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@Braiam Tangent: One of the things I heard on international news was the desire in recent political elections to stop dubbing foreign movies and instead subtitle them. In part, because Spain has the lowest 2nd language familiarity in Europe.

user213963

thelocal.es/20151204/…

user213963

> A new proposal from the ruling Popular Party could see Spain say adios to the practice of dubbing foreign programmes on television as a way of improving the nation's English proficiency.

Spaniards lag far behind their Scandinavian, German and Dutch cousins when it comes to English proficiency, but they could soon be shooting up the EU English league tables if one election proposal comes to fruition.

The conservative Popular Party (PP) led by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy want a part of all television programming in Spain to be emitted in the original version, getting rid of dubbi…

user213963

Just one of those "that's interesting" things for international news.

tchrist

Portugal subtitles films; Spain dubs them.

France and Mexico are both worse that Spain, doubtless due to the great distances between those countries and any English-speaking ones.

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1:59 AM

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user259867

2:22 AM

@SmokeDetector why

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@NormalHuman Body - Position 227-241: support number

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

Braiam

@MichaelT Spanish Spain dubbing sucks... very hard...

@tchrist actually is backwards, they are just too near that they influence english enough (at least Mexico)

I'm not sure how to say "the dubs that the Spanish do"...

tchrist

@Braiam Las películas dobladas por los españoles.

But in English? I have no idea.

I’m having trouble using dub as a noun.

Dubbings?

Dunno.

Maybe one says dubs. I honestly don’t know.

Braiam

actually, I don't like my first response... sounds awkward

tchrist

2:30 AM

Sucks badly, maybe.

Braiam

I'm not sure what to make of it

user259867

In the great yellow country of Russia, foreign movies are always dubbed.

user259867

I think the only times when I saw a non-dubbed movie was at a local IREX office which screened them once a week.

user259867

The good old pre-torrent days.

user259867

One of the first (if not the first) movie I watched there was Good Will Hunting. That... was tough.

Braiam

2:36 AM

I think the only dubbed voice I like more than the original is Bertha from Two and a Half Men

never heard of that movie, guess not mainstream?

user259867

@Braiam GWH? "It grossed over US$225 million during its theatrical run with only a modest $10 million budget. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, and won two"

tchrist

Yes, it's quite famous.

Braiam

@NormalHuman mm... I saw A Beautiful Mind but not that one, guess it goes to the stash!

ok google, you tell me iTunes have it at 2.99, but when I go to the store it says 12.99...

tchrist

2:53 AM

Off by one error.

user202362

does anyone know what these are?

Doorknob

icky

user202362

I bought some & they are delicious (although not much meat in them)

tchrist

I think I saw them on a Star Trek episode.

bjb568

2:55 AM

Malacostraca?

Braiam

@chmod666telkitty 404?

bjb568

no repro

Braiam

ok, not sure why but any link I click on chat opens a new window with an empty address bar

bjb568

caching

tchrist

@Doorknob You live inland, right?

Doorknob

2:57 AM

@tchrist Houston.

bjb568

Mantis shrimp?

tchrist

Oh.

Braiam

no idea why it happens...

tchrist

There are a zillion decapods people eat. Growing up in the Midwest, I mistrusted all sealife.

Even bluegills and crayfish.

bjb568

Reviewing the subclasses of Malacostraca, I think the mantis shrimp is most likely.

beautiful

user202362

3:00 AM

@Braiam I uploaded directly from the phone

user202362

@bjb568 looks like it, thanks :)

tchrist

Wouldn't you rather eat ugly creatures than beautiful ones?

Less guilt.

@bjb568 Seems a good call.

bjb568

@tchrist I'd rather eat cylindrical pieces of solid soylent.

Or chew gum and drink the regular liquid smoothies.

tchrist

Gum ick.

Squilla mantis

La galera (Squilla mantis) es una especie de crustáceo estomatópodo de la familia Squillidae. Es pescada en grandes cantidades, aunque no es muy apreciada gastronómicamente, pese a su excelente sabor, debido a que posee poca carne. == Descripción == Presenta ocho pares de apéndices (pereiópodos), siendo los cinco primeros fuertes y cortos, terminados con una uña curvada y adaptados para excavar. El segundo par es más robusto y de mayor longitud que el resto, y se encuentra dentado con cinco espinas. Coloración amarilla herrumbosa, pardo claro o color salmón, con bordes azulados y rojos, siendo...

Notice this exactly matches her description!

