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9:40 AM

lol

Elvis, obvs

Costello?

he's still alive (I had to check)

me too :-)

Q: What part of Britain is Mossy Bottom Farms from Shaun the Sheep located in?

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We know Wallace and Gromit live in Wigan. It isn't clear to me where Shaun the Sheep lives.

cross advertising?

9:50 AM

@M.A.R. Bottoms Farm is a bit north west of Leeds. can't find a real life Mossy Bottoms Farm, so I guess we'll have to keep guessing :D

Q: Can Corona beer kill Corona Virus?

@skullpatrol I dunno, was I advertising this one as well?

Apr 5 at 20:53, by M.A.R.

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Can Corona beer kill Corona Virus because beer has alcohol but I don't know if you can use it to kill Corona Virus

discussion questions

Think of me as an extremely inconsistent 'interesting' feed bot.

np, pal

TIL Northern Ireland is not a part of Britain, but is a part of the U.K. yet it is not a kingdom @MattE.Эллен

?

it is a kingdom

or do you mean NI is not a kingdom?

10:06 AM

Yes

NI is not a kingdom

oh, well, it's the United Kingdom, not the United Kingdoms

the countries and principalities are united into one kingdom

good point

Færd

@Cerberus Nice

Might as well be titled despair

Were it not for the faint star.

@RegDwigнt Not until it goes below zero

@MattE.Эллен Britain + NI = UK where Britain = England, Scotland, and Wales

10:22 AM

@skullpatrol basically, yeah

Thanks pal

no worries

:D

1:48 PM

@MattE.Эллен Just one big unhappy family.

@skullpatrol Don't rush to conclusionis. Wales has had a separatist movement for a long time, and Scotland feels betrayed by Brexit just after narrowly voting to remain in the UK.

I see on television that athletes from England no longer have the Union Jack by their name. Instead they have the red-on-white cross of England. Scots have the St. Andrew's cross (red) on white.

they all want to leave, but Parliament will never let them. They didn't join voluntarily, like the UK joined the EU,

well, "all" meaning they all have sepratist movements

@Robusto depends on the sport

Which sports have which?

Team GB for the olympics

Ah. What Olympics?

but football and rugby are separte

1:52 PM

Also golf.

@Robusto well, althetics in general

What is the Welsh flag?

for some reason football and rugby get special treatment

@Robusto a dragon

A dragon? Is that the one St. George slew?

lol

1:54 PM

Everyone things the US flag is unique, but it was actually adapted from the flag of the British East India Company.

:-o

the Welsh flag is apparently related to Henry Tudor's flag

Flag of the East India Company

The flag of the East India Company represented the British East India Company between 1600 and 1874. The flag was altered as the nation changed from England to Great Britain to the United Kingdom. It was initially a red and white striped ensign with the flag of England in canton. The flag was later updated to include the flag of Great Britain and flag of the United Kingdom in 1707 and 1801 respectively, as the nation developed. It was succeeded by the Star of India series of flags. == English control == Upon receiving Royal Assent to trade in the Indian Ocean by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, the...

Just a different canton.

@Robusto For example, Andy Murray flies a union flag in Tennis

@MattE.Эллен I guess Wales didn't make it into the Union Jack then. Or if if did it's on the bottom.

yeah, it's a weird one. I assume it's something to do with it being a principality

2:00 PM

So where does the blue in the union flag come from?

Scotland

> Wales had no explicit recognition in the Union Jack as it had been a part of the Kingdom of England since being annexed by Edward I of England in 1282 and its full integration by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542, and was therefore represented by the flag of England.[40]

ouch, that's gotta sting

hehe

Looks like Northern Ireland has the St. Andrew's cross as well. Among others.

They don't call it St. Andrew's, though. They call it Saint Patrick's Saltire.

Saint Patrick's Saltire

Saint Patrick's Saltire or Saint Patrick's Cross is a red saltire (X-shaped cross) on a white field, used to represent the island of Ireland or Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. In heraldic language, it may be blazoned Argent, a saltire gules. Saint Patrick's Flag (Bratach Naomh Pádraig) is a flag composed of Saint Patrick's Saltire. The red saltire's association with Saint Patrick dates from the 1780s, when the Order of Saint Patrick adopted it as an emblem. This was a British chivalric order established in 1783 by George III. It has been suggested that it derives from the arms of the...

