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Mitch

7:00 PM

Robusto

Can you delete the southern states, too? Is that what you're saying?

Mitch

@Robusto haha.

no. not what I was saying

For @FaheemMitha

Robusto

@Mitch Then what good are ya?

Mitch

The voting pattern in the modern south tends to follow the former slave population densities. (see the blue line curving from southern Virginia all the way through to the Mississippi valley

@Robusto I ain't good at diddly squat, which no one ever said for real

Robusto

How are you at doodly squat?

Mitch

7:04 PM

No I can't help you with that either

Robusto

Useless ...

I require all my acquaintances to be good at both diddly squat and doodly squat. It's the sensible position to take.

Mitch

I'm sure there are good overlays of those two (kinds of) maps, like the Polish voting and border of Germany before WWI

@Robusto I think that's spreading your talents too thin

Specialize man

besides, doodly squat doesn't sound like a serious thing

Robusto

I'm a Renaissance man ... a veritable da Vinci.

Mitch

Fun Fact: da Vinci was not born in Vinci but in the nearby town of Anchiano

Robusto

I fail to see the Fun in that Fact.

Mitch

7:10 PM

I don't think his parents wanted him to know. I think it's ok that we talk about it now though

There's your fun!

You'd think it funny if only you'd been to Vinci

Robusto

Isn't there a soup called Vinci-soisse?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto you're an anagram of EUR, yo.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Nope. USA! USA! Not EUR! EUR!

RegDwigнt

Well that'd be you'as and not you're, then.

Robusto

Durr ...

RegDwigнt

7:22 PM

And everyone likes a little as, but noöne likes an apostrophed one.

Also, I only came in here to ask @Cerberus what the Dutch T form of je was, but by the time the chat finished loading I realized that it's je. The V form is u. Fuck me.

Jun 7 at 18:01, by Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.

Beginnende inderdaad.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Epistrophes, not apostrophes, I say! And @Cerberus would believe me, believe me, believe you me.

@RegDwigнt Why are you pretending that Dutch is an actual language?

RegDwigнt

I wrote a song called Believe once. It was on the Made in England album. Gus van Sant made a video. It was epic. And kinda shit. But epic.

@Robusto because today is the one day in the year that I'm nice. Even to horrible languages.

In diesem Sinne, Prost.

Cerberus

How generous of you.

What is a T form?

RegDwigнt

V-T.

Vous-tu.

Cerberus

Ah.

RegDwigнt

7:25 PM

Вы-ты.

Cerberus

I didn't know we used French for that.

RegDwigнt

You know all about it, come on. You bring it up like every other year or so.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt He's brought it up at least a duzen times.

RegDwigнt

I would search for it but there's like five Cerberaeses in the chat. WTf.

Can't be arsed.

Cerberus

I don't remember that abbreviation.

RegDwigнt

7:26 PM

Well you taught me it.

Cerberus

I remember almost nothing, let alone abbreviations.

Unlikely.

@Robusto I believe everything.

RegDwigнt

But of course you don't remember. That is your motto. We've covered that before. Many times. Not that you'd remember a single one of them.

Cerberus

Even that Reg is Cher. It's almost the same name, after all; in Dutch, it's a palindrome. Ger => Rech.

@RegDwigнt Even so, I think you're confusing me with some other hell hound.

Robusto

@Cerberus That would be a palindrome in Russian, but not in a language that needs a digraph for the ch sound.

Cerberus

I would say, the polite form, the informal form, something like that.

@Robusto In Dutch, ch and g sound the same.

OMG THERE'S A COW'S BUTT STUCK ON ME

Robusto

7:29 PM

@Cerberus See, I told you Dutch wasn'ta real language.

Cerberus

NOW IT'S STUCK ON REG'S ICON

@Robusto Better unreal than silly.

I still think it looked better on me.

Robusto

Sounds like you need to update your browser.

Cerberus

Wai?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus You would, but you did not. Fact.

Cerberus

I do, of course. But why?

RegDwigнt

7:32 PM

Anyway guys I'm kinda building a thing so I need to be gone.

LEGO Creator Expert Roller Coaster Promo

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Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Then post a link to tab you have open in which I said that.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I think you mean "assembling" ... not building.

Cerberus

Was it a present? Have fun.

RegDwigнt

It's kinda big, is what I'm saying.

We're only 1/7 through after a day of building.

Robusto

Assembling.

RegDwigнt

7:33 PM

Which, coincidentally, is the share of dry land that Russia occupies.

Coincidentally? I think not.

Robusto

So it's the Crimea?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus I bought it for myself. So yes it was a present.

Robusto

Clearly @Reg needs a hobby.

RegDwigнt

I have a hobby. 400000 of them. But I figured I needed 4200 more, so off I went and bought this thing.

Now that I say it, this fucking set enlarged my collection by a whole 1%. Jesus.

@Robusto it's no Crimea if noöne finds out.

Robusto

Uh, yeah. My son used to have thousands of Legos. Then he left for college and my other son sold them all to a friend.

RegDwigнt

7:36 PM

Yeah yeah. And then he studied biochemistry.

