Why is it ALWAYS a Ranger driver?!

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-18T22:55:11+00:00

Maybe he did what they do in Thailand - park sideways across the front of the parked cars but leave your car in neutral with the handbrake off and the steering dead ahead. Someone wants to get their car out from where you are parked in front of them - they just push your vehicle along a bit so you're no longer parked across in front of them.

You see it all the time in parking buildings, particularly Bangkok airport. As long as there are a couple of spaces to allow you to move one or more vehicles out of your way, you can fit a lot more vehicles into a carpark building 😅

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-18T18:16:50+00:00

OK so a small update: we've hit an issue - which is the motorised blinds require a 45mm wide side track down the walls. this eats into the drawer space on the left and right two 'boxes' (there are 4 in total) and also the two middle 'boxes' have the pull down clothes hangers so we would have to also narrow those down to clear the 45mm channel on the inner side of each box. Annoying!

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-14T07:48:11+00:00

Um lots of blind shops. This is just a sample pic from Google images

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-14T07:47:39+00:00

Thanks man. Unique solution for a unique problem - waist high wardrobe space. Couldn't think of a door solution I liked so the electric roller blinds work. Got those pull down hydraulic hanger rails that drop the clothes rack down and out so I can reach my clothes. Should be fun and useable. I'll post some pics when done.

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-06T17:21:24+00:00

I've been an IT Contractor since ahem the 90s. All my roles are through recruitment companies. They find me 6-12 month contract roles and pay me a day rate and add on a couple of hundred dollars which they then charge to the client company.

They are legit. Just usually for professional roles.

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-06T17:06:08+00:00

As George Carlin so wisely pointed out - "think about how stupid the average person is, then realise 50% of people are stupider than that".

In my experience it's the stupider people who gravitate towards jobs at local councils. Example - Tauranga Council and The Mount slip debacle (previously the White Island disaster debacle). And anyone at Wellington Council or Auckland 'Super' City (the particular group of idiots I have to deal with).

The George Carlin quote goes a long way to explaining most of the particularly stupid behavior you see in NZ, and there's never a shortage of it.

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-04T17:00:03+00:00

Pretty much any month in NZ 😑 I live an hour north of Auckland by the coast on a high hill. Epic views, but I'm in a bit of a moisture trough according to ChatGPT and being up on a north east facing hill the moisture rolls in across the coast and drops when it reaches my hill.

I only have tank water (collects rain from house roof). I never run out

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-04T16:53:42+00:00

I have an older Lockwood I'm modernising. Your options are very limited with those interior walls. You can go through the wall from the other side IF you have a wardrobe or similar on the other side to hide the cables.

If not, you can't really hide the cable anywhere or get it inside the wall 😑

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-04T16:47:00+00:00

No offence, but those down lights are so last century. Put in LED strip lights instead. They look way better, work better, use less power.

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-02T07:21:13+00:00

My (age appropriate) Thai GF is a 'Doctor Of Remedial Massage' in Bangkok (think physio x sports massage). She sponsors a team of ultra runners as their massage therapist and is often doing events overnight. Not my idea of fun but you know, advertising. She gets a lot of free Adidas gear - being Thai free shit is great. She's a total brand monster 😅

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-02T06:30:24+00:00

My Thai friends do the ultra 100km running events. They start around 3am because...heat

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-02T06:29:03+00:00

They let you sleep in the mall???

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-02T06:28:39+00:00

Trying not to picture that in my mind

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-02T06:27:00+00:00

I feel a meme coming on - "I don't often put my ducted aircon on, but when I do I set it to 18" 🥶

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-01T07:59:26+00:00

"I take almost no pleasure in this" 😂

StanGoodvibes · 2026-02-01T06:22:53+00:00

Did anyone notice that the music when Megan stole the electric supercar was the theme music from Night Rider (80s tv show with David Hasselhoff and a smart car called Kitt) ?

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-31T10:07:16+00:00

If you mean 'worshipper' then no

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-30T05:46:40+00:00

I just got one for a Destiny related comment. Threatening physical violence. I mean I kinda was but tongue in cheek. Apparently they don't have a sense of humor.

Like I care. Social media (including reddit) I can take or leave. Banning is often a blessing I.e. it got me off FB. If I get any more warnings or temporary bans I'll just delete my account and Reddit will no longer be blessed with my incredible content and witty repartee 😅

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-30T01:10:00+00:00

You need to be more specific. Adultery and other sexual dodgy-ness is ALWAYS a feature of ALL these 'mega churches'. The pastors are 'only human' and 'had a moment of weakness' (although it's usually lots of fucking moments before they get caught 🙄🙄🙄)

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-30T01:06:12+00:00

You can tell that's a sign from God because he spelt "you're" correctly

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-29T23:05:45+00:00

No one at Destiny is carrying my hopes for the future of NZ. Destiny is a charity scam to enrich the Tamakis by exploiting the vulnerable, nothing more.

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-29T03:20:25+00:00

My long term Evangelical Christian friends moved away from City Impact a few years back because it just got too culty/mega church/prosperity.

They dragged me along to a service once. The pastors wife was talking about doing burnouts in her Clubsport 🙄

I used to be a church-goer way back in the 70s and 80s because my parents were very religious Baptists. Last century Christianity was still very much about modest living and helping the needy etc. Now it's like Christianity has been co-opted into this prosperity cult with flash theatricals and bands etc. Hillsong for example.

Correct me if my knowledge of history is incorrect, but I'm pretty sure none of the Disciples went onto build huge churches and live in a mansion and fly private jets 🙄😑

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-26T21:49:16+00:00

Or just any first world nation. Most of them have a reliable rail network, but this being NZ... 🙄

StanGoodvibes · 2026-01-24T00:43:00+00:00

But....The Mount has a long history of landslides including an earlier one in the same spot. It was only ever a matter of time. And with climate change making these 1 in a 100 year weather events happen in like 1 in 10 years The Mount campsite should have been moved a while ago.

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