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8:00 PM
Nor the plaster neither.
But only if it leaks.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 that sounds like sauna
 
It sounds better than gas heat.
 
I wish I had a fireplace, a fire would be a nice fit for lazy chatting or reading
 
It also involved poisonous smoke and constant turning to heat your entire body instead of just one side...
 
like this bad boy
 
8:06 PM
@Cerberus which?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Your underside, if that's what you're facing the fire with.
 
@Cerberus to what does the it refer? Oh, fireplace.
 
@JohanLarsson That's not a fireplace?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yup.
 
@Cerberus what is it then?
 
8:12 PM
@Robusto It was very good.
I don't think I have much more to say. Not by way of first spontaneous reaction anyway.
I liked the calm and the quiet. The otherworldliness. The above-it-allness. Aloofness, even. Aloof dignity.
I was sort of expecting, and now I know: fearing, another Ozymandias. This was so much better.
I'm now off to read a couple comments in the usual places until my wife joins me in a minute for a rewatch slash her first watch.
I'm glad I now can navigate the Internet safely again.
This sentence is merely to break the combo of postings beginning with the same letter.
 
@RegDwighт Yeah. Things pretty much wound up where you thought they would, but there were some surprises in how they got there.
 
@JohanLarsson A heater?
 
@Cerberus That is slang for a winning streak in poker.
I was on a huge heater. I couldn't lose a hand.
 
8:18 PM
Hmm then I guess the word for that thing in the picture was something else.
(I'm trying to think of what we would call that in Dutch, but I can only think of English words, a winning streak, on a roll...)
 
I would call the thing in the picture a wood-burning stove.
 
@Cerberus kamin in Swedish
 
@Robusto Unless it's gas...
 
It is wood
 
@Cerberus Then it's a fake wood-burning stove.
 
8:20 PM
Oh...
Can glass withstand the heat of burning wood?
 
Please.
 
@Robusto Fair enough.
 
Sometimes they're just called wood stoves.
 
The only kind of stove I have ever burned wood in was closed.
 
Vitaly used to rant about wood-burning stoves.
 
8:21 PM
I know.
 
It was he whom I got the "30 times as carcinogenic as cigarette smoke" from. Of course I knew it was bad, but not that bad.
Wood smoke.
@JohanLarsson Probably related to cheminée/chimney?
 
@Cerberus Well, who gives a fuck? I have a fireplace which looks attractive. Every four or five years I use it for its intended purpose. If that gives me cancer, so be it. I refuse to worry about that.
 
@Robusto Sure, five times a year will be fine.
But my parents sometimes light it every day in winter.
 
8:25 PM
And they sit in the same room for hours. And it gets quite smokey, when the wind is wrong.
But what with the new kitchen, I bet they won't use the fireplace in the sitting room as often.
There's also barbecues btw.
 
I win.
And just to do a little victory dance:
Not that this is a competition, you understand.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Little-known fact: That's a chick playing the bass on "Good Vibrations" and a huge pile of other '60s hits.
I can spin that.
 
Yeah, but could she play the theremin?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That wasn't a theremin. Technically, it was a ribbon controller.
Or you could call it a fingerboard controller.
 
8:36 PM
don't call it a comeback / I been here fo' years
 
I'm finally back with the coffee!
 
Too late for coffee. Got any scotch?
 
I have this leaky miniature box wine that my friends brought back from camping.
It's like the size of a 40 but instead it's box wine.
Kind of like those containers that fancy coconut water or something comes in.
 
That is so not scotch.
 
8:40 PM
They came back to drop off the one dude so he could get his car from our house, and give us back our pots and pans and lantern and stuff, and my one friend who had been driving practically heaved the food crate at me and was like "take the whole thing I don't even care it was leaking all over my car auugh"
It was kind of funny how much everything that was left had just a little red wine on it.
 
Did you plug it?
 
@Cerberus It can break, I have seen it with my own eyes.
 
That reminds me, my watering can has become structurally unsound. Fortunately, it was sitting next to a full roll of paper towels.
 
It had a lid. I can't even tell how it was escaping, because it seems like there is most of it left in there.
 
Howdy, teak riced.
 
8:44 PM
Maybe it was upside down in the car.
 
Anyhow, I cleaned off everything that wasn't like, a cardboard box soaked in wine that went straight in the trash. I just have to remember to put that stuff away so when next I have a friend over they're not like "do you always keep prepackaged cheese crackers and spaghettios on the side of the tub in case of bath munchies?"
thinks about eating spaghettios
I wonder if it's weird that I think of prepackaged junk food as a treat.
 
@JohanLarsson Oh, dear!
@aediaλ Tell me about it!! Maybe because...we don't often allow ourselves to eat it?
 
9:37 PM
@aediaλ with sliced franks?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 The ones I had when camping were just the O's.
They were an amazing breakfast though.
 
I hadn't had them in years.
 
But... breakfast?
 
Gotta start off right with an entire day's sodium in one go.
And an entire thermos of coffee.
It was fabulous.
 
9:47 PM
where did you go?
 
Before you worry about me any further, maybe I should note that my blood pressure is on the low side, despite my fondness for coffee incredible caffeine addiction.
@JohanLarsson Adirondacks, in upstate NY, by a smallish lake.
 
Do you have to do special things?
 
@aediaλ google shows nice images!
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Take replacement hormone for my sluggish thyroid and get my blood checked all the freaking time because my doctor waffles about whether to increase my dosage, but that's it.
 
