The Awkward Silence

4:30 AM

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Q: My neighbour threatened to kill my cat. I want to send a card to apologize, should I mention the threat?

My old cat goes into the yard with me while I water (I dont leave him outside otherwise). Apparently he has managed to scale a 6ft fence and go into the neighbours yard, because I had a fairly unpleasant encounter with my neighbour today. I saw my cat pop up (from what I was behind the shed) and...

dhein

5:21 AM

GaMen everyone :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

5:34 AM

@dhein What does 'gallium men' mean?

dhein

Context please? ^^

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@dhein Ga = Gallium

The only thing I hate more than my lame jokes is explaining them.

The only thing I hate more than explaining lame jokes is Mith's jokes.

A J

@dhein good morning!

dhein

@avazula OP just edited the Should I part out them selfs and you overrolled that edit :x Well they didn't remove it but they put in an edit to clarify it >.<

avazula

→ 8 messages moved to Trash

dhein

5:47 AM

And I was confused when I finished my answer, why OP now isn't asking any more what I was answering '^.^

avazula

@dhein Morning! :) I think it's okay, I removed the should I part and they clarified their question. Everything's good, isn't?

It doesn't invalidate your answer to me

dhein

Yeh after a second read it doesn't so to me either ^^

avazula

:) how are you doing these days?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

. . .

So you're not having an argument about it?

dhein

My sleepy eyes squezed the last line into the second last so I overlooked the "resulting in pets being hurt" part :)

avazula

5:49 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ nah

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Sorry to dissapoint you :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That's very boring.

avazula

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you're free to leave if you want. But you'd then miss so many interesting conversations!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And questions on how to approach girlfriend when said girl is not a friend.

dhein

@avazula I think he won't leave, he is just interested in spicing up the interest xP

avazula

5:50 AM

@dhein Oh, I know ;) I'm just following with what he created

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ wanna talk about your love issues?

you know that's being a perv, right?

dhein

@avazula Oh I did so great. had an awesome last week and even better weekend as mentioned already on monday. yesterday an day off today a lot of meetings from 9 am on what will make this day fly by like nothing tomorrow is an holliday and friday home office.... So I am great :)

avazula

@dhein yay :) weekend for me tonight, Ascension Day tomorrow and forced rest day on Friday o/

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@avazula Not MINE. I don't ask questions on Eeps :p

avazula

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ that's because you're shy

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

So am I perverse, or shy?

avazula

5:58 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ both?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That's not a thing.

Maybe only in France.

Not in any other normal country.

If a Wikipedia contributor fell from Eiffel, would they have to write a disambiguation article on it?

avazula

You're just jealous

Apart from its politics and people my country is amazing

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Baguettes hurt my stomach.

@avazula If we keep talking we can come up with 10 more adjectives by the end of the hour

avazula

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'm verbose

Watcha gonna do?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@avazula BTW, are yellow protesters still a thing there?

avazula

6:05 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ More or less, yes

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Note: France is probably the only country where yellow is threatening.

avazula

They still protest on Saturdays but they had deputy lists for the European elections of last weekend and they had 0 seat

The struggle is still real though. Nothing has changed, the issues are still here

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@avazula Well duh

avazula

Honestly if I could go live abroad for a while I really wouldn't mind leaving the country now

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Now if it was yellow and black, they might have passed as Barry the Bee

@avazula Or we could just sit and sing "Kumbaya" at home

@avazula Is it THAT bad?

Our media really loved talking about protesters there

And throw back the same meaningless accusations of lack of freedom of speech

avazula

6:10 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ well, there are serious issues about freedom of speech right now

dhein

@avazula A few months ago I got informed, that I will be working with that female coworker I mentioned a few months ago having had the dressing struggle with, together on a buisness process. Initially it was supposed to the 2 of us joining an existing 5 head international team, being responsible for handling requests for software getting approved for use on company devices.

Last week we got officially informed that we aren't joining the team, but we are replacing the team.

avazula

A bunch of journalists was recently judged for revealing that France is selling weapons to a country that is at war and was lying about it

dhein

Sooooo I will be part of the 2 headed team, being responsible for deciding about any software thats being allowed to be used within SAP internationally

avazula

@dhein o_o

Yay on the promotion! But I hope it'll be okay with said coworker

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I wanna imagine a two-headed mythical being but all of them seem to have 3 or 7.

