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10:00 PM
But I agree with Matt that you might want to hedge it a little more.
 
What did you do, shower?
 
You don't want to say, "you must explain to me what you think!".
 
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@tchrist Nah, just drank lots of water, that's all.
 
maybe the prof is tired of hearing people be all trying to use language to sound academic. maybe curious will put him off. there's not telling, really
 
42 gallons is a lot. Just 1 gallon is a lot.
 
10:02 PM
@MattЭллен Haha.
 
I saw a youtube vid of someone who could chug 2 litres of water. medically impossible, but he survives each time.
 
user19161
It's possible to die from drinking too much water.
 
Duh.
And somewhat wrong.
Curious, that.
 
I once drank a gallon and a half of water in a day.
 
10:04 PM
> This really sounds like a virus-like "rogue" socio-cultural phenomenon that reproduces at the expense of the people who transmitted it.
 
Alcohol sounds tasty right now.\
 
Transmitted sounds wrong.
Transmit, or possibly have transmitted.
 
Where are you pulling these out of?
 
And the people => those.
 
dunno. seems alright to me. I'm not sure though.
 
10:05 PM
I am correcting a friend's e-mail.
 
Sounds ok to me.
 
my brain has been thingied
 
Although I would prefer some other tense to transmitted.
 
depressed by the booze
 
Like what?
 
10:06 PM
I don’t mind so much the choice of the/those.
Like what you said.
 
@MattЭллен Depressed by booze?
 
By definition.
 
yeah. alcohol is a depressant.
 
user19161
@KitFox I think I have not had alcohol for 9000 years.
 
so I've been slowed down. made into a dullard if you like
 
10:06 PM
@tchrist I don't mind that bit either, not much. I just instinctively want to remove "people" where it is unnecessary.
 
@KitFox what's yer poison?
 
@MattЭллен Hmm how does it feel?
 
@Cerberus Once you put in those, sure.
Not so good with the. :)
 
I actually have a measure of Balvenie left
 
That's only way.
 
10:07 PM
@Cerberus nice
 
@MattЭллен What measure, a wee dram?
 
Yay!
Good.
How about those transmitting it?
 
@tchrist just enough that I didn't just pour it in last time I had some. I don't know how much a dram is, but a finger, I'd say
 
Meh, doesn't really matter.
 
A dram is 1 part in 1024 of a gallon.
Making a gallon a kilodram, of cours.e
 
user19161
10:08 PM
@tchrist Wow you actually remember such things?
 
@MattЭллен I have almost a fifth.
 
> I wonder whether the concept of "conspiracy" has evolved in New Guinea at all.
 
There are 16 drams per fluid ounce.
 
But Captain and coke is my go-to drink.
 
@JasperLoy Duh.
 
user19161
10:09 PM
I guess I use only SI units!
 
G&T in the summer time.
 
@KitFox is Captain rum?
 
I think the concept never developed, that it was never there in the first place, so then I would say developed, not evolved, agreed?
 
@MattЭллен Captain Morgan's spiced rum, to be precise.
 
@JasperLoy Yes, Jathper, we know you’re a bit boring that way.
 
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10:09 PM
@KitFox I prefer pepsi to coca cola.
 
I've spent many nights with the Captain.
 
@Cerberus Eek, yes!
 
@KitFox ahhhh. I hear good things. not a rum person myself
 
@tchrist OK thanks!
 
Unless there were some sort of progression being discussed.
 
10:10 PM
Yeah.
 
@MattЭллен It's great in anything sweet. And dangerous.
 
@tchrist I can't be sure, but I don't think that is the case.
 
@KitFox there's some rum with a woman's name in it? friends like that too
 
I should go paint tonight after my husband gets home, but I think I am going to put my jammies on right now.
 
10:11 PM
Sailor Jerry
 
@tchrist I had that album.
 
I should buy myself some jammies
 
@MattЭллен Hmm. Doesn't sound familiar.
 
get rid of all my old t-shirts
 
Hahaha.
You just need someone to steal them from you.
Then you'll have to get jammies.
 
10:12 PM
 
Never heard of it.
 
@KitFox ha ha :D yeah
 
So you're drinking alone tonight?
 
@KitFox ah well, s'not important
 
Tired of living in your one horse town
you'd like to find a little hole in the ground
For awhile

So you go to the village in your tie dyed jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It's like some pornographic magazine
And you smile
 
10:13 PM
@KitFox I'm drinking with y'all!
 
