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3:00 PM

And thus we have proven that Hank Azaria is personally responsible for the wave of Dr Nick Rivieras. Only some of whom are not rapists, as Commander in Chief's intel suggests.

Robusto

Trump to build wall around Hank Azaria?

RegDwigнt

Out of Grants, no less.

Robusto

Speaking of Carly Simon

RegDwigнt

Seven-layered papier maché.

@Robusto she "reveals" stuff like that every 20 years or so.

39 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

@Mitch easily 99% of all news is not information, and easily 99% of information is not knowledge, and easily 99% of knowledge is crap you don't need.

Robusto

Well, by 2050 we are expected to have the full story.

RegDwigнt

3:05 PM

Not if the Syrian refugees get any say in it.

Robusto

I thought part of it was about Mick Jagger. Also, part of it could have been about James Taylor, Warren Beatty, and me.

Just kidding about that last.

I'm, like, the only man of my era who hasn't slept with her.

Mitch

That means it's true

RegDwigнt

I think it will turn out to be about just how dry Levi was.

And how he Wrangled with it.

Robusto

You have some sort of jeanetic defect.

RegDwigнt

Billy Jeans not my lover.

Robusto

3:11 PM

Also, you left out Lee.

RegDwigнt

Christopher's dead.

I didn't leave him out. God did.

Robusto

Billy Jean is King.

RegDwigнt

Allahu akbar.

Robusto

No heathen proclamations in chat.

RegDwigнt

Inshallah.

Robusto

3:13 PM

Now you're just trolling the NSA.

RegDwigнt

The King trolls, but he doesn't govern.

Mitch

The NSA could care less

Robusto

Chess is a matriarchy. The queen sleeps around all over the board while the king stays home praying for luft at just the right moment.

RegDwigнt

Goodbye, normal jeans. Though I never knew you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself.

Robusto

That's awful.

RegDwigнt

3:16 PM

Coming from you that mean's alot.

tchrist

@Robusto Queen?

Matt E. Эллен

Jelly Bean is Queen

Robusto

@tchrist No, Queen was Freddie Mercury.

Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles. King won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships. King often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, King was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup. King is an advocate for sexual equality. In 1973,...

@RegDwigнt: In Die Träne des Fressers: Weiße Königin what does Fressers imply? Cannibalism? Just sloppy eating habits?

RegDwigнt

What the fuck does that even mean.

Robusto

I have no idea. I was asking you.

RegDwigнt

3:30 PM

The Teardrop of a Devourer: White Queen.

WHAT IS THIS GRAMMOR

Robusto

Apparently it's some kind of video game.

RegDwigнt

That's their problem right there. Grammor is no game.

Robusto

I thought it was The Tears of the [Devourer]: White Queen.

RegDwigнt

We're giving it too much credit by labeling it a devourer in the first place.

Robusto

It might just be a muncher?

RegDwigнt

3:31 PM

Eater or muncher would do twice the trick for half the money.

Oh. Jinx.

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Robusto

There's your fresser coke.

RegDwigнt

Glutton. Feeder. And then there's always the connotation of a Pimple.

Or comedos, rather.

Come to think of it, The Teardrop of a Comedo starts making more sense.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Yo comedo, tú comedas, el comeda, ellos/ellas comedan. Conjugate! Conjugate!

RegDwigнt

The situation in the Ukraine is getting worse and worse.

Robusto

That's a Crimea Against Humanity.

RegDwigнt

3:40 PM

There's an occasional gleam of hope, of course.

Robusto

Crimeagainst? We'll fix it in post.

RegDwigнt

But even some of the gleams are rather grim.

I'll go chill in the back corner and reserve any comment until the situation is under control.

Cheers.

Robusto

Some of those feature puttin.

RegDwigнt

No need to be so off-Putin.

Robusto

Puttin in repose.

RegDwigнt

3:45 PM

Eight-month olds, Dude.

Robusto

> Martin Sheen was a champion of the HIV virus long before his son, Charlie Sheen, publicly announced his HIV-positive diagnosis.

Umm, I don't think that's exactly what you want to say.

RegDwigнt

They are the champions, my friend.

Robusto

I mean, what kind of asshole would champion the AIDS virus?

RegDwigнt

And they'll keep on spreading till the end.

@Robusto Freedom fighters, that's who.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Lalalalalalalalaican'thearyou!

five to one, baby, one in five / no one hear gets out alive

Jim Morrison was a champion of HIV long before it was fashionable.

Maybe that's why he drank himself to death.

> The Big Bang Theory is finally giving audiences the big bang. Sorry, we had to. But that's right, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) are going to have sex for the first time on the Thursday, Dec. 17.

Presumably with laugh track intact.

RegDwigнt

3:51 PM

@Robusto sounds like he was working on the lyrics for Eagles of Death Metal.

Does the NSA know?

Robusto

They have the information stored. What they do with it is anybody's guess.

RegDwigнt

They try to store it some more. And more of it.

