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Mitch

16:00

@Robusto They really should leave a fork outside on the sidewalk for their humans.

Robusto

@Mitch Early in our marriage my wife got upset with me when I crunched up the instant ramen noodles so they could be eaten more easily with a spoon.

Mitch

@Robusto Oh wow. So you've learned to hide that well.

I remember when I spread butter on the -outside- of a baguette. I didn't marry a French woman until years after that.

Robusto

And I thought I was solving the instant ramen problem. From hero to goat in an instant.

jlliagre

@Robusto Next step is to grind them in a food processor so that you can eat them through a straw.

Mitch

@jlliagre Now you're just mocking him.

jlliagre

16:06

I never mock anyone but me.

I swear.

Mitch

But I have a friend that has a salad recipe that calls for almost just that.

It gives a little extra crunch to the salad

Robusto

@jlliagre With a more stringent application of that principle one could include it in an IV.

Mitch

Do I eat that salad? No. But still I gather that in some circles it is done.

Robusto

@Mitch I always have my salads chopped and tossed. I don't like trying to wield large leaves of greens on a fork.

jlliagre

@Robusto We need some medical advice before attempting it.

Robusto

16:07

Where is @M.A.R. when you really need him.

Cerberus

@Robusto Chopped, not torn?

@Mitch You married a Frenchwoman?

Robusto

@Cerberus Chopped. Torn is still too big.

Cerberus

You tear it into smaller pieces.

While discarding the bitter middle parts.

Robusto

I'm impetuous that way.

I only chop the leafy greens. For the rest, I shred the carrots and shred or flake the cheese, depending on variety.

Cerberus

Yeah I can understand chopping, tearing a quite a bit of work.

But it is how my mother's friend taught us, so I cannot deviate.

It's really nice, doing without the bitter inner grains or stalks, or what would you call those?

Robusto

16:20

Other veggies get forkified in various ways.

New coinage of the day: to forkify, meaning to cut up a food to make it easier to eat in a salad.

Cerberus

I guess rib is the best word for the hart part in a leaf of lettuce.

Mitch

@Cerberus To be clear, only one of my wives. And only half French.

Cerberus

I do agree that large pieces are annoying.

@Mitch How many do you keep?

Robusto

@Cerberus It's what I would use. Horticulturalists might have another word. Spine or something.

Cerberus

Or, the fancy folk.

Mitch

16:23

@Cerberus One at a time.

Robusto

@Mitch Are you trying to go for more nationalities in a single spouse? How very economical. I should have thought of that.

Mitch

As I keep telling people, one is already a lot of work.

jlliagre

Try Italian

14 things you should NEVER DO in Italy | Easy Italian 30

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Cerberus

They only come to your apartments one at a time, so nor orgies? Does each have her own day?

Such a traditional harem.

Robusto

@tchrist In Phoenix next week the low temp is going to be 90 °F. Obviously, at night.

tchrist

16:27

Apparently always being in Mountain Standard Time didn't help them with the heat. They need Central air.

Mitch

@Cerberus Hmm... that's an interesting idea.

Robusto

@tchrist snork

Mitch

I have shockingly bad news.

Someone ate the leftover spaghetti that I was planning on having.

I don't know what to do with myself.

Robusto

@Mitch Did you check with Lady & The Tramp?

There's your likely suspects right there.

Mitch

I could erupt in a rage, throwing the spaghetti against the wall.

Cerberus

16:28

@Mitch Horrific.

Mitch

But there's no goddam spaghetti to do that with.

Cerberus

Should put your name on it.

Was the spaghetti good?

The next day, the sauce will often be absorbed by the pasta, resulting in a very bland flavour.

Mitch

@Robusto I have a number of suspects.

It'll be taken care of.

Cerberus

So perhaps you're not missing anything.

Mitch

@Cerberus It was awesome when fresh and was going to be even more awesome a day later.

Cerberus

16:30

Isn't that just wishful thinking?

Mitch

@Cerberus goddamit, is that what naming things is for? sunuvabitch

Whoever had it better dam well have loved the shit out of that spaghetti.

Robusto

@Mitch Or they could have taken a bite, said "Oh, the sauce has been absorbed in the noodles. Yuk!" and thrown it away.

jlliagre

Adieu 🍝

Mitch

@Cerberus Oh yeah sometimes that happens, but last night I kept the sauce and noodles separate.

One of my favorite snacks is leftover spaghetti, none of the sauce prepared for it, and just oil and vinegar. maybe pepper.

@Cerberus Could be but experience has shown me that the second time is pretty good.

@Robusto That would have been criminal.

Cerberus

@Mitch Can you eliminate some of your wives?

Mitch

16:33

But also may explain why there are so many leftover containers all the time.

Cerberus

@Mitch Ohh you are provident.

Robusto

@Cerberus I think Henry VIII showed how to do that.

Cerberus

But those were successive, were they not?

Robusto

I don't know, but I do know they were successful.

