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user19161

20:00

I am the only one who drinks tea, so nobody will steal it from me.

user19161

There is a hundred dollar casino entrance fee here, if not I would go in and take a look.

TRiG

@FeralOink You should go to a Discworld Convention and see the Feegles!

Cerberus

@FeralOink Ah, hawt! And that guy standing before your picture too.

@JasperLoy Drinking tea as we speak.

Feral Oink

@RegDwightѬſ道 Very nice, re Federal Reserve. I like that. Did I see Caisson fly by? That is a sad thing. Memento mori-ish

user19161

@Cerberus Good. Now we are connected via fluid.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

20:02

No flirting in this chat.

Cerberus

listening to Marlene Dietrich

user19161

@Cerberus You mentioned her before?

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Oh dear, which picture did I send? I was dressed in Victorian garb, skin color a la Parvathi, with Horace leading some Egyptian Queen in his psychopompish way toward the Underworld. Is that what you saw.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Not that I know.

@FeralOink Yup!

But it's Horus, not Horace.

Feral Oink

@Cerberus Good! And right you are. Horace sounds like Horace Mann High School. Ooops. Y'all are FUN!

user19161

20:06

@FeralOink And you are high!

Cerberus

Horace is a Roman poet!

user19161

@Cerberus Very exotic name but I heard it once before.

Cerberus

Then brush up your Latin poetry!

TRiG

@Cerberus I once saw a video of Colin Baker as Marlene Dietrich, singing a song from Cabaret. Unfortunately, it's been removed from YouTube. On reflection, perhaps I should have said fortunately. It was disturbing.

Cerberus

Hmm I don't know Colin Baker...

But I believe you.

user19161

20:08

Anyway, I had problems coming to chat again. It lasted about 2 days this time. I expect the problem to be intermittent in future.

Feral Oink

Horus is the bird headed Egyptian god that also acted as escort to those going to the underworld, before being judged by Mr. Jackal headed grain silo sized critter. And Horace was indeed more than Horace Mann, I forgot. Horace, Juvenal maybe? But not juvenile. And I am NOT high, inebriated, under the influence, nor lacking in sobriety at the moment. Umm does it seem that way? Crud.

Colin Baker AS Marlene Dietrich... hmm that would have been interesting. Cabaret was disturbing in many ways. I still don't understand most of it.

user19161

Strangely, my voice drops a few notes under alcohol.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy That's weird! I always have trouble with various little things in chat, but never anything so bad as that.

@FeralOink No comment!

user19161

@Cerberus Like your inability to post the same thing twice which is another mystery.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Yes, well, I don't know how that works, but it is probably there on purpose.

user19161

20:11

By the way I tried to install OpenSure 12.1 beta and guess what, my desktop could not boot into any OS! Luckily I used my laptop to burn a Linux Mint CD so now I am on that.

Cerberus

But I have trouble with scrolling, with chat reacting weirdly to hotkeys all of a sudden some times, with being unable to post a new line within 10 seconds of the last, etc.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy If I'm being too intrusive, I desist, but is it an anxiety thing? The temporary fear of chat? I get that too.

user19161

@Cerberus Though it does not affect me!

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Yes, that's what makes it strange. But there could be reasons for that.

TRiG

@Cerberus Scrolling sometimes goes odd for me in chat. It's usually okay. And I don't scroll much anyway.

Feral Oink

20:12

Ahh, user interface woes, okay

Cerberus

Yup.

user19161

@FeralOink You get what? Can't come into chat, or fear of chat?

Feral Oink

Pardon me, I need to do some backscrolling of my own right now. I saw a few choice items. Also that image was visible for me skitch.com/nohat/f9jn6/…

user19161

@TRiG And when you click to reply to a message, you can reply to the wrong one if someone posts something then since the screen moves.

Feral Oink

No 404 error not found. I want to inspect. @JasperLoy Yes, fear of chat.

user19161

20:14

@FeralOink Oh no. I have anxiety, but not over chat.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy Cliquey crowds, fussy feminine giggle females are intimidating.

user19161

@FeralOink Now I have no idea what you are talking about.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy They make me feel inadequate, then I hate them and act truculent and sarcastic and feel the need to be subtly contentious. Or just retreat. Sigh.

user19161

I think the people who come here to chat on a Sat night should go get a life seriously.

user19161

@FeralOink Well, you need to work on your self-esteem then.

