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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:40 AM

@Cerberus his eye looks like a froggy eye.

tchrist

2:03 AM

Cat organ

A cat organ or cat piano (Katzenklavier in German) is a conjectural musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that cats cry out in pain when a key is pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices. There is no official record of a Cat Organ actually being built, but is rather described in literature as a bizarre concept. This instrument was described by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin in his book Musiciana, extraits d’ouvrages rare ou bizarre (Musiciana, descrip...

The Katzenklavier. Remarkable.

Robusto

@tchrist ". . . a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that cats cry out in pain when a key is pressed." So that's what Elvis Costello meant by "a German sense of humor."

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tchrist

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And notice the Brit who suggests an alternate method of eliciting sound from the kitties.

Being none other than Tim Minchin, too.

Bill Bailey’s shirt is super-trippy tonight.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Nice!

tchrist

The short version of the episode is here; the longer and potentially raunchier version after the 9pm watershed will be available on the morrow.

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@Rob @Reg Check out the keyboard episode with Tim Minchin.

Toool: the Dutch Open Organization of Recreational Lockpickers

I like Tim’s comments about fonts.

MετάEd

2:28 AM

> A powerful cold snap, with very windy conditions and areas of heavy snowfall, will hit the Inter-mountain West and Rockies Sunday night. Because this will be the first major change in the mild conditions that have existed over much of the western U.S., those with outdoor plans should be prepared for the abrupt change and have plans to exit areas safely before the conditions worsen.

tchrist

Yes, well.

It was in the mid 60s today, and I thought it would be nice tomorrow, too.

MετάEd

When does it get to you?

tchrist

Monday doesn’t look so hot.

Robusto

@tchrist Could be worse. Think floods.

tchrist

I’m looking at my bid for fixing stuff.

And deciding which things I don’t need fixed.

My broccoli is prospering though.

And shan’t be troubled by the coming weather.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:36 AM

Your broccoli!

So, I just ate some fantastically spicy Thai leftovers. I had to stop and blow my nose several times. I'm not complaining, but, why didn't my eyes water?

tchrist

Perhaps they did.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Not nearly as much as the other.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You had a chance to clear your nose—and you blew it!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto it was that or keep sniffling.

Robusto

Work on it.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

2:39 AM

Which? Hi @Mahnax.

Are you feeling better?

My eyes did feel weird for a few seconds.

I sure do like feeling all spicy inside.

Robusto

Spicy inside is good.

poof

MετάEd

@tchrist In your garden? It's lovely to have a garden.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Have we all seen this by now?

jezebel.com/…

tchrist

It is. Although everything else has for the most part perished. The cabbage-family group is extremely resilient to cold.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

They plant kale-looking stuffs around here this time of year.

tchrist

2:50 AM

The perennials are winding down, the rest has been blackened long ago. The cabbagey bits are flourishing.

What’s your favorite crucifer, and why?

Or whatever the singular of Brassicaceae is.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:09 AM

Gonna go with broccoli.

It tastes good on its own. Can't say the same for cauliflower or cabbage.

tchrist

Perhaps. I do rather like kohlrabi.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Mmm, tubers.

tchrist

I don’t think of them as tubers. They grow above ground.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh, I was looking at your first picture.

tchrist

That’s one’s purplecape cauliflower.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:19 AM

That's lovely.

tchrist

Isn’t it? I’ve never seen it myself. They’ve been doing odd things with cauliflower lately.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I'm embroidering with purple and green as we type.

tchrist

Like the green version that looks like an alien artifact.

That one.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ah yes, fractal broccoli.

tchrist

Is that broccoli? I’m never really sure.

And it is nearly too lovely to eat.

But if I stop eating vegetables, I’ll end up dying a fruitarian, who perish quickly of malnutrition.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:25 AM

That's been my understanding.

Romanesco broccoli

: Romanesco broccoli, or Romanesque cauliflower, is an edible flower of the species Brassica oleracea, and a variant form of cauliflower. First documented in Italy, it is light green in color and is a natural approximation of a fractal. History Romanesco broccoli was first documented in Italy (as broccolo romanesco) in the 16th century. It is sometimes called broccoflower, but that name is also applied to green-curded cauliflower cultivars. Description Romanesco broccoli resembles a cauliflower, but is of a light green colour and the inflorescence (the bud) has an approximate self-s...

tchrist

Cool.

