English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

10:07 AM

Jesus Christ.

So many people and not one if them has seen Idiocracy.

> Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.

Get your cultural references straight.

And that, Mohammed, is why we can't have nice things.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt I still haven't seen it. I guess it looked too stupid to me :p

RegDwigнt

So, that was one crucial important key thing that was completely missing from the discussion, making the discussion a complete and utter waste of time.

But wait! It wasn't the only one. There's more!

Matt E. Эллен

more? but it's already at such a low price!

RegDwigнt

@GraceNote on neither occasion did this "make people uncomfortable" while it was "actively happening". Both messages were flagged, and removed, about 30 minutes after the fact.

They had long scrolled out of everyone's view.

So there are people who make it a point to voluntarily read the transcript, and then meddle with it.

However, if you come in here, and people are talking about daffodils and kittens, and you go off on a quest to read something else that nobody forces you to read, and then get offended that it features the word "motherfucker", then frankly that's your own fault.

2

skill patrol

frankly?

RegDwigнt

10:19 AM

Nobody is under no obligation to read the transcript. So don't flag shit from five years ago.

9

skill patrol

how about 4 years ago?

RegDwigнt

Absolutely everyone, however, is under the obligation to watch Idiocracy, as well as Big Lebowski and Breaking Bad, because these are the permanent points of reference here.

skill patrol

where does kit get off on her actions?

hmm?

specifically, why her?

suspensions are suspensions, but coming in here with a chip on your shoulder is something completely different

Matt E. Эллен

@skillpatrol that is where you're wrong

skill patrol

how so?

please explain

Matt E. Эллен

10:25 AM

obviously the identity is true, but Kit did not come in here with a chip on her shoulder

please stop flagging that

skill patrol

i have NEVER used a flag

Matt E. Эллен

sorry, I wasn't talking to you

I was talking to the person flagging

skill patrol

np, pal

:-)

RegDwigнt

I won't be getting into that other story as can only handle so many issues at a time.

skill patrol

so there IS an issue

RegDwigнt

10:27 AM

Right now my issue is that my shit's getting removed again.

Just like that.

skill patrol

you need to be more "anally retentive" to hang on to your "shit"

not pointing any fingers :P

me too

Cheerio

Anal retentiveness

The term anal retentive (also anally retentive), commonly abbreviated to anal, is used to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, potentially to the detriment of the anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis. == Origins == In Freudian psychology, the anal stage is said to follow the oral stage of infant or early-childhood development. This is a time when an infant's attention moves from oral stimulation to anal stimulation (usually the bowels but occasionally the bladder), usually synchronous with learning...

as opposed to

Anal expulsiveness

Anal expulsiveness is the state of a person who exhibits cruelty, emotional outbursts, disorganization, self-confidence, (sometimes) artistic ability, generosity, rebelliousness and general carelessness. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory claims the anal stage follows the oral stage of infant/early-childhood development. This is a time when an infant's attention moves from oral stimulation to anal stimulation (usually the bowels but occasionally the bladder), usually synchronous with learning to control his or her excretory functions, a time of toilet training. For a child in this stage ...

user174558

Many people in this world are stupid and evil, so they flag things they should not flag, without understanding what is happening in this chat.

tchrist

11:23 AM

I see my regularly scheduled comedy show for waking me up in the morning is on hiatus.

Robusto

11:33 AM

@MattE.Эллен Well, he may be wrong in the sense that he's understating the problem. She came in here like this:

Now @Reg is gone too.

> It's the tide. It's the dismal tide.

Hope you're all happy.

All you trolls and vandals and rejects from other rooms. We had a good thing here, and you couldn't stand it. Now it's gone. Let that be on your heads.

Matt E. Эллен

I don't think Kit looks like Russell Crowe dressed up as a pirate

tchrist

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен That's Russell Crowe playing Javert from Les Miserables. If you don't get the cultural reference, you could look it up.

tchrist

Aw gee, be nice.

2

Please.

Robusto

It's a little late for that. And I'm not the one who started all this. "I am more sinned against than sinning."

