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11:00 PM
Why don't you see the point?
 
Because the system is backwards.
 
Then what would be forwards?
 
I have visited a million countries, I speak a billion languages, I have read a trillion books and I play a quidrillion instruments, If all you can offer to match that with is a cunt, I shouldn't be paying you. You should be paying me.
I am one of a kind. You're just a whore. So pay up.
 
How denigrating.
 
I am not denigrating them. They are denigrating themselves.
 
11:02 PM
The girl who works in the house behind my house goes to university.
I'm sure she speaks many languages.
@RegDwigнt Why?
 
@Cerberus remember what your mother told you. You could be anything you want. You can learn twenty languages and play fifty instruments. You can be the President. You can become an astronaut.
 
If I had to choose between prostitution and an office job, it would be a difficult choice.
 
Exactly. Because the system is backwards.
 
@RegDwigнt I don't think I could be president of much.
 
If you had to pay for being a prostitute, it wouldn't be a difficult choice at all.
 
11:05 PM
For some girls, it's terrible.
For others, it's fine.
For yet others, it is a fun job.
Compare it with other jobs.
Many people hate their jobs.
 
I know what you are saying. These are not difficult points or original ideas.
Mine is.
 
But is it comprehensible?
Or serious?
 
That is not for me to decide.
Serious yes.
If you want Bill Gates to work for your company, you have to pay up. If you want to hire a crappy intern instead, you basically pay nothing.
So if you have to fuck a stinky schmoe, he should totally pay you for the privilege. But if you want to spend a night with someone higher on the ladder, there's a point where you should be the one paying not them.
 
I'm not sure I understand.
Meanwhile:
> In Japanese schools dying your hair isn't allowed. That means that Japanese students are expected to have their hair black.

Now, what about people whose natural hair isn't black? Well, in some places they are forced to dye it black, to look "Japanese", entering into a some kind of Catch-22 situation where they are breaking the rules to follow those rules.
 
I'm not sure that's anywhere as much of a problem as that tries to make it sound.
 
11:13 PM
@RegDwigнt So what would you charge, what with all those languages and all?
 
@Xanne I do not charge. I am not a whore. And neither should be my partner.
 
Well, big, big.
 
I think there's a very basic misunderstanding here.
I am not saying that I'm running around the city demanding from whores that they pay me for sex.
All I'm saying is that I am not running around the city paying them.
 
@RegDwigнt Some political fundraising in the US rewards donors with lunch with the candidate.
 
Well, good for you.
So you won't collide with all those other running people.
 
11:16 PM
@RegDwigнt You could charge each other and then it'd be even/
 
@Cerberus I know. Other people are such a nuisance.
 
Kill them all.
 
@Cerberus Whore running is pretty dangerous.
 
Bumping heads, twisted ankles.
 
11:17 PM
Hmm too bad.
 
@Xanne No lunch is worth that kind of money.
 
@Cerberus No. Again, why should I be doing the work. They should be the ones doing it. I'm kinda busy doing other things.
 
In case you haven't seen the slaughterbots video yet, click that link.
 
unless it is an all you can eat buffet.
then maybe
 
@Cerberus is that like that Onion Tesla that kills the driver?
 
11:18 PM
@Cerberus russian troll
 
@RegDwigнt Hmm I haven't seen that one yet.
@Mitch Thank you.
 
@Cerberus de nada
 
Prius not Tesla. Sorry. I'm bad with cars.
But I'm sure other manufacturers are watching closely and catching up.
 
@RegDwigнt How efficient.
 
11:21 PM
Very much so. The video is only 1 minute long rather than 8. That is how you do it.
ONN rules, SDN drools.
@Mitch I might do that if you were Emily Blunt. At which point there'd be no money involved, period. Because you'd be a lovely lady and not a cunt.
Hm. Maybe shouldn't have used the second person there.
Then again I don't care.
I'll just pretend to be Australian.
 
Not English?
 
No, English is more like twat.
Cunt is firmly in Australian hand.
English has all kinds of wonderful words.
Like plum. I learned that one from a Geordie. What a beautiful word.
Sometimes I miss Xbox Live.
Getting to talk to fifty different people from all corners of the world and all walks of life.
And that's on a bad day.
 
