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2:44 AM

This chat is dead.

@JasperLoy Well, you’d better get hoppin’ then if you’re to have any hope of busting all Five Virginities before you shuffle your coil off. And you aren’t getting any younger, lad.

Jasper Loy

@tchrist Indeed. I have lost too much time due to my mental illness.

tchrist

Pretty sure that is not preclusive of most of the five, if any.

Jasper Loy

Who is that John Wimpey? I am editing all his posts, lol.

@tchrist I can easily lose it by visiting a prostitute today, but I won't do that.

tchrist

Then you don’t care about that sort of virginity.

So stop complaining.

And move on to the other four.

Jasper Loy

3:01 AM

@tchrist Can you tell me what the Five are? I googled and got nothing.

tchrist

@JasperLoy I can.

Jasper Loy

I think I will enjoy myself doing as many edits as I wish on this site, lol.

tchrist

That, Jasper, is not one of them.

Unless you are a very, very, very strange person.

Jasper Loy

@tchrist So what are the Five? I am guessing it's something you made up on the spot just now, with no real meaning.

tchrist

You would be wrong.

Jasper Loy

3:13 AM

So tell me what they are.

Is it too vulgar to type in this chat?

OMG, this John Wimpey is nuts. He keeps capping things for nothing.

I just edited all his posts. Maybe I am wasting time.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Yes.

You have to be bold.

Jasper Loy

@tchrist Could you describe them in less vulgar terms?

tchrist

Not with concision.

That won’t work.

Jasper Loy

I understand that.

tchrist

I shall have to devise some other way.

Jasper Loy

3:21 AM

That just meant male to female.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus I wish I knew. I seriously wanted to knock on the doors of people with "Ford for Mayor" signs and ask them what the fuck was wrong with them.

tchrist

Jasper, you are ⚨.

1 = ⚨ → ♀, 2 = ⚨ → ♂, 3 = ⚨ ← ♂, 4 = ♂ → ⚨ → ♂, 5 = ♂ → ⚨ → ♀

Jasper Loy

OMG!

tchrist

You

Asked

Jasper Loy

OMG!

tchrist

3:28 AM

Me

Jasper Loy

I am actually straight, honest. Straight people can have gay feelings too now and then. It's only when they become more present that one is considered a gay.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@tchrist But the → can represent so many different things. I think 5 is too small a number to consider.

Jasper Loy

Sexual orientation is a continuous spectrum. Nobody is at the extreme ends, strictly speaking.

tchrist

There are actually other possibilities, but less interesting to you. (♂ + ⚨) → ♀ and such. That one is common enough.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Or maybe I should say that if the → only represents one thing, then you can also consider other kinds of →

tchrist

3:30 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I certainly thought about all that, but I don’t think his imagination ranges widely enough for it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Not to mention ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ♂ → ⚨ → ♀

tchrist

No, those don’t count.

Jasper Loy

@tchrist I will just go for one: Me into Maria, that's all.

tchrist

Because all that matters is the arrows to or from Jasper.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

tchrist

3:31 AM

OR both.

The last one is most commonly abbreviated as ⚧.

Adding a third male for her third hole would not impact Jasper, so does not count.

🜎

🜑

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Those don't show up for me.

tchrist

🜝

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Ah, now that I turned off "hardware acceleration" they do.

tchrist

Wow.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Remember my font problem?

Jasper Loy

3:35 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Amazing discovery. Does it mean I should do that always?

tchrist

🜥

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy That depends. Are you impacted by the problem?

tchrist

This one is only for parties: 🜬

Jasper Loy

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Do you have the fonts installed? I installed the Google Noto fonts.

tchrist

3:36 AM

Hm, I think I missed crocus veneris.

Jasper Loy

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ah, I turned off but still no show.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy You have to restart FF.

tchrist

Then there’s the one for women with their private parts pierced: 🜫

Jasper Loy

I think we should change the topic now, before the flaggers come.

tchrist

And once you think you’ve exhausted all possibilities for the evening, finish it off with a bang: 🜹

This is the morning after: 🜻

Jasper Loy

3:38 AM

@tchrist All these years, I have used one thing only: Me on myself.

tchrist

That’s 🜚.

Jasper Loy

However, the details of how I do it are too much for this chat, so they will be omitted.

tchrist

What’s this: 🝰

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm so glad I installed extra fonts so that I could see tchrist's pervy symbols

tchrist

I am cackling loudly enough to make the kitty want to know what’s got into me.

@JasperLoy Don’t worry: flaggers don’t have pervelicious fonts installed.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:44 AM

Somehow I should have known that tchrist's answer to "How to explain Sex to Jasper" was to use Unicode.

