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Q: Is there a word which describes something being both beautiful and ugly at the same time?

Few days back, I saw troll sculpture. When I inquired about the making of the sculpture one of my friend told me that it is made using golden ratio (Now, I have to inquire about what is golden ratio). Those sculptures were beautiful made, but obviously they were trolls, so ugly face. Is there an...

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Q: What's the word for when something randomly becomes super popular?

What's the word for when something randomly becomes super popular? I have heard that sometimes YouTube will make a random video super popular (super popular as in the YouTuber gets way more views than normal on the video). Is there a "special" word to describe this?

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Mitch

02:54

I feel like something needs to be said.

Mitch

03:18

All's better now. But I said it elsewhere.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad ns for domain in title: www.fitnessexpertadvice.com/exogenous-ketones/ by bronsonz on english.SE

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in Language Overflow, 14 hours ago, by CowperKettle

Word of the minute: help your uncle jack off a horse

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Q: " I am at John " Can this mean that I am very near to him?

What is The correct preposition for saying that I am very near to someone and can reach him easily and in the same place where he is ? Can I use at " I am at John ". Please note that I do not want to say the I am in his house but just want to say that I am near him and can reach him easily.

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08:12

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Q: A word for general proficiency with musical instruments

I'm looking for a word for skill or talent with musical instruments in general. This is for a video game, there are skills like singing and dancing and I can't put "musical instruments" because its too long.

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Q: how would be describe players that are consistently playing in the squad in simple word?

I am writing a description about player's performance and their participation in matches, but I am stuck in trying to find the right word for describing a player who has been participating in nearly every match for his team. I also would like to find out what word's other than performance can be...

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Q: I need a very particular word

What's the word for a list of things and their attributes being linked i have things, A, B C, and D - they are XXXX 1, 2 3, and 4 - what words can i use in place of XXXX? Thanks

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Matt E. Эллен

12:04

@Feeds what?

RegDwigнt

12:40

@MattE.Эллен good call, mate. "What" is a very good word for that. Very particular, too.

Feeds

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Q: Adjective for "relating to a whole"?

I am trying to find an adjective or word that describes something that is relative/responsive to a larger whole. The context I am interested is in music, e.g. a musical part in a song that is is particularly responsive to the other parts in the song. To give a better idea, I have a good example ...

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Q: words other than "performance" to describe a player's outcome?

I am writing a post based on various players and their performances, and would like to know which alternative words or phrases can be used instead of repeating the word "performance". For Example:- Describing the first player -"his performance was outstanding in the previous season". Describi...

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Robusto

12:54

@RegDwigнt I doubt the process takes a whole minute.

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Q: I forwarded OR I'm forwarded

1) I forwarded your kind words to Peter Brown. Or 2) I'm forwarded your kind words to Peter Brown. Or 3) Other variant

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user2236

star this message if you think there are too many posts from the feed

Robusto

@user2236 That is wanton star-seeking.

"Sinecure or cynosure. Which is correct? Help I'm taking a midterm and I need the answer quick!"

user2236

you can move it to the trash @Robusto

np

Robusto

And, by the way, you all are apparently hosting scutoids in your cells.

@RegDwigнt appears to believe that working is more important than chatting.

Helpful hint of the week: "To play the audio files [on your phone], you may need to operate your phone. If so, follow the phone maker’s operating instructions."

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13:51

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Q: Word (French origin?) for first shot of war?

I can't seem to find this word. It defines the opening fire of a battle.

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RegDwigнt

14:12

@Robusto yeah, earlier today I found out that 2520 is not divisible by 2519, so I've been frantically working on further improvements to this whole circumcision business.

@Robusto that's only helpful in the case that you do need to operate your phone. In the case that you don't, it is obscenely unhelpful.

Whose instructions should I follow in that case?

It never says.

Mitch

@Robusto Antimony or antinomy? One sets your teeth on edge and the other is something else.

@user2236 I unfriended/plonked/ragequitted both Feeds and Smokedetector so I don't know what you're talking about. I also don't know how to deunfriend them so i'll stay happier.

@RegDwigнt My office chair comes with operating instructions in a hidden pocket on the underside, which of course needs instructions on how to extricate properly without shredding the paper.

RegDwigнt

14:27

No problem, I will add them to your feed again. That's what mods are for.

@Mitch your chair comes with instructions? Just how stupid is your country?

Mitch

So I consulted the online pdf which downloaded a virus which shreds the file image on screen for you.

@RegDwigнt You're a great guy.

And I mean that to sting

RegDwigнt

Then tell it to Sting and not me.

I am Elton.

