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SrJoven

12:12 AM

I have a book of recipes. It's called a NomNomNomicon

Cerberus

@SrJoven Haha nice.

I'm sure it's very nom-nommy.

Stack Exchange

12:30 AM

Limerick Machine: Something or other that rhymes Some number or other of times A bit in the middle That’s eas…

posted on November 27, 2014 by sgdi

Something or other that rhymes Some number or other of times A bit in the middle That’s easy to fiddle The final thing to end these lines

Cerberus

2:33 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Do you have any idea why tablets generally have lower profit margins than phones, even for Apple? One would think the market for phones was more saturated and more competitive.

skullpatrol

Supply & demand can work in mysterious ways sometimes.

Cerberus

3:18 AM

Indeed.

tchrist

3:53 AM

@Cerberus “Poetry you can never translate”. @Robusto will remember.

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skullpatrol

in Mathematics, 14 mins ago, by skullpatrol

Ah, the good'o days...

skullpatrol

7:58 AM

Thanks @tchrist for that Slate site, I just downloaded their app; very informative :-)

RegDwigнt

10:50 AM

@skullpatrol that dates you now, doesn't it.

Slate is like all the rage every five years or so.

Actually I last forgot about it exactly five years ago.

skullpatrol

It is interesting.

RegDwigнt

It used to be, yes. Good writing, too. Don't know if the same people are still running it, so I'll withhold judgment for the time being.

@tchrist here's an original opinion: both vi and Emacs suck donkey.

That said, I wouldn't know how to start up Emacs, or save anything in it, while after two decades of intense training I did manage to remember some parts of wq!, so I guess that does put me in a camp against my will.

skullpatrol

I found the article One huge lift for mankind, very surprising.

RegDwigнt

Is it about American elevators?

skullpatrol

no

RegDwigнt

10:56 AM

That surprises me!

Very.

skullpatrol

True, Americans are known for that attitude.

RegDwigнt

I meant more like BMI. But okay.

skullpatrol

Oops, sorry.

~~that attitude~~ their BMI

RegDwigнt

Thank you. Now pass me the cheese can.

skullpatrol

Yes sir.

Does cheese whiz count as cheese?

RegDwigнt

11:04 AM

I don't know who cheese whiz is. Which means that it's not cheese.

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RegDwigнt

11:24 AM

Jun 1 '13 at 13:26, by RegDwighт

J.R.

@RegDwigнt Reg, I think I've made you an owner....

RegDwigнt

OIC

skullpatrol

:O J.R. Is still alive

Robusto

So is OJ.

Johan Larsson

I'm applying a new convention [Obsolete("wtf")] ` [Obsolete("WTF")]` ` [Obsolete("WTF!")]`

Robusto

11:36 AM

@RegDwigнt I stopped reading it when they changed their format and went to a .Net back end.

Johan Larsson

Different priorities for removing cleaning up.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto was that pretty much five years ago?

Robusto

Probably.

Six or seven, anyway.

Their new "responsive" design leaves me kinda cold.

But more than that, the writing just seems to be less and less interesting.

@tchrist: Emacs! Emacs! Emacs!

@JohanLarsson I used to be a "gold star" poster on The Fray, btw, handle of rob_said_that.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto how do you make that upside-down ш?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It's easy. You just turn the keyboard upside down for that character.

RegDwigнt

11:40 AM

Oh right. You mean Ctrl-X Ctrl-Ж.

See, I forgot everything.

Robusto

Zhoop.

RegDwigнt

Actually one thing I still remember: Emacs is not an editor, just a more complex implementation of Windows ME.

Robusto

Let's not say things we can't take back.

RegDwigнt

I remember playing Tetris in both.

Robusto

I can't remember all the Emacs key combos. I guess that means I have failed in life.

RegDwigнt

11:43 AM

@Robusto anyone who sees Emacs as an editor and not an OS is obviously a closet vi user.

Robusto

It is definitely that.

