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Limerick Machine: The horny old man of the sea Was whispering something to me Of curvy mermaids He bragged...
posted on January 15, 2015 by sgdi

The horny old man of the sea Was whispering something to me Of curvy mermaids He bragged he’d got laid Regardless how impossibly

 
Jez
Jez
12:42 AM
hey guys, it umptuous a word?
i'm sure I've heard it before
meaning something like "arrogant" or "impertinent"
> what you just said was umptuous
yet google's never heard of it. curious.
also, Christopher Hitchens seems to say "umptuousness" here: youtu.be/KR1uorQWNDg?t=9m50s
 
Mitch
Mitch
'unctuous'?
 
Jez
Jez
ahh yes unctuous
 
Mitch
Mitch
(oily, too smooth)
 
Jez
Jez
yep
 
Mitch
Mitch
so in the direction of arrogant or impertinent but not the same.
 
 
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Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
2:35 AM
Everyone is gone.
 
 
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EnglishMaster
EnglishMaster
4:51 AM
hey guys
Is there a terminology for technologies that add extra layers to securing personal online accounts? For example, in Korea, some webapps ask you to verify with your mobile phone or external security webapp in order to verify the account belongs to you and you are the owner who tries to log in.
 
George Pompidou
George Pompidou
5:06 AM
I guess you're not quite an English Master then.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
5:47 AM
Password protection.
 
 
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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
8:11 AM
@EnglishMaster the generic term would be "authentication", or multi-factor authentication.

 The DMZ

A serious place where infosec is discussed PS we don't do hard...
6
According to this^ user in the above room.
 
 
1 hour later…
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
9:40 AM
Hello @MattЭллен I don't feel good today, some new themes bothering me.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
10:13 AM
What is bothering you, @JasperLoy?
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
10:56 AM
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
11:09 AM
@MattЭллен It's complicated. I think this year will be a very tough year for me.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JasperLoy we're here for you
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен Thank you.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
11:25 AM
Try to be strong my friend @JasperLoy
One step at a time...
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
1:26 PM
0
A: What is the difference between a part of speech and a function?

tchristProfessor Lawler posted the following insightful and authoritative answer in non-searchable and ephemeral comments which I here reproduce verbatim as a Community Wiki answer to circumvent these infelicities: Function is the wrong word; it's pretty vague, even in linguistics. If you mean gram...

Lawler couldn"t be bothered to answer properly, so I CW'd it.
Yes I know that what's-her-name won't like his answer, but he is speaking from a position of authority here.
And I hate not being able to find good answers inSearch just because they're hidden in comments.
They're shutting the plane doors now. Hasta.
 
fileunderwater
fileunderwater
1:43 PM
Borderline off-topic for BiologySE, but probably interesting for many users here as well: Biologically, do we misuse the word “evolve” and any word derived from it?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:09 PM
And of course she has downvoted me, which does no good since I made it CW.
And of course, she is trying to argue with me in comments. I shall not condescend to engage with the querulous prat.
I made it a CW answer for the precise reasons I stated: because I am tired of answers hidden in comments that cannot be searched for. I’ve down this for at least a dozen of Lawler's comments: promoted them to CW answers. (CW because I deserve no credit.)
I think it improves the site.
 
Robusto
Robusto
I canceled out her downvote.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Thanks.
She’s asked a "Have you stopped beating your wife yet" question, and Lawler called her on it. Sometimes you cannot give the questioner, especially her, the answer she wants to hear. It is valid to answer an invalid question with a statement that they have asked the wrong question.
She has no interest in learning.
She posted it only as a way of hassling me.
Honest.
I kept waiting for Lawler to answer, and it warmed the cockles of my heart when he did so.
There's no flag for convert-comment-to-answer, but a non-rep-bearing CW answer is the next best thing.
I think I've done that with like 15 of Lawler's answers that he's put in comments.
Oh look, her bounty ended 7 minutes ago.
This may prove amusing.
 
terdon
terdon
2:29 PM
@fileunderwater Not very borderline at all. I don't see anything on topic there.
It is also based on a silly misconception that we get the meaning of words from dictionaries when the truth is the other way around.
Dictionary definitions derive from common use.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I keep telling people that.
Why do they get it all backwards?
 
