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DialFrost

1:01 PM

dark blue

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell with taints of gray

@DialFrost that was a quick hour :D

Journeyman Geek

baby poo golden yellow brown

DialFrost

@ShadowTheKidWizard :3

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hey how you know how baby poo looks like

Journeyman Geek

I have cousins

and a nephew

and apparently I'm good with kids and TERRIFY teenagers... for some reason

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:06 PM

@JourneymanGeek so you change their diapers? Very helpful! :D

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek thats not it works but okey

Journeyman Geek

@DialFrost You think you know me :D

DialFrost

you seem ... friendly enough online :p

Journeyman Geek

@DialFrost I find it amusing cause I hardly ever threaten anyone

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek :!

Tinkeringbell

1:08 PM

@JourneymanGeek Okay, if you're good with kids, I need your opinion on something :P

Journeyman Geek

I once had a co worker at the PEI I worked at go "Hey, could I borrow you for a moment? the teenagers keep hitting on me, and I need them to behave... just loom!"

I also had ... small humans hug my knees randomly >_>

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek lmaooo

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I have no idea how it works :D

Tinkeringbell

Ah, nevermind then.

Journeyman Geek

Its the same with dogs. ._.

Tinkeringbell

1:10 PM

Oh, but I do mostly know how dogs work. They're trainable :P

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek cmon i have an uncle with like a bunch of pets

@Tinkeringbell yup

Tinkeringbell

Like, if they chew on the furniture you have these sprays you can use so they don't chew.

Which I guess is the direction I need to go in for my problem with this kid as well then.

Journeyman Geek

:D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek lol

Journeyman Geek

well positive reinforcement, distract them from things you don't want them to do...

patience...

DialFrost

1:11 PM

my uncle adopts any cat or dog he sees

hes at around 9 cats and 2 dogs rn

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Eh, it's not my kid so the only thing I can do is 'deter'.

Journeyman Geek

@DialFrost I'm sadly a few years away from another dog

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek or just loom! :P

Tinkeringbell

Coating the frog statue in something that doesn't damage the statue but will burn the kid if they touch it again should work. Anyone have any recommendations for such a substance? :D

Journeyman Geek

could you just.. put it out of reach?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:12 PM

@Tinkeringbell black pepper powder

They touch it, they start sneezing

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek he recently found a dog last year

the exact breed of the one he has

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek It already 'is', as in... it's next to my front door, 5 meters away from the public street.

Kid has no business being there.

Journeyman Geek

ah

neighbour's kid?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell how come you let a kid into your house to begin with? ;)

Tinkeringbell

No clue. I woke up this weekend with a female falsetto voice pointing out to some kid (that didn't seem to have discovered speech yet) that yes, that was a frog... yeah, it's a frog. Do you want to pet the frog? Go pet the frog... pet... pet.....

This neighborhood is insane.

Journeyman Geek

1:14 PM

hm

Humans sometimes don't get boundaries.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Did not.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell the one making noises?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard neighborhood, not neighbor :P

Shadow The Kid Wizard

oh lol

Replace the statue with real frozen frog for a while.

Tinkeringbell

But yeah, the one making noises is insane too, having a construction crew arrive at 7AM on Sunday to go lay tiles. No heads-up or whatever, so I did clean the windows on Saturday and now they're all covered in tile dust and sand dust again...

Not to mention all the bits of sawdust, wood, foam and other building crap I spent two hours cleaning up in my backyard this weekend because he had builders over.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:16 PM

@Tinkeringbell :(

Tinkeringbell

I just hope that smoking really kills, fast, preferably.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@DialFrost officially adopts or just bring into his house?

@Tinkeringbell sadly in most cases it's not. ;)

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Eh, things like lung cancer can take waaay too long, I know. But there's also cardiovascular problems :P

DialFrost

@ShadowTheKidWizard not sure ngl pretty sure ofifically

he keeps them for life

he lets those cats with claws in the woods too

(he lives next to a forest)

very rural area

Luuklag

Good to see you're enjoying your new apartment @Tink

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:20 PM

@Tinkeringbell meh, some smoke more than trains until they are 100 and are more healthy than an ox. :D

@DialFrost very noble of him

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Oh, the apartment is okay enough, I'm still in a fight with the heat pump though, and the front door needs replacing because I lose a lot of heat that way right now... that's just 'minor' stuff compared to the craziness of the neighborhood.

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell walk out and tell them "No! Its a icon of dread KAWALOTH! THE FROG THAT EATS THE WORLD!" ?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell what about moving to live in such a place?

