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But I swear I posted this before, and you went all hot and sweaty about Russel Crowe, as you will always do, and I mentioned that gay porn with him, as I always do.

Matt Эллен

maybe Mark posted it and you posted gay porn?

KitFox

Hot and sweaty? About Russell Crowe? You are on crack.

user19161

8:29 PM

@RegDwighт Russell Crowe is not hot at all. Justin Bieber is way hotter.

RegDwighт

Meanwhile I have to pay for not one but two LEGO orders. This is madness. The speed is staggering.

@KitFox and?

Mar 30 at 19:22, by KitFox

Oh, right. I was going to look up that gay Russell Crowe flick.

There.

KitFox

Gah! I am trying to watch a movie here!

RegDwighт

Feb 29 at 14:22, by KitFox

@RegDwightѬſ道 Russell Crowe is a cheesy anachronism.

KitFox

@RegDwighт That is not hot and sweaty about Russell Crowe.

user19161

@KitFox What movie? My favourite Summer Storm?

RegDwighт

8:31 PM

If that ain't words of love, woman, then nuting is.

KitFox

Hugh Jackman, yes. Viggo Mortensen, yes. Russell Crowe, emphatically no.

RegDwighт

@WillHunting no, @Kit is trying to watch the Russell Crowe gay porn flick.

Jinx.

user19161

@KitFox No to all three. Justin Bieber, yes. Taylor Lautner, yes.

Matt Эллен

stop distracting me, I'm trying to write a shower scene

KitFox

Wankers aren't my type.

RegDwighт

8:33 PM

Feb 29 at 14:30, by KitFox

Can we go back to deciding what hot sweaty men things will help stimulate my libido?

Matt Эллен

so that rules out all men ;)

KitFox

@MattЭллен Not that kind of wanking.

RegDwighт

This was immediately after the Russell Crowe video. I don't remember shit for nothing.

user19161

Also, Cerberus, yes.

RegDwighт

Hot and sweaty. To a tee.

KitFox

8:34 PM

@RegDwighт I know that. I remember, but gay porn and gladiators are the important bits here, not Russell Crowe.

RegDwighт

You people have to learn one thing. I do not misremember. I just don't. Now remember that.

Matt Эллен

memorises "we should call Reg miss November"

user19161

@RegDwighт You misspelled Russell.

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен Why memorise? Don't save up for later, start using it right away.

@WillHunting and you misspelled спутник.

Matt Эллен

I'm writing a book! I've no time for other things. :Þ

user19161

8:35 PM

Hello @waiwai, welcome to this chat.

RegDwighт

Seriously. Dude. Not a single message of yours has the word спутник spelled correctly.

Robusto

Wah! Microsoft released IE 10 today! Now we're going to have to support it! fire and brimstone

RegDwighт

I'm burning a book! I've no time for other things.

Robusto

спутник is so 1957.

RegDwighт

Der Schock sitzt tief.

user19161

8:38 PM

@Robusto Hmm Windows 8, Office 2012 and IE 10, I think all three would be great...

Robusto

@KitFox 50k is a very short novel.

@WillHunting You may take them and stick them where the moon don't shine.

Zairja

@Robusto I'm so far behind my word count quota.

user19161

@Robusto Now I need to look that up to understand it...

Mahnax

Fahrenheit 451 is only 46k words, for comparison.

@Zairja What are you at, if you don't mind my asking?

Robusto

@Zairja Quota? I never even meta!

RegDwighт

8:39 PM

Did you know that on average, 17% of the time you use the word beer it's at the end of the sentence?

Zairja

@Mahnax I'd rather not admit it, but it's under 10k. And that's because I've done my best to abstain from ELU (one of my only distractions).

Robusto

@WillHunting You don't know what a moon is?

@RegDwighт Beer me!

Zairja

Hopefully I can churn out a huge chunk over Thanksgiving and the end of November. I have no obligations the last half of this month.

user19161

@Robusto It's the name of actresses in certain flicks.

Mahnax

@Zairja Ah, OK. Well, there's still time!

RegDwighт

8:41 PM

0.5% for after, 21.8% for life, 4.2% for Carl, 0.0% for an. There, I just messed with the statistics.

