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ab2

02:08

@tchrist I see your point about my goofs question, and deleted it. But...I wonder how many of you senior users have done the same thing.

tchrist

02:22

@ab2 I don't know.

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Feeds

03:26

Q: Sentence connector after hardly/barely emphasizing the lack of ability/resource

What is the sentence connector that fits best in the following examples? He could hardly even make a profit with two employees, ..... three. She could barely even eat one pizza slice, ..... two. They hardly had enough brains to write the script for the school play, ..... the script ...

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SmokeDetector

07:18

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching product name in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad ns for domain in title, +2 more: supplentforhealthylifestyle.org/rapid-tone-canada/ by berklase on english.SE

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Feeds

10:21

Q: Word or phrase for someone who has low self esteem and poor quality of life

What word or phrase describe someone with low self esteem and poor quality of life?

single-word-requests phrase-requests expression-requests

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Feeds

11:56

Q: Word that describes the content of a message being identical with the way it is presented

I'm looking for an English word I read a while ago, describing a statement having the same meaning as the way it is presented in. Example: The statement is that existence is uncertainty and the way it is presented in maxes you feel uncertain/ shows how uncertain existence is.

single-word-requests

RegDwigнt

12:50

@ab2 I have deleted maybe six questions of mine, but there are times when I'm tempted to delete them all.

If that's your question. I'm kinda lacking the context here.

user1732

senior fellows?

~~fellows~~ users

does a senior user use seniors?

:-)

RegDwigнt

Of course. Just like baby food is made of babies.

user1732

ewww

of for

ab2

13:10

@RegDwight Context: I wrote a detailed question for TGO SE and only when I started to select the tags did I realize that I had written it on ELU. First sign of dementia? I wrote a Q asking about the word/phrase for this goof on ELU and tchrist said it was off topic, so I deleted it. I wonder if anyone else with multiple accounts on SE has done the same.

user1732

btw @RegDwigнt have we met?

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Gigili

16:06

Yeah, the same date last year

Is that you Marcus?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

16:21

@Gigili Perhaps!

I took a Konkur some days ago

Redid it, actually, after I blew the last one due to the kidney condition

Feeds

16:57

Q: I got a scholarship to college

Why people say "get a scholarship to collage" instead of "get a scholarship from college"? Doesn't the money come from collage?

single-word-requests

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Feeds

18:01

Q: Is there a word for someone that is impacted by change?

This would be a subset of a total population that is affected by a change in policy or law. I tried 'party' but that really didn't work and sounded too legalese. Phrases like 'impacted persons' or 'affected persons' were cumbersome.

single-word-requests synonyms

RegDwigнt

I dunno that that's a sign of dementia.
I knew, but I forgot.

Funny you should mention it tho, as I actually came in here to post something in that very vein.

I have an orchestral piece on my channel written by a student of Shostakovitch's and recorded by the Great Symphony Orchestra of the USSR. And that's what YouTube used to automatically say underneath that video just a week ago. But I'm checking again now, and lo and behold, YouTube suddenly thinks it was written by ABBA.

DAFUQ.

tchrist

18:36

Blind leading the blind here:

Q: Question marks in titles

I found the following blog title without a question mark from The Hindu site: How to ease Afghanistan’s progress in cricket Is it grammatical, if we don't put question mark in questions of titles? I think this blog title should have been like this: How to ease Afghanistan’s progress in ...

punctuation questions title

I'm sure this is a dupe.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Muy bien!

Does the cross perhaps means that you're Chopin reincarnate?

I like the shifting tempo.

There was one note that even sounded almost, I don't know, jazzy.

As to the 'cube', I'm sure you bought it, filmed yourself messing it up, then played it in reverse.

Færd

19:01

The Seven Years' War has a strange name.

You could say the men's room, but probably not the thirty seconds' lapse.

I dunno.

Hmm. It's just stopped sounding strange.

Either the seven-year war or the seven years' war would work, but the article defines different words in each.

Færd

19:22

Or maybe not. the latter could be parsed as either the [seven year's] war or [the seven years]' war.

LOL I really don't know nothing.

Cerberus

20:10

@Færd Yeah, these things are complicated.

Mitch

@Færd the seven year itch

A difficult to clear up fungus?

Cerberus

@Færd Stop linking to interesting Wikipaedia articles here!

It's such a time sink!

