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Robusto

6:00 PM

Is that the Snap from "Ooooh snap"?

RegDwigнt

It's the Snap from chat.

Robusto

Because I've kind of always wanted to slap the taste outta his mouth.

user2236

Get off my back, or I will attack and you don't want tbat

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Oh hold on I'll make a video of you doing that and send it to all your Facebook friends.

Robusto

Too late.

Jan 30 '13 at 16:21, by Robusto

I just don't want to have "friends" like that. A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. A Facebook friend is someone who will find out where you moved the body and report you.

RegDwigнt

6:02 PM

Nah, they will film you moving the body and stream it live on Facebook.

Gigili

Since when posting youtube videos became a thing here?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Same difference.

@Gigili Stop pretending to be new here.

user2236

Since forever

Robusto

YouTube videos in chat have been around since the late 18th century.

RegDwigнt

It's a legitimate question. Let me look up the answer. I think it's since 2011.

Actually I'm quite interested to know what the very first video posted in this chat was.

user2236

6:03 PM

7+ years

Robusto

I'm still sticking with the late 18th century.

RegDwigнt

No shit, Sherlock.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Something tells me you hope it's yours.

user2236

^

RegDwigнt

That something would be wrong, then.

I think it was either Kosmonaut with some bullshit or someone else with some bullshit.

And I only came in here like a month later to begin with.

Also, why would I hope it was mine without first remembering for a fact what my first video here even was.

For all we know it was me jerking off to Facebook. And I don't want to be reminded of that.

user2236

6:05 PM

lol

Feeds

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Q: Synonym for Fakability

Fakability is not an actual word. I came up with it to explain what I am looking for - a word that aptly describes something that can be easily faked. For example, The fakability of this device is so high that we can never be sure if the sample we are holding came from the original source....

single-word-requests

RegDwigнt

The best synonym for Fakability would be "Feeds".

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Worse. It was you jerking off to MySpace.

RegDwigнt

GeoCities, dude. Get your gay facts straight.

user2236

Staaap

RegDwigнt

6:07 PM

HUMMERTIME

Robusto

So "Geo" is pronounced gay?

RegDwigнt

I dunno, you're the native speakor here.

Well. American. And not even native there.

user2236

speakor

RegDwigнt

Thank you for explaining my joke to me. Can you post that on Tumblr please.

user2236

tumblr sucks

RegDwigнt

6:08 PM

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Q: What’s the rule for adding “-er” vs. “-or” when forming an agent noun from a verb?

What’s the rule to decide whether you add -er or whether you add -or when creating an agent noun from a verb? Sometimes it’s -er: read > reader hate > hater hit > hitter But other times it’s -or: meditate > meditator collect > collector

orthography suffixes morphology derivational-morphology agent-noun-suffix

Go learn things.

Meanwhile let me find that Kosmo video.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Trying to outfeed Feeds, eh? A rookie move.

user2236

please do

RegDwigнt

First video in this room:

Feb 1 '11 at 4:11, by kiamlaluno

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My first video in this room has been deleted off YouTube. And the third one as well. The second one is this:

Feb 2 '11 at 14:29, by RegDwight

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Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's back in the day when Vitaly was the only Russian.

RegDwigнt

Then after that there's Vitaly WTF, I didn't know he was around since the inception.

He showed up like three years later really.

user2236

6:11 PM

8 mins ago, by Gigili

Since when posting youtube videos became a thing here?

RegDwigнt

And then right after that, there's your first video, Rob.

Feb 2 '11 at 21:24, by Robusto

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user2236

Thanks for the memories

RegDwigнt

@Robusto see I told you I was late to the party. And you even weren't. You know things.

@user2236 it's all in the transcript. No work on my part.

What you put on the Internet, stays on the Internet forever.

user2236

true

RegDwigнt

It is with that in mind that I carefully craft the following statement: I am not Hitler.

Robusto

6:13 PM

@RegDwigнt Except starred chat messages. They fade in time.

RegDwigнt

Stars don't let starlets let stars let.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Pre-accusation denials are always proof of guilt. Ergo, you are Hitler.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto shit, now that's on the Internet as well, so it must be true.

Robusto

I mean, it's not like that was a secret or anything.

Gigili

@RegDwigнt I thought you said some of the videos you posted a few years ago were deleted and are no longer on the internet.

Robusto

6:15 PM

A long time ago in chat someone wrote:

RegDwigнt

A secret it wasn't but not anything? That's a bold statement. I think it was something alright.

Robusto

25 mins ago, by Robusto

I thought Elton John was Hitler.

RegDwigнt

Tweened.

