The Periodic Table

Avnish Kabaj

00:40

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

04:31

Florence Flask was getting ready for the opera. All of a sudden, she screamed: "Erlenmeyer, my joules! Somebody has stolen my joules!" The husband replied, "Calm down, honey. We'll find a solution."

Avnish Kabaj

Man

People over here are normal people too

Anonymous

I've got my ion them.

Avnish Kabaj

04:47

I spent the last 5 mins fruitlessly trying to make a science pun

Sad

Anonymous

Good puns argon

Avnish Kabaj

Jesus

Google ಠ_ಠ

Anonymous

Na

Anonymous

My first one was plagiarised, next ones weren't xD But, jokes can't be said 'copied'.

Avnish Kabaj

🔥🔥🔥🔥

1 min ago, by Divyanka Chaudhari

My first one was plagiarised, next ones weren't xD But, jokes can't be said 'copied'.

You're no longer on fire

🚒 💦🔥🔥🔥🔥

Vao emojis are fun

Anonymous

05:05

I would like to cool you to -273.15 C so that you could be 0K.

Anonymous

No one's reacting

Avnish Kabaj

0K

Cations are paws itive

Anonymous

You make little good chemistry puns, periodically.

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj And they are the cutest ions ever.

Anonymous

I'm in my element

Avnish Kabaj

05:20

@DivyankaChaudhari because of the 🐈?

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj Yes. Cute and pawsitive.

Avnish Kabaj

Tbh I think they are a boron

Dogs are better

Anonymous

May the force be mass times acceleration.

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj When you're triene your best to make chemistry puns, but still diene. Totally relates to Kabbage.

Anonymous

Do you know any good sodium jokes?

Avnish Kabaj

05:31

@DivyankaChaudhari Yittrium

Uranium

Sulphur Titanium oxygen oxygen phosphorus

Sulphur oxygen

LUTETIUM oxygen

@DivyankaChaudhari Na

Anonymous

05:47

@AvnishKabaj U

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj STiOOP

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj SO

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj LuO?

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj Because I got those puns when I googled 'Chemistry puns'. Punnical

Anonymous

All argon, my brain's not reacting anymore, and I have to mass times acceleration myself to get off. I summed up my gem puns above. May all the carbon allotropes rest in peace.

Avnish Kabaj

05:54

And I though that you were a master

Anonymous

@AvnishKabaj I am. I did so, because I read them before xD

Avnish Kabaj

Smh

Anonymous

I read the pawsitive one and then i googled chemitry puns and it showed up in the first line Haha

Avnish Kabaj

Just sad Divyanka

Just sad

Anonymous

You're a-mean-oh-acid

Anonymous

05:57

Because you couldn't make puns as mine

Avnish Kabaj

@DivyankaChaudhari is that stolen too

Anonymous

Was just testing how many puns you copied. So many that you read all the puns on the page.

Avnish Kabaj

Whut no

Anonymous

When Kabbage ran out of comebacks

Avnish Kabaj

I remember that pawsitive pun because in 9th grade i messed up a chem paper just because I couldn't remember what an anion is and what a cation is one of my smart ass friends told me that pun

Anonymous

06:01

Just sad Cabbage

Anonymous

Just sad

Avnish Kabaj

It is not CABBAGE

Respect my fake name

Anonymous

yesterday, by Avnish Kabaj

Cabbage head needs help

Anonymous

:D

Avnish Kabaj

Blehh

Anonymous

06:07

Mehh

Anonymous

So, I won. Thankyou, thankyou.

Avnish Kabaj

I'm far too mature for such petty competitions

Anonymous

Cabbage

Anonymous

May the force be with you

Avnish Kabaj

@DivyankaChaudhari I'm turning over to the dark side

Darth Cabbage

Anonymous

06:14

Fear is the path to dark side. Fear puns.

Anonymous

Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you xD

Anonymous

It's been 1 hour 46 minutes since the first pun, I must study chemistry, organic chemistry.

Avnish Kabaj

06:37

Nice

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:55

@AvnishKabaj ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ur face

oh, it was the other one

Avnish Kabaj

No u

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

U

Pritt Balagopal

11:17

Slackers... 😒

Avnish Kabaj

11:47

I need .67K pls donate

Rep not $$

Avnish Kabaj

12:55

-1

Q: I badly need help for this 😭 how do I answer this one?

