Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread

kyoto kid

McGyver said:

kyoto kid said:

...years ago in Olympia WA, a 30' bus managed ot drive up the guy wires to a utility pole.  Amazingly the wires and the pole did not to snap under the weight.

A bus... now that's impressive.
Its amazing nowadays though how often newer cars flip or go airborne, we grew up in time when cars were battleship heavy and rarely took off.

Nearly half the serious accidents (as opposed to the comical ones involving clown cars or toon monkeys) I see involve one car flipped over.

There are bunches of videos out on the internet of cars hitting something you'd never expect to flip or launch it, yet they go sailing through the air... just the other day my daughter showed me a TikTok where a car is probably going around 40-50 mph and hits a tire/rim rolling on the highway and launches into the air... granted the driver made no attempt to avoid it until it was inches away, but I'd never have expected that to happen.

Then again I'm no one to talk, having flown my 72' Catalina once off an embankment on an incredibly short exit in upstate NY... but in my defense the 15 MPH sign was at the point of no return and where you would see it only after passing it on your way down... and clearly I wasn't the first as there was a clearing were most cars ended up... just a short drive through the shrubs to the road below.

One of the things I notice too in accidents is the front wheels collapse which seems to be a factor in a lot of flip overs... being that when they crash cars in tests, they are mostly riding a rail, or running into an object they can't ride up...  I'm wondering if this is a safety factor that's being missed due to how the tests are conducted.

Either way, seat belts and airbags are still one's best bet.

...SUVs have an increased propensity to rollover (save maybe for "the Beast" which is the  one the president rides in because it's so heavily armoured). . 

kyoto kid

C.E.Wulfric said:

DanaTA said:

I've noticed something in accidents these days that I never saw when I was young...cars hitting, and sometimes going inside, houses.  Most times they nearly hit people inside, I think one time someone inside was injured.  It's almost as though new cars are attracted to houses.  Sometimes storefronts.  But lots of houses.  Sometimes they travel quite a distance to get tot he houses, too.  Even small trees don't stop them.  Phone poles are often casualties.  And mail boxes.  It seems I see at least one of these every few weeks.  As opposed to never having seen one for at least the first 40 years of my life!  I actually passed by the scene of one of these house accidents just a few weeks ago.  And it was on the corner with a traffic light.

Dana

Perhaps cars are like moths, only they're attracted to houses and storefronts rather than light. I lived right next to a house that had a lorry plow right into it. The lorry destroyed most of their living room and even revealed pat of the upstairs. Left a right mess.

...here in Portland they seem to be attracted to the LRT tracks. A day doesn't go by without me seeing several email alerts from our transit system about a car blocking the tracks.  If this were Moscow Russia that car wouldn't be there for long as the trams there often do not stop (and they are older much heavier ones than we have).

kyoto kid

Sfariah said:

I can't stand the political texts I get and I didn't sign up for them.  I wish I knew a way to stop them!

...same for political emails particularly ones begging for donations,. I have an extensive array of filters et up to snag and send them to a "special" folder  but somehow more and more are slipping by and ending up in the main inbox.  Friday I must have cleared over 100 of them out.

The closer to the election the worse the bombardment becomes I already have over received 7,700 for the month  just asking for donations.  If I gave each one of them just 1$ I'd be over 5,000$ in debt and living on the street by now..  That total doesn't count emails asking for endorsements, answering polls/surveys or just giving general information.

McGyver

The Dunkin Donuts near us just got a new drive thru entrance thanks to a drunk last week... As far as the cars hitting houses, yeah, that's definitely a newer phenomenon, but again, I think it has to do with cars flipping and going airborne easier... it seems like stuff old cars might plow into a stop, new cars just flip over and either sail through the air, or slide on the roof or side, whereas older cars didn't... the other thing I've seen a lot of is second floor landings... that being caused by new housing (usually townhouses or developments) having berms built up in front either for privacy or security , but it's essentially a ramp into your second floor bedroom... last year or thereabouts a guy managed to get lodged in an attic (basically 3rd floor)... the distance from the berm and the height achieved were impressive... the idiot had to be going at least 90 on residential street as there was no highway nearby, plus it was not head on either, but at an angle which you would think might limit the likelihood of aerobatics.

Covid definitely broke something in people's driving... they are definitely worse after the pandemic.

One thing I noticed also recently, I complained a few times here about people suddenly being more likely to cross over into the oncoming lane... it think it has something to do with those big huge infotainment centers in the middle of the dashboard... too much of a distraction and too much going on with horrible GUIs.

