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curious

4:11 PM

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202324

My dad got angry once.
I never made him angry again.

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@202324 ouch

I have 0 memories of my dad.

Tinkeringbell

Me too, he keeps them all himself ;)

Shadow The Princess Wizard

He left the country when I was 3, got back to a year when I was 6, and died when I was 8. Heard stories and saw pictures, but no memory of my own.

Bit weird since most people have memories from childhood... meh.

@Tinkeringbell lol

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowThePrincessWizard I was about to say that...

Shadow The Princess Wizard

4:18 PM

@Tinkeringbell officially it's due to the trauma of losing him (mental defense system), but I don't understand why, since I barely knew him anyway. :/

At some point in my younger days (as teen) I started to think I'm adopted and all the stories and pics are fake, lol.

This might still be true, but at this point.... I don't really care. :P

202324

I woulda known.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowThePrincessWizard yeah, that makes sense anyways. Even 'barely knew him' can be a bit of a false memory armchair psychology warning

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@Tinkeringbell hmm.... but when? In that one year he was around when I was 6?

I remember small bits from that time, all those bits are with friends or by myself.

Tinkeringbell

I don't know :) I haven't really studied humans or their minds ;)

Shadow The Princess Wizard

hiring @Tink for psychological treatment

How much you charge? ;)

Tinkeringbell

4:24 PM

@ShadowThePrincessWizard Please don't. I'll do more damage than good ;)

Shadow The Princess Wizard

lol

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowThePrincessWizard enough that you can't pay it :P

Shadow The Princess Wizard

Can't damage me more, believe me. :P

@Tinkeringbell hmm.... I can pay in chocolate!

Tinkeringbell

Let's just not try ;)

Shadow The Princess Wizard

1000 bars?

Tinkeringbell

4:25 PM

What would I need a 1000 bars of chocolate for?!

I could perhaps build a chocolate bar bar.

Shadow The Princess Wizard

LOL

Here:

Mgetz

@Tinkeringbell well if it's baking chocolate... making 1000 lava cakes

Shadow The Princess Wizard

This is all chocolate bars, for @Tink. ^^

Mgetz

@ShadowThePrincessWizard #ShipIt?

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowThePrincessWizard mom would kill me. We don't have enough storage space!

Shadow The Princess Wizard

4:27 PM

@Tinkeringbell put it outside with a sign "Don't touch, it belongs to the Red Parrot!"

Tinkeringbell

Hahahahahaha

Shadow The Princess Wizard

Tinkeringbell

Neighborhood will appreciate that, I'm sure ;)

mag

use the menacing parrot as further deterrent

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@Mgetz ship already sailed

mag

4:28 PM

"these 250.000 tons of chocolate belong to ME and ME ALONE "
- Tink

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@mag yes! Attach that pic on the box. :D

This reminds me... @Kevin I need to order another 100 capsules of Espresso.

I do remember my first coffee... sort of.

mag

I would totally do that with mint tea

it's all mine

Shadow The Princess Wizard

Hmm.... I got DM on Twitter from someone claiming to be United Nations peacekeeper. Is this some known scam?

So far she only asked for me email, and I refused.

Tinkeringbell

Never heard that before, but sounds suspicious.

Shadow The Princess Wizard

Indeed

Well, I'll play the game for now...

Weird thing, the profile appears totally legit.

mag

4:34 PM

might even be genuine and they're interviewing, but I wouldn't take any chances

interviewing for a story or conducting a poll or something

curious

@Tinkeringbell I had to work on a chocolate bar packaging design at some point. Of course I insisted the client provide examples from the competition. I got sent back with a big bag bursting of all sorts of goodies and had a chocolate bar bar thing going on at work for a while.

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@mag hmm.. good point. She says she's in Syria, and it's clear I'm from Israel. Still, the way her messages are written is weird, as if written by machine/script.

curious

You end up having all sorts of new friends :P

Shadow The Princess Wizard

> Thank you so much for accepting me as your friend, I will like us to be a very good friends and see what future holds for us

Doesn't sound very..... real? ^

curious

@ShadowThePrincessWizard O_o

Shadow The Princess Wizard

4:37 PM

Anyway.... will keep you updated.

I think.

curious

Some sort of social experiment?

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@curious no idea....:/

djsmiley2k - CoW

it's a scam.

It's always a scam

Shadow The Princess Wizard

@curious wow, that's awesome! Must have gotten some new friends at work during this.... :D

@djsmiley2k-CoW nah, you're confused with cache.

Tinkeringbell

@curious yeah! I know a guy that markets chocolate products for a living ... It's always a pleasure meeting him ;)

Shadow The Princess Wizard

4:40 PM

lol

mag

imagine working in a chocolate factory

you can bribe all your friends with chocolate

Raedwald

A friend of mine works in a chocolate factory. In the (corporate) PR department.

Mars

Sonic the Reinstate Monica-hog

4:56 PM

@ShadowThePrincessWizard Our electricity companies are generally run pretty well here. In my area, though, there have been some outages in the name of public safety when there has been a wildfire.

Wildfires are common here at this time of the year

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6:09 PM

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Bart

6:32 PM

@Tinkeringbell I would call it "practical", but okay. :p

Tinkeringbell

6:44 PM

@Bart On a male level, perhaps :P

curious

7:29 PM

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Rubiksmoose

8:19 PM

I'm absolutely not looking for upvotes here or anything, but can anybody explain why this answer is getting downvoted? I've heard a couple of theories in the comments (though one of them is not how the system works at least). Is it just normal to downvote an answer to an on-topic low effort question? I don't really care about the rep here, it just has me bemused.

Tinkeringbell

Some people are pretty adamant on not encouraging answering duplicate questions.

Rubiksmoose

Makes sense, I suppose. I'm not a fan of it when it happens usually myself.

Probably should have assumed it was already answered, but it was easy enough and it didn't occur to me to look.

[shrug] oh well.

Of course normally I'd just delete an answer on an accidental dupe, but obviously can't do that here.

Tinkeringbell

@Rubiksmoose Why not? Oh, because it's accepted?

Rubiksmoose

Yup.

Tinkeringbell