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12:00 AM

And apparently it has been discovered that it gives you immunity against corona or something. Or heals you 100% no question asked.

So now they're trying to get it approved. Because obviously it is not.

Robusto

Uh, sure ...

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that, too. But my question would be who the fuck tested it and on whom.

Not that I would put it past the Russians that they did.

Robusto

They probably tested it on political prisoners.

RegDwigнt

Anyway, just you watch. All kind of shit will suddenly get certified.

After a century of being classified as WMDs.

Robusto

Just one Ricin pill will cure that coronavirus for good.

Cerberus

12:02 AM

@RegDwigнt Where did you hear this?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Or, tying into my point from earlier, just one regular vaccine not given to a patient will help them die of regular flu and not this horrible corona.

@Cerberus Russian news agencies.

You don't have them in the West.

Cerberus

Hmm.

RegDwigнt

I could actually go look up the name cuz I forgot. Of the medicament, that is.

But I already promised an hour ago to go to bed instead.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt As the saying went, "there's no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia"

RegDwigнt

Of course. It's title case. You only leave the most important words. All the "no"s and all the "in"s are dropped.

tchrist

12:06 AM

@Robusto No, 60s too.

Robusto

Yeah, I was a year off. Sue me.

At least I got the chirality part right. But apparently nobody gives points for that.

/pouts

RegDwigнt

I can give you a horse.

Oh, you said chirality, not chivalry.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt et dona ferentes?

Robusto

Already have a horse. At least my wife does. Me, I don't do that stuff.

RegDwigнt

Yeah no points for chivalry, then.

tchrist

12:08 AM

calvary

RegDwigнt

Calgary

tchrist

Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall

Robusto

No, I don't "timeo Danaos" for anything. Heh, spears. What'd you expect?

RegDwigнt

Eric Clapton - Alberta (Unplugged)

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Alberta is unplugged.

tchrist

@Robusto Danads are deadly!

Robusto

12:10 AM

@RegDwigнt Clapton is a racist.

RegDwigнt

Some spears can be good. Like Britney.

@Robusto who isn't.

tchrist

Our drive-through corvid testing station overflowed today.

Robusto

Yeah, it's probably already a vector for COVID-19.

tchrist

Hundreds of cars backed up, waiting. All with written orders from their doctor to get tested.

RegDwigнt

Well, take a boat next time.

Robusto

12:11 AM

Quick, cue Jim Morrison!

The Doors The End

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RegDwigнt

At least you get orders from your doctors to get tested.

tchrist

The problem is that the drive-through was only open for four hours today.

RegDwigнt

Here every day some Spiegel journalist will post an article how he tried to get himself tested and went to fifty doctors and nobody tested him.

Cerberus

Same here.

RegDwigнt

I guess if he had to pay $3000 for the test, he'd get tested alright.

Cerberus

12:12 AM

Just stay at home if you're feeling mildly ill.

RegDwigнt

I've been feeling mildly ill for the last three months.

I cannot go by that.

Robusto

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again.

RegDwigнt

I am too old to join club 27.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You had your chance and you blew it.

RegDwigнt

Guilty as charged.

Had it only stayed the only chance that I blew.

tchrist

12:15 AM

@RegDwigнt Double that.

And now you can join Club 54.

RegDwigнt

Right anyway. I must go to sleep and I plan to not get up in the morning until I've slept enough. Then I decide whether or not to take a paid leave.

@tchrist I'll keep you posted on that in 14 years.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Or the heirs of my body.

RegDwigнt

Nighty-night.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You're gonna let Amy Winehouse beat you, huh?

Amy got in just under the wire, apparently. 27 years and 332 days.

Wait, Slađa Guduraš is on the list? All right, who's letting Bosnian pop singers in?

@Færd: OK, I took the test and got 950. What'd I win?

@tchrist Pro tip: heirs generally take the money and leave the body.

tchrist

I knew that whole fruit of the loins thing wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Apparently too much LDS.

The Mormons have selfcancelled.

No more gatherings of any sort.

They've always been ones to protect the paternal germ line.

Robusto

12:29 AM

Yeah. Well, what can you say about a religion that was given the word of God on tablets of gold ... and lost them.

tchrist

> New Mexico to close all K-12 public schools for 3 weeks

We're into the 400s of new cases today. In America.