Zairja

@Mahnax And now I'm going back to it. Whee!

user19161

@Zairja Chat is another distraction.

Mahnax

@Zairja Bonne chance! I shall as well.

RegDwighт

Here's another sentence that ends in an.

Fear me, COCA!

Go ahead and crawl this chat, I dare you.

KitFox

@Robusto Yes. Barely a novel, but a novel nonetheless.

Mitch

8:43 PM

@MattЭллен wide margins

RegDwighт

@Mitch yeah like Google.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch Clever man.

RegDwighт

I posted my very first Google+ message today, and it was about how much Google sucks.

Robusto

@RegDwighт No. Apple is the company with wide margins.

@RegDwighт Beer yourself!

Mitch

I know. It's taken me that long to watch the Eagle/Horses movie.

user19161

8:45 PM

@RegDwighт Haha, I don't even know what Google + is!

RegDwighт

@Robusto the margins have to match the nets they put around their workers' habitats to catch them from falling.

Mitch

@WillHunting it's like google...but moreso.

RegDwighт

@Robusto I will beer myself with an an.

Mitch

obviously

Matt Эллен

Like Cofi, an an.

Robusto

8:46 PM

@RegDwighт Those aren't the margins they care about. How do dying workers affect profit margins? That's the margin that makes a difference to them.

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен Boutros Boutros An An?

Robusto

Vishwanathan An An?

user19161

I like the Windows 8 logo, seriously. The logo itself is nice enough to make me think of getting a copy.

RegDwighт

An An the Barbar I an.

user19161

@Robusto That sounds like some chess player.

Robusto

8:47 PM

Apr 26 at 12:28, by Robusto

@JasperLoy Stop trying to live up to all our expectations.

RegDwighт

That Will I an. That Will I an. I do not like that Will I an.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting the interface is sufficiently annoying that I won't be

Mitch

@MattЭллен The whole idea is so non-registerable that I didn't notice.

user19161

There has been no question for 2 hours, so boring.

Matt Эллен

It is probably adequate for tablets

but not for a PC or laptop

Mitch

8:49 PM

@WillHunting Here's a question...why do dogs lick themselves?

RegDwighт

Because they lack screens to lick.

user19161

@MattЭллен Why not?

RegDwighт

Cool, another question?

This is like really fast now?

Mitch

Oh you mean a real question? or a rhetorical one?

user19161

@Mitch To keep their fur clean.

Matt Эллен

8:50 PM

@WillHunting it is setup with touch screens in mind

Mitch

Or maybe this is an uptalk statement that looks like a question?

user19161

@MattЭллен Same as GNOME shell. Touchscreen is the future dude.

RegDwighт

Gah. Setup as a verb. GAAAAH. Question mark:?

Matt Эллен

finding ones way out of the touch screen bit is infuriating

Mitch

@WillHunting You're suppose to answer in the form of a question...I mean "What is supposed to be answered in the form of a question?"

Matt Эллен

8:51 PM

@WillHunting I've not tried shell. I'm sill on unity

user19161

I don't like the Android phone but I do like GNOME shell.

Carlo_R.

And I have another question: are humans losing intellectual and emotional capabilities because we no longer need intelligence to survive? Hello everyone.

user19161

@MattЭллен Unity sucks.

RegDwighт

Fallback: noun, adjective. Fall back: verb. Same as with login vs. log in, backup vs. back up, etc. Really straightforward. — RegDwighт Nov 8 at 0:50

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting it's alright. no worse than win 7

RegDwighт

8:51 PM

Please kindly add set up to the list. KTHXBAI

user19161

@Carlo_R. I think so. We only need to be cunning to survive these days, and cunning people are quite stupid.

Mitch

cunning people are quite smart.

RegDwighт

@Carlo_R. you are reading the same news about the same stupid paper in which even the author admits he is 100% speculating.

Mitch

@RegDwighт you have to be smart enough to read the paper to understand that it's all bullshit and by then you've forgotten where your keys are. QED.

Carlo_R.

@Reg We are at 54% > 53%.

