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Q: Is there a word which describes something being both beautiful and ugly at the same time?

Few days back, I saw troll sculpture. When I inquired about the making of the sculpture one of my friend told me that it is made using golden ratio (Now, I have to inquire about what is golden ratio). Those sculptures were beautiful made, but obviously they were trolls, so ugly face. Is there an...

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2:06 AM

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Q: What's the word for when something randomly becomes super popular?

What's the word for when something randomly becomes super popular? I have heard that sometimes YouTube will make a random video super popular (super popular as in the YouTuber gets way more views than normal on the video). Is there a "special" word to describe this?

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2:54 AM

I feel like something needs to be said.

3:18 AM

All's better now. But I said it elsewhere.

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5:18 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad ns for domain in title: www.fitnessexpertadvice.com/exogenous-ketones/ by bronsonz on english.SE

6:15 AM

in Language Overflow, 14 hours ago, by CowperKettle

Word of the minute: help your uncle jack off a horse

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7:40 AM

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Q: " I am at John " Can this mean that I am very near to him?

What is The correct preposition for saying that I am very near to someone and can reach him easily and in the same place where he is ? Can I use at " I am at John ". Please note that I do not want to say the I am in his house but just want to say that I am near him and can reach him easily.

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8:12 AM

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Q: A word for general proficiency with musical instruments

I'm looking for a word for skill or talent with musical instruments in general. This is for a video game, there are skills like singing and dancing and I can't put "musical instruments" because its too long.

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10:20 AM

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Q: how would be describe players that are consistently playing in the squad in simple word?

I am writing a description about player's performance and their participation in matches, but I am stuck in trying to find the right word for describing a player who has been participating in nearly every match for his team. I also would like to find out what word's other than performance can be...

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11:24 AM

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Q: I need a very particular word

What's the word for a list of things and their attributes being linked i have things, A, B C, and D - they are XXXX 1, 2 3, and 4 - what words can i use in place of XXXX? Thanks

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Matt E. Эллен

12:04 PM

@Feeds what?

12:40 PM

@MattE.Эллен good call, mate. "What" is a very good word for that. Very particular, too.

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Q: Adjective for "relating to a whole"?

I am trying to find an adjective or word that describes something that is relative/responsive to a larger whole. The context I am interested is in music, e.g. a musical part in a song that is is particularly responsive to the other parts in the song. To give a better idea, I have a good example ...

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Q: words other than "performance" to describe a player's outcome?

I am writing a post based on various players and their performances, and would like to know which alternative words or phrases can be used instead of repeating the word "performance". For Example:- Describing the first player -"his performance was outstanding in the previous season". Describi...

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12:54 PM

@RegDwigнt I doubt the process takes a whole minute.

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Q: I forwarded OR I'm forwarded

1) I forwarded your kind words to Peter Brown. Or 2) I'm forwarded your kind words to Peter Brown. Or 3) Other variant

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star this message if you think there are too many posts from the feed

@user2236 That is wanton star-seeking.

"Sinecure or cynosure. Which is correct? Help I'm taking a midterm and I need the answer quick!"

you can move it to the trash @Robusto

np

And, by the way, you all are apparently hosting scutoids in your cells.

@RegDwigнt appears to believe that working is more important than chatting.

Helpful hint of the week: "To play the audio files [on your phone], you may need to operate your phone. If so, follow the phone maker’s operating instructions."

1:51 PM

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Q: Word (French origin?) for first shot of war?

I can't seem to find this word. It defines the opening fire of a battle.

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2:12 PM

@Robusto yeah, earlier today I found out that 2520 is not divisible by 2519, so I've been frantically working on further improvements to this whole circumcision business.

@Robusto that's only helpful in the case that you do need to operate your phone. In the case that you don't, it is obscenely unhelpful.

Whose instructions should I follow in that case?

It never says.

@Robusto Antimony or antinomy? One sets your teeth on edge and the other is something else.

@user2236 I unfriended/plonked/ragequitted both Feeds and Smokedetector so I don't know what you're talking about. I also don't know how to deunfriend them so i'll stay happier.

@RegDwigнt My office chair comes with operating instructions in a hidden pocket on the underside, which of course needs instructions on how to extricate properly without shredding the paper.

2:27 PM

No problem, I will add them to your feed again. That's what mods are for.

