The Awkward Silence

Tinkeringbell

7:00 PM

@bruglesco What do you mean? We're always talkative! :P

bruglesco

true. But I keep saying hi and then getting distracted.

I feel like I am not engaging in the conversation :[

(Not through anyone else's fault)

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Don't worry :) Feel free to say Hi as often as you want :P

Ælis

@bruglesco Well, if you think you have a bit of time ahead, maybe try to talk about you (something you like, something you did, etc...) it might help you feel more engage :)

scohe001

I meant to ask @brug, where'd you get your avatar image?

bruglesco

@scohe001 from a site called picrew

scohe001

7:07 PM

Oh it's a commission?

bruglesco

@scohe001 Nope

scohe001

Ohhhh I see. I think you were posting about these last week too. Oops

It reminds me of Mii from the Nintendo Wii lol

bruglesco

I was

That is just one image pallette

There are many others. My MSE avatar is from a different one.

Ælis

@scohe001 If you scroll in the chat history, I will be able to find one made by avazula representing herself :)

scohe001

@bruglesco ahh gotcha. It's super cute!

@Ælis ooh time to go scrolling :D

bruglesco

7:11 PM

This is the main site btw: picrew.me

It's in Japanese so it is difficult to navigate even with google translate

Ælis

@bruglesco Seems like you like making avatar, don't you? ^^

bruglesco

I do. (I'm still presenting as the wrong gender so it is nice to come up with representations that match who I feel I am)

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Anime girl with unblemished skin and shiny sparkles? :P Don't set the bar too high! :P

Ælis

@bruglesco I can totally understand that :)

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell Almost every trans womans fairy tale

Tinkeringbell

7:15 PM

@bruglesco :D I hope you'll succeed! If you find the perfect skin products, let me know though :D

bruglesco

They all share the important details. Cute redhead with freckles

Ælis

I, myself, spend an unhealty amount of time t-shirt shooping (on the web) for "male" t-shirt (the shape is male but the design are every mix, IMO)

Tinkeringbell

Seriously?

Or are you just pulling my leg now? :P

@Ælis Male shirts are best. They're generally 100 percent cotton and have a round neckline your boobs don't fall out :P

bruglesco

And I spend all my time fantasy shopping for skirts and dresses

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Well, I don't have boobs issues, but I do agree that they are very nice and confy

bruglesco

7:17 PM

I say fantasy shopping because I can't afford them

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Ugh... skirts... I highly recommend against those. You'll be cold in winter and sticky in summer.

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell Supposedly estrogen is wonders for that. (So I've been told)

@Tinkeringbell but, but cute

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Mine come with the morbid obesity, I hope to lose them again one day. ;)

Ælis

@bruglesco :/ I hope you will be able to do that soon. It was a really exiting time when I finally had the chance to redo my wardrobe

bruglesco

I wish I could take em off your hands

Ælis

7:19 PM

/me imagine bruglesco stealing Tinkeringbell boobs x)

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco It is. I've been on estrogen in the form of birth control pills since puberty, and my acne cleared up a lot within a few weeks from starting! It's still not perfect, though I have other unhealthy habits :)

@bruglesco Hmmm... Is there a black market for boobs? Do you think they'll earn more or less than a kidney?

bruglesco

I don't think that's how it works

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Well, I'd give them away for free if that means proper medical attention!

bruglesco

I don't know why I answered that seriously

Em C

... o_o

bruglesco

7:20 PM

probably because I didn't have any jokes

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Because I forgot the smiley? :P

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell :p

Tinkeringbell

@EmC Are you telling me stop?

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell :/

Em C

haha just a fun time to check back on this tab :P

Tinkeringbell

7:21 PM

@Ælis stealing sounds like that would hurt!

