English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

TRiG

12:21 AM

Does anyone here employ a valet?

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:38 AM

@TRiG ... So, people in Britain say "valet" as "val et" instead of "val-ay"? And the disagreeing groups of speakers think the other group is being pretentious or ignorant or both? honestly language is so much easier in Canada.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

2:47 AM

Cerberus

3:46 AM

@TRiG Haha, pretty fucking brilliant!

@MrShinyandNew安宇 You're unduly simplifying things.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 That is unethical though great fun.

Sonic The Hedgehog

what is this?

Sonic The Hedgehog

4:22 AM

Cerberus

@SonicTheHedgehog Haha I knew this one, but it's still fun to read again.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@ceberus What I dont know is, how to incorporate this in my chat./..

Can you help me?

Cerberus

4:54 AM

@SonicTheHedgehog Sorry you didn't ping me... what do you mean by incorporating?

It is there?

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Cerb of how to use this troll.

Cerberus

Oh.

Well, what would you say is the essence of this trolling, or rather its most remarkable features?

Sonic The Hedgehog

5:14 AM

sorry for lapse of responce, VERY busy here... heheh. all I want to know is, how to use it for my own good.

@Cerb

Cerberus

You should consider the answer to my line above and inject it into your dealings with people.

Sonic The Hedgehog

....so exploting their essence or features?

Cerberus

The latter is supposed to be the same as the former, in other words.

@Jez: Do you like David Mitchell? I do, but he uses the simple indicative here that you find so illiterate ("I suggest that x ... is changed"). He also used "was" for the past subjunctive somewhere, alas.

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Anonymous

8:49 AM

Hello, anyone here?

TRiG

5:37 PM

:2121860. I've heard David Mitchell described as a spare Stephen Fry.

@Cerberus I've heard David Mitchell described as a spare Stephen Fry.

Cerberus

5:52 PM

@TRiG Haha, yes, he reminded me of Fry a great deal.

They should do a battle of eloquence!

TRiG

@Cerberus Have you ever watched QI?

David Mitchell has been a guest a couple of times. Stephen Fry is the presenter.

Cerberus

@TRiG Oh, nice. I've watched a few fragments on Youtube, but never an entire show. It seemed pretty cool.

TRiG

@Cerberus I don't have a telly any more (I have BBC Radio 4 instead), but when I did, QI was one of my favourite shows.

user19161

@Cerberus Boo! Hope your thesis is coming along fine.

user19161

6:07 PM

@TRiG You remind me of sin, cos and tan.

TRiG

@JasperLoy I enjoyed geometry, but the name TRiG is older than that. I created it in primary school.

user19161

@TRiG Any reason for it?

TRiG

@TRiG Timothy Richard Green

user19161

@TRiG Timothy seems a very Christian name.

TRiG

@JasperLoy I suppose so. I was named after the Biblical Timothy.

TRiG, Offaly, Ireland

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Cerberus

6:12 PM

@TRiG Perhaps I should watch it online: I don't have a television set either, but I do have Tunnelbear, which lets me watch the BBC online for € 5 / month unlimited, or 1.5 GB on a free account.

Hi Jas!

TRiG

@Cerberus Tunnelbear? Must look into that.

user19161

@TRiG I didn't know you are atheist till now.

TRiG

Of course, a lot of shows are available free online through the BBC iPlayer. But only the radio shows are available outside the UK.

Cerberus

TRiG

@JasperLoy Is it relevant to anything we've discussed?

user19161

6:13 PM

@Cerberus I have lengthened my username to what it originally was as there are too many Jaspers on SE.

Cerberus

@TRiG Oh, are you in the UK? I was only talking about the shows Brits can watch for free.

@JasperLoy Wise.

user19161

@TRiG Nope, just a comment.

TRiG

@Cerberus Republic of Ireland. My family are English, but I'm Irish.

user19161

@Cerberus Indeed! And I noted "wise" is your favourite word.

user19161

@TRiG Not to be confused with Northern Ireland of UK.

Cerberus

6:14 PM

@TRiG Ah OK, so you can't watch BBC programmes on their site?

TRiG

@JasperLoy I've recently acquired friends in Northern Ireland, which seems to me a very odd place. I'm used to Ireland, and I'm used to England. And NI seems like a strange hybrid.

