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Cerberus

18:01

@Matt: So I hear you have a new weatherman.

I like his accent.

hhh

(the irony here is that B is even boosting his actions in official channels that they are going to Russia etc "as a joke" which is pretty evil in this context, pretty much as an insult against A)

Cerberus

I was a bit surprised when he said "who the hell wrote this script?".

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus what is this? Where do we have such a thing?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/05/10/…

On the BBC.

hhh

That is a funny situation: `"since a person may be excused from flying only if he is both insane and requests an evaluation, but no person can be both insane and request an evaluation, it follows that no person can be excused from flying for reasons of insanity)"`

Just perfect, makes my days ;I

Matt Эллен

18:11

@Cerberus OMG!

I don't have TV, I didn't know about that :D

Cerberus

@MattЭллен You can tell people that you came across this video by reading the website of a Dutch newspaper, so your reputation will not be tarnished with accusations of TV-watchery.

Admittedly a heinous crime.

Matt Эллен

:D thanks. I wouldn't want my reputation tarnished

varnished, perhaps...

Cerberus

Haha.

As long as it's a thin layer?

Matt Эллен

yeah, still need to see it underneath!

Cerberus

Haha.

user19161

18:47

@MattЭллен You have a reputation?

Matt Эллен

@ClarkKent I have 10122 reputations

user19161

@MattЭллен Geezis.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

0

A: "Warm" is to "warmth" as "cool" is to what?

The short answer is no, there is not a single word commonly in use that is to "cool" what "warmth" is to "warm". "Coolth" just never caught on the way "warmth" did. "Warm" and "warmth" both refer to a quality of temperature and a quality of friendliness and compassion. "Hot" is a higher tempera...

Someone's too late to a party, but with a bang.

Three charts, count them: three!

That's more than one.

Matt Эллен

all to say "coolness". wowza

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Aye.

Robusto

18:56

But look at all those NGram charts. Surely they prove something.

I mean, he wouldn't have included them in his answer if they weren't absolute proof of some kind. The only question is what kind.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

The best part is, if his answer gets accepted for "completeness" or "chartiness", he'll only get a couple upvotes out of this while someone else might get a gold badge.

Robusto

Maybe we should ask LessWrong.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

The Populist badge, that is.

That's what happens when you come too late to a party. Someone else has all the chicks. No soup for you!

Matt Эллен

because chick in soup?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Tit soup, as they say on Sex and the City.

JSBᾶngs

18:59

yet one more reason not to watch Sex and the City

user19161

I never watched a single episode.

JSBᾶngs

and think of how much better your life is!

Matt Эллен

alas, I have :( hours I cannot get back. yes, that's right, more than one.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs my wife watched it for Baryshnikov. And for calling everyone else hideous moron bitches. I suppose that's many women's motivation for watching that shit.

JSBᾶngs

i've watched 1.5 episodes, plus about ten minutes of one of the movies

the movie was outright horrific. i thought it was torture porn, like Saw

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:01

@JSBᾶngs ah now that's a rookie mistake. Don't go anywhere near a Sarah Jessica Parker movie.

@JSBᾶngs was it the first part? Because if it was the first part, you'll shoot yourself after five seconds, any five seconds, of the second.

JSBᾶngs

it was actually the second

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Then you are ready for hell.

JSBᾶngs

i think. there was... actually, it's too terrible to talk about

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

And can watch the first part in its entirety for breakfast every single day.

Matt Эллен

there, there. It's over now

JSBᾶngs

19:03

tries to stop shaking

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Go watch Saw VI.

Or are they at VII already?

JSBᾶngs

i haven't sawn any of the saws

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Chartiness. Good word.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs Oh the first one is fine.

It's no great shakes, but still. It has originality going for it.

JSBᾶngs

some dude contrives situations where people have to chop their own limbs off. did i miss anything?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:05

The second one drops the ball completely. The third one picks the ball up only to pierce it.

Robusto

@JSBᾶngs Yeah. A reason to see that.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs that's what part II through eternity are all about, yes.

The first one actually worked as a riddle of sorts.