Sfariah D

kyoto kid said:

Sfariah said:

I can't stand the political texts I get and I didn't sign up for them.  I wish I knew a way to stop them!

...same for political emails particularly ones begging for donations,. I have an extensive array of filters et up to snag and send them to a "special" folder  but somehow more and more are slipping by and ending up in the main inbox.  Friday I must have cleared over 100 of them out.

The closer to the election the worse the bombardment becomes I already have over received 7,700 for the month  just asking for donations.  If I gave each one of them just 1$ I'd be over 5,000$ in debt and living on the street by now..  That total doesn't count emails asking for endorsements, answering polls/surveys or just giving general information.

my latest political text was asking for money too.  I'm not donating any money to any political party because I am going to use that money somewhere else and hopefully better.  They wanted $40 but I rather spend that $40 on a pair of angels.

 

talking about angels, I'm planning on getting a pair of angels soon.  I never kept any angels before.

N-RArts

... And the fireworks have started. Cue one terrified 3 month old kitten. 

Oh wow! Don't get me wrong, I love bonding time with the Tabby Terror. But as for sharing his butt with me... We had an ex-stray living with us, and his rear was nowhere near as bad. Not that you can talk to my Mum about it. 

I've lost a thread. I can't work out if it's been moved or deleted.

HALLOWEEN! WH00T!

DanaTA

LeatherGryphon said:

I've noticed a trend on the local news over the last decade or so, of automobiles committing suicide by jumping into store fronts.  I sometimes wonder if they're just fed up with their drivers and want to end it all.

              I wouldn't be surprised at all.  Some of them are older folks who "stepped on the gas instead of the brakes.  Some went in backwards and claim they thought it was in Drive, but it was in Reverse.  But for the speed they had to be going to damage support structures, I wonder how often they take off from a parking spot that fast!

Dana

LeatherGryphon

It's the high heels.  Wearing high heels while driving is not recommended.  Either that or the Pomeranian romping in her lap.  Animals do not belong in the front seat.

DanaTA

Agreed on both counts!

Dana

LeatherGryphon

Having said that "animals should not be in the front seat"  I often have to get a ride with a single friend who has a large, white, Pit Bull Terrier dog.  Nice, gentle, older dog, but he believes that the passenger seat is his.  He gives it up when a human wants it, but begrudgingly.  And if we leave the car for a moment, we'll return to find him sitting in the front passenger seat and he gives me that "who do you think you are?" look when I shoo him out if it.  I can live with that, but once I get home I have to vacuum my clothes before I start spreading short dog hairs all over my furniture too.  But he's also trained the passenger to reach into the glove compartment and get the bag of doggie treats.  With his rear legs on the back seat he puts his front feet on the front seat's center armrest and drools on my shoulder until he gets his treat or is shooed to the back seat.  He tries this everytime I get into the car.  I have to be reminded by the owner that he's not supposed to get a treat every time we return to the car, only once or twice during an outing.

LeatherGryphon

Non-complaint:  Wheee...  my newel post cap project is done, for now.  A new, flat, square, decorative, wooden cap glued onto a 4x4 post, and a 3" spherical wooden knob screwed onto the flat cap.  All has been waterproofed.  Perhaps next time the porch is painted, the new post & rail will get painted too.  

I wanted something solid and comfortable to grab as I make my way down the porch steps, they're solid but wonkily designed.  As you go down, each step is a little shorter than the one above it.  It's really easy to make a misstep.  Grabbing the old, rotten, square, newel post cap has saved me many times in the past, but by adding the 3" sphere on top it raises it to the perfect height for grabbing and provides an easy solid grip.

McGyver

Happy Halloweenmas!

Image curtesy of the algorithmic machinations of the artificial intelligence at Hugging Face/Stable Diffusion...

I really want to sculpt that, but I still can't rig worth a damn for DS or Poser.

Sfariah D

I took a photo from this forum and printed it at CVS.

I want to hang it on my wall.  By the way I took 4 pictures of the same print.

Sfariah D

I think I'm horrible for selfies.  I sometimes forget to smile.

But I found a way for people to give me candy!

