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user174558

5:00 PM

Do you know that the profile updating has been improved? Now the network profile can be copied from any site, not just the oldest one you are part of.

Delta Escher

@Jasper Still super glitchy though

user174558

@DeltaEscher There is a trick to updating your profile everywhere instantly. You need to log out of everything and log in to everything for changes to be effected immediately.

Delta Escher

@Jasper You need to press Alt + F4

It fixes everything!

user174558

@DeltaEscher I don't think it does...

Mitch

@DeltaEscher tries that

Delta Escher

5:02 PM

@Jasper It's not doing anything anymore

I call that fixed

IͶΔ

@Jasper Yeah

Delta Escher

I love how this place works

When I'm here for 3 hours: (1 ping, 3 new messages)

user174558

I see a lot of discussion about the workings of this site in this chat by newbies lately.

Delta Escher

When I'm at lunch for 45 minutes: (9 pings, 180 new messages)

@Jasper Hey, I can say the chat sucks all I want!

It's not as if authority has more power or something

IͶΔ

@Jasper Eh?

user174558

5:05 PM

@Shafizadeh I disagree with some of the other people who tried to help. I think that "How to make a cake" can not only be a set of instructions on how to make a cake, but can also be the title of a question on how to make a cake. You may not see it often, but it sure is correct to me.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Jasper "How to make a cake" is a statement.

It's not a question.

user174558

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It's a title, and titles are not meant to be complete sentences.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

It can be a title, but it doesn't ask a question.

@Jasper It can be a title of a question, but it is not a question.

And most question titles on SE are phrased as questions.

user174558

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yup, which is what I said, title.

Delta Escher

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It does when asked to somebody. Ungrammatically, but a question.

"Steve, how to make cake?"

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:07 PM

@DeltaEscher It's ungrammatical. The fact that someone can mentally fix it up to infer the meaning doesn't make it correct.

It's not acceptable.

Delta Escher

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Slang becoming real grammatical words, especially those based on inflection or slightly amiss spelling

...Which are now correct

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher You don't need to explain to me how language changes.

You said it yourself, it's ungrammatical.

Delta Escher

I don't need to

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That means it's not part of the language.

Delta Escher

But just like a Social Justice Warrior

It is my duty

To spread misinformation and attempt to make things better but unintentionally just making them 50 times worse!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:10 PM

Let me guess. It was really about ethics in game journalism, right?

IͶΔ

@DeltaEscher You're a true prescriptivist.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@IͶΔ um.

Delta Escher

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Kids shouldn't play Frogger because it contains frogs being run over

BAR IT FROM SALE

IͶΔ

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 mu.

Delta Escher

If you think about it Mario is more brutal than shooting games

user174558

5:11 PM

So what happened to Arrowfar? Did he delete his account in the end?

Delta Escher

He's literally crushing innocent mushroom people

@Jasper Nah, he's not dead

Mitch

@DeltaEscher So you're a Social Justice Warrior Warrior

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@IͶΔ DE was advocating for a sentence being a question on the basis of people use it that way.

Mitch

That concerns me.

Making me a Social Justice Warrior Warrior Worrier

Delta Escher

@Mitch I just believe there are better ways of fixing society than yelling about it on Tumblr

USSR flag slowly rises

IͶΔ

5:12 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You're reading too much into a bad joke. I was just replying to that message of his, without considering the context.

Mitch

@DeltaEscher There are things other than Tumblr.

Snapchat is what the kidses these days use.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I hate the phrase "Social Justice Warrior". It basically calls out anyone who uses it as someone who prefers social injustice.

Mitch

I think.

user174558

I wanted to buy a new copy of an English dictionary, and I got OALD 9th edition.

Delta Escher

@Mitch I don't want it on my Tumblr, my Twitter, my Facebook galore

Social media these days is becoming a bore

Mitch

5:13 PM

@Jasper That's so oald.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@IͶΔ Ah. I see. yes, out of context it makes more sense.

Delta Escher

My Snapchat, my Instagram, my LinkedIn too!