Tastes great, not much meat.

bjb568

¡no hay bastante carne!

tchrist

3:09 AM

Just eat more of 'em.

user259867

This mp4 summarizes my impression of these. pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CVat276WIAEUPcb.mp4

tchrist

Too many legs, eh?

user259867

3:33 AM

Besides the name, I can't change my userpic here anymore... I should have picked a better one.

tchrist

Your chat activity plot suggests you don't sleep much.

Doorknob

@NormalHuman Wait, why is it that when I click on your MSE profile from chat I get "page not found"?

tchrist

Ghost in the machine.

Doorknob

:O

user259867

@tchrist It could be somniloquy...

tchrist

3:38 AM

I considered that.

user259867

Single-word-request: how to call a person who talks in his sleep? A somniloquer?

Doorknob

Sleeptalker is a word...

user259867

But no, I don't really do that. My job is to talk in someone else's sleep.

Doorknob

Wiktionary says a synonym is somniloquist.

user259867

@NormalHuman I believe a common term for that is "professor".

Doorknob

3:40 AM

hahaha

hichris123

4:31 AM

15

A: Can self-censoring end up with a question ban?

Deleted posts are mostly irrelevant to the question ban. If someone tells you otherwise, tell them they're wrong; if you see a meta post that says otherwise, edit it. What matters are poorly-received posts. That is, questions that are downvoted, closed, or flagged as inappropriate in some way. ...

user259867

4:49 AM

sd f

Doorknob

It works!

user259867

5:02 AM

PSA: to prevent RSI, Smokey accepts single letter aliases for frequently used commands: f for fp- and k for tpu-.

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Doorknob

@NormalHuman You should probably pin that

Pandya

What are the chat-room tags for?

What/How it works?

user259867

Fun, mostly. Actually, just for fun.

Pandya

No role?

user259867

Long time ago, chat rooms were expected to be somehow related to the site hosting them. Then the tags were supposed to indicate the topic of the room.

2

user259867

5:13 AM

In reality, we have what we have.

Pandya

Thanks for info

By the way @NormalHuman Your parent user site is not found, So, why not change parent site?

From accounts because currently not found

It may/should be Mathematics ?

user259867

All chat accounts on chat.mse server have mse as their parent. Side there is only one site..

user259867

Chat accounts on chat.se can have any parent. I put Android there.

user259867

Pro tip as a parent account for the chat, pick a site on which you don't participate. This greatly reduces the likelihood of chat wide suspension coming from the parent site.

Doorknob

Alternatively, don't get suspended.

user259867

5:26 AM

One can try to, but active participation does carry the risk of such a thing.

user259867

E.g. I wouldn't risk tying chat to Math.se

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user259867

sd 2k

bjb568

youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw/videos

Night!

user259867

@SmokeDetector What language is that?

user259867

5:34 AM

sd 2tpu-

user259867

5:49 AM

@SmokeDetector k

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7:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Energy booster drink by alexjhon1112 on drupal.stackexchange.com

user202362

8:00 AM

Ok, I have uninstalled one of the two anti-virus software, hopefully that will solve the freezing issue.

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8:45 AM

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user202362

@SmokeDetector why?

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@chmod666telkitty Body - Position 1-144: Baba is going to make a bowl of fish ball noodles. He puts some fish balls into 800g of water. The fish-ball-and-water mixture is 20℃ and Baba

user202362

no biggie, poor baba needs something to eat & he can't do maths, leave the poor troll & his fish ball noodles alone

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user202362

sd 3tpu

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1. [:4288446] Blacklisted user.
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12:53 PM

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user202362

1:17 PM

so quiet ...

user202362

Ilmari Karonen

@SmokeDetector ignore-

Bart

1:30 PM

Björk - It's Oh So Quiet (Official Music Video)

►

user202362

0

Q: Is this offensive?

I got chat suspended 30 minutes for saying: how about google test their self driving cars on Syrian streets? After someone else mentioned: What next, Microsoft bombing Syrian refugees? The other user was not suspended but I was?

user202362

Bart

cough caching cough

user202362

1:46 PM

Also time to head over to my queen sized bed covered with Egyptian cotton quilt filled with silk. Hard mattress with soft quilt on a 20 degrees night. Life is so great <3

user202362

Ban was well timed too, almost as I was heading to enjoy life.

Bart

Night!

user202362

No need for heater, not too hot or humid

user202362

life is so wonderful <3<3<3

tchrist

user202362

1:48 PM

night

tchrist

I got your twenty-degree-no-s night-yes-s for you right here.

Bart

Fahrenheit ...

tchrist

Welcome to English.

Bart

Next thing you'll tell me you drive on the left.

tchrist

On a footpath, nobody notices.

People always underestimate the costs of, and the need for, localization.

I’m just surprised that the devil-cat survived Allhallowtide skin intact.

tchrist

2:10 PM

I don't know why Feeds gets the iconography and colorization wrong sometimes.

