Almost 22 hours TSLSC. ;)

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@ShadowWizard Telephone sanitization labor supply contract?

:D

Time Since Last Smoke Check, of course. Though now on second read, the last word is, eh, a mistake. lol

ah oops

Clean, not check.

See? I forget my own acronyms! :D

So now the TSLSC is 5 minutes.

....and turns out it's already taken. :-D (Torquay Surf Life Saving Club )

uh yeah

my network mysteriously went down, and when I fixed it, did one better and did things I didn't know were possible, and I just fixed it a little back, with no idea what I did :D

Greetings from Athens, Greece! Not to be confused with Athens, California, or Athens, Arkansas, or Athens, Georgia.

lol

Yes :)

My wife and I just got off our cruise of the Greek islands and visit to Istanbul and Ephesus. Was a great time. I'm convinced the Turks survive on nothing but coffee and cigarettes.

The Greeks survive on gas fumes and cigarettes. Similar, but very different.

Both places have had wonderfully nice people. Never once felt unsafe, even in crowded areas.

@Spevacus and there's an ages long feud between them over the black coffee! ;)

lol

@Spevacus and the Turks are secretly ruled by cats. :D

Oh yes. We saw many cats. My wife was determined to take a picture of all of them.

lol

@Spevacus that is good! Sadly can't say the same for me, if I'll go these days to Turkey. (Greece should be fine though.)

I was, however, in both of them in the past. :) (Turkey long ago, as bachelor party to a friend and Greece not so long ago (i.e. ~10 years) with wife, just a vacation.)

This was in the port area near Ephesus. He's chillin'

@Spevacus nice, pretty generic cat, I saw at least two who look the same over the years. ;)

What did you give it as bribe though?

@ShadowWizard We had a tour guide say that Turkey was previously close to 90% muslim, but recently that number has changed to be closer to 70. He bases that number on the idea that the population in Istanbul has exploded and most of the newcomers do not believe or are Christian. He's lived there for awhile, but I'm skeptical of his analysis

The blue mosque was very crowded when we visited, but I must say it was beautiful.

@ShadowWizard A head scratch. He locked in on a piece f

Of food someone else dropped a bit later

@Spevacus It's the gun laws ;-)

HA! Maybe!

(and probably the fact that you're part of their main source of income :P)

@Spevacus ah, nice!

Also true. In the port city near Ephesus, our tour guide (we were VERY touristy this trip) explained that the port city survives off of the influx of tourists in the summer as well as the Turkish students who come for summer break and spend their money.

@Spevacus hehe. Always good to hear good explanations. :)

Only you and wife? No parents/friends/kids?

Just us! Honeymooning :)

@Spevacus This is true of any 'tourist' town everywhere ;-) Even around where I live, there's business that perhaps could survive if there were only locals, but that thrive because of tourism season :)

And of course, if you talk to those people, tourists are the best thing ever (I'm not too fond of them, they make everything so busy XD)

Yeah, I always try to make way for locals and make sure I'm being as polite as I can. I'm just visiting, after all.

Lots of people on the ship got suckered into some overly expensive purchases. Was fun to see.

We didn't buy too much. Just some odds and ends.

I mean the tourists here aren't impolite... just present :P

So I notice them when I go grocery shopping, or walking in the forest ;)

And it's like 'oh yeah, it's tourist season!'

You don't want to go and try to get some fried fish at the fish shop during lunch/dinnertime in tourist season XD

@Spevacus ah, congrats!

Ours was in Canada. Good Old Times. :D

and same spammer, with a sock or two coworkers in same company: (doesn't really matter)

Luckily they got bored so it wasn't a wave.

@tripleee who can edit the bad words list of Smokey? Looks like the "D" word can be safely added. (from this)

@ShadowWizard 81 FP hits across the network for example, this on Skeptics

Meanwhile, there are exactly 3 hits (all TP) on MS, one of which is the report from 15 minutes ago.

OK, I messed up the search on MS: 103 results total 87 TP 14 FP

@VLAZ oh wow. So perhaps when it comes along with another word... e.g. "price" or "sell".

@VLAZ MS?

metasmoke

ah

(thought MSE, but no result in there for that word. ;))

haha, but... couple of users.... lol

Thank you for your flags.

Always a pleasure.

@ShadowWizard to quote something I said elsewhere...

@JourneymanGeek well maybe it's like wine.

Its botolism in a can!

Bot-To-Lism

botulism?

Hello, @ShadowWizard, how are you? I miss talking to you.

Chat upgrade incoming!

That makes no sense. Uninified is not a word

Unicorn-ified >:)

That's not a word either.

@Tinkeringbell you're not a word (งಠ_ಠ)ง

I'm really excited about getting extra features in chat! Like exploding pens, my own BMW SUV

@Marco I'm (still) fine, thanks! You can always talk to me, either here (under the room/site rules), or in private, I share my email in the profile. :)

@M.A.R. best feature: TPA aka Tavern Personal Assistant. Powered by BalphaGPT.

:-D

@ElementsInSpace butoolism

@ShadowWizard Built-in generative AI in chat? I'd leave and never return.

@ShadowWizard Nice, thanks!

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact Google Chrome has you covered already.

@Slate I last used that browser in 2016.

About that third one, what's wrong with my "Thanks." response?

@Slate That's built-on, not built-in.

@balpha waaaait, didn't the .net core change happen a month or two back?