Is that Dr. ... whatshisname?

shis

It's on the sideboard, next to the claret.

@MετάEd Zen cat ninja says: purrrrr now you're dead purrrrr

Zen cow says ....

@DavidWallace I was Away! And now I'm half asleep...anything I can do for ye?

@Robusto I would indeed!

> In an interview with the television station Russia Today, Mr. Maduro said he would consider any request by Mr. Snowden. Then, ending the interview with a dash of humor, he said, “It’s time for me to go; Snowden is waiting for me.”

Good.

> Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and will disclose on Wednesday who controls the device, its foreign minister said.

Anybody taking bets on that one?

Some tabloid newspaper, no doubt

E!

From here.

@MattЭллен Heh.

It doesn't make sense to announce it.

So it must be bullshit.

It’s very tabloidy.

Let alone announcing its announcement.

“Stay tuned for an exciting announcement!”

@Mitch Mu, obviously.

Zen ninja silent as the sound of one hand.

Chinese cow says Mao

No, Chinese cats say mao.

Madagascar cow says Moa.

Also, they are called Mao.

Voodoo cow says loa.

@KitFox NO U

Bored cow says meh.

North Orlando University

Naturally Obstinate Ungulate

@tchrist how can they even know who controls it? Is the owner's name embossed on the device?

C’est un peu bizarre, n’est-ce pas?

they just follow the wire back to the person who is listening

> "Furthermore, we first wanted to ascertain with precision what could be the origin of this interception device in the office of our ambassador," he said. "We are sorry to say so, but this is another instance of a loss of ethics at the international level in relations between governments," he added.

@MattЭллен Haha, yes.

Well, they find out who bought microphones like that, then they cross-reference the list with international leaders.

@tchrist Yeah, I'm not buying the loss of ethics. Everybody talks a good line, and everybody bugs one another's embassies.

Spies spy? What is the world coming to?

I wonder how one goes about ascertaining without precision.

Those are certainly big words.

And if you discovered a listening device, you'd want to leverage that, not look stupid by claiming someone had planted it there.

How do you mean? You can name whomever you want. They'll deny it either way.

Better translation: “We first wanted to figure out for sure where this bugging gizmo really came from.”

@RegDwighт Yeah, but then they know you know.

Well, you could leak fake info to the bug and see where it pops up.

Obviously, it was the woman's boyfriend, who was concerned for her safety.

@KitFox Like they care.

@tchrist Precisely.

It is a strategic advantage to feed misinformation to your opponents.

But that's what the Internet is there for.

And ironic, what with the WikiLeaks thing.

I just read an ironic article entitled “Rafael Correa: Liberty’s Paladin” about how lucky Snowden and Assange are that they are not Ecuadoran journalists on the wrong side of Correa.

Well, the title is ironic; the article, not so much.

Yeah, few South-American leaders are saints.

Either way, I'm very glad about all the attention privacy is getting at last.

LOL. All the attention privacy is getting. LOLOLOL.

More people are talking about it than ever, so I guess we should be thankful for the crimes of the American government.

It's easier to get mad at a foreign government.

@RegDwighт Are you accusing it of exhibitionism?

snorts

There are laws against such accusations, young man.

Privacy is secret and doubly classified.

You hang if you even say the word.

That's a nice cue, actually. Laws. How about them laws get attention for a change.

I'm sooo tired and also tipsy.

And it's 3 PM.

> Patiño indicó que el hallazgo se produjo durante una inspección a la sede diplomática, previa a su visita a la capital inglesa el pasado 16 de junio. "Lo encontramos cuando yo viajé. Como una medida de seguridad hicimos una revisión de la embajada y encontramos un micrófono oculto que recoge información en la oficina de nuestra embajadora (Ana Albán)", agregó.

@RegDwighт They do.

liquid lunch?

> El canciller informó que el martes recibió los datos que señalan "con precisión cuál era el origen de la interceptación", y anunció que este miércoles revelará esos detalles así como "qué organismos de inteligencia utilizan ese aparato".

@Cerberus understandable. I, too, would get tired orbiting Pluto.

> "Tengo que consultar al presidente (Rafael Correa) sobre este tema. A las autoridades de ese gobierno tendremos que pedirle explicaciones de lo que ha sucedido", sostuvo "A lo mejor hay una explicación razonable", afirmó Patiño, ejemplificando que el micrófono pudo haber sido robado a algún organismo de seguridad.

@RegDwighт Hey, it was party time!

“Maybe there’s a reasonable explanation”?!

How many planets do you have that are named after your last name, huh?

seven

All the white stars are named after Reg.

@tchrist That's just politesse.

@MattЭллен Point them out for me on a map.

@Cerberus Reg-1520 through Reg-1629.

Well, Reg has a star. You've got just the two celestial bodies.

My celestial body is a wonderland.

Mmmm.

bites Reg

Oh, sorry, sorry. Forgot what I was doing just then.

La zorra mordió al ruso.

@RegDwighт Not your last name.

@Cerberus it is.

Is not.

I swapped my first and last name to fool the NSA. Also, the NASA.

You showed us your Google Plus page, remember?

Also, you.

"The" NASA?

@Cerberus I showed you many things. Are they all true now?

Wait. They're not true?

Whatever I believe is true.

You're not Elton John?

I am John Elton. Pay attention.

I can't.

