Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[Pepper Mint]

A little-cat he is.
Today we are all "equal".

 

[fresh_42]

A little-cat he is.
Today we are all "equal".

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

What is this Welch you guys are talking about?

Oh, that one letter difference

It already made an appearance in an episode

Well, I didn't know that. Darn you 21st Century Fox for taking my punchlines

 

[Borg]

I got halfway to work this morning and realized that I didn't have my car key. The car started because my wife had her key in her purse. I have no idea what would have happened if I had driven off without taking her key.

 

[Ibix]

You'd hope it has a fail-safe-not-fail-secure mode for "fob has left sensor range but I'm not stationary". Might be worth asking your manufacturer, though.

 

[Borg]

You'd hope it has a fail-safe-not-fail-secure mode for "fob has left sensor range but I'm not stationary". Might be worth asking your manufacturer, though.

I'm guessing that it would take me to my destination and allow me to turn off the car. After all, imagine if the battery in the fob goes bad while you're driving? It wouldn't be a good design to have a car shutting down while driving down the freeway or to not allow you to turn it off if the fob fails.

 

[Psinter]

I had bought a new LR44 battery for my calculator that I have had for so many years and I love and in less than one week it stopped working. I was so angry. So I tried to improvise and connect a AA battery. It did not work either, so I began suspecting something was wrong. I checked the metal contacts of the battery socket and it looked like they had something on them. I suspected corrosion. I sanded them to a shine, connected the battery and voila! It works now.

Lesson of the story: It could be the metal contacts that are corroded.

I got halfway to work this morning and realized that I didn't have my car key. The car started because my wife had her key in her purse. I have no idea what would have happened if I had driven off without taking her key.

Then it would have been your time to walk. It would have been marathon time for Borg.

Once I thought my mom had abandoned me in another town and I was like: "Meh, then I suppose I'll have to walk back home." My home was over 40 miles away, but I wasn't afraid. I said to myself: "I'll walk, no problem. And perhaps even run part of the way." While I was getting ready to begin she appeared and picked me up so I didn't end up having to walk back home.

One may wonder why I didn't call her. Well, I had no cellphone and I don't even know where to find public phones. I think those things don't exist anymore. Plus, I don't know her number or any number from any family member to begin with. Also, a taxi would have charged me more than $50 USD for the trip. So my decision was to just walk back home. I didn't mind.

 

[Ibix]

I'm guessing that it would take me to my destination and allow me to turn off the car. After all, imagine if the battery in the fob goes bad while you're driving? It wouldn't be a good design to have a car shutting down while driving down the freeway or to not allow you to turn it off if the fob fails.

That's how I'd set it up. However, I personally dislike the word "guess" in combination with "driving down the freeway".

 

[Psinter]

When you go to a bakery and they don't have bread:

(⊙︿⊙)

*But... I don't understand...*

 

[Sophia]

When you go to a bakery and they don't have bread:

(⊙︿⊙)

*But... I don't understand...*

Haha that's why old people stand in a queue at 7am in front of the bakery here :-) though they know there will be bread and rolls all day, it's something they used to do most of their life so capitalism won't stop them now!
However, if there is sales on cheap sugar people buy even 20-30 kg of it. There used to be lack of sugar during socialism so there is a custom of making huge reserves of it in many households. During those sales there's sometimes a sign next to sugar in shops saying " selling only in usual amounts" meaning max 10 or 15 kg per customer :-)
I don't get that hysteria because you can buy sugar with no problems all the time and I've never experienced lack of it. It's not even so expensive. Guess that's something only the older generation can fully understand.

 

[fresh_42]

Guess that's something only the older generation can fully understand.

Thank you.

 

[Sophia]

Thank you.

[emoji28]

 

[WWGD]

Thank both of you (??)

 

[fresh_42]

I have been to Ceaucescu's Romania a few times. Some of the most important things people liked to have were sweet cakes, self made jelly and some self produced liquors. For all they needed to have a few kg of sugar at hand which wasn't available all the time. So every single time it was, they bought as much as they could. Same with bread. At 10 a.m. (probably earlier) the entire city was practically sold out. And I'm talking of a city of more than 250,000 citizens. The situation on the countryside has been slightly better for many people grew their own food, e.g. potatoes, in their gardens.

 

[WWGD]

I have been to Ceaucescu's Romania a few times. Some of the most important things people liked to have were sweet cakes, self made jelly and some self produced liquors. For all they needed to have a few kg of sugar at hand which wasn't available all the time. So every single time it was, they bought as much as they could. Same with bread. At 10 a.m. (probably earlier) the entire city was practically sold out. And I'm talking of a city of more than 250,000 citizens. The situation on the countryside has been slightly better for many people grew their own food, e.g. potatoes, in their gardens.

