« first day (2890 days earlier)      last day (2326 days later) » 

00:04
Please bear in mind there are people here who might object to these references to baptism with liquid nitrogen.
Why?
Because it's not cool to mock.
Why not?
Acting like a child asking "Why?" all the time isn't cool either.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
00:08
Well that's ok, because there's no comprehending in this chat. But please be kind too. Mocking baptism is not kind.
Not kind? To whom?
It is an unremarkable joke.
To those for whom baptism means more than just pouring liquid.
Why would they care?
Because it's important to them. Us.
What is?
00:10
Baptism.
Bear in mind, it wasn't my joke.
What does whether it is important have to do with making jokes?
No: I'm not entirely sure why you're responding like this. My comment was general.
Jokes are generally less fun when they are about trivial things.
Taboos are what make many jokes fun.
I don't understand your response at all. So perhaps we can agree to not comprehend one another, then.
Being the butt of jokes is not fun at all.
Sure it can be fun. But the joke isn't mocking anyone in particular.
00:12
It's mocking those for whom baptism is more than merely pouring liquid.
Not really?
It's not mocking people.
Yes really.
It's not even mocking baptism.
It is.
And it's mocking those for whom baptism is more than merely pouring liquid.
Mr Ed just made an offhand, arbitrary little joke without intending to mock any people.
00:13
Well he failed.
Or succeeded, depending on your point of view.
But let's suppose we have a joke that mocks certain people. As long as it isn't in a truly hate-mongering way, and as long as it isn't directed at any specific person who is present, what does it matter? What's the problem?
What if someone present does take it as directed at them?
No name was mentioned, and noöne was addressed but me.
So I don't see how it could be directed at a specific person.
Sorry: perhaps it should be How is anyone present going to tell whether it's hate-mongering or not?
I don't understand that question.
00:18
Now I feel bad because I had a really good baptism joke
Or rather a really bad one
I have a section in my document titled "Results of analysis of control samples". I wonder how I could rephrase it to make it more natural.
On third thought... it's a pretty dumb joke
Argh. Editing when I didn't want to.
But this joke, which I believe was not mocking any people at all, was neither hate-mongering nor addressed at any specific person. So even if it had been mocking, it would still probably be harmless enough, in my opinion.
@CowperKettle that doesn't sound like a joke about baptism.
00:19
Mocking is never harmless.
Why not?
@Mitch I don't know any jokes about baptism. I knew some jokes about communism, but forgot most of them.
Isn't a little bit of mockery wholesome and part of every culture?
It can be bad when done in excess.
Or it can be the straw that breaks the camel's back by becoming the excess however unintentionally. So better not to be that straw.
@CowperKettle Are there any other sections titled something to do with "analysis of control samples"? If not, then perhaps you can just leave out the "results of" part from your title.
@AndrewLeach I suppose it can be, when it is part of an ongoing and 'urgent' conflict.
00:22
My joke really isn't about baptism at all but more about...well that would give away the joke now wouldn't it?
Which was not the case here.
So if it involves baptism... but is not about baptism that's ok right?
please please please
I don't know, because we had a major case of mutual incomprehension here. As we should, of course.
Are we being co-magisterial?
Wha?
00:25
I've put my stake in the sand: religion needs very careful handling, even here. And now it's 01:25 and I'm off to bed. To sleep, perhance to dream. Wish me luck.
Good luck!
I don't believe anyone deserves special treatment with respect to restricting other people's freedoms as long as there is no objective harm done.
Otherwise, anyone could censor anyone else for whatever subjective reason suited them, and we'd all lose our freedom.
It's a made up word by Stephen Jay Gould to describe how he thought domains of thought like science in one hand and religion on another are sort of independent. They're two different 'magisteria' (obviously 'teaching realms'), that can coexist without treading ... well they do but ... anyway SJG claims they are 'co-magisterial'
Sounds like a crutch for religious people who are forced by solid evidence to admit that some of their previous beliefs were wrong...
Nobody likes to admit being wrong!
@Cerberus I revel in it.
Tell me I'm wrong.
You were wrong not to notice my using 'singular' they.
00:31
How dare you!
Hahahhaha
I lied
I like lying better than being wrong
Which isn't really singular, because it needs a plural verb still; but it does refer back to a singular (pro)noun. Also called a constructio ad sensum.
@Cerberus like a hand purse? Or did you mean crutch?
You sound like Sauron!
Crutch!
@Cerberus to be honest I like all the singular they stuff except for themself. That's the one thing that sounds off to me
@Mitch Remember, I'm 1/16th East-Asian.
Although the Egyptians also used the same hieroglyph for L and R.
@Mitch Thank you.
00:34
@Cerberus because it sounds like I have one eye? That's racist
@Mitch I'm going to print and frame that.
@Mitch In the land of the blind...
It's a compliment.
@Cerberus I get 25% of profits. Does that sound fair? Since you're going to be
Like when people say "hey, cyclops!", they think you're strong and powerful and mythological. Just like me.
Doing all the work
Will you also pay 25% of the costs?
