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Mitch
Mitch
12:00 AM
@WillHunting On Earth? I'm pretty sure that's where they invented it. Clever Earthers.
@KannE ?? which question?
 
KannE
KannE
My memory is...worthless.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
@Mitch No, I mean in the US.
 
KannE
KannE
The Agatha Christie thing! (spelling?)
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
@Mitch No, I mean in the US.
 
Mitch
Mitch
@WillHunting But to take that seriously, I don't really know. I don't think I've ever seen a real karaoke bar around here (Boston area), but I may only go to places that don't have that sort of thing
 
KannE
KannE
12:02 AM
What is it called when someone is humorous unintentionally? Something like that.
That is the reader's perspective.
 
Mitch
Mitch
I think I've been in restaurants that obviously have a dual purpose, changing into a dance floor w strobe lights and such later on.
 
KannE
KannE
Self-deprecating is, like the asker said, the author's intent, probably. I am so slow...
 
Mitch
Mitch
@KannE irony? but that has so many meanings now that it could mean anything
 
KannE
KannE
D*** a bunch of irony, O. Henry messed it up for everybody around here, made it way too specific; we'll never know what it really means.
 
Mitch
Mitch
Dish? Duang? Derp?
 
KannE
KannE
12:06 AM
Oh, yes, there are lots of karaoke bars around here. It's a military base.
Let me look up that word before I lose it...malapropisms.
"Dance a flamingo"? How could that be wrong?
 
Mitch
Mitch
Oh. Oh!
 
KannE
KannE
12:22 AM
Oh, I think I commented with one today. Question: "Have you lost the______you were born with?" I said we say "sense"...and we do, but I added that we sometimes say it like "cents" (quite often actually), and they answer with something like "every plug nickel" or something like that. That's a malapropism, right?
 
Mitch
Mitch
I'd call that more of a pun
or an eggcorn
 
KannE
KannE
12:37 AM
Yeah, we do it on purpose, so not unintentional, but "eggcorn"...I love that. I never knew we had it in us, hahaha...I crack myself up...shucks.
Oh, you weren't asking me...you guys are gonna have to vary your avatars a bit more...or I need to find the lens that popped out of my frames... Anyhow, correction, we don't have a lot of karaoke bars...we have a lot of bars with karaoke nights.
@Mitch We would say "abysmal" is "pretty bad."
@Mitch The only joke I've ever remembered...my redheaded cousin told me over 40 years ago..."What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?" It was so funny then...we were at an airport, he was about to get on a little plane called the Whiskey Charlie. Maybe we laughed so hard because...we thought he was about to die. That was probably it.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
1:08 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin answer (51): Way to indicate the number of something by thanat kokkongkeat on english.SE
 
Feeds
Feeds
2:08 AM
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Q: Word for a woman who manipulates a man?

Richard KayserIs there a single word other than manipulator for a woman who uses her sexuality to get a man to crush on her and then act as her champion for idiosyncratic reasons that have no basis in fact?

single-word-requests phrase-requests
 
 
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Feeds
Feeds
4:54 AM
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Q: Term for a syndrome where someone falls in love with their rescuer?

liluThink of a scenario similar to your classic fairytale, where a damsel in distress is rescued by the prince, and she falls in love with him. Is there a name for this as a syndrome or similar? Nightingale syndrome seems to come close, but that seems to be specifically for when someone falls in love...

single-word-requests
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
8:26 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +2 more (688): wellnesstrials.org/phendora-garcinia-es/ by ArleGill on english.SE
 
Feeds
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Active questions tagged single-word-requests - …: https://wellnesstrials.org/phendora-garcinia-es/
posted on October 12, 2018 by ArleGill

https://wellnesstrials.org/phendora-garcinia-es/ Phendora Garcinia España Low Carb Diet Vs Slow Carb Diet, The Winner Is? There is most talk about the benefits of interval training techniques it can in order to lose weight faster than normal cardio, if you train within your target heart rate zone optimal for losing weight. Most people know how to perform interval …

