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Cat poni, Whorseman of Apocalypse

Waiting almost ten minutes in a queue at the post office only to be told it’s a completely different queue but they are closing so maybe I should go there tomorrow. Asking how the fuck am I supposed to tell from me slip, they told me maybe I could try to remember the name of the postman on it as they are separate.

Aaaaargh.
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@pony hey @lkundrak is your post as good as this?
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OK at least they understood they are not closing before this is done. In their own interest.
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@ljs @pony it's the same, except the first round is getting the wrong ticket from the machine, because it uses different jargon than the rest of the post office

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@ljs @pony i think the real problem with is not enough places and institutions named after the most influential praguer, franz kafka

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@lkundrak @pony ah yes my life is currently extremely kafkaesque
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@lkundrak @ljs you certainly get a sense the naming conventions there were not set by an aspiring java enterprise architect but more by an arguing council of theologians
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@lkundrak @pony I'd prefer the theologians to that other horrific thing you said
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@ljs @lkundrak except the random weird words are usually french, not latin
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@pony @lkundrak ok as an Englishman I cannot tolerate that
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@ljs @lkundrak it obviously always should have been polish
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@pony @lkundrak Hungarian, Polish, Czech all equal "trolly language with squiggles" for me.
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@ljs @lkundrak Czech has a simple single word for cash on delivery for some reason
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@pony @ljs Slovy: ẗͯ̓ͥ͋͂̚҉̶̳͓͓̭͝ř̴͕̟̿ͤ̎̀͗ͦ͢i̦̠̯̝̮̯̲̎ͦ̊̇͋ͩs̈́͒̋̃̎̆̏͘͏̨͚̳̻̺t̸̮̩̪̃ͬ͊̓̓ͬ͆ͦ͜à̼̺̹͚̼͈̒̂̽ͣ̂ͣ͢͜č͓͖̠̜̯̰̿͛ͬ̑͟t̻̥͎̜̯̓͒ͧ͛̅̋ͅy̧͇̫͙̼ͬͦͣͯ̎̀̏ř̞̳̩͕̭̲̜̬ͬͯ͗ì̝͎̙̿c̰͉̼̳̱̯͈̩̆e̢̤̜̺͓͇͕ͩ̓͛͐ͫ͊͛ͭ̿͢ͅt̴̷͍̱̲ͣ̂̑̉͛̚

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@pony @ljs but really, isn't the word on the sticker an english synonym? (a barbarian, first time hearing it)

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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

Edited 6 months ago

@pony he @ljs can you explain? i thought english is a french dialect

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@ljs @pony sorry i edited the toot to be more offensive

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@pony @ljs @lkundrak english is a german dialect spoiled by french, and french is a latin dialect spoiled by wine abundance

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@lkundrak @pony you're an awful monster.

Now don't ask about why half our words are French!
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@oleksandr @pony @lkundrak OMFG trust you to make it worst

You are frankly, satan
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@ljs @oleksandr @lkundrak on the plus side you are motivating me to take the french lessons again
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@ljs @oleksandr @lkundrak thing is that France is a surprisingly exotic country for a European
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@pony @oleksandr @lkundrak not as exotic as Ostrava

cc: @vbabka who visits there soon (I'm jealous)
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@ljs @pony don't need to ask, our english and history teachers were all very enthusiastic about explaining that

but why "derailleur"???

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@lkundrak @pony this is just a french word...
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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

Edited 6 months ago

@ljs @pony yeah how do you call that in English?

edit: i looked it up, and you're probably confusing it with "dérailleur"

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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦

Edited 6 months ago

@ljs @pony bro i knew an English word you didn't

edit: still unable to type it without mistakes and have to copy/paste it every time :((

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@ljs @pony @lkundrak "In MAC addresses, the OUI is combined with a 24-bit number (assigned by the assignee of the OUI) to form the address."

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