I know when I drink alone, I prefer to not be by myself.
 
Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push, and you'll be smilin'

Your sister's gone out, she's on a date
You just sit at home and masturbate
Your phone is gonna ring soon, but you just can't wait
For that call
 
It's unfortunately too early for me to join you. I'm there in spirit.
wheezes
 
wheezing?!
you're ill?
 
I've got a chest cold.
 
10:14 PM
So you play your albums, and you smoke your pot
and you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh but still you're aching for the things you haven't got
What went wrong?

And if you can't understand why your world is so dead,
why you've got to keep in style and feed your head
Well you're 21 and still your mother makes your bed,
And that's too long
 
I must have missed that. sorry
 
I think I gave it to Gramma D.
Which could be the thing that kills her.
 
oh dear
 
No, no, that would be good.
 
10:15 PM
She wants to be dead.
She just can't seem to get there.
 
I recall you said that before
 
Yep.
 
some time ago, she was in l'hopital
 
Yeah. She's been at death's door seven or eight times in the last couple of years, and keeps making miraculous recoveries.
Without medical intervention.
 
bodies, eh? they make little sense
 
10:16 PM
brb getting jammies on
That's better.
I wish I had some rum to go with this coke.
All I have is the good scotch and some hard cider.
And an ale.
If I could just have a night from my late twenties to sub for tonight...
 
well, that would make one weird night from your twenties, where you temporarily had two kids, a husband and an ailing grandma in law to look after
 
Hahaha.
 
reminds me of an ep of Being Erica.
 
ground hog?
 
10:22 PM
Oh, there's my cue. Time to put the little one to bed.
 
> Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an "indictment" against the famed groundhog, who predicted an early spring when he didn't see his shadow after emerging from his lair in western Pennsylvania on Feb. 2.
 
lol
what a bastard. he was bribed by Jack Frost, I hear
 
@MattЭллен Do you have woodchucks, too, or other kinds of marmots?
 
not that Iknow of
 
Oh.
Lemme check, that seems odd.
 
10:23 PM
we have squirrels, obv.
 
He is a giant ground squirrel, of course.
Kinda.
> Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an "indictment" against the famed groundhog, who predicted an early spring when he didn't see his shadow after emerging from his lair in western Pennsylvania on Feb. 2.
Oops.
> Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, of which there are 15 species. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas, such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Eurasian steppes, Carpathians, Tatras, and Pyrenees in Europe and northwestern Asia; the Rocky Mountains, Black Hills, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada in North America; and the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan and Ladakh in India.
It looks like you don’t have them. Only one species is called a ground hog or woodchuck.
I knew Europe did have them, so it surprised me that England, or even Britain, did not.
Sometimes marmots are called whistle pigs.
 
maybe they're out competed by badgers?
 
Well . . . badgers are mustelids not rodents, but they do both burrow.
But we have badgers, too. They are super shy.
 
and I bet they eat the same things
 
Unlike groundhogs/marmots.
 
10:27 PM
the only badgers I've seen in the last year have been roadkill :(
 
Badgers are vegetarian? With those teeth?
 
That is so sad.
 
I thought ground hogs ate bugs
I was imagining, not researching
 
They’re skwirls.
 
10:28 PM
aye. I should have thought harder
 
> Mostly herbivorous, groundhogs primarily eat wild grasses and other vegetation, including berries and agricultural crops, when available.[3] Groundhogs also eat grubs, grasshoppers, insects, snails and other small animals, but are not as omnivorous as many other Sciuridae.
Where Sciuridae means skwirls.
So yeah, bugs. Curious.
 
they takes what they can gets
 
Marmots are mountain dwellers. Alps, Pyrenees, Rockies, Apennines, Himalayas.
> As its name suggests, the alpine marmot ranges throughout the European Alps, ranging through Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. They have also been introduced elsewhere with sub-populations in the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Jura, Vosges, Black Forest, Apennine Mountains, High Tatras, and Romanian Carpathians.
Ok, now I want to know who is in your groundhog slot.
> The diet of the Eurasian badger consists largely of earthworms, insects, and grubs. They also eat small mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds, as well as roots and fruit.[17][18] In southern Spain, badgers mostly feed on rabbits.
Doesn’t seem to quite match.
 
no
maybe grey squirrels? they're pretty, um, virulent
 
Plus nobody is afraid of woodchucks, but a badger is not to be messed with by your canine friends.
 