 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:07 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad pattern in url body, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body, potentially bad keyword in body, +1 more (295): Essential CBD Extract - Relaxes And Relieves Stress by EssentialCBD on english.SE
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:56 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in title, potentially bad keyword in body, +1 more (393): ketodiettrial.com/keto-tone/ by christinkfsdes on english.SE
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
12:18 PM
@KannE I don't get it. Elephants and rhinos aren't compatible. As mammals go, they're not that close together. Rhinos are actually pretty close to horses, and elephants, well, they are their own thing, maybe the nearest thing is rodents maybe. And then who would bring up the poor child? Presumably the mother, the father usually is out of the picture pretty soon. And the kids at school can be so cruel. The kid'll learn to grow a thick skin...
...He'll have no problem because he's a PACHYDERM... ha ha ha ha ha.. I get it now... ha ha ha haha .. that's the joke... when you cross them you get a pachyderm because that's their common feature. ha ha ha.. good one. Oh man... wiping tears from my eyes. pachyderm. I'll have to remember that.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Can I call a vacuum cleaner cleaner a vacuum cleaner? ✏️ by ellen re on english.SE
 
Feeds
Feeds
12:59 PM
0
Q: Horse terminology

EngurooA colt is a young male horse. A mare is an adult female horse. What are the words for an adult male horse and a young female horse?

single-word-requests
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
2:18 PM
@KannE I looked it up. Funny. But the 'about to die part' probably helped.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body (93): “In and around” ✏️ by Bravo Jades on english.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body (93): “In and around” ✏️ by Bravo Jades on english.SE
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Mitch They should just try harder.
@Mitch Totally didn't see that one coming.
 
tarit goswami
tarit goswami
2:44 PM
Hello :-) I am not native English speaker and want to learn English grammar. Can anyone help me by telling the road map to learn grammar.
Sorry if it's wrong place to ask the question.
By road map I mean, what can I start with to learn grammar? What next I need to cover etc.
 
Feeds
Feeds
3:31 PM
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Q: What word do you use to describe something difficult or too large?

FesterSomething along the line of: "This project is ____ since you are still a beginner."

single-word-requests
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
4:11 PM
@taritgoswami Get an introductory textbook on English grammar from the library. Have the people there recommend a book.
 
KannE
KannE
4:48 PM
@Mitch That was a Rudyard Kipling joke...how about Hans Christian Anderson...What did the three dwarfs say when they saw Snow White sleeping in their beds?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
5:01 PM
@taritgoswami your grammar is perfectly fine already. Don't get a book. Waste of time. Surround yourself by native speakers and get immersed in the language. Watch TV shows, watch YouTube. Visit chatrooms like this one and chat away. Read books, but not books on grammar. Just literature. Whatever you like. That is all you need at this point.
 
Feeds
Feeds
5:46 PM
0
Q: Generalize tournament/championship "capacity"?

TarasovychHow can I describe tournament/championship "capacity" in one word? Like "tournament word is 10 players max" or "championship word is 5 teams max" or even "game word is 5 teams max". Can I actually use "capacity" for this?

