Random Rants Q': I protest against subtitles

[Zkribbler]

...As a child I had nightmares after reading a couple of those stories, and developed a fear of mud puddles. Really.

Or nursery rhymes.

...The maid was in the garden, hanging up the clothes
When along came a blackbird and pecked off her nose.

Seven decades later, and those lines still freak me out.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or nursery rhymes.

...The maid was in the garden, hanging up the clothes
When along came a blackbird and pecked off her nose.

Seven decades later, and those lines still freak me out.

I'd forgotten about that part. The 24 blackbirds baked in a pie is what freaked me out. Sorry, but no bird that's been baked in a pie is going to sing. It's going to be dead.

 

[amadeus]

All those German fairytales are kind of creepy anyway, like Mengele wrote them.

One day little Hans was playing in the field and a friendly fox brought him an apple.
“Little boy, I have brought you this apple!” said the fox.
Hans ate the apple and he was happy.
The next day, the fox returned and killed his whole village for his gluttony.

My rant is that I forgot to buy coffee last night. Now I only have a little left, and I don’t want to get ready to go to the store just for that. I do have some Coke Zero though.

 

[Tee Kay]

landlord put in a fan in the bathroom, it's loud, connected to the light switch (so going to the toilet at 3am will wake the neighbours). It's affixed to the window that was one of the only three windows in the apartment with a flyscreen; the flyscreen won't fit anymore so now I can't open it to air out the apartment without letting insects and spiders in

i was planning to move anyway over more serious flaws (mostly noise issue) but this added to the list of reasons

 

[Samson]

landlord put in a fan in the bathroom, it's loud, connected to the light switch (so going to the toilet at 3am will wake the neighbours). It's affixed to the window that was one of the only three windows in the apartment with a flyscreen; the flyscreen won't fit anymore so now I can't open it to air out the apartment without letting insects and spiders in

i was planning to move anyway over more serious flaws (mostly noise issue) but this added to the list of reasons

This is one of my bugbears. You need a fan, but it does not need to go every time the light comes on. How much does an extra switch cost?

 

[Arakhor]

My bathroom fan is set to do that too, but it also has an off-switch, so it mostly remains off all year.

 

[Cutlass]

landlord put in a fan in the bathroom, it's loud, connected to the light switch (so going to the toilet at 3am will wake the neighbours). It's affixed to the window that was one of the only three windows in the apartment with a flyscreen; the flyscreen won't fit anymore so now I can't open it to air out the apartment without letting insects and spiders in

i was planning to move anyway over more serious flaws (mostly noise issue) but this added to the list of reasons

Can you try a nightlight?

This is one of my bugbears. You need a fan, but it does not need to go every time the light comes on. How much does an extra switch cost?

That depends on whether you are building it new, or retrofitting. New, it's easy and not expensive. Having to run new wires and such, not easy and can cost a lot.



my rant:


https://weather.com/news/weather/video/snowmobile-fire-destroys-historic-bridge-in-vermont


Snowmobile Fire Destroys Historic Bridge in Vermont
February 10, 2021

A snowmobile fire sends a historic covered bridge tumbling into the river below. Here’s the dramatic video.

 

[Kyriakos]

All those German fairytales are kind of creepy anyway, like Mengele wrote them.

One day little Hans was playing in the field and a friendly fox brought him an apple.
“Little boy, I have brought you this apple!” said the fox.
Hans ate the apple and he was happy.
The next day, the fox returned and killed his whole village for his gluttony.

My rant is that I forgot to buy coffee last night. Now I only have a little left, and I don’t want to get ready to go to the store just for that. I do have some Coke Zero though.

 

[GinandTonic]

This is one of my bugbears. You need a fan, but it does not need to go every time the light comes on. How much does an extra switch cost?

That depends on whether you are building it new, or retrofitting. New, it's easy and not expensive. Having to run new wires and such, not easy and can cost a lot.

I just had to replace one in my mums bathroom as the bearings had gone. It had more wires. To have it continue x mins after the light is turned off it has a permanent live and a switched live. She wanted one with a pull switch, but that'd leave a permanent live wire in a wet room.

 

[Cutlass]

I just had to replace one in my mums bathroom as the bearings had gone. It had more wires. To have it continue x mins after the light is turned off it has a permanent live and a switched live. She wanted one with a pull switch, but that'd leave a permanent live wire in a wet room.

What we commonly have here, at least in older places, is bathrooms with just a single light on a switch. And that not always even on the ceiling. So retrofitting a ceiling fan into that situation can be a great deal of work.

 

[GinandTonic]

What we commonly have here, at least in older places, is bathrooms with just a single light on a switch. And that not always even on the ceiling. So retrofitting a ceiling fan into that situation can be a great deal of work.

Yeah, so it's easier to run a spur to the window from the light - it's already half way to the window and probably away from the tiling. It's still fractionally easier to wire in the pull switch rather then the overflow time models. One less wire on the spur.

 

[Ajidica]

Had some fun car problems last night. Quick drove to the grocery store because it was too cold to walk, but when I left my car would not start. Not even a "nnnn-nnn-nnnn" of trying to turn over. My dad was in the area so he swung by to jump me, and nothing. Car would not start or make any noise, and his volt-meter was showing my battery was putting out enough voltage. Called a tow truck; but when the tow truck arrived, I moved the key to the "start" position to try and set gear to neutral, and the car turned on and started working.
I discovered power steering had died, so since it was looking like a complex issue I took it to a nearby Toyota dealership. Plus it was sub-zero and nobody wants to do car work in sub zero weather.

