come to fruition.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Nice.

KitFox

August next year will be full of wordly pleasures and a vast enjoyment of your senses.

So I assume this means you will feel satisfied, successful, and proud of your skills.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

!_!

KitFox

2:45 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Was that helpful?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:08 AM

good evening

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:37 AM

Hermit crab with 3-d printed shell

Jasper Loy

3:54 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It's just us two in this chat.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah and I was just leaving.

cya tomorrow. keep on keeping on.

Jasper Loy

OK.

Oh I see that George has been unsuspended.

Freddy

5:03 AM

why still George profile showing "he is not allowed to chat for 6 days."?

Jasper Loy

5:50 AM

@Freddy He got suspended again.

I wonder what he said this time.

tchrist

7:14 AM

@Cerberus I don’t see how power lines could be damaged by frost. Sure, if a tree falls in the woods because it’s covered in ice. . . . no, sorry, still can’t figure it.

Andrew Leach

SAS visit. Off to breakfast...

tchrist

@AndrewLeach Winter is Coming.

I just had breakfast. I’m trying to convince my body to go back to sleep. I have an annoying knee that won’t shut up.

user116848

Is this sentence grammatical: "You never told me you were racer back then"?

user116848

I don't want to use "had been" in the subordinate clause.

tchrist

7:30 AM

You have to use "a racer".

user116848

And this one: "I thought you were sick back then" or can I only say "I thought you had been sick back then"?

tchrist

The second sounds off, but it really requires more context to know.

user116848

Ah. I see

tchrist

There are times it could be fine.

user116848

Yes I tend to use 'simple past' due to its simplicity.

tchrist

7:32 AM

Well, that’s not a great reason for it.

user116848

That and sometimes past perfect too :-)

tchrist

I wonder whether a peanut-butter and jelly toasted sandwich with a glass of milk is soporific.

Technically, it isn’t jelly. It’s cherry preserves.

Be that as it may.

Freddy

8:23 AM

@JasperLoy He should take care while wtiting.

I advise him, whenever he want to write any bad word he should write "Beep."

In censored reality show whenever some contestant use bad language it is edited to beep sound

Jasper Loy

9:29 AM

This chat is dead.

tchrist

10:46 AM

@Freddy It is not that this or that word he says is bad, and indeed, we are rather tolerant of coarse language here. I know no details save for having read the now-deleted garbage, but IM!HO his sin is one of inveterate trolling and disrespect—for no other purpose than to stir up trouble. He wants people to argue with him, vituperously. He likes making people feel uncomfortable. That is a much more serious problem then the occasional coarse expletive can ever be, because it sows discord.

@JasperLoy Indefatigably persistent and rudely disrespectful trolls poison any medium in which they occur.

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