The contrived situations were the, um, what's the word? backdrop?

Yeah, backdrop.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Framing device?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Or that.

Though I really did have backdrop in mind, just consulted a dictionary.

JSBᾶngs

well, ok. that's interesting. still not gonna see it.

anybody here seen Frozen?

Frozen (2010 American film)

Frozen is a 2010 American survival thriller film written and directed by Adam Green and starring Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, and introducing Emma Bell. Plot Childhood friends Dan Walker (Kevin Zegers) and Joe Lynch (Shawn Ashmore) along with Dan's girlfriend Parker O'Neill (Emma Bell) spend a Sunday afternoon at a New England ski resort on Mount Holliston. Not wanting to pay full price for three ski lift tickets, Dan convinces Parker to bribe the ski lift attendant Jason (Ed Ackerman) to let them all on the ski lift. On the way up, the ski lift shuts down, but starts back up again shortl...

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:09

Actually they were only flashbacks anyway. To get the mysterious guy some exposition since obviously he is not part of the picture till the very end. To prepare you for what might, just might, await the main characters, so you'd root for them. Which I did.

JSBᾶngs

ye gods, this compiler is picky

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs the name rings a bell but the rest does not.

JSBᾶngs

it's pretty good. but that's as far as i care to go for horror, typically

Robusto

How is Saw different from 127 Hours?

JSBᾶngs

i enjoy a scare, but i hate gore

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:10

@Robusto quite.

JSBᾶngs

hey, my project finally built

user19161

@JSBᾶngs This reminds me of the worst movie, Freeze, in Japanese. The woman has sex with many people, cut them up and put them in the freezer.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs yeah I probably wouldn't watch it today had I not seen it already, what's with all the images you get through advertising. But I was lucky enough to tune into that movie at 1 am one day, without having heard a word about it prior to that. And I got sucked in by the story. I am no fan of gore at all, but I just ignored it and stayed for the plot.

@ClarkKent haha I might as well be mixing the two up.

In fact it was in this very room that I heard about the Japanese Freeze not that long ago.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 The last time I mentioned Freeze, you said that you now understood why I loved The Polar Express.

Robusto

"Warmth" to "coolth" is over 2K views already. Who gets these people in here?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:14

@ClarkKent I don't remember any such thing.

The Polar Express got Robusto to inform everyone that he knows the term "uncanny valley". That's all.

@Robusto the MC. Not the Hammer.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I intend to watch The Polar Express every Christmas!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Be like that.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Words can hurt.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Actually I never even check the MC anymore except to look up a particular question once in a blue moon. I used to check it casually several times a day. I suppose many regulars have lost interest over the years as well. So the 2k people in less than 24 hours are mostly newbies. As in, relatively new to the SE network as a whole.

JSBᾶngs

@ClarkKent that is a truly excellent connection to make

user19161

19:20

Feb 22 at 13:56, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JasperLoy Now I understand why you liked Polar Express.

JSBᾶngs

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 i still check the MC regularly looking for something interesting

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@JSBᾶngs newbie.

Does it have Japanese questions these days? Is J.Lo even still alive? I've no idea.

@ClarkKent ah, indeed, though I was responding to the chopping, not to the movie's name.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Who is J.Lo?

JSBᾶngs

fairly active, even

Robusto

How many questions can you have about Japanese anyway? You can't ask ELU Lite questions there, so nobody bothers to stir the pot.

JSBᾶngs

19:22

@ClarkKent you of all people should know who JLo is

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto on GLU, all questions are Lite questions.

user19161

JLU=J.Lo? What kind of QED is that?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Like, care to check a translation of mine of a poem of mine?

Some people got thousands of reps from such questions alone. As in, from asking them.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I guess their rules are less strict than ELU's.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Like the Dalai Lama joke question.

Matt Эллен

19:24

the origin of understudy? Really?

bah

Robusto

Yeah. Gen Ref to the max.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto well see it that way. Most people on SE are Englishers. So when they make a German site, or a French site, or a Russian site, they are interested in pineapple questions.

There are only a handful native speakers around, and even fewer native linguists, if any, and those quickly get bored.