> El ministro aclaró que no está "insinuando" que el micrófono "tenga que ver con la denuncia de espionaje por parte de Estados Unidos", revelada por el excontratista de la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad (NSA) de ese país Edward Snowden.

> "Creo que es otro el origen, eso lo sabremos mañana", dijo Patiño, apuntando que "es otra ratificación de esta pérdida de ética a nivel internacional en las relaciones que tenemos entre nuestros gobiernos".

They misspelled ANS.

@Cerberus How do you get tipsy by 3pm?

Easily. That's how.

Sounds like he is saying it might be the UK’s bug, not the US’s.

Are those different?

@tchrist as if that makes a difference.

Jinx.

@AndrewLeach My friend got her PhD.

@tchrist well, one is one of the five eyes, and the other is another.

So there was a celebration. With drinks...

Five Eyes = The Great Anglophone Conspiracy

@tchrist Sure, the English are buggers.

Your friend is so PhaD, you got tipsy by 3pm.

wants scotch

How dare you call her fat!

I can command English!!!

Just so you know.

That's long ago.

Why is that banner thing so far behind?

@Cerberus Who right use to and for?

It's retarded.

It's by design, I think.

@AndrewLeach for Feng Shui reasons.

@RegDwighт Use for to hit you on the nose.

@Cerberus Oye tú, ¿cómo dominas el inglés? Pues bastante bien si es pequeño y no lucha mucho.

Oye como va mi ritmo. Mulata.

@RegDwighт That, and in order to fool the terrestrial rays.

Are those worse than marine rays?

Have you seen the AMSR video about the Tinfoil Hat Society?

They are worse than Ray Liotta.

That Ephemeral Rift guy is hilarious.

@tchrist Then maybe it should lucha more.

!!/youtube "tinfoil hat society"

Too early for lucha, I just had brekky.

Brekky.

Did. Little veggy omelettitos on flatbread.

With Chalula.

Now this is an interesting photo.

She was great.

Cholula, cholula.

@RegDwighт Yes.

Heli over Tahrir square, the green are protesters' laser pointers.

Muy chula la salsa esa.

@RegDwighт You are kidding!

All that green!

I am not.

I was trying to figure it out.

spiegel.de/politik/ausland/…

Why so many have lasers?

I don't know.

@RegDwighт That's...alot!

Looks arty to me.

No, this is.

That is heli.

Yay!

Looks like a spiky wombat.

My friends were talking about making Alot cuff links for me.

Oh fie. India call.

Habeis muchos funnos.

habeus corpus

I'm so glad we never properly subdued the natives in Indonesia, or we would have Indonesian call centres right now!

@MattЭллен No habemus corpus.

@RegDwighт I'm sure you're glad Hitler lost the war, or you'd be listening to callcentres with horrible Dutch accents right now!

My boss was talking about outsourcing some work to India. I told him he could hire a programmer there too if he wanted to do that.

@Cerberus but I am.

Great.

Oh, and also Russian accents.

In fact every German's Dutch accent is exceptionally horrible.

giggles thinking about Russian

You have to go to Holland for proper Dutch accent.

No, I mean a Dutchman's German accent.

You don't even know what you mean.

@KitFox Russian giggles right back thinking about you.

If you had conquered us and kept us for a century, we'd have had to learn German, and we'd be manning your call centres now.

Bradley Manning?

...

!!nsa

DEADHS FAATSA FAMS gas ICE. It's Danish for ‘fat dead families on ice.' Denmark's rough.

This must be some sort of code.

not not NSA

To fool those idiots.

@MattЭллен Caprica runs on litotae's.

!!/litote

@MattЭллен That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.

!!the help command

@RegDwighт That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.

But I just did!

Did as in used, not as in learned.

@RegDwighт That makes even less sense than you on a Wednesday afternoon.

@RegDwighт your learned more of the same

@RegDwighт Bradley Wiggins

Is tulgey with a hard g or a soft one?

I've not said it. wiktionary says soft in UK, hard in US

Oh, I thought those were both US.

oh, maybe

I was going to read the Jabberwocky for my first asmr video attempt.

I realized I've had the word wrong for years.

didn't you already do one?

I had memorized it as "Tugeley."

@MattЭллен Did I? I just read a book. I didn't really asmr it much.

oh

I've bitten the hell out of my lip thinking about it though, so maybe I will chicken out again.

maybe you will. Or maybe you'll do it

not point biting your lip for nothing

OED says soft g

I did a little test video and damn, this shit is hard. I can't seem to keep my voice even.

And when I'm thinking about the level, my vowels get all melodramatic.

is that bad for asmr?

Plus, TIL that chortle was a neologism from The Jabberwocky.

oh! that's interesting

@MattЭллен Melodrama? I don't know, but it bugs the shit out of me when I listen back.

ah

Part of the fun of just reading stuff was that I could make up silly stuff and not feel too self-conscious about it.

But with the video part, I start thinking about too much stuff.

Isn't it most important to be quiet? level isn't necessarily important

I are Baboon! I command English!!

R

I haz can command it to fetch me beerz!

Soft speaking lets the clicks and pops come through.

Meeting bbs.

@Cerberus what if the beer is in a bottle?

Then I can haz bottel beer!

you should genetically engineer a bluebottle to carry you beer

oh hai

so you can get 150,000,000 hot dogs on the 4th of July if you sign up with Sprint?

Quantities are limited. Act now!

Yo momma so fat, she signed up with Sprint.