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8:12 PM
@RegDwighт Your fellow countrymen are strange. Or some of them.
 
@Cerberus I was on not-German soil?
There is such a thing as not-German soil?
 
Haha.
My apologies.
 
@Cerberus how fitting.
 
On occupied Großdeutschen Boden, then.
 
Lucky bastards.
 
8:13 PM
The isolates?
Not quite.
More like poor sods.
By the way, why do you say Boden while we say bodem?
English bottom...
 
@Cerberus Why? What do you want? There are millions of people who have not heard of the [insert country and year here] war, and billions who don't care or have to.
 
No, that (small) part is a blessing. But living without salt and in a permanent famine for 40 years and dying of renal failure is not.
 
Ah. I never read past the headline.
Well, that sucks.
 
Yeah.
Of course they refused to leave the hut.
 
Then again, why? What do we want? There are tens of billions of people who have lived without salt.
 
8:16 PM
And one daughter may still be living there.
Well, no salt sucks.
 
No salt is healthy and makes you live on to have 7 billion offspring and no end in sight.
 
I wonder why we like it so much.
 
Salt, on the other hand, is killing off said 7 billion offspring by the thousands as we speak.
 
I'm not so sure that is true: salt in moderate quantities is probably healthy.
Why else do we crave it?
 
Everything is healthy in moderate quantities, because that's the definition of moderate. It's circular logic.
 
8:18 PM
Yes.
So I'm right.
 
We crave everything because for 30000 years we had nothing.
 
We have had salt for a very long time.
 
And only for some 30 we have everything, including iPods.
 
We don't have Ipods.
We doesn't wants them.
 
@Cerberus yeah and who could afford it, prey tell?
That's like saying we have safran or gold.
 
8:19 PM
It's not so hard to get salt when you live near the sea.
 
Sure, some people have safran. Or gold.
@Cerberus when you live near the sea you will hate salt.
 
Nah.
 
I hate salt with a passion every time I live near the sea.
 
Which is never?
 
It's the salt the fish have fucked in. It's filthy.
 
8:20 PM
I liked salt when I lived near the sea
good for my breathing
 
I pity you. How vexing it must be to live in the air that birds have fucked in!
I have always lived near the sea and I like salt.
 
and this is the air everyone's grandparent's have fucked
 
I practically live in the sea.
@MattЭллен That, too.
And ugly people!
gasp
 
oh gods. not ugly people.
 
Don't make me post pictures.
 
8:22 PM
of ugly people breathing our air?
 
@Cerberus no bird has ever fucked in my house.
 
Yes.
OUR air, dammit.
@RegDwighт Do you live in an air-tight container?
 
@Cerberus "under" is not "near". You don't count. You don't have a choice.
 
That would explain certain things...
@RegDwighт Why not? I could call the waves and have them cast me ashore on real land.
 
Of course, of course.
 
8:24 PM
Although, as a creature of the sea, I don't mind this place.
 
@KitFox you have a typo.
2 hours ago, by KitFox
There will be no lost of rep due to Jasper leaving.
 
gasp
 
Lost is wrong. Should be lots.
 
faints
 
Fixt
 
8:25 PM
Next time, just cover it with censor unicode or something.
 
@KitFox my fix was better.
Also, subtler.
 
Subtlety is not my strong suit.
 
So say, did that stupid database issue resolve itself?
 
> They want to ██████ the Internet
 
@RegDwighт You mean the one where I deleted the production data?
 
8:26 PM
@Cerberus > ████ want to ██████ the Internet.
 
████ you.
 
@KitFox right I forgot, you have so many issues to pick from. MUWAHAHAHA.
 
████ want to ██████ the ████.
 
So yeah, let's start with the latest one.
 
@RegDwighт Evil beaver.
 
8:27 PM
Oh, you ████.
 
Right! I'm a beaver.
I forgot.
I changed my gravatar again. That explains so many things.
Every time I change my gravatar shits hit fans.
 