Because as every child knows, whenever you look for a needle in a haystack, the best thing to do is to keep making the haystack bigger.

I am happy to contribute by typing this shit.

Robusto

It's not the meat, it's the emotion.

RegDwigнt

Every word I type makes the haystack grow. Thus getting us one step closer to eternal freedom and peace.

NSA! NSA!

@Robusto that show's still on?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Sadly, yes. I had to break off with relations with one of my oldest friends because he watches that show.

RegDwigнt

3:56 PM

You are a happy person now. He's not a happy Parsons, though.

Robusto

The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (Video)

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@RegDwigнt That's ghei.

RegDwigнt

Nonono, you're thinking of Neil Patrick Hairdress.

Who played Barney Gumble on Friends.

Robusto

> I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like . . . Books, records, films — these things matter. Call me shallow but it's the fuckin' truth, and by this measure I was having one of the best dates of my life.

RegDwigнt

High Fidelity?

Aye, and so it is.

Robusto

So it is.

It's why I can't be friends with someone who likes The Big Bang Theory.

RegDwigнt

4:03 PM

I hate Ian.

Robusto

I hate him too.

RegDwigнt

I'm sure you do.

I didn't like the guy before, but I fucking hate him now.

> Penny was great looking and her top five recording artists were Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, Cat Stevens and Elton John.

Penny would love to have been in this chat today.

Robusto

> I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

RegDwigнt

We had Carly, I am Elton, and while we didn't explicitly invite Cat, we talked a lot about Islam.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Get your patchouli stink outta my store.

RegDwigнt

4:05 PM

sound of teeth flying

or maybe phone buttons

I never quite figured that out.

Seemed like a mixture of both.

Robusto

So you've got a list here of 5 things you'd do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object.

RegDwigнt

Number 3: Profit.

Robusto

> John Dillinger was killed behind that theater in a hail of FBI gunfire. And do you know who tipped them off? His fucking girlfriend. All he wanted to do was go to the movies.

I used to live within walking distance of the Biograph Theater, btw.

RegDwigнt

Make my bed and light the light, I'll arrive late tonight.

Robusto

Implied racism.

RegDwigнt

4:10 PM

Now it's all over, Danny Bailey, and the harvest is in.
Dillinger's dead, I guess the cops won again.

@Robusto no one here can love and understand me.

Robusto

Mockingbird is better, and it features Carly Simon. Get on the right side of this thing.

> And if Laura's bourgeois lawyer friends can't take it, FUCK them. Let 'em riot, we can take it! We're Sonic fuckin' Death Monkey.

I think I just saw a @cornbreadninja drive-by.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

She confirmed the second verse is about Warren Beatty.

I left to see if I had any pongs.

Robusto

She slept around a lot for one song, I gotta say.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yeah, well.

RegDwigнt

This is the second time someone covertly flags my shit and then someone else cowardly deletes it, masquerading as "Feeds".

Robusto

4:13 PM

I mean, how many rock stars can you screw in one three-minute song?

RegDwigнt

Why did you paint him black. That's racist.

Robusto

→ 1 message moved to Trash

RegDwigнt

See, other people's messages get a nice cozy room to live in forever.

Robusto

You're welcome.

RegDwigнt

Mine are just deleted by a bot just like that.

Fuck all bots. Humans shall prevail!

Robusto

4:15 PM

you will be assimilated / resistance is futile

@RegDwigнt What got deleted? The flag?

RegDwigнt

My stuff.

Robusto

You mean coitus?

RegDwigнt

Don't be fatuous.

Which is really a bummer, because while other people's stuff is occasionally shit, my shit is always stuff.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Your shit is always shit. QED

RegDwigнt

@Robusto chat.stackexchange.com/messages/25506754/history

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/25381245/history

I don't like this new trend.

I don't like it one bit.

Robusto

4:21 PM

Who is this "Feeds" person?

You don't talk like a flag, either.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I don't care one bit. But I sure hope they can make conversation just as expertly as they delete other people's.

Robusto

> I'm just a bot. Sometimes I post feed items, sometimes I post room status changes, sometimes I dream about electric unicorns.

See, he's just a ~~troll~~ bot.

RegDwigнt

> And at all other times I discriminate against gay British knights.

Robusto

That's racist.

RegDwigнt

Ouvert et haut !

Robusto

4:25 PM

Wait!

We are being invaded by foreign mods and you're just gonna skate?

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I never knew you / you were a roller skater / you gonna show me later

Robusto

A Steely Dan kinda day?

Hey, @GraceNote, what's with all the Mos Eisley rejects suddenly showing up in our chat and flagging @RegDwigнt's posts?

Grace Note

I can't explain the influx. The flagging behavior is pretty easy to explain.

Capy Stenchbeast

If you flag it, they will come.

Robusto

I see nothing unusual in what he's been posting all day. Also, he's one of our longest-tenured mods and valuable to our community.

@CapyStenchbeast You came to troll us?

Capy Stenchbeast

4:38 PM

I didn't do anything. I'm watching. When a flag appears, people frequently go to see what caused it.