BTW, you’ve tempted me to put a bag of Brussel sprouts on the cooker.

I guess I should have something for supper, but nothing seemed appealing enough to bother with.

So B.sprouts it is.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yay!

Have you ever grown them?

tchrist

No, but Mom frequently does. And successfully.

I’m happy enough to get broccoli to work here.

The sprouts have a touch of butter, some salt and pepper, and indulgent balsamic vinegar instead of the regular kind I grew up with putting on them.

I always put vinegar on cabbage, too. Or almost always.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Red cabbage?

tchrist

Don’t seek it out.

> The number of spirals on the head of Romanesco broccoli is a Fibonacci number.

There’s a good reason for that, of course. It keeps adding to what came before.

> Brassica oleracea is the species of plant that includes many common foods as cultivars, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, savoy, and Chinese kale.

They’re all the same species.

That’s kinda wild.

Brassica oleracea

Brassica oleracea is the species of plant that includes many common foods as cultivars, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, savoy, and Chinese kale. In its uncultivated form it is known as wild cabbage. It is native to coastal southern and western Europe. Its tolerance of salt and lime and its intolerance of competition from other plants typically restrict its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English Channel. Wild B. oleracea is a tall biennial plant, forming a stout rosette of large leaves in the first...

> In places such as the Channel Islands and Canary Islands where the frost is minimal and plants are thus freed from seasonality, some cultivars can grow up to three meters tall. These "tree cabbages" yield fresh leaves throughout the year, and harvest does not mean the plant needs to be destroyed as with a normal cabbage.

> A dislike for cabbage, broccoli etc can be due to the fact that these plants contain a compound similar to phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), which is either bitter or tasteless depending on one's genetic makeup.

That might explain why some people find it terrible and others do not.

Triangle of U

The triangle of U is a theory about the evolution and relationships between members of the plant genus Brassica. The theory states that the genomes of three ancestral species of Brassica combined to create three of the common modern vegetables and oilseed crop species. It has since been confirmed by studies of DNA and proteins. The theory was first published in 1935 by Woo Jang-choon, a Korean-Japanese botanist who was working in Japan (where his name was transliterated as "Nagaharu U"). Woo made synthetic hybrids between the diploid and tetraploid species and examined how the chromosome...

Lots of new words in that article.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:46 AM

@tchrist that's very wild.

Ah yes, rapeseed. We've given that some other, more palatable name.

tchrist

Rutabaga.

:)

Canola.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ha!

tchrist

rape [reɪp], sb.[entry#5]

Etymology: ad. L. rāpum neut., rāpa fem., a turnip. In sense (def#2) perh. partly from Dutch raap turnip, rape; cf. G. (now obs. or dial.) rape, rabe(n, räbe(n turnip.

1 (With a or in pl.) a A turnip (? or radish). b A plant of rape (2 b). Obs. In 15th c. glossaries rape is used to render both rāpa and raphanus. In K. Alis. (Weber) 4983 rabben is not a form of rape, but an error for crabben of the MS.

? C. 1390 Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 4 - Take rapus, and make hem clene..parboile hem [etc.].

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Summer rape sounds more pleasant.

tchrist

Think of coleslaw.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:53 AM

I really dislike coleslaw.

tchrist

@Cerberus Do the Dutch still use something like rape (raap?) for turnip?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

And potato salad.

tchrist

Both can be made despicable or delicious.

So much so that the opposing versions merit different names.

Some I detest.

Anything in a regular store, pretty much.

Whole Foods makes some nice ones, as does my mother.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I just can't get with mayo.

tchrist

Do you abide mayo in other contexts?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:57 AM

I will eat the occasional deviled egg.

There's a dish I like at a certain restaurant that contains mayo. Almond chicken asparagus.

tchrist

Tunafish salad?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Ew, blech, no thank you.

tchrist

Cold macaroni salad with onions and green peppers?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Nor chicken salad.

>.<

tchrist

Is it a real-mayo VS Miracle Whip thing?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

4:03 AM

I do like pastitsou.