single-word-requests
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:40 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, toxic answer detected (162): Take this question with a grain of salt by user319923 on english.SE
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
7:22 PM
Not sure why we don't just auto-protect seven-year old questions with an accepted answer, four competing answers, and 32 votes cast between everything.
Mr SmokeDetector could actually go and do just that. Then he wouldn't have to complain that much.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt An interesting answer with a new perspective could be posted by someone who never saw the question at the time.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
7:47 PM
@Cerberus Bollocks to that.
StackOverflow has been around for a decade now. We have the data. We know for a fact that it never happens.
But people randomly posting "fuck you" happens all the time.
This is the Internet. Yes, someone could come along any time and give you a million dollars they inherited from a prince. Or someone could come along and steal your credit card data. And now you tell me which is more likely to happen.
If I really want to give you a million dollars, I will find a way.
If I really want to post an awesome answer, I will find a way to get 10 reps first.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Uhh why do you say that?
Quite often, I have consulted SO to find an old accepted answer that works, but a new one that works better or is easier to implement.
E.g. the accepted answer from 2008 provided a work-around for some missing Javascript feature, while an answer from 2015 explains how the issue can be easily and conveniently solved using a newly introduced Javascript function.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That is beside the point. The point is whether every single one of those answers was posted by someone with 1 rep.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I have no idea as to their reputations.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
And you shouldn't. It's their job to keep an eye on that.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Hi @RegDwigнt today I listened to both my songs using a loop and youtube added only numbers to one song and not the other, again another sign the numbers are all broken, lol.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
7:58 PM
Stop trying to fudge the numbers, Jasper.
Just keep putting out new stuff.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I am not trying to change the numbers. I am just observing how wrong all the numbers are.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Once you're at 1 billion views, it doesn't matter if 427 of them have been counted wrong.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
By the way, I hope that Sara is indeed a female name. Is there even a male Sara?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Quite easily in any number of Asian languages, I would imagine.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
And soon, I will be doing a song about Maria, and also a song about Sara, lol.
But yes, from now on, I shall refer to Maria as Sara, as mentioned.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
8:03 PM
@Cerberus also, you know how this is heavily site-dependent. Which is why we're talking about SO. Programming languages change at breakneck speed. Human languages are slow as molasses.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Stack Overflow = SO = Significant Other
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Every time I get a flag on a question from 2011, I actually read the answers, if only for fun. And yeah, sure enough they still hold up in 2018.
Can't say the same about PHP.
Or really anything technology-related.
I can imagine Philosophy & Logic or whatever they're called move at a much slower speed still.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I have been trying to install Linux on a UEFI computer, and I figure maybe it is better to boot in legacy mode and go the BIOS way. I am still experimenting.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
They're probably still discussing Socrates, and that dude died like a hundred years ago.
@WillHunting you lost me at "I have been trying to install Linux".
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I think there won't be any new videos from me for quite a while.
But they will come eventually.
I also just clicked on all your videos, but I will appreciate them slowly eventually.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
8:08 PM
They're all but a minute anyway. You can binge watch them all while having a difficult shit.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Yeah, not like a Harry Potter movie marathon which takes days to complete.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
A Harry Potter movie marathon is like having a difficult shit in its own right.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Anyway, I hope that Sara appears soon.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I saw a couple great videos recently that looked into the music of the films. How it basically all went to shit ever since John Williams left the project.
That's the one. Well, the first of the three.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
John Carpenter wrote the Halloween theme song for all the Halloween movies. It is simple but it works very well. I get high listening to it.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
8:12 PM
Yeah I don't know why John Carpenter thinks he is a composer.
I remember his score to Ghosts of Mars. Shudder.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
If you become a famous pianist one day, maybe you can ask me to perform at your concert.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well I don't pursue a career in piano playing. I just stick notes together. I don't work on technique. I just have fun.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
I will need to remember that a viscacha is not a bat but a rabbit.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
The moment I can do something to the tiniest degree, I switch to learning something else that I can't do one bit.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
However, an owl is just an owl.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
8:15 PM
Ha. You never watched Vihart, did you.
The owl is at the very beginning. And is very quick to turn out to be not just an owl.
 
Will Hunting
Will Hunting
Italian opera is mostly full of flats and French opera is mostly full of sharps.
That's why the former sounds flat and the latter sounds sharp.
I think I will go and read more about UEFI and BIOS mode now, kthxbai.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:40 PM
@RegDwigнt Even so, new and better answers can appear at any time.
 
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0
Q: Is there a phrase for "I cast a glance" but as in an accident?

