The Awkward Silence

5:56 AM

@AJ yay!

@Rainbacon You seem to have made your mind already. If you go for another interview now, I believe you'll be upset should you have to do the interview with the person who cancelled without any warning. Your discomfort is likely to show through body language.

@Rain if your wife thinks you shouldn't dismiss another interview with this company, would it be possible to reassure her by showing her you have interviews with other companies upcoming?

that way she won't have to worry about you not finding a job that suits your needs and expectations better

Hi avazula Where are you? Is it night or day over there?

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@lllomh Hi there! I'm in space! (lol portal ref sorry, love the game). I'm in Europe, and it's a bit later than 8AM here! You?

6:19 AM

@avazula Asia here 14 o'clock.i first come this web. Do you often play?

@lllomh ooh, welcome then! Nah, it's been ages since I last played ;) I'm very interested in games but curiously, I'm not eager to play. I love watching speed runnings though.

@avazula I also like playing games. Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V is my favorite. Do you play it? Team formation.

@avazula love watching speed runnings ? So you must play （Need for Speed）.

These games are all good.

@lllomh GTA is fun :) but no, I don't play anything anymore. Last time I played was in April. Before that, it must've been ... 3 years, I think?

@lllomh haha

My spouse plays a lot, though. Right now they're on Minecraft. Sounds like fun :)

6:40 AM

@avazula I'm still learning English, and now my English is too bad. Now I'm talking to you with a machine to translate my language. Maybe my sentences are not smooth. lol （：

Thank you for communicating with you.

7:28 AM

@lllomh no worries! Stack Exchange is a great place to learn English. I improved a lot since I first got here :)

@avazula "We've had this new policy for more than a year and it has brought many good answers with citations, because restricting the usage of comments invited people to express their feelings in a answer instead." from here. I'm curious, do we have data for that? Or is it just something we observe with no data (like when someone posts a comment and then move it into an answer)

Sorry about the delay, I'm at work. I support other teams and therefore sometimes I have to be afk so I can help them :)

(also Hi :D )

Hi beautiful :D

how's the holiday going?

Nicely, even if I had to do a not so very nice hiking yesterday >< (the slope was too harsh which made me feel very badly and sick)

7:31 AM

You know me and my limited SEDE skills... I can't prove it with numbers (and I'm not sure somebody can). However, people who've been around before and after adopting the policy surely can testify the quality of answers has slightly but significantly improved

@avazula Seems like your job is going good. Is today as much a good day as yesterday?

@Ælis oh no :( I hope you're feeling better today?

@avazula Yeah, I don't see how we could prove that with data either. I was, however, surprised to hear that the quality of answers has improved thanks to this policy. It's nice to know :)

It's exhausting, but it's good. I love than I can help people with my job and that I get to do stuff I love

@avazula Yeah, but I'm a bit grumpy though. I don't mind it, but my family appreciate it a little bit less :p

7:36 AM

Yesterday wasn't such a good day though ;D Somebody horned me and I couldn't know why before I figured out that I took a one way street in the wrong direction. Fortunately there was no one except me and I could turn around quite easily. I also forgot my keys after switching purses and I got to spend 3 hours outside without anything to do ... Meh.

@Ælis haha! Time to spend some time alone :p

@Ælis well, before that people would answer without providing any backup and would use answers in comments. The new comment policy, alongside with the citations expectations, significantly improved answers (and drastically reduced the number of comments under posts)

I'm sad because I made a joke couple of hours ago and no one reacted to it yet :(

@avazula Doing things you love is always nice. Too bad it's exhausting tho :/ Also, spending three hours outside with nothing to do seems awful :O It probably would have driven me crazy to think of all the stuff I wanted to do and that I could because I was stuck outside my house

@avazula Oh, were is this joke? :(

@avazula Yep, the citations expectations and the enforcing of the backup policy definitively brought a lot of improvement

Somebody said in the conversation about the upcoming wedding of our friends this weekend ("Ils vont être beaux nos tourteaux" -> "our lover friends are going to be beautiful"). But instead of tourtereaux (which means "lovers" in French), he said "tourteaux" (which is the name of a cake and also a crab species). So I asked which one of them they were, the cake or the crab, and no one answered :p

@avazula Ahah xD (I didn't know that a "tourteaux" was also a cake, TIL :p )

@Ælis yeah, that wasn't nice. Weirdly I got it pretty well. Getting mad didn't seem useful at the time.

@avazula What did you end up doing then? Sleeping in your car or walking in your village maybe?

