The Quill and Tankard

I like your faith in my fake motivation

Although I was just about to get cracking

I couldn't take that risk haha

And there's the cap :(

Goodbye rep for today

Hehe, glad I could get you to the cap

9:04 AM

Lol

That crappy answer did most of the work

And is now my most upvoted answer :(

That's always good.

Not really I'd like one that I put effort into to be top not some 5 minute google job

Though that GoT answer is a late answer too so probably won't get many upvotes

Still toots are toots, and it's looking like it could go gold.

True

:41549001

Oh you did it

Sorry hit the enter key too soon. Excitement

9:13 AM

@TheLethalCarrot which one did Aeg point to?

Ah that one.

Aye I got bored yesterday afternoon haha

I started going through the wiki pages on the dragons then realised it was easier to just asearchof them and jump to the last quote

If only me wrecking the self answer was on something GoT and not The Martian/The Expanse, then Aeg would've given me a bounty

Now I need to produce some 1000 rep out of nowhere to get 3x TLC again...

Lol I need to find 2.4k rep out of somewhere...

Haha the crappy answer was worth something then :P

Bloody christ....

Guess I've lost that one as well

What one?

9:19 AM

Staying x3 of you

Good :P

Although you'll be 10k soon

@Aegon Thanks man :)

@Edlothiad That's the only milestone I want

Won't win top editor of the year either

Or top 4 rep earners this year, unless I get a hefty bounty

Unlucky ducky

9:23 AM

Losing all the milestones

Hit 25k before bella though, that was a win. And hit 2k FPs

2 big ones

Although being first in FPs would be a good end to the year, but that's unpossible

I'll have to count January as 2017 ;P

Hahaha just extend the year a bit

10 answers till silver ASOIAF for me too, I thought I was closer that that

Get that universe badge and you're be gold in ~10-20

Even I'll be close to a silver then

I only have 123 answers total and not all of them are GoT related, I'm still a while away from a gold

79 answers for gold GoT. I could get it before Season 8 but I'll have to be less picky with the old questions I answer

9:32 AM

Hmm yes I forgot about the overlap of GoT and Asoiaf, I just added them together

Ahh

@TheLethalCarrot 89

Though if they did add cumulatively I'd smash it :P

@Edlothiad Oh yeah I'd say it's a typo but it wasn't :(

Why does it annoy me so much that they used book Longclaw not show one? :/

@TheLethalCarrot No probs you deserve it

@Edlothiad Nah you are 27k, you don't get a bounty....EVER.

Just realised I haven't checked freefolk yet

9:39 AM

@Aegon To be fair you did most of the groundwork for me I just looked up quotes and added a bit of a description :)

@Edlothiad What about this?

On /r/front

Ah okay

@Edlothiad Beat me to that comment

;)

Though you probably worded it better than I could anyway haha

I am gifted ;)

9:57 AM

Lol

Why do people love to take things out of context so they can then have a go at someone for being wrong about this new context they've created?

Link me, this sounds like an argument and we all know

Dec 1 at 14:55, by TheLethalCarrot

You love arguing haha

Haha

It's on workplace SE though

That's fine, I can create an account

A: When (if ever) is it considered professional to yell in the workplace?

Also from a 2 days ago though some people are still commenting...

174

Except in cases of immediate physical danger, it is never acceptable to yell in the workplace. End of discussion. To answer your secondary questions: Is it somehow normal? Not in any company I've ever worked in. Unfortunately, it seems to be "normal" in your workplace, which is going to ma...

If I could triple facepalm myself I would.

10:06 AM

Haha

I mean comments like this

Disagree with this, from prior experience I can think of plenty of situation where it was acceptable to shout in my office. For example when a computer was infected with a virus, shouting at everyone to unplug their network cables was the correct thing to do. — Korthalion 22 hours ago

Is obviously not what the question is about at all

Ye it's ridiculous

I usually don't comment in situations like that but the amount of people all stating the same thing annoyed me so I felt I had too haha

10:41 AM

@Edlothiad tolkiengateway states "

Out of the 144 unbegotten Elves to awaken at Cuiviénen, 82 chose to remain and thus became the forefathers of the Moriquendi, outnumbering the population of the Amanyar.