Joshua RonisI want to say "I accidentally cast a glance at my watch...shoot!It's 10:30", except I don't want to use the word accidentally (or cast for that matter...). Is there a way to maybe combine them with a word that encompasses both?

single-word-requests word-choice word-usage synonyms
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus that's a non-statement, though. Random "fuck you"s can appear at any time, too. Except that unlike new and better answers, they actually do appear.
I am not looking to think of a bunch of things that could happen. I am looking to find what to do about one thing that happens.
I can worry about winning in lottery once that actually happens. Until then, I'd rather think of how to get to Frankfurt and back again, say.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
8:59 PM
You are saying it doesn't happen. What evidence do you have to support that assertion? It would make sense to think that it does happen on our site. Why else do we have the Necromancer badge, or whatever it's called?
@RegDwigнt So your main concern is spam?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
My concern is nothing, really. I only check the site like once a year.
I just noticed a random thing and commented something off the top of my head.
@Cerberus I am not saying it doesn't happen. I can't prove non-existence, as you well know. It's easier to prove existence. So just look at all the questions that are 6 years old, have five answers and one of them accepted, then find just one that actually got a better answer by a 1-rep user.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Why does it have to be better, rather than "useful" or "providing additional information"? And why by a 1-rep?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus the Necromancer badge is not reserved to 1-rep users. Anyone can get it. And even so, look how many people have the badge, and then look how many people post "fuck you" randomly just because they can.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt My favourite approach as well.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus I am only saying better because you said better. You mentioned new and better answers. So that's what I'm talking about now. I am not married to it being better. Frankly I'm more than happy if it barely manages to capitalize "English".
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:04 PM
OK.
But why do you mention 1 rep?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
And by a 1-rep is because that is the whole point. I said auto-protect 6-year old questions. That, by definition, only rules out 1-reps. It does not exclude anyone else. So that's why we're only talking about 1-reps.
That a Barrie England or a Robusto can come along and post a solid answer ten years later, that we know. But the auto-protect does not hinder them.
So we're only talking about people who'd be actually affected.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt I am confused. Why "by definition"?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
The definition of a protected question is: if you only have 1 rep, you can't post an answer. That is the definition.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Are you saying that "auto-protect" only blocks 1-reps from posting?
Ohh.
I had no idea.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Dude.
Y u drunk.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:07 PM
Nobody tells me stuff.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Fucking philosophers. Will debate a point for ten hours without having a clue what the discussion is even about.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I thought you were talking about protecting a question from any new answers.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That is not possible. Or did nobody tell you that, either?
How long have you been round these parts, now?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
How am I supposed to know that.
I don't use those things.
I don't care that much about the various censorship tools.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Anyway. Ask Tom for a second opinion if you must. I know for a fact he has spent a significant chunk of his life on deleting "fuck you niggaaaaaaaaaaaaa" and "call 3301451 for free sex" on six-year old questions, and then protecting them.
Not sure about other mods. But I know for a fact Tom has to do that quite a lot.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:12 PM
@RegDwigнt OK so it is about spam.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well not even that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Will it also block 100-reps? No?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
It's about that stupid bot interrupting our chat with "oh look someone posted fuck".
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I think the bot is fine?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
When the very said bot could just go and prevent that from happening in the first place.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:13 PM
Though every time I click on it, it's already been deleted. By people who happen to see it on the site?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yes the bot is fine. But he could do better things with his time. And then we'd have better things to do with ours.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So if you want to block only 1-reps from posting answers on questions older than 3 years, then I suppose I would be OK with that.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus if you're talking about the free cross-site association bonus, it is indeed excluded. You need to have 10 reps on the site in question.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Are you really sure that those spammers target mainly old questions?
@RegDwigнt Ah, OK.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus well I'm not even saying 3 years. Really 6 would be a start. Also, I specifically mentioned that the question should have more than one answer, and one of them accepted. Meaning that the OP was satisfied, at least to some extent.
Typically we get those "fuck you"s on SWRs. Which already have like a dozen answers.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:16 PM
I'm just wondering whether this measure would really be necessary, as the system seems to work fine as it is. And it's theoretically possible for a newish user from e.g. Portuguese.SE to want to post a useful answer on an old question on English.SE that is about etymology and concerns Portuguese or Latin or whatever.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