@Cerberus Nah. But I was brought up with the radio. I don't really miss telly. Except QI and Mock the Week.

Sentence fragments!

Cerberus

@TRiG averts eyes

I watched me some Downton Abbey too. Nowhere else to get it at the moment, the new episodes.

τετράζω, cackle like the τέτραξ, on laying an egg, Alex.Mynd. ap. Ath.9.398d.

II. (τετράς) observe a four-day cycle, Philostr.Gym.47.

TRiG

@Cerberus I've always avoided plot-based telly, because I don't watch enough and always miss bits.

Cerberus

Oops.

TRiG

@Cerberus ?

Cerberus

6:20 PM

@TRiG But you can watch several episodes in a row on-line! That is also one of the reasons why I don't watch television.

@TRiG Wrong room, sorry.

TRiG

Must pop off for a moment. It's getting dark, and I must put the ducks to bed. They need food and water and a safely closed gate to keep them away from foxes and mink.

user19161

@TRiG You have a farm there?

Cerberus

Haha aww.

Si hello to the ducks from me!

TRiG

@JasperLoy Not a farm. Just four ducks and two cats (one of whom I had to throw out of my lap to get up).

user19161

@TRiG I never had pets. I am afraid of most insects too.

TRiG

6:27 PM

I used to share a house with four other guys. Now I've moved back home for six months to look after the place while my parents are away in China. So I'm alone in a four-bedroom house.

user19161

@TRiG Sounds exciting.

Cerberus

Nice!

I was in a bar yesterday where a kitten was napping in a chair.

Extremely cute.

TRiG

@Cerberus But you're a hellhound!

Cerberus

Well I still get to pet my food before I eat it.

user19161

It has been raining cats and dogs the past few days.

TRiG

6:30 PM

@JasperLoy Did you step in a poodle?

user19161

@TRiG I am not good at understanding jokes but I happen to get this one.

TRiG

@JasperLoy It's not original, of course. But as puns go, it's not too bad.

Jez

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15228545

Hands up, children, who can see the grammatical mistake caused by shitty English in that headline?

or am i I talking nonsense? maybe 'answers' is actually supposed to be a plural noun. hmm.

TRiG

PM demands Liam Fox MoD inquiry answers by Monday I'm pretty sure answers is intended as a verb.

Though either reading would be possible. It's certainly confusing.

Jez

one can "demand answers"

TRiG

6:38 PM

I'm going to try to write a response to this Box Turtle Bulletin post to say something about the unfortunate use of the word crazy. People with mental health issues do not appreciate being compared with hate-filled bigots.

Jez

i can't quite hang the BBC on that one because they might technically mean that

TRiG

@Jez Or one can demand that an enquiry answers.

Jez

no

one most certainly cannot demand that

TRiG

Sorry. answer.

Jez

yep

TRiG

6:40 PM

@Jez It's also the weird use of inquiry to refer not to the question itself, but to the panel of people making the inquiry that confuses the issue.

And, in British usage, collective nouns like company, or, in this context, inquiry, can be treated as either plural or singular.

Jez

doesn't matter; the subjunctive is always answer

TRiG

True.

Jez

the only context in which that sentence could be correct is if answers is a plural noun

which as you said, i doubt. The PM himself can't speak proper English so if they're quoting him, it'll be wrong

user19161

I wonder why it rains "cats" and "dogs" and not other animals.

Jez

cats and dogs are the most common pets?

> But Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, from the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "Faith schools are by and large established to enforce the religious teachings of our lives, and the theory of creation is one of the cornerstones of our faith.

> "To expect faith schools not to teach this kind of religious teaching is unreasonable, but I also think it is important for faith schools to teach science to children as well so they are aware of modern day findings and can use the information to ask further questions and strengthen their faith.

TRiG

6:44 PM

@JasperLoy I'm sure I remember reading that somewhere (Hungary?), it rains old women and sticks.

Jez

if you're not in Britain, thank goodness you don't have to put up with this bullshit.

user19161

@Jez Sorry I missed your birthday yesterday, I could not come into chat.

