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Oh, I have a break between Christmas and New Year's as well, but just those days... In previous years I took two weeks, now just one because I'm expecting I need less time to recover from family drama :P

I'm expecting an actual break instead of the frantic 'trying to please everyone' that other years are.

Luuklag

Yeah no large family gatherings this year

Tinkeringbell

10:19 AM

Yep. And I'm sorry for everyone that's going to miss theirs, but I'm definitely not going to miss mine.

rene

Don't worry, the energy that isn't spend this year will carry forward to next christmas ...

Luuklag

@JNat cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20112441/sven-abend

Snow

@Tinkeringbell We're just going to have a very small Christmas with just the two of us and two dogs. Will see family when things open up. Right now we don't want to give anyone any risk of infection. To be on the safe side, I assume at all times that I'm asymptomatic.

Tinkeringbell

@rene I hope not! Hopefully my apartment is built by that time, and I'm living on my own. Which means just having to go 'gourmetten' on Dec. 26th :P

rene

:D

Tinkeringbell

10:24 AM

@Snow Same here for me personally, most of the family is sadly being covidiotic.

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell Your getting your own place? Congratz

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Since July '19th :P

Luuklag

They're taking their time then xD

when is it supposed to be done?

Tinkeringbell

Ehh. Long story. Contractor went broke last September, left me with a 'deurwaarder' and a 'derdenbeslag', now the insurance is looking for a new one and they're having good conversations with a new party, but apparently the company that produced the roofs went bankrupt as well and there's no 'eigendomsvoorbehoud' on the roofs because they weren't delivered yet, so I'll be hearing about the next steps in two weeks hopefully.

Luuklag

well that sucks

Your getting something in almere?

Tinkeringbell

10:30 AM

Nope, Wezep :)

rene

You're sure the house isn't a practice target for the military?

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag I'm mostly okay with it now that all the legal sh*t is done though. Now it's just a waiting game for me... Though I do want my own place badly at times when I clash with my mother again, it's not like I've already sold this roof over my head and now need to look for something else...

@rene Pretty sure ;)

Luuklag

ARgh stupid intern. Got 5 outlook invites for her final presentaiton in the last 5 mins

write your outlook item before sending it

Tinkeringbell

hey, she's only an intern! Interns these days aren't what they used to be, they don't teach outlook in school anymore :P

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell So this is you: destentor.nl/oldebroek/… xD

Tinkeringbell

10:42 AM

@Luuklag Shhht! :P But yeah, I'm getting one of the apartments there ;) I'm not in the picture though. If anyone wants pictures of me, go stalk my Twitter, it has a few ;)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell haha good to know if i ever wondered who was inside the parrot suit

Tinkeringbell

Heh ;) Poor parrot suit, it has remarkably strong seams if it can contain me :P

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell wasn't it made to size?

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Looking at the avatar, I would say no :P I would need a wider one.

Luuklag

and maybe one with a smaller neck xD

Tinkeringbell

10:47 AM

Or a fatter head... yeah :P

Rob

11:00 AM

@MadScientist As I discussed with Catija earlier it comes up from time to time that they do use such tools - they just don't discuss them, nor is it helpful to go into any details.

Mad Scientist

@Rob I know the existing tools, and they expose the PII to the mods, they don't work in the way I described

Rob

Not mod tools, the SpamRam and other security software.

Rob

11:14 AM

Sigh. That looks like two for two, but that paragraph really isn't beyond elementary school level.

M.A.R.

@Tinkeringbell make a man a sandwich, and you feed him for a day. Make a man sandwich, and it's a breakthrough in physics.

Luuklag

@JNat cross-site spammer: stackexchange.com/users/20121251/hunter-3

@M.A.R. I thought in genetic engineering ;)

M.A.R.

Might fix the overpopulation problem :p

Rob

11:39 AM

@Luuklag Yes, a man sandwich or a man eating chicken would be genetics and not physics:

Maybe linguistics.

Luuklag

@Rob you made me hungry :(

@SonictheK-DayHedgehog Found your message from the log. Maybe a sort of "new-user" banner, stating they recently returned from a long supsension, on their first X posts after unsuspension would be helpful?

Tinkeringbell

11:57 AM

@M.A.R. I thought man sandwich would just be called cannibalism.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

12:16 PM

@M.A.R. so you're happy?

@Tinkeringbell depends what kind of sandwich. ;)

I have unpopular opinion on the mod age policy. If I can make it into something that makes sense, might post it and watch the rain begins. :D

@Shog9 any chance to get more info about the cryptic "I can read between the lines"? Or is this involving things you can't share due to privacy stuff?

You had many lines that mortals like me could never see.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

12:41 PM

@TimPost hi, your network profile still showing your old About Me, can you please sync it with one of the sites?

