The Awkward Silence

Em C

02:23

finished my swag entry, woo :D

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Extroverted Main Man

07:56

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Q: The right of an older child over his younger sibling is like the right of the father

Family is the smallest unit of the community that consists of a father, mother and children if any and that forms with marriage.Siblings are like the parts of a whole that complement one another. so anyone explain that what you say the right of an older child over his younger siblings is like the...

avazula

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dhein

09:34

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Q: Are we possibly a bit too trigger happy in our moderation?

I find it a bit worrisome seeing how much moderation takes over on IPS. My impression is that we are at a point where the close reasons are too far narrowed down. I understand that questions which are too broad or tempt to generate opinion based answers should be closed in general. But we should...

discussion

Cashbee

nooo I missed the swag contest

oh, it's open to submissions a whole month <3

Introverted Meta Man.

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Q: Are we possibly a bit too trigger happy in our moderation?

I find it a bit worrisome seeing how much moderation takes over on IPS. My impression is that we are at a point where the close reasons are too far narrowed down. I understand that questions which are too broad or tempt to generate opinion based answers should be closed in general. But we should...

discussion

JAD

These swag contests come with the painful realisation that I am not creative at all :/

Tinkeringbell

10:15

@EmC I'm sensing there was some frantic crocheting, a race against the clock ;)

@Cashbee You might wanna hurry though. It already has almost more answers than upvotes :P

@JAD :(. I'd help, but I don't know how...

Cashbee

@Tinkeringbell I don't think I was actually gonna submit anything.. I am so lazy

I'm contempt with reading other submissions xD

Tinkeringbell

@Cashbee 'reading'... You missed a change to say watching!

Cashbee

@Tinkeringbell but I'm not submitting my comment, so I don't have to make untimely puns

Tinkeringbell

Heh. I'm still stuck in pun mode. Guess it's time to stop ;)

Cashbee

hey watch it!

Tinkeringbell

10:29

@Cashbee Oh, I am watching, always watching!

I don't know, the first week after posting something for a contest I'm always pretty anxious if it's good enough, after that I stop watching my entry every other hour ;)

A J

Well, I missed last contest, so I tried participating in this one.

@Tinkeringbell lol

@Tinkeringbell You are getting cheeseboard or you've asked for something else instead of that?

@EmC Nice lobster!

Tinkeringbell

@AJ I'm sticking with the cheese board. Makes a nice addition to my future home, I quite like eating cheese

JAD

@Tinkeringbell making plans? :o

Tinkeringbell

I've been making plans to move out for 2,5 years now ;)

A J

@Tinkeringbell I wonder if they will give running shoes in the next contest. ;P

I'd love that.

Journeyman Geek

10:39

I can in april but singapore's housing market is insanely singles unfriendly

JAD

@Tinkeringbell ah yeah. Our plan was to start looking start 2019, but that's a bit on hold since my gf has some job issues

Cashbee

need help on our meta. I'm way too triggered from a work issue right now

A J

?

Cashbee

latest question

Tinkeringbell

10:54

:P Now it doesn't look like you're telling Cashbee they're in the wrong room ;)

A J

lol

Tinkeringbell

@Cashbee Dropped it a comment :)

Cashbee

@Tinkeringbell thanks

please don't refrain of correcting my answer if it's wrong

Tinkeringbell

Looks good to me ;) I may write a more elaborate one tonight when I have the time, discuss a bit more on why the example questions are closed and what they might need for reopening. I don't think we're necessarily closing too much, but we might need more engagement on the reopening part (including encouraging people to provide details, and more comments to ask for those details).

Perhaps I should take the same MO on closed questions as I did on new answers when we were still in HNQ: Just go through them every evening and comment/flag/edit

A J

@Tinkeringbell MO?

Journeyman Geek

11:07

Modus Operandi!

A J

11:20

Hmm.

avazula

13:21

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Em C

13:41

@AJ thanks :)

apparently it makes a good cat toy, I found it on the floor this morning with an obvious attempt at declawing it :P

avazula

@EmC D:

Em C

@avazula it was ok, no worries :D the arms on it do slide around, but they can't come off easily

avazula

@EmC That's great design

Em C

@avazula I can't take credit for that, it was in the pattern :) made it quite easy to assemble!

you just make three leg pieces and they stick out either side of the body

scohe001

14:23

@Mith I woke up this morning excited to see all your crazy video editing, but couldn't find it! You still working?

