2026-06-06 04:23:57 <Stalevar    > Two girls sat on the roof: a good and a evil one and spat onto pedestrians. The good one hit pedestrians nine times, while the evil one only four times. That's because good always wins over evil.
2026-06-06 05:26:58 <xentrac     > I feel like that's a sanitized version of a Russian joke which originally somehow involved poop
2026-06-06 05:45:48 <Stalevar    > No, it was exactly as this
2026-06-06 05:46:27 <Stalevar    > Сидели на крыше две девочки - добрая и злая, и плевали на прохожих. Злая девочка попала в прохожих три раза, а добрая девочка - пять раз. Так добро победило зло.
2026-06-06 05:47:00 <Stalevar    > Сидят две девочки на крыше... Одна добрая, другая злая и кидают камни в прохожих. Злая попала 3 раза, а добрая 5... Потому что добро ВСЕГДА побеждает зло!
2026-06-06 05:47:26 <Stalevar    > xentrac, there is also a version where they spit out of window and where they throw stones
2026-06-06 05:47:35 <Stalevar    > but no poop in first search result
2026-06-06 05:49:10 <Stalevar    > https://otvet.mail.ru/question/27605584 more versions (you could use translators, they don't seem to involve wordplay)
2026-06-06 05:50:47 <xentrac     > haha
2026-06-06 05:51:09 <xentrac     > maybe it's actually a Belarussian joke if there's no poop
2026-06-06 05:53:54 <Stalevar    > xentrac, where did you get the notion that Russian jokes involve poop? Most don't. Of course some do, but other languages also do, probably to nearly same degree
2026-06-06 05:54:57 <xentrac     > well, I'm half joking, but I got the idea from Yosef Kreinin
2026-06-06 06:00:18 <Stalevar    > Штирлиц открыл окно. Из окна дуло. Штирлиц закрыл окно. Дуло исчезло. - Stirlitz opened a window. It blew out of it. Stirlitz closed the window. (weapon) Muzzle disappeared. The pun is that weapon muzzle is spelled same as `to blow`  in past imperfect tense neutral gender.
2026-06-06 06:12:18 <iv4nshm4k0v > That reminds me of how one time our team leader was seething at some moronic decision by the higher-ups.  "I would expect," he said, "for the people in charge to at least have a high school diploma!"  It took me several long seconds to compute an adequate answer, but at last, I've quipped, "for some value of 'high.'"  Brightened the day that way.
2026-06-06 06:12:18 <iv4nshm4k0v > The conversation was actually in Russian and ran like this: — Я так полагаю, эти люди все же заканчивали не церковно-приходскую школу?!  — Смотря что понимать под словом «приход.»