RegDwigнt

Me, I use pine for everything. Or was it elm?

Robusto

I find myself using nano these days. Brrrr!

RegDwigнt

What now, that an editor or an OS?

Robusto

Editor for text files on the Mac (Unix) command line.

> Vi was written for a time when computers were slow enough that you didn’t want anything causing unnecessary delays—like extra keystrokes or graphical niceties.

RegDwigнt

11:45 AM

I do things in Kate. Which has been quickly approaching Emacs levels of unnecessarity, though.

Robusto

Interesting that Vi and the QWERTY keyboard were born out of the same need for not-speed.

RegDwigнt

Yeah they left out the part "when computers were slow enough that you could look up the keystroke for 'move cursor one to the left', in an arm-thick book, between two keystrokes"

Matt Эллен

Emacs 4eva. screw you vi users

Robusto

Every few years I think, "Will this be the year I get Emacs back under my fingers?" And then I go work in some IDE (currently NetBeans) because of all the extra features.

@RegDwigнt Wort.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto nah the keyboard thing is an old wife's tale.

It's a good tale, mind you. Which is why it's so unkillable.

Robusto

11:49 AM

@RegDwigнt Which old wife?

RegDwigнt

The third one from one side.

Robusto

Hey, does geziert really mean "pretentious" in German?

RegDwigнt

Um.

I was going to say more like decorated, baroque, but that's more like verziert.

Geziert is more like shy, coy.

Robusto

geziert.

RegDwigнt

As a verb, that is. Gosh where you even have this shit from.

Robusto

11:52 AM

I'm guessing maybe this ain't the best dictionary in the world.

RegDwigнt

Dunno. Seems legit. But I would use verziert in many of those cases.

Or just gekünstelt, as they suggest.

Also, again, more like "overdecorated". Not "pretentious".

Or rather, only pretentious in the specific context of art.

A pretentious person is most certainly not geziert. Nor gekünstelt, for that matter.

A person would be prätentiös.

Robusto

This is why I'm not a translator.

Often, when you get right down to it, there is no precise translation for the word you want.

RegDwigнt

Nah, it's not that hard. Just say "Thursday morning" to everything. Works for Google Translate.

And they are worth billions. Billions, dude.

skullpatrol

@MattЭллен do you read Slate?

Robusto

But they peed on my rug. They peed on my fucking rug.

Matt Эллен

11:56 AM

@skullpatrol I read that article

in between editing in emacs

RegDwigнt

@Robusto no word at all is translatable, from any language into any language. Even the most basic word such as "mother" has all kinds of baggage attached to it.

Robusto

Some mothers more than others.

skullpatrol

@MattЭллен check out One huge lift for mankind.

RegDwigнt

That book of Gorky's, it's literally called "Mother". One word. "Мать". But good luck translating the title into English. You could fill entire dissertations with how and why it's not possible.

Robusto

Probably people already have.

If it's literature, there's a dissertation on it.

RegDwigнt

11:58 AM

I would not be surprised. And still I could add one of my own with fresh material.

The Mother (Gorky novel)

The Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. The work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of films. Mother (1926), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, screenplay by Nathan Zarkhi Mother (1956), directed by Mark Donskoy Mother (1990), directed by Gleb Panfilov The German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his collaborators based their 1932 play The Mother on this novel. == References... ==

Robusto

Legions of Ph.D. candidates gotta write about something.

RegDwigнt

That is one exhaustive wiki article.

Robusto

I imagine motherfucker would be kinda hard to translate into another language. It wouldn't make any sense.

Matt Эллен

Maximum Gorky

RegDwigнt

Legions of Ph.D. candidates gotta write some wiki.

@MattЭллен I appreciate the "fuck-all" photo of his they picked.

Robusto

12:00 PM

Coffee.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt lol

RegDwigнt

This "so whachagonnado about my fucken title" tilt of the head is priceless.

@Robusto true for any and all languages I can speak for.

