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12:00 AM

@terdon I haven't just moved there,so what does it mean?

@Mitch Oh, sorry, apparently that something is true. As in "Oh yes, you can chalk that down". Maybe something akin to "you can take that to the bank and cash it" or something. I don't really know. I was clutching at straws trying to figure out why I'd write chalk X down as opposed to up and a Google search brought up this BrE thing.

I am not familiar with it, just guessing I might have heard it around and that's what tripped me.

@RegDwigнt I didn't bother listening to that trash. I upvoted because 'piano quintet' sounds like it'd be real loud.

@terdon phrasal verbs are insane.

call off vs call on

put off vs put on

put up vs put down

Solid rules? In English? I've been a native English speaker living in non-English speaking countries most of my life. At this point, when someone asks me to "explain" phrasal verbs I just run. — terdon May 15 '13 at 23:39

haha

None of them make any sense at all.

12:09 AM

I noticed not too long ago (something that linguists surely new since forever) that all those fancy latin borrowings that have such specific (but abstract) meanings in English are pretty much phrasal verbs in Latin.

"Examples?" you ask?

Yep

name a verb from Latin.

Excorciate

Cork off!

:P

12:10 AM

See! It's easy!

Dunno, exit?

incite

supersede

proceed

deceive

conceive

Oh. I think I see what you mean. All of those are compound words, right? Essentially verbified phrasal verbs?

in-cite, super-sede pro-ceed de-ceive con-ceive?

I'm pretty sure they had their vague abstract meanings already in classical Latin and were not compositional back in 100BC

@terdon Exactly

Neat!

12:12 AM

supersede = sit over

conceive = hmmm... something with.

take with

> late 13c., conceiven, "take (seed) into the womb, become pregnant," from stem of Old French conceveir (Modern French concevoir), from Latin concipere (past participle conceptus) "to take in and hold; become pregnant" (source also of Spanish concebir, Portuguese concebre, Italian concepere), from con-, here probably an intensive prefix (see con-), + combining form of capere "to take," from PIE root *kap- "to grasp."

@Mitch you can't listen to it anyway because apparently my posting that video actually killed YouTube.

and etymonline says it also meant ' get prego' back then too

Two minutes after I posted my entry, it went down.

That's cool actually, I hadn't known that becoming pregnant was the primary meaning originally.

12:13 AM

@RegDwigнt Oh? That was you?

Yeah. I should be so lucky.

Some one should call the news people

For the first time in my life I actually went to Twitter for help.

Bloody Russians...

:P

Sure enough, everyone saying GAAAAH no YouTube.

So it isn't just me.

It was me who killed it, tho. That much is fo sho.

12:14 AM

@terdon I don't think primary. hmm.. maybe it was and 'to think a new thought' was the next metaphor.

@RegDwigнt sho nuf.

@Mitch Only said primary 'cause that was the first meaning listed in etymonline.

authorities notified

@RegDwigнt I was listening to it a few minutes ago and am doing so again now. Maybe it's a regional glitch?

I was hoping so, yeah.

Also, very nice!

12:15 AM

The Tweets I've been reading are all from Germany, and indeed all from the specific region I'm in.

@terdon that is very kind. Thank you.

@Mitch and to answer your question directly, this time I actually went to Audacity and reduced the gain by 6dB.

Because the last time I posted something like that, yes the fucking volume was through the fucking roof.

Much to learn this young padawan still has.

And on that note, I'll bid you all good night.

haha I was kidding. I thought 5 pianos would be kind of a lot.

Night terdon.

@terdon I call your bid and raise you tomorrow.

@Mitch a piano quintet is a string quartet with a single piano.

Stop trolling me.

12:18 AM

Oh

I know you know these things.

You even knew that one thing about the thing.

The Megaminx.

Nobody knows about the megaminx.

I'm pretty sure I saw on the subway a group of kids in tuxes and evening dresses carrying piano sized things in their carrying cases

See. You know things. Is my point.

@RegDwigнt megaminx. pfft.

@RegDwigнt There is so much I don't know and just guess. And you chumps fill in the rest like I actually know things. Watch...

Bohemian Rhapsody.

Great song right?

you just thought I played it.

suckers

Here let me do it in a jazz style.

I'll throw in a neapolitan 6th.

Sounds nice right?

Sure, dixie land jazz.

@Mitch that's how I met tchrist. I said something about elm or pine or possibly both and he was impressed how I knew such things.

12:22 AM

if you can stand it

@RegDwigнt Trees right?

Spruce

Yew

Alder

Still don't know who Tress is other than that chick from Ocean's 11.

got it

Well damn. How am I supposed to go to bed with no YouTube to watch.

@RegDwigнt You mean the girl with the lisp?

@RegDwigнt Netflix?

I do have those like 20 books I'm reading all at once. But I don't feel like reading. Which is why I have them all at once.

12:23 AM

Or chill?

@Mitch no Julia Robert's character.

I'm chill alright now that the two weeks of work are behind me.

@RegDwigнt haha. I haven't read a book in forever. I blame you, Twitter.

@RegDwigнt She doesn't have a... oh. yes. her.

Don't have Netflix. I waste too much money as is on all kinds of subscriptions.

@RegDwigнt Netflix is the worst

Recently I've been told that they now have plans where several people can access the same account so I could theoretically watch on theirs.

But yeah I can't be bothered.

12:25 AM

It is like every (physical) video store ever

filled with all sorts of movies.

I've been to those.

but you can't find anything you'd actually really want to see

I've rented more movies than kids these days have heard of movies.

and you spend the time it would take to watch a movie looking for one but none are really worth it.

I know, we discussed.

Oct 25 at 18:42, by RegDwigнt

"I spent four hours on Netflix last night". "Cool, what did you watch?" "I just told you, Netflix".

12:26 AM

after two hours you decide, fine, I'll get the movie I've never heard of with Kevin Bacon and Emily Blunt, they're both interesting.

Emily Blunt is a bae.

and then you watch it, and you inderstand why you'd never heard of it.

That's like every movie of hers except Edge of Tomorrow.

@RegDwigнt Yes, that is the case. Whoever has the password can watch something. even at the same time.

But yeah no thanks no Kevin Bacon for me. He's shown me his wiener in every single movie with him that I watched.

I've seen it more often than he has by now.

12:27 AM

@RegDwigнt That was a great movie with a terrible title.

@RegDwigнt Must be some movie from a video store because I've never heard of that.

If you're into terrible titles, check out the German localizations of US titles back in the 60s and 70s and 80s.

Before they realized they can just roll with the English title verbatim.

@Mitch fo real now? I thought he was quite notorious for flipping it out every chance he gets.

Maybe not Footloose.

But I've not watched Footloose.

@RegDwigнt classic. cannot be found in video stores

or netflix

user image

the remake can be found everywhere

Hey Google how about you buy a DNS address for YouTube.

12:31 AM

Yeah. It's you

I can reach it

It is I.

Well, I and half of Germany.

isn't there a youtube.de?

which gets redirected for me to youtube.com

There's a youtu.be, yes.

I'm gonna write a piano quartet with FIVE EFFING PIANOS

It'll be loud

That's not a quartet, dude.

12:33 AM

That's how revolutionary I am

I'm gonna write a single piano with five effing pianos.

Catch up, Lenin.

Poor Lenin

He is the walrus.

all those revolutionary ideas and where did it get him?

Dead

He is the wal-RUS.

He's just another RUS in the wall.

12:34 AM

goo goo ga proletariat

Can't read my can't read my

Back in the kholkoz

or kolkhoz

That word looks so fucking dumb in English.

or whatever that is

колхоз

Коллективное хозяйство.

12:35 AM

yeah, that's messed up in Russian too

Nah only one number in this one.

Most words Russians put several numbers in.

what is 'хозяйство'? Farm?

Yes in this context. Literally "ownership".

oh.

Хозяин is "owner".

12:37 AM

That doesn't sound like farm

It does.

Words take on new meanings.

