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@RegDwigнt I'm one upvote away from that

Well, I am volunteering.

not on ELU

So?

and I'm not doing it for the hats, they're just a side benefit

11:03 PM

As you wish.

So you aren't aiming to have more than twice the number of hats of the nearest contender?

I'm at 590 and shall be getting a couple Frosties in an hour.

So yeah, 600 sounds like a good place to stop.

KitSox

HAMMERTIME!

Exactly.

I suspect @RegDwigнt might be haterosexual.

11:04 PM

you'd need another 15–20 or so

@Gilles there are still a couple sites where I have none at all, and it takes all of three minutes to get five hats out of each of them.

It's just when the top 20 starts at 16 hats, I never bothered with it.

So some sites still have mythical alots roaming them.

11:23 PM

pfff

I have this itching too minor button

Quick, just post it on Reddit somewhere.

I mean. Hi!

@Gilles wrong is wrong. Or do you want me to get to 3k? The spirits that you call...

Und wie geht's?

Sehr schön.

Wie ist das wetter heute?

11:28 PM

I got a bunch of supporters for my animals today. Like, the fourth highest number ever. (It's still in the single digits, before you get all excited.)

I wonder if it is some sort of fallout from the sardines fiasco.

Vier?

Neun?

Also erstens schreibt man das vier und neun.

I'm having trouble remembering German numbers.

Und zwotens, irgendwo dazwischen.

Hier sind Spione anwesend, daher werden keine genauen Zahlen verraten.

Verreuckt.

11:30 PM

Verrückt indeed.

So. Your starred message there. You still need a reminder or can I kick it?

@KitSox post

It's not going to happen. 438.

pfff, nothing

I think Gilles misspole pots.

I was expecting “ARM THE MIME” or something

11:32 PM

62 views in some few short hours.

@Gilles I'll try to remember that for next time.

@KitFox hello. Your starred message.

A reminder from tchrist.

What?

9 hours ago, by KitFox

@tchrist Remind me, I'll put that in.

My starred message?

You're like Cerberus or something.

11:33 PM

Don't even say that.

Well I guess it's too late for that now.

Ich bin zehr sad now.

Sehr.

Und traurig.

Und jetzt.

@Gilles "HIM AMMETER".

So anyway. Fourth attempt: you still need that reminder yes or no.

11:34 PM

Und um, um gelt.

@RegDwigнt Ja, danke.

Gut.

Das war eine schwere Geburt.

Welche Farber hat die Bleischifte?

Da muß ich direkt einen trinken gehen.

"MARMITE. MEH."

That I can do.

11:35 PM

@KitFox welche Farbe haben die Bleistifte? Viele verschiedene, denke ich.

Oder aber sie sind alle schwarz.

"HAMMER EMIR".

See? Nothing he taught us was useful at all.

You are supposed to say 'hellblau' then I konne remember the word for blue.

Oder dunkelblau. Das was die oder one.

At least ze Dschömanns have hellblau. You have nothing. Russian has a whole dedicated word. Which is why the Russian rainbow has seven colors rather than six.

I know. I find that fascinating.

I'd find it more fascinating to ask those folks who only have three colors in total in their languages. Or two, even.

11:38 PM

@RegDwigнt is that the color between blue and violet?

Somehow nobody ever did that.

@Gilles no, blue and green.

Five was the most commonest.

Голубой цвет

Голубо́й цвет — это либо группа оттенков синего с небольшим смещением в сторону зелёного, таким, что ещё совсем нет ощущения зелёного оттенка, либо просто светлые оттенки тонов синего диапазона. Спектральному голубому приблизительно соответствует оттенок 130 в цветовой системе Windows (00BFFF16). В более широком смысле голубой можно определить как синеватый или слабо-синий, в таком случае голубыми часто называют вещи, которые по контрасту с окружающими выделяются небольшим синим оттенком. Например, голубыми часто называют кровеносные сосуды, вены, поскольку когда они видны под ко...

@RegDwigнt is that supposed to be a rainbow color?

Light blue, then indigo, essentially.

11:39 PM

@Gilles it is not supposed to, it is.

Breaking news: there are OVER 9000 colors in a rainbow, actually.

Oh! Reg! I was thinking about "in the sixth hour" on my way to work. Maybe "in the home stretch" has the same meaning.

@RegDwigнt in France it's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Red orange yellow green lightblue blue violet for Russian.

Roy G. Biv is a colorful man and he proudly stands at the rainbow's end.

@KitFox I wouldn't know. You tell me.

11:40 PM

!!youtube Roy G. Biv

KitSox

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@KitFox Russian has a mnemonic that's a complete sentence.

German has that for planets.

@RegDwigнt The home stretch is the end part of a race, where you go past the crowd right before the finish line. If you've been working hard and are making the final push, you might say 'hang in there! We're in the home stretch!' to say stick with it, we're almost to the end.

Yeah. That could work.

It's a bit too optimistic. Too American.

Haha. Americans are optimistic?

11:43 PM

In what they say and sing, extremely. Always.

No wonder I like Russians better.