Robusto

Most people on SE are geeks. Which is why we get so many square-peg-in-round-hole questions that conflate grammar with binary logic.

user19161

@MattЭллен What about it?

user19161

Well, at least the OP clearly showed what he had found.

Matt Эллен

19:28

but what else is there beyond the definition?

Robusto

I don't know why the understudy guy didn't like Etymonline's answer. What doesn't he understand about "under + study"?

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I am now thinking whether there should be of after handful.

Matt Эллен

the origin is that once someone said it, some other people thought it was useful

there is no amazing story to our compound verb, and why would there be?

user19161

@Robusto True. QED.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto actually most people are not even geeks. They barely know how to spell HTML, and think that the M in it stands for "programming". Or they only know VB and ask stuff such as "in every programming language an if is followed by an else, why not in English?"

Now imagine a whole site with questions of that quality, asked exclusively by pineapples, in and about German.

user19161

19:31

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I wonder if German pineapples differ from English pineapples in taste.

Matt Эллен

If all fruits are nouns, then why isn't applepie a fruit?

user19161

Why is a pineapple not an apple?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Because it grows on a pine, duh.

Robusto

Because Microsoft doesn't make Apples. QED.

user19161

This random association thing is getting pretty taxing, in Robusto's words.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:34

Speaking of MC. Do we want to keep this?

31

Q: What does "Roger" mean in war movies?

Is "roger" equivalent to "Ok"? I hear it in war movies, movies like Star Wars Clone Wars, and in war games.

expressions

Robusto

@ClarkKent Who says it's random? Also, don't mess with Robusto's words. They are off limits.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

It's been closed for seven months.

Matt Эллен

I will test out my delete privilege!

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Flush it.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Also, WTF. Have you seen the first comment?

user19161

19:35

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Wow, I just learnt today that roger=r=received! Amazing!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

It's a character name — Nico Jun 29 '11 at 14:25

Matt Эллен

oooooh the power

Robusto

Matt really rogered the hell out of that question.

Matt Эллен

so good I did it twice

user19161

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Roger the Rabbit?

user19161

19:37

@MattЭллен Gardenia: so good you can even eat it on its own.

user19161

Anyway @rob good luck for your surgery!

Matt Эллен

good to know!

user19161

@MattЭллен That ad was like a decade ago.

Robusto

@ClarkKent Thanks.

Matt Эллен

@ClarkKent I don't know if I saw it

user19161

19:39

@MattЭллен Gardenia is not a very popular brand here. I am not even sure if it is still sold.

Matt Эллен

also, that unicornify script breaks the rest of the scripts on this page

user19161

@MattЭллен But you aren't using a unicorn avatar!

Matt Эллен

I know, but I can make it look like we all are!

JSBᾶngs

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T USE LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS?

Matt Эллен

to me

JSBᾶngs

19:40

punches someone in the face

user19161

@JSBᾶngs Where?

Matt Эллен

@JSBᾶngs in teh immediate window?

user19161

@JSBᾶngs No punching in this chat.

user19161

I learn so much sarcasm in this room that I may get beaten up for using it in the other rooms.

JSBᾶngs

@MattЭллен no, in my actual code which is being compiled by this janky compiler

Matt Эллен

19:41

@JSBᾶngs ?!

is it perl?

user19161

@JSBᾶngs Compile a new compiler then.

Matt Эллен

cos I don't know perl

JSBᾶngs

@ClarkKent that's.... not a bad idea

this is C#

user19161

@MattЭллен Ah, I install perl-tk on my Linux box to use certain GUIs.

user19161

@MattЭллен But Perl knows you!

Matt Эллен

19:42

@JSBᾶngs oh, that what I initially thought. where can't you use lambda?

Robusto

@JSBᾶngs Hahaha. MSJava.

JSBᾶngs

@Robusto yes, because in non-MS Java there is no such thing as lambda expressions

@MattЭллен i'm being cross-compiled to a non-CLR platform for this project

and the cross-compiler is cranky and incomplete

Matt Эллен

oh. that sounds painful

Robusto

No. It sounds like a cross-compiler. Thems is always cranky and incomplete.