 

starionwolf

carrie58 said:

starionwolf said:

gonna look for some nail polish textures for Genesis.  Or I can apply shaders to the finger and toenail domain.

you can apply shaders  to the fingernail and toe nails ,which Genesis are you useing? or you can use a paint program and do designs

 

sorry for the late reply but I didn't see this post until now.  I am using Genesis 1 and 3.  I'm too lazy to install the other generations of Genesis right now.

kyoto kid

McGyver said:

The Dunkin Donuts near us just got a new drive thru entrance thanks to a drunk last week... As far as the cars hitting houses, yeah, that's definitely a newer phenomenon, but again, I think it has to do with cars flipping and going airborne easier... it seems like stuff old cars might plow into a stop, new cars just flip over and either sail through the air, or slide on the roof or side, whereas older cars didn't... the other thing I've seen a lot of is second floor landings... that being caused by new housing (usually townhouses or developments) having berms built up in front either for privacy or security , but it's essentially a ramp into your second floor bedroom... last year or thereabouts a guy managed to get lodged in an attic (basically 3rd floor)... the distance from the berm and the height achieved were impressive... the idiot had to be going at least 90 on residential street as there was no highway nearby, plus it was not head on either, but at an angle which you would think might limit the likelihood of aerobatics.

Covid definitely broke something in people's driving... they are definitely worse after the pandemic.

One thing I noticed also recently, I complained a few times here about people suddenly being more likely to cross over into the oncoming lane... it think it has something to do with those big huge infotainment centers in the middle of the dashboard... too much of a distraction and too much going on with horrible GUIs.

 ...totally agree, I've seen more excessive speed, aggressive driving and people going right through stop signs and even red lights.

As to crashing into upper floor windows, this is why I'm giad we don't have flying cars and hope we never do.  What I see on the streets is bad enough, I can imagine the carnage that would occur if these numbskulls took to the air.  I'd have to put those "instant shutters" like Dr. Morbius had on his home in Forbidden Planet over my windows.  

kyoto kid

LeatherGryphon said:

It's the high heels.  Wearing high heels while driving is not recommended.  Either that or the Pomeranian romping in her lap.  Animals do not belong in the front seat.

...except dogs in the passnger seat of a pickup.

"Dog is my copilot." 

PerttiA

kyoto kid said:

McGyver said:

The Dunkin Donuts near us just got a new drive thru entrance thanks to a drunk last week... As far as the cars hitting houses, yeah, that's definitely a newer phenomenon, but again, I think it has to do with cars flipping and going airborne easier... it seems like stuff old cars might plow into a stop, new cars just flip over and either sail through the air, or slide on the roof or side, whereas older cars didn't... the other thing I've seen a lot of is second floor landings... that being caused by new housing (usually townhouses or developments) having berms built up in front either for privacy or security , but it's essentially a ramp into your second floor bedroom... last year or thereabouts a guy managed to get lodged in an attic (basically 3rd floor)... the distance from the berm and the height achieved were impressive... the idiot had to be going at least 90 on residential street as there was no highway nearby, plus it was not head on either, but at an angle which you would think might limit the likelihood of aerobatics.

Covid definitely broke something in people's driving... they are definitely worse after the pandemic.

One thing I noticed also recently, I complained a few times here about people suddenly being more likely to cross over into the oncoming lane... it think it has something to do with those big huge infotainment centers in the middle of the dashboard... too much of a distraction and too much going on with horrible GUIs.

 ..totally agree, I've seen more excessive speed, aggressive driving and people going right through stop signs and even red lights.

AS to crashing into upper floor windows, this is why I'm gad we don't have flying cars and hope we never do.  What  I see on the streets is bad enough, I can imagine the carnage that would occur if these numbskulls took to the air.  I'd have to put those "instant shutters" like Dr. Morbius had on his home in Forbidden Planet over my windows.  

This is how we do it here in Finland, 

TJohn

DanaTA said:

I've noticed something in accidents these days that I never saw when I was young...cars hitting, and sometimes going inside, houses.  Most times they nearly hit people inside, I think one time someone inside was injured.  It's almost as though new cars are attracted to houses.  Sometimes storefronts.  But lots of houses.  Sometimes they travel quite a distance to get tot he houses, too.  Even small trees don't stop them.  Phone poles are often casualties.  And mail boxes.  It seems I see at least one of these every few weeks.  As opposed to never having seen one for at least the first 40 years of my life!  I actually passed by the scene of one of these house accidents just a few weeks ago.  And it was on the corner with a traffic light.

Dana

"I swear, Occifer, that house ran right in front of me and I didn't have time to stop!" 

