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2:00 PM

Did I mention to you that last Saturday was AFOL Day and I got the Detective's Office and a couple more sets for a total of EUR 1500, including the discount?

So far I've "only" built Slave I and the Ferris Wheel.

Detective's Office is on my list of course, but I'll probably build the Ferrari next.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

nice!

RegDwigнt

Yeah. No room dude. No room at all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

the DO and other large sets like that are excluded from our AFOL days

RegDwigнt

I'm already renting some of Saturn's orbits from God. But that space's running out too.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm so jealous that you can buy the exclusives during AFOL days.

RegDwigнt

2:02 PM

Well. What else would you buy?

Everything else is cheaper off Amazon.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah, exactly.

our AFOL days aren't that good.

RegDwigнt

My wishlist has barely been halved. I had to go twice already and didn't want to go a third time.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt 1500 euros for that? Does your wife know?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto a drop in the bucket. I already have a collection worth 23 times more.

Robusto

Well, well. Maybe this is why you don't drive a real Ferrari.

RegDwigнt

2:05 PM

Also, how would anyone not notice a quarter of a million legos in their home?

@Robusto no, I don't drive a real Ferrari because I have a huge johnson.

Robusto

Easy to hide the new ones, I guess.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah just build the Ferris wheel inside the detective's office.

Robusto

> I'm just a humble guy with a big ol' dick. And I ain't all that humble. —Bunk Moreland from The Wire.

RegDwigнt

So anyway.

I didn't get the Helicarrier yet.

And they didn't have the Birds!

They had had them just three days prior.

Then AFOL Day comes along and bam! the set's been recalled.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Oh, the birds set is really great

RegDwigнt

2:07 PM

Some parts that were supposed to be reddish brown came in dark bley.

So they called it off.

And it's unclear if it's ever coming again.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

hm

RegDwigнt

I was like WTF I'd have gotten one either way.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

that would be a shame, it's one of their best sets ever

RegDwigнt

Yeah no shit. I am so disappoint.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

the birds set is one of those sets that EVERYONE gets... even people who despise Lego look at those birds and go "aww!"

But the DO, man, it's so great. Jamie is a Lego poet.

RegDwigнt

2:09 PM

Also I couldn't be arsed feeling the Simpsons bags, so I just got three at random that feel like Willie, Selma and Petty, or Selma and Selma, or Petty and Petty.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm completely skipping the simpsons figs. I may pick up the quick-e-mart.

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 and he churns them out at a rate that makes you breathless.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah it's nuts.

RegDwigнt

The ferris wheel alone, I'd have taken a full year for it. Same for Sopwith Camel or Horizon Express or any single modular.

And the Sydney Opera! Dangit.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well, it IS his day job.

RegDwigнt

2:10 PM

It'd still take me a year.

And not because I'd be lazy or anything. I'd work night shifts.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The DO has some of those 1x1 round bricks with the hole

I was surprised to see them

RegDwigнt

Like you say, it's poetry. Either it comes flying to you, in its final form, or you shouldn't even be in the business.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Then I found that there are exactly 3 places where you need to use THAT one instead of the no-hole one

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 they reintroduced them last year. Ghostbusters even has them in a new color, dark red.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

and two of them were obvious, and the third, I was like "whoa! THAT's why!"

yeah I have the Ghostbusters car, it's also great

RegDwigнt

2:12 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I got the Quick-E-Mart but I'll have to build the Simpsons House first, and by the looks of it that could take another year.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I skipped the house. Just a tan box.

RegDwigнt

Ha! Not one bit.

So many all-new parts in all-new colors.

It's insanity.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yeah but most of those colours and parts are tiles in colours I never use.

RegDwigнt

I was missing like 25% according to Rebrickable. And that's with 200k parts under my belt.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

And 99% of the build is a tan box.

RegDwigнt

2:14 PM

Maybe. I actually doubt it, there's crazy amount of detail in the pictures I had a quick glimpse at.

