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12:00 AM
@Robusto They don't indeed but penguins undergo Penguiness with considerable relish, they are just like us the French!
 
12:15 AM
@jlliagre Penguiness? That place is a dive!
 
12:47 AM
Guinness in a dive bar!
La dive bouteille.
== Français == === Étymologie === Composé de dive et de bouteille. L'expression provient du Cinquième Livre, de Rabelais. === Locution nominale === dive bouteille \div bu.tɛj\ féminin — Note : elle est utilisée uniquement avec l'article défini au singulier. (Littéraire) Le vin de la fête, des beuveries. Son visage était courroucé, sa trogne rouge flamboyait ; il se promettait de lancer vertement l’intrus qui, si mal à propos, troublait sa conversation nocturne et quotidienne avec la dive bouteille. — (Paul Lafargue , Pie IX au Paradis - 1890) Tous les quatre ans, au moment des élect...
 
@jlliagre Funny story. The first time I was in Paris I went into a Vietnamese restaurant, which offered wine. I knew the word bouteille, but on the menu it was abbreviated, but without a period at the end. So I thought bout was abbreviation slang for bottle. And I got the strangest looks. Eventually the waiter insisted that we speak English.
 
Haha, let's drink a piece of wine!
 
Absolutely.
À bout de souffle.
 
1:08 AM
Voyage au bout de la nuit.
 
Maybe where you are. I still have some daylight left.
 
Journey to the End of the Night (French: Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This semi-autobiographical work follows the adventures of Ferdinand Bardamu in the World War I, colonial Africa, the United States and the poor suburbs of Paris where he works as a doctor. The novel won the Prix Renaudot in 1932 but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his innovative writing style based on working class speech, slang and neologisms. It is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century...
 
@jlliagre that's pretty prejudicial. Not all natural characteristics are so uniform. Take for example the Antarctica's.
 
@Mitch I already brought that up. See above.
 
@Robusto what?
 
1:21 AM
4 hours ago, by Robusto
Did you hear that the Antarcticans walk around like penguins? It's true! Oh, wait ... those are penguins ...
 
Apropos of nothing, 'Extraordinary' is Excellent
@Robusto i don't get it
 
4 hours ago, by Robusto
@jlliagre Funny that Antarctica gets off scot free. Nobody makes jokes about our frozen neighbors to the south.
@Mitch You of all people should be down with this shit.
 
Does "Excel format" without an article sound fine to a native speaker?

In this case you can use the less powerful wildcards facility provided by Calc because spreadsheets that utilize wildcards can be exported to Excel format without loss of data.
 
Yes.
 
Thank you
 
1:27 AM
We would only use an article there to distinguish that from other possible formats.
A. Which of the three formats should I use this time?
B. I think the Excel format would be best.
You could still drop the article from B's reply.
You could even use an indefinite article there, but that's a bit more exotic. It could sound capricious.
 
Thank you very much
 
Well, OpenDocument format is actually the best.
 
1:42 AM
@MichaelRybkin No problem.
 
@Robusto down with what?
 
@Mitch with "this shit" ...
 
Why are you talking to me when you could be watching 'Extraordinary'
 
@Mitch I could ask the same thing of you.
 
Ha
And I mean that to sting
@Robusto go ahead then
Ok I'll save you time
 
1:50 AM
> Why are you talking to me when you could be watching 'Extraordinary'
 
I already watched it
 
Brat.
 
That's how I know
 
@MichaelRybkin This bit from Simpsons helped me remember that in __ form uses no articles: youtube.com/watch?v=ShOo0CED_yU
 
@Mitch I don't even know what "it" is.
So, looking it up just now, I will say only that I'm bored with movies where people have super powers.
 
