The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited July 2021

    Mystiara said:

    ...

    whats a fraction of a stone?  pebbles?  an oz = a pebble ?

    Chunk, pebble, gravel, chip, grit, sand, powder, molecule, atom.indecision  Any smaller than that and it ceases to be stone and is mostly just waves of energy and possibility clumped into knots.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

     

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Why do they measure soda in litters but milk in gallons?

    Because cows are built using the imperial system and are measured thusly... technically, these units, or more precisely "Moonits" are "Bovine Gallons" based on the old English practice of filling a Yeomen Warder's hat with a ration of horse lard, which holds approximately one imperial lardswaggle of horse fat, or one gallon of donkey milk.

    By 1638 the Lardswaggle and Donkey milk which is more dense than cow milk, had fallen out of favor and the hat dimensions had also changed as the palace guards had become more portly, this led to the adoption of the "Bovine Gallon" unit, which was based on the standard cow's udder size and was named after the hat (the "galleon udder hat") worn by sailors serving on naval Galleons. In America the colonists would shrink the size of the bovine gallon to accommodate the smaller refrigerators that the colonists were forced to use due to the Refrigerator Act of 1750, which required all colonists to purchase their refrigerators from England... these smaller less powerful refrigerators could not maintain low temperatures and the colonists milk would often spoil, this would eventually be one of the leading factors of the American Revolution along with pay toilets, high parking fees and tea taxes.

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Why do you use your feet to measure anything, don't you have proper measuring tapes, or do you practice the age old chinese tradition of binding feet to make them all uniform size?
    Also I have been wondering about footpounds, which translates to finnish as footnails... That must hurt...

    1 liter defines volume, but as it happens 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram, which is 1000 grams.
    1 cubic meter of water is 1000 liters and weighs 1000 kilograms, or one ton.

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,488

    Wow... I didn't expect to wake up to that. 

    That makes three ulcers. 

    Well! There's nothing else on TV. Deadpool 2 it is.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    N_R Arts said:

    Wow... I didn't expect to wake up to that. 

    That makes three ulcers. 

    Well! There's nothing else on TV. Deadpool 2 it is.

    I saw Deadpool 2 in theaters.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,020

    N_R Arts said:

    Well! There's nothing else on TV.

    ...which only reinforces my decision to have not replaced the television set I had, which blew up in 2002, with another.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    kyoto kid said:

    N_R Arts said:

    Well! There's nothing else on TV.

    ...which only reinforces my decision to have not replaced the television set I had, which blew up in 2002, with another.

    I generally don't watch TV but I use my TV to stream stuff like YouTube.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Tarzan and Jane eventually got hitched?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    kyoto kid said:

    N_R Arts said:

    Well! There's nothing else on TV.

    ...which only reinforces my decision to have not replaced the television set I had, which blew up in 2002, with another.

    It's just an inspired guess, but I think it'd probably gone 8 o'clock and it was the penguin on yer telly what went and exploded... it's quite common you know...  I feel if people just keep their penguins elsewhere, this sort of unpleasantness can all be avoided.

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    N_R Arts said:

    Wow... I didn't expect to wake up to that. 

    That makes three ulcers. 

    Well! There's nothing else on TV. Deadpool 2 it is.

    I feel like this is my fault, I've been told I give people ulcers... usually it's not in the mouth, but I'm always pioneering new ways to aggravate people, so it's quite possibly a new thing...

    Well... I hope they heal soon.

    I don't know if you've tried it, but there is a product by Colgate called Peroxyl, I use it if I injure my gums brushing my teeth... yes, I brush my teeth like a gorilla, and occasionally I bash my gums with the tip of the brush... Peroxyl will usually speed up the healing process.

    It has hydrogen peroxide in it so if you have any issues with H2O2, ignore this suggestion.

    Good luck.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,020
    edited July 2021

    McGyver said:

    kyoto kid said:

    N_R Arts said:

    Well! There's nothing else on TV.

    ...which only reinforces my decision to have not replaced the television set I had, which blew up in 2002, with another.

    It's just an inspired guess, but I think it'd probably gone 8 o'clock and it was the penguin on yer telly what went and exploded... it's quite common you know...  I feel if people just keep their penguins elsewhere, this sort of unpleasantness can all be avoided.

     

    ...actually it occurred in the late afternoon while I made a quick run to the corner market to get a few snacks for during halftime of a football game.  When I returned the picture tube was dark, there the smell of fried electronics, and the wooden penguin who was on top (yes I actually have one) had fallen on the floor breaking a foot (no trace of eggshells or yolk that may have shorted things as wooden penguins would only lay wooden eggs that would just bounce off the rear housing and end up on the floor)  The injury to the penguin was easily remedied with a little Gorilla Glue™ but the television (which I bought at a hotel auction for 35$) was a lost cause. 