Cerberus

20:16

@FeralOink Why not be all serious and super nice back? That confuses them. It will make them fear and admire you.

Feral Oink

@JasperLoy You are truly going to tell me that you are unfamiliar with females who use lots of cute affectations, and communicate coyly?

@Cerberus YOU are so clever and wise! It took me years to figure that out!

@Cerberus Seriously, it did. And it DOES work. Being super friendly.

Cerberus

@FeralOink Haha, well, as long as you did figure it out!

People are just being silly most of the time.

C'est la vie.

Feral Oink

In return. Sort of throws them off their pace. Not just other women, I have trouble with women, but men too sometimes. Sort of like taking control through being nice.

Cerberus

Exactly. I call it being the adult.

user19161

@FeralOink Yes, I am unfamiliar with them.

Feral Oink

20:19

That was garbled!

Sorry!

Cerberus

Garbled? It was perfectly clear?

Feral Oink

Yes. Being the adult. C'est vrai! Vous etes tres sympathique!!!!

TRiG

@JasperLoy I had a brief conversation this morning with a neighbour who returned an extension lead he'd borrowed a couple of days ago. Other than that, I've spoken to no one all day and not set foot outside the house and garden. I did climb the pear tree to pick fruit, though.

Feral Oink

I am not accostomed to interacting with people like y'all. This is so nice for me. It hardly ever happens. You "get" my little pretentious sillinesses and allusions, and are way ahead of me with oodles of your own, which is so fun figuring out. But all in a cordial, congenial, non-manic style of to-and-fro!

user19161

@TRiG Tree climbing sounds exciting. I can't really climb anything myself. And I just went out with a friend who said lots of discouraging things to me. I think I shan't share my deepest emotions with him anymore.

Feral Oink

20:23

Tree climbing DOES sound exciting. @JasperLoy That individual is not worthy of your disclosures. You are probably sensible in initiating a more self-saving course of future interaction with said person.

I want to yank out my hair with self-exasperation when I keep hanging out with the same people who get me all riled up, when I KNOW that is what has happened repeatedly in the past! Okay, enough wisdom for the day. I hope your pears are Bartlett and luscious, rather than grainy textured or gritty.

Until later. I am in dire need of Diet Pepsi and yoghurt. Yogurt. Yurtgurt.... ;#)

Cerberus

Okay later, adios!

TRiG

The pears are good. Not too soft. Crunchy. I got some apples, too, but most of that tree is hanging over the duck pond, so it's a bit tricky.

user19161

I only eat bananas. No other fruits for me.

Cerberus

@TRiG Haha now I picture you hanging in a tree above a pond.

user19161

@FeralOink We may or may not get your allusions, if there were any. Never assume someone means what you think they mean here, because without the nuances of facial expression and voice in a chat room, we really don't know what someone really means.

user19161

20:33

@Cerberus I picture you in the pond beside a tree.

Cerberus

@FeralOink I think I got nearly all of your allusions!

TRiG

@Cerberus I wouldn't climb the apple tree. It's still young and wouldn't hold me. The pear's more mature.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Hmm how did this friend discourage you? Was it done in good faith?

TRiG

It was fun, being up a tree. First time in yonks.

Cerberus

@TRiG I see. Pears are great too.

Now I crave pear pie...

TRiG

20:37

@Cerberus And I don't want a ducking in the duck pond. It's not the cleanest water!

Cerberus

@TRiG Understandable. If only you had a dog that could fetch them...

TRiG

21:33

@Cerberus I'm not sure I'd trust a dog around the ducks.

Cerberus

21:44

Oh, are they not for food?

TRiG

@Cerberus Eyren.

user19161

@Cerberus Then you must be God, because I don't get any allusion at all.

user19161

@Cerberus Well, he could have voiced his opinion on certain matters without using very strong words which made me feel like a fool.

user19161

@TRiG Ducking or duckling?

