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RegDwight ΒВB

3:00 PM

user19161

In short, the "God" that many people believe in is just one of the many gods that exist.

RegDwight ΒВB

No, in short, there is no God that many people believe in. Every person believes in a different God.

Matt Эллен

In shorter, there is no god

RegDwight ΒВB

Get Shorty (film)

Get Shorty is a 1995 crime-comedy film based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito, the plot remained true to the book except for a few minor details. The sequel Be Cool began production in 2003 and was released in 2005. It was based on the novel of the same name published in 1999. Plot Chili Palmer (John Travolta), a loan shark based out of Miami, clashes with another mobster, Ray "Bones" Barboni (Dennis Farina). Barboni borrows Chili's jacket without permission, and Chili gets it...

@MattЭллен Hey, how about a spoiler alert next time.

RegDwight ΒВB

3:02 PM

@Robusto I can edit it in. Close your eyes for a minute.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Wow, almost everything is a title!

Wow, whale sharks are so cool.

Matt Эллен

water does take a lot of energy to warm

@Cerberus They are immune to your adulation.

3:03 PM

Interesting interaction between whale shark, tuna, and small fish.

Wow, you're not making sense.

@Robusto Are you sure?

I may yet seduce them.

user19161

@MattЭллен Indeed. It has a high specific heat capacity.

user19161

Wow, so many people said wow!

They are large monsters, just like me.

Matt Эллен

3:04 PM

@Cerberus Seduction, eh? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

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Here it eats fish from a fisherman's nets.

user19161

@Cerberus Although I believe in gods, I do not believe in the Greek ones. Those are just myths to me. In particular I don't believe in any Cerberus.

@MattЭллен Mating calls, call it whatever you like!

Matt Эллен

:D

The smaller fish attached to its tail are also cool.

RegDwight ΒВB

3:06 PM

@JasperLoy Cerberus is not a God and never was.

@RegDwightΒВB Blasphemy!

RegDwight ΒВB

Später.

I know somebody who's not going to get a free pass out of here when his time comes!

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Well, one may redefine God as he pleases.

RegDwight ΒВB

@JasperLoy sorry to inform you, Jasper, but you make no sense.

3:07 PM

@JasperLoy It is better to stick with "one" in ones sentence when one is using "one".

Matt Эллен

I keep telling people I am the very definition of God

RegDwight ΒВB

Why would you redefine someone as God only to reject him as such?

Matt Эллен

they don't listen

No "he/his".

user19161

@Cerberus Really? Hmm.

3:08 PM

@MattЭллен listens

Matt Эллен

oh, ahem, you should bow down to me in reverence of my powers and such, etc.

bows

@JasperLoy Uh-huh.

Matt Эллен

Yay! 1 down, 6 billion or so to go

The rest don't matter.

user19161

@Cerberus Do you have any source on this, other than your own authority?

Matt Эллен

3:10 PM

@Cerberus true

@JasperLoy Both Fowler and I say so. And we say so because it makes sense.

user19161

@Cerberus Hmm, why does it make sense?

Matt Эллен

He said it because they thought one was wrong

how do you follow who is saying what with such inconsistency?

user19161

I have been using "one" with "he" all my life.

Because both "one" and "one's" exist, so you have a "full" paradigm, just as with "he/his" and "it/its".

@MattЭллен Appalling.

user19161

3:12 PM

The first "one" is to introduce an arbitrary person, and "he" then just refers to that.

I understand, but using "one" all over is better.

user19161

@Cerberus Well, Fowler? I am JLO!

Matt Эллен

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a joke for Americans

user19161

@Cerberus OK, I will try to read up more on this then.

@JasperLoy Then go ask her for grammatical advice...

user19161

3:14 PM

@MattЭллен That's a pudding.

Matt Эллен

in America the call it jello

user19161

@MattЭллен Hahaha.

RegDwight ΒВB

@MattЭллен shopped.

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Here's the original.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Is that JLO?

user19161

3:25 PM

@Cerberus Thanks. Maybe I should read that book some time.

This is the modern version of Fowler's heavily revised by Burchfield.

@JasperLoy It is a dictionary-style book: not really fit for reading cover to cover.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightΒВB lol

user19161

@Cerberus Oh, I hate those.

Why?

I find it extremely convenient.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus image not found :(

3:27 PM

@MattЭллен Ohh...

RegDwight ΒВB

I clicked on it then it worked.

user image

RegDwight ΒВB

Same.

OK.

Odd.

RegDwight ΒВB

I tried downloading it, but dropbox won't allow me.

user19161

3:28 PM

Only JLO can see it.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I got a 404 when I clicked on the original, the second one works though

@RegDwightΒВB Huh?

RegDwight ΒВB

Why dropbox in the first place? Just upload from your PC.

@MattЭллен But you did see the thumbnail?

In the first one.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus no, in neither

3:28 PM

@RegDwightΒВB This is easier.

