The Official Status Thread
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Status: Was wondering a "case of coffee" was, then reread the sentence.
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RIP XP users
Status: I go away for one 3-day weekend and you all make 1500 posts in the likes topic
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Status: Server is cooties.
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Status: I want my avatar back
DISCOOOUURSE!!
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Status: I want my avatar back
wait so it does that to you too? change you avatar and the thing's not selected right so you save and you get you're letter?
been bugging me for weeks that has. gotta select gravatar or letter then reselect custom after uploading the new custom but before saving.
though i think you can get away with just opinging the avatar selecting one and choose your custom avatar that you uploaded again.
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Status: Occasionally I get e-mailed job offers from recruitment agencies. Normally, I just delete them, but sometimes I read them, just to see what sort of stuff is around; I did a double-take when I got to this bit:
They have offices it the UK, United States, Canada and North America.
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Status: Well, that came out of nowhere…
Dated 2015Am I the only one who has no idea what this is meant to be referring to? Why is there a link to some German site and what is meant to be intriguing about it?
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Presumably not one of these.
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For those of us who are fans of the speedy blue one, it's very intriguing, especially since the company with the cobalt logo won't be at E3 this year ;)
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E3
Right, so something to do with games. Is the site announcing games that are going to be released?
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Seems to be some random voice actor has a mystery Sonic something down as something he's done recently.
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Not that site specifically; that's the site of a voice artist, and he's listed all the games and stuff he's voiced in. The intriguing bit is that nowhere else is carrying that info
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Thanks for the context!
Status: fiancée wants to buy a puppy. I think I need to get her pregnant so her broodiness can find a more constructive targes
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You should still get a puppy.
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Status: I go away for one 3-day weekend and you all make 1500 posts in the likes topic
We have a goal to reach.
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You should still get a puppy
We have a 3 year old Papillon/Pomeranian cross. She wants a Keeshond to go with it
I'm not particularly against it, I just like to wind her up about having too many "furbabies"
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Mexico and Central America are still technically North America
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been bugging me for weeks that has. gotta select gravatar or letter then reselect custom after uploading the new custom but before saving.
I did that about seventeen times, in every possible permutation, and it didn't work. But now I tried it again, on my home computer, and it worked fine. Guess my work PC/internet is as much of a WTF as Discourse.
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Mexico and Central America are still technically North America
While that may be true, that's not really relevant
@CarrieVS said:But now I tried it again, on my home computer, and it worked fine.
WOOHOO!
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i read your description post of your efforts after posting that (catching up i was) yeah that was weird as heck.
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you're back and that's all that matters! :-D
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You keep using that; petition @PJH to make it an emoji?
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What does it even mean?
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Something similar to would be my guess
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What does it even mean?
given the comment it's a reply to i'm guessing "no" or "won't"
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Aren't those crossed arms? Like... *huff*, FINE.
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given the comment it's a reply to i'm guessing "no" or "won't"
@loopback0 said:Aren't those crossed arms? Like... huff, FINE.
I was thinking more it'sI am dissapoint
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Maybe.
Clearly it's not the best emojicon if the meaning is so unclear.
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Status: On hold with Dell tech support.
Carpet bombing whatever part of India their call center is in seems like a prudent idea.
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It's back!
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Our offshore support team went through a phase of giving themselves fake English names in some half-brained attempt to fool customers so you'd end up talking to a bloke with a heavy Indian accent, from India, called "Dave" or "Steve".
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fake English names
This call center is going one further. The support person I am talking to is supposedly named "Carlito". I will guarantee you that this guy is not Latino.
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You sure it's not a Filipino call centre where they might actually be called that (although still not Latino)?
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I am still on the line. Do you want me to bring you in on a 3-way call so you can judge for yourself?
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Yeah... I've not been on enough calls today for work, I'll go on one for someone else's work.
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The support person I am talking to is supposedly named "Carlito". I will guarantee you that this guy is not Latino.
There was a Discovery-style TV show a few years ago, I think it was Build It Bigger, where the host was in a Middle Eastern city talking about a particular skyscraper. The construction company had imported a LOT of foreigners, including a Chinese guy that the host happened to stop to talk to, and he asked him his name, and the guy says "Will", because he likes Will Smith. So the host asks Will what his favorite Will Smith movie is, and the guy enthusiastically blurts out "Black Men!"
You could feel the tension over here in the US.
2-3 seconds later, the host goes "Oh, Men In Black!" and they cut to a different scene. Funniest damn thing, from afar. I'm amazed they actually put it in the show, though.
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I've not been on enough calls today for work, I'll go on one for someone else's work.
That's pretty nice of you.
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Status: Wondering what Jeff would think of the purple cholla treatment.
When someone opens a new UX topic, and gets 16 likes (including from your co-founder) and various counter proposals, you don't close the topic in favor of a similar topic that's been inactive for 14 months!
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you don't close the topic in favor of a similar topic that's been inactive for 14 months!
King Jeff™ does though. Can't have too much civilised discourse.
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@darkmatter said:
It's okay because Discourse was built for the future. And in 20 years, no one will confuse the years with the days because it'll be Jan '35.
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You sure it's not a Filipino call centre where they might actually be called that (although still not Latino)?
The follow-up email has his name as "Cali". I guess Carlito was as close as he could get? ;)
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I said might. ;)
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I remember an old co-worker who said the guy he had talked to (I think it was Dell support too, and it was Indian) called himself "Abraham Lincoln".
I want to hope it was someone who knew how ridiculous that idea was and was making fun of it on the job.
Status: Eating lunch after dealing with getting log files off of an SMS box.
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I remember an old co-worker who said the guy he had talked to (I think it was Dell support too, and it was Indian) called himself "Abraham Lincoln".
I want to hope it was someone who knew how ridiculous that idea was and was making fun of it on the job.
That was a running joke on Alien Nation; immigration people getting a bit loopy coming up with names for a quarter of a million people all at once. One of the main characters, Sam Francisco, was told by his new partner, his name was now "George".
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King Jeff™ does though. Can't have too much civilised discourse.
Down with King Jeff™! Down with the monarchy!
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So switching tabs causes Chrome to spit out a notification from Dischorse I've already had pop up (and read) from another tab?! Wonderful.
@riking!
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So switching tabs causes Chrome to spit out a notification from Dischorse I've already had pop up (and read) from another tab?! Wonderful.
:slowclap.rdp: