OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

Buckwoody Egger · October 11

hoosier_egger said:

One of my good buddies was nominated in some Ace/BGE contest. Here’s a cool video on our group of eggheads. I’m not sure if you’ll need an active fb account to see it or not.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1325569761865663/?

awesome!!!!!! and the charity is doing great work!

Canugghead · October 11

CPFC1905 said:

Canugghead said:

^^^ That takes me back to England in the 70's when I was a student there.

The public payphone's coin slot had a spring loaded lever that would bounce back after swallowing the coin, occasionally I would find one where the lever would not travel far enough to swallow the coin. An uninitiated bloke would walk away, thinking it was out-of-order. For me? Jackpot! I would wrapped my thumb with heavy padding and push the coin hard and fast, the coin comes back and the quick jab registered the payment. It was great for long distance chats with my gf

@CPFC1905 @Stormbringer Are you old enough to remember those phones?

Remember them? I occasionally helped my Dad empty them. Keeping it 70's relevant, he was a GPO engineer so sometimes he'd be called out on a weekend to repair them and gather the cash too. There was a lot of 2p coins to be counted.

The iconic red boxes went from being a first line of communication to relic of the dark ages in a very short period. On the plus side, it's one less thing for drunk drivers to collide with and they were proper solid, too.

@Stormbringer You guys are more aged than I thought, although still much younger than me I think.
@CPFC1905 Thanks for sharing a slice of your fun childhood experience. I thought it would be under BT territory, GPO is what the post office was/is known as in India too (no surprise there).

Oh ya the red boxes... I would reluctantly hang up and leave quickly when there was someone waiting impatiently (can't blame him). Why the rush to get away? Didn't want the bloke to confront me with 'WTF were you taking to with an out-of-order phone?'

Canugghead · October 11

kl8ton said:

Glad I didn't see the tigers lose. Great game. Go Blue Jays!

It was painful to watch. You jinxed it when you quit watching, kiddin'

CPFC1905 · October 11

Canugghead said:

CPFC1905 said:

Canugghead said:

^^^ That takes me back to England in the 70's when I was a student there.

The public payphone's coin slot had a spring loaded lever that would bounce back after swallowing the coin, occasionally I would find one where the lever would not travel far enough to swallow the coin. An uninitiated bloke would walk away, thinking it was out-of-order. For me? Jackpot! I would wrapped my thumb with heavy padding and push the coin hard and fast, the coin comes back and the quick jab registered the payment. It was great for long distance chats with my gf

@CPFC1905 @Stormbringer Are you old enough to remember those phones?

Remember them? I occasionally helped my Dad empty them. Keeping it 70's relevant, he was a GPO engineer so sometimes he'd be called out on a weekend to repair them and gather the cash too. There was a lot of 2p coins to be counted.

The iconic red boxes went from being a first line of communication to relic of the dark ages in a very short period. On the plus side, it's one less thing for drunk drivers to collide with and they were proper solid, too.

@Stormbringer You guys are more aged than I thought, although still much younger than me I think.
@CPFC1905 Thanks for sharing a slice of your fun childhood experience. I thought it would be under BT territory, GPO is what the post office was/is known as in India too (no surprise there).

Oh ya the red boxes... I would reluctantly hang up and leave quickly when there was someone waiting impatiently (can't blame him). Why the rush to get away? Didn't want the bloke to confront me with 'WTF were you taking to with an out-of-order phone?'

Stories of activity in, and from, those boxes are legion. Yes, originally Post Office, the GPO, then British Telecom and finally BT. Ah, Mrs Thatch' .......
Dad worked from them all unbroken, he left the RAF and did his whole 'working life' with them.

Ozzie_Isaac · October 11

JohnInCarolina said:

Just got back from seeing One Battle After Another. Great movie. One of the best I’ve seen in a while.

Really want to see it - feel it might be a little to on the nose and just make me upset at the state of affairs.

Kind of like how I used to enjoy Handmaid’s Tale - but now it seems like a reality we are
headed for and it just isn’t entertaining with that backdrop.

johnmitchell · October 12

Watching the news of all the beach erosion up and down the east coast. They keep having to rebuild HWY12 on the outer banks in NC and all the houses that are impacted by coastal storm erosion.
This is a system that is used successfully in SA and was wondering if this isn’t an option over here.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/editor/1f/6j9d9por94es.jpeg

GrateEggspectations · October 12

Very neat, @johnmitchell. The design looks like they’d be very effective in diffusing big waves. Wow, 10,000 are required for one kilometre of coastline.