Tinkeringbell

@dhein We can continue that talk on meta once I get home, if you don't mind ;)

I have a pushy co-worker and he's already said we'll be 'reviewing' soon so....

(just so you don't think I'm leaving you hanging there ;) )

dhein

@Tinkeringbell: Ah, I was just leaving anyways, and was happy about not having a response yet, so I had not the feeling you could have felt left hanging there. :P It is fine. I don't know if I am up for having that conversation on mobile, tho. since no pc at my pension yet. But don't worry about me. This evening is totally fine.

Em C

15:14

just tried to go to docs.stackexchange.com instead of google.com... signs you visit SE addresses too much?? :P

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Noon

15:47

I got the Fanatic badge today, I find it quite fitting :P

Cashbee

@Noon noice! I used to try to get that one, but I always forgot about it on weekend days

dhein

@Noon idd :p

@Cashbee I got that one on SO almost broke that streak on day 96 as I had a weekend trip fortunately due to timezones the friday I last checked counted for saturday and the sunday I was hella scared till I figured. Ten on day 101 it got fully broken. I was so happy that it was not a single day earlier 🤣

Cashbee

16:03

@dhein haha nice

Mithrandir

16:26

@scohe001 I'm very very very very bad at this

So it's not that it's complicated, it's that I'm just bad

A J

@Noon I got 340 of them. :P

El'endia Starman

@AJ 'cause you've visited the site 440 days in a row? :P

A J

lol

nah.

I have almost 340 fanatic badges on the network.

El'endia Starman

Oh, wow.

Alex

16:42

@AJ That's pretty much every site... and every Meta.

A J

@Alex exactly

Alex

Impressive.

Mithrandir

(Psssst. Script.)

A J

:P

Alex

Oh. Not so impressive then.

scohe001

17:09

@Mithrandir haha well I'll keep looking out for it then

scohe001

17:24

@Noon that list has some interesting users in it. People with Fanatic and Electorate who have 101 rep O_O

user15026

@scohe001 Lurkers who like reading the stuff, but not posting?

user15026

@Mithrandir I figured it had to be, yeah

scohe001

Well Electorate means they've voted on 600 questions...if they've voted on at least as many answers (which I'd guess is likely) it's just crazy to think that some lurkers have awarded 12.000+ rep to the community

Mithrandir

17:41

@scohe001 hopefully tonight

Em C

speaking of contests... does anyone have good peanut butter / nutella puns? my work is having a bake-off and one of the prize categories is for creative naming ;)

scohe001

What are you naming?

Together we can probably come up with enough to drive them nuts

Em C

haha! I am making nutella-filled peanut butter cookies

Noon

@AJ I was gonna say that I'm impressed, but then I saw Mith message and I'm not impressed anymore :P

scohe001

Holy moly I don't think you'd even need a name to win with those--they sound amazing!

Em C

17:51

they're good to make for an event, so I can't eat them all myself :P

scohe001

"You better nut eat more than one! Don't make me Nutell-ya twice!!"

Noon

@scohe001 Oh, you right, I hadn't noticed them before you mention it! But I visited this site for I year before finally deciding myself to post here, so that might not be so uncommon

Em C

@scohe001 haha, a bit wordy but I like it :D

Tinkeringbell

Peanuttella cookies!

scohe001

"Nutella filling will have you willing to take another for your mother?" lol I can only do taglines not names

Noon

18:00

Nut and all cookies

avazula

18:17

I'm the dumbest of all...

Noon

@avazula How, that harsh! What happened???

avazula

@Noon Well I'm trying to code some php stuff since an hour (yeah, "php" already hurts but, I don't have the choice)

And I realized that Atom doesn't install php by default and that it's surely the reason why I can't display any result from that php code ...

Noon

@avazula Ahah, this kind of stuff tend to happen to me too XD Especially at the end of the day. For me, it feels like, when noon is passed, my brain goes away and I become a dumb version of myself

avazula

@Noon good Cash no, of course you did not pass! :p

(that was bad, sorry haha)

Noon

It just that I still don't know how to understand it XD There is too many possibilities here ><

avazula

18:38

"Noon's passed" could mean "they're dead", which is what I used for the joke :p

Em C

19:14

I knew I could count on this room for excellent puns :D (sry, I forgot I had an hour long meeting and had to run!)