@RegDwighт That's a nice synonym of what I meant to say.
 
All my nyms are 100% genuine. No syn anywhere.
 
Syn is genuine.
 
No, syn is thesy.
 
8:29 PM
ack!
 
And then there are the seven syns that are outright deadly.
 
sleeping, eating, drinking, breathing in on odd minutes, tripping over untied laces, juggling, leaving your bed unmade
 
I kind of don't want to change my gravatar back to an owl, though. That's like admitting defeat and starting from scratch again.
 
then don't
 
But not admitting defeat means fighting on, and I have too little time and too much LEGO.
 
8:33 PM
what are you fighting?
 
I like your beaver.
giggles
Is tracking authentication always this much of a pain?
 
I don't know. I'm inauthentic.
 
@KitFox Is that what your boss asked you after fixing the database?
(You still haven't told me if he has.)
 
He restored it to 4pm, so we lost 1:08 worth of data.
 
Peanuts.
 
8:35 PM
Affecting maybe nine users, probably fewer. Five.
So not quite the huge deal it might have been.
 
That's not even peanuts. That's not even nuts. That's not even pee.
 
I missed the peak by two hours.
 
Next time!
 
Never lose hope.
 
But I'm supposed to figure out how to log who is on and for how long. I don't know that I can actually do that.
 
8:36 PM
Never hose lope.
 
Logging in is not too hard. It's the other end that's confusing.
 
And don't tell me you missed the children again when you drove past that school.
 
@KitFox case in point: Stack Exchange.
 
over taking the bus on the pavement
@KitFox Yes, growing trees takes a lot of cultivation
 
I guess I could update the end time every time they postback. I wonder what kind of overhead that's going to add.
 
8:37 PM
ahahahaha
 
Oh dear.
 
@KitFox simple: never log anyone out. Or log everyone out after X minutes of inactivity.
If they log in again, them's active.
 
If I don't monitor every postback, how do I know how long them's been inactive?
 
I like my rushdies salmonic.
 
rushdie & lox
 
8:39 PM
 
pretends she's never seen one of those
 
solomnic
soloemn not knot
 
Soloma is Russian for "straw".
 
the wiz dum guy
otherwise
 
8:42 PM
i meant solomon, mon
 
This kind.
@lewis that was the original joke, yes.
 
a straw man for strqw dogs to chew
 
It combined the king, the fish, and the fatwa.
 
and the...
 
And the Russian straw, of course.
 
8:43 PM
ah
 
Or are you wondering who Fatwa is?
 
a strawm in a treecup
 
watfa?
 
A fatwā (; plural fatāwā ) in the Islamic faith is a juristic ruling concerning Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar. In Sunni Islam any fatwā is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be considered by an individual as binding, depending on his or her relation to the scholar. The person who issues a fatwā is called, in that respect, a Mufti, i.e. an issuer of fatwā, from the verb أَفْتَى 'aftā = "he gave a formal legal opinion on". This is not necessarily a formal position since most Muslims argue that anyone trained in Islamic law may give an opinion (fatwā) on its teachings....
 
talmudic scholar im not
 
8:44 PM
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( (Devanagari), (Nastaʿlīq); ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made aga...
 
danish cartoons anyone
 
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( (Devanagari), (Nastaʿlīq); ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made aga...
@lewis it's an English word. And Talmud is not Islamic.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( (Devanagari), (Nastaʿlīq); ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made aga...
 
im corrected
 
WTF, chat won't let me post the Salman Rushdie link.
 
Odd.
 
8:45 PM
I have tried OVER SEVEN times now.
{{Писатель |Имя = Салман Рушди |Оригинал имени = |Изображение = Salman Rushdie in New York City 2008.jpg |Описание изображения = Салман Рушди в Нью-Йорке 24 сентября 2008 года |Имя при рождении = Ахмед Салман Рушди |Дата рождения = 19.6.1947 |Место рождения = Бомбей, Британская Индия |Дата смерти = |Место смерти = |Гражданство = |Род деятельности = писатель-романист |Годы активности = 1975 — настоящее время |Направление = |Жанр = магический реализм |Язык произведе...
Outsmarted.
 
