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RegDwight ΒВB

1:00 PM

@kiamlaluno take it up with Kit. Careful though, she'll only love you back.

kiamlaluno

Argh… That would be a problem.

KitFox

I know, so don't worry, I won't.

kiamlaluno

Actually, hun was already a problem. ;)

Manishearth

Someone should teach her the Boomdeyada song :p

user19161

I love you @kiam.

KitFox

1:01 PM

boomalacka boomalacka whack whack whack

RegDwight ΒВB

Oh, and for those who only understand hindi, we have pictures of love.

Mar 13 at 13:57, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

KitFox

So are we getting shut down? What's the deal with this odd discussion?

RegDwight ΒВB

Jun 15 '11 at 12:55, by Robusto

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Feb 15 at 20:24, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

No chat in this chat.

Manishearth

@kit of course not :)

kiamlaluno

1:02 PM

Thinking better, it doesn't seem I have a fiancé anymore. I would say it cannot cause problems anymore.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox there's a discussion?

user19161

I just got a -10 rep for user removed.

KitFox

Who shot who in the what now?

user19161

Everyone check your rep quick.

kiamlaluno

@JasperLoy Which kind of love is that?

RegDwight ΒВB

1:03 PM

@KitFox I could tell you, but I have to charge.

KitFox

Well, never mind then.

What am I doing today?

Oh yes, planning to take over the world.

RegDwight ΒВB

Something microsofty.

kiamlaluno

@JasperLoy Mine is fine. Well, somebody could say it is not fine. ;)

Matt Эллен

microsoftly

KitFox

With charm and English muffins.

RegDwight ΒВB

1:04 PM

Muffin is such a rude word.

kiamlaluno

I want waffles.

Matt Эллен

I'll do it with English charm and muffins. We'll see who gets there first!

RegDwight ΒВB

@kiamlaluno No flirting, I said!

KitFox

It is awesome for its innocent rudeness!

kiamlaluno

Well, and I want pancakes too.

RegDwight ΒВB

1:05 PM

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Q: What is up with the waffle fetish?

Setting aside the fact that waffles were created in the seventh circle of hell, cause suffering and apocalyptic horror wherever they are witnessed, and are instruments of pure evil, where did the obsession with talking about them in every thread arise? Can we stop this and have more waffles? A...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

kiamlaluno

@RegDwightΒВB Flirting? Can you flirt with waffles? I am 1970-ish style, I am so sorry. :-)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

We have lots of rules in this chat. Our owl keeps us in line.

user19161

I have divined the user who deleted his account.

RegDwight ΒВB

@MrShinyandNew安宇 see how useful all these guidelines are? They just prevented us from getting shut down. Phew! Now, no not thanking me in this chat!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:06 PM

@MattЭллен Aren't all your muffins English?

KitFox

No doing inappropriate things with him in your office in this chat. That must have been me.

RegDwight ΒВB

waffles, Australia

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status-completed discussion feature-request bug support data-explorer suggested-edits

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox yeah I think so

RegDwight ΒВB

2 mins ago, by kiamlaluno

I want waffles.

kiamlaluno

Wait… What did it say about armpits?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:07 PM

Jan 4 at 14:14, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

No sorting out armpits in this chat.

RegDwight ΒВB

No, that's what I said about armpits.

kiamlaluno

Oh, good. I don't sort out my armpits; I scratch them.

user19161

Rudra deleted his account. QED.

RegDwight ΒВB

Hm. After getting to 3k? He almost beat ElendilTheTall.

simchona

@JasperLoy Could that possibly have been because he got caught for voting irregularities?

kiamlaluno

1:08 PM

Who is Rudra?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Jul 2 at 14:41, by RegDwight ΒВB

No invading this chat in this chat.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwightΒВB That is not "I want @waffles."

user19161

@simchona Hmm, I don't know. I don't think that of him though.

RegDwight ΒВB

@kiamlaluno you do realize there is no letter @ in English?

And no, Twitter is not English.

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, and that got starred.

simchona

1:09 PM

@JasperLoy Well, having wondered why he would self answer a question about igloos, I kind of wonder what he was doing

Matt Эллен

@MrShinyandNew安宇 why yes, muffin

kiamlaluno

@RegDwightΒВB Yes, but English does use @.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен I'm more of a cupcake, really

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwight ΒВB

Cup D?

I'm not following.

So much people.

kiamlaluno

1:10 PM

It's more a cup C.

