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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

21:02

777-9311 / I wanna spend the night with you if that's alright

Robusto

wonders what time it is

MετάEd

Please don't write "please help on our titular stoplist" when I am trying to drink coffee.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

stops typing

Robusto

titters

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Q: Mileage as unit-agnostic term

Is it appropriate to use the term "mileage" to refer to distance that is not measured in the literal units of miles? For example, would you say that a car "has a lot of mileage on it" in a country that measures distance in kilometers? Is there a more unit-neutral term that is better to use univ...

Sure, go ahead. Use kilometerage.

We are getting snow tomorrow. A white Christmas. Bah, humbug!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto Christmas? On the 14th?

Robusto

21:11

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I expect it will last into the 25th.

No sign of a big warm-up in the offing.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I thought it had to snow on Christmas to qualify.

Robusto

Wow, are you picky.

By my lights there just has to be snow on the ground to qualify.

But I don't know how they do things out in KC.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Hey, that's cool with me.

I thought this was decided way before my time.

Robusto

Who gets to decide this stuff?

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RegDwigнt

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Q: What is the more generic word that could describe both "import" and "export"?

What word could describe an operation of either importing or exporting?

vocabulary

badass

21:20

@Rob Santa decides who has been naughty or nice

RegDwigнt

Art Vandelay. — RegDwigнt 3 mins ago

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Deport that, please.

RegDwigнt

I do wonder how many people on the site will actually get it.

I know @Cerberus won't.

But I still have some hopes in others.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Vandelay Industries, of course. I upticked you.

"And you want to be my latex salesman."

RegDwigнt

Oh, and you are a person! That's over 0 people in total! Woohoo!

Robusto

21:22

I am OVER 9000 people. I am legion!

RegDwigнt

You are a misspelled what Will Smith is?

Speaking of which, I zapped into Omega Man yesterday.

With Charlton Heston and all.

Robusto

Did ye now?

badass

N

Robusto

Wow.

RegDwigнt

Can't say I found it much better than I am Legend. Sad but true.

And I am Legend was very very totally not very good at all.

Robusto

21:23

Did you get (wink wink) the Christian (wink wink) redemption (wink wink) theme?

No. The movie was a total piece of shit.

MετάEd

@Robusto Or meterage.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto No. I watched the "alternative" ending before watching the actual film, so I made sure to fall asleep at all the right places in the "correct" ending.

The really bad thing is, it still haunted me in my sleep.

Robusto

@MετάEd No. They would never make an odometer with 11 digits.

RegDwigнt

Seriously, WTF. The alternative was so much better. It was so much better it almost managed to make the rest of the movie a little better, too.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I told you about the joke a buddy and I played on a college roommate regarding that movie, right?

RegDwigнt

21:26

I don't think so, no.

MετάEd

@Robusto Odomage.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt WTF? Let's not bring finance into this.

MετάEd

That has a nice cheeselike odor to it.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto it's Russian finance. Also, high-gloss.

And periodically!

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Well, the three of us had watched that film, and the one guy was kinda freaked by it. So he went off to his dorm room to crash. And we, being college kids and all, decided to prank him. So we got hooded capes from somewhere (sheets, prolly) and powdered our faces with talc and put on sunglasses, then went into his room, intoning his name while holding flashlights under our faces. He was asleep, so we shook him awake, and ... it wasn't him!

It was his roommate.

RegDwigнt

21:28

ROFL

I'm not sure why I'm laughing at people killing an innocent man, but I am.

Robusto

Wrong place, wrong time.

It could happen to anybody.

RegDwigнt

So where was the original guy, and did he ever learn?

Or did he launch a surprise attack at you from behind.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Yeah. He decided he was too unsettled to sleep and had gone down to the student center to play ping-pong or something.

RegDwigнt

Wow. So he was a wise man, after all.

A wise Omega-Man.

Robusto

Yeah. We ever after gave him shit about not having the balls to go to bed where we could prank him.

RegDwigнt

21:32

Aug 22 '12 at 13:58, by RegDwight АΑA

"Ho ho ho", she laughed in a refined feminine way

Robusto

@RegDwigнt This is because the syllable for ho shows less of the inside of the mouth than ha. Guys get away with exposing their tongues and palates, but women are expected not to do that. This is also why you'll frequently see Japanese women cover their mouths when they laugh.