7:46 AM

@Ælis I went to another town to get dinner, then I called my grandma for half an hour. with the hour needed for the forth and back trip I still had an hour to kill in my car, scrolling on my phone :p

Here goes nothing lol

and o/ all :D

hey you!

heya :D how are you?

@avazula That sounds nice. Waiting seems always easier to do for me when I have something to eat :p (but it doesn't sound like you eat it right away but rather waited for your SO to eat with him?)

@CaldeiraG Hello there :)

@Ælis o/

7:56 AM

@Ælis nah, I ate right away. 3 hours in my car with nothing to do! Better stop at a restaurant and eat something haha

I didn't do much different things than what I usually do at home. It's just that I don't feel safe in my car or outside in general.

@avazula Yeah, I know that feeling :/ I might have tried to climb into my garden if I were you, just to feel safer (it might have been a stupid thing to do, but it would have kept myself busy at least ^^)

@Ælis it was raining outside ... and my garden is surrounded by spines and nettles on a radius of at least 10 meters ...

thank you neighbor! u_u

@avazula Rain is not nice when you are stuck outside :/ I hope the spines are at least giving you blackberries or raspberry now? (Also, you can do soup with fresh nettles, it's very good and you just need to take some gloves to pick them)

@Ælis nope! Plain useless spines :p

@Ælis yeah, I'd love to bake nettle bread or prepare a soup but they're too close to the road to be edible :/

8:12 AM

@avazula Oh, nettle bread seems very nice! Too bad those aren't edible :/

@Ælis it does taste great :D

Oh, I'm jealous that you already taste one! I would love to taste different things made of nettle too :)

@Ælis that was back when I was living in Northern France... it is common over there :)

@avazula Really? I had no idea! Now I want to visit there just for that! :p

(alright, time for me to go now, my dad is getting grumpy because we aren't "doing anything" ^^)

@Ælis I'll take you some day :) have a nice day!

take care

9:40 AM

Well, i got 2 upvotes on my first answer \o/

and I have an holiday tomorrow XD

yay!

it's a good day :)

:p it is

@CaldeiraG \o/. bypassing vote anonymity, I did one :)

@CaldeiraG Our independence day, so ours too! India

@avazula So far, so good. Interview in the evening. :)

@ankiiiiiii yay! Fingers crossed :)

@ankiiiiiii here it is Assumption of Mary timeanddate.com/holidays/portugal/assumption

@ankiiiiiii thanks :p

9:50 AM

@avazula True! just revising some courses now,

@CaldeiraG ah! something new to know

A J

Lots of people have a holiday tomorrow. What's the occasion? We got Independence Day tomorrow.

10:09 AM

Chant at the Moon Day Special Interest Activities
Feast of the Assumption Religious
Indian Independence Day Government Civic, Cultural, Festivities, Hindu, Historical
National Relaxation Day Special Interest Activities
Raksha Bandhan Religious Hindu, Indian Holidays
Royal National Agricultural Show Day Fun Festivities

nationaltoday.com/august-holidays

@ankiiiiiii yap :p we got the Portugal Day (10 June), Restoration of the Independence (1 Dec) and Republic Implantation (5 Oct), not necessarily a independence day xd

@AJ three have been listed here already, rakhi wasn't, but now it is.

@ankiiiiiii nice :p

in The Screening Room, yesterday, by ankiiiiiii

@NogShine I'd be having rakhi wishes over call and rakhi tied to each others to/by my roommate and neighbours etc.

@CaldeiraG distributed events

Nog Shine

10:25 AM

@ankiiiiiii Do you tie rakhi to your room mate?

Q: How to deal with pressure from stupid family members forcing you to do something stupid?

@ankiiiiiii Yeah

Extroverted Main Man

10:46 AM

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My wife and family “parents” came back to me after a long day (commute from home to office to site, learn new things, back to office back to home) at work and commanded me to talk with my neighbor, whom I really don’t know saying stupid cave man things like “be a man”. Which I really didn’t feel...

relationships awkward-situations family

@NogShine lol not in that form, but just helping in tying the knot. Or if he can do it himself, no issues

Nog Shine

@ankiiiiiii You tie to each other?

No, we tie ourselves, and help if required. My sister lives hundreds of kms away. Cant help it.
Also, were you notified again, for the @ in above inline quote?

Nog Shine

No.

The quote came when I entered the room.

11:23 AM

@ankiiiiiii lol thanks for the website. TIL I was born on National Maple Syrup day :p

Rainbacon

11:40 AM

@Ælis I promise I'll always be nice to you :p

@Rainbacon hahaha