00:36
@Cerberus uncool man. You have ... counts ... more than three
Six!
I was just quoting your potential peers.
How rude. Shouting out numbers like those dirty six eyed peasants
So here's the joke:
A baptism by liquid nitrogen. That's cool man!
Hahahahhhahah
I made that up myself
You could probably tell
Hilarious!
I really struggled with its craftsmanship
Don't let our moderator hear you make a joke using his own words, though...
00:39
I thought maybe 'that's uncool man' would work better
I think "not cool" is more common than "uncool"?
But thinking it through, the latter is more of a non sequitur than humorously absurd
It's kind of a acience
Or an art
Or something comagisterial with those
The latter joke?
The latter-day saints?
@Cerberus no no no no no. comagisterial with arts and sciences, which are probably comagisterial between the two of them themselves
What masterful confusion.
00:50
yeah. I'm trying
@Cerberus ummm... I don't know
@Cerberus Oh really? Do you know which ... counting ... great great grandparent was it?
@Cerberus That'll be difficult. It's all English right?
@Mitch Probably. I don't remember who she was, exactly.
@Mitch He said "not cool".
@Cerberus oh. dang it. missed a good referential humor point there
I have a good crucifixtion joke. would that be OK?
If you say so.
Don't ask me!
It's a bit long
Longer than it's wide?
00:57
um... depends on the column size?
Hey, I've got a silly little puzzle. Think of two English words that are exact synonyms of each other.
@TannerSwett First...set the rules of the game...
Do you already know the answer?
I know of a pair of words that I think are definitely exact synonyms of each other.
But they're technical terms, which makes them kind of unsatisfying as an answer.
Also is this math/science/tech or is it just some guys screwing around by the dumpster out back?
Oh. Technical.
Then yeah, by definition of technical, technical words are intended to have exactly the meaning ascribed to them so they, technically of course, can easily have exact synonyms
OK let the games start!
'facetious' and 'abstemious'
Those are the answers to every word game puzzle thing
So did I get it?
01:02
NICE!
I say, speaking facetiously (but not abstemiously).
Whether or not exact synonyms exist depends on your definition of synonym.
Right. There are certainly no two words which give exactly the same impression to any person.
pail and bucket
lighting bug and lightning
insidious and invidious
Well, gee, we might have a winner. I don't know of anything I would consider a bucket but not a pail or voce versa.
01:04
very different
@TannerSwett buckets are used on ships, but pails are not
Also Jack and Jill would never fetch a bucket of water. That would just be wrong
Now, here's the example I had in mind...
Yes?
anticipation and yearning
Norepinephrine is exactly the same thing as noradrenaline.
well yeah because those are technical medical terms
01:07
if you prescribe one you durn well better get the other too.
All of a sudden, I wonder if there are any exact synonyms in aviation jargon.
hm... that is a tough call because even technical people have their slang and such
which tend to be a bit more fluid
It would seem that private pilot's license means exactly the same thing as private pilot certificate.
in legal documents possibly, or just as well possibly not.
Acronyms provide several unsatisfying examples. For example, an ASI is exactly the same thing as an airspeed indicator.
But, of course, that's just because ASI is an abbreviation of airspeed indicator.
01:12
hm...yeah that's pretty close to exact. if it's not exact it's closer than anything
Likewise, an FO is a first officer, a CVR is a cockpit voice recorder, and so forth.
As far as I can think, though, the jargon seems to be surprisingly devoid of synonyms.
oh.. you put champagne in a champagne bucket. There's no such thing as a champagne pail.
@TannerSwett Still, each probably has a different history.
And each has a different sound.
There are no synonyms of runway, or taxiway, or airplane, or aircraft, or glider, or sailplane, or aileron, or elevator, or rudder, or fuselage, or propeller, or spinner, or empennage...
So they might trigger slightly different associations for some people.
They might be used in different contexts/subgenres/disciplines/periods.
01:16
Actually, I guess you could argue that airplane has a synonym: aeroplane.
But I would argue that those are just different spellings of the same word.
but there are contexts in which you'd use 'aeroplane' but would use 'airplane'
I never say "aeroplane", only "airplane".
And lots of people never say "airplane", only "aeroplane".
who are those crazy people?
The occasional Brit.
crazy
01:22
Anyway, muszę uczyć się polskiego.
@MetaEd wait. WTS is chrism?
@TannerSwett bless you. Tissue?
All of these issues are mainly a matter of definition.
@Mitch Thanks. wipes his nose
01:57
@MetaEd and @Cerberus I still think it's got to do with me and cerberus's firefox settings somewhere, because it has over 9000 settings. But I don't know for sure and can't be bothered to try every possible one now.
@Cerberus and @MetaEd and @KannE I have made a great discovery: If I turn off all the tracking protection in Firefox, I can see the picture just fine. I have not experimented to find the minimum you need to turn off though. Mystery solved. I am a genius. Maybe it's because Firefox treats Facebook as a tracking site.
I think the above statement deserves multiple stars because of the magnitude of the discovery...
02:15
@WillHunting Ah, OK.
So Firefox's tracking protection blocks content from Facebook, her picture. Just as it should.
0
Q: I can’t figure out which word to use

