[19:50] <Minaplo> Hello folks
[19:50] <AtmaDragoon> Heya Haplo
[19:50] <Minaplo> Hey hey
[19:50] <Minaplo> Hey so
[19:50] <Minaplo> Real quick
[19:50] <Minaplo> ... Who here was/is aware that Slim Shady and Eminem are the same person?
[19:51] <Tao> ...
[19:51] <Tao> haplo
[19:51] <Tao> haplo please
[19:51] <Tao> please tell me that you did not have this revealed mid-conversation today
[19:51] <Minaplo> mid-conversation?
[19:51] <Minaplo> I think you mean
[19:51] <Minaplo> mid-session
[19:51] <Minaplo> with a client
[19:51] <Minaplo> by the client
[19:51] <Tao> jesus fucking christ
[19:51] <Minaplo> A client brought that fact up today in session and I literally did the "Wait, what?" *stare open-mouthed at my co-councillor*
[19:52] <Tao> YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL
[19:52] <Minaplo> I have rarely felt 'rolled a 100' so keenly in my fucking LIFE
[19:52] <AtmaDragoon> Isn't...that...the point of that one song, though...?
[19:52] <Tao> YES
[19:52] <Tao> THE ENTIRE POINT
[19:52] <Minaplo> I THOUGHT HE WAS CALLING SOMEONE ELSE OUT
[19:52] <Tao> HAPLO, YOU ARE -MY AGE-
[19:52] <Tao> WE GREW UP AT THE SAME TIME
[19:52] <Tao> HOW
[19:53] <Minaplo> IN THE SAME PART OF THE COUNTRY
[19:53] <Minaplo> LOCALISED ENTIRELY IN YOUR KITCHEN
[19:53] <AtmaDragoon> XD
[19:53] <Minaplo> "Slim Shady is what we call him up Albany way."
[19:53] <Tao> you cannot steamed hams your way out of this
[19:53] <Minaplo> "It's a regional dialect."
[19:53] <Syntax> Holy shit
[19:53] <Minaplo> I cannot believe YOU ALL KNEW THIS
[19:53] <Tao> I'm really glad Syntax is here to see this
[19:53] <Syntax> Who's first in line to inherit the channel after Haplo's death
[19:53] <Tao> EVERYONE KNEW THIS
[19:54] <Tao> EVERYONE KNEW THIS
[19:54] <Minaplo> I HAVEN'T LISTENED TO THE FUCKING SONG
[19:54] * Minaplo google lyrics
[19:55] * Tao face in hands.
[19:55] <Minaplo> "I'm slim shady, yes I'm the real Shady"
[19:55] <Minaplo> ALright so
[19:55] <Minaplo> Point of order
[19:55] <Tao> haplo
[19:55] <Minaplo> I though the was being sarcastic!
[19:55] <Syntax> It's up to interpretation then right
[19:55] <Tao> fuck off
[19:55] <Tao> fuck right off
[19:55] <Syntax> lmao
[19:56] <Syntax> Wow, that was good
[19:56] <Syntax> We need to ration this
[19:56] <Tao> I can't believe you not only tanked the social horror of that at work, you brought it home to relieve it with a new audience
[19:56] <Tao> I would've buried that shit so deep it would've been unearthed in therapy years later.