Luuklag

@Shadow10YearsWizard If you need a hand let me know xD

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Luuklag I'm left handed, so might need your right hand. I'll let you know.

:P

Luuklag

hahaha

well ill continue with my report on soil compaction :/

so fun to have to pull together all sorts of measurements done by several people who poorly documented their actions in obscure documents and places

Tinkeringbell

12:58 PM

@Luuklag Need an archaeologist? :P

Luuklag

If you're good in digging in bits and bytes ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Shouldn't be too different? :P

The conclusion is always 'aliens' though.

Luuklag

1:18 PM

hahaha okay, I don't think the commisioner will like that conclusion

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Luuklag kind of like what I have to do (well, wife mostly do it, but still... ;)) after my kids play: organize everything back to place, picking up toys from unexpected locations. :D

Luuklag

@Shadow10YearsWizard yeah I do that every night as well xD

Rob

1:32 PM

@Tinkeringbell There's always the horseman sandwich:

Tinkeringbell

Is that a reference to the horse meat scandal?

Rob

Didn't hear about that, did they replace tinned horsemeat with people?

If this, then no.

Tinkeringbell

No, it was something about hamburgers and stuff being 'polluted' with horse meat.

Yeah, that one.

Rob

That reply was hooked to this comment:

2 hours ago, by Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. I thought man sandwich would just be called cannibalism.

Implying that the photo offered a solution.

Tinkeringbell

Well, I don't find that one very tasty looking, I'll pass :P

Rob

1:39 PM

Now you both have long faces.

Tinkeringbell

But now I'm feeling like snacking, which is bad because I have chocolate... but the chocolate was sent to me based on my age which goes against my principles so I should really just give it to my brother/dad...

AAGH chocolate life dilemma's.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell now I'm curious.... who sent? :D

Tinkeringbell

@Shadow10YearsWizard Company of course.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

I save a waffle snack for later

@Tinkeringbell based on age??

Rob

Me too!?, do they send a box of adult chocolate?

Tinkeringbell

1:42 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard Yes. My current company loves grouping people. So, when I joined, I was allocated to an age-based group (young professionals apparently need a group), and a sex-based group (female only).

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell eat it grudgingly? :D

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I think I will abide by the principle that singling people out isn't nice, and as such I shall refuse to eat this.

I'll dump it in the can tomorrow if dad or my brother doesn't want any.

@Rob No, that's the problem. All colleagues over a certain age won't get a thing.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell wow. Let me guess, the managers live in a cave? And eat raw meat?

:D

Tinkeringbell

@Shadow10YearsWizard I guess.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

I thought European companies aren't so primitive, lol.

Tinkeringbell

1:44 PM

I wish the cave didn't have internet so they couldn't throw meetings that should've been carrier pidgeons ...

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

So the male groups get beers?

Tinkeringbell

@Shadow10YearsWizard You think the males get a group?! How naive you are.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

lol

That's what I save for 5 PM:

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell I got an SinterHaas yesterday

rene

I have 3 apples

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

1:46 PM

Bought with my own money. ;)

@rene Mac, iPhone, and the third?

rene

check

Luuklag

@Shadow10YearsWizard macbook ofcourse ;)

Journeyman Geek

@rene is that cannibalism? :D

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

lol

Journeyman Geek

I'll have my carefully rationed chocolate later. ._.

Rob

1:48 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard Yes, it seems like stereotyping:

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

Found the cover:

'40 or '50?

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag I hate those. Can't eat those without getting splinters of chocolate everywhere, and as such stains XD

Journeyman Geek

@Shadow10YearsWizard pretty sure that would involve screaming and third degree burns

Mithical

Add the word "syrup" and avoid the issue

Journeyman Geek

maybe that's exactly what they mean

they would love you to have painful chocolate flavoured death.

Mithical

1:55 PM

Rob

You'd really like English Flake. Melts in the hand and breaks into thousands of pieces while being eaten:

Journeyman Geek

isn't that the one they put atop a soft serve?

Mithical

Looks like a M'kupelet

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical that sounds eidritch

"M'Kupleket - The taste... OF MADNESS!"

Mithical

Mekupelet

Mekupelet (Hebrew: מקופלת‎) (English name: Chocolate Log) is a bar of thinly folded milk chocolate produced in Israel since 1935 by 'Elite' now a subdivision of the Strauss Group. The Hebrew name means "folded". It is known for its crumbliness and thin flakes and has been compared to the British chocolate bar known as Cadbury Flake. Mekupelet is exported to overseas markets. Mekupelet is also produced in a 'Mehadrin' version through the 'Magadim' factory of the Strauss Group. == Variations == Several varieties of Mekupelet have been produced over the years, including: dark chocolate whit...

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

1:58 PM

@Mithical it is. One of them is a fake. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Shadow10YearsWizard as opposed to to a flake?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

Yup

Fake flake.