6

tchrist

Jasper, I can tell that what your life is missing is a good old-fashioned sextile.

⚹

Jasper Loy

My friends used to visit massage parlours for naughty activities, and they will ask me to join them. I never did. I am so proud of myself, lol.

tchrist

They say you can do that on your phone now.

Jasper Loy

Yes, there are apps that let you search for such stuff.

tchrist

Although it’s cheaper with unlimited messages.

You need no longer go to a parler for bespoke messages.

Jasper Loy

3:47 AM

Actually, there are sites I can join too if I really wanted it, with several local members.

tchrist

Why do I try?

Jasper Loy

But I think I will reserve it for Maria. Hmm, that's sweet.

The language used in this chat is very interesting: Maria, LOL, QED. Actually, my language.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy I'm not sure she will be impressed.

Jasper Loy

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, Maria will have probably lost it long ago.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I still think you should just get out of the house and try to cultivate some real-life friendships with no expectation of sexual relationships. It's good practice.

Take a cooking class.

tchrist

3:52 AM

Tell me, Jasper: which do you regret more, the things you have done or the things you have failed to do?

Jasper Loy

@tchrist The latter.

tchrist

Then you know what you should do now, don’t you, eh?

Stop not doing things.

Start doing things.

Jasper Loy

Yes, I know. I am going to bed, good night.

tchrist

You will regret them less.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I should get going too. cya

tchrist

3:57 AM

And there were none.

KitFox

@tchrist Except me and you.

Ice Boy

:(

KitFox

... and skully.

Ice Boy

4:12 AM

:D

thanks

tchrist

I never recognize your new icon.

KitFox

I just adopted it.

@JSB gave it to me.

tchrist

This is so funny, but sad, that I have to put it here before it vanishes:

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A: "1 out of 100 chickens is" or "1 out of 100 chickens are"?

Whenever I have something to search on the web, I usually landed on your page; however, I always find the explanations too complicated and I tend to switch to another page. I suggest to provide more direct and simple explanation. Thanks.

KitFox

Chickens.

tchrist

Chickens are very complicated.

For us. Other chick pages are slicker.

KitFox

4:18 AM

Yes.

How is the new job?

tchrist

Well, her name is Lolly.

It is fine.

The whole world of software today turns upon framework stacked upon framework stacked upon framework.

People think they are building something complicate to make it simple.

They aren’t.

They are just building things that are complicated.

And I am not even talking about my company’s product.

Just the toolchain, which is 20,000 leagues long.

It reminds me of the old gag about shooting yourself in the foot in this or that programming language.

With frameworks, a shot is fired on the other side of the world not by you but by random cosmic rays, and seven weeks later you die but there is no one to blame.

toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html

That’s like 20 years old, but you get the idea.

KitFox

Indeed, sir, I have lived it.

tchrist

So so so many moving parts interacting in unforeseen ways, with so many layers of abstraction getting in your face twisting things into butterfly deaths in New Zealand caused by somebody flying over the International Dateline running IE7.

Randy is literally sitting in my face purring me to death so I cannot see nor type. He wants me to go to bed, or at least pay attention to him.

Night.

KitFox

4:34 AM

Night.

Jasper Loy

Hello @kitfox! Well, the Maria I told you about that day, seems it is over, lol.

@tchrist See you in your dreams.

KitFox

@JasperLoy Hi.

Jasper Loy

@KitFox So you changed your mind and decided to return to this chat?

KitFox

It was an accident.

Jasper Loy

Well, since the accident happened, you might as well return.

english.stackexchange.com/users/82239/peter seems to be an English prof where I studied.

KitFox

4:45 AM

Did you recruit him?

Jasper Loy

Recruit? Is this some joke I am missing? I should look up the meaning of recruit...

Appu

Hello everyone!

Jasper Loy

@KitFox Oh, I think you meant to the site, I thought to the uni, lol. No, I did not.

KitFox

@JasperLoy I meant, did you encourage him to participate on EL&U.

@JasperLoy oh

Jasper Loy

Yesterday my aunt bought salmon sashimi for me. There were 20 slices.

Oh she's gone again.

Jasper Loy

5:58 AM

There is suddenly a whole bunch of crap questions on the site.

Freddy

6:44 AM

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Q: A word describes the person who tends to stereotype people

Is there a word/adjective (single word) that describes the person who likes consiously or uncousiously to stereotype people? I was thinking that there might be a word such as stereotypist, but such a word does not exist. The word I'm expecting should describe the type of people who are very inter...

Cerberus

8:11 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Surely he has some proposals or promised reforms that people liked? Deport all immigrants? Free hamburgers?

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