2:07 AM
Word of the morn: whippersnapper -- (colloquial, dated) A young and cheeky or presumptuous person. [from 1670s]
 
@Robusto oh yeah i get that. But at least it is making fun of it all.
The premise is that everybody in the world has a superpower except for the main character
 
I understand that. Still a hard pass for me.
Me, I liked Mystery Men, which lampooned the whole super power notion by creating a world full of "garage band" wannabe superheroes. And nobody had any actual powers.
 
For example, her mom has the ability to control technology with her mind. But she's a mom so she doesn't understand technology so she just randomly makes phones and TVs operate badly
 
Sounds good, I'll try to watch Extraordinary.
 
I downloaded Muriel's Wedding
An acquaintance of mine, a 50+ yo man with whom I run together sometimes, said that he went to work for three weeks in Ukraine in September, as an electrician. Because the pay was very good.
How his wife and his kids let him go there, is beyond me. Do they watch only Putin-TV.
 
2:44 AM
I am failing to attach the screenshot to share this gem of words from the AP on Twitter
... "We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant."
 
What, you don't see an equivalence among "the mentally ill, the French, and the disabled"? ;-)
 
Sorry there. It was redacted rather quickly but as I pointed out to the one who sent it to me, we have all answer about definite articles with the tired, the poor, the humbled masses....
 
People of the French persuasion.
 
And the demonyms. It doesn't really matter what nationality they picked; some are already embracing it.
The poor Americans who feel included must have complained.
 
I am weary of all these cause célèbre-of-the-moment campaigns to "fix" vocabulary according to the latest fashions in virtue signalling.
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2:52 AM
@livresque Remember that Stanford "Elimination of Harmful Languages Initiative" which asked to get rid of the word "American" and replace it with "US citizen" just a few weeks ago?
 
It's ridonculottes.
@forest We the people. Oui.
@forest Ugh ugh ugh, remember that Stanford prison experiment?
 
Yes. Did it get renamed to "Stanford Corrections Facility Experiment" or something?
 
@Robusto I grow weary of this world. Insert RHPS gif of Magenta.
@forest Milgram experiments.
Came first.
 
The first son of Benito Mussolini.
Was placed in a psychiatric hospital for claiming Benito as his dad, given insulin coma treatment and mysteriously died in 1942 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombello_Psychiatric_Hospital
 
@livresque I'd have to do the Time Warp to get there.
 
3:06 AM
@Robusto Let's! "It's just jump to left" now, no articles.
@CowperKettle "Unsolved Mysteries" wouldn't touch that one, or would they?
True crime show with dramatic reënactments that I think got a recent reboot after its first run from back when I had five or six channels.
 
3:30 AM
@forest I heard it was renamed Near Western Pacific Coastal Research and Development Center for Promotion of Dramatic Arts of Postal Electrical Engineering and all they did was play Zip Zap Zop.
 
Literary word of the morn: ochone /ɔ.xo.nə/ -- alas
 
3:50 AM
Oh that fixed it. They still like to get letters so writing French people should be okay. Not sure about "the college-educated."
 
4:44 AM
 
5:34 AM
Word of the late morn: transiliac bone biopsy
 
5:56 AM
> The churning of the Ocean of Milk was an extensive process: Mount Mandara was uprooted and used as the churning rod and Vasuki, a naga who resided on Shiva's neck, became the churning rope after being promised that it would get its share.
Indian mythology is always on an industrial scale. Churning of the ocean of milk. Thousands of deities. Huge armies battling each other.
 
6:37 AM
> An anti-Islam activist has burned copies of the Muslim holy book near a Copenhagen mosque and outside the Turkish embassy in Denmark.
 
 
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8:57 AM
"Homeless" is dehumanizing. Try "adventuring".
@Vikas they should be fined for creating air and visual pollution
@CowperKettle I was under the impression they were smaller than that
The needles I mean. Maybe it's .5 mm?
 
9:59 AM
@M.A.R. I'm sure that they are small, this must be schematic representation
 
10:54 AM
Word of the day: mulesing -- the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep to prevent the parasitic infection flystrike (myiasis)
 
11:05 AM
Is flystrike a word only used in relation to cattle and other animals?
 