Not the way I had hoped to teach people what growing exponentially really means.

@Robusto Didn't they just renege on rules against polygamous marriages last week or something?

Robusto

Difficult times call for polygamous solutions.

tchrist

Clearly.

Spread the sperm.

> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Thursday that it was suspended all public gatherings around the world. The church is the first major religious tradition to issue such a global edict.

Robusto

@tchrist When most say something grew "exponentionally" they mean "it grew a lot."

tchrist

@Robusto I can't hear you.

Robusto

12:33 AM

Well, that's how people use it. I always just laugh.

tchrist

I am deaf to the sins of the innumerate.

I think the Catholics did something funky for Ash Wednesday this year.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Robusto

There was a great video I used to show people who did that, which showed what actual exponential growth looks like, in 3D. And they were like, "Oh ..."

Can't find the link now.

Trouble is, it's hard to even show on a computer screen, because you have to keep rescaling.

tchrist

That one goes with their little Greatest Common Factor fuckups.

Robusto

The problem is, people simply can't grasp large numbers.

I was talking to someone from California whose home town has about 100,000 people in it. And I told them if everyone in your town lost all their assets, and then Jeff Bezos moved in there, on average everyone in their town would be a millionaire.

Or put it another way. Say you have a million dollars in $100 bills and it makes a pile of bills a foot high. Jeff Bezos's pile would be so high no jet in the world could fly over it.

Even the smallest billionaire's pile would rival the largest skyscrapers.

I know, I sound like a Communits.

But I'm right.

Pero ya lo sabías.

Mitch

1:18 AM

Great so we've moved on from the depressing topic to coronavirus to thalidomide.

tchrist

The birds are innocents, I tell you! All 19 of them night choughs are blameless in this affliction. But don't trust the rook.

tchrist

3:12 AM

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of the Canadian prime minister, has the virus.

Cerberus

3:39 AM

So I read.

Well, I praesume she is young.

tchrist

3:55 AM

Their three children most certainly are.

Cerberus

And her husband.

Cerberus

4:40 AM

@tchrist In Holland and Iran, most religious services are cancelled. In Poland, the Catholic Church has decided it needs more services, to pray away the disease.

Educ

7:11 AM

hi

CowperKettle

8:22 AM

What we call a procedure in which a person who does not have a regular pass card is admitted on a one-off basis on the premises of the plant or factory, and each such one-off admission is reflected in a special "one-offs log" that spells our the specific reason for each admission, the length of stay etc.?

"One-off admission" looks too informal

Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.

CowperKettle

8:36 AM

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Q: What do we call the procedure for single-case admission of visitors, workers, business counterparties on the premises of a company (factory)?

What we call the procedure in which a person who does not have a regular pass card is admitted on a one-off basis on the premises of the plant or factory, and each such one-off admission is reflected in a special "one-offs log" that spells out the specific reason for each admission, the length of...

Matt E. Эллен

8:52 AM

@Cerberus yeah, in Greece "scientists" have proclaimed that you can't get the virus from holy communion

so Easter is going to be, ironically, the dealiest time of the year

Gigili

10:03 AM

@M.A.R. Well, I've seen it the other way around. The example I mentioned did actually mock the isch misch part. I kind of dislike the language altogether.

@RegDwigнt Oh yeah, and what's wrong with that? You just blame yourself for what you ate for dinner yesterday which results in not enough eggs. Then you come up with an idea/solution to the "not enough eggs" issue to finally get baking apple pie.

As for the capitalization, I just capitalize all nouns regardless of their role in the sentence.

RegDwigнt

10:26 AM

@Gigili well I did try to explain what felt wrong about that.

@Gigili yeah that was pretty much how they tried to make it work after the spelling reform. But then they started rolling some of it back.

(Of course, "all nouns regardless of their role" is a funny thing to say. It is only a noun if its role is a noun. It is not a noun if its role is a verb.)

Gigili

@RegDwigнt Right, but apparently you weren't successful.

@RegDwigнt that's not true. You can tell adverbs from adjectives or verbs even if there's no sentence that includes them yet.

RegDwigнt

10:55 AM

@Gigili yeah I figured as much. But either way, the executive summary is that that word feels alien there.

@Gigili well yes, but luckily we're not talking about adverbs or adjectives or verbs.