terdon
terdon
shrugs
 
Robusto
Robusto
Interesting that she doubled down on her "fallacy of complex question" by adding a 400-point bounty to it.
@terdon That's also true of music theory. We think that the theory books are how composers learn to write music (i.e., by following the "rules"), but in fact music theory is merely a descriptive record of what composers have done.
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Yeah. Kinda like "Woah! WTF was that?"
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:44 PM
@tchrist: I called her on her comment and she deleted it.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Bravo!
Well done, my man!
In other news, I have finally and definitively solve the Numbered Conditional Problems for all time.
Behold in wonder the Canonical List of English Conditionals Conveniently Numbered: 
‭       I: If he will jump, you will not have to.
‭      II: If he will jump, he can win.
‭     III: If he will jump, he may win.
‭      IV: If he will jump, you must follow.
‭       V: If he will jump, you dare not follow.
‭      VI: If he will jump, you need not follow.
‭
‭     VII: If he escapes, catch him.
‭    VIII: If he escapes, you can catch him.
‭      IX: If he escapes, you catch him.
‭       X: If he escapes, you could catch him.
‭      XI: If he escapes, you may catch him.
‭     XII: If he escapes, you might catch him.
That should take care of all those numbered conditional sillinesses for all time, don’t you think?
 
fileunderwater
fileunderwater
@terdon Well, I agree that it's not a very useful way to look at language - usually ends with trying to pound eachother to death using different dictionaries. I just thought that soms users here might be interested in the question.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Hm, typo. Oh well.
@Robusto Perhaps, but she seems to have undeleted it.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@tchrist Huh? I didn't know that was possible. And here I deleted my response to hers.
Nah, she just restated it after I called her on it. But I'm calling her on it again.
 
tchrist
tchrist
She’s a querulous prat, that one is.
I particularly like the convenience of my numbering scheme in Roman numerals. That way we can speak lovingly of Conditional LV, for example. Or, I suppose, the sexagesimal conditional should one lack a shift key. Hm, I wonder whether I should include the versions with protasis and apodosis inverted. What do you think? 
       I: If he will jump, you will not have to.
      II: If he will jump, he can win.
     III: If he will jump, he may win.
      IV: If he will jump, you must follow.
       V: If he will jump, you dare not follow.
      VI: If he will jump, you need not follow.

     VII: If he escapes, catch him.
    VIII: If he escapes, you can catch him.
      IX: If he escapes, you catch him.
       X: If he escapes, you could catch him.
      XI: If he escapes, you may catch him.
     XII: If he escapes, you might catch him.
 
Robusto
Robusto
2:59 PM
What about "If he escape"?
 
tchrist
tchrist
If that be reasonable.
But yes, you are right. 
       I: If he will jump, you will not have to.
      II: If he will jump, he can win.
     III: If he will jump, he may win.
      IV: If he will jump, you must follow.
       V: If he will jump, you dare not follow.
      VI: If he will jump, you need not follow.

     VII: If he escapes, catch him.
    VIII: If he escapes, you can catch him.
      IX: If he escapes, you catch him.
       X: If he escapes, you could catch him.
      XI: If he escapes, you may catch him.
     XII: If he escapes, you might catch him.
That puts us at CXV conditionals. We’ll have to ask @Cerberus what the ordinal form is. :)
I do not count If he should jump, thou shalt catch him as a different conditional from If he should jump, you shall catch him.
 
Robusto
Robusto
And now: "Did he escape, you would have caught him."
Archaic, perhaps, but in the interest of thoroughness . . .
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Are you at home now @MattЭллен?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
yes
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
Isn't it too early? You left work early?
 
terdon
terdon
3:12 PM
@fileunderwater Not really. People here are very very firmly, fanatically even, in the descriptivist camp and have very little patience for the prescriptivist attitude of the OP. He will not be well received here :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
@Robusto Oh!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JasperLoy it's Friday. I've been leaving work this early on a Friday for nearly five years :D
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен Good good. I just watched the PBS documentaries on John Nash and Stephen Hawking.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JasperLoy was it good?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен Yes, both were good. I think I can just watch them over and over again when I need to pass time.
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:14 PM
       I: If he will jump, you will not have to.
      II: If he will jump, he can win.
     III: If he will jump, he may win.
      IV: If he will jump, you must follow.
       V: If he will jump, you dare not follow.
      VI: If he will jump, you need not follow.