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell I thought those were boobs

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell hey I mean if the fakes are that expensive, I can only imagine how much the real ones sell for O_o

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco They do look a bit booby

Em C

lol, I didn't think that one through

bruglesco

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Tinkeringbell

7:22 PM

@scohe001 Well if they're that crooked, I think you'd have to offer a pretty big discount!

bruglesco

hmm discount boobs

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell In France, you could have them reduce for "free" if they are "too big" (ie: could cause back pain). But reducing your boobs size probably won't give you proper medical attention :/

scohe001

Lol I tried to edit that emoticon to de-boobify it, but it looks like I just made it worse

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Oh, over here that can be done too, and it's done in a hospital, so I'd count that as proper medical attention ;)

bruglesco

that sounds like something else entirely

Tinkeringbell

7:23 PM

@scohe001 You really did!

But, this is important: Almost no woman with natural breasts has two that are absolutely symmetrical! So O_o is probaby more like reality than o_o or O_O :D

You actually made it worse :P

aand I killed the conversation?

bruglesco

It wasn't you. talk about boobs always deflates with time

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Ælis

x)

Tinkeringbell

XD @scohe001 I found you an underling! :P

bruglesco

(That wasn't as funny as it sounded in my head)

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco It's making me smile at my screen pretty hard!

Ælis

7:28 PM

@bruglesco Oh, don't worry, it was funny x)

bruglesco

The stars clearly disagree.

Thank you for appreciating my joke ;]

Tinkeringbell

Thank you! For giving us something to appreciate :D

Ælis

Thank you for making nice jokes!

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell Ooh. I think you mean a...punderling.

Tinkeringbell

I clearly need to start plans to overthrow this regime...

Maybeee ... I can pundermine it?

scohe001

7:30 PM

Hmm you should probably plan that here in TAS. That'd probably be best. Not so we can watch and prepare for you or anything.

@Tinkeringbell hehe see now you're catching on :D

Tinkeringbell

Yeah but it feels bad! There's already been so many '(p)un' variants, it hardly feels original.

bruglesco

woohoo! My first ever pair of womens stretchy yoga pants came in the mail today!

Ælis

I'm sorry to interompt this conversation, but I have a very important news to tell you... My current IPS rep is 9,699! \o/ (what do you mean "We don't really care"?) :p (I'll take @Rainbacon, I'm sure they will be able to understant the beauty of this number)

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Yay! (I guess? Now everyone can see your cellulite :P )

Ælis

@bruglesco Nice!

bruglesco

7:32 PM

@Tinkeringbell I'm a toothpick

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Ah, they will look lovely on you then!

I might just start being a tiny bit jealous ;)

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell Mmm don't worry. It's like alcohol, it'll taste like crap the first time but then...well I mean it still tastes bad but you learn to enjoy it :p

Tinkeringbell

@scohe001 What do you mean, tastes bad? You clearly never had a long island iced tea!

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell you shouldn't. I still look horribly manish

scohe001

Ooh is this a mixed drink idea I haven't heard of? I'm looking for drink ideas for this weekend when some of my old friends are coming out. Do you have a recipe?

bruglesco

7:34 PM

@scohe001 you can always drink it quick

scohe001

@bruglesco my gf got tired of people saying she's a toothpick. She says a toothpick can stand up for itself. She now insists she's a cooked noodle :p

Tinkeringbell

15 ml gin
15 ml tequila
15 ml wodka
15 ml white rum
15 ml triple sec
60 ml cola
10 ml lemon juice
slice of lemon for fancy ones

(I hope most of those have the same name in English!)

bruglesco

@scohe001 I'm stealing that

scohe001

Is wodka different from vodka? Or is this a mistake because you're on mobile?

Tinkeringbell

It's vodka... just copy-pasted from a Dutch site :P

scohe001

7:36 PM

Ahh gotcha gotcha

Tinkeringbell

I did change the 'witte' for 'white' in rum! :P

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell The American recipe uses oz

scohe001

Holy moly that's a lot of different kinds of alcohol

bruglesco

@scohe001 look up the recipe for a Zombie

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Does it really matter? You'll need about equal parts of 5 sorts of booze vs. cola :P So we usually make a pitcher: 200 ml of each kind of booze (makes 1L) and then 1.2L of cola :)

Ælis

7:37 PM

@bruglesco I think that man wearing yoga pants are beautiful (not that you are one), so even if you do like manish, you are probably still look beautiful ;) (also, you will probably always see you are more manish than you actually are. I know I'm amazed every time someone think I'm a boy because, in my mind, I still loke very "womanish")

Tinkeringbell

Works fine. Just throw it all together and taste it once in a while to see if you should add more cola.

