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8:00 PM
I can't view it because I'm not over 18.
 
You are over 9000.
Move to a free country, FFS.
 
Peter Gabriel in Suit of Zoot and Shoes of Disco.
 
Actually he looks a little like a recently released LEGO minifig.
 
But yeah, I know that song. It's off of Us.
His videos kind of marked the golden age of music videos.
Except I don't the part that implies if you are Shaking the Tree it means you will get babies.
@RegDwight — I picture you in a little Lego house with sky of blue and clouds of Lego floating overhead. Occasionally the odd block falling off.
 
That's how I picture myself, too. But my wife insists that that's not how I picture myself.
 
8:09 PM
Just out of curiosity, which language do you speak at home?
 
Russian.
 
Without blacking out?
 
That's kinda how I learned it again.
I had almost forgotten all of it.
I would read Russian books, but speaking was next to impossible.
 
So you got yourself a hiki-jibiki.
 
And even in them books, I would occasionally come across words where I would go WTF.
And them weren't words like sophomore. More like lamp.
@Robusto if you say so.
 
8:13 PM
I do.
Kennst du "hiki-jibiki"?
 
Nein, deswegen sage ich ja: "whatever you say".
I am like Schwarzenegger. He wouldn't pass as a native speaker of English. But he wouldn't pass as a native speaker of German, either.
Though I am also the opposite of Schwarzenegger, in that he has a strong and easily identifiable accent in every language.
I don't have an identifiable accent.
In any language.
I have an accent in every language, however slight, but you can't pin it down.
I've been deemed a French, a Lithuanian, you name it.
 
hiki-jibiki is Japanese for "living dictionary" — it refers to a Japanese woman (usually) who is in a relationship where she provides language tutoring services for her paramour. Often the guys will wind up using feminine forms, which is not kulturny, and so hiki-jibiki is sometimes used in a derogatory sense.
 
Heh.
Like the female form of I.
Whatever it is, I forgot.
 
Atashi, usually.
 
Ah yes.
 
8:21 PM
Children say that too. It's a cuteness thing.
Formally, referring to oneself is watashi or watakushi, but informally men say boku or (rougher) ore.
 
I think I've heard the former but not the latter.
Though probably I just wasn't paying attention.
It's hard to pay attention to something you don't know exists.
 
Yeah. Ore is pretty rough. I never heard ore or omae until I started listening to Nobu at the noodle shop.
 
What's its purpose, then?
I mean, I have seen Brother etc.
Brother is a 2000 film starring, written, directed and edited by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. It is also his fifth collaboration with renowned Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. This was also Kitano's first collaboration with designer Yohji Yamamoto. The French title for the film is Aniki, Mon Frère (lit. Aniki, My Brother). Plot Shot in Los Angeles, California, Takeshi Kitano plays Yamamoto, a lone yakuza officer. Defeated in a war with a rival family, his boss killed, he heads to L.A. As time passes, Yamamoto and his new gang emerge as a powerful force, gradually expanding their ...
 
Japanese speak a different language to each other than they do to foreigners.
Mmm ... talking about noodles is making me hungry. Oh, btw, check this out. If you haven't seen Tampopo you have to get it. This is one of many great scenes.
 
Watching...
 
8:28 PM
@RegDwight Thanks, you saved me from embarrassment.
 
I'm here to save.
@Robusto Now I am hungry.
 
Yeah. That's the thing I miss most about Japan. You can't throw a rock without hitting a noodle shop. And it's all good.
I can't watch that without my mouth watering. But it is definitely such a great satire.
Uh-oh, another phrase I should be getting royalties for:
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Q: Where did the phrase "I don't give a rat's ass" come from?

Danny MillerI'd love to know the origin of this saying. Thanks!

 
Indeed, you were the first one to mention it in this room, methinks.
 
Check this one out too.
 
I think someone doesn't pass the NNS test on meta.
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A: List of common abbreviations (NOAD, ESL, PIE...)

Bogdan Lataianu1) A suggestion: you can use abbreviations as long as you write what it represents at the first instance or at the end of the answer/question. 2) A list of abbreviations somewhere on english.stackecxhange is a good idea, though it mainly helps who are aware about it . 3) I disagree with "Googli...

See point three.
I am pretty sure a native speaker would understand what I'm talking about.
He, on the other hand, seems to think that I'm just bashing furrinerz.
 
8:38 PM
Me likes PIE.
 