     VII: If he escapes, catch him.
    VIII: If he escapes, you can catch him.
      IX: If he escapes, you catch him.
       X: If he escapes, you could catch him.
      XI: If he escapes, you may catch him.
     XII: If he escapes, you might catch him.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JasperLoy jolly good
 
tchrist
tchrist
Now at CXXXVII Conditionals.
CXXXVII is nicely prime, too.
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен I think I will never know what it is really like to have schizophrenia, unless I have it myself.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
quite true
 
tchrist
tchrist
I think they can treat that with drugs now.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
3:17 PM
truth?
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
@MattЭллен Just like I don't know what it is like to be you.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
well, I guess that's the drug politicians must be taking
 
tchrist
tchrist
No, not having schizophrenia.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
oh!
 
tchrist
tchrist
With the right drugs, everybody can be schizofreakofrenetic.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
3:19 PM
@JasperLoy yes. our inner workings can't be known perfectly
 
Jasper Loy
Jasper Loy
When you don't take meds and get worse, people say it's because you stop taking meds. When you take meds and get worse, they don't say anything.
When you have therapy and get better, people say it's because the therapy helps. When you have therapy and don't get better, they say it's because you don't listen to the therapist.
Not everyone's point of view, but many think like the above.
@tchrist Did you make this list yourself?
I am going to bed. Good night @MattЭллен. I hope a miracle comes to me in my dreams.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
good night, @JasperLoy
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
3:34 PM
@tchrist Because from an early age they learn to check dictionaries for correctness. What's the proper spelling of some word? Check your dictionary. What does some word mean? Check your dictionary. The dictionary is held up as, and becomes, the Authority of What Is a Word and What a Word Means. Words gain legitimacy by being added to dictionaries. etc.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JasperLoy Natch.
 
terdon
terdon
Hmm, bad oneboxing of animated gifs. Sorry, here: tclhost.com/DZg82ji.gif
 
tchrist
tchrist
heh
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@terdon Is that in any way an accurate rendition of what it's like for a dyslexic person when they read text?
 
tchrist
tchrist
@terdon She’s certainly struggling. She’s also started to make what I consider inappropriate personal attacks that have no business being in comments. If she thinks my practice guilty of some impropriety, she should post that matter to meta, preferably without involving actual user names.
 
terdon
terdon
3:43 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I ahve no idae
 
tchrist
tchrist
But I am an interested party of notorious prickliness, and she has a vendetta against me.
 
terdon
terdon
@tchrist True dat.
 
tchrist
tchrist
So I leave it to others to judge.
 
terdon
terdon
@tchrist Really? That will be a first! :P
 
tchrist
tchrist
@terdon There is a fancy term of rhetoric for what I am doing here, you realize. It is of course Greek. :)
TURBULENCE
That's not the word; it's the airplane bouncing around.
 
terdon
terdon
3:50 PM
You're actually in a plane?
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Robusto Well, quite, that's exactly what I've done above! Perhaps it would be better to do that before Wiki-ing his comments as an answer in the first place. I would seem only curteous. — Araucaria 49 mins ago
Interesting neologism, curteous. It implies faux graciousness, a dismissive courtesy.
@terdon We're all in a plane of one sort or another.
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto I love it when you go all profound.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Who says I am not always there?
 
crl
crl
Which of "little" and "small" means the smallest size?
 
Robusto
Robusto
Neither.
 
terdon
terdon
4:00 PM
@crl We need an example phrase. It depends on context.
 
Robusto
Robusto
You may as well ask which means the greater size, big or large.
 
crl
crl
@terdon for files for example
 
terdon
terdon
Small
You don't really have little files.
Even better, refer to file sizes, not files.
 
Robusto
Robusto
A small elephant is bigger than a large dog but littler than big whale.
 
terdon
terdon
Anyway, small files is OK. Little files is not.
 
Kabir
Kabir
4:02 PM
Is this sentence correct "This has been brought a wonderful result for those who used it."?
 
terdon
terdon
@Kabir No
 
crl
crl
@terdon ok
 
Kabir
Kabir
why not?
 
terdon
terdon
has been brought a for starters.
 
crl
crl
been
 
terdon
terdon
4:03 PM
Are you talking about some kind of product?
 
Kabir
Kabir
Product?
No
 
terdon
terdon
What is the context? You probably want something like "This has brought wonderful results to those who used it".
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Araucaria: I think you are now accusing tchrist of bad manners, deception, and malicious intent. Do you bear him some animus? — Robusto 48 secs ago
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@Kabir We'd need to know what "This" refers to
 
Kabir
Kabir
This is the context "Just wanted to share these hold phrases with you all, as I have shared with some of you already in my coaching and feedback sessions. This has brought a wonderful result for those who used it.

Also, I am attaching the file for you so that you can make it handy."
 