Jez

no problem :-)

TRiG

@Jez I've heard it's possibly worse in the USA.

user19161

@TRiG I used to tell my friend "raining ants and cockroaches".

Jez

6:45 PM

@TRiG yes and no. depends where in the USA you're looking i guess.

over here, there is this egregious widespread acceptance that 'faith school' isn't an oxymoron.

user19161

@Jez Any birthday wishes you want to share here?

Jez

that various women come on to me, maybe?

user19161

Hello @nohat!

nohat

@JasperLoy Hello

I'm <this close> to leaving forever. Please talk me down from the ledge.

TRiG

@nohat Well, I'd miss you.

user19161

6:48 PM

@nohat Why?

nohat

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A: How can the pronunciation of famous peoples names be "too localized"?

Ridiculous. Reopened. There was nothing localized about those famous names. I'm sure those who voted to close just were unfamiliar with the names and voted to close without checking first if the names were famous.

TRiG

I've been in chat very rarely, but I was reading backlog a while ago and saw a calm discussion of a massive blowup which had happened earlier.

nohat

massive blowup about what?

user19161

@nohat Well, just tell yourself it is just one question. Don't let one question change your life like that. One person maybe, but not one question.

nohat

No, it is the profundity of Jeff Atwood's ignorance which continues to astonish me.

He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to language

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TRiG

6:51 PM

@nohat That was the one about humour.

user19161

@nohat Ah I noticed the similarity between "pronunciation" and "profundity", how the "o" is omitted.

TRiG

Again, it was Jeff being high-handed and driving away high-quality contributors.

nohat

yes, dealing with Jeff's nonsense dramatically takes away from the fun of contributing here

user19161

@TRiG I am neither high-handed nor low-handed, just left-handed and not right-handed.

nohat

it is why I have been so scarce lately

user19161

6:55 PM

@Jez Are you still working on your Firefox addons? I am looking forward to install Ubuntu 11.10 in a few days.

Jez

@JasperLoy yes, sometimes. why?

user19161

@Jez Nothing, just a thought. Just tell them about your addons like I said.

Jez

lol

TRiG

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A: Are questions about ununderstood English-language jokes on-topic?

Another (bad) example: What is the explanation for this joke - I just don't get it... I do not feel that "explain this joke to me" should generally be on topic on a site ostensibly for linguists, etymologists, and (serious) English language enthusiasts In fact, I feel such questions t...

I hadn't been aware of what's going on here.

user19161

@TRiG Well, let's move on after that episode.

Cerberus

7:00 PM

@TRiG I don't know, it is rather ambiguous. It could very well correspond to initial findings.

TRiG

@JasperLoy I'm just saying that I hadn't even been aware of it till I was reading chat backlog the other day.

nohat

@TRiG yes, sigh. the real WTF was I actually deleted Jeff's answer because I thought it was unnecessarily inflammatory (and here we are again, being inflamed by it) and he read me the riot act

user19161

@TRiG That was quite long ago. Don't tell me you read the entire transcript?

TRiG

I'm suddenly becoming aware of a pattern of behaviour which everyone else here has known for a while.

@JasperLoy Nah. It was more recent. It wasn't the impassioned debate which I'm sure happened at the time, but a sort of look back at something which had happened earlier.

user19161

@TRiG But honestly it's not that many incidents.

Cerberus

7:03 PM

@nohat Jeff is just an idiot. I've been much less involved since his extremely annoying meddling as well. I think a proper strategy could be to just do on this site whatever is fun for you, and ignore the things that aren't, especially chores and arguments. I know you are a moderator, but who cares? It's your life and your time.

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I find it bearable so far.

nohat

@Cerberus That's basically the approach I've been taking. And I was kind of irritated by the "shame coloring" system used for moderators

user19161

@nohat Huh?

nohat

can you see english.stackexchange.com/admin

user19161

@nohat No, but nvm.

Cerberus

@nohat Can't see it either. They colour your names based on activity or something?

nohat

7:06 PM

yes

let me show you

Cerberus

Step one would be to pay you lot first—then talk about responsibilities.

nohat

oh, well they sent me some t-shirts and a sticker! that's like payment

skitch.com/nohat/f9jn6/…

TRiG

@nohat I get a page-not-found error for that page.

nohat

you can see how Kosmo and I have some things marked in bolded red

Cerberus

@nohat That's just advertising the company.

nohat

7:07 PM

@Cerberus (I was being facetious)

Cerberus

@nohat Oh, good, I couldn't be sure...

