2013.05.19 01:00 - Pandas and bridges and popes

Wol Euler was guardian for this session.

Qt Core: Hi Agatha
Agatha Macbeth: Hello QT :)
Agatha Macbeth: Was in the kitchen
Wol Euler: buongiorno qt
Agatha Macbeth: Guten morgen Wollie ♥
Qt Core: buongiorno Wol
Wol Euler: what?
Agatha Macbeth: Looking cute
Wol Euler: oh, it's you! heheheheh
Wol Euler: so are you :)
Agatha Macbeth: TY :)
Wol Euler: I thought you were FC returned
Agatha Macbeth: I missed the little panda on this cushion, so thought I'd put it right
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I'm his sister
Agatha Macbeth: ;-)
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: And now you made his heart sparkle too
Wol Euler: really? wow
Agatha Macbeth: You don't remember?
Agatha Macbeth: He was so pleased about it
Wol Euler: vaguely, though I don't know what I did about it
Agatha Macbeth: You made it sparkle again
Agatha Macbeth: Before it didn't
Wol Euler: ah
Agatha Macbeth: Hope FC is ok I miss him
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: me too
Agatha Macbeth: I loved his way of talking
Wol Euler: who was the other one, the occasional second bear?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Agatha Macbeth: Didn't Hokon come as a bear?
Wol Euler: ah, yes, that's it
Agatha Macbeth: Haven't seen her in ages either
Agatha Macbeth: People come and go...
Agatha Macbeth: It's sad
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Your head will fall off in a minute :p
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Ha
Agatha Macbeth: 7sm
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: 7gr
Wol Euler: that too
Agatha Macbeth: Is there a 7♥?
Wol Euler: no but I suppose there could be
Agatha Macbeth: That looks like 'seven of hearts'
Wol Euler: 7♥

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: I never understood bridge
Wol Euler: well, you get on at one side and walk to the other
Agatha Macbeth thwops you
Wol Euler laughs.
Agatha Macbeth: Bridge over troubled water maybe
Qt Core: :-) tried it a little, never liked the part where you don't play
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, I don't get the auction bit
Wol Euler: it seems very complicated to me, I never cared enough to to more than watch for a few minutes
Wol Euler: when I was a kid, there was a regular bridge column in the newspaper
Agatha Macbeth: Mahjong is bad enough to get your head round
Wol Euler: describing a game in full detail, each round, with commentary
Qt Core: and all those tiles...
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
Wol Euler: apparently enough people read it that it was worth writing
Agatha Macbeth: I still prefer chess
Qt Core: many puzzles magazine still have bridges and chess columns
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder when the next world championship is?
Qt Core: wondering when they'll start having poker column ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh I know NOTHING about poker!
Agatha Macbeth: Except what I saw in the Cincinatti Kid
Agatha Macbeth: 'The jack ain't there Lancy'
Agatha Macbeth: That was an awesome film
Wol Euler: you might like "Maverick" then, some poker in that
Wol Euler: plus Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson
Wol Euler: so something for eveyrone
Agatha Macbeth: No Steve McQueen tho
Agatha Macbeth: Or Edward G
Wol Euler: can't have everything
Qt Core: instead of bridge i love "briscola chiamata": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscol...scola_Chiamata (a variation of the classic Briscola game)
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, never heard of that one
Agatha Macbeth: Those look like tarot cards
Wol Euler looks
Qt Core: those are quite an artistic set of Naples cards
Agatha Macbeth: Forty card deck eh? Interesting
Qt Core: almost every region has its set around here
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Qt Core: yes, most italian card set have four suit and ten card
Agatha Macbeth: The Italians are very artisctic :)
Agatha Macbeth: and artistic too
Agatha Macbeth: Such a cultured country
Qt Core: sometimes it is too much and make us lazy, resting on our pas success
Agatha Macbeth: Nah :)

