Obsolete Plaid
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Continuing the discussion from The Most Obsolete Infrastructure Money Can Buy:
@Tsaukpaetra said:
Cool. Should have known it would have come from something I haven't plaid.
You go around applying plaid to things? Why?
Filed Under: This post has been plaid. Pray I do not plaid it any further.
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Why?
Because it causes funny pattern recognition glitches in my object-recognition engine.
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"We passed 'em! Stop this thing!"
"We can't stop, it's too dangerous! We've got to slow down first!"
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"We passed 'em! Stop this thing!"
"We can't stop, it's too dangerous! We've got to slow down first!"
“Bullshit! Just stop this thing! I order you! STO-O-O-O-P!”
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meh.... this will do...
I should do a better job, but.... I am le lazy
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Ok, raise you a
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meh.... this will do...
Ok, raise you a
Oh, come on! Stop running with my joke and give me spellar flags, already!
Worthless bunch of good for nothing …
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The plaid messing with my eyes made me forget all about the spellar flags...
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Stop running with my joke
No. Rather, I will point out that that is not a plaid, it is a tartan.
This (the part over the shoulder) is a plaid (in tartan fabric).
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@abarker said:
Stop running with my joke
No. Rather, I will point out that that is not a plaid, it is a tartan.
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This (the part over the shoulder) is a plaid (in tartan fabric).
The dictionaries would agree with you regarding the bit about what is over the shoulder. You are also correct in your usage of tartan. But you are as wrong as sandals worn with socks when you tell me that I am incorrect.
[Quote="dictionary.reference.com"]
plaid[1]
noun- any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- a pattern of this kind.
- a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usually with such a pattern and worn across the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.
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@merriam-webster.com said:
plaid[2]
noun
: a pattern on cloth of stripes with different widths that cross each other to form squaresplaids : clothes with plaid patterns
: a woolen cloth with a plaid pattern that is worn over the shoulder as part of the Scottish national costume
@oxforddictionaries.com said:
plaid[3]
noun
1 Chequered or tartan twilled cloth, typically made of wool
1.1 [COUNT NOUN] A long piece of tartan worn over the shoulder as part of Scottish Highland dress.I am saddened to see such a highly ranked pedant waste such pendantry by beginning with an incorrect statement. You should be ashamed!
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Those dictionaries obviously weren't written by Scotsmen.
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I have to try using this as a new user card background now!
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Because of the somewhat hypnotic effect, I should imagine.
Oh btw @everybody, it might not be immediately obvious that my "raise" is supposed to be an image of "tartan".
Note: I originally tried to submit this post via mobile, but became severely pissed off at the mobile being able to interpret my "gestures" (including the final "bugger this for a game of soldiers") when I tried to correct typos. But hey!, Discourse remembered my unsubmitted post, and here it is.
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Worthless bunch of good for nothing …
Quite a statement coming from a mod. You have taken the @boomzilla approach to doing your job, yes?
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Speaking of @boomzilla ... MOD ABUSE!
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Yeah he only does it to annoy people with broken notifications that require extra effort to mark as read.
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Not only.
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Yeah he only does it to annoy people with broken notifications that require extra effort to mark as read.
Jeffing in Discourse is just plain broken. Not only does it mark a thread as totally new and all the posts in it as unread, so if you're OCD like me you need to go through the discussion again, but the Jeffing notifications point you in the totally wrong place.
Yes, cool, you ripped my posts out from this thread. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?!
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@loopback0 said:
Yeah he only does it to annoy people with broken notifications that require extra effort to mark as read.
Jeffing in Discourse is just plain broken. Not only does it mark a thread as totally new and all the posts in it as unread, so if you're OCD like me you need to go through the discussion again, but the Jeffing notifications point you in the totally wrong place.
Yes, cool, you ripped my posts out from this thread. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?!
Yeah, it's all a bit retarded.
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I'm sure @tar will handle this better.
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Oh, come on! Stop running with my joke and give me spellar flags, already!
I gave you a yesterday, but I guess it's a tough crowd here.
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Those dictionaries obviously weren't written by <!--true-->Scotsmen.Well that's dumb... Discourse kills the HTML comment (if you view source it's not there) and as tempting as it sounds, I'm not even going to try to parse the raw comments to try to find those.
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Worthless bunch of good for nothing …
Just spotted this 'NULL' usage / endorsement. Quick question: If you can have a double negative, can you have a double null
ative</dev>atyificationAh, fuccett
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I'm not even going to try to parse the raw comments to try to find those.
Use the
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Discourse doesn't even generate the node that contains the raw version of the post until you click on the raw button, so I'd have to try to pull it from whatever context is used to generate the page. Then I'd have to worry about it updating as you scroll. I think I'll pass.
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I may have misunderstood. Are you trying to parse them programmatically1? I assumed you just wanted to read them.
1 No, Chrome, I mean neither "programmatic ally" nor — despite being very pro-grammar — "pro-grammatically."
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Well, I don't normally check the raw for every post, and there's no other way to tell if they're there, so yeah... knowing how to read them isn't much help if I don't know when they're there.
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Well that's dumb... Discourse kills the HTML comment (if you view source it's not there) and as tempting as it sounds, I'm not even going to try to parse the raw comments to try to find those.
Think of it as a variant INB4 joke for anyone who was about to reply and point out what variety of Scotsman would be involved.
