> Mariä Himmelfahrt ist ein gesetzlicher Feiertag in Österreich, der Staatsfeiertag im Fürstentum Liechtenstein, ein den Sonntagen gleichgestellter Feiertag in acht Kantonen der Schweiz sowie in sieben weiteren Kantonen ein zumindest in einigen Gemeinden arbeitsfreier Tag, in zwei Ländern Deutschlands zumindest teilweise ein gesetzlicher Feiertag, im Saarland und in Bayern.

@Cerberus The only Spanish there is ante, and that cannot be helped.

See. Half of Switzerland and only two of the sixteen German states.

I believe half the Swiss cantons are cant.

And in Bavaria it is only in some regions, depending on the percentage of catholics.

@Cerberus a.d. XVIII Kal. Sep. MMDCCLXVII AUC

Except in Munich, where said percentage is only 33%, but it's still a public holiday.

This is way more complicated than you think, Cerberus.

So forget your calendar.

Just come to the office on Monday and ask around.

@RegDwigнt You mean the half of Bavaria that’s in Switzerland?

@tchrist they wish.

My point.

Austria is more like it.

Why stop there? Try for something exotic like Slovenia.

> Im Bundesland Tirol wurde das Fest Mariä Himmelfahrt im Jahr 1959 zum Gedenken an die Befreiung Tirols im Jahr 1809 zum Landesfeiertag mit der Bezeichnung Hoher Frauentag erklärt.

See. In Tirol they even promoted it to a national holiday.

@tchrist Condida?

Condida Wurst.

@Cerberus I’m an Ameɾican: I flap.

@RegDwigнt Someone could make a calendar for Munich. It would take half an hour of someone's time.

@tchrist Flappy Bird.

I'm not quite sure, though, why you'd call your Independence Day a "High Woman's Day". Especially if you're a catholic.

Buggy programita.

@RegDwigнt She was so high she went to the sky.

@Cerberus see, and it would be completely useless to me because I'm not in Munich.

@RegDwigнt Then someone could make a calendar for the rest of the state.

Still useless to me.

  if ($params{annus} eq 'Roman') {
    $string .= Roman::Roman($self->{annus});
  }
  elsif ($params{annus} eq 'roman') {
    $string .= Roman::roman($self->{annus});
  }
  else {
    $string .= $self->{annus};
  }

  if ($params{auc} eq 'abbrev') {
    $string .= " AUC";
  }
  else {
    $string .= " ab Urbe Condida";
  }

@RegDwigнt You could make it for yourself to use it for all eternity.

Not my fault.

@Cerberus it changes every year. Things like Easter and shit.

@tchrist What is that?

@RegDwigнt Ugh.

Still, there must be millions who have the same calendar as you do.

@Cerberus It’s the code written by Leo Cacciari, who happens to be Italian himself, which produces the output I showed you.

He mispolt candida.

@Cerberus nope, as a matter of fact just 175000.

I think he just liked to write $self->{annus} a lot.

It is a peculiar error for a native speaker of Italian to make.

Condida, not annus.

Since only Spanish and Portuguese have -ida participles, not Italian.

@tchrist Most odd.

@RegDwigнt Still, if one of those people took the time to create and maintain a calendar, all could enjoy it.

@tchrist I know!

If only you had a Mac, I could paste you a line that you could copypasta into a shell window that would fully install his program for you.

Let me see whether it’s been fixed.

Why not use an Autohotkey script hmm?

No, it has not.

Well dang it, that’s annoying enough for me to patch it myself.

Then you could call it up anywhere in Windows just by pressing a hotkey or typing a string.

And theoretically it's even less, because it really depends on your Gemeinde, which could be just a thousand people (or just a dozen, if you're in the countryside somewhere), including toddlers and senile folks, but of course for practical reasons when half the city shuts down the other half follows suit. See Munich above, even though it's so large they could totally leave it at just one half of it.

Hmm.

Perhaps it is time to introduce national holidays...

There are some. October 3rd.

But it's your cuius regio, eius religio again, huh?

That's so 1648!

Easter and Xmas.

But I think that's already about it.

Himmelfahrt?

Sylvester?

January the 1st, yes.