But wevs. Nothing wrong with tan! Just a couple years ago I would have killed for a couple more tan parts. It's only very recently that it's becoming over-represented.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Well, there is a lot of interior detail. But I watched the video and wasn't that impressed. I mean, it's a great kit, in that it represents the Simpsons' house well. But I didn't care about that, and the building techniques seem mostly normal.

RegDwigнt

We'll see.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I have so much tan that it overflows into ziplock bags

RegDwigнt

I'll report with the findings once I've obtained any.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I bought two Lego Yoda sculptures back in the day when they were on sale.

RegDwigнt

2:16 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 most of my tan is tied up in the modified Tower Bridge. And I've not even started constructing the little side towers, which will swallow quite some more.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I guess if I didn't have those two yodas, the simpsons house would be a good set to buy.

RegDwigнt

And the rest will be tied up in the Simpsons house, I don't think I'll be tearing it apart immediately after assembling?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'd probably get it in that case.

RegDwigнt

So basically I'll be left with not that much free tan at all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I shred all my sets.

RegDwigнt

2:17 PM

So let's see. What else did I get.

Oh haha. More tan! Some Star Wars sets, all of them tan.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

heh

I also recently got Benny's spaceship, that is another great set.

RegDwigнt

The AT-something, then the troop transporter from Naboo(?), and I still have the Wookie gunship sitting MISB.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah see, that one I skipped with extreme prejudice.

Nothing of interest for me at all.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Aw, I found it lots of fun to build. It's very swooshable.

RegDwigнt

I did start changing my mind on the Sea Cow, but thankfully it's out of print so wevs.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

The sea cow just makes me think of a giant mess.

RegDwigнt

2:20 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I see your spaceship spaceship spaceship and raise you a Slave I UCS.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

in ship form.

RegDwigнt

That thing is the definition of swoosh.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt yeah but the Slave I is huge, a display model I've no room to display, and also wasn't severely discounted at Walmart, like the spaceshipx3 was

RegDwigнt

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah. And I don't actually like LEGO ships much. Or at all. But then one day someone on the Internet said the magic word "steampunk" and I was like, yeah, holy shit man, that's the only steampunk set out there. Hm.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I got the spaceship for like 45% off.

RegDwigнt

2:21 PM

That's a fair price.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt it's... got some steamish things? I don't know if it's really steampunk. Also I heard a rumour that in 2016 they're launching a steampunk theme.

RegDwigнt

I got a friggin B-wing for 50% off a week ago, even though I hate Star Wars, and B-wings in particular, and I already had 100% of the parts. All of them. Not a one missing.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 there's been at least one "build your own adventure" steampunk set lately.

So probably yes.

Oh, and I totally have to get that Ninjago temple. Sweet Jesus.

Basically a rip-off of the Japanese Architecture project on Cuusoo, of course.

Also ran across the new Creator plane. Of which I had not been aware at all. A must-have. But probably 20% cheaper at Amazon.

Robusto

Amazon wants to be your ultimo retailer.

RegDwigнt

Sounds like a Yahoo headline from 1999.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwigнt Yeah that set is really sweet.

RegDwigнt

2:27 PM

I even watched the designer video. Which I normally try not to do until I've built the set.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

When I got the Spaceship x3 I also got the Ninjago city one for like 40% off too... That was a fun little playset, but it's already shredded.

Most of the Ninjago stuff is bleh

RegDwigнt

Yeah some waves are more bleh than others, but that's about it.

I actually find a set or two in each wave that I mark as a favorite, but lo and behold, I barely ever end up actually buying it.

In fact there's even been a Chima wave that I basically bought all of it, but Ninjago? Nope.

Mitch

@RegDwigнt So that's what that stuff is?

Robusto

2

Q: What is the difference between a ¶ Pilcrow Sign and the § Section Sign?

The following symbols have both been introduced to me as a 'paragraph symbol'. With the help of ShapeCatcher and Wikipedia, I found out that ¶ is officially known as the Pilcrow Sign § is officially known as the Section Sign However, I've seen both of them used to indicate what part of a doc...