Meanwhile:

Nine Years' War

The Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, England and Savoy. It was fought in Europe and the surrounding seas, North America and in India. It is sometimes considered the first global war. The conflict encompassed the Williamite war in Ireland and Jacobite risings in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of England and Ireland, and a campaign in colonial North America between...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Cerberus Ha, WW0

Now we only need to establish WW3

Cerberus

I knew you'd like that.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Fourth time's the charm

Cerberus

20:24

But I don't think any world wars are likely at the moment.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Cerberus So France started it?

Louis gets an honorable <sic> mention

@Cerberus People are too busy preordering iPhone XXV

Cerberus

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yeah, the Sun King was quite aggressive.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Indeed.

And none of the great powers of today are ruled by truly irrational governments.

Trump is irrational, but he doesn't have much power.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Cerberus Do you think he'd be elected again if a next election happens and nothing unexpected does?

I mean, the answer right now probably won't mean anything

Thanks a lot. You rock! — user309810 2 hours ago

Flag as offensive, probably. Unless the point of comparison is grandeur

Cerberus

20:49

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I don't think so.

But you never know.

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RegDwigнt

21:58

@Cerberus Oh it's way worse than that.

That "cube", which is a dodecahedron, is called a megaminx.

I bought mine like two years ago.

I used to solve it every day on the bus. It's exceptionally easy to solve. Easier than the cube, actually.

You need two short move patterns for the last layer. Everything else, the entire thing, you can solve by using just one move pattern over and over again.

I talked about it with Mitch just the other day, he seemed to be knowledgeable about these things for some reason, which I didn't even know. Good for him.

So anyway. That's one of the reasons I picked the megaminx off the shelf among all the other puzzles. I thought I'd just film a quick scramble and a quick solve, bam, maybe five minutes.

Yeah.

No.

I could remember the one move for solving the entire thing, but none of the other two for solving the last layer.

And, like, this was just B-roll footage for the video. I had a ton of other things to film. And the sun was setting.

So I frantically searched YouTube and whatnot, and watched how-to videos for like 40 minutes. And every single one of them was shit, so I actually ended up scrambling the thing worse and worse.

So yes. At the end I said, hold on, I did a couple takes on how I pick up the thing from the shelf.

I let the camera roll throughout. Pick, place back, pick, place back.

Why don't I just go and use one of those "place back" bits that I've already filmed.

And that I did.

And then I just filmed myself in all the various locations playing around with the unsolved thing pretending I was solving it. Lol.

And I should have known. This always happens to these puzzles. If you don't practice the moves for a week, you forget them. Kind of like with the piano, really.

I'm subscribed to a couple Rubik channels, those people are total pros, but they all constantly forget how to solve certain puzzles they haven't practiced for a while.

So yeah. All the puzzles you see there on the shelf, at one point or another I could solve each and every one of them. But right now if you woke me up in the middle of the night, I couldn't even solve the standard 3x3x3. The 2x2x2 maybe. But I'm not even confident about that one.

@Cerberus well, Chopin sorta invented those. These are called the blue notes, though. Jazz got them from blues.

I have them sprinkled very generously all over the piece, but some are more noticeable than others for reasons I won't go into because OMG look at this wall of text.

user2236

22:16

np pal :-)

RegDwigнt

Yeah ntsc ftw.

Fuck, I misspelled an n as a u. My Russian is showing.

Oops, Nahre Sol is doing a live stream. Bye guys!

user2236

cya

Feeds

23:21

Q: What is a word for supplies sent by a country to aid another impoverish country?

I forgot the word that describes items sent by a country to help people in suffering countries. Example: Despite the risk of aiding another country, the US sent ____ to Syrian refugee camps. Thanks,

single-word-requests

Robusto

Just read a funny story. When Reagan was president he visited Japan and addressed the Diet. He tried to say the words 日米の友好は永遠です ("Japanese-American friendship is forever") in Japanese. What people listening on the radio heard, though, was 日米の湯女は大変です ("Japanese-American bathhouse prostitutes are a real handful"). Whereupon the wife of the person relating the story sang out "I wonder how he found that out so quickly. He's only been here for two days."

ab2

@RegDwight re baby food, see this article about a disaster in Gerber's marketing strategy in Africa. In searching for this article, I found an article about performance art in Japan which simulated eating babies. And of course, o

@RegDwight ...And of course, A Modest Proposal.

@RegDwight Sorry, left off link Gerbers

Robusto

@Cerberus Did you ever watch the series Versailles like I told you to?

Mar 16 at 2:15, by Robusto

@Cerberus You might also like Versailles.

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