[19:56] <Minaplo> If not knowing things about music was all it took to destroy me I would never have made it this far
[19:56] <Syntax> It's true
[19:56] * AtmaDragoon is glad he did; this is phenomenal
[19:57] <Minaplo> Also my client fucking loved it so I'm gonna mark it as a success
[19:57] <Tao> ... hang on, I need to find a relevant quote from query
[19:57] <Syntax> Hahaha
[19:57] <AtmaDragoon> S-rank icebreaker
[19:57] <Minaplo> god my co-counsellor almost wet herself
[19:58] <Minaplo> The moment the session was over and the client was gone she was rolling in her fucking seat with laughter
[19:58] * Tao absolutely horrified headshake
[19:58] <Syntax> reminds me of a Bill Bailey bit about this TV woman he couldn't stop thinking about who'd said "always thought the moon and sun were the same thing - turns out, they're not"
[19:58] <Minaplo> I need you guys to understand that I am not a music person
[19:58] <Minaplo> okay fucking look
[19:58] <Minaplo> If Eminem lit up my goddamn life for two thirds of a day every day
[19:59] <Tao> no, shut up for a second
[19:59] <Minaplo> I would know more about him
[19:59] <Tao> y'all need to see this
[19:59] <Syntax> I've never owned an Eminem album or had him in my library! It's all passive exposure from elementary school!
[19:59] <Minaplo> WHO WAS LISTENING TO EMINEM IN FUCKING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?!
[19:59] <Tao> Same
[19:59] <Tao> [22:23] <Minaplo> Do not link me music if you want me to share in a special moment with you and that music is older than exactly two years. I did not listen to music until I was 25.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:24] <Sachiko> That's so fucking -sad-, tho
[19:59] <Tao> [22:25] <Minaplo> The first 'musician' I could legitimately name as 'someone who I listened to a lot' was Yoko Kanno. The second ever disc I put into my -anything- with the sole intention of perceiving it through sound only was a series of speeches by Winston Churchill. I was 11.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:25] <Minaplo> The -third- was a sampler of Mozart.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:25] <Minaplo> The fourth was an ensemble of pan pipe instrumentals.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:25] <Sachiko> ... ok, so
[19:59] <Tao> [22:25] <Sachiko> all of that is -terrible-
[19:59] <Tao> [22:26] <Sachiko> The second ever disc I put into my -anything- with the sole intention of perceiving it through sound only was a series of speeches by Winston Churchill. || This is exceptionally haunting, though
[19:59] <Tao> [22:26] <Minaplo> And then I found 5 collections of my parents' 'music through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s' and that composed items five through thirty.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:26] <Minaplo> THE ONLY OTHER ONES I CAN RECALL AFTER THAT IS THE P4 SOUNDTRACK
[19:59] <Tao> [22:26] <Minaplo> AND THE P5 SOUNDTRACK
[19:59] <Tao> [22:26] <Sachiko> what the ever-loving fuck
[19:59] <Tao> [22:27] <Minaplo> [22:26] <Minaplo> And then I found 5 collections of my parents' 'music through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s' and that composed items five through thirty. | The only songs I can recall from this as being actual songs I clicked onto through these? Karma Chameleon, Spandau Ballet's Gold, Electric Dreams and 'Tarzan Boy'
[19:59] <Tao> [22:28] <Minaplo> This is exceptionally haunting, though | And it wasn't like, once
[19:59] <Tao> [22:28] <Minaplo> I played it whenever I played Civ 2
[19:59] <Tao> [22:28] <Minaplo> Just... On loop. For hours.
[19:59] <Tao> [22:28] <Sachiko> WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS
[19:59] <Tao> [22:29] <Minaplo> Waving goodbye to a ship that had sailed
[19:59] <Tao> [22:29] <Sachiko> jesus
[19:59] <Tao> [22:30] <Minaplo> I think they tried to find me a genre of music that I really clicked with, and when that music was Yoko Kanno's orchestral rendition of the Uncharted Waters 2 soundtrack, my dad went "Well I guess it's classical" and gave up
[19:59] <Tao> [22:30] <Minaplo> So when I say 'ship that had sailed', I mean specifically a venetian galeass with 420 crew designed for close quarters combat.
[19:59] <Tao> [19:59] <Minaplo> WHO WAS LISTENING TO EMINEM IN FUCKING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?! || AGAIN, WE WENT TO SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME, HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS?!
[20:00] <Minaplo> WE DIDN'T GO TO THE SAME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!
