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3:04 AM
Soon @casperOne's baby will be wearing little casperOnesies.
 
Who complains about the auto-tip on a party of more than 8 people?
 
Religious nutjobs?
 
And wait, how did they end up with a bill of only $34.93 with that many people? O_o
 
...huh. Yep, that's odd.
If you split the check on a large party, do they still do the auto-tip on the individual checks?
 
I can't believe they fired the waitress over that though, you can't even make out the full signature, and there's hardly anything "private" about the rest of it.
Hmm, not sure.
 
3:29 AM
@TimStone Yeah, that's the most absurd part of it. I get it, everyone's human - you have a bad day, write something dumb on a receipt.
But when you do something dumb, you generally have to face the consequences.
The consequences being having the ignorance spread on the Internet.
 
Yeah, it's not a particularly nice message Applebee's is sending their servers.
"Been abused by a patron? Too bad, keep it to yourself."
 
I foresee a lawsuit against Applebee's for wrongful termination. o.o
 
The part I'm most confused about is the 10% being given to God.
Like if you're employed by the church, aren't you actually taking money? And does God accept personal checks? And if we're not talking strictly about money, shouldn't a pastor be giving 100%?
 
Hahaha
 
@jadarnel27 Ah, yes, that's what happened according to the original article.
 
3:37 AM
Vote to Dismiss -> Not a Real Statement -> It's difficult to tell what is being said here. This statement is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably comprehended in its current form.
 
The $34.93 was the pastor's share of a $200+ bill, with an auto-tip of 18%
Which the computer automatically applies even when the bill is split (which makes sense)
 
what the hell how do you spend $35 on one person at Applebee's? o.o
 
@animuson booze
 
^ The same way you convince yourself to write something like that on a receipt
 
I didn't think pastors could drink?
or maybe I should study religion more
 
3:42 AM
@animuson Depends on what they're pastors of
Also, if there were 10 people there, easily possible the other 9 were sucking down the liquor fast enough to drive up his share of the bill even as he sipped on a cool glass of water w/ lemon wedge.
...which probably wouldn't have improved her temper much either
 
Speaking of lemon wedges, why do restaurants only give you a lemon wedge with your first drink and not subsequent ones??
 
@animuson because folks like you don't ask for them, so they think they can get away with stiffing the rest of us
 
"Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church" has a lengthy enough name that I have a feeling they probably let drinking slide.
 
But then we just sit at the bar and help ourselves while their backs are turned, so joke's on them
 
On a related note, the pretzel sticks with white cheddar and beer sauce they have at Applebee's now are pretty delicious.
 
3:50 AM
I can't eat much anything at Applebee's now :P
 
@animuson You gotta just try not to think about it.
...admittedly, this might be difficult if you're not drinking
 
Try not to think about what?
 
what's been done to the food
 
No, I have celiac disease, I really can't eat most of it haha
 
Oh. That really sucks.
I would dearly miss gluten
Now I want a beer.
 
3:54 AM
Hmm, me too.
 
Oh! And I just took cornbread out of the oven. Perfect!
 
I'm sure you would. It would eliminate a wide variety of your alcohol choices. :P
 
surprisingly little gluten in gin though
 
Although I finished that off the other day, all I have left is boring stuff now, I think.
 
Boulevard amber here.
Still kicking myself for not ordering one of those mugs
 
3:57 AM
@Shog9 Me too D:
 
I've got the coffee mug and a water bottle too, heh.
 
who cares about those
 
Well, coffee.
 
eh. I've never been one to have a designated mug for that.
(as opposed to one of my former coworkers, who I'm pretty sure stopped actually brewing coffee years ago, and was coasting by on hot water and build-up)
 
That reminds me that I should probably clean mine out before using it tomorrow.
 
4:01 AM
I gave away all the cool stuff I ordered as free meetup swag and was left with a few stickers and a t-shirt.
 
That's what you get for being generous
 
And whenever I wear the t-shirt people around here assume I work for StackOverflow for some reason.
So it's like, hey you work for StackOverflow? Cool! And I'm like "No, I just clog their off-topic chat room a lot." And they're like "Oh. Cool." and they look for someone more interesting to talk to.
(Little do they know there isn't one. Ha!)
 
Rude. I would at least give you a plunger first.
 
You should just play along and pretend you know all the secrets, and hint that if they bribe you you can make sure their questions get answered faster.
 
Easy for you to say, if I was Tim Stone I would know all the secrets.
 
4:06 AM
Oddly, despite wearing my SO t-shirt to all sorts of random places, I haven't had anyone ask me about it.
 
That's even worse, really.
 
And then you could also be blamed for anything that goes wrong, like the punch running out, or the lights failing, etc.
 
I had one guy keep looking at me in an airport once, but I don't know if that was because of the t-shirt.
 
It was probably the suspicious package you were carrying.
 
@animuson The rule of thumb is that the new guy is always the scapegoat, so you should be blaming @Oded.
We all know it's never my fault anyway except that one time.
 
4:08 AM
and that other time and also that other time and...
 
A common misconception.
 
You can group them all together or list them all separately. The number is still the same.
 
This room has a nasty habit of people who frequent it getting hired then suddenly participating in the discussion 95% less.
 
I demand to know what happened to Rebecca!!
 
Stuff!
 
4:10 AM
We want answers!
And we want them in 6-8 weeks!
 