2:35 PM

Good example of rebranding.

3:24 PM

What does the commentator say from 6:37 to 6:48? youtu.be/xxblusaLkBU

Can't understand really except for the end

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Because it’s using a log₁₀ scale for the daily deaths 𝑛 on its Y-axis, the baseline for that axis starts not at 0 but at 10⁰ == 1 (and there can be no 𝑥 ∈ ℝ such that 10ˣ == 0). Plus that 𝑛 does ɴᴏᴛ represent the integer number of new deaths on that day! Instead 𝑛 is here the mean number of new cases for the seven days ᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ on that day, so 𝑛 = (deaths(today) + deaths(today−1) + deaths(today−2) + deaths(today−3) + deaths(today−4) + deaths(today−5) + deaths(today−6)) / 7.

So it would take seven consecutive days without a new death to reach 𝑛=0, and even if that did happen, 0 cannot be represented on this graph.

3:44 PM

@Curio "Who could that be? Who could that be, folks?"

Then?

That guy's got a thick country-westerrn accent so the vowels are all ... slightly different.

@Curio What do you mean?

@Mitch after those words

Oh. listening again

So...

He's trying to say, or rather he's slurring through a lot of what I expect is:

"Who do you think it is? Tell us who it is Sheryl."

It comes out as

"Who dyathiiz?"

He's barely pronouncing half the words in there.

@Mitch You sure it's not Aussie?

3:51 PM

/hujəθɪ:Z/

Thanks

@Robusto Oh. Yeah. Totally Aussie, after listening to longer stretches.

For just that one short piece it really sounded southern to me.

@Curio Which is all to say, I wouldn't freak out that you couldn't understand it. It took me a number of listenings to get it. He's slurring right through it.

@Mitch What made me wonder when you said C&W was the fact that a smackdown-style announcer in the South wouldn't be presiding over a tennis event. More likely WWE.

@Robusto Yes.

But note that the presentation is totally in the style of WWE except when the people come out, they're not strutting.

It was definitely in the direction of a gladiatorial entrance.

Pole_Star

4:08 PM

Hey

Whats the difference between

descriptive and narrative passages

also

Please do watch this video

@Mitch Also no chairs are thrown.

4:34 PM

Anyway, I think we've established that incoherence isn't the sole province of rednecks.

Gigili

5:16 PM

Seems Germany is back to normal, except for the fact that some people wear mask.

How is that even possible?

In that how is Germany normal?

@Pole_Star I point? I do not point!

Gigili

@M.A.R. Genau

That is a paradox

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Russell's paradox

In the foundations of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory created by Georg Cantor leads to a contradiction. The same paradox had been discovered a year before by Ernst Zermelo but he did not publish the idea, which remained known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen. Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing sets that are not member...

5:56 PM

@Gigili Good ol' chat regulars enjoy nothing more than to break chat

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6:18 PM

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Gigili

7:34 PM

@M.A.R. muhaha, I guess

8:01 PM

8:28 PM

@tchrist: Gas is $1.19/gal all over now down here. I can't even get $20 worth into the tank from almost bone dry.

Willie Nelson - On The Road Again (Official Audio)

8:54 PM

Nov 9 '18 at 14:48, by Robusto

Apr 29 at 2:45, by RegDwigнt

Sep 15 '16 at 12:55, by RegDwigнt

Mar 24 at 23:08, by RegDwigнt

Mar 2 '11 at 13:43, by Robusto

2 hours ago, by RegDwight

Feb 18 at 10:59, by Robusto

13 hours ago, by Robusto

27 secs ago, by RegDwight

2 hours ago, by RegDwight

yesterday, by RegDwight

Feb 7 at 15:38, by RegDwight

Russell's paradox

In the foundations of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the naive set theory created by Georg Cantor leads to a contradiction. The same paradox had been discovered a year before by Ernst Zermelo but he did not publish the idea, which remained known only to Hilbert, Husserl and other members of the University of Göttingen. Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R qualifies as a member of itself, it would contradict its own definition as a set containing sets that are not member...

Xanne

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Song for reopening a country.

9:54 PM

@Gigili More of a sneaky giggle