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One place is difficult to reach is irs. Finally get a person but then it is the wrong department. Then it is impossible to get the right person. I want to know one question. Where's the refund?
The Complaint Thread began as a Forum for people to complain about anything. Not only Daz, anything at all. Or to wax poetic. Or wax fruit.
It was a place to have fun with stuff.
Are we having fun yet?
Complaint: One of my new snacks is cottage cheese. In the last decade or so I've become lactose intolerant and am getting moreso. I had to give up most types of ice cream, and real milk. Then I discovered lactose free, Lactaid brand milk. Yay.
I've also had to give up potato chips & candy and many other comfort-foods for other reasons so my choice of snacks is dwindling.
Then I discovered that Lactaid also makes cottage cheese. Yay! I love cottage cheese but I never thought it would become a comfort-food. So, today while at a proper grocery store I found it available. Yay! I've had it before but only a couple times. It works. Real cottage cheese makes me jet propelled, but the Lactaid version is much less gassy. So, tonight, feeling like an evening snack, I opened my pound of it and found that it had gone rancid.
Non-complaint: Luckily I had purchased two 1-pound containers, and the second one was OK.
Mmmm... spoonfuls of cottage cheese.
Non-complaint: Knowing that the AppleTV series "Foundation" will be returning for it's 3rd season in a couple weeks, I took advantage of a free week of AppleTV and rewatched the first two seasons to try to connect all of the characters, plots, and timelines. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's not the books.
I read the books (all of them) twice in my life and the TV series has made some major changes. But the changes actually make it easier to stay connected and keep viewers coming back to familiar characters. (The books got rather laborious and confusing because of the long time intervals involved.) There's a lot to cover in the series, and the second time viewing it brings it back into focus. I'm now ready for the 3rd season.
...yeah my first was a 4 door '64 Buick Special like the one below (same colour) which used to be granddad's
Back in the days of wing windows, bench seats, and lap belts. when you could easily tell the make year, and model.
The nice thing back then was if something that wasn't a major issue, needed to be repaired ot replaced you could fix it yourself if you had the basic skill and tools. Today with all the computerisation and proprietary parts, you are forced to take it into the shop and be prepared to shell out seveal hundred if not thousands.
Reading this thread always puts me in mind of Steven Brust's "Stream of Consciousness Blues"
...appropriate..
How about "The Sinclair C5 Is Cool And You Know You Want One Thread" ?
On my walk along the promenade this morning, returning from my weelky shop into town, I was passed by a Sinclair C5 no less. I recognised it even from a distance and was sure to give the driver a big thumbs-up, which I have to say he looked tickled pink about!
I reckon that must be the fourth time I've seen one in real life, they're extremely rare, and it's a shame they flopped because when you think about all the electric bikes and scooter whizzing around these days, the Sinclair C5 (as people rightly say) was way ahead of its time, and even has a nice comfortable driving positon!
DISCLAIMER: WATCHING THIS ADVERTISEMENT COULD INITIATE THE DESIRE TO OWN A SINCLAIR C5:
When I was at the University of Warwick in the mid-eighties the security staff had C5s for getting around on the cycle paths (the campus was split into three sections with open space between them).
I am trying to tell my boyfriend about The Empty Child episode with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. My bf mention doctor talk shows and is clueless on what show the Doctor is from.
edit I added an ai generated image of Christopher Eccleston in the Empty Child.
...nice idea but 15 mph on city streets? Here in Portland you'd get run over (or at the very least harassed) by impatient drivers in their SUVs and monster extended cab pickups who would claim they didn't see you with how low those sit
Granted people on bikes are not much faster but they sit higher and thus are more visible (save for on those recumbent ones).
Imagine my delight when I was trying to find a backdrop for my character's 10th Doctor cosplay and this graffiti was already on the wall. (I added the Bad Wolf over to the side, but the mask was already there.)
Need to add a trench coat, but....
I asked copilot to make a coloring page of Packers #12 for me and this is what it made.
@SilverGirl, what background set did you use? Love the render!
@RichardHaseltine
Ah, but the burning question is, did you get to drive one?
@KyotoKid
I hear you about the safety. I'd be a bit hesitant to use one on the road at just 15 MPH, and to be honest I suspect that's the reason it flopped. The concept is a solid one though, and with the sort of motor and battery technology we have these days, I'm surprised we haven't seen a modern-day revival of the design.
That said, the Sinclair C5 is something of a cult, they have meet-ups, they create fancy digital dashboards powered by Raspberry Pi, and one bloke even fitted a gas turbine engine to his, boosting it from 15MPH to 50MPH. It sounds like a jet-plane and even at standstill sounds as if it's about to take off!
The attached video is a meet-up, but if you want to skip to the jet parts, see the following three links that should play from the correct points:
Jet-Powered C5 On The Road
Showing The Turbine
Ready For Take-Off
Nope, I wouldn't trust me with any kind of self-propelled machine.