I see two
 
WTF is going on.
 
He looks eviler in Russian.
 
what is the premise of the satanic verses
 
I didn't understand the link the first time. Can you post it again?
 
8:47 PM
Now it posts the stuff I canceled three minutes ago, and logs me out.
 
spam filter
 
Shit. I touched it. Sorry @Reg.
 
Where there's smoke, there is fire.
 
@Cerberus if history is any lesson, no I can't right now, but it will be posted in three minutes all by itself.
OH COME ON!
 
Yay!
 
8:48 PM
THAT IS NOT ME
 
Now I understand!
 
giggles
 
It's Salman Rushdie
 
seriously
 
Gremlins
 
8:48 PM
hit the refresh
 
I am not touching things.
 
I didn't think you were Salman Rushdie
 
We should never have got more mods, I told you.
 
I told you, it's my fault.
Oi!
I'm right here.
Geezis.
 
They accidentally our data.
 
8:49 PM
Jackass.
 
That time it made sense
 
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( (Devanagari), (Nastaʿlīq); ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made aga...
 
I... I give up.
 
applauds
 
8:49 PM
MSO is read only
 
@KitFox That's what you get for messing up Reg's lines even more than normally.
 
Well good for them.
 
They must be doing chat server work
 
They could read about Salmon Rushdie.
 
What Salmon?
 
8:49 PM
8 hours ago, by KitFox
I'm right here.
 
Hitoshi Igarashi
 
You're not a Salmon.
 
@Cerberus Wait, I think I have a link...
 
A link, really?
 
It will be here any minute now.
 
8:50 PM
That would be awfully helpful.
*any three minutes
 
Yes, any three minutes, and also not here, and not a link. But other than that.
 
Selbstverständlich.
 
So, why is the rest still in alphabetical order?
 
a demonic heathen priestess, Hind, and an irreverent skeptic and satirical poet, Baal.
 
What rest?
 
8:51 PM
It only blocks the wiki inlines.
But not my usual blather.
 
It?
 
And it's not like the difference is easy to see, especially for a machine!
@Cerberus yes, the book by stephen king.
 
I'm getting weird time-outs btw, not my usual time-outs.
 
Maybe they are fixing the weird picture selection in the inline box.
 
Another king.
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. King has published 50 novels, including seven under the pen-name of Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. King has received Bram Stoker Awar...
 
8:52 PM
native in aspect
 
@KitFox Last time I addressed the issue, which was a week or so ago, it was trivialised.
 
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books. King has published 50 novels, including seven under the pen-name of Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in nine collections of short fiction. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. King has received Bram Stoker Awar...
Oh come on this was posted yesterday.
Nice picture of Steve, though.
 
@RegDwighт That house is two blocks from my childhood home.
 
my brother gave him chage once
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
 
8:53 PM
Thanks.
 
I only posted it once. Why am I seeing it not once?
 
There are two conversations going on, one of which seems a soliloquy
 
I see it twice too.
 
I used to walk by it on my way to school. We'd jump to touch the gargoyle heads for luck.
 
old town?
 
8:54 PM
Aaand now there are two soliloquies. No, three.
 
forsooth
 
Every 3 minutes.
 
@KitFox so that's who's responsible for database issues.
 
Yep.
 
note to self: don't accept luck from king
 
8:55 PM
It looks nice. But I wonder why all American houses seem to be made of wood.
Wooden hice are rare here.
 
That's because otherwise the hurricanes would have no chance.
 
Haha.
But seriously.
 
You'd have to not rebuild your home from scratch every year. Where's the fun in that?
 
True.
 
@Cerberus no Phil Collins in this chat.
Yet. But he will be with us in three minutes.
 
8:57 PM
Who?
 