[20:00] <Tao> -Wholly irrelevant-
[20:00] <Minaplo> LOOK AT MY FUCKING FRIEND CIRCLE! MY BEST FRIEND WAS A BOY WHO ONCE, THIS IS TRUE, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE ONCE AND SAID
[20:00] <Syntax> WAS RAP MUSIC BANNED??
[20:00] <Minaplo> AND I QUOTE
[20:00] <Minaplo> "I CAN'T PLAY AGE OF EMPIRES ANYMORE"
[20:00] * Tao pointing wordlessly at Syntax
[20:00] <Minaplo> "THE CANNED SPRITE ANIMATION REPETITION MAKES ME SICK WITH HOW UNREALISTIC IT IS"
[20:00] <Minaplo> HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD
[20:01] <Tao> you are a fucking horrorshow, my dude
[20:01] <Minaplo> MY TWO -OTHER- BEST FRIENDS WERE A PAIR OF GIRLS WHO SPENT THEIR LUNCH BREAKS WRITING STORIES ABOUT HOW THE CHARACTERS FROM BEYBLADE DID THE DIRTY
[20:01] <Syntax> I legitimately find it hard to believe you, Haplo
[20:01] <Syntax> This is how alien you are to me right now
[20:01] <Tao> ... I can attest to that last part.
[20:01] <Tao> No, Syn, see... here we differ
[20:01] <Tao> I can -totally- believe it.
[20:02] <Minaplo> The first 'musician' I could legitimately name as 'someone who I listened to a lot' was Yoko Kanno. | I'm not sorry btw
[20:02] <Syntax> I never got the choice that sends you onto the Beyblade fanfic route and frankly I'm appalled
[20:02] <Tao> The Winston Churchill anecdote still haunts my nightmares.
[20:03] <Minaplo> The beyblade fanfic route is a gold mine of shame
[20:03] <Syntax> Okay, I'm sure we'll circle back to this, but I think I've got it out of my system for now
[20:03] <Minaplo> Which I apparently don't have, because I am so ignorant about music that I don't even know what I'm ignorant about
[20:03] <Syntax> Did I tell you guys about the latest Great Cereal Debate from a Discord channel?
[20:04] <Tao> What. No.
[20:04] <Syntax> Okay so you know how people flip their shit once you get into the milk-or-cereal first
[20:04] <Syntax> this isn't that
[20:04] <Minaplo> (psst I think I thought they were different people because I thought eminem was calling out Fatboy Slim)
[20:04] <Minaplo> Is this the one where they microwave it for 60 seconds
[20:04] <Tao> (FUCKING HELL)
[20:04] <Syntax> This is the one where the guy works in the US
[20:04] <AtmaDragoon> ...Y'know, Churchill speeches on loop does make sense, now that I've had some time for it to sink in.
[20:04] <Minaplo> THANK YOU
[20:04] <Syntax> has to move around a lot because of his work, so his stuff is always in a state of being half packed
[20:05] <Minaplo> ok
[20:05] <Syntax> so, idly and completely apropos of nothing, he comes on Discord
[20:05] <Syntax> goes
[20:05] <Syntax> "fuck, moving around is tough"
[20:05] <Syntax> "my microwave's still packed so I can't even heat up the milk for my cereal"
[20:05] <Tao> Oh my god.
[20:05] <Syntax> and all fucking hell breaks loose
[20:05] <Minaplo> mmm yes
[20:05] <Minaplo> I love it
[20:05] <Tao> What a champion.
[20:05] <Syntax> it was "Several people are typing" for HOURS
[20:05] <Minaplo> pfffft
[20:06] <Minaplo> Did he have a kettle
[20:06] <AtmaDragoon> (I meant more "makes sense for who I know Haplo to be, and how that formed him to become so".  Less so as listening material. >_>)
[20:06] <Minaplo> Just pour hot water on the cereal then dash in some milk
[20:06] <Minaplo> (:I)
[20:06] <Tao> (I wanted to believe that's what you meant Atma, thank you)
[20:06] <Syntax> Agreed
[20:06] <Tao> There's a guy in the FGC who, in an invitational from last year, was caught microwaving his cereal milk.