RegDwight ΒВB

user image

@Cerberus What? How? Explain.

@MattЭллен Oh, hmm. The first one shows me a thumbnail, but perhaps that is because the direct image file is locked to my IP.

Matt Эллен

perhaps

@RegDwightΒВB Now I right-click the file, then click "get link", and voilà, I only need to post the link here.

It was already uploaded to my Dropbox on my phone.

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus but you would have to do none of that if you posted it directly.

You wouldn't even have to leave this chat in the first place.

3:30 PM

@RegDwightΒВB How?

RegDwight ΒВB

By clicking the Upload button?

Right here on this page?

The file needs to move from my phone to the computer.

RegDwight ΒВB

Ah.

I do that through Dropbox, thereby automatically uploading it already.

Matt Эллен

it's like magic!

3:32 PM

Indeed!

RegDwight ΒВB

Except then it doesn't work and Reg Dwight has to download it to his PC and upload it again so people can actually see it.

I do hate the new way Dropbox's link to file works now.

@RegDwightΒВB People can see mine if they click the "not found", I just can't link to the image directly, apparently.

Matt Эллен

no hot linking!

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus and why would anyone in his right mind click on "not found"?

Annoying.

RegDwight ΒВB

3:33 PM

That doesn't even make sense.

Matt Эллен

or whatever it's called

@RegDwightΒВB People did.

RegDwight ΒВB

No. I did.

Matt Эллен

I'm not in my right mind

Matt did too!

RegDwight ΒВB

3:33 PM

See above.

Matt Эллен

:D

I don't light the right-minded.

user19161

@MattЭллен And I have long lost mine.

RegDwight ΒВB

First of all, the right mind part. Second of all, Matt lives in my sock drawer.

Matt Эллен

it's true. It's nice and warm and rent's cheap

RegDwight ΒВB

3:34 PM

And there are always enough other socks around.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB I put my socks in a box, not a drawer.

Do you live near the gun and the weird porn?

RegDwight ΒВB

That's Robusto.

Matt Эллен

lol

Ah.

Getting crowded there.

3:36 PM

Wo?

Matt Эллен

Hai!

RegDwight ΒВB

... aaand we've come full Möbius strip.

Matt Эллен

then I'll take the blue pill

toodles!

Have fun with the pill!

user19161

@MattЭллен I take a red pill every day. It's multivits.

4:10 PM

@RegDwightΒВB Then how come my weird porn keeps finding its way into the back yard? I think it's you.

@JasperLoy Yes, that does sound creepy.

Oh Kit Kit Kit. When will you learn?

> Compilation Error.

don't compile things

see? problem solved

@MattЭллен Just don't forget to seek emergency treatment after four hours (as applicable).

@JSBձոգչ That does seem to have worked.

i'm going to go out and get a gyro now

from the awesome african place

envy

4:16 PM

@JSBձոգչ Don't you have to be an awesome African to buy a gyro there?

no! they also sell them to white boys like me

actually, the most surprising thing about african food in fargo is that it exists

that it's delicious is pure upside

Gyros aren't really african food, though, are they?

@JSBձոգչ Whoa, you're in Fargo, ND?

@KitFox no... but i forgive them

they also have a bunch of traditional east african dishes

but today i want a gyro

@Robusto yes

off for lunchies. later

I'm so tired I opened a tab to goof off at work and forgot what I was going to do with it.

4:32 PM

@KitFox I've done that. Many times.

user19161

@TRiG Hi! Have not seen you in chat for long.

@JasperLoy I ought to come here more often.

Matt Эллен

Hello!

user19161

@TRiG Yeah, and then say nothing. Not that there is anything to say now...

4:51 PM

@JasperLoy Well, not a lot happening here at the minute, it seems.

And I am in work at the moment.

5:11 PM

ye gods

it's going to take me three days and at least 20 napkins to eat this gyro

Wahoo!

@JSBձոգչ Where gyro = donor kebab, yes?

@Cerberus Umm, did you remove it?

@TRiG correct.

the meat-to-pita ratio on this sandwich is obscene

5:27 PM

@JSBձոգչ I had one once from a local place in Tullamore which was impossible to finish. It was donor (lamb) and chicken and lettuce and something else I can't remember. It was absurdly massive.

And I was trying to eat it in a pub, with company.

And without cutlery.

of. i've put it away

its delicious meaty interior will await me tomorrow

Bent down to grab a bite from the unwieldy mass I was struggling to keep in one piece in my hands; straightened up with the meat between my teeth and a sprig of lettuce stuck up my nose.

@Gigili What?

The scan is still there?

The second link should work.

Matt Эллен

5:48 PM

user image

Meh.

Anybody can read that with ease!

So it's just pointless.

user image

This, on the other hand, is completely different.

Looks a bit like Cyrillic.

Matt Эллен

it's completely the same!

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