This guy (freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chriskorte/…) is my great great great grandfather, so his children are first generation NZers, and I am a fifth generation NZer. But the ancestors of most pakeha NZers arrived much later than him; so non-Maori fifth generation NZers are somewhat rare.

I see. I didn't realise quite how new New Zealand is (as a British Colony)!

I don't know

does the homeland count as a colony?

you could ask on EL&U!

@MattЭллен Yeah, NZ is also very racially diverse. As far as I can tell, I'm 1/2 English, 1/4 Scottish, 1/16 Irish and 3/16 German. So I'm purely European. But again, most NZers have quite a mix of non-European in them, as well as having ancestors who have arrived at different times in NZ's short history.

you were joking, Jasper? You've certainly wooshed me.

wooshed - a shed where woosles are kept or the act of keeping woosles in a shed

- a shed for wooing in.

Oh, baby, come with me to my wooshed.

I... err... I'm washing my hair

@ClarkKent that is the opposite of flirting!

Is ymar trolling me here? english.stackexchange.com/questions/68235/…

Or does he/she just hang round with poorly educated people?

I've no idea

@ClarkKent Stupidity and education are orthogonal concepts.

right. I have to mingle with the unwashed masses for a while. And not in a good way. toodles!

@ClarkKent Orthogonality is orthogonal to everything

And toodle-pip.

especially parallelism.

Lordy, I hate IE.

Way to kick off the day on an original note.

Hi.

Hi.

Wo?

Im das bierhaus.

Autsch.

I can't remember how to decline that.

"In dem" or "im" for short. "Das" is nominative.

I have spent the last twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get IE to let me download Chrome.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Ah right. That seems familiar.

Visit Google.com, search for Chrome.

Or accusative.

"Your settings won't allow you to do this."

Huh??

"The file couldn't be downloaded."

Perhaps IE has file downloading blocked?

Well pump up your security level. Or down, to be precise.

Well, first I had to enable javascript. Then I had to unblock downloads.

Now I'm not sure what's next.

I'll get it, but I may have to take a hammer to it.

You should be able to just go to "Security Settings" and use a slider there.

It's the new computer from the company where I do consulting. I don't know what they've done.

webctinfo.unm.edu/general/IE_downloads.htm

Add chrome.com to the "trusted sites"?

Just remind them that you charge by the hour.

I think maybe I will just download it on this computer and move it to the other one.

The more time you spend fixing their asinineness, in vain, the more they will have to pay for it.

Why don't you just get Opera from the Windows command line?

I could, but I'm not that sophisticated.

Now it says the application is improperly formatted.

Where'd I put that flash drive?

I have Opera on this box. It's one of the ones we're required to support.

I think I used it once, during testing.

Why didn't you download Chrome using Opera then?

On this box, not on the other one.

I'm chatting on my regular computer, just in case they track my usage stats.

...and I forget to erase my history.

Is Opera worth using?

I thought I'd switch to Chrome for a while and see what the hubbub was about.

No idea. I thought you were trying to get any other browser than IE. I tend to just get Opera via the Windows command-line FTP client at ftp.opera.com.

Damn, baby, you are hardcore.

All this just because I can't seem to remember how RIGHT works.

Of course, I could look it up on this computer.

But I'm teaching myself to fish.

For more money.

Is there even a FTP server for Google Chrome? If not, Opera wins hands down. As always.

@KitFox Win-R, cmd, ftp ftp.opera.com, anonymous, anonymous, cd pub/opera/win/1164/en, get Opera_1164_en_Setup.exe, bye, exit, look in the directory in which the command line was opened

Duly noted. Thank you.

Not to mention that the full setup executable is only 8 MB in size, compared to Chrome's, what, 20 MB?

Father's Day in Germany Is One Big Booze Fest

Well, me, I was feeding squirrels.

> A number of cities in Germany sought to impose public drinking bans on Männertag this year to cut down on the number of booze-fuelled fights and injuries, but courts in the state of northern state of Schleswig-Holstein overruled those efforts, saying they violated the constitutional right to freedom of action in a country where beer drinking is a part of the national culture.

Aww. How cute.

Yay!

Männertag sounds way cooler.

First time I hear that word.

It's always Vatertag, everywhere.

I mean, why would I need to rename something before getting drunk?

Gramma D needs breakfast. bbl.

Errands. Laters.

Fried egg anyone?

No thanks.

@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I thought you didn't drink?

@Robusto Hello, sick brother.

How are you doing?

Hello, netizens.

What does suspension for rule violations entail?

Like why would it happen. I don't recall seeing that before.

Mm that would make sense. Thanks

@Cerb ... making progress. Getting around on crutches already.

OMG JA Rule is in da house.