2013.09.29 01:00 - Oktoberfest in Osaka

Wol Euler was guardian for this session.

Wol Euler: buongiorno, qt
Qt Core: Hi Wol!
Wol Euler: how's Sunday looking so far?
Qt Core: cloudy, on several levels
Qt Core: and the meteo one is the least worrying one :-(
Wol Euler: oh dear
Wol Euler: I'm sorry to hear that
Qt Core: if you haven't heard the news in the last 12 hours Mr B. decided to start a crisis ordering the ministers from his party to leave the cabinet
Wol Euler: O.O
Wol Euler: to be replaced by?
Wol Euler: his cronies, I guess
Wol Euler: but weren't they already that?
Qt Core: yes
Wol Euler: Is the cabinet multi-party?
Qt Core: yes, made by the two biggest party, centre left and centre right (Mr. B's)

--BELL--

Wol Euler: hmmmm
Qt Core: Mr. B says that they could not stay in a cabinet that would raise (or not lower) taxes but you know, on 4/10 the senate should vote about him losing his seat as he was just judged guilty in a trial (definitive judgment too)
Wol Euler: I'm sure that is just a coincidence :)
Wol Euler: it would be an unthinkable abuse of power to have done otherwise!
Qt Core: and from a Knight fo the Republic too
Wol Euler: shocking!
Wol Euler: so he'd rather shore up his personal power than allow Italy to attempt economic recovery
Wol Euler: I wonder where he thinks he lives?
Wol Euler: (I wonder this about many rich and powerful people)
Qt Core: i don't think he see the two things as different
Qt Core: and they still haven't changed the election law that almost guarantee weak cabinet support in the senate
Qt Core: that may be why there may be a new temp cabinet before elections
Wol Euler: hello hana!
Qt Core: Hi Hana
Hana Furlough: hey wol and qt!
Hana Furlough: how's your hand, wol?
Wol Euler: we're talking about Italian politics
Wol Euler: hehehe, painful thanks :)
Hana Furlough: oh nice
Hana Furlough: ugh, i hope it gets better
Wol Euler: so do I :)
Qt Core: (or lack of it)
Qt Core: what happened Wol ?
Hana Furlough: : )
Wol Euler: ah, I broke a plate while washing up and cut my finger on the sharp edge
Wol Euler: no stitches, but it was messy and is still painful
Qt Core: ouch
Wol Euler: and it's in a place that gets pressure from many hand grips
Wol Euler: pulling up my sleeves, for example
Wol Euler: I had no idea how I did that, before :)
Hana Furlough: cuts on the hand are really painful
Hana Furlough: and easy to reopen
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: as soon you can't make a movement you discover how many times you need to do it
Wol Euler: exactly
Wol Euler: how are you, hana?
Hana Furlough: i'm good thanks
Hana Furlough: the weather is great here right now

