Nuke Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 hours ago, Superfluous J said: The staircase in my house has 12 steps. For some reason as I was coming down the stairs my brain thought there were only 11 steps. Lo and behold, I put my foot where I thought there was floor only to find air, and I was way past being able to stop myself from going forward. Well I DID stop myself, about 10 inches lower where the floor actually was. you'd think falling 10 inches wouldn't be a big deal, but my big toe - which took the entire brunt of my forward momentum sped by gravity - would disagree with you. I don't seem to have broken anything but man it hurts. ive done that twice and both times ended up limping for a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Superfluous J said: The staircase in my house has 12 steps. For some reason as I was coming down the stairs my brain thought there were only 11 steps. Lo and behold, I put my foot where I thought there was floor only to find air, and I was way past being able to stop myself from going forward. Well I DID stop myself, about 10 inches lower where the floor actually was. you'd think falling 10 inches wouldn't be a big deal, but my big toe - which took the entire brunt of my forward momentum sped by gravity - would disagree with you. I don't seem to have broken anything but man it hurts. 50 minutes ago, Nuke said: ive done that twice and both times ended up limping for a week. Age 12: Crashed my bike at full speed, went flying into a thorn bush. Brushed it off, then rode four miles home. Age 50: Got up off the couch the wrong way, tweaked my back, laid out flat for three days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 11 hours ago, Nuke said: healthcare is stupid. so stupid i would rather die of something preventable than put myself in their care. whats more, healthcare is evil. it likes to cast patients to the four winds for the myriads of diagnostic tests, book flights on monopolistic airlines that skimp on the legspace, put them and their mandatory escorts in shadey hotels, grant them food coupons that can only be claimed in a hospital cafeteria, rip off cab drivers with their voucher system so much that they refuse to service them, pump funds into some of the most opulent architecture i have ever seen, all so they can do a 20 minute test that comes up inconclusive. granted this wasnt my diagnostic, i was the escort. but it seriously has me questioning whether its a good idea to go to extreme measures to enable humans to live to ages > 50. also our town wants to spend 200 million on a new hospital when they cant even afford to put doctors and equipment into the hospital we got which are capable of doing basic 20 minute tests. Ah, healthcare stories. My mom got bitten by a tick. So, first she had to walk half a mile to the nearest round-the-clock 'trauma post' where a sleepy guy almost seven feet tall proceeded to remove the tick with care and precision that had probably been suitable for surgeon school. She also had to bring her own jar for her newfound friend. Then she had to show up in the morning for a general physician to issue an antibiotic prescription. And then, glass jar in hand, she had to decide on final disposition. You see, one agency in the entirety of Moscow tests for tick-borne encephalitis, and another for Lime disease. They don't cooperate, and they'll only accept a live tick. Not half a tick. While I decided to trust official data that there wasn't any TBE around this season, my mother was treated to the surreal sight of an entire queue of people with jars doing the rounds between desks and offices in the usual bureaucratic nightmare of contradicatory instructions and boorish officials - a sharp contrast between actual hospitals, which may look pretty unchanged from when Brezhnev was still breathing, but at least the staff don't treat you like an intrusive annoyance. Fortunately, the tick test was the only part of the saga that involved payment. Test came clean, but she has a fever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, DDE said: They don't cooperate, and they'll only accept a live tick. Not half a tick. Who needs a half of tick? You can't even interrogate it to know where are others. 1 hour ago, DDE said: the surreal sight of an entire queue of people with jars doing the rounds between desks and offices Imagine, what are the ticks in these jars thinking about this "Why can't they just kill me? I'm just a tick!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richfiles Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Well, you sure don't see that every day... Apartment lost half it's power... one of the two phases of the split phase feed went out. In the US, residential power is generally delivered as 240 volts with a center neutral. Higher power devices such as ovens, clothes dryers, etc. will get the full 240 volts. Common wall outlets and lighting are fed from one phase or the other phase, to neutral, providing 120 volts. The city was pretty quick to fix it. Problem is, when the power failed, it also killed my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 5 hours ago, richfiles said: Well, you sure don't see that every day... How did that even happen? Mini-sinkhole? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richfiles Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) My only guess is time and deterioration... And maybe that downspout behind it caused erosion over time? Who knows. Now I need to find some kind of old obsolete Mac, so I can make the installer for the new computer... To make a new Hackintosh, you need a working Mac OS machine to create the installer. If I can find something like an old MacBook or iMac or an ancient Mac Mini, that'd be perfect. Of course... Being broke, thanks to parts shortages and shipping delays... and no work, I'm just up a creek with no paddle... Edited August 3, 2022 by richfiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Back to our regularly scheduled fuel crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/greek-state-tv-broadcasts-advice-on-how-to-siphon-gasoline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 5 hours ago, DDE said: Back to our regularly scheduled fuel crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/greek-state-tv-broadcasts-advice-on-how-to-siphon-gasoline Well, I suppose it’s better to have thieves siphon your tank, instead of drilling holes in the tank and letting the excess drain into the ground… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) The local classic rock radio station 89.5 the Drive just changed to 89.5 JR Country. Bad move IMO. #LongLiveRock! Major blowback on social media around here…. Now we’re stuck trying to pull in KISM from Wa state for our rock fix. Reception isn’t great… Edited July 1, 2022 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Going back from MS Teams to Skype for Business is going to be... interesting. Looks like our company's future is for now mostly cloudless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Send telegrams, instead of exchanging with letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 I'm RVing for the weekend. Wake up this morning and it's pouring rain, on the day we need to bug out... No fun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) On 6/15/2022 at 2:23 PM, kerbiloid said: 2023 newspapers! "The global warming slows. The carbon dioxide emission is considered overestimated, the quotas will be revised. Poland is allowed by EU to reopen the coal mines" https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/just-in-eu-parliament-declares-nuclear-power-and-gas-as-green-energy-latest-tweet-by-disclose-tv-3915453.html Quote European Parliament Declares Nuclear Power and Gas As 'Green' Energy "And for me alone it became Thursday..." (c) *** Still insisting that coal is green energy, too. It's just algae, but packed. Edited July 6, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) Rogers, one of the largest cell/internet providers in Canada is down. Completely out. No cell or internet service. Most debit machines (point-of-sale “Interac” payment machines) are down because of it too: Cash only. Many ATMs are also down. Interac e-transfers are unavailable. And we finally got rid of our landline earlier this year At least we have a different ISP so we’re not completely incommunicado It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… Edited July 8, 2022 by StrandedonEarth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… Yeah, at least when that happens you'll have communication as telegraphs carry over the air.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Back to importance of the Moon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana It can't switch off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 9 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… Mmm, the reasons behind this one are probably a lot closer to home - whether through internal incompetence or outside malice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 i bought a cantalope on tuesday, and by friday it started deteriorating rapidly. so i had to cube it and put it on ice. i swear we get the worst produce ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/11/cricket-fake-ipl-tournament-farm-russian-gamblers-india-police-betting-scam-the-sting A - Agility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Quote Gang caught running fake Indian cricket league to dupe Russian gamblers Next time: Quote Gang caught catching cockroaches and running fake Thailand cricket cuisine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 moms birthday was a few days ago and she freaked out when i made her a french vanilla cake instead of a white cake. frankly i cant tell the two apart and its certainly not worth a 68 year old acting like a 8 year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 12 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Next time: The cockroaches are actually more nutritious than crickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutabaga22 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Politics, that's it, just politics in general are bad. I don't have political opinions, I just think the way politics are discussed is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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