That's the (M)SE icon but an ELU feed item.

And it's in red not blue or grey.

It does this every now and again.

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2:38 PM

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tchrist

2:49 PM

@SmokeDetector narq

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3:15 PM

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

3:28 PM

@tchrist Maybe for the same reason badge icons of the ones you gained in one site get displayed like icons of the other site you're visiting the tab from?

tchrist

?

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

30

Q: Badge symbol in notification is of the site you're on, not where badge was earned

It's so cool that the notification reminds you of the colour of badge you've earned. But I am a little puzzled by the symbols: Is it feasible to use the symbol from the earned site? At the moment it uses the symbol from the site I happen to be on (as you can see by looking to the left of the...

feature-request badges design notifications

I wouldn't know how that applies here, but it might be related.

tchrist

I was in ELU chat, and the new ELU posting got the MSE icon.

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3:57 PM

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4:31 PM

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Yawns

Gimme something interesting Smokey.

SmokeDetector

4:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: Harmonic conjugate of $u(z) = Im(e^{z^2})$. by Kai on math.stackexchange.com

user259867

I'm so tired of these. An unregistered user posts some crappy question. Then they want to delete it (which I approve of). But they can't, because unregistered. So they replace it with ......... The usual chain of events unfolds, with votes to close, irritated comments, Smokey reports, rollback.

user259867

Much ado about nothing.

user259867

What if... instead of disabling the delete button for unreg users, it showed a popup with an explanation and a link to user profile? "Only registered users can delete their posts. [Register]()"

user259867

5:13 PM

I explain the same to them in a comment; but it's unlikely to be read by the OP, because right after blanking out the question they closed the browser tab and want to pretend they never been to the site.

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Perfect UX.

@TCh does this page contain what I think it contains? meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/7337/…  . . . :(

. . . And was that because of the flagging?

tchrist

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I cannot answer that because I do not know what you think it contains.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@tchrist Did Rob just leave ELU?

tchrist

Maybe.

I mean, that's what he was saying.

I don't know whether that's what he'll do.

He's done this before, although less noisily.

user259867

5:22 PM

userscript-request something to XHR-fetch the /votes pages on selected sites and put the results in chronological order. (Yeah, I'll probably end up writing this myself)

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: this code is not run activeatefilter by prolay on stackoverflow.com

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

@NormalHuman I'm getting a time out and can't star this. :o

user259867

I'm getting random timeouts in this room quite often. "You must be logged in to post this."

user259867

The SE infrastructure is crumbling.

user259867

Also, I've decided to ignore the rebranding efforts. Reverting SO back to SE in places where I refer to the company.

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6:11 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Multi stage Mosfet Audio amplifier by user93712 on electronics.stackexchange.com (@PeterJ)

user259867

sd k

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

6:25 PM

2

Q: Skippy Hat: Use Winterbash to encourage Skip

Every now and then, reviewers need to be reminded that they can use Skip during review. There is not really an encouragement to use Skip; it does not increase your review count (nor should it). Maybe we could use Winterbash to temporarily encourage it, to remind users that Skip is always an ...

feature-request winterbash hat-request

Good idea Fractional Barth!

user259867

The Winterbash is already done, it's being run in test mode as we speak.

user259867

A little too late for new hats.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Er, I mean @S.L.

S.L. Barth

Thanks @Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.!

@NormalHuman I was afraid of that. Well, maybe next year. Or, if we're lucky, there already is a hat like that.

Braiam

@NormalHuman the company is called SE... just that the Q&A product is SO, no?

S.L. Barth

6:29 PM

@Braiam The company was recently renamed "Stack Overflow" again. Need to look up that blog post, gimme a sec.

Braiam

/legal still says Stack Exchange Network, so I doubt it

S.L. Barth

We're Changing Our Name (Back) to Stack Overflow

Jay Hanlon on September 15, 2015

We are Stack Overflow. You may know us from such popular websites as Stack Overflow Q&A, Stack Overflow Careers, The Stack Exchange Q&A Network, and most of your Google search results.

Braiam

and /legal/trademarks agree stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance

S.L. Barth

Either they have changed their mind, or they haven't updated the legal stuff yet.

user259867

The legal name hasn't changed; there is no Stack Overflow, Inc.

user259867

6:32 PM

They just changed the content of various <div> elements on the sites.

user259867

The rebranding effort is summarized by a picture:

user259867

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[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Is that code right? by Hey on stackoverflow.com

bjb568

@NormalHuman Or just shadowban by default all unregistered users.

user259867

6:49 PM

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear let's require registration to ask a question feature request thread on meta.MSE, happy birthday to you! — Asaf Karagila Nov 7 at 16:18

tchrist

7:07 PM

Mejor.

rene

7:32 PM

Ha. A typo! Srlsy? @InfiniteRecursion

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Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

-1

A: Difference between using Zinc Nitrate instead of Potassium Nitrate for Salt Bridge Solution?

