Chicken attack!

I respect your perspective.

I have negotiated with an uninvolved friend that, next time they stop by, we’ll try this concoction. If you wish to make your way here in that timeframe, you’re welcome to partake.

Eh, I also wasn’t very good at flirting back then.

Agreed and done, thanks!

Back when I was dating, I encountered someone with the username “razetheaxolotl.” I was trying to show off my awareness of esoteric animals and my vocabulary and asked if she meant to raise them, as in promote awareness of them; or to raze them, as in clear land (and occupants).

She responded that she loved axolotls and would never advocate razing them, then I never heard from her again. Weird.

I’ll try to find it and try even harder to remember to put it here.

You must be thinking of step-chickenfs.

I’m not sure I’m succeeding, but I’m trying hard to be good to her. She’s the best person I know.

Last time I touched grass, I hyperextended my already injured ankle. I’m super tentative about that kind of thing now.

https://youtu.be/1HPVQ4FpVlY

Oh, cool. I like the axolotl most of all, but that’s pretty cute, too.

Do you play Minecraft on a server? Can I join?

edit: also, I would describe that as bee-like, rather than squirrel-like; that said, I haven’t seen it in action.

I thought maybe it was a reference to carbuncle.

What game?

edit: warning, my link leads to a gross wiki article.

∞

I don’t like your username, but I like your message.

Also, IIRC, at the time they said he was done as a character.

Watch out for Burnseses.

I dated and married.

I love the story of how I met my now-wife. It was on IRC. When I was trying to start to meet women, I never would have guessed that that would be how I met my future wife.

Nice.

Sad but true.

It’s not quite on the same level, but somewhere I have a screenshot of words along the lines of “test, no one should see this” on Bank of America’s account views.

I suspect you’re right, but fortunately for me, I’ll never know!

Back around 2005ish (I don’t remember the year for sure), I interviewed for a company that, IIRC, provided support for business class printers. At the time, that’s all they did. (Looking at their website now, it seems like they’ve expanded to general IT support).

I went through two two hour in-person interviews followed by a five hour on-site “personality test” (many pages of multiple choice questions, similar to - but longer than - a personality quiz you might find online today). Throughout the two original interviews, I could tell that I was making a good impression and was verbally told how impressed they were several times.

After the test I then had to come back one last time, something like a week later, to be told the results. They told me a lot of things that sounded generic but flattering, again just like a personality quiz you would take online, then told me they’d decided not to hire me. The reason, they explained, was that I changed jobs too often. Which was true, I had been changing jobs a lot in that timeframe. Because I was working retail and hated it; I was interviewing there in the hopes of getting a grown-up job.

I don’t agree with their reasoning, but regardless of whether they were correct, my employment history was on my resume, which they saw before even my first ridiculously long interview. They could have decided that it was a deal breaker at any time without wasting 9 hours of my time (not including drive time and the final “we’re going with no” meeting). Also, in that timeframe I had received another job offer, which I had declined because I thought this would be a better job and closer to (at the time) home. I thought I was going to get it because of the positive feedback.

I’ve been at my current job and haven’t interviewed in a good long while, but other than the process described above I don’t think I’ve ever had an interview last over an hour. Ultimately I’m glad I didn’t get that job, because there were a lot of what I now recognize as red flags, but I was young and dumber back then and was quite upset.