TRiG

@JasperLoy I was worried about falling out of a tree into the pond. Ducking. With only ducks, and no drakes, ducklings are unlikely.

Cerberus

21:53

@JasperLoy OK. It is impossible to judge without being there.

user19161

@Cerberus But I have a feeling you would agree with him on certain matters, though you would have a better choice of words. Anyway I have a lot of conflicts with him over the years, so maybe it's time to end the friendship.

Cerberus

Well, it is hard for me to argue against someone I don't know who is using arguments similar to my own!

user19161

@Cerberus Indeed. He said I lacked common sense, while you said I strayed too far from common sense. I told him that if everyone only had common sense, we would not have the airplane today for example. He said a lot of things sarcastically so I am done with him.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Feb 9 at 21:45, by Kosmonaut

My officemate is Russian and he swears constantly, and I always know if he is IM'ing me from his iPhone because suddenly he will use the word "ducker".

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Yeah then I'm probably more on your friend's side, though of course I do not approve of rudeness, if he displayed any.

user19161

22:01

@Cerberus Er you think you know what matter I am talking about then?

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Haha, that's Apple for you: unintelligible censoring.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Feb 9 at 21:49, by Kosmonaut

I also am amused that the taboo words of a language work in such a way that the word "ducker", which would only come up in very rare and specific circumstances, would be used as an autocorrection for "fucker", which is quite common.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Of course not. I am just going with what you are saying.

user19161

@Cerberus OK. He's not rude, just something else worse than that, though I can't really describe it here. Anyway, I am trying to figure out the allusions you mentioned.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Oh I didn't know that "ducker" is for "fucker", I was going to ask what it meant.

Cerberus

22:03

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yeah, it's often that way... so do Iphones really use autocorrection? Why on earth? I'd absolutely hate to have that on my phone. Or I'd least I'd want to turn the a/c off or throw the thing in the canal.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Your canals are so full of stuff, you should really start calling them hills.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I misread that as "full of shit".

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Go see an ornithologist.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 The stuff beside them reaches higher peaks, so...

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus You mean the stuff where the water flows, which you call houses for some reason?

Really your country is strange. Perhaps you should just start calling everything ananas.

Start with Balkenende.

user19161

22:08

@RegDwightѬſ道 My favourite fruit without a letter.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yup. What's so strange in deciding to live on water and just put your houses on poles?

@RegDwightѬſ道 Balkellende is gone, that God!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus And once again you don't get it.

How many more floods must come down your ceiling before you will start getting my references to them?

user19161

Boathouse not equals houseboat.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Next thing you're going to say it's strange to live on the bottom of the sea and pump the water out day and night.

user19161

@Cerberus sea

RegDwight Ѭſ道

22:10

@Cerberus Wrong.

Next thing I was going to say was "wrong".

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Oohh that! Apparently it has made a firmer impression on you than on me!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Yes. That. You refer to a pile of bikes as "canal" and a stream of water as "house".

user19161

@Cerberus "Oohh" is a very interesting variant of the exclamation.

Cerberus

@RegDwightѬſ道 Well, why is that strange? At least we don't live under metres of snow, or in some rump state of the HRE that is barely a century old.

user19161

@Cerberus metres

Cerberus

22:14

@JasperLoy Right! I sometimes forget my allegiance to the Crown.

user19161

@Cerberus Though the instrument for measuring length is a "micrometer screw gauge", since it is a meter.

Cerberus

Eh...

user19161

Micrometer

A micrometer ( ), sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw used widely for precise measurement of small distances in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with other metrological instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers. Micrometers are often, but not always, in the form of calipers. Colloquially the word micrometer is often shortened to mike (). History of the device and its name The word micrometer is a neoclassical coinage from Greek micros, "small", and metron, "measure". The...

Cerberus

Yeah OK, so what about it?

user19161

@Cerberus I only have allegiance to my own heart.

user19161

22:19

@Cerberus Nothing, just saying that many people think it is "micrometre screw gauge" because "micrometre" is a length.

Cerberus

Ah OK, got it.

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