The Water Cooler

Snow

6:45 AM

Man, it sucks being in the second half of my first century.

motosubatsu

@Snow welcome back boss!

the long slippery slope into your dotage getting you down?

Snow

Yeah. I was reading through a local magazine (for local people) and was struck by how many of the clubs are marked as 50+.

motosubatsu

@Snow and how they all listed "finished by 8pm" as a selling point?

Snow

And they include tea and biscuits, yes.

motosubatsu

@Snow tea and biscuits?! it's a bit posh where you live isn't it?

Snow

6:53 AM

Sorry, you'll need to type louder, the guy mowing the golf course behind my house is drowning you out...

motosubatsu

@Snow are you going to make him beg for scraps while you burn fifties in front of him when he's done?

Snow

Hehe. He probably earns more than I do.

So what's happened in the past couple of weeks? I see there's a superfluous Don now.

motosubatsu

@Snow same old same old mostly.. we've had the usual blather, @MaskedMan has been drunk on power swinging his mighty hammer left and right. ChrisE is MIA, Nofel is job hunting, I'm spouting my usual waffle and people have been upvoting it, presumably in the hopes that I'll shut up

Snow

7:09 AM

And I saw that it didn't take it too long for Thanos to be thrashed. Shame about Chris E, but I did get the impression that he was winding down somewhat. If had had been more active prior and during the election phase, I'm sure things would be different.

motosubatsu

@Snow I think he's had a tough year offline and with the election not going his way (again) I think he might just be lessening his focus here. Hope he's okay though, he's good people.

Snow

He might just be taking some time out. Doing that is healthy sometimes. I took a month off a while ago, nothing bad seemed to happen.

motosubatsu

@Snow yeah sometimes a step back can do the world of good.. none of us are so vital that the site won't keep on spinning without us (except for me of course, if I left you'd all be screwed )

Snow

True. Stack abhors common sense like my partner abhors mayonnaise.

motosubatsu

@Snow common sense.. it's pretty inappropriately named IMO.. it doesn't seem all that common

Masked Man

7:26 AM

@motosubatsu Sounds like a pretty accurate description of me. Anyway Masked Man duelled with Thanos and won. He just teleported Thanos's Gauntlet arm into another dimension, and that was the end of the battle.

Jun 3 at 16:16, by Masked Man

Some guys did express disappointment at the result with some Stealth Insult, but I returned fire with Insult Backfire and took care of it. The renaming to Thanos complete with "You should have aimed for the head." was for exactly that reason.

This was the only reason I even allowed Thanos to take over for a couple of days. 😈

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan See what I mean @snow ? he's out of control!

Snow

This kind of tomfoolery can only be negated by excessive amounts of caffeine.

motosubatsu

@Snow amen to that

Masked Man

"That awkward moment when you realize that there were two monsters." is probably the best meme to sum up the recent democratic process. ;)

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan also "just because you paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon waiting to claw your face off"

Snow

7:58 AM

I managed to watch Black Panther yesterday. Was suitably impressed.

motosubatsu

@Snow yeah it's rather good isn't it

Snow

Excellent. I like the way they let the film stand for itself and didn't allow Tony Stark to come in and stamp his ego over everything.

motosubatsu

@Snow yeah it was a nice little almost-stand alone breather before getting on to the big meaty continuity-course that is Infinity War

I think Ant-Man and the Wasp could serve the same role before part 2

Snow

Yes, I'm looking forward to Ant-Man again. Watching BP, I kind of lost my chance to watch deadpool 2 and the new Jurassic Park, but I'm happy to wait for those to come out on Sky.

motosubatsu

@Snow I didn't mange to get to Deadpool 2

am taking a stand though in that I will be going to watch Incredibles 2

Snow

8:09 AM

Yes, that should be good. I do have my doubts about Toy Story 4 though. TS3 did a good enough job in dragging tears from my stone-dry eyes.

motosubatsu

@Snow yep.. was discussing that with a friend the other day and as I put it "if anyone didn't well up at the bit where they held hands and waited to die they have no soul"

Snow

That wasn't the part for me. It was the part where Andy handed his toys off to the young girl and left his past behind him.

Masked Man

The Worst Excuses For Not Changing Your Life

Follow Jeff Haden on LinkedIn, if you aren't already doing so. He writes some really amazing stuff.

Snow

8:24 AM

I do my best to avoid LinkedIn unless I'm looking for jobs.

Cronax

I limit my interaction with LinkedIn to connecting with people I've actually worked with (unlike 75% of LinkedIn users it seems...) and occasionally browsing the feed on my phone if I'm bored in a situation where browsing memes would be unacceptable.

Masked Man

@Snow I guess you could use this instead. inc.com/author/jeff-haden

Snow

Thanks. Some of those look interesting.

Masked Man

8:39 AM

Speaking of LinkedIn jobs, they make some strange job recommendations. 🙄 I got recommended to a CTO job of a mid-sized reputed company "based on my profile". I got reminded of our lazy pizza eating programmer who accidentally turned clueless executive. 😛 (I don't eat that much pizza though.)

Masked Man

8:57 AM

Can you explain why you think there are only two options? I can think of quite a few more that might or might not be successful - but there certainly are more options than asking him and sucking it up. — AllTheKingsHorses 1 hour ago

Not sure what's the problem with that user. If he has more options, he can just write his own answer instead of arguing in comments under other people's answers.

Warning: comment from TheSiteThatShallNotBeNamed™.

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan yeah you should have posted the warning first.. now i got my browser all mucky

Masked Man

@motosubatsu Sorry. I didn't realize what a terrible thing I was about to do.

motosubatsu

9:16 AM

@MaskedMan you should be ashamed of yourself

:D