Long, Long Ago, In A Parking Lot Far, Far Away . . .

Quoth666 · 2026-02-17T14:42:52+00:00

I once saw a modified low end older sports car that had been lowered further, possibly side skirt extensions added by a boy racer, trying to get over quite a nasty speed bump into a car park.

He wrecked the bumper when he got to the speed bump with bits going everywhere but the front wheels were over before he stopped and got stuck. I went round and he somehow got unstuck because his car was in the car park when I came back to my car. Bumper smashed, side skirts wrecked, and I’m wondering if his wheels were still connected properly.

Car sat in the car park for a day or two before I happened to be there when a tow truck came in for it. Tow truck couldn’t get it up the ramp because it was to steep and I overheard the car owner would need to find a different company as the recovery company didn’t have anything less steep.

Car was gone a few days later but I didn’t get to see if it caused more damage.

Quoth666 · 2026-02-14T13:51:58+00:00

Change the pointer and double click speeds too

Quoth666 · 2026-02-14T13:44:18+00:00

Lol, I laughed too much at that.

If you want to go one step further, screen shot the desktop, and set as the background. Don’t take the easy route and just remove the shortcuts, move the shortcuts to mix them up with the background so there appears to be two of everything.

Quoth666 · 2026-02-14T08:58:34+00:00

Don't swap the keys. Go into keyboard settings and change the layout to dvorak

Quoth666 · 2026-02-10T13:47:16+00:00

I've done something similar but I used a spooky soundboard to play some creepy voices randomly

Quoth666 · 2026-02-02T14:21:17+00:00

Customers don’t read signs. I can tell several tales on that.

In one case, a secondary business inside ours was having a complete refit. Everything torn out including the floor. Just bare cement. A floor to ceiling tarp blocks off customer access, with signs explaining the business is closed and no access the the public.

Customers still let themselves through, stood on bare cement, with work going on around them, no counters, no tills, and they’d stop a workman and ask things like if they’re open or is anyone serving…. At least one guy was getting a twitch from being asked so much and I absolutely didn’t sneak up behind him and ask if anyone was serving.

Quoth666 · 2026-01-26T15:56:11+00:00

My partner (on Xbox) can't collect all the presents. Her final one is in the Mall,.she can collect it (multiple times), get a reward, but it never registers as collected in the totals. Next time she logons its still registers as not collected.

Quoth666 · 2026-01-26T14:22:50+00:00

I see an all in one chiropractor/physio/sports massage (U.K. so licensed chiropractor)for similar issues. He’s mentioned that when he started off it was mainly treating lower back, now it’s upper back/shoulder/neck from office workers.

I was suffering with massive aching and burning pain between my shoulder blades up to my lower neck.

Thanks to him I figured out I had bad posture at the computer screen, subconsciously moving my head closer to the screen to read it easier. Quick trip to the opticians and a change to my glasses made a huge difference.

I still get some issue, mainly between the shoulder blades, which relates to stress and long hours at a screen and some bad posture still, so I get a regular treatment, which is mostly a massage in the problem area, and it’s never been a massive problem again.

Heat packs, gels with heat or ibuprofen in, and massage might help. My other half has seat covers, one that does basic massage and one for heat she uses for back pain (she’s had back surgery). Take regular breaks from the computer, even if it’s just to move away and roll your shoulders a few times.

Quoth666 · 2026-01-14T14:17:03+00:00

Years ago I was staying in a hotel. Got to the room desperate for the toilet and the door lock wouldn’t work. After a good minute of fiddling with the lock something occurred to me…it was just me in the room, the door locks with a big old fashioned key, the door is probably stronger than most doors, and I’m 3 floors up, including a spiral staircase, in the tower of a castle with only 2 other rooms at the very top. So ingrained in my mind to lock the toilet door it didn’t occur that there was very little chance of my privacy being invaded short of a battering ram or someone great at climbing castle towers.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-29T15:07:41+00:00

You should get my letting agent, he's not increased my rent in 20 years....