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell this is actually funny since--"Long Island"--it's probably originally an American recipe, translated into Dutch and then back from Dutch by you. It's like one of those super pixelated jpeg's that's been reuploaded too many times :p

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell haha no. I was just make conversion jokes

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco Metric cocktails are best!

bruglesco

Metric anything breaks mine tiny American brain

Tinkeringbell

7:38 PM

@scohe001 True, it's originally an American drink, I think.

scohe001

@bruglesco how small would you say that is though, 3 cubic centimeters?

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco What's in a Zombie?

bruglesco

@Ælis yeah we are really bad at judging ourselves kindly.

Ælis

@bruglesco I was wondering what "oz" was and what it had to do with the wizard x)

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bruglesco

@scohe001 it's like this big |_______|

Tinkeringbell

7:40 PM

@scohe001 I thought brain capacity was also measured in 'liquid' measurement, because it's so much easier to just pour water in an empty skull and see how much it holds? :P

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell huh. I've been measure my corpses all wrong

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell I'll have to find a recipe. But it is 8 kinds of liquor

scohe001

@bruglesco Whoa, so you get smarter every time I press ctrl-+??

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco This sounds promising...

bruglesco

My kids want my attention. bbiab

Tinkeringbell

7:41 PM

Say hi to them from a random internet stranger!

Ælis

@bruglesco Yeah, tell them that a room full of awkward people say "hi" :p

scohe001

Make sure they understand that by saying "hi" we're not chatting with them though.

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, they're probably still underage so not allowed in here anyways! :P

Ælis

I was going to make a joke about "hi", but it only works in French :( (where "hi" is pronounce the same as "Aie" which mean "Ouch")

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Ah, then the Dutch ones are better! Hi and High :P

Ælis

7:46 PM

@Tinkeringbell Sorry, I can't understand this sentence "Dutch [..] are better" :p

Tinkeringbell

@Ælis Hmmm. Okay, you win this round! \o/ I surrender!

Revenge is a dish best served cold though, so ...

Ælis

:O

scohe001

@Tinkeringbell I've always wondered about that saying. Is it because it's best that you've waited awhile before eating it? So it's gotten cold? Or do you store your revenge in the freezer?

Tinkeringbell

> The popular expression "revenge is a dish best served cold" suggests that revenge is more satisfying if enacted when unexpected or long feared, inverting traditional civilized revulsion toward "cold-blooded" violence.[

According to wikipedia ;)

scohe001

Ohhh so it's a reference to cold-blooded. Guess I was doubly wrong :(

bruglesco

7:51 PM

It's about not being emotional too.

Tinkeringbell

Isn't that what being cold-blooded is too though?

Em C

that's a reference to being a lizard :P

Tinkeringbell

Well... aren't the lizard people cold-blooded, emotionless?

bruglesco

Zombie (cocktail)

The Zombie is a cocktail made of fruit juices, liqueurs, and various rums. It first appeared in late 1934, invented by Donn Beach at his Hollywood Don the Beachcomber restaurant. It was popularized on the East coast soon afterwards at the 1939 New York World's Fair. == History == Legend has it that Donn Beach originally concocted the Zombie to help a hung-over customer get through a business meeting. The customer returned several days later to complain that he had been turned into a zombie for his entire trip. Its smooth, fruity taste works to conceal its extremely high alcoholic content. Don the...

@Tinkeringbell okay when you put it that way I clearly wasn't clarifying anything with my clarification.