11:55 AM
She has a very strong hand. Poor frogs.
 
> Scientists occasionally conduct experiments on themselves. Among the most famous was Isaac Newton's extraordinary method for probing the nature of colour. He stuck a bodkin, a long sewing needle with a blunt point, into his eye socket, between eye and bone, and recorded seeing coloured circles and other visual phenomena.
 
12:36 PM
@M.A.R. I think it's a sensitive thing. If something like this would happen here, consequences could be severe.
 
1:24 PM
Good cop, bad cop.
Or rather, looney cop, mad cop.
Gopniks is their name, indimidation is their game.
A gopnik (Russian: гопник, romanized: gopnik, pronounced [ˈɡopnʲɪk]; Ukrainian: гопник, romanized: hopnyk; Belarusian: гопнік, romanized: hopnik) is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics — a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class background who usually lives in Russian suburban areas and comes from a family of poor education and income.The collective noun is gopota (Russian: гопота). The subculture of gopota has its roots in working-class communities in the late Russian Empire and gradually emerged underground during the...
 
1:37 PM
Amazing.
 
2:05 PM
@CowperKettle There is an Adam Gopnik in the US, who is one of my favorite writers. He writes for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and others.
Perhaps it's a nom de plume?
 
@Robusto I heard such surnames, yes :)
They are totally unrelated to the slang term.
It's a Jewish surname dating to the early 1800s in Russia
I googled but found no explanation for the surname. Probably some Hebrew word, Russified with a suffix?
My mother said that my Jewish grandfather was saved from encirclement in 1941 by some unknown Russian woman, who lied that he was her Russian husband. I did not know that, or forgot. So Germans let him go "home", and he tried to sneak through the frontlines back to the USSR-held territory.
 
@CowperKettle That seems unlike the German soldiers in WWII to let any Russian go. I think he got very lucky.
 
2:21 PM
@Robusto I should ask a question about this on History.SE.
I know that they gathered them in huge unsheltered plots of land, and let them starve en masse.
They thought that the war would be over soon, and there would be no need for slave workforce.
On a Russian Q&A site, people say that the "let go" policy only existed at the very start of the invasion, and was initiated by local Wermacht commanders, unwilling to manage and feed prisoners. m.yandex.ru/q/worldshistory/7986615553
But I don't trust such sites.
 
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2:40 PM
Soldier Vassily Osipenko in his memoirs wrote that he was released after capture in Crimea, because he pretended to be a Ukrainian and named some half-score villages located on a map near "his" village. lib.memo.ru/book/13814
Allegedly such releasees were given documents which they had to register with the local headquarters (Kommendatura)
How on earth he managed then to reach beyond the frontline, I don't know.
 
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An oversight on my part. I should remember to look at ALL the letters discovered.
 
I started googling about Vassily Osipenko and found a video describing how "Senior warrant officer Vasily Osipenko prevented the explosion of shells by driving his truck out of the fire zone, despite being wounded. August 2022, Ukraine."
Not exactly the Osipenko I looked for. Eighty years late, but maybe close to the same location.
 
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2:57 PM
Nemes Tarimo was given a funeral in Tanzania after being killed in Ukraine as part of the Wagner Group, where he enrolled from a Russian jail.
He served a term of 7 years for some undisclosed sentence.
Distance from Tanzania to Ukraine: 8000 km (Google)
That's some traveling.
> Tanzania has a population of 63.59 million, making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator.
Like two Ukraines.
Home to the Olduvai Gorge.
> The Haya people on the western shores of Lake Victoria invented a type of high-heat blast furnace, which allowed them to forge carbon steel at temperatures exceeding 1,820 °C (3,310 °F) more than 1,500 years ago.
He might have tried to earn some money by carrying drugs, and got caught.
Wikipedia is a great invention, in terms of countries' descriptions.
 
3:41 PM
@CowperKettle That's what sh . . . Ah nevermind
 
3:59 PM
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4:11 PM
I have no idea where this country is.
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4:26 PM
Sheer luck! I recalled the history of the country, it was interesting in the beginning of the 19th century.
 
4:38 PM
Someone should run a study on whether the prevalence of schizophrenia varies across the globe depending on beet consumption.
 
5:04 PM
@CowperKettle we've probably muddied the waters with all the synthetic crap we have introduced into the nature.
A lot of it (most of it?) neurotoxic.
 
@M.A.R. Mostly fossils, or derivatives of fossils.
It would have been better to leave it in the ground where it belonged.
 
I was thinking pesticides and such, but sure, that works too
 
@M.A.R. That as well. Are pesticides also fossil derived?
Or created from scratch?
 
Unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbons tend to be carcinogenic or hepatotoxic. Saturated halogenated hydrocarbons tend to be carcinogenic and neurotoxic
 
@CowperKettle Simon Templar is/was fond of that phrase.
@M.A.R. That sounds like fossils. Or are you talking about pesticides?
 
5:09 PM
@FaheemMitha I suppose most of them at one point in their synthesis require something petroleum-derived.
 
@M.A.R. Require? As in a component is from fossils?
 
@FaheemMitha yep. It's just a heck of a ton of cheap raw materials to build things from.
 
@M.A.R. Yes, modern industrial processes seem to lean heavily on fossils.
I suppose because they're already there.
Including, notably, plastics.
 
Yep. Cheaper and more accessible
 
I try to get people to use less plastic bags here. It's an uphill battle. Supposedly they outlawed single use plastics here. If so, why do I keep getting plastic bags all the time?
I store some plastic bags in a cabinet for later reuse. When I open it, there's a terrible smell. I suppose they are decomposing.
 
5:14 PM
Plastic? I doubt it
There's probably some moisture trapped?
 
@M.A.R. You doubt what?
@M.A.R. You don't think they are decomposing? Why wouldn't they? It's an awful chemical smell. Not a smell of damp.
 
@FaheemMitha that plastics would decompose
 
@M.A.R. Yes, that's what I thought you meant. I don't see why you doubt it. That seems to me to be what is happening.
 
@FaheemMitha it's possible some excess plasticizer or some open chains of plastics are dispersed in the water, giving it the smell when it evaporates
 
@M.A.R. Water? What water?
 
5:18 PM
It can hardly be called decomposing, because there's no loss of structural integrity
@FaheemMitha the water vapor in the kitchen would do
 
@M.A.R. Perhaps decomposing is the wrong term. But it wouldn't take a lot of stuff to get into the air for it to start smelling bad.
@M.A.R. I don't store them in the kitchen.
 
More like scraping? And theoretically it's harmful (like in the case of frozen plastic bottles of water) but I dunno whether the clinical impact has been measured or not
 
@M.A.R. Scraping? Sorry, I don't follow.
 
@FaheemMitha the same principle still applies. Water vapor tends to be enough to make most non-volatile things have distinctive smells
 
I meant to say that maybe the bags are giving off molecules from the surface. Which gets into the air. This isn't decomposing, but it could still cause an odor.
@M.A.R. I don't understand how water vapor is relevant here. Are you suggesting that water vapor is reacting with the plastic?
 
5:25 PM
Yeah that's what I'm also saying, but I'm saying those chemical species get dispersed in water vapor
@FaheemMitha these chains of plastic monomers that are cut off are not like asbestos, they don't float in the air. A very small amount of water vapor liquefies on the surface of the plastic bag, and they are dispersed (or dissolved) in the water, and the water evaporates again. When it reaches your nostrils, that's how you smell them
 
@M.A.R. That sounds possible, certainly. And it's humid enough here. Pretty much all the time.
 
It can theoretically be harmful. They can match some receptors in one's cells and activate cellular mechanisms that shouldn't have been activated. How harmful it really is (i.e., clinically) is much more difficult to assess.
After all, cavemen didn't get lung cancer after starting a fire in their caves.
 