Cerberus

Perhaps some more than others?

Robusto

16:35

Perhaps.

Mitch

@Cerberus That would change things up too much.

Don't worry, I'll get over this.

Mostly.

jlliagre

Barbe-bleue

Cerberus

@Mitch Of course I meant, eliminate them as suspects in your investigation.

Mitch

@Cerberus I've never had more than one wife at a time.

Cerberus

Same.

Mitch

16:37

@Cerberus Oh.

Hm

Maybe I've given away too much information then.

Cerberus

I have one whenever I feel the urge, never more at the same time.

@Mitch Are they reading this?

Robusto

I need to keep my wife, in part because she does our taxes and I would hate to have to take on that responsibility.

Mitch

Also, the elimination step I did take I can't reverse.

Cerberus

@Robusto What a lovely text for the card accompanying the flowers you will giver her on your next anniversary.

Robusto

@Mitch Did it involve saying something you couldn't take back?

Cerberus

16:39

@Mitch Eww.

Robusto

@Cerberus I thought of that, but couldn't find any like that.

Cerberus

Oh, is this about not writing your cards again?

Kids these days!

shakes heads

heads collide, resulting in multiple headaches

Robusto

You need to shake in sequence, not all at once.

Mitch

@Cerberus I don't think so. I'm not actively trying to prevent them, but it's not like I say 'Hey babe, check out this awful pun!'

Robusto

@Mitch I've found that seldom works on women.

The only women it would work on, I suspect, are women that charge by the hour.

Mitch

16:42

@Robusto They'll laugh at the smallest things

Literally

I've heard

Robusto

Sounds like the pieces of a dad joke.

Mitch

Which I can never tell outside of here

So in the end no worries. There was not even ramen I could boil to substitute for the spaghetti, but I settled with toast. Not every meal has to be the best ever.

@Robusto Wait.. do you mean a lawyer?

Robusto

@Mitch That would be one variety, I suppose. Psychologists and psychiatrists would also be willing to listen.

jlliagre

Serge Lama-Les p'tites femmes de Pigalle-paroles

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Robusto

@jlliagre It's interesting how so much European pop music seems to be rendered on a polka-esque framework. I include American country & western music in that.

Cerberus

16:53

@Mitch No, who would call his wives 'babe'?

Robusto

@Mitch Actually, now I wonder if psychiatric help could cure obsessive punning. Or maybe there's a pharmaceutical solution? Must remember to ask @M.A.R.

Mitch

@jlliagre 'Tous les marins m'appelent "l'amiral"' ... Pourquoi, j'hésite à demander.

Cerberus

@Robusto Folk music, I would rather say.

Like German Schlagers and Portuguese Fado.

Robusto

Yes.

At one time that was pop music.

Mitch

@Robusto I'm sure a psychiatrist could help. Any kind of behavioral bad habit can be helped by counseling (and exercises).

Cerberus

16:57

@Robusto Avant la lattre.

Mitch

and anti-anxiolytics

Cerberus

And it was not mass-commercial music à l'américain.

Mitch

Don't forget the British

Robusto

No. Those were prior to mass communications.

Apr 22, 2015 at 12:50, by Robusto

@Mitch Q. Why do Morris dancers wear bells? A. So they can annoy the blind as well.

Mitch

@jlliagre On the same theme:

Le petit pain au chocolat

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MetaEd

17:20

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@alphabet go back to Slackware, be happy

jlliagre

17:48

@Mitch Subtitled La petite chocolatine in South West France :-)

@Mitch Les marins admirent les amiraux !

MetaEd

18:07

Who says there is a purpose to music?

Vikas

18:46

> The purpose of music is a topic that has been debated for centuries. In the 5th century BC, the school of Pythagoras suggested that music governed the harmony of the stars, whereas current scientific research—from an evolutionary and biological perspective—considers that music serves rather to govern the harmony between human beings.

> It’s important to note that the purpose of music varies depending on the context and the perspective of the creators and listeners. Some common purposes of music are to create a feeling of cohesion or social connectedness, to express and modulate emotion, to deliver beautiful knowledge and/or experience, and to accompany dance, entertainment, communication, and ritual. Music can also tell a story, present an idea, or share an emotion through sounds.

Source: Bing chat.

I tend to agree somewhat with second paragraph.

Mitch

@jlliagre But who is the sailor and who is the admiral? and why do they admire the admiral in this metaphor? What are the admirals -doing-?

Johan Larsson

@Robusto you around?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson What up?

Johan Larsson

I have bangers!

Robusto

You mean sausages?

Johan Larsson

19:01

music.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3li_jhVg8

music.youtube.com/watch?v=6NLEp6awMQQ

Robusto

Welcome back.

Johan Larsson

those songs your cup of tea?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson They sound interesting. I'll check them out. Thanks.