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: But like us you are victims of the EU ;-)
Qt Core: i'd really like o see the USE but i think it will notcome to be in my life timespan
Wol Euler snorts. How exactly are *you* the victims, when *we* pay for everything?
Agatha Macbeth: Hm (doubtful)
Agatha Macbeth: I don't like globalisation
Wol Euler: anyway :)
Hana Furlough's current display-name is "Hana".
Wol Euler: hello hana
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Hana :)
Hana Furlough: hello wol and qt
Hana Furlough: and ag!
Qt Core: Hi hana
Agatha Macbeth: How are you?
Hana Furlough: i'm keepin it real, and you?
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: Trying not to keep it real :p
Wol Euler: keeping it virtual
Hana Furlough: : ) all good
Agatha Macbeth: Virtually speaking
Hana Furlough: hehe
Agatha Macbeth: Nice pidgeon
Hana Furlough: thank you!
Agatha Macbeth: What do you feed him?
Hana Furlough: he likes to eat macaroons
Hana Furlough: (the coconut kind)
Agatha Macbeth: Awww
Agatha Macbeth: That's cute
Wol Euler: pampered!
Hana Furlough: he's spoiled, there's no doubt
Agatha Macbeth: Stormy took his seagull away :(
Hana Furlough: he had a seagull?
Wol Euler: oh, I hadn't noticed

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: There was a really cute one by the pool yes
Agatha Macbeth: But now he has flown it seesms
Hana Furlough: oh that's too bad
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: I like birds
Hana Furlough: me too
Hana Furlough: they're such magical creatures
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Agatha Macbeth: Very shamanistic
Hana Furlough: yes
Qt Core: luvely until they wake you at ungoody hours with their happy chirping...
Agatha Macbeth: Ha
Wol Euler: heheh
Hana Furlough: i know
Hana Furlough: i have two pigeons that camp out on my balcony a
Hana Furlough: and they start their various pigeon activities at around five
Hana Furlough: very noisy
Agatha Macbeth ponders 'various pidgeon activities'
Hana Furlough: courtship, preening, flying around, chasing each other, sometimes fighting
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds quite an active life
Hana Furlough: yeah, they're busy birds
Qt Core: i find city pigeons a little scary, like when they don't fear cars moving over them
Agatha Macbeth: True
Hana Furlough: yeah, they can be pretty bold
Agatha Macbeth: They are very bold
Agatha Macbeth: Snap
Hana Furlough: jinx
Qt Core: and you cant see them so you don't know if you killed them or not
Hana Furlough: one hopes not
Hana Furlough: probably they move
Hana Furlough: they have excellent vision
Agatha Macbeth: Thankfully they get missed most times
Qt Core: their little evil red eyes, yeah i know
Hana Furlough: not a fan, qt?
Hana Furlough: : )
Qt Core: np until they shit on me or my car ;-)
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, that's another activity they're good at
Hana Furlough: yeah
Hana Furlough: they're just blessing you
Agatha Macbeth: QT must be well blessed
Qt Core: i favor holy water for blessings ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Hehe
Hana Furlough: : )
Agatha Macbeth: The pope does too
Qt Core: i almose see the new pope blessing with candies the next time he do a mass for children :-)
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I keep forgetting there's a new one
Agatha Macbeth: I got so used to JP II for all those years
Qt Core: i felt suddenly old at the first mass where we prayed for both the new Benedict pope and the new milan archbishop
Agatha Macbeth: Yes
Agatha Macbeth: Times move on, even for popes
Wol Euler: fancy the last pope thinking he could just quit :/
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I never knew they could do that
Hana Furlough: i know! retire with his cats!
Agatha Macbeth: Thought the job was for life
Wol Euler shakes her head.
Qt Core: we italian call it :"the great refusal" (that is how Dante defined what Celestino V did)
Wol Euler: every one of his predecessors thought so

--BELL--

Agatha Macbeth: Ah, the infernal Dante ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Time for this panda to scoot
Hana Furlough: bye, ag, nice chatting!
Agatha Macbeth: Have a blessed sunday people
Qt Core: Bye Aga
Wol Euler: bye aggers
Wol Euler: I should move on too, I haven't yet had breakfast and am starving
Wol Euler: I wish you both a pleasant sunday
Hana Furlough: and you too, wol, laters!
Qt Core: and my lunch wont cook itself...
Wol Euler: don't forget the guardians meeting at 8am
Hana Furlough: bye, qt!
Qt Core: so, bye Wol and bye Hana
Hana Furlough: have a nice day!
Qt Core: you too