English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Robusto

20:00

@Gigili What, you start speaking poor English and suddenly sports injuries get better?

Mitch

Wait..I was totally the opposite wrong. Most people say /a na nas/ and only backwoods southerners say /a na na/. Also, Belgians.

RegDwigнt

ELU in a nutshell.

Mitch

What is this? Iran?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Yogi Berra lived to the age of 90. Just sayin.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt What? Do you think NonAnanas have all the answers?

er... questions?

RegDwigнt

20:06

There's an election taking place in ELL right now.

Or should I say, ELLection.

Robusto

Did someone say sha na na?

Steam - na na hey hey kiss him goodbye

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RegDwigнt

That is gay.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's a Chinese erection, right?

RegDwigнt

Peter Gabriel - Steam

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That is not gay.

MetaEd

Ugh.

Mitch

20:08

@RegDwigнt Which reminds me of a political joke...

RegDwigнt

@Robusto so many people keep wondering why the Asians swap Ls and Rs, so few people keep protesting the Germans swapping Vs and Ws.

Robusto

Jul 16 '15 at 11:57, by Robusto

@RegDwigнt Looks like George Michael after a night out with Elton John.

RegDwigнt

They have both sounds in their language. But when they speak English, they swap them. What the fuck.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt No, it's their cheating on emission standards that makes Germans swap their VWs.

RegDwigнt

Ba-dum-tsss.

Hey, that's how you sell twice the number of cars.

Mitch

20:10

Why did Scott Pruitt (US cabinet member, head of EPA) have to resign for having staff visit hotels to pick up skin lotion for him? Because it violated the emollients clause

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It was lying right there. Couldn't help mahself.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch when you have to begin your joke with a lengthy explanation of what the joke will be about, you are living a very sad life.

Look at Rob. He didn't have to explain who VW was.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt He figures an emollient is a preparation that softens the skin, so why wouldn't it work on jokes?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt It's worse than that. I'm barely able to remember someone else's long set up for the joke.

RegDwigнt

Just learn to not set up your jokes.

Ketch up.

Mitch

20:12

@RegDwigнt I don't know who Scott Pruitt is, so it's a good explanation for myself.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt So ... never, ever do a knock-knock joke.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch I still don't know who he is.

And I still haven't heard a joke about him.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I prove my point

or maybe someone else's

RegDwigнt

Someone else sucks balls.

It's true.

@Robusto I will never ever do a knock-knock joke for, uh fuck, what was my going rate. $3000, I believe?

I've been on hiatus for way too long.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Asians keep wondering why Europeans are so uptight over liquids.

@RegDwigнt I only know one knock knock joke and its not a knock knock joke.

Robusto

20:15

Apr 29 at 2:30, by Robusto

What a gyp.

Mitch

Wait... I know three of them

RegDwigнt

@Mitch Only a European would think that Asians ever think of Europeans at all.

Mitch

that are not knock knock jokes

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah I don't mind being a gyp for $3000.

@Mitch don't get your knock knocks in a twist.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I don't get my knock knock jokes confused with my lightbulb jokes

I have more light bulb jokes that are not light bulb jokes than I have knock knock jokes that are not knock knock jokes.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

20:19

This sounds like you're setting up a math problem

Robusto

@Mitch How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they just declare darkness the standard!

That joke was funnier 20 years ago.

RegDwigнt

This discourse might need use some bar raising.

Hold on, I think I am up to the task.

A man walks down the street, it's a street in a strange world, maybe it's the Third World, maybe it's his first time around.
He doesn't speak the language, he holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, the sound. Cattle in the marketplace. Scatterlings and orphanages.
He looks around, around. He sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity.
He says amen, and hallelujah!

Robusto

If you'll be my bodyguard, I will be your long-lost pal.

I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me you can call me Al.

RegDwigнt

NOU.

You know for a fact that you can call me Al.

Robusto

It was the myth of fingerprints. I've seen 'em all and, man, they're all the same.