KitFox

You are thinking D-cup?

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightΒВB I was beginning to think you're a stalker, but if you say so

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox I don't usually think D-cup

kiamlaluno

It's good there isn't a K-cup.

There is a K-word, anyway. Does that count?

RegDwight ΒВB

@kiamlaluno don't make me prove you wrong because I will.

KitFox

1:11 PM

There is a K-cup.

user19161

@manis I think your question has raised a storm. I think most rooms will be deleted soon.

kiamlaluno

@KitFox Oh right… I forgot about Wimbledon.

KitFox

I am so confused.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Brassiere measurement

Brassiere measurement (also called brassiere sizes, colloquially bra sizes or bust sizes) refers to determining what size of bra a woman wears and mass producing bras that will fit most women. Bra sizes usually consist of a number, indicating a band size around the woman's torso, and one or more alphabetical letters indicating the breast cup size. Bra cup sizes were invented in 1932 and band sizes became popular in the 1940s. Bra sizing systems are typically used to label off-the-shelf bras and are not used for custom-made bras or bras built into other garments. Bra size labeling syste...

RegDwight ΒВB

So anyway. Back on topic. Can we have the Kit Den resurrected for as long as there are flirting rooms in languages noöne understands?

KitFox

1:12 PM

I have no idea what the K-word would be either.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwightΒВB Only if you can show a natural K-cup.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox Kit.

simchona

@RegDwightΒВB What about Kitty Corner?

RegDwight ΒВB

Or KITT.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox Kosmonaut?

RegDwight ΒВB

1:13 PM

@kiamlaluno I have just posted one in the hindi flirting room.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Which room is that by the way? Never came across.

KitFox

^K-cup.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

jeez

Meysam

Hey @RegDwightB. Have you unpinned anything in Penthousing?

RegDwight ΒВB

I guess you have never visited the chat for EL&U. — kiamlaluno 24 mins ago

user19161

1:14 PM

@KitFox Looks weird.

kiamlaluno

No comment.

KitFox

They don't seem K-sized to me.

RegDwight ΒВB

So that's where all the random people come from to look at our K-cups. Why welcome, random people!

kiamlaluno

@RegDwightΒВB Now you should tell me which one. Not that I mean to flirt, anyway..

RegDwight ΒВB

@Meysam I never touched anything in your Penthouse.

Pinned stuff is automatically unpinned after 2 weeks.

user19161

1:15 PM

@kiam Your comment on the question will now send everyone here wondering what goes on in this room.

Meysam

@RegDwightΒВB Alright

KitFox

So apparently, this is an actual K-cup.

user19161

@KitFox Looks fake.

KitFox

So there. Indeed. There is such a thing.

RegDwight ΒВB

BTW, in case any of those incognoscent passersby keep wondering, this discussion is on topic and no flirting. It is all related to a very important question.

70

Q: Differences between slang words for breasts

What is the difference between “tits” and “boobs”? P.S. I'm not sure if this question is appropriate but as English is not my native language I really would love to know the difference.

differences nouns slang offensive-language

KitFox

1:17 PM

@JasperLoy They probably are.

Most women with K sized boobs are morbidly obese.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox you should check out Leonard Nimoy's works. Morbidly obese women with A sized boobs. I'm not making this up.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Oh I have an answer there too!

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB I think if they are A-cups, then they are tits.

Robusto

@KitFox I dunno. The K-cups that come with our coffee machine are pretty small. I wonder if we're getting cheated.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox The Full Body Project by Leonard Nimoy, possibly NSFW depending on how nazi your country slash boss is.

KitFox

1:20 PM

Geezis.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I do not understand why a woman would want K-cup-sized boobs

RegDwight ΒВB

Spock has come a long way.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВB rimshot

RegDwight ΒВB

@Robusto you misspelled moneyshot.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Robusto no double-entendres in this chat

Matt Эллен

1:21 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 maybe K is her favourite letter?

kiamlaluno

I would be happy with a D-cup.

Does the Wimbledon Cup count as a W-cup?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@kiamlaluno Only if they keep it in a bra

Robusto

And is Lord Stanley's Cup all about cross-dressing?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

or if they put boobs in it.

Robusto

Also, if they say a man is "in his cups" does that mean he is cross-dressing?

Matt Эллен

1:24 PM

abra^^

RegDwight ΒВB

@Robusto that is not my cup of T.

