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skullpatrol

19:03

... never mind I guess it shuts it off :)

Jez

19:14

Any americans here think their political system isn't dysfunctional?

RegDwight АΑA

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Q: Is the "weekend" part of the "week"?

Is the "week" only the five days in-between weekends or not?

nouns

Gen ref. No research effort.

skullpatrol

Any dysfunctionals here who think they're American?

RegDwight АΑA

Now, now. Noöne can be that dysfunctional!

skullpatrol

@RegDwightАΑA Is the "end" of the road part of the "road"?

RegDwight АΑA

Get out of my head.

skullpatrol

19:23

Sorry :(

RegDwight АΑA

Though, to be fair, etymologies mean little.

skullpatrol

Now that we've come to the end of the road...

Matt Эллен

We're at the roadend!

oh wait

this is the beginning

RegDwight АΑA

Between used to mean something like "by two each". Now it means "to interfere in chat".

skullpatrol

Who you calling a rodent?

Matt Эллен

19:24

batman

more like flying rodent man

I bet he carries diseases

skullpatrol

What if the road travels in a circle?

RegDwight АΑA

Rodeos carry diseases?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA clowns are a disease

skullpatrol

Sunday to Saturday

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен no, down's is a disease. How did you make that disconnected d?

skullpatrol

19:27

To which week does midnight Saturday night belong?

RegDwight АΑA

@skullpatrol Saturday night belongs to fighting.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA i am batman

@RegDwightАΑA Saturday night's alright

RegDwight АΑA

Alright, alright ALRiaaaaaaight!!!!

Matt Эллен

oooooooo oo oo ooo

RegDwight АΑA

Thank you Bernie.

skullpatrol

19:28

Yaaaa

RegDwight АΑA

Superb poetry right there.

Okay I'm finished copying that stupid DVD to my harddrive, now I'm really outta here.

Matt Эллен

good night

skullpatrol

So, the end of one week is the beginning of the next week and so the arguement goes round and round...

Matt Эллен

so the end of the argument is the beginning of the next one. Welcome to EL&U chat

skullpatrol

Thank you.

London 2012

Matt Эллен

19:35

London 1941

skullpatrol

We've come a long way baby.

Matt Эллен

indeed we have :)

user19161

19:50

But I have not.

user19161

@skullpatrol I see you are square root bomb now.

Cerberus

20:15

@skullpatrol That you?

@MattЭллен Yeah, poor city.

Matt Эллен

hiya @Cerb :) how are you?

Cerberus

Hullo.

BRB cooking...

Matt Эллен

:D

Cerberus

The eggs are out of the water. Now the broccoli are boiling.

Matt Эллен

what are you making?

Gigili

20:26

Umm, egg + broccoli + water ... Broccoli scrambled eggs.

Matt Эллен

20:41

you don't scramble eggs in water!

Gigili

I don't but Cerb does!

RegDwight АΑA

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A: What does it mean to "beat one's breast"?

Jews (or Israelites?) beat on their breasts on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and said, "Have mercy on me a sinner." It was a public gesture, because it is not hidden from others. When I was young and still a roman catholic, we used to, in church, beat our breast i.e. knock with our right fis...

What's the deal with the religious answers today.

user19161

No sweat bro, religion is compatible with science.

RegDwight АΑA

I'm not sweating.

I'm not a sweater.

user19161

Also, I am not a science denialist.

Gigili

20:47

Are you a jacket?

RegDwight АΑA

I am a smoking hot jacket.

Smoking

Ein Smoking ist ein besonders eleganter Anzug und als solcher Teil der Abendgarderobe für Herren. Er wird auch als kleiner Gesellschaftsanzug bezeichnet (im Gegensatz zum Frack als großem Gesellschaftsanzug). Die Bezeichnung ist aus dem Englischen entlehnt: "smoking-jacket" bezeichnete ursprünglich eine aus Samt gefertigte und ggf. mit Tressen verzierte Jacke. Die spätere Entwicklung des Begriffs ist deutsch und französisch und in den deutsch- und französischsprachigen Ländern so wie in Italien gebräuchlich. Im britischen Englisch heißt der Smoking dinner jacket. In gedruckten Einladungen ...

End of intermezzo. Season 4, episode 2. Priorities, priorities.

cornbread ninja

21:12

@MattЭллен mmm poachy scramble.

Can you not @ people in comments on beta sites?

Matt Эллен

you can

but they have to be part of the comment thread, or the poster

(same as with regular sites)

user19161

@cornbreadninja @works on beta sites exactly as they do on gamma sites.

cornbread ninja

I just tried on mechanics.SE and it removed it from the comment. Additionally, their handle didn't pop up from the first letters entered (and there are only three letters)

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Q: 2003 Ford Escort ZX2 has creaky steering

It doesn't squeal. It creaks in a constant, staccato fashion while I make right turns at low speeds. What could this be?

power-steering steering

I started with @TMN and it failed.

