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Thursday, May 11, 2023

[03:35:41] irc_standardnick/rizon ComputerTech, do you listen to podcasts?

[03:36:41] irc_standardnick/rizon ComputerTech, I was listening to one called "A British Scandal" recently. Seemed quite decent even though if I ain't familiar with most incidents down under

[03:37:10] irc_standardnick/rizon Polio intensifies

[03:38:03] irc_standardnick/rizon artemis, what client on phone?

[03:38:48] irc_standardnick/rizon Fun fact, polio is all but eliminated from all countries of the world except two.

[03:39:07] irc_standardnick/rizon afghanistan

[03:39:26] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, New York it was, IIRC

[03:40:21] irc_standardnick/rizon ComputerTech is Irish, right?

[03:42:02] irc_standardnick/rizon tr, talking about Asia, I saw some videos about cuisine in Maldives or something. They have proper snakes for dinner in mainstream cities.

[03:42:30] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, I thought only a small contingent of folks in the US had polio cases again. Dunno about Australia

[03:43:35] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, the latest set of episodes was on "Murdoch phone hacking scandal". The best I could find till now was "Litvenko affair". It's about poisoning by Russians in UK

[03:44:05] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, Oh, that's just a term I borrowed from cricket. I used to watch it quite much back in the day

[03:45:00] irc_standardnick/rizon Well, everyone seems to forget New Zealand; even in maps :p.

[03:45:49] irc_standardnick/rizon New Zealand is a good country, it ought to be, it damn has half the population of our national capital

[03:46:22] irc_standardnick/rizon ComputerTech, I dislike U2 :p

[03:47:06] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, Yes. Many LoTR folks even go there to see some of that stuff. Funny thing is many folks in NZ call their religion 'Jedi'

[03:47:15] irc_standardnick/rizon in a fun way

[03:48:04] irc_standardnick/rizon ComputerTech, I thought U2 seemed inspired by The Clash and the latter is one of my favorite bands. But I sleep whenever U2 comes on the playlist

[03:48:56] irc_standardnick/rizon I don't think so, ski. It's just that folks there are quite progressive, so many atheist folks just recount themselves as 'jedi' in official census

[03:49:51] irc_standardnick/rizon Where are you from ski ? I am from India.

[03:50:14] irc_standardnick/rizon Ah, one of the best places to live on this planet

[03:50:29] irc_standardnick/rizon The most populous state :p

[03:51:19] irc_standardnick/rizon Bangalore was grown exponentially over decades. It was once a city was large planned roads, wide gardens. Now, it's a mess in terms of urban planing

[03:51:45] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, Northern India. Bangalore's quite far from my place though I do know couple of guys there.

[03:52:06] irc_standardnick/rizon Biryani is good. Hyderabad and Lucknow are two cities in India serving good biryani

[03:52:42] irc_standardnick/rizon Kashmir is slightly dangerous. Militancy still there. It's beautiful but with an element of danger still

[03:52:57] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, heard of Harold Bluetooth, the king? :p

[03:53:31] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, have you eaten kebabs? They can be quite tasty as well

[03:54:33] irc_standardnick/rizon lol

[03:55:15] irc_standardnick/rizon I still have to eat an authentic pizza; not the bastardized american dominoes chain version

[03:57:00] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, the pizza variety in India is rather limited. When the best pizza is from two American chains that are considered inferior in US themselves, you know it's not the best place for a pizza

[03:57:54] irc_standardnick/rizon Ironically, food parts from other parts of India can be tough to get in India at the other side of the country. For eg, north east India serves delicious pork; but I only ate them once in the national capital.

[03:58:30] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, Yes, with Rishi Sunak at the helm, things are gonna get easier with the visa process now :p

[03:59:10] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, PM of UK

[03:59:44] irc_standardnick/rizon I would like to UK or for that part, most countries. I believe each country has something different to offer except for active warzones

[04:00:03] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, Oh, I tried to make a joke because he's the first Indian origin PM of UK :p

[04:00:34] irc_standardnick/rizon like to vist

[04:02:28] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, how fast do the trains go there? I just like trains in general.

[04:03:02] irc_standardnick/rizon I am just as confused by Indian calendars as an AMerican

[04:03:27] irc_standardnick/rizon France has fast trains but not Maglev. Only Shanghai has proper Maglev tracks that go past four hundred kmph

[04:04:18] irc_standardnick/rizon NiniGeo2, yes, it bypasses some of their more earthquake sensitive zones the current bullet train passes through

[04:04:50] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, neat, a new hobby I am learning of

[04:06:10] irc_standardnick/rizon IIRC, maglev trains rise off the track at high speeds

[04:06:42] irc_standardnick/rizon Heard of the term 'petrichor' ?

[04:07:17] irc_standardnick/rizon It's used to describe the fresh smell after the first rains fall on the soil/surface after a long time

[04:10:24] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, I studied some Sanskrit in school but have forgotten most of it now :p

[04:13:41] irc_standardnick/rizon Well, Sanskrit definitely is old and has quite some volumes of literary works written in it. But that's all I know of it. I can't read original or modern day Sanskrit. Ironical since I studied middle English Shakespeare plays in the original English back during school

[04:14:05] irc_standardnick/rizon I ought to know more about my country than another language :p

[04:14:56] irc_standardnick/rizon ski, That's like tenth century old, isn't it? Only English majors in college gonna study that. Plus, is the language even English in it. It's almost a different language

[04:15:53] irc_standardnick/rizon Cool. I dunno any botanist in real life

[04:17:03] irc_standardnick/rizon Ah

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