Morning all

Morning @motosubatsu :P

@Twyxz how's tricks?

Evil morning to all.

@RichardU And a Chaotic Good Morning to you

Morning :) How was RDR2 @Twyxz?

Chaotic evil means never having to say you're sorry

@Summer Yes.

@motosubatsu Yes.

@Twyxz -1 doesn't answer the question

@RichardU Chaotic Neutral means you run away from everything

@motosubatsu unless there's something to be gained at minimul risk :D

Ah, more money to be spent.... Ring purchasing soon.

RDR2 is insaneeeee. graphics are crazy for a console game plus the gameplay is just phenomenal.

Wedding ring purchasing?

@Summer yep, Now that my ex finally gave me the divorce, my SO and I can move on.

Good for you :)

I'd like to get married but don't want a wedding so it's a bit problematic lol.

@Summer fairly sure they discontinued the practice of holding a gun to your head and making you wear the ring

How? Just have one without it hahaha

@Summer you could always elope, as my grandparents did

Tip: Do not burn chestnuts

taste horrible with even a tiny bit of singe

just get married properly, otherwise the marriage doesn't mean much

@motosubatsu I don't mind the ring

I'm just not a fan of weddings, I think it's a ridiculous concept that's only costing you a bunch of money.

Just go to the local priest and say " hit me up with them vows " - in Dutch

people do that here, get married without the event

Yeah when we do get married we'll keep it small. A dinner party and shortest ceremony ever probably.

@Summer I do concur.. I hate weddings with a passion but you can get married without all the expensive fluff and tomfoolery

@motosubatsu will you tell that to all our family members please?

I will :)

If I can come

and do a compilation of my best RDR2 moments

yeah but inviting you defeats the purpose of me wanting to elope :p

@Summer have a country wedding, those are cheap.

@Summer I'll hide, you'll not even notice me

@Summer my grandparents had to elope, my grandmother ran away from her job so she could marry my grandfather.

@RichardU any wedding will still easily be 5k as far as I've seen. We've talking about maybe doing a bbq on some field and doing a quick ceremony at the city hall.

@Summer Gladly, I can't guarantee they won't hate you afterwards though

Hi all

@Summer you just described a country wedding.

@SouthpawHare Good day, how are you this fine day

@Summer a good friend of mine did very similar

I'm pretty good!

@motosubatsu in the Midwest of the USA, they call that "a wedding".

I kind of seesaw back-and-forth moodwise a lot. Somedays I feel bad about my job (when I have one) or about my career mistakes that have led me to not have one (when I don't). And other times, I don't think about that and love life for all its other things (friends, games, and whatever else makes me happy).

@SouthpawHare I have become an anti-nihilist. Life has no meaning, so all that has meaning is life.

@Summer Weddings are not just about you, they're about family, making memories, hustle and bustle and gossip and laughter and tears.... for a lot of people. Sure they cost money... so what?

settling disputes, healing wounds, gaining friends, people working together and backstabbing each other.... lots of fun stuff... if you're serious about marriage, you have a wedding, if you're just scratching an itch... scratch

just my opinion of course

unless your doing it for tax benefits I guess?

@RichardU and to be fair they do know their BBQ

I wonder if there are any tax benefits that would outweigh my wifs spending?

just wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to look up tax benefits :-(

we had catered bbq in our midwest wedding :P

@Kilisi my ex once helped a man to become a millionaire. But he was a billionaire before that.

@Kilisi I disagree, marriage is for me and my partner. It's not for or about my family. I'm not marrying my partners parents, I'm marrying him. I'm serious about spending the rest of my life with him, not with anyone else.

@RichardU lol sorry I understood that as a wedding in the countryside for some reason

@Summer sorry. No, it's the kind of weddings they have in what we call "the country" or non-urban or suburban areas.

People in the country have been traditionally VERY poor, so the weddings were simple and inexpensive.

they STILL don't understand the obsession with grand affairs.

I guess I don't either lol. But I'm lucky my partner thinks the same.

His sister spent a fortune on her wedding, his parents loved it. Her wedding dress alone was nearly 7000 euros.

@Summer my wedding to my ex was one step above a country wedding.

I'd much rather spend that kind of money on a trip with my partner somewhere, those are the memories I value.

we did it for under $5,000 but I've seen it done for far less.

What do you plan on doing now?

@Summer my SO is as frugal as I am. All that matters to her is that we get married in church. Beyond that, we'd be happy with hotdogs and hamburgers at the reception

Is there anyone who takes Christmas extremely seriously here before I go on a little rant

@Twyxz I take the spiritual/religious side of it seriously, but despise the crass commercialism of it.

Okay so if you're not religious, and you simply do Christmas for the sake of giving and receiving

I don't understand how it's not just another day

@Twyxz I don't know that either.

Like my friend is in 4k credit card debt, and I recommended that doing the gifts etc is not a good idea for you. You're going to be paying ridiculous amounts of interest the longer you keep the card. Her reply was stop being such a scrouge. It's just one day. Buy gifts for another time. Save your future now

and I'm certain she's going to use it again this Christmas if not try and take out another one

it just doesn't make sense to me what so ever

if you can't afford a gift... buy a smaller gift?

@Twyxz sounds like Christmas isn't the problem - more that she has no impulse control. If it wasn't Christmas she'd find another excuse

@Twyxz yeah, I'm not one for expensive gifts (giving or receiving). I give things from the heart, and like the same. Something with meaning.

@motosubatsu And the fact she's putting her "reputation" above her credit and finances

and me too @RichardU It's much better that way, then thought that counts is more truthful

@Twyxz anyone who cares about the price of the gift isn't worthy of one.