Which part of "It is not a noun if its role is a verb" do you specifically object to?

I do try to choose my words carefully at all times.

@Cerberus so they closed all schools and kindergardens. Till Easter at least.

I'm in the bottom left corner. Bordering France. They say Grand Est is a high-risk area.

Should be interesting. It's the time of the year where students have their final high school exams. Nobody is sure how to handle those just yet.

Gigili

11:29 AM

@RegDwigнt How is it possible that Berlin is onenof the red cities but none of the cities around it are red? Do they jump from a red city to the other?

RegDwigнt

1:00 PM

@Gigili this is a map of where the schools are closed. As the title says, which I know you're able to read. :-P

Education and culture in Germany are in the hands of the individual states, just like in the US, which Germany is modelled after.

The state of Berlin in an enclave. Everything around it, all the way every which way, that's all Brandenburg. Which hasn't closed its schools just yet.

tchrist

It's why there can't be a national order to close schools etc here.

I think. I may be wrong.

RegDwigнt

Well there could be. Martial law is a thing.

tchrist

I wasn't counting on that happening.

Maybe I shouldn't not.

RegDwigнt

Also executive orders or whatever they're called.

tchrist

This is the gravest threat since the war.

@RegDwigнt Unclear. Those can only effect federal things.

RegDwigнt

1:05 PM

What Obama did back in the day. Can't remember what it even was. But there was a whole lot of fuss about it.

tchrist

Oh they reversed one of his, yes.

Then again, consider Lincoln's Emancipation Declaration. That had no basis in law. Later they squared away the paperwork.

RegDwigнt

So anyway. All the secretaries of culture came together yesterday to discuss with Merkel if there should be just that, a nation-wide order.

For the time being they decided everyone can still do their own thing.

tchrist

And?

I see.

RegDwigнt

Bavaria is obviously too close to Tirol. Saarland is bordering on Grand Est.

tchrist

At least six states are closing at least some schools.

RegDwigнt

1:08 PM

And I'm guessing Lower Saxony is just too close to @Cerberus for its own liking.

Berlin, I dunno. Maybe they're just out of money as per usual and happy to save every cent.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

See. Sometimes being Kansas does pay off.

tchrist

As you see, twister season hasn't even gotten started.

RegDwigнt

I didn't want to say. In the thumbnail it did look like hurricanes over Washington.

tchrist

And NYC.

RegDwigнt

1:12 PM

Is the one case in Alaska Sarah Palin? I can't quite make out in the picture if it's her porch or not.

tchrist

Try waving.

RegDwigнt

Salt Lake City is in Utah, right? That's where our other choir was. All returned safely.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I'm not in Russia right now. Russia's closed.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Yes. And I had been thinking about that.

@RegDwigнt Naw, there's only three or four cases there. Putin said so.

Utah thus far has found only three.

RegDwigнt

1:14 PM

I'm not talking about the number of cases. I'm talking about that not even my brother can travel there.

You go there, you have to put yourself under house arrest for 14 days.

So he cancelled his trip, which was for 10 days only so he couldn't even have faked it. The dates wouldn't match.

tchrist

Sounds Israeli.

RegDwigнt

Nah, them's only doing that to foreign citizens.

Gigili

@RegDwigнt Oh sorry! I usually skip texts when there's a graphic.

tchrist

RegDwigнt

That's your two-party system in a nutshell right there.

Gigili

1:22 PM

That's a complicated situation.

tchrist

Was going to do the Red Queen, but she ran too fast.

RegDwigнt

Leaving LA by Tim Minchin and Tee Ken Ng

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That's a shitton of work to put in a music video.

Computers notwithstanding.

tchrist

The second line's fricatives are easily misunderstood by anybody unfamiliar with the cultural context of American brand names.

@RegDwigнt Not enough. They needed to spend more money on rendering: the 12 fps strobes make me queasy.

Or maybe it's 6. It's not much.

skullpatrol

♦ Coronavirus Chat Zone

RPG.SE's offtopic room for COVID-19 related discussion. May be...

Matt E. Эллен

1:41 PM

We need a CORVID 19 chat room for discussing the 19 crows I blame for my down fall

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well, technically 15 crows, a rook, two ravens and a magpie

tchrist

choughs

skullpatrol

:O

tchrist

@skullpatrol I see it's BYOD but doesn't say whether that means 2D10 or 3D6.