" which implies it is hereditary though I have no idea how accurate it is

And I have no clue what it is about haha

@TheLethalCarrot Hmm that does imply it's hereditary, I know, but I don't think it is.

Bear in mind they lived in the light of the trees for somewhere between 1000 and 60000 years, lots of potential for baby making. They only moved in the last 6-7000 years of the story, at Which characters like Arwen were already 2800 years old.

WE don't really meet young elves. But I think my answers done well enough

11:10 AM

Ah okay I don't really have a clue at all about all that I just checked that wiki page haha

Most non asoiaf wikis are pretty unreliable, although that was is very good it intentionally keeps plenty vague

I just wasn't sure how good tolkien gateway is

Not too shabby, I wouldn't quote from it.

Okay doke

Do you have access to that quotes source to see how it got that information?

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar"

I would at home, not here

Actually that's not true I have access to everything here.

The quote is accurate, I can quote that off the top of my head, it's just the implication is wrong

11:21 AM

Ah okay

I'll stop now cos I have no idea about Tolkien haha

Just reading the wiki page hurt my head :P

Lol this is pretty funny

Lol. Plus one but the mightiest? Man he was a weakling for being so mighty. He was woken up by a few tiny men, managed to kill exactly none of them, then burnt a relatively defenseless village but died in the process by a single guy with a broken bow. All in the span of like an hour or two. If there are other dragons it's no wonder they're not mentioned in the books. They must be astoundingly pathetic... come to think of it, I don't remember if the bow was broken in the books. Probably not but still... single guy with a bow — Kai Qing 13 hours ago

He just was a bit drowsy

Didn't have his coffee yet

Though is Smaug is similar to ASOIAF dragons an arrow to the eye pretty much kills them off

but otherwise pretty tough skin

But again a strong bloke with an axe could take you out single handedly haha

me? yep

Pretty small bloke with a sharp dagger too

11:36 AM

Well if you want to give it a go haha

yea

nty

Or act like the Burning Knight and run headlong into the fire

tbf that comment is gold

Hmm, seems like he was doing the Quentin

@Edlothiad It is

11:57 AM

@Edlothiad Your answer viewership has been harmed by the early accept

Probably, oh well.

Not like it's the most nail-biting title.

Oh I know

It got 3 quickish upvotes though

2 besides me

Well I assumed you was one of them haha

Even so both of those two haven't been back to see your answer

Well one of them may have been

Unless you're one upvote

In which case, AWWWW THANKS!

12:03 PM

I am one haha

12:25 PM

@amflare Just overtaken you. evil laugh

12:38 PM

Learn to play the game

12:48 PM

Football, rugby, hockey? What we talking here :P

Rep

I know haha

1:20 PM

@TheLethalCarrot You are British right?

If we put a Scottsman (Completely shaved head to toe and naked) and a German man (Same as the Scottsman), actually it can be women if men make you uncomfortable, in front of you, Would you be able to distinguish the Celt from the German?

The Celt is not a ginger and the German is not blonde!

Is that a joke?

@Aegon I am

Also if it's a joke I don't get it either haha

No

It's actually a really sad "debate"

Some ding dong claims Celtics and Germanics look nothing alike

RE: my attempt to improve the vanilla CK2 portraits

But It could be some psychological thing. You know, like I could barely tell the difference between a Japanese guy and a Korean guy

Maybe that's what's blinding me

So I need a third opinion

That's where you come in

A West-Germanic who deals with Celts everyday

Well presumably

1:37 PM

I'd personally say they don't look alike (though I don't know many Germans) also I believe it's got a name when a group of people look very similar to you but when you're in that group of people they look drastically different I'll have a look

That's not to say they don't have their similarities of course

Yeah that's why no clothes or hair so that the cultural outfits or hair don't imply the heritage of the person

See, I didn't lose my mind, it was all for a reason

@TheLethalCarrot You are English right? You don't really have to know Germans then. We are talking about Germanics, not Germans.