Corv · October 12

That's more frequent than one every four inches. Even stacked in depth it doesn't seem that is consistent with the size of the things. I detect either poor reporting or editing on the reference.

Gulfcoastguy · October 12

It will never be accepted. Can you imagine women trying to sun tan on them? And what about all of the slip and fall lawsuits? Better to ban permanent construction on barrier island, but just as unlikely to happen.

Canugghead · October 12

busy cooking

hoosier_egger · October 12

Game day! On the field for the flag ceremony today. Pretty cool experience. I’m the anchor man, bottom left corner and SWMBO is next to me.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/editor/fv/q8jpsic16zb3.jpeg

lousubcap · October 13

He!! of a score right there. A once in a lifetime experience. Congrats.

hoosier_egger · October 13

lousubcap said:

He!! of a score right there. A once in a lifetime experience. Congrats.

Yeah, I know. I'm not sure how I landed her...Oh, you're talking about the on-field activities...lol

Ozzie_Isaac · October 13

GrateEggspectations said:

Going to see an incredible musician tonight - French-Algerian guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He was the teacher of one of my teachers and is a real musician’s musician. Always puts on an incredible show. Taking my main squeeze and having dinner beforehand.

You might enjoy this album:

Album - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Two songs you specifically may enjoy are:

Lumiere by Lorien Testard, Alice Duport-Percier
Lumiere - Lumiere a l'Aube by Lorien Testard

It is definitely off the beaten path, but I find very good. Its backstory is pretty bonkers, composer had never composed any commercial music before this and was found on a tiny music forum that has since been deleted by a video game director who was starting his very fist solo project also - which is an whole'nother crazy story.

Buckwoody Egger · October 13

stepping over the bot threads

GrateEggspectations · October 13

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Going to see an incredible musician tonight - French-Algerian guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He was the teacher of one of my teachers and is a real musician’s musician. Always puts on an incredible show. Taking my main squeeze and having dinner beforehand.

You might enjoy this album:

Album - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Two songs you specifically may enjoy are:
Lumiere by Lorien Testard, Alice Duport-Percier
Lumiere - Lumiere a l'Aube by Lorien Testard
It is definitely off the beaten path, but I find very good. Its backstory is pretty bonkers, composer had never composed any commercial music before this and was found on a tiny music forum that has since been deleted by a video game director who was starting his very fist solo project also - which is an whole'nother crazy story.

Thanks for the recommendations, Ozzie. Really liked both. The instrumental guitar version, Lumière à l’Aube, was pretty cool.

Something about the strings and mood made of thr vocal rendition me think of Agnes Obel. I think I’ve mentioned her in the past. Her album “Aventine” is exceptional, IMO. Love the strings!

Liking these exchanges.

YukonRon · October 13

Patiently waiting for My Beautiful Wife to survive the torture of physical al therapy to get a matched set of knee replacements. This is her second, following the one she had 2 years ago.

She is doing amazing. Less than 3 weeks, and is walking without a cane.

kl8ton · October 13

Hey @alaskanassasin I sent you forum mail? I slid into your DMs? Whatever ya want to call it.

alaskanassasin · October 13

Yo! Very generous of you sir! I hope you like honey because that is the only way I can repay you!

alaskanassasin · October 13

Unless you want actual cash those grease guns are not cheap!

GrateEggspectations · October 13

Reading about powerful love spells about 18 times over.

Canugghead · October 13

Have not seen @HannahGreeneEgg since 9/11

kl8ton · October 13

alaskanassasin said:

Unless you want actual cash those grease guns are not cheap!

I'll take honey. I don't want cash. I'll try to ship tomorrow.

hoosier_egger · October 14

All in favor

say aye

kl8ton · October 14

I'm practicing love spells....

zaphod · October 14

the love spell idjits joined today (about 90 min ago per this posts timestamp). There used to be an approval by a human stage. It needs to return.

Gulfcoastguy · October 14

Maybe Hannah can put a hex on their apps.

Canugghead · October 14

Blue Jays 0-2, sad and disappointed 😞

zaphod · October 14

but the Bears won in a clincher last night, so there is that.

Canugghead · October 14

@Ozzie_Isaac Great minds bumping some threads, I was thinking the same. Whenever a bunch of new bot posts appear, just scroll past them and bump the next 20-30 legit posts. If you see a bunch of "1 New" by the same member you can ignore them. This will help in keeping the forum afloat.

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