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12:00 AM
Oh, her. Yeah.
 
Snow White. I think I saw that one.
 
So yes. That's the four.
@KitFox I don't think I have. I only just realized that Fantasia is the only movie, to this date, of those four, that I have seen.
 
Snow White, Phantasia, and Pinocchio are usually held to be the best of them.
 
Sadly at the wrong age.
 
I liked Jungle Book.
 
12:01 AM
Yeah.
 
Dec 17 '12 at 13:54, by tchrist
Bambi’s mom bought it. Is that a children’s movie?
Dec 17 '12 at 13:55, by RegDwighт
Yes, but Simba's father got trampled to death by a stampede in front of his very eyes.
 
And I was the perfect age for the Little Mermaid.
 
It is one of the few I remember having liked as a child.
 
@KitFox balou was very likeable.
Maugli not so much.
 
I liked the songs too. Catchy.
I still sing them to my kids.
 
12:01 AM
You have no idea how hard to it is to remember things from 45 years ago.
 
I only remember bare necessities.
 
Yum.
 
Well, that's the big one.
brb
 
But that's the point. I don't remember others.
And I do remember like five songs from the Lion King. Well, not a fair comparison since I wrote them. But still.
 
MMm.
Wish I didn’t have to run.
 
12:03 AM
Oh you have? On a Friday?
 
I wonder if I have any cartoons to watch. Animaniacs, maybe.
I have to give someone a lift.
Or be pestered forevermore.
 
A lift as in a boost? You robbing a museum?
 
Back in 10-15, but you might be sleepin’. No, a cradle.
 
K then.
And yes I was totally going to call it a day.
What ever happened to that plan.
 
@RegDwighт I remember I Want to Be Like You and the one the girl sings at the end.
 
12:05 AM
Wait, there's a girl?
Figures.
 
At the very end.
 
As I was saying. Balou.
 
It's why he leaves the jungle.
 
Stupid men.
 
In mid-sentence saying how great the jungle is.
They can't help it.
 
12:06 AM
I read so much of Kipling's, but never the Jungle Book I think.
 
Really?
I loved Just So Stories when I was a kid.
 
I read his stories. Don't remember anything really.
 
We gave it to my nephew for Christmas.
It's pretty horribly racist.
But in that old-timey, doesn't-mean-it-like-that kind of way.
 
And last thing I read on the wiki, he was like racist or whitesupremacist or something, anyway allegedly it showed. Well not to me, not as a child. But I'm not really in the mood to put it to the test as an adult.
@KitFox oh haha.
Slow jinx.
Perhaps I should type less and read more.
 
Where's the fun in that?
 
12:08 AM
But I guess there would be no fun in that.
 
Haha
Have you read Rob's book yet?
 
No, I still haven't even pirated that software thingamajig.
You through with it or what?
 
You don't have to pirate it. You can just download it for free.
 
So. Pirate.
 
I'm at 85%.
I hate reading digital books.
 
12:10 AM
Yeah that's another point.
 
If I get published, it'll be a printed book.
 
I have a couple books, what do I say: a hundred! and I haven't read one.
Now if I print them out, then perhaps...
 
You mean in general, or digital ones?
 
@KitFox both combined.
 
I downloaded a bunch of freebies. Even Alice in Wonderland. And they sit on my iPad waiting.
 
12:11 AM
I have no such fancy things.
 
I would much rather hold a real book. Smell it. Turn the pages.
 
Oh. That reminds me.
I recently got really nice old ones, Agatha Christie. Miss Marple mostly.
 
I love the Series of Unfortunate Events. The story is magnificent, and the books, ah, wonderful!
 
Now here's the thing.
They are unreadable.
Agatha Christie can't write.
It's horrible.
Awful, bad, no good.
I would have never guessed that from the movies.
 
Cameo editions, rough cut paper, lovely typography—what? Agatha Christie can't write?
 
12:13 AM
Yeah go figure.
 
I read three of her books when I was twelve.
 
It was torture. I felt physically ill.
I lasted for 12 pages, and the last 11 were no fun at all.
 
Murder on the Orient Express was the first.
 
And it was one of her flagships. So and so much from Paddington.
 
I don't remember her writing style at all, I just loved reading.
 
12:14 AM
@KitFox yeah that's how I was as a child.
I would read everything.
I even read Swift.
 
I laugh now at some of the things I labeled as "really good."
 
I wouldn't now, Not for money.
And the only guy I ever struggled with was Dostoyevski.
 
what did you think was 'really good'?
you know, so we can judge you.
 
And there was bunches of things I re-read as an adult and thought it was pearls before swine when I read them as a kid.
 
@Mitch Peppi Longstocking or what's her name in English.
 
12:15 AM
Pippi.
 
Everything of Lindgren's. Carlsson from the Roof, Emil from Loenneberga.
 
And yes, that's one I haven't re-read because I think I wouldn't like it now.
 
Emil in particular.
 
OK...outside of my culture.
all swedish 'young adult' stuff?
 
I liked Peter Pan.
Winnie the Pooh
 
12:16 AM
Right. That I read, too, as a child.
Can't say I particularly liked Peter Pan. Something about it was... fishy.
@KitFox now that was the best thing since sliced honey.
 
But I also thought The Emma Dilemma was a masterpiece.
 
chronicles of narnia cough
 
Fuck them.
 
@KitFox Can't quite place that one.
 
Fuck them. I loved those as a kid.
 
12:17 AM
@Mitch thanks I'll pass. Or what Kit says.
 
And I hate them sooooo much now.
I felt really betrayed when I re-read them seven years ago.
@RegDwighт I'm not surprised.
 
@KitFox Yeah you understand my stance on Kipling now?
 
I think so.
 
Do not fix what's not broken.
 
I found them very entertaining and imagination provoking but not exactly the best.
 
12:18 AM
I just wish I had known not to read them again.
 
I read it, I liked it, I can't remember shit, that's perfect.
 
@Mitch I found them deeply and personally extremely offensive.
 
oh...kipling doesn't withstand rereading?
@KitFox at what age did you read them?
 
11 mins ago, by RegDwighт
And last thing I read on the wiki, he was like racist or whitesupremacist or something, anyway allegedly it showed. Well not to me, not as a child. But I'm not really in the mood to put it to the test as an adult.
 
@Mitch I was nine the first time, about thirty the second time.
 
12:19 AM
and bad when you were nine?
 
No. I loved them when I was nine.
 
oh, right, about kipling.
 
(I'm still talking about Narnia)
 
Anyway peeps, I think I'll be living up to my promise and logging off.
 
Night.
 
12:20 AM
later
 
Still haven't worked on the walrus.
Good night.
 
so back to narnia...
uh...
I had a thought but I forgot.
oh got it.
I read them about the same age, went through entire series over a summer.
 
Slow reader, huh?
 
years later someone said 'oh it's so obviously a christian metaphor thing'
haha. no.
 
Oh I couldn't help being a prick just then. Sorry.
 
12:21 AM
well, maybe slow then.
I read then again a couple years later and read one a day.
oh but about the christian thing...I was so surprised. It -is- totally obvious. but I still think about it and wonder, is that what people get out of it?
 
He said he wrote them to make it easier for his grandchildren to accept Christianity, to help indoctrinate them.
That's a pretty good indicator that you are supposed to get that out of it.
 
what I got out of it was that these kids got to go to this other world, have adventures, and then come back.
I'm oblivious then.
 
And that anyone who stands against Aslan should be killed and that girls (his own granddaughter!) who wear makeup and are interested in boys should be excluded from heaven. I could go on.
 
Also, I thought CS Lewis was...I'm repeating things I've read..was an 'apologist' for Christianity, like he was an atheist but making Christianity out to be not so bad.
@KitFox wow...that's not even metaphorically in the narnia books right?
 
So that's why I never really liked Narnia.
 
12:26 AM
@Mitch Um. Yes, it is.
 
Oh...oblivious again then.
 
The Horse and His Boy, about the savage heathen (Muslim) who comes to know and love Aslan?
 
obilious is what you get after eating a steak and cheese.
ha ha...I read them too long ago.
 
In The Final Battle, he specifically says that Susan was excluded from the group because she wore makeup and "stopped playing pretend Narnia" or some shit.
 
I just thought (not then, but now) that that was just him being anti-muslim...like everybody nowadays!!
@KitFox Oh....
 
12:28 AM
It's awful. Awful.
It is so blatant and completely against my values.
 
that does sound familiar (but actually maybe from the ... ahem ... movies.
 
And put out there intentionally to convert children!
 
Your values are to wear makeup and be a boy chaser in order to get into heaven?
 
That bastard!
 
so he wasn't an atheist?
@Cerberus have you ever read Daniel Pinkwater?
 
12:30 AM
@Mitch Not even close.
 
(recent (past 20 years) children's writer)
@KitFox oh. well, that's wat I thought but had read that he was an atheist. could easily be a reading comprehension problem.
 
He lapsed for a while, but renewed his faith.
 
wiki was boring reading. I want fireworks!
 
That's going to be the sponsor of my nascar hotrod.
 
1:05 AM
any1 else has a tornado warning tonight?
 
Looks like they caught the second suspect hiding in a boat in someone's back yard in Watertown.
 
Well. That's good.
His parents are insisting that the boys were framed.
I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if they were my boys.
 
@Mitch No?
Never heard of him?
@Robusto Oh, good. Better get him alive.
I do hope Obama won't lock him up in Guantanamo, though.
 
Nah, this one is a citizen.
 
@camelbrush Hi! No tornadoes here, luckily.
@KitFox They don't lock up their own citizens there?
 
1:20 AM
Not in Guantanamo.
 
OK.
 
That's a military prison.
For enemy combatants.
Suspected ones, anyway.
 
How about some other military prison, on American soil? Also not possible?
 
Not possible.
Unless it is a military crime.
Which it isn't.
 
A military crime?
More like an act of war?
 
1:22 AM
Or conduct unbecoming.
We keep our own soldiers in military prison.
 
I would expect "crimes" to be a civilian matter?
 