Or multiple snakes.

dhein

6:12 AM

Sounds like a good chance of showing I am able to handle responsibility appropiate :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

What's with the snakes. Come on.

dhein

Well it actually isn't a promotion. It is still just covered by my current role.... It just... escalated a bit more than I would have been expecting. xD

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@dhein You mean a bunch of extra titles? As long as they'd mean more salary

If I got to start a start-up I'd wanna be titled "Lord of Flies".

dhein

@avazula Oh yeah, we just get along together very well. And about the other side. I found a way to just mitigate the need of staring. And especially since I recently had to discuss a lot of work related stuff with her I have to look in her direction a lot while conversing anyways, and I use that time to get an analysis of her dressing that day and then there is no disturbance due to my ADHD for the rest of the day by her. And I think she isn't even noticing that.

While back then I am quite sure she was aware of me regulary looking to her. So I think this will be just fine :)

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Nope, no extra salary. And no extra titles. Its just.... instead of joining the team under that project manager, we replace the team under that project manager '^.^

But I got already a few months ago an promotion that came in with nothing else than another title and a niet payraise. So if I would complain people would anyways most likely just refer to the promotion I already got ^^

avazula

@dhein yay! good news!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:20 AM

@dhein I like the potential. You could then replace the project manager with the team, then replace the project manager with project manager, and the team with the team.

I have a sudden urge to play Hanoi tower.

dhein

@avazula Indeed. And I really am happy, as this is an big opportunity. And that simply made my whole last week just birght shiny x) Especially since I really love this analysis work. Especially since I now not just have to crawl through sourcecode anymore, but aswell have to crawl through the ToS of all that requested softwares. And while most people hate reading such text, I really enjoy it as it calms me :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@dhein Haha "WE DO NOT KEEP USER D . . . " snores

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yeah and faster than you can look our CEO gets replaced by me muhahahaha

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@dhein Only if you're bald.

dhein

Well, if thats all, that shouldn't be a showstopper xD

https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/a/21909/32
Could anyone refer Zeus in a comment to our meta post about writing an good answer https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3266/32 and point out his post is lacking any backup?

Oh by the way, did nick show up here again after our encounter with him last week?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

6:26 AM

Nick . . . Fury?

avazula

@dhein yup

A J

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Nick ... Jonas

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

May 9 '18 at 20:56, by Mithrandir

in Charcoal HQ, 8 hours ago, by Mithrandir

2 hours ago, by Mithrandir

> Hi <redacted>,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for your help with flagging spammy content.

We're reviewing the reported posts, and we'll be working on suspending those accounts in accordance to our rules.

I'd be very interested in taking a look at your list - would you be able to send it to us so we could review it?

Thanks,
Jonas
Trust and Safety

A J

@avazula new avatar?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Wait. Why would Mith link that here. Weirdo.

A J

6:35 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ To make you think why he would link that here. ;)

dhein

@avazula Thank you :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That's not provocative enough for his character

Mithrandir

mwahahaha

A J

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ mi yodea

avazula

7:01 AM

@AJ it's been about a week, but yes, credits to Mith :)

A J

@avazula I just saw it.

IPS Comment Bot

7:18 AM

This is a very harsh treatment and needs to be used with caution! We actually did this in our group and the person got very defensive and upset, even ditching some hangouts for a while. So there is some great potential to escalate it to a real fight. — Nico 1 min ago

dhein

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ There you have your conflicts :D

avazula

7:47 AM

@AJ you were on vacation :)

IPS Comment Bot

8:44 AM

Thank you very much for this detailed answer, I'll give it a try and write back down here if that really helps. But nevertheless, I never looked at it that way - maybe because I value friendship more than money. — Insax 1 min ago

#21905 Insax (121 rep) | A: Money problems with close friends (score: 1) | posted 11 hours ago by Boondoggle (691 rep) | Toxicity 0.0378354 | tps/fps: 0/0

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avazula

@IPSCommentBot tp

IPS Comment Bot

Marked this comment as caught correctly (tp). Currently marked 1tps/0fps. beep boop My human overlords won't let me flag that, so you'll have to do it yourself.

avazula

Oof. I've been feeling so low lately.