Also and likewise, that's one of the aspects of "мать" that makes it untranslatable. Nobody ever really uses that word. Like, at all. Except in the sentence "fuck your mother with a cactus". Which, in turn, is every second Russian sentence ever produced.

Now go pack that into one word.

I mean, these bozos can't even pack "mother" into one word. It has to be "the mother". Who the heck is "the"? "The" never entered the building.

Matt Эллен

everysecondRussiansentenceeverproduced

RegDwigнt

Wow, your Rushen is good.

Matt Эллен

I practise in the mirror every morning

RegDwigнt

12:10 PM

Not the sun?

Oh right, I forgot. No sun in that part of the world.

Matt Эллен

it burns when I try to pick it up

RegDwigнt

That is because you're not in the EU. If you were, you'd have weather.

And seasons. And climate. OMG the things you'd have.

Matt Эллен

we have those things, but they just happen on a much shorter timeframe.

RegDwigнt

And on a much shoer string budget.

Matt Эллен

we had thick fog this morning, now it's nice sunshine.

probably rain this evening

RegDwigнt

12:14 PM

So seriously, last thing I heard you're actually considering leaving the Union de jure rather than just de facto. What with UKIP munching away at Cameron's breakfast and all.

Matt Эллен

UKIP won't gain enough control to affect anything.

RegDwigнt

The point was, Cameron has the control to affect everything, and UKIP affect Cameron.

Anyway, I must say I keep my fingers crossed for the secession, because once you're out you might finally let me in. The visa procedures cannot get more fascist, they have to get relaxed. Right? Right?

Matt Эллен

ha!

bbl, lunch

RegDwigнt

Good idea.

Same here.

Oh, what's this open tab doing here? Right, I was going to post it at @Rob:

Where once was a comma

In other news, Tesco now sells yellow dicks in boxes.

Cerberus

12:40 PM

Yikes.

Matt Эллен

12:52 PM

whoa

Robusto

1:41 PM

@RegDwigнt Especially in article-free Russian.

@RegDwigнt I dunno. There's probably still some slack in there on the fascist side of the ledger.

@RegDwigнt Them Asians is well hung, I guess.

RegDwigнt

Right. There must be a reason why every other guy's name is Hung.

Not sure what to think of Hung Solo, though. Sounds kinda sad.

Robusto

He's a jerk-off.

RegDwigнt

Millenium Fuckton.

Robusto

That's a lotta millennials.

RegDwigнt

No worries, they are far, far away.

Robusto

1:52 PM

That's the rumor. But they keep coming back.

RegDwigнt

No, that's Meat Loaf. Or Céline Dion.

Robusto

I think it would be funny if the new Star Wars was a critical and financial success. Show George Lucas what happens when he backs the fuck off.

RegDwigнt

Yes. But. Disney.

Robusto

Disney is a step up from Lucasfilm.

8

Q: Is there a word or phrase for someone who strongly disapproves of smoking, drinking and gambling?

It would be used in a sentence like this: "Let's not invite your uncle Peter. He is (a) ......, you know, and he would feel very uncomfortable among our friends. I'm not looking for lists. I'm not looking for phrases that show disapproval of only one of these habits.

btw, wtf?

RegDwigнt

Wasn't the whole point of Pixar to show them what happens when they back the fuck off?

Robusto

1:54 PM

Didn't we answer that somewhere in a galaxy far far ago?

@RegDwigнt Yes. But then Pixar started making movies like Cars and Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo. And Disney said, "Come to mama." Or fuck your mother with a cactus. Or something.

RegDwigнt

Also, if you've read anything on imdb or rotten tomatoes in the last ten years or so, every movie is a critical and financial success. Yes, even Gigli. Ask Ebert.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt He shuffled off this mortal coil a while back.

RegDwigнt

Not before singing a song or twenty of how JLo and Affleck are better than Shakespeare and Proust.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt JWho? She's, like, so 20th century. And Affleck is an insurance carrier.