Em C

@Tinkeringbell heh, I don't actually know. I always thought it was just about being "alien"

Tinkeringbell

7:54 PM

@bruglesco No worries! Sometimes messages like that make me think words may have a different meaning then I always thought they had, so I ask :)

Ælis

@Tinkeringbell Well, I don't know about emotionless, but they certainly know to wait for there time (like snakes, patiently waiting in the tall grass)

Tinkeringbell

@EmC I mean... I've seen those remarks in reference to pictures of Mark Zuckerberg definitely looking very emotionless!

bruglesco

Nope. Just my awkward communication skills poking through

Tinkeringbell

@bruglesco The Zombie looks good though! I might consider making that, but probably once I have my own place, so I can hide the booze when mom comes around :)

Ælis

@EmC Oh really? In French, "cold blooded" is someone who is still able to fonctionate in a higly stressful situation (so, someone being "cold blooded" can actually be a praise)

Em C

7:58 PM

ahh it was just a throwaway joke really :P

Ælis

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Em C

it's interesting that can be said as a positive thing! I learned something :D

Tinkeringbell

Well, I'm going to cold-bloodedly hibernate for a few hours ;) See all of you tomorrow! Night!

Ælis

We also say that someone "has warm blood" (as opposed to cold-blood) and it's very rarely a praise (like if they are getting angry too easily)

@Tinkeringbell Night!

bruglesco

@Tinkeringbell g'night

Em C

8:02 PM

'night!

@Ælis oh yeah, I've heard "hotblooded" for that

bruglesco

I've been a bit hot-blooded lately myself

Ælis

@bruglesco That's understandable

bruglesco

@Ælis yah. I'm trying to take a break. Especially after my angry tirade that got cleaned up earlier.

Rainbacon

@Ælis It is an excellent number

Ælis

@bruglesco I must say, I'm a bit sad I didn't get to see it. But, on the other hand, I'm glad I didn't saw the comments from this person you were responding to

@Rainbacon Thank you, I knew I could count on you to see the beauty in this number :p

bruglesco

8:09 PM

@Ælis meh you already saw them. It was the privilege stuff from last night. you even commented on it yourself. She just came back at me today and I went off. I'm actually glad it all got removed.

Ælis

@bruglesco "She"? Well then, I'm glad they didn't posted anything worse

bruglesco

@Ælis The user had a female coded name. I could be wrong though.

Ælis

@bruglesco Weird, to me it was male coded Oo But maybe we aren't remembering the same username ^^

bruglesco

@Ælis maybe. I thought it was [redacted]

Ælis

@bruglesco Ok, I was definitively thinking of someone else ^^

bruglesco

8:15 PM

I could be misremembering. I do that a lot.

It's from having a tiny American brain and drinking lots of Zombie's

Ælis

@scohe001 Yep, I was definitively like "<3" didn't prevent me to flag it as NLN though :p

scohe001

Lol that's exactly what I was thinking :p

Ælis

@bruglesco Don't blame your brain, I know I misremember things a lot, especially if said thing was only said orraly

Rainbacon

I got to our office in San Francisco, and it's so quiet here, but I'm too awkward to put on my giant headphones to listen to music while I'm here

Ælis

I would have thought that headphones were mostly needed when things were noisy, though?

Rainbacon

8:25 PM

Well, it's too quiet, so I want to listen to music, but there are other people here

Ælis

IMO, I don't think anyone would take offense, but I understand that you could be uncomfortable doing it nonetheless

Rainbacon

Most of the people who are here are much higher up than me. I'd be more comfortable if I was around more of my peers

Ælis

That's understandable

Also, I really need to try to eat something before going to bed, so good night everyone :)

bruglesco

I made another anime me:

@Ælis g'night

Ælis

@bruglesco <3

Em C

8:39 PM

@bruglesco ooh pretty! I really like the style of that one

ahh, it's so satisfying to flag a rude comment on MSE and watch it immediately poof away

bruglesco

mhm

I might end up with a different avatar on every site ;]

Rainbacon

@bruglesco That's going to make it awfully hard for me to remember which accounts are yours

bruglesco

@Rainbacon I'm trying to hide

I've put a target on my back =[

Rainbacon

Well, I promise to never target you. But I understand your desire to keep people from following you all over the network.

bruglesco

9:04 PM

I appreciate that. Unfortunately its already gotten ugly. I just don't want to deal with it any more.