julieWhich word would you use to describe fluid matter which never stops changing in shape?

Oddly, this is what my Firefox profile says.
And it still blocks it.
02:30
in Math Mods' Office, yesterday, by Joel Reyes Noche
Today Mathematics Stack Exchange becomes the first Stack Exchange site to have 1 million questions. These questions, posted by over 278 thousand people, have been answered over 1.6 million times by over 93 thousand helpful souls. More math SE milestones: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7021/history-of-math-stackexchange
Impressive!
93,000 people have answered questions on match.SE? That is an unimaginable number!
Yup, it's certainly is impressive.
 
2 hours later…
04:19
@Cerberus When did math.SE become match.SE, a dating site?
And why is my discovery still not starred?
@Cerberus I am not sure if it should, because the picture itself does not track you. One should still be able to view the picture, even if there is tracking protection.
@TannerSwett I think that is because epinephrine and adrenaline are the same thing?
@Cerberus Also, Edge and Chrome have tracking protection too, but that doesn't prevent the picture from displaying.
 
3 hours later…
07:00
0
Q: A question on usage

LumosMaximaSo, I was reading this book titled 'Word Power Made Easy', and encountered a question in the exercise as: We thought the actress to be (she, her), but we weren't sure. From natural intuition, I inferred that it must be 'her', but the book claims 'she' as the answer. Any reason for this? Som...

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword in username, pattern-matching product name in body, potentially bad keyword in body, +1 more (487): KetoFit Premium Diet - Top Fat Burners Booster by KetoFitPremium on english.SE
 
1 hour later…
08:18
0
Q: Is there a word or phrase when 1.) there occurs two sad events in tandem; 2.) there occurs two happy events in tandom

AMN1.) Is there a word or phrase when there occurs two sad/traumatic events in tandem; Like Double whammy is when two-fold blow or setback. But I think i cannot use double whammy. Like in this example: Jill's father died in the month of June this year. And now i am hearing this news that his cousi...