Like today you say "gate" to mean "a large door", tomorrow you say "gate" to mean "a big scandal".

Where's the sense in that.

You have wrapped up any debate about that entirely.

Impressive.

I bet "farm" also originally meant something like "the thing that you own and make stuff on".

Can you do the Islamic Renaissance?

Which could be a stove, really.

@Mitch I can't, but Rocco Siffredi can.

12:39 AM

@RegDwigнt looks at etymonline

He's done Italy and he's done Poland.

You'd know if you ever went to rent a video from a video store.

so close!

> farm (n.)
c. 1300, "fixed payment (usually in exchange for taxes collected, etc.), fixed rent," from Old French ferme "a rent, lease" (13c.), from Medieval Latin firma "fixed payment," from Latin firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "strong; stable," figuratively "constant, trusty" (from suffixed form of PIE root *dher- "to hold firmly, support").

Well there you go.

I am so impressive I am about to get impressed with myself.

Be impressed with being impressed.

OMFG dude YouTube works again.

12:41 AM

Then you'll achieve the singularity

and that'd be pretty impressive

Nah I don't need to bother. In Soviet Russia, singularity achieves me.

@RegDwigнt nice. now you can watch that video of that guy where he does that thing and then... well it's with a lot of... I suppose he wasn't really like that but it just seemed as though eventually... and there was some sort of ... a kind of ... was it a... maybe it was ... a key?

@Mitch Jeesh, why are you putting me down like that?

@RegDwigнt That would be a first!

Well you're quite heavy to hold for prolongued amountes of thyme. What with the nine and ninety heads and all.

@Cerberus haha I'm just putting you on.

12:51 AM

@RegDwigнt Y U CAL ME FAT

@Mitch It was quite off-putting!

Nov 28 at 22:06, by RegDwigнt

If I am curt, that's because time is of the essence.

Not to say, off Putin.

Putin off the Ritz.

@RegDwigнt So better curt than fat, you're saying.

I'm not saying anything. I'm typing.

12:53 AM

@Cerberus I'm putting up with a lot of your shit

There was an article in the paper yesterday about how glad we should be with Putin, compared to what will come after.

@Mitch What are you putting up with it? Your room?

We have to worry about Merkel first.

You don't want to know what comes after her.

It's a shit show already.

@Cerberus haha. the news in the US is great! They're getting the orange jumpsuits fitted already...

... until the bombs start launching

@RegDwigнt Yes, I'm very sad about her.

But yeah these are the grounds people elect Merkel and Putin on in the first place. Because why bother with what you don't know, it could be worse than what you have.

12:55 AM

But her successor will be much less of a problem than Putin's.

You don't know that.

I can!

There's fucking Nazis in the Reichstag again.

he's got a pretty good idea

I saw a video on YouTube just the other week how Merkel dealt with them. That was impressive.

12:56 AM

Putin's problem is that he doesn't expect a successor

I don't think anyone else is quite up to the task.

who knew that Putin was up to it when he started.

Oh for the days of Yeltsin.

He was so competent

About as competent as his fellow-body-typed crossponder.

@Mitch Got himself drunk, fell of a bridge. That was fucking awesome actually.

@RegDwigнt I don't remember that. The bridge part

12:59 AM

They don't make state leaders like those anymore.

um... the orange guy?

@Mitch all of Russia fondly remembers.

He.

half of every body alive now wasn't even born them

All of your body now alive wasn't even there then.

1:00 AM

Especially the ant bodies weren't, no.

exactamundo

Some insects do grow to a very old age.

The insects called the human race. Lost in time, and space, and meaning. MEAAAANING.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Superheroes

why you youtube us when you know its out

This is one of those songs you wish you wrote. Until you realize nobody would have heard it then, so it's good Richard O'Brien did it instead.

1:06 AM

> Ming the mollusc is the oldest verified solitary animal on record. This ocean quahog was 507 years old when biologists dredged it up from the coastal waters around Iceland in 2006, and promptly killed it.