JSBᾶngs

..... so it goes

cornbread ninja

19:47

ça va

Robusto

Well, at least you weren't working in J++ ^_^

ça vache

JSBᾶngs

@Robusto i actually did have to work in J++ once

now that was an abomination

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

0

Q: How to reference WOMMA

I know how to reference journals and books as well as websites. However I was wondering how can I reference this : http://womma.org/wom101/6/ It IS a website, however it is an organization that states some facts about unethical marketing strategies. So I want to mention it in my study, however ...

reference-request

Robusto

I sympathize. I installed it for completeness because it came with Visual Studio like 10 years ago, but when I tried fooling with it it bared its ugly fangs and I quietly backed out and never bothered it again.

cornbread ninja

nice visual, that

Robusto

19:51

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 illegal-reference-request

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto hey at least it isn't tagged womma

MetaEd

@Robusto Core dump: your fault

Robusto

I have half a mind to edit that question so it asks: "How to reference WOMBAT"

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

The reference-request is one weird weirdo.

@Robusto I almost posted a picture, but resisted the urge.

Robusto

Actually, the more important question is how to dereference WOMMA, since if you can't do that then you'll start getting memory leaks, which will eventually break your brain.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:53

It would have been this one, of course:

MetaEd

Here's that WOMBAT documentation you were looking for: ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/history/doc_295

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Thanks for the mixed-media metanoia.

MetaEd

Hey! Metanoia is my department.

Are you annoid yet?

cornbread ninja

HA

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I have no idea what you're talking about so I'll pretend that I just don't care.

cornbread ninja

19:55

avoid the noid.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

If you look into the noid long enough, the noid looks into you.

Robusto

You blew your chance. You should have said "Hey, metanoia is not my — well, actually, it is my department."

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto MetaEd already did.

Robusto

►

cornbread ninja

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 o.O

Robusto

19:56

And you thought you were kidding.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 No, he didn't.

MetaEd

In Soviet Russia, everyone is out to get Y ... oh. wait.

"Come here, Bones, this man's dying!" "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a ... wait, what did you say?"

Robusto

@MetaEd No. In Russia they're out to get Ю.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto that's some quality rubbish right there.

MetaEd

Nice.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 It's the world's worst pizza trying to make the world's worst commercial.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

19:58

Do they think that's funny? Original? Good? I don't get it.

cornbread ninja

they did 30 years ago.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto ah okay.

Robusto

►

This will explain everything.

cornbread ninja

@Robusto you going to cover family guy as well?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto haha I know that one. Would've never drawn the connection.

So. Um. No votes to close the wombat?

It's even getting flagged now.

cornbread ninja

20:01

quick, before new dude gets fleeting rep for his answer.

Robusto

I narqed it.

@cornbreadninja If that's what it takes. But I think The Simpsons can take it from here.

cornbread ninja

@Robusto I'll take one for comedy, though I sure suck at chat reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpEDoYPF2wc

crappy video is crappy.

Robusto

La vache qui rit, elle rit de toi.

►

cornbread ninja

stymied again by ctrl+v

Robusto

You can't do linefeeds because they get enclosed within a <pre> element.

cornbread ninja

20:07

@Robusto noted, thank you :)

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto wow that video is... something.

Robusto

> Thank you, a more helpful reply than the useless guys excited to close this down.

Whaddya say, useless guys? Shall we delete the mofo?

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Credit to cornbread. I just helped with the formatting.

I voted to delete WOMMA. Who's with me? Hiyooooooo!

cornbread ninja

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 in usual family guy style, the gag goes on too long.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I like how @Matt's comment is now getting flagged as non-constructive.

The people you are writing for will have a standard way for you to reference websites. Ask them. — Matt Эллен 8 mins ago

Matt Эллен

oh no!

Well, I will try less hard to help them in future.

Robusto

20:12

No good deed ...

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

And now it's morning in the Through the Looking Glass Land!

Some quality fun ahead.

cornbread ninja

snert

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

More MCs and more tons of reps for everyone.