Opinions and pie charts sprouting anew

user174558

@Mitch There were 4 British advanced learner's dictionaries to choose from, and I chose OALD because the other 3 were too big physically.

Mitch

@DeltaEscher I wish I could help you. I wish I could think. But to finish this up, I stuck my hand down a sink.

Delta Escher

@Mitch Lifehack!

My favorite Haiku I made was when I was seven.

Mitch

5:15 PM

@Jasper I was about to suggest online, but you're right, it goes without saying that online dictionaries are the worst.

Delta Escher

Five syllables now.

Seven syllables right here

Then five more to end

Mitch

Nice!

Publish!

Delta Escher

My teacher literally just looked at it and laughed

Mitch

Stick it to the man with their rules and formats and style!

user174558

@Mitch I did a great deal of research on dictionaries, and know that OED > Shorter OED > ODE = NOAD > Concise OED = Concise OAD > OALD = OAAD in terms of number of entries...

Mitch

5:17 PM

Wait, so a social justice warrior is fighting for not social justice? That's confusing.

Delta Escher

@Mitch They believe it's social justice

It's really just an advanced form of communism

Take privilege from the rich, white, and able

Give it to those in 'need'

Mitch

I though Wonder Woman, a warrior, concerned with justice, and especially social problems, would be a Social Justice Warrior with a truth belt.

Delta Escher

Air quotes necessary

@Mitch Handy in truth or dare

user174558

@Mitch Also, I got the international student edition, which costs only 20 USD roughly.

Mitch

@DeltaEscher Because being rich, white, and 21 ain't no ice cream flavor

@DeltaEscher doesn't seem fair

Delta Escher

5:18 PM

@Mitch Ben and Jerry's is on that!

Mitch

@Jasper nice. what about shipping and handling? That can be exorbitant sometimes.

user174558

@KitZ.Fox You seem rather busy these days, since you haven't been in chat the past few days.

Delta Escher

Mitch

@DeltaEscher It's new name? "Eat no Fat"

user174558

@Mitch I got it from the local bookstores. It is literally everywhere.

Kit Z. Fox

5:19 PM

@Jasper Yes. It's a bit crazy around here.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher You realize that privilege is a form of injustice, right?

Delta Escher

Jerry Garcia

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. Though he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. One of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career (1965–1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band (with longtime friend Merl Saunders), the...

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It's a form of earning

Mitch

@Jasper Oh. That's easy. I used to love bookstores.

Delta Escher

You earn privilege by putting effort into all of the backstabbing

Mitch

Now they just all seem to be filled with ... ugh.

user174558

5:21 PM

@Mitch But these days, I mostly get books from amazon.com and bookdepository.com. The latter has free delivery worldwide.

Delta Escher

@Mitch Hey, I bought a nice math book from a bookstore

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher Yeah. Like all white people earned their skin tones.

Kit Z. Fox

I've got meetings so I've got to go. Nice to see you, @Jasper!

user174558

@KitZ.Fox OK, talk later.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I think age and learning deserve some privilege, and that's not an injustice.

Delta Escher

5:22 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Just being colored one way or another isn't actually 'privilege'

The Giver had a good idea at least making people not see color

Mitch

@Jasper wha? Free? Wordwide?

That seems crazy

What if I order say, the Encyclopedia Britannica?

user174558

It's sad that many dictionaries do not have IPA for every word.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I've squandered mine... worst sunburn ever.

@DeltaEscher Which one?

Delta Escher

@Mitch Literally just called 'Math Cube'

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher sure it is, when the colour determines how society treats you.

Delta Escher

5:24 PM

It's a cube shaped small book containing math problems and puzzles

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But it's not a privilege

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mitch age? So by virtue of not dying, you are accorded some special status?

user174558

@DeltaEscher Aren't all books like cube shaped?

Delta Escher

That implies something gave it to you

Mitch

@DeltaEscher Bunch of white people turning everything into white and other. And then the kid dies at the end.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher Um, yes it is.

Mitch

5:25 PM

Or does he?!?!?

Delta Escher

@Jasper All sides same size

Mitch

@DeltaEscher ?? by who?