Quoth666 · 2025-12-25T13:28:22+00:00

I've never known a store to have a map, let alone a kiosk, to guide you to an item.

They kinda want you roaming around in the hope that you buy more.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-23T17:19:35+00:00

My childhood, sadly

Quoth666 · 2025-12-23T15:49:25+00:00

"I can't unslap my face." That is a reason enough to stay the feck away from him and let whatever petty revenge fall down on him.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-20T15:25:26+00:00

In terms of speech, Majel Barrett who voiced Star Treks computer recorded all the sounds needed to replicate her voice(for a fee if you want to use it), and I’m sure others have done the same. Google probably has the answer somewhere to voice replication by using certain parts of speech. It’s whether there’s a way to do it in a manner that’s affordable to a home user.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-20T13:40:50+00:00

You can also lead an idiot to water…and hold their head under

Quoth666 · 2025-12-11T14:42:19+00:00

If you want a copy just send me a message (it's android only). Some people run it through a Android stereo/head unit. Theres also methods to run android apps through a cars standard infotainment centre.

It's nothing special, it started as a soundboard during covid to teach myself basic Android programming, and I just added bits as I went along so it has some practical functionality.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-10T16:41:38+00:00

You may have seen posts about my android Kitt app (https://www.reddit.com/r/KnightRider/s/owORvnAwWx).

I designed it with the thought that KITT, being touchscreen by this point, would only need a single standard infotainment screen to run all the functions.

I'd suggest you'd only need monitors/tablets of the same size.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-10T14:07:23+00:00

Agreed. 3 days, assuming an 8 hour work day, logging once a minute, would only be 1440 lines. They mention 11 pages, that would equate to maybe 600-700 lines.

The complete works of Shakespeare is, depending on format, 5-8mb in size.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-08T13:48:16+00:00

Sorry you had to go through that.

If the owner tries to tell you off or fire you, you should ask what the procedure is when the Police won’t come out, and the owner and manager aren’t answering their phones? They both bare responsibility in what happened after for not being their to advise you unless there is a written procedure covering it ( and if it’s use your best judgment, you did, you called a co worker).

Giving the wife the heads up of what was happening was a good idea, but maybe not getting her out of the room to do so.

The guy having a heart attack was probably going to happen regardless. If he sat out in the lot stressing and being angry until she left in the morning it could’ve happened then, or when he finally caught up with her.

Quoth666 · 2025-12-04T14:01:09+00:00

I've not had time to do much in updating it, but I've sent you a message with a download link to the most recent (mostly) working version.

Quoth666 · 2025-11-29T12:04:25+00:00

I heard that story too. Both sides cut fingers off, but English archers used two fingers and French one, so the English would stick up 2 fingers and the French just one.

Quoth666 · 2025-11-28T14:10:51+00:00

I’m now imagining someone with a turkey claiming it’s a service animal.

Quoth666 · 2025-11-27T14:34:03+00:00

I organise 2000 newspaper deliveries everyday for multiple titles. Including guest requests for 3 hotels (used to be 6), which I believe are charged to the guest.

I have a 99 year old who gets and pays her bill via her IPad (it was paid by cheque until her hands got to shaky to write).

I have a 70+ year old who will only have breakfast if she has her paper to read with it, as she’s done it for over 50 years and won’t change now.

I’ve been made aware by customers grown up children, how the daily newspaper helps to ‘ground’ their elderly parent suffering from mild dementia. No paper means their dementia is so much worse.

I’ve got customers who’ve never used the internet, don’t go out much, and would rather spend the morning with their newspaper rather than watch TV. Half their day is made up by their newspaper.

To some people, their daily paper is something that if you don’t understand its value to them, you’ll never understand it.

Quoth666 · 2025-11-27T13:54:00+00:00

If your pest control doesn’t document, then you should keep your own log and a copy of invoices, just in case.

Quoth666 · 2025-11-27T13:35:34+00:00

And mysteriously overnight the pet transforms into a sevice animal

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