That's funny

because it's dead

solitary? it was alone so nobody else would notice

> Ming died, but it might have been biologically immortal. In many animal cells, oxygen-containing molecules react with the membranes, generating small molecules that in turn damage other parts of the cell.

But a 2012 study found that ocean quahog cells carry membranes that are unusually resistant to this sort of damage. Ming might have lived so long because its cells, like the cells of bristlecone pine, aged at a negligible rate.

Ming is the oldest animal with an age that can be verified. It's a mollusc, so biologists can count annual growth lines in its shell, much as botanists can age …

bbc.com/earth/story/20150622-can-anything-live-forever

It's a nice article.

You can age people that way too

Ming? They gave it a name?

@RegDwigнt Please. 2018 will be fine, thanks.

I think 2019 sound better. Like you really did come from the future

1:13 AM

What's that in hex.

Also, I upvoted your entry, even though it's not a song.

I tried to subtly prevent people from calling it that.

@RegDwigнt 7E2, of course.

And thank you.

> But even in sexually reproducing animals, biological immortality isn't entirely unheard of. The American lobster is a good example.

Most animals more or less stop growing when they reach sexual maturity, but not American lobsters. What's more, even as an adult this lobster can regrow a limb if it loses one by accident.

Both of these features suggest American lobsters retain an impressive ability to regenerate, even into advanced adulthood. That might explain why large specimens are estimated to be at least 140 years old.

1:14 AM

@RegDwigнt De nada.

@Robusto mkay what is that in hex now.

The audience demands to know.

@Cerberus Yeah, but they can't find any really hot giant lobsters for sex.

@RegDwigнt What, we're on TV?

beams, looks around

Maybe they like young.

@Robusto It's on the internet somewhere

@Robusto They should ask Jordan Peterson.

1:16 AM

Lobsters don't have access to the internet.

@Robusto we're on the true-man show.

So man up now willya.

I've manned up all my life. I'm tired now.

@Robusto You should provide a service

call it Pimpster

@Mitch You're the one who lives near the lobsters, not me.

Even when I did live near the lobsters, I didn't actually live near the lobsters.

@Robusto I don't mess with no underwater spiders

ew

1:17 AM

@Robusto sometimes there's a man, he's the man for his time and place.

He fits right in.

That's just, like, you know, your opinion, man.

44 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

He is the walrus.

We started without you, sorry.

Che ridícolo!

If you have a gigantic schlong I guess you could play it penissimo.

Where do I find that in Sibelius?

It's under the + menu. Like everything else.

1:19 AM

BTW I re-watched that video a few days ago and it's even better the second time.

Yeah, I love that one too. Did you see my comment?

Because he actually warns you of all the things he'll do, but by the time he does those things you forget the warning.

At least I had.

So it was like re-watching Memento or something.

Best part was when he starts riffing on the Graves poem at the end.

@Robusto I do not believe I did. But now that Google has bought an internet for his YouTube, I can go and check!

Well, he's Irish, so he's great at those interior monologues.

1:21 AM

Actually it's in my queue already. Thank you Google.

user image

True story.

Noice.

ikr

Wait.. what software are you using to score? That?

I think it's funny the way you all are lying down for the perpetrator of your misery. You deserve the mess you're in. I hereby resign as your champion. ^_^ — Robusto 35 secs ago

@Mitch What software I use I mention every time. Nobody reads my shit.

1:26 AM

Bunch of candy-ass thumbsuckers.

And no I don't have money for Sibelius. Also no nerve suit.

Okay what is this fun Rob is having and where.

OIC

He lives the dangerous life, the Rob.

How so?

I don't know that person. But they have a diamond.

What person?

Oh, that one.

You commented on.

1:28 AM

Thought you were talking about the Tantacrul.

Nah I'll only be there in 70 more seconds once this video is finished.

You still have time to translate your comment into Japanese or something.

Is World of Tanks Dying?

Take that!

I've not played in six months.

Take it anyway.

Well that's a lie, I played just two days ago to check. And yeah it had a population of like 1/4 the size it used to be.

Also only 2/3 of the servers left.

So it doesn't exactly take a genius like me to do the math.

And now I was wondering why everything was silent for 20 seconds.

user image

So I went and checked and this is why.

1:32 AM

What if you don't value any of them?

So. Google. Just what you think I'll answer to that question now.

@Robusto kindajinx.

BTW, I drive a Honda now.

Why is the top comment not yours but by one Adam Neely.

@RegDwigнt Cuz he's more important than me.

That is literally not true.

1:34 AM

But Neely's didn't make Tantacrul guffaw.

So there's that.

Also figuratively. For small values of figuratively.

@Robusto I'm still looking and still not finding.

Are you not posting as your yume self.

Didja find my gravatar? That's the place to look.

Also kindajinx.

Posted as my wahre Name.

Something like that.

Yeah, unter meinem echten Namen or something.

1:37 AM

Genau.

What is this fucking sorting, YouTube. I said by popularity and you show me 1200, 400, 1, 3, 1, 200, 1, 1, 543.

Who does this programming.

Is it Sibelius?

Try that link.

Then I must delete.

Yeah that worked thank you.

Why the fuck is it not top for me anyway if it's got an actual heart.

Dunno. YouTube is a mystery to me.

You're the one with a channel, don't they teach you that shit?

They teach you shit alright. But it's, well, shit.

I'd rather not learn that.

1:40 AM

You already know it, I understand.

Me, I don't know shit. That's the difference between you and me.

Srsly tho, going by the video, Sibelius teaches its users way more, and also way better, than YouTube does.

@Robusto I am the king of shit. Walzerkönig was already taken.

You take what you get.

I've always disparaged YouTube comments. It's like you took the worst pineapple questions on EL&U and interbred them with Imgur comments.

Fuck, you read Imgur comments?

I learned to stay away from Imgur before it had comments.

I did at first.

Or Imgur posts. Same thing.

Sorry I put the emphásis on the wrong sylláble.

1:45 AM

It's, uh ... your accent.

That is how awful the Internet makes people.

It makes you do things.

It makes you not do things.

You sit around on your ass all day and never get anything done!

PrEmadonnas?

have a drink

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Der Premabüba ist eine seit 1948 regelmäßig stattfindende Fastnachtsveranstaltung im Saarland. Diese Veranstaltung war eine Zeitlang die größte ihrer Art in diesem Bundesland. Das Akronym steht für „PREsse-MAler-BÜhnen-BAll“. == Geschichte == Vorläufer des Premabüba waren das „Saarbrücker Presse- und Künstlerfest“, das erstmals am 7. März 1914 stattfand. Ab 1927 wurde der „Presse- und Bühnenball“ (Prebüh) veranstaltet, der auch vom Namen her Vorläufer der Faschingsveranstaltung war, und mit dem Zutritt der Kunstmaler zum „Premabüh“ ausgebaut wurde.Die erste Veranstaltung unter dem Namen Premabüba…

@Robusto who is Cal and why would I drink his pis.

1:47 AM

That's kinda the question.

@Robusto That answer was unexpectedly funny. I think I woke up the street.

But did you guffaw?

Tantacrul guffawed.

I am still laughing sorry, no time for other things.

I don't laugh for days then you post some shit like "uh-huh" and I laugh for hours.

Uh-huh.

I was going to say no it doesn't work like that. But then I chuckled. Fuck.

1:51 AM

Helps if you're drunk.

I knew you would say that but I'm actually not for a change.

Billy boy was right all along. It's the delivery, stupid.

Also, he didn't have sax with that woman.

Billy boy said a lot of smart things.

Like "I did not have sex with that woman!"

Seriously now, it only occurs to me now, why didn't he make his defense that.

"I meant sax".

Instead he made it about the meaning of is.

But anyhows, I just noticed the clock. And it says I must go to work in five hours. So I think I'll take the next train out of here.

And I hear that train a-comin, it's rollin round the bend.

I'm outta here before I see the sunshine.

Bai.

Bai

Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall Show (HD)

Works for me.

1 hour later…

3:21 AM

A Clockwork Orange - Billy Boy scene

4 hours later…

7:13 AM

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