Cantrix: I’m sure I’ve asked you this before, but have you ever tried skiing at all?
Cantrix: I know you don’t generally, I just wasn’t sure if you’d had a go
Brosencrantz: I tried it once ages ago and sucked, but I’d like to give it a proper shot!
Brosencrantz: I went on one skiing holiday with a school friend when I was like 13, I definitely preferred the toboggan, I kept falling over and twisting my ankle in skis
Brosencrantz: we were staying with his uncle in Austria
Brosencrantz: his uncle had a cool lodger called Gunther who was meant to be working at the ski lodge but just sat around all day eating coco pops in his underpants
Brosencrantz: the day we left he got fired from the lodge
Brosencrantz: then he actually went outside to go skiing, and crashed into a tree and broke all his arms and legs
Brosencrantz: then he got called up for national service
Brosencrantz: such is life in Austria
Cantrix: This is not how skiing normally works.
Brosencrantz: Oh.

FUCM

Quotes from the brilliant curator of the military archive I was researching at last week:

“First we called it FASM (Future Anti-Structure Munition), but we cut off the F because if you call it Future you’ll never see it. That pissed off the attack subs, because they wanted ASM, so we opened up a call for new names for the programme. Suggestions included Overpressure Rocket Grenade Anti-Structure Munition, or “ORGASM”, or Future Urban Combat Munition, for “fuck’em.” 

“No, I loathe DOSG. They failed 105mm arty rounds on engineering grounds after they’d been in service for forty years. There I was, sitting on 400,000 artillery shells, all of Afghanistan is clamouring for more ammunition, and they tell me that I probably shouldn’t use them because of a safety defect.”

[taps a big pile of artificial skulls and blocks of bullet-rent ballistic material] “This is a PhD student who never finished his PhD.”
Me: “What, you rendered him down into ballistic gel?” 
“This isn’t ballistic gel, this is ballistic soap. You can wash your hands with it.”

Cantrix: (re: wireless issues) Hopefully it won’t go on much longer, I want to finish series 3 :(
Brosencrantz: Bleh, my sympathies. You’ve got me back on an Avatar kick, I want to rewatch it all now!
Brosencrantz: In fact I might even go on a bit of an Avatar…
Brosencrantz: B-)
Brosencrantz: bender.
Cantrix: …
Brosencrantz: So uh
Brosencrantz: am I dumped now?

[16:59:51] Hovercraft: ya
[16:59:55] Brosencrantz: don’t say “ya”
[17:00:03] Hovercraft: иа
[17:00:08] Brosencrantz: acceptable
[17:00:20] Hovercraft: no wait
[17:00:23] Hovercraft: я
[17:00:25] Brosencrantz: wouldn’t it just be я
[17:00:36] Brosencrantz: yes

[22:49:11] LaughingCavalier: yah
[22:49:16] LaughingCavalier: would be sweet, but I’m not a designer
[22:49:18] Hovercraft: coo’
[22:49:18] Brosencrantz: god you’re doing it too
[22:49:30] Hovercraft: гап я
[22:49:36] Brosencrantz: JUST SAY YES OR я YOU FUCKER
[22:50:06] Brosencrantz: oh god bill
[22:50:06] Brosencrantz: dammit
[22:51:05] Hovercraft: :з