Robusto
Robusto
4:05 PM
@terdon Little files is fine. How would it not be okay?
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Little files? Really? Sounds very strange to me. I would expect them to grow up or something.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Well, keep adding to them and they will.
 
terdon
terdon
:)
@Kabir What does the this refer to?
What result? What are hold phrases?
 
Kabir
Kabir
Hold phrases refer to put a call on hold.
 
terdon
terdon
Ah. And how does one get wonderful results from such a thing? That seems like a bit of a hyperbole.
@Kabir perhaps: "I just wanted to share these hold phrases, which I've already shared with some of you in my coaching and feedback sessions. They have brought wonderful results to those who have used them."
 
Robusto
Robusto
4:12 PM
@terdon That one is used more than the other proves nothing. In the interest of varying your speech, you may wish to take the less trodden path.
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto But, but, descriptivism!
Anyway, if someone has to ask about the difference, presumably English is not their native language and sticking to the trodden path might be safer.
 
crl
crl
 
Kabir
Kabir
Thank you @terdon
 
terdon
terdon
You're welcome.
@crl I would use tiny files for very small file sizes. It's the little I don't like.
 
Kabir
Kabir
However, you made me think that how it has brought wonderful results.
 
terdon
terdon
4:21 PM
Wonderful results just seems a bit extreme for hold phrases. Cancer drugs can have wonderful results, but hold phrases?
 
Robusto
Robusto
4:40 PM
@terdon That has nothing to do with descriptivism. Anyway, one might want to use "little" when one isn't talking about file size per se—"little" files may mean unimportant ones, or ones containing references to "little" things, etc.
 
terdon
terdon
"That one is used more than the other proves nothing." : prescriptivistismness!
And yes, if we're not talking about the size, little is fine. "Just create a little temp file" for example.
 
Kabir
Kabir
You are right @terdon, however I am referring to CSAT scores (customer satisfaction).
 
tchrist
tchrist
Haha! Lawler isn't playing her game. I guessed he wouldn't.
 
terdon
terdon
4:59 PM
Dammit! Typo in a comment I can't edit anymore.
I hate it when that happens.
Possibly the greatest perk of being a mod is being able to edit your old comments.
It's beside the point, not besides fool terdon!
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
-3
Q: describe Chicken Biryani ( food) as if it is a beautiful girl

AnjanHow to describe a plate of Chicken Biryani as if it is a beautiful girl. People should feel that i am describing a girl not a food. (However,I will reveal them at the end that it is Chicken biryani I am talking about). Please help, I need it for a presentation.

expressions description food
Oh, dear gods, no.
 
Kabir
Kabir
That looks funny to me, how could you describe Chicken Biryani as a beautiful girl?
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
Depends on whether you prefer breasts, legs or thighs, obviously.
(Which is precisely what not to say when giving a presentation)
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
5:15 PM
easy "This beautiful girl was very tasty. Especially the Biryani sauce." noöne will suspect a thing
 
terdon
terdon
The small droplets of condensation on her succulent legs and tender breasts remind one of a winter's dawn.
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
As usual, the meeting with her I'd so anticipated just left me with a nauseated cramping pain in my stomach.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@JonHanna I get ya, man.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JonHanna You expect better from ELU? I would call that a stubborn optimism.
 
crl
crl
This spicy blonde was a delight
 
terdon
terdon
5:23 PM
@crl On t'as vu!
t'a?
Fuck but I hate writing French.
 
crl
crl
pas vu pas pris
t'as
 
terdon
terdon
:)
Thanks. I spent 4 years in France and can speak it fluently but I still write phonetically.
 
Jez
Jez
 
crl
crl
French grammar/conjugation isn't fun
 
Jez
Jez
Ah, would that all businesses did office design like that!
 
terdon
terdon
5:25 PM
@crl Nope. That it ain't.
Fascinating, mind you.
 
Jez
Jez
my office is having a layout change and i've forwarded that article to our company boss but my hopes aren't high ;-) I think he likes the whole open-plan thing
 
Robusto
Robusto
I wish my thermal bike togs would arrive. I long to be outdoors riding.
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto The obvious solution, of course, would be to move to a country with sane weather.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@terdon Does such a country exist?
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Yup. Most of the Mediterranean coast would qualify.
Well, assuming you don't mind heat.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
5:28 PM
the UK has sane weather. it's mild most of the time, with a touch of cold in winter. a lot of rain, though
 
Jez
Jez
a touch of cold?!
it's fecking freezing
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
Jez, meet Canada
 
terdon
terdon
@MattЭллен Can you actually say that with a straight face?
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Jez I wonder if your boss is in the open plan too? It's easy to like a plan when you don't have to experience it yourself.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@terdon yeah. it is mild most of the time. like 12 to 16 degrees C
 
Robusto
Robusto
5:29 PM
@terdon Too trashy. At least the parts I can afford.
 
crl
crl
thanks Gulf stream
 
terdon
terdon
@MattЭллен Oookay. 1) we have very different definitions of mild. 2) I don't buy that, I used to live there you know!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@terdon OK, I didn't mean the UK, I meant Southern England
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Oy!
 