The system works fine as it is because the system is Tom and me. Once we decide we want to grow tomatoes instead, you don't have a system.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt So typically on SWRs. But also typically on very old questions? (If not, then what would be the use?)
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well, it's much easier to find and target something that's a) popular and b) has been around for a while.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt But I think it usually says "deleted by community" when I click on those bot posts?
@RegDwigнt So that's a yes?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
If I flag an answer as spam, it gets deleted. And that deletion is then attributed to the community.
I'm not sure if that's still the case if I just delete it myself.
I think in that case it does say RegDwight deleted it.
Anyway, my point is, not everything that says Community was actually Community.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:21 PM
@RegDwigнt Ohh.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus it's a yes in the sense that yes our most popular questions, and thus the easiest to bump into and vandalize, are SWRs. It is not a yes in the sense that SWRs are the use. I don't want to target tags. That opens all kinds of other cans of worms. It needs to be completely impartial.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
No, I meant: yes, our oldest questions attract a lot of spam.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
So not "auto-protect all SWRs", but "auto-protect old shit that everyone has been perfectly happy with for six years".
@Cerberus well I don't have hard data. This is anecdotal evidence.
The question from before wasn't an SWR, for example.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But you suspect that that is the case.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Maybe. But again, it doesn't really matter whether it's a lot or a little. What matters is that all of it is unnecessary, and preventable.
I believe on SO they have literally thousands of old questions protected. I constantly bump into stuff like that there.
I don't want to know how much spam they must be getting.
But they still deal with all of it manually as far as I can tell.
The message always reads, mod such and such protected it.
Never says protected by the Community because of spam or whatever.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:28 PM
Hmm.
Well, if you really feel that the burden of spam is high, then why not.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Anyway I never intended to discuss this in such depth.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yay!
By the way, fun but true fact:
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus No, I just came in here, noticed the bot, said shut the fuck up bot. As I often do.
Leave a quip, maybe Jasper will star it. And I'll get rich and famous.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
The Pitcairnilands legalised same-sex marriage on the 15th of May in 2015. But none of the 54 inhabitants are gay.
No starring needed.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
A man can dream. A man can dream.-
Though frankly, at a population of 54 I would think twice before becoming gay and dooming your entire race.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:31 PM
They can still have babies with their single straight friends.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Maybe have ten kids first, then become gay. It's not like that's never happened in the Western world, eh.
@Cerberus well yes, my point.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
My friend has just given birth to the second child from her girlfriend's brother.
So they have a good birth rate.
And they're not done yet.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus Oh good, so she's available now, what's her number.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
06 666 666 666
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That's the zip code of a city close to where I live.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:33 PM
Which is "fuck you" in Chinese keyboard layout.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
In Chinese keyboard layout, every key is "fuck you".
Literally.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Of course "fuck" in the good way.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yes, we all know it means "vegetables" in Chinese.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
After all, she probably wants children.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
And vegetables are good for you.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:34 PM
No, not that.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus so do I, is my point.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Well, you may be able to find a nice lesbian couple with whom you could share a child or two.
You don't need a straight woman.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yes. Which is why I'm asking.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Or you could have both, in case the straight woman doesn't want children but does want you.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Lol.
You are drunk.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:35 PM
There are plenty of women who don't want children!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That's not the part I'm laughing about.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But who would be fine with their husband's having a time-share child with a lesbian.
Self-deprecation is hardly sexy!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Stuff and nonsense.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Nor is it based in reality.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Ask ten people, get eleven opinions.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:37 PM
I gave you three.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
See.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
No doubt that'll be a plurality.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
People will always tell you that the problem with you is always whatever you are now. If you are self-deprecating, well you're an idiot, you must be an arrogant alpha male, women love that. If you are an arrogant alpha male, well you're an idiot, you must become humble and self-deprecating, women love that.