    I was already hearing rumblings about the move from analogue to digital signal broadcasts which would have required a special converter that cost at least as much as the television did, so it wasn't major loss as it would have become obsolete anyway  I got enough years of service out of it for what I paid. . 

    The wooden penguin? He's doing quite fine now sitting on a bookshelf.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198
    edited July 2021

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    TJohn said:

    Liter is a unit of liquid volume.

    Why do they measure soda in litters but milk in gallons?

     To confuse us!  Damn forum is messing up...it won't let me out of the quote!!!

    Text freed from quotance vile

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085

    Trapped in a quote? Try coating your entire body with Crisco™.

    It won't help, but it has an SPF rating of 1,000 so slather it on liberally and head for the nearest beach!

    This has been today's Bad Advice PSA.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    TJohn said:

    Trapped in a quote? Try coating your entire body with Crisco™.

    It won't help, but it has an SPF rating of 1,000 so slather it on liberally and head for the nearest beach!

    This has been today's Bad Advice PSA.

    Not a beach person.  However, with that much Crisco on me, perhaps it would help me stay afloat!   laugh

    Dana

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    DanaTA said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    TJohn said:

    Liter is a unit of liquid volume.

    Why do they measure soda in litters but milk in gallons?
     
    To confuse us!  Damn forum is messing up...it won't let me out of the quote!!

    I figured this out yesterday, and I haven't tried it on a desktop or laptop machine yet, so as far as I know it might only work this way on iOS since I'm using an iPad at the moment... 

    I'm going to be saying "tap" instead of "click" here since I found this out on a tablet, But if you get stuck in a quote, go to the last word in the quoted post and tap (or click)... you should get this red dashed/dotted line with an arrow at the end... if you tap/click on the arrow, that should break the spell...

    I hit return a couple of times to give me a little room below the quoted line... 

    I hope this works on other platforms besides iPadOS... I haven't had a chance and won't today to try this on a computer, so I'm curious if anyone else can confirm if this works on a desktop/laptop or other device.

  • Pixel8tedPixel8ted Posts: 593
    edited July 2021

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Mystiara said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Crap, I got a phone call on my cell saying crappy stuff like if I don't talk to them (who ever they are) they will do legal action against me. Whatever! I hung up on them.

    those people are accrueing bad kharma,  

    Also they don't know my name. I hate scammers!

     OMG scammers. I think I get 4+ a day. EVERYDAY. The old someone in Datton Ohio has charged 729 USD to my Amazon account....like Amazon cares. ( I taped a note that this is a scam on my landline phone base for my hummy cause he's innocent this way.)

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    McGyver said:

    I hope this works on other platforms besides iPadOS... I haven't had a chance and won't today to try this on a computer, so I'm curious if anyone else can confirm if this works on a desktop/laptop or other device.

    That is how it works here on two desktops using Chrome and Yandex

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

    PerttiA said:

    McGyver said:

    I hope this works on other platforms besides iPadOS... I haven't had a chance and won't today to try this on a computer, so I'm curious if anyone else can confirm if this works on a desktop/laptop or other device.

    That is how it works here on two desktops using Chrome and Yandex

    Good to know, thanks for confirming this!

    Edited to add...

    I'm sure now that the forum software knows we know this, it will mutate another bug that will negate this workaround.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    canr remember what tuesday looks like

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    McGyver said:

    DanaTA said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    TJohn said:

    Liter is a unit of liquid volume.

    Why do they measure soda in litters but milk in gallons?
     
    To confuse us!  Damn forum is messing up...it won't let me out of the quote!!

    I figured this out yesterday, and I haven't tried it on a desktop or laptop machine yet, so as far as I know it might only work this way on iOS since I'm using an iPad at the moment... 

    I'm going to be saying "tap" instead of "click" here since I found this out on a tablet, But if you get stuck in a quote, go to the last word in the quoted post and tap (or click)... you should get this red dashed/dotted line with an arrow at the end... if you tap/click on the arrow, that should break the spell...

    I hit return a couple of times to give me a little room below the quoted line... 

    I hope this works on other platforms besides iPadOS... I haven't had a chance and won't today to try this on a computer, so I'm curious if anyone else can confirm if this works on a desktop/laptop or other device.

    OK, I can now confirm that this works.  Thanks!

    Dana 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    most mornings my voice is hoarse like i havent used it in  100 years. 
    is that an old age thing? 
    stomach acid while i sleep?
    whiskey tango  trying to reserve my bus trip to work, bus rep has trouble understand me, 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

    Mystiara said:

    canr remember what tuesday looks like

    Ruby or regular...?  Ruby Tuesday's looked like a TGI Friday's, but with a salad bar... regular Tuesday looked like any other day.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    DanaTA said:

    OK, I can now confirm that this works.  Thanks!