Delta Escher

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 So you can have it taken away?

@Mitch I'll look at the author when I get home

Mitch

I entirely recommend 'Flatland'.

Delta Escher

I finished it so long ago I might have lost it

@Mitch Or, like I said, The Giver

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:26 PM

@DeltaEscher Yes. The privilege is in how society treats you because of your skin colour. You can have that "taken away" if society stops treating people differently based on their skin colour.

Delta Escher

Which technically isn't color being taken away, but it's as realistically close as we'll get

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Which (theoretically), it never will

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Also, there are rare cases of people having had their actual skin colour changed, or their race disguised, and they immediately felt the benefits/costs.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, you probably know more than someone younger. also, it'd be nice to helped across the street, because young car drivers are bastards and don't wait for the lights always.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher Why wouldn't it? That's what people are fighting for all the time.

Delta Escher

Even if we marry interracial, there will be people who go down to the fine points of someone's mix of race

It's like the half life of an atom

It'll deteriorate, but never die.

Mitch

5:27 PM

@DeltaEscher I entirely discrecommend 'Flatterland'. That was so boring.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@DeltaEscher You don't need to eliminate race to eliminate racism.

user174558

Sometimes, I do think that people of one race are smarter than those of another...

user174558

It's just a thought, not racism.

Delta Escher

@Jasper It's not the race that makes them smarter

It's upbringing and state of life

user174558

@DeltaEscher What I mean is, I think that it is the 'race' in this case.

IͶΔ

5:29 PM

From what I've seen, eighty percent of the time you're smart if you think you're smart.

Delta Escher

@Jasper Maybe inherently, but we lose or gain that in upbringing

Mitch

@Jasper Thoughts lead to words. Words lead to Actions. Actions lead to consequences.

I'm thinking of having lunch.

Delta Escher

There may be some truth to people being born smarter because of unchanging variables

user174558

Today I saw a buddha statue and thought it was 100 bucks. It turned out to be 5000 bucks, no thanks.

Mitch

@IͶΔ But 80% of the time being confident about being smart is 80% being wrong.

Delta Escher

5:30 PM

@Jasper Buddha is a chill guy

Who wouldn't want a statue of him

user174558

@DeltaEscher These days, I only listen to 2 people, my mum and the Buddha.

Delta Escher

I listen to everything

Mitch

@Jasper Buying things doesn't buy happiness.

IͶΔ

@Mitch Talking about being smart doesn't mean believing to be smart.

Delta Escher

Then I process it and decide whether or not to care

Mitch

5:31 PM

Wait, sometimes it does. Namely lunch.

Also, where would the Buddha fit?

Delta Escher

@Mitch It isn't for happiness, it's for the sick Buddha statue

Mitch

It'd take up all your desk space.

Delta Escher

@Mitch rimshot

Is there a world for being racist about religion?

Mitch

@DeltaEscher Yeah, I always thought that. For such a chill guy, he probably would think all these statues of him are a little much. One or two is a real nice tribute, but come on guys.

Delta Escher

@Mitch Nah, he'd be cool with it

Now all of his cool statues can chill even more

Mitch

5:33 PM

@DeltaEscher no but there's a question on ELU about it. YOu should look there.

Secularist sort of works.

Delta Escher

And only having a few would be mean to those who want a sick Buddha statue

Mitch

Bigoted works for everything.

Delta Escher

@Mitch But then they won't know what they're bigoted about

They might think I'm saying they're bigoted about people who wear sweaters

Mitch

If everyone is bigoted then no one is

Delta Escher

@Mitch That's why there are specifics

Mitch

5:35 PM

@DeltaEscher That's not very nice. There's no accounting for style.

Delta Escher

@Mitch But in theory, what if they are bigoted to me about my style

It's a changeable thing

Mitch

@DeltaEscher since there are bigoted people then there must be some people who aren't. QE effing D.

@DeltaEscher It's not all about you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mitch Why does that follow?

Delta Escher

@Mitch But what about the sweaters?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

everyone could be racist and racism would still exist.