Johan Larsson

19:17

how is biking?

jlliagre

@Mitch I suppose you get the gist of the song, but let me sum it up just in case. A man has his wife "stolen" by a thug. He starts going to brothels and that changes his life. He discovers many new things. He is "cuckolded" but happy. He is such an assiduous customer that other ones, the sailors (a commonplace is that sailors often frequent prostitutes) give him the nickname of "the admiral" as they might have said "the boss".

The punchline of the story is that one day he found his wife working as a prostitute there.

Mitch

19:36

@jlliagre Ohhhh... got it. The main guy outdoes the sailors and is respected as their 'admiral'. That's what I didn't get.

@jlliagre Very French

to steal != to fly mais voler est voler?

Robusto

@JohanLarsson It's been good. Hot here today, though. I woke up late so by the time I was ready it was already too hot.

Mitch

> Joy Ride

Rated R for exuberant sexuality, bilingual foul language, brief nudity and liberal use of drugs and booze

Exuberance and other languages? How dare they!

At least no smoking. That would be awful.

Soon they'll be censoring unhealthy food in movies.

We'll have to watch 'French' movies to see someone eating joyfully.

There'll be a dark web swapping illicit videos of people eating Pringles straight from the can.

flagged as offensive

kick-mute this user

blocked for obscenity

jlliagre

19:59

@Mitch Right, voler means to fly but an old specialized meaning (to capture a partridge using a falcon) eventually replaced dérober as the main verb for "to steal". Latin already had involare with a close meaning.

Vikas

I woke up briefly today early in the morning, before sunrise and went outside. Couple of minutes later I went in to sleep again but before I could fall asleep again, I gave a serious thought on this. It is like best hour of the total 24 hours every day. And it's a shame I'm always sleeping at that time.

M.A.R.

20:54

@Vikas what is any of that supposed to mean, "govern the harmony"?

@Robusto I'm afraid his case is intractable

@Mitch I hate the whole concept of a "chick flick" but what I hate even more is that movies like this prove there is such a thing

Well, I didn't even know this particular one existed, so haven't watched it yet, maybe it's not as trashy as it looks

jlliagre

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M.A.R.

@Mitch coke?

@Vikas gets old really quick though.

Unless you do have important things to do at 5 a.m.

Robusto

@M.A.R. I'm afraid you're right about that.

MetaEd

21:31

@Vikas The purpose of music is to make earworms.

jlliagre

21:53

> The Telegraph, 24 March 2013
> They are the songs you cannot get out of your head. Now scientists may have found a way to help anyone plagued by those annoying tunes that lodge themselves inside our heads and repeat on an endless loop.
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> Researchers claim the best way to stopping the phenomenon, sometimes known as earworms – where snippets of a catchy song inexplicably play like a broken record in your brain – is to solve some tricky anagrams.
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> This can force the intrusive music out of your working memory, they say, allowing it to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts.

Wordle cure earworms!

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alphabet

Apparently the US is sending Ukraine cluster munitions.

I see no way this could blow up in anyone's face.

tchrist

@alphabet Nobody liked the idea.

Johan Larsson

22:08

biden can just say he though it was iraq

Mitch

22:20

@alphabet I can't tell if that is the best pun ever or the worst.

@M.A.R. Is that what that stuff does?

@M.A.R. Dude. Most flicks are 'guy' flicks, and chicks are just playing along.

@M.A.R. I expect it is 'well made' but then you still have to kinda like the subject matter.

As opposed to say Porky's or American Pie or 2Fast2Furious which are all awful, but dudes went to see them anyway.

alphabet

@Mitch I was incredibly proud of that joke, but I thought people might just shoot it down.

jlliagre

@alphabet That's humour noir.

tchrist

22:57

bloody humorous it is

jlliagre

The dark side of the humour.

Robusto

10 hours ago, by Robusto

I woke up with Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" going through my head, for some reason. This is the danger of earworms.

jlliagre

@Robusto Does the cure work?

Robusto

23:12

@jlliagre No. I can solve anagrams in my sleep.

Also, music always takes priority in my brain.

Even just now, rereading my comment from this morning, the earworm came back.

jlliagre

@Robusto I prescribe a double duotrigordle.

jlliagre

23:29

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tchrist

@Robusto You can only make it turn into a different one.

Robusto

@tchrist Yes.

Playing something on the piano is always a cure, but when I'm out I seldom have access to one.

tchrist

Don McLean got me on the Fourth.

Robusto

makes the sign against evil

Don't start making me wind up on that tune.

tchrist

Can you still remember?

Robusto

23:42

The day the music died?

Bastard. Now it's here.

It's on me like a bum on a baloney sandwich.

Back to "Arabesque No. 1" for me.

tchrist

Father’s sun and wholly goats.

Robusto

When I'm on a long ride I sometimes will play a couple measures of the same song (known as "the hook") over and over again in my mind. Kind of a rhythmic accompaniment to my pedaling.

tchrist

J. S. Bach: 2. Cello-Suite d-Moll BWV 1008 (Sarabande) ∙ Truls Mørk

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jlliagre

Daily Sequence #493
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Merdre

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