OT: OT thread number 11 | No More Bad News PLEASE!

[bellagiobob]

 

[ZJuice]

More apps & sites need to bring back tap & space bar to pause/play. Am I getting old? Quit making me press a little button in the corner!

 

[bellagiobob]

Not a great outcome for the loser.

 

[rboomercat90]

Not a great outcome for the loser.

They sure put a lot of thought into that to make it fair. I’d be curious to see what they ruled out first, before they got to this.

 

[ZJuice]

@Mr Kot
Saw that your post was deleted on the mains:

"It's ok, the game is shite so no need to spend too much time."

Starfield? I have tried playing it a few times. I'm only at 1hr30minutes into my save and I feel like I've done nothing. I keep shutting it off and booting up NHL 23..

You probably got perma'd for that post though. I do not expect a response

 

[Stoneman89]

They sure put a lot of thought into that to make it fair. I’d be curious to see what they ruled out first, before they got to this.

Christ, it's a good thing they don't have stuff like that here anymore. My wife would have killed me by now.

 

[Mr Kot]

@Mr Kot
Saw that your post was deleted on the mains:

"It's ok, the game is shite so no need to spend too much time."

Starfield? I have tried playing it a few times. I'm only at 1hr30minutes into my save and I feel like I've done nothing. I keep shutting it off and booting up NHL 23..

You probably got perma'd for that post though. I do not expect a response

I'm contacting you from the shadow realm. Yes, it sucks.

 

[Stoneman89]

They sure put a lot of thought into that to make it fair. I’d be curious to see what they ruled out first, before they got to this.

"Hmmm....so, if I lose, I get beheaded, and if my wife loses, she gets buried alive.". I think we'll just take the councelling route, thankyou very much."

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I was kind of waiting for the shell to crack or explode.

 

[Stoneman89]

I remember working at Safeway and during some down time on night crew, we thought we'd throw a couple full aerosol cans in the fired up incinerator, close the door for it, and see what happened. Well, we knew damned well what would happen, but it was still pretty cool to hear the explosions and the door pop open a bit.

 

[Drivesaitl]

They sure put a lot of thought into that to make it fair. I’d be curious to see what they ruled out first, before they got to this.

I'm not convinced this isn't fictional account. Or that it only rarely applied to a select few in priveleged class. Or that it was a cautionary spin devised to free up the courts and have people resolve issues.

Historically people in the past were not as ego based. This is explained by Maslow. People were not actualized then, they struggled to survive, the most common thought of the day being what to eat and how to survive. Basic needs. This is one reason why things like arranged marriages worked back then as people were less individualistic. They became partners to survive and have offspring. The notion of divorce, remarriage etc was basically unheard of except with royalty.

The notion was life was hard, too hard to focus on such things as I hate the way she bakes bread or does the bed...

edit: Just did some digging on this. Does appear that this had occurred, but its disputed to have occurred and theres general agreement it wasn't applied in matters of divorce but more as ciminal dispute in cases involving rape or murder or something else. This is a good article on it.

How common were marital duels in medieval Europe?

On social media, I came across a post claiming that in medieval Germany spouses could settle a divorce outside of court, civic or religious, through trial by combat! Naturally, I was shocked (the m...

history.stackexchange.com

This is a good quote:

The judicial duel thus appears to be a strictly regulated and highly ritualised phenomenon, from the filing of the suit to its end, whose slowness could force those willing to fight to reflect and, ideally, to give in. Those who offered or accepted a duel did not act spontaneously, but had to consider their decision carefully with regard to its possible deterrent consequences for themselves and others, and test its proportionality against the possible alternatives for an amicable settlement of the conflict. The aim of the established rules is, exaggeratedly formulated, not the implementation but the avoidance of the judicial duel. Nevertheless, the demonstration of readiness to fight seems to have been indispensable as proof of the legitimacy of one's own claim or also as evidence of one's own bravery.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I remember working at Safeway and during some down time on night crew, we thought we'd throw a couple full aerosol cans in the fired up incinerator, close the door for it, and see what happened. Well, we knew damned well what would happen, but it was still pretty cool to hear the explosions and the door pop open a bit.

Its a good thing Safeway was getting that quality work crew and responsible employees by paying them twice as much as competitors were. hehe

Safeway corp must've hated when there was down time.

Night crews are always different though. More casual, more stuff that can go sideways.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I'm not convinced this isn't fictional account. Or that it only rarely applied to a select few in priveleged class. Or that it was a cautionary spin devised to free up the courts and have people resolve issues.

