Random randomness

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:34 pm

https://www.funkylenses.com/funky-lense ... enses.html

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:15 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:34 pm https://www.funkylenses.com/funky-lense ... enses.html

You'd really need the right UV light to make those usable (they work like black light posters - they only glow while lit.) You'd have to get something between about 330-350nm UV-A. Any lower and you'd damage your eyes (and possibly everything else around them.) Any higher and you'd be walking around with your face glowing purple. I'd guess that a sequence of LEDs hidden inside the costume (around a hood, in a hat, inside a neck piece) would do the trick, but getting the right LEDs? That's probably an expensive proposition, as you'd need to buy the highest quality LEDs from a top brand - anything less and you're probably getting the kinds of ranges and inconsistencies that can push it into the danger range (so you might get a set of LEDs that range from 310-380nm and are listed toward the center of that range.) And even with all of that, and with tons of expertise to make sure you were doing it right, you'd probably still be putting your vision at risk for a cool glowy effect. The lenses themselves aren't designed for costume, but for things like raves where the whole area is flooded in black light.

FWIW, most of the videos/pics of UV contacts are either altered (taken in front of a regular black light and then color corrected to fix the skin, and maybe enhanced a little bit), or are carefully planned with both a regular black light to make the eyes shine, and a regular white light to light the face, often with the white light higher and the eyes shaded a bit to enhance the effect. It looks good in front of a camera, but you couldn't really walk around with something like that unless you had a crew following you around carrying it, looking like a boom mic handler.

So, yeah - they exist - but they wouldn't give the kind of effect that people want.

LEDs would be more problematic, just given the fact that you'd have to blink your eyes. If you have a wire thin enough to go across the surface of your eye without being obvious and fit between your eyelids, then you'd be walking around with a cheese slicer on one of the most delicate surfaces of your body. Snag that battery necklace and you're slicing your eyeball.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:01 pm

Found this guy..UV contacts and black light leds in his helmet.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:04 am

Pyperkub wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:19 pm Ack! I just found out via a google alert that one of my name doppelgangers has been arrested for murder!!!

Anyone that has googled my name since before googling was a thing has found a mass murderer on death row. I'm not sure if that has anything to due with my choice of avatar... or why I have so much free time to play video games.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:56 pm

My name is common enough that there are six or seven of us in Philadelphia alone.

Wikipedia has a dozen disambiguations for the name, nearly all of them English footballers, rock musicians, or American political scientists.

Madmarcus · Post by **Madmarcus** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:42 pm

The Internet thinks my name belongs to a male model.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:31 pm

Penishead?

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 12:18 pm

A male model, not a male modicum

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:12 pm

But why male models?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:54 pm

So apparently there's a feud going on between one of the folks living in my gated apartment complex and either a neighbor, a friend or some other outsider to the apartment complex. This resulted in about 30 straight minutes of the outsider arguing through the intercom system with someone that lives here.

Unfortunately, my car was parked right beside the person arguing over the intercom, so I had to walk right past them as they were arguing (I left via my back door so I wouldn't run the risk of letting them in if they were supposed to stay out). Doubly unfortunate is that in my head, the arguing over the intercom was playing out thusly:

Outsider: I HATE YOUR GUTS AND I HOPE YOU DIE YOU BITCH! ....over

Apartment Dweller: Roger that.....YOU STUPID BITCH, I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN I'LL PUT MY FIST ALONGSIDE YOUR HEAD AND KNOCK YOUR ASS OUT! ...over

Outsider: Roger....I'M RIGHT HERE BITCH, COME GET ME...over

...so I giggled a bit as I was getting into my car. That triggered the outsider and she spun around and started screaming at me "WHAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY".

Thankfully I was already in my car at that point and preparing to leave. I'm pretty sure she would have cold cocked me right there if not.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:26 pm

One of those 'lucky to be alive' stories eh Hep? Could air it on Talk With Karen.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:41 pm

Definitely didn't wanna get in the middle of THAT scene.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:47 am

I just noticed my dental floss has an expiration date but my toothpaste doesn't.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:09 am

hepcat wrote:So apparently there's a feud going on between one of the folks living in my gated apartment complex and either a neighbor, a friend or some other outsider to the apartment complex. This resulted in about 30 straight minutes of the outsider arguing through the intercom system with someone that lives here.

Unfortunately, my car was parked right beside the person arguing over the intercom, so I had to walk right past them as they were arguing (I left via my back door so I wouldn't run the risk of letting them in if they were supposed to stay out). Doubly unfortunate is that in my head, the arguing over the intercom was playing out thusly:

Outsider: I HATE YOUR GUTS AND I HOPE YOU DIE YOU BITCH! ....over

Apartment Dweller: Roger that.....YOU STUPID BITCH, I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN I'LL PUT MY FIST ALONGSIDE YOUR HEAD AND KNOCK YOUR ASS OUT! ...over

Outsider: Roger....I'M RIGHT HERE BITCH, COME GET ME...over

...so I giggled a bit as I was getting into my car. That triggered the outsider and she spun around and started screaming at me "WHAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY".