RegDwigнt

You don't know her because she's still Jenny from the block.

Robusto

1:58 PM

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RegDwigнt

And Affleck will be fighting Boba Fett in Episode 8, in his capacity as the next Superman, after killing the previous Superman in his capacity as the next Batman and absorbing his powers.

Robusto

I like that they call that "Epic AFLAC breakdancing commercial" . . . as if it could ever compete with the Iliad.

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That has Jenny and the killers. So it fits your theory.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto holy moly, Robin, it's the 21st century and they still couldn't make that goose look more fake.

Robusto

inorite

RegDwigнt

I look more real when breakdancing.

Robusto

2:01 PM

I just look broken.

RegDwigнt

You look like the famous kung-fu master Bro Ken?

Robusto

That's, uh, correct, bro.

RegDwigнt

Rectomundo.

Robusto

But that rect really tied the room together.

RegDwigнt

He's a good man. And thorough.

Robusto

2:04 PM

Mar 22 '12 at 23:13, by Robusto

You mean coitus?

RegDwigнt

Don't be infatuous, Jeffrey.

Jasper Loy

You mean Robert, lol.

RegDwigнt

No, I mean fatuous.

Robusto

Another county heard from.

RegDwigнt

You had one job, Jas. And failed.

Jasper Loy

2:08 PM

Using Assimil German With Ease, supposedly I can be quite fluent in 6 months. There are 100 lessons. 1 lesson per day, 1 hour per day is all it takes.

RegDwigнt

And then you go to Bavaria and don't understand a word.

Jasper Loy

LOL. I am thinking maybe I can try to go to Germany this life and not just the next one.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Not to mention Austria.

Jasper Loy

I just need to find a job there, or something like that.

Robusto

Pro tip: use "lol" a lot in your application. It can't fail.

Jasper Loy

2:10 PM

LOL is a difficult German word.

Robusto

Lulz is German for LOL.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Austria is actually worse, because they speak like one syllable per minute like you're really retarded and need help following, and you still don't understand a single anything.

At least in Bavaria you can pretend it was too fast for you because they don't care, which they don't.

Robusto

Hence "not to mention" . . .

Jasper Loy

Sometimes I am very bothered by the problems in my country, because I keep thinking how they cause people suffering. I need some way to find some peace of mind.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I never understand apophasen.

Your thick Aussie accent ain't helping.

Robusto

2:12 PM

Aussie or Ossi?

Jasper Loy

Then I start to think about the problems in other countries, and I get bothered again.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto seven or eleven?

Last I checked it was Austria, and not Ostricha.

Jasper Loy

Then I start to think about the possible problems in my future life, and I get bothered again. It never ends.

RegDwigнt

Except in French, of course.

Robusto

RegDwigнt

2:13 PM

In French, everyone is a Strauß.

Robusto

Or both!

RegDwigнt

Gehirn = geblasen!

Jasper Loy

@Robusto We have them here too.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt But it sounds more like a bouquet in French.

@RegDwigнt Der hat aber Stirn!

RegDwigнt

Sounding like a bouquet is all they have. Smelling like a bouquet is off the table.

@Robusto speaking of foreheads! So they started airing the next Community season here. And I must say I've been suitably impressed so far.

Looks like they really turned the ship around. Fingers crossed.

Robusto

2:15 PM

Seriously? The final season only now getting to Germany?

RegDwigнt

Well. I could've downloaded it and everything, of course.

But yeah, it's no South Park. The current season is airing now, in English.

Robusto

BTW, spoiler alert: it's the final season.

RegDwigнt

And the last season of BB aired just two days later.

Jasper Loy

How was Thanksgiving in America? I have nothing much to be thankful for.

Robusto

South Park is taking over as my favorite comedy show. It's always there when you need it.

RegDwigнt

2:16 PM

@Robusto if it keeps being as good as it is, I won't even complain.

They seem to have really rediscovered what originally made the show so good.

Robusto

@JasperLoy It hasn't even got into full swing yet. So we'll have to wait and see.

RegDwigнt

Coupled with fresh ideas, that's a great combo.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Yeah: Dan Harmon.

"Oops, we fired the guy who created the show."

RegDwigнt

Yeah I know you told me he was coming back, but I mean. Anyone can come back and still screw up. You don't even have to be Lucas or Jackson for that.

Robusto

Yeah, but he was why the show was funny in the first place.

RegDwigнt

2:18 PM

So I am really quite pleased he still knows his trade.

Robusto

But I gotta give him extra props for coming back after others ratfucked his show into an old sock.

I thought it was terminal at that point.

RegDwigнt

Word.

Also, Jonathan Banks actually works.

Jasper Loy

JSBangs?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Oh oh oh . . . speaking of that, I have something to report.

Someone told me Friday Night Lights was a good show. So I watched some of it, and it really isn't, but one thing leaped off the screen right at me. There's this character played by the same actor as played Todd on BB.

RegDwigнt

The Meth Damon Todd?

Robusto

2:22 PM

Yep.

RegDwigнt

Okay, seriously, what is his name.

Jesse Plemons

Oh right.

I know that every time I read it in the titles. I forget it every time otherwise.

Robusto

Same.

I forget because his name is Jesse, and it conflicts with Aaron.

RegDwigнt

So anyways. I thought FNL is like from the 80s or something. I didn't know it was a current show.

Robusto

Almost the same vintage as BB.

RegDwigнt

It doesn't help that it sounds just like Saturday Night Live.

Robusto

2:24 PM

It doesn't help that it's basically the director's cut from Varsity Blues.

RegDwigнt

looks up

Who the f are these people.

Okay that one guy is like from Melrose Place or something. But the rest?

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt They are blue like me.

RegDwigнt

They are too much baseball like so not me.

Robusto

#69 couldn't run around the bases.

RegDwigнt

To me this image is actually a very accurate representation of the sentence "I'd rather watch Melrose Place".

Robusto

2:27 PM

Haven't we already examined the minutest facets of football life, a process which takes about 15 seconds, to death by now?

There are no minute facets! There is no intricacy!

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt bottom right is Dawson from Dawson's creek

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Any given Sunday.

Robusto

Right. After Oliver got hold of it there was nothing left to say.

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен yeah that's what I'm saying. I'd rather watch Melrose Place than Dawson's Creek, too!

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt centre is the guy who was the cop in Fast and Furious but is now dead

RegDwigнt

2:28 PM

Oh the Walker guy.

Jasper Loy

Hello @matt! LOL.

Robusto

And top is Joe Buck from Midnight Cowboy!

RegDwigнt

And not the Texas Ranger Walker guy.

@Robusto okay I'm not looking up that.

The lookup quota for today has been reached.

Jasper Loy

I seldom watch TV these days.

Robusto

Jon Voigt.

Matt Эллен

2:29 PM

@JasperLoy hi!

RegDwigнt

@Robusto WUT

Robusto

Yep. Academy Award winner Jon Voigt. In the flesh.

RegDwigнt

OMG what the actual f. That is Jon Voigt.

Jasper Loy

@MattЭллен I am very tired of life. But I'll stay alive for now.

Matt Эллен

:D

Robusto

2:30 PM

Father of Angelina Jolie.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy well done

RegDwigнt

He was so good. And in all the right movies. But then it turned out he's politically-challenged just like Eastwood.

Robusto

@JasperLoy That is literally the most anyone can do. So hang in there, your situation is not unique.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yes yes I know I know don't bring up Heat.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Remember him in Heat with Robert DeNiro?

RegDwigнt

2:31 PM

I did say I'm not looking up more new stuff today.

Jasper Loy

Jim Carrey movies are all not good, lol.

RegDwigнt

I'll look up DieNiere tomorrow.

Robusto

> Tomorrow is another day! —Scarlett O'Hara

RegDwigнt

Another day never dies.