[20:06] <Tao> People still haven't let him forget it.
[20:07] <Minaplo> Did he microwave his milk
[20:07] <Minaplo> Or the whole bowl WITH cereal
[20:07] <AtmaDragoon> People...microwave milk?? DX
[20:07] <Syntax> Surely that just annihilates every particle of cereal
[20:07] <Tao> I think it was just the milk.
[20:07] <Minaplo> oh thank -god-
[20:07] <Tao> I could be wrong on this.
[20:07] <Minaplo> I thought he was nuking his corn flakes
[20:07] <Minaplo> Atma: Yeah! Like, it's a bad idea, but for cereal...
[20:07] <Minaplo> Okay, so.
[20:07] <Minaplo> Hear me out.
[20:07] <Tao> No
[20:07] <Minaplo> I have sometimes eaten hot milk cereal.
[20:07] <Tao> Never again
[20:08] <Minaplo> BUT it's not like...
[20:08] <Minaplo> I add hot milk to corn flakes or nutri grain or froot loops.
[20:08] <Minaplo> It's like... Weet bix. Or oats.
[20:08] <Minaplo> And you can either use hot water then dash the milk in after, or just nuke the milk.
[20:09] <Minaplo> Which -does- form a skin on the milk, but you can peel that right off.
[20:10] <AtmaDragoon> So...it's kind of like an oatmeal procedure, except with something that isn't oatmeal?
[20:10] <Minaplo> Yeah...? I guess...
[20:10] <Tao> Alternate plan: -Don't- do that, and then you can still have a skin-free milk experience
[20:10] <Minaplo> Weet bix are... Oat-ish-
[20:10] * Minaplo harrumph
[20:10] <Minaplo> Anyway I have a lot of embarrassing shit happen on the Beyblade fanfic route
[20:11] <Minaplo> But since I'm on a roll who wants to hear about the single stupidest thing that happened to me on the Beyblade fanfic route
[20:11] <Tao> Haplo we were supposed to be watching things but now I just want to keep shouting at you until I pass out from oxygen deprivation
[20:11] <AtmaDragoon> My head's already spinning from all these revelations; might as well go for it! XD
[20:11] <Minaplo> So you want me to stream Dark Souls, cool
[20:12] <Minaplo> Okay so those two girls grew up and went to the same high school I did, right
[20:12] <Minaplo> And throughout my first three years at the school I varied between fancying one or the other of them
[20:12] <Minaplo> So, check this
[20:12] <Tao> I can never take Haplo to a stand-up show, because every time they come out and say their name he just starts shouting at them to stop being such a prick and tell us who they really are.
[20:12] <Minaplo> pfffffffffffft
[20:12] <Minaplo> After every day at school, they had a job
[20:12] <Minaplo> They would go empty all the bins around the school.
[20:12] <Tao> "No, I mean, I'm-" "YEAH, I GET THE JOKE, BUDDY. WHAT'S YOUR NAME, THO"
[20:13] <Minaplo> Shit, this would've been funnier if I sent it in as a question to the McElroys yes
[20:13] <Tao> I would've heard it and -known- it was you
[20:13] <AtmaDragoon> You still could? >_>
[20:13] <Tao> Just known
[20:13] <Syntax> You already reused it once, don't let it deter you
[20:13] <Minaplo> pfft
[20:13] <Minaplo> Yeah but I was more asking you guys if -you- knew
[20:14] <Minaplo> Anyway, at some point I got into the habit of getting picked up from school a little later than usual
[20:14] <Minaplo> So because I was an idiot I spent that time accompanying the girls on their bin-emptying job, which was literally a garbage hang
[20:14] <Tao> [20:13] <Minaplo> Yeah but I was more asking you guys if -you- knew || This is a very Trump conversation tactic.