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what the hell?

I can't understand a single word

What the hack

That's so funny when they say "Fucking asshole" "Shut up" because my friend once said he could only hear "fuck" or "shit" from a English movie that we watched together

user87637

Someone unstarred my line which was previously starred, sad panda...

user87637

I am going to read my weekly distrowatch.com news now...

11:49 AM

> Dear, i am sorry for bagging into your privacy, I'm Rosemary Kouakou. Let me inform you my desire to establish in your country through your help. Although we do not know, there is amount $8.8Million my father deposit in security company before he was killed. reply for details Regards Rosemary Kouakou.

Not even trying.

Kids these days.

Reply. Tell her you know her father has actually survived. Explain that you will give her $16Million if she asks you where he is.

Hmm, interesting idea.

I can give you three more interesting ideas for $24Million.

If they wire $60,000 to my American bank account to cover the cost of the legal paperwork, I will arrange to have her father reanimated and restored to her country.

skullpatrol

May I add my two cents too?

12:00 PM

You will need more than two cents if you expect reanimations.

skullpatrol

12:15 PM

> When my mom walked in, I switched to porn because it was easier to explain

@Rob

Others: spoilers.

12:41 PM

Hey now.

With the exception of yesterday's episode I'm up to full speed, too.

And the video is a year old.

I've not gotten through season 2 yet.

Ouch.

Seriously?

Like, seriously?

Girl you better get on it.

Yeah, well, life has been very stressful lately, so adding a lot of intense drama to it is not helpful.

It won't be long till spoilers will start leaking left and right. And with this show you don't want to know anything, at all.

sighs

imagines pure, vibrant light melting away the darkness

12:46 PM

That's what happens in the next episode!

This is such a stupid video, and yet it has the desired effect.

I've no sound. Have put on towatch list.

No, I mean, the one I've not posted here. It's a relaxation video of a "psychic cleansing" role play.

Ah.

That reminds me, I need to check in on my mom. brb

12:48 PM

Lachs is German for salmon. I wonder what relachsation is, then.

Resalmonation. Resalmonization.

But what is that?

I caught a salmon on a dry fly yesterday.

I'm reading up on a Breaking Bad episode titled Fly right now.

Maybe when you restock salmon?

@JohanLarsson That picture looked sooooo serene.

I was filled with envy.

Kit will be thrilled when she gets there. Which seeing how it's season 3, episode 10, will be in ten years.

Naw, I'm sure we'll get back to it this winter.

12:51 PM

I sort of envy you. You have such good stuff ahead of you. And so much of it.

It boggles the mind how much and how good.

You sound like Rob.

@KitFox Serene is a good word for the kind of nice, the sad part is that it is very hard to find a meaningful job if one wans to live in tis place.

@RegDwighт Breaking bad?

@KitFox That's because Rob's a closet communist.

@JohanLarsson yes.

I liked Breaking bad in the beginning but found it more and more annoying as it went on

Hah.

Then you don't get its entire point.

12:53 PM

probably not, what is the point?

That's the whole beauty of it, three episodes in a row when nothing, absolutely nothing happens at all.

Hey! Mind the spoilers!

Except then in the fourth it all explodes in your face, and you suddenly realize how much had been building up all along.

I was annoyed by the stress and screaming when hiding things, felt like it was on repeat

@KitFox no spoilers.

You've arrived at that point by now. Where it becomes pure character development.

12:54 PM

@RegDwighт May I recommend watching Tour the France?

Never heard of that one.

The bicycle race

Um. I've watched more Tour de Frances in my life than all of you combined.

I also quit.

Because these fuckers suck.

They ruined the sport for me.

@JohanLarsson I'm not even sure what you mean at all, but I won't be asking while Kit's around.

Bill Blurr shows up in Breaking bad but most likely you already knw it

Of course.

That's Season 4.

The best season of television ever.

12:57 PM

@RegDwighт I don't remember much other than that I felt like fastforwarding :)

Too bad. Your loss. Honestly.

@RegDwighт I'll close my eyes.

@KitFox Only for a moment and the moment's gone?

@RegDwighт Twin Peaks is probably pretty high up there on my list, Breaking bad is not on my list

Just a drop of water in an endless sea.

I always think "just a drop of water in an empty sea" first.

12:59 PM

Twin Peaks is solid. The Wonder Years are solid. Mad Men is solid. Game of Thrones is good TV. That is all beside the point.

The Wire was also decent, can't think of anything more at the moment.

Dexter Season 2 and 4 were great.

GoT is meh imo, sure it is expensive and looks good but still.

I watched all of the first season of Twin Peaks in one sitting. I have not seen the second season.

My wife has seen it forwards and backwards. I am not a fan.

I could be, one day.

1:01 PM

@KitFox I watched season 1 & 2 in a row one Christmas

You have to be a fan of weird, which I am.

Planet earth is not the same thing but very likely the best TV ever made

That one I know nothing about.

Is it sci-fi?

It is gorgeous.

That's not a genre.