Matt E. Эллен

11:51 AM

I get that you're angry, but given that you've not had a proper conversation with Kit for a year, I don't believe you when you claim to know her motives. I can't quench your anger, so I won't try, but by a similar token you won't convince me that Kit is out to get you.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto No. No-no-no. Let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of this room that said "Robusto and Cerberus Welcome to Have a Good Thing Going"? You know why you didn't see that sign? Cause it ain't there. Cause welcoming Robustos and Cerberae's ain't our business model.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt What? I wasn't talking about me and Cerberus. I was talking about the room itself. And I was addressing the trolls and vandals who came to sit like vultures and kill anything that moved. Including your posts.

skill patrol

2 hours ago, by skill patrol

specifically, why her?

26 mins ago, by Robusto

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Your silence this morning was answer enough, thank you.

tchrist

erects Construction Zone sign

skill patrol

12:03 PM

:D

@tchrist how's that^

btw, your heart is on the other side?

Robusto

Since this keeps coming up, though, I will respond. She had the opportunity to apologize to me for unjustly accusing me of forcing a member of ELU to cancel his account. Said member openly disavowed that assertion.
Yet instead of trying to make amends, she openly mocked me. And her first act coming back to this chat—which she left, by the way, apparently because I merely chose not to speak with her—was to administer retribution. If she wanted to have a conversation with me, she could have found another way.

I have not mocked her in chat, reviled her, nor tried to foment any kind of ill will toward her. When people have tried to make this a faction thing, I have squelched those attempts. I have behaved like an adult, and I think I have earned the right to be treated like one.

If you think otherwise, that is on you.

Matt E. Эллен

I'm sorry I haven't emailed you yet. I'm still tired. I got a bad night's sleep.

skill patrol

@MattE.Эллен Who keeps removing Reg's comments?

Grace?

tchrist

Last night I dreamt that a friendly mountain lion had moved in with me. I tried to tell her that this was not a safe place her, but she was happy by my side. I awoke to kitties snuggling me.

Mitch

M lions aren't morning people. They don't really function well till they've had their morning person

skill patrol

12:17 PM

2 hours ago, by skill patrol

not pointing any fingers :P

(removed)

2 hours ago, by skill patrol

me too

Matt E. Эллен

@skillpatrol could be anyone who agrees with the flags

I can't figure if it's possible to see who actioned a flag

skill patrol

ok, thanks for trying

Mitch

Was the problem at mos eiseley old grudges expressed in flags?

Matt E. Эллен

we have grudges with Mos Eisley?

Mitch

Ha ha. Maybe?

RegDwigнt

12:19 PM

@Robusto I had to limit it to the two particulars to match the sign. Get some coffee.

tchrist

Do you realize how many 10k users there are on the network?

RegDwigнt

OVER 9.

skill patrol

@Mitch nah, they started talking about US gun control in the wake of the Paris thing

tchrist

Dein 9 is very big today.

Mitch

Oh shit.

RegDwigнt

12:20 PM

@Mitch Careful what you say, flagging in progress.

skill patrol

~~shit~~

shoot

shut

Oh scheisse

Is that a Noun?

Oh mist

12:21 PM

Noun of our business

tchrist

Brume.

Mitch

Germinal

tchrist

Our biddiness is where it's at.

We are in Brumaire: I had hundred-mile-an-hour winds yestern.

Mitch

Pfft, tornados. Yesterday I had a hundred leaves gingerly drop towards my lawn but then lightly hop over into my neighbors lawn

tchrist

The jour de jour today is Grenade. Let the hurler beware.

Mitch

12:27 PM

What the hell is a 'Service tree'?

tchrist

Where we get serviceberries from.

Mitch

Oh.

What the hell is a service berry?

tchrist

A rose by any other name.

Amelanchier

Amelanchier (/æməˈlænʃɪər/ am-ə-LAN-sheer), also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, or just sarvis, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family (Rosaceae). Amelanchier is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, growing primarily in early successional habitats. It is most diverse taxonomically in North America, especially in the northeastern United States and adjacent southeastern Canada, and at least one species is native...

user174558

By the way, it's not a big deal to be suspended from chat. It's quite fun actually, to experience things like that. So the flaggers can flag all they want.