Seeing all those folks floating in, I have to say I am somewhat happy Kiam decided to promote this room when it happened not to be full of starred penises.

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Gigili

cadabra:

Matt Эллен

that's not kadabra!

that's kadabra!

RegDwight ΒВB

I am too old for this shit.

I only know Pikachu and Ash.

Matt Эллен

you are older than 12, and what is this?

Robusto

1:31 PM

@RegDwightΒВB I figured you for a Mr. Coffee man anyway.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

hey while there are all these SO people popping in, anyone want to answer this question?

5

Q: Enable real fixed positioning on Samsung Android browsers

The Android browser, since 2.2, supports fixed positioning, at least under certain circumstances such as when scaling is turned off. I have a simple HTML file with no JS, but the fixed positioning on three Samsung phones I've tried is simply wrong. Instead of true fixed positioning, the header sc...

android css webkit position-fixed samsung-mobile

RegDwight ΒВB

@Robusto if you close your eyes, they taste the same anyway. Especially with milk.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 hahahahahaha.

All these SO people popping in from a post about "People advertising their own posts (not counted as technical discussion, IMO)", no less!

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB It took us days to figure out that our little one wasn't saying "picture ass."

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox wait he was not?

Your figuring out needs adjustment.

KitFox

He was saying "Pikachu, Ash."

Matt Эллен

1:34 PM

ass judgement*

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВB Yeah I know. I am aware of the irony

KitFox

I thought he'd been scarred by accidental pornography viewing.

I was very relieved.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yesterday my son, who never watches any tv or movies or anything, said to me "circus afro"

KitFox

hahaha

Matt Эллен

lol

RegDwight ΒВB

1:35 PM

Contrary to popular belief, not all pornography is worse than Pokémon.

KitFox

Well, my son has decided that Bakugan and Beyblades are the most awesome toys ever.

He uses his Zoobles to bowl over the Pokemon.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox Those sound like nasty diseases.

KitFox

The Bakugan are meh, but I quite like the Beyblades.

i.e. Tops.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox zoobles are animal noodles. Oh wait. that's zoodles.

Matt Эллен

zoobles are Russian money, no wait that Roubles

KitFox

1:38 PM

How come my building has no interoffice envelopes? How is that even possible?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Zoobles are pretentiously-groomed dogs. Oh wait, that's poodles.

Matt Эллен

:D

KitFox

What kind of crappy secretaries do we have here?

Matt Эллен

do you even have secretaries?

KitFox

Well, an information desk receptionist.

RegDwight ΒВB

1:39 PM

None of my aries are secret.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Me: Om non nom!
my son: Don't eat me!
Me: Why not?
my son: I need me.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightΒВB that you know of

KitFox

@MrShinyandNew安宇 D'awww.

@RegDwightΒВB What about your ariats?

brb - thinking of clever things to say

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox that sounds like you tried to spell out an awful Disney title, forgot a half and gave up.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВB .... are you talking about aristocats?

Matt Эллен

1:43 PM

off topic

0

Q: Is "referral for general manager position" correct?

Is "referral for general manager position" correct? I plan to use this phrase as the subject of my referral's email to a friend.

semantics

RegDwight ΒВB

@MrShinyandNew安宇 for once I do.

KitFox

Now what was I doing again?

Matt Эллен

judging breast measurements

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

humming a Tim Minchin song

RegDwight ΒВB

An F#-cup?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:49 PM

@RegDwightΒВB but her boobs are in F-major

KitFox

I miss smoking. I quit five years ago today.

Matt Эллен

congratulations!

KitFox

Oh, that's not Tim Minchin. That's Rufus Wainwright.

RegDwight ΒВB

You know the date? I can't be arsed remembering mine.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВB probably around the time she found out she was pregnant

RegDwight ΒВB

1:50 PM

And it's been less(!) than five years.

KitFox

@MrShinyandNew安宇 It was the same day I found out I was pregnant.

RegDwight ΒВB

Well okay I guess I might remember such a date.

Matt Эллен

I think a lot of people would remember the date you got pregnant, @Reg

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен except @Cerb

Matt Эллен

lol

KitFox

1:52 PM

@MattЭллен Are you saying Reg participates in orgies?

RegDwight ΒВB

@MattЭллен Not those who wouldn't know it.

@KitFox are you saying I am not?

KitFox

Or that he's an exhibitionist?

RegDwight ΒВB

How is that an or?

Matt Эллен

@KitFox I'm saying a man being pregnant would be world news

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB Are you? Just now?