1:02 PM

@RegDwighт Dunno if you are joking but here

Oh that.

Oh come on.

You can't be mixing stuff like that.

I thought this was a serious discussion.

no true but I hedged

I might as well point out how good King Lear is.

I've never read/seen King Lear.

But this weekend, I came into an illustrated copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

So yeah, just to tie the loose end, with Planet Earth the genre of course is "gorgeous".

1:05 PM

looks smug

This is also a very good mini-series that you Americans have probably never heard of.

But see, Breaking Bad is gorgeous, too. But it's also a drama series on top of that.

> Berlin, 1941.

Bah, they lost me right there.

I am sick and tired of WWII.

trust me and watch it

I'm sure one day I will. But right now I'm exhausted.

If I look back at my life so far, a good half of it has been spent looking at Hitler. And that's the good half. This sucks.

I can do better.

Try looking at naked ladies instead.

1:07 PM

Yeah no shit.

Not much Hitler at all in the series, 96% drama, very good acting also.

wait. Hitler porn. Solves all your problems right there.

@JohanLarsson Then why the heck does it have to be Berlin, 1941?

They could be, oh I dunno, cooking meth instead.

@RegDwighт then again, why not?

Because I am tired of Berlin, 1941. This is why we go over this stuff.

1:09 PM

Pingu!

That's the new favorite at our house.

@RegDwighт But the drama part is the annoying part.

@JohanLarsson no it is not. Though I'm not entirely sure you use drama to refer to the same thing I am using it for.

Breaking Bad is pure, distilled, concentrated, relentless, breathtaking, inevitable, vile, mindblowing, subtle, discreet, meticulous, elegant, slow character development.

We have to let the fox decide in this matter I think.

Paraphrasing Vince Gilligan, everything must be made as slow as to almost make the viewer fall asleep, but not slower. He's right up there with Einstein.

@JohanLarsson Last I heard, The Fox's Decision is scheduled to hit this chat this winter.

We'll see.

1:17 PM

Well, I liked the first part, if that's what you're asking.

Apparently, it is really difficult to get the right paperclip icon.

Depends on how good it is I think, if it is really good it will be in 40 hours or so by a tired and happy fox

I would love to be a tired and happy fox.

Today, I am a tired and angry fox.

Actually I would never be so foolish as to watch something so good in one go, to the point of being tired.

Noah

Hi

Hi.

1:19 PM

If it's good you want to stretch it out. And be sober and alert at all times.

But I must be off for now.

Hi and bye.

Bye.

Noah

I would want to be a happy human.

Bye.

What's so good about the movie The Big Lobovoski?

I like the the big Lebowski, dunn why though.

afk now

2:23 PM

Hello.

@MattЭллен You can say that again.

I sure can: Hello.

user87637

@MattЭллен Boo!

Hi, Jasper

user87637

@MattЭллен I am wondering, will you be visiting my country anytime soon?

2:32 PM

I have no plans too. Why do you ask?

user87637

Ah. Then never mind. Because I was thinking of asking you to help me get something from the UK.

OK. Well I don't mind posting something

user87637

Well, I think I will just pay for the shipping myself! It's two books from amazon.co.uk, and I don't think they are free to ship here for you!

user87637

These two books are not available in the US, as I checked on amazon.com.

interesting. I wonder why the US wouldn't have books the UK does

user87637

2:35 PM

Every amazon.xxx has different books. There are a few of them now.

@Jasper browses amazon.xxx

user87637

They mostly cater to the local market first.

user87637

And some of them, not all, have international shipping.

sure, but academic books would be applicable to all markets, I would've though

user87637

@MετάEd XXX is my favourite abbreviation for anything.

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2:36 PM

Hiya.

user87637

@MattЭллен You have no idea how many books there are in the world, billions!

user87637

@KitFox Heya Foxy!

@KitFox Mornin!

user87637

I got another star, miracle!

Ah, the miracle of irony.

2:37 PM

@KitFox hi :)

Hey, Matts, what's shaking?

@Jasper at least

user87637

Anyway, my friend is returning from Oxford next year, I will probably ask for his help then.

OMG, your friends are touching!

@KitFox I took the day off work, for I have a cold or something. I've been asleep most of the day :D

2:38 PM

Oh noes!!

@Jasper sounds like a plan

Get back in bed. I will make you some tea and soup.

(not together)

user87637

@KitFox Yes, Darren is touching Matt, lol.

user87637

I will get into bed with you Matt, hehe.

After you've eaten, I will tuck you in and you may play PvZ 2 on my tablet until bedtime.

user87637

2:40 PM

My bedsheet is quite close to steelblue as well, fascinating.

@KitFox awww, thanks :D just what I need. How are things with you?

Myeh.

Like always.

user87637

When people ask me how I am my usual response is "same".

We moved house over the weekend and I am barely keeping my brain from exploding.

user87637

@KitFox Why did you move anyway?

2:41 PM

Because.

@KitFox oh, to your MIL's old house?

user87637

I moved to my current place when I was 17.

