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Niegs wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:24 am This appeared in my feed for some reason... older vid, which I don't think I've seen before. Nearly died laughing as it repeated, especially at "JAY-OW-LLL!!!|

Reminds me of myself tbf as a kid losing at Monopoly, except I had marginally smaller breasts.

That's where you learn voltage doesn't kill you, just hurts like a bastard. Last time I did that at school I was stood in a load of plastic trays. Voltage got high enough that a spark jumped from my ankle to the floor around the trays, probably 10-15cm.

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Christ, how lucky there was no-one in the place when it went...

Fuck secondhand smoke.

That is all.

Full Moon Fever.

It's a real thing I reckon, but have no idea if there's any actual scientific evidence...

A dipshit youtuber has been shot after someone he pranked didn't take too kindly to it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... fied-goons

A popular US YouTube creator who prides himself on making videos in which he displays odd behavior to put people off intends to keep at it, even after one of his targets allegedly shot him nearly to death.

An over-reaction, to put it mildly, but god above, what does this clown expect to happen.

Cook’s page contains clips of him acting as if he is vomiting on ride-sharing service drivers, making a fast-food restaurant employee nervous by going behind the establishment’s counter, and bothering people at stores.

Gumboot wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:12 am Full Moon Fever.

It's a real thing I reckon, but have no idea if there's any actual scientific evidence...

We used to notice the change in the crowd when I worked in bars. It’s a thing.

Grandpa wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:38 am

I have three of those shovels from Costco. great things to keep in the car for winter.

Guy Smiley wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:16 am

Gumboot wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:12 am Full Moon Fever.

It's a real thing I reckon, but have no idea if there's any actual scientific evidence...

We used to notice the change in the crowd when I worked in bars. It’s a thing.

Is it though? I always just assumed it was born of it being bright at night so people can go and actually do stuff then for a change.

PornDog wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:53 am

Guy Smiley wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:16 am

Gumboot wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:12 am Full Moon Fever.

It's a real thing I reckon, but have no idea if there's any actual scientific evidence...

We used to notice the change in the crowd when I worked in bars. It’s a thing.

Is it though? I always just assumed it was borne of it being bright at night so people can go and actually do stuff then for a change.

Deal with a large crowd every night for weeks. Watch the change.

Come back and ask me if it’s real or not after that.


I worked a very popular, upmarket bar in Sydney in the mid to late 80s. Live music every night of the week. Primo spot on the beach in Manly. Backpackers mixing with tourists and local chancers. It was a real scene, a melting pot. A great place to observe the human race strutting its stuff and we would all share the night’s madness over drinks after closing. We all noticed it and compared notes with workers from other bars. It was a popular theme with bar staff… lookout, here comes full moon night. Back to them climbing the walls and eating their own shit for a night.

Guy Smiley wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:02 am

PornDog wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:53 am

Guy Smiley wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:16 am

We used to notice the change in the crowd when I worked in bars. It’s a thing.

Is it though? I always just assumed it was borne of it being bright at night so people can go and actually do stuff then for a change.

Deal with a large crowd every night for weeks. Watch the change.

Come back and ask me if it’s real or not after that.


I worked a very popular, upmarket bar in Sydney in the mid to late 80s. Live music every night of the week. Primo spot on the beach in Manly. Backpackers mixing with tourists and local chancers. It was a real scene, a melting pot. A great place to observe the human race strutting its stuff and we would all share the night’s madness over drinks after closing. We all noticed it and compared notes with workers from other bars. It was a popular theme with bar staff… lookout, here comes full moon night. Back to them climbing the walls and eating their own shit for a night.

Sure, I get that. However humans see patterns in everything, retroactively finding meaning in otherwise random events. Its a well known phenomena. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc and all that.

Is that a more likely explanation for your experience than how much sunlight is reflected off the Moon having a metaphysical effect on the psyche of human beings on Earth!!! Smacks a bit too much of "Mars is setting in Aries, while Jupitor crosses Orion" to me.

Gumboot wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:56 pm The Honky Tonk Nun has died.

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99.

Such a wonderful musician. RIP

Very cool! Went down an Ethiopian jazz youtube rabbit hole after listening to that. Thanks.

weegie01 wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:23 am

Grandpa wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:38 am

I have three of those shovels from Costco. great things to keep in the car for winter.

He was lucky the guy who found him had one!

FalseBayFC wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:31 pm Very cool! Went down an Ethiopian jazz youtube rabbit hole after listening to that. Thanks.

I highly recommend the Ethiopiques series of absolutely banging '60s and '70s jazz and funk. There are over two dozen volumes - I haven't heard them all, but my favourite so far is Volume 8: Swinging Addis.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89thiopiques

Gumboot wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:04 pm

FalseBayFC wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:31 pm Very cool! Went down an Ethiopian jazz youtube rabbit hole after listening to that. Thanks.

I highly recommend the Ethiopiques series of absolutely banging '60s and '70s jazz and funk. There are over two dozen volumes - I haven't heard them all, but my favourite so far is Volume 8: Swinging Addis.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89thiopiques

This is what your avatar pic sounds like!

Defeating a cars security, & hot-wiring it .... thru it's headlight !

<< Warning - Seriously geekish content >>

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/06/ ... car_theft/

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:25 pm Defeating a cars security, & hot-wiring it .... thru it's headlight !

<< Warning - Seriously geekish content >>

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/06/ ... car_theft/

Interesting stuff. My car has two vulnerable features... there's an app I can use to access the vehicle from my phone. Some owners are apparently leaving the key fob at home and just using their phones to operate the cars. The other is the supplied RFID type card you can use to access the car, by waving it over the hotspot receiver in the driver's wing mirror.