@tchrist: ^^

Or perhaps you're already formulating an answer.

RegDwigнt

> However, I've seen both of them used to indicate what part of a document is referred to.

Yeah no. Not really.

Like, who ever refers to the second pilcrow. Nobody, that's who.

I probably would not be even familiar with it at all if not for Microsoft Word who are the only ones that use it. On every frickin line. Thrice. Probably to make up for its otherwise complete absence from everybody's lives.

Robusto

2:45 PM

Then you'd better start explaining who stole the θ from Jamaican English.

tchrist

@Robusto low typing. hyperextended dominant index finger. har o ype wihou ha one

RegDwigнt

@Robusto It was the guy who was phone.

Robusto

@tchrist I infer that you are left-handed, sir.

tchrist

yes

and eyed

and footed

Robusto

Pretty sinister, if you ask me.

tchrist

2:52 PM

saying left eyed deceptive

left eye is for far and right for near

Robusto

I'm just the opposite.

More to the point, I'm always right.

I am dextrous, not sinister.

RegDwigнt

Robusto

I can hit a baseball left-handed though. But it doesn't go as far as the other way.

RegDwigнt

Interestingly enough, in that picture the sinister hand is a sinister hand.

Not very dexter at all.

What is the author trying to say?

Robusto

Don't bring up that show. Worst series ending since Lost.

tchrist

2:55 PM

i flipped our community ad sinistrally

Robusto

Thanks for that, my computer didn't catch my error. As for the OP, it would be option 4: He has no logical reason and is a sociopath. 1 is out because Drago clearly demonstrates logic and reasoning in his campaign of conquest. 2 is out because when he slaughtered the chieftain council he was unprovoked (this is the example Stoic provided). And #3 is out because it is internally contradictory, being insane without being insane. 3, while a literal interpretation, is gibberish. Men who kill without reason (the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities) cannot be reasoned with, — Yeshe 7 mins ago

Wut?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto what, they didn't end up lumberjacking the frickin island in Lost?

Robusto

I don't even want to characterize what they did. My mind should remain pure.

RegDwigнt

Should have done that in ep1, come to think of it.

@Robusto I have tried watching Lost exactly once, and my pure mind failed at the task.

tchrist

dallas

Robusto

2:58 PM

I watched it for the first season, my wife watched it straight through, and I showed up for the series finale at her request. Whereupon I could only point at her and laugh at her for having watched THE WHOLE ENCHILADA, and she had to sit there and take it.

RegDwigнt

The thing I found most in-your-face-disgusting was how clearly that whole "jungle" segment I watched was all made in a thirty square yards studio.

Like WTF, even movies from the forties did better than that.

So I said, fuck this.

Oh and the actors were all horrible. All horrible. All horrible.

Robusto

Not as bad as the ~~writing~~ typing, though.

writing?

OK, typing.

rebels

3:00 PM

I had no time to pay any attention to the writing, or rather the absence thereof, for every damn second I would get hit in the face with another fake tree or horrible actor, or another horrible tree or fake actor.

Robusto

Hey, come on. The typing was pretty good. Very few words were misspelled, from what I understand.

RegDwigнt

I'd rather watch the Lost script than Lost.

Cerberus

I bet they misplaced some commas.

Watch it burn?

Robusto

I checked out right around the backstory episode where they found out why the one chick needed five handguns in her briefcase. Five. That's right, count 'em. Never mind that she only had two hands. More guns = better.

tchrist

They don...t use commas . . . just ellipses . . . for all their punctuatorial needs. . . .

RegDwigнt

3:01 PM

@Cerberus As long as someone else puts fire to it. This thing does not even deserve as much effort on my part as holding a lighter underneath it.

Robusto

@tchrist Punc rock.

I don need puntuatin

or spelin

RegDwigнt

Hey teacher, leave the dots alone.

Robusto

0

Q: Why is there — and should there be — a comma following a state or country's name?