0
Q: Internationally recognized synonym/term for 'technical passport'?

lexemeWhat's the common, internationally recognized term for such a document: A technical passport is a document intended for the customer. It contains the most important technical data of the machine or device and the operating characteristics. The technical passport must be available throughout t...

08:50
1
Q: What is a single wry "laugh" called?

The WordsmithI put "laugh" in quotes because the thing I'm referring to is less a laugh and more a soft burst of sound, for lack of a term I hope answerers can come up with. I'm looking for a word meaning "a single wry or mocking 'chuckle' that you might hear with the word ha." It'll be used in a sentence lik...

0
Q: Word for specific people

AkshayWhat is the word for specific people with whom we just interact in day to day life? They aren't friends, colleagues, relatives or customers etc.

 
2 hours later…
10:39
0
Q: is there a single word for 1/3rd of a given time period?

thamil mani SethuramWhile 1/3rd of an year is called "trimester", is there a single word for 1/3rd of a given time period?

 
1 hour later…
12:43
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Is there an English word for "awaiting approval"? by John Wick on english.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): Is there an English word for "awaiting approval"? by Adderall Pro on english.SE
 
2 hours later…
14:19
0
Q: A word to denote a target platform/subsidiary (accounting system domain)

lexemeWe're a subsidiary company who writes a software for a group of other subsidiaries (iron ore mining). We split our data by a subsidiary identifier. We can use a 'Subsidiary' itself. In our other projects we use 'Asset' (AssetID) as the TERM. This is probably 100% correct, financially. But the wo...

15:06
0
Q: How to call a person who owes you a favour

KrystianFirst of all, English is not my mother tongue. Secondly, I was wondering if there is such a word in the English language that describes a person, who owes you some favour(not really money tho). Like, for example: I did the washing up when it was your turn. You owe me a favour. You are my... Ca...