Thankfully I was already in my car at that point and preparing to leave. I'm pretty sure she would have cold cocked me right there if not.

Just be glad that wasn't coop or my name doppelgangers?

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hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:43 am

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:59 pm

My name is unusual enough that I am a unique entity on google search. No doppelgangers.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:15 pm

Last I checked there were 3 homeowners in my county with the same name. I have the same name as the principal at the high school up the street. A few years ago I was at a pizza hut picking up an order and there were two of us there at the same time. That was interesting. Cashier call out "Last Name!" we both perk and say here. Cashier clarifies "First name last name?" and we both say yes... had to check what was ready to see whose it was.

I just verified it is still 3 homeowners with my name. Hilariously (ok, not really hilarious but do you actually laugh out loud every time you type lol?) there is a fourth that has my first and middle name but different last name and is sharing the title with someone with my last name.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:30 pm

Theres two or three around here with my full name. Had trouble with a video rental store in the 90s because of it when they refused to listen to me and check the damn address.

In 5th grade there were 5 Brians. That was always fun.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:41 pm

By a weird coincidence, I have the same first, middle, and last name as my dad!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:56 pm

Even stranger, I have roughly the same number of consonants in my first and last name as David Hasselfhof!

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:58 pm

None of you have ever been in my kitchen.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:01 pm

Smoove_B wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:58 pm None of you have ever been in my kitchen.

...

That you are aware of...

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:38 pm

Technically, the crawlspace is part of your kitchen...

back to naming conventions: my parents argued over how to spell my middle name. it's spelled one way on my birth certificate, but then a lot of other places it's spelled differently, depending on who filled out my forms when I was a toddler. I believe the birth certificate trumps them all, but it's still a weird situation.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:55 pm

It's pronounced FAH-zo - the "t" is silent.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:32 pm

As is the umlaut

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:49 pm

hepcat wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:32 pm As is the umlaut

Sorry, that is still the funniest joke I ever heard as a kid in a movie.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:24 pm

Which movie? I recognized it as a movie quote, but I can’t remember which one.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:46 pm

I don't recognize the quote either.
My guess would be This Is Spinal Tap, but I haven't seen it in years.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:27 am

My final clothes line on the back porch broke when the giant freezer was being removed. So I hammered up two new little ones there like it used to be. So have double the line space I did have weee.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:40 am

So you were able to sell your freezer? That's great!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:42 am

Brian wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:46 pm I don't recognize the quote either.
My guess would be This Is Spinal Tap, but I haven't seen it in years.

Christ, talk about a deep dive. I was really wrong. Not a movie. Apparently it's a quote from a kid's show from the late 80s called Fantastic Max that I've never heard of.

Fatso – A big rabbit from another planet that wants to carrotnap Rooty and eat him. His name is pronounced "FahZo" (the t is silent) and his only appearance was in "Carrot Encounters of the Third Kind".

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:58 am

gilraen wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:40 am So you were able to sell your freezer? That's great!

yes! all going onto vet bill/cc

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:53 pm

hepcat wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:42 am
Brian wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:46 pm I don't recognize the quote either.
My guess would be This Is Spinal Tap, but I haven't seen it in years.
Christ, talk about a deep dive. I was really wrong. Not a movie. Apparently it's a quote from a kid's show from the late 80s called Fantastic Max that I've never heard of.

Fatso – A big rabbit from another planet that wants to carrotnap Rooty and eat him. His name is pronounced "FahZo" (the t is silent) and his only appearance was in "Carrot Encounters of the Third Kind".

I can't believe you found the source. My memory was that it was from American Tale, but what you found must be it. I was in high school at that time, but my sister is 7 years younger than me and I must have picked it up from her viewing. Glad you were able to run it down!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:05 pm

For some reason, I was trying to equate it with the Dom DeLuise movie Fatso.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:28 pm

Federal agents found more than two dozen minors working in Ohio poultry plant

Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”

Marisa Darden, a lawyer representing Gerber's Poultry, had no comment when asked about minors working at the plant on Friday. She told NBC News, “We don’t have any comment at this time. We are cooperating, we just can’t talk about it.”

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:13 pm

Gerber's Poultry is coop-erating.

I heard they had those kids working around the cluck.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:28 am

Daehawk wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:58 am
gilraen wrote: Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:40 am So you were able to sell your freezer? That's great!
yes! all going onto vet bill/cc

I must be selling used stuff too cheap as I thought you'd never get your price on that.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:19 am

My spuse is being a stubborn poopoo head. Last week she got a lung full of hay, and has been coughing and shit ever since. Today she coughed up something black. Obviously she needs to see the doctor, she may still have hay in there, or there is an infection going on. But I am having difficulty getting through her stubborness.

ugh.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 11:51 am

Stop calling her spuse and maybe she'd listen

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 12:04 pm

Google "farmer's lung" and show her the pictures!