Journeyman Geek

and suitably crazy babbling

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard I would if I could.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:23 PM

@Tinkeringbell so work hard, spend little, and you might have enough when you reach 60 or so. :-D

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I might next time. Problem with me is that I like to sleep in during the weekend, and prefer to just groan until the noise stops, and then spend another hour tossing and turning before realizing the chance of properly sleeping in has gone.

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yep. Working on it ;)

DialFrost

@ShadowTheKidWizard of course maybe until he gets wayy too many, havent seen that yet

Journeyman Geek

bonus points if you have a knife and red paint all over your hands.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek sure way to be left alone, yeah. :D

DialFrost

theres always that 1 cat who camps under the bed :3

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:25 PM

@DialFrost how old is he? Does he live alone?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Or to get to handle a bunch of cops in the early morning. Probably a bit too much.

DialFrost

@ShadowTheKidWizard nope hes married

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard bit like the (sadly fake) story of some lady who opened the door so some missionaries naked.

DialFrost

@Tinkeringbell not sure actually

60+ maybe

Shadow The Kid Wizard

oh lol missed the point ;)

Tinkeringbell

1:26 PM

@JourneymanGeek Happens here to pizza delivery guys, apparently. ad.nl/binnenland/…

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell then you deny any of it happened

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell show them it's not real blood, you won't get arrested. :P

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Probably not but I'd still have to 'deal' with that on an early morning, which goes against my wishes.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@DialFrost so his wife is OK with all the pets too?

@Tinkeringbell tru dat

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell once

tho I am a morning person ._.

DialFrost

1:28 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard ofc

Tinkeringbell

I can also move the frog to the backyard. But then I no longer can tell friends 'I live at number X, it's the front door with the frog statue next to it'. I got the statue because the numbering here is weird, and friends tended to get a bit confused.

Journeyman Geek

ah

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek well this can lure whole different set of people, so not a good way to avoid attention. :P

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard well... the story went on the chased them saying "fear my devil ______ magic"

though

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek still, some people would enjoy it :D

Journeyman Geek

1:30 PM

My mom had a friend who invited a bunch of missionaries in...

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell are you going to deliver or order that pizza?

Journeyman Geek

and tried to convert them to hinduism :D

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek my grandfather tried to pull that on Jehovas witnesses too.

Convert them to Christianity

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag ah

JWs are illegal here

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag actually hating pizza is good feat for pizza delivery people, their employer would rest assured they won't take from the pizza they deliver. :D

Tinkeringbell

1:31 PM

@Luuklag Nah. I don't like pizza.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell but you can still deliver it... ;)

Tinkeringbell

No, because I don't like it.

What makes you think I want to handle the smell and greasy boxes when delivering it?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag I had one during army. Good soldier, but somewhat not very sane, ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag this is basically the sort of people who study religious literature... for fun ._.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell I don't think the delivery guys actually pack it, so it's relevant only when it falls. Just more motive to not have it fall. :D

SPArcheon

1:33 PM

@Tinkeringbell ... I hate onebox... see below.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard wait

I thought they couldn't serve in a military for religious reasons

SPArcheon

Journeyman Geek

or any temporal authority?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hmm maybe it's a different thing then, I'll check

Tinkeringbell

@SPArcheon I will probably get banned two minutes in then, because I strive to inconvenience others.

Journeyman Geek

1:34 PM

They're banned here cause they refuse to serve in conscription here

SPArcheon

@Tinkeringbell maybe you will unlock an hidden "I can dress as I want" secret option :P

Tinkeringbell

I don't really care about dress, as long as it's not slutty ;)

SPArcheon

Jokes aside, quite ironic.

Finally Japan is starting to move past anachronistic, horrible school uniforms rules and then... GF does this game

even the part about the hair has a bad aftertaste if you consider that some Japanese schools required students to dye their hair black

Journeyman Geek

uh

mothership.sg/2019/03/singapore-long-hair-1970s-campaign

also we did that too

Shadow The Kid Wizard

huh! @Journeyman thanks, you helped me fix my memory. That's what he actually was:

Messianic Judaism

Messianic Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת מְשִׁיחִית‎ or יהדות משיחית, Yahadút Mešiḥít) is a modernist and syncretic movement of Protestant Christianity that incorporates some elements of Judaism and other Jewish traditions into evangelicalism. It emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier Hebrew Christian movement, and was most prominently propelled through the non-profit organization "Jews for Jesus" founded in 1973 by Martin "Moishe" Rosen, an American minister under the Conservative Baptist Association.Evangelical Protestants who identify as Messianic Jews believe that Jesus (referred to by...

Journeyman Geek

1:40 PM

and if you went in for reservist you were expected to dye it back

and keep short hair

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Talking so much made me hungry, question is whether to go out and buy a croissant, or eat some Muesli? :D

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard Yes

Shadow The Kid Wizard

1:59 PM