I suppose this is the most current attempt.
...so would be interesting seeing how it would do on I-84 in cloudy rainy Oregon
In order for it to be classified as a bicycle in the UK it must be limited to 15.5mph (25km/h), along with a few other restrictions, faster than that and it I believe it becomes classified as a motor vehicle and all sorts of relevant legislation kicks in, licence, road tax, insurance, MOT (if over 3 years old) etc.
A quick online search using your preferred search engine, apparently Google don’t like Google being used as a verb as I found out watching a recent edition of Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish, turns up all sorts of road legal electric tricycles of the more traditional pedal type.
@RichardHaseltine
Well that's a shame. I reckon there's room for at least 8 cans of cat food and probably even a few trays of Potato Dauphinoise, in that boot!
@KyotoKid
Yeah, and I bet you can't pop it on the roofrack and take it home during a breakdown, either - lol
@Kinich
I think they have a rule now where the movement has to be triggered by pedaling in order to initiate the motor kick-in.
@All
That meet-up video was from 2023, and they were surprised to see as many as 18 C5s in one place at one time!
Fast forward two years to 2025, however, and I think I just counted 46 of them is this short clip:
or even a cat-bed
The environment is https://www.daz3d.com/back-alley -- it's in the Outlet for the lower tier pricing, so an easy grab. I did delete or reposition a few of the pre-load props on the side of the building because I thought they were too much visual clutter for what I was doing.
Not Iray, if that matters, but for my purposes it rendered well enough out of the box.
@RichardHaseltine
Wasn't intending to post more C5 stuff, but I just finished watching a new recording, just months old from the 40th Anniversary, and you'll never guess what?
That stuff you said about them being present on the vast grounds of your university, well, I just heard there was a very good reason for it, and it had nothing to do with security guards. Apparently, Sir Clive had a secret indoor development and testing facility on the grounds of your university, it was all kept quiet during development, so I'm guessing all those C5s were later given to security as a thanks after the launch. The recording I just watched features both the original designer, and the MD of Sinclair Vehicles, and it's during the interview with the MD that this lot comes out.
All sorts of stuff, and apparently we have Sir Clive, the Sinclair C5 and Margaret Thatcher to thank for the current freedom we enjoy with electric bikes, because apparently Margaret Thatcher was seriously impressed with Sir Clive and his achievements, so much so that during a lunch together, he managed to persuade her to change UK legislation in order to make the Siinclair C5 driveable on British roads.
What else, oh, and the whole thing flopped because of some nasty, rogue journalist who took it upon himself to sabotage the project by claiming it was a death trap. Quite sickening when you think ahout it, because in the 40 years since its launch there's not been a single recorded death (or even accident) involving a Sinclair C5.
Anyway, I doubt you'd want to sit through a half-hour video, but here it is in case you're curous, and if not, then what I said above is basically what it contains.
Complaint: Children's programming in general, but at the moment, the Smurfs in particular. Seriously, not that great in the 80s, have aged so SO poorly, and IMHO the reboot is no better. I think there really ought to be a requirement that, before release, creators of children's shows must be forced to sit in a room with the show on loop for a week straight. At least.
I decided to open up DS and load up a character and render him. This character reminds me of Porthos in Enterprise. Now realizing something. Porthos would be cuter with the proper pose. I wonder if there are any free adorable poses for the figure I am using to protray Porthos.
edit; does the Porthos character have dForce hair on the default preset? I think it does.
I wasn't aware of that, but it was common knowledge that there was a link of some kind that accounted for the university having the C5s
@RichardHaseltine
After launch, I reckon they gave them to the university as a thanks for keeping it hush.
Just guessing mind you, I don't know that for sure, but it makes sense I suppose.
...here in Portland I still see a person Segway now and then. A couple years ago there was a company doing downtown "Segway" tours.
However those rental scooters have taken over the streets, and annoyingly", the sidewalks. These things can go about 18 - 20 mph depending on the rental company do and model. As they are electric they don't require a licence but do qualify as motorised vehicle as they can exceed 15 mph and thus are prohibited on sidewalks (which is rarely enforced).
Segways are one of those things which, although I see them as neat and futuristic, I could never bring myself to own. They even have single-wheeled ones, seen them quite a few times now, but every time I see a segway (regardless of whether single or dual wheel), the first thing that goes though my mind is 'But what if it fails while you're zippping-along at 15mph?'
I doubt it'd kill you, but damn, I don't much fancy being catapulted five meters, only to land flat on my face should it decide to fail at that speed. At least with a Sinclair C5, you'd still be sat in a nice comfy seat if it fails, and your shopping would still be safe in the boot instead of joining you in being catapulted five meters forward!
Yeah, I think I'll give those segways a miss (much as I'd love to try one) - lol