Historically people in the past were not as ego based. This is explained by Maslow. People were not actualized then, they struggled to survive, the most common thought of the day being what to eat and how to survive. Basic needs. This is one reason why things like arranged marriages worked back then as people were less individualistic. They became partners to survive and have offspring. The notion of divorce, remarriage etc was basically unheard of except with royalty.

The notion was life was hard, too hard to focus on such things as I hate the way she bakes bread or does the bed...

edit: Just did some digging on this. Does appear that this had occurred, but its disputed to have occurred and theres general agreement it wasn't applied in matters of divorce but more as ciminal dispute in cases involving rape or murder or something else. This is a good article on it.

How common were marital duels in medieval Europe?

On social media, I came across a post claiming that in medieval Germany spouses could settle a divorce outside of court, civic or religious, through trial by combat! Naturally, I was shocked (the m...

history.stackexchange.com

This is a good quote:

The judicial duel thus appears to be a strictly regulated and highly ritualised phenomenon, from the filing of the suit to its end, whose slowness could force those willing to fight to reflect and, ideally, to give in. Those who offered or accepted a duel did not act spontaneously, but had to consider their decision carefully with regard to its possible deterrent consequences for themselves and others, and test its proportionality against the possible alternatives for an amicable settlement of the conflict. The aim of the established rules is, exaggeratedly formulated, not the implementation but the avoidance of the judicial duel. Nevertheless, the demonstration of readiness to fight seems to have been indispensable as proof of the legitimacy of one's own claim or also as evidence of one's own bravery.

Not to mention it would've been a lot easier to kill someone and get away with it back in those days with poison and "accidental" fall, etc. because I can't imagine that the coroners had the same level of knowledge, tests, etc. to determine cause of death unless it was pretty obvious.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I remember working at Safeway and during some down time on night crew, we thought we'd throw a couple full aerosol cans in the fired up incinerator, close the door for it, and see what happened. Well, we knew damned well what would happen, but it was still pretty cool to hear the explosions and the door pop open a bit.

Terrorist!

 

[Stoneman89]

Its a good thing Safeway was getting that quality work crew and responsible employees by paying them twice as much as competitors were. hehe

Safeway corp must've hated when there was down time.

Night crews are always different though. More casual, more stuff that can go sideways.

You have no idea, lol. This was the tip of the iceberg.

Terrorist!

Yes, we could be considered the original bombers!

 

[Drivesaitl]

Not to mention it would've been a lot easier to kill someone and get away with it back in those days with poison and "accidental" fall, etc. because I can't imagine that the coroners had the same level of knowledge, tests, etc. to determine cause of death unless it was pretty obvious.

This is a good if not disturbing point. So its cane spiders and poison? hehe

I imagine there were lots of accidental falls off parapets in castles as well.

jk aside its interesting how much life has changed in a Century. My parents had some photos of "the old country" circa 100yrs ago. Nobody would smile in those pictures, there wasn't often anything to smile about, and people didn't really clamor to get their picture taken, it was considered some kind of obligation to the new fangled technology and family history. A person would have one or two pictures taken of them ever. If that, and that would be it. Now kids have to have 100pictures per hour recording their life.

Then we wonder about increasing narcissism.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

This is a good if not disturbing point. So its cane spiders and poison? hehe

I imagine there were lots of accidental falls off parapets in castles as well.

jk aside its interesting how much life has changed in a Century. My parents had some photos of "the old country" circa 100yrs ago. Nobody would smile in those pictures, there wasn't often anything to smile about, and people didn't really clamor to get their picture taken, it was considered some kind of obligation to the new fangled technology and family history. A person would have one or two pictures taken of them ever. If that, and that would be it. Now kids have to have 100pictures per hour recording their life.

Then we wonder about increasing narcissism.

We have a photo of my great, great grandmother with one of her children that died on their way to Canada. The look in her eyes hits me deep in my soul. Hard and difficult times to say the least and far from uncommon. On the other side of my family my great, great grandfather was bullwhipped on the plantation that he worked on. Contrary to popular belief many people come from families that had tough times but pushed forward so that future generations could hopefully have better lives and more opportunities.

As to the other part, there are way more eyes and cameras around these days!

 

[Stoneman89]

This is a good if not disturbing point. So its cane spiders and poison? hehe

I imagine there were lots of accidental falls off parapets in castles as well.

jk aside its interesting how much life has changed in a Century. My parents had some photos of "the old country" circa 100yrs ago. Nobody would smile in those pictures, there wasn't often anything to smile about, and people didn't really clamor to get their picture taken, it was considered some kind of obligation to the new fangled technology and family history. A person would have one or two pictures taken of them ever. If that, and that would be it. Now kids have to have 100pictures per hour recording their life.