The red 4 does looks a bit like shaming.

user19161

@nohat So you got them! I didn't ask for mine.

Cerberus

Out of context, I'd shrug; but what with Jeff's comments on Reg's doing all the work, it looks annoying.

nohat

@Cerberus after the shame coloring was first implemented, I did make a concerted effort to deal with more flags

but then I just stopped caring

TRiG

Ah, well. Have a booby.

nohat

7:10 PM

I'm going to do whatever I want, tell Jeff what I think about him and his idiotic ideas, and if they don't like it, then they can kick me out

user19161

@nohat Well, when is the next mod election anyway? Is it a yearly affair?

TRiG

Cerberus

@nohat Seems wise. As an alternative, you could just not argue at all after one firm statement and save yourself the time and energy.

Just use the site as a tool to provide you with whatever fun you get out of it, instead of a thing to care about.

@TRiG Is that your duck? Pretty impressive, those colours!

user19161

@Cerberus That sounds a bit selfish.

nohat

@Cerberus well that's what Kosmonaut did, but I'm not sure I like that strategy

Cerberus

7:12 PM

@JasperLoy Indeed it is.

TRiG

@Cerberus No. It's a red-footed booby.

nohat

I kind of like having something to care about

TRiG

It's a habit I've picked up from The Slacktiverse. Whenever feelings are high, post pictures of boobies.

Cerberus

@nohat Normally I'd find that a bit selfish; but, after Jeff's behaviour, I think it is justified.

user19161

@Cerberus I prefer to see it as a place to have fun and contribute as well to all users.

user19161

7:13 PM

@nohat It's better to have someone to care about.

nohat

@Cerberus oh it was definitely justified.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy I used to see it that way too. And I still wouldn't hurt the site. But I don't feel at all responsible any more. Besides, I know I'd quit if I were made to feel responsible.

nohat

I'm just not at the throw-in-the-towel point yet

Jeff and I had a heated discussion over e-mail about the answer of his which I deleted

user19161

@TRiG There are occasional pictures of boobs here which I am not a fan of.

user19161

@Cerberus We should at least be responsible for what we write here.

Cerberus

7:15 PM

@nohat Oh... and was he rude again? Or more reasonable one on one?

@JasperLoy In what way?

TRiG

@JasperLoy A while ago there was an in-depth discussion of pictures of penises. No actual pictures, unfortunately. ;)

nohat

no, he is rude in private too

he said "In the future, if you unilaterally delete any Stack Exchange employee post on meta without first contacting us about it, I will be forced to take action in response."

Cerberus

Hmm.

@nohat I suppose that was to be expected.

What did you delete anyway?

TRiG

@nohat I don't think they have any idea what they're doing. They're programmers, flying by the seats of their pants on this site.

user19161

@Cerberus I mean our questions, answers, edits, comments on the main site. They should be correct.

nohat

7:16 PM

meta.english.stackexchange.com/posts/1557/revisions

Feral Oink

@TRiG I was just scrolling back. I assume I am allowed to be here, in the sanctum sanctorum <snark>pretense</snark>?

user19161

@TRiG Oh, I am not a fan of dicks either.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Well, I wouldn't write things that were incorrect; but I may not care to correct mistakes later if I didn't feel like it.

user19161

@Cerberus I actually care. After all, my real reputation is at stake since I am using my real name here!

nohat

here's what i wrote to jeff:

skitch.com/nohat/f9jd6/inbox-gmail-found-53-matches-for-search

Feral Oink

7:18 PM

@TRiG On Quora, whenever feelings run high, some of us just start or end every answer with "your mother"

Cerberus

@nohat Ah, his famed "apology".

TRiG

@FeralOink Well, the idea of the boobies is to make people feel better.