Mithical

Mar 27 '17 at 14:30, by Mithrandir

Rob

99 Flake

A 99 Flake can refer to any of three possible items: an ice cream cone with a Cadbury Flake inserted in it; the Cadbury-produced Flake bar itself specially made for insertion into an ice cream cone; or a wrapped ice cream cone product marketed by Cadbury. Created at the Cadbury's factory in Birmingham, England, the flake was originally designed to be a cuboid and to fit into a wafer. By 1930, Cadbury's was selling half-length Flake "99s" specifically for probing a cone. == '99' ice cream == A 99 Flake ice cream, or more commonly a 99 or ninety-nine, is an ice cream cone, usually made with...

Journeyman Geek

yu[

Tinkeringbell

2:06 PM

You're all very bad. I'm going to see if there's a banana left downstairs.

Rob

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

Apr 9 '17 at 19:25, by Shadow Wizard

@Mithrandir BTW, just ate מקופלת XL ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Rob bites @Rob. Twice

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@JourneymanGeek left and right? Or back and front?

Journeyman Geek

@Shadow10YearsWizard hard and harder?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

2:14 PM

Dog bit me when I was 14, in the back of the upper leg.

Journeyman Geek

gotta bite em, make eye contact, then bite em again.

Luuklag

gotta bitem em allll!!!!

pokemon!

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag astute observers will notice I bite people for 3 reasons.

not posting on meta, joking about cyberpunk 2077 delays and .... really bad puns.

Rob

@Shadow10YearsWizard Bite 'em in the upper of the back leg, that'll teach 'em.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Rob too hairy. Plus, I was busy getting away on the bicycle.

@JourneymanGeek like my fake flake? ;)

Journeyman Geek

2:21 PM

That was bad enough that I could give it a pass

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell was there a banana?

Shog9

@Shadow10YearsWizard no special knowledge involved here; I wrote more on twitter: twitter.com/shog9/status/1334244090779582466

It's a "safe" decision.

Rob

@Shadow10YearsWizard Could have been worse:

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Shog9 thanks

Rob

Journeyman Geek

2:25 PM

the dog could have bitten him, then stolen the bicycle and gotten away on it.

that's a really big dog

Shog9

...Lord help us all if the president gets section 230 revised, because "safe" is gonna get really ugly

Journeyman Geek

@Shog9 that is a MONUMENTAL hissy fit

and blocking military funding for that - not going to work I hope

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Rob no bears in my area. ;)

@JourneymanGeek nah, it wasn't a very big dog. Not small either. Medium. :)

John Dvorak

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@JohnDvorak does it bite?

John Dvorak

2:32 PM

yes

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

Does it hurt when it bites?

Mithical

@Shadow10YearsWizard apparently there are occasionally some in the Golan

But I've never seen one

Ann Zen

Hello! I have a question: How many rep is required to downvote on Meta Stack Exchange?

Mithical

100

Ann Zen

Thanks! 100 isn't mentioned here: meta.stackexchange.com/q/178529/773001

Luuklag

2:38 PM

@AnnZen That post is too old to be relevant. It was prior to the split of MSE and MSO

Anyone with a support hammer?

Journeyman Geek

I have a generic hammer.

Luuklag

can we get this dupe closure an modern banner, now that it is on the frontpage: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69560/…

Journeyman Geek

ugh

I do not handle flags on that on principle

this isn't a flag

Luuklag

So where's your principle now ;)

John Dvorak

@Shadow10YearsWizard not really. First it claws you until you stop moving, then it bites.

Ryan M

2:43 PM

As in you won't handle a "ban me" flag?

Luuklag

@RyanM I guess a re-open and close please flag

Journeyman Geek

@RyanM especially not those

I don't handle chat requests for that too

Luuklag

Good thing you used your hammer instead of your diamond @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag details details :D

Luuklag

Hmmm a lost soul deleting their own question, that's a sight seldom seen: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357416/…

Tinkeringbell

2:56 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard There was a 'zure bom' :D

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell that's healthier then chocolate

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Is it? :P

I always assumed those were pickled with an unhealthy amount of sugar too

Eleeza the Character Wizard

*returns after a long time

oh my god

y e s

Winter Bash is coming!!

Ohohohoho you know what that means

Omg the Winter Bash site looks so cute

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell Not according to the ingredients: kesbeke.nl/assortiment/augurken-en-uitjes/…

Tinkeringbell

Hmm. I'll add them to the list of things that fit a varied and healthy diet.

rene

3:07 PM

@Luuklag are you pregnant?

Journeyman Geek

....

Pickles are an any state food

Luuklag

@rene that would turn out very wierd I'm afraid

rene

Okay!

Journeyman Geek

Cause @Tinkeringbell asked me the same thing when i mentioned pickles and yogurt

Tinkeringbell

As long as eaten without whipped cream, there can be no proof of pregnancy.

rene

3:09 PM

LOL!