This Capital Community College document best describes my dilemma: “When both a city's name and that city's state or country's name are mentioned together, the state or country's name is treated as a parenthetical element.” That’s fine by me; it’s a habit of mine. But I occasionally find myself q...

comma non-restrictive

Well, immediate disqualification for being a post about a community college that isn't Greendale.

Cerberus

I have never seen Lost, obviously.

I have better things to do.

RegDwigнt

You have never seen anything.

Cerberus

3:04 PM

Such as watching the Gilmore Girls.

RegDwigнt

Well. That is over twenty hundred thousand times better than Lost.

Cerberus

At least nothing ever happens in the GG, they just chat and have the same fights again and again.

RegDwigнt

You should watch Picket Fences, too.

Cerberus

Should I?

Robusto

Nah. Watch Breaking Bad instead.

Cerberus

3:05 PM

The GG is mostly nostalgia, because it was on television when I was young and there was little else to watch.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus It is about as good for having it run in the background while you're fixing dinner in the kitchen as Gilmore Girls.

Robusto

BB is mo' bettah.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that one totally sucks for having it run in the background while you're fixing finned in the kitchen. Like, does not work at all.

Cerberus

We're watching Hornblower now (I only watch series with my boyfriend these days).

Robusto

Agreed.

RegDwigнt

3:05 PM

Like, you can't even leave the room to go to the kitchen to start fixing shit.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Umm al right.

Robusto

And forget the bathroom breaks.

RegDwigнt

In other news, I just misspelled "dinner" as "finned". Now I have done everything. All my jobs on this planet are completely accomplished.

Cerberus

Hornblower is admittedly not very subtle or complex, but at least it is historical.

Robusto

Also not very historical.

Cerberus

3:07 PM

As in, it is about a time in the past.

RegDwigнt

That's historic.

Or hysteric.

I forget.

Cerberus

Do you like Hornblower?

RegDwigнt

That is a very inappropriate question. Do I know you?

Cerberus

Sometimes it is pathetic, and often not very realistic; but it is just nice.

@RegDwigнt So bashful.

Robusto

@Cerberus Everything that is not about the future is about the past.

Cerberus

3:08 PM

About a specific, pre-modern time.

RegDwigнt

So I googled for hornblower and all I got was twenty identical images of a yellowish-green-light-blue box.

I don't know that I'd watch that for very long.

Two minutes, perhaps?

Robusto

@Cerberus You should have been a Yorkshire granny knitting a tea cosey by the fire.

RegDwigнt

If I'm drunk.

Cerberus

That makes everything more enjoyable for me, an historical setting; just as science fiction and fantasy, the background gives me an extra stimulus, something to think about as I watch the plot unfold.

Our current world bores me.

Robusto

I don't actually know how to spell cosey. Cozy?

Cerberus

3:09 PM

Yes.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus that's what she said about "Where The Guys Aren't XVIII".

Robusto

Cozy for the adjective, certainly.

Cerberus

@Robusto Who says I ain't?

Robusto

Not I.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Quoi?

RegDwigнt

3:10 PM

@Robusto It's spelled Bill Cosby.

@Cerberus that's what she said about "Where The Guys Aren't XVIII".

Better now?

Cerberus

What is that?

Robusto

Tengo hambre. Quiero un emparedado para el almuerzo. Pero sólo tengo verduras.

Cerberus

Doesn't that look nice? Boaties?

Robusto

@Cerberus Whoa, now you're going to tell me you watched this in German? That is so not English of you.

@Cerberus In German I think they're called Booties.

Cerberus

@Robusto No, for Reg.

RegDwigнt

3:14 PM

Yeah no shit guys. I'm not watching any shit with ships any time soon. Enough is enough. Stop it already.

Cerberus

Why not?

Robusto

@Cerberus Spoiler alert: @Reg speaks English.

RegDwigнt

Because fucking ships. Get the fuck out. Make something new.

Cerberus

@Robusto It was a stab at his earlier condoning of dubbing.

Robusto

See? He did it again.

Cerberus

3:15 PM

Remarkable.

