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Robusto

15:01

Mercury (☿) is a woman with horns. Venus (♀) is just a woman. Earth (♁) is an upside-down woman. It isn't until you get to Mars (♂) that the planets start to get manly at all.

Cerberus

Where are the remaining 52 billion €?

Matt Эллен

I thought that

Cerberus

I want my money back!

Matt Эллен

this would have been easier to see in a cumulative graph

Cerberus

I knew I had put it somewhere.

@MattЭллен ...

Matt Эллен

15:04

;)

Cerberus

Although it would seriously be cool to have this in a cumulative graph, actually.

cornbread ninja

@JSBձոգչ hooray! I forgot it was pepperjack; that's even better :d

Cerberus

Then you could see the share of the EU aid rising.

Robusto

The EU is getting paid in pepperjack now? Wha?

Matt Эллен

pepper jack is the new Euro

they're trying out a biodegradable currency

people who don't spend it, lose it

Robusto

15:07

I bet they get pretty cheesed off when that happens.

Matt Эллен

people who are lactose intolerant are given soy cheese

RegDwighт

@Cerberus haven't you heard? The Lehman liquidator got those.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Ahh...

Sold its remaining assets well below market prices and got a cut out of the difference?

JSBձոգչ

@MattЭллен but who will buy that from them?

RegDwighт

@Cerberus It's to pay for the transport of his other 800 million.

Cerberus

15:10

@RegDwighт So what paper(s) do you read, actually?

@RegDwighт Ahh of course.

RegDwighт

None.

Cerberus

Oh.

What website(s) do you read for news and commentary?

RegDwighт

Spiegel Online, and whatever gets posted to Reddit, which I check about once a month these days.

Cerberus

Ah OK.

Matt Эллен

@JSBձոգչ it's legal tender, so shops can exchange it at banks for normal cheese, if they're hungry. Banks don't like to deal in it, because it smells so bad.

RegDwighт

15:11

I watch the Tagesschau every evening.

Cerberus

Spiegel is quite OK.

RegDwighт

But by then I could basically produce it myself.

Cerberus

But they don't have the latest news immediately reported on, do they?

@RegDwighт Then where do you get your headlines?

RegDwighт

@Cerberus if they are of any importance, sure.

Cerberus

I rather mean random daily national news.

Which is relevant, though not always terribly important.

RegDwighт

15:12

Spiegel is random.

I read all kind of shit there I wouldn't read on Bild.de.

Like which celebrity married which celebrity whose dog is called like which third celebrity.

Cerberus

spiegel.de

JSBձոգչ

@RegDwighт you get your news from reddit once a month? that explains so much

Cerberus

This page has only a couple of today's potential news items, I would say.

@RegDwighт Hmm that is annoying.

RegDwighт

@JSBձոգչ I don't understand that comment. Are you dissing me about being behind the times?

JSBձոգչ

@Reg no, i'm dissing you about reading reddit

SF.

15:14

From RedDiт

RegDwighт

Because I am constantly the first one to post news here.

JSBձոգչ

do you want the FRIST badge?

Cerberus

NRC has the occasional silly pop-culture news, but not a lot. It does have an annoying amount of sports news, but Matt was good enough to write me a filter!

RegDwighт

@JSBձոգչ well I tried to post on Reddit, but those morons are not interested in anything.

Cerberus

I find about 2/3 of NRC's news items relevant enough to read more than their summaries.

RegDwighт

15:15

So basically I only visit r/LEGO and r/AFOL

Cerberus

That's a very high score for me.

JSBձոգչ

@RegDwighт oh, well, LEGO. that's not so bad.

RegDwighт

@Cerberus that's why I don't like spending time on news sites. I find everything relevant to read.

Cerberus

Hmm.

RegDwighт

When I visit Spiegel Online, I end up reading everything they posted in the last 24 hours.

Cerberus

15:17

How does that happen?

RegDwighт

When I still used Reddit, I clicked on every damn shit on the front page.

It's a waste of time.

99% of all news is a waste of time.

Cerberus

To change the subject completely, is your bedroom stuffed with empty milk bottles that you hated throwing away?

RegDwighт

Nope, but you are not very far off the mark with what you're implying.

Cerberus

Hehe.

Do you sometimes have difficulty clearing a bath to the front door?

Matt Эллен

lol

RegDwighт

15:18

What is door?

Cerberus

Do you sometimes get hurt by piles of junk collapsing on you?

Matt Эллен

My nanowrimo novel is set in Bath

Cerberus

Right, right.

You have your daily pizze delivered by rope through the window.

JSBձոգչ

my last nanowrimo story is about Yuri Gagarin

RegDwighт

yesterday, by RegDwighт

I hope you have illustrations.

Cerberus

15:20

I do sort of understand this OCD thing, but I still manage to skip lost of irrelevant news items; most items are fairly short; and there aren't that many in a day.

@RegDwighт Not quite what I expected.

RegDwighт

Right. You weren't there.