@MattЭллен Well, that's a bit different than getting pregnant.

RegDwight ΒВB

1:53 PM

@KitFox if you don't know what Present Continuous means, that's a question for ELL.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox nah, there's just more than one interpretation

RegDwight ΒВB

Yes, we got it.

KitFox

It's all kind of hazy.

RegDwight ΒВB

Jenna Hazy?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

gotta run, folks. Have fun being hazy and zoobly oodly boodly

Matt Эллен

2:01 PM

cya!

off topic:

0

Q: Meaning of judge the book by the cover

What does this lyric from 'The Look of Love' song by ABC really mean? if you judge the book by the cover, then you should judge the look by the lover

meaning meaning-in-context

or gen ref, depending on if you don't read the body of the question

ahem

Mitch

2:14 PM

@MattЭллен Or an Area51 proposal for songlyricsmeaning.SE

Gigili

Whaht?

Aww.

I was thinking of songly rics me aning.

Matt Эллен

oh! that songly ric!

Mitch

@Matt dammit

When you think about it that song's not bad. But don't think about it.

Matt Эллен

:D

KitFox

> We anticipate that approximately 18 schools located in 5 different states will participate. Approximately 54 new users (1 coach and 2 interventionists per school) will be added, along with approximately 126 randomly selected students (7 per school) and 360 students (20 per school) receiving intervention services. And I can have this all done in one week, and then skip and blow bubbles.

I suppose I shouldn't put that in the scope.

Matt Эллен

2:24 PM

indeed. first you need to suck breath in through your teeth

then you need to say "it's gonna cost you"

then shake your head a bit

KitFox

See, I'll say it will take a week, so they will wait until the day before launch to send me the info.

If I say a month, then they'll send it to me the week after launch.

Matt Эллен

ô_Ô

KitFox

It's complicated.

simchona

2:37 PM

-3

Q: Lulled Into, To Sleep

"to be lulled to sleep" "to be lulled into sleep" Do we say "to be lulled to sleep" or "to be lulled into sleep"?

grammar idioms prepositions usage

"EveryDay". Quite fitting.

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Gigili

Buy gold bricks or suffer my wrath!

Matt Эллен

I can't afford gold bricks. What's your wrath like?

MetaEd

@KitFox cute

Mitch

@KitFox You know the rule about deadlines? If you say it'll take X (a number) Ys (units of time)...

KitFox

Double it and move to the next unit up.

So 1 day = 2 weeks.

Mitch

2:44 PM

You should double X and go to the next unit. For example, "It'll take two weeks to implement" should really be...

'It'll take 4 months to implement'

KitFox

Four months.

Yes. I know.

But thanks.

Mitch

and then theres' the Murphy's law variant which says that even if you take the rule into effect...

Matt Эллен

so something that will take 4 months should be estimated at 8 years. Because rules must be followed

Mitch

ou'll still need to take the rule into effect.

KitFox

And anyway, the problem isn't with me. The problem is getting what I need when I need it.

Mitch

2:45 PM

and if you say it'll take 2 years..

the next unit is 'never'

KitFox

Speaking of which, I think will sext my husband.

Oh. Now that came out in an odd place.

Matt Эллен

yay!

Mitch

Because you promised him it would be ready by last week?

KitFox

No, because you had just said "the next unit is 'never'"

Robusto

@Mitch OMG, Murphy's Law is recursive? That's so not fair.

KitFox

2:47 PM

When really it's just that he's got something I need.

Matt Эллен

Hofstadter's law

Hofstadter's law is a self-referencing time-related adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter and named after him. Hofstadter's Law was a part of Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The law is a statement regarding the difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of any substantial complexity. It is often cited amongst programmers, especially in discussions of techniques to improve productivity, such as The Mythical Man-Month or extreme programming. The recursive nature of the law is a reflection of the universal experienc...

Mitch

@Robusto I blame Murphy.

Gigili

@Kit: Vote for RSS feed, biliz.

KitFox

Yes'm.

Matt Эллен

one boxing is quite annoying for feed items

the ticker is so much nicer

Gigili

2:55 PM

Indeed. Not everyone is as understanding as you.

Thank you.

Robusto

3:07 PM

@Mitch I blame laws.

KitFox

3:19 PM

I blame possessives.

Also, society.

cornbread ninja

3:35 PM

@KitFox congratulations! I'm at six months next Tuesday and don't miss it.