RegDwigнt

Like, I dunno. A series about bobby cars. Or helicopter pilots. Or even tanks FFS. But no. Master and Commander and Commander and Master all the way and forever and always. It was tired already when Russell Crow did it.

Cerberus

Well, many episodes are on land for the most part.

Robusto

Russell Sprouts.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I never condoned dubbing.

Cerberus

There are only 8 episodes.

@RegDwigнt You absolutely did.

While I was busy ridiculing it.

RegDwigнt

3:16 PM

I fucking did not. Read it back to me. Go ahead, make my day.

I condoned excellent dubbing, which I said was next to impossible.

How on earth am I not allowed to condone excellent things that are so excellent they are actually impossible?

Also, you are not entitled to participate in this conversation to begin with, as we determined first thing back then.

Because you never watch dubbings.

Robusto

Jul 9 at 13:10, by Robusto

@tchrist A. "It's very difficult." B. "Difficult? I wish it were impossible!"

RegDwigнt

So you have no say in ridiculing them.

It's like never meeting a single gay in your life and then going "OMG gays are fucking retarded, I must ridicule them".

There are enough people working in that profession already. I have plans of my own.

Cerberus

Oct 11 '12 at 15:58, by Cerberus

I can't believe you people actually like dubbing. I thought it was deplored as a sad, pathetic feature to accommodate the illiterate masses all around the globe. Apparently I was wrong.

RegDwigнt

I shall never ridicule what I do not have the deepest understanding of. Which is why I watch Titanic and Sex and the City. Which I have stated fifty times by now in this room alone. But nobody ever listens.

You can deplore anything as a sad pathetic feature.

Cerberus

Oct 11 '12 at 16:00, by Cerberus

@RegDwighт I have seen/heard dubbing in all possible genres, including films, documentaries, and series. It is all completely unacceptable.

RegDwigнt

3:20 PM

You can literally take gold, or angel dust, or naked women, and deplore them in the saddest most pathetic way.

Cerberus

Oct 11 '12 at 16:02, by Cerberus

I used to watch German television, because my father had turned our dish towards German satellites, so that was all we could receive.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus no. You have not seen/heard good dubbing.

And you have not seen/heard horrible dubbing, either.

Cerberus

I can just have this whole conversation quoting myself. I feel like Reg now.

RegDwigнt

But we discussed it all back then, so what gives.

Matt E. Эллен

Santa Claus

Cerberus

3:21 PM

How does it work, do I need to open all my lines in new tabs to have them on hand?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus you are not having a conversation. You are not even reading what I'm writing. At the speed you're posting, you're barely even reading what you wrote back then.

So I shall go do something else now.

Cerberus

I think am.

RegDwigнt

Meanwhile you go visit the USSR in the 80s and watch that dubbing. You never did. So you're not qualified one bit.

Cerberus

But I agree that no Heil is to be found in repeating the conversation.

Nor even Hell.

RegDwigнt

Especially since you didn't even read it the first time around, lest you wouldn't be repeating the same dismissed arguments.

Cerberus

3:23 PM

I read all of it.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt But that should work because Russians don't open their mouths when they talk. Easy to dub, because nothing looks wrong.

Cerberus

But, again, no need to repeat it all now.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto er. You mean everything works wrong because all Hollywood actors do open their mouths unlike Russians?

Robusto

Heavy circled saltire. Heavy circled saltire. Heavy circled saltire.

My new favorite word.

RegDwigнt

Breaking Bad dubbing is spectacular. Both the German and the Russian versions. You've not even watched the original, FFS. That's how much you are not qualified to talk about anything here.

Robusto

3:25 PM

@RegDwigнt What's the difference?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I think it's same. I think.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Robusto Heavily-circled satire?

Robusto

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I knew someone would say that.

You beat Reg to it.

Wait, maybe you are Reg.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto so all you're saying you're Chevy Chase trying to draw a windmill.

Robusto

Hmm, both have huge Lego collections, both come from snow-and-ice countries . . .

