The Melty [chat]

Honk

I can't describe how upset I am about my macbook incident. The hinge is twisted. The way it was dropped this should not be possible, it's twisted the exact opposite way it should be from that impact.

So not only is it kind of broken, but it's broken in a way that is not concurrent with the way it happened.

Eddy

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

Muffins are also known as baps or barmcakes if you live in a weird place.

I feel that the dribble of runny egg yolk adds heavily to the pathos of this picture

ronya

did you snap the other hinge off or something

maybe you could pick up a water-damaged one off ebay and swap the cases

Leitner

Yeah, literally never seen muffin used except for the sweet variety.

p.s.

Spoiler:

is livejounal down for any of you guys

electricitylikesme

Organichu wrote:

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

They're distinct from what Americans call "English muffins" which are kind of those flat sad things you get at McDonalds.

It could vary more by region than I realised, but in both Bristol and Manchester, those are muffins.

you... you were so polite while in america

now i come to find you referring to our proclivities as flat and sad

we were such good hosts and in return, treachery

If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black...

Abdhyius

Organichu wrote:

i got plenty of sleep

still waking up feeling like shit almost every day

goddamnit

i'm young, i'm not obese, i don't have cancer or aids

why do i feel terrible every day of my life!

white guilt

Daxon

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

They're distinct from what Americans call "English muffins" which are kind of those flat sad things you get at McDonalds.

It could vary more by region than I realised, but in both Bristol and Manchester, those are muffins.

Well that's a bap.

assuming that a bap is actually just bread.

I would call that a bun.

But I am afraid I have no buns to make such a meal out of. Instead two pieces of toast will have to suffice.

ronya

Leitner wrote:

Spoiler:

is livejounal down for any of you guys

no, it's down for me

man who bothers to DDOS livejournal

which Russians did it aggravate

electricitylikesme

Once again for the Mun!

Organichu

electricitylikesme wrote:

Organichu wrote:

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

They're distinct from what Americans call "English muffins" which are kind of those flat sad things you get at McDonalds.

It could vary more by region than I realised, but in both Bristol and Manchester, those are muffins.

you... you were so polite while in america

now i come to find you referring to our proclivities as flat and sad

we were such good hosts and in return, treachery

If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black...

they were not good hosts! they treated us like shit!

Eddy

I only put my lips upon the flat and sad

RonaldoTheGypsy

Ehhh I don't remember if we report 'do my homework' posts... but there's really not a whole lot to debate. I've never reported a post in my life.

Someone else will handle it, I guess.

BobCesca

Mmmm, Brie and cranberry panini.

BobCesca

RonaldoTheGypsy wrote:

Ehhh I don't remember if we report 'do my homework' posts... but there's really not a whole lot to debate. I've never reported a post in my life.

Someone else will handle it, I guess.

I reported it. Even if "do my homework" posts were allowed, it would be in H/ A, not here.

HerrCron

BobCesca wrote:

Mmmm, Brie and cranberry panini.

Ohhh, I wonder if I can find one of those on this godforsaken rock.

RonaldoTheGypsy

You know. I am really glad I picked up that Brian Eno stuff.

RonaldoTheGypsy

BobCesca wrote:

RonaldoTheGypsy wrote:

Ehhh I don't remember if we report 'do my homework' posts... but there's really not a whole lot to debate. I've never reported a post in my life.

Someone else will handle it, I guess.

I reported it. Even if "do my homework" posts were allowed, it would be in H/ A, not here.

YOU'RE A GIRL?!

Eddy

Woody Allen, on Earl Monroe wrote:

The truth was, I immediately saw myself cast in the role of the bespectacled, white, pseudo-intellectual trying to form a “heavy” thesis about a gift of grace and magical flair the black athlete possesses that can never be reduced to anything but poetry. I have always envied this gift and have often said that if I could live life over as someone else it would be wonderful to be Sugar Ray Robinson or Willie Mays. With my luck, however, I would undoubtedly wind up John Maynard Keynes