Delta Escher

5:36 PM

Take the privilege and give it to those sweaters

They need it in these dire times

user174558

These days, I see lots of Wikipedia articles that need updating.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Assume 'if everyone is bigoted then no one is'. if someone is bigoted, then by modus tollens the negation of the consequent affirms the negation of the precedent. Therefore not everyone is bigoted, which, by moving the negation out of the quantifier, gets you that some one is not bigoted. There.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Mitch you're begging the question.

Mitch

@DeltaEscher That's a red herring. Or a smoked salmon. Did I mention lunch already?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

which begs the question. Is it lunch time yet?

It is.

Delta Escher

5:39 PM

Aw, lucky you

I still have five more minutes

Terah

It's kinda like how you can you can only call something evil, good, dark, light, heavy, light again, etc when you have a frame of reference

Delta Escher

@Mitch I hate when I'm about to recommend a great local restaurant to someone on the internet far away

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 No, I stated my assumptions and created consequences using rules of inference.

@Terah usually people just assume a frame of reference and those are then absolutes.

Except for 'unique'. You really can have things that are more unique than others.

Delta Escher

Unique is a static term

Terah

@Mitch Oh, like governments and religions and feminism :P

Delta Escher

5:42 PM

It's either 0 or 1

Mitch

@DeltaEscher shakes fist at sky

Delta Escher

@Terah Feminism is a religion and you considering it not to be triggers me

I'm going to go complain about this on Digg

Mitch

gives fist back to fistmonger

@Terah yeah. haha. people are dumb.

Delta Escher

"People are dumb" - Mitch 2016

Terah

@DeltaEscher I consider it a...philosophy..with a shaky foundation ^^

Delta Escher

5:44 PM

"People are dumb" - Delta 2015

Mitch

@DeltaEscher search for "people are idiots"

Delta Escher

@Terah I love watching feminists attempt to do the things men excel at, fail, and then act like it's a victory

Terah

@DeltaEscher Actually, " A person is smart. People are dumb" - Kay, 1997

Delta Escher

@Terah Frame of reference?

MετάEd

@Terah Crowdsourcing.

Delta Escher

5:45 PM

lunch brb

Terah

@DeltaEscher Men In Black ;)

Mitch

@DeltaEscher Wha? Just when the argument was resolving logically?

IͶΔ

Everything you can believe can be a religion.

Mitch

@IͶΔ I don't believe that

rimshot

user174558

I think organised religion has done much harm.

IͶΔ

5:46 PM

@Mitch Abelievist!

MετάEd

@Jasper That's why I am a Unitarian-Universalist -- I greatly prefer disorganized religion.

Mitch

I think organized crime is better than the unorganized kind, leaving such a mess.

IͶΔ

@Jasper Yeah, since it's like a ready-to-be-misused-by-TPTB package.

Mitch

@MετάEd haha antijinx

user174558

I finally found out that to understand Hinduism, I have to read the Upanishads.

Mitch

5:48 PM

Agnosticism is atheism for those too embarrassed to tell their mother.

MετάEd

@Jasper s/read the Upanishads/learn Sanskrit/ftfy

Mitch

@Jasper There is way too much to read for Hinduism. They need a picture book or graphic novel to explain it all.

MετάEd

@Mitch Don't get me started.

Mitch

@MετάEd I just did!

Terah

I think that organised religion will always exist.. and perhaps has always existed - people will always have a need to explain what they experience. Remove science from the curriculum and I have a feeling we'll see an increase in the number of religions.

user174558

5:49 PM

I think a word is worth a thousand pictures.

Terah

Which doesn't really matter - instead of fighting over oil, we'll be fighting over who's God has the biggest dick

user174558

@terah You misspelled 'whose'.

Terah

It'll be fun to see feminism's champion though :O

Mitch

@MετάEd I don't get why the mom would care, as long as you call at least once a week and visit every so often. But you should be feeding the grandchildren more, they're so skinny.

Terah

@Jasper Right you are

user174558

5:51 PM

Also, I hope nobody flags you @Terah, lol. Flaggers are abundant.