It's called the Other Race Effect (wiki calls it Cross-race effect)

Cross-race effect

The cross-race effect (sometimes called cross-race bias, other-race bias or own-race bias) is the tendency to more easily recognize faces of the race that one is most familiar with (which is most often one's own race). A study was made which examined 271 real court cases. In photographic line-ups, 231 witnesses participated in cross-race versus same-race identification. In cross-race lineups, only 45% were correctly identified versus 60% for same-race identifications. In social psychology, the cross-race effect is described as the "ingroup advantage". In other fields, the effect can be seen as...

@Aegon Aye I'm English

So in your expert opinion, if you see a Scottsman and an Englishman (Scottsman is not wearing a Kilt) walking down the street, you could tell who is who without talking to them?

Without hearing their accent?

I doubt I'd be accurate but I could give it a good go

@TheLethalCarrot Huh, Guess the Ding Dong's got a point then. But he is very confident that he can tell with 100% accuracy

1:43 PM

Probably internet effect, exaggerating to prove their point haha

Do you have a country/race/etc near you that you come into contact with regularly that's similar to the one you know most? Could you tell them apart?

@TheLethalCarrot Afghans, Persians, Tajiks

Tajiks are easy

The same works with Americans/Canadians, Australians/New Zealanders etc.

Afghans, Persians, not quite

The point is you have a few near you you may/may not be able to tell apart and so do we

I bet some people in America can judge state/state area from looks too

I can guess the state and region of my own countrymen

1:47 PM

It comes down to the differences between the locations and how experienced you are with each of them I suppose

But thats very easy since we are hot diversity pot

To you yes

Idk how it works out with you guys who are more or less uniform

I bet to you the British are very similar?

Which comes back to the Other Race Effect, you can more easily tell those apart who you come into contact with than some other race

@TheLethalCarrot I can tell the Scottish/Welsh/Irish and English apart when they talk. Not by how they look

1:48 PM

Aye but I can have a decent attempt at it

I won't be too accurate but I could give it a go

But in the end it all comes down to the effect linked above

Quite interesting when you look into it more

Guess it will have to differ region from region then

Aye it will, depends how big they are though

And also the regions culture

Here and in extended region, ethnicities don't have uniform looks so that makes it hard to tell them apart by look. You can have the general idea, as to if they are Western or Eastern but that's about it. After that you can tell them apart by accents.

Oh well, so turns out it was my cultural blindspot. Ding dong wins. I better tell him that

Well he has his cultural blindspot too, just from a different perspective

On a side note (cos I wanted to link it earlier but missed my opportunity so I'm going to force it now :P) it's very easy to tell Canadians apart from Americans...

Yeah I don't get it

What do the T and P stand for?

1:54 PM

Terrance and Phillip

It's a South Park thing

Yup I don't watch that

Ah well, it's definitely not for everyone haha

Oh then it sounds interesting.

@Aegon Huge difference there compared to a Celt and a German

You guys shook my perception of the people of the world

1:57 PM

Seriously if you're interested in it read about the effect I linked above, though like I said it's basically just that you can tell your own race apart better than others haha

Also works between humans/animals/aliens etc :P

Exhibit A: All 3 Labradors look pretty much the same but I doubt they do to each of the dogs

I don't think anyone can tell scots and germans apart 100% the gene pool is far to mixed.

