So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Trenchfriend]

Damn! Now, it's happening. Now, all thurinigan (flat)renters become the smokedetectors forced by law, too!

Ok, primary, it's not a bad think. BUT secondary, the problem is the evil technological potential of these "monitoring devices", the general problem on german data-protection and the prospective possibilties!

In Thuringia, the smokedetectors have to be installed in every (rental)flat until 31. Decembre 2018. Our housebuilding-coorporative will install the devices on 01.06.2016.

I'm really not thinking about "New World Order/1984" or "conspiracy theories", but the technological potential of the newer models with radiosignal- and ultrasonic-facilities is just alarming for thinking people!
Actual, these newer devices are just "borderline" and their ultrasonic-security-system is of course just scanning 60cm around if surrounding air is free, but WHAT will come NEXT by law??? Microphones, cameras, full scan???

 

[GHT]

Luckily I had my fallopian tubes removed six weeks after conception,

Dodged a bullet there then, didn't you.

 

[MisterCairo]

Dodged a bullet there then, didn't you.

Lord, what kind of posts did I miss?!?!?!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

The developement of the mammalian embryo kind.

 

[MisterCairo]

The developement of the mammalian embryo kind.

In the immortal words of Duckman;

DWAAAAHHH!!!

 

[Edward]

Know what really yicks me off? Having to drop everything in the middle of a busy week for an emergency appendectomy.

Yowch. Hope you're doing okay. I had mine out in energency surgery twenty years ago, not fun... As I recall, the time to be very careful is when the wound stops being sore *all* the time... just when you move....

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yeah, that's just about where I am today. I went to the store this morning and bought a ten pound box of cat litter, and ended up standing there holding it in a very long "express" line behind a lot of people who wanted to haggle about every coupon. I hope they all got short-changed.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

If you pop those stitches Lizz, your kitty will have fresh liver & tripe for supper......prehaps not a good idea to lift weights a few days after abdominal surgery.

 

[tonyb]

...

I looked out the window just now to find that the kids had somehow retrieved my car from the ER parking lot. Since none of them knows how to drive a standard, I am quite impressed with whatever ingenuity they demonstrated during the night....

Let's hope their ingenious methods won't come to involve a clutch job. That might hurt worse than an appendectomy.

 

[tonyb]

If you pop those stitches Lizz, your kitty will have fresh liver & tripe for supper......prehaps not a good idea to lift weights a few days after abdominal surgery.

An inguinal hernia repair was among my more recent experiences in the hacksaw artist's studio.

The procedure has a 90-some percent success rate. Should it be unsuccessful, subsequent attempts have diminishing odds of fixing the problem for good.

It was made clear as could be that lifting anything heavier than 10 pounds for some weeks following the surgery increased my risks of ending up among that less-fortunate few percent.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm just grateful our half-ton popcorn order arrived last week. The driver unloads it on the sidewalk and we have to carry it down to the storeroom ourselves. Fortunately that won't be happening again until the fall.

 

[tonyb]

A thousand pounds of popcorn! Sounds like the makings of a really weird dream.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fortunately I come from a long line of longshoremen.

 

[2jakes]

A thousand pounds of popcorn! Sounds like the makings of a really weird dream.

Eating a banana split late at night is 100 % guarantee for a really weird dream
and sometimes in technicolor.

 

[MisterCairo]

Eating a banana split late at night is 100 % guarantee for a really weird dream
and sometimes in technicolor.

A headcheese hoagie at midnight is even worse (go to about 20:20 and watch the last minute and a half):

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
Just when it was getting good...!

Perhaps I’ll try a double headcheese hoagie tonight !

 

[tonyb]

Trivial complaint? Maybe in the grander scheme, but in my little world this rapid obsolescence of my electronic communications devices is a not-inexpensive annoyance.

I take money over my phone via Square. I send photos and the occasional video. This has presented no real difficulty since this past holiday season, when my wife presented me with the latest version of Apple's phone. But before then, when I was working with ancient (circa 2010) technology, I was told more than once that it wouldn't be long until my "device" would no longer be "supported."

If I had to, I could get around in a Model T. I prefer a world in which I replace things after those things have had a long service life, and then only when the cost of repairs can no longer justified.

 

[2jakes]

Trivial complaint? Maybe in the grander scheme, but in my little world this rapid obsolescence of my electronic communications devices is a not-inexpensive annoyance.

I take money over my phone via Square. I send photos and the occasional video. This has presented no real difficulty since this past holiday season, when my wife presented me with the latest version of Apple's phone. But before then, when I was working with ancient (circa 2010) technology, I was told more than once that it wouldn't be long until my "device" would no longer be "supported."

If I had to, I could get around in a Model T. I prefer a world in which I replace things after those things have had a long service life, and then only when the cost of repairs can no longer justified.

I get around in a ’46 pickup.

Luckily, the places I have to go do not require the use of the freeways.

 

[tonyb]

I get around in a ’46 pickup.

Luckily, the places I have to go do not require the use of the freeways.

The freeways I travel rarely carry traffic at anything approaching their posted speed limits.

 

[2jakes]

Last time I took my ’46 on the freeway & even though I was
driving the designated speed limit...

The traffic was traveling at faster speeds that I had the sensation I was traveling backwards!

I immediately turn off on the nearest exit.

I now take the access roads & back-roads which is really quite nice & I enjoy the scenery.