--BELL--

Wol Euler: Hana, I'll give you a notecard of what we said earlier
Qt Core: i just heard a shocking news... at the Octoberfest (spelling ?) they are going to serving vegetarian dishes and wine too!
Wol Euler: no!
Wol Euler gasps and fans herself.
Hana Furlough: thanks, wol
Hana Furlough: that sounds good to me
Hana Furlough: i went to oktoberfest last weekend and i was stuck eating a pretzel
Wol Euler: it's these damned new-age liberals ruining everything
Qt Core: i understand veg food but wine ? what's next, water ?
Wol Euler: there is Oktoberfest in Kyoto?
Hana Furlough: it was in osaka actually
Hana Furlough: but yes
Wol Euler: ah :)
Hana Furlough: people really were getting into it
Wol Euler: I bet, I was just thinking of the general love of dressing-up in Japan
Wol Euler: I bet there were quite a few Lederhosen
Hana Furlough: there were
Hana Furlough: and special party hats
Hana Furlough: not specifically german as far as i could tell
Hana Furlough: but festive
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: it's always amusing to me to see how broad the love of Oktoberfest (and our local Volksfest) is
Wol Euler: everyone goes, and the most surprising people are fully kitted out
Wol Euler: people who I would expect to loathe and despise "folk music" dress up and sing along
Hana Furlough: haha yes!
Hana Furlough: i saw a conga line
Hana Furlough: or perhaps a german version
Wol Euler: !
Wol Euler: a German version of a conga line composed of Japanese people :)
Wol Euler: o brave new world, that has such fun in it
Qt Core: here in italy it is sometimes is considered as a rite of passage, you know being just of age and just having a car, making the long trip, sleeping in the car and such (never been there myself)
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: it's something to see, that is definitely true
Hana Furlough: haha yes
Wol Euler: probably best seen in your early 20s or late teens, I guess
Hana Furlough: bummer too late for me
Wol Euler: but no need to see it twice, in my opinion
Qt Core: i should go at least twice, then ;-)
Wol Euler: heheheh
Hana Furlough: wol, does your city also have carnival?
Wol Euler: well, it's not far for you. You could drive there in a morning
Qt Core: (even if i don't really like beer)
Wol Euler: we do, but it's a muted and desultory thing, not at all like cologne
Hana Furlough: oh ok that's where i was thinking ok : )
Wol Euler: we don't even take the day off :)
Qt Core: some say that there the beer is so light that you don't really buy it, you just borrow it as in a few minutes you will how to say... dispose of it
Wol Euler: I don't know about that, though the beer disposal is a serious issue :)
Wol Euler: it tends to get disposed of all around the city
Wol Euler: in people's gardens etc
Hana Furlough: oh dear
Wol Euler: yeah, it's an awful time of year for residents
Wol Euler: it leaves a film of filth over the entire inner city
Qt Core: locals would love it (maybe the take a trip on those days)
Qt Core: i'm relating it to the local carnival parade, i live in the very centre of the town and yes, they leave quite the mess around
Wol Euler nods.

--BELL--

Wol Euler: I'm not so sure about the weak beer, qt, that seems like commercial bad sense to me :)
Wol Euler: like a restaurant putting on a differnet, worse, menu for peak times
Wol Euler: it is true that they sell mostly specially-brewed beer, simply because of the vast quantities involved
Wol Euler: the good stuff is made in low-volume processes that couldn't keep up
Qt Core: well tourists usually just get a hint of the local whatever and higher prices, don't they everywhere ? ;-)
Wol Euler: but I don't know that it's actually weaker
Wol Euler: hehehehehe
Wol Euler: you have a point
Wol Euler: but it's not like Venice, "tourists" are mostly Germans
Wol Euler: which raises the question, do Italians go to Venice for tourism?
Qt Core: mostly hit and run i think
Qt Core: and knowing not to enter in a shop in a mile radius from St. Mark square
Qt Core: i've been there just a couple times during school years to se museums (i remember a wonderful exhibit about prehistoric man)
Qt Core: and i remember one of my teacher falling in one of the channels too ;-)
Wol Euler: heheheheh
Hana Furlough: ha!
Wol Euler: probably while walking backwards watching to see that no pupil did :)
Qt Core: even better, walking with his nose in a map and telling we should go straight ahead1
Wol Euler: heheheh
Hana Furlough: lol
Wol Euler: actually I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Wol Euler: because very few of the canals have railings
Wol Euler: in Germany that would not be allowed. Everyone would know that every child MUST immediately fall in the water
Qt Core: and some have stairs going right in the water
Wol Euler: right
Qt Core: wonder if taking swimming lessons in kindergarden is compulsory :-)
Wol Euler: heheheh
Wol Euler: it would be sensible
Hana Furlough: yeah, sounds like it should be

--BELL--

Qt Core: but then everyone near the sea or a river should...even in Milan with his Navigli ot Turin with the river Po
Wol Euler nods.
Hana Furlough: wol and qt, it was great chatting with you
Hana Furlough: i need to go run some errands before it gets dark
Hana Furlough: enjoy your weekends!
Wol Euler: you too, hana, thanks for coming by
Qt Core: bye Hana, have fun!
Hana Furlough: bye for now!
Qt Core: it is time to start the day in rl too as we say around here ... at 11am dawn ;-)
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: take care, qt, enjoy your sunday
Qt Core: ty, you too
Qt Core: bye