PLEASE I BADLY NEED AN ANSWER FOR THIS ONE 💔 As soon as possible.

💔

JavaScriptCoder

13:23

I cry (and vtc)

Avnish Kabaj

How can you vtc you don't have enough rep -_-

JavaScriptCoder

i flag

lol

whatever

its 6 in the morning where i live

I'm somewhat tired

Avnish Kabaj

JavaScriptCoder

13:48

see i'm so tired i get the time wrong

Pritt Balagopal

14:27

No U Donald Drumpf

Sid

14:54

@AvnishKabaj go write some answers

@AvnishKabaj welcome. The Dark Side has cookies. :P

Avnish Kabaj

@Sid :(

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

15:55

@AvnishKabaj nom nom nom

@JavaScriptCoder yeah, sleeping takes a toll on people

Gaurang Tandon

16:22

Why hasn't this - 11 question been deleted till now? chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/94976/…

It is spoiling our front page

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It was waiting for my screenshot

@GaurangTandon it would disappear from the front page

-4 kicks a question from the front page, IIRC

Pranav

Any1 there

Gaurang Tandon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ah ok I might have had a cached page

@PrittBalagopal check again, not anymore ;)

Pranav

@GaurangTandon I need help

I just posted in the other group of jee /high school chem if you could have a look pls?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

16:44

@GaurangTandon I never understood how what I just said works though. Probably just the homepage, which is the active page

Pritt Balagopal

@GaurangTandon Huh?

Sid

Um.. I was pinged here??

Pritt Balagopal

You were @Sid

By @AvnishKabaj

Avnish Kabaj

@Sid chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/43916582#43916582

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/43916582#43916582

No

I think he must have figured that much out

What happens is

Pranav

Guys

The question

Pls?

Avnish Kabaj

16:50

You still got the ping right

Pritt

Pritt Balagopal

Yeah

2 hours ago, by Avnish Kabaj

@Sid :(

Avnish Kabaj

Man

Pritt Balagopal

But this was where you pinged Sid

Avnish Kabaj

Yes

1 min ago, by Avnish Kabaj

I think he must have figured that much out

Sid

I received a ping aftervi acknowledged that one

Avnish Kabaj

16:52

Yes

You see

If you ping someone then delete the message the person you pinged still gets the ping

Pritt Balagopal

Ahh I see

Makes sense now.

Avnish Kabaj

I think this message is the culprit

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/43916582#43916582

Sid

@AvnishKabaj that doesn't link to anywhere specific. Could you say who pinged me?

Avnish Kabaj

Sid

@DivyankaChaudhari any specific reason why you pinged me?

Pritt Balagopal

16:57

Congratulations, you are now in the top ten most downvoted questions. In the meantime, welcome to Chem.SE! Take the tour and enjoy your stay. Thanks! — JavaScriptCoder 40 mins ago

@JavaScriptCoder Was that really necessary?

While it's definitely wrong of the OP to post a bad question, there isn't any need to flame the OP that way.

2

Gaurang Tandon

The chances of the OP replying back are definitely negligible, but I agree this is not worth taking the risk.

orthocresol

I deleted that comment.

Gaurang Tandon

17:15

Hmm, it's a shame we haven't yet covered the \def command in our own Mathjax formatting meta post

4

Q: MathJax - use of \def's

$\def\test{{\rm test}}$Is it an acceptable way to do a MathJax \def command like $\def\rg{{\rm rg}}$ to define a shortcut for a function, if it is frequently used in a question, like $$\begin{align*} \test(1) & = 1 \tag{\test} \\ \test(2) & = 2 \\ \test(3) & = 3 \end{align*}$$ Or should one refra...

discussion mathjax

Seems very very useful

Pritt Balagopal

17:27

What is \def exactly?

Gaurang Tandon

@PrittBalagopal I think it's the Mathjax equivalent of C language's define

Pritt Balagopal

I still dont understand :(

Gaurang Tandon

It just defines a acronym for a larger expansion, and you can place that expansion anywhere in your post, or in comments to answers below your post, etc.