These are the days of miracle and wonder.

RegDwigнt

20:25

Paul Simon writes poetry that just boggles the mind. And the Nobel Prize goes to Bob Dylan. LOLOL.

Robusto

inorite

All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

RegDwigнt

That song is so good it has no right to exist.

This world does not deserve it.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I've tried to write songs. I've written like three songs in my entire life, and the best is pretty mediocre. And then I hear a Paul Simon song and I realize what he's telling me is "No, Rob, I got this. You don't hafta do nuttin."

RegDwigнt

"Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me."

Robusto

Just get on the bus, Gus.

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America

And then:

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
Everything looks worse in black and white

Mitch

20:42

You guys are old

RegDwigнt

No, we just have taste.

I'm still firmly in my thirties.

Cerberus

@Mitch OMG you English so well.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt haha. Point made

RegDwigнt

And ohai @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

hi! I'm still in my thirties too, but not for much longer

Cerberus

20:43

Ohai, indeed!

RegDwigнt

What are you doing here and not on my YouTube LEGO channel.

I need every click I can muster.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

you have a youtube lego channel?

is it JangBricks?

RegDwigнt

Yes, and they tell me I can only monetize the shit out it once people have watched 4000 hours of it.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt pfft. taste that's been soured by years of wishing you had a lawn for kids to be on so you could yell at them

Cerberus

I'll click it.

Mitch

20:44

real art, real poetry:

Cerberus

Does it count if I have it play in the background?

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 youtube.com/channel/UCyatyN8ghjjRw6q7zaid8pw

Mitch

> I like those Balenciagas, the ones that look like socks
I like going to the jeweler, I put rocks all in my watch
I like texts from my exes when they want a second chance
I like proving n****s wrong, I do what they say I can't

Come back to me with your poet who can rhyme 'socks' and 'watch'

Also the ethereal sublimity of 'Balenciaga'.

That's some James Joyce makin-up shit out of five languages right there

RegDwigнt

I think I can produce 4000 hours worth of content just by screenshotting my conversations with Mitch for a day.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt YOu're wasting your bit rate.

RegDwigнt

20:46

Like, if we can watch it, why shouldn't others.

Mitch

You so old, I bet you send images through SMS

ha ha ha ha

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus sure.

But keep in mind that 4000 hours means 11 hours a day for a full year.

And I only have like ten seconds worth of videos. That's a lot of looping you've just signed up for.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt subbed

RegDwigнt

OMG I am famous.

Cerberus

Ohh it has the animals and how you make them.

RegDwigнt

20:48

They follow me in the Canadas now.

Cerberus

That's nice.

By the way, it would be nice if the crocodile could wag its tail sideways.

RegDwigнt

It will have a ton of other shit quite soon, if I ever stop talking to you and start shooting and recording.

Mitch

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What is the most likely color of the bear?

RegDwigнt

I spent three hours earlier today trying to get a good angle on the violin.

Mitch

it ain't white

RegDwigнt

20:49

That must've looked strange to the neighbors.

Mitch

Your neighbors are Asian, so they don't care

Cerberus

Hey, I didn't know the one about Russian was actually by you.

I only watched it embedded.

RegDwigнt

I was in the garden with the violin, and since I don't have a camera or a camera stand, I had my smartphone and my music stand with me instead. And two chairs of various sizes. And an old ammunition crate from WWII for additional height for filming from above.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I have a single video up on my youtube channel, but it IS lego-related.

RegDwigнt

So I'd stack the ammo crate and the music stand and the chairs and then sit on this contraption play five notes, jump up, rearrange, rinse repeat. For three hours.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 there. I have just doubled your number of subscribers.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

20:51

@RegDwigнt I have subscribers!?

RegDwigнt

You had two, now you have four.

I resisted subscribing to you using our company's account. That'd be five.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Prepare to be disappointed, as I have no intention of posting more videos.