@avazula ooh.. php :(

don't feel bad.. I spent a while yesterday trying to figure out why a phone wasn't showing the log messages I added to the app's code, turns out I forgot I had plugged a different phone in -__-

scohe001

19:42

@avazula ouch. My college roommate once duplicated one of his code files to try a different method and then spent 2hrs compiling the wrong file and wondering why nothing was changing. I'd imagine you're in about the same place he was rn :(

El'endia Starman

@scohe001 I'm almost certain I've done this.

scohe001

The worst part was that after 2hrs he finally decided to complain to me and since I'd just seen the same thing happen to one of my students the day before, I caught it in a few minutes. I became a "sanity check" after that if he had a problem for more than half an hour he couldn't fix lol

Noon

Your "stupid" problem make me laugh be I know I definitively had some similar XD

avazula

GUYS

Tinkeringbell

That's not me

avazula

19:52

THE AWKWARD SILENCE IS SOON GOING TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Tinkeringbell

Not if you keep shouting like that :P

El'endia Starman

The...Awkward Noise?

avazula

Sorry :p

Noon and I are meeting IRL soon!

Noon

\o/

Tinkeringbell

Cool! Enjoy your time together :D

El'endia Starman

19:53

:O

Tinkeringbell

Also... be careful. Internet strangers and stuff :P

scohe001

If either one of you are secretly an overweight middle-aged man, it'd probably be in your best interest to get that out of the way now... :p

But that sounds like a lot of fun! You'll have to let us know how it goes!!

avazula

@scohe001 Oh, I'm overweight, but I'm not middle-aged so that's ok ;p

scohe001

Is this your way of telling us you're a man? :P

avazula

@scohe001 I'm not a man. I'm an aircraft.

scohe001

19:57

Well I guess that'd make getting over to meet Noon a little easier

Extroverted Main Man

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Q: Roommate demanding security deposit before leaving the room

I signed the lease for a small 2 bedroom apartment. I have had four roommates in the span of three years. The three previous roommates left because they moved out of town. The current roommate started in January. Our relationship had generally gone alright. He is clean and respectful in terms of ...

money roommates

avazula

@scohe001 Nah, I'm an ecofriendly plane, I'm taking the train to meet Noon :)

It's gonna be my best birthday ever. Do you think we're gonna shout "VTC as off-topic!" in the middle of a conversation?

scohe001

A plane on a train? That's insane!

apaul

20:22

Y'all need to start making sense.

scohe001

Someone hit me with a "Y'all'd've" yesterday and I haven't been able to look at "y'all" the same since

user15026

That's an excellent contraction. :)

apaul

21:02

@scohe001 y'aint gonna tell me that was a first?

scohe001

Haha I only moved down to Texas a few months ago! I'm still trying to learn the local culture

apaul

@scohe001 Or lack there of... ;)

Noon

@scohe001 I must admit, I can't figure out what this is suppose to mean ^^'

scohe001

@Noon it's a contraction for 'you all would have': "Y'all'd've done the same thing in my position!"

@apaul LOL the yogurt here's not bad...but that's the best culture I've found so far :p

Noon

@scohe001 Wow, that's pretty contracted indeed !

apaul

21:11

The birthing pains of the English language.

Mithrandir

22:17

There, @scohe001 - done! :D

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A: Time for some more swag!

I hung up my clock on the wall. However, the clock then suffered a tragic malfunction, causing odd things to happen to time... To fix this, I set out to build a replacement clock... or at least the shape of one. However, due to the odd time... things ended up a little strange. Here, it's probabl...

scohe001

@Mithrandir and here I almost thought we'd get a face reveal :P It looks good!!

Mithrandir

no face, i made absolutely sure of that :P

and thanks ^.^

you can't tell, but I'm wearing a SE shirt while doing that...

user15026

I liked it, that was a fun video. How hard was it to find all the right alphabet blocks?

Mithrandir

Very. I didn't manage it, in fact - the second "h" is actually a lowercase "n" with a piece of paper on top to turn it into an "h" :P And thanks!

user15026

@Mithrandir I didn't even notice

Mithrandir

22:32

Mission accomplished? :D

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