Are we not enough for you?
And the beautiful people on Muse Score?
 
The beautiful people on MuseScore don't even speak a language.
There are maybe like three people on there that do.
 
They try.
 
11:34 PM
And we do converse every day.
 
At any rate, us lot are deeply hurt.
 
But usually it's not them teaching me plum, but me teaching them hash.
 
That we should not be enough for you.
Hash as in C sharp?
 
I can never have enough. I am never really interested in what I can do. I am always really interested in what else I can do.
@Cerberus aww that's so sweet of you trying to bait tchrist like that.
These share about as much in common as a minus and an em dash. Or a b and a d.
No, I had to explain hash in its computer sense to that one trombone player. Who just might be one of the wisest and most learned men walking the face of this planet. But even the wisest man is rarely omniscient.
 
@RegDwigнt I cast my net to catch either of you.
Remember the A discussion?
 
11:38 PM
I remember all the discussions. That is literally my job here.
 
@RegDwigнt See, you couldn't resist my lure.
 
@Cerberus you always had me silly.
 
Yeah.
You're so easy.
 
I know, right. All you have is compare your languages to mine and then pay for the difference.
 
3 — 2 = 1.
 
11:39 PM
That's one rouble, please. And yes I'm noticing.
 
Rouble trouble.
How is the rate doing these days?
 
Even on this crappy 32-bit piece of tin, an em dash is visually distinct from a minus.
@Cerberus good question. Next question.
I don't think my Eselsbrücke from eight years ago still holds.
It was divide by hundred multiply by three.
To get from roubles to Euros.
 
Ezelsbruggetje!
 
But that started changing even before I stopped caring.
 
I remember 3 francs to a gulden.
A thousand lires to a gulden.
 
11:41 PM
Oh I remember all the old rates.
I still have francs and guldens here.
 
I think drachmas were worth even less than lires.
 
I still calculate in deutschmarks occasionally.
 
Good.
I think a mark was about f. 1,20 or so.
 
I have literally every German coin of every denomination with every letter.
From 1948 to the end of the 90s.
 
That's so like you.
 
11:43 PM
Still have a bunch of Glückspfennige, too.
 
I think I have a 100-milliard-mark stamp somewhere.
 
Those with the letter G and my birth year.
 
Or perhaps I got the number mixed up.
 
@Cerberus I have an unstamped stamp of the Führer himself.
Must be worth something. I dunno.
 
I own several Euro coins.
 
11:44 PM
I have 2-Euro coins lying around all around the appartment.
 
@RegDwigнt You could send it to poor Zschnäps, or whatever her name was.
 
Whoever visits always asks WTF.
 
Y?
 
Those are all different coins.
Every time I get change at the supermarket, I check the coins.
See if I can get something special.
So I've got quite a collection by now.
Still none from Vatican, obviously. But quite a few from Lithuania and Slovakia and even Malta.
 
Also very much like you.
 
11:45 PM
And then all the special prints from Germany and France and Italy. To celebrate this or that.
50 years of the Treaty of Rome, 5000 years of the Carabinieri. Some Olympic games somewhere.
I just dump them on whatever shelf is I'm standing next to.
This room is drowning in money. People are always perplexed.
 
Dagobert Duck?
Do you wipe and kiss them all the time?
 
No. I literally leave them there and forget.
I'm not even noticing anymore.
But obviously if you visit for the first time, it catches the eye.
All the LEGO and all the coins and all the books and all the instruments, all dumped in one room.
It's like a real-life version of a where's-Waldo book.
A paradise for kids.
 
Can anyone find you?
 
All the Rubik's cubes and pyramids and dodecahedrons.
@Cerberus that is a very pertinent question on so many levels.
 
Hmm.
 
11:52 PM
But I always went with that Kafka quote. Ever since I read it in his diaries when I was like 16.
Wer sucht, findet nicht. Doch wer nicht sucht, wird gefunden.
 
Cryptic.
From which book?
 
Yeah. Sure was to me. Which is why I liked it so much as a stupid teen.
But with time it becomes a trite truism.
@Cerberus diaries as I said. I don't remember the date.
But I could get up and check right now.
 
Oh.
I mislooked.
 
Proving hard to find. Still checking.
Found a whole bunch of other stuff I used to quote by heart but long forgot.
 

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