Mitch

It doesn't smell as good as a rose I can tell you that.

user174558

12:31 PM

I have been suspended from chat many times. Each time it gets better. I enjoy being suspended.

tchrist

On the first name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
A truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Mitch

I can't stand suspenders. Somethings g about them just feels wrong

tchrist

On the second name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree

On the third name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree

On the fourth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

RegDwigнt

As a saskatoon, I find that offensive.

tchrist

On the fifth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

user174558

12:36 PM

Is this a chatbot that posts Christmas songs?

RegDwigнt

@skill: no need to. We have enough men at flag.

skill patrol

As an accused chatbot, I find that offensive.

RegDwigнt

user174558

Is that another chatbot that keeps deleting messages?

tchrist

On the sixth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

user174558

12:42 PM

Do pears grow on trees? I thought they come from the ground...

tchrist

On the seventh name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Mitch

Mmm Saskatoons ... Cold and dry on the outside ... Soft and chewy on the inside

tchrist

On the eighth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Eight shadbushes bushing,
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Cerberus

Greetings!

tchrist

On the ninth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Nine sarvēs serving,
Eight shadbushes bushing,
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Matt E. Эллен

12:54 PM

Hi!

Cerberus

What are you spamming about tonight?

user174558

The Christmas bot is still on.

RegDwigнt

It looks like @tchrist is trying not to write a poem. And desperately needs help with it.

skill patrol

I like it :D

Mitch

It can't already be dark there, can it?

Cerberus

12:55 PM

@tchrist Use this as a bookmarklet to delete any element from the page that you dislike:
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RegDwigнt

@Mitch we do not discriminate against white bears in this chat. Only brown bears.

tchrist

On the tenth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Ten wild-plums plumbing,
Nine sarvēs serving,
Eight shadbushes bushing,
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Cerberus

But quit the spamming already, pretty please?

user174558

Let him express himself.

user174558

This chat is too boring without some songs.

RegDwigнt

12:57 PM

@Cerberus hey your pleas didn't work for outsiders, so they won't have to work for regulars.

user174558

Only petty quarrels and flags.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Nevertheless, one has to try! heroïc faces

RegDwigнt

Get rich or try dying.

user174558

Aren't we all dying?

RegDwigнt

The nonsmokers certainly are.

Mitch

12:59 PM

The sun at noon is the sun declining. The creature born is the creature dying.

user174558

I think smoking should be banned.

Mitch

sobs into coffee

RegDwigнt

I think banning should be smoked.

user174558

Smoking is extremely harmful, unlike porn.

Matt E. Эллен

There once was an old Cerberus
Who took a short ride on a bus
The people were scared
Their lives would be spared
Except for that one guy called Russ

user174558

1:00 PM

Now, drinking is rather harmful, so I think it should also be banned.

RegDwigнt

Russ Meyer?

tchrist

On the eleventh name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Eleven juneberries juning,
Ten wild-plums plumbing,
Nine sarvēs serving,
Eight shadbushes bushing,
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

RegDwigнt

Jesus Tchrist, how many stanzas are there to this madness.

Just write down the very last one, it will contain all the ones before it.

user174558

12

user174558

I am surprised by your ignorance.

tchrist

1:01 PM

@RegDwigнt As you requested...

On the twelfth name of Amelanchier,
My true love gave to me:
Twelve sarvisberries bearing,
Eleven juneberries juning,
Ten wild-plums plumbing,
Nine sarvēs serving,
Eight shadbushes bushing,
Seven shadwoods wooding,
Six shadblows blowing,
FIVE SERVICEBERRIES!
Four wild pears,
Three saskatoons,
Two sugarplums,
And a truly tasty chuckley pear tree.

Mitch

Um... Pretty obvious that it's going to end with someone crying

RegDwigнt

See. Now was that that hard.

