@hobodave, thoughts on this?

Looks like a prime candidate for closing under the new "Not Constructive" reason to me - it's a textbook case of What can I add to X, no particularly useful criteria other than "interesting" or "unexpected". Just wanted to check with you and @yossarian since it hasn't been closed already...

@Aaronut I'd agree

@Mien, how did your exam go?

hi @rumtscho

hi @hobodave

how's the weather in Germany?

Not the perfect June, but OK

Hey, I have forgotten to install the weather addon on this browser

Oh there's something else. This must be Firefox 4.

The status bar is missing

Anyway, it's cloudy, but above 20° and no rain today.

why the question, @hobodave? Do you have some unusual weather right now?

I was just making conversation

Oh.

it's sunny and 28 C here :P

So, I should have said "it's more or less nice, how is it in Chicago"?

lol, yes that would have worked :)

Instead of taking a look at the addon to tell you the exact temp and wind direction (and noticing that the addon is missing, etc)

lol, exactly

you think like a developer

I'll interpret that as a compliment (because I want to :)

At least you recognize the symptoms and can just go with the conversation

I've made similar faux pas in conversations with random strangers

They are baffled, and at some point it gets very awkward

Only they notice that it's awkward long before I do

So, what's going on at your side of the world? Beside the good wweather

Heh, how considerate

They are making chat unavailable just fo the time I'll need to cycle home

@rumtscho I had some bad luck :(

We had to read a bunch of articles, and we had to pull a piece of paper on the exam and on that piece it says which article we had to explain

:(

I pulled the paper with the article I knew the worst :(

But I think I passed, but it won't be a good grade I'm afraid.

So, anything new in here?

no, slow day

I'm waiting another hour so I can go to the gym

@Mien sorry to hear that

But hey, passed is passed

It was an oral examination then?

Yes, oral

and there were three teachers :S that's quite a surprise.

I expected one :p

I never had those, that's why I am mortally afraid of them

I hate them :(

I wrote all of my exams on paper.

My language skills are far from perfect.

And I get nervous.

Bad combo :(

Oh, the nervous part. I know it very well.

I hate doing presentations and oral exams.

In septembre, I'll be doing my driving exam.

I'm already nervous when I just think about it :p

Oh, I hate those too

You did a lot of them?

I only had one, and I failed it.

When was that?

Actually, I got the theory perfect, but I failed the driving. So maybe I had two.

It was last september.

I did my theory in july

Are you planning of trying it again?

Now it's so far back, that if I start again, I'll have to repeat the theory too.

Not in the near future.

I don't plan to get a car anyway.

I had lots of vacation time accumulated and decided to see if 6 weeks will be enough if I take courses every day.

The instructing company assured me that there is no problem.

Turned out that the greedy pigs just wanted my money

How expensive are the courses in Germany?

In Germany, a lot

I think something like 2000 Euros for everything

and wow: news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/…

That's not the minimum, but nobody gets by with the prescribed minimum amount of teaching hours

how many lessons are that? :-/

so you have to take lessons?

I don't know. That's what I've heard people had to pay total. lessons, and other costs.

There are minimal amounts of lessons prescribed.

and internal examinations, I think.

It was too much for me

I did it in BG, that's why I needed the long vacation

I went to a big city on the black sea and did beach on the morning and lessons in the afternoon

Sounds like a nice life for a while :)

It costs much less there, the minimum is maybe 300 Eur

But this is with a course with only 31 practical lessons.

I took 20 additional lessons, and it wasn't enough :( But I'd never had driven before.

Some parents teach the children illegally to drive on empty streets

and they start in the city from the first lesson. So they can do it with the minimal amount of lessons.

@Mien wtf

@Mien, you are going the normal route?

I know right!

1-2 lessons a week?

@hobodave, do you mean the "meat"?

yes

I think so :D

I hope I can ask something about it on SA which would make you all experiment

FYI the little arrow to the left of the message indicates it's a reply to a specific message, hovering over it highlights the thread

@rumtscho: I think the system here is a bit different

@hobodave, I hate the little arrows

first you do your theory exam (you can pay for lessons if you want, but most ppl dont)

They mean that I have to take a hand to the mouse

if you pass, you get an temporary permit

Isn't there a way to reply per keyboard?

you can drive if someone who has 8+ years their permit is accompanying you

yes, roll your face across the keys left to right

it figures out what you mean

I'm gonna try that!

azed cfrtj,ik

ow :(

seems like I have a small face

@hobodave, Mr. Nielsen just vomited in his mouth a little without knowing why

Leslie?

lol

Jakob

@Mien he is a usability guru

@hobodave if you watch the movie below the text (of the 'meat'), there is a fridge that has 'shit burgers' written on it :D

@hobodave, you get no points. You left the caption out.

I'm gonna read a bit in bed and go to sleep

nn guys

good night @Mien

@hobodave I created my first lolcat ever, and it is all for you

I just can't decide if you should be proud or ashamed of yourself

@rumtscho lol I love it

I'm out! later