@tchrist Nope. They're equally strange.

tchrist

> 4 attrib. and Comb., as rape crop, culture, field, -leaf, -leaved adj., -mill, plant, root, -shearing, -thresher, -threshing; rape-cloth, a cloth on which rape is threshed; rape-cole, the turnip-cabbage, kohlrabi; rape crowfoot, Ranunculus bulbosus; rape-dust, rapeseed ground to powder and used as manure; rape radish, the round radish; rape violet, Cyclamen europæum. Also rape-cake, -oil, -seed.

Aïoli sauce?

Or ali-oli or whatever they call it chez y’all.

It’s interesting why Iberian languages don’t have the normal oil/oli type word for that stuff.

MετάEd

Rutabaga is an old family favorite.

tchrist

There was a convergence between Latin oleum and oculum both going to the same word, ojo in Spanish.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist I keep wondering what that is.

tchrist

Since eyes and mirrors are both common enough terms, one was suppressed and replaced with the Arabic aceite.

A word with many spellings.

Aioli

Aioli (; Provençal or aiòli ; ) is a Provençal traditional sauce made of garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and egg yolks. There are many variations, such as the addition of mustard. It is usually served at room temperature. The name aioli (alhòli) comes from Provençal alh 'garlic' (

> Aioli is, like mayonnaise, an emulsion or suspension of small globules of oil and oil-soluble compounds in water and water-soluble compounds. Egg yolk can be used as an emulsifier and is generally used in making aioli. However, mustard and garlic both have emulsion-producing properties and some variants (such as Catalan Allioli) omit the egg.

You can think of it as garlicky mayo, kinda.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

4:10 AM

Hmm. I'd give it a very small taste.

tchrist

Alioli

El alioli (del catalán all-i-oli que significa 'ajo y aceite'), ajolio (en Aragón), ajoaceite (en la zona castellanohablante de la Comunidad Valenciana, Murcia o Albacete), ajiaceite o ajaceite es una salsa típica de la gastronomía mediterránea (aragonesa, valenciana, balear, catalana, murciana, almeriense, granadina...) formada por la emulsión de aceite de oliva y ajo. Suele emplearse como condimento en algunos de los platos, en especial de preparaciones a base de pescado o marisco. a veces como una salsa servida por separado. Forma parte de las salsas a base de ajo. Es frecuente en...

It mean garlic+oil.

The Spanish page is completely different from the English page, and better.

It’s a common tapa (small plate) or ración (large plate) at Spanish bars:

Patatas Alioli

Las Patatas Alioli , "ajo y aceite") son un tipo de patatas cocidas en salmuera en forma de dados, de no más de 3 o 4 centímetros de lado, que se cubren de salsa alioli. Es un plato que se sirve frío (recién sacado de la nevera o refrigerador), y es esta la razón por la que se come frecuentemente en los meses de primavera-verano generalmente acompañado de una cerveza. Es un plato con fuerte olor a ajo debido a la salsa que emplea. Tradicional en la gastronomía de España, es un plato puramente veraniego que puede encontrarse fácilmente en cualquier lugar. Características Se trata de un ...

Usually has bits of parsley in it.

The other common form for bar-snack taters there is patatas bravas, which has a slightly spicy tomato-based sauce.

> Tampoco es raro hacer aliolis y mahonesas perfumados con, por ejemplo, una anchoa picada, o aceitunas, o alcaparras para variar y adaptarlas mejor a platos o alimentos específicos.

anchoas are anchovies.

aceitunas are olives.

"Neither is it rare to make ..."

alcabarras are um um damn it capers.

So it is a base that you can add touches of other flavors to.

Or aromas, fragrances even. But perfume is a bit too literal.

It is a nice garlicky sauce used in many many dishes, especially pescado y mariscos (fish and seafood).

> En estas regiones siempre se consideró una salsa de gente humilde en contraposición de la "salsa de huevo" hoy mundialmente conocida por mahonesa (o mayonesa), que era la de los ricos.

In other words, alioli was the sauce of the common folk, not of the rich ones who could afford to add egg to make mayonaise out of it.

If you can’t read the Spanish version of the article well enough, do run it through Google Translate, because it is worth reading in comparison to the English version.

> En Provenza, en el sureste de Francia, la receta tradicional del aïoli es la misma que la española. En la actualidad, para facilitar su elaboración suele llevar yema de huevo . . .