WendyLuvsCatz

Sfariah people give Asthma inhalers as treats?

Sfariah D

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Sfariah people give Asthma inhalers as treats?

No, I kept my asthma inhaler in the bucket I used for candy in case I needed it while trick or treating.  It is my emergency inhaler I'm prescribed to take with me. 

DanaTA

TJohn said:

DanaTA said:

I've noticed something in accidents these days that I never saw when I was young...cars hitting, and sometimes going inside, houses.  Most times they nearly hit people inside, I think one time someone inside was injured.  It's almost as though new cars are attracted to houses.  Sometimes storefronts.  But lots of houses.  Sometimes they travel quite a distance to get tot he houses, too.  Even small trees don't stop them.  Phone poles are often casualties.  And mail boxes.  It seems I see at least one of these every few weeks.  As opposed to never having seen one for at least the first 40 years of my life!  I actually passed by the scene of one of these house accidents just a few weeks ago.  And it was on the corner with a traffic light.

Dana

"I swear, Occifer, that house ran right in front of me and I didn't have time to stop!" 

           

Dana

LeatherGryphon

Non-complaint: My neighbors (in the other half of the house) were thoughtful enough to buy me a pumpkin.  That was fortuitous because there is no place close to buy a pumpkin and I was in a quandry about getting one this year.  So, I drew a face on it on Saturday, carved it on Sunday, and lit it on Halloween night (according to the theory that it takes a pumpkin spirit three days to wake up properly before glowing and providing sufficient protection against any evil sprits approaching the house)

Complaint:  Halloween is getting too gentrified. I was proud of my pumpkin again this year.  A nice, simple, angular, formidable, toothy grin capable of protecting against the evil spirits wandering on their assigned night.  I've crafted my pumpkin skills for well over a half century.  Yet when I saw what my neighbor had carved into their pumpkins I was flabergasted by the complex, artistic imagery of cats, ghosts, owls & witches etched into the pumpkin flesh.  I can't help but suspect that the true pumpkin spirit in the gourd can't properly emerge from behind all that intricate, cutesy imagery.  The older I get, the more I believe that more is not always better.  

 

starionwolf

I'm just trying to adjust the lighting in Daz Studio 4 so that the skin texture doesn't look so dull and grey on my computer monitor.

McGyver

PerttiA said:

This is how we do it here in Finland, 

Yeah, but you do have magical flying reindeer too*, so it's equally possible they had a hand in that... or hoof rather... definitely looks like the work of reindeer.

 

 

*Rangifer Santaclausus, an invasive species from the North Pole.

McGyver

Sfariah said:

I took a photo from this forum and printed it at CVS.

I want to hang it on my wall.  By the way I took 4 pictures of the same print.

The paparazzi got poor Pinecone Phil again!... he's got no privacy.

N-RArts

I wish I could talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle. From the amount of conversation I'm getting here, I'd be better off chatting to the woodlice/roly poly in the walls -_-

Does anyone know if it would be possible to rip out an SSD from one laptop (Dell), and install it in another laptop (HP)?

Richard Haseltine

N-RArts said:

I wish I could talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle. From the amount of conversation I'm getting here, I'd be better off chatting to the woodlice/roly poly in the walls -_-

Does anyone know if it would be possible to rip out an SSD from one laptop (Dell), and install it in another laptop (HP)?

Is the slot accessible in both? If so, probably - but you wouldn't be able to just use the OS, I fear, if that is the intent.

McGyver

Not that great, but I sculpted it from memory based on the weird AI created pumpkin I post the image of the other day...

Also, it was rendered in Nomad Sculpt and with a vignette effect added in Pixelmator... basically done entirely on a five year old iPad.

N-RArts

Richard Haseltine said:

N-RArts said:

I wish I could talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle. From the amount of conversation I'm getting here, I'd be better off chatting to the woodlice/roly poly in the walls -_-

Does anyone know if it would be possible to rip out an SSD from one laptop (Dell), and install it in another laptop (HP)?

Is the slot accessible in both? If so, probably - but you wouldn't be able to just use the OS, I fear, if that is the intent.

It would be an SSD with Windows 10 installed, put into a HP Pavillion laptop (which should've been reset to factory settiings - or whatever the computer equivalent it).

As for slots, I have no idea. I don't have the Pavilion yet (it's in the second hand store waiting to be picked up), as for the Dell. I know even less about that (not being very helpful am I... sorry ^^' ).