WOW JIMMY I GOT EXCITED AND THEN IT WAS U

user259867

We don't have a check for all caps posts, it seems.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

Yeah.

feature-request Add a filter for all-caps posts or answers that contain a lot of (>50% ?) caps.

bjb568

It's pretty offensive that you seem to use the term "get depressed" when you actually mean "get bored". Can you explain that your problem is one of more than just losing motivation? And, if it isn't, well that's life son buckle up and get used to it. — Lightness Races in Orbit 34 mins ago

delv LRiO abusive

Entertainment? Introduction to new sites? Add another purpose for HNQs: a collection of questions to go thru to clean up LRiO's crap.

tchrist

7:52 PM

@bjb568 Did you flag there or just kvetch here?

bjb568

@tchrist Of course I flagged.

tchrist

Good pu^H^Hkitty.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

-4

Q: the great spell caster that brought back my ex

HELLO EVERYBODY AM LIZZY FROM IRELAND I AM FULL OF JOY FOR WHAT DR AGBALAGBA DID FOR ME, I NEVER TAUGHT SPELL CASTING WAS REAL BECAUSE I HAVE CONTACTED ALOT OF SPELL CASTERS AND THEY ALL COLLECTED MY MONEY WITHOUT GIVING ME RESULT, SOMEBODY TOLD ME OF AGBALAGBA SO I GAVE IT A TRY, BEHOLD! I WAS S...

grammar

@Normal the need for the all-caps filter intensifies.

hichris123

That should be caught anyway, probably just hasn't been enough activity on ELL.

Oh, it was caught.

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 mins ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: the great spell caster that brought back my ex by lizzy on ell.stackexchange.com

!!/reboot

SmokeDetector

Goodbye, cruel world

hichris123

8:05 PM

hmm, odd. Another case of that @NormalHuman.

user259867

8:17 PM

3 hours ago, by Normal Human

The SE infrastructure is crumbling.

user259867

I guess I'll be keeping CHQ pinned with Spam Tracker enabled, instead of the Tavern.

bjb568

You'll never have that problem with DevDoodle.

(when I implement sockets :p)

tchrist

@bjb568 I'd love to see you write real socket code without a library.

bjb568

nah.

tchrist

YANETUT

Braiam

8:25 PM

@tchrist shame on you! I use jQuery :P

tchrist

@Braiam What's that?

ENOMEM

user259867

All-caps chat messages detected

tchrist

ᴇɴᴏᴍᴇᴍ

That one is all lowercase.

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GET RICH WITH HACKED CARD by Lambert Harold on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

mac(tchrist)% perl -Mutf8 -E 'say "ᴇɴᴏᴍᴇᴍ" =~ /^\p{lowercase}+$/ ? "PASS" : "FAIL"'
PASS

user259867

8:32 PM

@SmokeDetector k today is the day of all-caps spam on English sites

tchrist

It is perverse, but the "small capitals" are deemed to be lowercase.

Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ.

> 10286

user259867

Actually we had all-caps body check for a while, but apparently it generated too many false positives. I'll see how it can be fixed.

user259867

Ah, it was triggered by truncated "body summary". metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/reason/65 That was a mistake.

user259867

Just don't check body summary for that. And.... this is what's already done‌.

user259867

8:43 PM

Heh. SE wraps the posts in <p> </p> tags... which makes them non-all-caps.

user259867

@SmokeDetector f

user259867

@SmokeDetector f

user259867

Okay, the handling of all caps posts should be saner now.

user259867

9:32 PM

> Imagine waking up one morning and you're dead because your heart can no longer pump blood because it is made of gold pic.twitter.com/jd1twlpMk6 -- Brandon Perry at 7:40 AM - 6 Dec 2015 via Twitter

user259867

9:48 PM

user259867

Stack Overflow traffic: Apparently, most of the visits are by 5% "addicts", and few are by passers-by. Not what I expected.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: How To Customise The Time-stamp Element In Blogger by Iram on meta.stackexchange.com

Braiam

> Professional PHP developer with a tendency to defend that language where others just throw their hands up - although there certainly are things it would be good to throw away and start again!

user259867

Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to

Tweeted by bhalp1 on March 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM

tchrist

@NormalHuman That would be Javascript.

Awesome Poodles

9:58 PM

That would be pun-ishment.

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