@MattЭллен Yep.

user87637

@MattЭллен Read that as MILF, lol.

@KitFox sends you happy thoughts moving is so stressful.

2:43 PM

We've moved in with her for the time being too, since her house isn't done yet.

user87637

I usually use XXX on ELU too for [some clause].

user87637

I am not sure what the users think of my XXX.

@KitFox oh. That's kind of her. Must be tough all being in one place

user87637

@MattЭллен It's easier to stay in one piece, lol.

Yes. probably.

2:45 PM

It's not so bad. The house is big.

user87637

Whenever I say I am Brad Pitt, my mum will say I am Black Pig, haha.

It's the ARC (her boyfriend) who is tedious, but we've mitigated him to the extent possible.

@KitFox arc, lol

user87637

I think I am gonna watch American Pie, all eight of them.

@KitFox Ah. Good, good. Will your new place be ready soon?

2:47 PM

You should find out what wards him off... like garlic over the doorframes, or something

No, that's our new place. It's her place that's not finished. Maybe December.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Actually, vegetarian meals.

user87637

Oh yeah that site I told you about @KitFox has tons of movies, shh...

@KitFox ah. Tofu over the doors.

He thinks that it's not really a meal unless it contains about a pound of some kind of meat, preferably red.

Carrots arranged pointy ends out, in defensive formation.

bead curtains made of dried peas.

user87637

2:49 PM

Wow, a man who eats so much meat must have a really huge meat, lol.

user87637

In other news, last weekend I had some orange juice from Orange Julius, the last time I had that was two decades ago...

@Jasper That is really disgusting.

@KitFox oh! gotcha. bbl - trying eating.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Kale shades.

user87637

I think it is not really orange juice, they add some kind of powder to it to make it sweet but not too sweet, which is good.

user87637

2:52 PM

The most delicious drink I ever had, yum.

user87637

I think I will try out the other flavours the next time.

Around here, an orange julius is orange juice with raw egg in it, blended until foamy.

user87637

Ah, I think it was blended, but I don't think there was raw egg.

user87637

At least it did not taste like raw egg in any way.

user87637

I eat raw egg plain, or mixed with luncheon meat, also yum.

user87637

2:54 PM

Just crack two eggs into a cup and beat till satisfied.

around here "Orange Julius" is a drink shop that sells orange juice. I don't think they put anything in it.

user87637

Yeah even your KFC and my KFC have different menus!

user87637

For one, you have no "spicy" flavour there! You should try it when you come here.

@KitFox How does he feel about tiedye?

user87637

Well, they have coleslaw here, but not veg salad which they removed from the menu long ago, sad panda.

3:00 PM

@MετάEd About the same way I do.

user87637

I did not know that youtube has so many movies, but one needs to sign in to watch the adult content ones...

@Jasper our KFC has a spicy thing. It's a sandwich. It's not very spicy though.

user87637

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ah, the spicy here refers to the chicken of course.

@Jasper yes, a spicy chicken sandwich

@KitFox That's something, anyway. But I was hoping you could use it like garlic.

user87637

3:01 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Haha, sorry, I was talking about the chicken here being spicy, not there.

user87637

The old movies on youtube, some of which are black and white, are rather good. Check out the channel drelbcom.

user87637

Even your bun looks different from mine.

@Jasper Yes, it's the chicken part that's spicy

craves chicken sandwich

user87637

3:03 PM

Here we have MOS Burger, not in the US/UK/Canada, haha.

user87637

MOS Burger is the best burger chain for me.

user87637

Started in Japan methinks.

well, around here my favourite fast-food chicken sandwich is Wendy's' Spicy Chicken Sandwich. It's the spiciest of the fast food chicken sandwiches, which isn't saying a lot, and the ingredients are usually fresh and tasty.

I never go to KFC.

user87637

Ah, a few Wendy's have been opening up here in recent years.

user87637

Some are 24 hours.

3:13 PM

I managed to eat a whole garlic flatbread. I don't feel bad. I think I must be better

Yay!

yay! time to celebrate

pours beers

:D

woah. that's one old question to be asking about it now

Agreed.

why WAS it closed, though?

3:22 PM

I can't remember.

I might have voted "I don't understand the question" whatever that was called last year

Since I still don't understand the question.

Not "off topic" though

I'm voting to re-open

Most of the votes were for off-topic. I don't understand that. Matt voted NARQ.

I tend to agree.

I would argue that the fact that there are multiple conflicting answers which attempt to address this issue in detail suggest that it is a real question.

shrugs As you like it.

My vote is cast. If others agree they will follow. If not, whatevs.

3:52 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The question lacks context and more importantly lacks any evidence of research. That probably explains the closevotes and the multiple conflicting answers.

@MετάEd coughs Including yours.

Lunch! bbl

@KitFox Yes, one of the closevotes is mine as well as one of the answers.

Unfortunately I can't remember what I ate for lunch last week, much less what I was thinking in response to a question from almost a year ago.

Mahnax

Hiya.