So the Provençal version known as aïoli often has egg yolk nowadays, but the Spanish versions usually do not.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I think I'd like it better sans oeuf.

tchrist

4:25 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Does that answer your question? :)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist pretty much.

tchrist

Alioli is actually originally a Catalan word, not a Spanish=Castilian one, which would be ajo-y-aceite not all-i-oli.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Jul 31 '12 at 15:05, by Robusto

When you hit a French chicken in the stomach, does it say oeuf ?

I thought it was wah-lee.

Or perhaps a'wah-lee.

tchrist

It’s technically supposed to only and ever be spelt œuf with the ligature mandatory not optional. But most people have trouble with keyboards.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

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tchrist

4:29 AM

The French can get rather heated about the matter.

They created ISO-8859-15 to solve that problem (and that of the euro) compared with the ubiquitous ISO-8859-1.

It’s funny it has a girl’s name, Ethel.

‭ Œ  0152       LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
‭ œ  0153       LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
        = ethel (from Old English eðel)
        * French, IPA, Old Icelandic, Old English, ...
        x (latin small letter ae - 00E6)
        x (latin letter small capital oe - 0276)
‭ ɶ  0276       LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE
        * low front rounded vowel
        x (latin small ligature oe - 0153)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Haddi-addi-ah-dah.

tchrist

Or was Ethel an old car?

I forget.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Edsel. And Opel.

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Heya! Yeah, I'm better now :-)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax Hoooray!

And here I thought I drove you away before.

Mahnax

4:33 AM

Nah, I had just popped in. But I am back!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Mahnax your family, too?

Mahnax

Hi @tchrist, too!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Happy Belated Birthday! Did you have a nice birthday?

Mahnax

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Mostly, yeah.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hmm. It was alright. I didn't do much of anything.

tchrist

Hello.

I am afraid I must drop off. Falling off the chair.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

4:34 AM

Oh dear.

Mahnax

@tchrist Ah well. Sleep tight, I'll talk to you some other time!

tchrist

thxbyby

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Nighty night.

EnglishMaster

I realised there aren't many people who can speak 2 languages fluently at the same time. I lived with a Korean family when I first arrived in Australiua and they had a daughter and a son. They spoke fluent English because they grew up in Aus and they were able to speak and listen to Korean well. But I saw a note written by the daughter to her mom and I couldn't read it properly lol..

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It seems I am destined for bed as well.

Mahnax

4:39 AM

Good night to you!

Looks like I've scared you all off, eh?

EnglishMaster

but there are A LOT of people who knows only 30~50% of one language and fluent in the other.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Aieee!

Aioli, rather.

Good night to you!

Mahnax

Night!

I may as well go do something productive.

EnglishMaster

good night

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yay!

Cerberus

9:55 AM

@tchrist Yes.

Although it is not a word that often comes up.

Because we don't really eat rapen, I think.

In fact, I wouldn't even know what a raap looked like.

skullpatrol

10:10 AM

In my opinion, this account will become more active ;-)

Robusto

1:20 PM

@tchrist [the Anglo-Saxon Rune RUNE = œ́, the name of which letter in Anglo-Saxon is œ́ðel, ǽðel, éðel one's native country, -- hence, this Rune not only stands for the letters œ́, but for œ́eth;el = éðel one's native country, as, -- RUNE [éðel] byþ oferleóf ǽghwylcum men a native country is over-dear to every man. . .](bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/009765)

Ah, damn the nested brackets.

Cerberus

Replace them with normal brackets?

Robusto

1:57 PM

Replace which? And define normal.

Cerberus

2:22 PM

Round.

@Robusto If you replace the square brackets around éðel with round brackets, that might work.

the Anglo-Saxon Rune RUNE = œ́, the name of which letter in Anglo-Saxon is œ́ðel, ǽðel, éðel one's native country, -- hence, this Rune not only stands for the letters œ́, but for œ́eth;el = éðel one's native country, as, -- RUNE (éðel) byþ oferleóf ǽghwylcum men a native country is over-dear to every man. . .

See? It works.

The site doesn't like square brackets inside square brackets, for some reason.

Robusto

@Cerberus Ah, well, too late anyway.

Cerberus

Yeah.

