Good morning. I see we had another underwear question over the weekend that quickly got deleted. Someone has definitely got a kinky side.

@Snow I didn't see that one... I saw when I came in this morning that I'd taken an unexplained rep drop and tracked it down to the "Social Media" question falling under the mod hammer so I'm guessing that one turned out to be fishy

good morning btw :)

Yes. It involved the Duchess of Cambridge visiting a lingerie shop and modelling underwear.

How's the car by the way?

@Snow not back yet :( spoke with the guy on Friday and he apologised, saying that they were just chasing a minor electrical issue and that he hoped it would be ready either Monday or Tuesday

so I await the call

Really hoping it will be sooner rather than later - I covered ~380 miles over the weekend in the Micra and it was bloody knackering, I wouldn't have blinked an eye at that in the Audi

"minor electrical issue". Why does those three words sound so ominous?

@Snow exactly what I thought

as far as I understand things though the job is just going to cost me what we've agreed so while it's irritating not to get the car back it hopefully won't be costing me any more

good weekend?

Yeah, wasn't too bad. Still looking at bathroom quotes. One guy quoted far too low, the other ones are fairly steep.

@Snow yeah "far too low" is pretty ominous when it comes to anything involving construction or plubming

it's like "pay less now so you can pay even more later to get to done properly/fixed when it floods your house"

Does DefunctNinja's response needs flagging or deleting?

Whilst I'd love to see this play out... this would be better taken offline and resolved between them

@theonlydanever woah... looks like we've stumbled in to the middle of some sort of office spat

while I love a bit of juicy controversy as much as the next man it's going to be way healthier for them sort this outside of the SE spotlight

that said I'm not really sure if this is a flag to the mods situation or not

I'm guessing SE would want to be less involved rather than more but not sure what the best path towards that is

I've looked in to it a bit more, and I think they're as bad as each other

DN came on here to vent, then GP responded with an answer knowing they worked together

and then retaliated with a question, which DN's responded to

very unprofessional

...maybe i should ask post a question around it

"Do you think it's okay to use the Workplace SE as forum for personal vendettas?"

yeah I saw DN's question without knowing that I was walking into a nest of squabbling squirrels and answered... I must admit when he accepted my answer almost immediately that it set a few non-specific alarm bells ringing

i'm buying some popcorn at lunch - this could get interesting!

@theonlydanever yeah.. it could get very interesting very fast.. although that will likely lead to liberal application of the mod-hammer

@theonlydanever It should be flagged as it's not an answer. It could be a comment, but then it would be cleaned up as comments are never guaranteed to stay. Either way, the "answer" in its current form needs to go

Thanks @Draken - I've flagged it as a non-answer

Wow, messy messy messy

It's tempting to rename myself as "There is no threat". I think it's going to be the meme of the year.

@Snow I was thinking of "Stop making me defend Trump", myself

"My other bumper sticker is Anti-Trump"

@Snow I have actually stopped watching TV, I can't stand the fact that politics are so damn ubiquitous

I just had a meeting. And now all of the motivation I had for the day is gone. I think I might have used up a week's quota this morning.

@Snow I have always maintained that nothing is ever achieved from meetings outside of the five minutes before, after, and during breaks

Jesus, my international colleagues are now throwing English words around that even I have never heard of. We must have really ruffled some feathers.

There's many English words I've never heard of. There's even more that sound so pretentious that I won't bother learning what they mean.

I made up a stupid word in conversation the other month only to discover it already existed, with the exact definition I was using. English is weird.

@RhysW I think you'll find that English is Crepetulantory

@RhysW English is an extremely verbose, amalgam language, and entirely open-ended. The average English speaking person has a vocabulary of less than 10% of the words in the language.

Ok, so I've seen a couple of references to "xy". What the hell is it? A new methodology I've never heard of?

@Snow I have no idea myself.

I had to go look it up. It's too new, even for Wikipedia.

link

ah, thx I just went through that last week

It allowed me to make my only answer of the day. And even that's just for cheap laughs.

@Snow this place has been dead recently, not just the chat, but the entire stack. I wonder what happened

Yeah. Maybe things will pick up at some point.

yeah it all seemed to quiet around mid-december

It's quiet..... too quiet. {looks around ominously}

It's going to get quieter, I'm going home....

Morning people

got late out of bed today

@DarkCygnus Why are you here? Does that restraining order mean nothing to you?

@Snow that's a legal question.. I'm VTC-ing your comment :)

@Snow :O ... sorry, what do you mean?

I hope to win a massive lottery so I can find a place in the high desert and avoid humanity entirely.

@TheSnarkKnight or an island? perhaps one with an extinct volcano you could set up your lair.. I mean home in?

@motosubatsu Like Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang theory, It's often been said of me that I am just one lab accident away from being a supervillain.

The older I get, the more I sound like George Carlin

@TheSnarkKnight if you get super powers can I be henchman #2?

@motosubatsu wise choice. Bad things tend to happen to Henchman #1

@TheSnarkKnight my thinking exactly.. Henchman #2 is important enough to get perks like free dental but not important enough for the hero to kill

or for the super villain to take his frustration out on

I don't want a Darth Vader Appraisal if I can help it

I see you've read the Evil Overlord List

@TheSnarkKnight I haven't actually.. although I shall now correct that oversight :)

hey

so, don't we get replenished with fresh cookies for the new year?

wow

crickets....

later folks..

@IamSoNotListening lol, I think I got enough for Christmas

workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/105192/…

Is it me or is the broad enough to write a novel on.

@IamSoNotListening (that Neuromancer is a bit rude don't you think?)

Neuromancer where?

@DarkCygnus they can be direct...

@ChrisE workplace.stackexchange.com/a/105199/73791

He has done some quite tough remarks on some of my posts lately

It was on this answer I gave, the comment is already gone as you can see, but it was basically just screaming No No NO! Terrible answer

Meh, just checking if it was only me who noticed this behavior of his

@DarkCygnus Nope you are not alone.

I can't speak to other remarks but that one didn't seem rude to me.

@ChrisE perhaps not so rude, but patronizing

the one posted on my answer was indeed borderline rude (thus why he probably removed it)

I'll hope this is just unrelated events, and that he is not in fact such type of user

@DarkCygnus I'd hate to see someone get fired over a blog.

actions have consequences. It's the nature of things.

@ChrisE I take that back. The OP mentioned in a comment that this jerk was posting about coworkers. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

It's one thing if you're rude and vulgar about random people, but if you're posting about coworkers, that's another story entirely.

I once had a recruiter ask me to turn off my blog while I was job hunting because of one particularly inflammatory post. I was celebrated the death of Ted Kennedy, tying it to Mary Jo Kopechne.

She thought that was "a bit much" :)

@ChrisE when I worked for the Federal Reserve, I completely ghosted myself from social media. They were even more strict than The Wall St Journal was. ANYTHING you posted on social media was grounds to get rid of you if it became viral or got back to them in any way.

@TheSnarkKnight I was fired once coz I wrote something about JEWS

and my boss said, I can loss all my client if they come to ur fb

that time I realised no one is your friend. I keep forgetting lessons of life and learn hard way