See, I went the same route but in reverse.

Because in Soviet Russia, the road walks you.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt The one with the Legos studied poker.

RegDwigнt

And that is not biochemistry how?

Robusto

Nobody knows.

RegDwigнt

Well a person who gets his ass kicked at poker surely doesn't.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Nice package.

RegDwigнt

7:38 PM

That's gay.

Robusto

Looks like it comes with a garden gnome.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Good.

Robusto

A garden gnome with a starter ass crack, that is.

RegDwigнt

You're a cracked gnomon alright.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I'm sure the child doesn't know that yet.

Robusto

7:39 PM

@RegDwigнt Well, my son is the one who knocks.

RegDwigнt

So he's Skylar.

Cerberus

@Robusto Except triangle man?

Robusto

@Cerberus Triangle man hates particle man.

RegDwigнt

Ass on the river.

Cerberus

@Robusto Nobody knows, particle man?

I imagine there shouldn't be a comma in that line.

Robusto

7:41 PM

@Cerberus But do you know the muffin man?

Cerberus

But it sounds like a comma in my head.

@Robusto No.

Robusto

And the comma is echt in that context.

RegDwigнt

A Pythagorean comma, no less.

Cerberus

I know only Ötzi the ice-man.

Robusto

@Cerberus He lives in Drury Lane.

Cerberus

7:42 PM

So it's a nursery rhyme.

I didn't know.

RegDwigнt

Anyway. Let me build the other 6/7ths of the Soviet Earth. Kthxtakecareandotherthings.

Robusto

Shrek Moments - "Interrogating Gingy"

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Cerberus

I habe es nicht gewusst.

Færd

Yo any football fans over here?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto Das ist ja Shreklich.

Cerberus

7:42 PM

@RegDwigнt Have fun!

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Genau.

Cerberus

@Færd Shh probably not.

Færd

Ah OK.

Robusto

@Cerb is still chafing at how the Orange blew it in 2014.

Cerberus

I don't follow sport.

KannE

7:46 PM

I would say...if you live in a place with adults, it's easier than it should be to separate them into groups. But, if you work in a place with children, it's difficult to see them as anything other than their amazing selves...what else would they be?

Cerberus

I work with children, but they form groups of their own accord!

Robusto

@Cerberus Let's not bring Honda into this.

RegDwigнt

So I looked it up. You didn't teach me V/T per se, you called it U/non-U. Whatever. I'm a smart boy and I extrapolated from that.

Mitch

@KannE We've covered this. The first generation is docile but the second get caught up in gangs and ultra conservative groups.

Cerberus

@Robusto Wha?

@RegDwigнt Hah. But that's not the same thing.

Robusto

7:55 PM

Honda Accord

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Cerberus

Mm ah.

Mitch

@Færd I saw the thing about Iran not getting jerseys sponsored by the major show companies because stuff

RegDwigнt

Whoa whoa whoa. Actually. Actually. Hold on a sec. I only just realized. That's not Cerberus. That's an impostor. Cerberus has been hacked.

That guy just remembered something. And something obscure to boot. The favorite word of some random Russian guy in all of het nederlandse taal.

Cerberus would have never remembered anything. He never.

I've alarmed Putin already. He's sending help.

Robusto

Perhaps you meant you alerted Putin?

I think @RegDwigнt has been hacked. He usually speaks better English than that.

RegDwigнt

Ich spreche gar kein Englisch. Ich tu nur so.

And who cares anyway. Putin is on it, that's all that matters.

First we take Crimea, then we take Berlin.

I know we got the order wrong on that one, but that's Soviet Russia for you.

Also I'm at that point in my life where I can claim any shit I pull off is my poetic licence that I've earned big time. I'm too old to care.

Like, my today's (yes, my today's, fuck you) SoundSlice is an actual piece of mine signed with my actual legal name. That's how few I care.

Færd

8:21 PM

@Mitch A cheep shot. Pfft. I think they look good enough on their own.

I'm gonna read your recent CW essay later. I feel fed up with history.

Færd

8:34 PM

@Educ Haha no, it's dik-dik.

@Educ Nice.

> ما أجمل أن تحیا في الأرض بلا نکران

I enjoy listening to songs in Standard Arabic. But most are in regional colloquial dialects, which makes them very hard for me to understand.

I hope I get a chance to learn some of those.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Hey, happy birthday. Is this one that ends in zero?

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt MUWAHAHA

@RegDwigнt My today's is actually good English!

Færd

10:09 PM

The Age Gap in Religion Around the World

Cerberus

Nice.

Even in the European cultural sphaere, though, there are some young subgroups that are more religious than their parents, mainly orthodox/evangelical Protestant churches.

This problem is most serious in Brazil, but it also exists in Europe and I think in China.

Mitch

10:55 PM

@Cerberus That picture takes me extra thought to understand. It's not the 1st order 'one color is for a group that is 'more' than another' but instead is, whatever the level of the two groups in each spot, is there a big difference or none. Sort of a first derivative.

Also, I thought it was pretty universal for older people to be more likely to be believers.

You know, because dementia.

ZING!

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