@Mitch your chair comes with instructions? Just how stupid is your country?

So I consulted the online pdf which downloaded a virus which shreds the file image on screen for you.

@RegDwigнt You're a great guy.

And I mean that to sting

Then tell it to Sting and not me.

I am Elton.

Two different people.

@RegDwigнt The instructions are multilingual. Everyone can read them. Even Russians.

If they can read Swedish

I dunno, I don't think anyone understands Swedish. The Swedes certainly don't. They only speak English.

@RegDwigнt Cher and Cherkira are two different people.

One of them hips is lying

@RegDwigнt I think you're mistaking them for Norwegians, who don't understand what they're thinking.

What I'm saying is... you're being scandinavianist.

2:30 PM

Sec let me google "thinking"

@RegDwigнt You're thinking way too hard about it

user image

This looks fucking horrific.

They prefer 'Scandinavian studies'

Wish I never googled that.

I can understand Norway now.

@RegDwigнt I'm not looking when I read so it's OK with me

2:32 PM

Who?

@RegDwigнt Norway is overrated

Norwegian cuisine is overrated

it can't be underrated enough

You should unsubscribe from Tumblr.

please stop with the varieties of smoked water animal meat

Nobody outside of Tumblr would ever suggest Norwegian cuisine even exists.

That is not a thing any normal person ever thinks in their entire life.

smoked jellyfish

it's just bong water

2:33 PM

Or is it? Tun-dun-dunnnn!

Find out after the break.

@RegDwigнt tumblr is so last yesterday

@RegDwigнt time to switch channels

It is so last yesterday I might actually go and create an account some time this decade.

or fast forward on DVR

I never do that to things that are not dead.

@RegDwigнt Why bother.

that's not a question it's a command

2:35 PM

A comm and...?

don't leave me hanging like that.

Why aren't people leaving Facebook in droves? especially in April after all the news that they suck?

A comm and a priest enter a bar. Says the giraffe, fuck you this is my joke.

@Mitch I only just joined Facebook.

And since everyone always follows me, Facebook is now all popular.

@Mitch How many people are in a drove? Is it like a dozen?

@Robusto I asked everyone I know, and neither of them knew it, either.

You need to get out more.

2:38 PM

@RegDwigнt That's the Russian way.

@Robusto It's kinda hard with this nail file. Send a sledgehammer next time.

A sledgehammer won't help you in the gulag.

And how would you know.

I read stories about the gulag.

After putting in a heavy day's work strangling your father, beating your wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, you turn to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty, and no soap to improve the noose.

2:39 PM

See, now you don't know whether I'm speaking in present tense or past tense. Ain't English grand?

@RegDwigнt I'm sorry.

Lord Rings read?

@Mitch Just an average day in Trumplandia.

Aha...used olive oil to make the noose nice and slippery.

@Robusto How many rods to the hogshead is that?

2:42 PM

Speaking of which, I guess Trump doesn't subscribe to "A Koch and a smile" anymore.

It'll be weird when people find my dangling body that instead of flies and the foul odor of decomposition, they'll remark at my shiny complexion and that I never looked better

Maybe I should get some garlic too

Yes, some people are not vampires and some people are homosexuals.

Sometimes even in the same person!

Imagine that.

Both are sparkly?

@RegDwigнt It doesn't matter if you're paying cash.

"Rock Island" The Music Man (opening scene)

@Robusto I'd pay cash, but he died, alas.

> Robb's Homemade Life vor 2 Jahren
the first rap song.

Who the fuck let that idiot comment on YouTube.

2:45 PM

Google did. Blame Google.

Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! No!

But they pronounce it with a kiwi accent for some reason.

> It's even more funny when you realize they are THEMSELVES emulating the train movements.

Oh, haha, I guess NOBODY got that.

I got that they did it, but I didn't get that that made it funnier.

I am fucking laughing now.

YouTube comments: the Ninth Circle of Hell.

1 min ago, by RegDwigнt

Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! Hell? Hell! No!

2:47 PM

Jul 25 at 22:54, by Robusto

That's why we go over this stuff.

Hey who's removing shit I'm editing.

Not cool.

Quit touching my stuff.

When you quit touching your junk.

Always easier to destroy than create. Millenials.