Rainbacon

@bruglesco I'm sorry you've had to go through that

@Ælis Definitely needs R/A flags

Em C

oh ffs

scohe001

Why

Ælis

I also tried to report the username, but couldn't find the button :/

Rainbacon

@Ælis Maybe because it was an unregistered account

Em C

9:10 PM

you can't report profiles

you have to use a custom mod flag for that (but not needed now ;) )

Rainbacon

I don't know what extra tools the CMs have that you dont, but that post should probably be reported to them in addition to being nuked by our flags

Ælis

Doesn't sound ideal but thanks for the explaination

Yeah, I think an IP ban would be good

scohe001

@Rainbacon I believe your average-Jane mod can see the IP on unregistered accounts, so things should be taken care of

Em C

@Ælis yeah, I've heard of edge cases where there's rude usernames/profiles that haven't posted, so there's no easy way to flag it for a mod :/

Ælis

Yep, definitively not ideal

scohe001

9:13 PM

@EmC I think there was just a MSO post about this the other day. A mod said to custom flag your own post and include an explanation with a user link

Rainbacon

@scohe001 That's fair, but I think since that post was targeting a staff member in a very nasty way, it's worth raising higher up

scohe001

Ahh here it is. Close enough to what we're talking about: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/390294/2602718

@Rainbacon Mm fair

Em C

yep, that's a good workaround :)

ankii

wow, those stars made me look through the transcript longer than I should have

everyone's in a good mood today? I am!

Em C

we've had quite the variety of topics today!

ankii

9:19 PM

o_o

Rainbacon

I even participated from the sky!

ankii

okay my message went early

are you on ground now?

Rainbacon

Yeah

ankii

<lame> how's the weather? </lame>

Rainbacon

It's San Francisco, which means that it's always the same (which is kind of nice, ~60F and sunny)

ankii

9:23 PM

Ohh my intern location is also somewhere with same temperature year round. my hometown and current location, both have big peak to peak differences.

bruglesco

shog is in the Tarvern right now

scohe001

@Rainbacon heh you made it Rain messages in TAS from the sky

bruglesco

If whatever you were talking about was that serious

scohe001

@bruglesco whoa. Careful. Don't his name 2 more times or he'll appear in here

Rainbacon

Catija was here, so I'm guessing she saw it

ankii

9:24 PM

@scohe001 I was about to make a rainbow thing, but couldn't make the ends meet.

bruglesco

ohh okay

scohe001

@ankii hehehe I like it

ankii

<3

idk what made Spotify think that I would be interested in Cement ads

bruglesco

@ankii maybe they were just hard up

Rainbacon

^^^ leading candidate for pun of the day

ankii

9:27 PM

LOL
ha(r)d [to look it] up

bruglesco

I had a feeling that it was colloquial.

ankii

@Rainbacon did she post an answer and delete it?

interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/23159/… The link suggests an answer.

smh for 2pings

Em C

@ankii don't worry about it ;)

ankii

ookie dookie!

Em C

argh I knew syncing in the late afternoon would be painful, but I did it anyways, and now everything is broke.. :(

scohe001

9:36 PM

If you throw money at it, it won't be broke anymore!!

Em C

ooh where can I purchase this working code

......... wait you're punning again aren't you

d'oh, I've been had

scohe001

Uhhh. Nope. That wasn't me. You must be thinking of someone else :)

Em C

hahah

Rainbacon

9:52 PM

No, I think scohe is advocating for the age old debugging practice of throwing silver dollars at your computer to make it behave

Em C

ah, a new variety of percussive maintenance

Rainbacon

In college my preferred method of debugging was threatening to throw my computer out the window

Rainbacon

10:48 PM

This is going back to a quite a while back conversation, but I've only just seen the transcript now, and @Tinkeringbell, I agree about Long Island Iced Tea (which is useful since I live on long island)

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