Mitch

No it's because they're eating all the time, and that's nasty. In Japan, men are clean and take care of their mouth hygiene so they feel confident laughing out loud.

Of course that's an overgeneralization.

Robusto

Nov 6 '12 at 18:22, by Robusto

@Cerberus Let me remind you: All generalizations are false.

@Mitch True that they're eating all the time and talking with their mouths full. But it's also true that women hide their laughter behind their hands.

My mother-in-law even does it, and she was born and raised in America.

Mitch

Here you are taking me seriously. Now I can't make fun of that.

So on to Americans...Americans are so big that when they laugh...

Robusto

@Mitch ... they take would-be jokesters seriously.

RegDwigнt

21:51

Americans are too easy a target. I want to make fun of, um, how about Tamil.

Nobody ever makes fun of the Tamil.

Robusto

Sounds like a job opportunity for you.

RegDwigнt

I will take on the challenge as soon as I have my LEGO t-shirt.

I will also expect a t-shirt from the Tamil.

Robusto

They are notoriously stingy with their T-shirts.

RegDwigнt

They put Gordon Summer on them?

He's a Tamil man in New York.

Robusto

Not the only living boy in New York? Oh, right. That was Paul Simon.

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A: Flexibility of English: Always so?

I'll bite. But it's going to be a long answer. English is a moderately inflected language. The more inflected a language is, the less flexibility there is in it, and. vs versa, the less inflected a language is, the "looser" or more flexible it is. The most heavily inflected language I know is A...

This feels like it wants to be a good answer, but gets weighted down. I don't agree with much of it.

RegDwigнt

22:04

Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know where.

Robusto

It's true.

RegDwigнt

We should have mentioned at Kosmo that them bagles was NY ones.

He is picky like that.

Robusto

Whaddya expect from a Longgislander?

RegDwigнt

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A: Origin of the expression "Get stoned"

I always thought it related to the band, the Rolling Stones because they constantly used drugs.

And I always though it didn't.

So we're quits I guess.

Robusto

No. You must pay.

RegDwigнt

22:07

Also, I find it offensive how he refers to the Stones as the only band.

Has he seen them as of, like, the last thirty years?

Robusto

"Slang meaning "drunk; intoxicated with narcotics" is from 1930s"—which is even older than any of the band members. — Robusto 12 secs ago

RegDwigнt

Okay now you're just making stuff up. Nobody is older than any of the band members. Not even Methusalem.

Or whatever you spell him in teh Englishes.

Robusto

O little town of Methusalem . . .

RegDwigнt

Methuselah-vuvuzelah.

Robusto

Note the careful drug-reference encoding: Meth-use-lah!

RegDwigнt

22:12

@Robusto Methusalem is lost.

badass

The Stones are so yesterday

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Sounds like a three-step plan, with "lah" for "profit".

Robusto

No. They're so like 40 years before yesterday.

RegDwigнt

And then some.

Robusto

But The Byrds are Younger Than Yesterday.

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RegDwigнt

22:13

Tchrist is in our site avoiding Kate Moss gatherings.

badass

Put them in with the Beatles

Robusto

@badass You would get a fight. Stones fans hate The Beatles, and vice versa.

RegDwigнt

They are our rivals!

Ramones FTW.

Or even just Skid Row.

badass

That is what I mean let them kill each other

Robusto

Well, several of them are already dead. Half of The Beatles, in fact.

RegDwigнt

22:15

Die Ärzte

Die Ärzte ("The Doctors", , often typeset die a⃛rzte, in their official logo with 3 dots on the "a") is a punk band from Berlin. Die Ärzte are one of the best-known German punk rock bands and have released over 20 albums. The band consists of guitarist Farin Urlaub, drummer Bela B. and bass player Rodrigo González. All three write and perform their songs. History Early years Die Ärzte were formed in Berlin in 1982 by Jan Vetter (alias Farin Urlaub, a pun on the expression "Fahr in Urlaub", meaning "Go on vacation"), Dirk Felsenheimer (alias Bela B.) and bassist Hans Runge (alias S...

Robusto

And Keith Richards is already embalmed.

