Commuting WTF Thread
-
@PleegWat said in Commuting WTF Thread:
well of course Factories would ban the Joker!
he'd either poison their products or blow them up. neither is good for continued business!
-
@Vixen said in Commuting WTF Thread:
or blow them up. neither is good for continued business!
Depends on the business
-
Today in bus journeys. Overly talkative man gets on. Singles out a younger woman to sit next to and strike up a conversation with. Woman turns out to be from Ireland. This guy did not get the hint that she just wants to mind her own business and keeps on trying to strike up conversations with her. He also forgot several times she does not speak Swedish and tried talking to her in Swedish. Trying to resist temptation to slap him and say "HÄll kÀften, gubbjÀvel. Hon Àr inte intresserad av dig. Och hÄll dig borta frÄn flaskan tills du Àr hemma för fan."
Fake edit: Lost mobile data connection. This is getting really painful to listen to. She's so not interested and he's too old/drunk to remember stuff from two seconds ago . "Are you English or American?" You just talked about how she was from Ireland! How fucking retarded are you, you numbskull! Gah! Can this torture end soon? Fucks sake. Now he's just reaffirming his stupidity by going on about how he fell asleep at the wheel once and got amnesia from the accident.
Oh, and now mobile data is back so I can stop the angry rant.
-
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
HÄll kÀften, gubbjÀvel. Hon Àr inte intresserad av dig. Och hÄll dig borta frÄn flaskan tills du Àr hemma för fan.
Google Translate said:
Shut up, old man. She's not interested in you. And stay away from the bottle until you're home for fucking.
-
@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Google Translate said:
Shut up, old man. She's not interested in you. And stay away from the bottle until you're home for fucking.
Almost correct translation. Old man is a bit more profane in swedish ("you old fuck"). And the last "for fucking" would be "for fuck's sake".
-
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Trying to resist temptation to slap him and say "HÄll kÀften, gubbjÀvel. Hon Àr inte intresserad av dig. Och hÄll dig borta frÄn flaskan tills du Àr hemma för fan."
Why though?
-
@Carnage said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Why though?
I'm guessing he didn't want to cause a scene and potentially make the situation even worse. As long as certain boundaries aren't crossed, stepping in might just embarrass her even more.
-
Do pedestrian stories count?
I was walking to the train station today like I do every week, which means that I tend to instinctively hurry up a lot more (even when there's enough time). There was a traffic light. The green pedestrian light started flashing, so I thought I had just about enough time to cross it if I ran, which I did (I know, I know, it's wrong).
Unfortunately in front of me there was a group of three teenage girls who were, as they often do, walking tremendously slowly and taking up most of the sidewalk. So I had to go in a big circle around them.So I get past them right as they (and therefore me) reach the street. And right at the same moment the light turns red (it turns out I had greatly overestimated the time I had left), so I immediately stop.
But in the brief moment they see me running, their mirror neurons light up like a lighthouse and they immediately yell and start running. Then 2 steps into the street they see that the light is red and stop and walk back. Except for one of them who continues running.
The moral is, don't fucking start running when you see someone running.
-
@anonymous234 said in Commuting WTF Thread:
The moral is, don't fucking start running when you see someone running.
Unless it's someone from the bomb squad or a rocket fuel engineer.
-
@Rhywden said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@anonymous234 said in Commuting WTF Thread:
The moral is, don't fucking start running when you see someone running.
Unless it's someone from the bomb squad or a rocket fuel engineer.
Or other applied chemists.
-
@dkf A Xenobiologist might also count?
-
@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Rhywden said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@anonymous234 said in Commuting WTF Thread:
The moral is, don't fucking start running when you see someone running.
Unless it's someone from the bomb squad or a rocket fuel engineer.
Or other applied chemists.
Or a bear
-
@hungrier If that bear is running out of a chemistry lab, so too should you.
(According to a friend, jet engine testing is another area where being fleet-of-foot might be helpful. When the compressor blades fail under test, the result is... impactful.)
-
@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@hungrier If that bear is running out of a chemistry lab, so too should you.
(According to a friend, jet engine testing is another area where being fleet-of-foot might be helpful. When the compressor blades fail under test, the result is... impactful.)
In an old bunker of Saab where they used to test jet engines, there are bands of metal around the entirety of the room where the fan blades hit the rock face when the engine under test had a mechanical failure.
-
@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Rhywden said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@anonymous234 said in Commuting WTF Thread:
The moral is, don't fucking start running when you see someone running.
Unless it's someone from the bomb squad or a rocket fuel engineer.
Or other applied chemists.
Lumberjacks.
-
-
So I have noticed something special with the system used for reading tickets used here. Most tickets are in the form of cards with NFC chips. Nothing special. But you can also buy tickets through the app, which gives a QR code to be read by the ticket reader. Due to the temporary WFH and forgetting to buy a new monthly ticket ahead of today's trip to work I had to resort to the app, as buying tickets on the bus is disabled for now and I got no money on the card either.
Just that the QR code tickets are more likely to cause the ticket reader to go full lockup for a minute than actually reading the ticket. So even though I had the code perfectly centered and everything nothing happened. Until a minute after scanning when it would go "Invalid barcode". And between it reading the QR code and the error message, no other tickets can be read while the reader looks like it is ready for reading tickets but really being completely frozen. And it's not the first time it happens. I have observed it happening several times with other people, so it's not just something with my phone.