These features are sold as advantages.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:45 pm Guy nobody is stealing your Fiat Cinquecento

You must be kidding !!!!!! Stupidly marketable cars with city dwellers.

.... of course, as someone whose owned a FIAT in the past, I can attest that anything electrical in the car is probably buggered before the warranty expired, so your probably safe from anyone trying to use the CAN bus to steal it anyway

I've never owned a Fiat.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:08 pm

Guy Smiley wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:04 pm I've never owned a Fiat.

I feel.sorry for you that you didn't get a fumble in a Fiat

You keep trying to put your words in my posts.

I never said I hadn't enjoyed a fumble in a fiat, only that I never owned one.

When do you stop self owning here, ER? You're looking like the bored's biggest onanist.

Guy Smiley wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:04 pm I've never owned a Fiat.

You've missed out on a tremendous intellectual stimulation !

You haven't had to deal with a car that only had one indicator working, so you had to plot a route home using only the functional one; or where you knew if you had to stop at a traffic lights, there was no guarantee the fucking thing would get off idle without stalling, so you were watching the lights from 400m out, & reving the shit out of it at the lights like it was a Le Mans start.

Years ago I remember Alonso's car breaking on the warm up lap, because there was a tiny amount of rain, & I quipped to my mates how I felt his pain because my FIAT was fucking awful in the rain too.

fishfoodie wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:17 pm

Guy Smiley wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:04 pm I've never owned a Fiat.

You've missed out on a tremendous intellectual stimulation !

You haven't had to deal with a car that only had one indicator working, so you had to plot a route home using only the functional one; or where you knew if you had to stop at a traffic lights, there was no guarantee the fucking thing would get off idle without stalling, so you were watching the lights from 400m out, & reving the shit out of it at the lights like it was a Le Mans start.

Years ago I remember Alonso's car breaking on the warm up lap, because there was a tiny amount of rain, & I quipped to my mates how I felt his pain because my FIAT was fucking awful in the rain too.

I've driven plenty of shit boxes that needed special tactics to negotiate the drive home from the pub. Best was my Honda motorbike... broke a throttle cable on a long ride so I rigged the return cable to open the throttles. That meant twisting the throttle backwards to accelerate and because I was broke and hopeless it took me weeks to buy a new cable. I got used to it and could blip the throttle on downchanges so most of my mates had no idea. Watching them try to ride it was hysterical.

Looks like we'll have to wait for grandchildren to see if the genes have passed down



3rd girl child for the GOAT

I've forked out for some supposedly decent walking shoes for a month of travel, and they have like over a centimetre of height. Bought online

I've always bought cheap shoes and the sudden height makes me wonder, beyond what walking comfort benefits that may add, if many expensive "normal" shoes add extra height to the shoes to perhaps persuade continued purchase/brand loyalty through height confidence? Obviously some people buy thick sole shoes just for added height (and looks like there are dedicated "elevator shoes" for this), but wondering how necessary or subversive the height on these shoes are.

May be "obvious" to some others but when the most expensive shoes you've ever previously bought are cantab "on sale" £40 eight studders, well fashion experience is limited

Musings not worth a thread.

Depends where you are going to go walking. If it's over broken rock in a riverbed or scree a proper sole is essential - your feet and sneakers won't survive that in dozens of locations in kiwiland for instance.

I always buy Salomon walking shoes/boots, not found amy better so far

This is America

Was he armed with an AR-15? If not, GFTO.

tabascoboy wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:40 am This is America

I think we've got the reason for all these train derailments in the US

ASMO wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:08 am I always buy Salomon walking shoes/boots, not found amy better so far

I am not impressed with my Salomon walking shoes tbh, not a patch on my 30 year old Gelerts or my 20 year old Karrimor boots, not the shitty ones Sports Direct make in China now.

C69 wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:42 pm

ASMO wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:08 am I always buy Salomon walking shoes/boots, not found amy better so far

I am not impressed with my Salomon walking shoes tbh, not a patch on my 30 year old Gelerts or my 20 year old Karrimor boots, not the shitty ones Sports Direct make in China now.

Just did a quick google, & disgusted to see that Brasher is now part of the JD Sports clusterfuck <spit>

Quick note to CEO; if you feel the need to have a link to a report on, "modern slavery", on your homepage, you should do us all a favour & go snorkling in a slurry pit.

C69 wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 8:42 pm

ASMO wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:08 am I always buy Salomon walking shoes/boots, not found amy better so far

I am not impressed with my Salomon walking shoes tbh, not a patch on my 30 year old Gelerts or my 20 year old Karrimor boots, not the shitty ones Sports Direct make in China now.

I have a pair of Salomons, among the most comfortable shoes or boots I've ever worn. After 3 long hiking trips in Nepal I've had to have them re soled and I've not used them much since then. I'm not sure how they'll go with what looks to be a more rigid sole. Wearing the original sole out that quickly was a disappointment.

Gumboot wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:04 pm

FalseBayFC wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:31 pm Very cool! Went down an Ethiopian jazz youtube rabbit hole after listening to that. Thanks.

I highly recommend the Ethiopiques series of absolutely banging '60s and '70s jazz and funk. There are over two dozen volumes - I haven't heard them all, but my favourite so far is Volume 8: Swinging Addis.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89thiopiques

Have you ever been to Addis? Very cool night out going bar to bar drinking beer and listening and dancing to all the different music. Loved it.

Ain't nothing like getting back to the office after a week off, starting the great Unread email cull and then having Outlook shit its pants and stop working at 77 unread.

Loving this Ethiopian Jazz wormhole I'm going down, awesome stuff!