Matt Эллен

8:53 PM

@Carlo_R. no, that doesn't make sense

user19161

@Mitch That kind of smartness is only of a small size.

RegDwighт

The arguments he presents are phony at best, and he openly says just that.

Mitch

what's big intelligence?

RegDwighт

So really, non-news. Next!

In fact, I shall log off. I still haven't built an animal today. I'm lagging behind!

Matt Эллен

@Mitch it's like big people

Mitch

8:54 PM

OK next topic...what's up with the sky?

RegDwighт

It's blue.

Mitch

ALl that weather.

RegDwighт

Next!

user19161

@Mitch Posting on ELU for example.

RegDwighт

All that jazz.

Carlo_R.

8:55 PM

Hey guys, but a study of Standfors University demonstrate that.

Mitch

@MattЭллен big fat people. who eat too many fatty meat products. mmm....sausage.

user19161

@Mitch Who is Ali?

RegDwighт

@Carlo_R. it does not, as I have been explaining for the last five minutes. Pay attention.

Carlo_R.

Hey guys, but a study of Standfors University demonstrate that.

user19161

@Carlo_R. You mean Stanford.

Mitch

8:55 PM

@WillHunting Ali your Mama.

RegDwighт

@Carlo_R. it does not, as I have been explaining for the last five minutes. Pay attention.

Mitch

@RegDwighт Prove it.

user19161

@Mitch HAHAHAHA, you must be on whisky.

RegDwighт

@Mitch read their frigging paper.

Carlo_R.

Yes Will, thank you.

RegDwighт

8:56 PM

Ouvert et haut !

Carlo_R.

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Q: Is human intelligence progressively diminishing?

"Humans are losing intellectual and emotional capabilities because we no longer need intelligence to survive," a new study has claimed (Stanford University). Can anybody explain if this claim can be really true? Are there (serious) studies for demonstrating the contrary?

human

user19161

@RegDwighт HAHAHAHA

Mitch

@WillHunting whisky galore. I love that word. the galore part. so ... sophisticated!

user19161

@Mitch You should use whiskey as an American.

Carlo_R.

In that question there is the link to the newspaper who have publeshed the news.

Mitch

8:57 PM

@Carlo_R. I don't see how "we no longer need intelligence to survive". How do you support that?

@WillHunting Should as in 'it would be a good idea' or as in "I bet you do"

user19161

@Mitch The first one.

Matt Эллен

I disagree strong with the supposition that the environment has changed in such a way that we do not need to adapt to it. that is just utter garbage. case closed.

Carlo_R.

@Mitch I have read the news and it is difficult to me to adere to that theory.

Mitch

advice taken

vomits profusely

user19161

Whisky is the British spelling. Whiskey is the American and Irish spelling. QED.

Mitch

8:59 PM

@Carlo_R. yeah, it's just tantalizing, it sounds like science and makes you think but is sort of unsupportable buy anything that resembles facts.

unles of course it is true.

@WillHunting Ohhh...I fell into your trap.

Carlo_R.

@Mitch but Stanford University is not a place where people play with the LEGO.

Mitch

'e' or not...it's a nasty thing. good for cleaning car engines.

Matt Эллен

@Mitch philistine!

Mitch

@Carlo_R. well actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they have LEGO robot contests in the CS department there

@MattЭллен cad!

RegDwighт

The tenses question is 10th already. But the racism question is still 2nd. Come on people, help out!

Matt Эллен

9:01 PM

@Mitch bounder!

RegDwighт

Kill bikeshedding with fire!

Mitch

@RegDwighт make race #1?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт I've voted as best as I can

user19161

@RegDwighт And the two questions I just answered are so unpopular!

RegDwighт

@Mitch make race #101, tense #1.

tchrist

9:02 PM

@RegDwighт What, by adding more answers?

Mitch

@MattЭллен rouè

tchrist

That’s lent backwards.

RegDwighт

Funnily enough the tenses question is also a dupe, but JSB's answer is the best and the OP of the original is likely no longer around to accept.

So I'm thinking about merging old into new.

tchrist

Yes, I know.

Mitch

@RegDwighт but 'race' is actually -interesting-, and tense is a dupe anyway.

