~ In the Shade

That was a very quiet weekend XD

🥱

~ Quiet Weekend in @Tink's House of Madness

Heh. No madness here last weekend.

Famous last words

Well the weekend has gone so ... I doubt anyone can add madness to a weekend that's already been :P What the future brings, who knows ;)

~ What is this? Weekend?

@Tinkeringbell that means both the annoying neighbor and the annoying kid weren't around? ;)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Oh, they were. They just didn't succeed in driving me mad XD

That dude is exhausting. Comes to the door (so I have to pause a game, unwrap a blanket, move stuff, haul my ass of a couch) to ask for a phone number. A number I've sent him before.

@Tinkeringbell that kid again?

And then he asks 'send me it on WhatsApp'... Like, you could've just sent a message on whatsapp instead of ringing the doorbell and we'd both be happier? XD

@Tinkeringbell ah, the neighbor? Thought his smoking was the annoying part. ;)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Nah, the frog lives safely in my backyard now, so no more of that. This one was screaming at the top of their lungs in the playground behind my house. To the point that I closed the fresh air vents to keep most noise out.

@Tinkeringbell oh lol.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda The smoking is only half of it. The other half is his complete refusal to become even the littlest bit self-sufficient. There should be some kind of government institute you could snitch on such people to.

A third half would be his general rudeness. "Gimme another cup of coffee" while at my place, ugh.

@Tinkeringbell sounds like mix of bad or lack of education, and overall getting used to being served, yeah. :/

But wait, what was he doing in your house?

Hi @S.M. welcome to the Den! I'm Shadow.

:D

Guess no response yet from SE?

Nah no need to guess, I'm sure no response yet. lol

But did you try to login as @Pet again, to chat?

So we can ping @Pet 10000 times, all will go to the same void....

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda For apartment buildings here, it's mandatory to have some kind of 'club' that takes some money each month, and uses it to insure the building and do maintenance on 'shared' things like the roof.

Once a year, the accounting has to be 'audited'.

Since there's only six of us living in this building, there are three people making up the 'board' of that 'club', and us other three (including annoying neighbour) do the auditing.

And since I'm 'so good with computers and connecting a laptop to the TV so it's easy to see', us three meet at my place once a year.

hmm... sock?

@S.M. @Pet

S.M. placed bounty of M.S. question so if sock, not good.

Think it might explain how he got suspended.

(on a site where he was caught abusing the system like that.)

@Tinkeringbell ah, we have it too, but it's all managed via WhatsApp, and money given in bank notes in envelopes.

@Tinkeringbell ah, I see. So for them it's free coffee and popcorn. Awesome. ;)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Yep. First year we did it I made it quite the 'party', getting beer and snacks and such. Last year I made some excuses about it being a weekday and not staying up late, so I got away with only serving coffee and some cookies ;)

I'm almost hoping this year will just be another weekday. Even though it kills an entire evening and I feel much less 'recharged' the next day because my evening wasn't relaxing XD

@Tinkeringbell huh! What will you do next year? ;)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Oh, over here the money is just transferred automatically each month. All the rest is managed through WhatsApp, e.g. if I need them to do something I use that indeed. I had hoped that when the upstairs neighbors moved, I could get a seat on the 'board' (I initially didn't do that because I thought it would be too much work but it's a rather easy thing to do), but they had already arranged with the new neighbors that one of them would take over their duties XD

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Hopefully another weekday with just coffee and a cookie. :P

Just like this year will hopefully be.

@Tinkeringbell what if the AN (annoying neighbor) will ask for more cookies? ;)

There won't be any. :P

lol he'll cry

Also, if he asks he might actually get some. Instead of 'ordering' :P

I doubt it.

First time his wishes will be declined.

I doubt that too

He usually starts yelling if he doesn't get his way.

Wish he cried, that'd be quieter XD

It's like coming to SO, thinking you're the perfect programmer, just to get rain of downvotes, washing all your arrogance away. :D

@Tinkeringbell some people cry very loud. :/

Oh yeah, different cultures do :P

We had a building full of Eritrean 'statushouders' (migrants that have been granted asylum) across the street from my parents. One day, one of them drowned in a local lake. The noise was... some experience.

@Tinkeringbell eh, yeah. But some people just cry... louder, than others, regardless of culture, I think.

Which reminds me...

@Slate hey, can you please just check if @Pet's contact form entered the system and looked into? Long story short his account was somehow auto merged with user called @S.M. few days ago, and since then some others reported something like that so it might be so bigger scale issue. Thanks!

And now it's time to go. (Home. ;))

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Who is "Pet"?

I'll send this along to T&S actually - they may know something. Thanks for the report

I've also sent links about that user to another CM in the TL that was also working on this :) Seems covered for now :)

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Oh, sure. But over here that ranges from a sniffle to perhaps a bit 'hollywood dramatic', nothing as exaggerated as what I heard then though...

I've had my cries, but I really couldn't produce such sounds while crying unless I had to do so deliberately

@Slate oh, @PetəíŕdTheLinuxWizard, his name is Peter.

@Tinkeringbell heh, so yeah maybe culture related.

~ Blind Shaman

~ Shadow

@Tinkeringbell I want cookies.

@Tinkeringbell Nobody ran to help?

Oh, the noise of the cries, not of the drowning.

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact yeah

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda grunt (?)

cries

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact how loud?

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact Yeah, I don't know if anyone actually witnessed the drowning. It was reported on as being a missing person search found drowned , so I guess someone just noticed someone missing and they started to search?

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact So do I. There are none right now though

@Tinkeringbell no cookies?! That's... can't... be...

It can very much be if you just skip the aisle when shopping

It's like skipping lunch. Or forgetting to breathe.

Either is fine too

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Like a rocket engine.

@Tinkeringbell Maybe it was murder.

@Tinkeringbell But you don’t like cookies.

~ The Wizard and the Brigands