Winter is coming

Saturday, October 14. 2006

It's official: the cold season is officially upon us. You can tell because the supermarkets (at least on the eastern side of the city) have cleared out their multipacks of cheap mineral water and replaced them with pallets bearing heating coal and kindling.

Fortunately it's been about seven years since I last had to haul a bucket of black, dirty bricks up the stairs to keep myself something approaching warm, and I can't say I really miss doing it. Mind you it's a much more efficient system than the open coal fires they used to have in Britain - I wonder why this bit of practical technology never made it over the channel.

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It's forgotten to carry on, though, a bit, n'est-ce pas?

#1 BiB (Homepage) on 2006-11-28 01:56 (Reply)

Aha, clever blog software (this blog is running on "Serendipity"): it automatically puts posts to older articles into approval mode.

Le hiver, oui, il est un petit peu disparu, je pense que c'est le chaud global ou quelquechose. C'est un mysterie vrai.

(Le disclaimer: la academie francaise a moi interdite, jemals dans la France le francais a parler, parce-que je n'ai pas le faintest idee trotz neuf ans de cette langue dans l'ecole).

#1.1 MountPenguin (Homepage) on 2006-11-28 08:53 (Reply)

Qu'est-ce que c'est malin, ton logiciel (or does that mean hardware?)! J'insiste (OK, I don't) qu'on laisse (that might be yer actual subjunctive) des commentaires exclusivement dans des langues étrangères...

#2 BiB (Homepage) on 2006-11-28 13:12 (Reply)

Ach, Pseudofranzösisch kann ich am laufenden Band erzeugen, verstehen klappt aber nur mit Hilfe des Wörterbuchs, und das hat sich in einer der höheren Dimensionen des Billy-Regals versteckt. Soll man das mit den fremdsprachigen Kommentaren lassen, oder umgekehrt nur noch solche zulassen?

#2.1 MountPenguin (Homepage) on 2006-11-28 22:34 (Reply)

Ой, не знаю. Если исключительно писать на иностранном языке, скоро заебёмся (простите). Уже скучаю по английскому.

#3 BiB (Homepage) on 2006-11-29 06:08 (Reply)

"Oh, I do not know. If exclusively to write in foreign language, it is fast заебёмся (forgive). Already I miss on English.". なるほど.

#3.1 MountPenguin (Homepage) on 2006-11-29 07:54 (Reply)

Oh buggery fuck. I need to switch on the laptop again. "it is fast заебёмся" would have been better translated as, "we'll soon get bored," although заебёмся is a very naughty way of saying 'to get bored'. Whoops. I accidentally haven't left this message in Sanskrit. Is that allowed?

#4 BiB (Homepage) on 2006-11-29 08:59 (Reply)

To make things interesting maybe I should hack the blog software so that on random days it accepts comments only in a certain, randomly selected language. Or maybe enter into some kind of blogging "my male appendage is bigger than your male appendage" one-upmanship to see who can get the most (genuine) comments in as many different languages as possible.

A naughty way of getting bored? The mind boggles. Those long Russian winters must be worse than I thought.

#4.1 MountPenguin (Homepage) on 2006-11-29 09:12 (Reply)

But aren't you already getting comments galore on your Japanese-language, superumanu burogu? When I blogged, for about ten minutes, in Russian, I got comments galore, but only from the regulars curious to know what the bugger I was writing in foreign for.

#5 BiB (Homepage) on 2006-11-29 10:22 (Reply)

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