Tinkeringbell

@avazula low? As in sad, or tired? or both?

avazula

@Tinkeringbell Both. Idk if it's my new job coming up, but I feel terrible. nothing goes right at the current job, and I'm terrified of doing poor in the new one.

Tinkeringbell

8:56 AM

@avazula hugs. It'll be alright, you'll see!

What's going wrong in this one?

avazula

Good news is I finally reached out to get help from a therapist to deal with my autism, because I believe that's what makes it so difficult to interact with my colleagues. They want me to do things their way, but I'd perform so much better in mine!

:p

@Tinkeringbell that's nice of you, thanks

Tinkeringbell

@avazula That often will help, yes :)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I hope so :)

Feels good to be back in here too, so much

I love our HNQ return, even if it means some more moderating work to do :)

Tinkeringbell

@avazula To be honest, I was kinda sceptical. But 1 question at a time is much more manageable than the 5 at a time chaos I remember :)

@avazula You're always welcome, you know that, right? :)

avazula

9:19 AM

@Tinkeringbell true :) it's easier than before

I hope so! :D

(I've been here everyday, just not as active as usual in chat)

Tinkeringbell

I noticed ;) Kinda missed you :)

But take your time, this is supposed to be something you do only when you feel up to it ;)

avazula

aaw. Kinda glad? :p

Tinkeringbell

@avazula I hope so XD I don't often tell people I miss them! :P

avazula

@Tinkeringbell haha. I missed you too :)

I try to stay on track and do a bit every day because I am still willing to run for moderation and I wouldn't want to do it after being absent for a long time

Don't know what my chances are but I believe that we have some strong potential candidates that would do a great job :)

Kinda impatient to see who will run!

Tinkeringbell

Just a few more days! :D

avazula

9:24 AM

Right! :)

Tinkeringbell

I'm also curious. There have been a few people that expressed interest in chat, but it's always a bit of waiting to see if they actually do it :)

avazula

True. And since it's the first actual election, I'm curious what the results will be

Tinkeringbell

I'm mainly curious to see how many people will be voting :)

As for the results, it's quite simple :P By the end of the election there's hopefully a new moderator

avazula

me too

I'm sad the chat seems to be quieter though :(

even if it's true we are (were?) much more talkative than most SE chats :p

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Seems to be a bit quieter during the day, but evenings have been busy enough lately :)

avazula

9:29 AM

true!

Hopefully I'll get my laptop back this WE and I can follow up with the night owls :)

Tinkeringbell

You've got laptop problems? :)

avazula

Yep, it couldn't boot anymore. I believe the hard drive moved in the carter, a wire may have been plugged off

But since it still was under warranty, I didn't want to open it and check/fix it myself

Tinkeringbell

Ah, smart ;) I don't know how things are over there, but over here you usually lose your warranty if you open stuff up yourself

Mithrandir

@avazula I've recently started spending more time on my actual hobbies instead of hanging out in chat all day, so I'm a bit less present

avazula

@Tinkeringbell Same here, which is why I refrained myself :p

@Mithrandir do you enjoy this change?

If so, yay for you :)

Mithrandir

9:33 AM

Yes :D

avazula

yay :)

Tinkeringbell

9:47 AM

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/q/21901/1599 < Does anyone have any thoughts on that question? I have a feeling there's something pretty wrong with it, but I can't put a finger on it.

avazula

@Tinkeringbell Well, this is an odd situation for sure.

the issue with it, to me, is that the current answers aren't actually addressing what does OP want

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, the OP wants to communicate to the boss about not wearing a t-shirt... not alternatives for a tshirt...

Maybe this is one of those rare questions that would do better on TWP, if OP is interested in those kinds of solutions... :/

avazula

It's pretty narrowed

Tinkeringbell

I am first going to give that question a massive edit.

avazula

@Tinkeringbell well, in TWP they'd be frame challenged for sure.

