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Sayros
Sayros
2:30 PM
H all
 
user288256
3:02 PM
@Sayros Morning
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
Guys, is there any English term which has this concept: "being a lazy and unemployed person who uses his family's money to spend his life"
 
terdon
terdon
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Q: Is there a word or an idiom for people who only spend their families' money and fool around?

irishmistIs there a word or an idiom for rich people who spend only their families' money and do not bother to work, just fool around?

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Q: Is there a word for someone who has others do all their work for them?

Jessie BlaylockIn a way like a slave master. More though like say someone who had robots do all their work and they were never themselves productive and had no drive. If you've read R.U.R. you'll understand the question better. I'm looking for a word with more definition than just lazy. Update 1: It think I ma...

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Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
wow great .. that's what I was looking for
 
Sayros
Sayros
3:22 PM
@Ghalib hey Salam how is it going ?
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
@Sayros wut? do you know what "Salam" means?
 
Sayros
Sayros
@Shafizadeh yes because I am Arabic person :)
 
Shafizadeh
Shafizadeh
Oh .. good
 
Sayros
Sayros
:D
 
user288256
@Sayros Wa 'alaykum al-salaam. It is going fine. How are you?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
3:28 PM
@Cerberus Ukrainian architecture for a change.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Hah.
 
Sayros
Sayros
@Ghalib good but just tired from work :D
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Actually, there is a chance that the lowest rails might make it somewhat easier to get your bike up to the first platform.
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
5:03 PM
Just to wonder out loud, is blasphemy really that bad?.
Cheese and rice, people get really upset when you insult their favorite leprechaun by using its name
RUMPELSTILTSKIN RUMPELSTILTSKIN RUMPELSTILTSKIN
Uh oh. I've done it now.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Apparently. To Christians and Jews, anyway. Maybe Muslims as well. I don't think any non-Abrahamic religions have that particular hangup.
 
user288256
5:20 PM
How do you say in English I am feeling hot because the weather is very hot? Like: "I am hot"? But doesn't that make it double entendre?
 
user288256
Because "hot" has two meanings.
 
user288256
So "I need a shower because I am hot" is appropriate right? Just curious.
 
Mitch
Mitch
6:16 PM
@terdon Well, obviously it has a long history of being a sin (mortal even). Maybe I should have qualified with 'still', 'these days'.
@terdon Damn you, Zeus!
(the deity, not my Greek accountant, or my Hispanic cardiologist)
@Ghalib It only is a double entendre if you're Paris Hilton in a Planet Fitness advertisement.
@Ghalib Even though it is a possible pun, it is so elementary and culturally inappropriate (even for the US!) that no one would consider saying that.
It sounds like the most groan worthy of all pick-up lines. "Can I get you a nice cool drink? Because you look so hot"
groan
nauseated even
 
user288256
@Mitch So how would you say the same thing?
 
Mitch
Mitch
I'd only say Rumpelstiltskin twice, stamp my foot, then walk away. That just annoys the heck out of them
Say what same thing?
@Ghalib Oh. "I'm hot" is fine
 
user288256
If "I am hot" is considered fine, then why is adding "I need a shower because" to that not considered okay?
 
Mitch
Mitch
"It's pretty hot" (to be impersonal)
@Ghalib ??
I never said that that sentence was not OK
 
user288256
Oh, I thought you were saying it was inappropriate.
 
user288256
6:27 PM
I misread this I guess "it is so elementary and culturally inappropriate "
 
Mitch
Mitch
It's weird for other reasons, but not because of the double entendre. It's perfectly grammatical too
"I'm hot" intended to be a pun on heat and sexiness is culturally inappropriate (maybe 12 year old boys might make that joke, because 12 year olds are idiots (I can say that as a former 12 year old))
 
user288256
Okay, if it is weird then how would you say that you need a shower because you are hot. I simply came up with "I need a shower because I am hot"
 
user288256
@Mitch And me? I was an idiot in my early twenties. I was a very good person when I was 12.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Ghalib Sure, that's fine (in that there is no double entendre). It is weird because I don't think people would state that they are going to take a shower because it is hot, but because they've been sweating all day. They might go for a swim if it's hot, sure. At least that is what I'm used to.
@Ghalib Sure, that's fine
@Ghalib The idiot years can stretch out a long time
 
user288256
Yeah, those were awful times. Learned a great deal from my experiences.
 
Mitch
Mitch
6:37 PM
the 20's a weird for everybody
also the teens
 
user288256
Yeah.
 
user288256
Very.
 