Well, let me introduce you.

Cerberus, Gagarin. Gagarin, Cerberus.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Can someone define nanowrimo for me?

Cerberus

Doesn't the crown get in the way when you're crawling under those piled boxes?

Oh, I thought it was you.

RegDwighт

@Cerberus there are no piled boxes in space.

Though the humanity is working on that.

Cerberus

How about inside?

Whose humanity?

Matt Эллен

15:22

@Robusto It is an event run by The Office of Light and Letters. They encourage people to write a novel in a month (November to be exact)

Cerberus

I would hate living in a space station.

Probably small and stinky.

JSBձոգչ

@Robusto closed as gen ref

@Cerberus plus there probably isn't enough cheese

Cerberus

@JSBձոգչ What if you make your own?

Milk some space cows?

Robusto

My question goes to the origins and etymology. Reopened.

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus that might work, though pressing the cheese in zero-gravity will be a challenge

RegDwighт

15:24

@Robusto origin: some dude. Etymology: aggronym.

JSBձոգչ

@Robusto National Novel Writing Month. take the first syllable of each word

Cerberus

How does this pressing work?

JSBձոգչ

you put cheese in a mold. you put something heavy on top of the mold

Cerberus

Ah.

Robusto

@JSBձոգչ Thank you. I prefer to write novels in months that aren't mandated.

Cerberus

15:24

For how long?

RegDwighт

@Robusto but those months are not national. Why do you hate America?

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus depends. generally ~30 lbs for ~24 hrs

Matt Эллен

@Robusto it started in San Francisco in 1999. some friends needed motivation to write their novels, so they set up national novel writing month. It expanded from there. It is now an international event, but has retained the "national" part of the name, because it's nicer to say.

Cerberus

Ah OK.

You could use some sort of spring?

JSBձոգչ

@Cerberus yeah, that would be your only choice

commercial cheese makers tend to use pneumatic presses rather than gravity anyway

so that would work fine in space

Cerberus

15:26

Ah yes.

RegDwighт

Wait, are we still dancing around the cheese?

Cerberus

We finished beating around the bush.

JSBձոգչ

but you'd still have problems with draining the whey. the cheese mold is perforated so that the whey which you press out of the cheese drains away

Cerberus

Suction?

RegDwighт

Bake your parmesan faster, losers.

JSBձոգչ

15:26

maybe?

Robusto

If you need that kind of motivation — the motivation of a national month when everyone is encouraged to write — I would suggest that you're maybe not as committed as you might be. Postscript: October is National Breast Cancer Month. Did you go out and try to get breast cancer in October?

SF.

You can always simulate gravity using a centrifuge.

JSBձոգչ

@Robusto yes. i failed

RegDwighт

@Robusto I was too busy with the International Awareness Awareness Month.

Cerberus

Is it okay if I just go out and try to feel up as many breasts as possible?

JSBձոգչ

15:27

@Cerberus i thought you were gay!

Cerberus

Well, there's no law that says I can't touch breasts.

Or perhaps there is.

Never mind, then.

Matt Эллен

there is, it's the sexual assault law

JSBձոգչ

they are nice and warm and squishy. i can see why even gay guys might like them.

Cerberus

Right, right. Pesky PC laws.

RegDwighт

@MattЭллен I think it says you can touch breasts, and in fact must, if you want to achieve sexual assault.

Cerberus

15:28

@JSBձոգչ I would totally be a boob guy.

RegDwighт

You got it backwards.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт you're right! how foolish of me.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Ahh smart thinking!

RegDwighт

That's what I do.

Matt Эллен

no it isn't! you've told us many times you do no such thinking

RegDwighт

15:30

That is right as well.

Robusto

►

RegDwighт

I only know Sir Rap-a-Lot.

Him, and Megadeth.

In our life there's if / In our beliefs there's lie / In our business there's sin / In our bodies there's die — This was my life, Megadeth — coleopterist 9 hours ago

JSBձոգչ

I suffer / But why? -- Napalm Death

►

RegDwighт

They wanted to call my machine Napalm. Then Cucumber. I went with Penguin.

That was twelve years ago.

Now I don't even know what my machine is called. It's changed names so often.

Robusto

I would rather listen to songs about boobs than songs about napalm or cucumbers.

RegDwighт

15:34

That is winner talk.

JSBձոգչ

and therefore wholly inappropriate for Robusto

MετάEd

@RegDwighт Assault, generally speaking, only requires that you threaten. Once you touch it's battery. This is why you should be careful about touching the battery.

RegDwighт

I am Batman. I have to touch the battery.

Robusto

Battery Park

Battery Park is a 25-acre (10 hectare) public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years to protect the settlement behind them. At the north end of the park is Castle Clinton, the often re-purposed last remnant of the defensive works that inspired the name of the park; Pier A, formerly a fireboat station; and Hope Garden, a memorial to AIDS victims. At the other end is Battery Gardens restaurant, next to the United States Coas...