@JasperLoy whoosh.

user174558

'ELU mod doesn't know how many days Christmas has'

user174558

Shocking news!

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен There once was an old Cerberus, hitched to a cart. What would he do, struggle or run?

RegDwigнt

1:02 PM

"Jasper does not understand jokes".

No news at all!

user174558

LOL

Mitch

Run

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus first and foremost he'd have some Hades for breakfast.

Then and only then would he proceed to planning his day.

user174558

I think that since Reg has not been paid to moderate, it's time for him to quit and spend more time with his wife.

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus if he's hitched, he'll do neither, unless it was an arranged marriage...

Cerberus

1:05 PM

Hah.

@RegDwigнt Well, naturally. You wouldn't want him to starve, would you?

user174558

I am going to take a nap. poof

Cerberus

@Robusto This is you and I:

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I never.

Cerberus

We know who's on the cart. What shall we do? We know what the Stoic's only choice is.

RegDwigнt

1 hour ago, by RegDwigнt

Why, put up this sign.

And all is fine.

Cerberus

1:07 PM

Haha where did you find that.

RegDwigнt

In China.

Mitch

"Local Buddhist Radicals Arrested over Nirvana-related Apathy"

Cerberus

I wonder what the dog did to be considered as unwanted as the Japanese.

Did he massacre Nanking too?

tchrist

There once was a Cerberus hitched to a cart.
By so many masters, he couldn't depart.
    Should he struggle or run?
    Or join in the fun?
But merriment, I fear, he was loth to compart.

RegDwigнt

In Fenghuang, to be precise.

Large parts of which are preserved in their original state to this day.

Yet it somehow isn't a World Heritage site.

The only thing they've changed is that they use Apple to flush their toilets.

Mitch

1:12 PM

Progress? I think not

RegDwigнt

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Pommes to warm the cockles of my heart!

RegDwigнt

They have electrical lighting, too.

tchrist

Foxfire.

Cerberus

@tchrist Haha. I, compart merriment? Unlikely indeed.

@RegDwigнt Waaah my eyes.

tchrist

1:18 PM

@Cerberus Do not meddle in the affairs of grisards, for you are crunchy and taste good in milk.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt That is fantastic! I want that city.

Let's hope the Chinese won't bulldoze it after all.

RegDwigнt

No they use it for inland tourism.

Cerberus

@tchrist Grisards indeed.

RegDwigнt

Which is probably why UNESCO's not heard of it.

There are hordes of tourists but they are all Chinese.

Cerberus

They don't want foreign tourists?

Nor dogs?

tchrist

1:19 PM

You nescu you.

Cerberus

I don't know myself?

RegDwigнt

China has more tourists touring their own country than other countries have tourists combined.

tchrist

Strangers in a strange land.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus nah, you are most welcome. It's just that there's no airport or train station or even a highway.

You can only get there by bus.

That sign is from one particular shop by one particular person who happens not to like the things he is listing.

It is not the official city sign or anything.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Oh. I thought the image was unrelated so I didn't look. But looking now, the sign appears to be in Chinese, not Japanese, though some of the characters are intelligible.

I seem to remember a sign like that from an early Bruce Li film, now that I look at it.

RegDwigнt

1:22 PM

Of course it's not in Japanese. It's also not in Dogean.

Why would it be? They do not want either there.

tchrist

@Cerberus Cognoscente, cognosci te ipsum.

Robusto

@Cerberus I always preferred the Epicurean point of view, myself. λάθε βιώσας. But that has been wrested away.

RegDwigнt

Yeah. I always prefer epic urea over non-epic urea.

tchrist

Avec des fines épices.

RegDwigнt

It's much less cognasty.

@tchrist en attendant God, d'oh.

No wait, that wasn't Unesco. That was Samuel L. Beckham.

My bad.

tchrist

1:28 PM

@RegDwigнt eu atendend’o meu amigo.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Hmm I might just take that bus.

@tchrist What language is that?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist cuanto cushta uma parazhei por Santana, fash favor.

Gigili

The curfew is over?

Back to normal?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Maizh qu’tenyazh.