5:49 PM
@M.A.R. What can? Plastics? Fossils?
@M.A.R. We now have a lot more junk in their environment than they ever did. Also, we don't have disease statistics for cavemen. They probably got cancer too. Just at far lower levels. Apart from anything else, cancer tends to occur later in the human lifespan, and cavemen probably didn't get there.
As late as the early 19th century in Europe, 40 was considered a good age to live to. Or so I've heard.
@M.A.R. Just curious. Do your studies include anything about environmental causes of cancer? Pollution and so forth?
 
Does this sentence sound fine to you:

It tastes undercooked.
 
BTW, did anyone here hear about the Adani-related market crash at the end of this week? If the answer is no, then never mind. I'm not sure how far Indian news travels, but probably mostly not very far.
 
@FaheemMitha I read a tweet about him losing some wealth /stock value.
 
@Vikas Hah. That's quite an understatement.
It really messed up their FPO.
 
> US Air Force general warns of high probability of war with China as early as 2025
Given China wants to take Taiwan by 2028, it would be no surprise. A major war is expected.
 
 
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7:17 PM
@Robusto meh, I'm more preoccupied by people promoting a self-serving status quo and being weary of efforts others have made to make people feel validated. The fact we're all people is not a fashion statement, it is a landmark.
 
7:42 PM
Watching Extraordinary
 
7:59 PM
@mastödantirâfamî I think we can do both, be considerate of how our words are perceived by others and also be aware of language policing.
And there's a third way that is not inconsistent with those two... That tweet by itself is ridiculous because it is based on the subtle but obvious (cc an you say that) use of 'the blacks' by Trump, with all it's awful associations, and then extending that as a blanket condensation of all similar locutions. That's just not how language works.
@jlliagre maybe I'm an idiot but I found myself literally laughing out loud often to it.
'blanket condensation'? Maybe I meant 'blanket condemnation'
 
@Mitch I think we can and we should. It's the role of a style guide to suggest such ways of describing people etc. As for the specifics you refer to, I don't do twitter but I'll take your word for it.
 
8:19 PM
@FaheemMitha yes I heard about it in the news in the US
 
@Mitch OK, so it got some coverage in international news.
 
@mastödantirâfamî actually, here was the only place I saw it, but it looked like a screen shot from Twitter.
 
8:33 PM
@Mitch My reaction was more about the reaction to the tweet in general than its specifics and whether the suggestions individually "make sense". I would need to look at the guide itself. Also, even though I'm somewhat familiar with how Trump talks, I'm not a native speaker so I don't necessarily pick up on all the subtleties of his speech, or lack thereof.
In general I find the way his family talks weird. I've noticed one of his sons always says "Not fair", with no verb.
Anyways, cheers!
 
 
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9:44 PM
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Whatever.
 
@Robusto Whatever.
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Jinx.
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Where's your verb?
 
10:01 PM
@Robusto I've said my piece, it's nothing personal. Yesterday I was really upset with this, now I'm ok. Fair enough.
 
Oh, so you can hurt others with language depending on your mood and it's OK?
Not that I was hurt, but it seems that was your intent.
 
No, it's not ok. I'm ok. My intent was to take a stance against your statement, not you per se.
Your statement was starred multiple times.
 
For the record, I'm perhaps the most liberal person in this chat. I despise the right wing. But I also don't see wokeness as a panacea for evils. All it does, in my view, is make up a lot of rules that the right wing may use to fan hatred of good people.
 
I hear you, a valid point. I don't care for labels, I care for what is right. If that makes me "woke", so be it.
I will not not make a point because it might upset people from the right.
I don't care about them.
 
That has nothing to do with it. They were born upset, and they watch Tucker Carlson and other crap that keeps them permanently enraged.
The fact is, using the definite article before naming a group is just fine, and hurts no one. In the sentence, "The French enjoy access to excellent cuisine," who is being harmed?
 
