Random Thought Thread

Cap’n Smudge said:
To be fair they all suck. No matter how many times I type “knofe” my phone (iPhone) never changes it to “knife”. This happened often enough that I had to go check if there really was a word “knofe”. There is not.
And then it will take a perfectly legitimate word and change it to some obscure word that doesn’t make sense in context just to eff with me.
Ultimately, I believe that is what’s behind all this. Some programmer messing with folks.
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I had a supervisor I really liked in one of my early LE jobs for the Treasury Dept. and the agency was a stickler for report protocol. They always had to find something to change...didn't matter if it was a masterpiece of an investigative report.

One day I got one back and I was like, no way. So, I waited an hour and handed it back in with no changes and told the boss..."Lou, I made those changes you requested".

Later on he told me it was much better .

☺️

True story.
 
I had one of those “word processors” in high school and a couple years of college.
For you younger folks, computers were still very expensive back then. You could get one of these word processors for a few hundred and were then able to save your work to disk. Alter it later if necessary and print it from this machine.
My high school had us do a lot of papers. Mostly 3 and 5 page papers plus bibliographies. Also a few 10 page papers.
In college I was able to repurpose a few of them for my own use. I received scores similar to what I had received on them in high school. Some of the guys on my hall changed nothing but the name on these and turned them in as well.
It was frustrating and amusing to see these guys get A’s and B’s in college on papers I wrote in high school and only got C’s on them.
I already knew I wasn’t ever teachers pet, but it wasn’t until then that I realized how much it affected my scores.
 
dialton said:
Cobalt is tuff and pretty scratch resistant. Not real pricey.
If you look at the slight discoloration on my finger right above the ring, you will see remnants of an ages old scar where my finger was nearly ripped off. Those silicone bands for work and hard play are a good thing. View attachment 2328144
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Rings are dangerous! I would only wear the silicone type. I had a coworker almost lose his finger. He jumped down from the side of a glass truck. He was holding on up top and as he let go and hopped down. His ring got caught on part of the rack. He had a deep cut almost 360 around his ring finger. I always recommend coworkers to remove the jewelry.
 
Blues said:
I had a supervisor I really liked in one of my early LE jobs for the Treasury Dept. and the agency was a stickler for report protocol. They always had to find something to change...didn't matter if it was a masterpiece of an investigative report.

One day I got one back and I was like, no way. So, I waited an hour and handed it back in with no changes and told the boss..."Lou, I made those changes you requested".

Later on he told me it was much better .

☺️

True story.
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One of my college GED classes in Freshman year was Sociology (easy A, according to folks who'd taken the class).

We had a group presentation. The other 3 members of my group worked hard on their sections, and kept bugging me, "Hey, are you prepared for your part? You still haven't started on it, have you?". I kept procrastinating and telling them, "Don't worry, it'll be fine...".

The day of the presentation, I realized, "Whoops... OK, better do something". So I picked 3 books I'd heard the Prof liked. Quickly read through a few sections in each, and picked one particular quote in each to memorize, then off to the presentation.

Basically winged it based on what I recalled from class and the textbook, then interspersed a few ad libbed things from whatever popped to mind, while referencing those 3 books and the one line from each that I'd memorized from each.

At the end of the various presentations, the Prof chooses to single me out, for praise, specifically noting that he was impressed that I didn't use any note/flash cards at all, and took the time to memorize it all (the only thing I'd memorized was those 3 quotes from the books he liked) 😅.

Group mates weren't impressed. One of them muttered under their breath, "You just winged it and BS'ed your way through the whole thing, didn't you?". "Yup". Hey, it got our group an A+ 😄

But the correlation to the quoted post; a friend who'd taken the class with the same Prof previously, claimed that he graded the Final paper on weight/volume, and really only read the Intro and Conclusion.