Unlike Scarlett O'Hara.

Andrew Leach

And PD James.

Robusto

2:32 PM

Ugh. PD James.

RegDwigнt

Who is PD and what happened to his h.

Robusto

The thinking woman's mystery novelist.

RegDwigнt

Oh. That explains the missing h.

Andrew Leach

Phyllis Dorothy.

Robusto

Something's missing.

I love my new infixed italics! Thank you SE!

RegDwigнt

2:34 PM

@Robusto Your handtyping looks like that of an eight-year old. You must practice more.

Robusto

They didn't just fix the markdown. They infixed it.

RegDwigнt

They engaged Chris Martin?

Robusto

If you engage him so much why don't you marry him?

RegDwigнt

That reminds me. I need to getahold've the sheet music for Saint-Saens's Aquarium.

Robusto

Wouldn't gravel make a better aquarium bed?

RegDwigнt

2:36 PM

It was only last week that I learned that that thing I've been playing by ear forever was his Aquarium, and not some scary-movie music from the eighties.

And guess where I learned it. By driving around in Burnout: Paradise.

Thank you, EA.

Robusto

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Yes. And he borrows from that for his Organ Concerto. And every other thing he did.

RegDwigнt

I don't have le son, so will have to trust YouTube on that one.

So anyhoos. I started looking around yesterday and I found everything but piano sheets.

Robusto

As if you could have any carnival without animals. Geez.

RegDwigнt

Vegetarnival.

Robusto

Carnivales asadas.

Jasper Loy

2:39 PM

There is a restaurant here called Carnivore.

RegDwigнt

That's spelled adidas, dude.

Or Assad.

I am actually not sure what you're saying.

Jasper Loy

But there is none called Herbivore.

Robusto

Carne asada

In Mexican cuisine, carne asada (literally 'grilled meat' (specifically beef), though any type of dry heat cooking may be used) is made from thin marinated beef steak, usually skirt steak, flank steak or flap steak. It is usually cooked with a certain amount of searing to impart a charred flavor. Carne asada can be served as a main dish or as an ingredient in other dishes (see below). Carne asada is often served with fresh guacamole, grilled onions, black beans or frijoles charros, rice, tortillas and fresh salsa. Carne asada can also be topped with chismol or pico de gallo. The dish is commonly...

RegDwigнt

Michael Herbig

Michael Herbig (April 29, 1968 in Munich) is a German film director, actor and author. His nickname Bully became integral part of his stage name as is Michael Bully Herbig as a comedian. == Life and work == His career began in 1992 with regular appearances on radio (more than 800 times), leading onward to appearances on various TV shows. He gained wider fame with his writing/acting/directing role on the comedy show "Bullyparade". The show featured him as the host, his good friend Rick Kavanian, Christian Tramitz and Diana Herold as a dancer and occasional actress in the skits. The show featured...

terdon

Sometimes I wonder what conversations between Reg and Robusto would look like if they were drunk. Then I realize they probably are and everything makes more sense.

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RegDwigнt

2:40 PM

Actually and in fact of point, whenever I am drunk I tell everyone I am.

Robusto

@terdon The rest of the world is three drinks behind. Catch up!

Jasper Loy

@terdon I am always drunk with insanity.

RegDwigнt

Also I giggle like a little girl while posting. And it shows. Just search the transcript.

terdon

:)

RegDwigнt

That's the only thing that shows, though. I don't meka typos, for example.

Robusto

2:41 PM

If I'm drunk enough I pee like a little girl. Because standing gets difficult.

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt Not funny, lol.

RegDwigнt

@JasperLoy glad to meet you, and I'm Reg.

Also, "not funny" and "lol" are redundant. Pick one.

Robusto

Anyway, @terdon, @reg and I are in an association together. A free association. To join, all you have to do is say the first thing that comes into your head. Really! Just give it a try sometime.

terdon

@RegDwigнt They can't be redundant! They're contradictory.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto We interrupt this chat for a two-hour sequence of posts saying "PENIS".

Robusto

2:44 PM

Then they're contradundant.

terdon

@Robusto Nevah! I put thought into my utterances. Always. And there's a scary thought.

Robusto

@terdon A first thought is still a thought.

Jasper Loy

@RegDwigнt Today I saw a tourist eating a bull penis one table away from me.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto A fist though is still a though.

Robusto

You have some broken keys on your keyboard.

RegDwigнt

2:45 PM

@JasperLoy shorter. Rid us of the deco. Just cut to the penis.

@Robusto oh the good times when my M was actually broken. Was it the M? I think it was the M.

terdon

@RegDwigнt Presumably, the tourist already did.

RegDwigнt

The Johnny Depp tourist certainly did.

Worst movie ever. And I've only just watched the Piano.

Though had they put a piano in the Canale, it'd've been a tie.

terdon

If the tourist referred to his dinner as a bull's prick, would that make him a tourette's?

RegDwigнt

Tourette or not Tourette, that's the question.

Jasper Loy

I don't eat things like pig's liver or pig's intestine, but they are quite popular here. I don't even dare to eat oysters. I tried an oyster once and I spit it out.

terdon

2:47 PM

Alas, poor fucking asshole Yorick, I knew him well!

RegDwigнt

Blackadder, blackadder.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Don't forget The Lone Ranger.

@terdon You didn't know him well. You knew him, Horatio.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Oh I've not seen that one just yet.

terdon

@RegDwigнt When? There was a skull scene in the first series but I don't get the reference.

@Robusto Ah, yes, so I did.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Spare yourself the price and the time.

RegDwigнt

2:49 PM

@terdon you want a TVTropes link? You want a TVTropes link? Cuz I'll give you a TVTropes link, that's what I'll do.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlasPoorYorick

@Robusto the price would be fixing up my external drive with the PC cuz that's where it's been sitting at for years.

But yeah. I've not heard good things. Ignoring the 8.8/10 on imdb or whatever it's now.

Oh haha 6.5. That's swell.

Quite some tempo to that descent.

terdon

@RegDwigнt Ah! Yes, I remember now.

RegDwigнt

Seriously though, who the hell names their child Armie Hammer? Especially over Armie Knife?

terdon

@RegDwigнt Well, my parents named my sister Aliki Chapple. Read it out loud.

RegDwigнt

Instructions unclear. Read out in Byzanthine Greek.

Robusto

@terdon BTW, the key to understanding @RegDwigнt is that the inside of his mind looks a lot like an Escher drawing.

RegDwigнt

2:54 PM

No, that's what my outside looks like.

Jasper Loy

The inside of my mind is shit.

RegDwigнt

The inside is more like Dali's mannequin rotting in a taxi.

Robusto

@JasperLoy Then get your head out of your ass.

Jasper Loy

That is actually quite funny for another interpretation of head.

RegDwigнt

Jan 14 '13 at 13:51, by RegDwighт

Jasper now has officially misunderstood everything. Congratulations, Jasper!

Not the actual quote I've been searching for, but it wurks. The actual quote follows.

Jun 24 at 12:43, by RegDwigнt

Up until now Jasper was the only person here who could say things like "it's been a shitty day" or "I am full of shit" and not have anyone misunderstand the intended meaning as figurative.

terdon

2:58 PM

@Robusto You are assuming he is the one who needs a manual.

Jasper Loy

I think this room is much more liberal than the math room. If we were in the math room, there would have been several flags already the past ten minutes.

RegDwigнt

Well I clearly don't need a pedal.

A pedestal would be nice tho.

Robusto

@terdon The organ is such a difficult instrument it requires more than one manual.

terdon

@RegDwigнt Get off your ass.

RegDwigнt

@JasperLoy we are liberal in what we emit and conservative in what we accept.

terdon

2:59 PM

I assume you don't actually have a high horse.