Odd Stuff (Part 5)

What do you mean buy? I could roll a sinister device with wires and batteries and stuff from my junkbox with my eyes closed. (That is, if my junkbox wasn’t packed in the basement. Moving Day approaches, thank ghod!)

eta: I missed that they’re even going to inspect rooms with Do Not Disturb privacy signs on the door. Man, this is like someone about to kick a big fire ant nest, and you have to see it.

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I don’t know anything about Nevada hotel laws. but room inspections (searches!), even in the face of a Do Not Disturb sign, without any good reason, seem like they would violate the legal rights of hotel renters.

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Non-paywall link:

And what are they supposed to do if they find these things? Confiscate them? Report the guest to the authorities? None of those things they are searching for are illegal.

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Police have identified that man as Charles Felder, 34.

At least his backup plan worked.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159124001874

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One best mind when one drops anchor anxious

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Horses Being Nice GIF by Mallrat

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Lovely that the scientists are at long last catching up to what pet and horse folk have known for millennia.

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Hoping this lot will make your Monday more tolerable!

Looked & looked & looked for Top 1960s Sci-Fi Robots (Part I), but no joy. Copyright strikes again, mayhap?

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Toxic stupidity

“They’re idiots,” says Dr Gill Jenkins, a GP who also works as a medical escort in air ambulance work. “A digital detox might do you some good, but all the rest of it is against medical advice," she says.

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Idiots on planes that stay seated and keep quiet during the whole flight?
Yes please!

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Why do people feel the need take completely normal activity like sitting quietly and turn it into some kind of weird boast.

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I think the good doctor’s diagnosis covers it, “they’re idiots”.

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Wasn’t quite sure where to put this. Got a definite GMAFB out of me.

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If they don’t like getting harassed, they can just climb down off their (high) horses.

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They don’t hunt foxes anymore anyway. They follow a scent trail laid by a neighbor/s on bikes or by staff, or they follow a long-distance runner whom hounds meet (and sniff!) that morning.

That ‘minority’ bs is bs.

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