Matt Эллен

@cornbreadninja ah, @s get removed if they reference the poster, sometimes

cornbread ninja

-_-

user19161

21:14

@cornbreadninja It's removed if you are commenting to the person who posted since the @ is not necessary.

Matt Эллен

because the poster always gets notified about comments

cornbread ninja

OIC

derp!

thank you both.

user19161

There there, another QED.

Matt Эллен

but I guess if there are comments from more than one person, then the @ at the poster stays

You're welcome!

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy If you say so. ;)

I wish that eggs benedict didn't involve hollandaise.

Matt Эллен

21:15

do you dislike Holland?

cornbread ninja

not at all! it just reminds me of mayonnaise, and I have a great dislike of Mayoland.

I must shower; ta-ta for now.

Matt Эллен

I understand. I believe Simon Mayo (used to be a DJ on BBC Radio) to be slimy because of his name

CU

cornbread ninja

@MattЭллен gross! :)

and fattening

Matt Эллен

quite

oh, apparently he still is a DJ on BBC Radio

Jez

21:30

I... just stepped through my roof.

user19161

@Jez Your roof collapsed?

Jez

after i stepped through it yes.. the floorboards were up

Cameron

21:44

-1

Q: More Well Done - Really Well Done - Better Done - Weller Done

I personally like my scallops more well done. I personally like my scallops really well done. I personally like my scallops better done. I personally like my scallops weller done. Are there differences in meaning?

word-choice

waiwai933

@cornbreadninja Apologies on declining your flag just now; I hit the wrong button by mistake.

Cameron

Is this one of those sockpuppet questions I've been reading about?

Gigili

I believe so.

It's NS, I think.

Whoa, that was quick.

Cameron

So, should I flag questions like that, or vote to close? I know there was a meta discussion about it, but that seemed to focus on questions that were somehow good or worth keeping, rather than general nonsense.

RegDwight АΑA

@cornbreadninja try mayonnaise with Dijon mustard some time.

Jun 22 at 15:19, by RegDwight ΒВB

Mustard mayonnaise >> honey mustard. True story.

user19161

21:57

I am still confused by what should be flagged as "low quality answer". I know that "not an answer" means comment or separate question and that wrong answer should be downvoted. Can someone give me an example of "low quality answer"?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cameron more often than not you can flag (they usually get tons of flags anyway) and vote to close (most of them are NARQs and/or dupes, though the original is often no longer around).

Gigili

Jul 23 at 20:38, by waiwai933

@Gigili No, flag those as custom message and mention "Nortonn S".

Umm, what Reg said.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.

cornbread ninja

@waiwai933 ahh! I was confused. I did see that the username went from 'Nearby' to 'user(numberString)'.

@RegDwightАΑA only if you try more olives.

RegDwight АΑA

@cornbreadninja A sign of someone being destroyed. TO THE GROUND.

@cornbreadninja I do, every living day of my life, them be damned.

cornbread ninja

22:04

@RegDwightАΑA at least you're tenacious.

RegDwight АΑA

Better than nineacious.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA That paragraph sounds like it was written by a highly educated pineapple.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy it was written by Justice Potter Stewart, in point of fact.

Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Education Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan, approximately south of Lansing, Michigan, while his family was on vacation. His father, James Garfield Stewart, a prominent Republican from Cincinnati, Ohio, served as mayor of Cincinnati for seven years and was later a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court. Potter St...

Easy to accuse a dead person of being a pineapple.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA No plagiarism in this chat.

cornbread ninja

sigh I miss all the meme births.

RegDwight АΑA

22:06

Jan 18 at 16:28, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

@MetaEd No plagiarism in this chat.

Pwned.

user19161

I memorized the first paragraph of Great Expectations.

RegDwight АΑA

@cornbreadninja you mean you were a 4Chan regular? What turned you off?

I'll take the answer offline. Season 4, episode 3.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA I have absolutely zero knowledge about 4chan, reddit, etc.

cornbread ninja

@RegDwightАΑA ha, no, the Incomprehensible memes.

Robusto

22:46

Damn, Yoichi Oishi asks a lot of questions. He has to have the record.

user19161

Almost all of them are from the news.

RegDwight АΑA

23:15

Damn these effing cliffhangers. This season is a poem. Can't be arsed to wait till morning for the next stanza.

Makes me wanna rewatch the second season, too.

@cornbreadninja I was thinking of making a thread on Meta. Like the one they have over on MSO.

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Q: The Many Memes of Meta

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As with their IRL counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others are end...

support faq memes

But that'll have to wait. Episode 4!

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA Season of what?

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