morning lovely people... everyone a good weekend? Not too cold I hope? Here in :flag-nl: we had a little bit of snow yesterday morning, but today some drizzle and not as cold anymore, so whether that counts as an improvement I am not sure.

morning

haar in Dundee, Scotland

haar? must be some kind of Scottish I suspect. (In Dutch it means 'hair' or 'hers')

fog

🙂

learned something new today..

While Eskimo have 50 words for snow, people on the British Isles ( treads carefully ) have 50 words for fog and rain?

Dutch people have a lot of words for how much it's raining, right @thomas?

https://www.facebook.com/dutchsurvivalguide/videos/how-to-survive-the-dutch-climate/1981680982054902/

@lady3janepl The Brits have over 140 words for being drunk! That is how you measure if something is important for a tribe IMHO

sounds very scientific to me...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1883481.stm

and even more here:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170130-english-has-3000-words-for-being-drunk

and it is from the BBC. So therefore it is true ™️

@thomas yes, that's why in italian there are a LOT of words for genitalia :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

llol, is this true?

from the second article: The only subjects that fill the pages of English slang more are money and sex

I think it just indicates what is important to people. Snow for Eskimo's... and the rest booze, money and s#x 😉

@danieleneal yes if you also factor in that every region would have their own words

>While Eskimo have 50 words for snow They don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

I like how in English turning any noun into a past tense verb can stand in for getting drunk

I was well emacsed at the weekend

😂

and now we have 3,001 words for being drunk...

I was totally git stashed

but @otfrom..... surely in your case it would vi'ed ?

@thomas the booze wasn't that old. I was vim'ed

when I was a young boy it was called Vi... and therefore I will call it Vi!!!

but, vi isn't vim. vim is a different thing that happens to have the same keybindings and share a lot of the ideas

otherwise I'd let you get away with that

(btw, it is nice having a silly conversation in #clojure-europe for a change 😉 )

as opposed to in #clojure-uk?

yup

😂

or #brompton which tends to strangely be more on topic than most channels I'm in 🙂

ah I didn't know about that channel. Although fair enough, I don't have enough brompton to join

neither does @thomas but that doesn't stop him

it has gone a bit general cycling really

😂

I think it was mostly to move the bike chat out of clojure-uk

I just hijacked it... and I bike each day as well, but purely as a mode of transport for me. I'll get my bike fixed if there is a problem, but I never had a look at the tyres and contemplated getting different ones.

but to get back to the vim/vi topic... I almost always type vi at the command line.

I bet it is aliased to vim tho