RegDwigнt

I am subscribed to like 120 people, I have enough stuff to watch.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't think it should be hard though, you seem to have found a niche that's a) unoccupied and b) easy to produce an hour worth of content for every week or so.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt yeah I did consider it, breifly, but gods is it ever boring to make those videos

I made the video as a joke for Kit

and others for whom ASMR is a real thing

RegDwigнt

Yeah but thing is, you have to build them sets anyway, so might as well film it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

20:55

Lately I've been building fewer sets and more mocs

RegDwigнt

OH.

Now these you must post somewhere.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

They're not good mocs though

RegDwigнt

Like, I posted a bunch of images in various places years ago, and every couple months I keep getting contacted by someone writing a book or developing an app or just wanting to build them.

I'm literally resting on my laurels.

Anyway, as my loyal subscriber, you of course get an extra treat. A super duper look behind the scenes of what's next.

Cerberus

Yay.

What's a moc?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus "my own creation". As opposed to an official LEGO set.

Cerberus

21:02

Ah, OK.

Does it help if I set the speed to 2x?

It actually sounds kind of interesting, playing your Osip piece at 2x.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I don't know how that works.

Cerberus

Quite virtuose.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus oh lemme try.

Which one of the two?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

RegDwigнt

Is that yours?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

21:05

yes

RegDwigнt

And that is not worthy, how?

Like, do you even realize what the top post on /r/LegoCreations is right now?

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Both! Various parts sound somewhat nervous, and one longs for some pauses, but some bits actually sounds cool.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

no, I don't reddit

RegDwigнt

Neither do I.

Cerberus

Wowie, I don't know what that is, but it looks scary.

RegDwigнt

21:06

But I had to yesterday, to get my stuff out there.

Top post. Titled "my son's time machine".

Cerberus

I hope his son is like 3.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well. I'm bringing my moc to my LUG's show on the weekend, and if I like how it looks compared to what my fellow much better builders are building, then I'll maybe post it more widely

RegDwigнt

Do it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I am pleased with how I managed to attach the blue Dimensions pieces though.

The basic ones are easy, but the printed ones are trickier

Also I was surprised at how few 4x4 round plate ring pieces I had

RegDwigнt

Yeah I ended up skipping Dimensions completely so I don't know anything about those pieces actually.

I kinda had another Dark Age for the past 15 months or so.

Mitch

21:10

@eabdavis I hate it when I sneeze and then suddenly can’t turn my head to the right.

Tweeted by CurtMcCormick on July 8, 2018 at 1:33 PM in reply to eabdavis

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

they're fancy RFID tags in trans-clear "bricks".

@Mitch the struggle is real

I had to convert to a standing workstation because I'm too old to sit all day

Mitch

It's like software, but made of meat

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't think I could bear a standing desk. I'd be leaning all over it all the time.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

just raise it high enough that there's no inclination to lean

Mitch

I'd lie down underneath it

bluetooth keyboard and mouse, project the screen on the whole wall

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus lol I was typing "I think I could actually play that at that speed", but while I was typing that, a different video started playing in the background, still on 2x:

Go create

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Fuck me, I can't play that.

Mitch

21:13

I'll get one of those min fMRI 'thought' interfaces, so I don't have to even move my fingers

float in an isolation tank

take acid and upload to the cloud

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Would be cool, though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

RegDwigнt

I was thinking about writing something like Osip on double speed. My harmonies are very Chopinesque anyway, so if I could just come up with a bunch of embellishments like he did, it would sound nice. But so far I wasn't successful at doing that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

appologies for the crappy animation, I am using a smartphone camera

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 see. Why is that not on YouTube right now.

And it took you half a minute to make that? I would need like an hour. I suck.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

21:16

lol it's in no way up to my standards of excellence or quality.

RegDwigнt

Your standards don't matter shit. Your viewers' do.

And viewers on YouTube can't even spell standard's.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

If I wanted to do that for sharing with people in a more serious manner (more serious than this chat) I'd have to use a tripod

but making the animation was just a few clicks in Google Photos

RegDwigнt

Yeah I might need to get one of those after all. The music stand kinda sucks. Also I need it for the music.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I can't even get off my ass to write a blog post about Lego let alone make videos.