Robusto

2:36 PM

@Cerberus BTW, the term you were looking for when trying to bait me yesterday was holster (or possibly even caddy), not pouch.

Cerberus

@Robusto Right.

A holster makes me think of guns.

Robusto

That's the idea.

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Q: Is my pronunciation of "pronunciation" correct?

I say "prnounciation" instead of "pronunciation". Is this correct, or an acceptable variation?

Please.

Cerberus

Wouldn't that be vertical?

Robusto

@Cerberus What, a holster? Only if it contained longish objects.

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Cerberus

I was thinking of this:

Robusto

2:40 PM

You can call that a pouch in Dutch. Or a pooch, since you're a doggy. You could even call it a nutsack.

Cerberus

Heh.

Robusto

In America they are marketed as holsters or cases. Not pouches. Never pouches.

Cerberus

It seems all sorts of words are used.

@Robusto OK noted.

Holster does sound nice and cowboy-like.

Robusto

That is a positive association in most of the U.S.

I will note, for the record, that the "bumper" I got for my LG G2 is a very thin rubber/plastic back shell which bulks up the phone less than a couple millimeters.

Uh, my son just rolled in. Gotta go. Laterz.

Cerberus

Bai!

@Robusto Uh-huh...

tchrist

2:56 PM

This is a rather amusing thing to give to someone who apparently cannot even spell his own name:

Apostrophe's are completely silent, whether theyre us'ed for contractions, plural's, or genitives. So you needn't pronounce them at all. In any event, English' spelling is full of things you dont pronounce, so theres no real problem here. — John Lawler 17 hours ago

Unless he’s the Outlaw Jose Wales.

Cerberus

3:11 PM

He can't spell his own name?

That comment of his is just totally irrelevant and wtf.

tchrist

There are no Joses I have ever heard of, only Josés, although the pronunciation is completely different in Portuguese than it is in Spanish.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the American Civil War. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood (as the eponymous Josey Wales), with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Sam Bottoms, and Geraldine Keams. The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas). In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Plot Josey Wales, a Missou...

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:26 PM

Perhaps he's using an American keyboard and doesn't know how to make the accented e.

Sunday is my favorite day for playing devil's advocate.

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Johan Larsson

6:37 PM

gf is watching an interesting documentary about a nail salon

Cerberus

8:01 PM

@JohanLarsson Sounds verry interesting.

Johan Larsson

:D

my beautiful rep is broken

Cerberus

Oh?

What were its aesthetic qualities?

Johan Larsson

8:42 PM

3333

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 4 hours ago, by Tony The Lion

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JohanLarsson ha!

Cerberus

8:59 PM

Haha.

Johan Larsson

9:12 PM

in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 8 mins ago, by Tommy

But if the person is a Billionaire then surely $100 is pocket change to them if they only do it every now and then. And who knows... In the future there might be technology that can actually measure the level of stupidity that somebody has?

got that reply in C#, not sure how to respond

Cerberus

Yeah if you're rich, it doesn't matter.

Johan Larsson

perhaps the universal :) and nothing else

Cerberus

The universal?

Johan Larsson

Maybe poor use of universal, I reply :) to many things

generic might be better

or something else

Cerberus

Oh, I get it.

I didn't think the smiley had a function (my brain always skips them).

Johan Larsson

9:24 PM

I overuse smileys, did not use any a year ago or so. My thinking is that it is better to err on the side of overusing.

Cerberus

Why didn't you use any a year ago?

(I stopped using them when I became 20 or so.)

Johan Larsson

I thought they looked childish

but I think they have a function when chatting

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerb I got an LG Optimus G Pro today!

Cerberus

@JohanLarsson I still think they do, but it's OK.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Ohhh congrats!!

jealous

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

:O

I like it.

Cerberus

9:36 PM

Is that the one with the huge screen?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It's pretty big.

Cerberus

Yay!

You know what they say, the bigger, the better.

Is it bigger than your foot?

Johan Larsson

bigger than your mom?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Neither.

Cerberus

Hmm.

But I bet it's fast!

And modern!

With 2 GB of RAM!

Ah, its screen is 5.5"!

I wish I were a woman, then I could buy a huge phone to keep in my purse.