    Dana 

     

    I'm using this meme every time I do something constructive.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited July 2021

    Non-complaint:  Wheee... My KVM switch cable problem is gone.  Yay, I now have all four computers in my lab able to access my primary 27" 2K monitor, and keyboard & mouse, speakers & microphone.  Wheee... it works, it works!smiley

    Complaint:  It's not as wonderful as it seems.indecision  I gave up on fixing the old damaged cable and simply ordered a complete new identical KVM switch and took a cable from its box.  Dealing with trying to solder 10 tiny fragile wires onto tiny tiny solder pads on a tiny tiny soldering area without error turned out to be near impossible for me even with the tools I had assembled for the job. 

    But it's not as tragic as it seems.  The replacement KVM switch was a "Reconditioned" item from Amazon at significantly less money than the original.yes  

    The replacement KVM switch came in its original but battered, torn, and taped together box and was missing two of the four 6 foot HDMI cables.  No problem I have oodles of HDMI cables laying about.  So, the upshot of the whole affair is that my original KVM switch is now completely wired in and functional and I have a spare 4-port KVM switch box and three spare, obnoxiously special, USB/Audio/Microphone cables with that damnable 10-pin USB-MiniB connector on one end.  I also have lots of miscellaneous oddball 5 or 10-pin USB "A" and "MiniB" cable ends and breakout boards and a new soldering pen in addition to all the wrong cables that I had ordered during my ill-conceived attempt to extend the cable and repair the original cable.frown  I'm sure they'll come in handy sometime in the next decade or two.  If not, then I'll be dead by then and won't give a s**t.cheeky

    So, what did I learn from this ordeal?  I learned that if your cables don't immediately fit together, don't get a bigger hammer.crying

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I'm tempted to buy a mini pc that has an Intel i5 quad core 6th generation processor and 16 gb of memory.  Daz 3D and Vue should run on it.  I can use the mini pc until I get a gaming pc with an Nvidia video card with lots of cuda cores.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    i hope you don't have stomach issues like an ulcer.  I know someone who has an ulcer.  I don't know if she takes any medicine though.  She can't eat anything after she wakes up or she gets indigestion, I think.

    i have gas at night too.

    Mystiara said:

    most mornings my voice is hoarse like i havent used it in  100 years. 
    is that an old age thing? 
    stomach acid while i sleep?
    whiskey tango  trying to reserve my bus trip to work, bus rep has trouble understand me, 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    My teeth hurt. I either need to talk to my psychiatrist or my dentist soon. I'll see my psychiatrist before end of the month but I also have a dentist appointment the first Monday of next month?
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    1978.  i remember watching this.  i was 14

    i feel like i'm communicating with my 14yo self.  weird.  yeah, i sober. lol

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,488
    edited July 2021

     

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I saw Deadpool 2 in theaters.

    I think the last movie I saw in the cinema was Star Trek: Nemesis (I strongly dislike that film). 

    kyoto kid said:

    ...which only reinforces my decision to have not replaced the television set I had, which blew up in 2002, with another.

    I think we maybe getting to the "blow up" point with our TV. It keeps shutting itself off when it overheats.

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    I generally don't watch TV but I use my TV to stream stuff like YouTube.

    The one in the lounge has the most use. Gaming, soap operas, gameshows, streaming. My own TV is mostly used for gaming (and the odd TV quiz).

    McGyver said:

    I feel like this is my fault, I've been told I give people ulcers... usually it's not in the mouth, but I'm always pioneering new ways to aggravate people, so it's quite possibly a new thing...

    Well... I hope they heal soon.

    I don't know if you've tried it, but there is a product by Colgate called Peroxyl, I use it if I injure my gums brushing my teeth... yes, I brush my teeth like a gorilla, and occasionally I bash my gums with the tip of the brush... Peroxyl will usually speed up the healing process.

    It has hydrogen peroxide in it so if you have any issues with H2O2, ignore this suggestion.

    Good luck.

    laugh

    Thank you ^^

    Oh it definitely wasn't you. One I caused while cleaning my teeth, and the other two exist because I bit my lip.

    Gorilla-like what I'm like when I'm cleaning my teeth. It's not helped by the fact that I have an OCD ritual about it either (brushing can take over an hour). But that ulcer was caused by a plentiful supply of anger (caused by an argument), and (literal) scrubbing (I made my gums receed too).

    Mouthwash and I don't get on. But Peroxyl's ingredients are different. So I might give it a try in the future. Thanks for the suggestion ^^

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    ~ One of the charms that I ordered over a certain "unique gift site" arrived... But it's broken! cryingcryingcrying

    I've offered to pay for tracking on a replacement, but they haven't got back to me. It would've looked so pretty hanging in the shrine on the shelf, too crying

    ~ Teeth cleaning time... angry

    Non-complaint: After four agonising and torturous months... I FINALLY HAVE MY OC BACK IN DAZ STUDIO! Let the parodies begin! cheekydevilheartyes

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I'm too sleepy to stay awake but this stupid song on my Pandora playlist is so annoying. I don't know how it got on my list.
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