0

Q: Word to describe all the work you have to do before you go

We have a word to describe all the work you find waiting for you when you return from vacation, backlog. Is there a word to describe all the work you have to do before you go?

single-word-requests

Epilog, duh.

cornbread ninja

front matter

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Full frontal matter.

cornbread ninja

20:16

ooh la la!

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

0

Q: puntuation relating the use of colon

In a recent test, I fixed a feature and I was given the document back because it was pointed out the following was not correct. Name: Sandy Corporation I was asked to do this Name : Sandy Corporation or do this Name:Sandy Corporation To me the first one looks technically correct...

punctuation colon

I smiled at "more pleasing to the ey".

But this must be a dupe, I think.

Robusto

More pleasing to the meh.

Matt Эллен

People would put a space before the colon? That seems an odd thing to me. There's no accounting for taste I suppose.

Robusto

Ha, "puntuation" just registered on me.

This guy needs a colon cleanser.

Colon cleansing

Colon cleansing (also known as colon therapy) encompasses a number of alternative medical therapies intended to remove feces and nonspecific toxins from the colon and intestinal tract. Colon cleansing may take the form of colon hydrotherapy (also called a colonic or colonic irrigation) or oral cleansing regimens such as dietary supplements. During the 2000s internet marketing and infomercials of colon supplements increased. Some forms of colon hydrotherapy use tubes to inject water, sometimes mixed with herbs or with other liquids, into the colon via the rectum using special equipment....

MetaEd

"A thin space is traditionally placed before a colon and a thick space after it. In English-language modern high-volume commercial printing, no space is placed before a colon and a single space is placed after it. In French-language typing and printing, the traditional rules are preserved."

You see a thin space before punctuation going back even to very early printing, such as the King James Bible.

Matt Эллен

20:25

interesting

Cerberus

Exactly.

I have no problem with spaces before punctuation marks.

Although the are not standard any more.

Robusto

6-2 and even, over and out.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus Which is why my parents won't let me see you anymore

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Oh FFS. Speaking of "no good deed". I commented on that question rather than just closing it, because I wanted to be nice. Well fat lot of good did it do me.

If you know English, you would know there is a difference between ? and :. The punctuation rules are different and they are used in different context.How are they duplicates? — The crocodile hunter 3 mins ago

I asked this on english form not on french or programming plateform. I am interested only in english. Btw no need to answer in comment since this is dupicated and I can use the duplicate answer here. — The crocodile hunter 1 min ago

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Aww, well, I guess I saw it coming.

Matt Эллен

20:31

Der sij

Cerberus

?

Matt Эллен

I'm guessing about pronunciation

Cerberus

What is that?

Matt Эллен

cf le sigh

Cerberus

Ah, is it supposed to be Dutch?

De zucht.

Matt Эллен

20:34

well, in a way.

Cerberus

Haha.

Matt Эллен

it's meant to sound Dutch, rather than be Dutch :D

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Bah.

Hunter is making me a sad panda.

Matt Эллен

with his meta question?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I could use some support.

@MattЭллен no, still the colon one.

Matt Эллен

20:39

oh dear

what an ingrate

or perhaps just ignorant

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Heh, well, I don't know what to say.

I guess ij is Dutchish.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

If I had a dime for every time people said, "my question is useful and relevant to English". Sigh.

I'm outta here for the time being.

Matt Эллен

Cya reg. I hope the hunter gets eaten

@Cerberus heh, well I'm ignorant of your tongue. How would you write something in Dutch that sounds like sigh?

Cerberus

Bye!

Saai?

Matt Эллен

I see :)

Cerberus

20:46

That is actually a word, and it means boring.

Matt Эллен

lol

cornbread ninja

I hate that guy (the time being)

0

Q: Is it hijinks or high jinks?

A politician apologized for "high jinks" today. I always thought it was "hijinks". Which is the correct one?

correction

hijinx, lojinx, everybody DRINK DRINK

Matt Эллен

21:05

gud noight

cornbread ninja

21:15

guten nacht

Robusto

@MattЭллен Hey, kudos to Britannia. The double agent who infiltrated Al Qaeda and foiled the latest bombing plot out of Yemen turned out to be a British citizen.

