@wintgenstein does it count if I've moved on to the acceptance stage
@wintgenstein let's be specific though: I'm here for sexy mimes. none of this shit with the rubber noses and hugely-overlined lips where they screw with the facial silhouette and border on blackface/racist caricature
@wintgenstein @byttyrs wouldn't mimes be like italian?
@a_breakin_glass @wintgenstein if we wanna get technical about it a lot of what we call clowning is a development from la commedia dell'arte, but also there are local clowning traditions in tons of placetimes
@byttyrs @wintgenstein
>there are local clowning traditions in tons of placetimes
this reminds me of a horror short story
@wintgenstein @byttyrs ah yes, because a. that's totally a valid judgement
b. it's not like using > to quote in replies hasn't got any uses outside greentext, has it?
@wintgenstein @zoe @byttyrs neither does email, 
@wintgenstein @a_breakin_glass @zoe @byttyrs person that uses that convention in email here to chime in, it's been a convention since at least 2004 and is mentioned in RFC 3676 for use with Text/Plain
@troubleMoney @wintgenstein Also standard on usenet since at least the 1990s, for what it’s worth.