Two different people.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt The instructions are multilingual. Everyone can read them. Even Russians.

If they can read Swedish

RegDwigнt

I dunno, I don't think anyone understands Swedish. The Swedes certainly don't. They only speak English.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Cher and Cherkira are two different people.

One of them hips is lying

@RegDwigнt I think you're mistaking them for Norwegians, who don't understand what they're thinking.

What I'm saying is... you're being scandinavianist.

RegDwigнt

14:30

Sec let me google "thinking"

Mitch

@RegDwigнt You're thinking way too hard about it

RegDwigнt

user image

This looks fucking horrific.

Mitch

They prefer 'Scandinavian studies'

RegDwigнt

Wish I never googled that.

I can understand Norway now.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I'm not looking when I read so it's OK with me

RegDwigнt

14:32

Who?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Norway is overrated

Norwegian cuisine is overrated

it can't be underrated enough

RegDwigнt

You should unsubscribe from Tumblr.

Mitch

please stop with the varieties of smoked water animal meat

RegDwigнt

Nobody outside of Tumblr would ever suggest Norwegian cuisine even exists.

That is not a thing any normal person ever thinks in their entire life.

Mitch

smoked jellyfish

it's just bong water

RegDwigнt

14:33

Or is it? Tun-dun-dunnnn!

Find out after the break.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt tumblr is so last yesterday

@RegDwigнt time to switch channels

RegDwigнt

It is so last yesterday I might actually go and create an account some time this decade.

Mitch

or fast forward on DVR

RegDwigнt

I never do that to things that are not dead.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt Why bother.

that's not a question it's a command

RegDwigнt

14:35

A comm and...?

don't leave me hanging like that.

Mitch

Why aren't people leaving Facebook in droves? especially in April after all the news that they suck?

RegDwigнt

A comm and a priest enter a bar. Says the giraffe, fuck you this is my joke.

@Mitch I only just joined Facebook.

And since everyone always follows me, Facebook is now all popular.

Robusto

@Mitch How many people are in a drove? Is it like a dozen?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I asked everyone I know, and neither of them knew it, either.

Robusto

You need to get out more.

Mitch

14:38

@RegDwigнt That's the Russian way.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto It's kinda hard with this nail file. Send a sledgehammer next time.

Robusto

A sledgehammer won't help you in the gulag.

RegDwigнt

And how would you know.

Robusto

I read stories about the gulag.

Mitch

After putting in a heavy day's work strangling your father, beating your wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, you turn to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty, and no soap to improve the noose.

Robusto

14:39

See, now you don't know whether I'm speaking in present tense or past tense. Ain't English grand?

Mitch

@RegDwigнt I'm sorry.

RegDwigнt

Lord Rings read?

Robusto

@Mitch Just an average day in Trumplandia.

Mitch

Aha...used olive oil to make the noose nice and slippery.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto How many rods to the hogshead is that?

Robusto

14:42

Speaking of which, I guess Trump doesn't subscribe to "A Koch and a smile" anymore.

Mitch

It'll be weird when people find my dangling body that instead of flies and the foul odor of decomposition, they'll remark at my shiny complexion and that I never looked better

Maybe I should get some garlic too

RegDwigнt

Yes, some people are not vampires and some people are homosexuals.

Sometimes even in the same person!

Imagine that.

Mitch

Both are sparkly?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It doesn't matter if you're paying cash.

"Rock Island" The Music Man (opening scene)

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I'd pay cash, but he died, alas.

> Robb's Homemade Life vor 2 Jahren
the first rap song.

Who the fuck let that idiot comment on YouTube.

Robusto

14:45

Google did. Blame Google.

RegDwigнt

Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! No!

But they pronounce it with a kiwi accent for some reason.

Robusto

> It's even more funny when you realize they are THEMSELVES emulating the train movements.

Oh, haha, I guess NOBODY got that.

RegDwigнt

I got that they did it, but I didn't get that that made it funnier.

I am fucking laughing now.

Robusto

YouTube comments: the Ninth Circle of Hell.

RegDwigнt

1 min ago, by RegDwigнt

Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! No!

Robusto

14:47

Jul 25 at 22:54, by Robusto

That's why we go over this stuff.

RegDwigнt

Hey who's removing shit I'm editing.

Not cool.

Quit touching my stuff.

Robusto

When you quit touching your junk.

RegDwigнt

Always easier to destroy than create. Millenials.

Mitch

Unintended consequences. They thought it was fun to have comments, but youtube became a chat room

RegDwigнt

See, I destroyed the second N in there.

Robusto

14:49

@RegDwigнt Oh, I thought you were talking about a discontinued Mazda model.

