[09:01]  * zxmpi prepares spear and shield and prepares to corner and kill a bowl of weetabix
[13:45] <daftykins> it never stood a chance...
[13:46] <daftykins> happy Tuesday... on the bench today i have a pal's nvidia GTX 980 Ti to assess the firey damage of
[13:49] <zxmpi> any word on the dicky ticker?
[13:51] <daftykins> oh yeah Doc's yesterday afty confirmed it's just the ultra rare side effect of the vaccine that i won the lottery on, so i've been prescribed an anti-inflammatory to bring it down and help the recovery
[13:51] <daftykins> i've been advised not to exercise all that much if i want to recover quicker, too!
[13:51] <zxmpi> erk, hope that's the end of it for you
[13:51] <zxmpi> what vaccine did you get again?
[13:52] <daftykins> the Pfizer BionTech
[13:52] <zxmpi> makes me wonder, my family has a bit of history with the old ticker
[18:08]  * diddledani pretending to be an adult
[18:11] <daftykins> uh oh
[18:11] <daftykins> have you got a young relative in your care for the evening, or is it simpler than that?
[18:11] <diddledani> oh much simpler
[18:11] <diddledani> I did a load of washing-up
[18:11]  * daftykins gasps
[18:12] <zxmpi> a clipboard with a pencil hanging off tied with a bit of string adds +2 to fake adult :-)
[18:12] <diddledani> I don't push the boat out far ;-p
[18:12] <daftykins> zxmpi: and PE teacher
[18:12] <daftykins> well it's a heavy and tedious boat
[18:12] <diddledani> the problem is you have to keep on taking it out over and over and over again
[18:12] <zxmpi> it's a boat that always drifts back to shore
[18:12] <diddledani> ^ that
[18:13] <daftykins> lol yeah
[18:15] <diddledani> got celebratory (for being adult for 5 whole minutes) chicken kievs in the oven now
[18:15] <daftykins> \o/ supermarket was out of them when i went yesterday
[18:16] <daftykins> the shelves were really bare :S
[18:16] <diddledani> that'll be brexit ;-p
[18:17] <zxmpi> i can post you dehydrated potatos in an emergency :-P
[18:17] <diddledani> it britain allowed to stuff their sausage into northern ireland again yet?
[18:17] <diddledani> is*
[18:17] <zxmpi> i think eu has decided british sausages aren't sausages and are therefore exempt from sausage rules :-P
[18:18] <diddledani> oh the ol' offal tubes
[18:18] <zxmpi> that's the puppy... or horse
[18:19] <diddledani> I don't get why there is an issue - products sold in britain just need a british logo on them and then if they're found abroad it's obvious they are illegal
[18:19] <diddledani> and likewise for european products
[18:19] <zxmpi> it's complicated, insanely complicated
[18:20] <diddledani> meh. gimme a wall!
[18:20] <diddledani> didn't Bojo or a lookalike promise a wall??
[18:20] <zxmpi> sure you can build a border wall. that will start a war with ira all over again. uk can't afford that.
[18:20] <daftykins> sure it wasn't crossed stories and "Wall's sausages" ?
[18:21] <diddledani> aaah. walls bangers
[18:21] <daftykins> :D
[18:21] <zxmpi> didn't help when priti patel floated a plan to starve ireland and thus eu into submission
[18:21] <diddledani> yeah well priti is an obnoxious moo
[18:21] <diddledani> like the rest of them ;-p
[18:27] <zxmpi> boris agreed with the system in place. now he wants a do over. that's not how international agreements work
 "It's me, Boris!"
[21:22] <zxmpi> this explains the brexit paradox best https://i0.wp.com/www.autonomyscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/the-irish-border-problem.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1
[21:25] <daftykins> it's like that puzzle where you have to connect the 3 houses to the 3 utilities
[21:25] <daftykins> without any lines overlapping!
[21:27] <zxmpi> or in this case pissing off the ira, uvf, british, irish, eu governments and customs border guards
[21:28] <m0nkey_> this brexit nonsense makes me so glad i don't live there anymore. 
[21:28] <daftykins> :D
[21:28] <zxmpi> the version currently in place pisses off the uvf but as they are dependent on uk government for weapons it's the least dangerous option, maybe :-/
[21:29] <m0nkey_> instead, i get to deal with the quebec separatist bullsh*t from '95 .. even today
[21:30] <daftykins> what's that about?
[21:30] <zxmpi> qubec wants to be their own independent stateletish
[21:30] <daftykins> ah reet
[21:30] <m0nkey_> Back in 1980 and in 1995, Quebec held referendums to separate from the rest of Canada and become their own country.
[21:31] <m0nkey_> They lost, both times. People are still bitter about it.
[21:31] <zxmpi> except it wouldn't be viable as a country
[21:31] <m0nkey_> Of course not.. Quebec lives on transfer payments from Alberta lol
[21:31] <daftykins> ah yes it got a no by a tiny margin, 50.58 % no, 49.42% yes
[21:32] <zxmpi> so they probably want a do over too
[21:33] <m0nkey_> they tried, in 2014 again.. but it was quickly shot down
[21:33] <m0nkey_> if quebec ever separates, i'm leaving and going to ontario