Grumpy old buggers thread

[Tins]

You don’t make a hole.

You smack across the glass then ‘punch’ the middle to help it fold out of the frame.

Which is fine if you are not frail, or physically small, or panicked, or unfamiliar, or the litany of other reasons this option is unavailable to you, such as being submerged or disorientated due to the car being inverted.

[Tins]

I just drove the approximately two kilometres from Olinda to here. On this marathon I saw four of those towable electronic billboard things so loved by councils and road repair traffic "controllers" and fast food chains.

So what?, I hear you ask. Well, the messages are usually multiple pages long, and they either scroll so fast you can't read them, or they scroll so slowly that you are past them before you have a chance to read them. Which makes them entirely pointless. And, if you decide to frustrate everyone else and stop to read them, or go past them a number of times, you will find they have absolutely nothing of value to say. But you have been distracted from driving trying to see if you should expect falling rocks, or unexpected missile fire, or something. But if you so much as think about looking at your phone you are a menace to society.

Talk about mixed messages. Ban them, I say.

[4bee]

You don’t make a hole.

You smack across the glass then ‘punch’ the middle to help it fold out of the frame.

Did the opposite years ago, my vehicle was stolen from a workshop (by key) and when found they had stripped it but graciously locked it before they left - we think plans were to come get the interior later.

Anyway, we couldn’t get IN… so glass breaker across the drivers window and my arm wrapped in a jacket to then collapse the glass, folding it from the frame.

That was about the time when car tea leafs had scruples. Later on they set fire to them to keep the environment clean not to mention, also to hide their dabs of course.

[austastar]

...... car tea leafs had scruples.

Hi,
Scruples?? Car thieves??? Never!
Got a callout to a vehicle fire some 20 years ago.
Tradie's ute.
Full of tools.
Total charred wreck.
Pinched from outside the local pub 'cause some local dipstick missed the bus.
Grrrr!
Cheers

[4bee]

Which is fine if you are not frail, or physically small, or panicked, or unfamiliar, or the litany of other reasons this option is unavailable to you, such as being submerged or disorientated due to the car being inverted.

being submerged or disorientated due to the car being inverted.

......... or both at the same time & with kids in the rear?

[JDNSW]

On the way home from town this afternoon, I saw a car off the road, upside down. Probably reported already, and it did not dawn on me until I was half a kilometre up the road what I had seen. As there is no mobile coverage, I continued on home, to call from there.

I decided not to call 000, as I thought it had probably happened overnight, so I called the police advice line. After 15 minutes on hold, I gave up, and tried the local police station. After less than ten minutes, I got an answer, and reported it.

[Tins]

Got an email from my ISP warning me of an NBN outage on 04/02/2024. So, that's ok then, I must have missed it...

Why must we dumb down? AFAIK the only place that uses that particular date format is the North American continent, although I admit I have not looked it up. This ISP claims to be Australian.

[Tins]

Another one.. Anyone else get middle of the night texts warning of dire consequences if a toll remains unpaid? I know these things go out in the millions, and the numbers are false, but they must travel over the telco's networks ( Telstra in this instance ). Surely they have the tech to prevent this?

[JDNSW]

I have asked this sort of question to my RSP, but they say they cannot even stop the fake emails purportedly coming from themselves.

[BradC]

I have asked this sort of question to my RSP, but they say they cannot even stop the fake emails purportedly coming from themselves.

The only way to do that is by forcing DKIM/DMARC and there are so few mail services that actually check that it's almost impossible to enforce. E-mail (as for pretty much the entire "internet") was designed by people who believed in the good/honest. There's **** all provision in there for stopping the dishonest bastards. Unfortunately human nature makes sure there are plenty.