I've listened to this bullshit for long enough to no longer care.
It's like, you go to a hairdresser and want a haircut, they will always give you one. Even if you only just had one a minute ago from the hairdresser next door. If you ask people for their opinion, they will always find a problem with you.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Or...reject both!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Which is why we close all those questions asking "is there a problem with this sentence".
Because if you ask the question like that, there always is.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:41 PM
I don't see a problem with you.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You could have the sentence be "I have a car", but if you ask people to find a problem with it, they will find ten.
@Cerberus neither do I. Welcome to the club.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But neither arrogance nor self-deprecation are generally attractive to nice people (I'm assuming you'd want a nice woman), if you display them.
If you keep them under control, you're fine.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I gave you no self-deprecation in the first place. I gave you some of my trademark humour.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Ah, but there is often a grain of truth in humour.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Also, nice women don't exist. Or nice people, for that matter.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:43 PM
In case there wasn't, good for you.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Everyone has a corpse in the cellar.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Now, now.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yes, you too, my friend.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Or a skeleton in the cupboard.
I...was just hungry, okay?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You must have like twenty billion of dead people all around you by now.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:44 PM
I only meant to take a little bite.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
And then you discovered you could chew more than you bit off.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh, but I can bite off a lot.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
That's gay.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
And I have enough time to chew.
All aeternity.
At any rate, people who make self-deprecating jokes à la "I suck, nobody likes me" tend to also display this attitude to a lesser degree in flirting/dating, which is what I was cautioning against. If not, then there's no problem.
(Is it caution against? For?)
But you probably already knew that.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yawn.
What is this "dating", anyway?
I hever had a date in my entire life.
I only know it from movies.
And they do a whole lot of things in movies that just don't exist IRL.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:50 PM
Dates can be fun.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Like constantly hanging up on people without saying bye.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
You're a nervous wreck leading up to the date.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Or taking your phone from one ear to the other and then back again.
Not sure why all my examples are phone-related.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But, as long as you have a nice conversation, it's fine after the first couple of beers.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
@Cerberus now that is what I would caution against.
Nobody wants a nervous wreck.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:51 PM
@RegDwigнt Hah! Yes, this never ceases to amaze me.
@RegDwigнt Nah.
You just hide it enough to only appear "nervous".
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
So where do you get these "dates"?
I'm genuinely curious.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Grinder/Tinder worked for me.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Tinder doesn't work in this area.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Why not?
Not enough people nearby?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Nobody uses it. At all.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:55 PM
Hmm.
Then other dating sites.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Same.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
One of my straight friends has just got her second child from her Internet date.
From this site.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I've been thinking about moving, frankly. But I am not fucking desperate.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Then maybe move, yes.
Living in a city is great.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Dude. I was born in the biggest city in all of Europe.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:56 PM
I know!
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You, you should try living in a city. It's great.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I know you're no country owl.
But you've lived in the country for how long now?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
It's not the country. It's one of the state capitals. One of the 16 biggest cities.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh.
Huh.
I thought you lived in a smaller town.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
It's just that it might as well be Podunk, for all the activity people display online.
@Cerberus well by Moscow standards it's as big as one house block.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:58 PM
Then how can there be noöne nearby on Tinder nor on the big national dating sites?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
You ask me? Ask them. Me, I'm on there!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt I thought it was like 30,000 people or something.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
170k I think.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That should be large enough!
Though of course the bigger, the better.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yeah is what I'm saying. But nobody is listening. Because nobody is there.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
9:59 PM
All I can say is, try again or move to a bigger city.
 
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