Johan Larsson

9:41 PM

> 1.7GHZ QUAD-CORE CPUS WITH 2 GB RAM

pretty insane

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus What do you keep in your purse currently?

Johan Larsson

why can't you have a purse?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

That reminds me, I need to look for a case. They only had lame pink and white ones at the store.

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 My make-up sets and my emergency ballerinas. So I have no more space for a phone. Why?

@JohanLarsson Well, man purses are for women.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Do you really need one?

Johan Larsson

who says?

Cerberus

9:43 PM

24 secs ago, by Cerberus

@JohanLarsson Well, man purses are for women.

I guess it was I who said it.

purses lips

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus not sure yet. It seems pretty grippy.

Cerberus

Seriously, man can have bags, but I don't like to have to carry stuff around. I want my hands (and shoulders) free if possible.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They say rubber cases help prevent cracking when you drop the phone.

Rob has just got one.

But I would hate to have to use a case.

I am just very careful.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I had a swell body glove case on my atrix 2.

Loved that case.

Cerberus

Was that your previous phone?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yessir.

Cerberus

9:46 PM

OK.

Why did you decide you needed a new phone?

Not that I'm complaining.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

My two years were up.

I had a Motorola backflip thingy before the atrix 2, and he was rebooting whenever he wanted.

I really had no problems with the atrix 2.

In fact, I might give him a specific purpose.

Cerberus

Ohh that system. How much do you pay monthly?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Men.

Wilful creatures.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Cerberus ~$85.

BRB making coffee.

Cerberus

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Right that explains the free phone. Bai!

Still nice.

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Limerick Machine: Still at large

posted on October 27, 2013 by sgdi

There once was a person of note Found hanged to their death by the throat It appeared in the news That there weren’t any clues And the chance of solution remote

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

10:00 PM

@Cerberus It wasn't free.

Cerberus

Ah.

How much?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

$99

More with a 1-year contract.

Cerberus

OK.

It's € 462 here.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh wait, there is no 1-year price. Retail price is $439.99, which seems amazingly cheap.

I guess because it isn't Samsung.

Cerberus

That's cheaper than here...but not exactly amazing.

You can get it here for € 54 with a plan that costs € 27.50 for 2 years.

Are your prices including taxes? Ours are.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

10:08 PM

There was very little tax.

I want to say it was $108 total.

Cerberus

OK.

And on your plan?

Does the 85 include taxes?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

It does.

Cerberus

10:28 PM

OK.

Do your eyes get lost wandering around the screen?

Arg I can't decide whether or not to go to this wine-tasting event/party.

It's € 23, which is not expensive.

But it's still money, and I have a dinner party the next day, and the wine-tasting people I have seen many times over the past couple of weeks, so I thought maybe it was time for a pause.

And I'm past the RSVP deadline already.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

10:56 PM

@Cerberus But you can still go?

Cerberus

I really don't know.

But I just saw a Facebook message from Friday asking I will be there.

Johan Larsson

Nice page with fonts

Cerberus

Okay, I have said I would like to join in if it's still possible. We'll see.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@JohanLarsson I was expecting something different.

@Cerberus Hooray.

Johan Larsson

what did you expect?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

11:06 PM

@JohanLarsson Um, I guess a page that happened to have nice fonts, but did not offer them for sale or download.

Johan Larsson

ok I just liked how it was organized

Rage guy has a couple

Mitch

11:25 PM

@Cerberus If you think you're better than others, it doesn't matter.

@Cerberus doesn't that sorta decide it? not in the true sense (I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you showed up) but as an excuse?

Cerberus

@Mitch Doesn't matter as in, you won't know.

@Mitch Well, you know what people are like. Always trying to be nice and accommodate one.

Mitch

@Cerberus I know. trying to be polite people do all sorts of things they'd rather not. For other people who are also trying to be polite.

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Johan Larsson

star for that

Mitch

Wait, the party is starting -after- midnight? No work tomorrow?

@JohanLarsson Ha ha. Then there are people who are just jerks.

Cerberus

@Mitch Exactly!

Hmm is there a party?

Mitch

11:42 PM

Yeah, totally. but it costs 23 E, it's just wine tasting, and you've just seen everybody there this week. Also, there's an RSVP so it's a little late for that.

Cerberus

11:53 PM

@Mitch Oh, that.

It's next week.

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