It's just like it defines BRB to be replaced by be right back

Pritt Balagopal

Oh, like I could use a shortcut to \mathrm{} as \mrm{} maybe?

With that command?

Gaurang Tandon

Yeah!

Pritt Balagopal

17:31

Wow

Gaurang Tandon

Looks like So, haven't tried yet

Pritt Balagopal

That is pretty useful

Yeah it took me a whole month to learn Latex honestly :D

Gaurang Tandon

Yeah, I might add this to our Mathjax meta post tomorrow

Pritt Balagopal

Even the basic \ce{} stuff haha

I was initially like, what are these dollar signs and curly braces??

Gaurang Tandon

@PrittBalagopal learning by practicing is faster. I got huge assistance from mart, so I learnt all the formatting much quicker ;D

Pritt Balagopal

17:33

Yeah indeed.

I learnt by reverse engineering if you would say

Gaurang Tandon

Hmm right

Pritt Balagopal

I would open edit dialog on some random post and see how the author used it

And then exit the edit without doing any changes

Gaurang Tandon

:P

Avnish Kabaj

@PrittBalagopal I think all new editors learn it like that because new ones don't know what all is there in meta

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

18:29

@PrittBalagopal eh, that's one interpretation

Considering @Java's previous friendliness, which makes me sick, ugh, I read it in a friendly way

Gaurang Tandon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ problem is that the OP is unaware of Java's friendliness level, hence, that comment is easily open to misinterpretation...

Pritt Balagopal

18:44

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ There's no possible way you could interpret "Congratulations, you are now in the top ten most downvoted questions." as friendliness imo.

But yeah, since ortho deleted the comment, I guess we'll just drop the matter.

No point arguing over it now.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@PrittBalagopal . . . Since you didn't interpret it that way, there's no way to interpret it that way? O.o

9

A: How can we solve a problem of newcomers getting unexplained downvotes?

One thing to be aware of is that "newcomers who have a bad first experience" are a tiny minority. They only seem like a larger percentage because of the usual perceptual warps we humans experience, where events associated with negative or strong emotions are much more prominent in our memories, ...

Some inspiring shit

@GaurangTandon I don't oppose deleting it. I oppose a one-sided interpretation

It should be deleted because it can be misinterpreted, not because it can only be misinterpreted

Also, I love pedantry

Pritt Balagopal

That's a great meta post there

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Maybe not as much as @Linear sensei, but still

Pritt Balagopal

Although tbh, "How can we get people to explain downvotes" is pretty much one of the most asked meta questions ever

I've seen it on every child meta I visited

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Not exactly

Pritt Balagopal

18:53

And has a considerable vote score on Mother meta as well.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

The correct version is "Y U DOWNRATE NAZIS"

Pritt Balagopal

Yeah but those are rants and not actual questions lol

Later, it's time for me to sleep.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, you did say "most asked"

@PrittBalagopal TTY . . . GN . . . CUL8 . . . I can't find the wittiest goodbye

JavaScriptCoder

19:23

@PrittBalagopal @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ yes I didn't mean for it to be interpreted that way. Well, I still think its good that its deleted. Nice shock for me to remember to review everything I post on the internet before sending it.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

19:40

@JavaScriptCoder Shock? No one's gonna get a heart attack after a comment

JavaScriptCoder

says who?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ did my comment make you sick or my friendliness?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:35

@JavaScriptCoder your friendliness. SLASH THEIR THROAT

JavaScriptCoder

20:52

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ well I’m not sure whether that is sarcasm

Like, tell me, is SLASH THEIR THROAT your words or what you interpret me saying?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@JavaScriptCoder grrrr

You just trolled the troll

Just . . . Nevermind

@JavaScriptCoder it isn't. There should be a ritual for new users, where they walk on coal, wrestle crocodiles, and escape from a T-Rex in a jeep

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

21:11

Southern Nights - Glen Campbell

►

Good stuff

Aug 7 '15 at 8:33, by inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

You took that seriously didn't you?

Wow, seems I wasn't an idiot back then

Good times . . .

JavaScriptCoder

22:40

Don’t forget break into a NSA database. If they get caught, it’s not our fault. @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you make them sign a liability form.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yeah... good times back then

I wasn’t on SE... etc

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