Terah

@Jasper Enlighten one of those newbies you spoke of earlier ;) Flag me how/why? :O

user174558

Oh, I recently read about progeria. It's a very cruel illness.

Mitch

@Terah I still have great respect for Genghis Khan. He had some animist wolf-tree religion going on, and didn't let the people who he conquered and slaughtered dissuade him with their 'organized' religions.

Yes, you can take that out of context.

MετάEd

@Mitch I'm both.

Terah

@Jasper Plenty of documentaries on that as well.

Mitch

5:52 PM

Mitch says "I still have great respect for Genghis Khan"

user174558

I think he is called Cheng Ji Si Han in Chinese.

Mitch

@Jasper 'the'. There I said my one word. Can you send me my thousand pictures via that free shipping book service. Thanks.

Terah

A moot point if you're about to be hung out to dry on a stake.

user174558

There are actually pics that make fun of progeria. I think it's not nice.

Mitch

@Jasper Temujin is what his mom calls him. When he's acting all agnostic.

@Jasper I am not googling that.

Terah

5:57 PM

@Jasper If all those that lack the common sense of realizing that some things should not be made fun of were to vanish off the face of the planet... I think IP V6 could be put back on hold again.

user174558

Hello @MattE.Эллен, welcome to chat.

Matt E. Эллен

hi @Jasper

user174558

I am going to eat.

Matt E. Эллен

good luck!

Delta Escher

6:33 PM

@Jasper Be safe in your travels

@Mitch you win k

@Terah Or a point made by the founder of glorious 4chan

Terah

7:03 PM

@DeltaEscher A Christopher Poole point if you're... it just doesn't have the same ring to it

Delta Escher

@Terah A Pooint

user174558

11:01 PM

@arr Have you deleted your account?

user116848

Hi!

user116848

@Jasper Yep. They haven't processed the deletion yet though.

user116848

A few days.

user174558

I thought you changed your mind...

user116848

Hence I'm popping in.

user116848

11:03 PM

@Jasper I did. But then changed again.

user174558

What made you delete your account? Speak.

user116848

Oh long story. Kit knows all about it :-)

user174558

Is it a man or a woman?

user116848

You can ask her. I gave her the details on email.

user116848

Hey, I'm not gay :-)

user116848

11:04 PM

Straight as they come.

user116848

@Jasper I was falling for snailboat in chats. Which is wrong and all. Hence I quit.

user116848

And she says I harassed her in chats :/

user174558

OK. I thought the matter was settled.

user174558

Seems that it returned.

user116848

Yeah.

user174558

11:05 PM

Do you just like to talk to her, or is it more?

user116848

Also I got a 7 days suspension a couple of weeks ago which made me kind of sour with the whole site.

user116848

I mean it was a big suspension. On all sites. Well I did something bad that's why :-)

user116848

@Jasper Just chat.

user116848

Nothing more.

user174558

Oh, OK. I thought you meant more. I did fall in love with some people here.

user116848

11:08 PM

haha

user116848

I know

user116848

:-)

user116848

But I don't know who lol

user174558

It's a secret. Only Kit knows everything.

user116848

Wow, Kit knows all my secrets too. She is a fun mod :-)

user116848

11:09 PM

Well I'll be getting married soon so I think it will put a stop to all the stupid feelings.

user116848

I mean where I live. I'm going for an arranged marriage.

user116848

Of course my choice will count.

user174558

Good. I will probably never get married, at this rate. Maybe I will never get well either. =(

user116848

Well since these are my last days I thought I'd chat openly. What's the worse that could happen now? :)

user174558

I no longer believe in God. He is not going to help me.

user116848

11:10 PM

@Jasper Aww, don't lose hope.

user174558

As long as you don't make threats or defamatory statements in chat it is OK.

user116848

Well there is God. I believe in it.

user174558

I am not aware of what you said. I mean don't say 'I am going to kill XXX' or 'XXX is corrupt'.

user116848

Oh good :-)

user116848

It was a general statement.

user174558

11:13 PM

Then nobody can sue you or anything, in most countries.