16:00
@Mitch Yes, I am...very wodey-housey...if that means using FB acronyms whenever it's convenient...limited space, time...energy, resources... My cat did steal my O-key once...plucked it off and ran with it...but that didn't disable the O-ing ability of my laptop...so I would say, in general, any FB acronym just expresses a total lack of consideration...frequently in frequent comings and goings.
@KannE Cats. sigh
In other news, what's the word for when you don't or can't figure out the big latinate words for something and you end up using short helper words, like phrasal verbs and vague anglo-saxonisms to get an idea across?
starts with a 'p'
not 'peripatetic'
It's how George Bush used to speak.
periphrastic?
That was it
> periphrastic: indirect and circumlocutory.
"the periphrastic nature of legal syntax"
synonyms: circumlocutory, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, tautological, pleonastic, prolix, verbose, wordy, long-winded, rambling, wandering, tortuous, diffuse
"the periphrastic nature of legal syntax"
GRAMMAR
(of a case or tense) formed by a combination of words rather than by inflection (such as did go and of the people rather than went and the people's ).
but it doesn't capture the intended slight of using uneducated speech to communicate.
16:20
@Mitch Let me see if I can remember, or find, the joke.
Thanks.
There are so many things to know.
A soul appears at the gates to heaven, and St Peter asks, "What was your IQ?" "185" is the reply. St Peter says, "Explain the theory of quantum electrodynamics." The answer is correct, so St Peter lets the soul through the gate.
A second soul appears, and St Peter asks, "What was your IQ?" "140" is the reply. St Peter says, "Explain the theory of general relativity." The answer is correct, so St Peter lets the soul through the gate.
A third soul appears, and St Peter asks, "What was your IQ?" "90" is the reply. St Peter says, "What kind of drumsticks did you use?"
@Mitch Note: I am not a cat person, never owned one until my daughter became a vet tech and took it upon herself to 'rescue' abandoned animals by forcing them upon anyone she knew who rarely said no to direct requests...so it's just a waiting game now, seeing which of us will die first. I'd say...it's about neck and neck.
Nothing good can come of this.
@KannE Don't let your cat read this.
@MetaEd hah...I know that one. Ive heard it end with 'How about them Cubs?'
And maybe it was Einstein. And maybe it was about how he could talk to anybody. And he didn't get a new free car but his bicycle was stolen.
16:36
@Mitch Yeah, it's a good "insert your love-to-hate group here".
@Mitch The root word is "dubya"...fer sure.
Not to distract things with reality, but shouldn't you be driving as fast as you can away from the coast?
@Mitch LOL! Well...he'd better start...figuring out astronomy or something.
haha. or put on a raincoat
Walking through the forest, an explorer is teaching English to a village elder. He points to a tree and says, "This is a tree." The elder says, "A tree."
Further on, the explorer points to a rock and says, "This is a rock." The elder says, "A rock."
Still further on, they suddenly discover two villagers having sex. Flustered, the explorer says, "They are ... riding a bike." The chief pulls out his knife. The explorer asks, "What are you doing?" The chief says, "My bike."
16:46
THat's funny because you never forget how to ride a bike
@MetaEd I should get you to do the translating for me, then. Suits me fine.
@RegDwigнt I am more than willing to make a fool of myself, as I have proved countless times.
Then translate this as an entry-level exam: Теперь я чебурашка, и каждая дворняжка при встрече сразу лапу подает.
Kthx
Hah, Google Translate actually sails through the hard part with flying colors, only to choke on the horribly difficult verb "to give".
Go Google Translate.
Translating "to give" as "to meet" since 2018!
17:02
@Mitch Ha! I'm not near the coast, relatively speaking; I'm in the sandhills...or piedmont...they just make up words for places that used to be beaches...before people? I dunno...we don't care. Basically, or basik-lee, hurricanes are [H]UGE!
> The word 'Hurricane' is the name given to nature's strongest storm.
A hurricane occurs when high pressure
And low pressure masses of air come in contact with one another.
There is often a significant difference in temperature between the two masses.
One mass is warm, while the other is cold.
The warmer air rises, and the cooler air falls.
Likewise, the low pressure area slides down the sides of the high pressure area.
They swirl in and around one another, creating the beginnings of the storm.
@RegDwigнt Tempera-hair wig and the courtyard at the end of the shoot.
@RegDwigнt I don't understand the punchline.
17:18
No one noticed my dubya-ism...I feel...perplexiated.
@WillHunting I started reading the 3rd one when the power went out last time... I refuse to read anything else until this Azkaban situation is resolved.
Freedom for the askabani people!
@MetaEd IKR! They're having all their happiness sucked out on a regular basis...it's sad.
@KannE Yeah. It's almost as bad as going to work every day.
Don't mind me, I'm grouching because the coffee machine is clogged with scale.
17:36
@MetaEd goddamit
@MetaEd Yikes! That's terrible! Or turrible, turrible...so more disturbing, personally, than terrible in a general sense.
Oh! ... that reminds me of a crucifiction joke
haha. fiction.
that wasn't the joke
in case you thought it was
@Mitch Do tell...don't leave us hanging!
@KannE Is that a dubya reference?
haha .. hanging
@KannE It's too long
OK I'll give the abbreviated version
which is the first letter of every sentence
17:40
@Mitch That was...turrible, turrible...but I blame you. I feel redeemed already.
JAPLJNPRPLJNPRPLJNPRPJI
The rule of three applies
obviously
I'll give you the intro and the punchline
> No results found for JAPLJNPRPLJNPRPLJNPRPJI. Showing results for JAP LJN PRP LJN PRP LJN PRP JI.
It starts off: "Jesus is up on the cross. Peter is praying nearby...."
NLYIQWLKDGGPSSGRPPPS
The punchline is" "When Peter gets close enough, Jesus whispers to him 'I can see my house from here' "
18:03
@Mitch The rule of threes...in the name of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. Amen. I always wanted to become my grandmother...but she died, so I stopped trying. That might be irony, but I don't know what "irony" really means. Being from NC, we were always taught it requires a hair comb and watch fob.
@KannE Why did you want to be your grandma?
Hi everyone, random question: My website "Jake Writes" would that have an apostrophe before the S(Jake Write's). I don't think it does but I didn't want to join the list of public apostrophe mistakes, so I wanted to check first :)
(I thought as it was a small question it didn't need a full post)
@JakeSymons You would use the apostrophe if your last name is "Write" and it is your website ... i.e., possessive "s".
@MetaEd Ahh, thanks for that. I didn't think it needed one :)
18:17
If it's just Jake writing, then it's Jake Writes.
@JakeSymons Glad you stopped in to ask.
If your name is Jake Write and it is your site, then it is Jake Write's website.
If your name is Jake Writes and it is your site, then it is either Jake Writes' website or Jake Writes's website.
So some people write Stokes' theorem and others write Stokes's theorem, depending on whether you wanna read it as Stokes or Stokeses when you pronounce the possessive.
@MetaEd I could help you with that if there were a punchline.
Hello @RegDwigнt I just saw your latest video, lol.
@MetaEd Oh. Yeah. Right. Are you sure that's appropriate for this site?
18:32
@Mitch Roll Peptide.
18:58
@WillHunting whachamean, lol, you should be crying :-D
Or rather, be all contemplative and shit.
And where's your 30 videos, anyway. LOL.
19:20
Also, out of interest, @WillHunting, do you ever have the subtitles enabled or not. No pressure to do so, just trying to assess something for the future.
19:37
@RegDwigнt Oh I never even thought about subtitles in my videos. I never intended to do them. Maybe it's more of laziness than anything else. But all the songs I do are popular songs with lyrics available online.
@RegDwigнt Still feeling very sick, so still no new videos.
But I am happy that with some begging, I now have 7 subscribers. 5 public and 2 private.
 