Did she get fired for posting a screenshot of an email or something?
It's Applebee's!
 
OMG you're right.
If that Applebees was asking for 18% of his income as a tip, I can see why he had a problem.
 
 
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10:35 AM
For anyone keeping track, I hadn't reloaded hard enough. Although a "normal" (F5) reload restored the ability to switch between normal and markdown differences and reject as vandalism, I didn't get any review counts until I did a "full" reload (Ctrl+F5).
 
Hmmm, Facebook questions showing up on MSO. Odd.
 
 
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11:37 AM
Okay, seriously, does anyone know where these askers are getting referred from?
We have... quite a few in the past few hours
 
I have a suspicion
checking
 
11:58 AM
suspicion confirmed
 
Do tell :P
 
Login is busted on facebook.so; they get an error page, which has a link to meta. So they post their crap on meta, not on SO.
Not that it would belong there either.
 
 
3 hours later…
2:54 PM
@ThiefMaster (or any moderator or person who cares): can stackoverflow.com/questions/14642666/whats-the-output be reopened (and probably closed with an actual duplicate)?
 
done
 
Anonymous
3:33 PM
@balpha Any chance you could add the owners of the "Everything Python" as owners of your "Python" chat room to help bring the chat rooms back together?
 
sure
 
Anonymous
Thanks. :)
 
@balpha wanna make me a room owner too so I can go in after a week and kick all of them out of their owner status, and so I can have yet another room on chat.so I control alone <mwahahahaha/>
 
I'll think about it...
 
lol
Go on, take all the time you need.
 
3:45 PM
Could you also make a special chat-mod role for me so that I can take appropriate action when @jcolebrand gets drunk with power? I also promise that we are in no way colluding to set up this scenario.
 
But that needs to be present on all three servers, not just a specific server.
ahem no collusion cough no collusion cough
 
Your unquenchable lust for power has no boundaries, this is true.
Also, it was definitely snowing hardcore earlier...and now it's sunny. I suppose that means I have to go into the office after all. Shame on you, weather.
 
Wait 10-15 minutes, it should start snowing again ;-)
 
Hmm, there's a patch of bad traffic on 476, but I can't tell why. For some reason all of the traffic cameras are offline in that area.
 
looks like the storm in your area is finally moving away.
 
3:50 PM
Yeah, -1 to that
Sounds like it's still unpleasantly windy. And I need an oil change and a new O2 sensor.
Actually for that matter I just need a new car.
 
4:38 PM
pulls out a miniature violin
 
 
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5:38 PM
@mootinator I feel like I should request the maestro to play us a diddy.
 
@mootinator remind me to listen to that later
 
6:27 PM
I can commiserate, @TimStone. I'm driving a '97 Cavalier. That trash is garbage.
 
6:56 PM
I have a '96 Civic and it's generally fine, but I've been meaning to get a new car for a while.
 
7:15 PM
I thought mine was fine too, until I drove my girlfriend's car. Now I want a new one haha. Mechanically, though, it's been surprisingly good since I got it (2+ years ago).
I suppose I shall hold off on the car-buying until I have this house-buying thing sorted out.
Which is rather exciting already - I'm going to look at some potential places tomorrow!
 
@jadarnel27 Had I done that I'd be effing rolling in cash right now :P
In 2003 a friend bought a house in the city for $97k.
That house would be worth about $275k now.
I decided I needed a car.
 
Did you really need a $97K car though?
 
@jadarnel27 \o/
I actually want to get a new car for financing, because of my severe lack of credit.
Penalized for being able to afford things shakes head
 
@Shog9 Yes, anything other than a Dodge Challenger is worthless to me.
Okay, I can only get that to cost $58k, I'm not sure what it was I was looking at in the showroom that cost almost 100.
Only $2561 monthly for 24 months for a fully loaded one. I can't afford not to buy one.
 
7:58 PM
@mootinator Haha, hindsight's 20:20, right? I'm lucky to have gotten good advice from several people over the last couple years that I'm trying to stick to =)
 
GAH
THEY CHANGED THE DUPLICATE DIALOG
@animuson Can a moderator please warn this user to stop making these silly edits to tag wikis?
 
@TimStone Isn't that the lamest? You have to acquire debt in order to improve your credit.
 
Yeah, it's rather silly. I blame my Visa check card for making not having a credit card so easy.
 
IT IS I, EVAN CARROLL.
 
That sounds like something an IMPOSTOR would say
 
@EvanCarroll I don't believe you. Please send us a copy of your drivers license or other state ID to feedback@Idontcare.goaway
 
8:33 PM
I don't believe that's a real email address
 
@EvanCarroll Welcome. Here's a cake for you.
 
@Shog9 only one way to test the validity of an email. Go on, I'll wait.
 
@mootinator trololol
Ok, closing chat for a bit. TTYL
 
8:38 PM
.unicorn, on the other hand is.
 
.off would also be a nice TLD.
(when putting the "new tlds are stupid" factor aside)
 
these people want to own .off
 
@mootinator We should petition SE to apply for .meta. Then the network-wide meta site can be meta.meta.
 
.sex instead of .stackexchange.com!
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8:45 PM
@ThiefMaster Think of the residual revenue that would generate!
 
 
2 hours later…
11:14 PM
Hey, do any of you use a word processor on a tablet that you would recommend?
Specifically on an iPad, I suppose, not just any tablet.
 

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