user174558

Of course, there are countries where you can get executed for anything at all.

user116848

Meh

user116848

It is not that bad anywhere :-)

user174558

I think execution is better than a life sentence.

user116848

haha

user116848

11:15 PM

I see your point.

user174558

Unless you have unfinished business to do in jail.

user116848

lol

user174558

Some people do have unfinished business.

user116848

What do you read dude? Your mind works in mysterious ways :p

user116848

user174558

11:16 PM

My mind is mysterious indeed.

user174558

If not, I would not have become ill.

user116848

Mine too. I always told you not to nuke your account and here I am nuking mine :p

user174558

Oh, for me, it's a different set of reasons, mostly to do with my illness.

user116848

I see. Yeah.

user174558

I will give you one piece of advice.

user116848

11:17 PM

Sure.

user116848

I am all ears.

user174558

Whatever happens, try not to become mad.

user174558

This may sound silly, but I went mad.

user174558

It's very hard to fix once it happens.

user116848

You are okay :-) I mean good social skills (judging from the chat), good English, good math skills etc.

user174558

11:19 PM

This world is so sick that it will drive many good people mad. It is a sick sick sick world.

user174558

It is full of evil people, evil in all forms, everywhere.

user116848

Of course. Well screw the world.

user174558

Not evil like Osama, but evil in subtle forms you cannot see.

user174558

That is why I think most humans will end up in hell when this life is over.

user116848

They killed Bin laden in my country. To be honest many people didn't like that.

user116848

11:21 PM

I mean (a) he was a muslim (b) on a foreign soil and stuff.

user174558

Only a small handful will be reborn as humans again.

user116848

I had a mixed reaction btw :)

user116848

I believe that everyone will be reborn.

user116848

At least that's what my religion teaches me :)

user174558

One reason for my depression is that I see evil everywhere, not that I am anything near perfect.

user116848

11:23 PM

When you see evil next time tell yourself "Fuck it!". It works for me ;-)

user174558

Do you love the girl you are marrying, and does she love you?

user116848

Or you can get depressed :)

user174558

I think that arranged marriages are stupid.

user174558

Burning the wife when the husband dies is also stupid.

user174558

Burying the servants alive when the emperor dies is also stupid.

user116848

11:25 PM

She? Good question. Well that's not how arrange marriages here work but yeah sure. Both people have to like each other of course. Otherwise it is silly.

user174558

Men do lots of stupid things.

user116848

Oh I'm using my laptop's battery. Brb.

user174558

I think the vast majority of people today are not any wiser than those a thousand years ago.

user116848

user174558

Now you can just focus on your job and make lots of money and have lots of children.

user174558

11:28 PM

When they teach you to respect other people's culture in school, that is stupid, because you cannot respect a culture that burns the wife when the husband dies.

user174558

See, in school, they teach you all kinds of sick things that are sick sick sick.

user174558

Then they teach you stupid things like 'respect the elderly', when all people should be 'respected'.

user174558

As if one can only respect the elderly and not respect children.

user174558

I hear tons of stupid things every day, so I don't belong.

user174558

Hi @Jefromi did someone flag me or something?

Jefromi

11:35 PM

Nope just wandering through.

user116848

@Jasper They are keeping an eye on me not you :)

user174558

@Arrowfar Really? Hmm, I won't ask what you did.

user116848

Yeah better that way.

user174558

It seems that if you are so uncomfortable in chat, it is better for you to quit this site!

user174558

I think you might be much happier that way.

user116848

11:41 PM

You are right.

user116848

I mean I'm out of my element in chats here. Also English, also many stuff gets misread, lots of issues.

user174558

Your English is fine, much better than some folks with over 10k rep.

user116848

I have misread many people's posts in the past. And with no tone etc. it is kinda weird.

user116848

@Jasper Thanks dude!

user174558

I am going to eat. May you be happy this life and the next!

user116848

11:43 PM

I just wanted to improve backshifting, tenses and stuff that's why I joined to be honest. But then... you know.

user116848

@Jasper You too. See ya.

Matt E. Эллен

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