@RegDwigнt I could never compete with you in slacking. Mainly because I can't work that hard at anything these days.

@Tonepoet And yet, as hell has been abstracted to indicate an intensifier.

From "hot as hell" to "~ as hell" ...

@Robusto Likely from as hot as hell.

@Tonepoet Jinx, by the way.

@Robusto You pinged me after the jinx, and in doing so you broke it. XP

I broke nothing. Pay up.

For example:

@Robusto All I have is Royal Crown Cola:

@Tonepoet Roman Catholic cola? Where ya from, boy, New Orleans?

@Robusto It's not so much a question of where as it is when. You see, I live in a time when the English Monarchy was more than just a figurehead.

That link is 403 (forbidden).

Still forbidden.

@Robusto I forgot to change the U.R.L.

XP

That is what was forbidden? Wow.

@Robusto Saber's great. I wonder if you'd like Ufutoble's version Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works? (It's generally considered the preferred version over the Studio Deen adaptation of Fate/Stay Night).

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position is the foundation of all projects.

That your chair?

Yeah, now I'm trying to stop it from eating me

OMG what button have you pressed.

It was a hamburger

I think hamburgers need to be eaten, not pressed.

Did you read the manual?

It only came in Chinese and Klingon

What lorry did the chair fall off?

It looked more like a large plate than a lorry

Who brought it?

It seemed to be flying by itself

It had a label that read Bermuda delivery services Inc.. In Chinese of course.

Klingon hamburgers are pretty good. Very juicy. And besides, it's probably no one you know.

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@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ So you do read Chinese!

Then why the Hell didn't you read the fucking manual??

@Cerberus No no no no ... you're thinking of hardons, not hadrons.

@Robusto It rather seems like you're thinking of hardons.

@Cerberus Meh, you're the one who got your comment posted on the starboard.

Involuntarily.

I was just looking out for the micro-hadrons.

Anyway, cheap joke, but I'm bored just now soooooo ... any port in a storm.

A storm in a glass of water?

Port is wine, ne?

This is what happens when I have to go to a medical appointment instead of my usual 80 km ride.

The day just ain't the same when I miss the best three hours.

Oh, dear.

Nothing too serious, I hope?

@Cerberus Nah, just a routine visit. But when I scheduled the only time they offered was on Wednesday morning, so I missed a good group ride.

Alas.

Do you wear lycra?

@Cerberus Indeed. For speed and comfort.

Why do you need the speed?

And why is it comfortable?

@Cerberus Better exercise, and it's fun to go fast.

I've gotten up to 75 km/hr on steep downhill segments.

The latter I can understand (though not the former).

That's fast!

I'd be scared.

@Cerberus Mainly because it doesn't flap around, and it has padding on the seat. Jerseys have sensible, large pockets in back to carry all your stuff.

OK.

@Cerberus It can get scary. But it's intoxicating. I always tell myself "I'm just going to take it easy down this hill" ... and then I get caught up in the moment.

A blowout would be bad, but so far I've been fine. I always get out ahead of the other riders because I don't like to ride in a pace line at that kind of speed.

I can't understand the scene under the rain in youtu.be/NOsOFGG5Vc4 at 1:46:20

Can you explain it to me?

@Robusto wow, you have many as hell answers.

You will never become a proper slacker like that. Never!

@Curio well, since it's subtitled, I guess you're not really asking what words they're saying, but rather what those words mean?

It's hard to tell without context. We might need to watch the entire movie. For starters, I don't know who the "him" is they are talking about. But they seem to talk about a man they both were in love with. And one of them (Emily Watson) made a sacrifice by letting the other woman have that man. So the other woman says thanks, I could never do the same for you, you are a stronger person than me.

@RegDwigнt many thanks! What about 1:51:30? I mean, why does the man fall down and die without trying to swim?

@Robusto Yeah, what if someone in front you falls? Would there be enough time to break? In a curve?

@Curio It's called "girl talk" ... and if you're male, you probably won't understand.

@RegDwigнt Doesn't work when you use a noun complement. Dunno why.

@Cerberus At that speed it's hard even to watch for bad pavement and trash.

@Robusto hilarious

@Robusto I can imagine!

shivers

@RegDwigнt: Did we ever talk about whether musical ability correlates with linguistic ability? I want to say it does, but music is a language and yet beyond language, if you know what I mean (and I think you do). Spoken language is artifice, artificial in a way, but music gets right to the heart of things without having to make literal sense.

I'm sure we must have had this discussion before.

@tchrist: So you still think GoT isn't going to get a "Disney" ending?