9:55 PM
Ehh no biggie. Hypothyroid is just an inconvenience (mostly because of the monitoring, and because it's hard to tell if you really feel better). Much better than the opposite.
 
Yeah, I've got hypothyroidism too. Haven't had mine checked or medicated in a while.
 
Heehee
 
10:13 PM
I might've left it alone, except that I'm at the point in life where we're planning for kids, so you don't just let medical conditions chill untreated if you can help it.
 
Is it okay to iron on some thick cardboard instead of an ironing board?
 
Sure, as long as there is no ink or anything in it.
 
throw a towel on a table instead?
 
10:35 PM
on your lap. just to be sure put it on low.
 
For some reason I thought she was talking about iron-ons.
 
Doesn’t look much like a hobbit to me, but hey, what do I know?
I just wish they’d died his eyebrows. I always hate that.
 
10:52 PM
I wish his eyebrows had died too.
giggles and runs away
 
So. @Matt, do you know a Nicholas Cheese, 26, of Oxford?
 
11:11 PM
@tchrist What the hell is that thing?
It looks like Smaug, but uglier.
 
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Q: What's the term for an introducing an error when you edit a sentence?

snailboatSeveral years ago, I recall learning an English term that described the following sort of error: I write (or begin writing) a sentence without error. I decide to change something in the sentence. I forget to change the rest of the sentence to fit with the changes I made. For example, let's sa...

This is a cool question, but for some reason everyone is answering something other than what was actually asked.
 
Hi.
 
@Robusto I knew I was safe when I saw Beaver and what's his name. If they were going to take the time to tie up that end, I knew no ends would be left untied. And bam came the very next scene, the Peruvian walnut box, just to drive the point home. At the same time the 20 minutes before that were genious in establishing that they were not aiming for a rushed hodgepodge, but for Taking Their Time to do it right.
Also, the cinematography was nothing short of spectacular. They kept playing with camera angles and slow tracking and whatnot, they really got me more than just a couple times.
And the scene at the Schwartzs's house reminded me of that point of yours, "this show is smarter than me". How I was obviously all scared what would happen to them, but why? What actually happened was so much better and made so much more sense.
But now I must be off for today.
 
11:24 PM
@Cerberus Apparently I misparsed “present him with a gift.”
I had no idea that him is actually the direct object in that sentence.
Same thing for “gifted him” – the recipient is the direct object, not the thing given.
Counterintuitive!
In contrast, for offer the direct object is the thing offered.
 
@RegDwighт What? No, no. covers eyes
 
@RegDwighт You mean Badger and Skinny Pete.
 
@BraddSzonye 'Tis!
 
Sorry, I went to make pizza hogs.
 
@BraddSzonye 'Zactly.
 
11:36 PM
Funny how the direct object of present can be either the gift or the recipient.
 
It is a strange swap, but oddly it is also possible with some verbs of giving and investing in Latin, and probably Greek too.
 
Scrambled eggs / oh my darling, how I love your legs...cornbread ninja 麵包忍者 15 secs ago
 
You can say dono viro pecuniam, "I give to the man money", or dono virum pecunia, "I gift the man with money".
 
@RegDwighт Yes. It was a craftsmanship all the way. A satisfying ending, even if it was a bit graphic-novelish with the way he used the M-60. But we allowed him the Face Off ending of Season 4, so I was willing to allow this. In the end he achieved some partial redemption.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Is that a KC thing? Like toasted ravioli is a St. Louis thing?
 
@Robusto no. It is what I call pizzas made out of crescent roll dough.
Like, unfurl the triangle, spread sauce, add fixins, roll up into a pizza hog.
 
11:39 PM
@RegDwighт It was a brilliant sleight-of-hand. When you see Walt in the bar watching them disavow him on TV, you thought "Ah, the ego of Heisenberg is back. The machine gun is for them!" And they totally fuck you up with how it really went down. And yes, that show is smarter than me. That is what makes it so enjoyable.
 
@JohanLarsson Watch out, they're throwing pearls again. They're whizzing around my ears.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Bit of an unfortunate name, though.
 
@Robusto it's a takeoff of pigs in blankets.
 
Aww. Now I want to get a tiny pig and raise it until it's no longer cute.
 
11:42 PM
You won't have to wait long.
 
@Robusto OMG that's us!
 
US, you mean?
The United States of Cute and Fuzzy Decadents.
 
The “tiny pig” remark goes well with the “barbarism to decadance” remark.
Weird, I can't figure out why somebody is downvoting reasonable-looking answers to this question:
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Q: Is it grammatical to use "an even better " rather than "even better"?

muhammadI know this question is quite basic but right now I'm having a problem with it: "Jimmy your english is bad. Try to speak in front of mirror or an even better option is to take english classes." Is it grammatical to use "an" here?

I also got a downvote to an old, old question of mine. I wonder if I pissed off somebody?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I don't go in for cute and fuzzy decadence. I take mine straight up.
No little umbrellas in my decadence.
 
11:57 PM
@Robusto woohoo!
 
@Robusto and you mean "I don't get your nice reference to what Walt calls them in Rabid Dog, oh mighty Reg".
 
@RegDwighт Well, that is nice. It escaped me, but now that you mention it . . .
 
@Robusto yeah this. After S4E13, it would be unfair to label S5E16 as ludicrous.
 

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