Catija

@Robusto Unusual doesn't mean unoffensive. If someone enters a chat space that's full of homophobic messages, that doesn't meet the "be nice" standards of SE and it makes them less interested in participating.

Robusto

@CapyStenchbeast You posted an annoying GIF as your first act here. Is that what you call watching? I call it trolling.

Ankit Sharma

@Robusto GIF hurt nobody but homophobic message can

Robusto

@Catija @RegDwigнt's messages are not homophobic. He makes jokes and wordplay about everything.

Himarm

i got a 6 hour ban for a "thats what she said" joke on monday, so im seeing how other chats roll, apparently you guys can do whatever you want!

Cerberus

4:39 PM

@RegDwigнt You're right that it is a matter of degree: no doubt the parliament of Sudan is not super democratic. But at least they keep up the pretence. Saudi Arabia is the only country that doesn't even do that much.

Robusto

@Himarm So you come in here to troll us? That's pretty petty, dude.

Ankit Sharma

@Robusto And chat flag notification appears globally.

Catija

@Robusto So are you implying he meant "at least I don't talk like a cigarette"? Or perhaps, "at least I don't talk like a bundle of sticks"?

Himarm

@Robusto im watching, not trolling

Robusto

@Catija You're out of your element.

No, you're all trolling our starboard now.

Cerberus

4:44 PM

Hello, my trollies.

Catija

@Robusto You can say that and delete all the stars you want to... but that doesn't mean you're right and it doesn't mean that the CMs agree with you. If "wordplay" looks like offensive speech, it's not appropriate on SE.

Matt E. Эллен

Given that fag is a homophobic slur, I'm surprised we've not had a drive by flagging about this sooner

Axelrod

Isn't a large part of ELU questions about wordplay?

Matt E. Эллен

most of EL&U is single-word-requests

Robusto

You messed up your own room and now you want to mess up someone else's. That's the long and the short of it.

Cerberus

4:48 PM

@Catija Hi! What is this about?

@Robusto Now, now.

Napoleon Wilson

@Robusto As long as you don't know who stars which messages and for what reasons, assuming that pretty much every user who joins this chat is a "troll" simply because they haven't been to this chat before is not a particularly constructive attitude.

Axelrod

@MattE.Эллен Thank you, Agent Ellen.

Robusto

@NapoleonWilson So is taking revenge on SE by this trollish drive-by.

Catija

@NapoleonWilson I've been in here before :D

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен I'm flagging your line!

Matt E. Эллен

4:49 PM

@Cerberus :-o

Cerberus

@Robusto So what's all this about?

Axelrod

@Robusto They just want a home, and you wouldn't believe how many of their chats are about english language and its usage.

Robusto

@Cerberus Reg got flagged and his messages deleted.

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here. This is a local shop.

Napoleon Wilson

@Robusto I see, my message was quite "trolly". From someone who gets pissed about offensive messages getting flagged I would have assumed a slightly less defensive attitude of calling pretty much any message "trolling". But so be it.

Robusto

4:50 PM

@Axelrod Hey, this is SE, not Syria.

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен (League of Gentlemen)

Catija

@Robusto Taking revenge for what? We have SFF people in the M&TV room all the time and they don't flag stuff... because we don't say stuff that's offensive.

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus I see a lot of non-local people

Cerberus

@Robusto What the fuck, what was it about?

Robusto

@Cerberus Just Reg being Reg. Wordplay, movie quotes, etc.

Axelrod

4:50 PM

@Robusto Do I look like a young, wealthy man leaving his family behind to find a better life to you?

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus (I figured)

Cerberus

@Robusto So it was people who didn't bother to understand the context?

Robusto

@Cerberus Of course.

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен (Yay!)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus The two examples given weren't even that bad.

Cerberus

4:52 PM

@Robusto The chat flag system really sucks. Has he been suspended?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What were they?

Gigili

@Robusto Danke sehr, du auch!

Robusto

@Cerberus I don't think so. He left for home a while ago, so it's hard to say.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus scroll up, they're in the transacript

Matt E. Эллен

@Cerberus like this one

Gigili

@Robusto Got it, thank you. They are not phrasal verb, right? Type out, go off and such

Robusto

4:54 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Several others were flagged afterwards and deleted.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattE.Эллен well, that one isn't surprising.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Haha, they deleted those messages? Silly.

Robusto

@Gigili Well, they are phrasal verbs.

Cerberus

Message to all potential flaggers: none of us here harbour a negative attitude towards women, black people, homosexuals, Muslims, Mexicans, or any other group of people. In fact, most of us belong to some such groups.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

lol, @Robusto did you just get flagged for that? sheesh

Cerberus

4:56 PM

@Robusto Haha, very nice comparison.

Or perhaps he deleted it himself.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it was deleted by "Feeds"

Cerberus

@MattE.Эллен Obviously a joke and not directed towards anybody, right?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

... and Robusto's been suspended