Mitch
Mitch
@MattЭллен Sane if you like being slightly damp always.
 
Jez
Jez
5:30 PM
@Mitch kind of. the idea is that he will be in a kind of crevice area, but without actually having a separating wall from the rest of the office
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Mitch yeah...
 
terdon
terdon
@MattЭллен Ah, that's a different kettle of fish. Still too much rain though.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Ooh.. here's the sun... oops, gone.
@Jez Oh. so eating his own dog food sort of. that's commendable. but then it's dog food.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch That actually happened to me more than once. I;d be studying in the library, I'd notice the sun had come out so I'd go for a smoke and it's be raining by the time I got down the stairs.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Jez although, to be fair, I don't like winter. it is too cold.
 
Jez
Jez
5:32 PM
@Mitch mmm
 
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon northern france and germany aren't too different.
 
terdon
terdon
I have to say though, you get some gorgeous sunsets in the UK what with all the humidity.
 
Mitch
Mitch
but tahiti... don't they have hurricanes?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
yes indeed
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Mediterranean I said!
 
Mitch
Mitch
5:32 PM
and there's the skin cancer thing.
 
terdon
terdon
Plus, I'm in Greece now. We have great weather here.
Not much else to write home about but the weather is excellent.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon consider us all jealous.
of the weather.
zing!
 
terdon
terdon
Good. Mission accomplished. And I'll just not mention that it's 9 degrees outside.
@Mitch Well obviously. You'd have to be pretty silly to be jealous of anything else.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@terdon I've thought of visiting the Greek isles . . .
 
terdon
terdon
The guys living here 2, 2.5 thousand years ago were hot shit but the country's been going downhill ever since.
 
Jez
Jez
5:35 PM
> Joel’s management philosophy is deceptively simple: hire smart people who get things done, and get the hell out of their way. The role of management is to give the people who actually do the work — the developers, designers, sysadmins, etc. — all the tools they need to get their jobs done, and then trust them to do the job!
 
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon Oh yeah. exactly. If it's going to be worth while to move, they better have nice weather on tap always
couple days off a year
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto Let me know if you do, I'd be happy to help you out. I could even put you up for a few nights if I'm here and you're in Athens.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@terdon Pericles was overrated.
 
Jez
Jez
it's pretty obvious to see why most managers don't embrace this view too much - they're scared people would slack off, and they don't really have the competence to judge whether the person should remain employed
sad.
 
terdon
terdon
@Robusto But Socrates himself is particularly missed...
 
Robusto
Robusto
5:36 PM
Well, yeah.
 
Mitch
Mitch
which view? the open officeplan or take as much PTO as you need?
 
terdon
terdon
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
 
Jez
Jez
@Mitch open? the whole point was that it was closed, with offices
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
@Robusto No, I'm just caught wanting to answer the real underlying question, but "why is it a really bad idea to describe a piece of chicken as if it was an attractive woman" is not on-topic as an EL&U matter.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@terdon Socrates was a huge PITA for the 30 tyrants, IIRC.
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
5:37 PM
Maybe it's a deliberately absurd homework exercise or something.
 
terdon
terdon
Which is why he drank the coño.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@JonHanna Haha, good point.
 
terdon
terdon
@JonHanna I fear the OP honestly thinks it is a brilliant gimmick.
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
Socrates said it best when he said, "I drank what?!"
5
 
Mitch
Mitch
 
Jez
Jez
5:38 PM
when i think back to recruiters describing businesses to me, actually, they often say "it's all open plan" like that's automatically a plus. in fact... i don't think i saw a single business that didn't have some kind of open plan design
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch We won that one!
@JonHanna Ha! :)
 
Jez
Jez
but you know the one thing worse than openplan? openplan with a big speaker playing a radio station all day
quite a few places in the UK do that now, i guess it's trendy
 
Robusto
Robusto
To put it another way, Socrates would not drink the Kool-Aid, which is why they made him drink the hemlock.
 