RegDwigнt

3:27 PM

Both do not live in Kathmandu.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Your words are hurtful.

RegDwigнt

The plot is thickening.

@Robusto oh but they always are.

Why would I even get up in the morning.

I hurt yourself today to see if I still feel.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That song is blocked in your country on copyright grounds.

RegDwigнt

Stop talking at myself.

That's confusing.

Robusto

Someone saved my life tonight.

RegDwigнt

3:31 PM

Must've been sugarbear.

Robusto

We don't use Word grammar check here, and we advise others to do the same. That feature accounts for most of the insane, tormented, "Why can't I use X?" questions we get here. — Robusto 8 secs ago

27 mins ago, by Robusto

Tengo hambre. Quiero un emparedado para el almuerzo. Pero sólo tengo verduras.

tchrist

¿Y porqué quieres que una enfermera pare su almuerzo por ti?

Robusto

@tchrist ¿Cómo? Un emparedado no es una enfermera.

tchrist

Nunca leo más de una sola sílaba en una palabra, y talvez unas cuantas letras sueltas por ahí.

Me cuesta menos tiempo en leer así.

Robusto

3:49 PM

Es esta "Alicia en el país de las maravillas"?

RegDwigнt

En el jardín de mirabeles.

Cerberus

Why isn't everybody listening to the Red Army Choir?

I had never heard of it until recently.

Robusto

Because Putin.

He hasn't conquered all the countries yet.

tchrist

He does not conquer. He's in the merger and acquisition business.

RegDwigнt

Y ahora vamos a mutar los comunistas.

@Cerberus I've been listening to them for four fucking decades. What are you even talking about.

user116848

3:54 PM

I listen to Russian songs sometimes. They are fun except that I don't understand a single word.

tchrist

Que los mutes bien.

Cerberus

@Robusto The Red Army formally exited until 1946, and the Soviet Army until 1991, I have learned. So no Putin...

@RegDwigнt Not you!

Robusto

@Cerberus And yet . . . and yet . . . there he still is.

Cerberus

Yeah, but what would happen if ~~Leviathan~~ Putin suddenly died?

Robusto

Nobody knows.

Cerberus

3:58 PM

Not much good.

Robusto

I would say chaos, but that's pretty much in evidence already.

Cerberus

Nah, Russia is not very chaotic.

Mitch

Chaos is overrated

Cerberus

I prefer Russia as she is over civil war and chaos.

tchrist

Awful evil.

Not chaotic.

Except that it is.

Robusto

3:59 PM

Chao is Spanish for ciao. And chaos is multiple examples of that.

Cerberus

@tchrist Yes, but many other countries are eviller...

Mitch

I only have one. sigh

user116848

Pakistan is chaotic.

Cerberus

@Robusto Bye-bye Putin?

tchrist

Oft evil will shall evil mar.

Robusto

4:00 PM

Bye-bye Birdie?

Cerberus

@Arrowfar Yeah, Pakistan is somewhat more chaotic than Russia. But countries like Mali or Yemen or Syria are far worse.

Mitch

@tchrist mira mar

user116848

@Cerberus Yeah.

Mitch

@Cerberus Greenland is not chaotic at all. We should learn our lessons from them.

until the icecap slips off.

tchrist

Cold preserves.

Cerberus

4:02 PM

@Mitch Absolutely.

Mitch

warm fuzzies

Cerberus

Cold good, hot bad.

Robusto

37 mins ago, by Robusto

Heavy circled saltire. Heavy circled saltire. Heavy circled saltire.

Mitch

warm compresses.

tchrist

looks for code points

Mitch

4:02 PM

I'll have a pastrami on rye with a mustard compress.

Robusto

Saltire sounds tasty.

Mitch

Look man it's almost lunch time.

Robusto

23 mins ago, by Robusto

27 mins ago, by Robusto

Tengo hambre. Quiero un emparedado para el almuerzo. Pero sólo tengo verduras.

Mitch

@Robusto should be the name of a new snack cracker

Robusto

Or a misspelling of an old one.