Got a call this morning from dealer saying my car turned on and no apparent power steering issues; but I asked them to look it over and do a 'peace of mind' inspection. Twenty minutes later I got a call from dealer saying they tried to start my car again to move it in for inspection and it wouldn't start. Subsequently discovered battery was dead-dead, no voltage, nothing. (They suspect intermittent starts was due to an internal short.) Replaced battery and everything is working. Used a courtesy shuttle to go get my car and drove home.

About ten minutes later, I got a call saying they forgot to replace my battery contact covers, so I had to drive back there. While driving back, I noticed they broke my shift release cover when they forced the car into neutral to move it, and they didn't have the part handy; so I get to go back on Tuesday and get an itty-bitty piece of plastic replaced.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I have a mouse in my Audi eating wires. This is going to cost serious money. I also haven't caught the little miscreant yet, but I'm putting traps in the car and on the engine. Die mouse, die!

 

[The_J]

Sure it's a mouse and not a weasel?
(yes, even in a city)

 

[Ajidica]

Ooof.

In high school, my neighbor had a classic V8 Ford Thunderbird that his wife was making him get rid of if he wanted a boat (the third garage stall gets the muscle car or the boat) and I was planning on buying it once I got my license. Over the winter some mice got into the car and decided the wires were tasty and it would be a nice place to make nests and invite all their friends and family.....
Ended up scrapping the car.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I have a mouse in my Audi eating wires. This is going to cost serious money. I also haven't caught the little miscreant yet, but I'm putting traps in the car and on the engine. Die mouse, die!

If you left it better food, it would not have to resort to eating plastic and metal.

 

[Cutlass]

I have a mouse in my Audi eating wires. This is going to cost serious money. I also haven't caught the little miscreant yet, but I'm putting traps in the car and on the engine. Die mouse, die!

I used 2 sided tape to mount some of these bait traps under the hood.

But there's also sprays, mothballs, and bags of smelly stuff that you can use which in theory drive mice away. Your wires are coated in a type of plastic that mice can mistake for food. Which is what attracts them. But also the warmth of the engine bay can make it seem like a good place to nest.

 

[r16]

in my 12 years in the site , all Civ lll modders would expect me to capable of clicking on the rotate before attack box in the editor by now . lt somehow doesn't work for me ; apparently there is a DVD in the making and the scenario/mod which is the personal favourite of mine will be included . The maker calls on people to mention any bug that might still be in the game , ı mention an issue about ships acting weirdly at times , this morning ı read his answer that they had the same problem but fixed most of it , though some residuals might exist , or things to that end ...

meanwhile during last night and considering yours idiotly kills time , currently going through competitions on Artstation . With clicking on a poster's game bringing up a page whether you can see all his/her/the studios work as available in Artstation . This Ryan guy from Firaxis , your spaceminer character post in 2015 or whatever does not have the correct link to her vehicle ! Some designs , less characters , least environments and stuff . All downloaded and then moved away from the download page . Where you can delete hundreds of stuff at once by mistake and pictures do not slide and so on .

something happens ... Can't move pictures to a folder ... And ı have discovered the order of pictures depend on their time of download unless you move them a second time . Like if ı download picture A , B and C in that order from the internet and move them into a folder for the first time A will be first and C last , if ı start with A and slide the pictures . lf ı rename things or move B to a different folder , followed by A and C , the order will not be A-B-C . So , ı struggle for a while and discover the order is off in two folders . Not saying anything happened , but only as it might have . ı create two new folders , move pictures , delete the old . Except being a fool makes me also delete one of the new folders mixing it with the old ... Knowing where ı had found them ı go back . A vista (an astronaut on Mars) two or three figures in z-brush (like all gray images before painting starts but the details are clearer) a modular truck with 4 images and a thing like those airboats in the Everglades lost . Of course , translators of my posts in CFC naturally ignored my things about how if they could see me , others also could and make a copy , so that ı actually would not lose anything ever , so perhaps even that is not justified as a rant .

and once again not saying it happened , but might have . Considering ı also have this impression that people think there is no point in stop messing with me , because ı won't stop messing with them . Like families investigating what they should , with the youngest full of confidence and ignoring concerns of his elders -who know people can do mistakes and mistakes can be ignored for reasons . Simply creates a venue to show powers ?

once again not saying anything as my fat fingers get fatter every year and ı might have touched some option while thinking ı was touching a different one and so on . But when America told New Turkey to make it happen during the week of the news reports of the biggest hacking in history , ı don't think they meant it to turn into a display of talking about the guy's rights , with disbelief on the face of the next one . Stop tracking me , stop showing me my place , especially after a claim of being wrongly accused ... which then "justifies" an attack and so on .

 

[r16]

life must be improving for CFC members , considering there were no rants between Sunday and today . Another folder losing its order . Once again , it might not be a thing that happened today . The trouble had happened on the 5th of this month , the pictures were saved on the 5th , so , who knows ?

but ı get the distinct impression that the demands continue that ı should demand something in compensation and stuff . You know , the sentence "do not follow me" is a complex thing , can not be understood at all . When the city must know a thing , ı don't know , ClA would tell them , like with the rest of the world also rushing to inform them , ı have no doubts about that . ı myself don't know what eclectic is anyhow ...

 

[Kaitzilla]

I regret picking a joke name.

Was only supposed to be on these forums for a few weeks.

Now I'm Bob Ross' haircut.