Tinkeringbell

9:50 AM

There's too much detail and too little at the same time, says my gut ;)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell ha okay, I was actually gonna ask you what you're willing to cut out :)

(In my mind I'd challenge and say "wear the tshirt on top of the shirt" ... but that ain't IPS tailored :p)

Mithrandir

...pun intended?

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I should answer that ;p

avazula

@Mithrandir it wasn't!

oh dear, am I funny?

Mithrandir

"cut out" "tailored" on a question about shirts...

avazula

9:58 AM

^^

unintentional puns show great humour o/

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek If you can write one up, that does actually answer the question, please do. I just gave the thing a MASSIVE edit.

@avazula Well, take a look ;)

avazula

oof

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, that required a hacksaw.. but there was so much 'I don't like the t-shirt' and so little 'I need to talk with boss about this...'

I think I managed to keep most of the reasons they gave not to wear the t-shirt.

avazula

I think too

dhein

@avazula: Was your latest comment to Zeus Answer even referring to his comment? As I got him there, He started arguing why there is no such thing as backup needed as its a common seen problem. And you just advised him to edit in that back up. So either I misunderstood his comment or you did x'D

avazula

10:14 AM

i need to find that again

but honestly, there is no such thing as "common seen problem", seriously

dhein

you no say :P

avazula

@dhein I just re-checked; they just say they encountered sth similar. then, please share, and please do so in the actual answer!

not because it's a "common issue" does it mean you know how to deal with it

Stumbling upon someone in the toilets and not knowing what to do is a common issue, yet I don't have a clue every single time it happens to me :p

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell done ;p

seems a frame challenge but shrug

Tinkeringbell

10:30 AM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah Hmmm. Not too bad though ;) I'll put it under extreme scrutiny after lunch ;)

dhein

@avazula I am not saying that you are wrong. I just said either of us misunderstood what THEY said x) That doesn't mean I am not inline with you here xP

avazula

:p

@JourneymanGeek that's a great answer to me

Tinkeringbell

12:16 PM

@JourneymanGeek So, have you ever tried to protest and it didn't work? I guess it could also benefit from stating you're familiar with Indian culture and perhaps that there's no way to do it that isn't rude?

Ælis

I just deleted this by mistake. I think that the edit makes the question good enough now. So, could you vote to undelete if you agree with me? (or tell me why you don't?)

^ @avazula Do you think the edit is good enough?

ElizB

12:44 PM

heya. good morning

Rainbacon

@Ælis I think the edit is fine. Is it a great answer? No, I won't be giving it any bounties. Is it an answer with some (albeit small) backup? Yes

@ElizB Good morning!

ElizB

I have an interview today for a consulting job with Unity House and I'm hoping I get the job :)

Rainbacon

Ooh, good luck!

I bet you'd be great at that!

avazula

@Ælis it's enough backup, yes.

ElizB

I've been looking into more advocacy jobs because it's something I've seen myself just be inspired and motivated by

Magisch

12:55 PM

never before have I been so excited to see a 19x128 char long text file pop up

Rainbacon

@Magisch What was in the file?

Magisch

a electronic data interachange protocol message that my script generated from a couple hundred data points throughout our internal database

Rainbacon

@avazula If you're interested in staying with a country that is amazing aside from the politics and the people, you could always come to the US. A friend of mine just posted about a beekeeping internship yesterday.

@Magisch I think I'm missing a bit of context, but nice!

avazula

Thanks for suggesting, but I'm already living in a country that is amazing aside from the politics and the people :)

(oh shoot I just realized that message was starred)

Rainbacon

I'm the one who starred it ;)

avazula

1:02 PM

:o feels important

I actually almost moved to San Fran at the end of last year but Mr Ava didn't want to leave the country (maybe I already told you? Not sure you were there already)

Rainbacon

I think I've heard of this

I've thought about moving to San Fran, but Mrs Bacon likes seasons too much

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I quit that time

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Hmm. So no conversation actually happened? Sad :( Would've made an otherwise awesome addition to the answer ;)

Journeyman Geek

It did

But not useful here

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: How to deal with my wife spending money recklessly?

Some context to begin with: My wife and I have been married for two years now. I earn around 2500€ after taxes, and she used to earn around 1500€ after taxes. We both share one bank account, by the way. She recently decided (without asking me about my opinion), to switch from a 40h/week position...