Mitch
Mitch
between 0 and 10 too
 
user288256
For example, the first real life fight I was in was when I was around 23. And the other guy beat the shit out of me although I could have retaliated. Got on the bad side of someone where I live.
 
Mitch
Mitch
the first hundred years are the hardest
Which reminds me, does it ever rain real hard around you?
 
user288256
6:40 PM
I mean... his girlfriend was in love with me was what happened unfortunately. Lots of dramas during my early twenties.
 
user288256
It was fun too.
 
user288256
Rain? Yeah, sometimes.
 
Mitch
Mitch
real hard though?
 
user288256
Um, I don't know what you are insinuating.
 
user288256
You mean like a torrential rain?
 
Mitch
Mitch
6:44 PM
yeah
I guess more the question is it mostly dry there or humid?
 
user288256
In the north my country, not here. And there?
 
Mitch
Mitch
I mean to say, it's not really dry here: mostly humid, but not terribly hot, but then I just noticed that it's raining hard all day, but that's not all that common.
 
user288256
It is average nowadays but mostly it is humid.
 
Mitch
Mitch
But here there is a wide (enough) swing between summer and winter. 20F/-5C, loads of snow in the winter, 80F/30C dry July and August
So for the sentence, for me, to be appropriate culturally, semantically, grammatically, I'd say: "It's been so hot all day, I'm gonna take a shower"
 
user288256
I see, that sounds awesome. Thank you.
 
user288256
6:50 PM
That is one sober sentence.
 
user288256
Or "I am going to take a shower because it is so hot"
 
user288256
I guess.
 
user288256
Yeah, it does away with the "I am hot" part.
 
user288256
Neato.
 
Mitch
Mitch
7:09 PM
No problemo
Or as the Spanish would say it...
De nada
 
user288256
Who said it was a problemo? :)
 
user288256
Or was it?
 
user288256
Okay, see you around.
 
user288256
I have to go as well.
 
Færd
Færd
7:31 PM
Invariably using the singular form of physical units after all numbers is something I've recently chanced upon, esp with Kelvin:
> Where they are found, terraces are usually less than 0.5 meter high
> The camera has one rectangle (10 centimeter of length by 5 centimeter of height)
> looking out at deep space, where it is a constant 4 kelvin.
> engineers cool these components with liquid helium to a temperature of 4 kelvin (-452 degrees Fahrenheit).
> until the universe cooled below about 3,000 Kelvin (5,900degrees Fahrenheit),
> the temperature at the center of a star would be of the order of 40 million kelvin.
> water boils at 373 Kelvin.
Is it, in any way, justifiable?
I don't know why the Kelvin examples don't bother me that much.
All examples are from the academic category of COCA.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
8:49 PM
Here's something interesting. The term soccer originated in Britain in the 19th century, and was used up to c. 1980, when the Brits determined it sounded "too American" for their sport. My, my.
 
Mitch
Mitch
9:37 PM
@Færd justifiable?
surely there's already an ELU question/answer multiple times on it.
@Robusto The Brits? Pfft.
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Q: Jesus H. Christ: so objectionable as to be deletable?

ClareA comment of mine (quoted in this meta-question by Dog Lover), began with what I thought was the innocuous expression 'Jesus H Christ'. Dog Lover, to whom my comment was originally addressed, took exception to it, asked me not to "blaspheme", and my comment disappeared with no explanation. The...

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cheese and rice
Goldurn mudder truckin jiminy fucking cricket
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
11:07 PM
@Mitch That's just horrid.
Religious censorship?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus I don't know. Or rather I gave a well-reasoned, insightful, and balanced answer there but I had to disassociate for a moment
@Cerberus what do you really think?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I didn't mean your answer, but the religious person trying to censor people, and apparently a moderator executing the censorship.
I think that's ineffably primitive and bad.
shrugs
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Cerberus I didn't find it horrid exactly, but my reaction was definitely in that direction
which came out in my comment about the 19th century
which should have been 'medieval'
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Exactly.
 
Mitch
Mitch
To be honest, I feel bad/guilty/ashamed using some religious taboo words, but to call it blasphemy might as well be ...
blasphemous.
makes me queasy
except of course, some people are hurt by it, just like being called an epithet, so it should probably be treated the same way.
goddamit
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
11:22 PM
As long as it isn't directed at anyone specifically, feeling "hurt" is i.m.o. something you can get over and you shouldn't blame someone else for it.
@Robusto Haha. But surely it was never in common use, as opposed to football.
 
MetaEd
MetaEd
11:36 PM
Aaaaah. m//gc is now my best friend.
 

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