The Off Topic Topic

[Duque de Bragança]

So the British really love the Tour de France? Massive amount of spectators in every little town in Yorkshire that the peloton rides through.

Seems so since a Brit I know was returning to his count(r)y since the Tour dropped by and the family was excited by the event.

[Ed Anger]

I would've hoped that the British would be a little more well behaved and not adopt the "stand in front of the cyclists waving a flag like a lunatic and eventual be to slow and cause a crash" stance.

Alas.

I liked the guys in the banana costumes.

[Josquius]

I think I'm screwed? But I'm not sure...
I have a box in which I want to post my stuff home. It is a 55cm sided cube.
Here are the restrictions-

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/service/i_parcel_en.html

It says  length+(height+width) x 2  has to be under 3m.
I'm not sure...do I fit that.
My first reaction was
"OH FUCK NO!", 55+55+55  x 2  is more than 300
But...why are those brackets there.....is it just 55+ 55  x 2 and then plus another 55?
Surely the x2 would have to be in brackets too in that case?
My current gut feeling is that I'm OK....but I need verification here.

[jimmy olsen]

Facebook says Lettow got married!

Congrats!

[CountDeMoney]

Did he go as a Japanese schoolgirl or an antebellum belle?  The world awaits.

[Lettow77]

 Thank you! The lovely lady has been appraised of and gives her assent to her role in the long-term endeavor of our Southern Confederacy's restitution among the stars. In the meantime, I am taking her to the South next month on a tour of its sacred spots. As she is a rural lady of sensitive disposition, I hope that something of the torpid grandeur of what once was there inculcates itself within her, and that she can look past the sad debris that passes for the ossified remnants of the Southern nation in the present era.

[derspiess]

Congrats L.

[Ed Anger]

Squee!

[Valmy]

Thank you! The lovely lady has been appraised of and gives her assent to her role in the long-term endeavor of our Southern Confederacy's restitution among the stars. In the meantime, I am taking her to the South next month on a tour of its sacred spots. As she is a rural lady of sensitive disposition, I hope that something of the torpid grandeur of what once was there inculcates itself within her, and that she can look past the sad debris that passes for the ossified remnants of the Southern nation in the present era.

Congrats old bean!

Three cheers for Lettow boys!

[Josquius]

Wow.

[The Brain]

Thank you! The lovely lady has been appraised of and gives her assent to her role in the long-term endeavor of our Southern Confederacy's restitution among the stars. In the meantime, I am taking her to the South next month on a tour of its sacred spots. As she is a rural lady of sensitive disposition, I hope that something of the torpid grandeur of what once was there inculcates itself within her, and that she can look past the sad debris that passes for the ossified remnants of the Southern nation in the present era.

[Syt]

So, Ide and CdM, booked your flight yet?

[CountDeMoney]

Great, the spectre of future generations of Lettows appears on the horizon, like a brewing thunderstorm that brings with it a portend of redneck-fused anime assclownism. Fucking super.

But noooooo, we have to restrict abortion in this country; especially now, when we need it most.

[Valmy]

He is marrying a Japanese woman, the least fertile people in the world.  I think we are safe.

Besides having children would require him to work for a living.

[Grey Fox]

Great, the spectre of future generations of Lettows appears on the horizon, like a brewing thunderstorm that brings with it a portend of redneck-fused anime assclownism. Fucking super.

But noooooo, we have to restrict abortion in this country; especially now, when we need it most.

You know what doesn't react well to random act of fasting?

Infants.