And now you look like a fool for saying that what I said after you was said long before.

Hahahaha.

Robusto

I flubbed the paste and the extra seconds cost me.

RegDwigнt

Jul 19 at 0:17, by Robusto

Feb 14 '11 at 12:44, by Robusto

It's a rookie move, you hate to see it ...

Robusto

6:16 PM

@RegDwigнt Now one of us has to commit suicide to attone.

RegDwigнt

Is it Keira Knightley?

How many guesses do I have?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt If there's a god in heaven it is ...

RegDwigнt

Elton John - If There's a God in Heaven (What's He Waiting For?) (1976) With Lyrics!

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> With Lyrics!

Robusto

He misspelled god ...

RegDwigнt

I like how emphatic that bloke is.

@Robusto even God misspelled god.

user2236

6:18 PM

1976?

RegDwigнt

WTF YHHV

Robusto

Back when we all were speaking Anglo-Saxon, god simply meant "good" ... now it means the supreme being. This is called inflation.

RegDwigнt

@user2236 yes. That's a number. Just like 2236. There's more than one of those.

@Robusto yeah I better not tell you what "trump" used to mean.

Robusto

Didn't it always mean a huge bloated would-be dictator?

RegDwigнt

No, that was Mussolini.

Robusto

6:20 PM

That is a distinction without a difference.

RegDwigнt

That's just a bunch of French words.

Robusto

Non.

RegDwigнt

Start speaking English, you fromage-manging surrendering singe.

Robusto

Speaking of which, how come you didn't win the Tour de France this year?

RegDwigнt

Sigh.

Nobody ever asks me how come I didn't lose it this year.

user2236

6:22 PM

did you watch any of it?

RegDwigнt

The tour is half full, boys. The tour is half full.

Robusto

@user2236 I only watched the exciting parts. So ... no.

RegDwigнt

@user2236 if I want to watch junkies, I just watch Trainspotting.

user2236

yeah, Lance ruined it

Robusto

I thought trainspotting was what happens when trains think they're getting their period but they're actually not.

RegDwigнt

6:25 PM

I used to watch the Tour every day. The repeats as well. Several times over. But then the whole thing blew up into our faces, as well it should.

Pantani, Ulrich, Virenque. Then finally Armstrong.

And Zabel and Riis and absolutely everyone.

user2236

Armstrong was the worst

Robusto

Also, when did football hooligans become cycling trolls? And who sent them to the Alp d'Huez?

RegDwigнt

And like, I was a racing cyclist myself at the time. I knew for a fact you can't just drive up those mountains at 30 miles per hour on spaghetti and pepsico alone.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Sure you can. But you have to be in a car to do it.

RegDwigнt

Instant rimshot.

Since when does your car run on spaghetti, Fred Flintstone?

Robusto

6:27 PM

Fred Flintstone's car ran on feet. Not meters.

RegDwigнt

takes notes

B, A, C, H.

user2236

Armstrong is running around with a pornhub star now

RegDwigнt

Fuck, can't take that one in English.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt No chromatic fugues in chat, please.

RegDwigнt

Gotta take Bb, A, C, B instead.

What kind of name is Bbacb?

Johann Sebastian Bbacb.

Robusto

6:28 PM

Fucken germins, thinking there's an H on the keyboard ...

RegDwigнt

Fucken Americans, thinking everything else.

Robusto

Messe in H-moll indeed.

RegDwigнt

Trump in the White House indeed.

Robusto

You keep harping on that, but you never do anything about it.

user2236

Nobody can

RegDwigнt

6:30 PM

How is harping not doing anything? This chat is about viola jokes, mate.

Robusto

Everything is a viola joke, when you peel back the layers.

user2236

For three more years

RegDwigнt

Trump is a joke when you peel back the lawyers.

Robusto

@user2236 Do you want to see me weep openly, is that it?

user2236

no

sorry

RegDwigнt

6:31 PM

No, we made a video of that already. I am sending it to all your Facebook friends as we speak.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Umm, you don't even have to peel back the lawyers. Rudy Giulani is the bestest joke yet.

user2236

Facebook is finished

RegDwigнt

I saw Rumsfeld on an old TV show from 2002 yesterday.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt What, a video of you jerking off to lawyers? I think that's a felony somewhere.

RegDwigнt

And I was fuck, that guy existed.

Like, even I don't remember him anymore.

user2236

6:32 PM

119 billion in one day

Robusto

@user2236 That's what they said about the Republican party back in 2012.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto it's not a felony anywhere, remember you got all those lawyers on your side.

In your face, lawyers!