@RichardU Exactly, everyone has different financial situations. But if you think of something sentimental it can be priceless

@RichardU agreed... one of my favorite gifts that I've received probably ever was something a friend made for me.. total cost was probably < £1

regardless of its monetary value

@motosubatsu my favorites are anything my daughters make for me.

My friend received a framed naked picture from his girlfriend which was an interesting one?

Idk what she was thinking but it would never end well

@Twyxz probably that he'd enjoy it and hopefully not tell his friends about it?

Well, Red Dead 2 is rather good. Amazing how nice it is just riding through the countryside.

@Twyxz errrr, chyeah, that will come to no good end

You can't enjoy a framed picture and not have it seen

That's what a mobile phone is for

@Snow I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS ENTIRE THING TO HAVE IT

Yes

@Twyxz Yep. I've not played it a great deal, but it does look beautiful. The bears are scary.

@Snow It's fantastic. The graphics are literally ridiculous especially for a console game. The game doesn't even need to be good when It feels like you're immersed in the game ... but it is!

Yeah. Even my partner likes watching me play it. The cinematic camera mode is just fantastic, right up until the point where you get jumped on by a gang and killed before you can draw a weapon and get your head into fighting back.

I just posted a horrible answer and didn't think about it till afterwards.

Ah well stuff happens

@Snow Yeah it has a better reception from my girlfriend than Fifa does that's for sure

It's interesting to watch.. If I didn't have the game I would happily watch a playthrough

However, it does get a bit annoying when you shoot people by mistake. And I constantly lose my hat.

Not had that problem yet :) Must be an age thing

reflexes falling away? @Snow :)

@Twyxz I love Christmas, because it's a time to come together, eat good food, laugh and yes give gifts. Me and my parents have been in a position where we had little to no money though, and we did several things then. One year we just did a 'potluck' thing where no one would bring gifts but made a course for the meal. That was everyone chipped in for money so it wouldn't be too much of a burden on 1 family.

Another year we did homemade gifts only between friends. I got a delicious batch of cookies, I made my friend a bracelet. It's perfectly doable on a little budget, so that's really not an excuse to go ham on money for christmas.

@Snow have you tried punching your horse yet?

I always try and get a gift that I think is right for the person rather than setting a budget, some years it can get rather expensive (last year...shudder) but other years it can cost next to nothing. So I just assume it's all going to even out in the end and try not to worry about it. My biggest Christmas gripe (aside from all the mandatory fun BS) is the way it seems to start earlier and earlier. Seeing Christmas stuff for sale in fricking September is just insane

We have 1 major holiday in november that sorta keeps it at bay but the decorations are already slipping in everywhere

@motosubatsu I enjoy the same.

@Summer Haha. No.

@Snow if you punch your horse once a second for 60 consecutive seconds it turns into a unicorn

if it doesn't work keep trying - you have to get the timing dead on

Another obvious trolling question heading to HNQ.

I know. It's another "let me think of another kind of unintended racial slur that hasn't been asked before and put some words around it".

@Snow it does more than a smidge contrived

@Dukeling not necessarily. There actually exists a bookstore named "Wong Fook Hing Bookstore"

@RichardU It's less that one detail and more all the details surrounding it.

One can probably write a post about how to ask one's manager about a raise and make that seem like trolling.

@Dukeling when it comes to workplace issues, I am long past innocence and rapidly approaching apathy. Nothing is to strange to have not happened.

for fun, I ought to post in here four stories, three true, one made up. I doubt anyone would be able to tell the false from the true ones.

@RichardU put it on Puzzles Stack Exchange, lol

@SouthpawHare I'd have to choose from some good ones, from a drug-addled director beating up a plastic box-fan while it was running, to a compressor on a trailer breaking loose from the truck towing it right in front of a school, to employees getting caught in the act in the conference room, to various things exploding to things that were downright horrific.

If there is something that lies beyond jaded and cynical, I have achieved it years ago.

@RichardU I don't think it couldn't have happened, otherwise it would be really low-quality trolling. I just think there's a 0.001% chance that it did happen (as in the exact circumstances described in the question) and a 99.999% chance that someone made it up.

@Dukeling Well, I'd give it more of a 10% chance. I've seen stranger.

If it were just the last name thing with believable surrounding circumstances, I'd probably put it at like 40% or so.

@Dukeling would you believe a story about a crew parking a sewer truck on railroad tracks during rush hour, and leaving it there to go get coffee?

@RichardU Not if their manager also refused to help with any difficult decisions that followed, and they also had to deal with reporters because their only PR person was on leave, and there was a very unfortunate old lady standing nearby who now wants to sue, but they don't have a lawyer on their staff, and... hold on, this is HNQ gold, I need to put this into a question.

@Dukeling Well, the crash did happen, a conductor sued, the offenders were never identified by the press, and the paper that reported on it spun it to make look like the train all but jumped off the tracks to hit the truck.

It was that day that I lost all faith in the news media.

Ironically, I did go on to work for a newpaper at a later date

@Dukeling And it has an obvious troll answer that needs moderator attention: workplace.stackexchange.com/a/121868/7777

@JoeStrazzere what answer.... :-)

THIS is why I don't disbelieve anything out of hand ^^^^^^ Yes, it's real

@RichardU I worked for a guy once who had so much pot drying in his shed that the birds had made a nest out of buds... I never saw the shed but he gave us the birds nest... it was 100% real

I wonder how a question would go on that "The boss just gave me a birds nest made of dope, what is the professional way to handle this given that I'm in the middle of farmland anf forest with no way out except on foot. And he has earthmoving machinery that I have seen bury 5 cars in a ravine under 20 feet of mud and stones in less than an hour. Would it be ethical to smoke the nest? How would this look on my resume?"

@JoeStrazzere that whole question looked like a troll to me