Anyway. Speaking of making things. Time to go make dinner. nice seeing y'all again.

RegDwigнt

Blog posts are hard.

Videos are easier.

I wish I'd found out earlier.

Take care. Bon appetit.

Make a video of the dinner!

tchrist

21:21

Man it takes custard forever to bake at 300 degrees.

RegDwigнt

If you do it, I will write the music for it. That's a promise.

tchrist

My water bath probably didn't start out warm enough.

Maybe I should up it to 325. I know better than 350.

Or just be patient.

Not my style.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt That would be a cool idea.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist Or just go Celcius instead of Fahrenheit.

@Cerberus yeah problem is, I would have to play like three times the number of notes.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt I'd have to turn on the autoclean lock on the oven.

RegDwigнt

21:23

That's a lot of potential screw-ups and re-recordings.

Cerberus

Hmm this should be possible.

It just takes a long time.

RegDwigнt

Oh no, not Cerberus with his programming.

Now we have to go take a shower again.

Cerberus

I think I remember making crème brûlée at 140 degrees.

With the ramekins placed in a bowl/pan/whatever with a layer of water in it.

It worked fine.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus drive.google.com/open?id=1dtrY50k2vAp-yQ6JaZwNiEuAF2VA3KSr

Like, this I am writing right now. If you just take the melody and replace every note with five, you've got Chopin alright.

But I can't be arsed. Because that's work.

Jan 9 '15 at 15:40, by RegDwigнt

I have a job and a hobby. I don't want two jobs and no hobbies.

tchrist

@Cerberus Patience, then. 285 is even less than 300.

RegDwigнt

21:30

Fuck me that C sharp at the end is out of tune. And I tuned the instrument just four months ago like.

tchrist

@Cerberus If you start with "cold" water it takes a lot longer.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Not bad at all!

The beginning did sound somewhat familiar.

@tchrist Yes.

I followed a recipe and it worked fine.

@tchrist By the way, did you know that regex was much faster than really parsing an html page?

RegDwigнt

It all sounds familiar. That's why it connects with the listener. That's how music works.

Cerberus

At least, so it seems to be in my case.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I thought cold water boiled faster?

tchrist

21:31

@Cerberus Of course.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Quite so. And that's also why I still can't get used to atonal music.

tchrist

Although, it depends what you're doing and your input set.

Cerberus

@tchrist So I imagine.

I first wrote a regex, because it's easier. And it worked fine.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Well, I don't want the water to boil. That's something of the point to cooking custard in a water-bath.

You need the egg proteins to do their thing.

Cerberus

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Then I tried to have the xhttmlrequest parse the document as html, then select the dom items I wanted.

RegDwigнt

21:34

@Cerberus actually when you have like 20 minutes free, you should go watch that video about 12-tone-music that I posted for Rob a couple days ago. I promise you it will boggle your mind. And you will love the sound. But I don't want to spoil why that would be. It's an excellent video.

Cerberus

MUCH slower.

RegDwigнt

Twelve Tones

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Save it for later.

And do watch it some time.

Cerberus

But I know nothing about music.

It will mean nothing to me.

Musical theory.

RegDwigнt

I promised you something.

I keep my promises.

Cerberus

I'll keep it in my backlog, then...

RegDwigнt

21:35

It has 3.3 million views and 85k likes. There's not that many people in the entire world who can even spell the word "theory".

tchrist

@RegDwigнt What's not to hate about twelvetone?

RegDwigнt

23:16

Hm. What is this familiar sound.

Oh, right. It's shit hitting the fan.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I don't understand. What is this about?

Our site still looks the same?

MetaEd

23:44

@RegDwigнt I really only like tonal 12-tone music.

Somewhere I have some I wrote.

Meanwhile I have a new saxophone begging me to come home and learn to play it.

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