Ok, I found it. He mispasted or something. He has it right once and wrong once. Unique strings are:

Himmelfahrt, no, and there are two of those.

ab Urbe Condida, ab Urbe condita, ad, annus, ante diem, Apriles, Aprilibus,
Augustas, Augustis, bis, Decembres, Decembribus, Februarias, Februariis,
Ianuarias, Ianuariis, id, Idibus, Idus, Iulias, Iuliis, Iunias, Iuniis,
Kalendas, Kalendis, Maias, Maiis, Martias, Martiis, mons, Nonas, Nonis,
Novembres, Novembribus, Octobres, Octobribus, pridie, Septembres, Septembribus.

One being today, whence the whole discussion.

bis

Funny how the bus only runs in certain montes.

Apparently the Romans took an even longer summer holiday than the French.

But that’s only fair: Rome has always been hotter than Paris.

Not that Paris wasn’t hot, mind you. Just ask Helen.

pace Menelaus, whose name I decline declining.

@RegDwigнt The other one, when Christ went up.

@tchrist How so? Only the numbered months are of the consonantal declension.

@Cerberus Don’t forget Elijah.

I have.

@Cerberus It’s a yolk, son. –Foghorn Leghorn

Sounds vaguely familiar.

@Cerberus You shouldn’t do that. After all, he watching over Israel slumbers snot not sleeps.

@Cerberus Old cartoon.

@Robusto-era stuff.

Ah.

I have not read most of the Bible.

@Cerberus It’s a choral allusion more than it is a Biblical one.

It’s the 29th piece in Mendelssohn’s glorious oratorio, Elijah.

Ahh.

I shall play it in the background.

And if the choir is sloppy, they slumber snot rather than slumbering not.

It is nice.

Bad news for us Nutella eaters!

Nooooo!!!!!!!!

@Cerberus Good news for us Nutella investors

And cocoa prices have also risen.

@Mitch Hardly.

Like gold!

Nope.

Nutella futures!

It is only good news for those hazelnut producers who weren't affected by this year's bad harvest.

How's bitcoin doing?

In high school, our choir took a First at State for “He Watching Over Israel” — performed of course a cappella and with SATB lined up as SATBSATBSATB so mixed sound, not SSSAAATTTBBB sectionally. It is much more professional that way.

No, Nutella is suffering, because they have to spend far more on hazelnuts this year.

leveled off since march?

I think so.

And we were most severely drilled for slumbering snot during practice.

Later at university and beyond I several times was in choirs who did the entire oratorio.

Oh wait, I took a First in local for the solo recit and aria “If with all your hearts”. I forgot that part.

Nice.

Global nutella strategy: buy up all strategic hazelnut farms (small pockets of Italy), begin planting in secluded Amazon rainforest, stage coups in multiple developing nations, reap materialistic benefits. Also buy new sneakers, the shoelaces on one are getting frazzled.

Not the competitive aspect (...) but the fact that you performed it.

Yeah.

@Mitch Anyone could do that, not just Nutella.

But they have in fact just bought a large hazelnut producer in Turkey to protect their supply.

Good point, that's the same strategy I have for Kinderuberraschungen eggs.

It's all a cover for the hidden true agenda: consume more Nutella.

You have bought Ferrero?

Or just the golden chocolate geese that lay the eggs?

@Cerberus Aha! My case is made!

@Cerberus No way. I have standards. That stuff is nasty.

Umm.

Ferrero owns Kinder.

This was my solo:

Are you referring to their excrescence of hazelnut spread or their entire line of chocolatey products?

Or rather, the one I did.

@Cerberus Oh.

It's just a brand by Ferrero.

@Mitch Everything.

They may yet survive my world-wide purge of anti-Nutella cabals.

Ferrero is one of the biggest.

It is rather sweet.

Cadbury-Schweppes may survive, if I can't figure out how they bio-engineer their rabbits to lay those eggs.

Interesting interpretation by that fellow. I think I may like it better than Placido’s.

But his vowels could be nicer. nyoo not noo.

After so many years Indian PM giving speech on independence day without bullet proof glass box

This brave guy working hard for India

I don't know what's wrong with most of people of my town, they are using brand name instead of product name. For example there many shop were you can have photocopy, but when i go there and ask for photocopy they ask me what does photocopy means......

they reply me that, we can help you with XEROX not with photocopy

lol

in France they give speech with gas mask because too many people smoke

I'm sensing a theme here.