@KitFox Well, if they were caught in a shoot-out with police, shedding pressure-cooker IEDs, it really sounds like the old "red in tooth and claw" thing.
 
So it's probably not called that?
 
@Cerberus Not always.
@Robusto What's that now?
 
Don't they apply a different name when it comes to military matters?
@Robusto IEDs?
 
1:25 AM
Improvised Explosive Devices.
In other words, home-made bombs.
 
amateur
not professional
 
Jerry-rigged, some might say.
 
@KitFox That's the story so far. It's not unknown for suspects to be railroaded—Boston has a history of that, going back at least to Sacco and Vanzetti—but I personally doubt that's what happened this time.
BOSTON BOMB SUSPECT IS CAPTURED. You can read it in the New York Times. The New York Fuckin' Times, man.
 
It would seem to me to be pretty difficult to sell a couple of kids with bombs as being framed.
@Robusto Oh I love that meaty guy in the picture. Look how virile. Damn.
 
> The mother, Zubeidat Tsaraeva, speaking in English, told CNN, "It's impossible, impossible, for both of them to do such things, so I am really, really, really telling that this is a setup."
Well, I guess that's it then. We have to let him go. Mom's word is law.
 
1:30 AM
I think I would be pretty shocked too.
 
Yeah. I feel sorry for her.
But I also feel sorry for the dead 8-year-old and the other two, and the many people missing limbs as a result of what her son "allegedly" did.
 
> “They didn’t practice tradecraft,” said one official, a veteran counterterrorism investigator who has been briefed on the case. “Listen, I just don’t understand how anybody could do something like that and basically go home and expect that they wouldn’t get caught.”
This, more than anything, makes me feel like they played GTA 4 one too many times.
 
dumb kids who watch movies.
but not til the end.
 
@KitFox Let's not go getting on Niko Bellic's case now.
 
The carjacking, the fleeing from police with no real coherent plan, etc. Devastation for the effect.
 
1:34 AM
desperation
had no idea what to do.
 
Fucking kids. Thinking it would be cool.
 
it would be!
except for the 2nd half of the movie (or reality).
 
Well, I need to go beddy-bye. Been up since 5:00 a.m. yawns Night all.
 
Night.
 
later
 
1:38 AM
I'm hungry.
 
Gah! you reminded me of snacks! off to kitchen...
 
I wish I had cheese curls.
 
I'm back...mmm...brownies and tea
crunchy or puffy?
 
wistful
Puffy.
I should've made tea. I have an oats and dark chocolate granola bar.
 
did someone mention tea?
 
1:42 AM
I think I will go back downstairs and make tea.
Hi @Mr.Shiny.
 
@KitFox You have a good memory regarding my lego sets
 
@Robusto Your tomorrow will be easier.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Just that one, because I liked it.
 
@KitFox it's a good set but I doubt you'll find it easily. It's completely gone from all the stores around here. Actually it was pretty much gone when I bought it; I got it at Home Sense, which is a store that sells odds and ends left over from other stores
you know, I think the Winners near me might have one in their Christmas Toys That Never See The Light Of Day After The Holidays dept. So maybe at Christmas I can snag one for you.
 
Yeah. We often have old stock around these parts because we're remote, but I don't think we'll have anything that old.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That'd be sweet.
 
1:45 AM
@KitFox I'll keep my eyes open
 
My ex-sister-in-law asked us to keep our nephew up here one more night.
She was concerned for his safety, which is nice, considering how infrequently she considers his well-being.
 
well they caught the other guy
 
steeps teabag
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, she asked around noontime.
 
Evening.
 
Hullo @Mahnax.
 
1:50 AM
Hi!
How are you all doing this evening?
 
Better now.
Yourself?
 
I'm doing well. Just drinking coffee and working on an English project.
 
What kind of English project?
And you shouldn't drink coffee, it will stunt your growth.
 
is 182cm tall
It's a 15 minute oral presentation on the grammar and style of Jane Eyre.
 
That's um...38 feet?
 
1:54 AM
@Mahnax Kids these days. Such slackers. Go for 200cm!
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 cowers
@KitFox Just over 6.
Or not quite six, apparently.
 
The taller you are, the more people will defer to you. You want that kind of easy power, don't you?
 
@KitFox I'm OK with my height right now, and I don't want that sort of power.
Apparently I can't math. Whatever, it's the weekend.
 
Just under 6ft.
5'11" ish.
 
Well, it's 5 feet and 11.65 inches.
 
1:57 AM
I said ish.
 
Right.
 
@Mahnax With great tallness comes great responsibility.
 
You could use more. And look at you! Skin and bones. Don't they feed you there?
frets like worried hen
How are you supposed to concentrate on your studies when you're hungry?
 
Who's hungry?
 
You!
I liked Jane Eyre.
 
1:58 AM
Me too.
I chose it over Oedipus for this presentation.
 
Good choice. Challenging.
I like that.
Do you know much about the Brontes?
 
For some reason The moment I saw Oedipus, I was thinking "Oedipus, mother****er"
 
Hahaha.
 

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