Mmmmmmhhhhh... MWDEU...
@Robusto Thank you for that one. That man in the first scene is so me.
I love movies but I hate going to the movies.
 
You really need to see the whole film.
 
It's a freaking restaurant.
Everybody munching popcorn and slurping coke.
Gah.
If you want to eat, cook. If you're in a movie, watch.
 
D'accord.
 
And yes, I definitely need to see the whole film.
Um, @Kosmonaut, we need to keep an eye on this one:
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Q: "If it were I" or "If it were me"?

JaydlesI'm fairly sure it's the former, but it sounds even more stilted than the usual cases in which "I" is less common, but more correct.

A new answer was posted out of nowhere by a new user and promptly climbed to the top.
And I don't think it's the best possible answer.
 
8:51 PM
Foreign rep-farmers, out to sell rep on the black market.
 
This question:
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Q: Are you comfortable with who(m) he is?

emraginsAre you comfortable with him? <- good Are you comfortable with whom he is? <- ? You're comfortable with whom he is.<- seems right Are you comfortable with who he is? <- ? You're comfortable with who? < good Why does adding 'he is' change the usage of who/whom? I understand the ...

reminds me of this one:
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Q: Can I Help Who's Next

BenThis seems to happen every time I go to my local bagel shop. Everyone is waiting in a line, and when the cashier is ready to help the next person, he/she asks, "Can I help who's next?" or "May I help who's next?" This seems wrong to me, shouldn't it be "Can I help whomever is next?" or "May I hel...

 
9:12 PM
When will they hurry up and abolish whom for good?
 
Them's working on that.
 
Pity vote for @Cerberus. He tries so hard, and he's so cute when he wags his tail.
 
@Robusto And now you have to pity-vote Jon Purdy.
But remember, you only have 30 pity votes per day.
 
Wah!
But I am filled with so much pity!
 
Yeah. You only get miles. No votes.
And you don't even get miles.
 
9:23 PM
Well, I've never seen John Purdy wag his tail, so I can't tell how cute that would be.
I suspect he can't do that at all.
 
2 days ago, by RegDwight
It's never hard to speculate.
God, that was two days ago? Time flies like a banana.
 
Well, just so my stance is clear: no tail-wagging, no pity vote.
 
I will tag that .
 
F'x
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Q: How would you name this phenomenon? (about presidents' popularity)

brilliant Whenever a new president comes, he is always more popular in the beginning than at the end of his term. No matter how good he is and how successful he has been, there will always be more negativity and criticism toward him from the people of his country toward the end of his rule...

@Robusto: jinx
 
It's almost a law of nature. There should be something higher than a tag.
 
F'x
9:26 PM
by 7 seconds
 
@Fx — Huh?
 
He means your answers. Them's 7 secs apart.
 
F'x
@Robusto on the aforequoted question
 
Oh. I didn't even see he had answered that one.
 
Where do you get those questions anyway?
@Fx Jinx!
 
9:27 PM
I just did a drive-by, as usual.
 
I haven't even seen that one, and there's already answers.
 
So who beat whom by 7 seconds?
 
F'x
@RegDwight well, you wouldn't know how to answer anyway, it's about democracy
(hope that got past your evil filters)
 
Ah. How is that different from dictatorship? I keep getting them confused.
 
F'x
@Robusto of course I did :)
 
9:29 PM
@Rob: I will happily accept your pity!
 
You have to wag.
 
Lies!
 
So he keeps pitying you.
 
Oh wait ... I got me maths wrong.
 
F'x
no pity for me… I could do with a Pythia, though
 
9:31 PM
wags
 
Hey, I already pity-voted you. I can't do it again for 30 minutes.
Them's the rules.
 
@Robusto Hahahahaha.
 
drools
 
Anyway, my answer is better and more to the point. Plus I have an extra bonus answer embedded within the answer. And I said it all in half the wordage.
So suck on it, Rive Gauche!
 
F'x
@Robusto I believe your tracking device is malfunctioning, because I have long since crossed the river
 
9:33 PM
I have no idea what you're talking about, so I just upvoted everyone.
 
My spies will find you.
 
As in, every answer, question, and comment on this site, ever.
So put it in a pipe and smoke it.
 
@RegDwight — Well, if you can't wag your tail for approval, I guess there has to be some way for you to get pity.
And it worked! Now I pity you!
 
No idea who you talking at.
 
Meanwhile, I need to stop this madness and go home. TTYL!
 
9:36 PM
CU.
Feb 22 at 18:45, by RegDwight
Madness? This is ELU!
 