Unintended consequences. They thought it was fun to have comments, but youtube became a chat room

See, I destroyed the second N in there.

2:49 PM

@RegDwigнt Oh, I thought you were talking about a discontinued Mazda model.

goddamit...that bird with a poor sense of rhythm is tapping out a bad tune again

I was talking about Mitch flagging Mitch for making Mitch-style comments. Yo dawg.

I'd rather go an practice sax and violins again.

@RegDwigнt But see? According to the Law of the Conservation of Numbers and Letters, the letter n can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed into a number.

@RegDwigнt will be better for you in the long run. he short run too. the middle run...I'm not sure

@Robusto the letter N can be changed into an entire word.

2:50 PM

nnnnnnnnooooooooo

That's only if you're George Lucas.

Few of us are.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ OK... now what chemical are you?

your avatar that is

His avatar is the same as yours only spun N degrees and then shrunk 50 cent.

It always gets me confused.

I've been meaning to very much put an end to this charade business of yours.

But I can't be arsed because that's work.

Hmm, whoever that was executed a flawless touch-and-go.

2:54 PM

I hate it when so many mods show up. And then none of them follow me on Tumblr.

@Robusto George Lucas is not even George Lucas.

Cary Grant is not Cary Grant. Said so himself.

Even so, George Lucas is still more of a George Lucas than a George Harrisson.

When I was a kid, Cary Grant came over to the house to meet with my mother about some project. When she was out of the room, he looked at me and whispered ""I'm not really Cary Grant." This was a very important lesson.

Tweeted by shaunpcassidy on July 29, 2018 at 5:05 AM

Shaun Casssidy is totally Shaun Cassidy

Who's Cary Grant anyway.

@Mitch Thanks. I thought he was Donny Osmond.

2:56 PM

I'm not googling that, I don't want to see a bigger version of that pic.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde

Tweeted by sho_malii on July 28, 2018 at 9:47 PM

@Mitch how many times have you quoted this?

That's not even by Oscar Wilde. That's by Joseph Goebbels. Fucking political correctness.

@Mitch Well, to be fair, Oscar Wilde is not even another person right now, much less himself.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Unfortunately the chatroom search mechanism doesn't really allow checking that specifically.

2:58 PM

@Mitch I ironically can't see my avatar, but is it three hydrogens or something that looks like a pair of sunglasses?

But what I have said before, and is quantifiable is that there's nothing new under the sun.

Okay I'm losing the thread here.

Oct 25 '12 at 13:19, by Robusto

That's loser talk.

It only took me eight years, but it's happening.

@Mitch I didn't figure you for a bible thumper, yet I cannot discount the evidence of the chat statement.

2:59 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ sunglasses. diamond shaped

> Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the firkins.

@Mitch twist-boat cyclohexane

@Robusto If bible thumper is a euphemism for weirdo, then I don't know what you're talking about. That makes no sense.

Which is a badass way of saying C6H12

@Robusto the Bible wasn't even created in the first six days according to the Bible itself. What a poorly constructed forgery. Rookie-level.

3:00 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Same to you, pal.

There are no badass ways of saying C6H12.

@Mitch no u

1 min ago, by M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mitch twist-boat cyclohexane

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ wait.. what is 'twist-boat'? I get the twisty thing

but not the boat thing

@Robusto yeah C6H12 ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in C6H12?

@RegDwigнt And yet a book with zero facts is precisely what the ignorant person must have.

3:02 PM

@Mitch Well, Google boat cyclohexane

Google doesn't float my boat. Never did, never will.

Google drives your car instead.

And crashes it

No, that's what our company is there for.

Or rather, there against.

Fuck this English and its ambiguity.

A company of Robusto and RegDwight?

3:04 PM

The proper collective noun for that is not company but university.

Don't let Mitch into your company

But we need an amanuensis.

It's okay, he'll just flag himself, and them five random people will show up and talk to him about the Bible.

Don't entertain the plums, they'll find ways to entertain themselves.

Still, pruning doesn't have anything to do with prunes.

Rob, that's already the second fact you're making me learn. I thought we agreed on zero.

3:07 PM

Zero was just an estimate. The low range.

Is that a fact?

Could be.

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

If you have a fact in a box, it only has a probability of being alive or dead until you open the box.

In fact, fact is a shortened form of "fat cat" ... a fact of which Heisenberg was no doubt aware.