10:09 PM
Depends on the group I guess.
 
There is a difference between that and if I had substituted the N-word for "French" ...
 
Yes, but what about the mentally ill? I mean it's not black or white.
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle That's my point, and what I was reacting to. To come out and attempt to forbid all such constructions is silly, and poorly thought out.
Something bothers you? Make a rule against all examples of it!
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle I try not to watch video news, so I have little exposure to the family and how they speak. But TFG was unavoidable. Always sounded like a poor imitation of a stereotyped used car salesman.
But enough about my family!
Are we having a 'Whatever' party?
N'importe quoi!
Na und?
 
@Mitch You're late. The party's over.
 
10:11 PM
That's all I got.
How do you say it in Spanish?
 
Das macht nichts.
 
'no importa algo'?
How do you say it in Japanese? (is probably the better question)
 
意味がない
 
@Robusto I hear you but you used references to signalling and what is fashionable. I don't believe the intent was signalling. Anyways.
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle You don't not have a point.
@Robusto Bless you.
 
10:14 PM
@Mitch For the record, 意味 is "meaning"
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Signaling is annoying, right? But (I think what you're not saying) is that the alternative is worse.
It's like murder... (stick with me for a second)
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Yes, because that is a real problem. This is like that Queen in Alice in Wonderland whose solution for everything is "Off with their heads!"
 
What's worse, the guy who commits murder but says out loud murder is wrong, or the guy who commits murder and 'owns it' as the kids these days say?
Well, obviously murder is bad.
As well as eating people
I mean murdering people in order to eat them is probably worse?
So to get back to business, saying murder is bad is a good thing for everybody even if it is signaling, because the alternative is much much worse.
So the 'style' rules to ban saying picnic because it has an imagined or erroneous connection with lynching seem frivolous, but I'd rather have that frivolity than the alternative.
 
Food for thought I guess. I react to patterns of arguments which I associate with political opinions. But suggestions to usage must be scrutinized.
 
Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper.
Especially in this chatroom. Look at the description on the top right of this page.
 
10:25 PM
That may be. I get it and did read it, mutliple times.
 
@Robusto Is that the generally accepted socially equivalent thing? Because 'whatever' doesn't mean literally 'what you say is meaningless' (though it may be socially the corresponding thing). But 'n'importe quoi' means literally 'there is no importance to that'. Which is not the same as 'meaningless'.
I can't figure out yet what 'whatever' means literally.
Does it mean 'I don't care one way or the other about what you've said'?
 
Peu importe.
 
@Mitch Well, is that what it really means? Idioms are squishy things.
They don't always translate perfectly. Sometimes not at all.
 
@Robusto Right
 
@Mitch I watched the first three episodes. Funny. I surely missed a lot because subtitles can't do everything, but funny anyway. I'm just wondering how a tasteless gun owner like you can appreciate such humor ;-)
 
10:28 PM
I would associate n'importe quoi with that's BS. I would say peu importe is closer to whatever.
 
@jlliagre How dare you
All the guns I own are full of taste
Spicy even
 
@Mitch Is that more like BrE "Rubbish!"?
 
@Robusto Uh, no, I was in agreement with 'They don't always translate perfectly...'
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Portnawak :-)
 
Ostie d'verlan haha.
 
10:30 PM
@jlliagre I din't expect much. Like @Robusto I am sick sick sick of superheroes with superpower plots.
It's great as a conversation starter with kids 'Hey if you could have one superpower, what would it be?'
But it's kind of over done in mass media
 
@Mitch No, The "rubbish" part was in reference to the French idiom. Meaning is it a dismissal?
 
I was bored with it after Ironman I.
 
Chronicle. Flying!
 
@Mitch Hi *itch
 
10:33 PM
@Mitch For my superpower, I want to be Panacea Man. I just kind of solve everyone's problems with no effort and no fanfare at all. Then take a nap. No interviews, please.
 