Feral Oink

Or do passive-aggressive grammatical editing.

nohat

One thing I said "To be perfectly honest, most of your interactions on the site and with me have been, disappointingly, in a tone-deaf, lumbering-giant style. All of our interactions via comments on the sites have been unsettlingly acidic. A lot of what you do comes off as capricious and arbitrary, swooping in and doing something bold and then explaining what appear to be impulsive actions with what seems like sophistry or post-hoc rationale. "

user19161

Well, I'm glad I was not involved in any heated argument with anyone here.

Feral Oink

7:20 PM

@TRiG Gotcha. Breasts, like Grapes of Wrath. Restorative, soothing. Maybe? Penii wouldn't do it for me though. As far as soothing. I'm w/ @Jasper Loy on that one

@nohat It seems like he invokes executive priveledge a lot.

TRiG

Cerberus

@nohat Yeah, I agree on all that, but it contrasts with the rest of your e-mail a bit.

user19161

@FeralOink privilege

Feral Oink

@nohat Sorry, I can't spell priviledge privelidge privledge?

nohat

@Cerberus yes I was trying to be conciliatory but that quoted segment was how I really felt

user19161

7:22 PM

@TRiG My best friend and I used to say "dodo birds" all the time instead of "idiots" affectionately.

nohat

anyhow I have to run out for lunch now. I'm getting glared at

Cerberus

If I were you, I'd probably take as much distance from this guy as possible.

Heh OK, later!

TRiG

@nohat See you! It's late for dinner, here.

Feral Oink

Bye @nohat ! Thanks for letting me chat with you!

user19161

@FeralOink I think "privilege" is the only correct spelling.

TRiG

7:24 PM

@JasperLoy And we rekwe..., reqwa..., ask that you use correct spellings.

Feral Oink

I was actually hoping to get some kind of peon-like job with StackExchange. Plea my case with TheCodingHorror. I'm in Phoenix.

Yes privilege is like knowledge in that it defies my abilities. Often.

user19161

@TRiG By the way I think I correct the most spellings in chat and maybe on the main site too.

nohat

@FeralOink honestly I wouldn't want to work for an organization with Jeff Atwood at the helm if I were you

Feral Oink

In terms of correct spelling. Accommadate accomodate accommodate is yet another. Committee is more accessible, with three m's, three t's and three e's. Easier to make a mnemonic out of it.

Cerberus

You know the stem leg- from legend; there is priv- from private and privy; the i in between is sort of a binding vowel in Latin.

user19161

7:27 PM

@Cerberus Ah yes, you are the authority on Latin here.

Cerberus

Ac-com-mod-ate comes from ad-con-mod-atus in Latin: d-c assimilates to cc, n-m to mm.

Mod- is from modus, "measure, manner, etc."

Feral Oink

@nohat From following his blog, I picked a few troubling "vibes". But here on the SE sites, he is in full arbitrary glory. It is kind of unnerving for such an egalitarian and rules oriented place with mutual respect and courtesy so highly valued, that there is one individual who knows all, nearly

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Cerberus

Commodus = fitting, easy, agreeable

Feral Oink

about all stacks, and overrules the standards otherwise set. The latter is what creeps meout the most.

user19161

@FeralOink This is a very difficult sentence.

Cerberus

7:29 PM

Ad- turns it into a verb that means "make something commodus".

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Commodius which I can't seem to spell correctly either.

Cerberus

@FeralOink I don't think we have many adjectives on -us (but not -ous) in English: they are nearly always -ous.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy That is a NON-sense. My apologies. I get emotionally excited whenever I use IM. It is silly. And my ability to communicate grammatically flies out the window.

Cerberus

@FeralOink It was intelligible enough!

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy Ooops, sorry, meant to say a NON-sentence. Urk!

user19161

7:31 PM

@FeralOink Never heard "emotionally excited".

Feral Oink

A tad redundant, no?

TRiG

@JasperLoy I've yet to see someone unemotionally excited.

user19161

@Cerberus Only to the classicist!

Cerberus

There are other ways of getting excited!

Feral Oink

As opposed to unemotionally excited. Maybe sexual.

Cerberus

7:32 PM

Yeah.

Feral Oink

Yes, precisely Cerberus!

TRiG

@FeralOink Ah, we're back to penises?

Cerberus

@JasperLoy You understood it too.

user19161

@FeralOink That is also an emotion.

Cerberus

@TRiG Yup.

