Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[BeardyHat]

About to have a stroke. I was supposed to buy Guido a car this weekend, but I have bronchitis again, so the wife said she would go take care of it, so I let her have my checkbook. So she leaves and later in the day Guido sends me some pictures of his new SUV. He's really too tall to be driving a starter car, so we decided to go with a large used vehicle.

Then my wife comes home and I ask her how much it cost. It was a 2014 Buick Enclave with 100k miles on it. Definitely wouldn't have been my choice, but it is what it is. I knew my wife has been obsessed with GM vehicles, so I figured that was where this was going.

But then I find out she just paid the sticker price, so now I'm sitting here stewing. In the US, you never just pay the sticker price, especially not for a used vehicle. She didn't even try to negotiate. She just took MY CHECK and paid for it. I looked it up and the vehicle, before all the add-ons, should have been somewhere around $8500 (before add-ons this was $11,000), so I just paid at least $2500 extra.

Sorry to hear of your impending divorce.

Playing hardball and negotiating cars is kind of fun. One of the proudest experiences my wife and I have is negotiating a car from $12k to $8k. We came in dressed all nice and were prepared to walk at any moment and just gave the young salesman such a hard time.

Did similar with our van, when the guy is like, "It'll be $2500 after all the fees and such", my wife whips out our $2k cash and says, "I think I have an extra $50 in my wallet. Take it or leave it." and well, we've had that van for 5 years now.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Sorry to hear of your impending divorce.

Playing hardball and negotiating cars is kind of fun. One of the proudest experiences my wife and I have is negotiating a car from $12k to $8k. We came in dressed all nice and were prepared to walk at any moment and just gave the young salesman such a hard time.

Did similar with our van, when the guy is like, "It'll be $2500 after all the fees and such", my wife whips out our $2k cash and says, "I think I have an extra $50 in my wallet. Take it or leave it." and well, we've had that van for 5 years now.

I haven't even mentioned it to her. That's what I use online posting for.

I've slept and don't care anymore. I just need to make sure Guido realizes this is not the way it is supposed to work.

Well, that's my high expenditure done. Now for the mattress next month...

 

[Zloth]

I don't think I've even had the opportunity to pay sticker price! They always gave me some sort of "but I can get it for you for $3K less" line as they're walking with me. And, of course, there's always the 'let me go check with my manager' bit.

Well, always until Tesla. Hard to haggle with a 'buy' button on a web page.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The cavemen on my sports site are once again discussing the likelihood that Stonehenge and the pyramids were built by aliens. One of them asked how people from all around the world independently came up with the idea for pyramids I asked him if he'd never played with children's blocks before. Pyramids beg to be built if you don't want stuff toppling over. Two-year-olds have been independently inventing the pyramid for ages now.

But thinking that an alien intelligent species built stuff on Earth instead of the intelligent species that actually lives here is the pinnacle of illogical thinking.

If you came into your kitchen and your child was sitting at the kitchen table with the empty cookie jar, would you assume that someone flew in from China and ate the cookies?

And what's the purpose of these sites? You have to assume they are magic, right? I mean, you wouldn't agree to get in Elon Musk's rockets of death to travel to Alpha Centauri and pile some rocks up that let you know when the winter and summer solstices are, would you? I mean, how neighborly was that? These incredibly advanced aliens broke the laws of physics to make us a two day calendar. But that's nothing compared to the 40 story rock stack they built to bury a slave-holding Egyptian dictator. What's really weird, though, is that despite their technology, the aliens made several substandard pyramids first as they honed their craft.

 

[Zloth]

Two-year-olds have been independently inventing the pyramid for ages now.

Proves their point. Even I know that two-year-olds are aliens.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The heat index here yesterday was 115 degrees F (46 degrees C). The pool feels like a bathtub.

 

[BeardyHat]

The heat index here yesterday was 115 degrees F (46 degrees C). The pool feels like a bathtub.

Heading to Chicago today and I'm not looking forward to lovely dry Colorado, to humid and miserable Illinois.

It's currently 75, but feels like 85 here, but 92* feels like 103* over there. Ick.

I have memories of Chicago-area being muggy, but I'm hoping I'm misremembering or overblowing...

 

[Zloth]

It's the Windy City - you'll have a nice breeze to cool yourself off.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It's the Windy City - you'll have a nice breeze to cool yourself off.

My air fryer has a nice breeze in it, but I wouldn't climb in to get cooled off.

 

[BeardyHat]

Finally at our destination, only almost 12 hours after we left our house. Honestly, this entire trip so far has been a bit of a cluster****, we might have just been better taking the 18 hours to drive instead.

