@D.Hutchinson There's absolutely no need to talk about issues with me... First off, I don't moderate IPS as a diamond moderator, only Literature. Second, mods don't discuss issues with everyone; they're a normal user with some extra powers for exception handling. Third, you don't know the actual ages of anyone on here. I'm fairly sure that @Magisch still thinks I'm in my twenties :P
As long as you're old enough to use SE - 13+ - age is irrelevant. All that matters is the level of maturity.
@Snow It's doing pretty well... it's got a positive score, just the answers aren't very upvoted ;) It takes some time here, meta participation is low too here. I don't see that question as a failure ;)
@Snow Hahaha :) It's a thing you need to learn, we call it 'omdenken' in Dutch... (something like reverse-thinking in English?) ... Just take something negative and make it positive :P
Like, I just spent 45 minutes on a waaaay too crowded train... but at least my workday is shorter now!
> “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
@Tinkeringbell Depends on how tired I am, how busy I am, how interesting whatever I'm working on is, and how accurate YouTube is being with its song suggestions.
@cinebird Well, I think I hit puberty after interacting with people here... but I doubt that's what you meant by 'evolved' ;P
I've definitely changed, but I'm also a teenager, so it'll be hard to differentiate between what's normal teenager development and what was influenced by SE.
Gandalf goes by many names in Tolkien's works. Gandalf himself says in The Two Towers:
"Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir among the elves, Tharkûn to the dwarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf, to the East I go...
Oh no. It is a coincidence that it matches. I coined up cinebird. cine from cinema. bird because watching good movies elates me. I feel free as if i'm flying
I'm not sure how to put this, but a family member can be very long winded/has verbal diarrhea/thoroughly exhausts a topic of conversation. It's hard to listen to him as he says so much I can't focus and end up missing something important. This happens face to face, over the phone, through email a...
@ExtrovertedMainMan Well, verbal diarrhoea is but a natural urge. Maybe he doesnt filter between whats essential and what's not? You cant beat words with words. Just let him exhaust himself sometimes.
It occurred to me that while we have badges for tag experts etc, it might be useful to try and identify who has been to which countries/territories, as you could then ask that person about it in [chat].
If you're interested, I'm going to add an answer below and turn it into a Wiki. Please edit i...
@cinebird Heh. I've got three answers on Movies.SE. One of them is an identification question, which are no longer on-topic there. The other two are Harry Potter answers, which I answered... using quotes from the books. I know the books very well, so all I had to do was look for the quotes to include them in the answers.
Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
Yeah, I somehow am glad too :P Sitting at home is fun, but only when it's holidays, not sick leave :)
Oh, and I was busy claiming money back, and writing a diary of all the things that have gone wrong so far concerning my train rides. I'm thinking of keeping a list for a year, and just see how long it can get :P
So far, I already earned almost 24 euro's in delay claims ;)
This morning I sent the secretary a reply to an invite, with a 'handwritten note' stating that I was sorry for not reacting last week as requested, but that I would still ike to attend, and that I would gladly hear of her when this wasn't possible.
Now, she sent me an e-mail stating that my participation wouldn't be a problem at all, and asks me 'are you entire better now'?
It seems obvious that she simply confused you with someone else or just assumed that you previously didn't respond because you were ill. I'd reply with "Thank you for the confirmation. I think you might be confusing me with someone else, I'd not been ill - I was just too busy/lazy/indecisive to respond last week."
@Tinkeringbell The way I make it is I take heavy cream and carrots and some chicken soup base and then blend broccoli and mix it in until the consistency is nice
tastes a lot like broccoli but broccoli tastes awesome so thats a plus
Imagine a subordinate or peer who willfully employs a strategy of shoddy work and/or delay as a means of getting others to do it. A sort of parasitic negligence.
Assuming you did not want (or were not in a position) to terminate the individual, how would you 1x1 call out the behavior as unaccep...
Is the usage of "how much" in this context, correct?
And if it isn't, is this expression "this is too much car for me to handle?" correct?
So when can "how much" be used with countable nouns and vice versa?
@Mithrandir Yeah, and combine that with a subgroup that also doesn't want to be told that it could go even better when... and you'll have found the people that'll never learn :P
@Magisch It's not so much the people on facebook, but the 'friends' I have on facebook (mom, aunts, bff's) that find me really annoying and a bit rude when I do it to other people... So yeah, since I encounter those people in real life, I do care ;)
There's some amazing crap on one of the Facebook groups I'm in.... It's a group where you can give away your old stuff (that's still too good to trash) for free... I'm almost ashamed to be there when I see the grammar and spelling over there.
@Magisch Not really, manipulative behavior works pretty well :P
Question? Am I technically allowed to downvote answers on questions that should be closed instead, just to make a point? :P
Eh... it's going to happen. I've been on some sites where they either delete these sorts of answers or admonish the person posting them, reminding them that, while we all want to help, it's important to keep the site scope in mind when deciding to answer questions. Answering off topic or too broad questions gives the OP little reason to improve the question.
It also makes it more likely that subsequent questions will be low-quality.
Answering questions that don't meet our standards encourages users to continue to post sub-par questions because they know that despite the fact that their contributions don't meet the standards, they'll get an answer anyway. Also note that if the answer has a positive score, the question will not be automatically deleted by the roomba. Answering off-topic/low-quality questions encourages low-quality contributions and brings down the quality level of the site.
Gandalf goes by many names in Tolkien's works. Gandalf himself says in The Two Towers:
"Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir among the elves, Tharkûn to the dwarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf, to the East I go...
Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
Imagine a subordinate or peer who willfully employs a strategy of shoddy work and/or delay as a means of getting others to do it. A sort of parasitic negligence.
Assuming you did not want (or were not in a position) to terminate the individual, how would you 1x1 call out the behavior as unaccep...
Is the usage of "how much" in this context, correct?
And if it isn't, is this expression "this is too much car for me to handle?" correct?
So when can "how much" be used with countable nouns and vice versa?
Since user starts with a vowel shouldn't we use "an" ? I've seen many cases of using "a" .