Jez
Jez
i literally left a job after 1 day because they worked in a small room with Radio 1 playing all day
 
Mitch
Mitch
@terdon "Marx claims offsides" - He was right!
 
Jez
Jez
5:41 PM
i knew there was no way on earth i'd be able to concentrate
nor was there any chance of them scrapping their policy
 
Mitch
Mitch
@Jez earphones.
 
terdon
terdon
@Mitch Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that.
 
Robusto
Robusto
 
Jez
Jez
im wearing some right now. but i kinda like to have them on sometimes, but not always. like i'm defending myself from my environment.
 
Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna
@Robusto Socrates would have pointed out that it was in fact poisoned Flavor Aid that was drunk in the incident that gave us that expression. This of course would have just irritated people more.
 
Robusto
Robusto
5:43 PM
". . . stretched out like Spandex in Miami Beach . . ."
"orgasmic passing"
Purple prose much?
If Messi didn't exist, Hudson wouldn't have a career.
Him or Ronaldo, anyway.
 
crl
crl
nvm
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
6:35 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 i.imgur.com/Zt5k9nG.gif
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 showcasing: the fear of getting old!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
7:02 PM
why did I start eating mints? I just opened a bottle of cider. rookie mistake
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 neat
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@MattЭллен eew!
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
I wonder if I could build one of those.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Of course you could!
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 eew indeed!
 
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
7:08 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Well, I might need to buy tons of parts
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's no reflection on your ability to do it, though.
 
Robusto
Robusto
7:34 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They had a copy of Popular Science at the barber today. I haven't read that in years.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Robusto Nice! What did you learn?
 
Robusto
Robusto
I forgot already. :(
No, I learned that car information screens are confusing, and why. But I knew that already.
Also that a car manufacturer is narrowing the front axles of some new cars by about a meter and this improves the aerodynamic profile and saves fuel.
But I would have suspected that as well.
Still, it was fun to look at all that hands-on stuff.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Robusto Weird. Is that part of the EPAS movement?
 
Robusto
Robusto
I don't know.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
(Electrically-Assisted Power Steering)
 
Robusto
Robusto
7:44 PM
No, it's an effort to reduce the drag created by the boxy front end.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
I have the current Popular Mechanics. Need to finish reading it.
That salmon cannon shit is hilarious.
@Robusto Oh. Oh, I see.
 
Robusto
Robusto
Delta profile.
BTW, I finally broke down and got an E-Z Pass transponder. No more making change on toll roads for me.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
Nice!
I've heard you can blow through those and they will send you a bill.
 
Robusto
Robusto
They automagically bill your credit card.
They do it in $20 chunks. When that's depleted, they re-up.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
Oy!
 
Robusto
Robusto
7:51 PM
Our toll roads are down to a single lane for cash. So I had to do it simply out of self-preservation.
Not that I use toll roads much. But when I do, it can be annoying.
 
Robusto
Robusto
8:11 PM
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist Centesimus quindecimus?
Or which sex do you need?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
all of them
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That's a lot.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Are you sure you're ready for that?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
8:14 PM
no, but I need to try!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Well, well.
Time for you to get back to your Tinder, young man.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
:D
pulls out tablet yes sir.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Ohh big pictures.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
indeed!
all the better to see them with
 
Mitch
Mitch
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Blow through your nose and they send you a bill? What do they think we are, ducks?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:26 PM
@MattЭллен Grandma?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
not yet. I don't even have children!
unless... are you a lumberjack?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
No, I am the milkman.
*-dog
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
ah! you knock twice
or was that the postman?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Sure.
Oh.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
one of those
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:30 PM
Well, I like the postman too.
 
Robusto
Robusto
The milkman can do whatever he wants. It's the postman who rings twice, though.
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
you like to chase him!
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus chases the postman doggedly.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Mitch AFLAC
 
Robusto
Robusto
Too lame for Gilbert Godfried.
@Robusto I can't really comment on what you think old bean. — Araucaria 1 min ago
Now she's trying to piss me off.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:33 PM
@Robusto Naturally.
Have to bite people.
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Catan?
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
 
Robusto
Robusto
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Chinese packers?
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
@Cerberus Chew got it, doggy.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:35 PM
woof
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus taps the sign
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
sees no sign
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@Cerberus I think Robusto is trying to sleep
prehaps you should consult an Oracle.
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus "No barking while people are trying to sleep."
 
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
Or get some Java.
 
Mitch
Mitch
8:50 PM
gets some java
feels just like asking an oracle
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@MattЭллен It's too early for him.
 
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