Robusto

Kim Kardashian explains why she was starstruck at the White House. If the explanation doesn't center around "that she's a brainless twat" I don't need to hear the answer.

user2236

@Robusto You can buy a lot of policians for $119 billion

RegDwigнt

Twat? Has that reached the US now?

I know a guy from San Fran, talk to him on Xbox Live. He always pronounces "twat" with an /o/.

Robusto

6:35 PM

@user2236 Don't forget, an honest politician is one who stays bought.

That costs more.

RegDwigнt

If you don't pay for sex with politicians, you're paying too much.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Meaning it rhymes with hot? Yes, it does and always has.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto not in the UK it never.

choster

@RegDwigнt Twat in the US rhymes with caught and isn't thrown about as casually as in the UK. It's comparable to cunt but not as extreme in its offensiveness

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Umm, yes, ever.

RegDwigнt

6:36 PM

Also my point is like that like a year ago he never even knew the word and finds it so funny he mispronounces it on purpose.

@Robusto you haven't even lived for ever, so I don't believe you.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Not yet.

@choster Why are you casting aspersions on a perfectly decent word?

RegDwigнt

The house I'm sitting in right now has been around for longer than any house in your twatry.

Robusto

Then maybe you should be standing, not sitting.

RegDwigнt

I was standing as I read your line.

True story.

Robusto

Then why did you sit down?

RegDwigнt

6:38 PM

Because your story mesmerized me.

Robusto

These are the important questions people are afraid to ask.

choster

Because my spells have always been terrible. Didn't make it past the first round of the Hogwarts entrance exams

RegDwigнt

I just couldn't take it.

@choster who the hell misspells Chaucer as Choster anyway.

Gigili

People, we've talked about this.

RegDwigнt

No, we only showed each other videos about this.

And you weren't even around.

Robusto

6:40 PM

I thought choster was short for c-lister.

Gigili

No I'm more a square than a round shape.

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

RegDwigнt

I just read on ELU that "like" means the same thing as "unlike". I thought that only applied to flammable things.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And somehow our facebook friends found out about it.

RegDwigнt

This language is a horrible terrible no good real trump one.

@Gigili you're not in shape at all. Stop lying.

Robusto

Boring. The only interesting shapes now are scutoids.

Gigili

6:42 PM

wait, was that even grammatical?

Robusto

We don't need grammar in ELU chat. It only gets in the way.

RegDwigнt

Cubes in the marketplace. Scutoids and dodecahedra. Spinning in infinity.

Robusto

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

RegDwigнt

Girl, you'll be a woman soon.

Go post that line on Tumblr.

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Q: Is "the general public" redundant?

Is "the general public" redundant? Or is it different from "the public"?

redundancy

Robusto

37 mins ago, by Robusto

@RegDwigнt Trying to outfeed Feeds, eh? A rookie move.

RegDwigнt

6:48 PM

I'm trying to save you the disgrace of getting tweened by a robot that's not even passed the Gay test.

Robusto

You mean the Geo test?

RegDwigнt

Anyway, the general public is redundant. Only the general Amin was one of a kind. The last of a kind.

Neo Geo (system)

The Neo Geo (Japanese: ネオジオ, Hepburn: Neojio), stylised as NEO・GEO, also written as NEOGEO, is a cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. It was the first system in SNK's Neo Geo family. The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit; its CPU is technically a parallel processing 16/32-bit 68000-based system with an 8/16-bit Z80 coprocessor, while its GPU chipset has a 24-bit graphics data bus. The Neo Geo originally launched as the MVS (Multi Video System) coin-operated arcade machine. The MVS offers...

Down with patriarchy! Long live the Neo Geo system!

But why did Audrey Hepburn pronounce "gay" as "jio"?

Gigili

I'm amazed, people still put time and effort into the site.

RegDwigнt

What. Who. Not on my watch they don't.

You will find that some of the highest ranking users put all their time and effort into jio jokes.

And the others are conspicuous by their absence. Probably because they are busy taking videos off Facebook.

MetaEd

7:12 PM

@RegDwigнt Nice to see Lovecraft at the piano.

Mitch

7:53 PM

@RegDwigнt Thanks. Because of that I visited facebook and they've collected all sorts of meta information about me, including pinpointing my next heist.

all from all the times I haven't visited FB.

Which is all of them

except for the that one time a few moments ago.

and that other time

but that's it.

RegDwigнt

Silly you, they don't even need to collect any information about you, I just keep streaming your web cam feed directly to Zuckerberg for as long as you don't pay 1000 Euros to Bitcoin address suchandsuch.