Fear.

what do you notice first?

me: smoke

ohhh smoke

again

today I did hiking with my mom, not during hiking, but before and after, smokers, and that saddens my day

but less and less, I can fight them better

I even said something to one like "Grrr that really smell bad"

Obsession kills.

@tchrist I know

When smokers smoke in public that really irritate

How much of your spare time do spend searching the internet for info about smoking?

I'm not 100% obsessed, just about 10% of the outside time I got past their smoke

@skullpatrol I've finished with that

Good for you pal :-)

In India it is banned to smoke in public but surprisingly most of police man only do that...

India is great then!

to be stuck in the dense crowd with smokers, that's my nightmare seriously

being obliged to breathe it, without any way to dodge it

@Freddy I've some at my home, my dad got some

they are known as "bedies"

we can say they are cheapest cigarettes cost around 10 bucks for packet :)

There are beddies as the end, it's very short

Ok sorry, I understand my attitude is bad

That sucks

Try your best my friend, that's all you can do :-)

Today's Listening | Electro / Dance (Mixsets day 15)

Grrrreat^ :D

And....?

👂 ...hello is there anybody out there?

Does anybody even care.

I have become comfortably numb...

Gluten-free, sugar-free, carcinogen-free

@nosmoking Hi, how are you feeling today?

@JasperLoy I've seen many smokers, but not bad

@skullpatrol Why have you become numb?

@JasperLoy I've walked 5 hours in the pre-alps

@nosmoking Very good, I need to do more walking too.

@JasperLoy comfortably numb is the name of a famous pink Floyd song

google.fr/maps/@43.6957355,6.8018552,1942m/data=!3m1!1e3

Is it me or bing maps is sometimes better than the great Google?

Dunno, I don't use either :)

binged.it/1kHPT0i

How long is it to do the tour of Singapour by bike

100km approx

Singapour seems large like inner Paris

@JasperLoy Do you have a bike at least?

@nosmoking No, and I cannot ride one.

@JasperLoy hm, why?

@nosmoking I tried learning a few times and failed.

oh, I wish I could be near you to learn teach you

@nosmoking You should use teach instead of learn.

it's a Physics law to stabilize oneself with speed

wheels are gyroscopes

@nosmoking Are you living with your parents now?

@JasperLoy yep like you, only my mom currently, my dad's away for a week

@JasperLoy learning bike should be prior to learning Math

:), never too late, some people learn to swim very late

@nosmoking Hehe. Do you use American or British spelling?

@JasperLoy I know I should try to stick to one only, but it's not easy, American preferably

Am I catastrophic in my spelling?

@nosmoking Your English is fine.

ok, @Jasper, I consider a 6 months Master degree inside Paris, on image processing google.fr/maps/place/45+Rue+des+Saints-P%C3%A8res,+75006+Paris/…

@nosmoking Will it help you in your future work?

@JasperLoy I've not a strong idea of my future job, this may help, but worried about smokers in Paris

This is not a smoke-free uni, I mean inside it's forbidden, but not at the entries

@nosmoking OK. Try to deal with your smoke problem first if you can.

@JasperLoy yes, I'll see my over-diplomed medic soon, to see that

or a Gaussian mixture of both

@Jasper I wonder why your form of schizophrenia is not like mine with an identified and simple "enemy"?

@nosmoking Mine is not schizophrenia but OCD, lol.

oh ok :/, that's also what I say, to hide the term "schizophrenia" with other people

And my "enemy" tends to change in form over time.

@nosmoking OK. Do you tell your emloyers about your schizo?

@JasperLoy About being annoyed greatly by smoke, I may do it, not the first time though

the schizo, no, maybe OCD only

I was diagnosed OCD in 2010, but now in 2014 my new medic said it's hebephrenia (young's schizo)

Hi @rlemon

hello

@nosmoking By medic do you mean a doctor?

@JasperLoy yes sorry yes.

@nosmoking Ah OK, medic has a different meaning than doctor in English.

it's the treatment/drug I guess

@Cerberus veritas est

too bad there's not latin in google trad

@Mahnax Boo!

@nosmoking I just checked the dictionary. It means different things in different places. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/medic

I was not meaning a military doctor for sure :)

I'm thinking what face it is on @Mahnax avatar

@nosmoking I think it is the writer Dostoyevsky.