Bye @Rob!
 
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Q: verb phrase, grammatical explanation

thezelvaSo i'm doing a grammatical assignement for my english grammar class, and i was just wondering how would you explain the verb phrase appear to have been removed (i don't need the meaning, but what tense, voice, etc.)

Wat it dat?
I wonder why it's tagged .
Actually, I wonder a few things beyond that.
 
hi everybody
i removed the
 
Wholesale?
 
@RegDwight Argh
 
9:47 PM
Yes, argh indeed.
 
Isn't that question a dupe of something?
 
yes, all of the grammar. there is no more grammar. i eated it.
 
@Kosmonaut I pointed to a possible candidate in a comment, which Claudiu then stole verbatim for his answer, so that's where you should look now as I deleted that comment of mine just today.
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A: Who wants ice-cream?

nohatGenerally speaking, in English, accusative (also known as “objective”) pronouns (like me) are the “default” form. That is, unless there is a specific syntactic rule requiring use of a different case, such as nominative (I), genitive (my/mine), or reflexive/intensive (myself), in English you use t...

@JSBangs thank God there's still .
 
@RegDwight is allowed because of
 
You are very generous.
 
9:53 PM
 
Apr 8 at 13:41, by RegDwight
Well, we could always go with .
 
lulz
 
@JSBangs That was a rather important discussion, actually, in case you missed it.
Apr 8 at 13:35, by RegDwight
http://www.google.com/search?q=defense+defence+site%3Aenglish.stackexchange.com
 
i've been off, so what was the actual importance?
 
Look at the capitalization.
Click the Google link and behold.
Apr 8 at 13:36, by RegDwight
I don't like the light in which it puts us.
 
9:57 PM
capitals are for bourgeois capitalist running dogs
 
Just why did I know you would say that.
 
that's why they call it CAPITALism
 
It's because RegDwight speaks German and they love capitalizing stuff.
 
Mar 14 at 16:22, by Robusto
I'm a Capitalizationist. I Thought You Knew That.
@Kosmonaut Yes, I capitalize stuff when speaking. <rolls eyes>
 
@RegDwight That's cool!
 
10:00 PM
You're cool.
No. Wait.
That's not how it works.
 
Sounds right.
 
You're right.
No. Wait.
Hmpf.
 
@Kosmonaut broke @RegDwight. he wins the chat room!
 
You wouldn't know how right you are, he actually broke me with his "you're an anagram".
I was rolling on the floor laughing.
<shakes fist>
Apr 8 at 18:23, by Martha
(Around here, we have the concept of "breaking" someone. This usually means making them laugh so hard that they practically can't breathe.)
 
10:04 PM
2 days ago, by RegDwight
But you are beautiful.
 
Necromancer!
 
You're a necromancer.
 
Yes, exactly.
 
And who has helped you become a necromancer? Who, I ask you? Who?
 
I'd like to thank the little people who made this possible
First and foremost, I'd like to thank God for giving me this talent
 
10:11 PM
I wonder if you would get a Necromancer for answering the idiocracy question again.
 
I'd like to thank my wife for always standing beside me
And RegDwight also helped in some intangible way.
 
9 hours ago, by Kosmonaut
I bought a gift for my wife at the chemisetrie.
Now just buy me a gift at Lego.com and we can call it quits.
 
Old.
 
Everything is old.
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
 
10:20 PM
 
wow
neat
 
900.000 bricks.
Half a ton.
I also liked the Frankfurt/Main central station.
20×26 ft.
 
Also wow
 
Brickset tells me I barely have 100.000 pieces... sniff.
Must go with a smaller cathedral, I guess.
Though they don't have piece counts for all my sets.
 
100,000? That's it?
 
10:32 PM
Wow. That Dom ist wahnsinnig.
 
@Kosmonaut Well, I also have a few thousand loose pieces, off eBay&Co.
 
I have 9 million bricks, give or take.
 
But nowhere near 900.000. And not all of them in old grey, light bluish grey, and dark bluish grey.
 
Whaaat...
 
Kidding... but I do have a Harry Potter lego keychain that we use for a spare key.
So there's that.
 
10:35 PM
Oh.... I see.
 
I was looking at some Harry-Potter LEGO sets just today.
Awfully expensive.
Worse than Star Wars.
And I probably dislike Joanne K. Rowling more than I do George Lucas.
So I try to avoid paying them huge monies.
 
Aww why hate them?
 