-
@Rhywden Some tyres are better than others. The mud terrain tyres I run on my Range Rover when I need to do a lot of work on wet sticky hilltop sites are noticeably less grippy on clean dry tarmac than normal "all terrain" tyres, which in turn are less grippy than pure tarmac tyres - but going in the opposite direction the pure tarmac tyres will just about cope with wet grass and scrubby gravel, but nothing stickier.
Different brands of tyres are different quality too, and some "long lasting" tyres have hard rubber compound that wears down slowly but doesn't really grip well. Motorbike tyres are about as soft as a pencil eraser and stick like glue, but wear down quickly.
-
-
@gordonjcp said in Commuting WTF Thread:
and some "long lasting" tyres have hard rubber compound that wears down slowly but doesn't really grip well.
Plus the rubber compound goes bad over time so tyres that wear slowly end up with grip that gets worse over time.
IIRC the recommendation is replacement at 5/6 years old.The tyres on neither my daily car nor my not daily Land Rover last long enough for that to be an issue, although The Eventâą has massively reduced my mileage so I won't need to replace them as often as normal.
-
@loopback0 The money saved by not pouring two or three tanks of LPG a week into my daily driver P38 means I have saved enough to replace the Cooper Discoverers with BF Goodrich :-D
-
-
@HardwareGeek me too.
-
To drive a 2 tonne fax machine over the joke...
-
-
@boomzilla Figures you'd re-rail the thread with an article about a derailment.
-
@boomzilla ISTM that if it prevents government
workersemployees from getting to work, it's a good thing.
-
Need to resurrect this public transport thread, me being a Good Citizen and communiting by bus.
So, me having an emergency doctor appointment needed to leave work early. Then a junkie decided to get on the bus too, having no (prepared) payment method but it was âreally importantâ he get on this bus and âjust wait a momentâ for him to fix payment. Bus driver told him to get off repeatedly, getting more and more agitated. But me, being in a bad mental state due to pain and other shit, and having a time to make, got so pissed off it broke my swedishness and I just walked up to said junkie, shouted into his face and then threw him off the bus.
In typical swedish fashion, the driver closed the door and drove off, leaving the junkie behind. And no reaction from the passengers either. I ended up more calm afterwards, even if I also got some anxiety over having an outburst. Even though I have a feeling nobody will press charges against me, I did think about if I had legal rights to intervene. From my understanding, I am technically in the right and/or having an implicit ok from the driver to do it. So, hm.
-
-
@Zecc said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Okay. maybe a little homo, if you're into it.
I'm not into it but can I join too? Looks like fun.
-
@Atazhaia Nah, no problem for you there. And I bet that the rest of the bus was happy you dun it.
-
@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Carnage said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Cheapo chinesium tires
I thought chinesium was a metal. You mean it can be a rubber-like compound too? Chinese engineering is truly marvelous!
Many lead. Very strong. Never break.
-
-
-
@boomzilla said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Don't bring pythons onto public transit? What's next, Glorious Leader Kim?
-
@Gribnit said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Don't bring pythons onto public transit? What's next, Glorious Leader Kim?
Public transport also isn't very keen on Rust.
-
@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@Gribnit said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Don't bring pythons onto public transit? What's next, Glorious Leader Kim?
Public transport also isn't very keen on Rust.
But Java is fine as long as you don't Spring into action and spill any of it.
-
@boomzilla It's a good thing Samuel L. Jackson wasn't on that bus.
-
@Atazhaia has he had enough of Monday-to-Friday snakes on this Monday-to-Friday bus as well?
-
Today in Sweden: Moose causing stop in the Stockholm metro. It decided to venture into a tunnel and is proving hard to get out, causing a full block of traffic.
-
@Atazhaia News update: moose has been shot and killed.
Also, while looking for an update I got this:
You are missing important content...
- Go to "More settings" and approve:
- Functional cookies/tech
- Ad-related purposes
- Go to "Show our partners" and approve:
- Svenska Spel AB
To your Cookie-settings
Yes, I am missing such important content by not seeing your ads, Expressen...
-
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
News update: moose has been shot and killed.
Good news. They're delicious.
-
@Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Today in Sweden: Moose causing stop in the Stockholm metro. It decided to venture into a tunnel and is proving hard to get out, causing a full block of traffic.
t-banan
Do such bananas conform to European tropical fruit curvature decrees?
-
-
@boomzilla said in Commuting WTF Thread:
well old One Eye does have to get to work somehow....
i wonder if that's Hugiin or Muniin? i never could tell the two of them apart.
-
@boomzilla Shoulda posted this yesterday....
-
@Watson be less of a then.
-
There were on average 10 such incidents a day in 2018, according the capital's RATP transport authority, including because panicked fellow travellers sounded a danger alarm that caused the train to grind to a halt on the tracks, sometimes in a tunnel.
-
The gall of those fainting people. Don't they know there are Olympic Gamesâą going on?
-
@Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread:
Don't they know there are Olympic Gamesâą going on?
There are? I didn't know that.