10:33 PM
that's not the word I want.
 
Nope.
> American badgers are fossorial carnivores. Unlike many carnivores that stalk their prey in open country, badgers catch most of their food by digging. They can tunnel after ground-dwelling rodents with remarkable speed.
Ooh! Fossorial!
 
they are good at beating out their red cousins, so maybe they fill our marmot slot too
 
I forget the red ones.
Yours and ours are in not only different genera, but even different subfamilies. Huh.
 
What’s a red one?
Wait.
Squirrels. Yes, we have the same problem.
 
10:35 PM
yes, sorry, I meant Squirrels
 
Although here we have these superdupercutey Ponderosa-loving charcoal-grey tassel-eared squirrels which are more like a red squirrel in size and shape than a grey squirrel. Grey squirrels, well and fox squirrels but I dunno the diff, are urban not mountain-dwelling.
Your badgers are really weird looking.
The badger is the Wisconsin state mascot.
 
I'd probably say the same about yours!
 
damn. settlers don't know how to name things.
giant zebra mole
 
10:40 PM
well, I suppose they do look a lot a like
 
Do those two look different from your critter to you? They are both ours.
 
no, they look the same
but the side view looks a lot similar to the Eurasian one
 
Yours has a doggie snout.
 
that's the badger :D
aye
 
Or an anteater, or something.
Yours are bit bigger. Ours can run 20 pounds, yours up like 25.
> American badger use of home range varies with season and sex.
So when they’re having sex, they leave the home range unfired and get Chinese takeaway instead.
 
10:43 PM
less time cooking. it makes sense
 
Huh, they have multiple "dens".
Averaging like 10 per. Wonder if that’s with different wifeys? :)
 
:D
polyamorous
 
> American badgers enlarge hunting burrows for concealment, protection from weather, and natal dens; burrows are up to 30 feet (10 m) long and 10 feet (3 m) deep. Large mounds of soil are built up at burrow entrances.[13] During the summer, they usually use a new den each day; holes are usually excavated at least a few days before being used as a den.
Hunting burrows?
I’d be worried about getting kicked.
The American badger is a fossorial carnivore. It preys predominantly on pocket gophers (Geomyidae), ground squirrels (Spermophilus), moles (Talpidae), marmots (Marmota), prairie dogs (Cynomys), pika (Ochotona), woodrats (Neotoma), kangaroo rats (Dipodomys), deer mice (Peromyscus), and voles (Microtus), often digging to pursue prey into their dens, and sometimes plugging tunnel entrances with objects.[7] They also prey on ground-nesting birds, such as the bank swallow or sand martin (Riparia riparia) and burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), and lizards, amphibians, carrion, fish, skunks (Meph
So it EATS marmots!
My word.
Not at all the same niche.
 
What size herbivores do you have in the 5–10 pound range?
Although apparently a groundhog fed large amounts of alfalfa can be up to 30 pounds. Wow.
 
10:49 PM
hmmm
 
Hedgehogs are little insectivores?
I don't know.
 
rabbits, maybe, but that's stretching it
@tchrist yes, they eat bugs, etc.
wild rabbits tend to be quite small
 
Rabbits yes; hares can be bigger.
 
they're the biggest I can think of right now
 
Not that anybody makes a difference in practice.
 
10:50 PM
deer
 
Jackrabbits are hares, and much bigger than cottontails.
Oh right.
And you have no possums or armadillos.
Deer are pestilential, I tell you. You call rabbits a garden problem? Hah!
 
aye
although our deer are bigger than 5 to 10 pounds
 
This is a list mammals of Great Britain. The Great Britain mammal fauna is somewhat impoverished compared to that of continental Europe due to the short period of time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Great Britain and the rest of Europe. Only those land species which crossed before the creation of the English Channel and those introduced by humans exist in Great Britain. Great Britain holds a small (Scottish) population of European Wildcats, important populations of Grey Seals, and rare bat species. (usually synonymous with "indigenous") species a...
 