Cerberus

@Robusto Eventually the dog-catcher catches up with you and forces you into Stoicism. I'm an Epicurean myself too, but alas.

Now it's work time, valete omnes.

tchrist

1:33 PM

I too must away. Please don't blow up the room this time.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist aish carambash, quesh lagrimash.

Cerberus

Tell that to the windmills.

Bai!

Robusto

@tchrist Whom are you addressing with that remark?

RegDwigнt

EVERYONE!

Robusto

EVERYONE is not a person.

RegDwigнt

1:34 PM

Eggman Says: SEND IN EVERYONE!

►

Robusto

NARYAONE will listen.

RegDwigнt

At least thus spake the chronicles, son of Adam.

Robusto

You mean the chronic Les?

RegDwigнt

Hmph.

Ray?

Robusto

Hmphrey?

RegDwigнt

1:37 PM

Rey 'n' Blood.

Robusto

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,
as many of your players do, I had as lief the
town-crier spoke my lines.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto so what you're saying is, four legs bad, two legs good?

Y U discrimin8.

Robusto

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn’t he danced his did.

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

It goes on from there to tell you how to construct a three-wheeled schooner of beer.

RegDwigнt

Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.

Mitch

1:52 PM

@Cerberus Wait, what is his only choice? release the dogs?

@Robusto It also looks like they don't care about grammar or meaning in the last two lines

Mitch

2:18 PM

@Cerberus There is no agreement on when or where this Urheimat (of Hamito-Semitic) existed. Proposed locations include the Horn of Africa, North Africa, the Eastern Sahara, and the Levant.

RegDwigнt

Proletarhoi hamai mamlakatho, yak shaved.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Sputnik carried a dog named after a German camera, not a shaved y ak.

RegDwigнt

Lolwut, you misspelle niksput?

Also, Leih-Car is not a German camera, it's German for "rental car".

Learn German. Schiisch.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Lehr' mich am Arzt.

RegDwigнt

No Wolf-Walk I'm a Deus in this chat.

Robusto

2:33 PM

A little Deus coop.

RegDwigнt

Everyone likes a little Deus, but noöne likes a smart one.

Robusto

Das ist nicht ein Ding.

RegDwigнt

It's a Ding... it's a Bat... it's Dingbatsman!

Robusto

2:53 PM

@RegDwigнt Das ist ebenso nicht ein Dingbatsmann.

RegDwigнt

Kein. I'd like to introduce you to that concept.

As well as his brother Abel.

Robusto

3:15 PM

@RegDwigнt That would violate the "not a thing" parallel.

クリスマスが近くなってきた。

RegDwigнt

Schließ nicht von Dir auf Andere.

Just because you would like to violate parallels...

@Robusto ゲサンドハイトゥー.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt 物ではないよ。

RegDwigнt

ノユ

Robusto

3:41 PM

@RegDwigнt 遠まわしに物を言うな

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I am the walrus.

RegDwigнt

You're out of your element.

@Robusto take your ateji and go back to your rice country.

Robusto

当て字?

RegDwigнt

エコー?

Robusto

Kanye West - Stronger

►

RegDwigнt

3:53 PM

Sep 24 at 12:31, by RegDwigнt

Scrubs Cox Tortures Interns on Slow Days

►

Robusto

@RegDwigнt いいえ、反響。

RegDwigнt

L'allumeur de réverbères ?

What do little princes have to do with anything, Walter, it's a travesty with you man.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt アメリカは米国ですよ。

RegDwigнt

Arigato for explanato my jokato to meto.

Robusto

ばかばかしいとしか言いようがない。

RegDwigнt

3:58 PM

Ну это, типа, всего лишь твоё мнение, парень.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Не глупая.

RegDwigнt

What woman?

Or are you using Google Transgender again?

Robusto

Don't be fatuous?

RegDwigнt

Wut.

Robusto

That's what Google sez, and they're never wrong.

RegDwigнt

4:02 PM

It translates "don't be fatuous" as "she's not stupid"?

Robusto

Hahahaha.

