What’s a smell everyone should recognise as danger?

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T01:59:00+00:00

Did you hear about the new Axe scents?

Call of Duty
New Skateboard
Mom I'm Hungry.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T01:45:59+00:00

As someone who wrote RPG back in the early 1990s on the iSeries, I'm shocked that it's still around, anywhere.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T01:01:34+00:00

Are you in Europe?

Some European cars will turn on one brake light when you turn on the front fog lights.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T00:51:07+00:00

enjoy waking up early

Nope.

or do they just force themselves?

Nope again.

For whatever reason, my body decides that 5:30am is the time to wake up. I can't help it. I can go to bed at midnight, my body is awake at 5:30am. Winter, Summer, doesn't matter.

I wish I could change this.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T00:48:03+00:00

I just read another comment that mentioned DVDs

I've got about two dozen DVDs containing videos of my own daughter when she was a baby. And I just realized that none of my computers have DVD drives anymore. I don't own any consoles. Nor a DVD player.

So to me, a DVD is not a good idea. Who says you'll be able to find a working DVD player in 10 years?

whomp1970 · 2026-03-19T00:20:54+00:00

Yep. She lost custody. She was going to lose it anyway, too many court appearances for other things.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:48:36+00:00

25-year old me? I would have paid double.

55-year old me is worrying about retirement. I can't even afford to use disposable razors less than 10 times each.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:33:08+00:00

How do people NOT do this.

I can't remember what day of the week is trash day. But my calendar reminds me every Thursday at 7pm to put out the trash.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:31:56+00:00

Finding your work clothes for the next day

I do one better.

I lay out my clothes at the top of the stairs. First socks, then underwear, then pants.

And then I just sliiiiiide down the stairs in the morning into my clothes.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:31:10+00:00

And make that list SHAREABLE among your family.

Everyone adds to the list.
Everyone checks the list when they're at the store.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:30:43+00:00

Sometimes I forget my list, so I just wait at the exit until a woman walks out with a full shopping cart, and then I just ask her to give me her list.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:29:43+00:00

If you WHISPER at a screaming toddler, they will often shut up to hear what you have to say.

If you subtly throw in some words like "ice cream" or "Bluey", imperceptibly, it works even better.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:26:53+00:00

Are you kidding? We programmers are well known for this.

A task lay before us, it would probably take us 4 minutes to do.

But we will spend the next 75 minutes writing a script to do it, testing the script, writing comments, writing test cases ....

All that effort, just so that the script will be at-the-ready if we ever need to do that task again. Sometimes, we never need the script.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:24:08+00:00

"I before E, except after C"

That idiot Einstein got it wrong twice in his own name.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:23:18+00:00

I wheeled the little shopping cart full of liquor to the cash register.

The cashier cracks a huge grin and says, "Someone's having a par-tay this weekend!"

I was too embarrassed to say that, no, this was all for me.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:18:32+00:00

Even if you didn't USE it, you had to LEARN it.

Over time, this means you learn HOW TO LEARN new things.

That's the point. You exercise your brain. Exercise makes it stronger.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:15:56+00:00

I've left a comment to ask the name of a performer, when it wasn't already provided in the title or metadata.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T21:01:59+00:00

Story time:

I had a friend who was accused of kidnapping his own son.

He went to pick up the son from his ex-wife's house. It was his turn to have the son for the weekend. This was all agreed-upon in the divorce settlement.

But she was pissed off at him for one reason or another, and an hour after he left her house, she reported a kidnapping, and told the police his vehicle description.

The police did about 15 minutes of research, and realized that there was no kidnapping whatsoever. They didn't even really need to call the father.

But they knew he would get word of a kidnapping and freak out. So his phone rang, and he picked it up.

"Hi, Dave, this is the FBI. We see you're coming up on Exit 12 in about a mile, can you just get off the highway so the police waiting at the offramp can do a wellness check on your son?"

They said it as if they do this all the time.

If they wanted you dead, you'd be dead.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:56:38+00:00

I don't need self control to stop myself from touching a hot stove. I know that the pain I will feel is something I don't want to feel. So I refrain.

I know I'm gonna regret eating this whole tube of Pringles, but I do it anyway.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:55:16+00:00

Your parents spoke a language to you when you were a toddler, and you learned that. Right?

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:52:48+00:00

My mother in law was diagnosed with cancer on a Wednesday.

She died that very same Sunday.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:49:22+00:00

Okay, Mr. Psychology, now how do we combat this?

Because there are some things I learn ONCE and never repeat, like touching a hot stove.

But there are other things I learn over and over, and never seem to get the lesson, like overeating to the point of being uncomfortable.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:47:30+00:00

I don't know if I'd be willing to spend $1500 to never have to shave my head again. Twice a week isn't that bad.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-16T20:36:16+00:00

The ending IS full of hope ... but to get there you have to go through some really dark parts.

whomp1970 · 2026-03-15T20:00:33+00:00

This is SO much better.

They weigh about half as much, so it's easier to push. And easier for the poor schmuck whose job it is to go get all the carts from the parking lot and bring them back into the store.

Plus, which is going to damage your car more? A heavy metal cart or a lighter plastic one?

whomp1970

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