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Rainbacon

1:16 PM

@ExtrovertedMainMan Ooh, a migration, we don't get those too often

If we close a migrated question, the migration gets rejected right?

IPS Comment Bot

Indeed, I am naturally more inclined to saving, given that I grew up in a household where money wasn't per se lacking, but reckless spending was frowned upon. I feel like we are not really lacking anything in our life either, but spending 200€ on one pair of shoes is something I deem irresponsible behavior. And I want to add that I am not the one who downvoted this answer. — Lucas F. 2 mins ago

#21912 Lucas F. (6 rep) | A: How to deal with my wife spending money recklessly? (score: -1) | posted 4 minutes ago by Pete B. (1292 rep) | Toxicity 0.19150732 | tps/fps: 0/0

Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon Yes.

So perhaps wait a little, because for this one the OP actually showed up! :D

Rainbacon

Yeah, I retracted my close vote, because I think this is actually a good migration

Magisch

@Rainbacon our very old machine(tm) that does the EDI protocol stuff (electronic delivery note sending) broke down

the software is shareware from the late 1990s

and the author died in 2017

so we had to replace all of it on short notice

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon Mwah. Mods are very, very picky about migrations, and we usually prefer incoming stuff to not even need 1 edit or comment XD

Magisch

1:28 PM

and in about 1200 LOC, it seems to work

avazula

@ExtrovertedMainMan didn't we get this question a few days ago already?

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Rainbacon linked that one in the comments.

avazula

@Tinkeringbell ha, I'm arriving after the battle lol

Rainbacon

It was a small one

And Tink did most of the work

Tinkeringbell

I'm thinking there might be some differences that make it different enough: Europe vs. India, wife working vs. not working, things already tried...

Rainbacon

1:35 PM

Yeah, that's why I didn't VTC as duplicate

Tinkeringbell

Also this one is about a shared bank account, the other more like shopping lists.

avazula

I agree that the situations are different, but to me most answers are likely to be the same

Rainbacon

I think this one is still more about the shopping lists, the shared bank account is just a detail about the wife's access to the money

avazula

1:52 PM

@Rainbacon I see your point. I withdrew my VTC.

Rainbacon

I'm still not sure about the answer. As Tink commented on it, the answer needs backup

avazula

it still is NAA

Rainbacon

I used a VLQ flag on it. I don't think NAA is right

It is an answer, just not a very good one

avazula

@Rainbacon it's not to me, in the sense that it's a bad FC without backup.

but most of my flags are NAA anyway

Rainbacon

Most of my flags are on comments

I have 240 helpful flags, 180 of which are on comments

avazula

1:59 PM

1,086 helpful, 882 (helpful) on comments

IPS used to be veeery chatty :p

Ælis

I have the very nice number of 800 comments flagged (781 helpful as I tend to flag too much) and 495 post flagged

avazula

Flagging kinda frustrates me sometimes, because my workflow is : downvoting -> leaving a comment explaining how to fix the Q/A, flagging and VTD if applicable. But by the time my flag is reviewed, the Q/A was edited and made valid, and I get disputed/declined :p

Ælis

Changing subject, today has been a big day so far, but I finally have some free time and only two hours of work left before weekend \o/

avazula

@Ælis yay o/

Ælis

@avazula And yay for you to have finally some time to come chat with us! :D

avazula

2:04 PM

:D

Rainbacon

Yay!

Tinkeringbell

@avazula meta.stackexchange.com/q/109696/369802 Mods can see who flagged posts... I can (from time to time) post stuff in here that has a flag, if it is edited, to see if people want to retract the flag, and ping?

I can't promise to do that for every post, but if I go through the queue and see one..

On the other hand, having them disputed in case of edits is often great, it means we now have better posts ;)

avazula

@Tinkeringbell I wouldn't want to bother you with that :) having some flags disputed/declined means I raise a bunch of flags in the first place! :p

Tinkeringbell

@avazula Great! :) That's a good attitude to have :D

avazula

@Tinkeringbell as long as I don't get suspended ;)

Tinkeringbell

2:19 PM

@avazula Nah, you're fine. Flag bans are automatic, no moderator needed :P

And you get warnings first :)

avazula

haha :)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

That warning systems suck tho

Ælis

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Why is that?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I had this 300 halpful flagz streak on SO or something, and got one declined flag (IIRC Smokey's wrong autoflag) and next time it was warning me to be careful.