Well, see, they're not wrong. She's not stupid.

Only weird.

RegDwigнt

That's what she said.

Robusto

Вам нравится секс, мистер Лебовски?

RegDwigнt

Ви вант зе мани, Лебавски!

Robusto

"Wee SBSTA se mani, Lebowski!"

RegDwigнt

4:04 PM

To me, Google Transgender suggest it's Serbian, and translates to "Wee guys se mani Lebavski !"

Are you using non-Serbian settings?

Are you a Bosnian moslem?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt 公正ではない！

RegDwigнt

These women are bullards, Donny.

Matt E. Эллен

4:21 PM

ve vant ze mani lebavski

Kit Z. Fox

4:50 PM

Morning.

@Reg, not sure if you noticed that Rob pinged you from his new room.

RegDwigнt

Huh wha.

No I've not.

I have like a zillion pings today.

Kit Z. Fox

I'm not surprised. That's why I thought I would mention it to you.

RegDwigнt

And whenever I'd follow one, it's always some person I've never met before, who wants me to address something I've never heard of nor participated in, by doing something that makes no sense to me.

Anyhoo, thanks, but as you all know it's commie-mutie-jelly time for me.

Kit Z. Fox

Well, neither of those conditions are met in this case.

waves See you.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox I thought you were at a retreat. I was invested in your outfit.

Kit Z. Fox

4:57 PM

I am at the retreat. We have a pause before lunch and I have to catch up on emails.

I thought I would stop in and clean up the star wall.

Apparently no one has been doing that in my absence.

RegDwigнt

I've travelled the world and elevensies, everybody is looking for something.

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox My god! It's full of stars!

Kit Z. Fox

@MετάEd Well, hello to you too.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox Nice! Retreats can be a load of horseshit. or very useul. or a lot of both in between

MετάEd

@KitZ.Fox :-)

Mitch

4:57 PM

I have said nothing.

Kit Z. Fox

The woman I am traveling with recommended that I drink the kool-aid as soon as I got in the door.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt some of them want to abuse you

Kit Z. Fox

I figure she's done this before and I can trust her advice.

Mitch

@KitZ.Fox whoa dude. this kool aid tastes funny.

almonds?

Kit Z. Fox

oh damn. Time to go already. Later.

Robusto

5:29 PM

@KitZ.Fox By cleaning up the star wall you mean removing anything of mine that got starred.

user174558

@Robusto No, cleaning items of single stars. You should calm down and have some wine.

Robusto

> This is the smallest amount of power I have ever seen go to anyone's head.

Monday is my five-year anniversary here. Been on the site every single goddamn day. But it looks like it's time to put a period on it.

user174558

@Robusto 1823 is the year my high school was founded.

Robusto

@JasperLoy We all know what this is about.

user174558

@Robusto I don't mean any disrespect to you, but maybe deleting your account might do you good. You can be so much happier offline. You have a wife, you have children, you have a life. I have no life, so I hang out here.

Robusto

5:41 PM

@JasperLoy Also no disrespect, but you don't know anything about me.

Mitch

No disrespect to dead animals, but I'm starving for a BBQ

or an Israeli falafel. not these stupid lettuce and tomato and old falafel balls (an FLT).

... but with a buffet display of fixin's, eggplant and olives and feta and cole slaw and shredded beets and .. the list goes on. sure put lettuce on it, but you're putting me to sleep, what with all the actually -good- things to put on it.

user174558

@Robusto Well, maybe Kit doesn't like you personally currently, maybe, but that doesn't mean she is abusing her mod powers. I think the things she has done recently is reasonable.

user174558

It's just removing two people as room owners whom she thinks is not moderating chat. Is that a bomb?

user174558

You can't say she is picking on you after not being in chat for a year and returning just to do some moderation.

user174558

Also, you might think that I am taking sides because I am on good terms with her, but I try my best to be neutral and to make peace.

Mitch

6:05 PM

Nobody likes anybody else in Israel either, but everyone loves falafel!

user174558

I do not like falafel, and I have not been to Israel and I never will.

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