Then we wonder about increasing narcissism.

Being of German descent and all, I should mention though that I had an uncle that died at Auchscwitz.


Fell off the guard tower.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[Jumptheshark]

remember this when trying to stay warm this winter

 

[Stoneman89]

Gamers heaven.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Useless fact of the day to make u go WTF

Taylor Swift is eligible for the rock and roll hall fame in 7 years

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I’m wondering if anyone who lives in the Edmonton area have experienced property related crimes recently? It’s ridiculous how many people I know who have had vehicles stolen this summer.

Were in an acreage estate community just south of Spruce and so far have had a side by side stolen this year and several attempted break ins. We’ve made an effort to secure our property as best possible, including adding additional fencing, security cameras and trail cams. Almost weekly we have someone casing our property, I’ve had multiple discussions with the rcmp and have basically been repeatedly told there’s not much that can be done as they just don’t have the resources to keep up with the exponential rise in theft and property crimes. Theft networks have become so organized that property is moved out of the area before most people even realize it’s gone and it’s becoming more and more difficult to track and recover property let alone catch and prosecute perpetrators.

I bring it up because we had another incident last night where I got a notification from one of the trail cams we set up on the property (my wife’s sister and her family built the main house and my wife and I have a guesthouse cabin we built on the property where we spend our summers) I texted my brother in law and we went out and snuck up on these guys trying to get into one of the garages. Of course they were sketchy heads so we kindly walked them back to their vehicle, took some photos of them and their vehicle and went full Yellowstone on them “if you set foot on this property one more time, you will never leave”

it’s getting ridiculous at this point how frequently this is happening.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I’m wondering if anyone who lives in the Edmonton area have experienced property related crimes recently? It’s ridiculous how many people I know who have had vehicles stolen this summer.

Were in an acreage estate community just south of Spruce and so far have had a side by side stolen this year and several attempted break ins. We’ve made an effort to secure our property as best possible, including adding additional fencing, security cameras and trail cams. Almost weekly we have someone casing our property, I’ve had multiple discussions with the rcmp and have basically been repeatedly told there’s not much that can be done as they just don’t have the resources to keep up with the exponential rise in theft and property crimes. Theft networks have become so organized that property is moved out of the area before most people even realize it’s gone and it’s becoming more and more difficult to track and recover property let alone catch and prosecute perpetrators.

I bring it up because we had another incident last night where I got a notification from one of the trail cams we set up on the property (my wife’s sister and her family built the main house and my wife and I have a guesthouse cabin we built on the property where we spend our summers) I texted my brother in law and we went out and snuck up on these guys trying to get into one of the garages. Of course they were sketchy heads so we kindly walked them back to their vehicle, took some photos of them and their vehicle and went full Yellowstone on them “if you set foot on this property one more time, you will never leave”

it’s getting ridiculous at this point how frequently this is happening.

Not gonna beat around the bush. Being located on an "acreage estate community" next to a place like Spruce Grove with tons of crime and drug abuse and that has had decades of problems with youth crime specifically.

Living in a remote place that isn't right in a city is going to be a hotbed for criminal elements to do crime and escape detection and while knowing any police response will be slow if it comes at all. This is the problem faced by nearly any acreage owner within quick distance of being hit by local cretins.

We avoided buying a cabin or residential rural property for the same kinds of reasons you mention. In todays new reality these places are insecure, liable to be damaged, robbed, or even broken into by squatters. We did research and the myriad problems people on acreages increasingly face made us say "not a f***ing chance"

What you describe is nothing new, and has been going on for decades. Its well documented how much difficulty rural or acreage owners have had. Not sure when you bought but you'd have to be in a cave not to be aware of these issues that are epidemic in the prairies.

Rural crime is greater than urban crime and especially such things as violent crime.

Police-reported crime in rural and urban areas in the Canadian provinces, 2021

This Juristat article presents information on the nature and extent of crime in the rural areas of the Canadian provinces. This includes analysis of recent trends in crime rates and severity in rural and urban areas, both at the national and provincial levels. The report also examines the...

www150.statcan.gc.ca

The article contains interesting articles that people misperceive that urban crime is greater and living rural safer. This is not at all the case.

Some places are hotbeds of activity. For reasons you might never entirely know. Had clients once that had 12 break ins in one year. On an acreage. I can't disclose more but if you live in the wrong type of area close to problems its constant hell that never ends.

Ever wonder why so many acreage properties go on sale and are on sale for a long long time?

What you describe is terrible but theres no solutions coming. Its getting worse.