Cerberus

9:03 PM

Good idea.

Carlo_R.

@Reg had I asked that question (I'm referring to tenses question) I'm sure you would have already closed it.

Mitch

@tchrist I know, it was the only accent other than a diaresis that I could find on this page.

Mahnax

@RegDwighт I think you should merge it, personally.

RegDwighт

@Mitch race is a dupe, too, of at least three questions. It's just that people haven't found them yet.

user19161

@mitch I think I will just stop at 24k, no energy to bring it to 25k...

RegDwighт

9:04 PM

@Carlo_R. do you have any facts to support that wild theory?

Mitch

@RegDwighт race is unique in all its forms. haven't you been to school? today?

@WillHunting you said you were going to give up at 20K, but it seemed so easy for you to breeze up to where you are now. You need to give up to keep going.

RegDwighт

@Mahnax yes, no question there, but I am trying to figure out the direction.

Carlo_R.

@Reg No, but I could ask on skeptics.SE.

Mitch

@RegDwighт Carlo doesn't believe it, he's just asking if others do.

RegDwighт

@Carlo_R. do that. Report back with how fast they shut you down. Thanks.

Mahnax

9:05 PM

@RegDwighт OK. I will abstain from casting the fifth closevote on the new one, then.

user19161

@Mitch Wow, that is actually very deep. It applies to my life as well, really. To give up to keep going

Mitch

@Mahnax I'll do it...which one again?

@WillHunting I have more....there is no try there is only do...wait that's from my Jedi training (I didn't pass...god the food was terrible)

tchrist

@Mitch The OED has only word that ends in è: Scotticè.

Mitch

is it the secularism question?

user19161

@Mitch Ah, that one I disagree with. I think there is try as well as do, because some things are just too hard.

Mitch

9:07 PM

@tchrist we should make up more...then insinuate ourselves onto the OED editorial staff...add them in to the official dictionary...also pay off journalilsts to start using them.

tchrist

It also has à at the end in monte di pietà, omertà, Pietà, più, podestà, romanità, terribilità, and voilà.

Mitch

That is what power is all about.

Matt Эллен

The OUP is only down the road from me. I could get a job there...

RegDwighт

Haha, there you go. Number 2.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Isn’t potty-training exciting?

Mitch

9:09 PM

@tchrist I"ve always wondered how to pronounce omertà. I want to say 'oh mair TAH' but feel it's supposed to be 'oh MAIR tuh'

Cerberus

No, the accent means stress.

tchrist

It has ultimate stress.

Mitch

@MattЭллен yes....yes... a small step...

@RegDwighт tense is only #6 now.

@tchrist that sounds ugly in my head. so it is my #1?

Carlo_R.

@tchrist I cannot type the accent with my phone, but try to find deshabille on OED.

user19161

1

Q: Name of a sound?

How is called the sound when the last remaining water is about to drain in a wash hands that was plugged and full or water, and then the plug was removed? here is a sample: http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/25/mp3/479951_SOUNDDOGS__wa.mp3 although, over the last few seconds the sound is n...

names sounds

user19161

9:10 PM

Why is this off-topic? I kind of like it.

tchrist

There aren’t many that end diaeretically either. Penniä the plural of penni is one such, though.

Mitch

@Carlo_R. there's a racy riposte to that remark.

tchrist

@WillHunting If I post a picture, is it on-topic for everyone to guess or make up a word to describe it?

RegDwighт

tchrist

@Carlo_R. There are many cute words ending in an acute.

RegDwighт

9:11 PM

@Mitch this is what I am seeing.

Matt Эллен

@WillHunting "Guess my sound" is not constructive.

Mitch

@WillHunting cause there's no guarantee that there is one, and it'll be onomotopoeia anyway.

@RegDwighт nice.

user19161

@Mitch Well then, I think it should be closed as NARQ because we are not sure what the sound is exactly.

Mitch

we have absolutely no control over that.

MετάEd

♫ Then it came to her mind what her mother had said / With her antepenultimate breath / O my child, should you gaze on the wine when 'tis red / Be prepared for a fate worse than death! ♫

Mitch

9:12 PM

we could all visit en masse.