I can understand George Lucas
 
But hey, I just got all Toy-Story LEGO sets at a 60% discount.
@Cerberus Obviously, I'm exaggerating.
Then again, when you have to pay 23 cent apiece, when it's usually more like 3-7...
And them's the same pieces.
 
I just got the RegDwight LEGO set at a 90% discount. It has the weirdest blocks.
 
10:38 PM
You misspelled "weirdest bollocks".
 
2 days ago, by Kosmonaut
@RegDwight That is truly disturbing.
Jan 5 at 0:27, by Kosmonaut
That disturbs me on more than one level!
 
This chat room is clearly unhealthy.
 
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A: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner

MarcinNo. Not only for the reason given by Tragicomic, but also because the phrase "My wife and I" is an incorrect usage, except as the subject of a sentence, because I can only be the subject of a sentence, not an object. Try turning it around to: "The collaboration dinner of my wife and I"; and turn...

 
Bullocks?
 
10:42 PM
That's what we get for stirring up the waters.
 
Wow that is one of the worst answers ever.
-1
 
If "my" is the possessive form of "me", I wonder what the possessive form of "I" is.
 
Ice.
 
@RegDwight Nobody knows for sure.
 
Or possibly eyes.
 
10:43 PM
It's one of those mysteries of the universe.
 
Universe Man, Universe Man...
 
I don't think that "of me" is correct.
Not any more than "of I".
 
@Reg: Are you seriously wondering?
 
It should be "of mine".
@Cerberus No, just making a list of all the things that seem to have gone wrong.
 
Oh you found someone who's wrong on the Internet, huh.
 
10:45 PM
No XKCD plz.
 
Fine.
Does one generally add garlic to guacamole?
I usually do...
 
Does one ever not?
 
OK. Just checking.
 
Not that I'm a cook.
At least not by European standards.
 
Does one generally add Parmesan to pesto? I think not.
 
10:47 PM
Only afterwards.
When you serve it.
 
Agreed.
Sometimes these things are less universal than one thinks.
Does one add coriander to guacamole?
 
Speaking of food combos, time to make dinner.
 
My friend tells me that they do it in Mexico, and I do it too whenever I have it.
 
Food and Cookingcooking.stackexchange.com

Launched Q&A site for cooks, chefs, anyone who can make a dish that can objectively be described as "mean"

 
@Kos: Have fun!
 
10:49 PM
Seconded.
I actually know a guy who can't cook at all.
Not even spaghetti without sauce.
Not even fried eggs.
 
au revoir
 
Seriously.
 
@Reg: I know the site! It is just that all their questions already have answers when I pass by, and the ones that might need betters answers are too specialised for me.
@Reg: That is pretty cool.
 
I know that you know it.
 
Oh I didn't know that you knew I knew it.
 
10:50 PM
It was more of a hint that I don't know everything.
 
I know more women who can't cook than men.
 
Well, most cooks are men around these parts.
I've only ever seen a female chef on Friends.
Which is not to say that my mom and my grandma aren't the greatest cooks ever.
 
Yeah, professional chefs are usually men... but the classical troglodyte male cannot cook, whereas women lack an equivalent stereotype.
I know two guys who can't really cook, they just hate it. I know many similar women, including my mother.
 
It's funny how I can tell who asks a question just by seeing the first comma.
 
Hmm... is my comma usage typical?
 
10:54 PM
Yoichi-san likes to begin his questions with "I found the word, ".
 
Ah.
 
Where's @Robusto when you need him.
 
I don't think I have noticed any such patterns. Most of the time I don't pay much attention to who's asking.
 
At least I now understand this question:
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Q: verb phrase, grammatical explanation

thezelvaI'm doing a grammatical assignment for my English grammar class, and I was just wondering how would you explain the following verb phrase: appear to have been removed I don't need the meaning, but what tense, voice, etc. it is.

I didn't realize there was a quote in there.
 
The virtues of punctuation.
I don't know what to answer. I can parse the verb phrase; but what does he want to know about it?
It is not simply classifiable.
 
10:57 PM
If it's homework, he should first explain what he's tried so far.
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A: How to deal with homework questions

RegDwightDraft, based on the StackOverflow policy This is an attempt to reconcile two extreme positions in a way that is acceptable to the majority of the community: Some might feel it's irrelevant that it's homework:we should always provide a complete answer. Others might feel this site is not the pla...

 
Yeah my reaction was similar.
 
I think I'll leave a comment.
 
Good.
 
Done.
 

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