}} | rev2 = Rolling Stone | rev2Score = }} ...But Seriously is the fourth full-length studio album by Phil Collins. It was recorded at The Farm, Surrey, England, and at A & M Studios, Los Angeles, United States. It was released on November 7, 1989, on Virgin in the UK and Ireland, Atlantic in the US and Canada, WEA Records (now Warner Music Group) for the rest of the world. Musical style While much of the album follows the same formula as Collins' previous album, No Jacket Required (1985), there was also a move towards more organic production as Collins chose to utilise live instrumen...
 
Ah.
 
That's not three minutes. Disregard that. Check back in 2:30.
Something's too fast here. Stuff is working.
 
I'm on it.
 
The 8:30 minute-long black-and-white music video, directed by James Yukich, contains 2:30 minutes of acting prior to the start of the music.
Another sentence I'd never have thunk I'd one day read.
 
9:00 PM
2:30 of acting? That's like saying this sandwich has 25% meat
 
> He is rehearsing some dancers. The director complains that the girls can neither dance nor sing, and then discovers that his star has appendicitis. Eric Clapton, seated on a stool, says that "Billy" used to be the drummer in a good band and is a good singer.
Come on wiki, who do you think you are, Joyce?
 
Look what you made me do.
 
@KitFox OMFG.
The video is joycier than the description.
Quick! Someone film Ulysses!
So @Cerberus, I'm reading up on that family. There's Russian and German wiki. No English.
Lykow () ist der Nachname einer sechsköpfigen Familie, deren Mitglieder nach einer selbstgewählten, religiös motivierten und über vierzigjährigen Isolation 1978 durch ein Geologenteam per Zufall in der sibirischen Taiga „entdeckt“ wurden. Geschichtlicher Hintergrund Ausgelöst durch die Kirchenreform des Patriarchen Nikon im Jahre 1653 entzündeten sich in Russland Religionsstreitigkeiten, wobei es in den Jahren 1666–1667 zu einer Spaltung innerhalb der russischen Kirche kam. So entstanden die sogenannten Altgläubigen. Innerhalb dieser Bewegung bildete sich die religiöse Gruppierung der „P...
Looks like there's a recent book, and people even know how the last surviving member has been spending the last awful winter or five.
She even got a 2013 calendar as a present from the Patriarch Of Rus Entire.
 
abandons session
 
abandons hope
 
9:11 PM
In fact that book is available online in its entirety. Of course. It's Russia.
 
@RegDwighт Ah, so she lives?
 
I really do wonder if anybody was smart enough to send over a linguist.
Her language must be peculiar.
 
Ask on Ling.SE.
 
@Cerberus she still lives in said isolation in said place to this day.
 
OK.
Must be an odd life.
And an uncomfortable one.
 
9:13 PM
Yeah now that she's all alone.
Then again imagine the stress levels of Moscow.
 
She has probably got used to it, in 25 years.
 
She'd die on the spot, and that's not an exaggeration.
 
There are other places besides Moscow and her hut.
 
Of course.
 
Like...a village of twenty farmsteads?
They offered to take them to relatives who still lived in their old village.
 
9:22 PM
@KitFox Geez, Eric Clapton really wants the All-Time Record for Being in Love with Oneself.
That's two frigging notes, dude. Chill. You're not doing anything.
I'm a bit afraid to watch on if that is his approach to the very first two notes in the song.
 
@RegDwighт Oh, and Phil Collins doesn't? His range seems to be about a minor third.
BTW, that's Jeffrey Tambour as the director/producer. He was great on The Larry Sanders Show as Hank Kingsley. "Hey now!"
 
@Robusto Well yes, but that's like saying the Civil War doesn't count because there was a war before that already, and one after that.
 
No. It's not like that at all.
 
I take that litotes as a compliment.
 
That and nine bucks will get you a beer at Fenway Park.
 
9:32 PM
But okay, if you want to fight it out: Phil Collins's range is at least his range. Eric Clapton needs an instrument to have any range at all.
 
9:57 PM
Cromulent. I love it.
 
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