Mitch

4:04 PM

@Robusto So make a lettuce tomato y mayonnaise emparedado

@Robusto convince everyone the old one is misspelled.

that'll teach those old people

with their misspelled snacks

Robusto

@Mitch No puedo.

Mitch

@Robusto ok drop the tomato and mayo

and bread too?

rabbit food?

tchrist

mar mar mar

Mitch

that's why cats like em so much, high fiber, natural grass fed bunnies

Cerberus

@Robusto Remember yesterday's cranes?

It appears nobody was hurt. Isn't that odd?

Mitch

4:06 PM

I was hurt by the screaming

Robusto

@Cerberus Yes. And fortunate.

Cerberus

No bodies found in the rubble, no people reported missing.

Quite.

One dog died.

And one man had to be freed.

tchrist

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A: Porque é que mar é masculino em português mas feminino em francês?

Sim, é porque a palavra era de género neutro em latim: p.ex. mare magnum.1,2 Quando esse género foi perdido, diferentes línguas descendentes escolheram diferentes géneros para si: LA: mare/maris [“illud”] (neu.) IT: il mare (masc.) RO: la mare (fem.) FR: la mer (fem.) OC: la mar (fem.) CA: el m...

Robusto

@Cerberus Lucky break? Or perfect crime? You decide.

Cerberus

I really don't know why there were no people in those houses, or at least not in the path of the cranes and the bridge segment.

Mitch

4:07 PM

I understand the screaming reflex now. It totally shuts down any kind of physical response by the attacker (and also anybody nearby). I hope bears react that way.

@Cerberus what do you mean no one was hurt? That dog probably gave it's life up for you.

Robusto

@Cerberus I think if I had lived there I'd have gotten the fuck out of Dodge while the work was going on.

Cerberus

@Mitch No humans died.

@Robusto Dodge?

I don't know, it was the town's main street.

tchrist

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Robusto

@Cerberus American expression. "Get out of Dodge" means, roughly, light out for the territories. Cf. "Get out of town."

Cerberus

Luckily, the cafés had not opened yet, at 4pm.

Ah.

tchrist

4:09 PM

I recommend getting out of Chrysler: their stock ain’t safe at any speed.

Mitch

@tchrist somebody please fix his spelling of 'weird'. It's hurting my eyes.

@Cerberus cafe's aren't a whole day thing? just an evening thing there?

tchrist

@Mitch I know, right.

Anybody can edit anything, mostly.

Mitch

@tchrist not me... I'm quite low there.

Robusto

Get Outta Dodge

Get Outta Dodge is the third studio album by Huevos Rancheros. It was released on September 30, 1996, on Mint Records. It was licensed out to Konkurrent Records in the Netherlands. The title refers to the expression "Get the hell out of Dodge", an exhortation that on the drama series Gunsmoke was sometimes given to villains whom the heroes wanted out of Dodge City, Kansas. Get Outta Dodge was the first album with new bassist Tom Kennedy, who replaced Graham Evans. == Track listing == All songs written by Brent J. Cooper, Tom Kennedy and Richie Lazarowich, except where noted. "What A Way To Run...

Mitch

'Huevos Rancheros' snerk

Robusto

4:13 PM

get out of Dodge

Verb: get out of Dodge

(US, idiomatic) To leave; in particular to leave a difficult or dangerous environment with all possible haste.
1999 -- The Cave Divers by Bob Burgess, Robert F. Burgess (page 298) [5]

Mitch

dammit, lunchtime already!

Robusto

Yo como mi verduras.

tchrist

*Mis

Robusto

Shit.

Yo como mis verduras.

I knew that, and I typed the other thing anyway.

Cerberus

@Mitch I really don't know, perhaps only those two cafés the crane fell on? I don't know much about the provinces... here we have cafés that are open most of the day and evening/night, day/evening only, and evening/night only. Most will be of the first type. But I don't know about those cafés in Alphen, except that the news said they hadn't opened yet at 4pm.

tchrist

4:20 PM