@MattE.Эллен The maggies have been utterly ungracious in all this.

skullpatrol

Coronavirus.SE?

tchrist

I'm never been good at simulations. Too much dissimulating right now for that.

skullpatrol

1:49 PM

::checks area 51::

tchrist

Wrong area: I believe the Andromeda Strain is being held there.

skullpatrol

classic

until they made it into a TV Mini series in 2008

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Elsters and eksters, pegas and urracas, and of course la gazza ladra robbing them all blind.

@skullpatrol Son, that's way after my time.

Them all skjære me.

Craban!

Matt E. Эллен

@tchrist always the stooge leading me astray

tchrist

Moe the better.

The i-mutating Sindarin plural of craban is crebain.

From Proto-Germanic *hrabanaz.

.

Evermoor of Albion.

Matt E. Эллен

2:10 PM

the inverse of a black sheep

tchrist

He awaits you in his afterimage.

Robusto

2:26 PM

@MattE.Эллен Doesn't "corvid" just mean "crowlike creature"?

Also ravens.

@skullpatrol You weren't kidding. That's a real chatroom. The descriptor should be, however, "For going on at length with strangers about a problem none of us can solve and have heard before but still can't get enough fear and gloom."

@RegDwigнt And you thought music videos were going to be easy?

Me, I'm feeling better this morning. My upper-respiratory problem appears to be clearing.

All it took was not riding like a banshee for a few days.

But damn, it's dull just staying at home.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto if it's in the crow family, it's a crow. it's like a thieves guild.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен And I don't even know the secret handshake, so they wouldn't let me in.

Bunch of stuck-up bastards.

Year 536 Was the Worst Year to Be Alive - What Happened?

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Cheer up. Things were way worse a long time ago.

terdon

2:41 PM

I will let you make your own minds up about whether this is good news or bad.

Matt E. Эллен

in my office we were discussing how old Trump, Biden and Sanders are all at risk. Now Trump probably has it...

Pence 2020 anyone?

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен makes sign against evil

But, yeah, I hope Biden chooses a young, healthy running mate. Maybe Amy Klobuchar.

Robusto

3:03 PM

I still haven't adjusted to DST. Before last week I was getting up at 6:30 a.m. Now I'm getting up at 7:30 a.m. It just seems natural. Why fight it?

Matt E. Эллен

it's because the real (i.e. British) change happens on the 29th. you'll adjust when we do

Robusto

No doubt. That date is much more civilized—er, civilised.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

skullpatrol

typical imperialist :P

Matt E. Эллен

colonialist, tyvm!

Robusto

3:06 PM

It's what we used to do before people got hysterical about saving energy in a misguided way.

skullpatrol

:-)

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Don't you mean Pence BobBob?

Twenty pence to a bob.

Matt E. Эллен

oh :D
had me scratching my head there

Robusto

You're too young to remember pre-metric money.

Matt E. Эллен

I am

Robusto

3:12 PM

Just read your Lewis Carroll: "In this style 10/6" ...

tchrist

2020 is like MX squared.

Matt E. Эллен

but "bob" is still used enough that I know it's money

Robusto

10 shillings sixpence.

A little over half a pound.

tchrist

£sd

Matt E. Эллен

stlboz

Robusto

3:13 PM

@MattE.Эллен What does bob mean these days, besides in "And Bob's your uncle."

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto I guess it means "a small amount of money". "It's only a couple of bob"

tchrist

Damn it I need to pinch three bob off somebody or I can't get through the turnstile.

Robusto

Heh. A small, nonspecific amount.

Matt E. Эллен

yeah

Robusto

Do young people use it or just the older folks?

Matt E. Эллен

3:15 PM

I can't be sure, but I'd say probably only older folks

tchrist

Now they just have dimes.

20p is a dimes there.

Like how 1d6 is a dice. They aren't good at English.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

tchrist

Is CORVID-19 enough to count as a murder, or just an unkindness?

Mitch

haha

I am at this very moment taking an online class on how to give online classes. Naturally, the presenter has a dog barking in the back ground.

Robusto

Of course.

RegDwigнt

3:27 PM

@Robusto well, here's an easy music video.