Non collapsible images on stack are irritating

In my mind it was:

People who look alike:

1. English, German, West Slavs, Nordic, Celtic, French, Dutch
2. East Slavs, Baltics
3. Magyar, Finno Ugric
4. South Slavs, Greeks, Western Turks
5. Italian, Spanish, Ashkenazi Jews
7. Eastern Turks, Levantine Arabs
8. Bedouin Arabs, Sephardi Jews
9. Persian, Pashtun (Afghan and Pakistani), Baloch (Iranian and Pakistani)

@Edlothiad But the cute doggos?

Actually I am gonna stop or this list might get bigger

Although completely hairless? It would be so difficult

2:01 PM

Number 4 for example I'm sure I'd be quite accurate at telling Italians and Spanish apart

I'd have to have two completely hairless naked people to judge.

Well ya because the tans and facial structure is evidently different

Exactly but not to Egg

@Edlothiad Yeah the Norman and Viking invasions.

TIL, Europe is not ethnically uniform region-wise

Although I'd say hair is a large part of the culture and what makes it quite easy to tell people apart so including that makes it easier

Well obviously, the whole idea is hairless naked people

It'd be almost impossible with scots and germans

Except the scots might be more pale more consistently

2:04 PM

@Edlothiad Okay can you guys decide whether I am right or not

Japanese and Koreans is easy, completely different eyes.

I'm 100% with you on the German v Scots argument

@Edlothiad Take Nordics then, The debate is on whole Germanic group rather than just Germans

It's simply not possible, and I'm germanic and spent 3 years in the UK

No, I don't see how you could?

Nordics tend to be paler than Germans as per my understanding

Maybe because the nordic are slightly larger than the average european with sharper facial features

Even then, I don't think I could

2:05 PM

Good thing I didn't concede to the Ding dong just yet

I think another problem is we're coming at this from the 2000's angle whereas CK2 is from medieval times. Back then the gene pool wouldn't have been as mixed and I bet it would be easier to tell them apart

@TheLethalCarrot It's 1066 man, Vikings have formed Danelaw, Anglo Saxons and Welsh are intermarrying

And William the Conqueror is coming

Sure, still not 100%

I'd say the Genepool is mixed already

Ah okay still won't be too mixed up though

But my history isn't too good for that period and earlier

2:08 PM

Off topic: Was defeating numerous small armies of 10k strength until a 56k strong mega army swooped in on me

2:34 PM

@TheLethalCarrot :/

Mornin' to you too :P

brb, imma go irl answer a question

Just call them gate answers, we all know what they are :P

brb, imma go write another gate answer

Haha

I still don't understand why that question and its answers were so popular but you were the lucky one who cashed in on it

2:43 PM

Because everyone is a bunch of fools...

Is it offensive if I offend everyone? probably not

Everyone has different interpretations of what is/isn't offensive so who knows

That's offensive!

How dare you say it's open to interpretation and being blatantly abused!

Lol

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I withdraw my comment and apologise for any offence it may have caused.

I find your comment retraction very offensive

You should be ashamed

Well there server just went kaput again...

Guess I'll see if it'll reconnect on it's own

2:53 PM

@Aegon Damn I'm stuck in an infinite loop

@TheLethalCarrot Bet you find that offensive

while (someoneIsOffended)
{
    Apologise();
    if (everyoneIsOffended)
    {
        //It won't get any better just exit
        break;
    }
}

Damn entered to soon

And again

@TheLethalCarrot System.Stack.Overflow.Exception

There we go

Lol

Someone is always offended. Still an infinite loop

2:56 PM

Ah no cos we break out of the loop if everyone is offended where everyoneIsOffended doesn't take into account people no longer being offended

It's a cheap hack to avoid the exception :P

@amflare you going to answer this question or what?

@Edlothiad what? which one?

Oh it was a yoke about rep ting

Speaking of which, I'm still earning rep

Be quiet. I'm busy writing an entirely too verbose "probably not" answer

Who would've guessed a question about the Moriquendi would have 19 arbitrary hotness points?