Feral Oink

7:32 PM

Fitting name, for sexual excitement. Maybe he has 3 of them, as the demon doggy from Hell?

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Nah.

user19161

@Cerberus Actually I did not bother to parse it.

Cerberus

@FeralOink No comment.

@JasperLoy OK.

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Devil Dog. Little Debby dessert product.

user19161

@Cerberus I only have one, and it has not been used on anyone.

TRiG

7:34 PM

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy Parse what, if I may ask please?

user19161

@FeralOink Your difficult sentence.

Cerberus

@TRiG Yay! So is that blue natural?

TRiG

@Cerberus Yep. They're called blue-footed boobies. I also posted a picture of the rarer red-footed variety up there somewhere.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy Ahh okay. It was actually in response to @nohat. I'll find my metier (rhythm?) here eventually. Y'all are very fun and bright and fast. Not like other SE chat rooms I've been in. Emotionally exciting, you know?

user19161

7:36 PM

@TRiG Seems that boobs and tits both refer to birds as well.

Cerberus

@TRiG Yeah I saw it: I thought perhaps you painted it blue...

user19161

@FeralOink Well, glad you enjoyed yourself.

Cerberus

@FeralOink Hmm then what are other rooms like?

TRiG

@JasperLoy Well, let's have a blue tit, so.

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Wow! That is genuine natural coloration? It IS comforting! Very soothing. More so than human anatomy.

Cerberus

7:37 PM

@TRiG Aww. We have those here too.

@FeralOink Hey it's not my colouring! I cannot accept the praise for it.

TRiG

@Cerberus They're sweet, aren't they.

Cerberus

Perhaps Trig will accept it vicariously.

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Well, the Personal Finance and Money is very slow and ponderous. Actuaries. Or fathers doing childcare, so they are preoccupied. Understandable.

Cerberus

@TRiG Yes! And their rarer cousins too.

@FeralOink Hmm, I see.

Feral Oink

Then in Quant Finance, it is just plain lonely. 10 or 15 days go by between communiques. We could just as easily send letters by postal carrier as IM or IRC

TRiG

7:38 PM

@Cerberus Actually, the blue-footed boobies point their feet at the sky as a form of sexual display, much as peacocks shake their tails, which brings us back on topic of forms of excitement.

user19161

@TRiG Interesting how you emphasise that excitement is the topic.

Cerberus

@FeralOink It used to be like that here too, a year ago.

@TRiG How exciting!

TRiG

@FeralOink Well, I'm here mainly because h2g2 is down at the moment.

Feral Oink

@TRiG I was contemplating blue colored parts of human female anatomy, but not feet. Rather the word as it is applied to humans. THAT would be exciting!

TRiG

@FeralOink Well, each to his own.

Cerberus

7:41 PM

@FeralOink I'm sure there are websites to supply your blue needs!

Bodypaint and all.

TRiG

@Cerberus Rule 34?

Cerberus

@TRiG If I remember the rule correctly, yes, exactly.

Feral Oink

@TRiG I just heard the non-urban legend of putting a statue of St. Joseph in your yard if you want to sell your house. Bury him head down, feet pointing up. Sold by and endorsed by Roman Catholic supply houses even. First I thought it was derogatory, then realized that St. Joseph just wanted to help get housing troubles righted. Ohhh blue!

TRiG

Rule 34 failed me once, believe it or not.

user19161

@TRiG What is rule 34?

Feral Oink

7:42 PM

There's avatar, but my favorite indigo female was on FarScape.

And the wicked X-men female... ummmm

Cerberus

@TRiG Did it? Perhaps you required certain passwords, because the required topic was illegal in most countries?

TRiG

@JasperLoy That's a question for ... TV Tropes, perhaps? Or Meme generator?

Rule 34: If you can imagine it, there's porn of it.

Feral Oink

Rule 34, pray tell? Please?

user19161

@Cerberus Talking about passwords I recently changed mine.

Cerberus

Ehh OK?

Feral Oink

7:45 PM

@TRiG Are you going to make me research Rule 34? Perhaps a token clue to get me started?

user19161

Hello @reg!

TRiG

@FeralOink It's answered above.

> Rule 34: If you can imagine it, there's porn of it.