@Robusto Oh. I am no native speaker of French (barely B1). So I'd rely on introspection by native speakers like @jlliagre or @CrissyFroth-Seapickle
 
Yes rubbish/BS: n'importe quoi, conneries.
 
Has anyone ever wondered? Whenever you eat a Happy Meal, you still feel sad, you don't feel any happier. Why?
False advertisement?
 
@ペガサスSeiya The name of the meal just says the meal is happy. It says nothing about your state of mind.
 
@CrissyFroth-Seapickle Batarnak!
 
10:37 PM
Would be naktabar, but they don't do verlan in Québec.
 
@Robusto Ooh I want that... except without the healing part. Just 'Snore'.
 
@Robusto then there should be a sad meal too
 
@jlliagre In that case the Japanese would be 出鱈目 (detarame), which is the term that corresponds to rubbish or nonsense or baloney.
@Mitch ^
 
@Robusto malarkey
bunk
hogwash
 
Yes. All of those.
 
10:40 PM
let me pull out my corncob pipe and think of some more
 
You old whippersnapper, you.
 
@Robusto hopefully my name makes sense to you
 
@ペガサスSeiya I suppose it has something to do with the winged horse of Perseus?
In Japanese it sounds like PE GA SA SU.
Sort of.
 
Arrête tes conneries might translate to "Never mind the bollocks" :-)
 
@Robusto I wouldn't use 'whatever' for that. 'Whatever' is more of a dismissal 'fine, whatever you say, I'm not going to argue with you' whereas 'nonsense' means 'what you say is wrong'
 
10:46 PM
@Mitch That's Peu importe.
 
@jlliagre I can't not hear 'God save the queen' without mentally responding 'the fascist regime'
 
@Mitch Not true. "Nonsense" implies something far beyond someone just being wrong.
 
@jlliagre Wait...which one?
 
@jlliagre Hey, are you making fun of Sean Connery?
 
@Mitch Hopefully, there's a king now.
 
10:47 PM
@Robusto Pegasus*
But yes
 
@Mitch Whatever
 
@jlliagre Oh. My condolences.
 
@Robusto Pegasasu no Seiya
 
@Mitch Not my king.
 
@ペガサスSeiya Pegasus was the flying horse of Perseus. So it is not an error.
 
10:48 PM
@jlliagre Not my circus.
Ne moy monkey, ne moy zirk
 
@Robusto Aretha Connery?
 
@ペガサスSeiya The quiet night of Pegasus? I don't get it.
 
@Robusto he character in my profile picture is called Seiya, or, Pegasus Seiya, or Pegasasu No Seiya in the Japanese dub
 
Didn't you have a different one before? I don't even recall what it was.
 
@jlliagre Alice Bêtises
Wasn't she a prime minister...like under Mitterand?
I'm thinking of Edith Croissant.
 
10:57 PM
@Robusto Goku (Kakarotto)
 
@Mitch Édith Cresson. She didn't last too long as Prime Minister. She was, how can I say, "perceptive" ;-)
> Homosexuality, she told interviewer Chris Wallace, “seems strange to me. It’s different and marginal. It exists more in the Anglo-Saxon tradition than the Latin one.”
Shey also said that she didn't give a shit about the stock exchange and that the Japanese people were ants. She wasn't popular among Japanese gay traders, and everyone else too actually.
 
@jlliagre hm very ... perceptive?
@jlliagre actually...what -does- that mean?
 
Hey, that's an English word, don't ask me. Of course, I used it ironically.
I would have say in French clairvoyante.
 
11:22 PM
@jlliagre oh... But about what? The way things were going to work out for her politically?
 
@Mitch I mean she behaved somewhat stupidly and managed to have everyone, whatever the political side, against her. She was quickly impopular, heavily mocked and resigned after one year. She also insisted for being called Monsieur le Premier ministre.
 
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11:54 PM
@Mitch Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
 

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