So hoist the Union Jack and drinks all around.

Cerberus

hoists flag

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

0

Q: Is there a single word that means "more informative"?

Looking for one word that means "more informative" or "more clear", "better communicates" etc...

american-english

Informativer, clearer, communicateser.

There's a reason it's two words. It's comparative.

cornbread ninja

salutes flag

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I am not sure I'm allowed to salute other countries' flags.

Robusto

21:22

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Well, better is comparative. QED.

cornbread ninja

I believe Cerb hoisted a Union Jack

I feel so broke up; I wanna go home

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Exactly!! Make this into a close reason kthxbai.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

People salute way too often anyway. Where I come from you don't get to salute bareheaded.

Cerberus

Broke up?

Robusto

@cornbreadninja Hoist up the John B's sails (John Bull's)

Cerberus

21:24

A salute is supposed to bare your head.

Robusto

@Cerberus Slang for "broken up" ...

cornbread ninja

!!!

Robusto

@Cerberus No it isn't either.

Cerberus

'Tis!

You pull back your visor.

Or whatever its called.

cornbread ninja

►

@Cerberus, pretend I tagged you in the above post

Robusto

21:27

@Cerberus I think you must live in all time periods at the same time. The multichronous man.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Cerberus first of all that's the non-military salute, and second of all even for that you need to have headgear on. You can't bare your head if it's already bared.

cornbread ninja

single word-insistent OP's handle is sloopjohnb

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja Haha I'm a dog!

cornbread ninja

@Robusto , are you certain about John Bull?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

This is saluting.

Cerberus

21:28

She is not allowed to salute. She's not wearing a helmet.

cornbread ninja

she's not giving the third eye

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

This is not saluting.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja No. I was making the association, linking your reference to my salute to England. John Bull is a slang term for an Englishman.

cornbread ninja

@Robusto the more you know [rainbow]

Robusto

See, you can't drop casual references in this chat and not expect someone to pick them up and toss them back at you.

Cerberus

21:30

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 He's just tired.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 That one is on the way to a facepalm.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Robusto more like a browfinger.

Cerberus

Brownfinger?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Just why did I expect that.

Except not from you.

cornbread ninja

that's... racist?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

21:32

Nah. That's pun.

Robusto

Very punitive.

cornbread ninja

and I won some damages, and they were punitive

by which I mean, the punishment was damaging

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

I should have went with Dubya anyway, but pictures of him are rare these days.

cornbread ninja

►

I'll show myself out.

MetaEd

The President is supposed to salute like a civilian even when he knows better. It makes him look like a civilian commander in chief.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

21:37

@MetaEd civilians are not supposed to salute like that, period.

MetaEd

So ... you're a gesture proscriptivist?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

It's like all those football fans waving their flags but not paying attention that they don't touch the ground. Idiots.

MetaEd

:D

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Redfinger?

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

@Cerberus no, Goldfinger. And the gesture is, "now if that guy in the 23rd row isn't the one who gave me a billion so he gets twenty in return from the taxpayers".

Cerberus

21:41

Haha.

Well, Obama is not so bad at raking in funds either.

Mostly Muslim funds, obviously.

From his mother country.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Don't forget gay funds.

Cerberus

Oh, yes, he will be raking in gay funds now.

From the massive gay-porn industry.

I wonder what he had to do for that.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

Watch Sex and the City 2.

Cerberus

Such an ordeal.

RegDwight ΒВBẞ8

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A: Punctuation relating to the use of a colon

Wikipedia suggests: A thin space is traditionally placed before a colon and a thick space after it. In English-language modern high-volume commercial printing, no space is placed before a colon and a single space is placed after it. In French-language typing and printing, the traditional rule...

Well that's great. What a surprise! The top answer is a quote from Wikipedia.

Of the same passage I linked to when closing the question, no less.

And now we'll just wait till it hits the MC. It's rank 72 already. \(^_^)/

Cerberus

21:53

Yuck.

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