3 hours later…
22:56
0
Q: Adjecive that means overgrown by alien life

BenI'm looking for a word to describe terrain which is occupied by native alien life. On Earth, I might talk about a lush valley in need of environmental protection or verdant hills that would be perfect for vineyards. These adjectives have positive connotations of beauty and suitability for human ...

23:32
Hey @Kosmonaut im in ur sight steelin ur ansers. Again.
0
A: "Is this what shock felt like?" confusing sentence structure

RegDwigнtThis is an example of the so-called "middle construction". Which is called that because it is neither passive nor active. It's in the middle. Here are a few more examples: This shirt washes well. The PS4 sold really well last week. The song is playing in the background. The window j...

And I can't find the chat line right now where you absolved me, but I was like "hey Kosmo I just went and stole your answer" and you went "well it's fine, I, too had to hear it somewhere else first".
@everyone Whoever finds the quote, wins a vacation in the Bahamas.
You have to pay for it yourself tho.
@WillHunting yeah I meant if you had them enabled when watching my shit. Luls. Fuck English and its ambiguity.
My songs aren't exactly popular, and don't have their lyrics available anywhere.
@RegDwigнt Yes, I know about the subtitles. If there are subtitles, usually I enable them, lol.
K, that's good to know.
Just trying to figure out how much I have to explain things to future readers or whether people just use all the features naturally.
Also, didn't expect you to show up immediately. I was actually leaving.
But I think many youtubers don't know about enabling subtitles.
I am expecting Kosmo to show up now, though.
So yeah, Kosmo, you take over from here. I need to go edit some shit for Instagram.
So if you want you can just edit the description to say you can enable subtitles, just one sentence.
23:43
@WillHunting nobody reads the description, that's the problem.
Well, that's the best you can do, if you want to do it.
That's why people so often leave a comment, or put a "[CC]" right in the video title, or both.
But in life sometimes your best is not enough.
Anyway, Ima outta here.
When it gets to that point, you have to know one thing.
It's not your fault.

« first day (2890 days earlier)      last day (2326 days later) »