RegDwigнt

> They also often call themselves "Die beste Band der Welt" ("The best band in the world") in jest due to them wondering why they have so many fans.

Punk has sold out, that's why.

Tis a great band tho.

Robusto

Punk sold out a long time ago.

RegDwigнt

Well they've been calling themselves that for decades.

tchrist

Gather ye no Schimmel soif pianos solo.

Robusto

22:17

@RegDwigнt Pun on "brand"?

tchrist

Mold, moss, and mildew: all the same thing anyway.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto nope.

Sorry.

Robusto

Worth a shot.

RegDwigнt

Tequila or vodka?

Robusto

Scotch.

RegDwigнt

22:19

You got it.

Dimple pinch, neat.

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Didn't know the track was even named that.

Robusto

хайзенберг

RegDwigнt

Excellent. You wrote it?

Robusto

No. Some Russki commented under that video.

RegDwigнt

And of course the traditional transliteration is actually Xейзенберг.

Robusto

Of course.

RegDwigнt

22:24

Germans don't get their way.

Heinrich Heine is Genrikh Geyne.

Robusto

Yeah. And Eugene is Yevgeny. What's up with that?

RegDwigнt

Well that's different, it's been adopted and embraced and probably directly from Greek anyway, so it's actually closer to the original than Yoojean.

Robusto

Whojean? Mejean?

RegDwigнt

Not my lover.

Robusto

So what does хайзенберг сука крутой mean? Heisenberg bitch something?

RegDwigнt

22:27

Goodbye England's rose.

Robusto

Heisenberg bitch crouton?

English Rose (album)

English Rose is a compilation album by Fleetwood Mac, released in January 1969. It was originally a US-only compilation, combining six tracks from the UK release Mr. Wonderful (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 11), three UK non-album single sides (Tracks 2, 7, and 12), two not-yet-released songs from the UK version of Then Play On (Tracks 9 and 10) and one other previously unreleased track (Track 4). It was released some months before the UK release of The Pious Bird of Good Omen, sharing five songs with that album. Mick Fleetwood appears in drag on the cover. Track listing #"Stop Messin' Rou...

RegDwigнt

Cool, rad, bad, whatever kids these days use.

He's one bad motherfucker.

badass

Ecstasy is what they use

And abuse

:(

Robusto

Time to go out to dinner. Laters.

badass

Later

tchrist

22:43

@RegDwigнt At least Eugene comes from a good start. Pity it's all downhill after that.

Just when you thought you were safe from trolls, here come the brownies!

RegDwigнt

Also, dude, "brownies" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Brown people", please.

@mr.shinyandnew安宇 holy crap, they are already deleting projects like mad. The full list is already down to 286 pages, from 305 yesterday. That means they've already nuked around 342 projects. That's some swift implementation.

And it's across the board, too, not just the long tail. My own project jumped up from the end of page 10 to the end of page 9 just like that, so around 16 projects ahead of it must have been deleted. Sixteen projects out of the top 180. That's not something you do off the cuff on a Friday afternoon. They must have had a readily compiled list handy.

They removed Wild Encounters (the collection of pre-mold animals), and even the Mini Animals (I suppose because it was too much "product line" and too little "singe set").

My oh my, good thing I did those last-minute changes to my project yesterday.

Stack Exchange

23:14

Limerick Machine: I’m so tired I might just go to bed This booze is affecting my head I’ve drunk a bit...

posted on December 13, 2013 by sgdi

I’m so tired I might just go to bed This booze is affecting my head I’ve drunk a bit much My mood is as such That the words that I write can’t be read

RegDwigнt

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Q: What should I consider before wearing Google Glasses to a job interview when I do development for them?

I am not sure if it's okay to wear Google Glass to an interview. It seems like many people are worried about their privacy, but I am a mobile application developer and I wear them pretty much all the time since I got them. Because I am involved in development for Google Glasses, it seems natura...

interviewing

You should consider not wearing Google Glasses, that's what you should.

You should also consider looking up if they are really called Google Glasses, which they are not.

MετάEd

23:37

What if Google Glasses are different from other personal electronic devices? Maybe it's not like having your smartphone in your hand ... maybe it's like wearing your prescription glasses that happen to be smart.

Certainly you would want to mute them.

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