Mitch

goddamit...that bird with a poor sense of rhythm is tapping out a bad tune again

RegDwigнt

I was talking about Mitch flagging Mitch for making Mitch-style comments. Yo dawg.

I'd rather go an practice sax and violins again.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt But see? According to the Law of the Conservation of Numbers and Letters, the letter n can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed into a number.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt will be better for you in the long run. he short run too. the middle run...I'm not sure

RegDwigнt

@Robusto the letter N can be changed into an entire word.

Robusto

14:50

nnnnnnnnooooooooo

RegDwigнt

That's only if you're George Lucas.

Robusto

Few of us are.

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ OK... now what chemical are you?

your avatar that is

RegDwigнt

His avatar is the same as yours only spun N degrees and then shrunk 50 cent.

It always gets me confused.

I've been meaning to very much put an end to this charade business of yours.

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

Robusto

Hmm, whoever that was executed a flawless touch-and-go.

RegDwigнt

14:54

I hate it when so many mods show up. And then none of them follow me on Tumblr.

Mitch

@Robusto George Lucas is not even George Lucas.

Cary Grant is not Cary Grant. Said so himself.

RegDwigнt

Even so, George Lucas is still more of a George Lucas than a George Harrisson.

Mitch

When I was a kid, Cary Grant came over to the house to meet with my mother about some project. When she was out of the room, he looked at me and whispered ""I'm not really Cary Grant." This was a very important lesson.

Tweeted by shaunpcassidy on July 29, 2018 at 5:05 AM

Shaun Casssidy is totally Shaun Cassidy

RegDwigнt

Who's Cary Grant anyway.

Robusto

@Mitch Thanks. I thought he was Donny Osmond.

RegDwigнt

14:56

I'm not googling that, I don't want to see a bigger version of that pic.

Mitch

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde

Tweeted by sho_malii on July 28, 2018 at 9:47 PM

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch how many times have you quoted this?

RegDwigнt

That's not even by Oscar Wilde. That's by Joseph Goebbels. Fucking political correctness.

Robusto

@Mitch Well, to be fair, Oscar Wilde is not even another person right now, much less himself.

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Unfortunately the chatroom search mechanism doesn't really allow checking that specifically.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

14:58

@Mitch I ironically can't see my avatar, but is it three hydrogens or something that looks like a pair of sunglasses?

Mitch

But what I have said before, and is quantifiable is that there's nothing new under the sun.

RegDwigнt

Okay I'm losing the thread here.

Robusto

Oct 25 '12 at 13:19, by Robusto

That's loser talk.

RegDwigнt

It only took me eight years, but it's happening.

Robusto

@Mitch I didn't figure you for a bible thumper, yet I cannot discount the evidence of the chat statement.

Mitch

14:59

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ sunglasses. diamond shaped

Robusto

> Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the firkins.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch twist-boat cyclohexane

Mitch

@Robusto If bible thumper is a euphemism for weirdo, then I don't know what you're talking about. That makes no sense.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Which is a badass way of saying C6H12

RegDwigнt

@Robusto the Bible wasn't even created in the first six days according to the Bible itself. What a poorly constructed forgery. Rookie-level.

Mitch

15:00

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Same to you, pal.

Robusto

There are no badass ways of saying C6H12.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch no u

1 min ago, by M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch twist-boat cyclohexane

Mitch

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ wait.. what is 'twist-boat'? I get the twisty thing

but not the boat thing

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah C6H12 ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in C6H12?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And yet a book with zero facts is precisely what the ignorant person must have.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:02

@Mitch Well, Google boat cyclohexane

Robusto

Google doesn't float my boat. Never did, never will.

RegDwigнt

Google drives your car instead.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And crashes it

RegDwigнt

No, that's what our company is there for.

Or rather, there against.

Fuck this English and its ambiguity.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

A company of Robusto and RegDwight?

RegDwigнt

15:04

The proper collective noun for that is not company but university.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Don't let Mitch into your company

Robusto

But we need an amanuensis.

RegDwigнt

It's okay, he'll just flag himself, and them five random people will show up and talk to him about the Bible.

Don't entertain the plums, they'll find ways to entertain themselves.

Robusto

Still, pruning doesn't have anything to do with prunes.

RegDwigнt

Rob, that's already the second fact you're making me learn. I thought we agreed on zero.

Robusto

15:07

Zero was just an estimate. The low range.

RegDwigнt

Is that a fact?

Robusto

Could be.

RegDwigнt

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

Robusto

If you have a fact in a box, it only has a probability of being alive or dead until you open the box.

In fact, fact is a shortened form of "fat cat" ... a fact of which Heisenberg was no doubt aware.