Rainbacon

@avazula If you think it's bad here, try flagging on SO

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

2:23 PM

It's not that bad on SO either if you pick your fights

Flags. Fight flags. Flag fights.

Ælis

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yep, definitively sounds a bit weird to warn you at your first declined flag

Rainbacon

Bot didn't throw it here, but this is not nice

Ælis

I like it when I flag a comment and it disappears before my eyes

@Rainbacon You are too late :p

Rainbacon

I flagged it before I put it here

Ælis

Yep, but it was no longeur a problem when you post it in here ^^

Rainbacon

2:33 PM

ah

as it should be

El'endia Starman

> longeur

This is too un-American for my taste!

Not even the British do that!

scohe001

@El'endiaStarman un-Ameurican?

Ælis

@El'endiaStarman You are lucky, I first write it "longueur" :p

Tinkeringbell

@scohe001 un-Americain, if you're trying the French accent :P

scohe001

@Ælis I had a teacher once named Ms. Molineaux. I've dreaded French spelling ever since

El'endia Starman

2:37 PM

*sticks fingers in ears* la la la la...

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell Lol I like this :P

Rainbacon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Well, I saw a question once that was "How do I do X" on SO, the accepted answer just said, "There's a bug". I flagged it as NAA. Flag got declined, I posted a meta to ask about it which was dupe hammered by a single gold tag badge holder in under a minute

Tinkeringbell

@scohe001 eau. Everything is always eau :P

Ælis

@scohe001 Ahah, this is indeed a nice French name

@Tinkeringbell It's because "eau" is life :p

("eau" means "water" in French)

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis I prefer vin, but whatever :P

scohe001

2:39 PM

@Ælis Not for Britain. They just have "a" now that they've lost the "EU" :p

Ælis

XD

Tinkeringbell

@scohe001 No, no.. you're getting that wrong. Britain didn't lose the EU, the EU has freed up 1 GB of space :P

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scohe001

LOLOL Omg that's amazing

Also insinuating that all of Britain is only 1GB is even better

Tinkeringbell

It's an OOOOOLD joke :P I'm pretty sure it predates even the referendum :P

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell I already heard it, but I stared it none the less :p

Rainbacon

2:42 PM

I walk away for 2 minutes to get a cup of coffee, and this is what you do while I'm gone...

Tinkeringbell

@Rainbacon I'm sorry. I thought I had a captivated audience :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

4:01 PM

@Rainbacon Well, meta.SO is as close to blood and guts as it gets.

Rainbacon

4:12 PM

Yeah, it's not the easiest place to wander into

Rainbacon

5:24 PM

Are we not able to control the order of the tags on a question?

Mithrandir

They're sorted by popularity.

Rainbacon

That is extremely obnoxious

I thought the order was supposed to indicate importance

The "first tag" is in the page title. I feel like it is much more useful for that to say "boundaries" rather than "united states"

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

"united states boundaries". Much better.

Rainbacon

That's a much different question

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: How to decline physical affection from a child whose parents are pressuring them?

My Situation I am an uncle to 6 nieces and nephews. I live about 1000 miles away from the rest of my family, so I only see them 2-3 times each year. When it comes time to say goodbye, it is common practice for physical affection to be given out. My siblings and parents will hug each other and me...

united-states family saying-no boundaries physical-contact

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

5:37 PM

@Rainbacon Incidentally

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Q: Let's not put tag name before the question's title in browser title

I've missed the moment when we've started to put tag name first in the webpage title (or the fact that it was the case since the very beginning), however to me this seems to be a very, well, how it is politely said, sub-optimal decision. The actual title of the question is always more informative...

discussion tags title browsers

Rainbacon

For one, it's off topic on IPS, for two, there would be far too much work for the mods to clean that one up

Yeah, I saw that one

IPS Comment Bot

7:18 PM

There is also financial counseling...a financial counselor could help you both agree on what your saving goals are, and what your spending needs to be to meet them based on your income. — swbarnes2 1 min ago

Matched regex(es) ["chatty"]

ElizB

8:19 PM

I'm already intimidated by the amount of work for statistics online... dang it.

ugh

Rainbacon

I'm sure you can do it!