Can't they used other things like beets to make sugar?

 

[fresh_42]

Can't they used other things like beets to make sugar?

That is likely where the sugar (when available) came from. Our sugar here is produced this way and I doubt it is suitable for a production at home. In addition beets are largely seen as fodder. Industrial products, however, were sold to get foreign (valuable) currencies. Romania was / is a country of farming, perhaps like Iowa, but I haven't been to Iowa. It has vast farmlands and a long tradition in farming. Unfortunately it had some oil, too. So Ceaucescu had been trying to turn his farming based country into an industrial country with chemical plants, oil refineries and similar. As usual for communistic regimes he ruined the first and didn't achieve the second. I have seen large fields of unused farmland. Illegally grown food in small private gardens have been an important source for people to buy food. It was really sad to see all this. The result has been that Romania turned into one of if not the poorest country of all communistic countries. A fact that one must know to understand what they did to Ceaucescu as soon as they got a hand on him.

 

[WWGD]

That is likely where the sugar (when available) came from. Our sugar here is produced this way and I doubt it is suitable for a production at home. In addition beets are largely seen as fodder. Industrial products, however, were sold to get foreign (valuable) currencies. Romania was / is a country of farming, perhaps like Iowa, but I haven't been to Iowa. It has vast farmlands and a long tradition in farming. Unfortunately it had some oil, too. So Ceaucescu had been trying to turn his farming based country into an industrial country with chemical plants, oil refineries and similar. As usual for communistic regimes he ruined the first and didn't achieve the second. I have seen large fields of unused farmland. Illegally grown food in small private gardens have been an important source for people to buy food. It was really sad to see all this. The result has been that Romania turned into one of if not the poorest country of all communistic countries. A fact that one must know to understand what they did to Ceaucescu as soon as they got a hand on him.

There is a song documenting this, though misspelled :

 

[fresh_42]

There is a song documenting this, though misspelled :

Ouch! It took me five minutes, reading the lyrics, looking up the Wiki page only to find out ...
Good, that I like Punk! Yes, and simply to forestall you: Yes, Pink, too!

 

[WWGD]

Ouch! It took me five minutes, reading the lyrics, looking up the Wiki page only to find out ...
Good, that I like Punk! Yes, and simply to forestall you: Yes, Pink, too!

They got the beet !

 

[Sophia]

Socialism was a magical era! Everyone stole yet nothing was officially missing. For example, our garden (meaning a small cottage with garden which is a very common thing owned by many people who live in apartments) was built from materials stolen by miners from the mine and concrete for the cottage was stolen when local swimming pool was being built. One truck for the pool, one truck for garden area :) When the previous owner who built it was selling it to us, he was very proud when he said that not a single nail in the property was legally bought! "It's an old good Russian quality, my dear! " )
And nobody missed anything.

 

[WWGD]

Socialism was a magical era! Everyone stole yet nothing was officially missing. For example, our garden (meaning a small cottage with garden which is a very common thing owned by many people who live in apartments) was built from materials stolen by miners from the mine and concrete for the cottage was stolen when local swimming pool was being built. One truck for the pool, one truck for garden area :) When the previous owner who built it was selling it to us, he was very proud when he said that not a single nail in the property was legally bought! "It's an old good Russian quality, my dear! " )
And nobody missed anything.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.(Sigh.)

 

[fresh_42]

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.(Sigh.)

Here they say "Ostalgie", ost = east.

 

[WWGD]

Here they say "Ostalgie", ost = east.

Kind of weird, in all languages I know it has no apparent connection with any orientation.

 

[Ibix]

Nostalgia is not where it used to be?

 

[WWGD]

Nostalgia is not where it used to be?

No Stalgia are where they used to be. Now we need to figure out what (and of course where) Stalgia are.

 

[Ibix]

No Stalgia are where they used to be. Now we need to figure out what (and of course where) Stalgia are.

A band, it would seem.

Edit: According to their Facebook page the answer to where have they been is CREATING.

 

[WWGD]

A band, it would seem.

A+ for effort on following up on absurdity. Your paysans Monty Python nand Lewis Carrol would be/are proud of you.

 

[fresh_42]

No Stalgia are where they used to be. Now we need to figure out what (and of course where) Stalgia are.

Da... you are right!
And we are not the only ones searching for https://www.facebook.com/stalgiaband/timeline They are searching themselves!

 

[WWGD]

Da... you are right!
And we are not the only ones searching for https://www.facebook.com/stalgiaband/timeline They are searching themselves!

Maybe they can find themselves. There is no Stalgia in my music collection.

 

[fresh_42]

Maybe they can find themselves. There is no Stalgia in my music collection.

How about this guy? Seems you wrote it wrong