I didn't have the guts to try it, but one of the crazy guys in my class decided to put the claim to the test. He wrote a good Intro and Conclusion, but the entire 15 pages in between was about what he did all Summer 😯. Got an A+ 🤣🤣🤣 (he said that if he'd been called on it, he would claim that he'd mixed up the pages from something else, and would resubmit an actual paper, but it turns out, the other guy was right).
 
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Cap’n Smudge said:
To be fair they all suck. No matter how many times I type “knofe” my phone (iPhone) never changes it to “knife”. This happened often enough that I had to go check if there really was a word “knofe”. There is not.
And then it will take a perfectly legitimate word and change it to some obscure word that doesn’t make sense in context just to eff with me.
Ultimately, I believe that is what’s behind all this. Some programmer messing with folks.
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And here, I'd considered trying an iPhone (have never had an iPhone or Apple anything) simply because the autocorrect has annoyed me that much... oh well.

I'd wondered if it was someone deliberately messing around, but you'd think the company would quickly catch it and make changes, when it's negatively affecting the functionality and customer satisfaction.
 
dialton said:
Worked with a man who jumped off a wheat truck bed. Same scenario but he did lose the finger. Cured his need for a ring 😖
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I work in this industry (agriculture). They call it "de-gloving" when that happens (or to a lesser extent, the ring just pulls the skin from the bone of the finger, with the bone still attached). This is probably why both my Dad and Uncle (who have been in this industry much longer than me) refused to wear wedding rings, until they got office jobs. Same Uncle lost a kidney after a fall from a railcar.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It's not really even a knife, more just a sharpen pry tool cold chisel thing. I really don't expect it's going to be very popular, it's far outside of our normal wares. We made about 200 of them, I don't even know how many the fella at the fire department who wanted them is going to take, I expect will probably have at least 150 available and it is not going to be a big seller. $500 is a lot of money for a specialty tool that most folks here aren't going to have much use for. So, probably as many as you want.
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Anytime Nathan says things like this, I imagine him giggling like Ron Swanson
 
(an unfortunately serious) Public Service Announcement;

Adding to above, strongly consider, at least, -not- going with Ti rings. They are damn near impossible to remove with unpowered tools (hand-powered ring cutting tools, even medical grade, only make pretty scratches). If a finger donned with one is injured and swelling blocks removal (unless degloving took care of it), power tools, industrial bolt cutters (with 3'-5' handles), or finger... abduction... is typically required.
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Tensegrity said:
(an unfortunately serious) Public Service Announcement;

Adding to above, strongly consider, at least, -not- going with Ti rings. They are damn near impossible to remove with unpowered tools (hand-powered ring cutting tools, even medical grade, only make pretty scratches). If a finger donned with one is injured and swelling blocks removal (unless degloving took care of it), power tools, industrial bolt cutters (with 3'-5' handles), or finger... abduction... is typically required.
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Gee, wasn’t the single life easy. 😎
Aahhhh, they have plenty of rubbery and forgiving rings out there. Cheap too.
Or, don’t work! I kinda like the sound of that
 
Tensegrity said:
(an unfortunately serious) Public Service Announcement;

Adding to above, strongly consider, at least, -not- going with Ti rings. They are damn near impossible to remove with unpowered tools (hand-powered ring cutting tools, even medical grade, only make pretty scratches). If a finger donned with one is injured and swelling blocks removal (unless degloving took care of it), power tools, industrial bolt cutters (with 3'-5' handles), or finger... abduction... is typically required.
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I'll show you a picture of my wedding ring later.

its titanium and enormous and I enjoy it very much.
 
JACKMANDU said:
Rings are dangerous! I would only wear the silicone type. I had a coworker almost lose his finger. He jumped down from the side of a glass truck. He was holding on up top and as he let go and hopped down. His ring got caught on part of the rack. He had a deep cut almost 360 around his ring finger. I always recommend coworkers to remove the jewelry.
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I had this weird phase where I couldn't stop looking at degloved finger injuries. It's gruesome.
 
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