ElizB

yeah, I know

Ælis

@ElizB Lot's of courage to you. I never like statistics either (but I survived it which was all I wanted to do ^^)

ElizB

Yeah, same

Thank you @Ælis

scohe001

Ooh @ElizB you'll be able to do this to all your friends! xkcd.com/605

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Rainbacon

8:29 PM

hahaha

Now I want to do that to my fiancee on our wedding day

Ælis

Here is another statistic jokes for you @ElizB

Or a less geeky one:

ElizB

@scohe001 bahaha

Ælis

I think I want to flood you all with statistic jokes:

ElizB

hahaha these are all funny

scohe001

@Ælis lol someone stole that one from xkcd! xkcd.com/1725

Ælis

8:36 PM

@scohe001 Please tell you knew that because of the font used and not because you know all xkcd comic by heart :p

El'endia Starman

@Ælis Police?

Ælis

@El'endiaStarman Why are you talking about cop?

scohe001

Lol that's what I figured

Ælis

Ninja :p

El'endia Starman

[squints at keyboard] How do you get from font to police...?

scohe001

8:38 PM

I do usually go through all the xkcd's every couple years though, so they usually do look familiar :P

Ælis

@El'endiaStarman It's the French word ^^ ("Police de caractère". I had to google this last word because I'm so tired I could only remember how it is write in English)

El'endia Starman

TIL English font == French Police de caractère - whaaaaat

scohe001

That's funny. I guess the font does dictate how the text looks. It kind of "polices" the text ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Ælis

XD

scohe001

"Police de caractère" would translate directly to "police of characters," right?

Ælis

8:44 PM

@scohe001 Yep, but you would put "character" before "police", so: character police

scohe001

Huh, that's super interesting

I find it fascinating how the different languages have adapted words for technology stuff, since most of those words and terms are probably barely as old as I am

Ælis

@scohe001 It seems to exist since 1765. I are really older than I thought :p

scohe001

@Ælis LOL damn, so much for pretending I'm young :P

That's the exception to the rule then. I guess we have needed fonts for quite awhile

Ælis

@scohe001 I believe those already used font:

Mithrandir

Before fonts there were scripts, which are similar in many ways.

scohe001

8:51 PM

Lol fair enough. But what do you guys call computer mice? Or keyboards?

Mithrandir

Mouses. Not mice. Mice are animals :P

scohe001

Is there some consensus on that? O_O

Ælis

@Mithrandir In French, we do call mouses "Souris" which is the literal translation of "mice" (animal)

Mithrandir

...well, not really, but sort of?

scohe001

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A: Is the plural of the electronic mouse "mouses" or "mice"?

Both plurals are correct. (Merriam-Webster.) I don't have access to Oxford English Dictionary at the moment (or don't know where to find it), but according to Answers.com, the OED concurs. So use whichever one you wish.

Mithrandir

8:54 PM

@Ælis I mean, in Hebrew too, but if English is going to have weird pluralization might as well make use of it

Rainbacon

Why is the protected banner on that question below the answers?

Mithrandir

Do you have low rep?

Rainbacon

Yeah, just the association bonus

Mithrandir

It's at the top for me

Ælis

@scohe001 "Keyboard" is "clavier" but I have no idea where the word comes from

Mithrandir

8:55 PM

@Rainbacon I'm assuming that'll have something to do with it, then

Rainbacon

Perhaps, I wasn't aware that the banner functioned differently if you don't have enough rep to ignore it

@Ælis That's the German word for piano

El'endia Starman

"This thing looks like that other thing, so let's call it by that name."

Ælis

@Rainbacon Oh, that's funny. In French, a "piano" as a "clavier" and we also have an old instrument called "clavecin" (which was invented before the "piano")

scohe001

@Ælis is a clavecin like an Organ?

Rainbacon

@El'endiaStarman It comes from the latin word clavis, meaning key

Also, one minor technical detail, the German work is spelled with k

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