RegDwigнt

What if you have a carrot in the box?

Carrot in a box game - Sean Lock - 8 Out of 10 Cats Series 19 Episode 1 - Christmas Special 2015

And just like that, gentlemen, I present you with the funniest video on all of YouTube.

Meaning to say, the only funny video on all of YouTube.

Mitch

15:09

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Done

RegDwigнt

You as a poker player should watch some time. I mean it.

Mitch

Now what?

"The proper conformation of cyclohexane is not a hexane." - if that is the case, then someone screwed up.

Robusto

@Mitch I cycle all the time, but I only rarely use hexane.

@RegDwigнt I've delegated the poker playing to my son. Let him watch it.

RegDwigнt

Then again, if you watch it, you might actually beat your son at poker for once.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt If I ever do, he'll just try harder next time. He's quick like that.

RegDwigнt

15:13

Yeah but there'll forever be that victory to your name. No changing that.

History's written by winners.

Anyway I'll go commute or sumthin.

Robusto

I taught him how to play chess, and over the course of the first year we went from me beating him easily, to only when I paid attention, to only when I worked at it, to only when I really worked at it, to only when I got lucky, to never.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt so funny it is blocked in my country

Robusto

@RegDwigнt g'wan get outta here and do something with your life.

@MattE.Эллен Are all rickrolls blocked in your country?

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto sadly no

although I haven't been rickrolled in a while, so they might be now

unless Rick Astley has his own channel with the song on, in which case that wouldn't be blocked

Robusto

Rick Astley doesn't need his own YouTube channel.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:32

Ohai @Matt, long time no chat

Mitch

Hey @MattE.Эллен!

Gigili

@Mitch With great guy comes great responsibility

as they put it

Matt E. Эллен

15:48

hi!

Gigili

16:29

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh, I didn't see that message of yours! Well done. Lucky for you, konkour is not what it used to be 10-15 years ago, almost every participant can enter university quite easily.

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RegDwigнt

17:45

@Robusto so how about you asked him to teach you chess instead. Duh.

@MattE.Эллен there should be riots. It's your own fucking television. With Sean Lock. From Surrey. If they block Surrey in your country, next up they'll block Newcastle. And then there will be riots alright. But not that kind of riots.

Do something while you can.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Sorry, I can't change history.

RegDwigнt

Elton John - You Can Make History (Young Again)

user2236

can history change you?

RegDwigнt

Yes. Fifty years from now they will discover you were Hitler.

In no small part thanks to the comment I just left.

Robusto

I thought Elton John was Hitler.

user2236

17:50

:O

RegDwigнt

Nobody will ever discover that.

I've taken measures.

And not in imperial.

user2236

metric?

Robusto

Having your computer hijacked was never so much fun!

RegDwigнt

@user2236 Certainly a Sir Elton Hercules John, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, shall not share all his secrets with Hitler?

I might, for 3000 pounds. But that's a helluvalot of cake.

user2236

shouldn't that be kgs? :P

Robusto

17:53

Cake-"Nugget" from Fashion Nugget

user2236

you can't have your cake...

Robusto

And STFU too.

Matt E. Эллен

why not?

I paid for my cake. give me my cake!

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I got not one but two emails this week that told me to send 1000 Euros to Bitcoin account suchandsuch, lest they send out a video of me jerking off to all my Facebook friends, that they made by hijacking my web cam. I was almost tempted to tell them I a) don't have a web cam and b) don't have a Facebook account.

@Robusto that was a solid album all around.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt But they nailed the jerking off part, didn't they?

user2236

17:56

@MattE.Эллен because you didn't eat your meat!

Matt E. Эллен

but it's a meat cake!

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I was about to say, when I told the story to my friends they said why don't you just write them that c) you can't get it up anyway.

Robusto

@user2236 @MattE.Эллен is officially allowed to have his pudding. He's a mod. Mods get pudding, whether or not they eat their meat.

RegDwigнt

Pudding on the Ritz, no less.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt All right, let's amend that to trying to jerk off.

Matt E. Эллен

17:57

as I was told by someone in chat yesterday: I have the power

RegDwigнt

Yeah that wasn't me.

I wouldn't have misspelled a "no" as a "the".

Robusto

@RegDwigнt No Limp Bizkit references in chat, please.

Matt E. Эллен

to be fair, it was a different room

RegDwigнt

@Robusto sorry, I'll be switching to Puddle of Mud any moment now.

user2236

Snap - I ve Got The power

RegDwigнt

17:59

Yeah that bloke has got a heart attack by now is what he's got.

Nobody can eat that much pudding.

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