Cerberus

@FeralOink That was the definition of the rule he gave you there.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Wow sup with all zis drama

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Actually, I think I have an adequate corpus of details to pull something together.

user19161

7:46 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 There is no drama, really.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Nohat showed the "shame colouring" they apply to moderator activity.

Feral Oink

@TRiG All I see up above is the very non-Rule 34 of "Determining which Good Sentiment to Wish at Each Holiday".

TRiG

@Cerberus What I was looking for was mumble, mumble, mumble men with wings.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus I am trying to catch up by reading the transcript backwards. Anyone care to just point me to where to start?

Cerberus

@FeralOink The so-called "Rule 34" is this: "If you can imagine it, there's porn of it". That is the rule.

Feral Oink

7:47 PM

@TRiG Ohhh, okay, very mild. I'm sorry. I understand. You are such a cordial, subtle, considerate group here!

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 Start with the boobies!

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 OK...

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 From your last message.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JasperLoy Haha. +9000

Cerberus

1 hour ago, by nohat

@JasperLoy Hello

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:48 PM

Thx

TRiG

@FeralOink I have no idea why I was looking for that. It just came to me one day. I was just astonished that I couldn't find it.

Feral Oink

@RegDwightѬſ道 No bickering about Bitcoin and abolishing central banking and electronic payment systems and investor fraud regulatory authorities. That's what also goes on in other chat rooms!

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 We should not type like this here.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I don't care enough about Bitcoin to know anything about so much as spelling it.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Idem.

TRiG

7:49 PM

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JasperLoy Right. You shouldn't.

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 'Tis okay for me but not for thee?

Cerberus

Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 12 at 0:49, by RegDwight

Satur venter non studet libenter.

Cerberus

Hah how is that related?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:51 PM

What's with all the funny birds?

user19161

Auspicium Melioris Aevi.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Vaguely. Very vaguely. If at all.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 OK I should have known.

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 They're boobies. Well, mainly boobies. One of them's a tit.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy An omen of a better age?

TRiG

7:52 PM

39 mins ago, by TRiG

It's a habit I've picked up from The Slacktiverse. Whenever feelings are high, post pictures of boobies.

user19161

@Cerberus Ya, hope towards a better age is what we call it, my school motto.

Cerberus

@TRiG Very exciting in all respects, especially feet and beak.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@TRiG Ah. My highest voted comment so far is about boobies vs tits. To borrow a leaf from Cerberus, I should have known.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Cool. Hope is a bit free.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yes I remember that question.

user19161

7:53 PM

@Cerberus Free?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@TRiG What's with the "whenever feelings are high" part? You should totally drop it. And use jQuery.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 You must be drinking vodka bucketwise on a Sat night.

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 Well, when I started posting them, we were discussing Jeff and relicking old wounds.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JasperLoy You're right that I must. But I don't.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy A free translation is a translation that sticks less strictly to the original in details but rather reinterprets the whole a bit more.

user19161

7:55 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I just finished my usual tea.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@TRiG Right. I was going to catch up or something.

user19161

@Cerberus I see.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus A free translation is neither a translation nor free. Kind of like the Federal Reserve.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Hah, what? Why the Fed?

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 Try asking over on Christianity SE about free translations.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:56 PM

@Cerberus The Federal Reserve is neither federal nor a reserve.

Cerberus

It can print free money?

Ah, OK.

Why isn't it federal?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@TRiG You lost me at Christianity.

Cerberus

And why no reserve?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Perhaps you should read up on Federal Reserve.

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 Like Douglas Adams, I find religion endlessly fascinating, but it does puzzle me that other people take it seriously.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:58 PM

The way I see it, religion hangs in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

user19161

It is quite a miracle that there is so much chat on a Sat night.

Cerberus

Yeah I still have a hangover from last night.

TRiG

@RegDwightѬſ道 Just who is this God person anyway?

user19161

Something must be wrong this weekend.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

See. Cerberus got all my vodka.

Feral Oink

7:59 PM

@Cerberus There are such places. I am fond of the idea of being blue from head to toe. Sorry for the non-sequitorish out of the blueness of that comment. Here's a blue skinned me for reference. myindigolives.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/… Hope It isn't intrusive.

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