It’s amazing, because the audience’s “high” originates inside Monroe and seems to emerge over his exterior. He creates a sense of danger in the arena and yet has enough wit in his style to bring off funny ideas when he wants to. He has, as an athlete-performer, what few actors possess. Marlon Brando is one such actor. The audience never knows what will happen next and the potential for a sudden great thrill is always present. If we think of an actor like George C. Scott, for instance, we feel he is consistently first rate, but he cannot move a crowd the way Brando does. There is something indescribable in Brando that pins an audience on the edge of its seats at all times. Perhaps because we sense a possible peak experience at any given moment, and when it occurs, the performance transcends mere acting and soars into the sublime. On a basketball court, Monroe does this to spectators.

a) Postmodernism was a heady time for all
b) I love Earl Monroe so much it doesn't even make sense
c) I love Woody Allen

Daxon

oh my god this sandwich is so good

AND NOW I HAVE A SECOND ONE EXACTLY LIKE IT <3<3<3<3

Daxon

okay

perhaps that was a bit TOO greasy

feel ever so slightly sick now.

Tav

I love you, internet.

Daxon

http://www.wimp.com/superhydrophobiccoating/

OKAY THIS IS CRAAAZY

Kalkino

Muffins can be sweet or savoury, in NZ and possibly parts of Australia too, in common usage. Usually sweet in my experience, but there are a few cafes in London that follow this usage, due possibly to an antipodean connection

Mojo_Jojo

Daxon wrote:

http://www.wimp.com/superhydrophobiccoating/

OKAY THIS IS CRAAAZY

Superhydrophic doesn't mean the water "shoots" off things. It just means the water contact angle is >150 degrees and the roll-off angle is less than ten. No "shooting". Silly man. Cool product though.

Daxon

Antipodean is such a funny word to describe Kiwis/Australians

Daxon

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

Daxon wrote:

http://www.wimp.com/superhydrophobiccoating/

OKAY THIS IS CRAAAZY

Superhydrophic doesn't mean the water "shoots" off things. It just means the water contact angle is >150 degrees and the roll-off angle is less than ten. No "shooting". Silly man. Cool product though.

well yeah, that was an exceptionally poor choice of words but it's a really cool spray.

Mojo_Jojo

Also, superhydrophobic surfaces tend to be produced from excitingly unhealthy chemical treatments. I'm not sure what he has in that spray, but I'd want to know before I used it outside of a fume hood.

Honk

ronya wrote:

did you snap the other hinge off or something

maybe you could pick up a water-damaged one off ebay and swap the cases

My shoulder strap cut loose. And the hinge twisted in the direction of the fall, not the direction of the impact - which makes no sense.

The screen is integrated into the case so I don't think that I can. I am gonna try to make this an insurance errand, I was thinking about turning it in for repair/inspection anyway because I'm pretty sure that there's a loose screw floating around the interior since earlier maltreatment.

Daxon

yessssssssssssss

rewatching Hitchhiker's Guide

again. (I watched it about 2 days ago)

edit:

awww the dolphin tricks scene in the beginning really makes me sad.

captive dolphins are super sad

Kalkino

Daxon wrote:

Antipodean is such a funny word to describe Kiwis/Australians

Yeah, but this is more what we get labeled here than how I would have self identitied prior to living in London.

Anyway, the antipodean points of where I'm.from are in Spain and the Bay of Biscay

BobCesca

Need to remember to print out my posters today. Gonna make my students translate a Latin version of Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer on Thursday. Today, however, is boring grammar and the future tense.

Daxon

Kalkino wrote:

Daxon wrote:

Antipodean is such a funny word to describe Kiwis/Australians

Yeah, but this is more what we get labeled here than how I would have self identitied prior to living in London.

Anyway, the antipodean points of where I'm.from are in Spain and the Bay of Biscay

wait what? where you from?

Also it'd be kind of rude calling someone antipodean, do you really get called that?

Cause I'd call them a kiwi or australian

like how people don't say I'm scandinavian, but swedish.

Daxon

okay so I just noticed

in the initial pub scene with Arthur and Ford

there's this lady sitting next to them that just WON'T STOP EAVESDROPPING/STARING AT THEM

bowen

My g/f's mother is super religious and it is annoying.

bowen

Well, not super religious, but obnoxiously religious.

simonwolf

I have never encountered being called an "antipodean", myself, though I know of the term

Salvation122

I wrote a small novel about the US national debt

You can read it here if you'd like

It involves Tang

Kalkino

Daxon wrote:

Kalkino wrote:

Daxon wrote:

Antipodean is such a funny word to describe Kiwis/Australians

Yeah, but this is more what we get labeled here than how I would have self identitied prior to living in London.