Tuba Skinny - Jubilee Stomp - Royal Street I 2018

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Mitch

Plus a number of "Can you hear me now?"s

RegDwigнt

Watch the couple in the back on the right at 0:30.

It's amazing.

Mitch

Now if only I can work out chatting -while- in the midst of giving a talk.

Matt E. Эллен

yes, yes, I can hear meow

RegDwigнt

@Mitch just read the chat out aloud to them.

Mitch

3:28 PM

Nice.

I wil expect many groan worthy puns from you all.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch practice by becoming a twitch streamer

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Dixieland owes a big debt to klezmer. And yet it's a style all its own.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен you've probably heard this one:

> The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

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RegDwigнt

@Robusto Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants. The question is what it is they are doing standing there. If anything at all.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt: Are there female concertmasters in Germany now, and are they called by the feminine version of Konzertmeister?

@Jim: The problem there is that a female in that job is still the concertmaster. Calling her the concert mistress? I can hear the snickers from the bassoons behind me already. — Robusto 2 hours ago

Matt E. Эллен

3:31 PM

@Mitch I did :D I think in my DnD group's whatsapp

Mitch

From the online course to teach on-line courses: "the mailman just came, that's why my dogs went crazy"

@MattE.Эллен I've heard that seriously as an online teaching forum.

Robusto

Dixieland is picking up my spirits already. ^_^

Mitch

> The reason I haven't seen far is because dwarves are standing on my toes.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch doesn't surprise me. it's good quality streaming (at least for the strems I've seen) and OBS is free and relatively easy to use

RegDwigнt

@Robusto there have always been female concertmasters in Germany. And yes you can call them either way, depending on context. Nothing to do with the recent rubbish debates or anything. It's a venerable profession.

Mitch

3:32 PM

@MattE.Эллен Except I'm old and don't know what twitch is at all except that something that kids use to do something involving computers and stuff.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that's why we go over these things.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Always? Even in the big orchestras?

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch it's a platform for sharing what's happening on your video out. (OBS is software for streaming)

RegDwigнt

The distinction in German does not sound anywhere as appalling as in English. It's not master vs mistress. It's master vs. mastress, as it were. The gravity of the title is much preserved.

@Robusto depending on context, as I said. Sometimes the one is more polite than the other; other times, exactly the other way round. But you'd definitely put the gendered version on your resume, like.

Robusto

Gravity makes it sounds like she's fat. I'd call it preserving the dignity of the title.

Mitch

3:36 PM

@MattE.Эллен So this whole self-quarantining thing is going to move pretty quickly to the scenario in 'Surrogates' where the next step is that we all have facsimile robots of ourselves (but obviously much better looking) going about real world activities while we lie down in our robot-controller harnesses.

RegDwigнt

And when I'm like talking to my violin teacher about their flautist, I don't refer to her as Flötist, it's definitely Flötistin 100% of the time.

Robusto

Weird.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch pa ra dice

bring it on

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен Pair o' dice.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto 2d6

Mitch

3:37 PM

@MattE.Эллен And on their off hours, the robots sit around together taking whiffs of corroded old car batteries.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch I foget why the robots became sentient in surrogates, or did they?

something like that

RegDwigнt

@Robusto well it's like with all them honorifics everywhere all the time. An impenetrable clusterfuck. でしょう.

Robusto

Yeah. But some gots 'em and some ain't.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен In "Surrogates" I don't think they're sentient in the same way as in "I Robot"

Robusto

And what do you think you mean by でしょう? The -しょう suffix implies intention or volition. What are you intending or volitioning?

Matt E. Эллен

3:41 PM

@Mitch it was a "slaves are bad" story, though, right?

it's been so long since I saw it

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен oh, there was a plot?

Matt E. Эллен

:D

Mitch

awsl

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен It's not the slaves that are bad. Poor things, they can't help it. Which is why the masters must keep them from indulging their base natures.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto it's my go-to one-size-fits-all word for all cases of nicht wahr.

I wouldn't know how to use ni inai, say.

Matt E. Эллен

3:42 PM

@Robusto :D I truncated my thought "slavery is bad"

@Mitch batteries not included?

M.A.R.

@Gigili well, since I've begun learning the language, I have no other choice but to like it

RegDwigнt

Why is @MattE.Эллен listing off all the video categories on PornHub? "Slaves are bad", "batteries not included"...