KitFox

I didn't miss it at first. I was too pregnant/tired/pregnant again/even more tired.

cornbread ninja

This is the third time for me :\

RegDwight ΒВB

Once a smoker, always a smoker.

cornbread ninja

I went some 22 months last time.

@RegDwightΒВB pssh.

KitFox

Now I've been writing stories in which the characters smoke and watching movies in which the characters smoke, and I would really like to do that too.

Except that the first one always tastes like ass. And it took me forever to quit.

RegDwight ΒВB

3:40 PM

Hm. To me it's the first one that tastes best. It's around the tenth one when the fun's all over.

Mitch

@KitFox just like oysters. who was the first person to think of doing that? And then everybody else is doing it.

RegDwight ΒВB

@Mitch or olives.

cornbread ninja

@KitFox it's a wonder anyone has a second one, really.

RegDwight ΒВB

People keep telling me that I have to eat 100 olives before I acquire the taste. I keep telling them that by now I'm well past my 1101st and they still taste like tire.

MetaEd

@RegDwightΒВB You're doing it wrong.

cornbread ninja

3:44 PM

@RegDwightΒВB have you tried klamata? Or if green olives, gin-soaked?

Green olives are only palatable if gin-soaked.

RegDwight ΒВB

@MetaEd yeah right. Stop that nonsense already. It's not me who's wrong, it's the olives.

@cornbreadninja I have tried everything people around me were eating by the pound.

But it's not like I'm missing anything. I'm just curious.

@MetaEd actually that reminds me of Fisherman's Friend commercials. "If our product tastes like shit, that's your fault, not ours."

KitFox

I felt that way about olives for a long time. The texture is rather like tyres.

Now I like kalamata, and sometimes pimento-stuffed green ones.

Happened like magic. One day I woke up and liked olives.

Same thing with vinegar.

RegDwight ΒВB

I will probably like wine before I like olives.

KitFox

You don't like wine?

You must be a sweet person. I think I am a sour/salty person.

RegDwight ΒВB

Awful waste of perfectly fine grape juice.

cornbread ninja

3:52 PM

I have to like kalamata; I'm Greek.

MetaEd

For me depends on the wine. A lot of wines are just no good.

And I plan to try all of them before I die. :-)

KitFox

@cornbreadninja Being part of a sorority does not make you Greek.

RegDwight ΒВB

@MetaEd who wants to live forever?

cornbread ninja

@KitFox spits on ground

MetaEd

@RegDwightΒВB I do.

KitFox

3:53 PM

According to the show it makes you Grssk.

cornbread ninja

It's my dad who makes me Greek.

KitFox

Or something.

And your mom who makes you cook?

:-P

cornbread ninja

@KitFox self-loathing.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox actually I am all into salt. Like, I could eat nothing but salt for days and be the happiest person on earth.

Journeyman Geek

lol

ugh, thank you

RegDwight ΒВB

3:54 PM

I also like bitter chocolate, but not the sweet stuff.

KitFox

@cornbreadninja Really? Mine too! Well, she used to. I had a lot of therapy.

Journeyman Geek

I crave salt after every darned state sanctioned workout ;p

cornbread ninja

@KitFox I just let my Greek half kick my self-loathing half's ass around.

They Greco-Roman wrestle.

KitFox

Well, I hope you win.

cornbread ninja

heh.

RegDwight ΒВB

3:56 PM

Just never fight Putin.

KitFox

Putin on the ...

MetaEd

@RegDwightΒВB You should try the salt cured olives.

KitFox

Mmm, salty, brine-soaked olives.

RegDwight ΒВB

@MetaEd I tried the salt part and liked it. What's olives good for?

MetaEd

Black salty wrinkled things. Taste like salty tires.

@RegDwightΒВB Eatin'!

RegDwight ΒВB

3:58 PM

@MetaEd Well I guess you must be extremely thankful that I exist. I leave so many olives to you.

MetaEd

The think to keep in mind about Italian cuisine is that it's basically: we're starving. Nothing is inedible. In fact, we'll make it into a delicacy!

KitFox

suspects Ed might be Italian

RegDwight ΒВB

suspects Kit hasn't been noticing the parrot

Clearly he's a pirate.

MetaEd

The grape juice spoiled? No problem. Nothing to eat but bitter oily seed pods? No problem, we'll soak them in the spoiled grape juice. Nothing to eat at all? No problem, we'll eat thistles. Let's call them artichokes!

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