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен is there any answer to that other than chortle?

Mitch

@WillHunting exactly.

@MετάEd so she's has a couple more?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт guffaw?

user19161

@Mitch But suppose we know what the sound is, then I think it would be an interesting word request question.

MετάEd

@Mitch Evidently. Don't you wonder what she said after.

Carlo_R.

9:13 PM

@tchrist ah, I have noticed only now the acute accent. Right, you was referring to grave one.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт chuckle

RegDwighт

Yeah yeah. Very funny.

MετάEd

@RegDwighт Burble.

RegDwighт

But I'm not here anyway.

@MετάEd that's better.

MετάEd

Whiffle.

Mitch

9:14 PM

@WillHunting well, if it were a lecxical gap, it might be interesting, but there's no class of words existing for which that one might be an answer. What's the name of the sound when you put you index finger in your mouth backwards against your cheek and pop it out?

user19161

OK guys, I voted as NARQ and commented.

user19161

WTF, there are 8 answers on the tense question?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт Glucksen?

user19161

Oh it has been merged, that is why.

tchrist

@Carlo_R. The OED has 317 terms ending in an acute accent, of which all but 5 have it over an e. The exceptions are: inajá, ombú, Pará, pirarucú, sambaquí.

Mitch

9:16 PM

@tchrist are those all brazilian portuguese?

and isn't omerta an OED word now?

tchrist

@Mitch Sequitur?

Carlo_R.

I'm losting my connection, but a come back later. Apologize me if I do not have answered to some line, but tonight to discussion is too fast to me.

tchrist

10 mins ago, by tchrist

It also has à at the end in monte di pietà, omertà, Pietà, più, podestà, romanità, terribilità, and voilà.

Mitch

@tchrist oh...you said acute accent. I didn't catch that.

tchrist

sambaquí /sambaˈki/. Etymology: Tupi. A form of shell heap, found on the S. Brazilian coast, resulting mainly from the action of the wind and the sea, in which remains of prehistoric and historic cultures have been found; also attrib. (See quot. 1946.)

Cerberus

9:19 PM

I know only the Tupi people.

Well, not personally.

tchrist

inajá /ɪnəˈdʒɑː/. Etymology: Tupi. In full inajá palm. A palm tree, Maximiliana martiana (regia), native to the Amazon region.

Mitch

their language on the other hand is completely unknown to me.

Cerberus

And to me.

tchrist

pirarucú /pɪrərʊˈkuː/. Etymology: Pg., f. Tupi (see quot. 1863). The giant redfish of the Amazon basin, Arapaima gigas, of the family Osteoglossidæ, one of the largest freshwater fishes in the world; = Arapaima, piache.

Mitch

love you all, gotsta run.

tchrist

9:21 PM

ombú /ɒmˈbuː/. Etymology: Amer. Sp., f. Guarani umbú. An evergreen tree, Phytolacca dioica, of the family Phytolaccaceæ, native to temperate regions of South America. Also attrib.

RegDwighт

Number one!

Strike.

Robusto

Mitch loves us! kvells

user19161

There are different kinds and degrees of love, so yes.

user19161

For example I love vanilla ice cream.

user19161

Hello @barrie welcome to this chat!

Robusto

9:26 PM

@WillHunting Get a room.

19 secs ago, by Robusto

@WillHunting Get a room.

user19161

@Robusto HAHAHAHA

user19161

@Robusto Well, as you know if you watched the movie, Will has an attachment disorder. =)

Robusto

People who refer to themselves in the third person have an attachment disorder, yes. Among other things.

tchrist

9:57 PM

@Robusto Bob Dole is not a pineapple mogul.

Robusto

"People who talk in metaphors can shampoo my crotch." — Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets

user19161

@Robusto We all can but we won't.

Robusto

Anyway, I'm out. I'm singin' in the rain ... just singin' in the rain

tchrist

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Q: Is there a name for the emotional response to cuteness?

What do you feel when you see this? We all know the feeling of seeing something adorable, of wanting to hug it, take care of it, and let our speech degenerate into mindless babble and squealing. But does it have a name? Adoration isn't quite it, and that's about as close as I seem to be able t...