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#6808 Up↑ /6 Down↓ [Report] 2013-02-25 16:50 GMT
<jx> Just because two or more organizations get together on a standard doesn't mean they're BFFs
<jx> it just means they have a common goal
<jx> and it certainly doesn't mean Gecko is suddenly a winner because Opera is moving to Webkit.
<jx> "Hooray, part of nazi Germany is not controlled by the USSR! GO AMERICA!"
<Havvy> *cough* Godwin *cough*
<jx> Havvy: I take Godwin's law as more of a recommendation than a warning. -
#5740 Up↑ /12 Down↓ [Report] 2011-05-01 20:23 GMT
<leo> wth?
<leo> my german homework is confusing me...
<leo> are there any germans in here?!
<JesperHansen> leo: why are you learning German in UK? In case of they try to take over the world again and you wanna say "I surrender"
<kbrosnan> JesperHansen++
<jX> JesperHansen: No, if he wanted to learn how to say "I surrended" he'd learn french -
#4985 Up↑ /46 Down↓ [Report] 2010-02-12 05:03 GMT
<ally> Boriss: you owe me a story!
<reed> Is this the story of why you're in Georgia on Tom and Grey's couch?
<Boriss> reed: yes. And yes, I do know that tom took a photo of me while i slept & posted it to flickr
<Boriss> So. I get to grey and tom's new house near Atlanta at 7:30amish yesterday morning. I'm wearing a full burqa and carrying documents and colorful dinosaur cupcakes. I knock on the door and hear no response. Seeing their car and moving truck in the driveway, I figure they are either sleeping or walked somewhere for breakfast. I decide to wait outside. Now, I'm wearing only a t-shirt and a burqa made of thin material. It's freezing. But I figure they'll show soon. After all, they need to return the truck *today* and haven't unpacked
<sdwilsh> wait, why are you wearing just a t-shirt?
<Boriss> because i can't wear a winter coat with a burqa; it doesn't fit
<Boriss> So I wait on their doorstep, kinda curled into a ball so i look like a trash bag, because i don't want the neighbors to think grey and tom are radical muslims. i look up at one point and a pickup truck drives by veeery slowly and stares. Whoops
<Boriss> Anyway, it's fucking cold, and I start losing sensation in my extremities. shit, i thinks, this is becoming a health risk. I need to get warm *now*. Seeing no stores or shops, i take off the burqa, approach a woman, and ask if i can wait in her house. The woman asks her grandmother, who agrees. I spend the next three hours providing childcare and checking twitter
<sdwilsh> lol
<sdwilsh> srsly?
<ally> nice people
<Boriss> Finally, a tweet from Tom convinces me they are in the house, but have been sleeping and not hearing the knocking. now it's about 12:45pm, so i decide to try again. I bid farewell to my 5-year-old charges & go back to the house, again donning burqa, and knock LOUDLY. This time, grey answers. he peeps from behind the door and looks pretty nervous
<sdwilsh> haha
<Boriss> I write a note asking if this is a particular address. Grey says "Yes, it is." I hand him a printout of his own website. Grey quietly mutters "oh, no." It's clear he did get the emails from the fake businessman.
* dwitte listens riveted
<dwitte> lolol
<Boriss> Then I hand him the fake letter from my fake businessman husband, saying he needs the hardware in my bag repaired, and that I will be picked up in two hours. Grey says "I'm sorry, I can't help you... we just moved in, and this isn't an office, and... no, sorry."
<Boriss> I write a note saying "I'm not being picked up for two hours and I have nowhere to go, it's cold... can I just wait here?" I hand him the cupcakes. Grey says "Um, sorry, that's not really an option. There's a train station right up the road," (he points) "so why don't you try that?"
<sdwilsh> why weren't you talking?
<Boriss> sdwilsh> i can't fake an accent. plus in the burqa it's plausible not to
<ally> go on
<Boriss> So, I write another note. "Please, can't I stay here? I promise I won't cause trouble. I can help you unpack." (I gesture towards moving truck) Grey says "I'm sorry, there's no way. I don't... have any connection with you, I don't know you, you don't know me... I'm sorry, but you need to leave."
<Boriss> Then I shout "well FUCK YOU then, Grey!" and throw off the burqa. Extremely stunned look from Grey. "Um... Boriss?!" Then I barge inside to give Grey a hug and see he isn't wearing any pants - just underwear. Which is why he was hiding behind the door. I add, "AND PUT ON SOME PANTS FOR CHRISTSAKES!"
<dwitte> omfg
<Jesse> lol
<dwitte> lol!
<sdwilsh> lol
<Unfocused> hahah
<ally> (aww)
<Callek> lol
<zpao> hahaha
<Boriss> So Grey kinda stumbles off, looking stunned, and puts on pants. He comes back.. kinda does a "I don't... um... how are... you're supposed to be in california!"
<Boriss> I ask where Tom is (i haven't met Tom IRL)
<Boriss> Grey leads to tom's room, and says "uh... Tom... this is... Boriss." Tom was sleeping and is half conscious, says something like "Uh, boriss?...why is...what the... i don't understand." He'll say variations on this for the next 3 hours
<Boriss> so yeah
<Boriss> ++ would prank again
<ally> take a bow
<Unfocused> Boriss++
<Callek> Boriss++
<Boriss> right, time to gbtw, but first:
<Boriss> ally: thank you for sockpuppeting Boriss on IRC for few hours. I hope you didn't get too many bug requests
<Boriss> CTho: thank you for the information retrieval
<Boriss> dolske, dwitte, Kovu, and others: thank you for not saying where i was in public channels
<Boriss> biesi, Lucy, Mossop, cupcakegirl: thanks for the help & brainstorming
<ally> im sure Grey and tom are thrilled to know this was a team effort -
#4893 Up↑ /8 Down↓ [Report] 2009-12-21 22:22 GMT
<jX> I'm a social drinker.
<gavin> wtf does "social drinker" mean?
<jX> you only drink when out with friends
<gavin> as opposed to only drinking alone?
<jX> as opposed to drinking at home, yeah.
<jX> be it alone with with your dog, whatever
<gavin> what about if you're at home with friends?
<jX> that'd be social
<jX> or with your zune -
#4776 Up↑ /13 Down↓ [Report] 2009-10-20 18:35 GMT
<dolske> ugly remote, or ugliest remote? http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC377LL/A
<gavin> why would you want to remotely control your iphone/ipod?
<gavin> I guess if it's in a dock...
<dolske> yeah.
<Jesse> but is there a remote to control the remote remotely?
<jX> no, but there's an iphone app for that
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