At least my wife held each other in good spirits for 90% of it, that helps. But we have errands tomorrow because things got a bit messed up...

 

[PointnClicker01]

Looks like the general gaming section currently gets spammed by different fake accounts posting scam threads… I think I reported all the accounts but is there a mod online to ban and remove the threads?

 

[Pifanjr]

Looks like the general gaming section currently gets spammed by different fake accounts posting scam threads… I think I reported all the accounts but is there a mod online to ban and remove the threads?

It doesn't seem so, but it usually doesn't take too long for someone to show up (like an hour or two).

 

[Zed Clampet]

wow, 17 spam threads on the first page

****

New forum feature suggestion!

We should be able to pick a song in our account settings that plays whenever someone reads one of our posts. Kind of like in baseball with your walk-up song.

Imagine every time you come across one of my posts this plays:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZp4VEopcE&list=RDUrGw_cOgwa8&index=6&ab_channel=RadialbyTheOrchard

 

[Colif]

Rick Roll has already been a thing

I would pick an earworm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm
Examples:
500 miles
The Final Countdown
songs so bad I don't have to listen to them for them to play in my head for rest of the day/week

Earworms: Top 100 Songs

Earworms: Top 100 Songs The term “earworm” refers to a song which gets stuck in one’s head. It may be a song that has been overplayed ...

davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com

 

[Zed Clampet]

Have to admit I was a little disappointed by the article "Small Balls Pose a Big Threat". Turns out it was about cosmetic microbeads.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

New forum feature suggestion!

We should be able to pick a song in our account settings that plays whenever someone reads one of our posts. Kind of like in baseball with your walk-up song.

Imagine every time you come across one of my posts this plays:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZp4VEopcE&list=RDUrGw_cOgwa8&index=6&ab_channel=RadialbyTheOrchard

I'd love mine to be the theme tune from The A Team, but in reality its more like Steptoe and Son.

 

[Zloth]

We should be able to pick a song in our account settings that plays whenever someone reads one of our posts. Kind of like in baseball with your walk-up song.

Hmmm, maybe I should use Mr. Perfect's entrance music? Nahhh...

View: https://youtu.be/F1-oTEIAExg?si=1rut4AKNPavlYN60

P.S. Love how the game credits fit on the start screen.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Some clown painted graffiti in various places in one of the cave systems at the park my daughter works at. She didn't know about it until she led a spelunking trip this morning. The reason I mention it is because I had never thought about it before but they have special products specifically for removing paint in caves that don't damage the cave and don't hurt the bats and whatever else might be living in there. That's kind of cool, but also means that idiots painting graffiti in caves must be pretty common.

 

[Frindis]

Attended the Norwegian Tons of Rock festival in OSLO. Steel Panther from USA was on the list of bands playing. Hilarious glam rock band that had a good interaction with the crowd. Even invited some ladies up on stage and more cheesiness unfolded. Tons of jokes, some good riffs and overall a band that makes you laugh and enjoy some flashy rock and roll. Can't really share their content here because it got some naughty stuff, but do check them out, pretty fun group.

 

[Colif]

Windows security is complaining because Dynamic Lock isn't on. It wants me to turn Bluetooth on

I don't need it, no one uses my PC when I am away from it. I don't want my phone attached to my PC all the time.
Other reasons include:

1. My phone isn't always on me when I am away from PC, so its kind of pointless
2. If I turn Bluetooth on, my Wiim suddenly defaults to being the sound out on my pc (regardless of what I set in windows) and will disrupt any videos I am watching as it thinks its the output device. I don't want to delete it off PC in case I ever decide to use headphones as output on games.

I dislike the sudden desire of software to want my fingerprints to unlock actions. I don't need everything so closely tied to my identity. It feels like invasion of privacy.

 

[Zloth]

I could see that being handy if your laptop gets stolen/forgotten.

 

[Colif]

I could see that being handy if your laptop gets stolen/forgotten.

Its less useful if its a desktop PC in a room where no one else goes. If my PC were missing, there would be other more important things missing as well.

Handy for most other situations though.

 

[Colif]

While trying to figure out if the website problem today was just my end, I found another reason not to use Edge

Pass, I don't need input from AI on every search I make.
Mum will be using Edge on my old PC soon, I need to look into ways to disable that.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Two hours total sleep since Friday morning. Wish I could describe what this feels like. I think I'm in a dangerous spot right now. I need to find some way to sleep.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Well, I got sleep...and I've rarely felt this exhausted. May end up sleeping a lot more today.