Also why is this room so full. Is it always like that at the time.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt In that case you're better off with the simpler ですね.

RegDwigнt

Making notes.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt self isolationists are coming in because they're not at work?

Robusto

3:46 PM

In fact, that corresponds most excellently to nicht wahr.

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен another great category. Though not very populated.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I expect nothing less than most excellence from you.

Robusto

Feb 3 '11 at 20:07, by Robusto

See, that's why we go over this stuff.

RegDwigнt

Most of the time I get it from you, too. Except when we're talking K-Pop.

Robusto

3:47 PM

K-Pop is a concept I tend to hold at arm's length, between thumb and forefinger.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен My vague memory is that they were sniffing -something-.

RegDwigнt

See. Quod demonstrandum erat.

Mitch

It was in "Sleeper" where Woody Allen's future robot dog poops little batteries

RegDwigнt

Is that part of your talk?

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Are erats like ebugs?

@Mitch I live there.

RegDwigнt

3:48 PM

Efuck if I know.

Robusto

@Mitch If I could poop batteries I wouldn't need toilet paper.

Matt E. Эллен

if I could poop toilet paper...

RegDwigнt

Dur-ass-ell.

Matt E. Эллен

:D

RegDwigнt

This is one hell of a talk Mitch is giving right now.

Not quite too many cat pix, but I hope he has the wisdom to supply those himself.

Mitch

3:51 PM

xswl

in the bathroom as we speak

RegDwigнt

Why would you speak in a bathroom.

Bathroom is where you sing.

Mitch

OK I'm done.

Robusto

Bathroom is where I sing Wagner. It seems only fitting.

Mitch

Did you hear about the gorilla who sings himself a happy song while he's eating?

It me.

Robusto

Actually, in the shower, where the spray feels like ocean spray and I can belt out "The Steersman's Song" from The Flying Dutchman.

RegDwigнt

3:54 PM

Trog mich Tristan, sollt' ich hoffen,
was sein Trügen mir getroffen,
sei durch Melots Rat redlich mir bewahrt?

Robusto

> Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer -
mein Mädel, bin dir nah!
Über turmhohe Flut vom Süden her -
Mein Mädel, ich bin da!
Mein Mädel, wenn nicht Südwind wär,
ich nimmer wohl käm zu dir;
ach, lieber Südwind, blas noch mehr!
Mein Mädel verlangt nach mir!
Hohoja! Hallohoho Jollohohoho! Heho!
Hohoja! Hallohoho

RegDwigнt

Holy fuck. I was just searching for something and typed the words "guess age" into Google. And it actually returned my age ± one year.

That's some serious fourth-wall breaking.

Matt E. Эллен

oh, it was a "technology for helping disabled people is bad" moral

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's pretty lame for Google. It really knows your exact age to the second, but wants to give the impression that your data is secure.

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен why you still on PornHub.

Matt E. Эллен

3:57 PM

yeah, I'm pretty sure I've told google my birthday

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I was wondering about that. Maybe them's covering their tracks.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt what else should I do in the office?

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен I told it someone else's.

Matt E. Эллен

@Mitch smort

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен well. Not that.

Big Train - Work Place W@nking

►

Matt E. Эллен

3:59 PM

I'm just browsing

Robusto

That's been disallowed in England, IIRC.

Matt E. Эллен

I'm typing using both my hands, honest

RegDwigнt

@Robusto not if you're the PM.

Robusto

Well, he was a wanker from the git-go.

Back in a bit.

Gigili

4:21 PM

@M.A.R. You definitely are not forced to like the language you are trying to learn. On the contrary, I think if you dislike it you will be learning the language at a much faster pace.

That's my opinion as a non-linguist

@MattE.Эллен What's it mean?

Matt E. Эллен

@Gigili two six sided dice

Gigili

Ah, that's lucky

CowperKettle

5:11 PM

> Philosophy puns
are a Nietzsche market

M.A.R.

5:37 PM

@Gigili o.O that doesn't work with my brain. How so?

CowperKettle

Word of the day: bullfinch

> The course was the devil! A start on the level,
And then a stiff breather uphill;
A bank at the top with a four-foot drop,
And a bullfinch down by the mill.

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