What if you have a carrot in the box?

Carrot in a box game - Sean Lock - 8 Out of 10 Cats Series 19 Episode 1 - Christmas Special 2015

And just like that, gentlemen, I present you with the funniest video on all of YouTube.

Meaning to say, the only funny video on all of YouTube.

3:09 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Done

You as a poker player should watch some time. I mean it.

Now what?

"The proper conformation of cyclohexane is not a hexane." - if that is the case, then someone screwed up.

@Mitch I cycle all the time, but I only rarely use hexane.

@RegDwigнt I've delegated the poker playing to my son. Let him watch it.

Then again, if you watch it, you might actually beat your son at poker for once.

@RegDwigнt If I ever do, he'll just try harder next time. He's quick like that.

3:13 PM

Yeah but there'll forever be that victory to your name. No changing that.

History's written by winners.

Anyway I'll go commute or sumthin.

I taught him how to play chess, and over the course of the first year we went from me beating him easily, to only when I paid attention, to only when I worked at it, to only when I really worked at it, to only when I got lucky, to never.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt so funny it is blocked in my country

@RegDwigнt g'wan get outta here and do something with your life.

@MattE.Эллен Are all rickrolls blocked in your country?

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto sadly no

although I haven't been rickrolled in a while, so they might be now

unless Rick Astley has his own channel with the song on, in which case that wouldn't be blocked

Rick Astley doesn't need his own YouTube channel.

3:32 PM

Ohai @Matt, long time no chat

Hey @MattE.Эллен!

@Mitch With great guy comes great responsibility

as they put it

Matt E. Эллен

3:48 PM

hi!

4:29 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh, I didn't see that message of yours! Well done. Lucky for you, konkour is not what it used to be 10-15 years ago, almost every participant can enter university quite easily.

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5:45 PM

@Robusto so how about you asked him to teach you chess instead. Duh.

@MattE.Эллен there should be riots. It's your own fucking television. With Sean Lock. From Surrey. If they block Surrey in your country, next up they'll block Newcastle. And then there will be riots alright. But not that kind of riots.

Do something while you can.

@RegDwigнt Sorry, I can't change history.

Elton John - You Can Make History (Young Again)

can history change you?

Yes. Fifty years from now they will discover you were Hitler.

In no small part thanks to the comment I just left.

I thought Elton John was Hitler.

5:50 PM

:O

Nobody will ever discover that.

I've taken measures.

And not in imperial.

metric?

Having your computer hijacked was never so much fun!

@user2236 Certainly a Sir Elton Hercules John, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, shall not share all his secrets with Hitler?

I might, for 3000 pounds. But that's a helluvalot of cake.

shouldn't that be kgs? :P

5:53 PM

Cake-"Nugget" from Fashion Nugget

you can't have your cake...

And STFU too.

Matt E. Эллен

why not?

I paid for my cake. give me my cake!

@Robusto I got not one but two emails this week that told me to send 1000 Euros to Bitcoin account suchandsuch, lest they send out a video of me jerking off to all my Facebook friends, that they made by hijacking my web cam. I was almost tempted to tell them I a) don't have a web cam and b) don't have a Facebook account.

@Robusto that was a solid album all around.

@RegDwigнt But they nailed the jerking off part, didn't they?

5:56 PM

@MattE.Эллен because you didn't eat your meat!

Matt E. Эллен

but it's a meat cake!

@Robusto I was about to say, when I told the story to my friends they said why don't you just write them that c) you can't get it up anyway.

@user2236 @MattE.Эллен is officially allowed to have his pudding. He's a mod. Mods get pudding, whether or not they eat their meat.

Pudding on the Ritz, no less.

@RegDwigнt All right, let's amend that to trying to jerk off.

Matt E. Эллен

5:57 PM

as I was told by someone in chat yesterday: I have the power

Yeah that wasn't me.

I wouldn't have misspelled a "no" as a "the".

@RegDwigнt No Limp Bizkit references in chat, please.

Matt E. Эллен

to be fair, it was a different room

@Robusto sorry, I'll be switching to Puddle of Mud any moment now.

Snap - I ve Got The power

5:59 PM

Yeah that bloke has got a heart attack by now is what he's got.

Nobody can eat that much pudding.

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