Anyway, the antipodean points of where I'm.from are in Spain and the Bay of Biscay

wait what? where you from?

Also it'd be kind of rude calling someone antipodean, do you really get called that?

Cause I'd call them a kiwi or australian

like how people don't say I'm scandinavian, but swedish.

It isn't a rude term, it is a label referring to a shared identity. Usually if I am being called this by a Brit they are referring to people from both countries. In which case it may be more convenient to say antipodean

Daxon

Kalkino wrote:

Daxon wrote:

Kalkino wrote:

Daxon wrote:

Antipodean is such a funny word to describe Kiwis/Australians

Yeah, but this is more what we get labeled here than how I would have self identitied prior to living in London.

Anyway, the antipodean points of where I'm.from are in Spain and the Bay of Biscay

wait what? where you from?

Also it'd be kind of rude calling someone antipodean, do you really get called that?

Cause I'd call them a kiwi or australian

like how people don't say I'm scandinavian, but swedish.

It isn't a rude term, it is a label referring to a shared identity. Usually if I am being called this by a Brit they are referring to people from both countries. In which case it may be more convenient to say antipodean

oh right in that case

I was envisaging people just not caring where you were from and saying "Oh yes, this is Kalkino - he is Antipodean."

Mojo_Jojo

Daxon wrote:

oh right in that case

I was envisaging people just not caring where you were from and saying "Oh yes, this is Kalkino - he is Antipodean."

"This is Kalkino and he's not from round 'ere"

Kalkino

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

Daxon wrote:

oh right in that case

I was envisaging people just not caring where you were from and saying "Oh yes, this is Kalkino - he is Antipodean."

"This is Kalkino and he's not from round 'ere"

I'm not local.

Usually I describe myself as the proud descendant of uncountable generations of farmers and fishermen, who decided 150 years ago to move from one set of islands to another. Admittedly the latter are warmer

Daxon

Kalkino wrote:

Mojo_Jojo wrote:

Daxon wrote:

oh right in that case

I was envisaging people just not caring where you were from and saying "Oh yes, this is Kalkino - he is Antipodean."

"This is Kalkino and he's not from round 'ere"

I'm not local.

Usually I describe myself as the proud descendant of uncountable generations of farmers and fishermen, who decided 150 years ago to move from one set of islands to another. Admittedly the latter are warmer

Clearly your ancestors were wise.

edit: well, wiser than you.

Cause you moved back.

YamiNoSenshi

We have moved on to stage 2 of Christmas drama. I opted out of going to my sisters and instead will be spending it with my wife's family. This is because a) my dad will spend Christmas with his girlfriend and not his children and b) my sister invited 15 of her friends to dinner as well.

Mojo_Jojo

YamiNoSenshi wrote:

We have moved on to stage 2 of Christmas drama. I opted out of going to my sisters and instead will be spending it with my wife's family. This is because a) my dad will spend Christmas with his girlfriend and not his children and b) my sister invited 15 of her friends to dinner as well.

How are sister's plans progressing? They give me such joy.

JustinSane07

YamiNoSenshi wrote:

We have moved on to stage 2 of Christmas drama. I opted out of going to my sisters and instead will be spending it with my wife's family. This is because a) my dad will spend Christmas with his girlfriend and not his children and b) my sister invited 15 of her friends to dinner as well.

What was stage 1?

My parents weren't too happy that I'm going to my girlfriend's mother's for Christmas, but we're seeing them Christmas eve, so they can deal with it.

YamiNoSenshi

JustinSane07 wrote:

YamiNoSenshi wrote:

We have moved on to stage 2 of Christmas drama. I opted out of going to my sisters and instead will be spending it with my wife's family. This is because a) my dad will spend Christmas with his girlfriend and not his children and b) my sister invited 15 of her friends to dinner as well.

What was stage 1?

My parents weren't too happy that I'm going to my girlfriend's mother's for Christmas, but we're seeing them Christmas eve, so they can deal with it.

Stage 1 was finding out that she was inviting all these people and trying to deal with it. Now we're in operation Fuck That Noise.

Yeah, we switch off every year. Divorced parents and my sister and I both being married makes it hard to balance, so there has to be some give and take. But now he HAS to go with his girlfriend to her family's place.

Irond Will

Someone make the new chat. Maybe Yami.