You may do that here. Without fear of repercussions or legal entanglements.

RegDwighт

USA! USA!

Robusto

15:39

bows

JSBձոգչ

hey, the nag-banner at Wikipedia is gone!

either it remembers me or they gave up

Robusto

@Cerberus: Apropos of something.

Matt Эллен

yep. they're shutting their doors in a few days. no more money for servers

RegDwighт

@JSBձոգչ neither option seems likely.

They kept flashing it at me every time I visited, in a different color.

On my first visit, I actually wanted to donate. On my fifth visit, I stopped visiting.

Robusto

Wikipedia has a coolness detector now. If they sense you're not cool, they flash you the begging banner.

RegDwighт

15:44

You mean Jimmy Wales is getting more banners than all of us combined?

That is comforting.

SF.

Top story from "NotAlwaysRight". A customer comes to the counter with just two items: an energy drink and a pack of batteries. The drink name is "Assault". He hands his credit card to the cashier and can't hold back laughing. The cashier asks what's going on. "You just charged me for assault and battery."

RegDwighт

We told jokes like that in grade school. And laughed at them in nursery school.

Robusto

It would be funnier if he'd smacked her when he said that.

RegDwighт

It would be funnier if he'd have smacked her without saying or purchasing anything.

Robusto

Point taken.

Very zen, that.

Tangen had studied with Sengai since childhood. When he was twenty he wanted to leave his teacher and visit others for comparitive study, but Sengai would not permit this. Every time Tangen suggested it, Sengai would give him a rap on the head.

Finally Tangen asked an elder brother to coax permission from Sengai. This the brother did and then reported to Tangen: "It is arranged. I have fixed it for you to start on your pilgrimage at once."

Tangen went to Sengai to thank him for his permission. The master answered by giving him another rap.

Cerberus

15:50

@Robusto Funny.

> The American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s effectively ended the cultural legitimacy of minstrelsy here, as Americans came to realize why the tradition was offensive.

"Came to realize", "was".

RegDwighт

Oh, are we "playing" Google "Reviews" again?

Cerberus

"Yes".

RegDwighт

Awesome"."

Cerberus

""

I wish I could put you between quotation marks.

RegDwighт

I occupy two seats, as we calculated earlier.

Robusto

15:52

@Cerberus Hey, stop trying to summon @tchrist.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Huh?

@Robusto How does that work?

RegDwighт

2 days ago, by RegDwighт

@Robusto Let me make some room in the top five first. I'm occupying two seats.

Cerberus

@Robusto If anyone is speaking of Him, it's you.

Robusto

@Cerberus Just sit around and see if he shows up. You've done it before. It should be no big deal.

tchrist

And to directly answer the other part of your question, yes, I will edit a post for a single hyphen that should be a dash. And not just here; on StackOverflow, too. And on Cooking, Gaming, Photography, and the other 80+ SE sites I am registered on. It's the norm, not an exception. — RegDwighт 6 hours ago

RegDwighт

15:53

Just use this dash: -

Robusto

@RegDwighт Is it hard for you to go to the bathroom?

RegDwighт

See! It works!

Cerberus

...

tchrist

I just fixed his hyphens to be a dash. :)

Cerberus

Stop that!

RegDwighт

15:54

This is like an all-level jinx.

@Robusto I prefer to chess to the bathroom, yes.

Robusto

@Cerberus La voilà !

Cerberus

Le voilà, indeed.

Matt Эллен

Los Violas

tchrist

Je l’ai vu.

Robusto

@Cerberus No. Over there. La voilà !

Cerberus

15:55

Oh, you mean là voilà?

Robusto

Maybe over there is in L.A.

RegDwighт

No, he means cheese. But his spelling is a bit Frenchy.

tchrist

làlàlà

Cerberus

I like French cheese.

Robusto

@Cerberus Wevs. See my former statement about not giving a shit too much over French diacritical marks.

RegDwighт

15:56

@tchrist Ì càn't héár yóú!

tchrist

Those are the easy ones.

Cerberus

@Robusto I will remember your acritical remarks.

RegDwighт

Õ? Âre they?

Cerberus

Nø.

Robusto

2 hours ago, by Robusto

@tchrist Dùh.

tchrist

15:57

Í ćáń’t́ h́éáŕ ýóú óv́éŕ t́h́éŕé.

RegDwighт

You can't beat me, I have all kind of ßhit right on my keyboard.

Cerberus

Hōw abōūt mācrōns?

RegDwighт

You have to sudo sandwiches first.

tchrist

@Cerberus Ī c̄ān̄’t̄ h̄ēār̄ ȳōū ōv̄ēr̄ t̄h̄ēr̄ē.

Robusto

Pseudo sandwiches have zero calories.

RegDwighт

15:58

@Cerberus Хау эбаут зис?

Cerberus

ɔɹ ɪpɑ çʌʀæçθəɹʃ?

@RegDwighт That sounds like èbout...

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