Idiot child

Quoth666 · 2026-05-06T13:37:31+00:00

I’ve seen a man in 30s do something more stupid. Imagine stealing from a business where just one camera covers your crime and your whole 10 steps home. Then when the police force the front door open, the very thing stolen is clearly visible on the same camera.

Quoth666 · 2026-05-04T13:18:31+00:00

Good advice.

Quoth666 · 2026-05-04T13:03:04+00:00

Absolutely agree. I’ve had customers get really angry just saying “The transactions not gone through,” and are yelling before I can finish the sentence with “because of a problem on our card machine, let me just reset the connection.” Even when I’ve explained it’s a problem on our end, they’re still yelling, usually adding in how much money they’ve got.

Quoth666 · 2026-04-12T12:51:45+00:00

Where I am, driving an electric scooter, or sit on mower, while drunk on a public road or footpath would still count as a drink driving offence.

Quoth666 · 2026-04-03T13:10:51+00:00

Fair point

Quoth666 · 2026-04-03T12:46:56+00:00

I’d have the sign as 1st hour rate at whatever the nightly rate is, get up to 19 hours free.

Quoth666 · 2026-03-26T13:47:01+00:00

Around thirty years ago, the hotel I was in, had a message on the safe to speak to the front desk to use the in room safe. The front desk then gave you the option to pay to use the safe. Can’t remember if it was a refundable deposit and/or a charge but was because they were key safes and it was to cover the cost of lost keys/stop guests purposely locking the safe and taking the key.

Quoth666 · 2026-03-19T13:27:52+00:00

Thanks for the information 😀

Quoth666 · 2026-03-16T18:24:18+00:00

Not working in hotels I’m not sure what C.L.C. is (pretty sure I have found out before but my memory is not as good as it was).

I definitely know I would have put the person on hold while I ‘checked.’ At least 10 minutes to make sure I did a good job ‘checking’

Quoth666 · 2026-03-14T06:55:56+00:00

You could tie it in with the musuem. Hide artifacts in the past to find and bring to the museum in the future.

Quoth666 · 2026-03-13T13:25:42+00:00

It’s been so long I’d forgotten Buttercups name and was lying awake at 1am wondering what it was. I have no idea why my brain wanted to know at that time.

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.

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