In my experience it is a.) a waste of good olive oil, because you won't taste much of it that way, and b.) depending on the kind of oil and the temperature, a slightly burned taste. However, in the end the bitter taste won't matter much in most dishes—although it doesn't add anything either. I believe the proper Mediterranean way is to sprinkle good olive oil on your food right before serving. That's how I and many others do it. My impression is that frying in olive oil is mostly done by people who like the idea of it rather than the way their actual food tastes. — Cerberus 16 mins ago
 
Oh, I see.
@Cerberus Well . . . that depends.
You have beaver.
 
10:53 PM
so I saw.
and humans!
 
Hence "depending".
 
Yeah, you’re missing a lot of stuff.
 
wild humans. the very thought! I've only met domesticated ones
 
Felines, canines, ursines.
But you seem to have an almost-normal complement of mustelids.
Only the wolvering wolverines are missing.
No ferrets, but weasels which might as well be the same thing (and might even be). Plus you call your ermines stoats. Hm.
 
I guess there aren't enough of them to be seen as pests. Plus they're cute
 
10:56 PM
Yeah, wolverines aren’t generally considered cute.
They’ll kill moose if they get the chance.
 
no
no ferrets? how odd. Ferrets are well known about. must have been a lot of pets at one time or something.
 
Oh, I see.
You are calling the short-tailed weasel a stoat/ermine.
We call the same species a short-tailed weasel. They are super cute.
I had a family of them running all around me and even over my feet while I was paused upon a boulder snacking once.
Snacking was meant to apply to me, not the weasels, but they didn’t know that.
 
We call them ermine when they are all white during the winter. But they are the same critter.
I’ve had marmots pillage the oreos left in a bag once, too.
Oh, I know what else you are missing: skunks and raccoons.
Although come to think of it, I suspect you wouldn’t miss them if you knew them better. :)
 
"missing"
I'm not sure i miss them
jinx :D
 
11:01 PM
Oh but you have moose!
I didn’t realize.
I think your Cervus elaphus are like our elk.
 
:O
nor did I
 
I can’t tell if your sheep and goats are native, or just long-time feral.
 
@tchrist oh! Yeah, they're famous in the Highlands
This musician is clearly a keeper!
 
Sounds like somebody under a court order not to come near kids.
Probably just as well.
 
11:05 PM
Where did you find that, some this-can't-be-real-it's-so-dumb site for newspapers adverts?
 
oh, it was on FaceBook
i'm not sure where the poster found it
she's a drummer I follow (Meytal Cohen)
 
Why would drummers have a note about musicians?
 
haw haw haw
 
Here, look at mine:
The List of mammals of Colorado lists every wild mammal species seen in the U.S. state of Colorado, based on the list published by the Colorado Division of Wildlife . It does not include species found only in captivity. Species in this list are grouped by order and then by family within each order. The common name for each species is followed by its binomial name. The following codes are used to denote certain categories of species: *EN - Species is listed as endangered by the IUCN. *NT - Species is listed as near threatened by the IUCN. *EX - Species has been extirpated from Colorado, ...
 
@MattЭллен Haha wtf.
Especially the chord stuff.
Who would ever hire a character like that?
 
11:09 PM
yeah :D clearly a talented bassist!
@tchrist Pikas! I'd not heard of them until just now.
 
Very talented, and uniquely flexible.
 
You have Pikas too!
 
now Pikachu makes so much more sense
 
By that I mean flexible in a heretofore unknown way.
 
@Cerberus He should work on his bowing technique.
 
11:11 PM
As in curtsying, or using his bow?
 
The weird thing is that Magpies are pica, but do not look like a mickey-moused bunny the way pikas do.
@Cerberus Using his bow.
> Orchestral parts rarely demand the double bass exceed a two-octave range (an exception to this rule is Orff's Carmina Burana, which calls for three octaves and a perfect fourth). However, there is no hard limit to the upper range a virtuoso solo player can achieve using natural and artificial harmonics.
> The double bass is generally tuned in fourths, in contrast to other members of the orchestral string family, which are tuned in fifths. The standard tuning (low to high) is E-A-D-G, starting from E below second low C (concert pitch). This is the same as the standard tuning of a bass guitar and is one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of standard guitar tuning.
Isn’t that interesting? Same tuning as a bass guitar.
Ah, viol-family stuff in in 4ths, violin-family stuff is in 5ths.
 
welp. This meat bag needs to be laid horizontal for a few hours. Good night.
 
Bai.
 

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