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Yeah but that's because your pickles are weird.

M.A.R.

Seems I've walked into a pickle situation.

Catija

Dill pickles made with cucumbers are the correct sort of pickles. :P

John Dvorak

@Catija you're in the wrong kind of neigborhood, with that opinion here ;)

Wait. No. This isn't TSL.

Catija

TSL?

John Dvorak

3:14 PM

The Sphinx's Lair really hates pickles.

Catija

Ah. That's disappointing. You'd think puzzlers would appreciate them. ... because there's always a correlation between those things.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija indian pickles are often made of things like unripe mangos

or tender mangos (which is something I suspect y'all might have never seen before)

John Dvorak

I do still wish to stay away from the topic of pickles though

Tinkeringbell

@JohnDvorak Why? Pickled things are great :D

John Dvorak

no.

Rob

3:18 PM

True.

Tinkeringbell

Ever had a pickled herring? :D

Or a pickled liverwurst.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Mithical well, my area is Tel Aviv, so still - not my area. ;)

Rob

Pickle Soda!

John Dvorak

TSL is talking about pickled cucumbers specifically

still, no fish for me.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Tinkeringbell zur who?

Back to chocolate! There is actually such a thing "Chocolate body wrap". dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1282910/… no burns. :)

Tinkeringbell

3:23 PM

No, we're not going back to chocolate... please?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

lol

Luuklag

@Shadow10YearsWizard I bet there are also places where you could eat chocolate off of somebody... Don't know what disturbes me more

John Dvorak

... that sidebar - ew

Luuklag

@JohnDvorak there you have an english tabloid

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@JohnDvorak which?

Luuklag

3:26 PM

@Shadow10YearsWizard this sidebar I guess

John Dvorak

wdym which?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@JohnDvorak what sidebar? What site?

John Dvorak

the one you linked

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

Oh lol. I didn't notice. Just found a decent (?) article and linked to it.

Sidebar usually list recent articles, no? And 99% ads.

Rob

@Shadow10YearsWizard Let's just combine everything, except pickles:

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

3:28 PM

I considered just oneboxing chocolate body wrap image, but it's on the verge of NSFW so thought better of it. @Ollie's blue monkey doesn't need chocolate. ;)

Rob

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Rob missing Shadow. :(

Rob

Behind his hand.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@Luuklag for the right price.... yeah. Cheaper to find online though. :P

!!/status

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard Running since 15:30:06 UTC (19 seconds)

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

3:30 PM

sdc location

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard teward/Osiris 49566b9 (SmokeDetector: Auto watch of freeaccountsgen\.com by Ryan M)

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

!!/why did you reboot?

SmokeDetector

@Shadow10YearsWizard No such command 'why'.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

:(

John Dvorak

how do you tell a male hand from a female hand @Rob?

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

3:32 PM

@JohnDvorak nails

Rob

It's complicated, and I have to do something in a minute. --- Shortest version, I prefer females with hands not like that.

@JohnDvorak Try this to tide you over:

Seinfeld - Man Hands

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user400654

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Tinkeringbell

@Rob I don't know about that one, but most lush products are pretty great :)

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

3:47 PM

That was tasty!

Planned to eat only half, but couldn't resist. :(

@user400654 long time no toilets, thanks.

Spevacus

Thanks, candy bar.

rene

@Shadow10YearsWizard I had two of the apples. I have only the iPad left.

Tinkeringbell

I would recommend getting home for dinner before starting on that one :)

rene

I'm already home. And dinner doesn't prep itself here ... ;)

Tinkeringbell

It doesn't here either! At least... that's what mom keeps telling me.

rene

4:01 PM

You can at least stare hopeful at your mom when you're getting hungry. I can at best stare at my neighbors ... or my empty kitchen ....

John Dvorak

go to the shop. Bring extra bags since you're shopping hungry :P

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@rene what songs?

@Tinkeringbell LOL

Rob

@M.A.R. isn't the only one eyeing the neighbors:

4 hours ago, by Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R. I thought man sandwich would just be called cannibalism.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

@rene or phone? (delivery, duh. ;))

rene

I can't remember the last time I ordered food.

Shadow 10 Years Wizard

4:11 PM

@rene so order today? :D

M.A.R.

@Rob I can neither confirm nor deny eyeing neighbors.

Snow

4:53 PM

Product testing has its perks. We got paid £10 to test these.

Tinkeringbell

@Snow Oooh, nice!

I know a guy too :P

That pile was free for whoever wanted some :)

rene

Is that you daily allowance?

Tinkeringbell

hourly ;)

rene

LOL

Leave some for me ...

Tinkeringbell

I think the year before that, the pile was even bigger. Sadly, I no longer play the game and as such haven't been to the alliance barbecues anymore ;)

Snow

5:05 PM